COSG - Chapter 74.1: Spineless Players

"Hal was lying," Qin Guan said with certainty.

"On the contrary, I think what he said is most likely true," Blossoming Stroke refuted.

Continuous usage of Illusory Disguise would deplete one's mental energy, which, when translated to players' character panels, manifested as a rage gauge for warriors or a mana bar for mages. The two had hurried out of the Wanderer Guild's hall in haste, finding an excuse to leave just before Qin Guan's rage gauge fully depleted.

Qin Guan couldn't understand where Blossoming Strokes was coming from and asked, "How so? The version of Hal we saw in the instance took on the job of burying bodies for money, but Hal himself claimed his family was well-off. There's a contradiction right there."

"It's not contradictory. He might have been affluent once, but due to his family's downfall, the young master who could once have attended prestigious institutions ended up doing all sorts of odd jobs for money. That's still rather plausible," Blossoming Strokes explained. "In the instance, the Hal we saw, though in a sorry state, was wearing a cashmere coat, which indicates that his family was well-off."

Qin Guan: "??"

"Before synthetic fibers became popular, cashmere was quite an expensive textile. During my childhood, our elders only owned two cashmere coats altogether, unlike nowadays, where you can easily buy cashmere fabric for several dozen yuan." Blossoming Strokes, who was a few years older than Qin Guan, had done a fair amount of research for writing her web novels, and her common knowledge was way broader than the former. "The background setting of this game seems to be closer to 19th-century Europe. Under such circumstances, a typical street urchin wouldn't be able to afford a cashmere coat."

"Um… Alright then. So, that means Hal got to know Jim only after he fell on hard times. He's also not willing to talk about what happened after his family's downfall, so how are we going to gather information then?"

Blossoming Strokes replied, "We already have."

Qin Guan: "??"

Blossoming S

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