Until the goblin let out a sharp scream and approached Qingyu, the girl reluctantly took out her novice dagger. However, she had no idea how to hold it as she had never touched it before. She could only grip the short handle of the dagger with both hands, trembling and squinting at the goblin.

"Come... come on... I'll be fine..."

She seemed to be encouraging herself in a low voice, but this fearless courage did not improve her combat ability in the game. The small goblin was not scared by this invisible object, especially since Qingyu's voice was trembling madly.

"RUA—!"

With a wooden club in hand, the goblin attacked Qingyu without any fancy moves.

"Ah—!"

With great effort, Qingyu mustered up her courage and swung the dagger as well.

With a dull sound, the dagger hit the tip of the wooden club precisely.

"Blocked!"

The word appeared in Qingyu's line of sight, but she didn't understand it. However, soon after, a tremendous force directly knocked her down and the dagger she didn't hold firmly fell aside.

"Waaah!"

The goblin seemed happy with its successful attack and immediately swung its weapon again towards Qingyu, who was already on the ground.

"You're really a fool for not running. Are you?"

Yunyou's voice suddenly came out from behind the goblin like a grim reaper. At the same time, a black dagger emitting a cold light appeared at the goblin's neck.

The goblin screamed in agony and stumbled to the side after being kicked by Yunyou. Before it could react, Yunyou followed up with several successive strikes and finished it off.

"I can't even instantly kill with the 'assassination' skill. It seems that the 'level suppression' in this game is still too severe."

Shaking her head, Yunyou quickly obtained the information she needed from the fight that lasted less than a few seconds. She then looked towards Qingyu, who was sitting on the ground. Before she could speak, Qingyu suddenly found the strength from somewhere, stood up in an instant, and hugged Yunyou's waist.

"I've caught you. According to our agreement, you have no reason to let me go now, right?"

Yunyou had never felt so helpless towards a person before. Despite having dealt with fierce and difficult enemies before, she was now completely powerless against a weak girl.

Could it be that what Qingyu said was true? Was she a good person with a conscience?

However, the damn game company, "The Fate," didn't seem to want Yunyou to be a good person either.

"Congratulations, player Ye Yunyou, you have become the first permanent red-name player in the entire 'Void Realm'! As a reward, we have prepared a small gift for you. We hope you like it."

"Unique lifelong achievement: Blood Red."

"When committing crimes in the game, your red-name value will increase and your corresponding attributes will be enhanced. When the red-name value decreases to zero, your current location will be publicly announced to all players worldwide. The public announcement will be canceled 24 hours after regaining red-name value."

"Your current red-name value is: 5072."

It was already dark outside, and Yunyou had returned to the forest outside the beginner's village where she had sat down earlier. She looked through the email she had received from the system when she first became a red-name, but didn't feel like reading it at the time.

"Worldwide public announcement..."

Yunyou weakly placed her hand on her forehead and sighed heavily.

Having a permanent red-name was already miserable enough, but if her location was also publicly disclosed, it would be like preventing her from living a peaceful life.

In other words, even if she ignored the attribute rewards of this so-called unique lifelong achievement, Yunyou had to prevent her red-name value from dropping to zero, or else she would die immediately.

Though she had nothing to fear, this kind of thing was still annoying enough to drive a person crazy.

"What are you looking at?"

Qingyu returned from outside the forest holding two pieces of bread. She saw that Yunyou was still sitting there and hadn't left secretly, and couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.This man really walks the talk, he's not the kind of irresponsible bastard.

I didn't misjudge him.

"It's nothing, you just bought this little bit?"

Yunyou sighed and pushed away the system panel in front of him. He looked at the bread handed to him by the girl in front of him and couldn't help but frown. He gave her more than enough money to buy just two pieces of bread, right?

"And a few bottles of water. The remaining money, I gave it to a beggar child at the entrance of the village."

"..."

Qingyu narrated calmly while clumsily opening the menu again to find her backpack. Yunyou shook his head with a bitter smile. What else could he say to this girl who had almost zero knowledge of the game? Even if he explained that the beggar boy was just an NPC, she probably wouldn't understand it either.

"Come here."

"What?"

Qingyu was startled as she watched Yunyou suddenly pat the grass next to him.

"Sit here. Your operating speed is too slow, and that kind of sluggishness can be dangerous when necessary. I'll teach you some techniques."

Previously, when Qingyu faced that ugly goblin, she almost didn't have time to draw her sword due to her clumsiness. Since Yunyou agreed to temporarily let Qingyu stay by his side, he couldn't let her continue to be a newbie like this. Otherwise, it would be too dragging to have such a soy sauce bottle who had never played a game before.

Yunyou was very clear that he currently had a troublesome permanent red name. If he couldn't widen the level gap between him and most players, it would be equivalent to openly competing for monsters with those players, especially in the early stages when player levels didn't differ much. Many players crowded in low-level grinding areas, and there might not be enough monsters for everyone. This was a problem that couldn't be avoided in any new game. Yunyou didn't think he could safely level up in such an environment.

Moreover, what's more important was... it had already been half a day since the official announcement that players couldn't log out, but there hadn't been any change in this situation. This was definitely abnormal.

If it was really impossible to leave this game world, then Yunyou's current situation could no longer be described as terrible.

However, what surprised Yunyou was that this girl who claimed to have never played a game before actually learned unfamiliar knowledge quite well. Previously, even opening a backpack took her a long time. But after Yunyou demonstrated it once and she practiced a few times, she immediately reached a speed comparable to Yunyou himself.

Although finding a backpack wasn't a sophisticated technique, considering her sharp instincts like an assassin before, Yunyou thought that the reason Qingyu appeared to be a newbie wasn't because she was dumb, but simply because she had very little exposure.

Of course, Qingyu also had her own thoughts about Yunyou.

"Why do you know so much? And your skills are so impressive?"