Lin Mingfei confronted Debang for more than ten seconds and was defeated.

"Give me a solution." He said, holding his forehead.

"I went to the store to update the formula of the bracelet and clean the dust for me at the same time." Debang said.

"Waiting for me here?" Lin Mingfei laughed angrily: "Have you, the AI, become a spirit?"

Debon: "Hey, hey."

Lin Mingfei: “…”

No matter how much you curse, the pheromone issue still needs to be dealt with. If it is not handled properly and passive estrus occurs, it will be very troublesome for both parties.

Xia Tong slept very comfortably. The faint scent of sandalwood lingered around him, making his bones and muscles numb.

Later, the scent of sandalwood disappeared, and Xia Tong woke up soon after. He saw Lin Mingfei return to the car and handed him a velvet box.

Seeing the little Omega's bewildered expression, Lin Mingfei pondered for a moment and decided to tell the truth: "The sandalwood scent you smell is my pheromone. Actually, I smelled yours before. We are ABO different, so we still need some isolation measures..."

"Why can you smell my pheromones?" Xia Tong blinked her eyes and raised her wrist: "I'm wearing a suppression bracelet."

The tips of Lin Mingfei's ears were slightly red.

"Because you're a good match for me." Coming from an Alpha, this kind of talk sounded like sexual harassment. Furthermore, there was no genetic evidence to support it. Not wanting to embarrass Xia Tong, Lin Mingfei pressed her fist to her lips and coughed, "The bracelet might be expired. I'll go to the store and get you a new one."

"They say I smell like osmanthus and red bean paste." Xia Tong suddenly pointed at herself: "Is that true?"

"Ah?" Lin Mingfei was stunned: "There's no red bean paste..."

"Do you like it?" Xia Tong asked.

"This..." Lin Mingfei was tongue-tied by his straight talk.

If these words came from the mouth of an ordinary Omega, they would undoubtedly be a teasing and seduction, but Xia Tong's expression was too innocent. Lin Mingfei couldn't help but recall that day in the hospital when the little Omega stood alone at the door of the examination room, with no one paying any attention to him, as if he had been abandoned by the whole world.

He asked this probably because he wanted to be liked by others, right?

"I like it." He nodded sincerely and firmly: "It tastes very sweet."

"That's good." Xia Tong smiled, as if relieved, and opened the velvet box. Inside was a braided red rope with five cute ceramic kittens strung on it.

Lin Mingfei said, "See if you like the style. I just picked it randomly."

"So cute!" Xia Tong said happily.

"It's definitely not as good as your previous one." Lin Mingfei looked straight ahead, feeling a little embarrassed: "I think your previous one looks like it was custom-made. The store doesn't have such an expensive one at the moment."

"It's much better than this one. This one is heavy and old-fashioned." Xia Tong took off the platinum bracelet without any regrets. She carefully tied the red string around her wrist and said, "Thank you."

"It's okay." Lin Mingfei said softly.

The SUV stopped in front of a dark single-family villa. Xia Tong opened the door and got out of the car. Looking up, she saw an exquisite inverted triangle logo hanging on this uninhabited big house.

Lin Mingfei walked over and pushed up the main power switch on the wall. With a "click", the silver-white "Polaris" lit up spectacularly in the dark night. The dazzling light was like a rising morning star, guiding the lost passers-by.

"Wow!" Xia Tong's eyes widened as she ran after Lin Mingfei into the house. After entering, she saw a spacious living room with artistically designed sofas and chandeliers, a bar-style dining room, and a kitchen. It was gorgeous and stylish. "So beautiful! Is this your home?"

"It's a place more important than home." Lin Mingfei smiled and said, "It's the club, the team's base."

"Are you a professional player?" Xia Tong was surprised. She followed Lin Mingfei past the glass house on the second floor and saw five huge cocoons inside.

Unlike the black and red cocoon-shaped sensors at the Starry Sky Internet Cafe, the cocoons here are uniformly blue and white, with a more upscale texture. The Polaris logo is printed on the surface, and one of them is slightly different from the other four. Flowing silver spots of light outline the shape of a gun on the surface of the cocoon, and the word "Zero" is displayed at the end.

"Zero?" Xia Tong stared at the glass for a moment, then suddenly seemed to realize something and turned around: "Zero?"

Lin Mingfei was dragging his suitcase for him: "Do you know anyone else named Zero?"

"No, no, I remember Zero was very famous!" Xia Tong asked tentatively: "God of Guns?"

Lin Mingfei chuckled and replied in a wicked way, "Hey, I'm here!"

Xia Tong stood there like a fool.

Lin Mingfei led him to a bedroom, opened the door and said, "Pack up. I'll take you to fight Wang Ling later."

"Don't you need to sleep?" Xia Tong asked.

"It's okay, I definitely won't be able to sleep tonight." Lin Mingfei smiled at the empty base, feeling full of emotion.

