Jiang Fang’s body was very warm. It was much higher than Nan Zhou’s body temperature. Nan Zhou tested it personally and the effect of human body temperature on sleep was first-class. The curtains weren’t closed very tightly so when the sky was bright, a thin light fell on the side of Nan Zhou’s face.
Under the stimulation of the light, Nan Zhou woke up and turned around. It was just that his ‘woke up’ wasn’t very similar to other people’s ‘woke up.’
Nan Zhou didn’t actually wake up when he opened his eyes. He could wash up, talk and listen. In situations where he didn’t have to be awake right away, like that time when he woke up and saw a mushroom standing beside him, Nan Zhou’s thoughts were linear, empty and broken for quite some time.
Since seeing Xie Xiangyu, Nanji Star had been very insecure and only slept soundly after holding Nan Zhou’s ankle. In the middle of the night, the little thing fell asleep and failed to hold on firmly. He rolled down and slept belly up for most of the night.
At dawn, he felt it was cold in his sleep. His paws waved in the air a few times before he rolled to Nan Zhou’s knee sockets and arched his head. Nan Zhou felt something furry and itchy from his legs and made a low hum to express his dissatisfaction. He bent his legs and rubbed against Jiang Fang, trying to stay away from the sticky hairball.
Nanji Star was dissatisfied with the loss of body temperature and followed. Nan Zhou continued to stick to Jiang Fang. Gradually, he felt that something was wrong. The naval part of his belly was being poked by something hard like a dagger. Nan Zhou instinctively felt a threat and looked down.
At this time, Jiang Fang also opened his eyes and frowned uncomfortably. He perceived that his body’s reaction was going against the gentlemanly norms and the not sober Jiang Fang murmured in Ukrainian, “…чot (Damn).”
Nan Zhou hugged his waist and calmly said, “Yes, good morning.”
Jiang Fang placed his hand on his forehead. Once his blood cooled down a bit, he smiled softly. “Sorry.”
Nan Zhou wondered, “Do you need to solve it?”
Jiang Fang moved his leg and sucked in a breath. “…I’m afraid so.”
Nan Zhou patted him on the shoulder with great understanding. “Go ahead.”
Nan Zhou noted Jiang Fang’s slightly red ears as Jiang Fang put on his shirt and trousers, causing Nan Zhou to encourage him. “A morning erection is a perfectly normal male physiological phenomenon. I was also nervous when it first appeared but it doesn’t matter. It will be fine soon.”
Jiang Fang, “……”
He took a deep breath and his gaze toward Nan Zhou deepened a lot. “Thank you, Teacher Nan, for your guidance.”
Nan Zhou nodded and watched Jiang Fang head to the bathroom. He sat cross-legged and raised his hands in the air.
Nan Zhou measured the length between his two index fingers. Then after observing for a while, he found that the data wasn’t accurate. He had an attitude of seeking truth from facts and extended both ends a little bit.
…Yes, it was almost this long. Nan Zhou faced this length and started to carefully think about whether the size and weight would affect people’s actions. He was studying it when he had a thought. He lowered it and secretly compared it to himself.
Nan Zhou, “……”
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Nan Zhou didn’t know that in a place separated from him by a wall, Jiang Fang was leaning against the bathroom wall, one hand supporting himself on the wall and the other hand holding his belt buckle.
The shirt he hastily put on still had the black tie he didn’t have time to undo yesterday hanging loosely from the collar. Jiang Fang bit the end of the tie in his mouth, letting his saliva darken the satin tie. Fine sweat shone on his neck and shook slightly with the meaningless swallowing motion. Even at this time, the perfectionist Jiang Fang didn’t allow his trousers to fall below his knees.
He leaned forward, the knuckles of his fingers gripping the belt buckle tightening. Yet no matter how fast he sped up, he couldn’t dissipate the intense heat.
