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

[Requirement: Have an in-depth online conversation with Zzzz in any format]

Difficulty: Hard

[Reward: Lucky 90% off regular voucher]

[After a long-awaited online reunion, the girl seems to be anticipating something. Let's make good use of the game's features!]

The boy paused for a second, then decisively waved his hand, "Let's go, today's target is the fourth floor."

“Let’s go!” Miriam responded enthusiastically.

So, for the first time, Lin Xuanqi joined the online activities of the Corridor Research Department.

In the dense rainforest of the fourth level, Zhou Han stared in disbelief as swarms of small, out-of-control machines hovering in mid-air were precisely hit and blasted into fireballs. She muttered to herself, "Ruan Jingyi, Lin Xuanqi is much more accurate than you. So she's the real gaming expert?"

Not far from the two, an arrogant girl with long, blood-red hair wore an intrigued smile as she moved and fired a super-long sniper rifle, as tall as a person. The muzzle roared and spat out flames, with an alarmingly high hit rate.

Cheng Fei was used to this situation and silently collected the debris falling from the sky.

Judging from the current situation, Lin Xuanqi may possess three extraordinary abilities, which correspond to her high probability of hitting her target when shooting, the high probability of others malfunctioning when shooting at her, and her ability to avoid risks when investing.

If you want to kill her, you must use methods that are unlikely to cause accidents, such as stabbing her with a knife, and it is best to personally confirm that she has lost vital signs before stopping.

Although he had promised Ye Shuang that he would not physically harm Lin Xuanqi, the boy still seriously considered the issue, just to be on the safe side.

Just then, Miriam, who was drawing fire and keeping watch at the front, suddenly shouted, "Look everyone, there are corpses here!"

When the others approached, they found two unfortunate players on the ground, who had probably died there shortly before they arrived; their bodies were charred and mangled.

"Cheng Fei, this isn't broken yet, can we take it back? Although I don't need it." Zhou Han found an energy weapon in the grass and examined it curiously.

"Should be fine? If we don't need it, we can sell it." The boy shrugged.

"Oh, then I won't be polite." The petite girl nodded and hung the things on her body.

Lin Xuanqi watched this scene from the side, her brows furrowed in thought, and she asked in confusion, "Wait, their bodies are still in the same spot after they're dead? Why don't they disappear?"

"It seems like it won't disappear, right, Cheng Fei?" Zhou Han seemed to understand but not quite.

"The bodies of those who are smuggled won't disappear; after a while, they'll be collected by specialized, out-of-control machinery," the boy casually remarked.

As soon as he finished speaking, Lin Xuanqi cast a strange look at him.

"Xuanqi, what's with that expression?" Cheng Fei rubbed his chin and looked at her.

"It's nothing, let's continue." The arrogant girl pouted, shook her head, and gave an indifferent expression.

The boy didn't ask any further questions.

A few hours later, the group, having completed their material collection in the fourth level, returned the way they came and used a return crystal to evacuate at the edge of the continent.

After everyone else had disappeared from the spot, Lin Xuanqi put away her props and turned around. "Cheng Fei, I have a question for you."

"Huh?" The boy, who hadn't left either, looked at her.

"So if you smuggle yourself out and don't go back, the character won't just disappear, right?" Lin Xuanqi stared at him.

"You didn't know?" The boy's surprise seemed genuine.

"Why didn't you tell me sooner?" The girl's eyes flickered.

"I thought this was common sense?" the boy said, looking wronged.

"Common sense my foot! Who ever said such common sense?" the girl glared at him irritably.

"Okay, but does it matter?" the boy shrugged.

Lin Xuanqi raised her chin and met his gaze. After a second of silence, she gave a half-smile and asked, "Then let me ask you, did you ever do anything strange to me after I logged off before?"

"What strange thing? I don't understand." The boy's eyes darted around.

"You don't understand, do you? Tell me the truth!" The girl pinched his waist fiercely.

"Okay, fine, I did a little bit." The boy raised his hands in surrender.

"A little something? Explain yourself clearly." Lin Xuanqi put her hands on her hips, her smile turning dangerous.

"It's nothing, just taking advantage of a little." The boy shook his head and sighed, recalling the time he kicked her into the fifth level of the icy lake, though of course he would never say such a thing.

"Trying to take advantage of me, huh? You're really clever. You thought you'd never tell me if I didn't ask?" The girl laughed instead of getting angry, and continued to pinch his waist.

