Luo Qingyue stood there holding the hoe.
Completely frozen.
Bai Fuling didn’t pay him any attention.
Thanks to his tireless persistence, it wasn’t long before he single-handedly demolished the entire wall.
The shattered stones crumbled apart.
Pixelated bricks scattered all over the ground.
Through the collapsing debris effects, Bai Fuling caught sight of a flash of black movement.
Found it!
His eyes immediately lit up.
Throwing the axe aside without hesitation, he controlled his little character to pounce toward the wriggling black tentacles.
The writhing mass of black strands hurriedly contracted before leaping into the storm drain beneath the nearby iron grating.
Hey.
It ran away again.
Bai Fuling widened his eyes.
Still unwilling to give up, he crouched beside the drain cover and searched for an [Open] interaction prompt.
“…What exactly are you looking for?”
Unable to hold back his curiosity any longer, Luo Qingyue finally asked from beside him.
“Didn’t you see it?”
“A… a little tentacled creature disappeared through here.”
Bai Fuling pointed toward the drain while circling around it, continuing his search for an interaction option.
“Tentacled… creature?”
Confusion spread across Luo Qingyue’s face.
“No.”
“I didn’t see anything.”
“I only saw you suddenly crouch down…”
“…and then chase something over here.”
The NPC hadn’t noticed it?
Bai Fuling fell into thought.
Well…
It seemed this was one of those mysterious events that only players could trigger.
The quests in the quest log could be completed anytime.
But mysterious hidden events like this…
Who knew if they only appeared once in a thousand years?
What if it was some ultra-rare hidden treasure encounter?
Without another moment’s hesitation, Bai Fuling picked up the axe beside him.
He decided to postpone searching Warm Home Residential Community for Guan Jiayue’s house until another day.
For now…
His full attention was focused on the storm drain beneath the iron grating.
Simply chopping at it wasn’t very effective.
So Bai Fuling adjusted his angle, attempting to pry the metal cover open instead.
Several notifications appeared across the screen in succession.
【Held Item Durability Decreased】
【Held Item Durability Decreased】
【Held Item Durability Decreased】
Then finally,
He successfully pried open the metal drain cover beneath the iron grating!
“Do you really not need any help?”
Bai Fuling asked once again, trying to trigger the quest.
“I can solve your problem.”
If he couldn’t solve the problem…
Then the player would simply solve the NPC who was creating the problem.
The player could first attempt the refined art of persuasion and advise Mr. Chen to drink some traditional Chinese medicine to regulate his body.
But if that NPC named Mr. Chen stubbornly refused to listen and insisted on continuing to harass Luo Qingyue…
Well, Bai Fuling wasn’t exactly inexperienced when it came to defeating monsters.
In short, if Luo Qingyue issued the corresponding quest, Bai Fuling was absolutely confident he could complete it.
With eager anticipation, he looked toward the NPC, waiting for the quest to be handed over.
Hearing everything Bai Fuling had just said, Luo Qingyue paused for a moment before gently declining.
“Thank you.”
“But there’s really no need.”
He smiled warmly.
“To be honest…”
“I never expected you to be such a warm-hearted person.”
There was absolutely no one in the world more enthusiastic than a player.
Bai Fuling firmly believed that players were extraordinary passing citizens capable of catching cats, catching dogs, catching murderers, flying through the heavens, burrowing underground, crossing rivers, there was nothing they wouldn’t do.
Wherever there was a quest…
There would always be players.
Having been refused once again by the bespectacled NPC before him, Bai Fuling decided not to insist any further.
Since he couldn’t trigger the quest no matter how hard he tried, it simply meant the time wasn’t right yet.
There was no point forcing it.
He would just leave it to fate.
Turning around once more, he prepared to continue investigating the mysterious tentacled creature.
Before moving, Bai Fuling put away both the axe and the hoe.
Then, with obvious reluctance, he reached out and affectionately patted the wheelchair.
“I’m a student.”
“Can’t you really give this to me?”
“I’m seriously lacking transportation.”
Wheelchairs were great.
When traveling down the street, they even came with the passive ability of making NPCs automatically move aside.
“…The wheelchair?”
Luo Qingyue’s attention landed entirely on the latter half of Bai Fuling’s sentence.
“You… how is a wheelchair supposed to be used as transportation?”
“Why can’t a wheelchair be transportation?”
Bai Fuling replied matter-of-factly.
“Would you like me to demonstrate?”
He understood now.
The NPC must require some sort of performance test before gifting him the wheelchair.
In the real world, wheelchairs certainly weren’t suitable as high-speed transportation.
But inside a game…
As long as players were given two wheels…
Anything could become a vehicle.
