Chapter 278: Love Is a Ray of Light (4/10, Autumn Subscription)

To speak of Yese Liming's battle record, it was practically the ceiling for players today.

Hai Ming knew Yese Liming was in Mo Cun, but had never seen him, let alone imagined... meeting Yese Liming in this way.

Originally, he was still sour that Fang Yue had caught the Tail Goddess's favor.

Now, he didn't feel that way at all anymore.

Because the gap was just too huge!

A casual slash from someone else could flip his skull right off.

"Captain Ye?!"

Hearing Fang Yue's self-introduction, Liao Moran's eyes lit up.

"So you're that legendary Captain Ye!"

Liao Moran's curious eyes sized up Fang Yue, a thick interest rising in her heart.

Unfortunately, Fang Yue's interest in the 【Giant-Headed Blood Hound】 corpse was far greater than his interest in people like them.

After some busy work, Fang Yue went with them, bringing the corpse back to Liaodashi's camp.

Liaodashi was a man who knew how to read the situation.

Upon learning Fang Yue's identity, he immediately gave him a grand reception, offering the highest standard of treatment.

Then, in broad daylight, a banquet was set up—a real party, with roasted meat to go.

Perhaps because of martial training, Fang Yue had a huge appetite; it took the meat of five 【Giant-Headed Blood Hounds】 before he finally felt full.

The only problem was... the attribute boost was pitifully small.

"System Notice: Congratulations on eating the cooked meat of the low-level Ghost Hunt 【Giant-Headed Blood Hound】; your Control Value has faintly increased."

"System Notice: Congratulations on eating the cooked meat of the low-level Ghost Hunt 【Giant-Headed Blood Hound】; your Control Value has increased by 0.1!"

"System Notice: Congratulations on eating... your Disarm Value has faintly increased."

"System Notice: Congratulations on eating... your Disarm Value has increased by 0.1."

After finishing the meat of five 【Giant-Headed Blood Hounds】, both attributes had only increased by 0.3.

Opening the attributes.

"Control: 146 【Base: 166】 【Status/Boost: -20】."

"Disarm: 166 【Base: 186】 【Status/Boost: -20】."

Fang Yue tried to keep eating, but the attribute boost was only a faint increase, stubbornly refusing to go up by another 0.1; it seemed to have hit a limit.

He sighed, understanding that the 【Giant-Headed Blood Hound】's effect on him was only this much.

Additionally, when Fang Yue killed the 【Giant-Headed Blood Hound】, just like when he killed the Sheep Void Ghost, there were no rewards anymore.

Originally, as a Ghost Hunt, the 【Giant-Headed Blood Hound】's meat, bones, hide, and other materials already counted as part of the reward, so the kill reward was already lower than that of ordinary Ghosts.

On top of that, Fang Yue's strength far surpassed the 【Giant-Headed Blood Hound】, so getting no kill reward was within expectations.

However, after eating the 【Giant-Headed Blood Hound】, Fang Yue did feel power coursing through his whole body, feeling that if he cultivated now, it would be easier to improve his Heart Method cultivation.

These were all hidden benefits, not shown on the panel.

Fang Yue took the opportunity to cultivate for a while, consolidating and converting the power obtained from the Ghost Hunt meat into his Blazing Fire Heart Method, before slowly opening his eyes.

What met his eyes were Tail, Liao Moran, Hai Ming, and... Liaodashi.

"Why are you all staring at me?"

Fang Yue tilted his head in confusion, his gaze passing over the few of them to look at the horizon, and he couldn't help sighing inwardly.

Unfortunately, the sky was only near dusk, not yet night.

"Uh... it's like this, Captain Ye, besides the remaining meat, I'd also like to purchase all the other materials from the 【Giant-Headed Blood Hound】 corpse—the bones, claws, hide, and so on. I wonder if you could part with them?"

Liaodashi said he was hunting 【Giant-Headed Blood Hounds】, but in reality, all he could do was set traps and solo-hunt lone 【Giant-Headed Blood Hounds】.

A harvest as big as today's had already exceeded his original goal.

On top of the Sheep Void Ghost's unrest and the 【Giant-Headed Blood Hound】's rampage, Maple Leaf Forest had become unsafe; being able to return to the village early was still the best course of action.

A hunting party without martial artist protection going out into the wild to hunt was already a gamble in the first place; quitting while ahead was the most stable approach.

"Of course I can sell them to you."

Hearing someone bringing money, Fang Yue perked up.

After haggling with Liaodashi for a while, he ultimately gained 5 Black Stones—this was already a high price, after all Fang Yue wasn't a professional Hunter; when he killed the 【Giant-Headed Blood Hound】, most of the valuable materials on its body were damaged beyond recognition, so the price had plummeted. The price Liaodashi offered was already slightly above the market purchase price—truly conscientious.

【Black Stones! Give them to me, give them to me!】

The parchment jumped out at this moment, and Fang Yue rolled his eyes inwardly. He had settled accounts before; he hadn't skimped on feeding Black Ember to it, and now it still wanted a big bite—dream on!

【Stingy!! I'm not talking to you anymore!!】

Able to hear Fang Yue's inner thoughts, the parchment immediately responded, and Fang Yue paid it no mind.

Tallying up the previous gains, after this trip, Fang Yue already had 10 Black Stones.

Sure enough, killing Ghosts out there was the fastest way to harvest Black Stones.

Unfortunately, the other two Fire Stones he had left on hand were also used up during cultivation on the road.

Now without Fire-Permeated Leaves, having only Black Stones meant his cultivation efficiency wasn't high either.

After stowing the Black Stones, Liaodashi busied himself with taking stock of material inventory and preparing to return to Mo Cun.

Seeing no one was talking to Fang Yue, Tail scooted over, lowered her voice, and started chattering away.

This scene made Hai Ming clench his fists.

Suddenly, Liao Moran beside them said lightly: "Love is a ray of light."

"What?"

Hai Ming whipped his head around to glare at her.

"What? Angry? Try touching me and see what happens?"

After Liao Moran finished speaking, she rose gracefully, went to Fang Yue's side, ignored his refusal, and smiled as she began massaging his shoulders, casting sidelong glances of contempt at Hai Ming from time to time.

Damn it!

Just because you're good at games, you can do whatever you want? Can you handle two girls at once? Would it kill you to share one with me?!

Hai Ming was so angry he stamped his foot.

Even Liao Moran had betrayed him — that he hadn't expected. Gritting his teeth, he turned and walked away, out of sight, out of mind!

After Hai Ming left, Fang Yue said helplessly, "Miss Moran, you can stop now, right?"

"No, why? Don't you like my massage technique?" Liao Moran smiled with a slight frown. She was quite interested in Fang Yue, and not simply to get back at Hai Ming for his playboy ways earlier.

However, the next moment, she sensed a hostile gaze.

It was… the gaze coming from Weiba's direction.

This feeling made Liao Moran absolutely thrilled!

Before, she was always the one playing this role; now finally it was Weiba's turn to watch sourly from the sidelines!

Immediately, Liao Moran massaged with even more enthusiasm.

But very soon, she noticed that both Fang Yue and Weiba had begun to slightly space out.

Just as Liao Moran was puzzled, Fang Yue suddenly stood up.

"Alright, then you lead the way. We'll head over there now to check things out first."

Check things out? Lead the way?

What and what?

Liao Moran was a bit confused, then suddenly remembered — Fang Yue and Weiba were both refugees!

(End of this chapter)