LWGP - Chapter 168

Chapter 168: Beyond the Scope

In truth, everyone had already digested most of the resources. Wang Jiu's team were the biggest beneficiaries, and their strength had skyrocketed. Xie Lu alone had his average attributes soar past four thousand.

Even the weakest, Wang Shu, had jumped to an average of twenty-seven hundred. Don't ask. If you have to ask, it was all thanks to opening various boxes and lucky draws.

This damn fatty had gotten smart. He didn't bother with ready-made resources, instead going for the small and medium treasure chests, and managed a comeback purely on his RNG luck.

Even with only 1% participation, the resources he obtained allowed him to achieve 10% of the effect.

For example, from the three luck-based Lucky Wheel spins, he drew a rare Flame Arcane Armament, an Arcane Spirit Transformation Crystal, and a gold growth badge (with a name like 「Heaven's Blessing,」 a badge practically screaming "RNG God").

The rare Flame Arcane Armament was no weaker than Wang Jiu's Ghost Shadow Armament. After all, the latter was utility-based, while this one directly added attributes—a permanent 80% attribute boost.

Damn, that's like cheating.

By that measure, this guy's gains were about to surpass even Xie Lu's and Bai Bai's.

In the Nightmare Dungeon, Xie Lu, Bai Bai, and Lin Guiwan all ranked in the top thirty for participation.

From the old Taoist alone, Xie Lu had completed a full gold set. He had also started smashing strengthening stones, and his attributes were skyrocketing. He also got an intermediate combat spirit and several precious intermediate class skill books.

Similarly, Lin Guiwan had also completed a gold set. She also obtained the advanced priest skill, Grand Radiance. The other priests were envious, but none of them could match Lin Guiwan's contribution, so it was given to her by default without any contest.

The others naturally reaped great rewards as well. Xie Lu and Lin Guiwan broke four thousand in average attributes. Qiao Xuejing and Mei Qingshu broke three thousand. Liao Luo was also catching up. If they completed their gold sets a bit later and started strengthening their gear, they could also shoot straight to four thousand.

However, Qiao Xuejing's and Liao Luo's individual class progression was the most obvious. Their resources were very concentrated, likely due to their powerful class talents.

Mei Qingshu and Dao Dao focused on equipment and attribute boosts, but none of them had improved as much as Wang Shu.

"The Lucky Wheel truly is a feast for the RNG Gods."

Everyone in the car was verbally attacking the damn fatty. Even Dao Dao kicked him a few times with her trotters (Qiao Xuejing pretended to stop her but was actually half-encouraging it).

With such public outrage, it was hard to appease them. Wang Shu didn't dare mention that he had already earned thirty thousand gold coins from his clothing business, working for Wang Jiu, and was close to pushing all his mastery talents to the level 7 barrier—he had enough money, but there were no more skill books on the market.

I have my own troubles, you know. Why can't anyone understand me?

Wang Shu complained to the System with a touch of feigned innocence, prompting a partitioned process of the System to roll its eyes at him and tell him to get lost.

In reality, everyone was using the lucky draw, since they had achieved a combined 11-star rating.

Quite a few people got to enjoy the wheel, and after receiving their rewards, they were all eager to test their own luck.

Spurred on by Wang Shu, Wang Jiu spun it seven times, receiving seven items.

Two homesteads, 45+45 square meters. Three intermediate skill books (not what she needed). Cage of Gloom (an advanced imprisonment cage). A supreme territory resource gift pack (high-grade, rare resources, priceless).

This time, the results of everyone else's spins couldn't hurt Wang Jiu, because she had gotten even better things (as long as she didn't compare herself to Wang Shu).

The value of the Cage of Gloom was self-evident; it could even imprison the likes of Xie Jiang. But it couldn't compare to the final, ultimate treasure—the supreme territory resource gift pack.

It seemed she needed to get back to her territory and start construction soon.

Xie Lu noticed Wang Jiu starting to pay attention to the route ahead and guessed she might be in a hurry. He unconsciously sped up, executing one perfect drift after another. This earned him all sorts of praise from Wang Shu and the others, who had been focused on organizing their resources. Wang Jiu also smiled at him and said, "Quite handsome."

Xie Lu's ears turned slightly red, but he tried hard to maintain his noble, upright posture.

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Soon, they arrived at the market.

There was no need to go shopping together. Wang Jiu was a loner anyway and paid the others no mind.

After entering the mall, although she was travel-worn, no one dared to look down on her as she went in and out of shops.

With a few thousand coins, she could still buy some things.

Wang Jiu bought a simple, slim-fit, waist-cinching dress and a tube of lipstick, and put them on.

She went to a few more stores and bought a pile of things. Afterward, she used her last few dozen coins to buy a milk tea and sat down to wait for the others to finish.

Dong Long, as the nanny, could finally justifiably hand the problem child over to his elder. Unfortunately, he failed, because Uncle Tan poked him in the chest with his staff while praising him for being a good babysitter.

Dong Long: "…"

What terrible luck for eight lifetimes to be stuck with your family.

The trashy little uncle, Tan Yingzhou, successfully passed the buck and went to browse a fashion store. He bought two suits that could finally allow him to maintain the dignity of a noble family head. He was attracting the attention of many young girls and women, but soon, he seemed to see something, felt the twenty coins in his pocket, and turned into the milk tea shop next door to check the prices.

What kind of world was this? He couldn't even afford milk tea.

To think his net worth was once over ten billion.

Tan Yingzhou wore a melancholic expression, but he still got his milk tea in the end, because the young lady working at the counter fought off many other girls and successfully used her own money to buy him a cup.

