Chapter 6 The Infinite Boss Invites You to "Eat Melon" 6. I see Lu...

Lu Yu felt that this Tuesday was the unluckiest day of his life.

Everything was fine at first.

He had a peaceful day at work, left the company on time, drove to the Crown Hotel, stopped on the way, and bought a clean and beautiful bouquet of flowers.

If all goes well, he will arrive at the hotel entrance at 6:27, pick up Pei Yanzhi, present her with flowers, and then they will go to a nearby shopping mall for dinner and a movie together.

But then, an unexpected incident occurred.

First, his car broke down on the street not far from the flower shop. It suddenly stalled and he couldn't start it no matter what he did.

He suspected that the car had been sitting unused for too long and had developed a problem, but he couldn't see anything wrong with it. So he pulled over to the side of the road, put up a warning sign, and contacted his insurance company for roadside assistance.

While waiting for the rescue, Lu Yu realized he wouldn't be able to arrive on time, so he sent Pei Yanzhi a message to apologize.

Pei Yanzhi didn't blame him. He first inquired about the specific situation and learned that Lu Yu had already dealt with it. He then said that if Lu Yu still wanted to go on a date, they could meet at the mall, where there were restaurants and cinemas. If he didn't want to, they could reschedule for another day.

Lu Yu was surprised that Pei Yanzhi was still willing to continue dating him even though he had almost stood him up. He immediately stopped feeling annoyed and took a taxi straight to the mall.

However, the journey didn't end there.

The mall has four entrances, none of which he'd been to before, and the driver didn't know either, dropping him off at the entrance furthest from the restaurant. He followed the navigation to get in, but it was already quite late.

As he approached the restaurant, two more mischievous kids came running towards him, chasing and playing, each throwing an ice cream cone all over his clothes.

Therefore, when Lu Yu finally appeared in front of Pei Yanzhi, he was completely different from the peacock that had displayed its tail feathers that morning—his carefully styled hair was now messy, his suit jacket was missing, his trousers had a few wet stains, and the flowers he had just bought were also slightly disheveled.

Lu Yu walked to the dining table: "I'm sorry, I..."

“It’s alright, everyone encounters unexpected events.” Pei Yanzhi interrupted his apology.

Lu Yu raised his eyes and looked at Pei Yanzhi through his glasses.

Pei Yanzhi stared intently at him. After a moment, his expression stiffened, and the corners of his mouth slowly curled up uncontrollably: "Pfft, hahahahaha!"

He couldn't help but burst into laughter.

He had learned about the series of accidents Lu Yu had been sending him through the messages; it was all too dramatic.

Lu Yu lowered his eyes. For some reason, his originally awkward and depressed mood suddenly eased when Pei Yanzhi smiled. He tried to hold back, but couldn't help but laugh along.

While laughing, he reached out and pressed down on the chair that had become unstable because Pei Yanzhi was leaning against him, to prevent Pei Yanzhi from accidentally falling over: "Be careful."

Pei Yanzhi raised a truly beautiful hand, which clung to his arm as he pressed against the back of the chair like a jade vine. He stopped smiling, turned his head to look at him, and said half-jokingly, "Do you understand now? Even God doesn't support you dating me."

Lu Yu's muscles tensed.

A strange body temperature came from my arm. Compared to my own, it was slightly cool, but I still felt like I had been suddenly burned. Even my usually dull nerves couldn't help but throb and itch.

Lu Yu wanted to pull his hand away, but worried that it would be awkward, so he remained still and raised his other hand to pour a cup of hot water, which he pushed in front of Pei Yanzhi: "Maybe God is very supportive of my date with you, but just feels that I am boring and wants to add some fun to make you happy."

Pei Yanzhi raised an eyebrow in surprise upon hearing this, and chuckled softly: "I think Mr. Lu has a good way of making people happy. How could he be boring?"

"I'm not very good at talking, as long as you're happy..." After delivering that unexpected line, Lu Yu lost his spark again.

Pei Yanzhi laughed again.

He withdrew his fingers from Lu Yu's stiff arm, then pushed the menu over, no longer teasing him: "It's getting late, we're going to see a movie later, let's eat first. I've already ordered what I want, take a look at what you like and add it."

Lu Yu didn't want to mess up the rest of the arrangements.

He carefully added two dishes that were unlikely to go wrong, and waited for the food and ate with a little trepidation. During this time, Pei Yanzhi asked him about his paranoia. Lu Yu didn't know how to explain, so he said it was nothing and brushed it off.

Forty minutes later, the two finished their meal. Lu Yu paid the bill, and Pei Yanzhi ordered fruit tea. They arrived at the cinema on the fifth floor ten minutes before the movie started.

After walking all the way, Lu Yu finally breathed a sigh of relief and felt much more at ease when he stood in front of the ticket machine and received the two tickets that were successfully dispensed.

