I loaded the dream game

Well, it smells like a scumbag.

Xia Zhi nodded with satisfaction.

"Just remember the key points here. I have marked the important and difficult parts. There shouldn't be anything particularly difficult to understand."

Yukinoshita handed the notebook on the table to Xia Zhi and said, "If you have any questions, just call me. I'll be here before 10 p.m."

So, the girl had been writing something with her head down just now, just to help him summarize these key points and difficulties?

Opening the notebook, looking at the lines of beautiful handwriting that filled the entire page, and feeling the faint warmth left on the paper, Xia Zhi suddenly felt moved.

Or... maybe change the note back?

He thought to himself.

Chapter 25: Re-entering the Dungeon

"Brother, I heard you have a girlfriend?"

A few evenings later, Xia Zhi, who was sitting at the dining table eating dinner with Xia Zhi, seemed to have thought of something and suddenly asked.

Xia Zhi was slightly stunned: "Is there such a good thing?"

I do not know how?

He was a little puzzled.

Soon, Xia Zhi realized something more important: "Wait, where did you hear that?"

The middle school where Xia Zhi attends is not very close to her own school, and she has little interaction with the people around her. Regardless of the authenticity of the information, even if it is a rumor, there must be a source, but who did she hear this from?

Could it be that she had placed spies around him?!

The summer solstice is terrifying when you think about it.

"Because, brother, you always come back late recently, don't you?"

Xia Zhi didn't know what her brother was thinking at the moment. She picked up a meatball and put it in her mouth, saying vaguely, "I originally wanted to go to your part-time job to find you, but the manager said that you had taken several days off in a row and complained to me."

"Brother, you haven't joined any school clubs, nor have you gone to work, and you come home so late after school, so you must be going on a date... um!"

Xia Zhi picked up a piece of tempura and stuffed it into the girl's mouth, interrupting her from saying anything else.

"Why are you looking for me at the place where I work if you have nothing to do?" he asked with a slight frown.

After finally swallowing the food in his mouth, Xia Zhi breathed a sigh of relief.

Facing Xia Zhi's question, she laughed twice and said a little embarrassedly: "Don't I miss you?"

Want me to skip my school and go to a maid cafe?

Xia Zhi's eyes began to become suspicious.

Being looked at like this by him, Xia Zhi turned away her gaze guiltily, but she quickly came to her senses.

"Ah, I almost got fooled by you, brother." The girl stomped her feet under the table angrily and shouted, "Don't change the subject! Give me a direct answer!"

"Have you forgotten the family motto of the Beiyuan family?" Xia Zhi cleaned up the dishes, stood up, tapped the girl's head gently and said, "Children, don't meddle in adults' affairs."

"How come I don't know this? When did our family have this kind of family motto?" Xia Zhi covered his head with his hands and complained in a low voice.

"As the head of the family, I just decided on this."

While showing the girl the darkness of those in power, Xia Zhi put the dishes into the sink, left a sentence "Remember to wash the dishes after eating" and turned to leave the restaurant.

"Your last name is not Kitahara..." Xia Zhi muttered softly, but the corners of her mouth inadvertently raised a beautiful arc.

But soon, the smile on her face froze.

Because she remembered that it should be her brother's turn to wash the dishes today?

……

Back in the room, Xia Zhi lay down on the bed and breathed a sigh of relief.

He opened the game interface. Behind the dream copy option, the remaining refresh time was displayed as [0 days, 0 hours, 9 minutes].

In other words, in less than ten minutes, he will be able to enter a new dream copy.

Thinking of this, Xia Zhi couldn't help but feel a little excited.

However, there was still some time before the copy opened, and it seemed boring to just wait like this, so he decided to do something to kill time.

After thinking for a moment, Xia Zhi took out his phone from his pocket, lightly tapped the avatar representing Yukinoshita in the contact list, and typed two words in the dialog box that popped up:

"Are you there?"

After waiting for a while, the girl sent a reply:

"what's up?"

"Nothing." Xia Zhi typed back, and after thinking for a moment, he sent another message: "Just wanted to see if you would reply to me."

"..."

On the other side of the screen, Yukinoshita, who had just finished her shower and was sitting at the table, sighed and typed in the chat box: "So, did you get the answer you wanted?"

"I guess so." Xia Zhi replied: "Thank you very much, Yukinoshita-san. Thanks to you, I am in a better mood than ever before."

Seeing this, Yukinoshita's fingers, which were lightly hovering above the screen, paused slightly, and a smile appeared at the corner of her mouth.

Even though she knew that what the boy said was only 50 percent true, it didn't stop her from feeling very good.

