[Team]Long Road: Yeah, my good buddy, you guys don’t know 心向往之? His name is right up there on the leaderboard.

[Team]Jack Lee: ...Even if we didn’t know before, we do now after these past couple of days. [shut up]

Laughter erupted from William Turner nearby: “Hahaha, Old Clark, I feel like after all this fuss, you’re even more famous in the server than before!”

Henry Clark couldn’t be bothered to respond. He opened his inventory to check the potions he was carrying.

“Ahem.” William Turner connected his headset, cleared his throat twice, then deliberately lowered his voice and asked, “Can you hear me?”

To make communication easier, Nine Heroes has a built-in voice system.

Henry Clark was so startled by the sudden deep male voice that he got goosebumps.

He frowned slightly and took off one side of his headphones.

“Ah... I can hear you.”

“Are we going to do the new event? Is it hard?”

“What if we can’t beat it?”

As soon as he heard a girl’s voice, William Turner got all fired up: “Don’t worry, I’m here, I won’t let you die. The mobs in front are easy, when we get to the boss, just hide behind me.”

Before the girls could reply, Henry Clark said, “William Turner, mute yourself for now.”

William Turner replied, “It’s fine, I’m using push-to-talk, they can’t hear you.”

“Who are these people you invited?” Henry Clark opened their profiles. Two of them weren’t even max level yet, and most importantly, “Three healers? What, didn’t get enough milk as a kid?”

“Oh come on, I checked this event, it’s not hard,” William Turner said. “I have no choice, I have to bring my wife. Just think of it as helping out your bro.”

Henry Clark paused: “Which one is your wife?”

William Turner calmly replied, “That’s not certain yet.”

Henry Clark: “...”

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Every holiday, Nine Heroes releases a corresponding event. The gameplay varies, but the only things in common are lots of experience and generous rewards.

While other players were grinding the event, a little fox spirit who had been AFK in the main city for ages suddenly sprang into action.

The fox spirit quickly packed up his stall, hopped onto his mount in a flash, and rushed to the post station, heading out to the wild map.

Chris Brooks was about to burst.

It wasn’t that he was anxious to grind experience—he’d played Nine Heroes for so long and was never the type to enjoy AFK quest grinding.

He wanted to dig up the treasure map he’d “snatched” the other day.

The Rogue’s Treasure Map is a special item with an extremely low drop rate. People with his kind of bad luck could grind for over half a month and not get a single one.

According to the official description, the Rogue’s Treasure Map can yield all sorts of unexpected items. Chris Brooks had seen people dig up worthless healing buns, and also seen people get rare materials worth a fortune. It’s precisely this uncertainty that makes it so thrilling and exciting.

Meanwhile, in the Idle Pavilion guild chatroom—

[Guild] Blood, Shadow: Report! My alt just spotted Sweet Jing by the Xiliang River!

[Guild]Silent Affection: Damn, this female scammer always picks the event time to leave the city.

[Guild]John King: I’m still in a fight, can’t get over there. Anyone in the guild able to go?

[Guild]Fairy Grace: I’ll go, anyone want to come with me? I’m a little scared to go alone [pointing fingers]

[Guild]Silent Affection: It’s fine Fairy, that’s an empty account, just kill her.

[Guild]Fairy Grace: I know... it’s just my first time killing someone, so I’m a bit nervous. [pitiful] If I didn’t hate these love scammers so much, I wouldn’t even want to get involved.

[Guild]Silent Affection: Haha, go for it, it’ll be a good way to vent.

Fairy Grace quickly formed a five-person team and flew to the Xiliang River.

When they arrived, they saw Sweet Jing’s character holding a shovel... digging in the ground.

“She’s digging up a treasure map!” someone in the team said. “Interrupt her! If we kill her, maybe the treasure map will drop!”

So just as Chris Brooks was halfway through digging up the map, his action was abruptly interrupted by an attack skill.

Annoyed, he frowned, didn’t even see who it was, and immediately used his clone skill to try to escape.

The reason he switched classes wasn’t just because Fox Spirit Cave was fun to play—the key was that this class was great at running away. Not only was it fast, it also had all sorts of illusion skills, top-tier escape abilities. In the arena, Fox Spirit Cave’s most common move was selling out teammates.

The people behind him reacted a beat too slow. He was almost out of the map before they remembered to give chase.

Chris Brooks was just about to step into the safe zone when he suddenly heard someone behind him say, “It’s okay Fairy, if we don’t get her this time, I’ll come with you next time too. We’ll keep at it until you’re satisfied.”

Looks like someone forgot to set their voice chat to team only.

In the game, the adult female character with a swaying fox tail suddenly stopped running.

Chris Brooks turned around, and sure enough, among the group chasing him stood a loli character with the game ID “Fairy Grace”.