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

This speed was too easy for Chen Hao, so he chose to run backwards in front of the two.

The tall and thin Du Xinhua has poor physical fitness; even running slowly, he gets exhausted.

Cheng Fei is similar to the former.

"I ask you, why do humans need to exercise?" Du Xinhua asked breathlessly.

Chen Hao, beaming, said, "Because life is all about movement, my friend."

Cheng Fei remained silent, focusing on controlling his breathing to try and make his burning lungs feel better.

"Look over there, there's a beautiful girl." Chen Hao, who was looking around, suddenly stopped.

Du Xinhua turned her head and squinted, "Where?"

"The one with brown hair, helping her classmate do sit-ups." As a sports enthusiast, Chen Hao has excellent eyesight. "Ah, she has a sweet smile and a great figure; she'll definitely be an excellent wife in the future."

"Why does that sound like Nagasaki Asuna?" Du Xinhua glanced at the engrossed Chen Hao and muttered, shading his eyes with his hand.

"You know him, kid?!"

"The international student newcomer in the game club is very popular."

"What? Another beautiful girl who loves games? What's going on in society these days?"

"Anyway, I can't possibly like basketball, otherwise I'd become a strong and beautiful girl."

"You little rascal, pretty girls could be your cheerleaders!"

“I have a question about Nagasaki Asuna,” Cheng Fei said.

Du Xinhua slowed her pace. "Please speak."

"Is she connected to the Corridor Research Department?"

"You asked about this? I can't say there's a connection, but I can say that she was one of the founders of the Corridor Research Department."

"Not Minister Shen Xi?" Cheng Fei asked in surprise.

"It started with the two of them together, that's right, a gaming club formed by two beautiful freshmen, which is why there was a defection incident in the gaming department before." Du Xinhua's lips curled up, with an expression as if she had top-secret information.

"Are they lesbians?" Chen Hao asked in horror, putting his fingers in his mouth.

"There are such rumors. I joined the club relatively late, and I only heard about it when I played a free-for-all with the girls in the club last time."

"Are there really girls in the gaming club who play together?" Chen Hao was even more horrified.

Cheng Fei asked, "Then why did she go to the game department again?"

"Well, they first formed the Corridor Research Club, but then I heard they had disagreements and apparently had a fight. Anyway, Nagasaki Asuna left the club, and then our club president seized the opportunity and sent someone to invite her over. With her joining, the morale of the game club was stabilized."

"I see." Cheng Fei nodded to indicate that he understood.

“Poor Nagasaki, she must have been bullied.” Chen Hao said with certainty, “Shen Xi is beautiful but has a vicious personality. I saw her dragging Cheng Fei by the ear yesterday.”

"Is that so?" Cheng Fei exclaimed in surprise.

Chen Hao nodded. "At least that's how it is from my perspective."

"You guys, stop judging people by their appearance." A girl with a single ponytail, jogging, approached.

"Hey, 28, what information do you have?" Du Xinhua seemed to know the other person very well; they might be the same guy he mentioned who played the free-for-all together.

"Try calling me that again? Believe me or I'll beat you up." The girl glared at him angrily.

"Is there anything we can talk about regarding Nagasaki Asuna?" Cheng Fei asked calmly.

“She…” The girl glanced at Cheng Fei, her voice softening, “Let me tell you first, I heard it from someone else, so don’t spread it around.”

The three nodded hurriedly.

"That Nagasaki Asuna, someone overheard her talking on the phone about time, and then she gets into a different private car every time she gets out of school... I heard she does that kind of thing, the kind that a lot of girls in Japan do, you guys must know what I mean, right?" After saying that, he gave her a knowing look.

The three looked at each other in bewilderment.

Just then, the PE teacher's whistle suddenly rang out from behind, "Hey, you three boys! Aren't you ashamed of running so slowly? Anyone who falls behind will have to do twenty more squats after you finish!"

The three boys felt a chill run down their spines and quickly said goodbye to the girls, chasing after the main group ahead.

……

After school, Cheng Fei went to work as usual.

I returned to my rented room late at night, washed up, and lay down on the bed.

Don the infiltration helmet and enter the corridor...

What comes into view is a small wooden loft, not much larger than Cheng Fei's actual single-room rental apartment, and it looks even more cramped because it is filled with clutter.

Cheng Fei habitually opened his friend list to check if there were any customer messages.

Services such as playing games with clients, boosting training sessions, and farming materials are Cheng Fei's main ways of making money here, much like mercenaries or bounty hunters in fantasy novels.

There is indeed a message.

"Hello~ System, are you free?" accompanied by a smiling emoji with chin resting on hand.

The sender's ID is "娜娜s娜".

Asuna Nagasaki's game ID.

Cheng Fei was stunned.

He had absolutely no recollection of having such a friend.

It's not that Cheng Fei has a bad memory; he just has too many people on his friend list, and most of them are people he never contacted again after a transaction.

Asuna Nagasaki has probably been sitting on the list ever since, after some kind of transaction.

