Chapter 347 - The Long Lost Literary Exchange.
Chapter 347: The Long Lost Literary Exchange.
The World of Darkness and Shadows.
In the community.
Bang!
Darkness and shadows surged!
The monsters at the edge of the community looked hideous.
Perhaps due to the fact that the World of Darkness and Shadows was full of shadows, the indigenous community looked strange…
They seemed terrifying.
Thankfully…
The students were not to be trifled with.
By the time Lu Ming made his way there, they had fled back to the community. According to the rules of the World of Darkness and Shadows, monsters were not allowed to enter the community. It was very safe there.
The students who were supposed to compete with each other were now helping each other and hiding.
Lu Ming swept his gaze over them. There were only dozens of students here. He did not see his sister and Zhao Yunshan… It seemed that the assessment was done in batches.
Ss——
Ss——
The shadow monsters made strange noises.
They surrounded the community, staring menacingly at the students.
“What are these guys doing?”
Lu Ming was on his guard.
“I don’t know.”
Xiao-Xiaojian tried his all-powerful translation capabilities to decipher what they were talking about but failed. “I don’t understand a word.”
Ss——
The shadow monsters continued to make strange and mysterious sounds. After a while, seeing that they were ignored, they decided to use another method.
“You guys!
“Come out and prepare to die!”
There was a dialog box on top of a tentacle.
Piu!
Piu!
The shadow monsters shook madly.
“Come out now!”
A round dialog box popped up on top of a monster on the left.
“Stupid humans!”
A diamond dialog box popped up on the monster on the right.
Everyone was dumbstruck.
Crap…
Oh.
Right.
They almost forgot that this was the World of Darkness and Shadows!
Students and the monsters had their own way of communication. To communicate with each other, they had to abide by the standard rules in the World of Darkness and Shadows—
Text dialog box!
Piu!
Piu!
The dialog boxes on top of the monsters’ heads kept shaking. Some looked like normal dialog boxes while others looked like free skins for the dialog boxes given for members who topped up…
“What’s wrong with these guys?”
Lu Ming frowned.
Under normal circumstances, these shadow monsters should be condensed from energy.
Why was it they were capable of slandering others?
“They must have been domesticated.”
Xiao-Xiaojian made an intelligent guess. “These guys completely ignore the shadows in the community and instead stare at the students. They must be here to specifically make trouble for the students.”
Specifically…
Lu Ming squinted at the dialog boxes on top of their heads. “These guys are even capable of using dialog boxes to hurl abuses at others?”
“It’s normal.”
Xiao-Xiaojian explained. “They are in this world. To them, dialog boxes are the simplest form of threats. It is similar to yelling and roaring. They belong to the same type of threats.”
Oo…
Lu Ming gained some understanding.
At this moment…
At the edge of the community.
The shadow monsters confronted the students. The atmosphere was tense.
“Cowards!”
“Come out!”
“Weaklings!”
The shadow monsters mocked and taunted them.
Some of the students were furious. Despite their young age, they were already six-stars. They were very distinguished in school. They had never faced such provocation.
A few of them wanted to dash out but were stopped by the rest.
“You can’t go out!”
“It’s fine if we lose the competition, but we cannot die at the hands of these monsters!”
“Exactly!”
“I am still waiting for a chance to defeat you. You can’t court death.”
Some calmer students stopped them.
However…
The situation gradually went out of control.
The geniuses from The First Academy had never experienced such frustration. All along, they lived an unusually smooth life, basking in glory! Moreover, the students spent most of their time cultivating. They seldom went online and hence they had never been through any true difficulties.
This was the reason why they were so furious.
How dare these monsters humiliate students from The First Academy?
Who gave them the guts?!
“They are after all still very young.”
Lu Ming shook his head and sighed. These students were too fragile.
“Should we take action?”
Xiao-Xiaojian looked serious.
It did an estimation of the capabilities of the two parties. In fact, the students from The First Academy were on par with the shadow monsters. It was just that he wondered if there would be other complications…
The shadows did not seem easy to deal with.
“I am after all their senior.”
Lu Ming sighed.
Since they did not have conflicting interests, Lu Ming did not mind helping them.
“Are you certain you will be helping them?”
Xiao-Xiaojian was very skeptical.
“The monsters seemed to be very powerful. They might have to go all out in the fight against them.
“Hehe.”
Lu Ming only smiled faintly.
Going all out…
That was too stupid!
“Xiao-Xiaojian.
“Are you certain the monsters cannot come in?” Lu Ming confirmed with Xiao-Xiaojian.
“Theoretically, they cannot enter.”
Xiao-Xiaojian was certain.
“Understood,” Lu Ming said calmly.
