Chapter 201 - Li Ling Is Impressed

what's your point of telling me that story?" Zhihao asked with a frown. 

Li Ling shrugged his shoulders as he answered, "I just wanted to tell you that anything is possible. Whether it be you transmigrating into a game like Fu Jie or a character from a game coming out of the game and interacting in the real world." 

"But the book you read was still a piece of fiction wasn't it? How can you make me believe such a thing based on a fictional story?" 

"It's a book that is said to be nothing more than fiction but I think the story is based on a real-life incident." 

[And only you would believe such a thing.] 

Zhihao chuckled as he nodded and agreed with Alvi, "Li Ling, why would you believe such a thing?" 

[However, I think Devilmagiclover is also right. A game can become a reality at any moment you want.] 

"...." 

Zhihao felt a shiver run down his spine as he heard such a thing coming from Alvi, "You should definitely not say such a thing. When Li Ling says it, I can consider it as his cute imagination but when you say it..." Zhihao shuddered as he continued, "It gives me the creeps." 

[...] 

[Are you indirectly insulting me and calling me creepy?] 

Zhihao shrugged his shoulder as he didn't even bother giving an answer to a question this obvious. 

Li Ling chuckled as he spoke up, "A-Zhi, it's okay if you don't believe in such a thing right now. But no matter if you believe me or not, you should still not hope to see monsters and challenges." 

Zhihao pouted and said nothing. It wasn't like he could change his thinking overnight just because Li Ling had told him to. 

"Let's find the stone now, shall we?" Li Ling asked as he tilted his head and looked at Zhihao. 

Zhihao sighed as he slowly nodded his head, "It's no use arguing over something like this." 

"You're right," Li Ling agreed, "So let's just complete the mission quickly." 

The two players didn't bother wasting further precious time and started walking around the place. 

They looked closely at their surroundings and couldn't help but be awed at the beauty of this level. 

The grass was still green but it also had a more blue hue to it and seemed to have a natural glow.

The trees looked much more normal, however, at the same time, they appeared to be mystical due to the glowing insects on them. 

The fireflies covered the trees as if the tree was their home and the result could clearly be seen as something beautiful and aesthetic. 

"It's so beautiful..." Zhihao muttered his thoughts out loud.

[Don't get distracted by the beauty. You need to find the stone.] 

"Right," Zhihao snapped out of his thoughts as he once again went back to searching the place. 

Li Ling sighed as he spoke up, "This is going to be pointless." 

"Let's just keep on searching. I'm sure we'll be able to find it," Zhihao reassured and Li Ling couldn't help but feel that the man was being a bit too overly optimistic. 

"A-Zhi, we have no leads here and my brain isn't really working right now." 

"..." Zhihao straightened his back and frowned as he turned to face Li Ling, "You're right. We have no leads but that doesn't give us a reason to simply stand and wait for some leads to come falling in front of us." 

"..." 

Zhihao smiled as he moved towards Li Ling and hooked his hands together, "How about this? Instead of thinking of this as a normal level, let's continue that interrupted date." 

Li Ling was a little surprised as he heard this suggestion, "Mastermo, did you forget that you're still streaming." 

Zhihao chuckled as he asked, "Are you worried about that? Isn't it perfect? You'll get a full HD recording of our first date." 

No matter how hard Li Ling tried not to break into a smile, he still ended up smiling as he looked at Zhihao's warm smile and heard his response. 

"A-Zhi, you have certainly grown shameless." 

"And is that a problem?" Zhihao beamed. 

"It is," Li Ling nodded his head as he added, "If you keep on being so confident, I might just end up kissing you till you drop." 

Zhihao's face cringed up as he questioned, "Did you get that line from some old drama?" 

Li Ling snickered but gave no answer to the question. 

Zhihao sighed as he shook his head and swung their interlinked hands together, "Now what do you say, Gege? Let's make this a date, okay?" 

At first, Li Ling had no plans of idling around in this level. He wanted to clear it as soon as possible so that he can explain the whole situation to Zhihao before its too late. However, with Zhihao tempting him like this, how could Li Ling not smile and agree to whatever Zhihao was asking him? 

"It's a date," Li Ling nodded and the smile on Zhihao's face seemed to have deepened as he heard this. 

"Great!~" Zhihao beamed as he pulled Li Ling along. 

[Eh?] 

[Are you being serious?] 

Alvi stood in her place and looked at the two players who were running away without any care for the world. 

She looked to be in disbelief as she waited and when they got a bit further away without looking as if they were going to stop anytime soon, her feet finally started moving as she ran after them with her tiny legs. 

[Wait!] 

[What the hell? Are you really not going to try and solve your mission?] 

Zhihao shook his head as he turned to look at the girl who was out of breath after all the running, "There are no leads for the stone and with no leads, there isn't much we can do. Doesn't that automatically make this mission something based solely on the player's luck? If it's a game based on luck, there isn't much we can do and even if we turn this whole world upside down, if luck isn't on our side, we would probably not be able to solve the mission." 

Li Ling couldn't help but be surprised at Zhihao who had somehow managed to come to an accurate analysis of the level. 

"It's a G-ranked level and hence the difficulty level is quite high with this one. For a normal level, the difficulty would be directly linked to how much work a player would have to do in order to complete the mission. The adversities that the player would have to overcome would also be considered. However, this level is based on luck so how can it be ranked so high on the difficulty level if there is no skill or adversities involved?" 

Alvi tilted her head in confusion as she asked, "How?" 

Zhihao smirked as he answered, "Luck. The difficulty level is calculated according to how much luck you'd need and in order to do that, you'll need to first understand exactly what luck is." 

[You're turning this too complicated.] 

Zhihao ignored the girl and continued, "Luck can be considered as winning a lottery from a ticket that was printed along with other identical tickets with different numbers on them. A person can't really adjust or calculate how much luck they have, but in a game, there is something that can be done." 

"And what's that?" Li Ling questioned although he already knew what Zhihao was coming to. 

"The number of printed tickets," Zhihao answered proudly, "If there were only a hundred lottery tickets printed, your chance would be one in a hundred. That is one percent. If the tickets printed were only ten in number, your chances of winning would increase to one out of ten. That is a ten percent chance of winning. So what if the printed tickets actually increase in number?" 

[How much of an increase are we talking about?] 

"Let's say that instead of a hundred, there were ten thousand lottery tickets printed. In such a case your chances of winning are pretty slim, are they not? Only 0.01 percent chance of winning." 

[That's right but... What does that have to do anything with the game?] 

"The internal working of a game can be controlled just like you can control the number of lottery tickets printed. If the gamemaster made the game in such a way that you're chance of winning was perhaps 0.00001 percent, wouldn't that particular game be high in difficulty level?" 

[Logically so.] 

"That's exactly why this level is ranked as a God-ranked level. The chance of finding the stone is so slim that you'd have to have God-level luck in order to complete the mission. When it comes to such a game based on luck, do you think there is anything I can do in order to improve my chances?" 

[There isn't...?] 

Zhihao smirked in satisfaction as he heard this response, "If you think there isn't anything I can do, you'll be wrong." 

[Eh?]