Mingmei felt that encountering a player like Lu Xiaoyao was simply torture for a special NPC like her.

She had given such obvious hints!

How can you treat her like a player?!

Can someone please reiterate the official website update for her?!

As if everything was preordained, just as Lu Xiaoyao was about to drag Mingmei back to her "home", two more voices suddenly came from behind them at the door.

"Hey! Are you players who came in here too?"

Lu Xiaoyao and Mingmei turned around and saw a man in a gray mandarin jacket and two girls in light blue school uniforms looking at them.

"Ah! You're temporarily staying in the Zhang family's backyard!" Lu Xiaoyao immediately realized that these three were also players.

The three of them play an art teacher who is staying at the villain's house, and his two female students.

"You're playing the role of Miss Bai!"

The female student player with two large braids immediately recognized Lu Xiaoyao's outfit, then looked at Mingmei and asked, "Who is this...?"

"Um...Want to buy a boxed lunch?"

Everyone: Huh?

What to buy?

To be honest, Mingmei's lines were so awkward and forced! Even Mingmei herself seemed to want to dig her toes into the ground after delivering them!

However, the requirement for this NPC role is that when you meet a player, you must immediately ask her if she wants to buy a boxed lunch.

If the other party agrees, it will trigger the discovery of the mysterious merchant, and you will be able to buy a lunchbox, a crucial item for clearing the game, from Mingmei.

If rejected, great, the player will not be able to trigger the Mystery Shop for the next six hours.

At other times, Mingmei can freely express herself.

However, as a mysterious merchant NPC, Mingmei naturally has performance targets, requiring her to sell at least one boxed lunch per game.

What is this?

The actor playing the male teacher was still full of questions. He looked at Lu Xiaoyao and Mingmei, and when Mingmei didn't speak, he looked at Lu Xiaoyao again.

"Didn't the official website update the game a couple of days ago? They added a player character, the one who sells lunch boxes, right?"

Before Mingmei could try to coax her further, Lu Xiaoyao blurted out "official website update" and "addition of player characters," then turned to Mingmei for confirmation.

Mingmei: ...

What's the point of looking at her?

Is she able to prove that the other party is "spreading rumors"?

"Huh? Something's not right?" Another female student player with short, ear-length hair was the first to react, looking puzzled. "The official website update announcement didn't add any player characters, right? There are only five player characters in this game, aren't there? Miss Bai, the art teacher, two female students, and a half-baked feng shui master. When did a lunchbox seller appear?"

It's obvious that this short-haired student player is paying much more attention to the official website updates than Lu Xiaoyao.

Then, everyone saw that Mingmei's previously wooden face suddenly came to life.

Those big eyes shone brightly as he walked straight to her side, grabbed her hand, and said, "Miss, I can tell you're exceptionally intelligent and definitely not an ordinary person. Would you like some boxed lunch? I have pork chop curry and Orland fried chicken cutlet. Which one would you like?"

Hu Yue looked at the bright and enthusiastic woman in front of her who was persistently and enthusiastically promoting the boxed lunches, opened her mouth, and finally shook her head and silently refused.

Hu Yue: This beautiful young lady seems to have that serious illness.

[Oh my god! I knew it! Couldn't we at least change those tongue-twisting lines?]

Mingmei herself was also bursting with shame. Although she usually doesn't show much emotion on her face, she has a lot of inner monologues.

Commonly known as "secretly passionate".

Especially after she tried to sell the boxed lunches to the remaining players one by one and was rejected by everyone, her inner voice began to grow irritable.

She found it hard to accept that such a scene, which could almost be described as socially devastating, failed to achieve the desired effect!

Even viewers watching Lu Xiaoyao's live stream commented that Mingmei was "too immersed in the role."

[Hmm, is it really necessary to take role-playing games this seriously?]

[Yeah, aside from when it's your own storyline and you have to follow the system prompts, everyone seems pretty casual about it otherwise, right?]

[Hey, aren't you going to let me indulge my dramatic side in the game, haha?]

...

All the viewers were misled by Lu Xiaoyao into believing that she was a player!

Lu Xiaoyao couldn't see these comments on the screen, and Mingmei was even less aware that the scene just now was indeed quite shocking.

"Hey, stop worrying about selling boxed lunches. Once I get inside and finish the part about fighting against my parents' feudal marriage, our adventure will truly begin!"

Lu Xiaoyao drew everyone's attention to herself, and everyone nodded in agreement. The player who was playing the art teacher and the two students nodded repeatedly and said, "Yes, we also need to go and do the quest according to the storyline. We'll meet at the Zhang family later."

After saying that, the three players looked at Mingmei again, wanting to ask her what she was going to do.

"I'll go find someone to buy me a boxed lunch."

Mingmei took a deep breath. Right now, she only had one player left, and she hadn't asked the fortune teller yet.

The crowd looked at Mingmei with even more sympathy for her given this strange "plot".

"Is your job to sell boxed lunches, so you've been asking us that question?"

Hu Yue, who had been observing, finally noticed something was wrong. Seeing Mingmei's aggrieved expression and her nod, Hu Yue couldn't bear it and asked again, "Can I buy it now?"

Mingmei thought tearfully, "If only Hu Yue hadn't refused and had just agreed."

Looking up at the six-hour countdown above Hu Yue's head, he silently replied, "Those who refuse can only buy again after six hours."

Everyone: ...

grass!

What kind of ridiculous mission is this?!

"So, if you can't sell these boxed lunches, will it affect your storyline with us?"

"It won't... have any impact, right?"

Mingmei looked at the four people in front of her. Although she was a mysterious merchant, the game plot shouldn't be affected by not buying lunch boxes, right?

No way, really?

These guys are so bad, they probably won't last six hours, right?

"Alright then, everyone, let's split up and complete the events leading up to the Zhang family mansion, then meet up at the gate."

After everyone left, Lu Xiaoyao still looked at Mingmei with some lingering hope, her pleading expression resembling that of a little dog waiting for its owner to come home.

Lu Xiaoyao: You promised to spend time with me through the storyline whenever you have free time!

Mingmei: ...

In the end, Mingmei made a heartless refusal and decided to find the last player to continue selling boxed lunches!