Game Starts With The Scarecrow - Chapter 8

Chapter 8: Qingyi Changfeng

Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios

In order to level up faster, Mo Fan did not hesitate to use HP potions.

These were all recovery potions that could recover 10 HP at once.

He collected them from the players’ corpses earlier.

Although the recovery rate it could offer was only slightly faster than his own health regeneration, it was better than nothing.

After farming for more than an hour, he killed 297 Weak Chrysanthemum Spirits and obtained 5 pieces of equipment, he reached Level 8 as well.

[Torn Shirt (Gray)]

[A shirt that nobody wants. The chest area is a little torn, it can barely be worn.]

[Defense: 0-1]

After Mo Fan put on the shirt, he felt a chill all over his body.

He did not know if the wind was simply too strong or if his clothes were too worn out to provide sufficient insulation from the elements.

[Torn Shoes (Gray)]

[A pair of shoes that nobody wants. The toe area is a little torn, it can barely be worn.]

[Defense: 0-1]

After putting on the shoes, his toes were exposed.

After putting on these two pieces of equipment, he still had three pieces of them left.

They were two pieces of “Torn Pants” and a “Torn Shirt”.

The shoes were rarer drops. He had only obtained a single pair so far.

“Let’s go to the official website!”

“To the trading section!”

Mo Fan looked at the items being traded in the trading section of the website.

Apart from the “Broken Wooden Stick”, some players had actually managed to get their hands on some torn gray equipment.

This revelation surprised Mo Fan.

[Player XXX’s equipment “Torn Pants” was bought by Player OOO for $128!]

[Player XXX’s equipment “Torn Shirt” was bought by Player OOO for $153!]

[Player XXX’s equipment “Torn Shoes” was bought by Player OOO for $214!]

[Player XXX’s weapon “Broken Wooden Stick” was bought by Player OOO for $269!]

Mo Fan looked at the transaction records.

The Torn Shirt and Pants were sold for over a hundred, while the shoes sold for over two hundred.

It seemed that the prices of equipment in the trading section were related to the drop rate of the items being sold.

The price of the “Broken Wooden Stick” had also decreased.

It hovered at around $250.

As the level of the players increased, the amount of equipment they could obtain would also increase accordingly.

No matter how low the drop rate of equipment was, with so many players killing so many monsters, the total amount of equipment dropped from the monsters was bound to be high.

Mo Fan had previously killed a large number of players outside the beginner village.

Together with Night Rain’s weapon, he had obtained a total of 23 “Broken Wooden Sticks”.

He listed these weapons and the three pieces of torn equipment that he had just obtained on the market.

Within a few seconds, he received an email.

[Hello, Esteemed Player Bunao Biaoyin, your Broken Wooden Stick has been bought by Player Generous Virgin. After deducting the 1% transaction fee, your earnings are $256.34.]

[Dear Mr. Mo Fan, your savings account (XXXX3422) has just received $256.34. Your current balance remaining is $4873.68.]

…

He received a total of 26 notifications in a matter of seconds.

The balance in his bank account increased by $6182.55.

At this point, he now had a balance of $10,807.27 in his bank account.

In less than a day, he had evolved from a young man with only $200 savings to a $10,000 net worth tycoon.

He felt an indescribable joy in his heart.

As the saying went, a boy with money is a man, but a man without money is even less than a boy.

With so much money, Mo Fan’s first thought was to change his gaming helmet into a better one.

Turn the gaming helmet into a gaming capsule…

To rent a bigger house…

To hire a beautiful housekeeper…

Was $10,000 enough?

However, he first had to log out of the game.

Realizing the gravity of his situation, the smile on Mo Fan’s face disappeared.

“This is a dogsh*t game. I’ll definitely report this game to the authorities when I log off!”

“I still can’t go offline, what the heck?!”

“I need 600,000 Spiritual Energy Points to reach Level 9. To reach Level 10, I may need more than 1,000,000 Spiritual Energy Points.”

“Sigh… I’ll go and level up first!”

Mo Fan looked at the surrounding chrysanthemum spirits and continued to work.

Another hour later.

As Mo Fan went deeper into the high-leveled monster area, he could finally hear the voices of some players from the forest up ahead.

“Brother Changfeng, Is it true that Night Rain was killed by a random handsome guy in the beginner village?”

“That’s right! Night Rain has at least 1200 HP considering his level. Someone who can insta-kill him is not a simple individual at all.”

“How good can he be though? Can that handsome guy be better than you?”

“Who knows? Since we chose not to bother with the rankings, we should also not bother about these things.”

“Okay…”

“Brother Changfeng, if you reveal yourself to the world, you can easily take first place on the Level Ranking Board.”

After activating Human Skin, Mo Fan continued to move and he soon found these three people.

[Qingyi Changfeng (Level 9)]

[Qingyi Mobai (Level 8)]

[Qingyi Qiancheng (Level 8)].

Mo Fan was shocked. He did not expect that the three of them would have such high levels.

He thought that after he reached Level 8, he had left most of the players far behind in terms of level.

But he didn’t expect to be slapped in the face.

Seeing how they killed the monsters in the forest, Mo Fan understood why they leveled up so quickly.

This was a Level 9 monster area.

Every monster here were chrysanthemum spirits with prefixes, such as “Sturdy Chrysanthemum Spirit”, “Agile Chrysanthemum Spirit”, “Nimble Chrysanthemum Spirit”, and so on.

Qingyi Mobai and Qingyi Qiancheng were responsible for luring the monsters, while Qingyi Changfeng was responsible for attacking.

Qingyi Changfeng had an AOE skill that continuously dealt large amounts of damage to the monsters around him.

Their foundations were also quite deep.

At the very least, they must be professional players.

