Retrograde Gaming - Chapter 14

Chapter 14: The Start of Seeking Death

Translator: Henyee Translations

Editor: Henyee Translations

“Although my running speed is a little faster now, I still have to find a place suitable for leveling (courting) up (death).” Li Huailin suddenly began to contemplate again—after all, since he had just arrived here at the main city, he still didn’t know what the situation was in the vicinity. Of course, it would be ideal if he could find a place where a respawn point was near and monsters were fierce—similar to the way it was at the newbie village.

“It seems like I’ll have to gather some information, where should I start…” Li Huailin muttered to himself, then suddenly, he realized something, “Oh crap! I’m so stupid, I can just find this information on the forums.”

Just when Li Huailin was about to go offline, the conversation he was hearing from two people nearby made him slow down.

“That f*cking bi*ch! She not only caused me to die once but also casted a curse that lowered my attributes for seven days—how the hell am I supposed to level up now?” A player said with a ferocious expression.

“Haha, serves you right for not resisting from touching her—you’re just asking to be spanked!” The other player on the side mocked at the other’s woes without a care.

“It’s not my f*cking fault that I couldn’t resist….”

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Li Huailin naturally didn’t care about the conversation after hearing it. However, a lightbulb suddenly flashed across his mind, this was similar to that feeling in Detective Xnan1 when a case was solved.

“Oh damn! How could I forget this?” Li Huailin immediately went offline in a hurry, after doing so, he quickly opened the game’s official website. Quite easily, Li Huailin found what he wanted to find on the game’s official website—it was also quite obvious.

Sexual Harassment Prevention Settings: When a female player is sexually harassed, they will receive a notification on whether or not they want to use the system’s Heavenly Thunder punishment. If the harassing player is struck by the system’s Heavenly Thunder, they will immediately die and receive a seven-day debuff curse—all attributes will decrease, the debuff won’t disappear even upon death. Dear players, please be civilized. Let’s create a clean gaming environment together.

“‘Players will immediately die!?” Upon seeing these words, Li Huailin waved his hands around in excitement. “It’s exactly the f*cking thing I want!”

Li Huailin, who was beyond ecstatic, immediately went online to tease women.

“Women, where are the women here…” Li Huailin looked left and right, just when he was about to depart on his death seeking journey, he suddenly came to another realization. “Wait, since I’m going to be indecent with women anyways, why don’t I find a few that are pleasing to the eyes? If I harassed any random troll, others might think there’s something wrong with my tastes.”

With this thought in mind, Li Huailin then started to search for beauties.

“Wait, I can’t be in such a rush.” Li Huailin suddenly thought of something again. “What if, once I tease a certain woman, it just so happens that she’s unexpectedly a nymphomaniac. In the end, she wouldn’t only not strike me to death but would also cling on to me, what will I do then? Fortunately, this old man’s quick-witted, he thinks through problems so thoroughly!”

After searching carefully, Li Huailin soon found a gorgeous beauty. She was extremely beautiful—clearly above ninety points—she had a tall figure with perfect curves, long hair that draped over her shoulders, and she had the temperament typical of classic beauty. Of course, there were reasons why Li Huailin chose her. Firstly, this beauty was alone. Secondly, the beauty looked cold—she was definitely the cool-beauty type—if he harassed her, she would definitely strike him with thunder without any hesitation.

“You’re it.” Li Huailin snapped his fingers and quickly walked towards the cool beauty.

“Wait, beautiful.” Li Huailin reached out to stop her, he said with a lascivious look all over his face, “Can I discuss a good deal with you?”

The cool beauty looked up and shot a glance at Li Huailin. She found this a little strange, this was because normally, there were a lot of people who would hit on her. They all wore the highest quality equipment from head toe. It was almost as if they wished to hang gold coins on their faces when they hit someone up—what the hell was this guy in all newbie equipment thinking? Although she found him a little strange, she still put on a stiff face and spat out the words from between her teeth, “Get lost!”

“Let’s just talk a little,” Li Huailin said in a very friendly manner.

“What do you want?” The cold beauty was already getting impatient.

“Uh, help a brother out, can you let me touch your breasts?” Li Huailin asked with a smile.

The cold beauty was annoyed by Li Huailin to the point of laughter. She had been hit on before but had never been hit on in this way. Although this was the ultimate goal of men who tried to strike up a conversation, however, they’d usually appear well-groomed first—she’d never seen anyone be so straightforward like this. Of course, the cold beauty didn’t really have any strange thoughts about Li Huailin.

“Sure, as long as you’re not afraid of death, come touch them.” The cold beauty had already struck many male players to death, all of them came up to harass her, she really didn’t mind taking down another one.

“Oh, okay.” Li Huailin was really excited on the inside when he reached out towards the cold beauty’s chest.

At a position where there was still a little distance from the beauty’s chest, Li Huailin suddenly felt a sort of resistance transmitted from his hand, and then, the sky suddenly went dark. A massive lightning appeared out of nowhere, striking down directly at Li Huailin’s head.

With a ‘hong’, Li Huailin was instantly blown into a streak of light, quickly returning to the respawn point.

