Retrograde Gaming - Chapter 21
Chapter 21: An Astonishing Profit
Translator: Henyee Translations
Editor: Henyee Translations
At dusk, in a luxury villa in China’s XS city, Su Ruoyan put down the last dish on the table, and then, she wiped off her hands with her apron. After looking at the four dishes and one soup she made, Su Ruoyan smiled lightly, she then raised her voice, yelling towards the second floor in her house, “Little Water, dinner time!”
“I’m coming cousin!” A girl’s voice could be heard from the second floor. In a short while, a beautiful seventeen-year-old girl skipped down the stairs. This was ‘Red Face Drinks Water’ in the game, her real name was Su Shuizhen, and her nickname was Little Water. Today, she turned seventeen—still in high school of course, since it was currently the holidays, she was spending her vacation at her older female cousin’s house. Her older female cousin was also playing ‘Heart of Glory’, she was the cold beauty called ‘Red Dust Misty Rain’, her real name Su Ruoyan, she was twenty-two years old this year.
“Hm~mm~” Su Shuizhen lightly hummed a song as she sat down on a chair, and then, when she saw her favorite food, braised chicken wings, she shouted, “Wow! You really made braised chicken wings! Cousin, you’re the best!”
“It’ll really fatten you to death,” Su Ruoyan joked, “What happened today? I didn’t see you for the whole day, if you don’t level up properly, you won’t be able to keep up with the majority of the team.”
Inside the game, there were always classes that had severe difficulties trying to level up. For example, Priests, under normal circumstances, would level up in a party because soloing was too slow even if there wouldn’t be any danger. Originally, Su Shuizhen would party up with the guild to level up, but today, she was nowhere to be found. This was why Su Ruoyan found this a little strange.
“Oh yes! That’s right cousin! Today, Brother-in-law and I did some really fun stuff!” While speaking of this, Su Shuizhen’s expression was filled with pride.
“Brother-in-law? Which sister’s brother-in-law?” Su Ruoyan didn’t quite understand what she meant.
“Yours, remember the one that touched your breasts yesterday in front of over ten thousand people?” Su Shuizhen said.
When this was brought up, Su Ruozhen’s face immediately blushed. Yesterday, she didn’t know why she let that guy touch her all of a sudden, now that she recalled this, she didn’t really know what she was thinking at that time. However, it was too late to regret it. How did the guy know Little Water was her younger cousin? And why did he find Little Water? Su Ruoyan really didn’t know that Su Shuizhen sold her out by posting a thread on the forums.
“How did he find you? How does he know you’re my younger cousin? Did he harass you?” Su Ruoyan asked a little angrily.
“Ah, cousin you’re mistaken,” When Su Suizhen saw Su Ruoyan’s frown, she was afraid that she would get the wrong idea about Li Huailin, she hurriedly explained, “I encountered brother-in-law by chance and then told him.”
“Oh…” Su Ruoyan nodded, her countenance was slightly better now. “Then… did that pervert bully you? You little idiot, you should know when you’re being taken advantage of.”
“Brother-in-law didn’t bully me, he’s actually been so nice to me,” Su Shuizhen said immediately, “Brother-in-law also taught me an impressive skill.”
“An impressive skill? What is it?” Su Ruoyan asked, puzzled.
Su Shuizhen puffed up her chest proudly. “Robbery!”
“What?” Su Ruoyan was startled, “Wait… is the robbery you’re talking about the same concept as the robbery that’s in my mind?”
“Of course, it’s to snatch up money.” Su Shuizhen nodded in response.
“That pervert actually dragged you to commit robbery?” Su Ruoyan’s expression immediately darkened.
“Yeah, we robbed people for an entire day. Brother-in-law is really impressive! At his best moment, he could make the other side obediently hand over money with just a glare.” With these thoughts in mind, Su Shuizhen felt that Li Huailin’s figure was even loftier than before—she still had so much more to learn.
“Impressive? Don’t you know that robbing people is a crime?” Su Ruoyan didn’t even know whether to be angry or to laugh at this.
“I know.” Su Shuizhen nodded in response. “However, robbing with brother-in-law is too interesting, I’ve never seen anything this interesting when playing online games before.”
