Online Game: The Strongest Landlord

Chapter 4: Legendary Braised Pork

Translator: Henyee Translations Editor: Henyee Translations

After a period of noisy and busy work, the twelve girls from Silver Maple Leaf Studio finally became the official tenants of Lao Yao and settled down in the villa.

After everyone settled down, Yang Yongle immediately held a meeting in the living room. During the meeting, she revealed the news of Lao Yao joining the studio to the girls.

“Ah! What!? He wants to join our studio!? How can that do!?”

As expected by Lao Yao, the first person to raise objections in the meeting was the hot chili beauty.

Actually, Lao Yao was already prepared for this. As the boss of the studio, Yang Yongle’s consideration was naturally for the development of the studio. It was normal for her to invite Lao Yao to join, but it was normal for other members of the studio, especially when all of them were female, to have xenophobia.

Especially when the new member was a burly man like Lao Yao…

“Ning Jing! Don’t be in a hurry to object. Let me finish, okay?” Yang Yongle suppressed the chattering crowd and explained to them the purpose of her decision.

Little Chili Pepper actually had the name “Ning Jing1”. This really made Lao Yao sigh at the wonders of the Creator. He subconsciously stared at Ning Jing a few more times, but in return, Ning Jing glared at him fiercely.

Lao Yao couldn’t help but laugh. He said, “Um… can everyone listen to me for a moment?”

Seeing that everyone was looking at him, Lao Yao continued, “I know that everyone might have some opinions about me. How about this? When I enter the game, I won’t put up the prefix of the studio.”

Lao Yao had also come to this conclusion after some consideration. If he were to hang the prefix of the studio, others would immediately understand what was going on. At that time, what would it be like for a man to mix in with a group of women? Even Lao Yao would feel embarrassed.

This could be considered as Lao Yao’s male chauvinism…

Yang Yongle seemed to have seen through Lao Yao’s thoughts. Although he was in a difficult position, he still agreed in the end. The other girls also seemed to be able to accept Lao Yao’s suggestion. After chatting for a while, they also agreed.

After all, he was their landlord. They had to give him some face. As long as Lao Yao wasn’t obviously a member of the Silver Maple Leaf Workshop on the surface, it was fine. They just had to understand what was going on internally.

In this way, Lao Yao’s face as a man was preserved, and the girls’ “honor” was also preserved. Everyone was happy.

The next step was to make preparations.

The game developed by Galaxy International was called “Era of the Gods”. It was considered a fantasy game. However, the official platform revealed very little information. A group of girls from the studio were trying their best to gather information on the Internet.

Lao Yao was no exception. He rarely played games, especially online games. Therefore, other than looking at the information revealed by the officials, he had to understand some general knowledge about online games.

In another week, the game would begin its open beta. Although this method showed Galaxy International’s confidence in this game, at the same time, there was not much time left for Lao Yao and the others.

Just as Lao Yao was looking for the information he wanted on the Internet with the helmet-like network access device, the helmet sent a message. Someone was knocking on the door.

Lao Yao got up and opened the door. It was actually Didi standing outside.

Of course, the name Didi was just what her good sisters called her. The relationship between Lao Yao and her had not reached that level of intimacy. He still had to call her by her full name.

“Meng Di, what’s the matter?” Lao Yao asked.

Meng Di blushed and said nervously, “Mr… Mr. Landlord, I’m here to inform you that… we can eat now!”

Lao Yao slapped his forehead. He had almost forgotten that he had already started eating with the girls. Just now, when he was a little hungry, he subconsciously wanted to make instant noodles.

Lao Yao’s face was covered in tears. “Finally, someone can cook for me!”

In his excitement, Lao Yao grabbed Meng Di’s small hand and shook it back and forth. “Good comrade! Thank you, thank you! I’ll come down now!”

Lao Yao’s sudden action made Meng Di’s face turn even redder. She quickly retracted her hand and ran downstairs without saying a word.