System Notice: Since you violated the game’s rule of harassing players of the opposite sex, you’ve suffered the strike of Heavenly Thunder and received the curse, “Despicable Lowlife”.

Battle Record: You have died, received 1,260 Experience.

“I’m really too f*cking clever!” Li Huailin said excitedly, “I have a way of leveling up even without leaving the city.”

With that said, he couldn’t help it and have an ecstatic look on his face, he then started to search for the next target. In the end, after standing in place for a while, he actually saw the same cold beauty walking this way.

“It’s her again… well… that’s fine!” Li Huailin walked over towards her again after thinking about it.

“Wait, beautiful.” Li Huailin stopped the cold beauty while wearing a lascivious look once more, “Can your breasts let me touch them again?”

“You again?” The cold beauty was startled at first, she was then even more infuriated now. “What do you mean ‘can my breasts let you touch them?’ Are you asking me or my breasts?”

“Is there a difference?” Li Huailin asked, confused.

“You…” The cold beauty frowned, “If you want to die, then go for it.”

‘How do you know that I want to die?’ Li Huailin’s thoughts almost blurted out, however, he still held back—leveling up took priority now. There was no need for any superfluous words. He reached out his hand again and quickly tried to assault the beauty’s breasts.

‘Hong’, a Heavenly Thunder quickly flashed by, the surrounding players shook their heads one after another—this was yet another reckless guy heedless of the consequence.

Battle Record: You have died, received 1,260 Experience.

“Okay, hurry up.” Since she was close to the respawn point, once Li Huaiiln respawned, he took two strides and immediately rushed back in front of the beauty. He stopped her once again.

“Hey beautiful, can you let me…”

“Touch them!” The cold beauty was truly infuriated to the point of speechlessness, she roared before Li Huailin could even finish his words.

“Okay!”

‘Hong’

Battle Record: You have died, received 1,260 Experience.

Li Huailin, who had just respawned again, rushed straight right at the cold beauty. “Beautiful, don’t go, please let me…”

‘Hong’

The cold beauty didn’t even bother to respond to Li Huailin—she simply bombed him back to the respawn point.

Battle Record: You have died, received 1,260 Experience.

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‘Hong’

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‘Hong’

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After the bombing continued consecutively for seven to eight times, the surrounding players finally discovered that something was a little off. Although there were a lot of players who were struck to death by the Heavenly Thunder for harassing players of the opposite sex, the bombardment of the Heavenly Thunder shouldn’t have been this concentrated in an area—it happened in every less than half a minute and even in the same place too!

The surrounding crowd gradually started to gather. They discovered a man in plain cotton clothing incessantly trying to stop a beauty (Li Huailin really couldn’t stop her at all. In order to die faster, he simply reached out while running towards the cold beauty, this made it look like he was trying to stop her), the man was struck to death again and again by the beauty who used the system’s Heavenly Thunder. Nevertheless, the man still dauntlessly rushed over from the respawn point again and again.

“What kind of tear-jerking love story is this?” An extremely imaginative player said quietly while watching.

“Doesn’t this clueless idiot know that being killed by the Heavenly Thunder will leave a curse? What an idiot,” another player on the side sneered.

Regardless of what the onlooking crowd was thinking or doing, Li Huailin was already immersed in the pleasure of leveling up. In just the span of a few minutes, he was finally on the verge of leveling up.

‘Hong’

Battle Record: You have died, received 1,260 Experience.

System Notice: You have leveled up to level 11.

“Sweet!” Li Huailin shouted while charging towards the cold beauty again.

‘Hong’

As the public square was filled with more concentrated sounds of the Heavenly Thunder’s strikes, the onlooking crowd even began to feel touched by this ‘youngster who wanted to get back with his girlfriend even if it meant death’.

While watching Li Huailin rush out from the respawn point once again, a player suddenly shouted, “Do your best youngster! I’m rooting for you!”

These words seemed to have opened a valve since shortly after, the surrounding crowd also started to shout, “Go for it! Do your best!”

“You’ve got this!”

The sounds slowly became uniform, and soon, only a single and organized cheer could be heard in the entire public square, “Keep going!”

While being completely unaware at what was happening, Li Huailin was confused as to who the crowd was cheering for, he didn’t really care about them. He simply just focused on leveling up.

‘Hong’ “Keep going!”

‘Hong’ “Keep going!”

Gradually, after the many strikes of the Heavenly Thunder, over ten thousand people could be heard cheering. Many people didn’t know what was happening, they simply just helped out with shouting to join in on the fun.

Li Huailin didn’t even keep count as to how many times he already died, but he already leveled up to level 12 now. The entire thing only took less than 10 minutes—was this the speed even humanly possible? After charging towards the cold beauty once again, Li Huailin still unleashed his move ‘X Snatching Dragon Claws’ and attacked her chest.

‘Po’, a light sound ensued. Without the expected sound of Heavenly Thunder, Li Huailin was startled, he felt his right hand grab onto something soft.

“Huh?” Li Huailin instinctively squeezed with his right hand again. He only felt a very soft and comfortable fleshy sensation.

“Did you touch enough yet?” Li Huailin’s ears perceived a chilly voice.