The first half of the sentence made Shen Bing's scalp prickle.
But when he heard the rest, he felt utterly miserable.
Since when had Mom started taking such dramatic pauses?
Shen Bing said calmly, "Dad, so you got cut down. It's not that big a deal. Huh? Wait, both you and Mom have taken Dragon-Tiger Pills. According to Firmament's rules, your strength can be transferred into the game. With your abilities, what player could possibly beat you?"
Shen's Father smiled sheepishly. "It wasn't a player. It was probably an NPC. He one-shot me."
Hearing all that gaming jargon spill out of his father's mouth felt rather incongruous to Shen Bing.
"Dad, why did you go picking a fight with an NPC?" Shen Bing was curious. At this stage, shouldn't players and NPCs be leaving each other alone? To certain powerful NPCs, players were no more than ants. Unless they were bored out of their minds, who would go around stepping on ants for fun?
Shen's Father smiled sheepishly without answering.
Mom rolled her eyes. "Your dad got full of himself after entering the game and went around challenging people. Then he ran into someone tough, apparently an elder from some Sect, an Evil Faction one at that. And then it was GG."
Shen Bing gave Mom an odd look. She had even learned a "trendy" term like GG...
Well, that wasn't the point. First, he had to soothe his father's wounded soul.
"Dad, I really don't have the kind of insider information you're asking for," Shen Bing said. "Besides, if an NPC could one-shot you despite your strength, you must have run into someone on the level of a major boss. At the game's current stage, players couldn't defeat an NPC like that even if they collected every item capable