Transmigration with Cheat Codes Chapter 13.2: Victory

Wang Youhuai was struggling to apply medicine to his wounds. He was unsure whether the young girl in the green dress would return, so he had to focus on saving himself.

In the distance, there was initially silence, but soon, the sound of blades clashing reached his ears. After a moment, the unsettling silence returned once more.

After an uncertain amount of time, a cold wind with the moisture of the mountains blew by, and the young girl in the green dress with a veil appeared once again.

She reached out her hand and effortlessly lifted Wang Youhuai's body. Using her qinggong she carried him back to the center of the campsite.

The torches crackled and sizzled, illuminating the area as Chen Shen, Uncle Zhao, and Lin San were moved to the open ground.

Meanwhile, all the members of the Ghost Cry Gang seemed to evaporate into thin air. In "Martial Arts Ascension," the game mechanics allowed the use of corpse-altering items to forcibly refresh the bodies of various monsters.

After quickly checking on Chen Shen and the others and ensuring that they were not in immediate danger, Wang Youhuai temporarily skipped the process of crying and comforting his friends. Instead, he began to carefully recount his previous experiences.

---Originally, he wasn't such a meek and honest person, but after being kidnapped once, he began to see everyone as a potential female bandit chief coming down from the mountains to abduct people.

Before he spoke, Wang Youhuai hesitated and glanced at Lin San.

In an instant, Meng Jintang understood his implicit meaning. She reached out and pressed on Lin San's neck, causing him to immediately fall into a state of unconsciousness, giving Wang Youhuai ample opportunity to talk bad about him behind his back.

According to Wang Youhuai, Lin San was different from them. He was half deceived and half coerced into joining the gang.

At first, the three leaders, particularly Chen Henyu, tricked Lin San and Chen Shen into believing that they were thieves who had stolen their belongings. They promised to teach Lin San martial arts once he helped them procure supplies from the nearby area and retrieve their stolen items.

The allure of the martial world was too strong, and even though he knew the risks involved, Lin San gritted his teeth and agreed.

Being in a special situation of running away from home, Lin San secretly sought help from his younger brother, Lin Si.

However, perhaps due to the prolonged delay caused by the Ghost Cry Gang or due to Chen Henyu's acting skills not being convincing enough, Lin San began to harbor suspicions.

He wanted to sneak away quietly but was caught by Chen Henyu, who used his younger brother as leverage to keep him in line.

During the meeting with his brother, Lin Si inexplicably got bitten by a snake in the forest.

Chen Henyu warned Lin San that if he cooperated obediently and completed the task, he would completely remove the snake venom from Lin Si's body afterward. However, if he didn't comply, both brothers would be poisoned to death together.

Fortunately, it was said that the snake venom in Lin Si's body was ultimately cured by a wandering doctor who happened to pass by. It was a stroke of good luck for him.

However, Lin San was afraid that Chen Henyu might continue to target his younger brother, so he didn't dare to expose the hiding place of these people. When he went to procure supplies, he tried to conceal his true identity and keep a low profile as much as possible.

Meng Jintang, “the wandering doctor” was speechless.

She suddenly recalled that when she overheard the casual conversation among the townspeople, they mentioned that Lin Si's condition had been somewhat unstable. Clearly, that was the answer to the mystery.

However, Meng Jintang also believed that the reason for Lin Si's fluctuating condition was not only because Chen Henyu wanted to control Lin San but also because there was a deeper reason like "the game designers needed a reasonable excuse to prolong the duration of the NPC's illness to increase gameplay."

[System: Successfully located Lin San, the third son of the Lin family. Friendship level with Meitai Town increased by 2 points, with Helu Town increased by 4 points, and with Hanshan Town increased by 5 points.]

---Lin San was a resident of Meitai Town, while Wang Youhuai and the others were residents of Helu Town. So, it wasn't surprising that their actions increased the friendliness level of two system towns.

As for the last increase in friendliness with Hanshan Town, Meng Jintang thought it could only be explained by the fact that the Ghost Cry Gang temporarily set up their base in the Han Mountain. The local wildlife must have felt delighted that they were finally physically expelled from the area.

The new moon hung in the sky, and in the distance, the mountains undulated like black waves.

Meng Jintang reached out and stirred the fire pit.

Chen Shen and Uncle Zhao didn't have any obvious external injuries, but their faces looked equally grim and unpleasant.

Due to Uncle Zhao’s advanced age, he couldn't withstand much torture. In order to extract information about the changes in the surrounding environment, Wen Yudi and the others had no choice but to resort to using gentle methods.

As for Chen Shen...

Even though they were separated by the veil, Chen Shen still felt like the other person's gaze was fixated on him.

The four NPCs present were obviously not aware of the game principles regarding red and green names, which required distinct treatment.

Whether it was Chen Shen, Zhao Bo, Wang Youhuai, or Lin San, who had lost the right to speak and listen, they all considered the disappeared members of the Ghost Cry Gang as a warning to themselves and their group.

Chen Shen showed a bitter smile and said, "It's all because of me that Brother Youhuai encountered danger. I won't hide it from the lady, I spent some time wandering in the martial world in my younger days."

“....”

Faced with Chen Shen's self-confession, Uncle Zhao looked bewildered as if he couldn't understand, while Wang Youhuai's expression showed that he had already anticipated this revelation.

As for Meng Jintang...

She indeed hadn't noticed, but it wasn't due to her lack of observation skills. The main reason was Chen Shen's low strength, which had blurred the line between a martial artist and an ordinary person in the martial world.

According to Chen Shen himself, he could barely claim some connection with the Jinghua Temple in the Nanyue Mountain.

The Wang family was a prominent household in Helu Town, while the Chen family used to be as well. However, due to a decline in population and poor management, the Chen family gradually fell into decline.

When Chen Shen lost his last guardian at a young age, he was going through the most passionate and impulsive rebellious phase of his life. Besides inheriting the elders' flaws in managing the family business, he also had a longing for freedom in his heart.

The martial world was so vast, and he wanted to go and see it for himself.

Chen Shen managed to gain the opportunity to study at a martial arts school by offering generous gifts to a secular disciple of Jinghua Temple, who had studied martial arts in Nanyue Mountain for a few years before starting his own martial arts academy.

However, due to the transactional nature of the gift, the master-disciple relationship between them was not very apparent. In a way, Chen Shen was not considered a true disciple of the martial arts school.

It's unclear whether it was because the martial arts school's master lacked sufficient skill or if Chen Shen's aptitude was lacking, but after studying there for several years, his martial arts remained at a very basic and ordinary level.

Eventually, he registered with a certain escort agency and started assisting senior members in escorting goods, earning some wages to make ends meet.

His martial skills could be described as utterly unremarkable, and even calling them average would be an exaggeration.

The main reason he was accepted was that he could read and write due to his education. The saying "knowledge is power" held true even in the world of martial arts, making it universally applicable.

Chen Shen originally thought his days would continue like this, day by day, but one day, while escorting goods, he encountered an unexpected situation.