Global Game: I Can Choose Instance Rewards-Chapter 520 - 359: Language Translation and Demon Hunters

Time passed slowly.

As Wang Zhifan downed half a glass of rice wine, he found himself deeply indulged in this extremely leisurely and comfortable feeling.

But the leisure was mental; as far as his aimless thoughts went, there was no progress at all.

However, Wang Zhifan didn’t care about this minor failure, he just felt he hadn’t been so relaxed and content for a long time, so he deliberately focused on drinking, treating it as a special outing to pass the time.

Yet, many things take a turn in such unintentional moments. Just as he was enjoying his rice wine, he suddenly noticed the noise in the tavern starting to change, mingling intermittently with Xia Country language he was extremely familiar with.

"That monster... dares to come again..."

"Next time... let the kingdom... catch him..."

"His eyes... disgusting... witch... mongrel..."

...

These voices, which absolutely shouldn’t have appeared in this place, immediately caught his attention. He turned to observe the source of the voices and found that their start and stop coincided with the pace of conversation from local tavern guests, but the lip movements didn’t quite match. It was as if someone had drastically lowered the volume of their words and paired them with a not-so-complete translation audio.

"What’s going on... could the Master of the Universe Badge actually have language translation capabilities?"

As soon as Wang Zhifan confirmed this situation, it was as if a lightning bolt struck through his brain, giving him an instantaneous insight.

With some speculation, he then turned back to continue drinking his wine, pretending as if those abrupt Xia language fragments did not exist.

After another minute or two, he heard the automatic translation near his ears become more complete, no longer in the previous intermittent state, even with a tone matching the original voice, making it obvious that it was Otherworld people speaking.

At this point, Wang Zhifan was completely certain of one thing: that the Master of the Universe Badge truly has language translation ability!

However, its capability isn’t as overpowered as in the replicas; it doesn’t have everything ready from the start. It needs some time after acquiring a sufficient sample of the local language to gradually decipher and enable automatic translation!

"No wonder last time in the Otherworld, I was too impatient, not giving it enough conditions to decrypt the language, and mistakenly thought it didn’t have this ability." 𝐟𝗿𝐞𝚎𝚠𝐞𝚋𝕟𝐨𝚟𝐞𝕝.𝕔𝕠𝚖

Understanding this point, Wang Zhifan instantly felt even more cheerful; he sped up drinking the remaining rice wine, ready to continue exploring outside soon. With the language issue resolved, it became much easier to implement his plan.

However, before he could stand up, the middle-aged white woman with a flowery headscarf from behind the tavern counter suddenly walked out to him, her expression not very friendly.

"Outsider! I can’t tolerate you any longer! Please leave my tavern immediately!"

The middle-aged white woman rudely said to Wang Zhifan, who was drinking, pointing towards the outside door.

Through the Master of the Universe Badge’s translation ability, Wang Zhifan instantly understood her words, his face darkening a bit as he responded:

"Why?"

This unprofessional proprietress then looked at him disdainfully and replied:

"Because you don’t understand basic etiquette! You actually drank wine you brought yourself in my tavern! It is an insult to my character! People like you are not welcome here!"

"It seems the language translation is two-way, and what I say is also translated into a type they can understand, likely through some force that makes them ignore the mismatch between voice and lip movements."

In the face of the tavern proprietress’s expulsion, Wang Zhifan wasn’t bothered at all; he only noticed the completeness of the badge’s translation ability. Without hesitation, he drained the remaining rice wine in his glass and turned to walk out through the tavern’s wooden door.

As he left, he could hear an unbridled burst of laughter following behind him, all local people sneering at him as an outsider.

"Rude outsider!"

"Good riddance!"

"Hope he gets eaten alive by the fiercest griffin soon!"

...

"This is truly a simple folk... can’t they be more friendly to guests? No wonder this village isn’t developing well."

After the unpleasant little episode, Wang Zhifan found himself outside on the muddy road, feeling compelled to criticize the hostility of the locals but didn’t really care because he was in quite a good mood now, able to overlook it.

"Let me check if there’s a translation for text as well."

He then glanced over the exterior wall of the tavern and saw a rectangular wooden signboard with a line of unfamiliar letters. Compared to when he first saw the road sign, he now had an unusual feeling where he inexplicably understood the meaning of these strange words: Red Nose Tom’s Tavern.

"There really is a text translation, which makes exploring even more convenient now."

With this understanding, Wang Zhifan turned and walked towards the end of the village, where he could see a signpost by the roadside. He planned to read that signpost before finalizing the rest of his itinerary.

But just as he was about to leave this small village, he encountered someone he had met not long ago at the tavern entrance—the distinct outsider, a professional with two swords strapped on his back.

At this moment, Wang Zhifan was walking along the road, and he saw the tall, gray-white-haired man in a standoff with three farmhand-like men in front of a house.