When Mo Yu opened his eyes, the first thing he saw was Ultron.
The opening this time looked identical to the last one.
Two AI robots had him cornered, the exact same gentle smiles plastered across their faces, yet somehow, it felt eerie and ominous.
Mo Yu hurriedly took a step back, but he was still grabbed once again.
“Rest assured, 69. I will help you.”
Mo Yu desperately resisted as they tried to place the blindfold over his eyes. “No, seriously, three’s a crowd in love. I really don’t need this!”
Ultron replied, “I am a machine.”
Is this really the time to bring that up?!
“Besides, you only need to gain his trust,” the two robots said, already lifting Mo Yu up between them.
“But I don’t need you! I can do it myself!”
“No, you need me.” Ultron spoke in an entirely matter of fact tone, forcing the blindfold onto him as he spoke. “You cannot do without me.”
Bro, that sounds even weirder.
With no other choice, Mo Yu had to follow them down.
This time, Ultron held onto him particularly tightly.
Mo Yu couldn’t find a single opportunity to rub off the blindfold in secret. In the pitch black darkness, he could only faintly sense Gu Jinzhi’s presence and breathing ahead of him, yet he was completely powerless to break free from the robots’ grip.
He grew closer and closer to Gu Jinzhi until they were finally pressed right up against each other.
Or rather, their heads were forcefully pressed together.
“Ugh.” Gu Jinzhi had been struggling non-stop, but he seemed unable to move.
“Get off me!” A hoarse voice squeezed out from his throat.
Mo Yu didn’t say a word. Instead, he actively leaned in, using his head to nuzzle Gu Jinzhi’s shoulder.
“You!” This behavior, which almost seemed like acting spoiled, made Gu Jinzhi even angrier. “Shameless…”
Eventually, Mo Yu managed to secretly rub off a corner of his blindfold.
The situation below was very similar to last time, except the door they had escaped through previously was now sealed tight. In fact, it looked as though it had been welded shut directly.
Gu Jinzhi was not only tied up, but a robot was also pointing a weapon that looked like a tranquilizer gun straight at his neck, clearly intending to leave him zero chance to resist.
“So they applied a real time patch based on what happened last time?!
If Gu Jinzhi lost consciousness, it would be game over.
Mo Yu’s heart beat wildly like a drum.
He had to do something…
Cyber Gu Jinzhi could also sense that the robot wanted to knock him out and manipulate him at will.
He gritted his teeth, but his strength was no match for the machine’s steel frame. Damn it, I need an opportunity to counterattack.
Otherwise, I’m really going to end up…
Only then did he truly fix his gaze on Mo Yu’s face. Even with his eyes covered, it was clear that Mo Yu was exceptionally handsome.
If he had met this person on the Alliance’s Ark, he might have been interested in getting to know him over a spatial dinner. But here, he felt nothing but sheer humiliation.
He didn’t want to be forced into strange poses by machines, have his clothes torn off, and be forced to do it with a fake person who only listened to AI commands…
“Ah!” Mo Yu suddenly let out a painful scream. “Help me… Ultron… I can’t breathe!”
It had to be said that he really possessed a bit of natural talent for acting. Ultron immediately turned toward him to check his condition.
“Cannot breathe?”
“What do I do? It hurts so much!” Mo Yu exaggeratedly clutched his own neck.
“Look at me, save me! I’m really going to die! There are only 5, 4, 3…”
Ultron: ?
All the robots shared a single mind.
With Mo Yu causing such a commotion on his end, the robot holding down Gu Jinzhi naturally slowed its movements.
Gu Jinzhi cast a surprised look at Mo Yu, uncertain whether his actions were intentional, but it undeniably bought him time.
He had already been waiting for a chance to fight back, at this moment, he kicked the robot directly, sending it crashing to the ground.
With a loud clatter, several objects were knocked over onto the floor.
Mo Yu, who had been pretending to kneel on the ground in agony, grabbed a metal tray from the floor and swung it straight onto the face of the robot behind him with a loud CLANG.
Mo Yu was terrified at first, as this was his very first time getting into a fight. But soon, he realized that these avatars of Ultron weren’t particularly quick to react.
Combined with Gu Jinzhi’s formidable martial skills, the scene quickly devolved into total chaos.
