Four people sat in a row in a treasure house deep underground to hold a meeting.
The big gray badger finally calmed down, but it was impossible for him to maintain his previous image of a cool and handsome guy.
The large gray badger resembles a badger. While the badger's fur is black and brown, with white vertical stripes on its face, its hair is a metallic silver-gray. The needles on its back are like real needles, making it particularly prickly. It appears to be a spirit beast with metal-related abilities.
But the hair on his head is still soft and feels good.
A short, thick nose, small ears, short legs and a short tail that don't fit the body like a corgi. If it were in the past, Mingyou would have been so cute that his heart would be bubbling with cuteness, and he would be thinking about what excuse to use to touch the fluffy little ears of the big gray badger.
But now, Mingyou just wanted to use his not-so-tall body to firmly block the gray badger's burning gaze towards Arthur, and he wished he could turn Arthur into a little black cat and hide him in his arms.
Mingyou had long known that his son, Arthur, was highly respected and admired by many. However, Arthur often appeared to him as a large black cat, with fluffy fur clinging to its thighs. Mingyou would simply hold his face in his hands and yell, "How adorable, how adorable!"
Oh no, the big gray badger left such a bad impression on him this time. Even if Arthur turns into a big black cat again, I will be wary of anyone who approaches him, Mingyou thought to himself.
Arthur watched Mingyou's jealousy for a while, then finally felt kind enough to stroke Mingyou's black curly hair, calming him down and trying to save Mingyou's image. "Don't worry, even if your identity is discovered, it's no big deal. I'm strong."
The boss and Big Badger immediately understood. They said, "Mr. Ming looks weird, like he's too nervous."
Mr. Ming wouldn't really be jealous of a big gray badger that clings to someone's thigh and whimpers, right?
It turned out that Mr. Ming was worried about Prince Arthur's safety. It was natural for Mr. Ming to be concerned about his safety after his identity was revealed in the autonomous star zone. Furthermore, His Royal Highness and Mr. Ming might have other purposes for coming to the autonomous star zone. Having their identities exposed would likely affect their future plans.
The boss and the big gray badger's son looked at each other, and immediately patted their chests to promise to keep the secret, and were willing to directly hand over the authority of their private light computer and accept the surveillance of the already famous little Tianmao.
"Although my son is not talented, he can still be an errand boy." The boss tried to promote his son.
He had been an adventurer in his youth, but elders were always hypocritical towards their juniors. The boss now wanted his son to get a stable job and have enough food and clothing for the rest of his life.
Risky? While the rewards are high, the chances of losing everything are also high. The Star Alliance Spirit Beasts have such great benefits now, why not take advantage of them?
He would stay with His Highness for a while. Even though he knew that His Highness would not keep his son by his side, if his son performed well, His Highness would give a greeting to the civil service exam interviewer, and the whole family could immigrate to the central star area of the Star Alliance, which would be much better than staying in this hellhole of Sky Blue Star.
My son loves adventure and excitement. He could go to the Chaos Star Zone and work as a grassroots cadre helping with poverty alleviation. Right now, the contribution income in the Chaos Star Zone is incredibly high, plus there's additional income from contributions. If he can work there for ten or twenty years, maybe the whole family can buy a house in the Star Alliance's capital.
The boss's calculations were clattering.
Mingyou's words of refusal were on the tip of his tongue, but he swallowed them back.
He really, really didn't want to have an annoying big gray badger following him and Arthur around as a third wheel, but perhaps keeping the big gray badger around would make it less likely that their identities would be exposed.
Or... let's go home. There's nothing much to see on Sky Blue Planet anyway, and if my identity is discovered, I probably won't be able to travel happily any longer.
Arthur sensed Mingyou's frustration and glanced at him helplessly.
Why are you so upset about such a small thing?
"We're here on an important matter," Arthur said slowly. "Boss, you were once a soldier in the Star Alliance. I trust my comrades, so I won't hide it from you. I suspect the Tan family of Sky Blue Star is colluding with the space pirates. They may have benefited from the illegal spirit beast experiments in the Chaos Star Zone."
"Your son is a spirit beast. The illegal experiments on spirit beasts in the Chaos Star Zone specifically target unorganized spirit beasts like adventurers and space pirate hunters. I'm sure you detest this and won't tip them off."
