Chapter 133 The Second Day of the Assessment 4
Lin Chaoyang really didn't need to be curious about Liang Shumo's situation. It was clearly a holographic game, and there was a much more convenient video call option, but the system only allowed them to communicate via text.
Liang Shumo is indeed unable to make video calls right now. He is covered in dirt and blood, and from a distance, one might even mistake him for having a pattern of red roses on his body.
Of the five mission locations, the seaside has the lowest accident rate, since it is just the seaside and not the deep sea. The risk levels increase in the following order: suburbs, city, countryside, and the forest.
According to the game settings, everyone's fifth task is related to their teammates. Others just didn't get matched with Lin Chaoyang and Liang Shumo, but Liang Shumo was different; he didn't even have a chance to reach the fifth task point.
There are too many accidents in the forest, and Liang Shumo himself is a bit unlucky. When he was texting with Lin Chaoyang, he had injuries on his face, body and legs.
Lin Chaoyang was completing his missions smoothly and easily, feeling relaxed and receiving continuous rewards. Liang Shumo's situation, however, was completely different.
After he parted ways with Lin Chaoyang, he arrived at the top of a mountain. Although his sign said it was a forest, his map showed a forest on the mountaintop. The first task wasn't too difficult, as it was placed halfway up the mountain, but the distance to get there was still about 1,500 meters.
Worse still, this activity has a "death penalty." Once someone is judged to be dead, they will be forced to stay in place for 5 minutes and will also have corresponding injury marks on their body. Before Liang Shumo even reached the first task point, he had already "died" twice, plus been injured once.
As Liang Shumo hurried toward the first mission point, various unexpected incidents occurred. He was forced to stay in place for 5 minutes because he stepped on a bear trap, he was forced to stay in place for 5 minutes because he fell into a bear trap hole, and he was dizzy for 1 minute because he was hit by a rabbit running by.
The first task was for a little girl who was going up the mountain to help him pick ten non-poisonous mushrooms.
How could someone who doesn't even eat mushrooms possibly distinguish between poisonous and non-poisonous ones? Although he tried very hard to select ten white mushrooms, he ended up choosing highly poisonous ones.
The second task was to help him collect herbs, but he failed again because he mistakenly picked poisonous herbs.
As for the third mission... from beginning to end, Liang Shumo was trapped in a cycle of "accidents" and "mission failures," without ever getting a chance to catch his breath.
Having grown accustomed to not only receiving no reward for completing tasks but also facing punishment, Liang Shumo's face remained calm as he followed the game rules step by step, without the slightest ripple of emotion.
Suddenly, a screen popped up in front of him, showing a question from his girlfriend: Money or him? If he chose money, would he be sad?
Liang Shumo's heart skipped a beat, but he typed "no" against his will. His fingertips felt cold, and his mind was filled with thoughts of "He wouldn't really choose money, would he?" Even the frustration of failing the mission couldn't suppress the secret sadness he felt.
Unexpectedly, not long after the message was sent, her boyfriend's reply popped up on the screen. She had deliberately answered in two parts to whet his appetite before saying she chose him! In an instant, all the gloom that had been weighing on her heart dissipated, and warmth spread from her heart to every part of her body. She couldn't help but smile.
The calm he had shown when facing failure was completely shattered. When he encountered unexpected events and setbacks in his missions, Liang Shumo always wore a strange smile that he couldn't hide, and even his steps became much lighter.
But by the time he finally stumbled and struggled to reach the fifth mission point, Lin Chaoyang on the other side had already completed the ninth mission and was preparing to head to the second golden mission point. The difference in their progress made his journey seem even longer.
Liang Shumo's fifth task point was in a pavilion. He chose Ruan Heying as his teammate, and the time limit was half an hour (the maximum time). Naturally, he did not hesitate to give up points and choose his teammate.
It has nothing to do with which teammate is on the screen. Points are not important to him, and he would never do anything to harm his teammates.
His only regret was that if he had chosen Lin Chaoyang, he could have chatted with him for a bit. But the game of luck never seemed to work out for him, and he was used to it.
Liang Shumo wore a smile the whole way because she was in love, while Lin Chaoyang did so because he had indeed earned a lot of points.
One is for love, the other for money, yet they're both equally happy.
One player could only hear the sound of points being credited, while the other could only hear the sound of a task failing.
"(*ˉ︶ˉ*) Let me see how you messed up my teammates this time."
Lin Chaoyang swaggered toward the tenth mission point, a faint smile on his lips. His eyes held no concern for his teammates, only curiosity about the new things.
As soon as I arrived at the quest location, a female NPC came up to me. She looked completely different from the NPC at the first golden quest location, but she had the exact same sweet smile that sent chills down my spine. Even her tone of voice was exactly the same: "This player, please randomly select a teammate's name here first."
Lin Chaoyang tapped the screen, and when he saw the result, he couldn't help but scratch his head, his tone revealing obvious disappointment: "Ah? It's Brother Yun." He had been thinking that if he had drawn Liang Shumo, he could have taken out his accumulated points and shown off a bit.
Before he could finish lamenting, the NPC's voice rang out again, pointing to the touchscreen beside him: "Player, please select ten lottery items for your teammates. The rules are four rewards and six penalties."
A list immediately lit up on the screen, with ten reward options neatly arranged in the left column, while the punishment options in the right column were densely packed with thirty.
Lin Chaoyang frowned as he looked at the reward options given by the game system. It was already difficult for the system to come up with ten options, and its reluctance to give rewards was impossible to hide.
The reward options are only two points: one is 10,000 points, which is a very tempting amount, while the other is only 100 points. Compared to the former, it seems like the system is joking.
The remaining rewards were even more outrageous, consisting of cat toys, anti-goose-bite pads, floral water, snake repellent powder, and other things whose uses were completely incomprehensible.
In the end, Lin Chaoyang didn't hesitate much. He first secured the two points, then blindly selected the anti-goose-bite pad and the snake-repellent powder.
As for the six punishments, he chose: 'Like a frog jumping 50 meters', 'Do a handstand for five minutes', 'Do 20 push-ups', 'Stand on one leg for ten minutes', 'Raise your legs in place for three minutes', and 'Pulle half a row of weeds in the vegetable garden in the yard'.
It wasn't so much Lin Chaoyang making the choice, but rather that he selected the punishment methods that most people could carry out from the options provided by the system. The others were:
Spin around 88 times in place quickly
'Run 1000 meters barefoot on a gravel surface'
'Squatting for four hours in a cornfield teeming with mosquitoes, without being allowed to swat them at all'
'Go and provoke ten geese'
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Lin Chaoyang just felt that in his boyfriend's world, humans should be normal, right? He chose the option that was within the range that normal people could tolerate, with a conflicted expression.
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