Since the system became my girlfriend

There's a proverb that goes, "A common man is innocent, but possessing a treasure is a crime!"

At this moment, Su Rui and Feng Lixi were doing just that. They were honestly grinding monsters in the valley, which was not wrong in itself. On the contrary, their monster-grinding made things much easier for the players who came here to do quests, because they had killed the rock golems near the valley exit, so these players no longer had to hide and run around while mining and doing quests.

But it was precisely because Su Rui and Feng Lixi were living such a comfortable life that they would bend down to pick up something almost every time they killed a rock golem. Although outsiders could not see what they were picking up, they could guess that the golem core was definitely among them!

One puppet core can be exchanged for 100 experience points and 20 copper coins. A small amount of copper coins may not be much, but a large amount of experience points is indeed tempting.

Players in the starting village are randomly assigned, and there are all sorts of personalities among them. There might be some greedy guys who will be envious, and once someone becomes envious, that greed can be contagious.

Unable to defeat the rock golems, these guys set their sights on Su Rui and Feng Lixi. After a brief discussion, the group of rascals formed a small team to rob Su Rui and Feng Lixi of their golem cores.

Since the Puppet Core is not a bound item, it can be traded and dropped, which arouses the greed of those players. Greedy bad guys only need a glance to collude together, like this ten-person team outside the valley!

In fact, there were only a little over a hundred players in Su Rui's starting village. The sudden appearance of ten strangers who tried to seize the puppet core from Su Rui shows that in the game world, without the constraints of law, people's hearts do tend towards darkness.

In reality, while not all ten of these people would be good, at least nine of them wouldn't dare to rob in broad daylight. However, in the game world, these people are free from the constraints of the law and dare to take risks.

“I just checked. Those two guys must have made a lot of money. I don’t know how they farmed the rock golems, but in the last two hours, they’ve farmed at least a hundred monsters. They must have at least fifty or sixty golem cores. That’s enough for us to level up several times!” said a bald, thin man with a dragon tattooed on his arm. However, the tattoo artist’s skills were probably a bit lacking, as the dragon looked more like a ribbonfish.

This level of tattoo is so good that it's almost obvious it's the work of Old Wang from the east end of the newbie village. You can choose from four copper coin designs. At this price, even if you get a ribbonfish tattoo, you'll be lucky to make a profit!

"Being able to farm rock golems means these two are quite skilled..." A quiet young man frowned. This guy looked so gentle and refined, but who would have thought he was actually full of bad intentions.

"Hmph! So what? Even if he's a professional player, so what? This is the newbie village, everyone's the same, all junk gear and useless skills. No matter how skilled he is, he can't fly to the sky. There are so many of us, we can hack him to death with a flurry of blows!" the bald man said disdainfully.

"Yeah! If so many of us surround them, they might get scared and hand over the puppet core on their own!" said a young boy.

“What if they come after us? Judging from what you’ve said, they might be professional gamers. Although the difference in strength between us and them wasn’t significant when we were in the newbie village, they’ll probably hunt us down once we’re outside,” a woman in her late thirties or early forties asked with some concern. She was the only woman in the group.

"Hmph! Are you stupid? There are 365 first-level main cities and 1,024 second-level main cities in the entire 'Source' world. Once we leave the newbie village, where will they find us?" The bald man rolled his eyes and said.

“That’s true…” The other players nodded. Among so many main cities, the chances of running into the two players in the valley again were extremely low.

"Let's do it! If we pull off this job, we can leave the starting village at least a day earlier!"

"Yeah, with so many of us, are we really afraid of just the two of them?"

With more people around, they did become bolder. After discussing it for a while, the ten guys outside the valley made their final decision.

……

Meanwhile, Su Rui and Feng Lixi killed another rock golem and were sitting on the ground resting and recovering their health. After two hours of grinding, they had both reached level six.

At this moment, a player approached and started mining not far from Su Rui. The rock golems here had just been killed, so it was a safe zone for a short time, and it was easy to farm twenty rough iron ores.

"Dude, watch out, you're being watched!" The player next to Su Rui said without looking up, his head down as he was mining.

"Hmm?" Su Rui raised an eyebrow.

"You guys are being a bit too conspicuous by farming puppet cores like this. It's normal that people are eyeing you." The player continued mining with his head down, while the group of players outside were already preparing to enter the valley.

"Brother, what do you mean by that?" Su Rui was stunned for a moment. The newbie village allocation rules in "Source" are different from other games. Players here are randomly assigned, so it is unlikely that there will be any gangs in the early stages. However, he forgot how conspicuous his behavior was.

"They're here. You'd better use your teleportation skill immediately. That way, you might be able to get back to the safe zone before they attack!" The mining player kept his head down, clearly not wanting anyone to see that he had been communicating with Su Rui, lest he be implicated by them.

"Hehe, thanks! Let's be friends, bro!" Su Rui sent a friend request directly!

"Ding! You have become friends with Tang Seng's Pantene Shampoo!"

With a system notification, the other party accepted Su Rui's friend request.

“Your name…” Su Rui and Tang Seng exchanged a glance and couldn’t help but laugh out loud. Neither of these guys had a proper name.

"Xiao Xi, these guys are up to no good, let's get out of here!" Su Rui said to Feng Lixi. Although he was a professional player, he only had one basic skill. Facing ten times the number of enemies, he was somewhat unsure of himself.

"What are you afraid of? Didn't you say you're a professional gamer? You can't even handle a few opponents? How are you going to protect me then?" Feng Lixi said, frowning.

"Tch! Just a bunch of rabble. I just didn't want to cause any more bloodshed!" How could Su Rui, a womanizer, allow himself to back down in front of girls?

"Okay! Then go and take care of them! There's a reward!" Feng Lixi said, while intentionally or unintentionally pouting.

"Alright! Pout your little mouth and wait for your brother to come and collect his reward!" Provoked by Feng Lixi, Su Rui was like he had been injected with chicken blood. Although he still had the spiked club on his back, his fingers were already cracking loudly as he clenched it!