Chapter 48 - I Guarantee You Will Find It Interesting

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation  Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

[Ahhhh, damn it what a broken game. Another maintenance, how much maintenance do you need?]

[I was immersed in the joy of knocking out the tiger, and everything turned dull in the blink of an eye!]

[How long will the maintenance take? Will our accounts be deleted?]

[This game is delightful to play, but the openings to play are too short. I was just about to go out and explore.]

[What’s up with that Extraordinary awakening thing? Didn’t they mention that we’d be able to learn it from an NPC? Why hasn’t it come out yet? Phoenix was just ignoring me!]

[I really want to curse out loud. Is there an administrator in this broken forum, an official should come out and explain.]

[World background, what’s the world background like?]

[Prestige, prestige, brothers, this thing is incredibly important. Don’t merely interpret this game’s prestige to be the same as the prestige in other games. Here, the prestige is the filtered ranking…]

[The game’s openness is really high, and you can also build houses. What’s the point of the houses built for the NPCs? if we build an iron factory, can we craft weapons in the future?]

[I just want to be an Extraordinaire, can those brothers who have awakened the Extraordinary Seed add me as friends?]

[I agree with the iron factory. The trashy weapon given by NPC was fantastic.]

[I graduated from Lan Xiang, and I think that I could at least build a handcart for the magic crystals in the future.] (TN: Shandong Lan Xiang Technician College is a vocational school in China.)

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On the forum of the ‘Journey to the Other World’ imitation official website, dozens of posts started to show up. Some were complaining while others were plain cursing. However, there were also some who were also inquiring about gameplay strategies and singing hymns of the game. Although the overall number of player IDs was quite small, the discussions were still full of enthusiasm.

Without being able to play, most players started to get agitated. There were too many questions and things they wanted to know. The official website of the game barely gave them any background plot, and it was all based on missions. Right now they had to learn exclusively via dialogue with some of the NPCs, but there were simply too many things to communicate and complain about.

For example, equipment, leveling up, prestige, monsters, mission rewards, etc. Much less the degree of simulation of the game and the feeling of fighting and exploration. At this moment, the players who had recently logged out of the game and the players who were still thinking about joining went online and started chatting.

“Sigh, it’s really uncomfortable to bear this secret by myself.”

Sun Shuai placed a tripod on the computer desk and looked at the posts popping up one after another; He felt a little uncomfortable that he was withholding this information. Although most of the users were using in-game names, he could probably guess who they were from their messages.

“Should I tell these people about the background storyline? I triggered it!”

A smug smile spread across Sun Shuai’s face. After playing games for so many years, he had never experienced this sort of thrill in triggering a big storyline. It made him feel slightly arrogant and energized.

With both his hands on the keyboard, Sun Shuai was about to write up a post to tell the others about the Magic Tide’s background storyline. Suddenly, he heard ringing from the cell phone on his desk.

Sun Shuai picked up the phone and glanced at it. The name of the caller ID was ‘Mother Lord’, and the time on the top row of the phone read 6:20 in the morning.

“Oh crap, I’ve stayed up all night.”

Sun Shuai took the cell phone and glanced out the window. He felt that a single night had passed by too fast. After all, he had just been forced to quit and was not paying attention to the time. Now, it was already morning.

He tapped the phone screen to answer the call and soon heard a clear middle-aged female’s voice coming from the other end of the phone. “Son, are you awake?”

“Mom, why are you calling me so early in the morning?” Sun Shuai slumped into his seat, deliberately speaking with a slow nasally tone.

“Mom doesn’t want to disturb your sleep either, it’s just that your father and grandfather are in a row again. Come over here and try to calm them down.” The woman’s voice was somewhat helpless and anxious.

“They’re arguing again?” Sun Shuai slumped deeper into his computer chair. This task was a bit tiresome, but listening to his mother’s voice, he tried to perk himself up. “What’s it about this time?”

“Your grandfather is making a fuss about being unaccustomed to living here, and he wants to go back. Your dad doesn’t agree with him, so the father and son had a go at it.”

“Alright, I’ll be back in a bit.”

Sun Shuai smoothed out his slightly unkempt hair and got up from the computer chair. He first went into the bathroom to wash his face, then he changed his clothes and called a cab with his mobile phone.

He had his own car, and actually even had two of them. However, since he had not slept all night, it would be safer for him not to drive.

Half an hour later, Sun Shuai got out of the cab and entered a high-end villa neighborhood. He quickly walked all the way to the door of a detached family villa.

Right before entering, he noticed a slightly rickety older man holding a hoe and turning over a flowerbed in the villa’s small yard.

Sun Shuai remembered how the lawn used to look. Some of the flowers and plants had been planted by his mother in the flower garden, with a few of them in particular being quite expensive. Even so, now they had basically been uprooted to form a few vegetable plots.

