Chapter 187: The Ones Who Can’t Be Shaken Off (6)
The assistant and everyone else in the nanny van had left, and no fans of Yu Wu had been attracted to the nearby area.
But none of this was important. Rong Rong didn’t even know what kind of deadly crisis she had almost gone through again.
In the closed, warming space, what attracted her attention the most was a sound in her ear, “Ding! Detecting that the activation conditions for a skill have been met. Would you like to use the skill?”
Rong Rong: ?
Skills in games were usually used to save lives. Now that she was the only one in the nanny van with Yu Wu, using this skill shouldn’t matter, right?
She wanted to move to the side of the car door before using it, but before she could distance herself from Yu Wu, the woman, who exuded charm from every pore and was like a fox spirit who had stepped out of a Shang Dynasty myth and joined the modern entertainment industry, hooked her collar and pulled her back. “Didn’t I say? I just love how you love me to the point of being unable to control yourself. You don’t have to act in front of me. You can show your most authentic self without restraint. Don’t suppress your inner feelings. Come here. I know you like to be close to me.”
Rong Rong: …Help, help me.
It was said that actors in the entertainment industry were under a lot of pressure. She didn’t know what was wrong with other celebrities, but this Yu Wu was probably a narcissist, and probably the kind that couldn’t be saved.
[Use it, use it, use the skill!]
When Tang Yiyi had sent her to the school gate earlier, Rong Rong had asked the system how she could leave the game. The system’s answer was that as long as she could successfully break up with these girlfriends, she could safely leave the game.
Now that she saw that these perverts were more difficult to deal with than the last, it would be great if she could use a skill to get rid of one of them!
She waited with anticipation for the effect of the skill—
Even though the name of the skill alone made her confused.
[Skill activation in progress! Would the player like to choose ‘Viewing Mode’ or ‘Full Shield Mode’? Choosing the former will allow you to have a wonderful experience throughout the process. Choosing the latter will cause the timeline to directly jump to the end. Note: The length of time skipped is determined by the will and physical strength of the different targets.]
…It sounded like a trap.
Rong Rong was stunned for two seconds. She felt like she was sitting in an exam room, with two options, A and B, under a question. But she had circled the problem areas in both of them, and she couldn’t see any other options.
Which one should she choose?
What wonderful experience?
What will and physical strength?
Rong Rong hesitated for a long time between “a big pit” and “an even bigger pit,” but because she really didn’t know how to deal with player five, she ultimately chose “Full Shield Mode.”
After all, she was just a pure and innocent little Rong Rong who had been single for twenty years, and she was most suitable for harmonious things.
Another dot turned gray.
After receiving another kill from the dog-raising mogul who kept letting go of the leash, Su Mingxiu changed into a new passerby identity and frowned unhappily.
She was standing on the first floor of the mall. She saw her own reflection in the exceptionally bright window glass. She didn’t know why, but the fog that was originally only used to obscure the areas she couldn’t go on the map had actually spread invisibly to her body. Even the way she saw herself was a bit hazy.
Su Mingxiu had to admit that although the system hadn’t tampered with her memories this time, and even kept everything for her, this was indeed the most restrictive of her many worlds—
She had to work very hard to appear easily and casually around the protagonist.
And this world, which appeared to follow modern laws, was filled with lawbreakers. And these dangerous people were all surrounding the protagonist, making it very difficult for her to approach the other party as she pleased.
But she didn’t even know the protagonist’s name yet.
If it was in a low-danger world, Su Mingxiu wouldn’t care if the protagonist was indifferent, cold, or hateful towards her, and she wouldn’t force herself upon them. But seeing the other party in distress, she couldn’t stand by and do nothing.
After all… this was the soul she deeply loved.
Thoughts flashed by, and Su Mingxiu retracted her gaze. She stopped looking at the figure in the window that was almost submerged in the fog and instead started guessing, where would she be now?
Su Mingxiu decided to start looking from the places she had encountered her before, so that the protagonist wouldn’t be hurt in places she couldn’t see.
At the same time.
After waiting in the forest for her precious dogs to deal with that person, Wei Shang felt that she was having a very unlucky day. It was rare for anyone to dare to provoke her so fearlessly. But today she had actually met a few of them. This was really strange.
And the dogs she had brought out, she didn’t know if they had eaten too many snacks or what, but they were behaving very abnormally.
Although she liked the freshness that Rong Rong brought her, in Wei Shang’s heart, these dogs that had been accompanying her were her most important partners. She immediately decided to temporarily stop the hide-and-seek game with Rong Rong and take the dogs back first.
After walking out of the forest, she saw the nanny van parked at the back door of the mall. Wei Shang moved her gaze away expressionlessly, not looking at the slightly trembling car body.
Rong Rong never expected that this skill would be like this.
When she regained consciousness, she realized that she had already gotten out of the car. But her whole body was as weak as noodles. She supported herself against the wall and walked to a secluded restroom. Only then did she see the terrible marks on her body from her collar. Then, she desperately raised her hand to cover her face.
[Damn system, come out and take a beating!]
What kind of broken skill was this?
It was her fault for being too young. She didn’t know that any skill related to the word “sea king” wouldn’t be good.
Ha, use a skill to get rid of a perverted girlfriend? After using this skill, she was almost directly killed by this pervert, okay?
And it was this kind of embarrassing death. The soul of this single dog cried out with a “woof.”
She was no longer pure! She was dirty!
The system thought for a long time and gave a dry consolation, “This system has a passive skill, which is activated after the skill is used. After half an hour, all traces created by the skill effects will disappear. Please rest assured.”
