Chapter 4: What is the Use of a Big Brother

【Recognize a big brother, mission complete. Reward: Luck +1. (Already issued)】

As the two acknowledged each other, a checkmark appeared on the initial mission of the Chief Supporting Role System in Lin Bai's mind.

So, there was no need to swear a bond of brotherhood?

Is it really that casual!

I haven't even told him my name yet!

Does the world only know the first, and the second doesn't deserve a name?

Lin Bai's eyelids twitched a few times as he complained frantically in his heart.

Luck increased by one, but he didn't feel any change in his body.

Thinking about it, that makes sense; something as ethereal as Luck would be too magical if it manifested physically. It's not like one could walk around with the effect of purple clouds coming from the east!

On Earth, people with great Luck like founding emperors such as Zhu Yuanzhang probably didn't have lives that looked any different from ordinary people on their path to success.

However.

Coincidences like turning bad luck into good or encountering auspicious signs in times of trouble should be inevitable.

……

【Daily Mission: To be obscure is to fail as a big brother. Following a coward will lead to no future. The higher the big brother flies, the greater your gains. Do something to make your big brother famous. Reward: Luck +1.】

Missions came one after another, and the newly popped-up mission made Lin Bai sneer.

The ease with which the initial mission of recognizing a big brother was completed made Lin Bai realize that the system in his mind did not have strict scrutiny over mission results.

Moreover, having found a shortcut to grind missions, he didn't mind these seemingly nonsensical mission prompts.

Make him famous?

Too simple.

Lin Bai looked at the cheap big brother before him and said sincerely, "Big brother, do you trust me?"

"Of course." Lao Mi smiled and said perfunctorily, "Aren't we brothers?"

"Good brothers, for life." Lin Bai nodded earnestly. "Big brother, believe me, everything I do is for your own good. As the sage said, when Heaven is about to place a great burden on a man, it first tires his heart and mind..."

"You have a way with words!" Lao Mi's eyes lit up, not yet having recovered from the sage's quote.

He hadn't even heard of Mencius's quotes; he really wasn't from Earth. The previous guess had come true. Lin Bai suddenly stepped back, looked at the two in surprise, and shouted loudly, "What, you want to break into the prison?"

"……" Lao Mi.

"……" Gengmi.

"Are you in cahoots with that villain who molested the woman?" Lin Bai said with stern severity, pointing at the two, expressing his anger to the fullest.

Swish!

The gazes of the onlookers shot over in unison.

Damn it!

Lao Mi's smile froze on his face.

"……" Gengmi widened his eyes.

【Anger from Lao Mi and Gengmi, +2】

Wind blows through the straw hat covering the quail.

The system missions could actually link together!

Lin Bai's spirit was roused. There was no time to think too much; he winked at Lao Mi and lowered his voice: "Run!"

What the hell kind of move is this?

The two players' heads were buzzing, their ability to think nearly lost. Hearing Lin Bai's words, they subconsciously turned and ran.

"Don't let them get away." The moment they started moving, Lin Bai's voice followed closely, "They are in cahoots with the flower-picking thief!"

【Fury from Lao Mi and Gengmi, +2】

The two players stumbled. Lao Mi looked back and glared fiercely at Lin Bai, then crashed through the crowd and bolted.

Running away made them look guilty.

But if they didn't run, they wouldn't be able to explain themselves if caught!

How could the NPCs listen to their explanations, especially when there was an NPC framing them...

The AI level of the NPCs in this world was very high; one couldn't use old gaming experience.

In the early stages of the closed beta, they didn't want to be locked up in prison.

……

Breaking into prison was a massive affair.

The Catchers were already overwhelmed by the players, and with a bunch of troublemakers already locked in prison yet to be dealt with, there were actually accomplices trying to break them out!

It was simply pulling the tiger's whiskers!

"Liu Hu, Song Jin, take them down."

At the order.

Two Catchers drew their blades and gave chase.

"Assist in catching the thieves, the City Lord will reward you heavily." Lin Bai, hiding in the crowd, feared no chaos and shouted immediately after.

