Retrograde Gaming - Chapter 15
Chapter 15: Execute Plan Two
Translator: Henyee Translations
Editor: Henyee Translations
Li Huailin lifted his head, his right hand was currently firmly grabbed onto the cold beauty’s chest. The cold beauty looked at him with wrath written all over her face. However, Li Huailin also actually discovered that there was a tinge of a pink blush on it too.
“Uh…” Li Huailin withdrew his hand as he was a little embarrassed by her glare. “Say, why didn’t you strike me to death?”
“Are you that interested in me?” The cold beauty crossed her hands in front of her bosom and said this with indignation.
“Uh… this… how do I put this…” Li Huailin truly didn’t know how to explain things. He couldn’t possibly tell her the honest truth, “I’m actually not interested in you at all, I just want you to strike me to death.” This would be even more difficult to understand.
The surrounding people actually cheered on Li Huailin’s success.
“The lad’s succeeded!” A player who looked like an uncle shouted.
“Damn! Today, I can finally understand the saying, ‘where there’s a will there’s a way’…” Another player exclaimed.
“I’m starting to believe in love again.”
“Kiss her!” Suddenly a player in the crowd yelled. Soon, this shout resonated with everyone, what originally was the cheers of over ten thousand people instantly turned into chants of “Kiss her! Kiss her! Kiss her!”
“Oh crap… I unintentionally accomplished something mind blowing again.” Li Huailin, who still didn’t know what the fuss was all about, could only look at the cold beauty. “Hey beautiful…”
“What do you want?” As the cold beauty watched Li Huailin take a step forward, she immediately asked nervously, “Don’t you try and push your luck.”
“What? I mean…” When Li Huailin saw that she misunderstood, he hurriedly reached out his hand.
“Ah!” The cold beauty suddenly cried out in shock, and then, with a flash of white light, she went offline…
“What? What? What?” Li Huailin was slightly bewildered. And then, he looked at the surrounding crowd that was even more dumbfounded than he was—before they could react, he immediately logged out of the game and went offline.
After taking off the helmet, Li Huailin worked up a sweat, “I can’t help but feel that I unintentionally jumped into a huge ditch…”
Li Huailin didn’t want to go online again right now. Fortunately, it was already close to the time when he went to sleep. He would be prepared to sleep after browsing the web for a short while.
He habitually checked out the forums of ‘Heart of Glory’.
Pinned Forum Thread: ‘Kickass brother charges out of newbie village, Warrior Instructor is the first to suffer’
What followed this title was the video link of Li Huailin seizing Warrior Instructor Ernst and violently slapping his face.
Original post: My fellow comrades and I are stupefied.
First post: My fellow comrades and I are stupefied. Next post, pay attention to the formation.
Second post: My fellow comrades and I are stupefied.
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After refreshing the page, he immediately saw another pinned forum thread.
Pinned Forum Thread: ‘Over ten thousand people witnessed the most romantic love in history’
Original post: Tonight, at around nine pm, at the center of the public square of the City of Divine Protection. A boy, in order to woo his angry girlfriend back, was consecutively struck to death by the system’s Heavenly Thunder over 20 times—all of this was just to caress his girlfriend’s face once more. In the end, he finally received his girlfriend’s forgiveness, the both of them went offline… regarding what happened afterward, I will say no more. I only have one thing to say: You can still believe in love.
The video link at the bottom was actually edited, not only was there a shot of the extensive scene of over ten thousand people cheering him, Li Huailin’s repeated “deaths” and “courting” were also edited together. It was then matched with a poignant background music, even Li Huailin, who was the main character in the video, was a little touched from watching this.
First post: I watched it and I’m very touched.
Second post: In the future, I definitely want my boyfriend to propose to me like this.
Third post: I request the man’s name in the video.
Fourth post: I request the man in the video.
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664th post: Am I the only person who feels that the man in the video looks like the kickass brother who slapped the Warrior Instructor in the other pinned forum thread?
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790th post: I request the beauty’s name in the video, I’m also willing to be struck by Heavenly Thunder for her.