“Grandpa, I didn’t know you can grow vegetables.”

Sun Shuai pushed open the iron gate of the villa and walked in. He smiled when he saw the older man.

The older man raised his head and was very happy when he saw Sun Shuai. He pointed to a few flower beds with the hoe and replied, “Your grandpa used to be a farmer before entering the factory. Eh, Lil Shuai, why are you here?”

“I haven’t eaten this morning, so I came to pester my mother for breakfast.” Sun Shuai casually came up with a reason for his presence.

He walked toward the older man and looked at the few vegetable plots that had been cleared. He smiled and asked, “Grandpa, what are you going to grow?”

“I’m not growing anything anymore. “The old man shook his head. “I’m going to level the ground, and I’ll be heading back tomorrow.”

“Heading back?” Sun Shuai was stunned for a moment, then hurriedly asked, “Grandpa, why are you going back?”

“If I don’t go back, I’ll just make everyone here feel bad.” The older man pouted his lips. He seemed to be speaking somewhat sarcastically.

“Grandpa, who doesn’t want you around?” Sun Shuai looked at the older man who seemed a little upset and quickly try to coax him.

At this time, a wealthy-looking middle-aged man also walked out of the villa. He looked at the old man and said helplessly, “Dad, you said you were bored, so I leveled the garden for you. Why are you still going back? Lil Shuai’s mother was also encouraging you to grow the vegetables and added that eating vegetables grown yourself is very healthy.”

“It won’t do. I’m not used to living here,” The old man shook his head. “I still want to go back.”

When the middle-aged man heard the old man’s words, the impatience in his expression was evident. “Dad, why are you not willing to listen to me? If mom were still around, I’d let you return in a heartbeat. But, you’re all alone now, so how could I feel rest easy if I let you return to that old house by yourself? You weren’t happy when I hired a caretaker either. I’m running out of options here.”

“I don’t need you to worry about me. Your old man is still able to move his own hands and feet. Last time, I was even asked to polish a special-shaped workpiece in the factory.” The older man was dissatisfied with the middle-aged man’s statement.

“Stop mentioning that, Dad. I get angry just hearing you talk about it.” The middle-aged man’s expression started to change when he heard the older man brag about polishing the workpiece. “How long has it been since you retired? Why do you still need to go and take care of those things? It’s not like you’re the only one that can do it. You even stayed up overnight to get the work done. Why are your factory managers treating you like this?”

“What’s wrong with your old man wanting to help polish a workpiece?” The older man was suddenly unhappy when he heard the middle-aged man’s sharp words. “Your old man played with bench vises and metalworking his whole life. I’m very willing to do it.”

“Grandpa, Grandpa, calm down. Dad’s just worried about your health, and he feels bad about it!”

Seeing the situation, Sun Shuai hurriedly stepped forward and supported the older man by smiling and comforting him.

He was aware of the conflict between his father and grandfather. Since his father started the business more than ten years ago, it had expanded rapidly. He had always been busy, so he felt that his mother was not properly taken care of. After his grandma passed away, his father had been worried about his grandfather’s body and tried to take care of the old man several times.

Grandpa was still a rare high-level technician. In the past, he was considered one of the top rank fitters. When Sun Shuai was a child, he had made a metal excavator toy from scraps. Apart from the limited mechanics, everything else was almost identical to the real thing. His craftsmanship was exceptional, and even after retirement, some leaders or apprentices from the original factory would come to ask him for help.

Sun Shuai’s dad disliked seeing the people from the factory coming to his old man for help. He could not ignore this as he felt that these people were continually taking advantage of his old man.

Despite this, it just so happened that this old man enjoyed it and would never get tired of doing this work. Hence, he had kicked up a fuss about going back four to five times now since he had first arrived a couple of months ago.

Sun Shuai was well aware that the old man had just left a familiar environment and had no one to talk to. Furthermore, he could not stand being idle. After playing with a fitter’s workbench and grinder for his whole life, making, designing, and repairing all kinds of abrasive tools, he would undoubtedly feel really bored now that he stopped handling these things.

A bright idea flashed inside Sun Shuai’s mind, and he suddenly thought of something. He raised his brows and asked the old man, “Grandpa, why don’t you stay at my place for two days?”

“Go to your place? What for?” The old man obviously did not understand Sun Shuai’s intention.

Sun Shuai’s father, who was standing next to him, was also suspicious. He had no clue what his son, who only knew video games, was scheming, but he did not say anything. The old man might not listen to him, but Sun Shuai might be able to persuade the old man.

“Yep,” Sun Shuai smiled and nodded. “Grandpa, I’ll bring you along and show you something. I guarantee you will find it interesting.”