With that, he took a stride forward and stood in front of the students.
Shush!
The shadow monsters as well as the students looked toward Lu Ming. They were full of doubt. Who was that?
Whoosh—
Lu Ming took a deep breath.
There were many dialog boxes on top of the shadow monsters, taunting and mocking the students. He took a look at them and did not hesitate to summon his strongest capabilities in competing in the qualifying matches back then!
“Damn you U•ェ•*U!”
“F*ck you %^&$)*&#%$^%$#”
“You are so ugly-looking, yet you have the guts to come out?! $)*&#%$^”
“Come in if you have the guts!”
“Bastards!”
…
Shush!
The whole world was silent.
The students were dumbstruck.
The judges were dazed as well.
Only a few individual monsters in the whole world were left putting up a tenacious counterattack.
After a long time…
The dialog boxes on top of the monsters began to reduce in numbers. They wore a dumbstruck look as they stared at the series of dialog boxes on top of Lu Ming…
Biu!
Biu!
There were endless stacks of dialog boxes.
After a long time…
The shadow monsters were defeated.
Yes.
They had retreated.
Nearing the end, the dialog boxes that appeared on top of their heads could not be compared to Lu Ming’s in terms of quality and quantity, as well as the severity of the insults…
In the end…
Everyone was defeated.
…
“Cool!”
Lu Ming felt pleased.
Ah…
It was a long lost literary exchange!
Ever since he came to this world, it was a sheer pity that he could no longer play games. Today, he finally found the feeling of competing in the qualifying matches…
These were beautiful memories!
Of course.
He did not invent these insults.
After he was insulted the first time he participated in qualifying matches, Lu Ming put in extra effort to search through the Internet, learning one hundred most insulting curses. From then on, he never lost in any of the matches!
This was the compilation of the best insults online!
This was the knowledge accumulated across eras.
He merely repeated them here.
Xiao-Xiaojian was silent.
It never knew that the words that it was familiar with would become so insulting when they were put together.
Also, Lu Ming constantly brought up games that he played previously.
To hell with it!
What scary games did he play in the past to need such interactions!?
Terrible thoughts flashed across his mind.
…
In the Sea of Consciousness.
The black cat frowned.
It looked at the dialog box that had yet to dissipate on top of Lu Ming’s head. It calmed down, changed another position so that its fur would cover it totally.
…
The entrance to the community.
The shadows surrounded the community due to the appearance of the monsters.
Right now, they were dumbstruck after witnessing such a scene. Damn! New users seemed to be very ruthless!
Afterward…
They realized a scary problem. In the future, when they faced these new users, what would happen if they were being insulted?!
“I almost exploded out of anger watching them by the side.”
“Me too!”
“Those insults were too much…”
“If someone said this…”
“I would definitely go offline to give him a round of bashing!”
The shadows talked among themselves.
Therefore, they realized a scary problem.
In the past, to them this was a community for the shadows to interact and to participate in the transactions of banned goods. Everyone ignored each other and no one would insult the rest of the shadows!
After all, the big shots were very powerful and were mentally strong. They were unaffected by ordinary insults.
Right now…
If they were displeased with each other, they might voice their displeasure in the literary exchange!
If the other party lost their sanity because of their insults, they would gain the upper hand!
Well…
Very well.
The insults that were used previously seemed to be very useful. They should note them down for future use. Some of the shadows began to note down the insults used by Lu Ming secretly.
Some of the shadows were filled with worries.
They were done for!
The community was done for…
They could foresee that in the future, the world that they were in would be covered with vulgarities. It would be tantamount to PK and similar verbal abuse offline!
Their niche and sophisticated World of Darkness and Shadows…
Was likely to collapse totally!
“Ah Fu.”
“Yes, Master.”
“In the future, you will be responsible for releasing the tasks. I won’t be coming here. This place is no longer the sophisticated pure land.”
“Master, we are here to sell drugs. Why would we need pure land?”
“Why can’t people who sell drugs be sophisticated?”
“Can they?”
“Of course. The big shots in my circle of friends who are worth tens of billions yuan circulate them everyday. Although we deal in drug trafficking, arms trafficking, pimping, opening of casinos, creating assassin organizations, all of us are elegant and sophisticated!”
“… You are right.”
…
At this very moment…
The students were awestruck, as they looked at the shadow who made the enemies retreat in fright.
This man…
He was impressive!
Although what he said was insulting, when being humiliated by the monsters, they had to use even harsher insults to get the upper hand and to gain pleasure from it!
“Thank you, Senior.”
One student waved his hands at him, pretending to thank him.
“There is no need to pretend.”
