Chapter 115 Don’t you have a wife?

Zhang Lian thought seriously for nearly two minutes, but couldn't think of why he didn't want to be kissed. Li Ziyue took the earring back, and he stretched out his tongue without hesitation and put the earring on.

Zhang Lian licked his lower lips.

Li Ziyue lowered her eyes, her long eyelashes trembling slightly, and hummed softly: "To prevent you from biting me here again."

Zhang Lian's eyes became darker, his Adam's apple rolled slightly, and he stretched out his hand, letting Li Ziyue's black hair wrap around his fingertips.

The hamster poked out its little head, but was pushed down by Zhang Lian again.

The tips of Li Ziyue's ears, hidden under her black hair, turned an abnormally red.

It feels like someone is talking in my brain.

"Hello, I am your personal assistant. I will be responsible for your life in this world. Please give me customized orders."

This was the same AI teacher he had experienced before, and Li Ziyue chose the default one. Finally, he casually asked, "Where is my player system?"

It seems that I have never heard it respond in my mind so far.

"Because we have left the instance, the player system has automatically gone into sleep mode. If you need, I can wake it up."

"No."

"OK."

The three of them walked along the corridor towards the inner floor. When they passed a room with a half-open door, they saw someone coming out of it.

"Since you were invaded, NPCs in the school's virtual space have also mutated, but the mutation is only in the first stage of imitating human 'malicious' behavior, so it can still be controlled."

The man was about the same height as Zhang Lian, with a rare dark brown complexion, bright and handsome eyebrows, and a small mechanical snake used for communication wrapped around his undisguised mechanical arm.

The snake quietly spit out dark red tongue at his fingertips.

"The invaders are preparing to launch a large-scale machine mutation. Make strategic preparations. I'll be here soon."

Hearing the words "school NPC mutation", Li Ziyue paused.

The smell of blood he smelled when he was hiding in the innermost cubicle of the bathroom, the bright red blood flowing towards him from under his feet, the NPC's painful cry for help mixed with the rush of uncontrolled water.

And the NPCs overlapping and killing each other in the darkest corners of the innermost layer.

He frowned slightly.

The virtual world is an ideal home built by players with the support of the system. Logically, there should be no malicious invaders.

This world...

The white wolf that had pounced on Li Xiaocan earlier was now circling around the speaker's feet. The swallow above its head was a little dizzy from being circled and was pecking at it angrily with its beak.

He stopped and patted the white wolf on the back. The white wolf received the order and obediently shrank back into the black and white hut.

The swallow flew back to Li Xiaocan's head.

He then raised his eyes, as if he was not surprised by the appearance of Li Ziyue and Zhang Lian.

"Li Liu, there's a new person over there." Li Xiaocan reminded.

Li Liu said "hmm" and took out a box of cookies from the storage panel behind the door: "They are freshly made. Try them and see if you like them."

Li Xiaocan took the biscuit, opened the lid of the iron box, and let Yan Zi take one from it.

Li Liu adjusted the little snake and said to Li Ziyue and the others in a hurry, "I have something else to do, so I'll leave first. See you later."

"Li Liu," Li Xiaocan called out to him incoherently, still biting a half-eaten biscuit in his mouth, "It's too salty."

"Really?" Li Liu naturally bent down and took a bite. "It is true. I won't add salt next time."

The white wolf circled around Li Xiaocan twice, then followed Li Liu away, wagging its tail.

Zhang Lian watched all this intently, as if thinking about something.

Li Liu and Li Xiaocan have the same surname and live together. Li Ziyue originally thought that the two were more or less related, but they look very different, and Li Ziyue couldn't figure out the reason for a while.

Half a second later, he suddenly realized it.

Li Xiaocan gave them a few cookies and said, "If you want to go out, don't turn off the AI assistant. There are too many machines that have mutated twice during this period. It will help you identify them and remind you to avoid them."

"Second mutation?"

Li Xiaocan nodded: "The student NPCs you encountered killing people in the bathroom before are in the first stage of mutation. They will only imitate your behavior and will not take new actions. The second stage of mutation will give rise to self-awareness, which means that the machine may lie to you for its own benefit."

"This world is highly mechanized. Humanoid robots look the same as ordinary humans. The human eye can no longer recognize abnormalities. Only AI can recognize AI."

"When you start machine recognition, the AI assistant in your mind will help you distinguish between real people and machine intelligence. Usually, a red dot will light up between the eyebrows of the latter." He reminded, "The machine mutation is too fast. There are already machines with secondary mutations that are developing into tertiary mutations."

Li Xiaocan drank the freshly warmed milk and took the initiative to stop the topic. He obviously didn't want to say more on this issue and just led them to the restaurant.