Especially Qingyi Changfeng—his micro-control—and movements were perfect.

Only a handful of monsters could hit him in the middle of the fight.

They lured over a dozen monsters at once and wiped them out in less than two minutes.

Then, they continued to lure over the next wave of monsters.

Using this tactic, it would be strange for them not to level up so quickly.

Mo Fan finally understood why there were so many pieces of equipment in the trading section of the official website.

It seemed that there were many crouching tigers, hidden dragons lurking in this game.

Shaking his head, Mo Fan chose another direction and prepared to leave.

“Stop!”

He had only taken a few steps when he suddenly heard a stern shout from behind him.

Mo Fan turned around and realized that it came from Qingyi Qiancheng.

It was probably because the other party had caught a glimpse of Mo Fan while luring monsters.

“What’s up?” Mo Fan asked plainly.

Qingyi Changfeng and Qingyi Mobai also walked over.

“There aren’t many people in this area. You must be the handsome guy who killed Night Rain, right?” Qingyi Changfeng smiled and asked.

He had a friendly look on his face.

“That’s right!”

Mo Fan did not deny it.

His handsome appearance had long been plastered over the official website, it was not surprising that someone could recognize him.

“I am the clan head of the Qingyi Clan, Qingyi Changfeng. It’s my pleasure to meet you!”

Qingyi Changfeng extended his hand and was about to shake hands with Mo Fan when Qingyi Mobai and Qingyi Qiancheng both revealed surprised expressions on their faces.

It seemed that Qingyi Changfeng’s behavior was far too abnormal.

“I offended the Proud World Guild and the Blue Ocean Club. Aren’t you afraid of them?”

Mo Fan smiled and shook hands with Qingyi Changfeng.

After a handshake, Mo Fan revealed a look.

This Qingyi Changfeng’s hand was simply too smooth.

“Hmph, what is so great about Proud World and Blue Ocean?”

Hearing Mo Fan’s words, Qingyi Qiancheng’s face became full of disdain.

But before he could finish speaking, he was stopped by Qingyi Changfeng.

“Since we are already friends, if Proud World and Blue Ocean bothers you, you can contact us.”

Qingyi Changfeng replied with a faint smile.

His voice was very calm, however, it became obvious that he did not think highly of Proud World and Blue Ocean.

“Is that so? My name is Bunao Biaoyin, nice to meet you.” Mo Fan smiled.

As for whether Qingyi Changfeng’s words were true or not, no one knew.

After that, Qingyi Changfeng briefly introduced both Qingyi Qiancheng and Qingyi Mobai.

Once the introductions were done, it could be considered that they somehow knew each other by now.

“Your name’s too strange. We’ll call you Brother Yin instead!”

“Alright~”

“I think you also came here to farm. Shall we team up?”

“Sure!”

Qingyi Changfeng issued a party invitation.

Mo Fan was here to level up anyway, so he immediately agreed.

Then, the four of them started killing monsters.

Mo Fan had never heard of this Qingyi Clan before.

From their conversation, it became apparent that this Qingyi clan was powerful and influential.

The only reason he could catch their attention was probably due to his high level.

Previously, two of them were luring the monsters.

But with the addition of Mo Fan into the team, there were now three people doing their best to lure monsters. All three of them worked together.

Mo Fan tapped one of the monsters and immediately rushed to the next one.

Not long after, a large group of monsters followed behind him.

After luring the monsters to Qingyi Changfeng’s side, a myriad of damage numbers floated above the head of the group of monsters in front.

-78

-59

-176 (Critical Hit)

-132 (Critical Hit)

-63

-122 (Critical Hit)

-77

Mo Fan finally saw how strong Qingyi Changfeng’s AOE skill.

But the AOE skill that Mo Fan thought the latter had—wasn’t actually an AOE skill!

Qingyi Changfeng’s Attack Speed was simply too fast that as he struck the bodies of these wild monsters one after another. He inadvertently created the illusion that his attacks were the result of an AOE skill.

After discovering the truth about the so-called AOE skill, Mo Fan was shocked agape to the point that several duck eggs could be stuffed inside.

It was simply unbelievable!

Mo Fan had never even heard of such a technique, let alone knowing that it was physically possible.

“How is it? Is Brother Changfeng powerful?”

“If Brother Changfeng he’s the second-best gamer when it comes to talent, no one would dare to say that they were first!”

Qingyi Qiancheng looked at Qingyi Changfeng in admiration.

Meanwhile, Qingyi Mobai remained calm as he went to lure the monsters over.

He seemed to be a man of few words for he rarely spoke.

Mo Fan gulped a mouthful of saliva and retracted his shocked expression.

Together with them, he started to eliminate the monsters that Qingyi Mobai had just pulled over.

-124

-132

-93

-770 (Bleeding)

-770 (Bleeding)

-770 (Bleeding)

“No way! Why is your attack so high?”

Qingyi Qiancheng, who was about to lure the monsters over to the middle of the encirclement, was suddenly dumbfounded.

He had just seen the damage that Mo Fan had dealt to these monsters.

Even Qingyi Changfeng was surprised.

Although Mo Fan’s attacks were not as fast as his own and his actions were not that impressive nor skilled, the damage he could deal was off the charts.

A few of the lower HP monsters were insta-killed by him.

Even Qingyi Mobai was shocked upon seeing the damage that Mo Fan could deal.

They had originally thought that Mo Fan would only leech Spiritual Energy from them upon teaming up. But they did not expect that the damage Mo Fan could deal was comparable to that of Qingyi Changfeng, or maybe even higher…

“I have a rather formidable talent. It’s nothing special really…”

Mo Fan saw them looking at him in shock.

Then, he explained with a rather embarrassed look on his face.