134: Chapter 134 Where did the body go?

Dropping equipment?

Tang Yao had heard of it and found it interesting, so she watched Hu Gualing rummage through the body for a while with interest. "How come you haven't found anything yet?"

Hu Gualing hissed and drew in a sharp breath. He stopped what he was doing, stood up, and looked at the Wild Dog corpse in confusion. "This shouldn't be right. How could there be nothing at all?"

After saying this, he suddenly turned to stare at Tang Yao. "Could it be that when you killed the Wild Dog, the items dropped directly into your backpack?"

"Hmm, is that so?" Tang Yao checked her backpack and looked at the game notifications. "But I don't have anything here either. It only reminded me that I gained 32 points of combat experience when I killed the Wild Dog."

Hu Gualing: "Only experience? Not even copper coins?"

Tang Yao: "Nope."

Hu Gualing said with dissatisfaction, "What kind of terrible drop rate is this game? It's the first monster we killed, at least. If it doesn't drop equipment, that's one thing, but not even giving copper coins!"

Tang Yao hadn't experienced the thrill of monsters dropping equipment, so she didn't care much. She cheerfully comforted Hu Gualing, "Forget it. This Wild Dog was killed in two sword strikes; it must be the weakest fodder monster, so it's normal for it not to drop anything."

Hu Gualing remained dissatisfied and glared at Xiao Niao to vent his anger. "It's all Xiao Niao's fault!"

Xiao Niao lay on the ground and said innocently, "What's my fault?"

The Wild Dog had bitten Xiao Niao on the buttocks before it died, but it was probably too hungry and weak, so it only left a bloody mark without tearing off any flesh. As for the piece of fabric torn from his pants, it was because the quality of the linen pants was poor to begin with, making it easy for a strip to get snagged on the dog's teeth and torn off.

So, despite Xiao Niao's miserable screaming, his injuries were not severe. This could be seen from the fact that his health bar had dropped by less than one-tenth.

Hu Gualing saw this clearly, so he said without a shred of sympathy, "There weren't as many monsters outside the village as expected. We finally encountered a Wild Dog, and you rushed over and hugged me... If I had been the one to kill this Wild Dog, the drop rate would definitely have been much better. Even if it didn't drop equipment, getting three or five taels of silver would have been nice."

Xiao Niao had originally felt a little guilty because, upon reflection, his behavior of hugging Hu Gualing whenever he encountered danger was indeed a bit wrong. If they had encountered a stronger monster instead of a Wild Dog, and he had jumped onto Hu Gualing's back, leaving Hu Gualing unable to fight or run, it would have resulted in both of them dying... It seemed he would need to try and correct this bad habit in the future. If he encountered danger again, he would just hide by himself.

However, when he heard Gualing talking about dropping three or five taels of silver, Xiao Niao finally couldn't help but laugh while lying on the ground, mocking him. "Hahahaha..."

Hu Gualing said seriously, "What are you laughing at? Everyone's Physique is different. Can't I just be born with good luck and a high drop rate?"

Xiao Niao: "Fine, fine, even if you're foolish but lucky, I doubt you can get silver taels to drop from a Wild Dog."

Hu Gualing: "Why?"

Xiao Niao analyzed seriously, "Haven't you noticed? Fantasy Jianghu is different from the games we used to play. Take the Trading House, for example. When you buy something there, you have to wait for the Trading House to send someone to deliver it to you. It emphasizes realism. So I think, even if the Wild Dog drops money, it won't appear as a string of copper coins popping out of the corpse. Instead, you have to find valuable items yourself and then sell them for silver or copper coins."

Hu Gualing heard Xiao Niao speaking logically and nodded repeatedly, but he was still a bit puzzled. "But I've already rummaged through the Wild Dog corpse several times and haven't found anything valuable."

Xiao Niao: "Then try to see if the corpse can be put into your backpack."

Hu Gualing was shocked: "Store a corpse? Is that even possible?"

He hesitated, squatted in front of the Wild Dog corpse, picked it up, and had the thought of putting it into his backpack, but there was no reaction at all. The Wild Dog corpse remained motionless in his hands.

How could this be? That was how he operated putting things into his backpack before.

Hu Gualing couldn't figure it out, so he tried again, but the result was exactly the same. In the end, he had to accept the fact, feeling both discouraged and strange. "That's weird. This corpse actually can't be put into the backpack."

A look of deep contemplation appeared in Xiao Niao's eyes. Unfortunately, he was lying on the ground with his butt in the air, so neither Hu Gualing nor Tang Yao could see his deep and wise gaze...

Xiao Niao thought for a while and said slowly, "In this game, even stones and sand on the ground can be put into the backpack as Materials, which means that apart from living things, basically anything can be put into the backpack."

"Living things? Could it be that this Wild Dog isn't dead yet and is playing dead!?" Hu Gualing was startled and punched the Wild Dog's body, looking confused. "But no damage numbers popped up..."

Xiao Niao: "...Don't be so hasty, let me finish. I mean, since the Wild Dog corpse cannot be put into the backpack, it might not be an object, but a piece of temporarily existing data."

Hu Gualing: "What do you mean not an object, what data? Can you explain it more clearly?"

Xiao Niao thought for a moment and tried to explain in as layman's terms as possible, "Let's put it this way. You've played online games before. You know that monsters in games die and respawn, die and respawn, in an infinite loop. So, where do you think the monster's corpse goes after it dies?"

Hu Gualing: "Of course it gets refreshed away."

Xiao Niao asked again, "Then why do you think it refreshes?"

Hu Gualing: "Of course, it's because if the corpses stayed there, they would pile up more and more, and eventually, players wouldn't have anywhere to stand."

Xiao Niao nodded, "Exactly. Because monsters in the game are constantly being generated after death, the corpses must be refreshed away. Even if Fantasy Jianghu is a holographic game, it cannot escape this underlying logic!"

Hu Gualing understood a bit, "So... the Wild Dog corpse will refresh at some point, and to some extent, it's already a non-existent thing. Is that why I can't put it into my backpack?"

Xiao Niao: "Yes, you've grasped it."

Hu Gualing: "...Then how am I supposed to sell it for money?"

Xiao Niao: "Look for parts on the corpse that can be taken away, such as fur, bones, teeth, or something like that."

"Okay." Hu Gualing started searching.

This time, because he followed Xiao Niao's advice and stopped looking for coins or equipment, and instead focused all his attention on the corpse itself, he indeed discovered something unusual.

A canine tooth was emitting a faint white light!

Hu Gualing said with pleasant surprise, "I found it!"

Xiao Niao lay far away on the ground. Even if he tried hard to turn his head, he couldn't see what Hu Gualing had found, so he asked curiously, "What treasure did you find?"