Chapter 431
Yu Xunge let out a long sigh, but the system notification remained silent for what felt like an eternity.
Could it be that the call was dropped?
She shifted her position, gazing up at the sky, and sighed again.
Yet her hands were busy, continuing to open gift boxes.
In her mind, she kept replaying the last words of the white bear from the cooking class.
—“If you have any questions, feel free to ask me. You won’t have another chance after this.”
Those words filled Yu Xunge with a sense of foreboding.
The system finally asked her: [What reward do you want?]
By the time she heard a response, Yu Xunge had opened another 20 gift boxes, accumulating 8 classes, yet she still hadn’t received a single [Cooking] class!
Dragging out her words, she said, “Let me think.”
Then, with lightning speed, she opened the remaining 17 gift boxes.
Still no [Cooking] class!
She even opened a rare [Brewing] class and still didn’t get [Cooking]!
Yu Xunge understood the white bear’s implication; it was likely they wouldn’t meet again.
This only reinforced her belief that the white bear was either a deity or a demon.
But Yu Xunge couldn’t just accept that. When the system prompted her again, she declared, “I want the 10 Star Sea Year Cooking class! The teacher has to be the white bear from my previous cooking lessons! That’s all I want!”
There was a silence on the other end for a few seconds before the system replied: [This violates the rules. That white bear is not a legitimate teacher.]
As if I wouldn’t know whether they’re legitimate or not! Who are you to tell me?!
Yu Xunge couldn’t be bothered to argue. She silently lowered her head, gathering the rabbit teeth in her hands. After opening all 37 gift boxes, she ended up with only 12 classes.
The system chimed in: [20 Star Sea Year Cooking class, teacher random. Don’t be greedy.]
Yu Xunge understood the system’s warning. She asked, “What if I exchange it for a 20 Star Sea Year combat class, with a random teacher? Is that possible?”
[Yes, but the value of cooking classes and combat classes is not equal. Switching to combat classes will have prerequisites; you can only use them if you rank in the top 1000 in a certain deity game. Do you accept?]
If it’s not the white bear, I’ll have to settle for something else.
Besides, whether it’s cooking or combat classes, she could still obtain them; out of the 12 classes she had, 8 were combat-related.
But Yu Xunge decided to take the deal. “I accept.”
[Rewards have been added to your backpack.]
Yu Xunge opened her backpack and found a petal shaped like a cloud lying in the last compartment. It was the only thing in her backpack that moved, shifting and changing, each transformation revealing a brand new petal design.
[Qihua]: 20 Star Sea Year comprehensive combat course, mentor random (conditions for use not met).
Yu Xunge thought of B8017913, who knew the most about the deity games, and asked, “Have you heard of Qihua?”
B8017913 replied, “My database contains 387 types of SSS-level skills, 13,525 types of SS-level skills, and 24,155 types of S-level skills that include the term Qihua. As for items and equipment, there are even more.”
Yu Xunge decided to be more straightforward: “Is there a deity or demon named Qihua?”
B8017913 answered, “No!”
Yu Xunge rubbed her forehead. Was she overthinking it?
She had considered that B8017913 might be lying, but it had openly shared that the activity gift packages were related to deities and demons, and even revealed that it had been modified by the Moon Goddess, indicating it wasn’t shy about such matters…
Just then, a system announcement echoed, audible to all players, stating that a player had discovered a bug, which had now been fixed. Players could only transfer their skill icons once.
Yu Xunge glanced at the time; it was 3:30.
She handed the third [Engineering] class she had opened to Tu Lan. “Here, a New Year’s gift for next year.”
Two seconds later, Tu Lan stared blankly at the ceiling, looking as if anyone who had attended five years of interest classes would be in the same state.
Yu Xunge walked to the restaurant entrance. The cooldown for [Steady Happiness] had ended, and she needed to use it again quickly.
In the face of immense benefits, what did her face matter?!
The official language of Zai Jiu is Chinese, right? Then she would shout in the dialect of Zai Jiu; she didn’t believe there was a dialect of Zai Jiu in the language of all races!
Yu Xunge shouted in English, “I want steady happiness!” and then used [I Want to Progress So Badly] on a few passing strong players.
Whether it was bad luck or just her luck running out, after using it three times, all she got were cooking recipes…
What Yu Xunge didn’t notice was that a player in a restaurant diagonally across from her was watching her with a strange expression.
Back in the restaurant, Yu Xunge connected to two classes: [Combat Techniques], [Sharpening the Five Senses], and [Ambush].
