CH 121

Translated by Addis of Exiled Rebels Scanlations

Editor: GaeaTiamat

The air seemed to have an unspeakable awkwardness. The surroundings were so silent, a pin drop could be heard.

Wen XingYao was silent for a few seconds before he slowly explained, “I learned a life skill in cooking. In order to learn this skill, opening a workroom for myself shouldn’t be excessive, right?”

In fact, Wen XingYao himself only realized after the furniture was set up that the kitchen was actually the largest room in the small cottage. When he traced the root cause, an image from his juvenile memory suddenly appeared in front of his eyes.

It was from an angle, looking up at the handsome young man with one hand on his chin, as he helplessly shook his head, smiled bitterly, and said, “The good food is getting less and less. From now on Supreme will have to follow me to live a hard life. If only I had good cooking skills…” At that moment his free hand was rubbing the tips of his juvenile ears, which twitched from time to time because of some itchiness, which attracted a more focused gaze from the young man.

What was the juvenile thinking when he understood Bai Li’s words? He thought, If only I could make good food for humans, he wouldn’t be so distressed, and it would be nice to spend the rest of the time playing with me!

Wen XingYao, whose memory had not yet dovetailed with his infancy at that time, inexplicably took out his cooking utensils the next time he was online, and earnestly cooked the recipes. After that, because the finished food had several magical bonuses, Wen XingYao began to feel that it was good to know a craft, and so he persisted.

With this explanation, it made sense. No one else in the world would ever know that the reason he worked so hard to learn to cook was because of Bai Li.

Wen XingYao, “…” Why does he have to pay for the sins he committed in the real world? He didn’t resist cooking for Bai Li though.

“Not too much, not too much, of course not too much!” Mo Song suddenly realized, and helped to explain to the live viewers. “Everyone heard it. The big man is going to promote his hobby, and make it his game life.”

Wen XingYao, “…” With it being said like that, he suddenly felt that he did have a home.

The crowd stayed for a few more minutes, until they’d also finished visiting Wen XingYao’s home, then immediately, without stopping, headed next door to Bai Li’s home.

On the way, Bai Li’s appearance was calm, which gave everyone except Wen XingYao the illusion that the layout of his house was similar to that of most players, and they would find references from the real house decorations. That was until he opened the door of the house, turned sideways and gestured for Mo Song, who was carrying the live camera, to go in first.

Mo Song smilingly thanked him, unprepared as he stepped in with one foot. Then within a second, he came back out with a confused look on his face, and looked around in a panic to make sure he was still in the courtyard of Bai Li’s house before he breathed an exaggerated sigh of relief.

The reaction of the live viewers was not much better than his, with many already letting out excited screams at home.

[???? Just now we are all transmigrated, right? Why is it so unimaginable??]

[The scene just now, is what we can see in the live broadcast? Shouldn’t this appear in the Ancient Blue Star history book?]

[Anchor, why did you leave? I have not seen it. What did everyone see?! Everyone calm down and go back in there! Ah!]

[Good man! Big Brother Li Bai’s house is really worthy of being a model unit! Even the decoration of the room is different from other people’s homes. I feel that the decorations here and at the village chief’s house are a perfect match!]

“…”

At this point, Mo Song also calmed down, and grabbed his partner Long-winded, Scrupulous Son’s arm to keep steady. However, his voice was still a bit shaky when he spoke, “Oh my God! The first thing I thought when I went in was that I was in the wrong place! This is nothing like what I thought Big Brother Li Bai’s house would look like. How could it be like this…?”

The feeling made it a little hard for him to describe for a moment. In that moment he seemed to have traveled through time and space, and was suddenly lost in the thick of history. However, when he calmed down a little, he couldn’t help but recall the scene he saw in that short moment, and wanted to enter it again and experience it in detail.

Long-winded, Scrupulous Son was pinched hard and sucked a breath of cold air, “If you want to talk, then talk! Don’t pull on me! Quickly let me go! You’re about to break my hand! By the way, what exactly did you see?”

When Mo Song went in just now, he was far away and couldn’t see the inside of the house, so when Mo Song exited with a dumbfounded face, he was naturally puzzled.

Mo Song wiped his face, looked at Bai Li, and saw that he had an encouraging smile on his face. Then he simply gathered himself, grabbed Long-winded, Scrupulous Son’s arm and rushed into the hut as he said, “I don’t know how to explain it, just go in with me and see!”

Soon there was one more person whose worldview was shattered and reorganized.

Bai Li and Wen XingYao looked at each other and followed them in.

Long-winded, Scrupulous Son looked around for a whole minute or so before coming back to his senses. He grabbed Bai Li’s hand that was hanging down, his eyes full of passionate emotions. “Big Brother Li Bai, you…oh no, you really have a pair of ‘God’s hands’!!!” He boasted with admiration, “These pieces of furniture, all of which I would have skipped over straight after seeing them, have actually produced such an effect when they reached your hands!”

The smile on Bai Li’s face nearly froze. He didn’t know how to face this player who had suddenly become so enthusiastic. He had never been good at dealing with such scenes. At that moment, another pair of hands came from the side, and with a strong gesture, Wen XingYao took Long-winded, Scrupulous Son’s hand that had grabbed Bai Li, slid it up, and threw it to the side with a slight disgust.

When the other party looked at him in surprise, he replied in a serious way, “Just talk. Don’t move your hands.”

Long-winded, Scrupulous Son, “…” God damn it, I’m showing respect for the big guy! But forget it, this big man was not an existence he couldn’t afford to mess with.

Bai Li smiled at Wen XingYao, who had helped him out, and said “thank you” in a voice that only those two people could hear. Then he said to Long-winded, Scrupulous Son, “You’re exaggerating. I’m not as good as you say. I just have a different style of furnishing than the rest of you and that’s what makes me stand out.”

