"God of War brother." A girl's voice came through the headset, Little Sweet Chris asked cautiously, "Are you there? We've arrived at the treasure map coordinates."

[Team]Hopeful Heart: Mm.

[Team]Little Sweet Chris: Then I'm going to start digging.

[Team]Hopeful Heart: 1

Since they were in a team, after Chris Brooks clicked on the treasure map, the two game characters in the party started digging together.

Chris Brooks picked up the water cup beside him and took a sip, pondering how to get Hopeful Heart to add him as a friend.

Chris Brooks never expected to dig up anything good. He was the type who could even get absolute trash when forging legendary weapons—a family curse of bad luck.

Enchanted Spirit Pearl? Was he worthy?

The treasure digging progress bar disappeared, and before Chris Brooks could react, a striking line of yellow text popped up on the game interface—

[You collapsed the monster's house with a single shovel, angering the Reclusive Demon King (Luojia Mountain 132.72)! Please proceed immediately to seal it! [Required players: Little Sweet Chris, Hopeful Heart. Time limit: 48 hours.]]

[System Announcement: Shocking news! Players Little Sweet Chris and Hopeful Heart accidentally collapsed a monster's house while digging for treasure at Luojia Mountain. The now homeless Demon King is causing trouble at Luojia Mountain 132.72!]

[Server-wide System Announcement: Players Little Sweet Chris and Hopeful Heart on the Mirror Flowers, Water Moon server have triggered the hidden quest [Wrath of the Demon King] from the Rogue's Treasure Map.]

Author's Note:

Red envelopes as usual, thank you for your support.

Chapter 8

The two involved hadn't even reacted yet when the world channel exploded first. The screen was scrolling so fast that you couldn't keep up unless you locked it.

[World] Big Brother: ?

[World] Mo Wen Gui Qi: ???

[World] Freer Than the Wind: Am I hallucinating from staying up all night??

[World] I Am Like Dust: Hopeful Heart and Little Sweet Chris? Scumbag X habitual liar? Masters facing off? A clash of titans?? Final battle at the Forbidden City???

[World] Sleep Early: Wait, what is this Wrath of the Demon King hidden storyline?!

[World] Zhizhi Peach: Does that matter? I just want to ask, what kind of weird combo are these two? I just went out for a meal, one hour, and the gossip world can't handle me anymore?

[World] Loves Dumplings: Damn, the scammer account is so lucky, actually triggered a treasure map and even got a hidden quest. The rewards must be insane, right?

[World] Luoluo Shameless: Heh. Insider here to spill the tea, that treasure map was actually given to Little Sweet Chris by Hopeful Heart.

[World] Mo Wen Gui Qi: ???

[World] Sleep Early: [confused]

[World] Goodnight World: [scratching head] But isn't the treasure map a bound item? How did they give it?

[World] Super Lulu Fan: Must have farmed it together in a team. Hopeful Heart is hardcore, how many times do you have to run the quest to get a treasure map? Truly the scumbag benchmark.

[World] Loves Dumplings: And the partner is Little Sweet Chris, warms the world and even the scammer, I love this scumbag.

[World] Zhizhi Peach: @Today's Most Baffling Moments.

……

Chris Brooks, still in shock, watched helplessly as the players in the world channel wrote his and Hopeful Heart's story all the way to chapter forty-two—on the wedding day, Hopeful Heart elopes with a new lover, and Little Sweet Chris runs off with the betrothal gifts.

Damn, how far are they going to make this up?

He moved his mouse to the quest bar, wanting to take a look at the quest prompt.

Hidden quests were a special feature in Nine Heroes. In the early days of the server, players triggered them often, but later on, it became very rare.

Anyway, after playing for so long, Chris Brooks had never even seen one, let alone triggered one, so he knew almost nothing about this quest.

The quest prompt only had a simple line: "Please proceed to Luojia Mountain 132.72 to seal the Demon King."

Alright then.

[Team]Little Sweet Chris: Brother... did I cause trouble? [crying]

Henry Clark didn't reply immediately.

He was nearly deafened by William Turner's shouting.

"Damn! Hidden quest!!" William Turner was so excited he almost dropped his phone. "There's actually a hidden quest in the treasure map? You hit the jackpot! The rewards were already amazing, and now you triggered a hidden one—who needs an Enchanted Spirit Pearl? You might even get a legendary weapon!"

"Impossible, hidden quests have never given equipment rewards." Henry Clark cut off his wild speculation.

"Alright, maybe a legendary weapon is a stretch..." William Turner leaned in closer. "Hurry up and ask Little Sweet Chris, does what she said before still count?"

"What did she say?"

"What else? Didn't she promise to give you whatever she dug up?"

Henry Clark didn't answer.

At the moment, he wasn't interested in anything except the Enchanted Spirit Pearl. The reason he came to dig with Little Sweet Chris was in case she really did dig up the Enchanted Spirit Pearl, so he could buy it at market price right away.

"God of War brother?" Little Sweet Chris's voice came through the headset again. "...I really did cause trouble."

Henry Clark put his hand on the keyboard, typed two words, then deleted them.

He pressed the push-to-talk key: "No."

Chris Brooks was stunned.