Building a Gaming Empire From Scratch

Chapter 753: Chapter 713: America Spreading Martial Arts

Ivan was overjoyed and said hastily, “Start it! Start it now!”

He hadn’t seen a game cabin in reality yet, but he was going to experience it firsthand in the virtual world.

Mysterious characters leaped and refreshed line by line –

[Match Starts!]

[Searching for Opponent…]

[Searching for Opponent…]Nôv(el)B\\jnn

[Searching for Opponent…]

[Searching …]

…

Ivan watched as the lines of [Searching for Opponent] went from ecstatic to confused, then from confused to disappointed, finally leaving only a face full of depression –

“How long is it going to search?”

“Actually, there’s no opponent to be found, right?”

“This must be Cloud Dream’s trap of a hidden Easter egg, just to mess with people, right?.”

As soon as this thought came up, Ivan immediately thought of a widely circulated saying in Daxia –

The biggest pleasure of Cloud Dream founder and genius game developer Lincoln is to fool the players.

Before today, Ivan Ivanov always thought it was a joke, but now he suddenly felt that this statement seemed not unreasonable…

Fortunately, soon the audience came up with a new idea:

“Could it be that this game needs other players as opponents, but now you’re the only one who found the spaceship, so the match can’t start?”

When Ivan saw this statement, it seemed to make sense, but the problem was – there was no way to verify it.

“So, do I have to just wait?” Ivan was both disappointed and helpless.

“Forget it, let’s go get the dog.”

He didn’t bother to run another trip, so he logged out of the game and logged back in, arriving at the log cabin where he received the task.

But he had just stepped into the log cabin when a Daxia player suddenly pushed open the door and walked in right behind him.

“?” Ivan looked back confusedly, watching the strange man.

Am I not playing a single-player game?

The incoming Daxia player also looked puzzled: “Why are you in my world?”

“I’d like to know that too… ”

After recognizing Ivan’s appearance, the Daxia player who entered later quickly reacted: “Hello, you must be Big Ivan, right? The first one to complete [Cross-Border Pursuit].”

“Hello, who are you?”

“Call me [Reminiscence]. I’m the second one who completed [Cross-Border Pursuit]. Maybe after completing the task, this place became a public space.”

Ivan nodded, but didn’t reply immediately.

Not that he disagreed, but as he looked at the Daxia player in front of him, he suddenly thought of something very important –

This is the second player to complete [Cross-Border Pursuit], and as a finisher, Ivan knows too well how difficult it was to defeat the Iron-Blooded Warrior!

He himself won by a fluke, and it might not be possible if he had to do it again.

Even though he had been resting for so long after the fight, he still felt a little mentally exhausted.

But the brother in front of him looked full of energy, and it seemed that fighting the Iron-Blooded Warrior didn’t take much effort for him, obviously being a great expert.

Plus, being a Daxia player, this must be a martial arts expert, right?

This means –

This is an excellent opportunity to request for apprenticeship!

Ivan Ivanov thought to himself that he was lucky.

Just as he wanted to learn martial arts from a master, a Daxia martial arts expert appeared in front of him. Not seizing this opportunity would be a sin!

How do Daxia people request for apprenticeship?

Ivan tried to remember.

It seems like… kneeling and kowtowing?

With that in mind, he almost immediately performed a “straight bow.”

Fortunately, he restrained himself and asked first: “Hello, do you know kung fu? Can you teach me? I can kowtow to you.”

“???” Reminiscence stared at Ivan, the buff Russian, and was completely stunned.

With your physique, I can’t even beat you in unarmed combat…

Reminiscence shook his head repeatedly, “First of all, I don’t know kung fu. Secondly, if you want to learn kung fu in Daxia nowadays, you don’t need to kowtow. Only family-bred disciples need to kowtow for the master to accept, and even then, it’s only on special days…”

But Ivan was not interested in listening to Reminiscence’s explanation about the changes in the custom of kowtowing in Daxia’s martial arts world; he was just deeply confused: “You don’t know kung fu?”

“Yes, I don’t.” Reminiscence nodded honestly, “I can’t endure that hardship.”

“How did you beat the Iron-Blooded Warrior then?” Ivan looked puzzled.

Reminiscence thought for a moment and said, “Have you ever heard of American Martial Arts?”

“Huh? America… martial arts?”

Ivan repeated the words with difficulty.

Because he couldn’t understand how the words “America” and “martial arts” were put together.

“What is that?”

Instead of directly revealing the answer, Reminiscence sold one more suspense: “Do you know why in America, police officers get nervous when they can’t see the suspect’s hands?”

“I don’t know.” Ivan shook his head again.

