Chapter 654: Chapter 621: Occupational Disease
“Ah, what nonsense!” Cheryl was furious, “Are you still pretending to be clueless here?!”
Her fingers quickly tapped on the screen as she replied to Lincoln again:
[Boss, I caught you two dating today.]
This time, Lincoln did not reply immediately, as if he had fallen silent.
Cheryl nodded in triumph, “Hmm, speechless now, aren’t you? I’ve got you cornered!”
However, her triumph only lasted a few seconds, as the phone vibrated again. Lincoln replied:
[Stop being delusional, get some sleep early.]
“???” Cheryl couldn’t believe it, “Still trying to deny it?”
Tap tap tap –
[I caught it on camera!]
Buzz~~
[Stop being delusional, get some sleep early.]
“!!!” Cheryl was furious. She quickly took a screenshot and sent the evidence to Lincoln, “See how you can deny it now!”
Buzz~~
[Blurred photos, poor skills, cutting your pay.]
“?” Cheryl felt very frustrated, “Are you even human?”
[I was kindly reminding you! You better watch out!]
After sending the last message, Cheryl angrily threw her phone onto the bed, fuming.
On Lincoln’s side, he didn’t put down his phone but instead turned to Mavis, “Mavis, help me check if there are any tourists who have taken photos of us or saw me with the Princess.”
He wore the headband when he went out in the morning and still had it on when he returned at night.
However, when he went out with Camille Victoria during the day, he didn’t want to draw attention, so he took it off.
Mavis shook her head and easily completed the information retrieval, “No photos, but someone said they saw you dating, Master!”
“Does anyone believe it?”
“It’s an ordinary tourist with just over thirty fans. Basically, no one noticed, and without any proof, no one paid attention.”
“Thank goodness. Thank you, Mavis.” Lincoln patted Mavis’s little head, relieved.
Having the Little Princess working at Cloud Dream, this level of news would do no harm to the company.
But if the Little Princess was dating someone, that would be an entirely different story!
He couldn’t take any chances.
“Wait…” Upon thinking about it, Lincoln suddenly had a strange thought, “Why not take a risk and just test the netizens’ reactions?”
Before he did that, he sent a copy of the photo to Camille Victoria and explained the situation.
After saying goodnight, he went to bed and rested.
The next morning, the Little Princess got up early, took the initiative to knock on Lincoln’s door, and invited him to go downstairs for breakfast.
She had no worries about being caught at all.
And she had no intention of keeping her distance.
Today, they went out together as usual, met an ancient winemaking master that Camille Victoria knew, and tasted a few famous wines from history.
Of course, these were modified versions.
*
The Cloud Dream employees in Chang’an were once again busy, wandering every corner of Chang’an city with their tour guides.
The players in Chang’an also became busy, holding cameras and running around major scenic spots, trying to capture Lincoln.
Meanwhile, the “Hunter: Call of the Wilderness” hunting contest officially began.
The first batch of participating players was actually quite torn.
Because the competition mode determined that the more matches they participated in, the higher the total points for the spoils of war would be.
However, for players with more confidence in their skills, this also meant that strong opponents would gather at the beginning of the contest, resulting in a hellish start with formidable opponents in the first few matches.
This was not an exaggeration.
At the start of the hunting contest, in Russia, with a 5-hour time difference from Daxia, Ivan Ivanov began his first match at three o’clock in the morning, live streaming the event.
Ivan Ivanov’s approach was not an exception.
Russian players have a significant advantage in “Hunter: Call of the Wilderness.”
No matter the online duration, gaming skill, or community activity, they ranked top in the world.
Even stronger than their performance in “Battlefield”.
Now, the rewards for the hunting contest mainly consist of in-game items from “Hunter: Call of the Wilderness”, aside from the honorary player title, there are also things like appearance items, achievements, and commemorative trophies.
Of course, they were most interested in Russian players.
So, many players who joined the contest at the first chance directly encountered Russian players.