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“What the hell? Which son of a b*tch created this rumor? It’s absolute nonsense!” After Li Huailin finished reading the thread, he wished he could choke the person who started the thread to death—this completely wasn’t the case at all—he didn’t even know the cold beauty’s online name, and yet, the thread simply said that they were a couple and that they both went offline to do a certain something.
“How the f*ck am I supposed to face the women (sent) that (me) I (to) grabbed (death) in the future?” Li Huailin had a really big headache now.
While stroking his hair out of irritation, he continued to browse the web. He soon found another post that caught his attention.
‘Dramatic revelations! Dramatic revelations! The goddess in the pinned forum thread is my older cousin’
Original post: I am Red Face Drinks Water1 of the Red Detachment of Women2guild, the goddess in the pinned thread is my older cousin, Red Dust3 Misty Rain, she and that man aren’t in a relationship, it’s that man who’s pursuing my older cousin! My older cousin expressed that she was very satisfied with what that man did, I’m here to testify that they didn’t go offline to do that!
First post: Stop making things up.
Second post: OP is a liar, she’s my older cousin.
Third post: I’m OP, everything I’ve said is true.
Fourth post: I still believe the story in the pinned thread.
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“Red Dust Misty Rain?” Li Huailin actually believed this, because only he knew that he truly wasn’t acquainted with that cold beauty. This reply on the thread wasn’t probably a lie, ‘The Red Detachment of Women?’ This guild name is too hilarious—don’t tell me that everyone’s name in the guild starts with the word ‘red’.
After Li Huailin memorized this name in silence, he continued to browse the other threads. Shortly after, he found one that astonished him.
”’Leave A Trace’ you dared to kill me? I won’t forget this easily! If you have the guts to duel tomorrow, come to XXXX coordinates south of the city, or else I’ll find someone to kill you back to level zero’
Original post: Bring it on if you can, this old man will fight you solo!
First post: You’re an S13, which idiot will go?
Second post: I’m the OP of the original post, who are you cursing at!? You’re the S13! You better believe that this old man will kill you till you’re back in the newbie village!
Third post: Come bite me!
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“Oh crap! I’m so f*cking stupid… why did I go and tease a woman?” Li Huailin suddenly came to a realization. “I should’ve just found someone to hack me to death, why did I stir up all that trouble for?”
Li Huailin immediately ran over to the official website to read up on details regarding PKing1. In the end, there actually wasn’t much information. He only found out that the officials didn’t encourage it, but they didn’t really forbid PK behavior between the same faction. And also that there would be a mechanism in place to punish the side that initiates the PK.
Li Huailin immediately ran over to the forums and searched the keywords ‘PK’. As expected, he found a technical thread that introduced the mechanisms of PKing in detail.
PKing was divided into PK of the same faction and PK of a different faction. For PK of the same faction, the name of the party that initiates the attack will turn brown—this would continue for 30 minutes. During this time, if the attacker is killed by the victim instead, then the attacker will have a 100% chance to drop a piece of equipment on them. At the same time, 20% of the current level’s experience will be lost. Moreover, the retaliator won’t have any addition in Infamy. If the attacker kills the victim, the victim will only have a 50% chance to drop a piece of equipment on them and will only lose 10% experience. Moreover, the attacker will increase in Infamy by a single point. When Infamy surpasses five points, one won’t be able to enter the cities, or else they’ll be arrested by guards and imprisoned. When Infamy surpasses 10 points, the main cities will then issue an order-for-arrest quest—whoever kills this player will receive a certain amount of experience and money as a reward.
As for the PK of a different faction, the officials actually encouraged this. The six races of ‘Heart of Glory’ were divided into two factions. Humans, Dwarfs, and Elves formed the Order faction, while Demons, Undead, and Orcs formed the Chaos faction. If the players of these two different factions killed the opposing faction, they wouldn’t only not have Infamy, instead, they would receive Honor points that can be exchanged for meritorious rewards.
“Okay! Got it!” After Li Huailin finished reading the technical thread, he waved his hands in excitement. “Tomorrow I’ll go online to execute plan two, find someone to PK and then get killed—damn! If I initiate an attack and get killed by the other party, I can actually receive 20% experience. This is too damn sweet. The experience given like this is definitely more than the experience given from teasing innocent women. It’s also safer—this will do!”
With excitement all over his face, Li Huailin happily went to sleep.
