I'm really not the number one slacker in Soul Society.

"?!"

Mima, whose mind was instantly shaken, even paused for a moment. After glancing at the cover instinctively, he suddenly realized, "This isn't Lily..."

"Ahhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!"

Nana let out a loud wail that exceeded 100 decibels—it's easy to imagine that if someone were caught looking at pornographic books by their parents, few people would behave as well as she did.

Given that continuing to shout might attract other team members, making the situation even more awkward, Mima decisively took a step forward.

He raised his hand and covered Qixu's mouth, calming her down physically.

"Quiet, did you hear me?" Mima glared at her sternly. "You don't want a third person to see this, do you?"

Qi Xu nodded with tears in her eyes.

So Mima let go of his hand.

An awkward atmosphere spread between the two.

I've never seen anything like this before...

Has anyone ever caught their child reading pornographic books? Please, any expert advice would be greatly appreciated for this newbie...

"cough……"

In the end, Nanao explained with a shifty look in her eyes, "Well... cough, I found it when I was cleaning up Lisa's room... cough, I found it in the hidden compartment under the tatami mat... I just opened it to check the contents... cough, I just looked at it."

"I gave away more than half of these..."

Realizing he had made a foolish mistake halfway through the conversation, Mima immediately stopped the discussion and forcefully steered the topic back on track. After explaining things to Nanao in this and that manner, he swiftly gathered up all the yellow books in the room, picked them up, and stood up.

This kind of thing shouldn't be shown to children...

After reciting a string of polite words at lightning speed, Mizhen fled in panic...

Lisa... you really need to work on your hiding skills...

After that, it's just the tedious work process.

After recovering from the shock, Mima personally went to find several reliable members and formed a recruitment team. Then he returned to his room and began drafting an official document.

Time flies, and it's already noon.

Just as Mima finished writing the personnel list and was about to have someone send it to the First Division, Ryugetsu suddenly trembled twice.

"?"

Perhaps sensing his lack of reaction, Liuyue trembled twice more.

"What...what happened?"

Turning on vibration mode doesn't seem like it's Shigure Reverse Moon, because she speaks directly into Mima's mind.

—Although Liuyue also knows how to do this, she is not very proficient and can't succeed every time. When she fails, she can only send a notification sound like a window shaking.

It seems we've failed again.

However, she kept shaking, so something urgent must have happened. Let's go in and check on her.

Mi Zhen scratched his head, sat down cross-legged, and quickly entered the state of sword meditation, sinking into his own mental space.

The moment he stepped inside, he was utterly bewildered.

Where's my room? Where's my room?

He stared in disbelief at what was in front of him... a training room?

I rubbed my eyes in disbelief, then looked again.

The ground was flat, the walls were sturdy, and apart from a few wooden dummy dummies, there was nothing else. It even had a faint smell of wood. No matter how you looked at it, it was a training room of a high standard.

Mima: "?"

He gasped.

He quickly found Liuyue standing in the corner of the room—and then gasped.

Chapter 183: Video Games and Virtual Reality

"Who are you?!" he shouted in shock.

"What's wrong? You don't recognize me after just one week?"

With a rather dashing motion, Liu Yue flicked her bangs, then crossed her arms and stood up straight with the posture of a martial arts master, confidently smiling as she said, "This is the result of my arduous training!"

"...?"

Mima rubbed her eyes again, took a few deep breaths, and then opened them again, only to see the same unchanging scene.

Liu Yue was wearing a plain white robe, her hands and feet were wrapped in bandages, and she had a red headscarf with the words "Rootedness" written on it. She looked like a hot-blooded girl who had jumped out of some weird fighting manga. She really dazzled Mi Zhen.

After a period of silence, he walked forward with a blank expression, poked Liuyue's head, then grabbed her collar and shook her twice. After taking a deep breath, he asked in as calm a tone as possible, "What are you doing?"

Liu Yue raised her head, adopting an arrogant posture with her nostrils pointing to the sky, and said, "Hmph, I have already mastered my divine skills, and from now on..."

Mima interrupted her, asking in a somewhat cold tone, "So, what are you doing?"

"..."

Liu Yue's face twitched twice, and that inexplicable aura instantly dissipated by half.

"Don't call me out on it, thank you." She said slowly in a rather empty tone, "It will remind me of the terrifying experiences I've had recently. You don't want to come in and see an idiot drooling with his head tilted back, do you?"

"Heh, aren't you being quite lively? I don't see what's wrong with you." Mi Zhen squinted and chuckled coldly. "I'll ask you one more time, what exactly are you doing?"

Liu Yue paused for a moment, her eyes suddenly turning somewhat mournful. She casually pulled away from Mi Zhen's hand that was gripping her collar, and then snapped her fingers in a gesture very similar to that of Ni Yue Shi Yu. The training room immediately rippled like water, shrinking in a few moments into the room that Mi Zhen was familiar with.

"In short, please have a seat."

She walked back to the computer chair with her shoulders slumped.

She reached out and tapped a couple of times on the keyboard, but the computer, which was powered off, couldn't give her any decent feedback.

