Chapter 18 Officially signed the contract and started to update?

[The mission has been judged as successful! It even triggered the hidden branch mental power treatment bonus, and the reward was doubled! ? ]

Instinct behavior in the subconscious?

But in the countdown of the last minute, Yu Mian even vaguely heard the movement outside the door. Someone

is coming downstairs!

Even if Huo Ting has not fully awakened, once he is caught by those subordinates, Huo Ting will be misunderstood to death for having a mermaid in front of him in the middle of the night!

[Indeed, your behavior may have the effect of destroying Huo Ting's reputation in one fell swoop. ]

The small system couldn't help but analyze it.

After all, it was the middle of the night, and the host's appearance was very lethal, so it was really easy to explain.

"Please, isn't my reputation a reputation?"

Yu Mian heard the muttering of the little system beside him, and he felt very sad.

After all, he was a single person who stayed at home all his life! ?

[Then you'd better think of a solution quickly, otherwise the result will be that the two of you will be caught holding hands together. ]

Yu Mian:...?

So Yu Mian went all out, and rushed to Huo Ting and forced him to let go as if he was undoing a welding job.

"Hurry up and let go! If you don't let go, our reputations will be ruined, do you know that?!"

Although he really wants your mental strength, he can't pay the price of social death!

Yu Mian tried to pry open Huo Ting's knuckles, and even the fish tail unconsciously pressed against the sofa, almost rubbing Huo Ting's trouser legs.

However, Yu Mian was almost sweating profusely, but he found that Huo Ting seemed to be aware of his struggle and held on a little tighter...

Damn it! I

swear I will never hold hands casually next time.

This must be a punishment for rubbing his mental power.

"System!? Can I turn into a fish directly, and then you help me throw it back into the glass bottle? That way this guy can't continue to hold me!"

[Uh, it seems possible! ]

Seeing that the door was about to be knocked, Yu Mian asked almost as a last-ditch effort.

Sure enough, after a flash of white light, the figure of the young man instantly disappeared and became smaller, and was thrown directly into the jar by an arc.

With a "thump", even the lid was tightened three times by the system.

Help, it actually worked!

At this moment, Yu Mian was so moved that he was about to cry in the jar.

It is true that the water knows when the fish cries...

After three knocks on the study door, Secretary Hals and his team pushed open the study door.

"Report!"

But when Secretary Hals saw Huo Ting's back on the sofa not far away, he couldn't help but look at the medical staff behind him in surprise.

Because there was no response.

This is really strange.

"Could he have fallen asleep?"

The medical staff asked in a low voice with concern.

"I'm not sure. I only know that I probably didn't sleep for almost three days and three nights on this trip."

Secretary Hals recalled this trip. Others just took turns to keep watch, but only Huo Ting stayed in the control room of the cockpit the whole time.

There were only a few very short naps in the middle.

The group tried to walk to the sofa.

However, surprisingly, Huo Ting had closed his eyes again at some point, but this time he was obviously asleep.

His neck was slightly tilted back against the back seat of the sofa, his eyelashes were tightly closed, casting a shadow, and his face had a rare tranquility.

"Approach carefully, and choose the one with the mildest mental attribute."

Secretary Hals looked at the medical team behind him and reminded them softly. It

is actually quite dangerous to approach someone with high mental awakening while they are sleeping.

Because it is often a completely instinctive reaction at this time, the stronger the mental power of the person, the greater the vigilance will be, even if there is no bad intention at all.

Therefore, Secretary Hals, who has the second highest mental awakening, is much more dangerous than the medical staff.

"All indicators are normal. It's just that the spiritual sea is a little strange."

After the medical staff carefully put the instrument on Huo Ting's wrist, they were silent for a while and got the data, but their expression was a little strange.

"What's wrong? I didn't hear that the spiritual sea was involved this time. It's just that the chest and back were cut by the blade of a second-level alien beast."

Secretary Hals, who was standing not far away, suddenly looked serious.

Nowadays, the Federation's treatment methods for physical injuries of the body have already developed to a very advanced level. Even if a hand is broken, as long as it is still there, it can be reattached intactly with the help of special treatment fluid.

However, the research on the spiritual sea remains mysterious.

So far, people have only touched the very shallow layer.

So once the spiritual sea is injured, it is almost irreversible.

"There is no injury... but there are traces of contamination from the attack, but the state of the spiritual sea is the best ever, very full and relaxed."

"It may also be that I dare not go too deep. I can only judge from the surface. Maybe it will be safer to conduct a comprehensive test after waking up tomorrow morning.

The doctor shook his head and could only give Hals such an answer.

"Then take a look at the injury on the chest. "

Hals was relieved, as long as he wasn't injured, it would be fine.

"The chest and back area has been re-bandaged to stop the bleeding, and the materials used were from the home medical kit. I guess he bandaged it himself at home and fell asleep while waiting to recover."

The doctor was surprised again.

This time, everyone came here, and there was really nothing they could do.

"Is that the case? I thought the young master was just holding on again."

After Hals heaved a sigh of relief, he unexpectedly saw that the gauze on Huo Ting's chest was tied with a small bow for some reason.

"It's just that the bow is quite... um, cute."

The fluttering tail swayed slightly in the night breeze.

"That's it for now, thank you for your hard work tonight."

Hals felt that everything went unexpectedly smoothly, but he really couldn't think of any other reason.

And Yu Mian in the jar was in a very depressed mood at this moment:

"Are you sure that this guy really won't remember anything when he wakes up the next day?"

