48 Hours a Day

Chapter 926: Bodyguard

Zhang Heng booked the flight ticket to Greenland and hotel in advance. He even hired a local translator online.

The official language of Greenland was Greenlandic. Having a sixth of their population being Danish descendants, a good number of them conversed in Danish. Unfortunately, although Zhang Heng had mastered eight languages, these two languages were not on his list.

Thus, to ease his traveling experience in Greenland, he would need at least one translator to help him converse with the locals.

Zhang Heng selected several resumes from travel websites. After that, he used the Gaussian distribution method to pick a girl named, Songjia. Zhang Heng looked at her resume and found out that she a girl with mixed ancestry, with a Chinese grandfather and an Eskimo grandmother. Hence, she was a quarter of Chinese descent.

In other words, she had three ancestries in her: Chinese, Danish, and Eskimo. Still studying for graduate school, she had a spotless resume and was currently working as a translator to earn extra cash to buy a second-hand car. So Zhang Heng gave her a call and told her about the services he needed, and they discussed her rates as well.

After hanging up the phone, Zhang Heng spent a few days purchasing some materials that he might need in Greenland. When he looked at the time, he realized that only a little more than one day was left before the end of the proxy war. And the ladder match had also entered a fierce stage.

Pegasus, who was at the top of the leaderboard before, had now dropped to ninth place. The player who ranked first was the Arc of Light’s leader, Eryue Weicheng, with a score of as high as 2892 points. At the same time, the players that ranked second and third were the Arc of Light’s members as well. And it caused an uproar on the forum.

Among the three major guilds, Silver Wings was the oldest. Having the largest number of combatants as well, their members equaled the sum of the other two major guilds. However, the other two major guilds were not to be underestimated too. The Arc of Light was the last to be established and had the shortest history among them. Other than the war they fought against Shen Xixi’s union, the Arc of Light had always remained low-key. The Arc of Light’s leader possessed a high-level execution ability. In the real world, Eryue Weicheng was an executive of a big company. Having designed an extremely effective hierarchy system, everyone under him had a set of clear responsibilities. The players that joined Arc of Light worked more like employees rather than guild members, unlike the laid-back players from some random guilds.

By joining such a well-organized guild, they had to sacrifice some of their freedom. However, the Light or Arc’s offered the best welfare among the three guilds, and that had attracted many ambitious players with good potential in recent years. Hence, there were no players who dared underestimate them.

The player base hadn’t expected Arc of Light to have secretly grown so fast in strength. Arc of Light’s players had now clinched the top three places on the leaderboard, with the player ranked fourth being from another guild. Ever since the Dreamland of Death killed the Silver Wing’s leader, the guild’s overall strength was greatly affected. They had only two members who got into the top ten on the leaderboard, and both of them were ranked ninth and tenth.

This was why Pegasus decided to finish three games as early as possible. He knew that he might not compete with the players from the other two major guilds. Hence, he wanted to gain everyone’s attention by occupying the top position of the leaderboard during the early phase of the game. By doing that, he would be able to boost Silver Wing’s reputation. However, when the other competitors started to compete in the game, his position at the top of the leaderboard lasted only a short while.

As for Zhang Heng, he also fell out of the top-50 on the leaderboard. Now ranked 89th, the player base no longer talked about him. Since Zhang Heng’s score did not change, some of the players suspected that he had died in his final quest.

At the same time, Zhang Heng carried his new blade with him and entered the lounge on the second floor of the bar. He greeted the bartender lady behind the bar and sat on his usual deck.

The time was now 23:55. The familiar dizziness hit him, and Zhang Heng began his second proxy war quest.

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[Verifying player’s identity...]

[Verification completed. The identity of the agent is confirmed. Player number 07958 is welcome to join the proxy war. This is your second game of this proxy war. A quest is being randomly selected for you]

[Draw completed. Your current quest is Bodyguard]

“Attention, you are now entering New Shanghai 0297. New Shanghai 0297 is a federal demonstration city invested and constructed by Shengtang Morgan Group. Please ensure that everything that you do in this city complies with its laws and regulations. Meanwhile, we hope you will enjoy the charm of this city. New Shanghai 0297 is a young, prosperous, stable, and generous new technology city.”

[Task objective: Earn as many points as possible. You will get 10 points for each shellac record you collect.]

[Mode: Single]

[Time flow rate: 240] (1 hour in the real world is equivalent to 10 days in this game. After 30 days, the player will be forced to return to the real world)

[Friendly reminder, the game will officially start in five seconds, please be prepared.]

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Zhang Heng was also a little confused by the introduction of the game’s background that sounded more like an advertisement. After listening to the introduction, he managed to acquire some information. Firstly, the New Shanghai 0297 seemed to be a newly established city. The second was that the city was invested and constructed by a corporate group, and it was hard to imagine that a company was rich enough to come up with such a large amount of investment. Thirdly, it looked like the city belonged to a certain federation. There were still many countries using the federal system.

Countries like the United States of America, Russia, Germany, Belgium, and all used federal systems. It was difficult to imagine that among them, the newly constructed city would be named Shanghai 0297.

Before getting more information, Zhang Heng could not make further inferences for the time being.

Other than the game’s background, the way he could earn points in this dungeon also seemed very confusing. The combat mission that he had during his previous round of the game was now changed to a quest that required him to collect specific items to earn points. It looked like the difficulty of the game had reduced a lot. However, Zhang Heng did not think that it would be as simple as he thought.

The difficulty of the Proxy War dungeon had been discussed a lot of times on the forum. From the players’ feedback that played in the Proxy War quest, it was undoubtedly more difficult than the ordinary quest. That was because all these dungeons were designed for agents with supernatural powers.

Moreover, most of the agents played in teams, and they had reliable teammates. It was rare that the players chose to play the game alone like Zhang Heng did. It meant that the difficulty that Zhang Heng faced was undoubtedly the highest among all the other players. Even if he had extra twenty-four hours every day, he had to stay vigilant at all times.

Judging by the name of this quest, it seemed Zhang Heng was supposed to protect someone. However, the system mentioned nothing about it. Something was not right. This was where Zhang Heng had to pay extra attention.

As the countdown ended, Zhang Heng opened his eyes again.

He found himself standing in a place with a graceful environment. In front of him was a white building that looked like Tokyo Dome. Instead of being a stadium, however, it was an apartment building. Every household had a balcony and floor-to-ceiling windows. Plants of all manner dotted their balconies, and under the dome was a large green lawn.