Chase Game

After finishing her evening class, Ling Yi rode her bike back to her neighborhood at 10:30 p.m.

He had just pushed his bicycle halfway into the elevator when he heard a cat's meow coming from the nearby fire escape stairwell.

"Meow!"

He was delighted. Although he didn't own a cat or was not a cat lover, he wanted to pet any cat he encountered. It was just a matter of convenience.

Thinking that it wouldn't hurt to block the elevator door with his bicycle for a while, he set off to look for the cat, and sure enough, it was in the stairwell.

"Hey, it's you, Matuan! You've gotten even fatter! Where's the tricolor dumpling? Why isn't it with you?"

Lingyi recognizes most of the cats in the neighborhood. This one, named Matuan, is a typical tabby cat with a round head, big, bright eyes, and dark brown fur with clear black and gray stripes, commonly known as tiger stripes.

Sancai Tuanzi is another calico cat, with a gentle temperament, and she often hangs out with this tabby cat.

"Come down and let me touch you~"

Ling waved her hand, but Ma Tuan remained motionless, looking very wary.

Ling Yi usually uses food to lure them, and sometimes just beckoning them will bring the two kittens over.

"Okay, then I'll take the initiative."

Ling Yi didn't think much of it and stepped onto the first step of the stairs. Unexpectedly, Ma Tuan moved, but instead of coming over to rub against him, it...

"ha!"

Wow, airplane ears, a spiny dragon shape, and it's breathing!

Bad Cat Dass!

After mentally complaining for a moment, Ling Yi didn't move. He activated his Spinosaurus form, and even God would have to think twice before taking a single claw attack.

This event is already recorded in the painting "God Creates Hakimi".

"That's strange, what's going on today?"

With these doubts in mind, Ling Yi could only leave, just as the elevator started beeping.

After pressing the button for the 18th floor, he quickly put the cat out of his mind, assuming that Hakimi was in a bad mood.

As the elevator ascended, he habitually checked his phone for any new messages.

"Um?"

"What is this downloading?"

Pull down the status bar, and a red and black app icon shows that it is downloading.

83%...

twenty three%…

twenty three%…

"Is it malware? I didn't even watch the video."

Ling Yi couldn't help but think of his best friend Zhang Qiang's phone, whose desktop was filled with all sorts of colorful images, including red, black, purple, yellow, and pink.

For his brother's health, he repeatedly and righteously advised Zhang Qiang to delete these things, but the man remained unmoved and even boasted:

"You won't touch my One Piece!"

Alas, my eldest son has gone mad with desire, and I can do nothing about it. Perhaps this is the helplessness of an old father.

Fortunately, he wouldn't fall into the trap so easily. Even if there was only one percent of the download progress left, he would not hesitate to nip it in the bud.

Unfortunately, the elevator arrived.

There were other people waiting to board at the door, so I had to hurry up and push my bicycle out first.

"get out of class is over?"

"Hey, is Fang-jie going downstairs to take out the trash?"

Ling Yi pushed her bicycle and said with a smile that the person in front of her was a new neighbor who had moved in a week ago. Her name was Li Fang, a woman in her thirties. Her husband was in a vegetative state and the two did not have any children yet.

Ling Yi remembered that Li Fang was also unemployed and often sick, appearing to be physically weak. She wondered what their source of income was.

"Yes...sigh, it's so hard for me as a woman. My husband was crushed on the construction site and is now in a vegetative state, and we haven't even received any compensation."

Seeing the other person suddenly start complaining, Ling Yi had no choice but to go along with it:

"If there's anything I can help you with, Fang-jie, just let me know. I can do things like changing a light bulb or unclogging a drain."

"Hehe, thanks in advance... Hey, you're eating instant noodles again?"

A transparent plastic bag was hanging on the handlebars of his bicycle, containing a halal chicken sausage, two braised eggs, and a bowl of tomato and egg noodles bought from a convenience store.

"Hehe, I'm a little hungry after class, I'll have this as a midnight snack."

"Oh, I see... Why don't you come over to my place for a bite later? I fried some meatballs."

She gave Ling Yi a knowing look and leaned forward slightly.

The loose silk pajamas couldn't hide the glimpses of her skin, and in the dim light, Ling Yi felt two things swaying back and forth in front of her.

Holy crap, what kind of plot is this—a beautiful, lonely young woman and a young, handsome man?

That can't be right, I remember my college entrance exam results were pretty good!

Ling thought of a few novels and some movies from Japan.

However, he still understood the principle that one can wear any clothes, but one cannot sleep with any woman.

He quickly waved his hand, looking away.

"No, no, don't trouble yourself, Sister Fang. I actually quite like instant noodles."

"Eating instant noodles all the time is not a good way to get nutrition; you should eat meat too!"

"Haha, Fang-jie is right."

Ling Yi continued to laugh it off, pretending not to understand.

"Fine, if you don't want to eat, then forget it."

He saw Li Fang straighten up and secretly roll her eyes at him.

The tone of his words was like, "I'm giving you food and you're not happy about it? Take it or leave it."

Since people didn't like him, he didn't need to put on an act anymore. He didn't say anything and just pushed his cart towards his own door.

Finally, Ling Yi sat down on her own sofa.

Add water to the instant noodles, bite the chicken sausage into small pieces and put them in, and finally add the braised egg.

Chicken sausage and braised egg instant noodles, hmm, even a state banquet wouldn't be this good.

After doing all this, he turned on his phone, ready to read a novel for a while, only to find that the app he had mentioned earlier was already installed.

[The chase game installation is complete]

Ling Yi had wanted to delete it in the elevator, but she delayed for a while, and now it's all installed.

but……

"Oh well, since the act is already done, I guess I'll just have to use it as a negative example and learn from it critically!"

That's right, it's the classic "Since we're already here" segment.

The desktop icons don't reveal much; they're divided into two halves, the top half dark red and the bottom half pitch black.

However, it's so ordinary that it doesn't arouse the viewer's interest at all. Shouldn't it be one of those peach-butt-shaped icons?

What kind of name is "Chase and Escape Game"? Does it mean that if you get caught, you will be severely punished?

Good soil.

Ling Yi opened the floodgates wide and launched a scathing critique.

"Let's take another look inside..."

"Holy crap, why is it using facial recognition? What happened to my camera access permission?!"

Ling Yi was shocked to see her face being entered into the database.

Before he could react, lines of small red text suddenly appeared in the center of the black screen:

[Player registration successful]

[Player Name: Ling Yi (21 years old, third-year student at Beiguan University)]

Number of game wins: 0

Title: None

[Skills: None]

[Item: None]

Wow, he's a player with no income, no job, and no skills.

Holy crap, wait a minute, I got eliminated!

[The chase game has begun! This time, the game location is limited to "Qian Residential Area"]

[This game has a time limit of one hour. The coordinates of both sides will be marked every twenty minutes.]

[Randomly assigning you an identity for this round of the chase game...]

[Randomly assigned; your role in this game is—]

[The Fugitive!]

[Because you are a new player, we will draw your unique skills for the Fugitive identity. Drawing is in progress...]

[Draw successful! Your unique skill as a fugitive is—]

[Lucky Roulette!]

[Fugitive Ling Yi, you have fifteen minutes to prepare. After fifteen minutes, your coordinates will be revealed to your pursuers.]

[Begin your escape!]