A Race to (Be) The Top

Ji Meng's eyes did not contain a trace of hesitation caused by lying, and even Dou Kou began to believe that what he said was true.

If it is not true, then Ji Meng's acting skills are so good that he can even compete for the best actor Oscar.

It was Dou Kou who was defeated first in this tit-for-tat confrontation.

"is that so……?"

The uncertainty in his voice was in stark contrast to Ji Meng's affirmation.

Ji Meng continued: "I don't know where you got the gossip, but ever since I knew Lubi, he has a green name. You think I treat him well because of my special status, which is too selfish." people."

After Ji Meng said those words, Ling Xiaolu's heart suddenly felt warm, like a seed being watered.It looked up at the pitch-black soil and thought, ah, I'm going to sprout, and when I penetrate this darkness, I can see the sun.

Dou Kou already believes [-]% of the time, but still has some doubts.

"Are you really not a fan name?" He simply threw a straight ball to Ling Xiaolu.

Ling Xiaolu restrained his mind from the sprouting fantasy, and hurriedly sent an assist for Ji Meng.

"Oh~ I said why you offered me a reward on the front foot, but you called me a kid on the back foot and gave me a big sword. It turns out that you have other plans. Dou Zha, I did not misread you."

He didn't directly deny Dou Kou's words, and the ambiguous ball was returned, which made Dou Kou believe it even more.

"Is it really my mistake?" He frowned and said to himself.

Follower A whispered: "I feel sorry for the patriarch, I can't get fake ones, and I can't get real ones."

Follower B: "...shut up, and be careful not to mess with you."

Ling Xiaolu took the opportunity to say to Nan Xun: "Look, this kind of person, no matter who the other party is, as long as it is a fan name, it is good for you just because you have an extra collar than others, it is not sincere at all, you must polish it." Eye."

Nan Xun nodded seriously: "I will definitely."

What a good girl, Ling Xiaolu thought to herself.

"Why don't you come to our family, our family still has a place reserved for you."

Ji Meng:?

"Brother Ji Meng, although you don't want to bind your fan name for the time being..." He hesitated when he said this, and for some reason he no longer tried to match the two as desperately as before, "But our family still has many appointments. Guaranteed to help you pick the best one!"

"A lot of appointments?" Ji Meng interrupted, "Can you show me another one?"

Ling Xiaolu didn't want to sprout again.

"The situation is constantly evolving, and if there is no current situation, it does not mean that there will be no future."

He turned back to lobby Nan Xun: "How about it? Join us!"

Nan Xun tentatively asked Ji Meng, "Can I?"

Ji Meng's eyes softened: "It's up to you."

Ling Xiaolu was full of doubts, he actually tasted a trace of... love and affection from Ji Meng's attitude towards Nan Xun?

Realizing this, he shivered. Ji Meng, who loves others, sounds like a horror movie.

Horror heroines don't think so.

"I'm willing to join. Brother Ji Meng is a good man, and his friends must be good too. I believe in you."

The two happily touched their thumbs.

"Welcome the eighth member of our family!"

Nan Xun tilted his head again: "Brother Lubi, you just said that this position is specially reserved for me. It takes ten people to establish a family, and I only have eight. Isn't this because you are short of people?"

Ling Xiaolu: "..."

"laugh--"

He turned his head quickly, the mocking expression remained on Ji Meng's face before he could take it back.

Ling Xiaolu glared at him angrily, are you so happy to see me being exposed by girls in public?

There will never be a shortage of onlookers in this world:

"There is no shortage of people, no shortage of people, I am a human being!"

"Coincidentally, I'm human too!"

"Don't I look human?"

"Tell me, do you want a man, a woman or a half-orc? I can play it all!"

Ling Xiaolu was ridiculed by Ji Meng, but he became arrogant.

"I'm sorry, our family does not openly recruit people, no matter men, women or half-orcs, we can, can, don't!"

……

One day later, Ling Xiaolu tasted the bitter fruit of being arrogant. He neither found a suitable candidate, nor was he ashamed to openly recruit.In order to avoid being ridiculed by Ji Meng again, he hid in Lizheng's hot spring and sighed.

Probably the heavens looked at him pitifully. Chang Huanxi, who had been online for the past 24 hours but was fooling around somewhere, sent a good news.

Xi'er: Brother Xiaolu!I have made a new good friend. After a day's investigation, he fully meets the requirements of our family's income!

Ruby: Really?Very good!But what are the conditions for our family to accept people?

Jubilee: Alive!No family!

Ruby: ...

Ruby: Great!This is an elite candidate who is completely suitable for our family!How about others?

Jubilee: Silence!Seriously!Cherish words like gold!

This is exactly one sentence, broken into three sentences and said over and over again to express only one meaning.

