fake wish shop
Chapter 9
Not an hour after Gu Qiu left the Normal University, two boys came out of the door, one of them was holding a small compass in his hand, and the other was listening to him.
"Did I tell you that I'm from a family?" The boy holding the compass said, spitting all over the place, "We have been specializing in exorcising demons and guarding Dao for 100 years, so we definitely come from a big authentic family."
"You just blow it, can you die if you don't blow it?" The boy next to him said, "Can you blow it a little more normally?"
These two boys are freshmen at Normal University. The one with the compass is named Guo Lin, and the other is named Li Fei.
The two share a dormitory. When the two introduced themselves on the first day of school, Guo Lin told the other people in the same dormitory that he was a third-rate little Taoist priest. His roommates were dumbfounded when they heard this, thinking that you are a Taoist priest. What English do you want to learn over here? Has Demon Elimination gone international these days?
There are very few boys who study English, and even fewer boys who go to normal universities to study English. Only boys from the entire major can make up a dormitory, which is these six people.
Their residence is off-campus, and they have just finished school and are about to go back.The freshman class is still very relaxed, and when I go back, I probably just play games, or ask my girlfriend out to go shopping or something.
Guo Lin took his small compass and walked around the campus today, stunned several people with him, and asked him what he was doing.Guo Lin said he wanted to see if there were any ghosts... Aren't there often scary legends about places like schools, and the Normal University has accurate historical records that it was built on a mass grave.
"Is this thing you're holding useful?" Li Fei asked, "I just saw this thing spinning, can you understand what it means?"
"Yes." Guo Lin said, "But if I tell you, you definitely don't understand, so I won't say anything."
The pointer of the compass in his hand trembled slightly from time to time, and sometimes turned an angle slightly. The changes were very slow and subtle. At first, Li Fei really thought that Guo Lin was pretending to be a ghost, but watching him walk all the way down, he felt a little flustered. This posture is really too much.
Guo Lin said to Li Fei: "You don't have to be too scared... The school was built on the mass grave to suppress those evil spirits with the students' yang energy. Although our school has mostly girls, the yang energy is still very strong. So far it’s perfectly fine.”
He pointed to the vicinity of the school's college building, "Just don't go there, because there are too many cherry blossoms growing there, and it is easy to gather ghosts."
Li Fei said: "Sakura still attracts ghosts... By the way, I don't seem to be comforted at all. Will there really be ghosts in our school? Or are they the legendary monsters?"
"No, no, not at all, you don't have to worry." Guo Lin waved his hand, "In this day and age, monsters dare not come out at will, if you don't mess with them, they will definitely not mess with you. I just want to see where in the school there is more yin, I have never seen a real monster..."
Li Fei felt a little relieved after listening to Guo Lin's words.
"Actually, my dad didn't see many monsters in his generation." Guo Lin said, "Now you want to touch a monster, it's harder than winning the lottery. A family preacher like me has only encountered a few little ghosts at most. How can monsters be so easy to touch? Most of them are evil spirits entering the body, or they are suspicious, and now the environment is so bad, it is getting more and more difficult for everything to become a spirit."
The two of them walked while talking like this. After Guo Lin left the school, he wanted to put the compass away.While saying this, the two of them passed by the place where Gu Qiu was watching the excitement just now, and the compass that was originally quiet in Guo Lin's hands suddenly became ghostly.
Just now Guo Lin walked all the way in the school, the compass was quiet, even if it moved, it only moved slightly.
But passing the place where the mistress and the original pair confronted each other just now, the compass in Guo Lin's hand suddenly seemed like a compass that had broken into an uncertain magnetic field, frantically swinging from side to side.
Li Fei and Guo Lin looked down at the compass at the same time. After a while, Li Fei turned his head and asked, "...Taoist, is your compass broken?"
"This is the compass that my grandfather passed on to my dad, my dad passed it on to my brother, and my brother passed it on to me." Guo Lin said, "It won't break even if I break it. What are you thinking about?"
"Then you..." Li Fei pointed his finger at the pointer of the ghost beast, and found that the speed of his finger could not keep up with the speed of the pointer. Finally, he couldn't help but sigh, "Well, I don't need to buy an electric fan this summer."
