Bald Monk in the City - Chapter 39

Chapter 39: Publicizing Entrance

Translator: Exodus Tales

Editor: Exodus Tales

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　　”Will you publicize the secret dungeon, Cowhead Monster Secret Dungeon, to the Trading Forum?”

　　This infomation appeared on Yi Qiu’s retina screen.

　　He touched his bald head and started to think about it.

　　There were naturally some benefits from doing so. Not considering the entrance fee, after all, Yi Qiu wasn’t sure how many Integrated Network players there were on earth.

　　He was the first to reach Level 5 which meant that he was progressing quickly. But that didn’t tell him how many others there were.

　　Thinking about how there wasn’t much infomation about this online, there probably weren’t many.

　　Anyway, in terms of entrance fees, Yi Qiu didn’t have high hopes for it.

　　But even without that, there was a certain benefit. At least, he could have some understanding of the number of players on earth.

　　It was impossible to use solo dungeons to reach Legend. For people like Yi Qiu who relied on Son of Slaughter specialty to grow, it was impossible to get to Legend without killing millions.

　　Legend wasn’t an easy thing. It wasn’t a title that shone in gold words, but it represented the top survivors in the bloody slaughter of the world. The only survivor… 

　　None of the Legends got to where they were by luck.

　　Yi Qiu took that path, so naturally he wanted to get to Legend too.

　　Getting there required huge amounts of experience, to get to Level 6 already required 15,000. 

　　Without extra experience sources, Yi Qiu needed several weeks to level up.

　　However, compared to the few levels before Legend, such Experience Points were far too little.

　　When one reached Level 10, the battlefields that opened were the key to reaching Legend quickly.

　　Be it the large amounts of experience one got from battles or rewards exchanged using kills, one had to go to the battlefield.

　　Especially those chaotic ones, he would kill both enemies and his own…

　　In a battle of thousands of millions, one person’s strength was far from enough.

　　If he could get a few partners, he felt that it would be much better for him on the battlefield.

　　Anyway, with the survivability and movement speed of the Monk, if his partners died he would still be able to run away…

　　There was something even dirtier; he didn’t need to run faster than the enemy, he just had to run faster than his partners…

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　　Apart from getting a few partners, Yi Qiu’s hand was itchy…

　　He quietly grew to Level 5 and became the first on earth. He wanted to find some other earth players to test his hand.

　　One just had to test out their own standing…

　　Anyway, this just made him tempted. The difference between people who were born rich and those who became rich was that the former was already tired while the latter was just starting. 

　　There was not much difference, like how Beijing landlords and Shanghai landlords were the same, enjoying the benefits of owning houses, but they looked down on each other and even more so on people from other places.

　　Or like how the ancient people said that when one had a weapon, they would be tempted to kill. Toward such a mentality, the Chinese people had many examples and deep experiences.

　　On earth, Yi Qiu’s skills were useless.

　　He was just a nerd, if he had internet and food, he could just waste his time away at home.

　　He did not have to move out, so naturally, he couldn’t meet those rich people snatching beauties, those hooligans playing with girls, those robbers robbing beauties, etc…

　　It definitely wasn’t so glamorous in the Chinese world.

After all, Seria mentioned that there would be darkness under the sunlight, naturally, it was the case in the Chinese world.

　　But due to how big the place was, Yi Qiu didn’t think he would coincidentally bump into such things.

　　As for proactively searching for those dark powers… Yi Qiu felt that with his intelligence, if he could find them, then those people were pretty much just lowly, unintelligent powers.

　　He wanted to wait until he found an ability that could deduce someone’s degree of evilness.

　　Then, it would be easier for him to search for dark powers. If he gathered 9 of them, he could even just offer them up.

　　Yi Qiu didn’t feel any pressure toward offering and sacrificing these scum of society.

　　Yi Qiu didn’t lean toward kindness or evil, he felt that people who judged others based on this were biased. There was no absolute kind or absolute evil.

　　Yi Qiu felt that order was a strong power but too much of it would be like a chain, restricting one’s movements and even thoughts.

　　Thus, he liked to rely on his own rules. Yi Qiu would accept everything that was beneficial to himself and wouldn’t be affected by all those moral talks of society.

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　　He thought about it for half a day before deciding to publicize the entrance to the public.

　　It seemed amazing to solo the rewards of the secret dungeon, but with the hundreds of square kilometers of land in the dungeon, Yi Qiu didn’t feel like he could swallow it all.

　　Moreover, publicizing it would not only allow him to understand the situation of the other earth players, he could even get close to them.

　　He wasn’t that smart, an average 10, but based on the huge amount of infomation that the modern-day allowed him to access, he knew the importance of intel.

　　Given the situation that other people didn’t know these things, to gain intel about the earth players gave him a huge advantage.

　　Yi Qiu didn’t plan to make use of this intel to do something, he wasn’t someone to abuse his power.

　　But if he could hide in the bush, who would be willing to make themselves open to everyone?

　　Of course, while selecting the time he opened it for, he chose 3 days.

　　He could allow the unknown number of Integrated Network players to clear out the outer monsters and not gain too many benefits.

　　In terms of fees, he decided on 500 based on his own income and the battle map settings.

　　Of course, in truth, he just touched his bald head and casually filled in 500 based on his intuition. He wasn’t a statistician and anyway 500 was a sum that he felt heart pained about, but he would grit his teeth and pay it.

　　”Please confirm whether you would publicize Cowhead Monster Secret Dungeon for 3 days, entrance fee of 500 Integrated Network Coins?”

　　”Yes.”

　　”Secret Dungeon: Cowhead Monster Secret Dungeon has been publicized on the forums, current number of entries: 0.”

　　”Teleporting into Cowhead Monster Secret Dungeon…”