What kind of person can have this kind of language talent?

Web writer!

It's a pity that Chang Huanxi doesn't go to work!

Ruby: I like the taciturnity!Seriously!Cherish words like gold!family members!Xi'er, your offline business level is really strong!

Jubilee: Must!I said it all, leave it to me!

Xi'er: Stop talking!He is waiting for me to do the task, see you at the family management office later!

Although it was good news, it only solved 50% of the problem, and Ling Xiaolu couldn't help sighing again.

"You have been sighing there since the morning, is the hot spring too cold?"

"Master!" Ling Xiaolu straightened his body, sticking his head out of the water, "Are you still playing the flute today?"

"I don't want to blow dicks, but I want to see you blow bubbles."

Ling Xiaolu was serious: "Master, am I the kind of person who has no dignity or position?

"I'm!"

Ling Xiaolu: gurgle gurgle gurgle...

"That's a good blow." Li Zheng deliberately paused, "It can be released."

Ling Xiaolu: "..."

It is also a talent show, why is there such a huge gap between people? !

"To tell you the truth, master, I want to form a family, but it takes ten people to form it." Ling Xiaolu stopped talking and began to complain.

"How many are there now?"

"Nine, one less." Ling Xiaolu said dejectedly, "I only got so much after working together all day."

"Oh." Li Zheng responded calmly, and said after a while, "I don't have a family yet."

"right……"

Ling Xiaolu: ...? ? ?

Ling Xiaolu: ...! ! !

He stammered: "Master, master, you say such things, it is very easy to cause misunderstandings and misunderstandings."

"What misunderstanding?"

Ling Xiaolu blinked: "That's right, I misunderstood the meaning of Master, you want to join."

"Oh." Li Zheng replied again, "Then you have not misunderstood."

Ling Xiaolu: O__O

"Master, is what you said true? I'm not blind!"

"You may have soaked in the hot spring for a long time, and your brain is flooded."

"Ah! Master——thank you—!" Ling Xiaolu jumped out of the hot spring, ecstasy and rushed over with open arms.

"Certainly!"

Ling Xiaolu fixed in mid-air: ...

"Call someone, I'll wait."

Ling Xiaolu thought in his heart: Well, well, well, well, well!

Li Zheng: "Solution!"

"Ba chi—" Ling Xiaolu fell from mid-air and turned into a buckskin.

Bucky: Jubilee!Stop doing tasks!Family Management Office, assemble! !

Jubilee: Oh oh oh?All the people?Here we come!

Ruby: Call Linglong!What about the person you introduced yesterday?Where?what is it call?

Linglong: Zero!Just a single word "Zero"!I asked him to do the pre-mission yesterday, and it should have been done.Do you have enough people there?Then I will inform him to meet you at the family management office!

Ruby: I love you MUA~!

Chang Huanxi was the first to arrive. Ling Xiaolu saw him as soon as he entered the door of the family management office, and there was a tall man standing beside him.Chang Huanxi changed into an expensive shopping mall fashion, and she looked a little bit more pleasing to the eye than yesterday.

"Xi'er, you're here!"

The two turned around at the same time, and Ling Xiaolu was amazed by Ling Xiaolu's unique appearance for two seconds.

"You are the friend introduced by Linglong, right?" Ling Xiaolu walked over generously, "I am Lubi."

Chang Huan Xiqi: "Huh? Do you know each other?"

Ling Xiaolu:?

"Let me introduce you, this is the friend I mentioned to you who cherishes words like gold—Zero."

"..." Ling Xiaolu blinked, "Zero?"

"zero!"

"zero??"

"zero!!"

Ling Xiaolu re-read Ling Long's private chat without giving up: "Zero???"

"zero!!!"

Zero: "It's me."

Ling Xiaolu couldn't help cursing a dirty word: "Slot!"

Chang Huanxi dodged subconsciously.

Ling Xiaolu was puzzled: "What are you hiding?"

"I thought you were shooting ice arrows."

"..."

Ling Xiaolu called Linglong again.

Ruby: Darling, is there anyone with the same name in this game?

Ling Long: Dear, of course not, each player’s ID is unique~

Ruby: Then why do the people you introduced have the same names as the people Xier recruited? ! !

Ling Long: Don't worry, what's going on with you?

Ling Xiaolu spoke in detail.

Ling Long: Kiss, in this case, I think it’s possible that these two people are the same person. Tell me, it’s not a coincidence~

Ling Xiaolu's complexion was not good.

Chang Huanxi also noticed it: "Brother Xiaolu, what's wrong?"

"It was a big oolong, and now there are still only nine people."

"What's there, just find another one."

"But I have already notified everyone to come."

