Chapter 16 Family

Nie Yan logged off and contacted Tang Yao, Guo Huai, and the others. Guo Huai had already completed the process of recruiting Brilliant Knife Light into the guild. The number of members in the Niu Ren Tribe guild had reached a terrifying 16,000. For a first-level guild, this number was extremely rare. After the guild's membership swelled to 16,000, the number of people joining slowly decreased. Guo Huai and the others began to divide the work, scrutinizing the background of each guild member. Those with questionable backgrounds who didn't pass the review were kicked out of the guild. Although even this couldn't guarantee that there weren't spies from other guilds within the guild, it could at least ensure that the team was a little purer.

After counting the guild members, there were roughly more than 3,000 above level 10, which was a bit low, but not bad.

Brilliant Knife Light, Big Brother Seven and others formed the guild's elite team. Joining the guild's elite team generally required signing an agreement. Members of the guild's elite team couldn't simply quit whenever they wanted. If they withdrew, they had to return everything the guild had given them and also pay a large amount of penalty fees. Every guild invested a lot in its elite team. Each member was the essence of the guild. If these elite members defected and left, it would be a huge loss to the guild, so it was necessary to use an agreement to restrain them.

However, once they entered the guild's elite team, it meant they could enjoy more of the guild's resources and would definitely be able to develop more than ordinary players, so they signed the agreement.

After the agreement was signed, the only Elementary Resurrection Scroll in the guild was handed over to Big Brother Seven.

At this current stage, an Elementary Resurrection Scroll was extremely valuable. Even if it was priced at dozens of gold coins outside, it might not be possible to buy it because it was too rare. Most of the elite teams of the major guilds didn't even have Elementary Resurrection yet. It would only become more common above level 20.

Elementary Resurrection could only resurrect players in the team and couldn't be used in combat. When going to instances, sometimes only halfway through, players would die too many times to continue. With Elementary Resurrection, they could resurrect their teammates. When dealing with the final Boss, it was difficult for the team to achieve complete invulnerability. Often, several players had to die before the Boss could be killed. With resurrection, they could avoid a lot of losses.

Therefore, for Big Brother Seven and the others, having Elementary Resurrection made going to instances much easier.

Everything was developing in an orderly manner. Nie Yan believed that with the skills of Big Brother Seven, Brilliant Knife Light, and others, the team formed would definitely be able to exert extremely strong combat power after a period of running-in.

After chatting with Tang Yao, Guo Huai, and the others, Nie Yan continued to implement his own training and study plan. After this period of intensified training, he felt full of strength, his physical reactions were more敏锐than before, and his height had increased by about three centimeters, making him more robust.

Nie Yan's parents would be back soon, and his mood became more and more anxious, and a strong longing arose.

Just as Nie Yan was anxiously waiting, his aunt and uncle came again, and after discovering that Nie Yan's parents hadn't returned yet, they left in disappointment. After they knew that Nie Yan had a chance to be admitted to the First Military Academy, even if they were very unwilling in their hearts, they could only greet Nie Yan with a smile, but they still remembered the money they lent to Nie Yan's parents.

Nie Yan really didn't want to use the game coins in the game, because before the real-world currency exchange for game coins was opened, every gold coin in the game was very valuable. However, the exchange price of game coins on the black market was far from the value of the game coins themselves. A group of big shots deliberately suppressed the purchase price together. Selling game coins was too uneconomical. Now, every gold coin was Nie Yan's capital to deal with Cao Xu in the future.

Nie Yan called Tang Yao and said, "Yaozi, do you have any money right now? Lend me some first, and I'll pay you back in a while."

"How much do you need?" Tang Yao asked, quite surprised. Nie Yan rarely borrowed money from him.

"Probably more than 500,000," Nie Yan said after thinking for a moment. This was the first time Nie Yan had borrowed money from Tang Yao. As long as a few more days passed, his parents would return, and he could pay it back.

"That's a lot. Give me your card number, and I'll transfer the money to your account."

"You're not going to ask me what I'm borrowing this money for?"

"You kid never borrows money from me. As soon as you open your mouth to borrow money, I know you must have something going on, something serious. If you don't say it, I won't ask. Even if you borrow more, I'll run outside and scrape together money to help you find it. Who told us we're brothers who grew up wearing open-crotch pants together!" Tang Yao said. After his father became rich, there were more and more people around him who flattered him, and fewer and fewer people who could treat him sincerely. Most of them had ulterior motives, which made him cherish his friendship with Nie Yan even more. In his opinion, friendship was priceless. He didn't lack money, but he lacked friends!

"My dad owed money when he left, and someone came to collect the debt. I don't want to use the gold coins in the game, so I can only borrow it from you first," Nie Yan explained.

