After Genderswap Reincarnation, I Raised the Strongest Player - CH 17

Bad Taste

The sudden game prompt made Ling Mo stunned.

“Is it going to end?”

“Hm.”

Xia Xinyan nodded, already expecting it.

“It’s almost time, so the difficulty will only increase now.”

Ling Mo thought for a moment, and was a little puzzled.

“Isn’t it possible to trick the NPCs to get away with it like just now?”

“Well…1”

“Then just now… How did you know that you could deceive them in this way?”

“Because the game had given a hint.”

Xia Xinyan smiled slightly.

In addition to cultivating the player’s strength, 《The God’s Realm》 raises the player’s handling methods and on-the-spot response to dangers, as this aspect is more important than brute strength in some cases.

Hmm… To put it bluntly, it is to teach players how to exploit loopholes.

For example, when the dungeon starts the game says that the IPA will launch attacks on those they judge as game participants. In other words, they have not yet determined who on the island participated in this reality show—— although it’s impossible for other people to come to this kind of place for vacation when they have nothing to do, this is the dungeon setting even if it doesn’t make much sense.

So that players can use this to avoid danger—— this is an advantage for girls or players with a more feminine appearance, so it can also be said that using your beauty is not completely worthless in the dungeon scenario.2

But if you don’t know how to use your own strengths these points doesn’t make much of a difference.

It’s worth mentioning that after entering the late stage of the dungeon the game will forcibly close most of the loopholes. That is to say, in most cases in the final stage the player’s brute strength will still be tested. After all, it is impossible for people who only rely on loopholes to win against the invaders in the cataclysm.

For example, the IPA will launch an attack on all participants which will block the way for them to complete the stage. If the players meet them one side has to die.

Knowing this Ling Mo became a little nervous.

“Then why don’t we keep a low profile?”

“No.”

Xia Xinyan looked at the map and said.

“Let’s go to the top of the mountain and kill the IPAs as soon as we see them.”

Ling Mo paused.

“… Isn’t it too reckless?”

“That’s the fun of the game, right?”

Xia Xinyan tilted her head slightly.

“The mission reward encourage us to hunt and kill the IPA, and our weapons are also very strong now—— don’t you think it’s exciting to take the initiative?”

Hearing this, Ling Mo lowered his head and glanced at the rifle in his hand.

It seems to be the case.

Tsk, why can’t he even compare to the courage of a girl…3

Taking a deep breath he fantasized about the possible shootout scene for a while, and after giving himself a shot of stimulant in his mind he nodded.

“Alright, let’s kill them directly.”

The real gun battle scene that he once dreamed can really be experienced now, it would be too wasteful to be a coward at this time, otherwise he would despise himself.

Anyway, he thinks he should be quite strong. After all, although he has never played real guns before he has played real CS with water guns4 for a while, so he still has some experience.

Seeing that he had made up his mind, Xia Xinyan smiled at him.

Not bad, not bad, as expected of me.

Not a coward at all, just this is probably much better than two-thirds of the players.

Of course… it might be because of her.

But the result is the same, so it doesn’t matter.

The game system said that the top of the mountain is located in the center of the island, very close to their spawn point. It says a mountain but the terrain is not high, it’s easy to climb up but the area is overgrown with weeds which greatly affects the vision, it’s as much of a good thing as a bad one.

Xia Xinyan’s plan was to clear the three supply points along the way and then go to the mountaintop at the end. An hour of time for this plan may be too little, but she didn’t plan to go there on time… because according to her understanding of the game it might not be so easy to clear the dungeon.

For Ling Mo, she just wanted him to experience the feeling of stealth and gunfighting, it’s better to kill more NPCs to earn points.

The first supply point is not far, through the cover of grass the two of them approached the supplies very smoothly. The area where the material is stored is an open space, and at this moment there are five girls in pink clothes wandering around the place holding rifles, with grim expressions.

Xia Xinyan hid in the grass and watched for a while, then pulled Ling Mo to lie down, moving to his side and whispering into his ear.

“Get ready, I’ll count to three and we shoot together.”

Her breath hit Ling Mo’s ear, causing the latter to tremble. Then he pretended to be calm and raised his gun, after which he gave a grunt, but there was no other reaction.

Seeing this, Xia Xinyan gave him a slightly surprised look.

… Tsk, gaining immunity so soon?

——Well, she admits she did it on purpose.

Because it’s really interesting to watch this guy act like a virgin.

As for if it’s going too far… Ling Mo is also her past self after all, right? It’s not too much to torment yourself, right?

For the first time, she discovered that she had such a bad taste.

Sure enough, she have been holding back for too long in her last life…

She complained for a while, but didn’t delay the situation. She slowly lay down next to Ling Mo, raised her gun and aimed at the girl on the far side.

“Get ready, three, two, one… shoot!”

After the words fell the two of them pulled the trigger almost at the same time, and Ling Mo’s reaction speed was much faster than Xia Xinyan’s. In just a few seconds four people were knocked down while she only hit one.

After all the enemies turned into white light and disappeared the two of them waited for a while to make sure that no reinforcements were coming, and then cautiously came out from the bushes. Ling Mo immediately went to check the supplies box while Xia Xinyan continued to be vigilant about the surroundings.

The supplies box was basically filled with firearms and ammunition, and there were not many things that would help them—— the main reason was that they didn’t have enough space, otherwise Ling Mo would definitely take them all away.

“Don’t feel sad, there are still many opportunities to experience these guns in the future.”

Seeing Ling Mo’s hesitating look Xia Xinyan persuaded beside him.

“Just try to make sure that you can pass the level now and be careful if you bring too much, otherwise we won’t be able to run.”

“I know…”

Ling Mo touched the guns in the box with some regrets and asked.

“Since the supplies are useless to us should we still fight the other two supplies?”

“Fight.”

Xia Xinyan nodded.

“Just like what we did just now—— your marksmanship was very good.”

Being praised again, Ling Mo smiled a little embarrassingly.

“Ah… it’s not that good.”

Xia Xinyan looked at him for a moment, then retracted her gun and walked forward.

“Okay, let’s go.”

I feel that this guy is really easy to satisfy, and a random compliment can make him happy for a long time.5

It’s not a bad thing, it’s better to let him feel that he has a great advantage and take care of all the work so that she saves a lot of trouble.

TL notes

1. Actually is 嗯 “Hmm”, but i decided to use the other meaning to not get repetitive, this chapter has many “hmms” already…

2. This and the previous paragraph almost gave me an aneurysm, i tried my best to make it flow smooth but i’m considering merging them to make it easier to read. Not sure…

3. Ok, so there’s two interpretations to this, the first one being “compare to the courage of a little girl”, the second “compare to the courage of his sister” if you get what i mean. He’s calling her mèizi (little sister/little girl), i decided to leave as “girl”.

4. LOL, by the way the translation says “water gun circle” so i leaved simply as water gun.

5. Don’t we all…

One more chapter for the count! And this time i didn’t need to butcher something…

Some of you probably noticed that this chapter TL Notes were a little different, i simply decided to add my opinions ’cause there wasn’t too many notes in this chapter, so i might do this again if something like this happens again.

I was planning to release 2 chapters today but i was too focused on playing Honkai Impact… Sorry about that, but the new gacha was calling me ya’ know? Even more considering i’m playing Shadow: Master of Garden lately too.

As always, if you find any erros tell me and i will fix it, i hope it was readable and you had fun!

– Chi