"She's in some trouble and can't see you now." Li Xiaocan held the milk carton and said to Li Ziyue.

"However, someone wants to see Zhang Lian first."

As soon as the restaurant door opened, a strong gust of wind blew towards him, and a stack of discs that had condensed into a long pure white strip due to high-speed rotation went straight towards Li Xiaocan's throat, but were blocked by his hand/gun only an inch away from his face.

"Clang, clang."

The plate fell with a sound, and some residue splashed onto Li Xiaocan's hair. His face was calm, and his other hand was holding the empty milk carton calmly.

Immediately afterwards, a loud shout came from the top of the restaurant door, and attacks came from both sides. Li Xiaocan took the two attacks calmly, then moved his wrist slightly and grabbed the man's forearm.

Liu Yuche held a bottle of concentrated nutrient solution in his mouth and said with a smile: "I still can't beat him after all."

She looked back and saw Li Ziyue and Zhang Lian, and said in surprise: "You came so quickly."

A few little hedgehogs rolled over, and mucus appeared on the sharp spikes behind them. They rolled up the ceramic debris on the ground and then slowly rolled away.

Li Xiaocan let her go and said in a flat tone: "Practice more in the evening." Then he went to the cold storage room to get the ice cream.

Liu Yuche stroked the back of his head, chuckled, and drank another bottle of nutrient solution.

She had been involved in a lot of close combat recently, so she simply wore a crumpled short-sleeved shirt on her upper body, and all the places not covered with clothes were wrapped in bandages. Her hands were like white buns, and she could only maintain her vital signs by drinking convenient nutrient solution.

Li Ziyue remembered that Liu Yuche was not good at close combat, but from what she saw just now, she had made great progress during this period.

A row of ice creams of various flavors were placed in front of them. Li Xiaocan sat in the corner, leisurely eating an ice cream spoon in his mouth, with the communication snake next to his ear. It was unknown who he was talking to on the phone. Liu Yuche took the opportunity to chat with Li Ziyue and the others.

She has been here for a while. Li Xiaocan, who is also a sniper, is responsible for strengthening her physical fitness and teaching her close combat and defense. For snipers, they are invincible in long-range attacks, but they are afraid of close attacks from the enemy.

She looked up at Zhang Lian and said, "When you were doing that...class confrontation before, did you ever encounter any student NPCs who were so strong that they were abnormal?"

Li Ziyue glanced at Zhang Lian’s injured hand.

Zhang Lian nodded.

Liu Yuche held an ice cream in his mouth and said incoherently: "Did you dodge? Are you not hurt?"

"It's okay." Zhang Lian said calmly, "'It' is dead."

Liu Yuche paused for a moment, her eyebrows moved slightly, and she smiled again.

"No wonder Cheng Cheng keeps saying he wants to meet you, you are really amazing."

Who is Cheng Cheng?

"The amazing NPC you met in the dungeon..." Liu Yuche thought for a few seconds, "Its combat data was taken from Cheng Cheng, but it only 'learned' the basics."

Zhang Lian raised his eyes and looked at her.

The basics? Ordinary people can't get close to Zhang Lian at all, but an NPC who has learned the basics can hurt Zhang Lian's hand. How terrifying is Cheng Cheng's true strength?

Li Ziyue frowned.

I have never heard of any player with such strength.

Who would have thought that Liu Yuche smiled and said nothing. She stretched out her steamed palm and patted Li Ziyue on the shoulder: "I think Li Xiaocan also told you that a friend of yours from the past really wants to see you."

"She has been waiting for you here for a long time." Liu Yuche paused for two seconds, stood up, turned his back to Li Ziyue and stretched, "When you see her, don't cry."

"What?" Li Ziyue was stunned.

Liu Yuche waved her hand and picked up her coat: "Let's go, I'm going to training."

Who would have thought that just as Liu Yuche left, another person came towards him.

The communication snake left Li Xiaocan's ear, and he looked at the man and just sighed.

"I didn't stop him." Li Xiaocan gave Zhang Lian a look of pity.

Zhang Lian tilted his head in confusion.

The man looked to be only in his twenties. He wore a simple white short-sleeved shirt as the inner layer and a dark orange jacket as the outer layer. He casually held a lollipop in his mouth.

His facial features are extremely handsome. At first glance, they seem a bit fierce, but a closer look reveals a cynical and childish look.

The sleeves of the coat were slightly rolled up, and one of the hands was wrapped in off-white bandages.

The bandage was wrapped tightly around his muscles, and there was a small bow tied at the top.

"Hey, two very handsome guys," he looked at Li Ziyue and the other man and said with a smile, "My name is Cheng Cheng."

Li Ziyue felt Zhang Lian's emotions tense for a moment.