Rong Rong: ?
What kind of passive skill was this?
Wow, no wonder she was a sea king. After doing all that with someone, she could still erase the evidence on the scene and then go find another fish, right? But she wasn’t a sea king! She was just an innocent salted fish who had transmigrated into a sea king’s body!
Rong Rong was in despair, and Rong Rong was shutting herself off.
The system thought for a while and gave another consolation, “Players who choose the shield mode are already assumed by the game to not accept intimate activities with their girlfriends. So during the shielding period, it only simulates corresponding traces based on the scene, and implants this memory in the target girlfriend’s consciousness. Nothing actually happened. You can rest assured.”
Oh.
Rong Rong thought, then you’re still a trash game.
She didn’t dare to leave the stall. She just hugged her arms and squatted on the ground. Taking advantage of the fact that she had gotten rid of the top star for now, she decided to be alone for a while, although she felt like she had forgotten something.
But oh well, since no one had found her or was on their way to find her, then it probably wasn’t important.
She didn’t know how long she had stayed in this restroom.
A gentle “knock, knock” sounded.
“Someone’s here.”
She said in a muffled voice.
The person who had knocked left. It was quiet around her. She felt like she wasn’t as uncomfortable anymore, so she opened the stall door, poked her head out, looked around, then quickly closed the door and walked to the mirror at the sink. She untied the scarf and found that even the kiss mark that Po Er had left on her collarbone earlier had disappeared.
She was clean and refreshed, without any aftereffects.
Rong Rong breathed a sigh of relief. Suddenly, a hand reached out from the side, holding a cup that was used to hold cola in the movie theater, startling her like a cat with a puffed-up back, ready to pounce.
“It’s… you.”
She saw the pixelated person and not only did she not lower her guard, but she became even more nervous. She also didn’t take the thing that Su Mingxiu was handing her.
Because the strategy guide didn’t have instructions on how to deal with this kind of passerby, she didn’t know what kind of attitude to have with the other party, so she just stared at the woman.
“Do you want to drink some hot water?” Su Mingxiu handed her the cup and didn’t forget to say, “I got it from the fourth floor. But I waited for you for a while, so it’s a bit cold now.”
Rong Rong originally didn’t want to take the cup, especially after she had learned that she would accidentally trigger those kinds of disharmonious plots with these characters. She didn’t want to get involved with anyone else.
But it was very strange. When she saw that the pixelated person had been holding the cup seriously for so long, she still reached out her hand. She also felt that if she died in this game later, it would definitely be because she was too careless and had lost her life.
“You’re not actually my ex-girlfriend, are you?”
Su Mingxiu looked at her and answered very seriously, even though that seriousness wasn’t very obvious on her face that was blurring, “If you want me to be, then I am.”
What kind of answer was that?
Rong Rong opened the plastic lid and took a sip of the hot water, something that clearly didn’t have any effect.
But after experiencing all of these things, the warmth that flowed over her tongue, all the way down her throat to her stomach, made her feel an unprecedented sense of comfort.
Just like the candied strawberry she had eaten earlier, which had made her very happy.
Or perhaps…
It was like the cup of sweet herbal tea from even earlier.
She held the hot water and leaned against the sink. Before she could calm down for two minutes, she received a message from Tang Yiyi, “Are you tired from doing your homework? I ordered you a takeout. Remember to go downstairs to get it. There’s a special gift for you.”
Rong Rong’s expression changed. She was about to put down what she was holding and run for her life when she received another message at the same time, “Are you working hard? Send me the location, and I’ll buy drinks for everyone at your company.”
This was from Po Er.
She clenched her phone, feeling a throbbing pain in her forehead, when her phone buzzed again without any sense of timing, making all of the excitement come at once, “Sister, can I have dinner with you? I’m almost at your school.”
Without a doubt, it was Rong Si.
Rong Rong clenched her phone, as if she could use it to squeeze all of these troublesome people together. Su Mingxiu, who was standing beside her, saw that her face was pale and asked, “What’s wrong?”
“Nothing…”
She forced a smile and was about to thank the other party for the hot water when she looked up and realized that the other person’s pixels had become even blurrier, and the colors had also faded a lot, like a Little Tyrant learning machine that was running out of power.
“What’s wrong with you?” Rong Rong rarely revealed a trace of concern in her eyes.
Su Mingxiu didn’t know why she had asked this question. When she glanced at herself in the mirror, she thought she had seen the fog that was wrapped around her, so she said casually, “I’m not sure.”
Thinking about how she was getting blurrier, and how different she was from the somewhat delicate pixelated appearance she had first seen, Rong Rong immediately became worried, “Did something happen to you?”
She clearly hadn’t exchanged the bug anymore.
Why was this person still getting blurrier?
Su Mingxiu thought, she hadn’t encountered anything, she had just been met by the perverts who were after you, so she had just blocked some trouble along the way.
She didn’t say anything, and Rong Rong didn’t ask again. But after she left, because she was too worried about this pixelated person, she was a bit absent-minded.
She even held the cola cup that contained water all the way back to her school.
—This pixelated person, oh no, she should be called a mosaic person. Would she suddenly disappear one day?
Rong Rong didn’t know the answer, and she guessed that the other person didn’t know the answer either.
But.
She found herself actually looking forward to this person who would appear as a passerby from different corners, either to give her candied hawthorns or to hand her a cup of hot water.
If she couldn’t meet this bug again in this game, and had to face those perverts endlessly, Rong Rong thought, that would be too tiring.
She didn’t realize that she had unknowingly become a little dependent on the other party.
And Rong Rong had forgotten to tell her her name again.
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