I Became the Blacksmith NPC

Liu Kongkong logged out at lightning speed and opened his eyes.

Before he even got up, he already knew his current situation — the explosive power that had been surging through his body was gone. He got up and walked to the bathroom, looked himself over, and from the outside, he seemed no different from when his Constitution had been at a thousand points. He raised his arm and flexed slightly; the muscles were still there, but they no longer looked as terrifying as before.

So wearing the ring in the game suppressed his body in the real world too? Did that mean every time he wanted to release the suppression, he'd have to log in and take the ring off? He might not need such terrifying strength in real life, but Liu Kongkong still glanced down at his left middle finger.

"Wait — I can't see the ring on my finger, but I can feel something there..."

He reached out and touched his middle finger. The tip of his finger confirmed there was indeed a hard layer on the skin. He tried to pry it off, but it wouldn't budge. He gently stroked it — and the next second, the aura around his body exploded! A fierce gust of wind swept through the room despite the doors and windows being shut tight! Liu Kongkong looked down at his arm; the muscles beneath his skin were writhing frantically, and a few seconds later, a sharp, grating sound of metal grinding against metal rang out from within his body!

He quickly stroked his left middle finger again, and his body returned to normal...

"I've actually turned into Superman..." Liu Kongkong broke out in a cold sweat — not from physical discomfort, but from sheer fright. That gust of wind had nearly torn the entire room apart.

Just his Constitution alone was this terrifying. If he maxed out every single attribute...

Liu Kongkong gulped audibly, then took a deep breath and pulled out his phone to check his bank balance. At the same time, he wondered — if he released the suppression in the real world, would his in-game character also have the ring removed?

That was something he didn't dare test right now. If he entered the Game Pod in that state, the pod would probably explode.

Better to switch gears and check the money instead.

He hadn't earned much today originally, but Night's Gentle Chill had gone on quite a spending spree, so his bank balance had climbed to over 4.6 million yuan.

"Tsk tsk, loaded," he muttered.

He was talking about Night's Gentle Chill — spending that much money just because Sunny Sky had a hidden class.

Since he was offline now, the equipment he'd been preparing for Ye Weinuan was on hold. His level had already hit the cap, and the equipment had been handed off to the shop manager for mass production the moment he logged out, so he could take a short break.

He casually opened his computer. Before he could even pull up the Hunt Heaven official website, his phone suddenly rang.

He picked it up and looked — it was none other than...

"Digua?"

Liu Kongkong glanced at the time. He was probably calling to go out for dinner.

"Didn't we just hang out a few days ago?"

By Liu Kongkong and Wang Di's usual habit, they'd get together roughly once a month. Both of them were busy, and eating out cost money — neither of them was particularly eager to splurge.

He answered the call, and sure enough.

Might as well use this as a test.

Wang Di was one of the people who knew him best. If he could explain his current physique to Wang Di convincingly, it should be fine with everyone else too. After all, when you thought about it, he saw Wang Di more often than he saw his own parents.

They met at the same old barbecue place. Liu Kongkong spotted a round, chubby ball "planted" in a chair from far away.

"What's going on — why are you calling me out again so soon?" Liu Kongkong plopped down in a seat. The table was already covered in skewers, just like last time — Wang Di had ordered everything before he arrived.

"What do you mean 'so soon'? I've been having a rough time lately — wait, did you juice up or something?" Wang Di had been hunched over, eating furiously, but when he heard Liu Kongkong's voice he looked up, grease dripping from his mouth, and froze. How had this guy changed so much in just a few days?

"What are you on about? I went back home a while ago and got told I was too skinny, so I worked out a bit." Liu Kongkong grabbed a skewer and shoved it in his mouth, while inwardly alarmed. He'd been staring at himself in the mirror so often that he'd gotten used to it — the change didn't seem that dramatic to him anymore. He'd even deliberately worn long pants and a long-sleeved shirt today. And yet Wang Di had still spotted it immediately...

"Worked out a bit?" Wang Di looked Liu Kongkong up and down. Both sleeves were stretched tight. That was "working out a bit"? And also...

"Aren't you hot? Wearing all that?"

It was June, and in Ningcheng, even at night in June, the temperature was over thirty degrees Celsius. Liu Kongkong was dressed like that, eating barbecue on top of it — he was already drenched in sweat!

"Low body fat makes you feel cold. Never mind that — tell me why you suddenly called me out." If Wang Di kept asking, Liu Kongkong wouldn't know what to make up anymore, so he quickly changed the subject.

You feel cold in this weather? Low body fat? Were you ever high body fat to begin with?

But none of that mattered. Liu Kongkong had already steered the conversation to the real point.

"What else could it be — it's about me and Xiaoyu..." He snuck a glance at Liu Kongkong, who was completely focused on eating. "Aren't you even a little curious?"

"Curious! What happened between you two?"

"We broke up."

"Ah, I knew it. That girl was never good enough for you. Digua, sure, you're a bit on the chubby side, but you've got decent features and a great personality — you could find a good girl anywhere!"

"But we got back together."

"Then again, Xiaoyu is actually a good girl. She just likes to have fun — she'll definitely settle down eventually. You two together? I'm fully on board!"

Wang Di held his skewer with a blank expression. If there weren't more to the story, he'd have wanted to go another round just to see what Liu Kongkong would say.

"Not as Wang Di..."

"Then..." Liu Kongkong paused mid-skewer. "Don't tell me... as Sweet Potato Head?"

"Yep." Wang Di grinned.

Sweet Potato Head was Wang Di's in-game ID in Hunt Heaven. In other words, Liu Kongkong blinked. "Couldn't get enough in real life, so you're trying to rekindle things online?"

"What are you talking about? She scammed me out of a lot of money. If I asked her directly, there's no way she'd give it back — so I figured I'd use a different identity to get it back." Wang Di looked quite pleased with himself, then added, "And what do you mean 'rekindle things online'? We met online in the first place..."

"How much?" Liu Kongkong had no interest in the story of how they met.

"Around sixty or seventy thousand..."

"Wang Di, you're something else." Liu Kongkong gave him a thumbs up. If he could, he'd have pushed Gao Yiwen onto Wang Di — at least giving money to Gao Yiwen would let him say he'd sponsored a struggling college student.

"That's why I'm trying to figure out how to get it back!" Wang Di's face flushed red.

"Got a plan?"

"I do, and I've already gotten part of it back. That's why I called you out today — to share the joy."

"Boss, another 150 lamb skewers, please!"

Honestly, Liu Kongkong was starving. He didn't know if it was because of the changes to his body, but he'd probably been too hungry earlier — once he started eating, he found himself getting hungrier the more he ate!

"So how much did you get back?" After adding to the order, Liu Kongkong turned to Wang Di.

"Uh... two hundred yuan."

"Boss, cancel the lamb skewers — give me ten flatbreads instead!"

From the way he'd been talking, Liu Kongkong had assumed he'd gotten back twenty or thirty thousand! Out of sixty or seventy thousand, you got back two hundred yuan and you're celebrating?!

"But my plan is incredibly devious!"

"Even if it is, it's still only two hundred yuan — what exactly are you so happy about?!"

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