Before Arthur finished speaking, the badger's fur stood up, and each hair stood up like a real needle.
The boss, who looked like a amiable man, also burst out with amazing momentum. Although he was slightly inferior to his son, it was obvious that he possessed considerable strength and combat experience, and his hands were stained with blood.
"The autonomous star zone is reluctant to give up the support given by the Star Alliance, but wants to maintain its status as an independent kingdom, so it will naturally seek more powerful forces. Spirit beasts are human beings, and they have human emotions and reason. They will not become tools in the hands of ambitious people." Arthur was not affected by their momentum at all, and continued to speak slowly, as if what he said was no big deal.
"Originally, other people would be responsible for gathering information on matters like this, but Tan Chenxi was once my subordinate, and since this involves his family, I came here in person to see how he would handle it."
"It would be best if the Tan family didn't get involved in this. If they do, with me involved, things will go much more smoothly," Arthur said. "I can see you're disgusted by illegal spirit beast experiments. I trust you'll keep it a secret."
Arthur blinked and chuckled, "Even if he informed on me, it would be Tan Chenxi who would be in trouble. It wouldn't matter to me. I don't care about the military power of Tianlan Star."
The boss and the big gray badger's son looked at each other, and the expressions on their old faces and fluffy faces were very serious.
As rumored, His Royal Highness Prince Arthur possessed a generous and open-minded disposition, possessing a penetrating eye that could see through people. Even in those he met for the first time, His Royal Highness displayed complete trust, truly a rare hero in interstellar history.
After listening to just a few words from His Royal Highness, they could not help but be captivated by His Royal Highness's demeanor and wanted to swear allegiance to him immediately.
↑The above is the psychological journey of the big gray badger. His father did not think so.↑
The boss was just thinking that since His Royal Highness the Prince was unwilling to bring his son with him, wouldn’t his plan to use the backdoor be hopeless?
If he had known this earlier, he would have persuaded his deceased wife to move to the central star region of the Star Alliance.
What nonsense that the pace of life on Sky Blue Planet is slow, it has a unique primitive planet atmosphere and pastoral scenery, the elders and villagers I have seen since childhood speak nicely, and life here is less stressful, is all bullshit.
If his son was just a useless S-level mutant like himself, he could barely survive here.
But his son is now a spirit beast. He spent most of his life accumulating wealth on Sky Blue Star, but couldn't even buy his son a bag of handmade cookies.
Handmade cookies have to be exchanged for contribution points, and he only has money.
Now he's hearing about those ambitious people in the autonomous star zone who, despite being incapable, still want to persecute spirit beasts? His son is fighting alone, with no support behind him. What if he's knocked unconscious and locked up for illegal experiments?
Not all spirit beasts are lucky enough to wait for Mr. Ming to rescue them. Although all the spirit beasts involved in this wave of illegal experiments were rescued, who knows how many spirit beast experiments have been conducted in the Chaos Star Region, and how many spirit beasts who were thought to have died in adventures or battles actually died on the experimental benches?
When the boss thought of his son, he couldn't help but suffer from paranoia.
No, his ancestors had done good deeds and he actually met His Royal Highness the Prince and Mr. Ming. He had to send his son away no matter what.
"This matter concerns all spirit beasts. Your Highness, is there anything we can do to help?" the boss said hurriedly. "I have some influence on Sky Blue Star and can gather information for you."
Prince Arthur thought for a moment and said, "I'll have Tan Chenxi contact you. You go and help him. I'm only here to accept Tan Chenxi's invitation and supervise him to investigate the Tan family's affairs impartially."
The boss immediately agreed respectfully.
Mingyou was bewildered. What was Dahei talking about? What about illegal experiments and impartiality? Aren't we here for a (crossed out) honeymoon (crossed out)?
Mingyou was still confused when he followed Arthur out of the store.
Fortunately, he always looked dazed when he was quiet, so the boss and his son didn't notice anything wrong.
After Arthur passed the blame to Tan Chenxi, he took Mingyou away leisurely and continued shopping.
Tan Chenxi was overwhelmed when he received Arthur's news. He didn't care about putting the blame on the Tan family. Since it was a "finding" matter, it would be enough to find out whether it happened in the end.
As for the reputation of the Tan family, they can forget about it when they are harming his mother and brother.
