164. A Ghostly Encounter
Yun Ling led Susannah away from the tenth floor.
"Phew~ That scared me to death! I thought I was really going to die here... I haven't become an S-rank Valkyrie yet; I don't want to die here for no reason."
Susannah patted her chest and muttered.
"Are you alone?" Yun Ling asked.
"Yeah, are you one too, Boss?" Susannah countered.
"Hmm, don't call me Boss, just call me Yun Ling." Yun Ling slightly corrected her form of address.
"Boss Yun Ling!" Susannah called out with a grin.
"...How come you entered the tenth floor alone? Didn't you find a team?" Yun Ling was too lazy to emphasize it again and instead inquired about Susannah's situation.
"Uh...no, don't be fooled by my escape earlier, I'm actually very powerful! It's just...it's just..."
Susannah's face turned red as she spoke.
"Your weapon's durability's gone?" Yun Ling glanced at her, noticing she wasn't equipped with a weapon.
"As expected of a master, you noticed it right away!" Susannah looked at Yun Ling with admiration again.
"This is a matter of life and death. You won't be so lucky next time." Yun Ling shook his head.
This girl is really carefree. Isn't she afraid of accidentally dying here?
"I promise I won't forget next time!" Susannah said earnestly.
As she said this, her front armor jiggled, incredibly eye-catching.
"You don't need to promise me. I don't plan to take you with me." Yun Ling turned to leave.
Susannah immediately grabbed Yun Ling's sleeve.
"Master Yun Ling, actually, I came in looking for someone! Can you help me? Perhaps she can shut down this world and let everyone safely return to reality."
Susannah's words carried a hint of pleading.
"I can trade you equipment, consider it me hiring a big shot, okay?" Susannah took out several pieces of equipment.
Yun Ling had been here for two days and witnessed some truly dark sides, so he was still somewhat wary of human nature.
He didn't want to cause trouble, but when his gaze fell on the equipment Susannah had taken out, he couldn't take his eyes off it.
The worst equipment she had was level 30 purple gear. You have to know that the drop rate for purple gear in this game is less than 0.1%, and the drop rate for gold gear is less than 0.01%.
And Susannah could casually take out so much…
"If it's not enough, I have more in my inventory!" Seeing Yun Ling's nonchalant attitude, Susannah assumed he didn't have enough bargaining chips.
"Where did you get so much top-tier equipment?" Yun Ling asked.
"I got it all from killing monsters, uh… maybe my luck is a little better than others?" Susannah answered cautiously.
Yun Ling couldn't help but glance at her shoes—level 40 gold shoes…no wonder she ran so fast earlier.
With that gear, even if you threw her into a horde of minotaurs, they probably wouldn't kill her for a while.
"Follow me, I'll take you to the person you mentioned." Yun Ling silently put his beginner longsword back into his inventory.
He led Susannah towards higher levels.
Susannah was indeed very strong. Her top-tier equipment gave her a significant damage boost, and she also possessed a special class.
'Exotic Dancer'.
She could damage enemies through dance and music, while also providing damage-boosting buffs to teammates—a very powerful class.
According to her, she had accidentally triggered a hidden quest and successfully changed classes.
Yun Ling was incredibly envious of her luck.
His class was just an ordinary warrior, without any special characteristics.
And during their tower-pushing adventure, Yun Ling truly experienced the terrifying power of a lucky player.
Just looking at Yun Ling's golden equipment tells you how terrifying she is.
Now, after Yun Ling defeats a boss, he lets Susannah loot the corpse, and then they split the loot 50/50.
Susannah's admiration for Yun Ling has only grown stronger.
Powerful, incredibly powerful, purely powerful!
In terms of swordsmanship alone, only Senior Li Sushang in Schicksal can rival him.
And Susannah isn't sure if it's just her imagination, but she feels that Yun Ling's swordsmanship is somewhat similar to Li Sushang's.
However, she's never actually practiced swordsmanship and doesn't quite understand the intricacies, so she thinks she might be mistaken.
"Yun Ling's life skills are this high, too?"
Susannah took a bite of the grilled meat Yun Ling made, her eyes gleaming with golden light.
Even though she's used to eating delicacies, she couldn't stop praising Yun Ling's cooking.
"Because the food sold in restaurants in the game doesn't have much flavor, I learned a little bit about it," Yun Ling explained.
"Hmm~ I hope I won't gain weight from eating so much!" Susannah rubbed her chubby stomach.
"This is a game world, you shouldn't gain weight," Yun Ling reminded her.
"Oh, right... Then, Yun Ling, another one, please!" Susannah finally realized.
Yun Ling felt he might have been a bit too talkative.
"Yun Ling, what do you do in real life?" Susannah couldn't help but ask curiously.
The biggest feature of this game is that it can somewhat mirror real-world strength.
Like Susannah, she's an A-rank Valkyrie. Although she looks clumsy, she's far stronger than the average person in combat.
Yun Ling's combat abilities even surpass hers, which made her feel somewhat frustrated but also curious.
"I'm probably a professional MOBA player," Yun Ling replied.
"MOBA games? That's been around for many years... but Yun Ling, you don't look that old." Susannah carefully examined Yun Ling.
She was startled to realize that Yun Ling looked only fifteen or sixteen years old.
Perhaps it was his incredibly cool fighting style that made Susannah subconsciously regard him as a reliable senior.
"Maybe it's because I don't look old," Yun Ling shook his head.
"So, how old is Yun Ling now?"
"By the year... almost 26." Yun Ling pinched the bridge of his nose.
Ten years had passed inexplicably, leaving him completely unaware of the current situation outside.
"Ah, this..." Susannah silently shut her mouth.
Her current age was far too inconvenient to reveal.
"So, which team were you a professional player for before, Yun Ling? I know a bit about that!" Susannah blinked.
"BRN team, the champions of the Seventh League, you should know that, right?"
"Hmm...?!?!"
Susannah pondered for a moment, then her beautiful eyes widened in disbelief.
"You...you're a player from the BRN team?!" Susannah grabbed Yun Ling's shoulder.
"What's wrong?"
Yun Ling was confused by Susannah's sudden, strong reaction.
"Then you must know Bronya, right?"
"?"
Yun Ling slowly typed a question mark. Their captain always used the codename "Bronya the Wolf Fang" outside; how did Susana know that?
"Yun Ling...Yun Ling..."
At this moment, Susannah seemed to remember something, and her gaze gradually became blank, looking at Yun Ling as if she had seen a ghost.
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