Arknights, but all characters are NPCs?

"So... out of these three conditions, at least two of them must be met before you can enter a dream?"

120. Theresa: I'm just a little hot... I'm just a little tired...

The conclusion that Lu Shang reached through reasoning was very likely and credible.

But Kelsey sees it differently.

Kal'tsit felt that it was more likely that Lu Shang was talking nonsense.

Because after Lu Shang concluded that "at least two of the above conditions must be met before you can enter the dream", he patted Kal'tsit on the shoulder and said earnestly, "Queen Mother Kai, there are still many tragedies on this land. This has already met one of the conditions. So if you want to meet another condition, instead of waiting for the plot, why don't you take the initiative to find them? After all, you don't want to watch them die without helping, right?"

Kelsey: “…”

Let's not talk about how Lu Shang managed to call her three different names in just a few sentences.

What you mean is that you want me to become a brothel owner, right?

Do you think that's possible?

I will kill those innocent girls just to satisfy your XP...

innocent?

Kal'tsit turned around and looked at Theresa who was having fun with W, and then looked at the doctor who was having fun rubbing the bunny...

Forget it.

Innocent? Who is as innocent as Kal'tsit?

One by one, it's really...

However, Kal'tsit hadn't answered yet, nor had she had time to slap Lu Shang's paw away. After all, after patting her shoulder, Lu Shang went back to play with Theresa.

But then I heard a voice——

Squeak.

The door to the control center was opened.

Everyone turned around and saw Frost Star, wearing a small vest, shorts, and cotton slippers, walking into the house with a clattering sound.

"You look really cool in this outfit."

Seeing this, Lu Shang smiled and waved: "White Rabbit, I haven't seen you for a long time. I almost thought you were a side story, with only plot and no CG."

"what?"

Frost Star was confused.

What branch? What CG?

She comes here normally, but when she comes she goes for all kinds of desserts, hotpot, and milk tea.

She couldn't experience the taste of those foods in reality, so she had to make up for it all in her dreams.

But as for the cool outfit...it's hard for Frost Star to refute.

After all, she was really fed up with the cold feeling, so she naturally ate and drank anything hot, and when she ate and drank, she started sweating...

"It doesn't matter."

Froststar waved her hand.

She was a big sister by nature, and her personality was a bit like that of an irritable older sister, so she was not shy at all: "I was prepared to pay a small price from the beginning, and..."

Froststar glanced at W beside him.

It's not like she hasn't seen what that small price is.

"Are you all ready?" Lu Shang raised his eyebrows. "Shuangxing, how many times have you come here?"

"Uh..."

How many times... Frost Star really hasn't counted.

But it must have happened three times.

"Then come over. Since you're here now, I see the doctor rubbing that bunny every day, and I'm a little greedy."

"Now...?"

Shuangxing hesitated a little: "Of course you can...but I came here for something——"

Frost Star didn't even finish his words and just stood there.

Then a few seconds later, a status bar popped up above Frost Star's head:

"Frost Star (Automatically finding the path...)"

“Are you going back?”

Lu Shang was a little surprised.

In the dream world, people here cannot control when they wake up.

But you can use external forces.

For example, being awakened by the sound of an alarm clock, or being awakened physically by someone,

There are many ways, but didn't Frost Star just arrive? How did he wake up?

"Hmm... Could something have happened in Rhodes Island?"

Theresa walked forward with a puzzled look on her face, stood beside Lu Shang, and then waved curiously in front of the NPC Frost Star.

When Lu Shang turned around to look over, it was W's vicious little eyes that caught his eye first.

Sure enough, as soon as Theresa left, W would definitely follow her.

So Lu Shang didn't care and continued, "Don't you have any defense and monitoring systems in Rhodes Island? Or have you been shut down by the doctor again?"

"Yes, but Kal'tsit, the Doctor and I are all here...so I'm a little worried."

"Then just wait. If anything really happens, someone will wake you up."

So after about ten minutes, the Frost Star NPC, who had been dragged away and could not find his way away automatically, suddenly blinked his eyes.

"Frost Star (I wonder if I'm dreaming...)"

Seeing this status bar, Lu Shang nodded: "Are you back?"

