24: Retired Heroes Also Have Work to Do
"My little genius, you can't even solve such a simple mechanism?" When Leticia saw the mechanism that had stumped Bai Ling, she was a bit speechless.
This type of mechanism was among the simplest in the game. As long as you used your brain a little, basically even an idiot could solve it.
But Bai Ling couldn't solve it.
Not pretending she couldn't solve it, but really couldn't solve it.
"So that's how it works. What an interesting design." Bai Ling was sitting beside Leticia at this moment, watching the rapidly moving character on screen intently.
Leticia shifted her body to the side somewhat uncomfortably. Bai Ling was sitting a bit too close. She could even smell the elegant fragrance drifting from Bai Ling's body.
It smelled very nice, giving people an irresistible feeling.
This person... really annoying.
"And here, why can't this quest be done?" But Bai Ling didn't have this awareness. To tell Leticia what else she didn't understand, she actually moved even closer.
For a moment, Leticia's heart started pounding.
"Hmm? Your heartbeat is very fast." Bai Ling's ears were sharp. Leticia's abnormality here naturally couldn't escape her ears.
"Hah, it's nothing. Here, your quest NPC is being used by another quest... tch, why did you accept so many quests?" Quickly covering up her abnormality, Leticia looked at the long string of quests in the quest list and said with a frown.
"The Guild Leader had me accept them before she logged off. She said doing quests was the fastest way to level up." Bai Ling explained.
Of course, everyone understood the real reason. Bai Ling had indeed deliberately created this pile of troublesome matters.
Although she truly didn't know how, the Guild Leader hadn't abandoned her after just playing with her for a bit as she claimed.
In fact, Bai Ling had spent the entire night following the Guild Leader running around various parts of the map. The Guild Leader had told Bai Ling about all the difficult points she knew, enough for Bai Ling to use these problems to keep Leticia occupied for over an hour.
Using over an hour to close the distance, though somewhat difficult, was still acceptable.
Leticia's heart was quite conflicted. What Bai Ling needed to do was slowly make Leticia let down her mental resistance and accept Bai Ling's presence in her life.
However, Bai Ling's plan was only halfway through when it was interrupted by a suddenly ringing phone.
"Strange..." Bai Ling took out her phone. Not many people knew her phone number, and those people wouldn't call her without necessary business.
Had something happened?
The number displayed on the phone was one she wasn't familiar with, which made Bai Ling's confusion even greater.
"What's wrong? Answer it." Leticia looked at Bai Ling, not knowing why this girl was staring blankly at the phone screen.
"I don't know who's calling me." Bai Ling gently pressed answer and turned on speakerphone.
"My lady, are you free?" A bold female voice came from the phone.
Bai Ling showed a look of sudden realization. So it was this person.
"Yes."
"Boss Sang said she was worried you'd be bored, so she specially found you a job." Judging by her voice, the woman on the other end seemed quite excited.
"A job?" Bai Ling's hand instinctively moved to her waist. "When and where?"
"Cough cough cough, it's not that serious." Bai Ling's two brief sentences made the woman cough several times. "It's not asking you to go cut people down. It's asking you to help train some little brats who recently joined."
Training?
Bai Ling's expression was somewhat conflicted. She was good at cutting people down, but training... she knew nothing about it.
"I'm not good at training others." She didn't dislike admitting her shortcomings.
"It's called training, but it's actually more like real combat." The woman explained her plan in detail. "The Hero Association recently had several troublemakers join. Because they're young and quite strong, they've gotten a bit full of themselves."
"You know those old men at the Association. They're quite displeased with these little brats, so they're planning to give these kids a reality check."
"But they can't really send them to fight vicious criminals, right? If something goes wrong and they get hurt somewhere, those old guys would be heartbroken."
"So after thinking it over, they approached us, wanting us to send out some capable people to teach those little brats a lesson. When Senior Sang heard you were quite free, she took on this job."
After hearing the whole story, a trace of nostalgia flashed in Bai Ling's eyes. Those senior predecessors at the Association were still as fond of worrying as before.
When she had first joined the Hero Association, she seemed to have received special attention from these senior predecessors too, though it wasn't beating like this, but psychological counseling.
Although the effect wasn't great, at least Bai Ling felt their good intentions.
"Mm, as long as I don't kill them, right?"
"Don't cripple them either. Just teach them a lesson, let them know there are people beyond people and heavens beyond heavens. With their little bit of strength, they can't even make a small splash in Central City."