“But…” Mo Song managed to interject. “I’ve bought furniture like this before, and when I put it in my room, it didn’t fit in at all, so I gave up and just bought furniture I recognized. However, Big Brother Li Bai’s room gives me a completely different feeling, as if we are really standing in a scene depicted in a history book; ancient and very flavorful.”

Just the words “ancient” and “flavorful” said everything about the feeling of Bai Li’s room. Long-winded, Scrupulous Son, who had been unable to find the right words to describe it, started nodding frantically, expressing his agreement with Mo Song.

The pop-ups were also full of praise for the living room set-up, with viewers thinking that the living room looked good everywhere, and was nothing like the sultry bitches outside. This was just a part of the house, as each room’s furnishings came on display under the camera, the audience’s inner shock wasn’t reduced but increased. In the end there was even a lack of words. They could no longer praise a flower too, there was only the mechanical shouting of [awesome!] or [666].

Mo Song helped the audience to ask what they had always wanted to ask, “Li Bai, can I take a picture of your room and upload it to the forum to share with the Starnet? I think your room is so perfect, it’s a waste if you don’t do anything with it.”

And what the viewers wanted to do was to leave crazy compliments under these photos. Just wait, when the broadcast was over, they would go offline and flip through the dictionary!

Bai Li laughed and nodded. “Go ahead, I don’t mind.”

Anyway, even if the photos flowed out more, it couldn’t affect his residence.

What Bai Li didn’t know was that after Mo Song started a separate post for those photos, one player after another other uploaded the room layout photos in the post, and said that they wanted to rub the big brother’s hotness to let the netizens envy them for playing house dress up games in the virtual reality game.

As this trend rose higher and higher, players began to gradually not be satisfied with just uploading a few photos. In addition to their own planting, they actually figured out how to make their rooms more bright, and more distinctive.

If they wanted their room to look good, there was only one way to do it, and that was to open the game store and buy more furniture to go in it. One set was not enough so they bought two sets. Then two sets were not enough so they would buy five, six, seven or eight sets, until everything was to their own satisfaction.

The game furniture sales and home sales became a lot higher.

After this, the enthusiastic players continued to upload their matching room layout photos, while the visiting but unable to touch netizens were enlisted as judges, as they commented on those photos. The collective praise became the way to get a ranking of the photos, and a small half month later, the cloud players more or less kept a few of their favorite photos, as they waited to grab a spot in the game to use for decorating.

Of course, this was an afterthought, let’s not mention it.

When Mo Song went back to photograph each room carefully, that day’s live broadcast was also considered to have come to an end. Seeing that it was still early, Bai Li invited everyone to take a break under the vine in the courtyard, and wait until they had recovered a little before leaving.

After everyone sat down on the chairs, Bai Li poured a cup of tea for each of them, and also took out some shallow trays with a little magical spring water to quench the thirst of the Peeps and the golden koi.

Mo Song and Long-winded, Scrupulous Son quietly sipped their tea as they spoke of how thoughtful Big Brother was.

At this point, the live stream hadn’t stopped and the viewers who had been visiting for almost the whole day went into their sage time, chatting about one thing or another on the pop-ups.

[Now I close my eyes, full of the tree house and various rooms that I saw before, and always feel like dreaming about it when I sleep at night.]

[I really envy the ones in front of me who can still dream. Since I suffer from Genetic Collapse Disorder, dreams have almost nothing to do with me, and the few times I do have them are all nightmares, it’s so bad!]

[Can you not bring up this spoiler at such a relaxing time, I’m trying to forget this disease! But seriously, don’t you guys think that watching the Carefree Farmstead game live will make you feel a lot better?]

[Really, really. I also have this feeling. Anyway, the corners of my mouth were up the whole time. Obviously there is no such hot blood scene of fighting monsters…]

[We watch live and are feeling relaxed. It’s really hard to imagine those who go into the game to play, what kind of comfort and pain. Hey…it’s a pity that my hand was a step too slow!]

“…”

The four people in the game didn’t pay much attention to the content of the pop-ups, but chatted among themselves.

Mo Song saw Bai Li reaching out to tease Wen XingYao’s golden koi from time to time and asked curiously, “Li Bai, I haven’t seen your pet for so long. Don’t you want to let it out to let off some steam?”

“I don’t have a pet yet,” Bai Li said. “But in the previous event I exchanged a pet egg. In a short while, the egg will hatch a pet and then I’ll show you, ah.”

When Bai Li finished, Mo Song and Long-winded, Scrupulous Son both showed envious expressions. At the end of the “Corn Master” event, they had also saved up points to exchange for pet eggs, but couldn’t grab them from the wolf-like players, and finally could only reluctantly exchange for some other unlimited items.

“It’s great…I don’t know what kind of pets will be opened in the pet eggs.” Long-winded, Scrupulous Son stared at the egg in Bai Li’s hand, eager for the moment when the shell would break open and reveal the cutie inside.

“I don’t know either. The system says it’s random.” Bai Li shrugged his shoulders, and said he couldn’t do anything about it. “But…” He looked at Wen XingYao. “Didn’t Demon Xing get a pet egg much earlier? So, his pet should hatch earlier than mine.”

“Hmm.” Wen XingYao nodded. “The first pet egg will hatch at the end of this month, as for the second one, it will hatch on the same day as the others.”

“What?! You actually got another one!” Mo Song and Long-winded, Scrupulous Son screamed in unison.

Only Bai Li was still calm, and cast a “no shame in that” gaze towards Wen XingYao. Demon Xing, this guy was planning to have twins!