……
"Let me ask my brother." Guo Lin said, "Didn't I say that I am a third-rate Taoist priest? I didn't study hard at home back then. My brother is better than me. I will call him right away."
"Your brother? How old is your brother?" Li Fei asked, and Guo Lin said, "The same age as me. We are twins. I study at Normal University, and he studies at Jiaotong University next door."
Seeing Guo Lin, Li Fei immediately took out his mobile phone to call his brother, and he said on the phone, "Hey, brother, I'm at the gate of the Normal University... I took a compass and walked around the school today. I found that the compass is a bit wrong, let's see what's going on?"
After he finished the call, he took out his mobile phone, took a short video of the compass of crazy ghosts and animals, and sent it over.
"Your compass is broken." When Guo Lin's brother received the video, Li Fei said to him: "There is no compass that turns like this. When I watched the zombie priest, his compass didn't turn like this. It looks like..."
"You're just bragging." Of course Guo Lin was not convinced, "The Zombie Daoist is all fake, but mine is real."
When the two were arguing with each other, Guo Lin's cell phone rang, and when he picked it up, the person on the other side yelled at him, "Get out of there! It's dangerous there, go away!"
This voice is a very magnetic man's voice, although it is very pleasant to hear, but now it is almost broken, Li Fei next to the loud voice can hear it.
Guo Lin was shocked by the shouting, and suddenly took Li Fei's hand beside him, and led him hurriedly through the underground passage, and ran towards the dormitory, asking, "What's wrong, brother? What happened?" What? Why are you so excited all of a sudden?"
Li Fei ran with him out of breath, he didn't really believe in this kind of thing, but he would rather believe it than believe it.
"Is it a monster?" Probably because he wasn't too nervous, he still had the time to joke with Guo Lin, "Look, it's an instant slap in the face, who said before that monsters can't be mixed in school."
Guo Lin didn't answer his words at all, his face suddenly turned pale, with a hint of green in the white, and Li Fei beside him was not frightened by the monster, but was frightened by Guo Lin's face.
"Taoist, Taoist?" Li Fei called to Guo Lin, "Daoist sister! Come to your senses, what happened, tell me first?"
"My brother said that thing is really not a monster." Guo Lin turned his head, his face pale and melancholy, "That thing is a monster...it's a big one."
Li Fei fell silent for a moment after listening. Although he didn't know the difference between a monster and a demon, since the word "magic" was on it, it meant that this thing was probably more evil than a monster.
"Do you know how many years the monster hasn't come out?" Guo Lin continued to turn pale, "Not to mention my grandfather, even my grandfather's grandfather has never seen it..."
"...Don't talk nonsense from now on." Li Fei said, "Your mouth is poisonous, really."
Guo Lin didn't talk nonsense, he was really a third-rate Taoist priest from a family of Taoist priests, and his family was quite famous in the local area.
The Guo family has two luxurious buildings in the city center, and there are dozens of chain hotels across the country. Of course, Guo Lin has never shown off outside, and the cost of food and clothing is almost the same as that of other roommates. Thought he was poor.
Of course, next year, the outside world will think that the Guo family is just a business family. In fact, the Guo family is well-known secretly. As a big Taoist family in the northwest, the Guo family's income is much more behind the scenes than on the surface.
"What about the door? Just throw it away?" After returning to the dormitory, Li Fei asked Guo Lin.
"It's okay, my brother will go home this weekend and tell my grandpa." Guo Lin said, "It should be fine if my grandpa knows."
When he said this, he was actually very timid in his heart.That is to say, his grandfather is also the most powerful Taoist priest at present, but to be honest, his grandfather has never seen such a thing as a monster.
At this time, Guo Lin also vaguely remembered the books about monsters that he had read before, and the more he remembered, the paler his face became.
Li Fei asked in several groups he had joined, "Does anyone know if any strange strangers appeared at the school gate tonight?" But everyone answered that no strangers appeared.However, Li Fei heard another gossip, saying that at the gate of the school tonight, a former partner came and tore up Xiao San'er, and was then instantly killed by Xiao San'er.