Without the slightest hesitation, Bai Fuling controlled his little pixel character to sit in the wheelchair.
He immediately turned both the speed setting and the steering sensitivity all the way to maximum.
Then,
He grabbed both wheels with his hands and spun them at full speed!
Luo Qingyue watched the wheelchair remain motionless for barely half a second…
Before it suddenly shot forward like a launched projectile.
Luo Qingyue: ???
He stared as the black-haired young man spun the wheels so quickly that afterimages appeared around his hands.
The wheelchair sped through the street like the wind itself, charging all the way to the intersection before making a sharp turn and racing straight back.
Watching the wheelchair barreling toward him with overwhelming momentum, Luo Qingyue instinctively prepared to dodge aside.
However…
The wheelchair noticed him first.
It turned in advance.
Its wheels carved a perfect drifting arc across the ground,
Before coming to an abrupt stop.
The wheelchair stopped.
Unfortunately…
The brakes had apparently been a little too effective.
The black-haired young man sitting on it was launched forward like a cannonball, tracing a perfect arc through the air.
Then…
He fell directly into the uncovered manhole.
Luo Qingyue: …?
Luo Qingyue: !!?
With every parameter turned up to maximum, Bai Fuling made his character spin the wheels until it truly felt like flying.
After testing it thoroughly, he was extremely satisfied with this manually operated, quite literally, means of transportation.
At the same time, however, firsthand experience had taught him one important lesson.
Next time…
He needed to wear a seatbelt.
That was the conclusion Bai Fuling reached while soaring through the air due to inertia.
Watching his little pixel character fly gracefully before dropping straight into the sewer he had intended to jump into from the beginning…
His mood was as bright as sunshine.
Oh, wow.
That was incredibly efficient.
This wheelchair was remarkably considerate.
There really were more good wheelchairs than bad ones in the world.
Clearly…
The two of them were destined to meet.
No one could tell how deep the pitch-black sewer actually was.
While still falling through midair, Bai Fuling calmly opened his inventory and selected one of the ninety-nine hamburgers he had stocked up earlier.
Just as he had expected…
The instant his character slammed into the ground, a large spray of red pixel effects burst across the screen.
The borders of the display immediately turned the same dangerous crimson they had the first time he had jumped off a building.
Without wasting a second, Bai Fuling rapidly clicked on the [Hamburger] icon, continuously consuming hamburgers until the red warning border disappeared and his HP recovered to roughly two-thirds.
Only then did he stop.
He controlled his little character to climb back onto his feet.
The rushing sound of flowing water echoed through the background.
It was so dark that only a small area surrounding his character remained visible.
Fortunately…
He had come prepared.
Bai Fuling reached into his backpack and took out a flashlight, silently thanking his past self for embracing the philosophy of taking anything that wasn’t nailed down.
He resolved to continue following that philosophy in the future.
He would never pass up another opportunity to fleece NPCs.
After all…
Who knew when some seemingly insignificant item would suddenly become useful later?
Switching on the flashlight, Bai Fuling illuminated the path ahead.
Pipes of varying thickness stretched throughout the surroundings.
Flowing water ran nearby.
Ahead lay a passageway leading deeper inside, framed by broad arched tunnels.
Why did this place resemble Gotham’s sewers so much?
There was practically another entire world hidden underground.
According to RPG logic…
Unfamiliar locations always contained treasure.
And usually a minor boss as well.
So…
What would the sewer boss be?
A crocodile monster?
A giant catfish monster?
Letting his imagination run wild, Bai Fuling walked farther along the tunnel, attempting to track down the mysterious black tentacles he had seen earlier.
At first, the background was filled with the constant rushing of water.
But the deeper he ventured…
The more distant that sound became.
Eventually, only quiet dripping echoes remained within the vast silence.
Holding the flashlight, Bai Fuling continued forward, amazed that there truly was such a spacious underground area hidden beneath the city.
…A completely new map had actually opened.
Just as he’d thought.
Those black tentacles really had been guiding him toward hidden treasure.
At the same time…
Another problem occurred to him.
As he walked, Bai Fuling frowned thoughtfully.
How exactly was he supposed to get back up afterward?
He hadn’t seen any ladders leading to the surface.
Surely the game didn’t expect him to swim downstream until he found an exit?
He wouldn’t accidentally drift completely outside the city, would he?
Hopefully this wouldn’t delay tomorrow’s classes.
According to school regulations, every student had to check into the classroom before eight o’clock in the morning.
Bai Fuling had absolutely no intention of casually losing his [Law-Abiding Good Student] title.
Click.
Clack.
Click.
Clack.
A third sound suddenly echoed through the darkness.
It was distinctly different from the sound of running water.
Bai Fuling concentrated carefully.
It sounded like metal striking against metal.