Late at night, the moon was bright and the stars were sparse outside the Novice Village on the Wangling Continent.

With a "whoosh", a swarm of insects rushed out from the depths of the cave, accompanied by a terrible "chirp" sound that covered the sky. A light blue curse light emerged from the insect swarm like a dragon, and suddenly spread out into thousands of rays, forming a net to bind and tighten the entire insect swarm. Then a dark red light ball exploded from the center of the insect swarm, and the insect swarm fell to the ground like rain.

Ding ding ding ding!

After the experience and coins were settled, the little wizard in the pointed hat crawled on the ground, holding his head with his hands, and the tip of the staff in his hand was still flashing.

"I'm so scared, so scared!" Xia Tong raised her head timidly, her hood falling down, revealing her cute chestnut short hair in a mess. She was still frightened by the touch of the insect swarm's lifelike fur: "Zero, why don't you help me!"

"Your combos are so smooth that you can kill level 20 monsters at level 15. You're too good for me to help." A long-legged man was sitting on the treetop. He was wearing a tight leather jacket and over-the-knee boots. His heels hit the tree trunk again and again. He wore a beret on his head, looking relaxed and lazy.

Xia Tong was happy when he was encouraged. He got up from the ground and jumped to shake off the leaves on his body.

Lin Mingfei was not lying.

As a holographic game, character attributes are tied to the player's own, not just their stamina. There's a brief pause between skill casts, known as the global cooldown. The global cooldown is tied to the player's mental strength. The smarter and more responsive players are, the shorter the global cooldown, allowing them to unleash more skills in the same amount of time.

Xia Tong had just finished a few books when Lin Mingfei discovered his unusualness.

He didn't plan to take care of Xia Tong's leveling process, only teaching her the basics of the controls and interface. Then, the little Omega learned everything on his own, happily taking on quests, killing monsters, and turning them in. Most impressively, he discovered that Xia Tong needed almost no shared cooldowns to unleash her abilities.

Most untalented players have a public CD of more than one second. As a professional player, he was able to shorten the public CD to a few tenths of a second after years of training. People like Xia Tong are rare, and it is not an exaggeration to call him a genius.

That's why Xia Tong was able to observe the abnormality in Dylan's close-range triple sniper attack.

"Zero, why is your hair color reddish brown in the game?" Xia Tong asked curiously.

Ever since he knew his ID, the little thing stopped calling him brother. He didn't know if this was a sign of familiarity. Lin Mingfei felt a little helpless and bent one leg. "I changed my hair color specifically to match the anniversary look."

"Will you all reset your appearance?" Xia Tong wondered, "Could it be that many of the people I see in the game don't actually look like this?"

"Aren't you too naive?" Lin Mingfei laughed: "Not everyone looks like me, and not everyone looks like you."

At this time, a bright red poster floated across the world channel.

[Timer, the shame of the elves! A beast in human form! He ruined my youth, deceived my feelings, everyone hates him! Everyone must kill him! !]

"Oh, this guy is back in the world." Lin Mingfei wasn't surprised. She clicked on the wanted poster with interest and said to herself, "Let me see how much the bounty has been increased...hiss, 20,000! I'm a little tempted."

"Are you busy? Then go ahead, I can do the task myself." Xia Tong said.

"Okay, then I'll go find a friend and be back soon. Message me if you have anything." Lin Mingfei picked up the gun and jumped up, disappearing among the treetops.

Xia Tong killed a few more monsters and went back to Rukia to hand in the quest. He suddenly reached level 20. The system prompted him that he could leave the novice village and more gameplay would be unlocked soon.

Xia Tong studied the guide on the skill screen. There were two wizard development styles: burst and support. The skill point distribution varied between the two styles. He skipped along the ridges of the fields, excited. The Novice Village bordered a silvery-white waterfall wall. He crossed it and saw a wider tree-lined path.

The night was quiet, with the occasional chirping of nightingales and cicadas. This was the mysterious Changxiang Ancient Road. Xia Tong was looking for a mission point when suddenly a red light flashed on the edge of his page.

System prompt: You have been added to the vendetta list by [Tonight Love You].

System prompt: You have been added to the vendetta list by [Porsche Lone Wolf].

…

In the blink of an eye, five or six similar warnings popped up. Xia Tong was stunned and received a message in the private chat channel.

Love You Tonight: [I was kind enough to take you out to play, but you reported our team?]

Xia Xiaotong: [I didn't report it, I just didn't attend your offline activities.]

Love You Tonight: [Our team was banned as soon as you left the team. Do you still dare to say it wasn't you? ]

Love You Tonight: [Just wait to be killed, little bitch. ]

Xia Tong was stunned for a moment, and suddenly realized that he had a BUFF of newcomer protection in the Novice Village. The specific description was that players below level 20 could not be initiated into vendettas.

Now that we have left the Novice Village, that BUFF is gone.