Fortunately, nothing else went wrong.

"Are you relieved now?" Pei Yanzhi said with a smile when he saw his expression.

Lu Yu paused for a moment: "Am I... obviously nervous?"

Pei Yanzhi smiled and shook his head, saying, "No, it's just that I was more concerned about you. I was so worried earlier that I didn't even eat properly, right? How about I treat you to a late-night snack later?"

Lu Yu was a little stunned by Pei Yanzhi's mention of "following" and responded in a low voice before realizing that he had gained another date opportunity.

He felt a surge of excitement and was about to say something when he saw Pei Yanzhi's smile freeze, and he suddenly turned his head to look in the direction of the ticket gate.

Lu Yu subconsciously followed his gaze and saw four good-looking people coming out of the exit next to the ticket gate, probably having just finished watching a movie.

Lu Yu didn't know why Pei Yanzhi was looking at these four people, but these four people were indeed a bit strange.

There were two men and two women. The man with a roguish appearance walked in the middle, holding the hand of a handsome boy with his left hand and embracing a woman with a cold and aloof demeanor with his right. Behind them was a younger girl in a white dress who occasionally cast a resentful glance at him.

Lu Yu: "...System, I want to eat this melon."

The "Gossip System" remained silent, only displaying the following text: "[This system is limited by the host's cognitive abilities...]"

While Lu Yu and Pei Yanzhi were looking at the strange group of four, the other four had already noticed the two people in front of the ticket machine.

Or to be more precise, it was their attention to Pei Yanzhi and Lu Yu that first alerted Pei Yanzhi to look back.

"Hey, Brother Pei!"

The roguish man feigned surprise at having just seen someone, his narrowed eyes subtly sweeping over Lu Yu, focusing particularly on the back of his right hand.

It's clean and tidy, without the black smiley face tattoo that's only visible to players, so it seems to be not a player, but a dungeon NPC.

Is this Pei Yanzhi's friend?

Seeing the other person's warm smile, Lu Yu was surprised.

But the next moment, he saw Pei Yanzhi smiling and responding with the same enthusiasm: "Hey, you bastard Ji, you're still alive?"

A person as delicate as a midnight orchid, yet spews thorns sharper than roses.

Oh, not friends, but enemies.

Lu Yu understood.

He took a half-step forward silently, so as to protect Pei Yanzhi in the event of a conflict.

Upon hearing this, Ji Chengchuan's smile faded, and his face turned cold.

The girl in the white dress following behind him immediately said, "Pei Yanzhi! The captain calls you 'brother' out of respect for a senior. Don't be ungrateful!"

"You think I'm being ungrateful?" Pei Yanzhi chuckled. "Ask your captain who was so scared when he saw me on the street that he almost peed his pants three times. I already gave him face by leaving him with all four limbs intact. Don't be so ungrateful."

The girl in the white dress glared angrily: "You!"

Pei Yanzhi interrupted her: "Oh right, what brings you here? Is there something good, or is there good news?"

Seeing his interested expression, the girl in the white dress stopped abruptly from uttering the insults she was about to unleash.

She wanted to catch Ji Chengchuan's eye and rise to power, but she wasn't stupid. They were here on important business: to find and subdue an S-rank artifact crucial for locking down an SSS-rank dungeon boss. They couldn't let a madman like Pei Yanzhi get involved. If Pei Yanzhi really decided to snatch it on a whim, they probably wouldn't be able to defeat him.

"It seems there really is good news." Pei Yanzhi drew his conclusion from the four people's reactions.

The girl in the white dress was taken aback and looked at Ji Chengchuan, but only received a cold glance from him.

Ji Chengchuan didn't respond to that, but instead smiled again and turned his gaze to Lu Yu beside him: "Brother Pei, aren't you going to introduce this gentleman?"

“Your father,” Pei Yanzhi said succinctly.

Lu Yu almost burst out laughing.

Ji Chengchuan was no ordinary man; even in this state, he could still smile and say, "Brother Pei, you're joking. Speaking of which, I rarely see you getting close to these people. Is there some special reason this time? Is he your mission target?"

In order not to reveal the players' identities, he used these people to refer to NPCs.

“That’s right,” Pei Yanzhi said with an extremely serious expression. “He is my mission target, and also your mission target. Do you want to join me on this mission? We’re about to go in to watch a movie, ‘33 Days to Say I Love You.’ Do you like watching it?”

Ji Chengchuan saw the movie ticket in Lu Yu's hand, his face twitched slightly, and his original 80% suspicion had dropped to 40% or 50%.

The SSS-level dungeon boss is indeed extremely important, but no matter how important it is, it's impossible for someone like Pei Yanzhi to risk her life to use her beauty to test the waters.

