[Server Announcement] Player Huai Shuo completed the 300 gophers quest within 25 minutes, rewarded with the out-of-print title [Gopher Daddy] and Skill Points * 5.
[System Prompt] Player Huai Shuo obtained the out-of-print title “Gopher Daddy” and Skill Points * 5.
All at once, the whole server was in an uproar—
Zhi Bai: Holy crap, what the hell is an out-of-print title?
Ou You Wei: What’s the use of a title? The awesome thing is the skill points! Did you see the skill points!?
Ri Jiu Jian Ren Xin: Motherfucker, this stingy game actually gives out skill points?
Qing Tian Bai Ri: Holy shit, 300 of them?! How ugly must she be?!
Mo Mo: Is the focus of the person upstairs wrong? Isn’t the main point 25 minutes?!
Tu Dou Ai Shang Tu Dou Ni: Didn’t she cheat, right?
Leng Leng: Is there no thread on the forum calling out the trick yet?!
Jiu Jiu Ba Shi Yi: Begging the big shot to release a tutorial!!!
Man Tou Zui Hao Chi: Who on earth is this Huai Shuo?
The server-wide announcement was directly sent to the players’ mailboxes and broadcasted, while the players’ discussions were published on the comment section of the in-game newspaper, *Jianghu Daily*.
*Jianghu Daily* cost 1 gold per issue, and an annual subscription came down to 360 gold after discount. It could be called the ultimate treasure for everyone in the game to keep up with current affairs, gossip, drop bounties, and engage in flame wars.
Su Shu, a broke newcomer who had just arrived in the game, naturally didn’t know about it, and even if she did, she couldn’t afford a subscription. Thus, she still didn’t realize she had suddenly become famous, only noticing that her friend system was ringing insanely.
Annoyed by the noise, Su Shu cleared everything with one click and temporarily closed the friend request system.
Over here, the Village Chief hadn’t finished speaking: “This hero… our agreed gopher meat…”
The Village Chief stared straight, rubbing his hands continuously: “When will you give them to me…”
Su Shu blinked, recalling the process of submitting the quest just now, and asked: “For this gopher quest, does it only count toward the number if dead gophers are brought right before you?”
The Village Chief didn’t understand why Su Shu suddenly asked this, but instinctively nodded: “That’s right. Hero, you don’t know, some of those newcomers really don’t know the rules at all. Their completion time is slow, and the appearance of the gophers they bring over is poor!”
Speaking of this, the Village Chief wore a heartbroken expression: “Over all these years, how many delicious meals have been wasted!”
Looking at the Village Chief’s appearance, Su Shu stroked her chin and said meaningfully: “So that’s how it is…”
Tears welled in the Village Chief’s eyes: “Hero! Your 300 gophers!”
Su Shu: “Not selling anymore.”
Village Chief: “???”
What kind of trash player was this, playing tricks on an NPC?
The Village Chief said coldly: “Could it be that you want to sell the same gophers to other players?”
The Village Chief sneered: “Then you’ve miscalculated. Gophers that have been turned in for the quest cannot be submitted again.”
Su Shu shook her head: “I was wandering around the village chatting with the kids just now. Gopher meat can be cooked, and peeling off the gopher pelt to sell to the village tailor also yields 10 coppers each.”
“Even the system buyback store gives 8 coppers each.”
Su Shu summarized: “Why should I sell to you?”
Recalling his price of 7 coppers, the Village Chief: “…”
Imitating the Village Chief’s sneer from earlier, Su Shu stuffed the 300 gophers back into her pack. Under everyone’s watchful eyes, she stood seven or eight paces away from the Village Chief, took out the wooden sign used for setting the fire earlier, used a charcoal pencil to write a few words on it, and sat cross-legged on the ground—
On the moon-white wooden board, a few crooked big words read: 2 silver each, selling gophers.
Everyone: “…”
Holy shit, what was this person’s deal? Catching three hundred by herself didn’t count; she could even sell them?!
Did players whack gophers wholesale nowadays?!
