Star Abyss Walker

Chapter 13 Ranking List (Thanks to Alliance Leader Wufeng de Ningjing!)

I chatted with Ruolin until noon, and incidentally, I got to eat a chicken hot pot with her.

……

In the afternoon, the sunlight was lazy.

The aftereffects of staying up all night finally arrived. After feeling a bit tired, I decided to go back to the internet cafe, find a few chairs, and take a nap.

As I walked through the alley, a few tourists walked by on the left, chatting and laughing, while on the right came hurried footsteps and someone shouted in a madman, "The city management officers are coming! Run!"

A figure rushed out of the alley, carrying a bundle, looking flustered, and glancing back as he ran.

Lu Xiaobei!
I was slightly stunned.

"Ding Han!"

Lu Xiaobei saw me too and hurriedly stuffed the bundle in his hand into my arms: "Run! Run!"

I didn't ask why, I just subconsciously followed her into another alley.

Lu Xiaobei seemed very familiar with the layout of the ancient city. She led me through a maze of twists and turns, finally turning into a deserted alley. With the crisis averted, she plopped down on a flower bed, panting heavily, her face flushed from the strenuous running.

"what's the situation?!"

I put down my bag: "What's this?"

After opening the bundle, one pile contained small plaques with various surnames printed on the front and Xicheng patterns on the back, as well as some small pendants with Xicheng logos, all of which were cultural and tourism trinkets.

"It's not easy being a street vendor these days..."

Lu Xiaobei patted his chest with lingering fear and smiled at me, "Luckily I met you, otherwise I would probably have fallen victim to those city management officers."

I was speechless for a moment: "Is it really necessary? Isn't Feiyang Internet Cafe enough to support you?"

"You do not understand."

Lu Xiaobei said, "There are four internet cafes on Qianjin Street. The competition is too fierce. Although it is adjacent to Xicheng University, business is not easy. Our internet cafe has few machines. Including the three you repaired, we only have 23 machines that can access the internet. The other three internet cafes basically have 30 or 40 machines."

She glanced at me and said, "If I don't save money and keep buying new machines to make Feiyang Internet Cafe bigger and stronger, our customers will be eaten up by the other three internet cafes sooner or later!"

"I didn't expect you to have such a strong sense of crisis."

I was disgruntled.

Lu Xiaobei squatted down and began to sort through the trinkets in the bundle.

"Didn't you go to take photos of the inn?" I asked.

"The filming is over."

Lu Xiaobei said, "Although I am beautiful, I charge a high price. You get what you pay for. Those innkeepers are all stingy, so they don't have many customers."

She was talking to herself when she suddenly looked up at me and smiled, saying, "Business was good this morning. Several families on a road trip visited my stall, and I made over two hundred yuan in just half a morning. Isn't that amazing?"

"sharp."

I asked, "Are you going to set up your stall again this afternoon?"

"Of course, the weather is nice today, sunny and breezy, we should make the most of this time."

She picked up her bundle and said with a smile, "I'm going to set up my stall now, you can go back now."

"Ah."

I nodded, watching her retreating figure, and couldn't help but ask, "Lu Xiaobei, have you had lunch yet?"

"What, are you going to invite me?" She turned to look at me, her face full of expectation.

"Of course not, I'm still waiting for you to advance my salary."

"I'm not talking anymore, my head hurts, I'm leaving."

She waved her hand and walked excitedly toward the group of tourists.

……

late at night.

The all-night session started again, but business at the internet cafe wasn't good. Only twelve people were staying overnight, mostly young men and women from the "Funeral Love Family" playing Audition Online. In addition, there were one or two middle-aged men who smoked a pack of cigarettes all night playing Legend of Mir. The night was quiet, and the only sound in the internet cafe was the clattering of keyboards.

I laid the network administrator's chair flat and used it as a bed, then closed my eyes to rest for a while.

Inside the star map, people were chatting, while I started frantically spying on the screen.

Just as those people were losing interest in chatting, I finally used 1% of my experience points to officially enter the Star Map and said, "Brothers, I'm new here and I'd like to ask about someone. Have any of you seen a player named 'Chasing Light'?"

"No..."

A player with a deep voice chuckled, "There aren't too many players in Xicheng. Most of them come from the wilderness. If you really want to find someone, I suggest you go to the Crimson Dragon Kingdom. It's said that most of the players in the Chinese server were born there. That's our stronghold."

"Oh, that's how it is……"

I was a little disappointed, but I smiled and said, "Thanks, it's okay, I'll keep looking."

"Yes, many of us are also looking for friends, but this can't be rushed. The friend system in the game hasn't been released yet, and everyone is waiting. Once the friend system is released, at least we can search for people by ID and add them, so finding people won't be so troublesome."

"Well, thank you!"

I nodded, no longer wanting to waste my precious experience points, and exited the Star Chart chat room.