But could His Highness not try to stir up trouble for him without making a sound? This is really a test of his acting skills, okay?
Acting in front of spirit beasts, is this a new spirit beast combat training course?
He thought again of the red alpaca that was courting him every day.
Red Alpaca said that he impersonated Tan Changgeng to protect his safety and was therefore playing along with the Tan family. He also revealed that he knew Mingyou was Tan Changgeng and was willing to keep it a secret.
That wasn't the point. Tan Chenxi wasn't worried about it at all. He could immediately help the fake Tan Changgeng open a livestream and have him "reveal Mingyou's true identity" in front of all the Star Alliance netizens. If there was even the slightest negative impact on Xiaoyou, Tan Chenxi would shave all his hair and give it to his Tibetan fox roommate for shelter.
What Tan Chenxi was worried about was that this guy seemed to have... well, not seemed to have, but he really did have some improper thoughts about Xiaoyou.
He didn't talk about any ethical relationships like half-brothers, but Xiaoyou would never fall for that red alpaca anyway.
He was just afraid that if His Highness knew about this, would he have a bad impression of Xiaoyou? Would he think that Xiaoyou and the red alpaca were really having an affair?
Tan Chenxi has now received news about his brother's love life progress.
His brother said that he and His Highness were indeed in love with each other, but His Highness was very angry because he strangely skipped the whole process of confession, love proposal, engagement, marriage certificate, and wedding, and jumped directly to the idea of going on a honeymoon. He is now trying to make amends.
After receiving the news, Tan Chenxi turned into an alpaca, locked himself in a big closet, and sat there for the whole night.
Xiaoyou, you are really awesome.
Tan Chenxi had never been in a relationship, so she could only look through romance novels to find a solution when Mingyou asked for help.
In romance novels, the male protagonist with a high status always misunderstands the female protagonist with a low status (?) because of various trivial matters. For example, if someone who looks like an ex-boyfriend appears, they will shake their heads and say "I don't want to listen", and then start all kinds of misunderstandings, bloody and abusive love affairs with the female protagonist.
(At this point, his roommate, who was reading a romance novel with him on the holographic website, was complaining: "Are you sure? Why do I see the heroine refusing to trust the hero because of a slight misunderstanding, and then saying, "I don't want to listen, I don't want to listen," leading to all kinds of misunderstandings and melodrama?)
Tan Chenxi was so scared that his white curly hair almost turned into white straight hair.
This self-conceited red alpaca is simply a time bomb. We can't let him interfere with Xiaoyou's already... forget it, let's just let him interfere with His Highness's already difficult emotional journey.
Your Highness, I'm sorry that you have to have a lover like Xiaoyou who has a weird way of thinking. It's hard for you.
Brother Tan Chenxi feels very guilty.
I hope Your Highness can keep Xiaoyou under control and not let him out to cause harm to others. Xiaoyou's brain doesn't allow him to fall in love. Only someone as magnanimous as Your Highness can tolerate Xiaoyou's shortcomings.
If it were him, he would not be able to tolerate Xiaoyou's shortcoming of having his eyes light up and being unable to walk when he saw a spirit beast.
God, I don’t know where you are and what’s the use of you. Please bless the alpaca non-believer who doesn’t really believe in you and is just trying desperately to find a cure, so that Xiaoyou’s relationship can go smoothly.
Tan Chenxi's fluffy alpaca face is full of the vicissitudes of life.
…
"Dahei, the Tan family's is really..." After visiting two stores, Mingyou finally came back to his senses from the shock.
Arthur looked at Mingyou as if he was looking at a stupid dog.
Could your reflexes be any slower? Do you bang your little toe on the corner of a cabinet and it takes a year for you to scream?
"What do you think?" Arthur said unhappily.
Mingyou thought about it carefully and shook his head: "Definitely not, others don't think highly of it."
The Tan family is only powerful in their own territory on Sky Blue Star. In the eyes of outsiders, they have no money and no strength. Even if they really have ambitions, no one will play with them.
What's more, after the Red Alpaca brothers entered the Tan family, the Tan family has been engaged in internal strife, so they don't have time to participate in such a big conspiracy.
Well, although this conspiracy was broken up in seconds by him and his spirit beast partners, it is indeed one of the biggest conspiracies in the history of the Star Alliance, and it is still quite impressive.
