Chapter 324: Situation
The matter of establishing a player organization was decided amidst the lively back-and-forth banter of the group.
"From now on, we shall be called the Sunflower Squad! To the founding of the Sunflower Squad, cheers!" Yuan Yao raised his glass in the restaurant's private room.
"Cheers!" everyone followed suit, raising their glasses, their faces beaming with joy and smiles that went without saying.
Xu Huo drank two rounds with Yuan Yao and Hu Wenhu before the two of them started competing in drinking on their own.
"Never thought it'd be so hard to get drunk after evolution," he remarked while smoking by the window. Zhou Ning approached with two bottles of liquor and casually handed one to him.
Xu Huo took it and asked offhandedly, "How many more dungeons do you need to reach D-grade?"
"Quite a few," Zhou Ning said. "The dungeons I did before had too low a rating. The lower the rating, the more dungeons you need. You must have reached D-grade already, right? Are you planning to stay in the dungeon world long-term?"
"I heard that after reaching D-grade, you can enter the dungeon world early, as long as you participate in a dungeon before its final deadline."
Xu Huo took a sip of liquor. "The best way to understand the game world is to immerse yourself in it. Staying on the outside gives you limited knowledge."
Zhou Ning paused for a moment before nodding. "That's true. Like E-grade players and the current Zone 014, they don't even have the qualification to set foot in other dungeon worlds. Otherwise, they wouldn't have been beaten so badly by players from other zones." "Although the outcome of this matter had its pros and cons, I sometimes think, how nice it would have been if we hadn't evolved. The peaceful, boring life we used to think we had is now a luxury."
"Maybe one day in the future, Zone 014 will return to how it was before," Xu Huo said. "When high-level players and super players appear, and the evolution of game partitions becomes more complete, this world will also, like several transformations in history, slowly move towards the light."
"Does thinking like this make you feel hopeful?" He turned his head and smiled at her.
Zhou Ning chuckled. "I hadn't thought that far ahead... but what you say makes sense."
The few people nearby overheard their conversation. Shen Xin said, "Our generation might not manage it, but the next generation, or the one after that, will definitely be able to do it!"
"You're stretching it way too far! I don't even have a next generation yet!" Yuan Yao stood on a chair, his spirit soaring to the heavens. "We'll do it ourselves! We'll make all the other partitions submit obediently!"
The others laughed. Hu Wenhu pulled him down. "Are you even capable?"
"Whether we're capable or not, we have to do it!" Yuan Yao stepped onto the table. "When I become a high-level player, I'll definitely capture all those players from other zones and whip them one by one until they submit!"
His words made the expressions of those present turn complex. Their player levels were too low. They didn't even know if they could survive long enough to reach D-grade, so they didn't dare dream of the future, nor dare speak the word 'revenge' aloud. But hearing Yuan Yao say it like this made it seem not so difficult after all.
"That's right!" Yan Jiayu slapped the table and raised her glass high. "Not only will we take down the players from other zones, I'll also take down the game itself! Let them taste the bitterness of lifting a stone only to drop it on their own feet!"
"Right!"
"Exactly!"
"Sister Jiayu speaks well!"