Chapter 8 Chapter 8 “Because—so I promised…

"Because—that's why I promised you!"

Wen Qian was trying to find a reason for his sudden change of stance, but he couldn't think of a suitable excuse for a long time and simply skipped this point.

I believe NPC won't mind.

"So what message do you want me to convey?" She naturally ignored the explanation process and went straight to the point.

"I changed my mind." Loren lowered his eyes and looked at Wen Qian, "Perhaps, it's better than asking you to help me pass on the message."

"I'd rather know your name."

Faced with the NPC's sudden change of heart, Wen Qian took on this new task without much thought.

Hidden Mission: First Encounter

Please exchange names with the kind people who are willing to help you.

Reward: Experience +10, Gold +5]

Is this actually a hidden mission? Wen Qian was a little surprised, but after seeing the mission reward that followed, she suddenly became expressionless.

"Tsk, so little."

"What?"

"Ah, I wasn't talking to you." Wen Qian looked up at the young man standing beside him, "My name is Wen Qian."

"And you?"

Loren's lips curled up into a smile, and his peach blossom eyes, which always looked affectionate when he looked at people, became even deeper and more affectionate when he looked at her up close.

"Loren," he said slowly, "You can just call me by my first name."

Wen Qian did not feel any strange emotions, but instead looked at him strangely.

"Otherwise, what else can we call it if not by name?"

"Well, it seems so."

Wen Qian was in a good mood after receiving the reward, and even his tone of voice became lighter.

"So that Chu—" She got stuck mid-sentence, quickly glanced down at the envelope, and added, "Where is Chu Lingyu?"

"He is your classmate."

The boy pointed vaguely at the school badge pinned to Wen Qian's chest. The small words underneath it said Rose Class.

As he said this, his eyes fell on Wen Qian's face, as if he wanted to see if she would have any additional reaction.

After hearing the news, Wen Qian did not feel that his action of asking the person in front of him for help was unnecessary.

Thinking about it this way, he really came here specifically to give her a task!

The player, in a good mood, decided to send a friend request to this new classmate with whom he had a good chat.

A friend list empty except for the inherent NPCs is too ugly.

"Loren, I feel like we're old friends right away. Can we be friends?" Wen Qian said according to the prompt on the friend section.

"Hmm?" Loren said with a good-natured look, "Of course, after all, I treat you the same way."

Wen Qian, who was not serious about it, sent a friend request to Loren, who also just thought it was fun.

——And then was rejected miserably.

[The other party rejected your friend request]

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Wen Qian looked at Luo Lun expressionlessly: "You lied to me."

"Why do you say that?" Loren's eyebrows drooped, as if he was a little sad because of the groundless accusation, but his eyes were full of interest.

"Because you don't want to be friends with me at all."

Wen Qian was just stating the facts objectively, and he didn't feel any emotion in his heart. At most, he just felt a little regretful.

I thought there would be new people added to my friend list, so what exactly is this friend determination mechanism?

The system details clearly stated that the NPC didn't consider her a friend, but it couldn't be that the NPC really thought so. Perhaps some hidden judgment failed, such as favorability?

Loren's smile faded slightly when his thoughts were pointed out in a place where Wen Qian couldn't see.

Looking at the girl who turned and left without saying a word, he tilted his head with a distressed expression that didn't seem to be serious.

It's been noticed. Is his acting really that bad?

But it is indeed very interesting.

"You've come to the wrong place. Your classroom is on the other side." Loren stretched out his long legs and easily followed Wen Qian's pace.

"You're still here?" Wen Qian looked at him in surprise.

The player who had completed the task and failed to add a friend just left the NPC behind, but he didn't expect that he would follow him.

"I'm not going to the classroom. I'm going to register as a freshman." Wen Qian thought for a moment and said hesitantly, "Then there should be an entrance exam, right?"

She glanced at her stamina bar and sincerely hoped that the first exam would be in the morning.

If it were the afternoon, it would be difficult for her to ensure that her physical strength could be maintained above 50. It would be too embarrassing if the final rating failed to reach the passing line due to insufficient physical strength.

Wen Qian quickened her pace. The classmates who were coming towards her gave her strange looks when they saw her. Then, after looking at Loren who was following behind her, they lowered their heads with flickering eyes.

Wen Qian found the only lit office with a clear goal and pushed the door open and walked in.

"Excuse me, I'm reporting in." Her eyes fell on the only student in the room.

Although he was a little puzzled as to why the person he was supposed to report to was a student instead of a teacher, Wen Qian put aside his doubts and walked towards the other person after seeing the obvious "New Student Reporting Guide" sign on the other person's head.