Gu Qiu, who was suddenly being targeted, had no idea what was going on at this moment.He was still hiding on the upper bunk, playing the game quietly. On the game interface, there was a nice-looking villain, and his attributes were displayed in the upper left corner.Including his portrait, level, red and blue blood bars, camp, race and occupation.
【Nickname: No Money to Eat】
【Level: 29】
【Faction: None】
[Occupation: Elemental Mage]
[Race: Troll]
He watched the characters in the game kill a monster, and a burst of light suddenly burst out from his body, and he rose to level 30 all of a sudden.
Gu Qiu was instantly excited.
After upgrading for so long, he finally reached level 30, and he can continue his plan.
Gu Qiu's leveling up in the game is actually very slow, because his equipment has been unable to catch up with others. Recently, Gu Qiu is trying his best to adjust his mentality, so that he will not want to take out any equipment when he sees it.
Killing a chicken to get its eggs is really not the way for a smart person... But the egg in this story is a golden egg, shining gold, the temptation is too great, and most people can't bear it.
Gu Qiu clicked on the task list, and there were some gray tasks, which proved that those tasks were already lower than his current level, and even if he accepted them, he would not get much experience points.But Gu Qiu is still willing to try each of them.
He doesn't really care about levels, he cares about items.Brother Nan in the same dormitory is almost at level 40, and he is still at level 30, and his upgrade speed is very slow.
Gu Qiu walked back and forth on the continent of Atlantis. The task of obtaining the package was considered a semi-hidden task.A semi-hidden quest means that even though everyone knows about the existence of this quest, it still won't be displayed in the quest list, and players need to find it by themselves.
He walked around the streets and alleys, followed the address given on the Internet, and got into a small tailor's shop, where a dark elf sat.
This dark elf has a pair of long pointed ears, and a dark purple skin.The facial features are very delicate, and there are even tree patterns painted on the forehead representing closeness to nature.
Elves are born to be a race favored by nature. In the free city of Anna, those elves who have not yet fallen are the most popular race. There are many girls who choose to play elves. Even if they pinch their faces, there are more elves than other races. Up to a dozen initial faces.
Compared with the dark elves on the continent of Atlantis, they are not as popular as elves.But some girls who prefer to take a slanted sword, show their personality, and control their appearance will choose to become dark elves on the continent of Atlantis.
Dark elves are very similar to elves, the only difference is skin color.Compared with other races, their base values of agility, charisma, and hit will be a little higher, and each time they level up, they will also have more points on top of the base values.
So for elves, becoming an archer is the best choice. If you don't want to become an archer, then choosing a mage is also possible.After all, charm and hit are still very important attributes for mages.
The troll that Gu Qiu chooses is relatively moderate, but being moderate also has its benefits.Compared with fallen humans, trolls still have a certain racial advantage. Wisdom and roots will have a little more attributes, but their agility will be relatively lower, and their affinity with npc will also be lower.
Elemental Mage might not be a good class choice for trolls.Although the intelligence is better, but the charisma, agility, hit rate and so on are very low. The profession suitable for trolls should be death knights, but Gu Qiumi likes mages who are meat tanks. He even wants to open a trumpet to go Playing Meat Tank Priest...
Apart from a pair of pointed and long ears, the dark elf in front of him also has another thing that is particularly eye-catching, which is the long strip of cloth over his eyes.
There are many, many runes drawn on the strip of cloth. The runes in this game are all very particular. Almost every rune is not a random drawing, but has its own meaning. Players see more runes , or even spell it out yourself.
Gu Qiu didn't have the ability at the moment, so he just watched this dark elf sitting in this small shop.
This shop is already a shop in the depths of the slums, and the dark elves are incompatible with the surrounding paintings.After all, even the dark elves are considered the most popular race on the continent of Atlantis, and elves deserve attention by nature.
"Dear child." The elf sensed Gu Qiu's presence when he entered the door, turned his head, and said in a very nice voice, "Would you like to find something for me?"
"Ding——" Gu Qiu received the task, 【Obtain ten fishbone needles and hand them to the tailor in Punk Town. 】
This dark elf seems to have a story to tell...
