An even more cruel joke.
But both of them burst out laughing.
The man in the wheelchair, who raced like a rocket, chuckled and then said, "My name is Shen Chi. Chi as in speeding. You can call me Chi Ge!"
Chu Fu felt this was even more ironic.
Long legs, handsome, but in a wheelchair, and his name means "speeding."
What a life full of contrasts.
"Mm, my name is Chu Fu, but if you call me Fu Mei, I always feel like you're calling me Guo Fu from the novel. It's also fine to just call me Plant Girl—people need to learn to face a bleak life."
"That's fair. Then keep calling me Wheelchair Bro!"
After they finished speaking, they both laughed out loud again, and the atmosphere was cheerful.
But as they laughed, the raging Wild Boar King beside them let out a furious roar and slammed violently against the narrow crevice.
The mountains shook and the ground trembled.
Rocks fell from above.
"Be careful—rocks hitting us will also take off HP." Shen Chi quickly pulled Chu Fu to safety.
Then, he picked up a stone from the ground and pulled back his slingshot.
"You pick up the stones, and I'll attack. This way, we'll kill it faster. By the way, what's your class?"
"Toxicist. I can help fight too!"
"Hand me your weapon. I can upgrade it. My class is Mechanic. I'm limited by materials, so all I can make now is a slingshot, but I can upgrade any equipment to improve its quality. The better the materials, the bigger the improvement."
Chu Fu's eyes immediately lit up.
Shen Chi's talent must be pretty good too.
But in the novel where Chu Feng is the main character, Chu Fu had never heard of Shen Chi's name.
That was normal. In fact, after meeting the people from Universal Studio today, Chu Fu finally understood why, in the novel Reborn Online Game: The King of Killers, the younger sister never showed up until the story was dropped.
She was likely surrounded and suppressed by Universal Studio.
A year later, not everyone could sync their in-game abilities to reality. At minimum, you needed level 10.
Many people wouldn't reach level 10.
But now that she had transmigrated here, she wasn't just a little girl who was physically eighteen but had been in a coma since age fifteen.
Chu Fu had been through the grind of society for over twenty years—scraping by in her youth, living freely in her later years. She might not do better than the original Chu Fu, but knowing the plot, she definitely knew how to play this game better.
"Thanks, Wheelchair Bro. I don't have many materials on me. Can you use these? They're seeds from a mutant dandelion."
Chu Fu pointed at the dandelion seeds scattered all over the ground.
She had collected 100 seeds in her backpack already.
There were about 60 seeds scattered around.
Some had blown too far away, and she couldn't grab them in the air.
She pulled out another 90 seeds, making 150 materials in total.
She kept 10 as spares. The seeds on the ground were rectangular, about the length of a palm, and felt like sturdy wood.
"Black iron grade material? Nice! If we're lucky, we might get a bronze-grade staff out of this."
Shen Chi piled the materials together and activated his talent to upgrade.
The next moment, the materials magically merged and attached to Chu Fu's novice staff.
Then, the staff transformed.
The cracked, damaged staff became sturdy, taking on a dark brown color. On top of that, a cute, chibi-style yellow dandelion appeared at the staff's tip.
【Dandelion Staff (Bronze Grade):
Physical Attack: 4-5
Magic Attack: 9-11
Spirit +1
Bitter: The target's mouth tastes bitter when hit.】
Shen Chi clicked his tongue.
"One useless stat, but it'll do for now. We'll upgrade it again when we find better materials!"
"Wow, this is already great! I can use this staff all the way to level 10," Chu Fu said.
"A level 10 staff will have much higher attack. We'll craft another one then," Shen Chi replied.
Chu Fu nodded.
Wheelchair Bro was really nice, generous, and didn't even ask for crafting fees.
But her ability only let her mutate plants—she couldn't offer Shen Chi much in return. She just had to deal more damage and, once the Wild Boar King dropped its loot, give Shen Chi a bigger share.
Chu Fu picked up her staff, and her attack power increased.
"Venom Strike!"
A burst of green light enveloped the raging Wild Boar King.
Even though she now had a bronze-grade staff though...
The damage number above its head was pitiful.
-6.
Chu Fu was speechless.
As a level 5 boss, the Wild Boar King had a massive level advantage over her. On top of that, it was the tanky, high-defense type.
That Chu Fu dealt 6 damage was only because, as a Toxicist, she had damage that ignored defense.
Luckily, her Venom Strike stacked, up to five layers.
That meant 30 damage total.
This time, it was Shen Chi's turn to be surprised.
"You deal so much damage!"
Shen Chi grabbed a stone and aimed at the Wild Boar King.
"Swish!"
Chu Fu felt something whistle past her head.
For a split second, only one thought popped into her mind: Being tall really has its perks—no worry about blocking your own sight when using a slingshot.
The thought passed in a flash.
The Wild Boar King's eye had already been hit by the stone!
-3! Critical hit!
Only 3 damage?
She looked at the Wild Boar King's HP.
80,560 / 100,000.
Chu Fu was stunned.
"How long have you been fighting it? Didn't you spend five hours on this? At your attack speed, you'd need more than twenty hours to kill this boss!"
Shen Chi nodded, picked up another stone, and pulled back his slingshot.
"I logged into the game at midnight and used my talent to craft some mechanical wings.
I saw a video on the forums of a pro using this terrain to camp the boss, so I decided to try it.
Players need at least two days to reach level 3 before they can get to Wild Boar Ridge.
If I can kill this boss within thirty hours, I might get the first kill, which would give me bonus stat points."
What determination.
It looked like Shen Chi was also using a gaming pod, meaning they could team up and level together from now on.
"Exactly. Now that I'm here, we'll be faster. When we get the first kill, make sure to hide your ID, or the guild people will definitely hunt you down. You'd basically be stealing their resource."
Shen Chi frowned.
"What guild people?"
"Universal Studio!" Chu Fu was also testing him. If Shen Chi was afraid of Universal Studio or wanted to join them, she wouldn't continue teaming up with him after this boss.
"You know that when players apply for a server, they're grouped by location and time, right? So everyone on one server is probably from the same city.
Universal Studio is run by a rich second-generation named Wan Huanyu. They're ruthless. They're already blocking the newbie village entrance, forcing people to join.
My red name? That's from killing some of their people. If you don't join them, they'll harass you.
But their pay isn't bad—A-grade talents get a monthly base salary of 10,000!
If you steal their boss kill and don't join, you'll probably be hunted. If you die, your character is gone for good!
Wheelchair Bro, are you going to join them?"
As Chu Fu spoke, she fully stacked five layers of Poisonous Venom.
The Frenzied Wild Boar King lost 30 HP over the course of 3 seconds.
At this rate, it would take only 2 hours for the Frenzied Wild Boar King to die.
Of course, that estimate didn’t account for Chu Fu’s mana regeneration, the Boar King’s rage mode, or its healing ability—so the actual time would likely double.
At that moment, Chu Fu didn’t notice.
Behind her, Shen Chi gripped the stone in his hand until his knuckles turned white.
In his sharp eyes flashed a glimmer of hatred, along with the burning rage of vengeance.
