Chapter 00101: I Almost Laughed Out Loud
# I Almost Laughed Out Loud
Chapter 101
Novel: AFK Game: Portal to Another World
Chapter 101 I Almost Laughed Out Loud
In the distance, peaks rose one after another, while nearby, a secluded valley lay empty and quiet.
Peach trees covered the mountains and plains, and trickling streams of water converged into a clear pool.
The first thing Li Chengxi thought of was the deep valley where the white ape lived in The Heaven Sword and Dragon Saber, and then he thought of The Peach Blossom Spring.
At first, the entrance was extremely narrow, barely allowing a person to pass.
After walking a few dozen steps, it suddenly opened up into a wide space.
This was truly a Peach Blossom Spring in the literal sense.
Although the season might be wrong, as the trees already bore fruit, it must have been covered in peach blossoms in the spring.
Yang Yiyi had discovered the cave entrance last night when she got up to use the bathroom, but she hadn't dared to go in.
Today was also her first time seeing it.
Compared to the pixel style on Li Chengxi's side, what Yang Yiyi saw was even more dreamlike.
Her mouth fell open with a "wow," and she immediately walked towards the nearby peach forest.
Who would have thought that a cave on a sheer cliff would connect to such a scenic valley.
After being cooped up in the cave for several days, Yang Yiyi finally found a chance to let loose and have fun.
She stepped onto a peach tree as thick as a bowl, climbing up in just two or three steps, looking extremely skilled.
She reached out and plucked a peach that hadn't fully turned red.
Without looking for water to wash it, she just wiped it on her chest and took a large bite.
"Sour! So sour! Haha!"
The peach wasn't fully ripe and still had a sour taste, but for Yang Yiyi, it was more joyful than eating candy.
She was more agile than a monkey, hopping around on the peach tree, one moment here, the next moment jumping down.
Perhaps this reminded Yang Yiyi of the simple joys of her childhood.
Back then, she was a famous tomboy in the surrounding villages.
Forget a mere peach tree, she could easily climb even a large poplar tree.
Although Li Chengxi didn't know what Yang Yiyi's childhood was like, seeing her so happy was a good thing.
A good mood aided recovery after an injury, much more helpful than being stuck all day in the stuffy air of the cave.
Li Chengxi was pondering whether he should give Yang Yiyi some real meat dishes, at least something more nutritious than sausage, to help her injuries heal faster.
Then, he saw Yang Yiyi darting back and forth between the trees and the ground like a phantom.
The auto-following camera panned up and down, she was moving incredibly fast.
Although it hadn't reached the level of leaping onto roofs and scaling walls, just watching her for a little while was enough to make one dizzy.
Fortunately, he had let Yang Yiyi hold the Jade Tablet, otherwise, she would have run out of the camera's range in the blink of an eye.
He guessed this was the effect of the Misty River Technique (Incomplete Scroll) from her skill bar.
No wonder the Movement Technique stat on her character attributes was much higher than the others.
Li Chengxi quickly spoke into the microphone:
"Don't run too far, there might be danger."
A line of text popped up in the dialogue box on the screen: 'Got it, I'll just wander around nearby.'
Yang Yiyi was the type who loved to run and jump around in the mountains and forests.
After joining her sect, she spent all day practicing her techniques and had no time to go out and play.
Now, she finally had the chance to let loose completely.
She said she would just wander around nearby, but her Misty River Technique was too fast.
In no time, she had run a great distance away.
Li Chengxi opened the map function and zoomed in a bit.
He could see a winding, explored area, and this area was still extending.
This setting was quite similar to the Fantasy Script.
On Viola's side, a follower of the Demon God needed to walk through to reveal the map.
Here, it was probably necessary for Yang Yiyi or the Jade Tablet to pass through to reveal the map.
The range for revealing the map didn't seem to be related to her line of sight.
The map behind her, where Yang Yiyi hadn't even looked, was also revealed.
He guessed this range belonged to the Jade Tablet, but he didn't know the specific distance in meters, or if it could be expanded.
The Sci-Fi Script required ten Sky-Upholding Stones to unlock.
This made Li Chengxi feel that the Sky-Upholding Stones had a similar setup to the Ring of the Demon King.
The more he collected, the more functions would likely be unlocked or enhanced.
