The second-floor Gambling King flushed, staring at Bo Shuo's pre-bet requirements in disbelief.
It wasn't because the requirement was harsh, but because it was far too childish.
For Low-Rank Examinees, this was harder than reaching the heavens, but for examinees at the Gambling King's level, it was nothing more than a trivial matter. In fact, whenever he saw a reward like this normally, he found it laughable.
If this person hadn't been introduced by Eveya, he would have thought the youth before him had come to wreck his establishment.
Just ten thousand Points? Wasn't this looking down on him?
"Change the requirement."
The Gambling King shut his eyes hard, suppressing his anger as he spoke.
Bo Shuo refused. "No."
But that one word only made the Gambling King even angrier. If the requirement had been one hundred thousand or even one million Points, he could have transferred them without batting an eye. Yet the youth before him was humiliating him just for...
"Honor a bet once you've made it."
The Black Haired Red Robed Youth stared at him coldly. One sentence was enough to make the Gambling King fume.
(Emotion Points from the 'second-floor Gambling King' +99999)
He gloomily said "good" three times in succession.
(No. 725671, Zhen Chenwu, is trading the wager to you. It has been automatically received.)
*
After leaving the White Tower, Bo Shuo decided to change his appearance himself.
He had earned enough Points this time to rise to C-rank, but that also showed how conspicuous this operation had been.
If someone with ulterior motives remembered him, it could easily cause some unnecessary trouble.
(This appearance will last --24h. 2000 Points have been deducted~)
The instant he stepped out of the White Tower, Bo Shuo's entire appearance changed.
His purple eyes became a deep black, and his long black hair, which had reached his waist, shortened to collarbone length. Two streaks of blue were dyed into the top.
Once those two distinctive features had changed, altering his facial features and physique became even easier. His cold, stern brows and eyes softened slightly, while his tall adult male body became thin and frail.
His entire apparent age shrank by six or seven years, turning him into a youth.
"Bzzzt."
A faint vibration came from his pocket. Bo Shuo took out his phone.
The softly glowing screen was flooded with countless friend requests.
(No. 2381h has requested to add you as a friend. No. g2983 has requested to add you as a friend...)
Friend Requests: 999+
?
Why were so many people adding him?
Bo Shuo frowned and was just about to press "Reject All" when the two requests at the very top suddenly caught his peripheral vision.
The notes read Xu Nian and Gu Baiyu.
A few seconds after he tapped "Accept," the two bombarded him with several messages.
(Xu Yi: Mr. Bo, may I ask which district you're in?)
(Gu Baiyu: Big Shot, Big Shot, check the forum! Sharing a link.)
Bo Shuo replied to Xu Yi's message, then opened the link Gu Baiyu had sent.
The loading page was pure black as soon as he entered. A scarlet blood cross appeared next, then slowly faded once loading was complete.
As soon as he entered, he saw several recent discussion posts marked "Hot" at the top of the forum.
Top 1: Changes in the Examinee Rankings—the original No. 27 actually died horribly inside an instance
Top 2: Urgently buying large quantities of C-rank and B-rank items, with favorable prices
Bo Shuo's gaze slid downward, finally stopping at a post that had quietly climbed onto the tail end of the discussion rankings.
Top 86: Shocking! I actually saw a Newcomer clear a level with a perfect score on the clearance announcement board
(Just as the title says, I was completely dumbfounded at the time. It was my first time seeing a perfect score.)
(Poster, were you still asleep? Do you really think a perfect score is that easy to get? No one has figured out the grading criteria yet. Even if you copied the answers, you still couldn't get a perfect score, okay? Unless you completed the bonus question.)
(The person above is right. How could the bonus question be that easy to complete? The trigger conditions are harsh. Even if you attached yourself to a top-ranked examinee, you couldn't guarantee completing it. How could a Newcomer possibly do it? There has to be a limit to making up jokes. Reported.)
(...wait, don't rush to report it. I think I saw it too. I thought I was mistaken at the time. Screenshot.jpg.)
(!!!!)
(Damn! It really was a perfect score. This Newcomer didn't trigger the bonus question!! This is seriously haunted.)
(Strike while the iron is hot. I'll bet a packet of spicy strips this person will definitely become a rising star in the future. I'm going to send a friend request first.)
(I'm going too, I'm going too.)
(...)
Bo Shuo: "..."
He now understood where all those friend requests had come from.
After rejecting all the friend requests at once, Bo Shuo headed for the most luxurious hotel in the entire Lost Paradise area.
There were still five days until the next examination.
C-rank Examinees had a week of rest after going through an instance.
Bo Shuo wasn't the type to mistreat himself. Besides, he had made a fortune this trip, so there was no need to save.
After booking the best room, Bo Shuo dimmed the lights, washed up, and threw himself onto the soft bed.
After sleeping for more than ten hours, the exhaustion throughout his body finally dissipated.
The tension that had built up over the entire previous instance began to ease.
007, which had vanished for a long time, suddenly woke him with a racket.
"Host, Host! Get up and study!"
"?"
"Let me sleep a little longer."
The youth crawled out of the covers, his hair messily drooping over his forehead and his eyelids half-lowered. He clearly wasn't fully awake yet.
Perhaps because he knew the surrounding environment was safe, he hadn't entered his disguise state, and his voice came out as a nonthreatening breathy murmur.
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