Chapter 00103: Having a Foot in Both Boats
# Having a Foot in Both Boats
Chapter 103
Novel: AFK Game: Portal to Another World
Chapter 103 Having a Foot in Both Boats
Monkeys were very aggressive animals.
News of them attacking people and livestock was common.
But then again, considering a monkey's size, it was indeed a bit comical for a person to be beaten up by one...
Don't laugh, don't laugh.
Yang Yiyi will only get more depressed.
Li Chengxi did his best to suppress his laughter and spoke into the microphone:
"There were too many monkeys. It's perfectly normal that you couldn't beat them."
"But it's also a fact that I'm useless, wahh. Otherwise, why would Master have sold me? Why didn't he teach me any martial arts in ten years..."
As she spoke, she actually started to cry with whimpering sounds.
To be honest, she was indeed useless.
Because one only had to open Yang Yiyi's character panel to see that the attribute bars for each stat were just a tiny sliver.
If you didn't look closely, you might even think they were at zero.
Only her movement technique was relatively high, allowing her to escape quickly.
But other than that, she had no advantages whatsoever.
The sky-high comprehension or heaven-defying meridians that were essential for a Wuxia novel protagonist were nowhere to be seen.
What? You say Guo Jing?
That guy had great wisdom that appeared foolish; he wasn't dumb at all, alright? His talent for martial arts was terrifyingly high.
In comparison, Yang Yiyi was just plain useless.
If she appeared in a Wuxia novel, she would at most be one of the grunts A, B, or C waving flags and shouting, and a grunt from a minor sect at that.
The description of her wouldn't exceed a single sentence, and it would be the kind mentioned in passing.
Her objective conditions were indeed not good, but from another perspective, Yang Yiyi was a typical online novel protagonist template from after the turn of the new century.
Useless aptitude, suddenly hit by a great disaster, and didn't even die after jumping off a cliff.
That settles it.
If you're not the protagonist, who is?
Li Chengxi deliberately let Yang Yiyi cry for a bit to release her emotions, then comforted her:
"You've only been building your foundation all these years and haven't learned anything. Of course you can't beat that many monkeys. Don't worry, I'll teach you martial arts right now."
"Really? I can really learn?"
"Of course you can. Just watch me. We'll start with the simple stuff."
Li Chengxi sounded very impressive, but in reality, the only martial art he could impart was the Iron Head Skill.
Using the Iron Head Skill to fight monkeys...
The style of that scene seemed like it would become even more bizarre.
Putting the issue of style aside for now, the Iron Head Skill sounded like an acrobatics performance, but on a grander scale, this thing was one of the Seventy-Two Arts of Shaolin.
In the middle of a fight, to suddenly headbutt someone in the chest—no one could withstand that.
Clicking on the 'Teaching Box' icon on the right side of the screen, Li Chengxi also wanted to see what the difference was between adding a new skill for this script and bestowing divine arts upon Viola and the others.
As soon as he clicked it, a window popped up with four icons.
In addition to the 'Light Body Fall' and 'Iron Head Skill' from before, 'Mischievous Monkey Throwing Method' and 'Monkey Boxing' had been added.
"What the hell? Do new skills really appear after getting beaten up?"
Falling from the cliff gave him 'Light Body Fall', and hitting his head on the way down gave him 'Iron Head Skill'.
Combined with the experience of being beaten by monkeys, although there might be some factors he didn't understand yet, the rule of gaining new skills after getting hit was very likely true.
What was this, was he Kakashi himself?
No, wait, why did it feel a bit like Murong Fu? Turning their own arts against them?
"Brother Li, what did you say? I didn't hear you clearly just now."
The microphone was a bit far, so Yang Yiyi in the game only heard a "What the hell."
"It's nothing, I was just talking to myself."
Li Chengxi cleared his throat, picked up the microphone again, and said:
"Weren't you beaten by monkeys? I'll teach you Monkey Boxing first. Once you learn it, you can go beat them back."
"Can we not talk about being beaten by monkeys..."