Lu Ming found it amusing. “I know who you are. I helped you as your dean entrusted me to take care of you secretly. Anyway, be more careful.”
One of their own?!
The students’ eyes lit up.
“How do you do, Senior?”
The students were much more passionate than before.
“Why are there only a few of you?”
Lu Ming pretended to ask casually. “I remember that this is the graduation season. They should be the entire batch of students?”
“We are sent to different communities respectively.”
One student explained.
“Hmm.”
Lu Ming looked pensive. “Do you know where the rest of them are?”
“I don’t know.”
The students shook their heads earnestly. “We are competing with each other. We have no right to know of their whereabouts. We coexist in harmony as we are in the community.”
“I see.”
Lu Ming nodded his head lightly and coughed. “According to the rules, I can’t help you too much. Do you understand?”
“Understood.”
The students were disappointed.
“Way to go!”
Lu Ming smiled. “If everything goes smooth, perhaps I will see all of you at the on-campus job fair.”
On-campus job fair!
The students suddenly became passionate.
This person was indeed their senior!
It seemed that this encounter might not be a bad thing. With this encounter, they might have the chance to become the disciple of this senior!
The friend of the dean must be very powerful!
Oh right.
They were reminded of the literary exchange just now!
From the dialog boxes as well as the senior’s mastery of the language, he must be very experienced! One had to be experienced to be capable!
“Senior, we will work hard!”
The students said excitedly.
“Way to go.”
Lu Ming smiled. “Although there are a lot of things that cannot be revealed, if you have any questions about the rules, please feel free to ask.”
“Really?”
Some students were thrilled.
Hence…
They had an in-depth discussion with Lu Ming about the rules of the assessment.
Well…
In fact, it was the students who participated in the discussion.
Since they were competing with each other, they had one-to-one dialogs with Lu Ming. The rest seemed to be pretty familiar with the rules. Therefore, most of the time Lu Ming was responsible for relating what he heard from one student to another. Basically, the students asked and answered their own questions. Lu Ming participated in the discussion with ease.
Of course.
For questions that he had no answers for, all he needed to say was that he could not share the details and it was over.
In the end…
Lu Ming left after understanding the rules.
…
Somewhere.
Lu Ming who had left the students behind exclaimed, “Such a group of adorable students.”
Yes.
The students were adorable.
Because of their age, these students were not experienced with the workings of the world. Regardless of whether they were beginner or intermediate six-stars, most of them were very upright!
He suddenly understood the dean’s intention.
If the students did not go through the World of Darkness and Shadows, they might be fooled in the real world…
Of course.
They had no idea why the shadow monsters were so violent and wild. But according to their guess, it was likely that the students had stimulated them!
His elder sister and Zhao Yunshan should be fine for now.
Lu Ming heaved a sigh of relief.
He was most worried about a massive disaster!
Since they were merely violent shadow monsters, there should not be any problem. Lu Ming was very interested in the assessment of The First Academy.
The rules of the assessment were very simple.
The school provided students with a ball of light to collect shadow forces to improve their capabilities!
Yes.
The ball of light would be transformed into a shadow force, turning into a force that could be absorbed. It would constantly enhance one’s strength. This was very precious!
The so-called ranking was according to the level of collection.
According to what was described in the rules, the farther one was away from the community, the richer the collected shadow forces would be. If one failed…
One would be eliminated directly!
These were the rules!
Once the student died, the Shadow Combat Suit would bring the shadow back to the reality to fuse with its body! The enhanced power of the shadow would enhance their personal strength!
It was a pity…
Lu Ming did not have the suit.
The Shadow Combat Suits were numbered and tailored to a student, therefore Lu Ming could not receive it. Of course, Lu Ming had no need of it!
He did not need the Shadow Combat Suit.
The students needed the Shadow Combat Suit to bring their shadows back to reality and to improve their capabilities. He had no need for that! He entered this world as himself. He could directly increase his capabilities!
Right now!
All he needed to know was the method to increase his capabilities!
The ball of light!
In that case…
Lu Ming squinted. Perhaps he should get a ball of light?
The problem was…
How should he get it?!
Lu Ming always felt that he was a kind-hearted person. It was impossible to take action against the students. Of course, the main point was all of these were tailored for each individual. Even if he landed his hands on one of them, it might not be useful.
Oo…
Lu Ming stood in a daze.
Suddenly…
A shadow crept close to Lu Ming, pulling out a ball of light from the crotch, and a dialog box popped out. “Brother, what is the price of a shadow ball of light?”
Lu Ming looked at him with a dumbstruck expression.
A student?
Why did he look for him?
Afterward…
Lu Ming instinctively turned back and saw that the shop behind him had one huge word “recycling” at the front of the shop…