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Thanks to the child support form “Vailen”, there will be 8 extra chapters this week. This is the 7th.
Xu Yintang discovered the loopholes in Long Hao’s words. Long Hao’s eyes flickered, and he had to start racking his brains to stutter and fabricate lies.
When he attempted to justify the lies he fabricated for himself, the secrets he desperately tried to conceal had already opened wide to the interrogators.
His mouth said no, but his expression and actions provided the opposite answer. The more words he used to fabricate lies and cover up flaws to make them seem flawless, the more suspicious and undisclosed secrets there were.
If Long Hao had read BlueMoon’s early famous posts on how to keep secrets from NPCs, he would know that at this point, there were only two methods. Either surrender and confess, or stay silent and act indifferent, denying everything, no matter how many flaws or inconsistencies were pointed out. After all, reality is never perfect; who says the truth can’t be full of flaws, absurdities, and mysteries?
In such a situation, the interrogator would at most know that you were lying but wouldn’t get any more information.
However, if the interrogator had a bad temper, you might endure some hardship. It’s recommended to take some nerve-numbing potions beforehand to last a bit longer.
But if Long Hao had read BlueMoon’s beginner’s guide, he wouldn’t be easily taken from his bedside in the middle of the night. In the game, apart from the first scene for pure beginners, every player knew to have a sleep alert kit in their system backpack.
So, if someone attacked you while you were sleeping, the loud piercing alarm would wake up the entire town, and the pungent smell would make the attacker smell bad for at least 24 hours. Additionally, based on the price, the kit provided defense and counterattack effects. It was truly a necessary item for players spending the night alone in a dungeon.
According to the descriptions from sellers in the system store, this sleep alert kit, initially designed by the Moon God and improved by players, could give you half a second to a second to escape if a villain approached your bed, even if it were the projection of an evil god.
Moreover, as far as Shi Yuebai knew, players would order a low-profile version with minimal harm that wouldn’t arouse suspicion to give to female relatives or friends who lived alone. It had thwarted a few burglars and perverts who tried to break in at night.
Back to the story, Long Hao was scared and confused, continuously using more lies to cover up his initial lie. He unwittingly revealed his biggest secret to Shi Yuebai and Xu Yintang.
However, his attempt to feign composure and cleverly twist his tongue was appreciated by Shi Yuebai. He squatted down, looked down at the collapsed Long Hao, and helped unveil another layer of the increasingly dark secrets, “We know you are not the original Long Hao. Tell us something we don’t know.”
Long Hao’s unfinished words were blocked by him, biting down on his tongue.
“Why not start with who you originally were?” Xu Yintang kindly provided him with a train of thought. Feeling a bit silly standing, he raised his hand, and Shi Yuebai obligingly started to move the tentacles, quickly weaving them into a comfortable backrest. The tentacles curled up a bottle of ice-cold Happy Water, which was deftly opened and handed to his mother.
“Our Little Darling is so thoughtful.” Xu Yintang took the cola, not sparing any praise for the considerate offspring. Little Darling’s tentacles twisted and coiled, making a happy and shy neigh.
The sharp, high-frequency buzzing, like nerve-tearing noise, filled Long Hao with fear. He thought his hesitation had angered this monster.
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“When I died, I only thought of two things. One was what would happen to my parents in the future, and the other was… well…” Long Hao’s gaze drifted and then returned. The words that were about to be spoken became extremely difficult when looking at the two handsome guys in front of him.
However, even if he didn’t say it, Shi Yuebai, who was proficient in human nature(not), guessed it based on his previous performance, “A woman.”
Long Hao blurted out in surprise, “How did you guess?”
Because the normal routine was always the same in such cases. Regardless of gender, those who unexpectedly died in their teens or twenties would regret not having experienced love before.
But Shi Yuebai didn’t answer him. He just asked, “After you died and encountered the system, what did it promise you? What benefits did you gain from working so hard for it?”
“How do you know—” Long Hao realized halfway through that there was no room for him to ask questions now.
He awkwardly answered, “It said it could exchange the reward points for completing tasks into money for my parents, provided me with loans for items to send them dreams… and then, by following its instructions, I would find a girlfriend and obtain everything I wanted before I died.”
And indeed, he got everything he didn’t dare to dream about before. Handsome appearance, a successful career, and a beautiful girl who subtly sent him flirtatious glances. He exchanged the reward points he earned in business and love for a substantial amount of savings, and with a few more points, he even got a dream-sending item to meet his parents in their dreams.
—Dream of Life, the game was indeed aptly named.
“After I transformed into Long Hao, I became just like I told you before.” Long Hao licked his cracked lips, carefully observing Shi Yuebai’s expression.
“I only came to the village to go through the motions, and with A-Duo and the others, the system said the reward points for conquering them were high. I had no other intentions…”
Although forced to expose his player status, Long Hao didn’t suspect that Xu Yintang and Shi Yuebai were players as well. Given that these two looked almost unrelated to humans and had so many terrifying monsters with them, rather than thinking they were players like him, Long Hao preferred to believe they were demons attracted by the elixir from the village.
So, his speculation about why he was caught and interrogated in the middle of the night lingered on his close relationships with A-Duo and A-Jin.
If he had known that the risk of courting a girl was so great, he would never have coveted the high reward points from the village girls.
Suddenly, Xu Yintang asked, “How much money does your system offer for one point?”