[Originally I was very sure, but now who knows if this guy will have any motor memory! ]

[Why don't you try holding hands again next time? You know it's serious this time! 】

The system dealt a heavy blow to Yu Mian's depression without hesitation.

"...I was wrong! I will never touch him again!"

Yu Mian almost rolled in the water silently.

【Forget it, anyway, the reward for this mission is doubled for accidental hits and bumps. You will be safe for the next 14 days. 】

The small system looked at the background prompts happily. It didn't expect that the host's first daily mission was so successful.

"Then do I have to do good deeds anonymously in the future to offset the cost of using the optical computer and fish tank?"

【In a sense, your summary is very accurate. 】

The small system feels that Yu Mian's understanding is weird and accurate.

"Well, then I hope this guy can treat me better."

Yu Mian sighed, and his attention quickly shifted to his head.

"But his mental power is so strange, it absorbs so slowly."

His original mental power was a small golden ball, but now there are suddenly a few points of light red halo in it.

The light is extremely bright, but I always feel that the layer of red halo is very uncomfortable.

[This belongs to an extremely high level of mental power, but it is polluted. ]

[But this strength is enough to support you to transform into a pair of legs... The side effects are unknown, and the quantity should be more, it is still a little less now. ]

"What, this thing is so powerful!?"

Yu Mian was just curious at first, but after hearing the small system's detection and judgment, the whole person was excited.

I have long felt that this fish tail looks good but is really inconvenient. It would be great if I could turn it back into a pair of legs, and even go out and take a look at this interstellar world.

[…Why do I feel like you have come up with some bold idea again? ]

The system looked at Yu Mian and then looked at Huo Ting with burning eyes,

and the whole system was not right. "I suddenly felt that although shaking hands is a little dangerous, why don't I pat his shoulder next time?"

Yu Mian felt that life had hope for a while.

[? ? ? ]

*

The next morning, Huo Yan had almost not slept all night, and couldn't wait to run downstairs to eat, but found that his cousin was not on the table.

"Where's my cousin!? He's not still sleeping, is he? I'll go find him!"

Huo Yan put down the bowl and wanted to run away, but was caught by Inas again.

"Do you think your brother is the same as you?! Huo Ting went to the research institute early in the morning."

"Ah... Going to work so early again?"

Huo Yan sat down again in dismay.

Oh, no, this is good news.

That means he can go to the study to see Yu Mian right away!

"I don't know what happened, he looked so hurried."

Huo Dong recalled the situation in the morning and couldn't help but sigh.

But Huo Yan's mind had already flown to the study and he didn't care at all.

In the study, Yu Mian was browsing the web.

"Strange, I can't find any information about Huo Ting."

After the "surprise" of his mental power last night, Yu Mian wanted to know more about Huo Ting so that he could prescribe the right medicine and get more next time.

But he didn't expect that he couldn't find anything in such a huge star network.

[Instead of searching on StarNet, you might as well ask Huo Yan directly. I think that guy will be happy to tell you everything. But to the outside world, this is classified information. How can it be easily searched on the Internet?]

Otherwise, wouldn’t it be easy for hostile forces to find it!

"Is this guy so mysterious?"

Yu Mian held his chin and shook his fish tail, thinking.

"Then what is he doing going out so early in the morning? Although I can't detect anything, I still feel uneasy..."

Yu Mian thought about it, and when he thought of Huo Ting who woke up in the early morning and looked at his palm in silence for a long time before going out, he still felt a little scared.

[In theory, as long as you complete the task, the rules of the world will ensure that you will not be driven away during the development of the plot within the corresponding 14 days, but no one knows how to achieve it. 】

"...Why do you sound even more uneasy?"

Yu Mian tapped the carpet with his fish tail, and couldn't help but pray that the guy wouldn't find out anything wrong. Once

he had saved enough to transform his legs once, he would no longer be greedy!

And if he had any conscience, he should have realized that he had no ill intentions at all!!

[Yes, you don't have any ill intentions, you just covet his mental energy...]

"Nonsense!"

Yu Mian immediately tried to deny it with a hot face.

"Ding ding ding--"

In just the next second, the star message actually sent a long-awaited message.

"The editor has approved the friend request!"

Doesn't that mean I can officially sign the contract and start updating! ?

Yu Mian sat up straight unexpectedly, and found that the friend request he had sent twice was finally approved by the universe.

[Editor Crispy Shark: Hello! I am the editor Crunchy Shark, may I ask if you are the author Fish Soup Noodles? 】

[I'm really sorry, your application has only been approved now due to some reasons, but I'm really glad that you can choose Huanyu! I personally love your works and characters, and I follow them every day! ! ]

After reading the enthusiastic message on the other side, Yu Mian couldn't help but smile a little.

[Fish: But by "you personally", do you mean that there are differences of opinion within Huanyu? So it was delayed for a few days to be approved? ]

In fact, Yu Mian has thought about this problem these days.

Theoretically, after the contract application was sent to me, it shouldn't have been delayed for so long to be approved. Something must have happened to delay it.

Coupled with the information inadvertently revealed by this little editor, Yu Mian vaguely had some kind of guess.

[Editor Crispy Shark: !!! 】

The message from Yu Mian did indeed startle Crunchy Shark, also known as Shax.

This author is really sharp.

In fact, as early as when Yu Mian first released an update, it had already attracted the attention of the editorial department.

After all, the customer service hotline was overwhelmed by calls caused by that round of discontinuation of updates, which had already made the reputation of this novel known in the Universal Headquarters. However

, as to whether to sign the contract for "Agreement Marriage", a work that can be said to be unorthodox, the Universal Editorial Department was shocked and confused!