Chapter 54 – Egg Fried Rice

"Hm, bank transfer. I'll send the items to Old Luo…"

"No need to go through so much trouble, just tell me your bank account details. Why make something that only takes a few seconds or minutes so complicated?" Azure Armor forthrightly waved his hand, showing that he completely trusted Su Mo.

Since Azure Armor trusted him, Su Mo did not refuse.

Indeed, Su Mo received the transfer within a few minutes, after which he sent the items over.

"Heheh, I really must express my respect. As expected from the best bounty hunter, haha." After seeing the ten Orange Tree Hearts in his bag, Azure Armor felt as if this was not real.

They had tried all kinds of ways to farm Orange Tree Hearts. They were not able to obtain many and had suffered heavy losses. In the end, they had lost more EXP than they had gained from the Orange Tree Hearts.

"Don't puff me up, what best bounty hunter? That was just Old Luo sticking gold on my face." Su Mo felt quite embarrassed to be flattered like this. I Love Luo had said that Su Mo was the best bounty hunter that he knew, but Azure Armor directly changed that to the best bounty hunter.

"Err… we have a quest that we triggered at the start, but we couldn't complete it. Can you help us?"

Alright, there was no such thing as a free lunch, and there was naturally no such thing as pointless flattery.

"What kind of quest is it?" Su Mo felt quite curious.

"I'll have someone tell you about the specifics. This quest has been an unresolved case for our guild for a while," Azure Armor said somewhat embarrassedly. He had asked Su Mo excitedly on a whim, and he had not talked with the person responsible for the quest.

"What's your guild called?" Su Mo asked.

"Gods of Dusk."

Gods of Dusk and Pantheon. It seemed they really were competitors; even their names seemed to be rivals.

After contacting that person, Azure Armor said awkwardly, "The quest has already expired; we won't bother brother Iron Steed."

"No worries, just let me know if you need anything in the future." 

Su Mo inwardly let out a sigh of relief.

Even though he had the Boss monster chat group as a trump card, it could not tell him about everything. It was normal for him to ask about something and no one to know anything, so if he could not help, his reputation as the best bounty hunter would be damaged.

"Of course, of course. Will you have more Orange Tree Hearts tomorrow?"

"Haha, we'll see," Su Mo could only chuckle. He could not act too confident or else he would reveal too much.

"Alright, if you have any, just directly contact me."

"That's right, where did you get that quest that you couldn't clear?" Su Mo asked.

"Is brother Iron Steed interested? Alright, I'll ask and give you the information," Azure Armor said. Many people in his guild had accepted this quest, but none of them had been successful. This was not something that could be explained just by difficulty; it might be an incomplete quest.

"Thanks for that."

Su Mo had an idea, which was to collect some 'incomplete quests' and see if they were indeed incomplete quests, or if it was just that no one had discovered the way to do them.

With the monsters' help, many quests could be completed through reverse deduction.

It was a pity that the strength of players was quite great and many quests had been checked over and over. Those that could be completed would be completed at some point, and those that could not be completed were usually incomplete quests or could only be completed when a new expansion was released.

The current patch, Moon of Demon Blood, was focused on the demon blood ravaging through the Eastern Continent. Many creatures and even humans went through mutations, and no one knew when the next patch was coming.

After saying their goodbyes, Su Mo went to farm pirates. This was part of his agreement with Soni Junior, so he went to kill pirates every day.

The EXP that the pirates gave was decent, and he could also train his battle strength in wolf form. However, he could not always fight using Lafu's body; after all, his main fighting method was with his Ranger character.

Su Mo farmed monsters while reading through information.

Azure Armor had quickly sent over the information, and Su Mo used Lafu's account to ask the monsters. They did not have any information either; it seemed that it really was an incomplete quest.

There were quite a few of these incomplete quests on the forum.

Su Mo began to look through the forum and skipped over the gossip and guides, looking for the so-called incomplete quests.

As he looked through, he actually found a quest that looked doable.

It had a keyword—Baron Bary.

Baron was actually quite a low grade of nobility. The ranking went from Duke, to Marquis, to Count, to Viscount, and then to Baron. If one became a Mage or Priest, one would become a Lord, and leveling up or doing a few things could make them a Baron.

There were innumerable Barons in the Eastern Continent, and some of them were true nobles, while some were even poorer than commoners.

Baron Bary was not poor because his territory was in the Long Island Federation.

If it was in Nosa or Kelo, all nobility had to lower their heads and act humble in front of the King, Papacy, or Magic Assembly. However, the Long Island Federation was different; there was no King there, only a Chairman.

Moreover, the Chairman was not dictatorial; the Kingdom's power was scattered in the large and small noble families.

A Baron in the Long Island Federation was grander than a Count or even Marquis in Kelo Kingdom.

After completing the pirate quest, Su Mo was incredibly hungry, so he logged off to eat.

Back then, he would frequent high-class restaurants and even invite popular chefs he was familiar with to his house to cook. Now, he could only sit on plastic chairs by the side of the road and eat $5 egg fried rice.

However, because business had been going well recently, Su Mo extravagantly asked for two eggs.

"Boss, give me two cloves of garlic." Su Mo was immediately drawn to this familiar voice. His body could not help but feel a bit excited, and he almost dropped the egg fried rice and rushed over.

Fortunately, he controlled himself against this reflex.

"Ai, Su Mo, you're actually eating egg fried rice? Haha, did you run out of money, so you can only eat egg fried rice? Your girlfriend isn't taking care of you anymore, huh? Not gonna be a sugar baby anymore, huh? Look at that Sichuan restaurant opposite us, their special today is pineapple sweet and sour pork…"

Fu Jiafeng held a bowl of egg fried rice in one hand and a plastic chair in the other before sitting next to Su Mo.

"Wipe your drool, aren't you also eating egg fried rice? Boy, did your family stop giving you pocket money, haha?" Su Mo could only do his best to counterattack.

This boy was incredibly annoying, and if he did not give him a beating, even the heavens would be infuriated. It was just that they were both holding a bowl of egg fried rice and it was not convenient to fight.

"I, Fu Jiafeng, will not rely on my family. Even if I starve to death, I won't ask for a single cent from them."

"Wow, how ambitious. Are you planning on taking 'protection fee' from people again?" Su Mo looked at him with condescension.

"I… I'm not going to take protection fees from others. I've decided that I'm going to make a name for myself in the game. Not only am I going to support myself, but I'm also going to become an overlord!"

"Pft, cough cough." A middle-aged uncle sitting next to them was startled by these 8th grader syndrome words. Not only did he choke, but a few grains of rice sprayed out from his nose, causing Su Mo and Fu Jiafeng to quickly cover their bowls.

"Didn't your family forgive you? Why aren't they giving you allowance anymore?" Su Mo would never admit that he cared about the boy and was worried that he would copy others and use a knife to demand protection fees.