"Freshman?" The boy frowned, not very happy. "Why did you come here only today? Didn't you know that yesterday was the first day of school?"

He took the student card handed to him by Wen Qian and sneered: "Poor and excellent student——"

There was something unfriendly in his drawn-out tone, and even his gaze towards Wen Qian was filled with contempt.

"Take a set of tests and see if you don't meet the standards, you can leave immediately." The boy's words were full of sarcasm. "Of course, if I were you, I would leave immediately. I've seen too many students like you. None of them can stay in the academy."

“Instead of waiting until you’re kicked out, it’s better to take the initiative.”

This time's newcomers are not even as good as those recruited before. They only came to school on the second day of school. They are really brave.

The boy waited for Wen Qian to bow her head in shame and admit her mistake, but when he looked up, he only saw her expression of indifference and as if she was still distracted.

What are you talking about? It's a waste of time.

Wen Qian's mind was empty, hoping that this scene would end quickly. He slowly came back to his senses after the boy finished speaking.

"What's your attitude?" Facing Wen Qian's gaze, the boy's face darkened. "He's just a poor but excellent student. How can he come to our college..."

Wen Qian studied the system panel and found that there was really no option to skip the plot dialogue, which was a pity.

"Skip." Seeing that this NPC was about to start another long speech, Wen Qian tried to manually skip the conversation, "Skip, skip the plot."

Wen Qian, who had said several functional words used in games to skip plots, looked at the student in front of him who had suddenly become speechless, and was surprised that this trick actually worked.

"I've already read the background setting, so I don't need to repeat it. Can we start the exam as soon as possible?"

"I really don't have time to drag it on with you." Wen Qian sighed.

The male classmate who had been so arrogant just now was now like a plucked rooster, with a stiff face and unable to speak for a long time.

Wen Qian followed his gaze doubtfully and looked behind him. Loren was leaning against the half-open door with a smile on his face.

"Student Union?" Loren glanced at the badge on the boy's collar. "Lu Yanbai's guy? Interesting."

When the boy who had been so arrogant just now heard Lu Yanbai's name, his face turned pale.

"Mr. Luo, I..." He stammered, his eyes moving between Wen Qian and Luo Lun.

He was not stupid, and he could still see why Loren suddenly appeared and said such words.

But he couldn't understand why this young master had any relationship with this new poor student?

"Is this another forced dialogue plot?" The protagonist of the topic has no awareness of being the center of the incident.

She simply looked around in confusion, muttering, "Will it still be effective if I tell her to skip again? No, it doesn't seem like this person stopped just now because of the trigger word I said..."

Wen Qian was stunned when he realized later that the NPC had shut up because of Loren's appearance.

What? So skipping is useless? I thought I found a tutorial to speed through the cutscenes!

Wen Qian, with a look of regret on her face, sat in an office seat nearby, waiting for the NPC to bring her the test questions.

The male student from the Student Union looked at the two documents in the bookcase. His eyes darkened and he reached out to the document on the left.

Loren's slow voice suddenly came from behind.

"I've never seen an exam for poor and gifted students before. Give me a copy too."

The boy froze, quickly moved his hand away, and pulled out the file on the other side.

Wen Qian lowered her head after receiving the test paper. Before she could see the questions in her hand clearly, a system prompt sound suddenly came to her ears.

[Trigger hidden judgment——judgment successful

The difficulty of the opening exam has returned to normal levels

Success Prerequisite: Complete the hidden mission [First Encounter]

Wen Qian was stunned when he took out the pencil case. What does it mean to return to normal level?

[Task changes detected, novice task changes successfully]

[[School Exam]] The clearance requirement has been restored to normal: Intelligence 10+, lowered to 8+.

Ha! Wen Qian clenched the pen in her hand. No wonder she felt that the numerical value of the system tasks was unbalanced before. It turned out that she had received a difficult level task, and now it was only at the normal level.

When she was brushing up her stats in the library yesterday, she was still thinking that if she hadn't discovered that different books could bring different intelligence points, her intelligence points would only be increased to 8 points after completing the task.

Wouldn’t I be able to pass the exam at the beginning of the school year like this?

It turns out that the game also provides another way to break the deadlock. As long as you grasp this point, you can pass the entrance exam smoothly.

Fortunately, Detective Wen had already discovered the secret of the book. Not to mention the opening exam that has returned to normal difficulty, even a difficult opening exam is not a problem for her at all!

Xiao Wen curled up the corners of his mouth and made himself happy in his heart.