I really don't want to date a girl addicted to the internet!

"You scumbag, what are you looking at?" Ye Shuang hugged her bag tighter.

"Look at my Master Ye." The young man said nonchalantly.

"I am not yours." The girl's gaze met his but then looked away.

"Master Ye."

"?" The girl cautiously looked up.

"Will you regret coming with me to investigate Ding Sheng's case?" the boy asked, gazing at her.

Ye Shuang was taken aback, then lowered her head, "Even if you don't go, I'm still doomed."

"If I don't go, you might not be able to find Ding Sheng at all, and you won't have to fight him at the last minute?" Cheng Fei raised an eyebrow.

"You look down on me?!" The girl raised her chin, somewhat unconvinced.

"Just stating the facts." The boy shrugged.

The girl lowered her head again and remained silent, her hesitant expression leaving everyone guessing what she was thinking.

"So you regret it?" The boy leaned forward, hands in his pockets, to observe her.

"Cheng Fei." The girl bit her lip lightly.

"what?"

"Only five months left," the girl suddenly whispered.

"What? Only five months?" the boy asked, puzzled.

"It's the young lady's birthday."

"To be precise, less than five months." The boy's expression turned blank.

"You broke up with Miss, what am I supposed to do?" Ye Shuang raised her head, her brows furrowed slightly, a deep unease hidden in her eyes.

“If Master Ye is really worried, then just keep it from her for now.” Cheng Fei reached out and gently stroked her head. “Don’t worry, no matter what she does, I will protect you.”

The girl stared at him for a moment, then lowered her head and remained silent.

Just then, the sound of a car came from afar.

Cheng Fei calmly withdrew his hand and took a step back to keep his distance from her.

A black van pulled up in front of the villa. Milian leaned out of the passenger seat and waved her hands as if she were a celebrity. "Miss Ye Shuang, junior!"

"Cheng Fei, we're here." Nagasaki Asuna was the first to get off the bus, clutching her chest and letting out a sigh of relief, feeling a strange sense of exhaustion.

"Where have you been?" the boy asked suspiciously.

"Of course, we'll pick up Zhou Han and Ruan." The sweet girl sighed softly.

"If I remember correctly, you went there at noon. Did the car break down on the way?" the boy asked, puzzled.

“It’s Zhou Han’s mother, it’s really too…” Nagasaki Asuna hesitated.

"You won't let Zhou Han leave?" Cheng Fei looked at the petite girl who followed him out of the car.

“She was so enthusiastic.” Nagasaki Asuna looked troubled. “She seemed very interested in me and Shen Xi, saying that we would be perfect as models and that she insisted on taking our measurements. She even said she would design clothes for us. It took her a long, long time.”

You could tell from her tired tone that it had indeed been "a long time".

Cheng Fei took a second to recall that Zhou Han's mother was a fashion designer with her own studio.

"Teacher Shen, are you alright?" The boy looked to the side again.

The aloof girl with long, dark hair shook her head, her slightly furrowed brows suggesting she had exhausted herself and didn't even want to speak.

"I'm so sorry, I'm so sorry. My mother is like this sometimes. I never expected her to target you." Zhou Han said apologetically from the side.

"Zhou Han, you must have a very hard life, right?" Nagasaki Asuna pressed down on the petite girl's shoulders with a sense of pity.

“I wouldn’t, because she said I’m short and have a bad figure, and I’m always silly and like a little kid, so she has no interest in making clothes for me…” As Zhou Han spoke, her round eyes became more and more vacant, and finally her gaze stopped on Nagasaki Asuna’s full chest, completely losing focus.

Asuna Nagasaki's expression hardened, then she tilted her head and smiled, "Not at all. Zhou Han is clearly very smart, and her figure will definitely develop in the future. Besides, Zhou Han's type is very cute and popular."

"Asuna, really?" Zhou Han raised her head, her empty eyes seeming to question her soul.

"Really." Nagasaki Asuna nodded without hesitation, then turned her gaze to the side for help, "Cheng Fei, you agree, right?"

