I Have a Date with a Thousand-year-old Female Corpse-Chapter 1260: Arrogance

"Character creation complete. Automatically entering the game in three seconds. Warning to players: The game has strict resurrection rules, please do not kill indiscriminately."

After a flash of white light, you once again appear in Bamboo Village.

Since the release of the new "Arrogance" has already been over eight months, the average player level is around Level 30. For those who joined later, unable to keep up, and since this is the inner testing phase, they simply chose to wait for the public test to start anew.

So now the novice area is practically deserted, and at this moment, as a former game NPC, you are dressed in the coarse cloth clothes mandatory for beginners.

You spend over an hour "wandering" around the village, and with your mere ten gold coins, you buy a pack of fire sparks. Without further ado, gripping your wooden sword, you head straight to the novice receptionist at the village entrance.

"Do you have a map of nearby monster locations?" you ask calmly.

"Yes, fifty gold coins," replies the cute young lady who appears to be about your age.

"I don’t have enough right now. Can I take credit for it?"

"Oh no, that’s not possible," she says with a blink of her eyes.

"Are there snakes nearby?"

"Yes, but..." The girl hesitates before pouting and mockingly scolds, "Why should I tell you? You haven’t given me any benefits."

You lean closer and whisper, "I know you like that NPC who handles player career change tasks. If you give me the monster map, I can play matchmaker for you two."

"You, really?"

"Yes, I guarantee it."

The girl thinks for a moment, then softly parts her lips and says, "I can give you the novice area’s monster map, but you mustn’t break your word."

"Don’t worry, I would never go back on my word. By then, you might even have to invite me to your wedding feast."

Just like that, you easily obtain an important monster distribution map. Why you want to look for snakes, remains unknown to ordinary people. Soon, you arrive at a small grove riddled with Level 15 monsters. Due to the rarity of visiting players, this area is particularly snake-infested.

First, you carefully observe the surrounding terrain and finally choose an important location to set up a simple trap before entering Snake Forest.

As soon as you step in, you’re instantly surrounded by green snakes sprawling across the ground. However, having dealt with snakes countless times, your face shows not the slightest trace of panic. Swinging your wooden sword wildly, you even managed to lure out green creatures hidden within the grass, and in under ten minutes, you already have a long train of snakes following behind you.

While running, you zigzag in an "S"-shaped path. Despite the sheer number of snakes, they can’t seem to keep up and maintain a fair distance from you.

Before long, you reach the end of your path and successfully lure the snakes into a recessed mountain basin. Just as the snakes prepare to launch a collective attack on you, you suddenly climb the cliff wall agilely like a spiritual monkey, pulling out the fire sparks from your pocket and blowing them to life.

"Farewell, my lovely little snakes."

The basin is filled with lots of dry grass, some of which naturally grow here, while others were intentionally piled up by you. As you toss down the fire sparks, you’ve already climbed to a higher point. The instant the red glow flashes, a blazing fire erupts in the basin. fгeewёbnoѵel.cσm

Snakes inherently fear fire. They immediately turn to escape, but you’ve long prepared for this. At the exit, you’ve stacked an additional heap of dry grass. At this moment, the flames at the exit burn fiercely, and some grass growing on the rock walls ignites, making it nearly impossible for the snakes to climb up.

But you don’t idle. With a long bamboo pole in hand, you knock down snakes climbing the unburnt parts of the cliffs one by one. In just half an hour, you’ve leveled up from Level Zero to Level Fifteen—fast, ridiculously fast! Afterward, you reap the harvest, collecting a pile of gear and coins strewn across the ground.

Shuttling back and forth over a dozen times between Bamboo Village and the "crematorium" of snake herds, you finally clear all the "trash."

Seizing the opportunity before the snakes in Snake Forest respawn, you cautiously enter the snake den. Before dragging out the snake eggs with a large hemp sack, you first kill more than twenty green snakes using the Hunter’s signature method. Coupled with your earlier surplus experience, you level up once again triumphantly and return to Bamboo Village with excellent results.

Back in Bamboo Village, standing at the village entrance are several people dressed as magicians. Upon seeing you drag a sack back to the village, they quickly approach and ask, "Brother, do you have any rabbit tail grass? We’ll pay double the price."

"You want rabbit tail grass to refine advanced healing potions, don’t you?" you ask somewhat offhandedly.

"Yes, how do you know our unique magician formula?"

"I’ve played as a magician before. Some systems in this game are identical to the old ’Arrogance.’" Hearing this, many immediately relax.

"I don’t have rabbit tail grass, but I do have a sack full of snake eggs. Snake eggs combined with longan grass work even better for advanced healing potions. Do you want them?"

"You mean the sack is full of snake eggs?" A Taoist exclaims in disbelief.

"Yes, take a look," you say, pulling out a snake egg from the sack.

"They really are snake eggs!" The magicians exchange glances, and the leader promptly initiates a trading system with you. Accepting a sack of gold coins from a teammate, he hands it to you, saying, "Here are fifty thousand gold coins. We’ll take all the snake eggs in this sack."

You watch the magicians depart, filled with joy as you carry your sack of money to the bank to deposit it.

"How much would you like to deposit?" The bank owner, a chubby middle-aged man, asks.

"All of it."

"Alright, please wait a moment." Then, the bank manager turns to you and asks, "Would you like to convert your Arrogance coins to Galaxy coins?"

You pause in thought and ask, "Is there a fee for conversion?"

"No, but the exchange rate is ten percent. In other words, your fifty thousand Arrogance coins can only be converted to five thousand Galaxy coins."

"No need to convert for now. I’m staying online all month anyway."

One distinct feature of the new "Arrogance" is that players can remain online indefinitely. However, it’s rare for players to stay connected twenty-four hours a day. Most people eventually tire, and their physical bodies remain in the real world. In the entire game, only you have your physical body residing within the game.

Although players can eat and sleep in the game, it’s all mental. If they don’t log out for a week, they face the risk of becoming "lifelong vegetative patients"—a cautionary tale often found in discarded newspapers. You recall how excited you once felt upon reading a report: The time in the "Arrogance" game operates at one-third the speed of real-world time—three days in the game equates to one day in reality.

"But," the bank owner pauses momentarily before continuing, "since you’re playing the beta version of ’Arrogance,’ the inner testing phase will soon wrap up. At that point, all player data will reset to zero. Are you willing to let go of this amount of money?"

"Oh no, I want to convert!"