"Hiss, Xuanqi, you're mine now anyway, so let's not dwell on these old things from the game, okay?" The boy took the opportunity to pull her into his arms.

Lin Xuanqi seemed to sense something, her eyes trembling slightly. "This game is really interesting... Cheng Fei, let me ask you another question. There's a reward if you answer correctly."

"What's the problem?" the boy asked suspiciously.

"Who do you think is prettier, me in the game or me in real life?" the girl asked him with a smile.

The boy paused for a moment, then rubbed his chin. "Well, we have to consider that games and reality are two different categories. Games are virtual, so they can transcend reality, and therefore there's really no comparison. But speaking for yourself, Xuanqi, your character is considered one of the prettiest among players, and you yourself are definitely a top-tier beauty..."

"You're so glib. Fine, shut up." Lin Xuanqi rolled her eyes at him, annoyed.

As soon as she finished speaking, the arrogant girl with long, alluring blood-red hair suddenly slid down and knelt on the ground, looking up at him.

"Xuanqi, what are you doing?" the boy asked in surprise.

"You don't want me like this?" The girl gazed at him, a sickly blush rising on her naturally beautiful face. She leaned closer, her rosy lips slightly parted.

The boy looked at her, and words appeared before his eyes.

[Time-limited task completed]

[Reward: Lucky 90% off regular voucher]

Lin Xuanqi actually completed her own task.

The boy thought for a moment, and although it might not make much sense, he still spent a thousand points and a voucher to increase his luck.

[Luck: 3 (Poor) → 4 (Unfavorable)]

……

Cheng Fei took off his infiltration helmet, smacked his lips, and looked at Lin Xuanqi, who had also opened her eyes, as if he hadn't had enough.

The haughty girl with reddened eyes had cascading black hair, and her flawless appearance was no less stunning than that of the stand-in in the corridor.

When the boy waited for her to take off her infiltration helmet and get up to kneel on the tatami, he grabbed her hair without any hesitation.

Lin Xuanqi looked up to meet the boy's gaze, and couldn't help but swallow, "Husband..."

Then, the girl resignedly closed her eyes, sinking into the depravity of being treated like a doll when she, who should have been high and mighty, was instead treated like a high and mighty object.

Next door, Ye Shuang stood by the shoji door, head down, biting her lip, her small hands twisting together, listening to the faint, ominous sounds coming from the other side.

Some time later, when everyone gathered together for lunch, only one person was missing.

In the dual-body world, Shen Xi and Luo Xi silently observed the stars with a simple telescope and recorded their observations on a manuscript.

The aloof girl appeared at dinner, but didn't say a single unnecessary word.

Cheng Fei's hot spring pool naturally became shared with Lin Xuanqi. In the quiet, Zen-like courtyard, the arrogant girl didn't get a moment's respite. She suffered from the merciless treatment and gave up thinking.

The Corridor Research Department's hot spring retreat will likely continue at this pace.

Two days later, the group left the hotel and returned to Academy City.

Thanks to Lin Xuanqi, they were able to return home on Lin's Gulfstream business jet, while Cheng Fei's car was driven back by the men in black.

……

After being chased away by Lin Xuanqi, who was limping and needed Ye Shuang's help to walk, Cheng Fei first went to Real Technology to check on the development progress of the prototype, and then went downstairs to the swimming pool with the employees (of course, only the male employees).

Afterwards, the boy rushed to Yinghua before dark, bought a caramel macchiato at the back gate cafe, a tiramisu and matcha roll at the front gate bakery, and a jasmine milk green tea at the milk tea shop next door before returning to Guang'an Street.

He arrived at the upscale apartment across the street and opened the door to the 36th floor as if he were returning home.

The living room was dark and silent.

The boy followed the light shining from the half-open door to the study, where he found two girls busy at work.

Shen Xi sat in a chair wearing an infiltration helmet, which was connected to a capture card via a cable. The first-person game view was captured by the computer, and Nagasaki Asuna was watching over her.

From the first-person perspective of the game, the aloof girl is in a dual-body world, flipping through a thick manuscript of observation records at a fast but steady pace in Rosie's attic.

Cheng Fei knew without guessing that she was relying on Isena to organize the data. The boy placed the cake in front of Nagasaki Asuna and touched the girl's soft cheek with his milk tea cup.

"Thank you, Master~" The sweet girl happily accepted the dessert given to her.

"How much longer until she finishes?" Cheng Fei glanced at Shen Xi, whose eyes were slightly closed, and rubbed Nagasaki Asuna's head.