When Gu Qiu left, he thought to himself, after completing the task, why not go to the official website to find out what the story of this elf is.
"Did I tell you that I'm from a family?" The boy holding the compass said, spitting all over the place, "We have been specializing in exorcising demons and guarding Dao for 100 years, so we definitely come from a big authentic family."
"You just blow it, can you die if you don't blow it?" The boy next to him said, "Can you blow it a little more normally?"
These two boys are freshmen at Normal University. The one with the compass is named Guo Lin, and the other is named Li Fei.
The two share a dormitory. When the two introduced themselves on the first day of school, Guo Lin told the other people in the same dormitory that he was a third-rate little Taoist priest. His roommates were dumbfounded when they heard this, thinking that you are a Taoist priest. What English do you want to learn over here? Has Demon Elimination gone international these days?
There are very few boys who study English, and even fewer boys who go to normal universities to study English. Only boys from the entire major can make up a dormitory, which is these six people.
Their residence is off-campus, and they have just finished school and are about to go back.The freshman class is still very relaxed, and when I go back, I probably just play games, or ask my girlfriend out to go shopping or something.
Guo Lin took his small compass and walked around the campus today, stunned several people with him, and asked him what he was doing.Guo Lin said he wanted to see if there were any ghosts... Aren't there often scary legends about places like schools, and the Normal University has accurate historical records that it was built on a mass grave.
"Is this thing you're holding useful?" Li Fei asked, "I just saw this thing spinning, can you understand what it means?"
"Yes." Guo Lin said, "But if I tell you, you definitely don't understand, so I won't say anything."
The pointer of the compass in his hand trembled slightly from time to time, and sometimes turned an angle slightly. The changes were very slow and subtle. At first, Li Fei really thought that Guo Lin was pretending to be a ghost, but watching him walk all the way down, he felt a little flustered. This posture is really too much.
Guo Lin said to Li Fei: "You don't have to be too scared... The school was built on the mass grave to suppress those evil spirits with the students' yang energy. Although our school has mostly girls, the yang energy is still very strong. So far it’s perfectly fine.”
He pointed to the vicinity of the school's college building, "Just don't go there, because there are too many cherry blossoms growing there, and it is easy to gather ghosts."
Li Fei said: "Sakura still attracts ghosts... By the way, I don't seem to be comforted at all. Will there really be ghosts in our school? Or are they the legendary monsters?"
"No, no, not at all, you don't have to worry." Guo Lin waved his hand, "In this day and age, monsters dare not come out at will, if you don't mess with them, they will definitely not mess with you. I just want to see where in the school there is more yin, I have never seen a real monster..."
Li Fei felt a little relieved after listening to Guo Lin's words.
"Actually, my dad didn't see many monsters in his generation." Guo Lin said, "Now you want to touch a monster, it's harder than winning the lottery. A family preacher like me has only encountered a few little ghosts at most. How can monsters be so easy to touch? Most of them are evil spirits entering the body, or they are suspicious, and now the environment is so bad, it is getting more and more difficult for everything to become a spirit."
The two of them walked while talking like this. After Guo Lin left the school, he wanted to put the compass away.While saying this, the two of them passed by the place where Gu Qiu was watching the excitement just now, and the compass that was originally quiet in Guo Lin's hands suddenly became ghostly.
Just now Guo Lin walked all the way in the school, the compass was quiet, even if it moved, it only moved slightly.
But passing the place where the mistress and the original pair confronted each other just now, the compass in Guo Lin's hand suddenly seemed like a compass that had broken into an uncertain magnetic field, frantically swinging from side to side.
Li Fei and Guo Lin looked down at the compass at the same time. After a while, Li Fei turned his head and asked, "...Taoist, is your compass broken?"
"This is the compass that my grandfather passed on to my dad, my dad passed it on to my brother, and my brother passed it on to me." Guo Lin said, "It won't break even if I break it. What are you thinking about?"
"Then you..." Li Fei pointed his finger at the pointer of the ghost beast, and found that the speed of his finger could not keep up with the speed of the pointer. Finally, he couldn't help but sigh, "Well, I don't need to buy an electric fan this summer."
