Chapter 34: System Update

“I said it before, either one Purple Vein Mulberry Leaf or ten taels of silver! No need to say anything else!”

This person’s attitude was extremely firm, as if there was no room for negotiation.

Ye Rong didn’t mind and patiently bargained with him—

Of course, he didn’t have any Purple Vein Mulberry Leaf; after buying some pills, he only had eight taels of silver left.

This round of bargaining took a lot of effort from Ye Rong, but he finally bought the Thousand-Year Plantain for six taels of silver.

The deal was only possible because Bapi Choujin said he knew someone who had extra Purple Vein Mulberry Leaf and could introduce him.

The person who had extra Purple Vein Mulberry Leaf was naturally the Closed Beta expert that Bapi Choujin knew.

Ye Rong received the Thousand-Year Plantain. It was oval and long, pale in color, covered in spiral patterns. He nodded to Bapi Choujin, indicating that he remembered his help. Right now, he was busy and needed to go hand in the task, with no time to talk more.

When it wasn’t task distribution time, Chen Taizhen wouldn’t be waiting for Players on the stone platform. Luckily, Bapi Choujin gave him directions. After going around a few times and climbing thousands of stone steps, he finally found the dwelling of this Five Peaks Traveler.

Ye Rong stood in front of Five Peaks Residence. Just as he was about to knock on the door, he heard a bell sound in his ear. It started soft, then grew heavy, continuous and unending. It didn’t come from just one place but spread throughout the entire Far Shore world.

This was the System bell!

The first System Update of Far Shore will take place in one minute. Please prepare to log off to avoid unnecessary losses.

…

The System Notification repeated ten times in a row. Ye Rong let out a bitter laugh and helplessly chose to log off.

How unlucky! Just when he was about to become a Registered Disciple, at the last moment, he encountered a System Update, forcing a delay for no reason. He didn’t know how long this update would take. It seemed good things really took a lot of trouble.

Ye Rong immediately logged onto the Far Shore official website, wanting to check the content of this update and how long it would last.

But the official site only had a few brief words, saying that the update content would be released later and that this update would last six hours. After six hours, Players could continue the game normally.

By now, the Forum was already in an uproar, with the focus naturally on this update issue.

There were many guesses about the System Update content, all sorts of random things.

Ye Rong glanced at it; there wasn’t any valuable information, so he exited the Forum.

Although he only had a few hundred left on his ID card, Ye Rong wasn’t worried at all. After logging in and completing the task, he would become a Qingcheng Registered Disciple. From then on, his in-game future would be smooth sailing. Just selling one Third-Rank Flying Sword would be enough to cover several months of living expenses.

“Ah! What are you doing?”

“What am I doing? Look what you’ve done! My new jacket is soaked with noodle soup!”

“I, I didn’t mean to…”

The noise and screams from the hallway came through the door. One couldn’t expect great sound insulation in this kind of Low-rent Housing. The young couple next door often had their intimate activities at night, with the sounds clearly transmitted into Ye Rong’s room. It got him all worked up and unable to sleep, so he could only find some game to play to pass the time until late.

Ye Rong opened his door and saw that the dispute was between one man and two women. The young man had a large stain of soup on him and was hopping mad.

Ye Rong had seen both women before; they were both tenants on this floor. The alluring, slender woman clinging to the leather jacket guy had moved in just over a month ago. She usually wore heavy makeup and acted flirtatiously, attracting a lot of attention from admirers.

The other one, holding noodles, with a red face, looking pretty but timid and plain-faced, had moved in several months ago. She seemed to be a student, so they rarely ran into each other. Probably, it was summer break now, so Ye Rong had seen her twice in the hallway.

The student girl usually didn’t dress up, plain and simple, but today Ye Rong looked closely and found she was quite good-looking. Her hair was dark black and soft, her face extremely beautiful, her cheeks glowing like pearls, delicate and tender, with some strands of hair messy at the sides.

Standing next to the alluring woman, she didn’t have the curvy figure or womanly charm, but that pure, adorable youthful vibe was impossible to hide, making it even more precious.

“Then, I’ll take it and wash it clean for you.”

“Wash it clean? Can it even be washed clean? I bought this for five thousand! Can a little girl like you afford to pay for it?”

The leather jacket guy grumbled loudly and shoved her hard. The student girl stumbled and hit the door, dropping the bowl of noodles in her hands. It clattered to the floor.

Ye Rong frowned. He didn’t want to get involved, but this leather jacket guy had no manners at all, actually laying hands on a young girl.

The student girl’s eyes were red, tears falling like pear blossoms in the rain, a pitiful sight that would stir any man’s strong protective instinct, making them want to hold her close and cherish her, not letting her suffer any bullying or hardship. There were quite a few people standing in the hallway watching the commotion, but no one was willing to step up and help.

The jacket guy was sturdy and had a fierce look, clearly not someone to mess with. Anyone wanting to play the hero should first consider how much muscle they had on their arms and whether they could take a punch from him.

“Friend, let it go this time. She didn’t do it on purpose.”

Seeing the jacket guy grabbing the student girl’s medium-length hair and pulling hard, a cold light flashed in Ye Rong’s eyes, and he spoke up calmly.

“Who do you think you are, trying to act like a hero!”

The jacket guy looked down his nose at Ye Rong, his expression extremely scornful. A bunch of poor people living in Low-rent Housing daring to challenge him. But this girl here, he hadn’t noticed before how pretty she was, and even more tempting when crying. Maybe she could pay off the debt with her body.

He glanced at the alluring woman beside him, who was rubbing and teasing him with her full chest, and thought about the prospect of a threesome later. His heart grew hot, and his lower body seemed to start getting restless.

“Looking for death!”

Ye Rong was just finding an excuse to act. Seeing the other guy so readily giving him one, he didn’t hold back. He strode forward and in a few steps was in front of the jacket guy, throwing punches like a storm. The jacket guy only blocked a few punches before his arms hurt and he couldn’t hold on. His chin and corners of his eyes were hit several times by Ye Rong’s tricky punches.

Under the storm-like assault, the jacket guy was like a sandbag, beaten back and forth, his face a colorful mess, bruised and swollen all over.

Bang!

Ye Rong kicked the jacket guy in the stomach, sending him flying several meters away, crashing hard into a door.

“Get lost!”

The alluring woman looked at Ye Rong with fearful, uncertain eyes, helped the jacket guy up, and they hurriedly ran out of the building.