The Female CEO's Personal Bodyguard

Chapter 3752 Hand over the task list, or I'll beat you to death!

The middle-aged man's expression changed: "I'm a staff member!"

Lin Chen laughed and said, "The rules don't say you can't spar with staff. The guy in the valley is also a staff member, right? So you're different from him. It's the same principle for me to beat him and beat you. If I can beat him, I can definitely beat you. If I can't beat him, then I might be able to beat you."

"If that's the case, why should I travel those extra two hundred miles to beat up a clearly stronger opponent?"

The middle-aged man's expression grew increasingly grim: "This is against the rules!"

Lin Chen laughed and said, "Anything not prohibited by law is permissible. The Heavenly God didn't say that participants can't beat up staff, nor did he say that staff can't let participants choose their own questions, right?"

The middle-aged man felt his mind was blank after Lin Chen's words. Although it sounded very illegal, upon closer inspection, what he said was indeed not illegal.

Why don't you play by the rules?
Seeing that the middle-aged man didn't refute, Lin Chen smiled brightly.

It seems that what I thought was indeed the same.

It's really possible to do that!
If someone gives you a task, and you obediently complete it, then it's fine if the task is easy. But what if it's difficult?

If a task is too difficult and you can't complete it, you can't move on. If you want to continue, you have to find another NPC and take on a new task. This cycle repeats itself, which wastes a lot of time.
Lin Chen clenched his fist and laughed, "Senior, it's just a game anyway. Since we didn't break any rules, why make ourselves uncomfortable? Getting punched hurts a lot."

The middle-aged man angrily said, "This world has a realm suppression system. You may not be able to beat me. I'm just injured, not dead."

Lin Chen chuckled and said, "I am a Five Elements attribute, so the suppression of my realm is even better for me. After all, I advanced with five Great Dao Spirits. If I can't even beat someone of the same realm, wouldn't that be too embarrassing?"

As Lin Chen spoke, his aura shifted continuously, sometimes burning like flames, sometimes swirling like flowing water, and sometimes radiating the essence of wood...

The middle-aged man fell silent.

Yes, as a member of a different race, being able to advance to the Saint level based on the Five Elements means that one's strength is obviously extraordinary, and there is really no way I could defeat him!

Lin Chen laughed and said, "It's a favor to everyone. Let me take a look at the other tasks."

The middle-aged man, not wanting to be beaten, angrily threw out a notebook.

"The tasks are all listed above, take a look for yourself."

Lin Chen took the notebook and smiled, "Thank you, senior."

The notebook was filled with words, line after line, each line representing a task. These tasks were all sorts of things, including all kinds of tasks.

Lin Chen looked through the list and laughed, "I see you have a pill-refining task here, which I think is quite suitable for me. Why don't I take this task? Since it's a task, you must have the materials here?"

The middle-aged man reluctantly tossed out the various materials for refining pills. Lin Chen returned the notebook to the man, then sat down on the open ground nearby and began refining pills.

This elixir isn't particularly advanced, but it still requires a high level of skill in alchemy.

This task is not a difficult problem for experienced alchemists, but for non-alchemists, it is as difficult as climbing to the sky and is an absolutely impossible task.

Lin Chen also realized that all the tasks were random. If a task didn't match yours, you would have to go to another place and find another NPC to start the task again.

Since it's a game, isn't finding loopholes in the game rules something players should be doing?

As long as you haven't said it's not allowed, then what I did isn't considered a violation.

The reason Lin Chen did this was actually to avoid a hidden rule.

These NPCs stand guard at the checkpoints, randomly giving out questions to people, which can lead to a problem: they might give easy questions to those they like, and complex questions to those they don't.

If we were to ask who in the entire Celestial Paradise is the most disliked by these Celestials, it would be...
Of course it's Lin Chen, that alien!
These people don't like Lin Chen, so why don't they use the rules they have to give Lin Chen the most difficult questions, so that he will fail and be humiliated?
Even if we can't kill Lin Chen, it would be fun to annoy him, make him fail, and see him look pathetic.

Lin Chen had just looked through all the missions. Some were easy, and some were difficult. This mission, which involved beating up the neighbor and stealing their magic weapon, was definitely difficult. After all, everyone was suppressing their cultivation level, so winning and stealing someone else's magic weapon wasn't going to be easy.

If you're already exhausted at the very beginning, how are you going to compete for the later levels?
Lin Chen didn't believe that this middle-aged man harbored no ill will towards him whatsoever.

Soon, Lin Chen finished refining the pills and handed them to the middle-aged man.

After the middle-aged man inspected the product, he found it to be of excellent quality and fully qualified, and suddenly he could no longer find a reason to refuse.

"Are you an alchemist?"

Lin Chen smiled and said, "I know a little."

The middle-aged man put away the pills, expressionlessly raised his hand, and unleashed a beam of golden light that shot into the room.

Golden ripples instantly spread throughout the room, and then a portal resembling water waves appeared in the previously empty room.

"You've passed! Go through the portal and you'll enter the area behind this barrier. Just continue heading north."

Lin Chen nodded: "Thank you, senior."

The middle-aged man snorted coldly, leaned back in his chair again, and refused to look at Lin Chen again.

Lin Chen wasn't annoyed. Having been in the Celestial Realm for so long, he had seen all sorts of attitudes from the Celestial Race towards him.
what is this?
Lin Chen entered the room and stepped through the teleportation portal.

Sure enough, as if passing through an invisible barrier, his body appeared behind the barrier.

Lin Chen leaped into the air and continued heading north.

Soon, Lin Chen encountered the second barrier. After following the barrier for a while, he found an identical little house standing in a valley, with a gatekeeper in front of it as well.

Lin Chen stepped forward and respectfully asked, "Senior, may I ask if anyone else has tried to pass this test before me?"

The gatekeeper sized up Lin Chen, his eyes filled with undisguised disdain.

"An alien race? Hmph, why are you asking that?"

Lin Chen replied in a gentle and friendly manner, "I just wanted to check on my progress."

The gatekeeper snorted and said, "This is the second test; you're the first one here."

A smile appeared on Lin Chen's face: "Is that so? Then I'm relieved."

The gatekeeper looked at Lin Chen with suspicion: "What do you mean? What are you relieved about?"

Lin Chen took two steps forward, smiling at the gatekeeper: "I know you have many tasks, and you assign them randomly, but I think it's better for me to choose..."

The gatekeeper suddenly stood up, glaring at Lin Chen: "Alien race, what did you say?"

Lin Chen calmly said, "Hand over the mission list, or I'll beat you to death!"

(End of this chapter)