Learning to play games, a 40-year-old woman achieves a remarkable turnaround.

Chapter 126: My First Time Participating in This Type of Team Mission

What started as a spontaneous basketball game organized by students on a whim turned into an unprecedented basketball craze on campus, much like a boulder thrown into a calm lake, creating ripples on the surface.

At first, on the day of the match, the stadium was crowded with students who came to watch the game. Everyone was attracted by the fierce competition and exciting goals on the field, and cheers and shouts rose and fell.

After the match ended, discussions about it quickly spread across the campus.

Yuan Bao and his teammates' heroic performance on the court, especially the outstanding performance of the girls on the basketball court, became a hot topic of discussion among the students during breaks.

As the news spread, more and more students began to pay attention to basketball.

During breaks, groups of students can often be seen gathered together, enthusiastically discussing the exciting moments of the game and imitating the players' shooting movements and dribbling skills.

Even girls who didn't know much about basketball before were ignited with passion by this game.

Seeing Yuan Bao and the girls from Class 4 running and shooting confidently on the court, displaying strength and vitality, they felt a surge of urge to try it themselves.

The number of students signing up for the school's basketball club has surged dramatically, with the majority being girls.

Driven by curiosity and love for basketball, they joined the club one after another, hoping to learn basketball skills here and shine on the basketball court like the players on the court.

The basketball club coaches were pleasantly surprised to find that the number of girls signing up far exceeded previous years, and everyone was extremely enthusiastic. They arrived at the court early for each training session, carefully learned each movement, and actively participated in every scrimmage.

The school's physical education teachers also keenly noticed this trend, and they began to add more basketball instruction to their physical education classes. They not only taught basic dribbling, passing, and shooting skills, but also organized more basketball games to give students more opportunities to practice on the court.

For a time, the basketball courts on campus were always bustling with activity. During breaks, girls were active on various basketball courts, and the sounds of practice and laughter mingled together, creating a vibrant and youthful campus scene.

This spontaneously organized competition inadvertently became a catalyst for the development of campus basketball culture, allowing basketball to flourish on campus, especially elevating the girls' love for basketball to a new level.

That evening, the system notification sounded again: "Ding! A host has gathered a team to participate in a challenge story dungeon. The team must consist of at least 3 people and the mission level is beginner."

After completing the beginner dungeon, you can choose to revisit the story dungeon. The mission levels are divided into normal and hard modes.

Event rewards are randomly distributed, including equipment, spirit beasts, skill books, and gold coins of various levels.

Yuan Bao's fingers paused for a moment, and his brows furrowed slightly.

Yuan Bao usually skips these kinds of team-based story dungeon challenges, and this time was no exception. At first, she didn't take it seriously, just glanced at the task details casually, and then decided to filter out the task.

However, just as she was about to swipe away from the mission page, a line of small text suddenly caught her eye—Summoner: Spirit from Another World.

Yuan Bao's pupils suddenly contracted, and he instantly became alert, his previously languid posture straightening up.

Her mind involuntarily drifted back to the thrilling experience of rescuing a soul from another world not long ago—the mysterious ancient well, the eerie light, and the powerful suction force—as if it had happened just yesterday.

"Why would spirits from another world issue a summons? What are their purposes in this system world?" Countless questions swirled in Yuan Bao's mind.

Her intense curiosity, like a raging fire, instantly ignited her gossipy nature.

Without the slightest hesitation, she quickly clicked to join the group, secretly anticipating what kind of thrilling adventure awaited her in this dungeon challenge with spirits from another world.

After Yuan Bao clicked to apply to join the group, he received a notification that he had successfully joined the team in just a moment.

When she entered the team interface, she found that there were only three people in the team, including herself, and the status after their avatars showed "waiting".

Looking at the two somewhat unfamiliar avatars on the screen, Yuan Bao felt a sense of unease. After all, this was her first time participating in this kind of team mission, and she had no clue about the challenges she was about to face, feeling completely lost.

So she consulted the super nanny, who immediately called out in her mind, "Little 9, I've entered this group dungeon quest, but I have absolutely no idea what to do! Please give me some advice!"

The familiar, playful figure of Little 9 instantly appeared in Yuan Bao's mind. It spun around in the air and said confidently, "Don't worry, Master, you can open the mission description and let me take a look!"

As Xiao 9 spoke, it rapidly rotated around Yuan Bao's consciousness screen, carefully examining the mission details.

After a while, Little 9 stopped, cleared his throat, and said in a serious tone, "Oh, this mission of yours is a story mission, and it is closely related to the thing you did a couple of days ago to save the otherworldly soul."

Xiao 9 paused, keeping everyone in suspense, before continuing, "The plot of this mission revolves around Ning Caichen and Xiaoqian."

Once you enter the instance as a team, you must cooperate closely with each other and carefully search for clues in the instance scene. Only in this way can you successfully rescue Xiaoqian and Ning Caichen.

Of course, that's not all. After rescuing them, you'll have to work together to defeat the final boss of the story—the Tree Spirit Lao Lao.

Yuan Bao was stunned. Just as he was about to ask a question, Xiao 9 dropped another bombshell: "Do you know? The otherworldly soul you rescued a couple of days ago was none other than Ning Caichen."

So now that he's back in this other world, he's trying to find a way to rescue Xiaoqian as well, which is why he issued this recruitment notice.

"Huh? You can do that?" Yuan Bao's jaw nearly dropped in surprise, his eyes wide with disbelief. "It's like I'm going to fight ghosts and monsters? That's so exciting!"

The five-person team was quickly assembled, and a confirmation screen appeared in front of Yuan Bao, asking whether he wanted to enter the story instance.

After confirmation, the screen went black and then lit up, and Yuan Bao and the other four people appeared in the eerie Lanruo Temple.

With his superhuman abilities, Yuan Bao took the initiative to search for details of the environment.

She wandered through the eerie ruins of Lanruo Temple, leaving no corner unchecked, carefully examining the strange symbols on the walls and the mysterious footprints on the ground.

Teammate A used his agility to climb to higher places and examine areas that are difficult for ordinary people to reach, such as roof beams and tower tops, to see if there were any clues hidden there.

Teammate B is skilled in analysis and reasoning. He follows Yuan Bao and teammate A, recording all the details he discovers while sorting out the connections between clues in his mind, piecing together seemingly unrelated information into a complete chain of clues.

They quickly rescued Xiaoqian and Ning Caichen, and also found the true form of the tree spirit Lao Lao.

It has to be said that the beginner difficulty level is practically effortless; it didn't take long for the tree spirit to be killed.