Super Righteous Player
Chapter 305 - 303: The Neckless Past_1

Chapter 305: Chapter 303: The Neckless Past_1

Looking at the reply Delicious Wind Goose sent him on the forum, the Wandering Kid couldn’t help but laugh out loud.

"The dude definitely panicked just now."

He had known Delicious Wind Goose for so many years and was well-acquainted with the baldy’s personality.

If Delicious Wind Goose weren’t scared, he would’ve started his own thread just now and laid out all his experiences and thoughts, then boasted and drew up big plans below, and tagged all of them to listen to his bravado.

Seeing that he didn’t even start a thread now and ducked out after thanking everyone, he must really be panicking...

But after taking delight in his misfortune, the Kid couldn’t help but feel worried again.

"...I wonder how things are on their side."

"Don’t worry,"

Defu, sitting beside him and petting a cat, casually said, "I think it’s not a big deal.

"If No-Neck reacts quickly, they should be able to cut their losses in time. Jiu’er and the others have clean identities, so they can still enter the royal city.

"And with Annan keeping an eye from afar, he should be able to react in time if something really happens... I’ve known No-Neck for a long time. He just doesn’t like to use his brain normally, but once he starts thinking, his brain is quite useful."

"Yeah, a smart head doesn’t grow hair..."

The Kid nodded in agreement.

They had arrived at the entrance to the ruins and didn’t need to hurry anymore.

Once the other two logged on, they could get ready to enter the ruins for exploration.

With nothing better to do, the two of them caught a young deer, some bugs, and edible mushrooms, and passed the time by roasting them at the entrance to the ruins.

At this moment, the Kid felt quite fortunate... good thing he had brought some tea leaves with him when he left.

His original thought was to chew the tea leaves to stay alert when feeling sleepy—these were special invigorating black tea leaves, the same kind that Salvatore drank every morning, so there were some stocks left over at Annan’s place.

Tea leaves in this world were quite cheap... it was something that ordinary people could afford if they bit the bullet.

Noah’s ships and sailing technology had only just developed to the level of the 15th or 16th century.

But because of the presence of the True God, the Moth Mother of Dissolution and Fertility, crops like sugar, tea leaves, cotton, and even cocoa had been discovered and cultivated by Her followers hundreds or even thousands of years ago, and had been optimized for breeding.

Some endangered plant species, such as Elven tea leaves, brought over by the Elves, were also successfully perpetuated by the Moth Mother. The Holy Nation, as the main base for the Moth Mother’s worshippers, not only exported a kind of nutrient solution similar to fertilizer, but it’s said that they’ve recently developed soilless cultivation technology...

It must be said, the tech tree of this world is a bit skewed.

That’s also one of the reasons why other countries, aside from Noah, have little arable land, but few places suffer from famine to the point of starvation.

The main causes of mass casualties are more often due to undead, severe cold, floods, sandstorms, and other natural disasters.

This was also one of Noah’s advantages.

All thanks to the shrewd foresight of Silver Baron when he chose the location back then—their area wasn’t large, but it was free of any natural disasters, which actually made the quality quite high...

The Kid lifted the lid of the kettle and put the tea leaves into the boiling water, then covered the lid again.

This thing that looked like a rice cooker was actually not a teapot, but their pot—it was double-layered, with green fire below as the heating fuel. Though it wasn’t an open flame, the temperature could still make water boil. It could prevent illnesses from consuming raw water and also be used to make porridge.

A single fuel replacement could keep it heating for three hours. One portion of fuel weighed about two pounds... Each of them carried a portion of backup fuel, and by saving it, they still hadn’t finished their second portion by the time they arrived at the entrance to the ruins.

At this pace, they definitely wouldn’t finish using the five portions of fuel by the time they went back.

It felt incredibly stable.

He could already gloat about it for a while.

While waiting for the tea to brew, the Kid curiously asked Defu, "By the way, when did you and Old Goose exactly meet? I remember he mentioned you years ago."

"Ah, it’s been quite a while."