Su Shu didn’t idle after sitting down either. She took out the gophers stuffed in her pack earlier one by one, strung them up 20 in a string, 20 in a string, and held them in her hands.
When she was looking at the guide threads earlier, she had discovered that novice players generally received quests for around 40 gophers, with an average completion speed of one and a half to two days.
Since everyone caught them so painfully, there was no lack of people asking to buy them on the forum—
It was just that the level requirement for whacking gophers in the novice village was below level 6. Players below level 6 basically relied on pouncing to catch gophers, while for players above level 6 who came back to the novice village, gophers automatically turned from minor mobs into unattackable NPCs.
—So theoretically speaking, selling gophers was a hot business in the novice village that nobody else could do.
Su Shu had her heart set on money, so naturally, she wouldn’t let this opportunity go.
Thus, as soon as her stall was set up, *Jianghu Daily* exploded again.
Along with it, a screenshot of her setting up her stall was also posted on the forum—
*Spilling the Tea on that Ruthless Fiend in the Novice Village Who Handled 300 Gophers in 25 Minutes and Has Now Started Selling Gophers!*
1L: Foolish mortals, tremble! Did you think 25 minutes for 300 gophers was the limit?
No!
She still has a pack full of gophers, WAITING! TO! BE! SOLD!
[Screenshot] [Screenshot] [Screenshot]
In the screenshot, Su Shu, wearing a tattered novice set, was lowering her head, quietly and peacefully stringing gophers.
Setting aside her brutal movements on hand, looking only at her side profile, she actually held the appearance of peaceful and quiet years.
2L: 2 silver each, why doesn’t she go rob a bank!
3L: Exactly! Crazy for money, right!
15L: Am I the only one who thinks it’s not expensive? Anyway, it’s a one-time transaction; I don’t want to fall face-first on the ground!
32L: Eww~ Think about it, that fragmented meaty feeling when pressing down on a pounced gopher…
33L: Juices splashing everywhere…
34L: Fuck! Upstairs, don’t bring back those memories of mine!
36L: Blurgh, upstairs, stop talking! I’m going to buy!
77L: I’m also preparing to buy…
78L: Preparing to buy +10086
The thread on selling gophers was constantly bumped to the forum homepage. As soon as newcomers entered the forum to search for guides, they could see it—
Su Shu put on an alt identity, fished in troubled waters in the thread, successfully caused stomach discomfort among the newcomers and solidified their desire to purchase, then deeply hid her fame and merit.
It had to be said that netizens were indeed rich in imagination; she had only mentioned the word “disgusting,” and someone automatically filled in the remaining words in their heads…
Returning to the game, her temporary messages were already about to explode.
Su Shu put on a professional smile: “Come, come, come, everyone line up to buy. If there aren’t enough, I’ll go catch more.”
Everyone: “…”
So angry, but disgusted by the thread, they couldn’t not buy it.
Deducting the 300 gophers, Su Shu still had nearly nine hundred left in her pack. At 2 silver each, Su Shu earned nearly 1,800 silver, which was 180 gold.
Su Shu couldn’t help but sigh with emotion; sure enough, the rich people playing games were the ones who were truly numerous…
Su Shu stood up, dusted off the dirt sticking to her buttocks, and walked toward the wheat field.
As soon as Su Shu moved, those newcomers who hoped to follow her to make a profit also became eager to move—
The people behind followed slyly. Su Shu knew full well in her heart, but was too lazy to look back.
The gophers would always be here, and it was impossible for Su Shu to only make money off gophers forever—
In the world before she transmigrated, a big boss named Ren had said that money could never be fully earned, and if there was money, it was best for everyone to earn it together.
Su Shu’s original intention in coming to the game was to make money and be a merchant. To be a merchant, one had to sow good seeds far and wide. If she pushed things to the absolute limit without leaving even a drop of soup for others, what business was she still doing?
Therefore, Su Shu did not take the people behind her to heart.
However, she wouldn’t deliberately take care of the people behind her either.
