Cheng Fei didn’t understand.
The two already knew each other offline.
They attended the same school.
Meeting in person required practically zero effort.
How did such an easy task qualify as Hard?
Was this System malfunctioning?
Cheng Fei could think of only one explanation.
The System issued the mission under the assumption that the two players did not know each other offline.
It simply hadn’t accounted for special circumstances.
Thinking carefully, Cheng Fei suspected he had ignored the System’s intended progression from the very beginning.
For an online dating system, the logical process was to develop relationships with players he didn’t know in real life.
Perhaps Scanners were intended primarily for online use.
Even the scan results supported the theory.
The first line showed the game ID.
The second showed the real name.
That suggested the avatar was meant to be treated as the primary target.
When Cheng Fei scanned the Chinese class representative offline and got a normal person instead of a player, the System itself had probably been dumbfounded.
It was only because Cheng Fei met Nagasaki Asuna directly in reality that he accidentally created the current situation.
Programs always had bugs.
Cheng Fei remembered the joke about a software tester walking into a bar, ordering a bowl of fried rice, and causing the bar to explode.
While considering the matter, he equipped himself and headed toward the meeting point.
Corridor had a global server.
The capital never lacked players regardless of the hour.
The Main Teleport Gate at its center was even busier.
On the surface, the Main Teleport Gate was an enormous circular plaza paved with blue-gray runic bricks, larger than some of the most famous public squares in reality.
Cheng Fei had barely entered when an unfamiliar girl with ankle-length pink twin tails and an outstanding face and figure rose onto her toes and waved at him.
The eye-catching pink hair caused passing players to stare.
Rare hair colors assigned by the algorithm were generally evidence of the player’s real-world attractiveness.
Because they were friends, Cheng Fei could see the ID floating above her head.
[Nana s Nana]
“Cheng Fei~ Guess who I am?”
Cheng Fei stopped in front of her, still half-doubtful.
“It really is you?”
“It really is~”
The girl clasped her hands behind her back and leaned forward with a mischievous smile.
Seeing the exact same mannerism as in reality, Cheng Fei’s last remaining hope died.
“You doxxed me?”
“Of course not.
I’ve always had sharp instincts.
The first time I saw…
System-kun, I thought you looked like someone I’d met inside the game.
So I decided to call you out and ask.”
Nagasaki Asuna didn’t appear to be lying.
Cheng Fei understood.
This was the power of Transcendent Perception.
She could even see through the algorithm’s disguise.
“When no one else is around, just use my name.
‘System-kun’ sounds weird.”
“Okay~”
She stretched out the word playfully.
“Then Cheng Fei can call me Nana.”
“Understood, Nana.”
Cheng Fei copied her tone.
“So are we still doing the dungeon?”
“Well, we’re already here.”
Nagasaki Asuna had clearly mastered Chinese culture.
Cheng Fei became serious.
“You know the rules.
Before deciding what exactly we’re doing, pay the deposit.”
“My money too?”
“Business is business.”
“Fine.
Then change it to two hours of companionship.
Is this enough?”
The girl transferred money.
“Enough.”
Cheng Fei was very satisfied.
Because Corridor offered enormous freedom and realism, its player base was effectively divided into two major factions.
The first played seriously.
They trained their skills, challenged bosses, and treated suffering as entertainment.
The other group was the exact opposite.
They spent all day collecting beautiful outfits, sightseeing throughout the game world, and occasionally participating in light combat.
They had essentially transformed Corridor into a giant dress-up simulator.
Nagasaki Asuna was the quintessential casual player.
Thus, spending two hours playing with her placed almost no pressure on Cheng Fei.
Not that he felt guilty taking the money.
To him, work simply meant performing a service in exchange for payment.
As for turning Nagasaki Asuna into another online girlfriend, Cheng Fei intended to first investigate the rumors about her.
…
However, as they were returning from the wilderness toward the capital, they encountered a group blocking the road.
At first, Cheng Fei assumed they were red-name players specializing in robbery.
Since Corridor placed almost no restrictions on player-versus-player combat and inventory drops existed, professional bandits were a real thing.
But none of these people had red names from habitual killing.
The gloomy-looking man leading them spoke.
“Well, well.
Isn’t this Nana?
What a coincidence.”
Nagasaki Asuna frowned in obvious disgust and turned her face aside without answering.
“And you are?” Cheng Fei stepped in front of her.
“This is internal guild business.
Outsiders shouldn’t interfere.”