"Ah... I'm back..." Shuangxing replied subconsciously, then sighed as if she was a little tired, and said: "Sorry, that Tallulah... Ahem, Tallulah and Alina are guarding beside me, and they seem to be very curious about how I got into this dream world. I woke up just now because Tallulah shook me awake."

"I see. Has Tallulah come to a conclusion?"

"She must have come to a conclusion. I just explained it to her patiently—"

"Frost Star (Automatically finding the path...)"

"Well, it seems that I didn't explain it clearly."

Lu Shang smiled and waved his hand, asking someone to grab the hand of Shuang Xing, who had turned into an NPC again, to prevent her from automatically finding a way to run away.

They continued to chat while waiting.

"Come to think of it." Lu Shang said, "How should we deal with a situation like Shuangxing's?"

Tick, tick.

"How do you calculate what?" Kal'tsit asked.

Tick, tick.

"I'm not saying that I won't attack you the first time I come to the dream world, nor the second time, but the third time I will have to eat you—"

As he spoke, Lu Shang released his hand from the horn on Theresa's head and pointed at the NPC Frost Star. "But in Frost Star's current situation, she came in for a few minutes, then went back, then came in again for a few minutes, then went back again. Does this count as a disconnection and reconnection for Frost Star? Should it be counted as one time, or should it be counted as one time she comes in?"

Tick, tick.

Kelsey: “…”

Are you stuck with a bug here?

Just fill it up three times a day, and then you can start eating directly, right?

Tick, tick—

"Wait a minute..." W on the side couldn't help but ask, "Why do I keep hearing the sound of water dripping? What the hell is going on?"

As soon as W said this, everyone, well, subconsciously looked at Theresa.

At first, W didn't understand what they meant, but when W turned around, he saw Theresa's face flushed.

"... ..., Your Highness...?" W called out tentatively with a look of horror on his face.

"Hmm...? What's the matter...?"

"Your Highness, why is your face so red?"

"A bit... hot?"

As she spoke, Theresa suddenly whimpered and staggered to the side. Fortunately, W, who was standing by, was quick to reach out and hold Theresa up.

Although this successfully prevented Theresa from falling to the ground, W was completely stunned: "Your Highness...you..."

"I...I'm just a little tired...uh..."

W: "..."

If it were normal, W would definitely say, "Lu Shang! Is it you, a bastard, who is causing trouble again!"

But Theresa had teased her like this more than once before.

So now W is undecided. She is worried that this is just Theresa's acting, but at the same time, she is also worried what if it is true?

until--

Tick, tick.

"Mmmmm..."

121. Frost Star: Fainted by Tallulah

W has heard the story of the boy who cried wolf.

So is Theresa still deceiving her... or has she really been tricked... W really can't tell for the moment.

W was worried that if she turned around, she would see Theresa making a scissors gesture and saying "Yeah! Are you scared? Actually, I was lying to you." She was also worried that if she didn't turn around, Theresa would really stick out her little pink tongue.

But when the dripping sound gradually gathered into a small pool at the bottom of the high heels, when the water splashed the black stockings on her legs, when Theresa's grip on her shoulders gradually increased and even wrinkled her clothes, when the whimpering sound gradually became sweeter and sounded like a gasp——

"Lu Shang! You bastard!!!"

W finally couldn't help it.

She seemed to have finally determined that it was Lu Shang who was behind all this.

How could such a gentle and kind prince be so malicious as to lie to her?

So W turned his head and looked at him viciously, with an expression that looked like he wanted to eat Lu Shang alive, and shouted loudly -

Then she saw that Theresa looked normal, even with a look as if she had succeeded in a prank, and she was making a scissors hand gesture at her.

W: “?”

"How's it going?" Theresa said proudly, like a child seeking praise. "You've been fooled, haven't you? I've been practicing my acting skills for a long time. Next time I act like a ghost and scare people, I'll definitely be successful."

W: "..."

Huh? Are you really just trying to scare me?

Another story of the boy who cried wolf?

And that seems to be the case.

Because Theresa's face looked normal, the ticking sound before seemed like an illusion. Even when she looked up at the status bars above other people's heads, it was still the same as before, without any abnormality.

"Others W have a pure beauty that has not been polluted by knowledge. Xiao Te, you are lying to her, making her look even more innocent."

Unlike W, who started to doubt his life because he thought it was his mother's fault,