Just as Mo Yu felt his adrenaline spiking, feeling like he could take on ten guys at once, a loud crash of shattering glass echoed from behind him.
Jumping out the window again?!
Mo Yu looked left and right. Indeed, there was no other way.
He rushed to the window and saw that Gu Jinzhi had already jumped onto the windowsill of the floor below and opened the window.
Grit his teeth, Mo Yu jumped right down after him.
After jumping through the window, the lower floor turned out to be remarkably similar to the one above, glass dormitories lined the walls, and even the middle space was packed tightly like a beehive.
Except this time, three or four “jar people” lay inside each glass room.
They appeared even more bloated and sluggish than normal humans, staring blankly ahead.
Inside each glass room stood an Ultron robot. Right at that moment, they all turned their heads in unison, staring straight at him.
“A69. Why do you resist?”
“I am doing this for your own good.”
Mo Yu: Where did this AI learn to talk like a stereotypical toxic parent?
Stepping in perfect synchronization, the robots turned the door handles with identical movements and walked out of the rooms. Mo Yu backed away with a massive headache, then turned to run in the other direction.
The next second, he spotted Gu Jinzhi’s figure and hurriedly caught up to him.
“Gu Jinzhi!” By the time Mo Yu grabbed Gu Jinzhi’s arm, he was already completely out of stamina.
“Did you remember who I am?”
Gu Jinzhi said nothing, simply pulling him along to run in another direction. Unfortunately, the corridors here were far too labyrinthine.
Before long, Ultron robots had already stepped out from glass doors on both sides of their location, blocking their path.
Seeing Ultron raise the tranquilizer gun once more, Mo Yu’s heart leaped into his throat. He hurriedly spread his arms to block Gu Jinzhi, shouting aloud.
“Wait! If you come any closer, I… I’ll end my life!”
Gu Jinzhi was taken aback, staring at Mo Yu in disbelief.
He… is actually rebelling against Ultron for me?
Ultron’s system seemed to glitch for a moment: “69, please do not be willful. Only I know what is best for you.”
Mo Yu: ?
How many Chinese parents did this AI devour to sound like this?
There was no other option now, he could only try bluffing his way through. If all else failed, they’d just restart.
“I’m telling you, if you come one step closer, even if I have to jump out this window and die, I won’t let you help me!”
Ultron probably hadn’t fully grasped the art of human bluffing yet, as he actually halted at a distance.
Gu Jinzhi raised an eyebrow. “You seem to be quite important to him.”
Mo Yu didn’t know the exact parameters of this AI either. It didn’t even seem angry, but rather stared straight at him with terrifying intensity.
Mo Yu simply pulled Gu Jinzhi into the corner of a room, shut the door, and hid behind a small bookshelf.
At least this way, they wouldn’t be stared at directly by Ultron.
Gu Jinzhi’s expression was complex. “Don’t think that just because you did this, I’ll trust you…”
Mo Yu pinched his arm forcefully. “Haven’t you remembered yet?!”
“Hss,” Gu Jinzhi flinched.
Mo Yu pinched him a few more times frantically. “Think fast!”
“I…”
Mo Yu kept pinching. “Think about who you are!”
“You sure hit hard!”
“I’ve remembered already!”
“Oh, oh.” Mo Yu let out a sigh of relief. “Sorry about that… I was just afraid you hadn’t remembered yet… and would beat me up again.”
Gu Jinzhi slid down against the wall into a sitting position.
“Are you okay?”
Only then did Mo Yu notice that Gu Jinzhi’s face was somewhat pale.
“It seems… I was still grazed by a tranquilizer dart,” Gu Jinzhi frowned, touching the graze on his neck. He had been able to run just moments ago, but now he could barely stand, clearly losing his strength.
Mo Yu glanced outside. “Otherwise… let’s just start like this.”
Mo Yu braced his arm against the wall as he spoke, bringing his nose close enough to almost touch Gu Jinzhi’s ear.
Gu Jinzhi froze, turning his head away slightly.
“My legs have no strength…”
“Do you mean you can’t wrap your legs around my waist?”
Given the question, for some reason, Boss Gu seemed a bit reluctant to acknowledge him.
