Chapter 133: Escorting the Cargo

For the next two days, Zhou Jingchen dragged Yu Qian out to accompany him. For those entire two days, except during breakfast and dinner, they hardly saw each other. Wen Xiu rolled her eyes repeatedly—just one day without seeing them, and they had to be this clingy? There were still more than half a month ahead with no chance to meet! Would he then come down with lovesickness?

On the twenty-sixth day of the twelfth lunar month, Yu Wen and Wen Yu returned to the small villa, giving Chen Ying a break. Zhou Jingchen couldn’t come over to mooch meals or stay by Yu Qian’s side anymore.

During morning runs, he playfully hugged her for a long time.

On the twenty-eighth day of the twelfth lunar month, Zhou Jingchen had a flight to Hangzhou at four in the afternoon. Knowing she couldn’t see him off, he sent her a message before leaving to let her know he was gone.

Unexpectedly, as he closed the door and stepped out, he saw her not far away, smiling at him.

"I told my parents I was just going for a walk. Come on, I’ll walk you to catch your ride."

Although she didn’t send him all the way to the airport, under the circumstances, her willingness to see him off to the taxi was enough to make him happy.

Watching him get into the cab, Yu Qian signaled him to report back safely once he arrived and quietly watched the car pull away.

Zhou Jingchen glanced back; his little sweetheart was smiling and waving, so he reached out and waved back.

Once the car disappeared from view, Yu Qian leisurely wandered back.

In the living room, only Wen Xiu was playing games. Yu Wen and Wen Xiu grumbled that it was supposed to be a holiday, but with year-end festivities in full swing, besides ordinary wealthy people, some second-tier and even lower-end first-tier celebrities liked to borrow dresses from Red Powder. To protect their family’s reputation, everyone had to help pick the most suitable clothes for them, leaving almost no time to spend with their own daughters.

“I’m going to check on my parents.”

“Okay.”

As the New Year approached, many people were offline, but except for the newlywed couple Erlang Shen and Tian Tian, everyone else was online. Bored, they even arranged with the neighboring server to have a cross-server brawl.

The cross-server map had just been updated. This batch of servers, in operation for over half a year, launched a new event: escort missions.

There were four escort agencies—Jinling, Hangzhou, Guangzhou, and Beijing. On the entire cross-server map, only these four agencies were safe zones; everywhere else was open for PvP without increasing one’s kill count.

Escort missions ran daily from noon to 1:30 pm and from 9 to 10:30 pm, with no missions on Fridays.

There were three types of escort wagons, each offering different rewards. Low-tier wagons rewarded 200 agency reputation and 100 prestige, returning a deposit of one million silver; mid-tier wagons rewarded 360 reputation and 180 prestige, returning one and a half million silver; high-tier wagons rewarded 540 reputation and 270 prestige.

Players could escort up to twelve times a week but could use Escort Orders. Escort Orders were sometimes obtained by using double rewards in the Guan Ning challenge, and using one doubled the escort rewards, meaning twelve escort missions could be completed in just six runs.

Naturally, with escort missions came bandit attacks. Besides invisibility and invincibility items from the shop, friends could also help protect escorts.

The feud with the neighboring server had started during escort missions.

A few days ago, a booster was running both Yu Qian’s and Zhou Jingchen’s accounts for cross-server escort missions. Because they had to watch two wagons simultaneously, they failed to activate invincibility in time and were robbed by two teams from the neighboring server.

The key point was that these two teams belonged to different guilds. If the robbery hadn’t happened after 1:30 pm, the guild spawn would not have revealed that it was the XX guild from the neighboring server that killed their guild leader (or deputy leader). The booster only knew which server, not which guild’s members committed the robbery. The next day, Nuwa and her team retaliated by robbing all the wagons from the neighboring server.

Of course, invincibility prevented robberies.

Every time they robbed a wagon, these people would say, “If you want to blame someone, blame your own server’s XX guild.”

It was easy to imagine what kind of chaos this provoked.

With the launch of the cross-server map, cross-server announcements were set up as well.

For the past two days, the people of the Six Realms had been receiving shouted insults from the neighboring server.

How did the Six Realms respond?

“If you want to blame someone, blame the XX guild in your own server. Don’t like it? Come cross-server and fight.”

Unfortunately, the neighboring server was cowardly, only daring to bluster through announcements. When challenged to cross-server fights, they claimed it was bullying low-level accounts.

Seriously?

Even Nuwa was speechless. The trouble they stirred up was now being called bullying low-level accounts?

Rarely, today, their server accepted the challenge. Naturally, Wen Xiu was called online to join the fight.

As for Yu Qian?

When parents were home, it was best for the child to behave well. Leave the game to the booster.

The booster felt guilty for causing the boss to lose this week’s escort points. Seeing an opportunity for revenge, they quickly called another colleague, each took an account, and charged into battle!