“You… you’re not allowed to have any relations with that pervert in the future! He’ll lead you astray,” Su Ruoyan immediately said.
“No, brother-in-law is impressive, it’s only interesting If I play with brother-in-law!” With great difficulty, Su Shuizhen finally found something interesting, naturally, she wasn’t willing to let it go.
“Tomorrow, you should return all the money you robbed, or else I’ll really be angry.” Suo Ruoyan immediately put on a stern face as she said seriously.
“Return all of it? Why? There’s so much money—there’s over 20 Gold…” Su Shuizhen could only say this with great heartache.
“Cough… cough, cough…” Su Ruoyan almost burst out in astonishment. “How… how much again?”
“Over 20 Gold Coins, brother-in-law and I together managed to rob over 44 Gold Coins. Brother-in-law said he’d split half with me, so I took 22 Gold Coins,” Su Shuizhen said honestly.
“22 Gold Coins?” Su Ruoyan was truly shocked now. It had only been a week since the servers opened. And yet, the average sum of the majority of players were around 20 to 30 Silver Coins, those with more than a single Gold Coin were already considered a little wealthy—in all honesty, the entire Red Detachment of Women guild currently had a total of 43 members, even if they pooled all of their money together, it still wouldn’t reach 22 Gold Coins.
“How did you guys rob that much? Did you rob an entire guild?” Su Ruoyan hurriedly asked.
“A guild? Oh, that’s right, we robbed that Spiritual World deputy guild leader of 10 Gold Coins. We also robbed one of the ten great experts, Wind Also Flows, of 14 Gold Coins. Apart from this, we also robbed over 200 players,” Su Shuizhen said with a proud expression.
“Cough… cough, cough…” Su Ruoyan was stupefied.
“Oh right, brother-in-law is really too impressive, he even defeated Wind Also Flows in two blows! I admire brother-in-law so much!” Su Shuizhen said this with stars emerging in her eyes.
“Really? That pervert is that impressive?” Su Ruoyan said in disbelief.
“Of course it’s true! I personally witnessed it happen. Oh! I’m so stupid, I actually forgot to record it—dang! I could’ve been able to show cousin brother-in-law’s handsome appearance during battle, to forget such a good chance to put in a good impression… I’m truly sorry to brother-in-law…” Su Shuizhen said this while looking a little disappointed.
Su Ruoyan fell silent for a moment. She naturally knew what kind of person her own younger cousin was, what the latter said was probably all true. This meant that the pervert was really a more impressive expert than Wind Also Flows. Speaking of which, why would such an expert like him do something so boring like robbery? Could it really only have been to play with her younger cousin?
Su Shuizhen looked at Su Ruoyan, her eyes were sly as she came up with a devious idea. Playing with brother-in-law was extremely interesting and brother-in-law was so nice to her, she had to find a way to help him out. “Cousin, cousin, tomorrow, let’s go find brother-in-law together! Brother-in-law really wants to see you, he’s talking about you all the time.”
“I’m not going, there’s a guild event tomorrow, we’re going to a level 15 dungeon, Viper Cave, you’re also not allowed to go meet him. Today, the guild finally got four level 15s together with great difficulty, and tomorrow, we’ll let Pennant level up a little, this way we’ll just have enough level 15s to do the dungeon,” Su Ruoyan said seriously, “And, I’ll also tell Sister Moon about the money tomorrow. As to how the money will be dealt with will be up to Sister Moon.”
“What? I want to play with brother-in-law,” Su Shuizhen really didn’t care about the allocation of money at all, however, she did have a lot of complaints about not being able to go see brother-in-law.
“You’re not allowed to escape, you’re the only level 15 Priest in the guild, how are we going to do the dungeon without you? Don’t cause troubles for Sister Moon.” What Su Rongyan considered more was that since the child lacked too much mindfulness, she might be tricked by that pervert.
“Oh…” Su Shuizhen’s expression turned sullen, suddenly, her eyes lit up as an idea popped into her mind. She still pretended to be unhappy while saying, “Okay, I’ll listen to you cousin.”
“Good.” Su Ruoyan didn’t sense anything wrong, she nodded bluntly.