Walking around everyone for no reason, if Li Zheng and Missy are included in this everyone...

"Ah—" Ling Xiaolu covered his face in despair.

A familiar figure appeared at the door of the management office.

Ling Xiaolu saw it through his fingers, and shouted: "411!"

411 was taken aback: "It's you?!"

He cautiously looked left and right: "Is your master there?"

"No."

411 breathed a sigh of relief, and suddenly became arrogant: "That's good, I heard that the big devil has been imprisoned, and your master is not here, let me see who will support you today!"

"..." Ling Xiaolu's attitude was suddenly kind, "411, do you have a family?"

411 said vigilantly: "No, why? Why are you talking to me like that all of a sudden?"

"It's no wonder that your gossip news is always lagging behind. With a family, you won't have such troubles."

"So I just came to see if there are any family tricks... What does this have to do with you!"

"Dear, let's find out about the new family online at No. [-]?"

"New family?" 411 smiled angrily, "Who are there? You, and the two great masters over there? Why do rookies who have just played for a while love to hug and build families?"

"Not all are newcomers, there are still old players."

"Okay!" 411 interrupted with a wave of his hand, "I must join a big guild, so that I can be worthy of my status. Small fledgling families like yours, stand aside."

"Brother Luby." A sweet voice sounded.

"Nan Xun, you are here."

"Well," Nan Xun nodded, "I heard that Brother Lubi has found all the people."

Ling Xiaolu sighed: "Something happened, it's still worse—"

"No, bad, people!"

With a roar that shook the ground, Ling Xiaolu was almost frightened and his ears rang.

411 calmly said: "We don't send people!"

Ling Xiaolu: Huh?

411 dragged Ling Xiaolu aside, his voice was low and high-pitched: "It's a fan name!"

He pointed desperately at the top of his head: "Fan name! It's alive!"

"Then what happened?"

"It's the first time I've seen a fan name so close!"

Ling Xiaolu was speechless: "Brother, your voice is almost as thin as embroidery needles."

"Ahem." The big man with a rough voice came back.

411 clasped his shoulders: "Where did you find the fan name? Could it be your master's favorite?"

"of course not."

411 was secretly relieved: "It's okay, it's okay, I remember that Li Zheng was not favored by anyone, and I almost thought I was abandoned by the times again."

"..."

"I've decided that for a new family like yours, it's suitable to find an experienced leader like me."

"Have you changed your mind?"

"From now on, no matter whether you and Fan Ming want to go to the battlefield, or go to the battlefield, or go to the battlefield," he patted his chest, "it's all on my brother!"

"Ah—" He peeked at Nan Xun after booking the tickets, and he was so cute, "The fan name is so cute."

"..."

"Is it done?" Chang Huanxi shouted from not far away.

Just as Ling Xiaolu wanted to answer, he was snatched away by 411, "It's fixed! From now on, my brother will protect you!"

After he finished speaking, he saw Chang Huanxi's face clearly, and he felt goosebumps all over his body.

How can there be such a confident person who is ugly and dares to play games with his real appearance.Even if you are willing to buy such expensive fashion, why can't you charge some money and go to the mall to pinch your face?

"Who do you want to cover?" A gloomy voice sounded from behind.

It was the first time that Ling Xiaolu saw a person running so fast. A person as big as he was standing here just now shrank to the corner of the wall in an instant, trembling.

"What's going on, hasn't the Great Demon King been locked up?"

"Ah, let me introduce, this is the tenth member of our family." Ling Xiaolu was afraid that Zhenjiu would attack too quickly, so he greeted him in advance, and then quietly approached, "You said you would not do anything to anyone in the family."

Zhenjiu tilted her head slightly: "I will try my best."

Ling Xiaolu: What kind of guarantee is it?

This promise didn't make 411 feel much better. He shivered and huddled together, terrified.

"Ah, have I been abandoned by the times again?"

The whirlwind overflowing with golden light is occasionally mixed with thunder and lightning.Such a high-profile appearance undoubtedly belonged to Ji Meng.

"Why are there so few people?" He asked as soon as he landed.

"I'll be there right away." Ling Xiaolu replied.

"Oh, by the way, I'll introduce you to two newcomers, Zero and 411."

411 has shown a petrified state.

Ji Meng frowned: "Why does Ling look so weird? And how did 411 come from? I don't think he is called by that name."

"Call! My name is 411!" 411 was relieved from the petrified state in a panic, "Prince...no, Ji Meng...no, husband, I will buy a name change card and change my name. From then on, I will be called 411!"

Ji Meng's face sank again: "Call again, your number is gone."

411: ...Which one!

"Different."

"Huh? Zero, what did you say?" Chang Huanxi asked.

"He has a different color than us."

