The Trembling World
chapter-454-30041322

TL: LifeisaJourney

ED: RED

It seemed this quest would have to wait for tomorrow afternoon. The worker had left through the side exit and disappeared. Liu Gan led Star Yu back to the new temporary campsite. By the time they returned, there were multiple bonfires already set up.

Now that he had the clue to the fourth quest, no matter what, he was going to finish the puzzle map. It didn’t seem like it was a very hard quest. Their current location was a safe distance from the King Crocodile’s territory, and the regular Crocodiles doesn’t pose a threat to the team. Liu Gan was in a great mood, so he accepted the suggestion of hosting a feast. The feast lasted all day, until evening came.

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The very next day in the afternoon, the whole group arrived at the worker laying down brick, watching him from a polite distance. Shortly after, a woman carrying a small backpack that walked in through side exit. She was delivering the lunch box into the Theme Park. From her backpack, she pulled out a handkerchief to wipe off the sweat of her boyfriend. She also had a basin of water so the worker could clean his hands. Lastly, she pulled out the lunch box for him from the backpack.

These NPC’s had their routine lifestyle, and they had personalities too! Liu Gan made sure nobody disrupted the woman unpacking her stuff, waiting until the worker started eating. He waited until the woman was resting, then he walked up with Star Yu.

“Hello, these are the other three puzzle box pieces. You can tell that the design matches exactly with the puzzle box in your possession. We had four boxes, but one was lost and you picked it up,” Star Yu said those exact words, following Liu Gan’s instruction.

“Yi Yi, just return the stuff back to the owner!,” the worker attempted to convince his girlfriend.

“Fine! I’ll return it to you!” The girlfriend pulled out the puzzle box from her bag to hand over to Star Yu.

Star Yu was surprised, but he grasped the puzzle box, only to find he was just holding onto air.

“You don’t want? Then I’ll keep it,” the girlfriend snickered. It seemed she never wanted to give away the puzzle in the first place.

“You picked up my lost puzzle, so we are grateful that you found it. What would be an appropriate compensation to show our gratitude for finding it?” Liu Gan walked up to see if he could communicate with the woman. Since Star Yu couldn’t touch the box, then that meant there was a requirement to be filled. So rather than play her game, Liu Gan took the initiative to ask for her demands.

“This handsome gentleman definitely knows what a girl desires. I like you, so direct,” the girlfriend responded directly to Liu Gan. Ahhhh… not every quest requires an intermediary to communicate with the requester!

“Tell us what you desire. If it is within our capability, we will accomplish it,” Liu Gan promised the girlfriend.

“A few days from now is my birthday. In my house, I am bored just sitting around idly. I want to buy myself an iPAD as birthday present. If you want to thank me you can gift me an iPAD or… give me the money to buy one for myself,” as she stated her terms.

“Yi Yi, you are becoming unreasonable!” The boyfriend was displeased with his girlfriend’s behavior.

“Can’t you tell? This handsome gentleman is a wealthy tycoon. He wouldn’t be bothered by this chump change,” the girlfriend pouted.

“You… can’t be rectified.” The boyfriend released a hopeless sigh.

“An iPAD is something we don’t have. As for money… how much are you asking for?” Liu Gan testing the waters.

“To buy an iPAD is very cheap! Cost around three thousand yuan,” the girlfriend quickly responded.

“Lord Liu, where will we find money in this ghastly place?” Star Yu frowned.

“Does this money work?” Liu Gan pulled out the foreign token from his dimensional storage space. He flipped the coin on both sides in front of the girlfriend. Liu Gan had his suspicions on the purpose of the foreign token in his procession. It seemed like it did hold value for some people.

“Oh? That is the good stuff!” The girlfriend’s eyes lit up. She reached out to take a bite on the edge of the coin.

“This token should be worth around three thousand yuan right? Can you give me the map now?” Liu Gan tested his luck.

“Do you think that little of me? This isn’t a platinum coin. It is a silver coin. At most it is valued at 30 yuan. You still need 3000 yuan! To buy an iPAD, I would need at least a hundred silver coins,” the girlfriend continued,

“A hundred silver coins? Can’t you make it less?” Liu Gan scratched his head. To get one foreign token was a long process of killing a Crocodile. The troublesome issue wasn’t killing the creatures, but how to find enough of them to kill.

“How about you head to Apple iPAD and convince them to sell it cheaper to me?” The girlfriend wasn’t budging on the price.

“Yi Yi, don’t be like that!” the worker boyfriend continued to plead.

“I said that I don’t want the map, and I was ready to hand it over to them! They were the one who want to repay my kindness with money. What would you have me do? Should I expect an iPAD from you on my birthday?” Her expression turned sour.

“If I bought the iPAD, where would we sleep? On the street because we don’t have enough money to pay the rent?” The worker shook his head and stopped talking after that.

Liu Gan was internally agitated. He wanted to teach the girl a lesson, but his attack would be ineffective. He could only curse her from the bottom of his heart.

Killing a Crocodile would take around 40 minutes. To kill a hundred Crocodiles would take 4000 minutes. That was around 66 hours. It would take a week to do so just in twelve hour shifts. And that was not counting the time searching for the Crocodile and the spawn time in between the Crocodiles. It could take up to a month or two to finish this last quest!

This quest was totally fucked.

The problem is, now that they had reached this stage, it would be a waste not to finish!

As Liu Gan and Star Yu were about to leave, Liu Gan noticed something stand out. His eyes met with the worker’s eyes a few times. However, since the worker didn’t speak up, it was quite suspicious to Liu Gan. Something was wrong!

Liu Gan and Star Yu hid in the nearby shrubbery and observed the worker. They waited until he was done eating and the girlfriend had packed up the containers to leave through the side exit.

“Brother, I felt that you might have something to say to us?” Liu Gan walked up to the worker.

“My girlfriend loves taking advantage of others, her bad deeds will catch up to her sooner or later… This 2000 yuan is my personal savings. I’ve saved it up for the whole year. You can take it. Sigh… I’m so sorry that my girlfriend has made it difficult for you…” The worker pulled out a black bag from a brick mold. Inside the bag were twenty hundred yuan bills.

“Thank you, brother!” Liu Gan gratefully accepted his generosity.

“No problem,” the worker brushed it off nonchalantly. He returned back to his neverending bricklaying job.