Second Life: Welcome to Gaia

Chapter 70: Resuming the quest

"That's all that I know. Now, came here beauty! Let me feel you!" The old man said with a very big smile on his face.

Ye Yan could feel My Girl freeze behind him. 

If My girl wasn't someone from his guild, he would let the situation continue for a little more time. After everything he made Ye Yan pass through when they were downstairs made him enjoy what is happened very much.

Sadly, he has to stop it. Thus, Ye Yan asked My Girl to reach out one of his arms and let the old man touch his hand.

When the old man heard Ye Yan's instructions, he became indignant. 

"This is not what we agreed. I want to touch her buns!" The old man yelled at Ye Yan.

"We agreed that you could touch her. And you will but only her hand. You don't specify where, so it's up to us to decide." Ye Yan spoke very firmly to show that he will not change his mind.

The old man was going to complain again, but suddenly his eyes lit up as he had an idea.

"If I can only touch her hand, she could..."

"No!" Before the old man was done talking, Ye Yan interrupted him because he knew that nothing good would come out of his mouth.

The old man sighed and promised himself to always specify everything when he is going to make any deal in the future.

As there is nothing he can do about it, the old man went to touch My Girl's hand but, because Ye Yan told him that they didn't specify how long it would take as well, he had to do it quickly.

After being fooled by Ye Yan, the old man left the restaurant resigned. He wants to see My Girl again but next time, he will be careful while negotiating with Ye Yan. 

The old man is the best craftsman concerning fans, thus he knows Ye Yan will look for him again. He already decided to ask to grope My Girl's buns next time. 

When thinking about the next time he will see My Girl, the old man showed a very perverted smile on his face.

In the restaurant's private room, My Girl was looking at his hand as if it is the most disgusting thing he has ever seen. He wants to cut off his hand and throw it away because he still can feel the wetness caused by the old man's saliva.

"Don't forget my times." Before leaving the room, My Girl threw a death glare at Ye Yan because he was molested because of him, but he didn't forget to remember Ye Yan that he needs to get the items they agreed.

Ye Yan paid and left the restaurant as well, going in the Auction House's direction. But before he got on his bike, he called Hu Ling to ask him to look for information about the Valley of the Dragons.

He probably can't go there now but the more he knows about the place, the better. 

He should have imagined that the Eight Immortals would be present in the game in a way. Many other games, stories, and comic books had mentioned them, sometimes as the Eight Immortals and others, using other names.

In the Marvel universe, the Eight Immortals appeared in one of the X-men comic books, protecting China along with the Collective Man when a mutant named Xorn massacred a small village. 

In the Immortal Iron Fist comic book, one of the Seven Immortal Weapons, which are seven supreme king fu masters, called Fat Cobra came from Peng Lai Island. And the Eight immortals are said to live on a group of five islands in the Bohai Sea, which includes Mount Penglai.

There are mentions of the Eight Immortals in some of Jackie Chan movies in the previous century. They had important roles in games, novels, graphic novels, and even their own comic book. 

Ye Yan suspects that the Valley of the Dragon is in one of the five islands of the legend, but he needs Hu Ling's help to know for certain. If Spell Bound can't find any information about the place, he will look for it in the library.

When Ye Yan looked at the list of items in the Auction House, he finally found Deer's antlers. There were two units of the item and he purchased it by 10 coopers each, that was the buy-out price. 

He didn't have time to waste waiting for the end for the auction of the item two hours later, and it was cheap, so he purchased it on the spot.

Now he only needs the rare items that he will net o go to the middle of the Yan Empire and those he can buy from the Alchemists' Guild and restaurants.

He got the salamander and one deer's antler from guild members that dropped the item. Ye Yan had deposited the money in the player's account in the Bank before and they deposited the items in his bank account.

Players can deposit things in other players' accounts in Gaia but they will never have access to it afterward. Deposits and transfers in the game work like in real life and the only difference being that the items and money from other players stay in a separate place for players to organize later.

It is good because some can players receive all kinds of items. They can't mail others if you don't know their game ID but it is possible in the bank if you explain who is the person whose account you want to deposit the items.

After depositing the deer's antlers in his account, Ye Yan finally could resume his quest. 

The quest is his priority now because it is linked to the Palace, where he can get the quest for acquiring a property for the guild.

Spell Bound told him that the place he needs to go is a level 10 area, thus getting to level 8 is a great help to him but if he waits too long, the advantage that he got for entering the Palace at the beginning of the game will be gone.

After leaving the bank, Ye Yan got on his bike and rushed to the Teleportation Hall. 

There, he asked one of the attendants to lead him to Xian City's teleportation array. Luckily, it only cost 70 silvers instead of the 1 gold coin he thought he would need.

After passing through the array, Ye Yan got in Xian City's Teleportation Hall, which was very similar to the ones in both City of Ji and Tientsin City, but the wall's decoration is different. 

On a wall in the center of the Teleportation Hall, there is a map of the city. It was built similarly to the City of Ji. The city is like a large square divided into nine parts, where the City's Hall is in the central square.

Ye Yan looked at the map and found the place he needs to go. The place with the most pyramids is in the north of the Xian region. 

From what Spell Bound discovered about the place, there are more than 40 pyramids in there but the one the needs to go is one of the smaller ones and is located nearer the city as compared to the others.

When Ye Yan went to the Library the last time, the Book of Knowledge showed the location he needs to go to get the items. As a powerful divine artifact, it didn't show every location where the items can be found but the best place where Ye Yan could go at this stage of the game.

As a low-level player, Ye Yan can't access many places in Gaia yet, and if he tries to enter an area where have monsters with levels far above his own, he would be killed for certain.

After Ye Yan analyzed the map carefully, trying to keep everything in his mind, he left the Teleportation Hall and went in the pyramids' direction.

Because he is banned from entering the Adventurers' Guild for three days, he can't get any useful quests there to do while looking for Stardust and Witch's powder or even getting a map of the region.

He could purchase the city's map in a shop but only a few places sell it. And it could take hours for him to find it.

The players in the city got their map from the Adventurers' Guild, so none of the players' Ye Yan asked knew where he could buy it, and they wouldn't sell their maps to him either.

He also didn't have luck asking the NPCs, so he just gave up and follow the map he saw in the Teleportation Hall. Luckily, he has a good memory and sense of direction.

After three hours riding his bicycle, he finally saw the pyramid where the items are located.

The pyramid-shaped mound is a huge artificial earth hill with a mausoleum inside. 

There is a small opening on the ground about 1.5 meters (~5 feet) in front of the pyramid, leading to the mausoleum inside.

Ye Yan started to walk down the stairs, but everything became too dark for him to see things around him after a few steps. However, Ye Yan was prepared. He purchased a firefly in the bottle to light his way in the mausoleum the last time he went to the Auction House.

Now, with the firefly in the bottle in his left hand, Ye Yan started to explore the mausoleum.