"I guess it'll be a while? I only recently changed shifts." Nagasaki Asuna held her milk tea, sucked on the straw, and tilted her head to think.

"Okay." The boy nodded to indicate that he understood, sat down next to her, and decided not to forcibly wake Shen Xi.

"Cheng Fei." Nagasaki Asuna placed the milk tea on her fair and delicate thigh, her eyes darting around.

"Huh?" The boy took a sip of her milk tea without any hesitation, which made the girl's lips curl into a smile.

"Wasn't the cat very clever that day? It tricked Lin into leaving." The girl put her legs together, blinked her clear, bright eyes, and showed an expectant expression.

"Thank goodness you were here, otherwise something terrible would have happened." The boy sighed and rubbed her head.

"Hehehe~ Nana is a useful cat this time." Nagasaki Asuna closed her eyes slightly and took the initiative to rub against his palm with a feeling of enjoyment.

"Idiot, of course you're useful." The boy tugged at her again.

The girl pressed the boy's hand against her face, tilted her head, and asked with innocent and bewildered eyes, "Then why isn't Cheng Fei using this cat yet?"

The boy met her gaze, glanced at the unconscious Shen Xi, and got up nonchalantly, pulling Nagasaki Asuna up with the same unceremonious gesture as if she were an object.

The sweet girl pursed her lips, and a touch of blood appeared on her fair earlobe hidden among her thick coffee-colored hair. Her soft body offered no resistance, allowing herself to be pulled away. Before leaving, she made sure to take her matcha roll and jasmine milk tea with her.

The girl, dressed in her Sakura school uniform with a cardigan over it, followed the boy into his room as if she were being coerced. The door lock clicked softly as it closed.

Then came a faint, sweet, and indescribable sound.

……

after a while.

Shen Xi opened her eyes with a slight tremor in her eyelashes, took off her infiltration helmet, and saw a smiling boy watching her. Nagasaki Asuna was nowhere to be found.

"Is Teacher Shen finished with her work?" Cheng Fei looked at that pretty yet cold little face.

The aloof young woman frowned slightly, as if she had seen something dirty, and turned her face away, her stubborn lips tightly closed.

"By the way, I heard that Teacher Shen is spreading rumors that I'm dead. What's going on?" the boy asked, leaning closer to her.

Previously, Cheng Fei had taken advantage of Lin Xuanqi's inattention to teleport to the dual-body world, intending to check on Shen Xi's progress. However, he still vividly remembered Luo Xi's terrified reaction, which was so extreme that she was scared out of her wits by seeing a ghost.

832. Shen Xi cleverly employs a series of schemes.

Shen Xi couldn't help but chuckle. Noticing the boy staring at her, she immediately tensed her face and glared at him coldly. "Sorry, in my opinion, you going to hang out with that Lin guy is no different from being dead."

"That's too much." The young man shook his head and sighed, handing the dessert beside him to her. "Please enjoy, Your Highness. How about we have a proper talk?"

"It's not just for me, I'm not interested." The girl glanced at it, unmoved.

Cheng Fei realized that she had noticed everything that had just happened. "The new humans are really amazing. But what we gave to Nana is different. Tiramisu and caramel macchiato are for Her Highness the Princess. Is that alright?"

The girl was silent for a second before reluctantly taking the item with extreme displeasure. Her stubborn, pink lips parted slightly as she took a sip of the drink through the straw. Out of the corner of her eye, she noticed the boy staring at her and glared at him again.

"Little cutie, can we talk now?" The boy looked at Shen Xi with a doting gaze.

"What do you want to talk about?" The girl's eyes flickered, and she lowered her gaze.

“Talk about the bad things you’ve done.”

"Sorry, I don't remember doing anything wrong. It seems there's no point in talking." The girl said coldly and without hesitation.

"Have you lost your memory again?" The boy raised an eyebrow and leaned closer to examine her.

"Stop making trouble over things that don't even exist." The girl gritted her teeth and glared at him.

"Who's being unreasonable here?" The boy spread his hands. "Shen Xi, you almost ruined our long-planned scheme because of your own willfulness. Do you think you're in the right?"

As soon as he finished speaking, the room fell into an unexpected silence.

The girl squinted at his questioning gaze, then quickly looked away, tilting her chin up and scanning the wall as if searching for something.

"What are you looking at? Is there something written on the wall?" Cheng Fei leaned closer and looked at the wall with her.