"Teacher Shen, I suggest we all have a meal together tonight, then get a good night's sleep so we can be well-rested and start our work tomorrow, how about that..."

"The lazy and gluttonous Cheng Feiyu is back again..."

The boy and the aloof girl walked and talked, until eventually only their backs remained.

"Asuna... I know you mean well... You don't need to comfort me..."

"Huh?! It's melted?! Ruan, come quick, help!"

Regardless, the group settled into the villa.

Room assignments remain the same as always.

Shen Xi firmly rejected Cheng Fei and Nagasaki Asuna's suggestion to cook for themselves, with Milian's nanny taking care of three meals a day, and required everyone to stay online except when necessary.

Under these circumstances, the summer camp of the Corridor Research Department officially began.

……

That evening, when the group, having finished packing, logged back in, the place where they had crashed also entered night.

In the cockpit, Shen Xi looked around at everyone expressionlessly. "We'll set sail at dawn tomorrow. Tonight, everyone will wear helmets and sleep on the ship to get used to online life and their biological clocks."

"Sigh, internet-addicted girl." Cheng Fei shook his head and sighed.

"Ruan Jingyi, let's sleep together then." Zhou Han took her best friend's arm.

"Shuangshuang~" Nagasaki Asuna took a step to the side with her hands behind her back, and stood next to Ye Shuang.

The well-behaved girl with champagne-gold twin ponytails exchanged a glance with the former and did not object.

Miriam looked around with her head down, a conflicted expression on her face, as if she wanted to say something but didn't dare to.

Vino, who happened to be in the driver's seat, witnessed this scene and was completely bewildered.

As a fast ship, the Miriam's cabins were actually quite cramped, with limited living space for the sailors, though the crew, who spent their days lying around, didn't seem to mind.

"Teacher Shen, is it really not okay for us to sleep together?" Cheng Fei lay on the single bed, which was so tight that he might fall off if he turned over, and looked at the bunk above him.

775. Shen Xi is very sensitive.

"Stop talking nonsense and get some rest." Shen Xi said coldly without moving.

"Yes." The boy shut his mouth.

A faint snoring sound came from the side.

Across from Cheng Fei was Miriam's bed. British lesbians are quite adaptable to sleeping online, and they quickly fall unconscious after lying down.

The night at the crash site was so quiet you could hear a pin drop, and time ticked by.

At a certain moment, the boy in the lower bunk opened his eyes, quietly got up, approached the silver-haired girl in the upper bunk, and softly called out, "Teacher Shen?"

Her delicate and pretty face had lowered eyelids and even breathing; she looked so soft and serene that it seemed like she wouldn't react even if you kissed her.

Cheng Fei turned around and left the cabin with very light steps.

The boy arrived at the captain's cabin and easily pushed open the unlocked door.

Nagasaki Asuna and Ye Shuang squeezed onto the slightly larger bed in the captain's cabin.

The taller one wrapped himself up around the smaller one, trapping him in a corner, leaving himself some space behind him, and slept in a way that felt like he was bullying the other.

Cheng Fei walked over and looked at the two sleeping people, then lay down in the empty little space.

The mission's so-called "spending the night together" would, unsurprisingly, involve sharing a bed, but he wasn't sure if it counted online. In any case, he had Nagasaki Asuna do a favor, and if that was enough, all the better.

Although it's still a bit dangerous, and it would be hard to explain if he were discovered, as long as he doesn't sleep all night, he can use Time Zero to escape as soon as there's any sign of something amiss.

It can be said to be a piece of cake.

System, how will you respond this time?

Thinking of this, the boy staring at the ceiling couldn't help but curl a smug smile onto his lips.

And so, the night passed in the blink of an eye.

As dawn broke over the place where the ship crashed, a sliver of light peeked through the crack in the door into the narrow cabin. The boy, who hadn't slept all night, stared at the ceiling, his eyes bloodshot.

There are no notifications indicating that the mission objective has been achieved.

