Chapter 47 - 047 Helping Big Brother hit the road
The dawn broke.
Having bid farewell to the City Lord, Lin Bai led Crispy Rice and Sticky Rice out of the City Lord’s estate through a side gate. As they walked, he explained, "I was the one who disclosed your identities as River and Sea Bandits to the Beggars and led you into the City Lord’s residence. This provides an entry point for you to interact with them. How you integrate into the Beggar Gang is up to you to figure out. I can’t intervene too much, do you understand?"
"This was all planned, wasn’t it?" Crispy Rice couldn’t help but recall the bizarre circumstances under which he had been framed as a River and Sea Bandit.
"Well, kind of!" Lin Bai turned to look at him. Damn it! I never expected you would choose to become a Beggar!
However, everything was back on track.
Thinking about it from another perspective, Crispy Rice becoming Chief of the Beggars was better than him being some fairy king or Martial Arts Alliance Hierarch. At least this profession offered a relatively easier path to its peak; the outcome wasn’t bad at all.
Moreover, for Lin Bai, who possessed the System, the help Crispy Rice could offer was far less valuable than the System’s rewards.
"See, I told you it was a hidden mission," Crispy Rice bragged to Sticky Rice via private message.
"But I still don’t want to be a Beggar," Sticky Rice commented. "Now, I feel like it’s not us playing the game, but the game playing us."
"You can think of it as a role-playing game with an unknown plot," Crispy Rice tried to convince his teammate, "or a different life experience."
Players’ private conversations always revealed a wealth of information. Overhearing Crispy Rice and Sticky Rice, Lin Bai considered recruiting another employee for his shop.