And for some reason, she still hadn't changed out of her training clothes.

To be honest, lately, every time Mima came in, she would see Ryugetsu with an increasingly enthusiastic attitude. At the time, she didn't think much of it, but now that she thinks about it, his attitude was like a submissive prisoner finally getting a visitor, showing a great sense of relief.

How did it change so much after just one week...?

"Then what..."

Liu Yue sighed deeply, staring blankly at the ceiling, and murmured to herself, "I have something I want to ask of you."

"Then stop with all this weird stuff and just say it." Halfway through his sentence, Mi Zhen conjured up an empty pipe, took a puff to boost his confidence, and continued, "Of course, I can't guarantee I can actually do it."

The next second, Liuyue pulled out an A4 sheet of paper with a form printed on it from the lining of her clothes and handed it to Mizhen.

Mi Zhen took a closer look and saw that the form was a detailed and comprehensive schedule with the theme of improving abilities. It was accurate to the minute, from waking up in the morning to going to bed at night. The person who made it must have put a lot of thought into it.

However, there is one problem: the word "rest" is simply not listed on this table.

I only get one hour of sleep a day.

"?"

Mima scratched his head in confusion: "What is this...?"

"My current schedule."

Liu Yue sniffed, looking like she was about to cry: "This is how I've been for the past two months—I only get a short break when you come in..."

"Oh." Mima suddenly realized, "Is that why you always insist on chatting with me whenever I'm about to leave?"

"Old hag... cough, she told me to train with this schedule for a year first, and then reduce the intensity as appropriate." Her tone became more and more ethereal, and a few hot tears involuntarily rolled down her cheeks. "She also specified that the room and clothes should be arranged like that, saying that it would increase the imposing presence. She said I could change the environment myself when I could make a large-scale change—she's even less human than before. Before, if I resisted, I would at most get beaten up, but now if I disobey her orders in the slightest, she'll delete my save file. You like to slack off too, so you can understand this kind of pain, right?"

"..." Mima glanced at her helplessly, "It is possible, but haven't your abilities indeed improved? The room has changed back."

"What's the point of improving?" Liu Yue wailed. "I was able to turn the room back a month ago! But every time I do, she immediately turns it back again! She calls it 'This is your favorite level-based game; you'll be free once you defeat me, the final boss'—isn't that just empty promises? I have Shikai, she has Bankai; she's inherently almost ten times stronger than me! And all her abilities are superior to mine! Tell me, how am I supposed to beat a boss like that?! What 'the situation will be mitigated after a year'? At this rate, a year from now, I'll only be facing an even more terrifying hell!!!"

"How tragic..."

Mima's lips twitched twice. "So what exactly do you want from me?"

Upon hearing this, Liu Yue's expression immediately turned serious.

"In this world, only you can save me." She suddenly darted to Mizhen's side, took a breath, and put on a tearful and shameless expression. "I've worked for you for so many years, I've done my best even if I haven't done anything great, please go and get her to reconnect the power... I'll accept any amount of rigorous training, but if I don't have a computer for a whole year, I'll really die."

“…Girl, you really need to get your internet addiction treated.” Mima rolled her eyes. “Why should I help you with that? What a joke! I can’t even play games myself, why should I beg you to play?”

"Just a little bit! Just a little bit is enough!"

Liu Yue simply hugged Mi Zhen's waist like a koala, sobbing and pleading, "Even ten minutes a day will do!"

"Get lost! I'm still over eighty years away from playing the oldest pixel games! You want to play for ten minutes every day?! No way!"

Mizhen pressed down on Liuyue's shoulders without any mercy, trying to break free, but the guy's two hands were as firmly fixed as an octopus's suckers, and he said stubbornly, "I won't let go unless you agree!"

"..."

Mi Zhen punched Liu Yue twice on the head, but to no avail.

Then he changed his mind and immediately came up with a new idea, so he changed his tune: "Let go, I'll go and say it for you."

A glimmer of hope flashed in Liu Yue's eyes: "Really?!"

Mi Zhen nodded sincerely: "Really—but there's a condition."

"Hmm?" A hint of wariness suddenly appeared in Liu Yue's eyes. "What are the conditions?"

"A computer." Mima pushed up his non-existent glasses frame, mimicking Aizen's gesture. "Get me one too."

—As the saying goes, even a piece of toilet paper or an ashtray has its own special features. Although Ryugetsu is inferior to Nigetsu Shigure in all aspects (mainly referring to combat power), there is one skill that the latter is far superior to.

That is the precision of "concretization".

Liu Yue is not good at large-scale environmental transformations like Ni Yue Shi Yu, but she has micron-level or even higher precision when creating materialized products. Combined with the skills that Mi Zhen learned when she worked in a technology company in her previous life, the computer she created was not just a shell of idealism, but a real thing that could be used outside.

She developed this technology simply to play more realistic games...

So the primary driving force behind technological development is indeed laziness...

"...It would take more than a year to build a new one."

Liu Yue gritted her teeth: "Deal, but you must explain things clearly to the old hag by today."

"Oh, that's no problem at all."