Chang Huanxi came to a sudden: "Are you talking about the name? Do you like his name?"

"Like?" Zero asked.

Chang Huanxi got it wrong: "It's not easy, just wait."

Ji Qing came late with her first buds.

"It turns out we weren't the last ones."

The fashion on Chu Ya’s body has changed. Yesterday it was a light green elf dress, and today it is a maid outfit with cat ears. The ears and tail are lifelike.Because it was too cute, Ling Xiaolu couldn't help but take a few extra glances.

Ji Meng naturally also noticed this change. He knew that it had not been a day or two for his sister to play the game as "First Buds Around the World", but he didn't realize the fun of this game until today.

If someone is his pet, he can buy different fashions to dress him up every day. If this set of cat ears is worn on someone, I don’t know what it will look like.

After admiring Chu Ya's cuteness, Ling Xiaolu realized that there was someone beside him who was more serious than himself, so he slapped him on the forehead as a joke.

Ji Meng was intoxicated by weird fantasies, and when he was awakened by a photo, he saw Ling Xiaolu's undoubted green name, which was cruel to be disillusioned.

It's all Dou Kou's fault, which made him have expectations that he shouldn't have.

"Are you dumbfounded?" Ling Xiaolu teased him, "Chu Ya is really cute."

Ji Meng didn't want to explain, and turned his face away awkwardly, but Ling Xiaolu mistook it for embarrassment.

It turns out that Ji Meng likes this type, and Ling Xiaolu looks at Chu Ya thoughtfully.

But it's right to think about it, Ji Meng loves babies the most, and cats can be regarded as a kind of babies.

It's not just Ji Meng who is in a daze, but also 411 who is in the corner and no one cares about him.He widened his eyes and repeated incoherently: "Miss, Miss..."

Taking advantage of no one's attention, 411 turned up the pain perception again, and slapped himself lightly.

It hurts!

Not a dream!

411 covered his face and was about to cry.

Even if Li Zheng appeared now, he wouldn't be surprised.

"Ah, my master is here."

411 cried.

"Little Lubi, you have a lot of face, so you invited Li Zheng here." Ji Qing teased him.

"No, no," Ling Xiaolu said modestly, "Master loves me. Seeing that I can't find anyone, come and help me increase the number of people."

Chuya curled her lips in a low voice: "Heretic."

Li Zheng didn't participate in their conversation: "Teacher, are you all here?"

Ling Xiaolu looked around: "It's all there, but where is Xi'er?"

Ji Meng also found that Chang Huanxi was missing.

"He's not online anymore, why is this guy so unreliable?"

"Here we come!" Just as he was talking, Chang Huanxi made his debut.

The place fell silent.

"Changzi, are you going to buy a ring now?" Ji Meng asked the audience's question.

"Ling said the color of this name is more beautiful." Chang Huanxi praised full of praise, "Not to mention, your service is really good. I placed an order online and someone delivered it to my door within 5 minutes. Such a small ring is still expensive." A manager and two customer service staff were specially dispatched to deliver the goods, which really puts the customer first!"

Ji Meng: "I'm full."

"Presumptuous! Is this the attitude you should have towards the father of a VIP customer?"

Ji Qing smiled: "Why don't you tell me in advance and give you a discount."

Chang Huanxi waved his fat hand: "It's not short of that change!"

Ling Xiaolu: ... Start hating the rich from today!

411: I'm dead, I'm dead, I'm dead...

The family manager walked to the center of the field.

"Dear Bucky, have you gathered ten companions who are willing to fight side by side, and have all of them arrived?"

Ling Xiaolu immediately turned serious: "Yes."

The ground shook slightly, and ten finely carved pillars slowly rose from the ground, and on the top of each pillar was placed a rectangular photo frame containing golden ink pads.

"Now, please leave your unique mark on the oath platform."

Ling Xiaolu and Ji Meng exchanged glances, took the lead to step forward, put the palm of his right hand in the center of the photo frame, and pressed hard to make a clear handprint.

The administrator's voice echoed slowly and solemnly in the hall.

"From this day on, you have a companion, and from now on, you will no longer be alone. You will share joy, joy, sorrow, and suffering..."

Ji Meng, Li Zheng, Jin Jiu, Ji Qing, Chu Ya, Chang Huanxi, Ling, Nan Xun, and finally the trembling 411 stepped forward one by one, rubbing their handprints deeply on the vow platform.

They may be relatives and friends in reality, but more often they are strangers who have never met.But these ten handprints linked them together, and they walked together for a common goal in this virtual magical continent.

"May you advance and retreat together, share honor and disgrace, share ups and downs, live and die together, stay together forever, and—never separate."

The NPC administrator read the last word, smiled slightly, and closed the oath book.

"Congratulations, the family is established."

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