System, you're ruthless...

When a faint sigh reached Ye Shuang's ears, the girl groggily opened her eyes, propped herself up, and looked around. She found herself cornered against the wall, with a large open space outside, and couldn't help but feel a little helpless.

"Nana...where do you want to push me?"

"I'm sorry..." The sweet-faced pink-haired girl hugged her waist and gave a muffled response.

Once the sun had fully risen over the crash site, the Miriam was ready to set sail.

Zhou Han leaned over the ship's railing and waved to the Gerst family of three, "Goodbye, take care of yourselves!"

The human-elf couple, holding hands with their half-elf daughter, waved goodbye to them.

With his hands in his pockets, Cheng Fei watched the ship sail close to the thick, white sea of ​​clouds, as if it were really floating on the sea, and couldn't help but yawn.

A cool, aloof girl with long silver hair stood beside him, her eyes slightly narrowed as she gazed at him thoughtfully.

"What is Teacher Shen secretly peeking at over there? Is she planning to confess her feelings?" Cheng Fei tilted his head.

"What did you do last night?" Shen Xi raised her chin and stared at him, her small face icy cold.

"What's with this feeling of interrogating a prisoner? What can I do? Of course, I'll sleep online as you requested." The boy looked genuinely puzzled.

"Cheng Feiyu, stop pretending and tell the truth." The girl frowned slightly and kicked him.

"Teacher Shen, what are you talking about?" the boy asked, scratching his head.

"Don't think I don't know. The energetic Cheng Feiyu always wakes up at 6:30 in the morning and is never sleepy. The only reason you yawned just now is that you did something sneaky last night." The confident expression on the girl's face seemed to be explaining some kind of truth.

Cheng Fei opened his mouth, "Teacher Shen, although I'm glad you've observed me so carefully, which is obviously a sign that you love me very much, don't you think your assumptions are too malicious? I just didn't sleep well because I'm not used to sleeping with a helmet on."

Shen Xi turned her face away and fell silent, as if she was doubting herself.

"You don't deny loving me so much?" the boy said with a hint of pride.

"I don't want to waste time talking." The girl kicked him without hesitation and turned to leave.

Cheng Fei breathed a sigh of relief without showing any emotion and continued to enjoy the scenery.

"Good morning, junior!" Miriam appeared behind him, looking quite energetic. "By the way, what did you do last night, waaaaah...!"

The boy's expression changed instantly, and he covered the blonde girl's mouth with lightning speed.

Shen Xi, who had only taken a few steps, stopped.

"Senior, are you still half asleep? What nonsense are you talking about?" Cheng Fei slapped Milian's face from side to side.

"Junior, I just fell out of bed in the middle of the night and saw you weren't there, so I was just asking..." Miriam covered her face, tears welling up in her eyes.

Shen Xi walked back with a cold face and gritted teeth. She lifted her small foot, encased in a white boot, and gave him a vicious blow. "As expected, you're always a lying aquatic mammal!"

"Sweetie, let me explain. I just went to the deck to get some fresh air because I couldn't sleep!" The boy quickly followed.

"Shut up, do whatever you want, nobody here cares what you're doing in the middle of the night!" She stormed off in annoyance.

Nagasaki Asuna watched this scene with her hands behind her back, smiling helplessly, "These two are really being affectionate so early in the morning?"

Ye Shuang, standing to the side, pursed her lips but offered no comment.

“Ruan Jingyi, sometimes I feel that Cheng Fei and Shen Xi are a match made in heaven, they always have endless arguments.” Zhou Han rested her chin on her hands by the ship’s railing and turned her head to look, a little melancholy in her round eyes.

Ruan Jingyi opened her mouth, then tilted her head, "Arguing...is a good thing?"

"Of course, a beating is a sign of affection, and scolding is a sign of love. My mother also said that if two people are cold and distant when they're together, they'll probably break up someday." The petite girl said with certainty.

In this atmosphere, the teardrop-shaped airship sailed toward the towering World Tree.

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