Like Lance, who took leave from school to come to the club and participate in the competition.
Looking at the starting hunting rifle [Ranger.243] and the starting pistol [S&W Model 357 Revolver] in his hand, Lance was actually quite relieved.
His playtime in this game was shorter compared to “Speed Chase” and “Battlefield”.
If players were allowed to compete with their best weapons, he would be at a significant disadvantage right from the beginning.
Fortunately, Cloud Dream always emphasized fairness, so such a thing did not happen.
“So the first step is: find the prey or the opponent.”
Lance murmured quietly and began the competition.
In the same match, Wu Di drove an all-terrain vehicle around the lake area recklessly.
He had already posted his status today, which was “Hurry up” instead of “coo coo coo”, and began frantically searching the internet for what the Cloud Dream team had done in Chang’an.
However, apart from some scattered tourist attraction photos, they couldn’t find any other news.
This made him restless to the point of being unable to concentrate on work.
After thinking it through, since all the fitness classes for the elder sisters were arranged in the afternoon, he decided not to open the club early and just log in to the game to join in the fun.
He had no real desire for achievements, just participating for the sake of the fun.
Because his focus in gaming had never been on this game, his participation in the competition was just to alleviate anxiety about the lack of news from Chang’an.
When he ran to the shores of the lake, Wu Di didn’t even plan to find a hiding spot, ambush the game coming to drink water, but simply took off his coat and jumped into the water, swimming happily in the lake.
Meanwhile, Lance, attracted by Wu Di’s noisy all-terrain vehicle engine sound, saw Wu Di entering the water from afar.
He cautiously approached with his gun raised.
Wu Di, who was completely unguarded, allowed Lance to sneak close easily.
Lance propped up his gun, fitted Wu Di’s swimming figure in the lake into the sight, took a deep breath, and then held his breath, about to pull the trigger.
However, at that very moment, Lance suddenly stopped, freezing in place.
It was because a revolver was pressed against his head.
That revolver was held in the hands of a foreign player with a full-faced beard.
Instead of shooting, the foreign player asked with confusion, “Why are you aiming at him? How does his wild swimming bother you?”
Lance was considering, “Should I take a gamble? In the “Hunter” game, as I recall, the power of handguns is usually weak, unable to penetrate the skulls of game.”
He thought, “People’s skulls are quite hard too, and they should be reproduced in this game, right?”
“Moreover, whether there is such a thing as [opponent damage] is debatable.”
Upon thinking this through, Lance managed to convince himself, grabbed his hunting rifle tightly, and abruptly sprang to the side, his body still in the air as the muzzle of the gun turned first, with incredibly agile movements!
However, it was a pity…
There’s always someone better!
In the moment he shifted from still to moving, the bearded uncle behind him seemed to be triggered by something; even before he could react, his finger had already pulled the trigger! And…
“Bang bang bang bang bang!”
Magazine emptied within a second!
The bearded foreigner displayed some professional gunslinging skills but seemed somewhat annoyed afterward, “Why didn’t you just talk? What’s with the random jumping? You triggered my professional reflexes!”
Lance, who had taken a round of bullets at close range, undoubtedly fell heavily to the ground, with a belly full of things to say but unable to speak.
It was because his health bar had been emptied in an instant, leaving him paralyzed on the ground, unable to move.
[System prompt]: You have fallen into a state of serious injury and paralysis. You can either give up the competition or wait for automatic recovery 15 minutes later.
Of course, Lance couldn’t give up the competition, so he had to lay on the wet muddy ground beside the lake, enduring the painful 15-minute countdown.
Meanwhile, the bearded foreigner, seeing Lance paralyzed on the ground, unable to move or even talk, finally had a belated realization of something and his eyes suddenly lit up!
The next moment, he unhesitatingly raised his rifle, quickly turned around, and aimed at Wu Di in the lake!
However, unbeknownst to him, Wu Di had already disappeared from the surface of the lake.