……
"Let me ask my brother." Guo Lin said, "Didn't I say that I am a third-rate Taoist priest? I didn't study hard at home back then. My brother is better than me. I will call him right away."
"Your brother? How old is your brother?" Li Fei asked, and Guo Lin said, "The same age as me. We are twins. I study at Normal University, and he studies at Jiaotong University next door."
Seeing Guo Lin, Li Fei immediately took out his mobile phone to call his brother, and he said on the phone, "Hey, brother, I'm at the gate of the Normal University... I took a compass and walked around the school today. I found that the compass is a bit wrong, let's see what's going on?"
After he finished the call, he took out his mobile phone, took a short video of the compass of crazy ghosts and animals, and sent it over.
"Your compass is broken." When Guo Lin's brother received the video, Li Fei said to him: "There is no compass that turns like this. When I watched the zombie priest, his compass didn't turn like this. It looks like..."
"You're just bragging." Of course Guo Lin was not convinced, "The Zombie Daoist is all fake, but mine is real."
When the two were arguing with each other, Guo Lin's cell phone rang, and when he picked it up, the person on the other side yelled at him, "Get out of there! It's dangerous there, go away!"
This voice is a very magnetic man's voice, although it is very pleasant to hear, but now it is almost broken, Li Fei next to the loud voice can hear it.
Guo Lin was shocked by the shouting, and suddenly took Li Fei's hand beside him, and led him hurriedly through the underground passage, and ran towards the dormitory, asking, "What's wrong, brother? What happened?" What? Why are you so excited all of a sudden?"
Li Fei ran with him out of breath, he didn't really believe in this kind of thing, but he would rather believe it than believe it.
"Is it a monster?" Probably because he wasn't too nervous, he still had the time to joke with Guo Lin, "Look, it's an instant slap in the face, who said before that monsters can't be mixed in school."
Guo Lin didn't answer his words at all, his face suddenly turned pale, with a hint of green in the white, and Li Fei beside him was not frightened by the monster, but was frightened by Guo Lin's face.
"Taoist, Taoist?" Li Fei called to Guo Lin, "Daoist sister! Come to your senses, what happened, tell me first?"
"My brother said that thing is really not a monster." Guo Lin turned his head, his face pale and melancholy, "That thing is a monster...it's a big one."
Li Fei fell silent for a moment after listening. Although he didn't know the difference between a monster and a demon, since the word "magic" was on it, it meant that this thing was probably more evil than a monster.
"Do you know how many years the monster hasn't come out?" Guo Lin continued to turn pale, "Not to mention my grandfather, even my grandfather's grandfather has never seen it..."
"...Don't talk nonsense from now on." Li Fei said, "Your mouth is poisonous, really."
Guo Lin didn't talk nonsense, he was really a third-rate Taoist priest from a family of Taoist priests, and his family was quite famous in the local area.
The Guo family has two luxurious buildings in the city center, and there are dozens of chain hotels across the country. Of course, Guo Lin has never shown off outside, and the cost of food and clothing is almost the same as that of other roommates. Thought he was poor.
Of course, next year, the outside world will think that the Guo family is just a business family. In fact, the Guo family is well-known secretly. As a big Taoist family in the northwest, the Guo family's income is much more behind the scenes than on the surface.
"What about the door? Just throw it away?" After returning to the dormitory, Li Fei asked Guo Lin.
"It's okay, my brother will go home this weekend and tell my grandpa." Guo Lin said, "It should be fine if my grandpa knows."
When he said this, he was actually very timid in his heart.That is to say, his grandfather is also the most powerful Taoist priest at present, but to be honest, his grandfather has never seen such a thing as a monster.
At this time, Guo Lin also vaguely remembered the books about monsters that he had read before, and the more he remembered, the paler his face became.
Li Fei asked in several groups he had joined, "Does anyone know if any strange strangers appeared at the school gate tonight?" But everyone answered that no strangers appeared.However, Li Fei heard another gossip, saying that at the gate of the school tonight, a former partner came and tore up Xiao San'er, and was then instantly killed by Xiao San'er.