The noise came irregularly.
It wasn’t produced by some fixed machine.
It sounded…
Alive.
Was it the boss?
Had the boss already appeared?
Would it be a crocodile monster…
Or a giant catfish monster?
He still hadn’t encountered any monster bosses in this game.
Instantly energized, Bai Fuling gripped the flashlight in one hand while pulling the axe from his backpack with the other.
He quickly advanced toward the source of the sound.
The flashlight cast a fan-shaped beam of light ahead.
Filled with one hundred and twenty percent curiosity, Bai Fuling raised it toward the direction of the noise,
…Huh?
There was an iron cage over there.
Wait.
Why was there a person inside?
And…
It was someone he knew.
Holding up the flashlight, Bai Fuling stared in astonishment at the dark-circled pixel NPC standing within the illuminated area.
It was Liao Zhiqiu.
What was he doing here?
Liao Zhiqiu was kneeling on one knee inside a square iron cage.
Holding a small knife in his hand, he was prying at the padlock, producing the metallic clicking sounds Bai Fuling had heard.
The lock, however, was simply too large.
No matter how hard the blade pressed against it, it left behind nothing more than a few white scratch marks.
Sensing the sudden light, Liao Zhiqiu narrowed his eyes dangerously toward its source.
Then, the moment he recognized who had arrived…
The tension in his expression softened.
“…Little Cat?”
Liao Zhiqiu called softly.
Just as expected of a classic RPG game.
Bai Fuling thought.
Whenever you explored a newly unlocked map, there would always be a trapped “princess” waiting to be rescued.
…The only slight issue…
Was that the princess’s gender seemed a little off.
Wait.
Could this really be a gay game?
Author’s Note:
Bai Fuling: Liao Zhiqiu talks to little animals and has experienced being kidnapped before, so he really is a princess! (Definitely not.)
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ChaptersChapter 1 · Escape game freezesChapter 2 · Players aren’t allowed to use the main entranceChapter 3 · Players have created a medical miracle!Chapter 4 · If I hit the NPC more, will the NPC drop gold coins?Chapter 5 · Players earn the title of “bus weirdo”Chapter 6 · Players get a prison experienceChapter 7 · So the red bar isn’t for favorability, it’s for anger!Chapter 8 · The player is a nimble catChapter 9 · The player is a “law-abiding” good studentChapter 10 · Players have no morals and are fearlessChapter 11 · Player: What’s wrong? It’s called “Cai Cai Shui Ling LingChapter 12 · The player is the famous Farmer Detective!Chapter 13 · The player raised a new petChapter 14 · The player is a genius dog-riding boyChapter 15 · The player is a sticky, helpful, and kind comradeChapter 16 · It turns out that players aren’t considered human by NPCsChapter 17 · Players are like angels descending upon my side!Chapter 18 · Player: There’s only one truth!Chapter 19 · Why are players farming at the school?!Chapter 20 · Players came to the cafeteria to buy suppliesChapter 21 · Are NPCs model workers?Chapter 22 · If you’re a gay manChapter 23 · Player: Wheelchairs are a useful mode of transportation!Chapter 24 · So the player is actually part of Cat Returns (?)Chapter 25 · Liao Zhi Qiu, a large pet belonging to the playerChapter 26 · Player: Hello, I picked up this corpse.Chapter 27 · Bai Fuling: Players will never dieChapter 28 · Has the murderer been caught?Chapter 29 · Player: Visiting the mental hospital felt as familiar as coming homeChapter 30 · Players’ Adventure in the Mental Hospital: Round 1Chapter 31 · Player: Kid, fly!Chapter 32 · The player who does good deeds every day is truly a good personChapter 33 · The kitten brought back some local specialtiesChapter 34 · Let this adorable kitten stay forever?Chapter 35 · Players, don’t give up on being human!Chapter 36 · A kitten is just a kitten, isn’t it?Chapter 37 · Players want it, players get itChapter 38 · Angel Player and Unlucky Bear NPCChapter 39 · In short, players choose to throw at NPCsChapter 40 · The player just flew away!Chapter 41 · Player: You need to thoroughly understand the bookChapter 42 · Players love to tease honest NPCs.Chapter 43 · He said he was a little hungry.Chapter 44 · Even if cotton essence mutatesChapter 45 · Pure Love TentaclesChapter 46 · Choose to be a kitten?Chapter 47 · Players’ tears are weaponsChapter 48 · Players do not need to breatheChapter 49 · It’s on fire!Chapter 50 · The player is a top-tier rescue masterChapter 51 · How did the player manage to resurrect after killing themselves?!Chapter 52 · Call the player “Little Cat King”!Chapter 53 · What are the consequences of raising the cat-like alienation