"You're not stupid anymore now," Arthur said. "But the Tan family does have connections with pirates. Pirates are rampant in the autonomous star zone, so there are naturally many thugs."
Mingyou looked up at the not-so-blue sky of Tianlan Star and said calmly, "Oh."
Oh... could you come up with some other more reliable response? This makes me want to give you a shot, I don't know how to respond.
"Big Brother will take care of it. Let's just leave it alone." Mingyou withdrew his gaze from the sky and took Arthur's hand. "Let's continue shopping. Why are you daydreaming?"
Arthur: ?????
I... no, who is daydreaming?!
The big black cat's tail in Arthur's mind was swinging like a propeller, and he wanted to give Mingyou two tails immediately.
Arthur was dragged around by Mingyou until the auction started in the evening. Arthur felt his legs were almost tired and painful.
Of course, this was just an illusion. Arthur, having experienced intense combat, wouldn't have had this much physical strength. He was simply mentally exhausted.
The fatigue from accompanying others shopping has nothing to do with physical strength.
"If you're too tired, how about turning into a little black cat and lying on my head?" Mingyou pointed at his black curly hair and said, "The auction will have a separate private room, and the sales will be conducted via the holographic network, so they won't be able to see our true appearance."
"I know it without you telling me," Arthur said unhappily. "I was the one who introduced it to you."
Mingyou stretched out his hands to Arthur: "Come, come, let me hold you."
Arthur sneered, reached out and picked up Mingyou lazily and put him on his lap.
Mingyou was stunned.
Seconds later, his face flushed crimson. His heart energy surged from pale blue to pink, then exploded outward like a supernova.
Fortunately, Arthur acted quickly and used his special ability to block Mingyou's mental power fluctuations, otherwise all the spirit beasts in the auction house would have known that Mingyou was coming.
Arthur was glad that he had informed Herman in advance about the room modification, otherwise he and Mingyou would never have privacy in the future.
"Put away your heart power," said Arthur.
Mingyou grunted as he gathered his mental strength, like pulling back a rope, which made Arthur almost laugh out loud.
He had to work hard to keep a stern face, so as not to give Mingyou a little sunshine, otherwise this stupid You would be so bright that he wanted to fly to the sky.
Mingyou came to his senses and felt a little helpless in Arthur's arms.
Although in the past, not to mention the big black cat, he had hugged, kissed, and even accidentally kicked off the bed with the human-shaped Arthur (ahem), but now that their relationship is clear, he is still shy about this kind of ambiguous posture.
Mingyou was shy and at a loss as he pressed himself against Arthur's warm chest and rested his head on Arthur's neck.
Hehehe, hehehe, rippling.
Arthur finally couldn't help himself and was amused by Mingyou.
Mingyou's shameless and unpretentious personality is really a contrast to his previous self... well, there is no contrast.
After all, Mingyou is a god who can continue to calmly stroke the fur of the spirit beast even after learning that the spirit beast is a human.
"Stop rubbing it, it's going to make me angry. Do you want to help me solve it here?" Arthur said something with a hint of meaning.
Mingyou huddled shyly in Arthur's arms: "If you want, I can try."
Arthur: "...No, I don't want to, and neither do you. This is a public place, please respect yourself."
This idiot, You, is really messing with my mentality. What's in your head? Yellow garbage?
Mingyou: Most of the people in the 2D world are old perverts. If you don’t believe me, ask them to swear in front of their husbands or wives on their phones!
Who wouldn't be happy with such a perfect and handsome lover?
Mingyou asked worriedly, "Arthur, are you still angry with me?"
Arthur: "...It has nothing to do with being angry or not. I just want you to be more serious. And you haven't confessed yet."
Mingyou immediately sat up straight in Arthur's arms.
Oh yes, I forgot to confess again.
If I want to sleep with her without confessing, wouldn't I be a scumbag who cheats on her? This won't do!
Mingyou finally turns his attention back to the auction. His romantic confession depends on this auction!
If there are no good items at this auction, he can only ask the system for help to see if the system can package the spirit beast props to look more romantic so that he can coax his big black cat.
After the auction begins, guests participating in the auction can enter the holographic conference hall to directly experience the lively atmosphere of the auction hall; they can also sit in the real private room and turn on the holographic projection to let the auctioneer introduce the products on the big screen in front of them.
