Chapter 20

If he got stabbed so easily, Ryan Carter would have no face to claim he knew kung fu. He reached out and caught the dagger, just about to say a few more words, when he saw the girl had already turned around and was sprinting away with a “thump thump thump.”

  “Oh no!” Ryan Carter cried out inwardly. What the heck was he holding in his hand? It definitely wasn’t Frost’s Reminiscence—he’d been tricked! Ryan Carter leapt after her.

  He thought he could catch up to such a weak girl in just a few steps, but Ryan Carter soon realized he was very, very wrong. This parallel world claimed to be fully realistic, but it overlooked one fundamental issue: the difference between men and women.

  In this full-immersion game, the difference between male and female was just those two words, “male” and “female.” Other than that, there was no distinction. The official website had once harshly criticized male players for sexually harassing female players and made major changes to address the issue, but in reality, the deciding factor was the class! You’re a male mage and want to mess with a female warrior? She’d twist your head off, no matter how high your level is. Want to get up to no good? You have to get close, right? If you’re three or five meters away, even if you cast your ultimate spell, it still doesn’t count as harassment, does it?

  The gender issue really is a BUG, Ryan Carter thought angrily.

  Take the girl in front of him, for example—when she ran, there was only one word: fast.

  All of Ryan Carter’s sixteen level-up points had been put into agility, but the girl he was facing was clearly the real deal when it came to agility. The distance between them kept growing, and she even had time to turn her head and make faces at Ryan Carter.

  Ryan Carter was furious, but anger was useless. There was no such thing as “unlocking potential” in the game. You could easily reach your maximum by trying your hardest, but after that, there was no way to break through even a little.

  “Idiot, come catch me! Once I turn this corner, you won’t see me anymore!” Seeing she’d put enough distance between them, the girl actually stopped at the intersection ahead, turned around, and shouted at Ryan Carter.

  “If you’ve got guts, stop running!” Ryan Carter tried the oldest taunt in the book.

  But according to expert research, women are naturally resistant to taunts, and sure enough, Ryan Carter’s attempt was like a stone sinking into the sea. The girl acted like she hadn’t heard, blew Ryan Carter a dramatic kiss, and said, “Not playing with you anymore, little mage, I’m leaving!”

  She’d had her fun and was about to leave, but Ryan Carter was completely enraged: “Go to hell!” he shouted, and hurled the knife in his hand like a shooting star.

  When it comes to throwing knives, nothing is more iconic than Little Li’s Flying Dagger.

  Little Li’s Flying Dagger—speed is its defining trait, but what’s even scarier is its accuracy.

  Little Li’s Flying Dagger never misses! That’s what the accuracy is all about. In online game terms, it ignores evasion and has a 100% hit rate.

  Of course, the reason it’s so accurate is because it’s so fast! Because it’s fast, no one can dodge it.

  Little Li’s Flying Dagger was always aimed at top experts, all of whom were as quick as rabbits—supposedly, they could disappear in the blink of an eye. To hit these guys, you had to be fast.

  But for Ryan Carter, his target was just a girl who had just turned around and was about to run. She had no awareness or skill to dodge Little Li’s Flying Dagger. For her, accuracy was enough.

  For someone like Ryan Carter, who could hit someone right in the eye with a stone, his accuracy needed no further explanation.

  The knife flew out with a “whoosh.”

  “Ah!” The girl was hit in the calf and immediately fell to the ground.

  Ryan Carter was overjoyed and rushed over at top speed. The girl was already bawling her eyes out, completely losing her composure.

  Nothing is harder to bear than a beauty’s tears. At this moment, Ryan Carter, seeing the blood pooling on the ground, felt he might have gone a bit too far.

  Even though this was a game, and even though the knife didn’t actually hurt a real person, it still looked like it would really hurt. Ryan Carter was just guessing—he’d never been stabbed this badly himself, but the knife looked like it was stuck in pretty deep.

  “You, you, you! That was way too much!!!…” The girl was lying on her side on the ground. When she saw Ryan Carter approach, she pointed at him and wailed. Ryan Carter did feel a little guilty, but then he remembered she was a criminal, and you have to be as cold as winter to your enemies. His face immediately turned grim as he reached into his pocket, pulled out a big bundle of skinning knives, and shouted, “Keep yelling and I’ll stick all of these in you.”

  The girl immediately shut up. She’d already been stabbed once and didn’t doubt for a second that Ryan Carter would stab her with all those knives.

  Of course, Ryan Carter was just trying to scare her. He already regretted the first stab—how could he possibly stab her so many more times?

  The girl lay on her side, clutching her injured leg, not daring to say another word, just sobbing.

  Ryan Carter reached out and touched the dagger stuck in her leg.

  “Ah! What are you doing? You pervert!” The pain from the wound made her curse him again without fear.

  “Let’s pull it out! Having a knife stuck in your leg looks pretty bad,” Ryan Carter said.

  “Will it stop hurting if you pull it out?” The girl’s question was naive and silly.