"Well, see you tomorrow, Yukinoshita-san." A message from Xia Zhi popped up in the chat box.

Yukinoshita tapped the screen lightly and typed a reply:

"Well, see you tomorrow."

……

After looking at the last message sent by the girl, Xia Zhi turned off the phone screen and threw it aside.

On the game interface that appeared in front of me, the number representing the remaining refresh time of the dream copy has returned to zero, and the originally gray option has also lit up.

After choosing to load the copy with ease, the subtitles in front of him quickly changed:

[Start searching for available objects within the area]

[Search completed, the number of available heroines in the area is: 3]

[Randomly generating copies based on search results...]

Xia Zhi now really wants to know who these three heroines are.

Also, can Yukino Yukinoshita, who has already entered the copy, be selected again?

He was a little curious.

[The copy has been generated, please select]

[Option 1: Song of Salvation]

[Option 2: The Call of the Other Shore]

[Option 3: Dream Wedding]

The game subtitles stopped changing and just hovered quietly in front of his eyes, waiting for his choice.

Xia Zhi quickly noticed that compared to last time, the first two copy options had changed this time, but the third option remained the same as last time.

"It feels suspicious no matter how I look at it." Xia Zhi thought to himself.

It is said that marriage is the grave of love. If I choose this copy, will I be sent directly to the grave?

Xia Zhi feels that he is still young and doesn’t want to go to the grave too early...even mentally.

Besides, marrying a strange woman seems a bit weird no matter how you think about it.

…Let’s talk about it later.

He thought to himself, moving his eyes away from the third option and looking at the other two options.

[Option 2: The Call of the Other Shore]

"..."

How should I put it? This name seems to have a bad sound.

The word "beyond" is usually used to describe the place after death, right? The call of the other shore... Could it be a requiem? This is too hellish.

Xia Zhi complained in his heart.

Why are all of you dungeons trying to send players to their graves?

He shook his head and focused his attention on the last copy of the mortal world.

It’s decided, it’s you!

[Whether to select Dream Instance: Song of Salvation]

"confirm."

As soon as he finished speaking, a familiar feeling of sleepiness came over him, dragging Xia Zhi's consciousness into darkness...

Chapter 26: Aluk Hawkesden

This is a dreamy pure white space, with a fairy-tale princess bedside, candies, portraits, wooden horses, dolls, picture books...all kinds of toys scattered on the ground.

When Xia Zhi woke up from his "sleep", what he saw was this somewhat unreal picture.

[The copy has been loaded. I wish you a happy game]

The subtitles in front of him indicated that Xia Zhi was already in a dream copy, but he always felt that something was wrong.

He lowered his head and looked at his hands.

This is a snow-white and tender little hand. The slender white fingers seem to be carved from ivory, and the skin is as flawless as first snow, so tender that it seems that water can be squeezed out of it.

Although it is cute... no, it is precisely because it is cute that Xia Zhi can be sure that this is definitely not his hand.

but……

He tried waving his arms twice and confirmed that this hand was indeed grown from "his" body.

Xia Zhi had a bad feeling in his heart.

He jumped down from the ridiculously large princess bed, spent some dream points to exchange for a floor-length mirror, and took a close look at his current body.

This is a young girl who looks only about ten years old. Her small body is wrapped in a pure white dress. Her fair skin is as delicate as fine porcelain, her small face is exquisite and cute, her long crimson hair falls to her heels, and her red eyes, as bright as stardust, are filled with a hint of doubt, as if she is puzzled by the current situation.

It is no exaggeration to say that for such an elf-like delicate girl, all the words describing cuteness are not too much.

Under normal circumstances, seeing such a cute girl, Xia Zhi would definitely not be able to resist going up to her and giving her a pat on the head, but the problem is, now the girl has become him, how can he do this?

...Wait, it seems that it is not impossible.

After thinking for a while, Xia Zhi placed his hand on "his" crimson hair and touched it gently.

Yeah, very comfortable.

"ah!"

At the same time, the girl's short exclamation in his mind made him pause for a moment. After a moment's silence, he withdrew his hand as if nothing had happened.

Looking around, Xia Zhi made sure that there was no one else around. The voice sounded directly in his head.

In order to verify this idea, he hesitated for a moment, then put his hand on his head again and stroked it gently a few times.

"Hmm..." The girl made a cute nasal sound.

"Are you comfortable?" Xia Zhi asked.

"Hmm!" The girl's voice came from her heart: "Can you please not stop?"

"No." Xia Zhi withdrew his hand.

"Why is this happening..." The girl's voice sounded a little lost.