Lao Yao hummed a song as he put on his slippers. It was obvious that he was very happy to be able to eat a hot meal that was not instant noodles.

How could he not be happy? It was not that Lao Yao did not want to find a nanny to help him cook, but the problem was that when the nanny saw Lao Yao’s appearance, they were so frightened that they immediately resigned and left. They did not even want to stay for a quarter of an hour, afraid that Lao Yao would do something illegal to them. It was the same before and after. Finally, Lao Yao cried and ended his idea of finding a nanny…

When he went downstairs to the living room, the table was already filled with dishes. The dishes of 13 people filled the entire table, but the fragrance filled the living room. It made Lao Yao sniff continuously. He was so excited!

“Hmph!” Ning Jing saw Lao Yao’s appearance and couldn’t help but snort proudly. “Now you’ve learned something new!”

Lao Yao nodded repeatedly. He pointed at a dish on the table and said something that almost made all the girls fall. “I have, I have! Oh my god! Is this the legendary Red Braised Meat?!”

These words made the girls laugh incessantly. At the same time, they also saw the sorrow of a man who didn’t know how to cook…

After the meal, the girls spent their time watching Lao Yao eat. With Lao Yao, who was like a hungry ghost, they didn’t eat much and were only surprised.

In the end, when Lao Yao patted his bulging stomach and kept flattering Meng Di, causing Meng Di’s face to turn red, the girls finally couldn’t help but laugh…

Yang Yongle also had the same smile on her face. She got up and returned to her own room. When she came out again, she had a box in her hand and handed it to Lao Yao.

“What is this?” Lao Yao took it and asked curiously.

“This is a special access helmet for the Era of the Gods,” Yang Yongle explained. “Our studio prepared it for you.”

“Ah, how can I accept that? You’ve spent a lot of money!” Lao Yao said humbly as he opened the box, causing Ning Jing to roll her eyes at him.

This was a rather strange helmet. The upper half of the helmet was similar to the ordinary access helmet used by Lao Yao, but there was a long “tail” at the back of the helmet.

“What’s going on?” Lao Yao didn’t understand.

“The helmets used for the game are naturally different.” Yang Yongle explained, “This tail is actually a neural connection system. When the time comes, it has to be stuck to the spine.”

As everyone knew, most of the human body’s activities were controlled by the brain, but a small portion was controlled by the spinal cord nerves. The game’s special helmet could intercept a person’s brain waves and nerve pulses. After being recognized by the system, it could transform into various actions of the game character to achieve the goal of free control in virtual reality.

However, there was a time limit to intercepting brain waves and nerve pulses like this. In theory, he had to take off his helmet in at most twelve hours. Otherwise, it would be harmful to his health if his body did not receive any signs of activity for a long time.

Lao Yao was very clear about this kind of information. Now that the brainwave network access technology was mature, this was considered common knowledge.

Seeing Lao Yao nod to show that he understood, Yang Yongle continued, “Do you still remember what I told you back then? This game is different from previous games. The embodiment of one’s ability is the most important thing in the game.”

“Well, you did say that,” Lao Yao said. “Did you learn anything?”

Yang Yongle smiled and said, “Yes, the game will officially open in a week, but you can create a character two hours in advance. It’s said that when you create it, there will be a series of tests in the game to determine the character’s initial attributes. At that time, you have to grasp the opportunity.”

“Oh, I understand!” Lao Yao expressed that he understood.

“By the way, have you thought about what role you want to play?” Yang Yongle asked curiously, “We already have our own plans. We’re only missing you now.”

“I don’t really understand either. I’ll take a look in the game when the time comes!” Lao Yao scratched his short hair and said embarrassedly, “To be honest, I’ve really never played any online games. I don’t know much about the classes in the game.”

“Have you never played any games before?” Yang Yongle asked in amusement.

“If you want to talk about games, I’ve actually played some…” Lao Yao continued to scratch his head. “I wonder if Plants vs Zombies 16th generation counts?”

Yang Yongle: “…”