“Ten thousand…” Long Hao finished speaking and hastily added, “I don’t have many points now. Converting them into money is less than what’s in my savings. If you need money, I can—”
“Don’t be nervous,” Xu Yintang smiled. “I’m just curious. Our hourly wage is high, so we don’t really need that little money.”
Long Hao awkwardly accompanied the smile, but in his heart, he didn’t quite believe it. He didn’t even know about the real Elixir of the village until today. Until today, his world was a completely materialistic one. He also wouldn’t know how much an intermediary business like Wang Laowu’s part-time agency would earn. It was so black-hearted that it even calculated the time spent eating and sleeping.
Xu Yintang put a business card from Wang Laowu into his pocket and took out his phone to make a call to both himself and Shi Yuebai.
Long Hao wasn’t a fool. Seeing him leave contact information, he knew he had to go along with it—either he was more willing to be the night snack for that tentacle monster, but he struggled for a bit. He emphasized that although he looked so unusual and appeared muscular and tough, his combat skills were really just at the level of a otaku, relying on bodyguards when going out.
“A-Duo knocked me down with one hand before.” Long Hao sighed. Then he heard Xu Yintang say, “It’s okay; we don’t need you to fight.”
Xu Yintang gave Long Hao the phone with the saved number, smiling, “We just want to know what’s happening in the village. Since A-Jin and A-Duo are very interested in you, I think you should know more information than we do.”
His tone was gentle, sounding non-aggressive. However, with the cold gaze of the five-eyed monster in his arms and the twisting tentacles, Long Hao immediately heard the threat of “if you can’t find out, we’ll feed you to the monster for supper.” He quickly nodded, “Sure, sure! I can do it!”
“Very good,” Xu Yintang nodded in satisfaction. “We already know what’s happening in the village. About the Elixir, the ceremony, the village chief, and the legendary stories in the village. We hope you can tell us what happened before and what will happen that we don’t know.”
In other words, saying it differently would be, “You’re going to be made into an informant.”
And in response to his words, Long Hao saw the edge of his shadow suddenly blur, glowing with brilliant and fragmented fluorescence, faintly indicating that there were far more creatures present than his five eyes could see.
His mouth tasted bitter, and he reluctantly nodded, trying to maintain a less unpleasant expression—this was the last scene he remembered about this night. When he opened his eyes again, he was lying in his room, on his bed, as if he had just had an absurd dream.
But the shiny business card in his pajama pocket told him it wasn’t a dream.
Long Hao sat on the bed for a long time before he contacted his system in his consciousness.
[I didn’t expose anything, did I?] Long Hao nervously asked. Because his memories were now in chaos due to excessive shock, he relied solely on the system’s recap to confirm that he didn’t say anything wrong.
[Shouldn’t have…] the system’s cold electronic voice answered uncertainly.
[I also think it should be fine.] Long Hao reassured himself. [They’re all monsters, accepting the setting of me borrowing this body through the system is not easy, and they wouldn’t even think of things like time travel.]
[Yes.] The system encouraged him and then displayed the common warning, [The fact that the host came from another world must be kept strictly confidential. The structure of this world is too fragile, and if people become aware of the existence of other worlds, it could lead to the destruction of the world!]
Long Hao: [Got it, got it. Let’s not mention this for now. You hurry up and help me figure out how to talk to A-Duo and A-Jin smoothly? And what exactly do they want, asking for information so vaguely? I don’t even know what to ask…]
The system often provided advice to Long Hao, and being cued, he set aside the grand issue of whether the world would be destroyed and plunged into the current trivial matters.
…
On the other side, Xu Yintang and Shi Yuebai, after Casey Cat delivered Long Hao back to his room, spent a few minutes discussing what secret Long Hao was desperately hiding.
“It can’t be that he came from another world through some kind of crossing, right?” Xu Yintang lay flat on the Little Darling mattress. “That would be too foolish.”
“Who knows.” Shi Yuebai, sitting on a cushion, arranged by Xu Yintang, sat down beside him. “He doesn’t seem that smart to begin with.”
Xu Yintang smiled, reached out, and gave Shi Yuebai a gentle kiss. “You don’t need to be too clever; just know how to make a woman happy.”
“That’s true.” Shi Yuebai leaned toward Xu Yintang, responding with affectionate contact. “Otherwise, I can’t help but turn all those women into corpses.”
With the child present, they restrained their intimacy.
“When they look at you, they want to strip you naked.” Xu Yintang sighed. “When they changed your clothes, I saw them touch you.”
Touched his waist, touched his arm, and even took advantage to squeeze a muscle.
“You’re not happy.” Shi Yuebai lightly bit his lip—unnoticeable to the children and suggestive enough to kindle passion. “I didn’t even notice; I was too focused on looking at you, especially when you wore those clothes… I didn’t have the mood to pay attention to others.”
Xu Yintang’s eyes darkened for a moment, and in his consciousness, he arranged for a few children to go out for a while—they were close to the sea, and Little Darling had been craving it for a long time. Then, he readily accepted Shi Yuebai’s hint, and they both tumbled into the room’s double bed.
The size was slightly small, restricting their movements.
Fortunately, the material was sturdy and stable, so there were no creaking sounds throughout the night.
Author’s Note –
Xu Yintang: Tool acquired, no need to reluctantly sell my looks while pinching my nose, let the flowers bloom~
Thank you for the updates!!! Love how it’s getting progressively spicier🫣😆🧡
Interesting, wonder if the systems are antagonistic
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Circular petting party spotted… 🥰
I wonder if it’s something like the systems are from opposite companies who are competitors
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