The gloomy man glanced at Cheng Fei.
“Little A and I already left your guild,” Nagasaki Asuna said unhappily.
“You lost two sets of valuable equipment and then quit without saying a word.
Isn’t that a little unreasonable?
Besides, staying in our guild wouldn’t be bad.
Why don’t you and Little A reconsider?”
Nagasaki Asuna ignored him.
She rose onto her toes and whispered into Cheng Fei’s ear.
“Cheng Fei, why don’t we just log out?”
Directly logging out was the final solution to trouble.
However, inventory items would still drop, so functionally it was equivalent to accepting defeat and running away.
“Little A is Shen Xi?
What happened?”
Cheng Fei lowered his voice as well.
Shen Xi’s garbage-looking ID began with AA.
In the beginning, Cheng Fei had also called her Little A.
“We used to be in these people’s guild.
We weren’t satisfied, so we left.
I didn’t expect them to keep bothering us…”
After a few sentences, Cheng Fei roughly understood.
Normally, guilds would never hand valuable equipment to players they didn’t trust.
But Shen Xi and Nagasaki Asuna were exceptions.
Rare beautiful female players always received preferential treatment.
That intentional or unintentional favoritism had ultimately created this dispute.
“Nana, don’t think I’m trying to annoy you.
I understand that returning those two equipment sets isn’t easy.
They were extremely valuable.
How about this?
Come back to the guild first, and we’ll discuss it afterward.”
The gloomy man deliberately sounded friendly.
“So this is only about two equipment sets?” Cheng Fei asked.
“This friend, we’re not talking about ordinary equipment.
They were two complete Tier-Four sets.”
The gloomy man lifted his chin with a smile.
“Two Tier-Four sets…”
Cheng Fei considered the matter.
Nagasaki Asuna leaned toward his ear again.
“He only wants an excuse to keep harassing Shen Xi and me.
Don’t pay attention to him.”
“I’ll handle it.”
Cheng Fei shook his head.
At that moment, new text appeared before him.
[Limited-Time Mission Triggered]
[Guild Harassment]
[Requirement: Resolve the trouble facing the two girls.]
[Difficulty: Hard]
[Crush the hostile guild → 5,000 points + one 50%-off standard Strength coupon + item: Tri-Bladed Dagger worth 2,000 points.]
[Voluntarily repay their debt → 1 point.]
[The game world respects strength above all.
Solving your online romantic partner’s problems through pure violence is only natural.
It may even stimulate the girl beside you, awakening jealousy and possessiveness.]
[Alternatively, you may follow the rules and display spineless civility.]
[You know which choice to make.]
Cheng Fei rapidly analyzed the options.
One mission wasn’t even finished yet, and another had appeared.
And every line seemed designed to provoke him into fighting.
Unfortunately for the System—
Cheng Fei had his own ideas.
“How about this?” Cheng Fei said.
“I’ll repay the two equipment sets for them.”
The gloomy man’s mouth twitched.
“Wait.
What’s your relationship with them?
Why are you repaying anything?”
“I’m Little A’s boyfriend.”
“Huh?” Nagasaki Asuna blinked.
The gloomy man’s eyes widened as well, then narrowed.
“Do you even understand what Tier-Four equipment means?”
“Extremely well.”
“Even the weakest Tier-Four equipment requires materials from the Fourth Layer.
At present, only a tiny number of elite players can even enter that region.
Those materials are essentially priceless.
If you commissioned a complete Tier-Four set, several thousand yuan would already count as cheap—”
“I know, I know.
Stop explaining.
The point is that it’s expensive.”
Cheng Fei interrupted him.
His reasoning was extremely simple.
He wanted Shen Xi to owe him money.
One Tier-Four set was currently worth several thousand yuan.
Given Shen Xi’s personality, if he repaid something on her behalf, that proud woman would definitely record the debt honestly.
If Shen Xi couldn’t repay it immediately, Cheng Fei would convince her to deduct it from his monthly dating fee.
That would secure at least the quarterly check-in reward.
Maybe even six months.
Perhaps a full year.
If Shen Xi instead slapped the cash directly into his face?
Even better.
Cheng Fei would simply regard it as a huge sale.
He had a stockpile of materials he hadn’t sold yet, and buyers of this caliber didn’t appear every day.
Sacrificing one mission and converting the potential points into cash wasn’t bad.
Even if he lost a little in theoretical value.
As for whether meekly repaying a debt inside a game looked pathetic…
For money, Cheng Fei did not care.
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