After feeding Nanji Star, Nan Zhou took out the toast he bought yesterday. He was going to pour some honey on it to make a sandwich. Just as he was going to pour the honey, he faintly heard something. He stopped and listened. Nan Zhou heard a slightly hoarse, gasping voice call out his name. “Nan Zhou…”
The intonation and tone of this voice weren’t quite the same as it was usually. Thus, it took Nan Zhou some time to notice that it was Jiang Fang’s voice. Just as he was feeling stunned, the crystal clear and transparent honey slowly overflowed off the bread and was about to drip off the edge.
Nan Zhou used his finger to catch the dripping honey and placed it in his mouth. He held the bread as he walked to the door of the bathroom and knocked on the door. “Brother Fang?”
Not long after, Jiang Fang opened the door from inside. His hair was brushed again and draped gently over his shoulder. His shirt buttons were meticulously fastened, his shirt was flat, his tie was straight and his belt was buckled, outlining his waist in a perfect arc. He was the vivid portrayal of ‘well-dressed.’
Nan Zhou stared into his eyes. “Did you call me?”
Jiang Fang was brushing back his silver hair, revealing his smooth forehead. He heard this and couldn’t help pausing. “Did I?”
…Was he so loud?
Nan Zhou confirmed it. “Yes.”
Jiang Fang’s eyes fell on the finger that was still a bit shiny from being sucked and the corners of his lips curved up. “Ah yes, I did call Teacher Nan for something.”
“What…”
Jiang Fang took a step forward, lowered his head slightly and kissed Nan Zhou’s forehead in a gentlemanly manner. He gently said, “Good morning.”
Nan Zhou who was holding the bread, “……”
Didn’t he say that this morning?
Li Yinhang woke up and this episode was quickly left behind by Nan Zhou. After last night’s incident, Xie Xiangyu’s whereabouts became even more unclear. Nan Zhou wasn’t particularly concerned about the location of this person.
In the morning, they met the Sun Guojing trio again. There was the personal blow from Jiang Fang and Sun Guojing finally got rid of the idea of going to Paper Gold. They were going to Rust City to find a cheap place to sleep and have a big meal. They would sleep well for three days and three nights before making other plans. They were about to say goodbye and there was probably no possibility of seeing each other in the future. The trio had mixed feelings and felt melancholy. Nan Zhou was the one who robbed them instead and the one who saved their lives in the end.
Last night, they had discussed it until midnight and wanted to give Nan Zhou some items as a reward. Then they took a look and found that all the items they had remaining were the ones that Nan Zhou hadn’t wanted. Therefore, they went to the supermarket early in the morning, bought a big bag of steamed cakes and gave them all to Nan Zhou. Nan Zhou didn’t refuse and accepted their hearts.
The moment of farewell was coming. Sun Guojing looked at Nan Zhou with some yearning. “If we only had two people then we could go with you.”
Nan Zhou looked at Sun Guojing with clear eyes.
“Don’t worry.” Nan Zhou patted him on the shoulder in comfort. “Even if you only had two people, we wouldn’t want you.”
Sun Guojing, Luo Ge and Qi Tianyun, “……”
Fuck, this was too direct!
Shortly after the trio left with their tails between their legs, Nan Zhou and the others finally heard the long-awaited system sound.
[Ding ding ding—]
Perhaps in order to create an atmosphere of horror, the system had suppressed all the rewards until the final distribution. All the rewards accumulated in the prize pool poured out. It was one reward notification after another, like smashing a full piggy bank.
The ‘ding dong’ chimes were endless.
[Congratulations to the ‘Cube Boat’ team for completing the instance ‘Sha, Sha, Sha’!]
[Congratulations to the ‘Cube Boat’ team members Nan Zhou, Jiang Fang and Li Yinhang for successfully surviving 120 hours and earning 5,000 points respectively!]
[Congratulations to the ‘Cube Boat’ team member ‘Nan Zhou’ for capturing the S-grade boss, ‘Door’!]
[Congratulations to the ‘Cube Boat’ team and player ‘Xie Xiangyu’ for completing the ‘role-playing’ task and receiving the ‘study hard and improve every day’ reward, earning 500 points respectively!]
