The Fruit at the Mountain Summit
"I haven't decided yet," Xu Huo said slowly. "But I'm sure the players running errands for the shops in town have been replaced several times over by now. There's no way we'd find anything if we went back."
"Luckily, the Wan family is holding a banquet in three days. Plenty of people from other cities will be coming, so we might find a suitable target among them."
Bubble Bean and Ling Ling agreed that it made sense, though they had some differences of opinion about how to choose a target.
Bubble Bean thought that if they wanted to clear the Dungeon with a high rating, they needed to put some effort into selecting a target. Since they didn't know the Dungeon's precise criteria, he suggested looking for ordinary people who seemed weak and in need of help.
Ling Ling had said earlier that clearing this Dungeon might be easy, but she had just asked around at various shops and learned a few things from some players. There were very few cases of people clearing it by helping ordinary people. Besides, this method was easy to imitate: different approaches, different targets, all kinds of ways to escort someone, and different destinations. In short, it was all just a matter of taking a cat-whisker fruit from one place to another. Even if someone had cleared the Dungeon by sheer luck, they probably couldn't explain what had actually made them succeed.
So she suggested trying a different approach and starting with some well-known people, especially local players. They might not even need to investigate those people's stories. If they got involved, they might somehow get caught up in certain events.
Xu Huo thought both suggestions made sense and had no other ideas. He proposed that they wait