Then, I casually opened the regional rankings, and a bunch of unfamiliar IDs immediately came into view—

1. Gunfire Like a Dragon Level: 14 Class: Starry Sky Super Weapon

2. One-Hit Kill Level: 13 Class: Starry Sky Super Weapon

3. Milk Tea Life-Sustaining Immortal Level: 13 Class: Starry Sky Super Weapon

4. Chaos Demon King, Level: 12, Class: Starry Sky Super Weapon 5. Lu Xun Deletes Comments Overnight, Level: 12, Class: Starry Sky Super Weapon

6. Rabbit's Critical Hit Rating: 12; Class: Firepower Attacker
7. Top Liberal Arts Scholar of Zaun: Level 12, Class: Psionicist

8. Chen Jinnan, Level: 11, Class: Starry Sky Super Weapon

9. Ruolin's Level: 11 Starry Sky Super Weapon
10. I'm bad at the game but I can still talk. Level: 11. Class: Damage Dealer
……

Looking at the rankings, I frowned slightly. There are still a lot of ruthless people here!

The top three are "Shot Like a Dragon", "One Slash to the Soul", and "Milk Tea Life-Sustaining Immortal". These three are undoubtedly ruthless. To reach such a high level at this stage, they must either have exceptional skills or deep resources.

However, according to Ruolin's chat, the way players are born into this world is not the legendary "cloning", but rather they appear directly in another character that replaces them. I have experienced this firsthand. My body is almost exactly the same as the one in reality, even the scars and birthmarks on my body are exactly the same. It is definitely not as simple as cloning.

However, the hosts to whom these players are born are generally not wealthy or powerful; almost all of them start from scratch. So you can imagine how powerful these top three players are!

When I see someone virtuous, I should think of emulating them; I must learn from them!

"drop!"

Just then, my phone popped up with a WeChat message.

Upon opening the message, I saw it was from Ruolin: "Tomorrow we've decided to form a five-person team to explore a newly spawned map outside the city. I just wanted to confirm with you whether you'd like to join the team?"

"can."

I replied directly: "Are my thousand 9mm peanuts ready?"

"I'm all ready. You can trust your sister Ruolin to handle things."

Ruolin added a "dog head" emoji.

I asked again, "Where should we meet tomorrow?"

"At the bus stop on Jiankang Road near Xicheng Third People's Hospital, around 9:00 AM, just wait there when you arrive. We have someone here with an old Santana that can take us out of the city."

"Okay, see you there."

"Okay, see you there!"

After putting down my phone, I felt a slight joy in my heart. Finally, I could leave the city to kill monsters and level up. My SS-level Yuanli Furnace was currently lacking the opportunity to extract experience points, and it was practically thirsting for them!

……

The next morning.

"Internet cafe manager, the all-night session is over, open the door."

I was woken up from my sleep, so I immediately grabbed the key, opened the roller shutter, and let a group of pale-faced, zombie-like members of the "Funeral Love Family" leave.

Outside, Zhao Yihang walked in carrying a few steamed buns and a bag of soy milk, and said with a smile, "Ding Han, how's it going on night shift?"

"Fun my ass..." I was speechless.

"Hahahaha~~~"

Zhao Yihang patted my shoulder: "Our boss Lu assigned you the night shift because she values ​​you and wants to train you to be the commander-in-chief of Feiyang Internet Cafe. Why doesn't she assign me the night shift?"

"Tsk tsk, this is really fresh."

I chuckled and said, "How about we switch?"

"No, I'm afraid that staying up too late will cause kidney deficiency. The female students in our School of Economics and Management are still waiting for me to take care of them."

Zhao Yihang may not be good at anything else, but he is really good at bragging, which makes people admire him.

"Ding Han".

Just then, footsteps came from upstairs, and Lu Xiaobei, dressed smartly, walked down. She was arrogant and ignored Zhao Yihang, her gaze fixed on my phone.

"You bought a cell phone?"

"Ah."

I nodded: "My friend bought it on credit, I don't have the money."

"Have you downloaded WeChat yet? Let's add each other as friends so we can communicate promptly if anything happens at the internet cafe."

"alright."

When I added him as a friend, Zhao Yihang muttered beside me, "Boss, I've worked in an internet cafe for so long, how come you've never added me on WeChat before?"

"It's just a phone call, why add me on WeChat?"

Lu Xiaobei perfectly embodies the concept of differential treatment.

By then, I had successfully applied and saw Lu Xiaobei's WeChat name. The name was quite unique, "Northern," followed by a cherry blossom, a wave, and a leaf. It was clear that she was a restless person, which perfectly matched her personality.

Afterwards, Lu Xiaobei and I parted ways in front of the internet cafe. She went to the old town to take photos for someone, while I took a detour to a breakfast shop, bought a few steamed buns and a bag of soy milk, and then went to the bus stop. I sat on the bus stop, ate my food, and rested for a while with my arms crossed, ready to recharge for today's adventure.

……

Before nine o'clock, a Santana that looked rusty slowly pulled up in front of the bus stop.

The driver was a middle-aged man with striking features and a handsome appearance. What struck me most was his demeanor—a calm, composed, and collected air befitting a middle-aged man. He gripped the steering wheel with his left hand and turned to look at me.

In the passenger seat sat a burly man with a pair of large eyes staring at him.

"Ding Han!"

The back window rolled down, revealing Ruolin's beautiful face. She moved inside while laughing, "Come on in, squeeze in the back."

I looked down and saw another woman next to Ruolin. She was also very pretty, but her expression was rather aloof, unlike Ruolin's warm demeanor.

(End of this chapter)