Mingyou wanted to enjoy the feeling of being held in Arthur's arms, so he naturally stayed in the private room and did not go to the holographic auction venue to join in the fun.
When he bought things for the spirit beasts at home, he had already made enough fun.
Especially some auctions in the dark market, which are like gatherings of demons and Taoist monks in novels. They have to wear black cloaks and speak secret codes. The mysterious atmosphere is particularly exciting.
Mingyou likes auctions that are full of mystery the most.
This lacks a certain flavor compared to the formal auction venue sitting in the stadium.
"Their equipment is quite advanced. The five senses and energy fluctuations of the auction items are simulated very realistically." Arthur stopped Mingyou with one hand and flipped through the auction item menu on the screen with the other.
The process of all formal auctions is similar. The more precious the item, the further back it will be listed.
Arthur didn't care about the little things in front of him. He wanted to see what rare items would be available at the Sky Blue Star auction.
When he saw that there were spiritual beast wool fabrics among the treasures at the Sky Blue Star auction, he felt very complicated and glared at Mingyou in his arms.
Mingyou was full of questions: "What's wrong?"
Arthur sighed, not wanting to answer.
For a while, Mingyou was obsessed with teaching the spirit beasts how to make various woolen products from their fur during live broadcasts. Now, the spirit beasts are actually using their fur as a renewable resource.
Giving them to friends and family is fine, but some spiritual beasts are actually selling woolen textiles made from the hair they pluck from their bodies? Where's the prestige of spiritual beasts? Do you still remember your identities as the most powerful psychics? Don't you care about your dignity anymore?
As a fellow spirit beast, Arthur felt ashamed.
"That little doll is quite cute." Mingyou also noticed the spirit animal wool textiles and said with a smile, "How about buying it for Gungun as a teething toy?"
"Don't you have enough dolls at home?" Arthur pinched Mingyou's face. "How much of our fur have you plucked to make a nest, clothes, and toys for GunGun?"
"The more toys our Gungun has, the better." Mingyou said, covering his cheek. "Different spirit beasts emit different energies from their fur. The more different kinds of supernatural powers Gungun is exposed to, the better it will be for him to develop his own."
Arthur was puzzled: "Really?" If it was true, he could buy some wool products made from spiritual beasts.
"Really, but we already have enough woolen items made from spirit beasts," Mingyou said. "I just think it's cute."
"Buy it." Arthur sighed.
Mingyou said happily: "I'll just give you a price. If the price is too high, I won't bid."
Arthur nodded. He knew that although Mingyou was extravagant when buying things for them, he would not be taken advantage of. In Mingyou's heart, there was a scale that knew the value of various things.
It’s just that the value in Mingyou’s mind may be different from the market price.
Maomao is not short of spiritual beasts at home, so Mingyou definitely won’t be willing to spend too much money to buy one.
Apart from the spiritual beast wool textiles that surprised them a little, there were not many good things at this auction.
Based on the hobbies of the spiritual beast at home, Mingyou circled out some local treasures of Tianlan Star, such as handicrafts, calligraphy and paintings, musical instruments, etc., and then he didn't know what to buy.
Spirit beasts from across the Star Alliance were scavenging for valuables, sending them to the Alliance in exchange for Contribution Points. These treasures would all pass through Mingyou's hands. His standards were set too high, and he completely disdained the so-called treasures of a small place like Sky Blue Star.
"They actually still believe in IQ taxes?!" Mingyou was shocked when he saw the IQ tax he had explained many times in his live broadcasts, "Superpower Breakthrough Water." "Don't they have compulsory education?"
"It's a bit of a waste of money, but this thing is so rare that there are always people who want to try it," Arthur said. "The Covenant has such a large population, and proportionally, there are quite a few people who are anti-science. No matter how hard you try to educate them, they'll think you want to keep it for yourself. Stay calm, we just won't buy it."
"But this can kill people if drunk." Mingyou said worriedly.
"We have no control over Sky Blue Star. If you want to control it, you have to wait until Sky Blue Star's autonomy is revoked." Arthur said.
Mingyou sighed. What he meant was that they couldn't manage all of the Star Alliance's central star region. Even though this was his hometown, there was really no way they could manage it.
