Chapter 52: 52. Lin Da through the Eyes of a Video Game Character
On the way back, they encountered some adventurers who were also returning from the wilds.
All of them had hunted Magical Creatures for a day, looking travel-worn, with their boots covered in dust.
Many adventurers carried oversized backpacks that contained valuable parts of Magical Creatures\' corpses.
Although the Demon Core was the most valuable, and everything else was a small profit, lower-tier adventurers still had to cut those things out and sell them back in White Dove City to make a living.
Lin Da and Kafni had gained dozens of Demon Cores on this trip, which was something adventurers of the same level wouldn\'t even dare to dream of.
"It\'s \'Eye of Wisdom\' sir!"
"Are you also here to hunt Magical Creatures?"
"I heard you\'re planning to establish a new adventure team, can I join?"
Many adventurers greeted Lin Da, and he smiled back in response.
Some wanted to join his squad, but they seemed quite average in strength and were politely declined by him.
[System Prompt: Witch Lulu\'s trust towards you has increased by 3, current trust level: -6, slight disgust]
Huh, it went up?
Lin Da looked at the sudden notification with some surprise and turned towards the short-haired girl who seemed indifferent to the surroundings.
He thought that the enthusiastic attitude of those adventurers towards him might have made Lulu believe he was a good person.
Just then.
The adventurers walking away whispered amongst themselves:
"White Dove Morning News reported he became the \'Ultimate Pervert\'; I didn\'t quite believe it, but now I do."
"Yeah, how come all the beauties in the city are flocking to him? That Beastman will probably get deceived and taken advantage, too!"
"Sigh, first the three from the Snow Goose Adventure Team, and then the two beside him, he truly lives up to being the Ultimate Pervert, never repeating the same woman."
Yesterday\'s event in the Inner City District Adventurer\'s Guild, where Lin Da embraced Aiko, was already common knowledge throughout the city.
Team leader Lia of Snow Goose was depicted by unscrupulous reporters as someone who \'left in anger\' upon finding out her teammate Aiko had cheated with Lin Da. Not only that, the underage Klrona might have also fallen prey, and now Lin Da had set his sights on a new target, Isa, preparing to turn her into his Star Fury.
Overnight, Lin Da\'s title of \'Eye of Wisdom\' had been replaced by \'Ultimate Pervert\'.
[System Prompt: Witch Lulu\'s trust towards you has decreased by 15, current trust level: -21, dislike]
Lin Da was speechless.
What Ultimate Pervert—those were all lies!
Lulu seemed to be giving off an increasingly colder vibe, and the distance between them inadvertently grew by half a meter.
"That\'s not the case," Lin Da said.
"There\'s no need for explanations," Lulu frowned, "When I caught up earlier, you and that blonde, you were planning on doing that sort of thing, right? Figures, given you\'re the Ultimate Pervert."
"Actually, that can be explained, too."
"It\'s not necessary."
"..."
Lin Da looked at the slightly decreased trust level and was somewhat worried.
He decided to shift the topic away from the Ultimate Pervert and took the opportunity to try and get some answers from Lulu.
"Could you tell me about your team leader? I seem to bear a strong resemblance to him?"
Lin Da coughed and said.
He wanted to know what his game character looked like in the eyes of his team members.
"Captain?" Lulu\'s head lifted slightly, drawn to the topic.
Taking advantage of the momentum, Lin Da feigned great interest, "Right. You seem to really despise him, what did he do?"
"Heh."
Lulu let out a taunting laugh, unclear whether it was directed at the captain or at herself.
Seeing that he got no answer, Lin Da changed his approach, "What kind of person is your captain? Having such a powerful team member like you, he must be proud."
He intentionally used reverse psychology to provoke her into revealing the truth.
In the game\'s backstory, this was a rather impulsive Beastmen girl.
She had been caught and sold to the slave market for talking back to nobles in defense of a friend, and the player\'s character, cheered on by the crowd, happily forked out fifty Gold Coins to buy her freedom.
"Proud? Hmph... Of that kind of person? In his eyes, all team members are nothing but tools."
Lulu\'s voice carried a heavy resentment.
"Ah? Isn\'t your captain supposed to be a very good person?" Lin Da pretended to be surprised.
Lulu sneered, "He\'s nothing but a magic-operated machine, utterly inhuman!"
"Doesn\'t everyone have their oddities?"
Lin Da looked at the girl with a slightly questioning expression.
"He\'s different!"
Lulu, reminded of the past, angrily kicked a stone on the ground, sending it flying hundreds of meters away and hitting a small mound, kicking up a cloud of dust.
Lin Da wiped the cold sweat from his forehead.
After cooling down for a while, Lulu continued, "That man can\'t be described as normally strange. \'Weird\' would be more accurate!"
"I bet he\'s definitely not as weird as my old captain."
"Heh, no matter how strange your old captain might be in your eyes, everyone else seems normal compared to that man."
Lulu, riled up by Lin Da, finally opened up, furrowing her brows and speaking with simmering anger:
"He acts like a magical machine, using his team members as expendable tools, never seen him eating, nor does he \'sit down\', he\'s always standing!"
Doesn\'t sit down?
Lin Da scratched his head; it wasn\'t his fault since the Mystic Continent game chairs didn\'t have a sitting function...
"But the strangest thing about him is when he sleeps!"
"That guy, he sleeps so deeply that hitting him elicits no response."
"The team even jokes that the captain, when asleep, is invincible. Even the Mage\'s Fire Blast can\'t hurt him."
Lulu\'s voice carried a mix of hatred and amusement as she spoke of the incident with the Fire Blast, the frost on her face thawing slightly.
In contrast, Lin Da couldn\'t help but think: Once the character logs off, they\'re in an invincible state; not just Fire Blast, but even the Forbidden Curse like Meteorite Technique can\'t harm an offline character in the slightest.
Through their conversation, he learned quite a bit from Lulu\'s words. The experiences of the game character he controlled in the game world had turned into reality, even his character\'s meaningless action of spinning in circles had actually taken place.
In his team members\' eyes, his character was like a robot; it didn\'t eat, couldn\'t sit down, \'slept\' like it was dead, and was impervious to attacks, a veritable oddball.
It\'s worth mentioning that "Mystic Continent" is a wholesome game suitable for teenagers, with its affection points more appropriately described as bonding events, lacking any salacious fan service scenes.
Lin Da transferred his soul into his game character three years ago, but why he became a level 0 Healer and appeared in White Dove City, the starting map for beginners, was something he still couldn\'t understand.