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 . ”