[Congratulations to the ‘Cube Boat’ team for completing the ‘role-playing’ task and receiving the ‘love each other’ reward, earning 500 points respectively!]
Once the rewards were announced up to here, Li Yinhang faintly felt that something was wrong. She was dutiful about playing the role of Nan Zhou’s ‘good friend.’ Meanwhile, the two of them were playing lovers! Was this type of love recognized by the system?
[Congratulations to the three teams for finding the exit 43 hours and 50 minutes early within the 120 hours of game time, earning 1,500 points respectively!]
[The exploration degree of the main plotline has reached 100%. If the degree of completion is more than 95% then it can be judged as the perfect S-grade rating!]
[Ding! The S-grade rewards are 1,000 points each and any random item. The items will be delivered to the players’ backpacks within three days~]
[Players, please be prepared and choose the teleportation location within three minutes.]
After a brief discussion, the trio had already been to Rust City and Paper Gold so they decided to go to a third location.
Squirrel Town. It was a healing place that was said to be filled with all types of fairy tale elements.
Just after the teleportation and before the town’s scenery could heal their minds and bodies, the trio heard the pleasant notification sound. A huge notification box also jumped out from the operation panel in front of them.
[Forces of Temptation has released a major update patch.]
Ordinary people would see the notification box that occupied over half the panel and would instinctively click on it. In any case, as players of this hell game, they didn’t have the right to choose not to update. Neither Nan Zhou nor Jiang Fang moved.
Nan Zhou instructed, “Yinhang, you update it first.”
Li Yinhang obediently responded and clicked the update button. Nan Zhou clicked on the small, gray ‘update notes’ in the bottom right corner of the update alert box. He looked for valid clues in the 32 pages of the privacy agreement and update notes.
In the miscellaneous update notes, putting aside the invalid information, there were actually only two updates in total.
First, added the ‘world channel’ to allow all players to leave messages and communicate.
Second, the incompatibility of instance creatures and the warehouse was increased.
In other words, players weren’t allowed to catch bosses.
Li Yinhang, “……” How extravagant.
The author has something to say: The whole system is working overtime to make a patch specifically for Nan Zhou.
Rainbow: I found a funny fanart of the beginning scene on Weibo and will post it in the discord’s fanart channel.
Proofreader: Purichan
Lmao, a patch made obviously targeted at Nan Zhou😂
Lol 😂 Will Nan Zhou be allowed to keep the boss? Since he catched it before updating?? I’m curious ahahah
Thanks for the chapter!!!
Jiang Fang! How long will you keep your feelings from him? Is it because he doesn’t remember?
thanks for the chapter <3
System: “No. More. Bosses. In. The. Warehouse!”
Nan Zhou: “OK”
Later the system found even more bugs…
thanks for the chapter~
The system: the whole is littered with papers, glasses do not sit properly, the phone constantly rings
System: SYSTEM UPDATE
Thank you very much for the translation
OMG what is Nan Zhou’s identity? And he’s even been killed before?? An assassin or something???😳
Nan Zhou will have the only S-class Boss in his warehouse. XDD
Teacher Nan, that dagger is yours
Aww! I thought that loophole would last longer
System: Damn this crazy guy making me work overtime to update
This system update is so incredibly funny, it really had to patch that bug as fast as possible. Why fight a boss when you can just store it? The game balance would be ruined
Thank you so much for translating! <3
I love how cannon fodders like the long trio who often die in some novels but in here they survived. It feels refreshing.
Yeah, and it feels better when they are not 2D (ﾉ´ з `)ノ
everyone in the comments is talking about the update but no one has talked about the fact the nan zhou fucking measured jiang fang? XD i dyingggg
I was waiting for this comment lol 😂
And the ‘love role-playing’ part as well. Like, poor LY was confused even though they (she & NZ) did help each other as friends. Guess she didn’t actively help enough to be considered in that reward system.