Mo Yu pondered to himself. “Then we need to switch positions. Lay on your stomach.”
“What are you doing…”
“Doing the quest.”
“…I’ll do it myself.”
“Didn’t you say you have no strength? It’s fine, leave it to me. Look, since we’re doing this, he hasn’t even tried to pry the door open.”
Indeed, no sound came from the other side of the door.
“If we don’t do the quest quickly now, what if he comes in later and insists on joining?”
Gu Jinzhi pursed his lips and stopped talking. Thinking about how the robot had forced them to press against each other earlier made his face flush red, and now he had to do it all over again while fully conscious.
For some reason, he felt a bit nervous.
He was still so stiff…
Mo Yu wanted to make a move, but he suddenly remembered that he had pinched the wound on Boss Gu’s arm so many times just now, feeling somewhat guilty.
Besides, Ultron knew he had an injury on his arm. If he intentionally pressed on it, it would easily blow their cover.
Mo Yu placed his hands onto Boss Gu’s waist.
“Uh?” Gu Jinzhi immediately reached out and grabbed his wrist. “Don’t…!”
Unexpectedly, it was a pretty good reaction.
Mo Yu was somewhat stunned.
So he doesn’t just make martial arts fight sounds after all?
Mo Yu saw that the tips of Boss Gu’s ears had turned bright red, and even his neck seemed slightly flushed.
In a moment of impulse, he didn’t know what came over him, but he simply took a bite out of Gu Jinzhi’s neck.
Gu Jinzhi let out a startled cry.
“Mo…”
Mo Yu pinned him down entirely, then leaned in to bite his ear.
“…Yu!”
[Ding. Congratulations to the player for successfully triggering a key plot node.]
[Hissing… Detected that the task is incomplete. However, the player successfully advanced the plot.]
[Calculating…]
[Calculation result: Will be counted as task completed, but the number of planes will be increased.]
[Plane Plot Progress: 10%/100%. Remaining plot to be unlocked. Partner Contamination Level. 10%/100% (Unchanged)]
[A new plane will be randomly triggered in, ?? days. Please be prepared, player.]
When Mo Yu opened his eyes again, he found himself lying in the corner of an unfamiliar office alongside Gu Jinzhi. He was still hugging Gu Jinzhi, with his leg resting right over the other man’s body.
While Mo Yu was still dazed, Gu Jinzhi had already pushed him away.
Mo Yu felt a bit aggrieved.
“Don’t be mad! I only did it for the quest…”
“Your drool got onto my neck.”
Mo Yu: ?
“I’m sorry. qaq”
Gu Jinzhi wiped his neck with a complex expression.
This guy… he still had a bite mark on his ear right now.
It hurt a little, and it also tingled slightly.
Boss Gu glanced at the sky outside, ultimately saying nothing as he walked out first.
Mo Yu also looked up, the clouds outside had finally lightened significantly, looking normal now.
Afterward, the two of them stood in front of the elevator together.
Mo Yu hesitated for a long time before he could finally confess the message he had seen on his phone earlier.
Gu Jinzhi asked, “What does ‘increased the number of planes’ mean?”
“It means… we didn’t completely fool it, I guess.”
Gu Jinzhi placed a hand over his forehead. Indeed, taking shortcuts always came with a price. Although it sounded like it would take much longer to escape this game, compared to actually doing it right now…
Both of them fell silent… Now that things had come to this, they could only accept the arrangement for now.
After successfully completing the task, time finally pushed forward.
It was now the morning of June 8th.
The two who had been forced to tangle together just a moment ago now seemed to revert to their roles as an unfamiliar low-level employee and the CEO.
At the thought of finally being able to resume handling work, Gu Jinzhi felt eager and impatient.
Mo Yu’s mood, on the other hand, plummeted straight to the bottom.
As if having to go to work wasn’t miserable enough, the moment the elevator doors opened, Mo Yu unexpectedly ran right into the Editor in Chief.
Mo Yu: !
Wait, did he forget something important?
Sure enough, the moment the Editor in Chief saw him, he began snorting through his nose.
“Yo, isn’t this little Yu? What’s the matter? Not busy playing the gigolo today, so you actually came to work?”
Ah, Mo Yu remembered now.
The money he spent on Michelin dining!