Chapter 235: Internet Launched, Watching Penguin Messenger! (1/3)

“Young lady, the people outside might not be good, but does that mean the people inside are?” Fang Qi asked, speechlessly looking up and down at this girl who wore a red martial outfit and black leather boots, dressed neatly with a rare heroic air between her brows.

“Miss... you must be a good person...” Zou Mo said somewhat shyly.

“What good person!” The girl in red immediately glared at Zou Mo and cold-snorted, “Listen well! This young lady’s hands are stained with rivers of blood, and my house is piled high with white bones. In the past, someone offended this young lady, and I chopped off his head on the spot to kick around like a ball! You two punks, hmph hmph! You’d better be polite to me!”

“You... you...!” Zou Mo practically retreated several steps on the spot, his face turning pale.

“A pleasure, a pleasure.” Fang Qi cupped his hands. “As it happens, I also have a nickname, ‘The Blood-Handed Butcher’ Ning...”

“Apologies, a slip of the tongue.” Fang Qi rubbed his nose with some embarrassment, having almost blurted out the name of a certain scholar surnamed Ning, which was quite awkward.

“...” The red-clothed girl’s face twitched.

This slightly familiar girl in red, with a touch of heroism between her brows, was named Ruan Ning. She would likely be Fang Qi’s neighbor for a long time to come, running an artifact-refining materials shop.

It was said that most people in the Half-City were born and raised here, such as Ruan Ning.

Once Mo Tianxing sent people to move out the redundant items from the shop, this day was basically spent tidying up the place with Zou Mo.

This shop also had two floors, and with the addition of Old Man Mo’s original warehouse for storing spiritual artifacts, the area was more than enough to accommodate over a hundred computers, with plenty of room to spare.

When Zou Mo walked out of his bedroom the next day, he could hardly believe his eyes: “Boss... this...!?”

“Today is our shop’s first day of business. I’ll write the rules on the small blackboard at the counter in a moment. Work hard.” Fang Qi looked at the short youth and patted his shoulder.

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At this time, in the main shop, Su Tianji, Nalan Hongwu, Song Qingfeng, Jiang Xiaoyue, and others were all sitting on the sofas. Eating instant noodles, Nalan Hongwu remarked strangely, “What’s going on with that kid Fang lately? He’s been out for so long without a single word.”

“Xiaoyue, come sit by your big sister!” Lanyan happily pulled the little girl into her arms to eat instant noodles together. “Has your boss gone missing? How has there been no news for so long?”

Speaking of which, Jiang Xiaoyue had been truly happy lately. Because it had been the weekend before, another week was already arriving, meaning she could eat another bucket of instant noodles!

“How should I know!” Jiang Xiaoyue pouted and took a sip of the noodle soup. “The communication jade can't reach him either; he’s out of range. Who knows where he went!”

“Opening a branch is one thing, but he hasn’t even logged into the game until now!” Su Tianji complained. “I haven’t seen him in Counter-Strike either; I’ve searched through every single room.”

“He hasn’t logged into Diablo either!” Nalan Hongwu said. “He said something about needing to clear Nightmare before entering the true Hell, and this old master has already fought his way to Nightmare!”

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Over at Half-City.

Zou Mo stared dumbfoundedly at the rules Fang Qi was writing on the small blackboard.

“Play if you want, get lost if you don't?” In different cities, the modal particles used varied; for instance, in a well-ordered city like Jiuhua City, the phrasing would be more peaceful and polite.

Here, however, it was much more straightforward and blunt.

“Boss, aren’t you afraid someone will wreck the shop if you write it like this...?” Zou Mo was completely speechless. Although he felt that this Mr. Fang who came with him to Half-City was no ordinary person, this was still...

“If someone wrecks the shop, just yell.”

“Yell what?”

“Yell that someone is causing trouble.” Fang Qi stretched, looking down at the nearly one hundred spacious and bright computer seats downstairs, and said, “Boss is getting online first. Come to think of it, I haven’t been online in ages.”

Then Fang Qi pointed to “The Legend” written on the small blackboard, which cost 38 crystals to activate for a month, 10 crystals for a week, and 2 crystals per hour for computer usage listed behind it, saying, “Remember, not a single penny less. Play if you want, get lost if you don’t. No need to waste words on them.”