Defu looked up at the sky, stroking the cat as she thought it over: "Almost... fourteen or fifteen years, I guess.

"He was in his first year of high school at the time, and his mother introduced him to me to learn composite bow shooting. He bailed after less than two months... but from that time on, he knew me."

Defu said this, her lips curving into a slight smile as she chuckled, "Back then, I remember he had a crush on me. I told him he was too fat for my taste. That’s when he decided to start working out..."

"You know, I’m the one who gave him the nickname ’No Neck’."

"...I really didn’t know that."

The wandering child shook his head repeatedly, suddenly becoming interested in some long-standing gossip.

There was just one thing that puzzled him...

He looked at Defu’s brown ponytail, her petite stature, her overly youthful face, and fell into deep thought.

...She looks, at most, like a teenager, right?

Barely in her early twenties. Dressed a bit younger, you could believe her if she said she was a middle school student.

How could she have been teaching Xiang Tiange’s archery and know his mother fourteen or fifteen years ago?

...How old is this girl actually?

But the wandering child was smart enough not to voice this question.

He had a feeling that if he did ask, he might end up with something stuck in his body...

He just focused on the gossip to see if he could dig up some dirt on Xiang Tiange and con a full crab feast out of him:

"—Please continue, boss. Do tell."

The child poured the brewed tea into a cup and respectfully offered a cup of hot tea to Defu.

Defu smilingly accepted the tea, not in a hurry to drink it, just reminiscing thoughtfully:

"Back then, No Neck still had hair, but he wasn’t as smart as he is now. He was quick-tempered and silly, relying on brute force and his size to win fights. He even made his own sound effects while hitting someone, as if that would somehow increase the damage... If he hadn’t been so big, he’d have been knocked senseless a long time ago."

"...Was his temper that bad at the time?"

The child was somewhat surprised.

When he met Xiang Tiange, the bald muscle-bound card game streamer was already a calm and steady older brother figure.

"It was pretty bad. Back then, Xiang Tiange always thought he was so awesome—he was the best gamer in his class and he could play basketball... In his first year of high school, he was already 1.85 meters tall, but I didn’t expect him to stop growing from there. After shaving his hair, he even seemed to have shrunk a bit.

"His family was wealthy, and before he came to me for archery, he had also taken up fencing and riding, albeit at a mediocre level. But he liked to treat his classmates to meals, so he was always surrounded by a bunch of fair-weather friends... Although he was a bit of a bonehead at the time, he had a good memory. He could usually rank in the top five of his class with just middle and high school knowledge."

Defu took a sip of her tea, saying in a low voice, "As for when he changed... it wasn’t after I rejected him, it must have been during his college entrance exams.

"At that time, he only learned things halfway. He thought he had learned enough and would just drop it. Throughout his first and second year of high school, he was always at the top of his class... but when it came time to review in the third year, he didn’t have the capacity to keep up. He started getting into the guitar, then rock music, followed by Sanda. But he was just barely passable at everything, a master of none.

"His mock exam scores were already unsatisfactory. But up until the end, he believed that a last-minute effort of a mere dozen days would restore his abilities and land him in a first-tier university... In the end, when the results came out, he didn’t even make the cut for a bachelor’s degree."

Defu’s voice carried her characteristic calmness, "That was probably when he began to understand. He stopped being flashy and became cautious and mature, and his temper mellowed.

"He shaved off his flamboyantly dyed hair, ditched all those miscellaneous hobbies. He quit smoking, quit drinking, earnestly repeated a year, and got into Magic Metropolis University. His all-armor fighting was a new hobby he picked up after starting university... I went to Australia six months into his repeat year. I don’t know what happened after that."

She looked at the wandering child and said seriously, "Xiang Tiange is a good kid. Not because he’s smart, but because he knows how to admit his mistakes and actually makes changes.

"So be assured. No matter how dangerous the situation he encounters, he can handle it... I’ve watched him grow up."

Defu hugged the tea cup with both hands, answering word by word, "I believe in him."

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