Compared to the Boss, the probability that this was Pei Yanzhi's casual NPC bed partner, whom he indulged in before his death, was actually higher, Ji Chengchuan thought to himself.

Of course, he did not completely dispel his doubts, and he was still afraid that Pei Yanzhi was putting on an empty city ruse, which was not impossible.

Ji Chengchuan said, "Brother Pei, stop joking..."

“I’m not kidding,” Pei Yanzhi’s face suddenly darkened, as cold as ice and snow, sharp and intimidating. “If you don’t believe me, then get lost.”

Ji Chengchuan's smile froze.

The two stared at each other intently.

A moment later, Ji Chengchuan took a step back first, and said with a forced smile, "Everything will officially begin the day after tomorrow. We have plenty of time to compete, Brother Pei."

The day after tomorrow is the day when the official storyline of the SSS-level dungeon begins.

Pei Yanzhi said, "You think you're worthy?"

Ji Chengchuan didn't say anything more, just smirked and turned to leave with his men.

Seeing this, Lu Yu thought they were about to have a fierce brawl, and he was secretly dialing the police while rolling up his shirt sleeves. But when he looked up, the enemy had fled without a fight.

He looked at Pei Yanzhi, somewhat bewildered, only to see that Pei Yanzhi was neither smiling nor maintaining his cold expression, but instead lowered his eyes apologetically and said, "Sorry, I ran into that bastard and lost my composure."

"Could I have a minute? I need to adjust..."

“It’s alright,” Lu Yu shook his head and asked, “Do you two have some kind of grudge?”

Pei Yanzhi paused, then raised his eyes.

He thought Lu Yu's first words would be, "What mission? What target? Are you talking about me? You're approaching me, is there an ulterior motive?"

Pei Yanzhi opened his mouth and chose to say only what he could: "My friend's death is related to him, but we can't catch him right now."

Pei Yanzhi had always felt that Ji Chengchuan was an eerie person.

Ji Chengchuan's special ability wasn't charm-related, and he was just average-looking, but somehow he bewitched countless players, both male and female, who desperately wanted to cling to him and serve him like slaves.

However, some people were not interested in Ji Chengchuan. Bai Lan, the friend Pei Yanzhi mentioned, was one of them.

Bai Lan has no interest in Ji Chengchuan.

However, Ji Chengchuan's suitors couldn't resist the fact that Bai Lan was interested in him.

In one S-rank dungeon, Ji Chengchuan only mentioned Bai Lan a few times, and Bai Lan was poisoned and killed by his suitors.

Interestingly, after Bai Lan's death, the points were transferred to Ji Chengchuan. With these extra points, Ji Chengchuan climbed into the top ten of the leaderboard and gained a chance to avoid death in a dungeon given by Smile Game.

Pei Yanzhi did not believe that Ji Chengchuan's repeated mentions of "Bai Lan" were truly unintentional.

He wanted to interrogate Ji Chengchuan, but Ji Chengchuan's guild, Lu Sha, tried its best to stop him and protect Ji Chengchuan. In this regard, they even attacked Pei Yanzhi's relatives on Jinshui Star and threw one of Pei Yanzhi's little nieces' hands.

They looked down on ordinary people and players, and didn't take Pei Yanzhi, who was at the bottom of the leaderboard at the time, seriously. They claimed that if Pei Yanzhi continued to make trouble, the next time it would be more than just a hand.

That day, Pei Yanzhi stormed into the Slaughter Guild.

A huge guild was wiped out, but Ji Chengchuan was the only one who escaped.

Afterwards, seven of the ten major guilds jointly signed a petition to protect him. In addition, Pei Yanzhi himself had problems at the time and discovered some secrets, so the matter had to be temporarily put on hold.

But both Pei Yanzhi and Ji Chengchuan knew in their hearts that one of them would die sooner or later.

Lu Yu frowned deeply upon hearing the words of such an outlaw.

"Is there no evidence, or is it not directly related to him?" he asked.

Pei Yanzhi said, "More or less. Don't worry, we'll find a way later."

Lu Yu knew that Pei Yanzhi didn't want to talk about this anymore, and he didn't insist. He simply said, "If you need any help, be sure to contact me. I work out every week, I learned Sanda and Tai Chi sword when I was a child, and I'm also proficient in computers and marketing. I have the contact information for more than a dozen online marketing studios."

Whether it's physical or psychological damage, they can take care of it all. Lu Yu thought viciously.

Pei Yanzhi's eyes flickered, and he finally saw Lu Yu roll up the sleeves of his shirt that he hadn't yet put down.

He paused for a moment, then a soft smile slowly spread across his amber eyes: "Okay."

He looked at Lu Yu and said, "Mr. Lu is so capable, I will definitely come to you if I need anything, but that's for the future. Now, if we don't go in, our movie will be late."

Lu Yu was taken aback and hurriedly checked his watch.

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