He felt like a dumb goose who knows nothing.

“Because——”

Reminiscence leaned forward, extending his tone, and Ivan unconsciously leaned in too, completely focused, waiting for Reminiscence to reveal the answer.

But instead of continuing, Reminiscence flipped his right hand, and a gun appeared in his hand, the muzzle pointed at Ivan’s chest!

This move caught Ivan off guard.

Reminiscence was standing right in front of him, no more than a meter apart, and Ivan didn’t see where the gun came from!

Reminiscence waved the gun, tossed it away, and showed off his empty hands, signaling that he had no weapon now.

But the next moment, he flipped his left palm upward, and there was another pistol!

Ivan’s eyes widened immediately, instinctively reaching out to touch Reminiscence’s sleeve.

But it seemed like Reminiscence suddenly felt itchy on his scalp and reached out to scratch it. Ivan instinctively followed his gaze.

After scratching his scalp, that hand suddenly extended a finger and pointed down.

As Ivan lowered his head, he saw Reminiscence’s other hand already pointing the gun at him again!

—What was even more outrageous was that it was a huge shotgun!

“What kind of magic is this?!” Ivan exclaimed.

He suddenly understood how Reminiscence defeated the Iron-Blooded Warrior.

It had nothing to do with cold weapons or martial arts at all—his body itself was a ready-made Armament Box!

Did the Iron-Blooded Warrior get tricked by him?!

“Concealed gunholding + American Iaido, put together, is American martial arts,” Chasing Wind concluded, “I studied in America, and my skills are not bad.”

“You went to America to study…” Ivan looked incredulous, “this?”

“Cough cough!” Reminiscence suddenly choked, “Of course not! This is just an amateur hobby, an amateur hobby!”

“Besides, America doesn’t have a major for this…”

But as he said this, he seemed to be a little uncertain—

“There shouldn’t be, anyway…”

Even though Reminiscence couldn’t teach Ivan martial arts, they still became friends and got the keys from the hunting ground staff together.

Using the key to open the Teleportation Gate would take them to the Dog Farm.

Reminiscence wound through a group of fierce hunting dogs, choosing one based purely on intuition.

Ivan, on the other hand, had already thought of a way to select a dog.

He opened the panel, selected the achievement page, and then—summoned the [Iron-Blooded Face]!

Wearing this menacing, domineering, and wigged iron mask while walking among the hounds resulted in the noisy dogs suddenly quieting down a lot.

A large number of hunting dogs showed signs of fear and retreated.

“As expected! The mask has its own intimidation effect, and these hunting dogs are not all the same.”

Ivan confirmed his suspicion, eliminating the less courageous dogs and began to choose from the remaining ones.

—As long as the players massively completed [Cross-Border Pursuit] and found the spaceship, he would have plenty of time to choose slowly.

*

[00:00]

“OK, it’s time!”,

Seeing the hounds again, Super Tomato closed the panel and clapped his brothers beside him, saying, “Let’s start.”

At this time, players on the hunting ship and the dock were still coming and going.

Their dressing style, with naked eyes, became wild and unrestrained.

The funny thing is: players with not-so-good or even average physiques are more inclined to wear conservative armor and won’t expose their bodies casually.

But the better the physique, the more inclined to wild and unrestrained attire.

Especially the beautiful women with good looks, small waists, big hips, and big breasts, they attracted a lot of attention from the opposite sex.

Compared to them, the muscular men with amazing physiques, such as strong chest muscles, sharply defined abdominal muscles, and thighs thicker than others’ waists, couldn’t attract much attention from the opposite gender.

Instead, they were constantly given the eyes by the same gender passing by.

—Their eyes were full of admiration and worship.

However, Super Tomato didn’t look elsewhere; his eyes were closely following a fan who went straight to the captain.

He saw the guy walk up to the captain and ask straightforwardly, “Hello, Captain, I was wondering if you need help collecting Fluorescent Dragon Stones?”

—That’s right, Super Tomato waited until now to test whether the explosives would be refreshed or not.

Instead of answering the player immediately, the captain turned his head toward Captain, looking at Super Tomato on the deck pretending to enjoy the scenery, with an extremely unpleasant expression on his face.

Despite this, after a few seconds of stalemate, he still gritted his teeth and said, “Yes!”

“Here!”

“Get lost!”

The guy receiving the task didn’t mind being scolded by the captain and happily went to find Super Tomato with the explosives.

Seeing the captain starting to distribute explosives again, Super Tomato laughed, “It seems that the stock of explosives is reset once a day! Great, the brothers who didn’t take the task before can go now.”

Another boatload of explosives was taken.

The captain is such a good guy!