Breathing Fox didn't reply to Fang Yue, but secretly sent him a message.
"Brother Ye, this old man is really strict. As his apprentice, I'm not allowed to talk, so I can only message you. By the way, how'd you end up looking like this? Did those NPCs hurt you? I'll get my buddies to avenge you!"
Oh, give me a break. You're all talk. If you actually had to face them, you'd probably be the first to run.
Fang Yue still remembered Little Fox saying he'd support himself by making medicine. In the end, all he'd done was talk. He hadn't made a single move, and he hadn't even reached out to Fang Yue since entering the village.
While Fang Yue and Little Fox were chatting privately, Doctor Hong had already examined Fang Yue.
"Little Brother Ye, your meridians are in disarray, and you've been reduced to a cripple. There's nothing this old man can do about that. As for your other serious injuries, I can prescribe a medicine for you. Take it every day and rest properly for ten days or half a month, and you should recover."
Were serious injuries really that hard to treat?
Fang Yue was stunned.
In his mind, serious injuries were the kind of thing you could fix in a few breaths.
But Doctor Hong wanted him to lie around for ten days? His lifespan wasn't even that long.
Little Fox sent him a shocked message. "Holy crap! Brother Ye, you've been crippled? How'd things get so bad so suddenly? What happened?"
Fang Yue really couldn't bring himself to say that he'd crippled himself by practicing martial arts.
After Doctor Hong prescribed the medicine and sent the two of them away, Fang Yue lay in bed and thought things over.
The consequences of going berserk had been far more severe than he'd expected.
Now, it seemed his only hope was...[Night's Breath].
That's right, this Human-grade High-grade Talent.
If even [Night's Breath] couldn't cure [Meridian Disorder], he'd really have to consider starting over from scratch.
After drinking the medicine Doctor Hong had prescribed, the damage alerts above Fang Yue's head finally slowed considerably.
According to Doctor Hong, any young person with normal blood vitality could hold on long enough to finish the medicine he'd prepared. Their serious-injury status would be fully cured, and their blood vitality wouldn't keep declining until they died.
Of course, if someone had very little blood left and was on the brink of death, Doctor Hong would change the prescription and give them stronger medicine.
There was simply no need for that kind of prescription in Fang Yue's case.
Lying in bed, Fang Yue felt a little better. But moving around would aggravate his injuries and make him lose blood, so for now, he was better off staying still.
With nothing else he could do, Fang Yue closed his eyes, opened the system menu, and logged out.
In the real world, Fang Yue opened his eyes.
His dim room still seemed shrouded in night.
He got up and pulled open the curtains. Blinding sunlight poured in.
He squinted until his eyes adjusted...
Grrr.
His stomach growled.
He was starving.
Fang Yue had only eaten instant noodles the night before, and after a whole night, he was already hungry.
Luckily, the Game Watch provided reliable sleep while he was in the game, so Fang Yue felt full of energy.
He opened the door, ready to go to the kitchen and make a bowl of instant noodles for breakfast...
Rrrr...
A snore came from the room next door.
Fang Yue froze.
"Sister Yuan's back."
Sister Yuan was pretty and had a great figure, but she had one flaw: whenever she slept, she snored, and loudly.
It was a minor issue. Fang Yue was used to it, and the Game Watch kept the noise from bothering him while he slept.
Thinking nothing of it, Fang Yue put a pot of cold water on the stove, turned on the heat, opened the instant noodles, and set out the seasoning.
Fang Yue returned to his room and turned on his computer, planning to wait until the water boiled before adding the noodles.
He expertly opened the Dragon Play Platform and logged into his account.
Fang Yue's eyes widened.
"Dear user, 0.1 yuan has been credited to your virtual account 5203. Your current balance is 13,011.5 yuan!"
Thirteen thousand yuan?!
Where had that come from??
Following the transaction details, Fang Yue discovered that the money had come from the post he'd made analyzing attributes.
He opened the post. Its popularity had reached 130,000, which meant that 130,000 people had paid to view it.
He opened the post's details and scrolled down.
Fang Yue was instantly speechless.
Most of the replies weren't there for the post's content at all. They'd come just to insult him, the "celebrity."
You had to pay to insult someone, so they were furious.
"Garbage guide! Did you really need to explain something this obvious?"
"Health points equal HP? My God, am I learning that one plus one equals two in kindergarten?"
"What an insult to our intelligence. So much for the first killer!"
A person's reputation cast a long shadow. Even though Fang Yue had only made an ordinary post to earn a little pocket money, he was still getting flamed to pieces.
But quite a few people had picked up on the information in Fang Yue's post.
Wonderful Methods Come Naturally: "No way, no way. Are there really people who can't see the value of this post? Oh...you're all blind. Never mind, then."
Unrivaled Under Heaven: "So that's how force and force redirection work. No wonder I felt like my character hadn't gotten any stronger. Turns out I'd been using force and redirecting it the wrong way."
Deep Affection Never Forgotten: "The people above are too impulsive. The post is still pretty helpful. The explanation of the force-redirection attribute in particular. My buddies and I tested it in the game, and it's exactly as he said. The difference in damage with and without redirecting force is huge. This should be important information, so 0.1 yuan is way too cheap."
That might be true, but Fang Yue understood that information like this was only valuable early in the game. Once that stage passed, everyone would know it, and it wouldn't make any money.
If he set the price too high, people wouldn't bother coming in. Only high-level accounts had enough credibility for people to accept a high price.
Either way, Fang Yue had earned five figures!
He withdrew the money, and ten thousand yuan landed in his account. Fang Yue grinned.
He hadn't even been in the game for a whole day, and he was already about to make back his costs. Choosing Blue Ocean for gold farming had definitely been the right call!
He closed his post, finished cooking the instant noodles, brought them to his computer, and ate as he continued browsing the forums.
Fang Yue noticed that there were only two hot topics on the forums today.
The first was how to kill the strange creatures.
The second was...how to increase Lifespan.
All players had started with a Lifespan of one day.
They'd entered the game at midnight the previous night, and it was almost noon now. Twelve hours had passed.
Most players had only twelve hours of Lifespan left for their characters.
Everyone was panicking.
But the Dragon Play Platform was, after all, a hub for professional gamers.
Though they were anxious, they analyzed the situation rationally, searching for ways to increase their Lifespan or putting up bounty posts for help.
Everyone had their own methods, and each showed off what they could do.
As a result, bits of information gradually began to spread through the forums.
Fang Yue paid to read through these posts and soon gleaned a few things.
So far, people had discovered only three ways to gain Lifespan.
Pills, strange creatures, and quests.
Pills meant all kinds of rare medicinal pills, herbs, and even rare natural treasures.
Someone on the forums had accidentally eaten a strange mushroom, gained a few hours of Lifespan, and even posted about it to brag.
Someone else had jumped off a cliff and luckily found a strange pill. After swallowing it, their Lifespan had increased. Another player who'd received a Lucky Gift Pack had randomly gotten a graded herb, eaten it, and gained Lifespan.
There were enough cases to rule out the possibility that they were made up.
But this method of gaining Lifespan was mostly a matter of luck, so aside from gamblers, no one was really putting their hopes in it.
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