Gu Qiu, who was suddenly being targeted, had no idea what was going on at this moment.He was still hiding on the upper bunk, playing the game quietly. On the game interface, there was a nice-looking villain, and his attributes were displayed in the upper left corner.Including his portrait, level, red and blue blood bars, camp, race and occupation.
【Nickname: No Money to Eat】
【Level: 29】
【Faction: None】
[Occupation: Elemental Mage]
[Race: Troll]
He watched the characters in the game kill a monster, and a burst of light suddenly burst out from his body, and he rose to level 30 all of a sudden.
Gu Qiu was instantly excited.
After upgrading for so long, he finally reached level 30, and he can continue his plan.
Gu Qiu's leveling up in the game is actually very slow, because his equipment has been unable to catch up with others. Recently, Gu Qiu is trying his best to adjust his mentality, so that he will not want to take out any equipment when he sees it.
Killing a chicken to get its eggs is really not the way for a smart person... But the egg in this story is a golden egg, shining gold, the temptation is too great, and most people can't bear it.
Gu Qiu clicked on the task list, and there were some gray tasks, which proved that those tasks were already lower than his current level, and even if he accepted them, he would not get much experience points.But Gu Qiu is still willing to try each of them.
He doesn't really care about levels, he cares about items.Brother Nan in the same dormitory is almost at level 40, and he is still at level 30, and his upgrade speed is very slow.
Gu Qiu walked back and forth on the continent of Atlantis. The task of obtaining the package was considered a semi-hidden task.A semi-hidden quest means that even though everyone knows about the existence of this quest, it still won't be displayed in the quest list, and players need to find it by themselves.
He walked around the streets and alleys, followed the address given on the Internet, and got into a small tailor's shop, where a dark elf sat.
This dark elf has a pair of long pointed ears, and a dark purple skin.The facial features are very delicate, and there are even tree patterns painted on the forehead representing closeness to nature.
Elves are born to be a race favored by nature. In the free city of Anna, those elves who have not yet fallen are the most popular race. There are many girls who choose to play elves. Even if they pinch their faces, there are more elves than other races. Up to a dozen initial faces.
Compared with the dark elves on the continent of Atlantis, they are not as popular as elves.But some girls who prefer to take a slanted sword, show their personality, and control their appearance will choose to become dark elves on the continent of Atlantis.
Dark elves are very similar to elves, the only difference is skin color.Compared with other races, their base values of agility, charisma, and hit will be a little higher, and each time they level up, they will also have more points on top of the base values.
So for elves, becoming an archer is the best choice. If you don't want to become an archer, then choosing a mage is also possible.After all, charm and hit are still very important attributes for mages.
The troll that Gu Qiu chooses is relatively moderate, but being moderate also has its benefits.Compared with fallen humans, trolls still have a certain racial advantage. Wisdom and roots will have a little more attributes, but their agility will be relatively lower, and their affinity with npc will also be lower.
Elemental Mage might not be a good class choice for trolls.Although the intelligence is better, but the charisma, agility, hit rate and so on are very low. The profession suitable for trolls should be death knights, but Gu Qiumi likes mages who are meat tanks. He even wants to open a trumpet to go Playing Meat Tank Priest...
Apart from a pair of pointed and long ears, the dark elf in front of him also has another thing that is particularly eye-catching, which is the long strip of cloth over his eyes.
There are many, many runes drawn on the strip of cloth. The runes in this game are all very particular. Almost every rune is not a random drawing, but has its own meaning. Players see more runes , or even spell it out yourself.
Gu Qiu didn't have the ability at the moment, so he just watched this dark elf sitting in this small shop.
This shop is already a shop in the depths of the slums, and the dark elves are incompatible with the surrounding paintings.After all, even the dark elves are considered the most popular race on the continent of Atlantis, and elves deserve attention by nature.
"Dear child." The elf sensed Gu Qiu's presence when he entered the door, turned his head, and said in a very nice voice, "Would you like to find something for me?"
"Ding——" Gu Qiu received the task, 【Obtain ten fishbone needles and hand them to the tailor in Punk Town. 】
This dark elf seems to have a story to tell...
When Gu Qiu left, he thought to himself, after completing the task, why not go to the official website to find out what the story of this elf is.
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