Chapter 35
Roland had heard Betta mention this talent that allowed him to pick up money .
However, the talent was never triggered until right now .
4Roland was truly curious about a talent that could pick up money .
“Let’s go to pick up the money . ”
The two of them climbed the hill . Betta led the vanguard . After all, he was a half-melee class, and his abilities in head-on battles were better than Roland’s . He could take care of beasts or snakes easily .
They did meet a lot of snakes on the way . Some even attacked Betta .
However, Betta reacted even faster . He cut the aggressive snakes into several parts and stored them in his Backpack .
Roland was stunned . “What are you doing?”
“I’ll roast them later . ”
“You roast snakes?” said Roland, a typical southerner . “Aren’t snakes supposed to be made into soup?”
Betta, however, argued, “Everything can be roasted! It’s definitely not a problem to roast snakes . ”
13Roland was rendered speechless .
The two of them reached the top of the hill soon .
The wood here was not as dense as that on the slope . Betta looked at the sky and stepped on the ground . “This is the place . ”
After saying that, Betta took out his longsword from the Backpack and began digging .
“Wait!”
Roland stopped him and said, “The longsword will be ruined if you dig with it . ”
Then, while Betta watched in surprise, he made two Hands of Magic and reduced them into shovels, then dug with them quickly .
1“You can do that?” Betta clicked his tongue . “Mage is a class that is all about imagination . Your lower limit is too low, but your upper limit is too high . The gap between an expert and a noob can be too huge . ”
2Roland used the Hands of Magic to dig and said, “I don’t think it’s very hard . You can always learn after other people . The fire burns high when everybody adds wood to it . ”
Betta nodded . “You do have a point . ”
Both of them were new to magic . Or rather, most players were still noobs in this game .
No players knew how difficult it was to cast a spell while talking to someone else and thinking about other things!
After digging for more than a meter, Roland was somewhat tired . After all, using a spell for long could be quite exhausting .
Betta checked again and said, “We’re almost there . Keep digging . ”
“Fine!” Roland sighed .
After another dozen minutes, when the pit was almost two meters deep, the Hands of Magic finally caught something that was not mud . It was some ragged wood .
Roland and Betta looked at each other in excitement .
Soon, what was buried in the mud was revealed to them .
It was a small tomb about two meters high in the shape of an arch .
The tomb was already damaged, probably because it had existed for too long . The coffin was entirely rotten, with a skeleton inside it . There were only a few shreds of cloth on the skeleton . A strange smell was wafting up from below .
On the left corner of the tomb lay a black jar .
“The money is inside the jar!” exclaimed Betta excitedly .
5Roland used the Hands of Magic to lift the black jar, then he threw it to the ground .
3The jar cracked, and a pile of glittering coins spilled out .
There were more than two hundred silver coins, and even four gold coins .
The current exchange rate was 97 silver coins for one gold coin . So, Betta had picked up almost five gold coins, which were worth about sixty-five thousand bucks .
3“This is an unbelievable talent!” Roland couldn’t have felt more jealous . “You can easily find so much money?”
Betta chuckled in satisfaction . He divided the coins into two piles and pushed one pile to Roland . “We’ll split them evenly . ”
Roland was dazed . “I have a share, too?”
“Of course . ”
Still dazed, Roland asked again, “Do you know how much money these coins can be exchanged into?”
“Only thirty thousand!”
Only… thirty thousand?
Was it not a small number to him at all?
Looking at Betta’s matter-of-fact expression, Roland felt that he had been left behind by the younger generation . Although Betta was still a rookie in many aspects, Roland had witnessed his generosity .
What did Roland do after he graduated from high school?
He played games with Schuck in internet cafés or at home with soda .
He never had more than three hundred bucks . If he had picked up sixty thousand bucks when he was playing with Schuck, would he have shared it with Schuck?
Maybe… or maybe not!
It was a subtle feeling .
At this moment, Betta looked at the dry bones and said with a weird stone, “Is this grave robbery?”
1Well, probably . But there was no law against it in the game .
The happiness for the windfall was replaced by sanity . The two of them hesitated at the coins .
After all, as lawful citizens, they never considered grave robbery in reality . Of course, in other video games, they had robbed a lot of innocent NPCs, not to mention tombs . But this game was too vivid and made them feel that they would be committing a crime if they took the money .
Right when they hesitated, something changed in the tomb .
A strange dark power gathered in the tomb, and the transparent shadow of a human emerged inside the coffin .
Seeing that, both Roland and Betta stepped back subconsciously .
It was already completely dark . Cold was spreading in the air .
A soul! Roland immediately realized what it was . After all, he had seen Falken’s soul once .
But this soul was much more hideous than Falken’s . His eyes were orange, his face twisted, and he had strange, disgusting mental energy .
“I don’t like it one bit . ”
Betta seemed to feel the same . He stepped back and patted his arms uncomfortably .
“It’s probably an evil spirit . ” Roland looked at the broken black jar and said, “He may be here to discuss compensation with us because we broke his wallet . ”
Hahaha! Betta dryly chuckled and said, “Brother Roland, that’s a horrible joke . ”
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