According to the map, Su Shu found the general store in the village. Too lazy to bargain with the general store proprietress, she sold the previous 300 gophers that couldn’t be sold to players to the proprietress at the price of 10 coppers each.
The general store also had seasonings like oil, salt, sauce, and vinegar. Recalling the scorched aroma of the gophers earlier and her regret in the wheat field, Su Shu conveniently bought some seasonings just in case.
Honestly speaking, Su Shu had been consuming nutrient fluids for as long as she had transmigrated. If she didn’t improve her food soon, she felt she was about to turn into the gooey taste of nutrient fluid herself.
Meanwhile, the people tailing Su Shu looked at the proprietress handing her bottles of seasonings one by one, and a bold idea slowly formed in their hearts—
This big shot, she couldn’t be planning to roast gophers, right?
Puking!
Su Shu didn’t care what others thought. Stuffing the seasonings into her backpack, she finally had time to look at the skill book given by the system earlier.
[Skill Book] Skill Points * 5, usage level: Level 20. After players reach Level 10 and select a class, using it yields 5 skill points to raise any sect skill level.
Note: Skill levels cannot exceed their upper limit level.
Items that increased skill levels were treasures that could be encountered but not sought after in any game. Su Shu looked regretfully at the word “Bound” beneath the skill book—
Bound items couldn’t be sold, which was really such a pity.
[Gopher Daddy Title] Placing it on top of the head yields the title “Gopher Daddy”. After obtaining the title, one can win the affection of baby gophers. Invalid after players reach Level 10 and leave the Novice Village.
Su Shu: “…”
She thought about it and still put it on. After all, horizontal or vertical, she was still considered a daddy.
At this time, it was not yet dawn. The newcomers who didn’t know a major event had occurred in the Novice Village were still pouncing on gophers one after another.
Su Shu walked to the edge of the wheat field. Just at that moment, a gopher drilled out and spotted her—
Squeak squeak squeak!
The gopher squeaked crazily!
In just a moment, the gophers across the entire wheat field all squeaked along and pounced toward the place where Su Shu was standing!
The newcomers who pounced on empty air: “????”
Su Shu, who was about to be pounced on: “????”
She leaped backward abruptly. As if sensing her resistance, the little gophers quieted down almost immediately, lined up obediently, and walked cautiously toward Su Shu.
Su Shu: “…”
She bent down and conveniently scooped up one.
The scooped-up gopher gave an excited “squeak,” then closed its eyes peacefully and lay flat in Su Shu’s palm—
Looking completely like it was gallantly marching off to death.
Su Shu: “…”
She tested: “Then… shall I sell you?”
The gopher in her palm nodded peacefully.
Su Shu: “…”
Everyone: “…”
What on earth was this person named Huai Shuo? Was she a rat sprite, to be so liked by rats?!
Su Shu turned her head to glance at the bewildered crowd, fumbled in her pack, pulled out the previous stall sign, and donning the title of “Gopher Daddy,” sat down calmly to continue setting up her stall—
Everyone: “…”
They treated you as a daddy, yet in front of them, you sold your sons on the street as a daddy?!
Was this a twist of human nature or a loss of morality?
Su Shu: No! Neither!
This was merely the temptation of money.
However, no matter what everyone was thinking in their hearts, it didn’t prevent Su Shu from making a fortune by selling gophers on her first day entering the game.
After Su Shu went offline to sleep, the forum and *Jianghu Daily* didn’t settle down. Amid the continuous digging by interested parties, that wheat field burned clean by Su Shu without a single bit remaining appeared in everyone’s eyes—
Of course, including the traces left behind after spearing the gophers on it.
Countless new and old players swarmed in, abandoning the wait for Su Shu’s stall opportunities, and began grouping up in queues to burn the wheat fields based on the dug-up thread—
When Su Shu logged online again the next day, she saw system announcements and broadcasts continuously flashing words like this—
Set fire to the mountain, rot in jail to the end.
Blood-red and quite eye-catching.