"It's those snobbish relatives of yours, isn't it?" Tang Yao sneered. "They'll regret it one day!" With Nie Yan's current development in the game, when the exchange between RMB and game coins is opened in the future, his net worth will definitely be frighteningly high. How would he care about this little money in the future?

After a while, Tang Yao said on the phone, "I've transferred the money to your account."

Nie Yan went to the bank to withdraw some cash and walked towards the homes of his uncle, aunt, and others. The place where they lived wasn't far from Nie Yan's home. It was in the same community, so they could be said to see each other all the time, but Nie Yan had never felt a trace of warmth from them, even less than the surrounding neighbors.

Nie Yan knocked on the iron door of his uncle Luo Ming's house.

"Who is it?" An annoying voice rang out. It was his aunt's croaking voice.

"It's me," Nie Yan's voice was cold and devoid of any anger. He didn't need to get angry with these irrelevant people.

His aunt opened the iron door. After seeing Nie Yan, she showed a disgusted expression, but then she thought of something, and her expression froze on her face. She asked in a stiff tone, "It's Xiao Yan. What's the matter? Do you want to come in and sit down?" But she didn't mean to let Nie Yan in at all.

"No need. I want to ask, how much money did my parents borrow from you?"

"170,000. With interest, it's almost 220,000. What's wrong?" his aunt glanced at Nie Yan and asked.

"This is to pay you back. Give me back my parents' IOU," Nie Yan's tone was chilling. This was usurious high-interest loan. One could imagine how much difficulty his parents had when they borrowed the money and agreed to such high interest before they were willing to lend it! It was even harder than borrowing money from strangers! What would happen if Nie Yan's father's business failed? His parents would never be able to get back on their feet in their lives!

Nie Yan thought that he was so ignorant at the beginning, and he didn't know how much pressure his parents were under. Instead, he resented them for abandoning him and kept tormenting them, causing them to be full of guilt towards him and never enjoying a good day. In this life, he would never let such a thing happen again. Moreover, he wanted to become stronger so that he had enough ability to protect this family.

"Where did you get your money?" his aunt asked, stunned when she saw Nie Yan take out so much money.

"Stop talking nonsense and bring me my parents' IOU!" Nie Yan's face was covered with frost.

Seeing Nie Yan get angry, his aunt immediately lost her temper. Nie Yan was different now than before. If she really angered him, he might be able to do anything! She quickly went to the room to get the IOU and returned it to Nie Yan.

Nie Yan looked at the IOU and confirmed that it was his father's handwriting. Too lazy to talk nonsense with her, he turned around and left.

"It's really weird. Where did this kid find so much money? Could it be..." The old woman thought of something, shuddered, and quickly closed the iron door.

Nie Yan knocked on each door and paid back the money. It was afternoon when he finished.

"Did you pay it all back?" Tang Yao called Nie Yan and asked.

"Yeah, I paid it all back. I'll pay you back the money I borrowed from you in a few days," Nie Yan said. Comparing Tang Yao with those relatives, he knew the coldness of human relationships.

"No hurry, it's okay," Tang Yao waved his hand. He wasn't in a hurry to use the money. Suddenly he thought of something and said, "Why don't you just give me some game coins in the game?"

"That's fine too," Nie Yan nodded. In fact, even if the price was suppressed on the black market outside, game coins were still very valuable, after all, game coins in Faith were too scarce. "I might have something to do after I enter the game. You guys level up first."

"Okay."

After agreeing with Tang Yao, Nie Yan exercised for a day and continued to enter the game in the evening.

In order to find the key to open the Dark Gold Treasure Chest, Nie Yan began searching the island, not letting go of every inch of land, and walked towards the dilapidated altar a dozen yards away. Unexpectedly, he had some unexpected gains. He found an unlocked Silver Chest in a corner and took out two recipes from it.

After looking at them, they were the Black Elf Blight Toxin Recipe and the Black Elf Arrow Poisoning Toxin Recipe. The former was a toxin recipe used to quench sharp weapons such as knives, swords, and daggers. The latter was a toxin recipe used to quench arrows. Both were intermediate-level. The blight toxin could cause 30 damage and last for 20 seconds. The materials were some blight insects, which were difficult to find. At least level 30 was required to get them. The other arrow poisoning toxin could cause an additional 50 poison damage. The materials were some relatively common herbs, requiring as many as seven types. The cost of each potion was at least ten silver coins and could be used three times. The sales of arrow poisoning toxin had always been the worst among all potions, so there was no economic benefit. But for Nie Yan, it was definitely a good thing. He must let Bird Plume make them after he returned.

The ruins of the altar in the distance were covered with weeds. Only the approximate outline of the altar could be vaguely seen. Could the key to the Dark Gold Treasure Chest really be found here? Nie Yan couldn't help but feel skeptical.