Was her arrival at this time a coincidence, or did she know her identity?

Cheng Fei had a strange feeling, like his box had been opened, and suddenly he understood Shen Xi's feelings the day before yesterday.

Cheng Fei replied, "What is it?"

"Can you take me through a dungeon?" The other person replied instantly, as if they had been waiting for a long time.

"Of course, what do you want to swipe?"

"Should we meet first?"

"Meeting at the Great Portal"

"Okay~"

As Cheng Fei closed the game interface, text suddenly appeared in front of him.

[Time-limited task triggered]

[Light Speed ​​Offline]

[Requirement: Meet with Nana in person within a specified timeframe]

Difficulty: Hard

[Reward for meeting in person within one day: 5,000 points, one 30% off regular voucher]

[Reward for meeting in person within one week → 3,000 points]

A passionate offline invitation might make a young woman's heart flutter, but be careful; if the approach is too clumsy, it might backfire.

[Regular Exchange Coupon: Increases the corresponding attribute by 1 point; usable only if the user has less than 9 points.]

Cheng Fei fell into deep thought.

8. Cheng Fei has always been very thoughtful.

Cheng Fei was confused.

The two already knew each other offline, so meeting up at the same school was no problem at all.

How can such an easy task be called difficult? What's wrong with this system?

Cheng Fei could only come up with one explanation: the system issued the task based on the premise that the two people did not know each other offline, without considering other situations.

Upon closer reflection, Cheng Fei suspected that he hadn't followed the system's preset procedures from the beginning.

As an online dating system, it should naturally develop relationships from players who don't know each other, so the scanner should probably be used online.

The scan results also serve as evidence: the first line shows the game ID, and the second line shows the name, indicating that the game character is the main entity.

When Cheng Fei scanned the Chinese language class representative offline, he found that the person was just an ordinary person, which probably stunned the system.

Therefore, it was only because Cheng Fei met Nagasaki Asuna in real life that things in the current situation happened by accident.

As expected, programs will have bugs.

Cheng Fei recalled the story of a test engineer who walked into a bar, ordered a bowl of fried rice, and then the bar exploded.

As he pondered, he gathered his equipment and headed to the meeting point.

The Corridor is a global server, so the main city is always bustling with players, and the central portal is always crowded with people.

On the surface, the Great Portal is a circular plaza paved with bluish-gray rune bricks, far larger than the most famous gathering places in the real world.

As soon as Cheng Fei walked in, a strikingly beautiful young woman with long pink twin ponytails that reached her ankles was already waving at him on tiptoe.

Her striking pink hair drew constant stares from passing players; the rare hair color, assigned by the algorithm, was a symbol of her good looks.

Because they were friends, Cheng Fei could see her ID above her head: "Nana s Na".

"Cheng Fei~ Guess who I am?"

Cheng Fei approached her, still somewhat doubtful, "It's you?"

"It's me~" The girl hid her hands behind her back, leaned forward, and grinned mischievously.

Seeing these identical actions, Cheng Fei's last worry finally died.

"You're opening the box for me?"

"How could that be? It's just that I've always had a keen sense of things. The moment I saw... the System, I felt like I'd seen someone from the game before, so I just called him out and asked." Nagasaki Asuna's expression didn't seem fake.

Cheng Fei understood. This was the power of extraordinary perception; it could even see through the disguise of algorithms.

"Just call me by my name when there are no outsiders. The system feels a bit strange about it," Cheng Fei said.

“Okay~” she replied, drawing out the last syllable. “Cheng Fei, you can call me Nana.”

"Okay, Nana," Cheng Fei mimicked her tone, "So, are we still going to grind?"

“Since we’re already here,” Nagasaki Asuna said, well-versed in Chinese culture.

Cheng Fei said seriously, "You know the rules. As for what to swipe, please pay a deposit first."

"Hey, you're taking my money too?"

"Business is business."

"Okay, then let's change it to playing together for two hours. Is that enough?" The girl made a transfer.

"That's enough." Cheng Fei was satisfied with the money.

Because of the free and realistic gameplay of the corridor, players are actually divided into two factions.

One group comes to play the game seriously, hone their skills, challenge bosses, and find joy in suffering.

There's another group that's completely opposite: they spend all day collecting pretty outfits, wandering around the game world admiring the scenery, and occasionally engaging in some lighthearted battles, turning the Corridor into a virtual reality game.

Asuna Nagasaki is a typical example of the latter, primarily a casual player.

So two hours of companionship was no problem for Cheng Fei. Of course, Cheng Fei didn't feel guilty about taking the money. For him, work was just about getting paid to do things.

As for how to turn Nagasaki Asuna into an online dating partner, Cheng Fei plans to check the rumors about her first.

……

However, when they were in the wilderness and were trying to return to the main city, they ran into a group of people and were blocked from their way.

Cheng Fei initially thought it was a professional robbery player with a red name, since the Corridor doesn't restrict player combat and there's a backpack drop mechanism, so such people do exist.

However, upon closer inspection, this group did not have any red names above their heads due to frequent killings.