Zhang Lian keenly caught a hint of the NPC who had hurt his hand before from the person in front of him. It was similar to the pressure and gaze that the lion, the king of beasts, gave to other weak animals.

Even though the other party has no ill intentions.

Obviously, he is hundreds of times stronger than the previous NPC.

Zhang Lian narrowed his eyes slightly.

"Zhang Lian, the player with the highest force value at the moment," Cheng Cheng looked at him, his teeth lightly touching, and grinned, "How about fighting with me?"

He raised his left hand: "I don't need you to defeat me, I just need you to force me to remove all the bandages on my left hand."

No one dared to say such words to Zhang Lian.

"Of course, the fight wasn't in vain," he tore open the wrapper of a strawberry-flavored lollipop, "Don't you want to clear the Advanced Pseudo-Human Dungeon? Once you meet my requirements, I'll give you a small gift."

…

The spear collided with the man's fist, and the sharp weapon was bounced away. The tip of the spear suddenly pierced into the extremely hard special wall, and the gun body kept shaking.

Zhang Lian was shocked by this round of impact and a trace of blood flowed from the corner of his mouth. He lowered his eyes, wiped away the blood, and lightly closed his fingers.

The spear stretched towards him with all its might, but was stuck firmly on the wall.

Zhang Lian's chest heaved and his breathing became rapid.

He wiped the black hair on his forehead and said solemnly to Cheng Cheng, who was unharmed and even leisurely adjusting his bandages, "Come again."

"It's the 16th round," Cheng Cheng looked at him, "So far, you still haven't been able to get close to me."

Zhang Lian lowered his head, making it impossible to see his expression.

The strong wind mixed with gravel swirled around him. He rubbed his sore wrists and swallowed the blood in his throat.

"Come again."

Li Ziyue stood in the observation room on the second floor, watching everything in front of him silently through the protective glass.

The people around him smiled softly: "It's okay, Cheng Cheng knows his limits, you don't have to worry about him."

This person came with Cheng Cheng, his name was Muchuan.

"But you will be worried if Zhang Lian stays here. He has deliberately restrained the strength of many of his attacks," Mu Chuan thought, "Perhaps you want to have a meal first and then take a rest?"

"You haven't had a good sleep for many days..."

Li Ziyue rubbed his tired brows, thought for two seconds, looked at Zhang Lian in the training room, and finally nodded.

…

The time turned exactly to 12 o'clock in the evening.

The room was in a mess. The iron wall made of special material had been smashed into many deep holes by someone extremely violently, and countless spider-web-like cracks appeared on the ground.

Zhang Lian leaned against the wall, gasping for breath. Half of his fair face was covered in blood, and his whole body was soaked with sweat. The broken spear fell at his feet.

"Again..." He coughed, "Again."

His body was clearly on the verge of collapse, but his spirit became increasingly excited, his deep blue eyes revealing undisguised madness and excitement.

The more blood flowed, the faster his heart beat and the hotter his body became.

The AI kept sending warnings of severe emotional fluctuations in his brain.

"It's the 243rd round." Cheng Cheng was forced to take a few steps back by Zhang Lian. His hair was disheveled and the bandage around his left arm was half untied.

He stared at Zhang Lian for a long while, then grinned through gritted teeth: "What time is it now?"

"Twelve o'clock." Zhang Lian said lightly.

"Aren't you sleeping at this time?" Cheng Cheng asked in confusion, "Don't you have a wife? Usually at this time my wife is already..."

He became more and more annoyed as he spoke.

"Tomorrow morning at eight... Never mind, I'll wait for you here at two in the afternoon."

He rubbed the back of his head and strode out the training room door.

Zhang Lian sat against the wall with his head lowered, beads of sweat dripping from his hair to the ground.

He seemed to be seriously injured, but in fact he was just tired. Zhang Lian possessed an extremely strong self-healing ability, so this injury was nothing to him.

But when he looked at his still bleeding arm, his eyes were exceptionally bright.

Li Ziyue was sleeping soundly when he vaguely heard the sound of running water coming from the bathroom. He was startled and woke up from his bed.

The bathroom door was ajar, and bright orange light shone along the gap onto the carpet at the entrance.

Zhang Lian was naked from the waist up, revealing his smooth, beautiful muscle curves. He lay on his side with his eyes lowered, holding the shower head in his Band-Aided hand, directing the water to wash away the blood on his body.

Realizing that the light behind him was blocked, he turned his head slightly and met Li Ziyue's gaze.

Zhang Lian pursed his lips lightly, his Adam's apple rolled, and his azure blue eyes seemed to be tinged with mist.

"……elder brother."

He just shouted in a low and aggrieved voice.