Chapter 46
Ji Ye asked the rest of the players for their self-introductions.
“Li Qing, 37, used to be a scout when serving the army.” This was the man who stayed silent most of the time.
“An Quan, 30, programmer and designer. Gaming, to be exact.” This was the fat office man. The answer somewhat explained his hair problem.
The strange name reminded Ji Ye of another “outlaw hero” from Water Margin called “An Daoquan,” a skilled physician who served the emperor during the Song Dynasty. He wondered if this hero would show up soon.
“Qin Yueyu, Olympic Archer. I’ve won the national championship twice,” the short-haired woman spoke up next.
Ji Ye nodded in delight upon hearing her profession. This sounded like a wonderful job to have in the settlement, especially when they needed to confront a bunch of “Eagle Men” across the abyss sooner or later.
“Xu Xue. I produced a few well-known songs and movies,” the “popstar lady” spoke while giving Ji Ye a suggestive look, as if she wanted something.
Ji Ye nodded slightly and looked at the next player.
“Su Nongying, business administration. Currently helping my company with human resource management and logistics,” Su Nongying spoke in a very small voice that people barely heard her.
Ji Ye took an extra moment checking this woman, for he just noticed that she seemed to be showing some particular signs of emotion as she spoke.
“Nice.” Ji Ye nodded. “Yeah, you can stay here.”
He turned to the female players next. “What about you four? Kindly tell me your opinions as well.”
He didn’t mean to discriminate against anyone. It was just that, having males handle physical labor while asking females to deal with supportive work at home was human nature.
Also, it seemed that the Land of Inheritance had also agreed to this matter because all the ladies were one rank lower than the men at the beginning.
“I’ll go with you.” Su Nongying stepped up first.
Qin Yueyu also followed up. “I have no problem with participating in some action. But can I take a bow and several arrows? The wooden one used by the guards will do.”
“I—I’ll go as well,” said Shang Yang. “I can be your field medic. But please don’t let monsters near me…”
“Give me a weapon too!” Xu Xue asked excitedly. She made this decision because she had already learned from the forum that there were wonderful items she could find after killing monsters, such as expensive perfumes no longer sold in reality.
Ji Ye was a bit surprised to see all of them willing to participate in the adventure.
“Find ten people and come with us. Bring your weapons too,” he said to the guards outside the shrine. “Oh and, Chief Lu, do you mind if I change the name of the shrine? I want to call it the ‘Shrine of Faith’ from now on.”
“Eh? Well, of course I don’t, master. And… thank you!” The big man looked excited for some reason.
Meanwhile, the two old men heard their conversation and quickly understood what that meant.
“This youngling… he’s really something, you know?”
In the original story of Water Margin, Song Jiang changed “Hall of Faith” to “Hall of Loyalty” before he submitted to the government and sold his brothers out. Wu Song and Lu Zhishen were the two outlaw heroes who suffered most during the incident.
Apparently, Ji Ye intended to prevent the sad outcome from happening there.