I just hope that the only people who buy this supernatural breakthrough water are the elderly. When they buy it back and give it to young people to drink, the young people will pour it away directly.
"Arthur, is there anything you like?" Mingyou asked with a glimmer of hope. He really couldn't pick a gift.
Arthur saw through Mingyou's thoughts and sneered, "I choose the gift and you pay? Are you so lazy?"
Mingyou shook his head vigorously: "No, no, no, this is separate from the gift I gave you." He just wanted to see what Arthur liked and buy something similar.
Arthur glanced at the auction catalog again and said, "This old mecha is quite interesting."
A lightbulb lit up above Mingyou's head. "You like old weapon models?"
"I don't like models," said Arthur.
Mingyou hurriedly asked, "I mean, do you like collecting old weapons as models?"
"I don't like it," Arthur continued. "It's just that this mecha has a certain origin. It should be the same as the Zerg battleship that Big Badger found. It flew into a wormhole during the war against the Zerg and drifted to other places."
Mingyou was puzzled. "But it's an old mecha. It was used during the war against the Zerg. We're still using it now. It hasn't been upgraded yet."
Arthur was silent for a moment, then said, "There are spirit beasts that bring their own mechas to the battlefield. Some of these spirit beasts are older and have long since left the battlefield, without having updated their equipment. They are stationed on the periphery of the battlefield, supporting and rescuing the regular troops."
Mingyou hugged Arthur's head and patted it. "Dahei, why do all the things you want have to do with the Star Alliance and war? This won't work. You need to develop some other hobbies. What did you like before the war?"
Arthur felt the soothing effect of Mingyou's inner power and said, "Does liking novels count?"
"Well, this hobby is really cheap." Mingyou sighed, "Do you have any more extravagant hobbies?"
Arthur said, "Spend money in the game to climb the leaderboard."
Mingyou: "...I can go with you on this one."
Arthur laughed. "That was a hobby from long ago. Now I'm more interested in making games, spreading knowledge about spirit beasts while earning money from others. What are your hobbies? Besides spirit beasts, do you have any other hobbies? Doesn't your life revolve around spirit beasts?"
Mingyou thought about it carefully and said, "Actually, I do. In my previous life...in my previous life, my uncles who raised me after my parents passed away were game developers. I liked to pretend to be an intelligent NPC in their games, giving players a bunch of tedious tasks and then only giving them one game coin."
Arthur: "...What's your bad taste?"
Mingyou smiled sheepishly: "This is actually the hobby of one of my uncles. I just play with him occasionally. After playing it for a while, I also think it's quite interesting."
Arthur held his forehead with one hand. "The uncle who raised you... is it really okay to teach a child bad things like this?" But...
"Raising you? Aren't those your adoptive fathers? Why do you call them uncles?" Arthur asked. "Your adoptive fathers are the two people in the research institute in your mind's dream, right? The dog planner and the one stepping on the sword?"
Mingyou's eyes turned sad, which was unusual for him. Even when he first met Arthur, he would not show his sadness so openly.
"Well, I just don't want them to have an adopted son who only lived for less than three years." He hadn't shown such a vulnerable expression in front of Arthur in a long time. "I don't want to integrate into their family. I don't want their beautiful family to be sad because of me."
"I can't stand it either. I don't even want to think about it."
Mingyou lowered his head and looked at his hands.
But opening Red Dog Paradise just for him, working overtime to modify the program and suspending global service for a day so that he could sleep in his favorite elf world... he was just deceiving himself.
Those who stayed behind would be sad too.
He knew the fear of approaching death, the fear of being abandoned by deceased loved ones, and the fear of the grief of loved ones who were afraid of being abandoned by him when he was about to die.
Arthur knew it, too.
"Don't think about it." Arthur didn't expect that a mere auction would actually touch upon Mingyou's heartbreak. He hurriedly said, "Don't you like pretending to be an NPC? After the Spirit Beast World public beta, how about we all become NPCs in the game together? We'll give players a series of tedious tasks, and then just give them one in-game coin."
Mingyou forced a smile and said, "Okay. We will have more hobbies in the future."
"Of course." Arthur ruffled Mingyou's hair. "At least I never thought before that I would make swatting you away with my claws a hobby."
Mingyou: "...You can actually have a different hobby."
The two looked at each other and laughed.
In fact, they have changed a lot and have many happy "hobbies", right?