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Jiuhua City.

“Holy crap! There’s something new in the shop again!” Lin Shao had just logged onto his computer when he saw a penguin icon appear on the screen, his eyes lighting up. “Penguin Communication! It’s free!”

“Free?!” Quite a few people who had just finished their instant noodles and were about to log on gathered around.

They watched Lin Shao open Penguin Communication, the screen seemingly scanning something.

“Establishing data...”

“Logging in...”

Right after was the novice tutorial. Upon passing it, everyone saw: “This Penguin Communication thing can actually search for and add friends from other cities?”

“Other cities...?” Everyone looked at each other, then pulled out their communication jades. “We can just use our communication jades, why use this thing?”

“Let’s try it.” At this moment, Song Qingfeng, Su Tianji, and the others all gathered behind, watching the new feature that had appeared in the shop.

Lin Shao clicked on the city options, and soon there appeared:

Jiuhua City

Morning Star Sea Realm

These two options.

“Morning Star... Sea Realm?!” Lin Shao turned his head back in bewilderment. “What kind of place is this?”

Su Tianji was also completely mystified. “This name sounds so strange.”

Ye Songtao expressed, “I’ve never heard of such a place in the South Sea or beyond. Could it be in the North Sea? Or the East Sea?”

Nalan Hongwu expressed, “This old master has never heard of it either!”

Lin Shao quickly clicked on Morning Star Sea Realm, where there was currently only one person: Big Boss Fang.

“...” Lin Shao hurriedly followed the tutorial’s instructions to add him as a friend.

At this moment, Fang Qi was still exploring how this new Penguin Communication differed from the one before his transmigration when he suddenly heard a friend request notification.

Fang Qi looked: Lin Shao?

He casually clicked accept.

“Holy crap! We’re connected!” Everyone gasped in pleasant surprise.

The new Penguin Communication was divided into two modes: keyboard input and character voice input, the latter of which was only effective when wearing the virtual reality headset.

At this moment, Lin Shao began to dictate aloud, “Where... are... you...”

Soon, the line “Where are you” was entered into the chat box.

“The Morning Star Sea Realm, of course (funny face).” Fang Qi casually added an emoji.

“Morning Star Sea Realm?”

“Oh? What is this round face?”

“It looks so silly!” Jiang Xiaoyue pointed at the screen and giggled.

“Ask him what kind of place the Morning Star Sea Realm is!” Su Tianji shouted from behind.

“What... kind... of... place... is... the... Morning... Star... Sea... Realm...” Lin Shao dictated while watching the corresponding characters slowly appear on the screen.

“You don't know?” Fang Qi said casually. “Old Master Nalan and the others should know (cold sweat).”

“How did the boss send another round-faced emoji like that!” Jiang Xiaoyue said. “Can you send one?”

“Let me check...” Lin Shao searched around and quickly found the emoji panel.

“Ah! There’s one here!” Seeing a funny face emoji inside, Jiang Xiaoyue clapped her hands and cheered, “Choose this one! This one is the silliest!”

Lin Shao broke out into a cold sweat.

Then he sent a message to Fang Qi: “They don't know what kind of place it is either (funny face) (funny face)”

"Master, Master! This round face looks like so much fun!" Fenghua and Yuexin, watching from behind, also had faces full of novelty.

"Let's go get one later too!" Dong Qingli said.

"Where on earth did you run off to? Even the range of the Old Master's premium communication jade wasn't enough!"

"I don't know either," Fang Qi replied. "I only know this place is called the Morning Star Sea, Half City, where cultivators are as common as dogs, and Nascent Souls wander everywhere."

"Nascent Souls...?" Everyone froze in a daze.

"...A slip of the hand, a typo."

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Thanks to Alliance Leader Luffy919, and likewise thanks to all the students who gave tips. Today there will be an extra release on top of the three chapters; whether it is one extra chapter or two depends on today's writing speed...

Let's add two chapters for the Alliance Leader first, clearing the owed chapters for several Alliance Leaders before adding others, that's pretty much how it goes...

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