Fools Easily Duped

Earth.

Fang Zelin wheeled himself into the elevator, intending to go downstairs for something to eat.

By the time Fang Zelin wheeled himself into the elevator, someone was already inside.

The person in the elevator was an exceptionally tall woman with long, straight legs wrapped in black stockings, making her look all the more slender.

Looking up, he saw that she was beautiful, too. Willow-wisp brows rested above almond-shaped eyes, her gaze like a pool of clear spring water, giving off a crisp chill.

At first glance, she seemed to keep everyone a thousand miles away.

Overall, though, Fang Zelin felt he could give her a nine out of ten.

Both her looks and her bearing were stunning at first sight.

But none of that had anything to do with Fang Zelin.

When he first arrived here, he had already become someone confined to a wheelchair.

With the subsidy Blazing Summer provided, Fang Zelin had long since chosen to lie flat.

As for finding a girlfriend, Fang Zelin had never even considered it.

In his view, regardless of whether any woman would be interested in someone in his circumstances, he himself did not want to burden anyone else.

After wheeling himself inside, Fang Zelin turned his wheelchair to face the elevator doors.

"Huh?"

Fang Zelin had only just turned around when an advertisement pasted nearby caught his eye, making him pause.

"What is it?"

Hearing Fang Zelin make a sound, the woman behind him asked instinctively.

Her wispy brows drew together slightly, and there was a trace of pity in her eyes as she looked at Fang Zelin's back.

She had seen Fang Zelin a few times before.

His legs were disabled, leaving him unable to walk.

She had previously seen him wheeling himself around the residential complex to take out the trash and such, and had felt that he really was rather pitiful.

So young, and yet...

"Oh, nothing. I just noticed that the elevator is covered in recruitment ads for Seeking the Dao game studios and such."

Looking at the advertisements plastered all over the wall beside him, Fang Zelin was a little dazed.

It really had been a while since he had gone downstairs.

Going out today, he got a sense of just how popular Seeking the Dao had become.

Even the elevator was covered in notices like these.

Judging by this alone, the internet was probably full of all kinds of recruitment posts, too.

"Oh, that. Seeking the Dao is incredibly popular right now, and lots of game studios have opened up. I think it would actually suit you quite well. Although your legs can't..."

Behind him, Chu Xike instinctively began speaking, only to stop halfway through.

She had realized that saying something like that might be far too disrespectful, as though she were reopening his wounds.

At that thought, regret immediately filled her heart.

Although she had not finished speaking, Fang Zelin understood what she meant.

He inwardly shook his head. This woman was certainly pretty, but she did not seem to have much of a way with words.

Still, Fang Zelin did not take her remark to heart.

He did not know whether it was because he had begun cultivating immortality, but Fang Zelin felt that his mindset was getting better and better.

Or perhaps Fang Zelin had this mindset because he had long since chosen to lie flat.

Chu Xike was deeply regretful, hesitating over how she should apologize to Fang Zelin.

Before she could speak, however, the elevator happened to reach the first floor. Seeing that they had arrived, Fang Zelin wheeled himself straight out so he would not block the elevator doors.

Watching Fang Zelin leave, Chu Xike could not help agonizing over whether she should chase after him and apologize.

But during that moment of hesitation, Fang Zelin had already wheeled himself far away.

A short while later, Fang Zelin arrived in his wheelchair at a restaurant outside the residential complex.

Having eaten takeout for several days in a row, Fang Zelin planned to have something more substantial at a restaurant.

He ordered shredded potatoes, mapo tofu, and a soup.

After ordering, Fang Zelin leisurely picked up the tableware and began rinsing it with hot water.

This was the downside of eating alone: he did not dare order too much.

If there were more people, Fang Zelin would have been able to order more dishes to try.

He could not help feeling a little regretful.

The food would not arrive that quickly, so Fang Zelin took out his phone and began browsing the forum.

He wanted to see whether the forum had any of the information he was looking for.

There were so many players entering the Seeking the Dao World now. More players meant more sources of information.

After opening the forum, Fang Zelin suddenly noticed a forum notification: his forum level had actually reached seven.

This was experience he had earned from the post he had made earlier.

That earlier post now had hundreds of thousands of replies.

Even now, the post remained pinned and featured.

It had also been rated as one of the must-read posts for newbies.

In the thread, quite a few people were asking Fang Zelin what realm his martial arts had reached and whether he had become a third-rate expert.

There were quite a lot of people asking.

Fang Zelin glanced through them casually, with no intention of replying.

Who would practice martial arts when they could cultivate immortality? Seriously!

Fang Zelin browsed the posts, scrolling down bit by bit to see whether there were any relevant threads.

There were plenty of popular threads, but they were about things like someone discovering thousand-year-old ginseng somewhere, spotting some extraordinary animal, or finding miraculous fruits that increased cultivation when eaten.

Fang Zelin clicked into these threads as well.

Mainly, he wanted to see what sort of unusual fruits they were, and whether eating them could increase his spiritual power.

But after clicking in, he discovered that there were no pictures at all. He could only read the posters' descriptions.

He scrolled through the threads one by one, examining them carefully.

Whenever he saw anything mentioning immortal arts or extraordinary sights, Fang Zelin would click in for a look.

Yet when Fang Zelin opened those threads, he found that none contained what he wanted to see.

Fang Zelin felt a little helpless. Among so many people, had not a single one seen an immortal abode or encountered another immortal cultivator?

Or had someone seen them, but simply did not want to make it public and let others know?

Fang Zelin pondered for a moment and felt that either was possible.

Of course, it was also possible that no one had encountered them.

Even the Dragon King of the dragon race, a race with such a long-standing heritage, had said that immortal abodes amid famed rivers and great marshes were difficult to find.

So, even with such a vast number of players, it seemed normal that none had encountered one.

Although the forum had no posts about immortal cultivators, however, it did have quite a few more accounts of the spirits and monsters in Seeking the Dao.

These came from players who had begun paying a little more attention after discovering that spirits and monsters existed in the Seeking the Dao World.

As a result, many players encountered such things when spending the night in the wilderness.

In some threads, players even knew full well that the beautiful women who suddenly appeared were transformed spirits and monsters, but still pretended to fall for their tricks and made merry with them.

After reading no fewer than fifty such threads, Fang Zelin could not help pressing a hand to his forehead.

He feared that the spirits and monsters in Seeking the Dao would soon begin spreading rumors that the visitors from the foreign land of Blazing Summer were fools easily duped.