Her reward was a polite and gentle smile from Tan Yingzhou. Her face was full of joy at first, but when she saw where her dreamboat was heading, she instantly became depressed.

As expected, dreamboats belong to goddesses.

"Excuse me, may I sit here?" Tan Yingzhou asked politely.

Wang Jiu, who had been looking outside, turned her head and sized him up. "If you don't have hemorrhoids, it should be fine."

Tan Yingzhou's hand paused for a moment, but he still pulled out the chair and crossed his long legs. "You're not going to use X-ray vision on me, are you?"

Wang Jiu smiled but didn't say anything.

"Finished shopping so quickly?" Tan Yingzhou glanced at the bags beside her. Although he knew Wang Jiu was always lightning-fast when picking things out, he thought she might take the leisure time to relax and stroll around.

"Not much money, so I can't shop for long. Same as you." Wang Jiu was indeed at leisure, so she was willing to chat with him.

Tan Yingzhou noticed she had changed her clothes into a simple and elegant slim-fit dress. On anyone else, it might still look ordinary, but not on her.

Full of charm, yet restrained and ascetic—a true contradiction.

A "super player" who doesn't hesitate to provoke others but maintains self-control?

"So you also sold your looks like me, in exchange for a chance to freshen up?"

Wang Jiu: "Something like that. I promised to take a picture for that young girl."

Tan Yingzhou: "She got a good deal."

That comment was a bit flirtatious. Wang Jiu hadn't been paying him much mind, but upon hearing this, her eyes shifted, and she gave him a smiling glance. "And you? Did you let the other young girls get the short end of the stick?"

"Probably not." Tan Yingzhou wasn't really a fan of milk tea, but he didn't want to act pretentious, so he took a sip out of habit. Hmm… it's actually pretty good?

Better than black coffee.

"Sometimes the apocalypse is pretty good. It lets people stop being so hypocritical." He, who had worn a tight mask since childhood to maintain the dignity of his declining family, grew somewhat pensive. But he soon discovered that the person across from him was about to show him what sincere hypocrisy looked like.

In forty-five minutes, he counted: seven men and four women.

If all the people who hit on her formed a team, they could compete in the World Cup.

But Wang Jiu skillfully and nonchalantly dismissed them all. After being turned away, none of them were angry or resentful; they all submitted to her graceful and polite demeanor.

As if that would leave an impression on her. And this was all while he was already sitting across from her.

Oh, right. At first, he thought those few women were approaching him, but they weren't.

It truly is the apocalypse.

Tan Yingzhou was deeply worried.

System: "Psycho. Her world is perfectly normal."

Tan Yingzhou sat with Wang Jiu until the very end, just as their time was almost up. Wang Jiu also crossed her legs, her high heel pointing up slightly, occasionally tapping the air. She asked him calmly, "So patient. Do you have a question for me? But I feel that if it's a question you still can't figure out, I naturally won't understand it either."

She didn't think she was that much better than these people.

She was just more ruthless.

Seeing that she had called him out, Tan Yingzhou no longer concealed his intentions. "Regarding Wei Yuan, Diao Guang shouldn't have been enough to be his ally. Plus, the timing of him learning about Fanlin Village was too coincidental and close, as if he was racing against you. On our side, only you knew, and it was never leaked. As for Zhang Shen, he hadn't spoken a word for years. And if he knew about the clues recorded by the city government, he would have destroyed them long ago, which means he didn't know. So, his channels are limited. I think someone helped him."

Wang Jiu was silent for a moment, then said, "You really did ask a question I can't answer."

This kind of secret was a bit beyond the scope.

She wasn't using cheats, after all.

Tan Yingzhou sighed. "It's a bit of a shame, but not knowing won't change anything. At most, we just need to be more cautious and not run around randomly later."

He was implying there might be a potential danger outside Mist Town.

The state? Or something else?

Wang Jiu smiled and didn't deny his judgment, because she had already given instructions to Wang Shu and the others earlier.

Do not deviate from the route arranged by the System—aside from shopping, do not wander far.

Since there was no answer, they didn't dwell on it. But just as Wang Jiu glanced at the clock on the wall, preparing to leave, she unexpectedly received a private message.

"Hello, Ms. Wang Jiu. This is Wei Yuan. Have you finished chatting with the gentleman across from you? Could you perhaps chat with me?"

Wang Jiu: "…"

Unexpected, yet it also seemed to make sense.

The person who was beyond the scope had arrived.

She had been pondering a question before: if Wei Yuan was Zhang Jue, then who was Wei Yuan?

"Mr. Wei is quite impressive. You didn't follow us all the way here, did you?" Wang Jiu remarked. The other party knew what she was doing here, so he was probably here too.

It also meant he had been following them straight from outside Mist Town.

He had followed them all the way to this mall without her noticing.

Perhaps he was even watching her from nearby right now.

Truly terrifying.

Wei Yuan: "You're too kind. It is Ms. Wang who is truly stunning."

It seemed like a double entendre.

"Being stunned isn't enough to make you drop your killing intent. Is it because of the System's protection that you can't make a move?"

Such a direct question, straight to the core.

Wei Yuan was just as straightforward in his reply: "Indeed. I originally wanted Zhang Jue to take care of you, but he was arrogant, and probably also attracted to you, Ms. Wang. He foolishly approached you himself, which severed his connection with me, and I could no longer monitor the network afterward. I had no choice but to opt for another method."

Wang Jiu: "You could have just waited for us to deal with Zhang Jue and ambushed us after we left Mist Town—so, there's something you want inside Mist Town. Or at least, something I have on me."

This was why he had revealed his identity to find her, even though he knew the instance was over, they were protected by the System, and he couldn't harm them.

To make a trade.

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