One sentence.

The onlookers joined the pursuit. After all, those two villains looked weak and easy to bully, and they didn't even have weapons in their hands.

Behind the crowd.

Yu Mao, who was shackled by the Catchers, looked bewildered. Staring at the two fleeing players, the corners of his mouth twitched violently: "Who the hell are these guys! I just wanted a one-day tour of the prison, what the hell kind of prison break is this! Are they trying to make me sit in jail until the end of time?"

……

Messing with his newly recognized big brother.

Lin Bai followed the crowd for a while, found an opportunity to slip away, and he had to re-examine this world and plan his future life.

If the world is a game, will NPCs respawn after they die, and will game bugs be fixed?

These were all questions he had to consider.

After all.

Although he was a transmigrator possessing systems, he looked more like an NPC.

If he died, he didn't know if he would be respawned?

If respawned, would he retain his own consciousness?

Also, was the system on him arranged by the game, or was it an outsider like him?

If it was an outsider, would he be cleared by the GM after being discovered?

Would death lead to returning to his original world?

A series of questions lay on Lin Bai's mind.

The future was once again covered by fog.

Without understanding the game's operating mechanism, Lin Bai could not judge more matters; relative to the whole world, he was just a tiny speck of dust at this moment.

He hated this feeling of being coerced.

"Live!"

In the end, Lin Bai reached this conclusion.

Since he couldn't be sure what would happen after death, then he would live.

Live on forever.

Even if it were a game world, living happily for a hundred or eighty years would be enough for his life.

Walking forward along the street, Lin Bai had a thousand thoughts, while observing the situation in the city and looking for other players.

Walking the whole way, everyone around him was a normal person.

It seemed the number of people in the closed beta was not high.

Of course, it was also possible that the players had caused too much trouble and had all been caught by the Catchers.

As for the matter of scamming his newly recognized big brother, Lin Bai didn't take it to heart.

Was that called scamming?

That was making a name for his big brother......

Just as players were exploring how a new game unfolds, scamming his big brother was also Lin Bai testing the bottom line of the system.

As everyone knows.

Big brothers who grow up are the minority, more die halfway; even Lü Bu changed three fathers!

Even for a gold-medal supporting role, there was no reason to follow one big brother to the end.

If the system was rigid and required him to be loyal to one big brother, then he wouldn't mind scamming his big brother forever; a Puppet big brother is still a big brother!

Chief Supporting Role System:

【A big brother must have strength; have your big brother learn a specialty (incomplete); reward, 3 Luck.】

Emotion System:

【Collect ten instances of Negative Emotion directed at you (7/10), reward, 3 Spirit;】

The tasks for the Wanwu Youque System and the Chef God System had no movement yet.

Up to now, Lin Bai had harvested 2 Luck and 1 Spirit from the completed tasks.

He had experienced the benefits of Spirit, but Luck had not been specifically manifested.

However.

Lin Bai didn't expect the rewards given by the starting tasks to allow him to become a saint on the spot.

Everything must have a step-by-step process.

He had already cleanly and efficiently completed a few tasks, which counted as a good start.

Lin Bai was walking aimlessly along the street when the Catchers and enthusiastic masses who had gone to catch Lao Mi and the other person walked back in groups of three or five, without seeing the two players.

Lin Bai stopped someone and asked, "Did you catch them?"

"Don't mention it, they disappeared after turning a corner." The person who was stopped said with no small amount of regret, "The master thieves must have special skills, or someone was helping them. Master thieves have snuck into Jiamu City; this world is no longer peaceful!"

Saying this.

He shook his head and walked past Lin Bai.

Lin Bai was stunned for a moment, then laughed dumbly; they logged off!

Although he didn't know the principle of logging off and on in this game, undoubtedly, logging off was a life-saving tool for players to avoid being hunted, and it was not easy to truly catch a player.

He still had to find an opportunity to figure out the players' method of logging off!

(End of this chapter)