Thinking about these things, Li Chengxi closed the map and looked back at Yang Yiyi's screen.
Just then, he saw several monkeys emerge from under the pixel style treetops, all looking towards Yang Yiyi, but she didn't seem to have noticed them yet.
"There are monkeys nearby, be careful."
Monkeys are not to be trifled with.
One only had to look at how mischievous Great Sage Sun was before being suppressed under the Five Fingers Mountain to know.
Besides, every year there was news about the monkeys of Mount Emei hurting people.
Li Chengxi's perspective was a top-down view.
He could see the monkeys under the canopy because the screen automatically made the canopy semi-transparent.
However, since it was only semi-transparent, he couldn't see very clearly.
Over on her side, Yang Yiyi heard Li Chengxi's words and turned around, clearly seeing a large group of monkeys squatting in unison on the tree branches, surrounding her with their intense gazes.
Even Li Chengxi, who stayed at home all day, knew that monkeys were mischievous.
Yang Yiyi, who used to run up the mountains all the time as a child, knew all too well that monkeys had terrible personalities.
If you're friendly to them, they think you're a pushover.
If you try to shoo them away, the little bastards actually know how to retaliate.
When Yang Yiyi was a child, her family's farmland was often ravaged by monkeys.
The adults in the village had tried all sorts of methods, but none truly solved the problem.
The moment she saw they were monkeys, she immediately waved her hands, her limbs seeming to move on their own.
She bared her fangs and brandished her claws, putting on a 'This lady is super fierce' expression.
You can't act like a pushover, or the monkeys will really bully you mercilessly.
However, when the monkeys saw Yang Yiyi, not only did they not feel scared, they actually felt like laughing.
A few monkeys chittered a couple of times.
Yang Yiyi heard a rustling sound behind her.
When she turned, another group had appeared under the canopy.
In no time, all the surrounding trees were filled with squatting monkeys.
Only then did she realize she was surrounded.
"Scatter! All of you, scatter!"
Yang Yiyi panicked and picked up a rock, throwing it at the monkeys.
But her aim was clearly not very good.
The rock whizzed past the treetops and flew far away, hitting nothing.
But this action was like poking a hornet's nest.
The monkeys squatting on the branches immediately bared their sharp teeth and shrieked, as if enraged.
Several monkeys plucked unripe peaches and threw them at Yang Yiyi, and the other monkeys immediately followed suit.
For a moment, the valley was filled with the echoes of the monkeys' screeches, and peaches rained down with pitter-patter sounds.
Yang Yiyi was, one could say, fleeing with her head in her hands.
She protected both sides of her head with her hands, trying to break out of the monkeys' encirclement directly.
But perhaps in her panic, she didn't watch her step, tripped on a tree root, and fell heavily onto the leaf-covered ground.
Oh boy, now the monkeys were even more excited.
They jumped down from the trees one after another, performing authentic monkey boxing as they swarmed forward.
After all, there was an absolute difference in size.
It was unlikely she would be beaten to death by the monkeys, but it was entirely possible for them to beat her face black and blue, disfiguring her.
Seeing this, Li Chengxi knew he couldn't just keep watching.
He reached his hand into the screen and waved it.
Yang Yiyi, who had fallen to the ground, saw the Jade Tablet that had left her hand light up with an intense blue light, which knocked away the surrounding monkeys like a shockwave.
"Quick, go!"
Yang Yiyi grabbed the Jade Tablet floating in mid-air, took a few quick strides, and activated her Misty River Technique.
Amidst a farewell of peaches and stones thrown by the monkeys, she vanished, leaving a cloud of dust in her wake.
The Misty River Technique made Yang Yiyi run incredibly fast.
She instantly left the monkeys far behind.
After a little while, she returned to the cave entrance that led into the valley.
She pushed aside the vines concealing the cave and quickly ducked inside.
She even deliberately pulled the vines tightly shut to prevent the monkeys from getting in.
Once she was completely safe, Yang Yiyi fell to her knees.
Li Chengxi thought she was injured, but instead, she knelt with her head bowed to the ground in a pose of utter dejection and cried out:
"Brother Li, am I too useless? I actually got beaten by monkeys."
Although it wasn't very kind of him, Li Chengxi almost laughed out loud…
(End of Chapter)