This sentence stabbed Yang Yiyi in the heart again.
"To overcome fear, you must face it. Don't panic."
Yang Yiyi didn't understand these principles.
She heard a faint, crisp 'click-clack' sound from within the jade tablet, followed by Li Chengxi's voice.
But while the voice hadn't changed, the tone seemed much more serious and had become very mechanical, like a recording.
It began to eloquently explain the boxing manual, leaving Yang Yiyi in a state of partial understanding.
As for Li Chengxi, he certainly didn't understand any boxing manual, nor did he know what Yang Yiyi was hearing.
On his computer screen, a prompt appeared: 'Monkey Boxing, Teaching in Progress', followed by a countdown timer of over four hours.
Adding a skill to Yang Yiyi's skill bar was different from bestowing divine arts upon Viola and the others.
The latter was a simple matter of spending Faith Points and clicking.
Yang Yiyi, on the other hand, required time, and a considerable amount at that.
It truly lived up to its name as an idle game.
Although this script had RPG elements, the teaching time, which often took several hours, was basically just idling.
There was no room for Li Chengxi to operate now; it was purely idle placement.
He felt a bit tempted to use this time to switch back to Viola's side and see what the newly appeared Sailing Harbor looked like, but he was afraid that clicking 'Return to Main Menu' might interrupt the process.
So, Li Chengxi naturally thought:
"This game, can I run multiple instances?"
Since he couldn't find a windowed mode setting, running two windows on one computer wasn't quite feasible.
The other computer next to the cash register was running the surveillance system and couldn't be touched.
Li Chengxi thought for a moment and took out his phone from his pocket.
Let's not forget, the AAI game icon was also on his phone. (See Chapter 2 for details)
Because the phone screen was too small and inconvenient to look at, Li Chengxi had never run it.
He reached out and tapped the AAI icon.
The phone screen immediately went black.
A moment later, the main menu appeared.
At this point, the red text below the 'Wuxia Script' in the middle had changed from 'Running' to 'Active', and the button was grayed out, preventing it from being opened again.
However, the 'Fantasy Script' button was still lit.
Li Chengxi tapped it again, and the pixel-style chapel screen immediately appeared on his phone.
This test proved that it was indeed possible to run two instances, but the phone screen was just too small, making it very uncomfortable to operate.
It seemed he really had to buy a new computer.
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"Is this Mr. Li? You have a delivery."
The next morning, not long after the convenience store opened for business, a deliveryman brought over a large box.
Li Chengxi pulled a thin and light silver laptop out of the box, deftly plugged it in, and placed it next to the old computer.
Although Li Chengxi was expecting a huge sum of money soon, he still didn't spend recklessly.
The main reason for buying a new computer was to run the AAI game, and since this game could run smoothly even on a ten-year-old computer, there was no need to buy anything too high-end.
The most suitable option would have been to buy a second-hand one, but Li Chengxi didn't like using second-hand electronics, so he spent over three thousand on an office laptop.
The new computer booted up much faster than the old one.
Just two seconds after Li Chengxi pressed the power button, the desktop wallpaper appeared.
As expected, there was an icon on the desktop that said 'AAI'.
When others saw Li Chengxi playing this game, they all thought he was playing Minesweeper.
At that time, Li Chengxi suspected that the game wasn't installed on the computer, but on Li Chengxi himself.
Any computer or phone he used would automatically have it installed, and if he didn't use them, they might return to normal.
Li Chengxi had never tested whether this was actually the case, and it wasn't very important.
He skillfully clicked on the game, entered the Fantasy Script.
At this moment, it was just dawning on Viola's side, and Viola herself seemed to have just gotten up and was combing her hair.
On the old computer, it showed that Yang Yiyi was already up and practicing the Monkey Boxing she had just learned yesterday by her bed.
Having two computers displaying the two scenes side by side was much more comfortable.
Now, he no longer had to switch back and forth to see what was happening.
For some reason, however, Li Chengxi suddenly had the strange feeling that he was standing with a foot in both boats...
(End of this chapter)