103: Chapter 103 Tang Yao's Boredom

Although Tang Yao had studied basic physics and chemistry and her grades were quite good, those were just textual knowledge from textbooks; she hadn't applied them to practice yet.

For a profession like blacksmithing, which requires high practical skills, she naturally had no way of understanding it.

Regarding Hu Gualing's explanation, she nodded skeptically, leaned in close to smell the brass knuckles, though having learned from previous experience, she didn't dare to get too close...

Sure enough, on the brass knuckles, she smelled the exact same odor as the one on the longsword.

Tang Yao instantly understood: "You really didn't lie to me; newly forged weapons really do have a strange smell."

Hu Gualing looked guilty: "..."

At this moment, the nearby "bird" (Xiao Niao), who had been scared stiff, also recovered from the shock.

Xiao Niao heard the discussion between Hu Gualing and Tang Yao. After thinking for a moment, he also took something out of his backpack.

It was the bundle of [wooden shaft steel arrow] that Hu Gualing had given him.

The shafts of this bundle of arrows were still the original birch shafts, but the arrowheads were steel tips that Hu Gualing had polished from steel. They had been forged even later than the longsword given to Tang Yao, so without a doubt, they could also be counted as the "newly forged weapons" that Hu Gualing spoke of.

With a skeptical attitude, Xiao Niao brought the arrowhead to his nose and sniffed carefully, and he really did smell a salty and stinky odor.

It seems that, as Hu Gualing said, newly forged weapons all carry this kind of smell.

Another day of learning new knowledge!

Hu Gualing looked at the two people who had been misled, feeling a bit guilty. Not knowing how to explain it, he said goodbye to Tang Yao: "Alright, the sword has been delivered, so we'll be going now."

Tang Yao: "Wait. Now that your weapon is forged, you should be preparing to leave the Novice Village, right?"

Hu Gualing said, not understanding: "Yeah, what's wrong?"

Tang Yao: "Then are you going to challenge Auntie Miao again?"

When Tang Yao first met Hu Gualing, he had asked her to lead him out of the Novice Village. It was during that time that she witnessed Hu Gualing fall under Miao Cuihua's fists three times in a row... It was precisely because of Miao Cuihua's overwhelming might that Hu Gualing had to honestly stay in the village; otherwise, given his personality, he would have long since left the village to fight that so-called BOSS.

Now that Hu Gualing had his weapon, he must be impatient to leave the village.

So before leaving the village, he would inevitably challenge Miao Cuihua again. Tang Yao didn't want to miss such an interesting event.

So she asked eagerly, showing great interest.

Hu Gualing: "..."

Challenging Miao Cuihua just after entering the game was the second most embarrassing thing that had happened to him in the game, the level of embarrassment... second only to the time he tried to rob the old village chief and was kicked away.

When he was kicked by the old village chief, no one else was around to see it, so as long as Hu Gualing relaxed and pretended it never happened, it would be fine.

But challenging Miao Cuihua was different.

At that time, it was he himself who confidently asked Tang Yao to lead the way. After seeing Miao Cuihua, he was Fearless in his ignorance, thinking it was all a dream, so he charged at Miao Cuihua without a moment's hesitation, and then flew back at a speed faster than he had charged, and this repeated three times.

All of this was witnessed by Tang Yao the entire time.

So now that Tang Yao brought it up, Hu Gualing felt humiliated and didn't want to respond at all.

Just then, Xiao Niao patted his arm: "You challenged Miao Cuihua before? How was it, did you succeed?"

Hu Gualing turned to look at Xiao Niao's earnest expression: "?!!"

Why do you have to bring up sore subjects!

Right, wasn't this guy scared silly before? When did he wake up? And at such an inopportune time!

Hu Gualing complained in his heart, but answered aloud: "Of course I failed the challenge, otherwise I would have left the village long ago. Why would I still be in the Novice Village playing with you guys?"

Xiao Niao said thoughtfully: "So you failed the challenge..."

He thought, since someone with Hu Gualing's build could fail the challenge, it meant that this Miao Cuihua's strength must be quite impressive.

If Hu Gualing insisted that he challenge her too, he wouldn't need to pretend; he could just play normally and fail the challenge.

Then Hu Gualing could go out and roam, while he continued to stay in the Novice Village and develop steadily...

Hmm, not bad, not bad. Now it's settled!

Xiao Niao thought secretly, a wise smile curling at the corners of his mouth.

However, this scene in Hu Gualing's eyes immediately made him feel mocked.

Hu Gualing: "Hey, don't underestimate me. That Miao Cuihua is a quite formidable character! Besides, last time I just didn't have a weapon, that's why I missed it by just a little..." Speaking of this, Hu Gualing glanced at Tang Yao guiltily. Seeing that she was just smiling and didn't mean to expose him, he felt relieved and continued: "I only missed succeeding by a little bit! But it doesn't matter, now that I have equipment, there's no way I can fail!"

A quite formidable character? That's good, that's good. Anyway, I don't intend to leave the village, so the stronger Miao Cuihua is, the better.

Xiao Niao thought, while agreeing with Hu Gualing: "Right, right, this time you definitely won't fail."

Tang Yao: "Since you're going to challenge her again, let me go and watch this time!"

Hu Gualing was a bit reluctant: "This..."

Tang Yao immediately interrupted him: "What, are you afraid that you'll fail again, so you're embarrassed to let me go with you?"

Hu Gualing was provoked and immediately got anxious: "Fine, let's go together. I have to let you see what it means to look at someone with new eyes after three days apart!"

Tang Yao clapped her hands: "Great, great!"

Tang Yao: "Then let's go to the village entrance now! By the time we get to the village entrance, Auntie Miao should already be up."

Hu Gualing looked at Tang Yao's happy appearance and thought, confused: I'm the one making the challenge to leave the village, why are you more invested than I am?

But he didn't know that Tang Yao was also a bit bored here.

When she first entered the game, she was very satisfied, even worried that all of this was fake, and was in a state of being overly concerned about gains and losses.

But gradually, after buying fashion items, then buying land and building a house, she couldn't find a goal anymore.

Moreover, she had been in the game the whole time, and the fantasy points for reaching online duration rewards were constantly being distributed. Coupled with the fact that she couldn't find anything particularly interesting to do, she continued to do the series of tasks like cutting pig grass, cooking pig feed, and feeding the pigs. The money in her hands had reached an amount that ordinary players like Hu Gualing and Xiao Niao couldn't imagine. So, having no particularly clear pursuit for the time being, she had already started digging pits and building ponds late at night out of boredom.