At 15:58, Yu Xunge didn’t rush out. Instead, she put all the ingredients she had scavenged from Restaurant 135 into the fridge and used the reward from the hidden egg number 12—guaranteeing that she would draw a gift box in the next round of elimination.
15:00, the ninth round of elimination.
Ranking in the top 1000, Yu Xunge drew a high-level gift box.
Quickly collecting all the ingredients from the fridge, Yu Xunge finally had the time to open the gift box.
The first layer of the gift box opened to reveal another layer inside, with the item information displaying: [Deity Figurine].
Yu Xunge was thrilled; she remembered that the high-level gift box contained treasures and ancient artifacts!!
She thought of that person, her first enemy, the one whose figurine could transform into a warrior to fight for him!
Could this be it?!
As the gift box opened, a mini white ship lay inside, palm-sized, with an extremely simple structure. The interior was red, the exterior pure white, with only a few simple floral patterns outlined in red along the edge of the ship.
[White Ship]: A souvenir from the deity game, with no hidden effects.
Yu Xunge: “…”
Tu Lan, just released, stared at the white ship for a few seconds before suddenly saying, “It looks like the boat from Life of Pi, the one we watched together before this deity game while having dinner!”
Yu Xunge was confused; she had taken so many classes that she couldn’t remember such details.
But no matter what kind of ship it was, the problem was that this thing was useless!!!
With a frustrated expression, Yu Xunge stored the white ship in her backpack, packing it together with the green feather from Song Gui’s clothes into the same compartment.
She asked B8017913, “Is there a deity or demon named White Ship?”
B8017913 replied, “No!”
Yu Xunge: “Tsk!”
…
B8017913 looked at the warning on its system interface and sighed in relief. This wasn’t a big deal; it shouldn’t be considered betrayal. Yu Xunge should be able to understand its hints, right?
It almost got blown up…
**Chapter 551: Deity Game: Nonsense Restaurant 75**
After receiving the deity figurine, even though Yu Xunge firmly believed that deities wouldn’t actually stuff useless junk into high-level gift boxes, she couldn’t help but feel grateful that she had chosen the black household gameplay.
After the ninth round of elimination, Yu Xunge replenished the dishes she had used from her backpack.
In the previous cooking class, the white bear had spent half the time helping her solidify her cooking skills, while the other half was spent chatting about the universe.
But even in storytelling, Yu Xunge felt she had gained a lot.
The thoughts in her heart could only be shared with her pet. Taking advantage of the rarity of Zai Jiu language, she spoke while cooking, “You guys have no idea how amazing that teacher is.”
She wasn’t trying to flatter anyone, so she didn’t want to say who it was outright.
Tu Lan eagerly chimed in, “How amazing?”
Yu Xunge replied, “That teacher’s teaching skills are light-years ahead of Hufflepuff.”
B8017913, still lurking in the shadows, found it difficult to speak openly when not in black household status. It privately asked Tu Lan, “How many teachers has she recognized outside?”
Tu Lan replied, “As far as I know, there’s Hufflepuff, Maple Sugar, Lucia, and Mist Blade, ranked in order. There are also a bunch of anonymous ones in the Zelan Tower, but I can’t remember them all.”
B8017913: “?”
It felt something was off about Tu Lan’s description.
After replenishing her dishes, Yu Xunge didn’t continue attending classes. She organized the items from the gift boxes.
Excluding the somewhat useless clothing and the most valuable courses, there wasn’t much left that was truly valuable.
The attribute points added up to a total of 500 points, not only completely covering the attributes she had lost due to violations since the start of the game but also adding nearly a hundred points.
There were 5 golden tree buds.
2 strands of replicated rabbit fur.
100 types of universal language.
10 random world tombs, all of which Yu Xunge stuffed into B8017913 for storage.
The remaining 7 classes were: [Brewing], [Alchemy] x2, [Ranged (Crossbow)], [Combat Positioning], [Principles of Magic], and [Aerial Combat].
Yu Xunge stored these away and glanced at her combat power, which had already reached level 9.
After acquiring so many SSS-level skills and attending thirty-two Star Sea Year classes, she had only just reached level 9.
This made her increasingly aware of how far she was from those abyssal demon-level powerhouses.
It was definitely getting harder to improve her combat power as time went on…
But being stuck in pain wasn’t necessarily a bad thing; at least the number of rules for her next deity game would still be 27.
Yu Xunge rested for a while longer, only getting up when the tenth round of elimination was about to start. However, this time, she didn’t put any ingredients into the fridge.
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