Sad or fearful things have passed, and life cannot be without regrets. They can only grasp the present.
"I suddenly found that roller quite interesting." Arthur pointed to an artifact in the auction list.
"This isn't a roller, it's a windmill," Mingyou said generously. "Buy it, buy it, modify it, and use it as a roller for you. Oh, and the big black cat has a roller, so the little black cat should have one too. I'll go home and make you a room full of little black cat toys, okay?"
"Would I say no?" Arthur snorted.
Mingyou laughed: "Arthur, don't be so arrogant at this time...Ahhhh, don't pull my face."
After the auction, Arthur bought several artifacts as cat toys.
Mingyou still couldn't choose a satisfactory gift.
But he finally knew what gift to buy for Arthur.
Mingyou decided to tell Arthur his true past as a gift.
Although he couldn't confess everything about the system, he could tell Arthur about his past life.
When Mingyou first met Arthur, he didn't hide it intentionally. He just confused the real world with the game world.
In his mind, "Elf World" is his real world, and the elves are real creatures.
Compared to the pain and struggle in the real world, life in the world where the elves live is the real life in his consciousness.
At that time, he thought that Arthur and the others were just spirit beasts like the elves, so naturally what he talked about were all his past experiences in the elf world.
Later, Mingyou learned the true identities of Arthur and the others, and he was reluctant to confess.
The Elf World is just a game. I used to be just a weakling addicted to the Internet. I was not a famous genius spirit beast master on some planet at all.
How could I possibly say such a thing?
Arthur repeatedly told Mingyou that everyone deserves privacy and doesn't need to be candid just for the sake of being candid. Keeping a few secrets makes you feel more secure. Even the closest people deserve their own space.
But now, Mingyou doesn't want to have his own independent space.
He wanted to confess everything about himself.
He also believed that after confessing, Arthur would not leave him.
He had the confidence. His bond with Arthur was real, and the knowledge he now possessed was also real. He was no longer useless.
After returning to the hotel, seeing Mingyou with a serious face, Arthur knew that this guy had some important news to tell him.
Arthur held his forehead. "Let me prepare myself first. Let me take a few deep breaths."
Mingyou's nerves, which had just jumped up with great difficulty, were suddenly broken: "Hey, hey, hey, don't ruin the atmosphere. I want to tell you something very important. This is my confession gift to you!"
Arthur was suspicious: "You want to tell me something as a confession gift, are you sure?"
Mingyou reconnected his nerves and nodded seriously: "Yes, I will give you my biggest secret as a gift."
Arthur: "Your educational computer thing?"
Mingyou shook his head vigorously: "I can't tell you this. Even though you've guessed it almost right, I still have to keep it a secret."
Arthur: "..." If he were Mingyou's educational computer, he would have wanted to beat Mingyou up. Is there any difference between keeping it secret and not keeping it secret?
Arthur sighed. "Tell me. I wonder what secret you could possibly use as a confession gift."
Mingyou said.
Arthur listened.
Mingyou was very nervous.
Arthur made a face that said, "That's it."
Mingyou was bewildered: "Why don't you react at all?"
Arthur said contemptuously, "I guessed it long ago."
Mingyou was even more confused: "Huh?"
Arthur sighed. "There are many inconsistencies in what you've said about the past. When I enter your mind's illusion, all the inconsistencies are resolved. That illness you've been talking about happened in reality; and that adventure with the elves, I guess, happened in the holographic game?"
Mingyou: "...You guessed it a long time ago?"
Arthur nodded. "Although it's quite bizarre, I'm not too surprised. Perhaps that game was deliberately created by someone with an educational computer to promote elf science? Even if not, it's not uncommon for the real world and literary works to collide. Quantum entanglement in parallel worlds, causing people in another world to have a flash of inspiration, is a common research topic."
Mingyou: "...The science of the interstellar world is really amazing."
Arthur: "What else?"
Mingyou: "What else?"
Arthur sneered: "Didn't you say you would tell me a big secret as a confession gift?"
Mingyou was embarrassed: "This is my biggest secret."
Arthur: "That's it?"
Mingyou: "That's it."
Arthur turned into a big black cat, licking his paws and saying, "Oh. The confession gift is rejected. Please keep thinking."
Mingyou QAQ! ! ! ! !
Death!
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