Chapter 6: Too Smart is Not Good
Before you know it, you've already spent eight hours in the game.
The system interface was quietly suspended in the air, with the real time displayed in the lower right corner: 17:47.
You actually wasted so much time in this 3D game?! You took a look at the resurrection point room that was just decorated in a Chinese-style mixed with Western fantasy modern style, sat down on the blue slime lazy sofa with a heavy face, and put on a thinking posture like Ding○tang, and came to a conclusion:
This must be because Zu○’s music is so beautiful!
Although I don’t know why the collection game also gives players a resurrection point, this game has already set it up for monsters and professions, so having more resurrection points is nothing...
Moreover, how can this huge Honmaru not be considered as the player's home system? !
Wow, if there is such a big house with mountains and water in real life, you don’t know how much it would be…
Heart trembles.
In Mihua, it is still reassuring to live alone in a small apartment.
Then again, are the NPCs in this game too smart?
The NPCs all know why you have to go to 5-1, but they have no complaints. Instead, they say goodbye to you happily every time before you leave. Even if they are injured, they will come to comfort you and say that you will definitely be able to pass the level next time...
It's like they are real living people who love you.
But sometimes NPCs can't recognize what you say and give the correct expression. After all, no one will find the player's jokes funny!
Such a language system error actually makes you feel relieved.
You pinched the skull-shaped pillow, thinking about something. You had heard from your parents before that Noah has an artificial intelligence that exists across generations. Although it is not perfect, it has its own thoughts. In a few years, it may become a new intelligent creature.
Aren't all the NPCs in this game artificial intelligence from another era?
You let your mind go blank, forgetting to think about "non-human being too human will produce the uncanny valley effect", "where does such a small workshop with no technology come from? There must be some conspiracy behind it", "will you really give me the album that was promised to be given to me as part of the mission?"
However, there are also disadvantages to NPCs being too smart.
Not only will they wander around and make it difficult for you to find people, they will also always try to stop you from farming on the roof, saying that the roof is dangerous and that the Lord Judge should not climb up there alone, and that it is impossible to grow plants on the roof.
You are not convinced. Why can't the roof be considered a farmland? In your chaotic and evil division, even if the game is closed tomorrow, the roof is still a farmland! Besides, the system has divided this area into a planting area. Don't you know whether you can grow something there?
The system is the big boss of tomato soup. When the system judges something good, the NPCs are bad.
At first, you are not used to the NPCs randomly spawning near you, so when you are caught on the spot while searching the beds and closets in the NPC's room, you will still feel very embarrassed.
You are quickly adjusted by the rare items that are randomly dropped, and you instantly feel justified. After all, you are surrounded by intelligent NPCs, not real people who you know and who know you.
What's more, you are playing the game. Isn't it normal for players to bravely break into NPC rooms in a high-freedom game? What if you miss a rare item? In the last brave adventure game, you found a golden holy sword in the toilet of the count's house - you can still use it after washing it.
You completely let go in the game, focusing on the fact that as long as the players are not embarrassed, the only one who will be embarrassed is the NPC who catches you on the spot.
Well, most NPCs would be embarrassed, except for Xiaomian Qingjiang.
But there are always strange things falling in his room.
Do you still remember how you felt when you first took out the golden item from under Xiaomian Qingjiang's bed: excitement, excitement about escaping Africa and entering Europe, and sighing at how difficult it had been to come this far...
The result is the Golden Sword Suit.
You rubbed it.
You threw the things back under the bed with a blank expression.
You changed the place and continued to touch the props, this time it was a rare light!
[You have obtained a rare item: Xiao○Shu (A happy and sweet night with the golden sword??)]
[Small Book: After using it, you will get a short-term happiness buff. If used at night, the buff effect will be doubled. However, some people will get a painful debuff after using it due to their innate ability problems. There is no special effect bonus.]
"Hmm... Master?" After finishing the inner story, Xiaomen Qingjiang returned and saw you appear in the room, showing his usual smile, "Is it my turn this time? Do you want to dye me with your color?"
When his eyes fell on the publication in your hand, his smile froze: "...Hehe, Master, are you interested in this? It's too early now... I mean Master is too old."
You glanced at the small book with a fancy cover in your hand and smiled faintly, like a wise man: "It's okay, I know this book has nothing to do with you."
It's all because of the broken rate of this crappy game.
Fortunately, no one else saw it, otherwise Xiao Mian Qing Jiang would have been misunderstood.
Just in case, this book was not dropped for the game. You looked at the stiff-faced Smile Qingjiang and said comfortingly: "Even if it has something to do with you..."
"I won't dislike you because of your unique preferences."
Human sexual fetishes are free, but who knows if non-human sexual fetishes are even freer?
“But…” You stood on tiptoe and put the golden sword suit you just touched into Xiaomian Qingjiang’s hand, encouraging him, “If you really like the golden sword suit so much, I will allow you to sleep in the warehouse where the sword suits are stored.”
I don’t know why, but after that day, you didn’t see the smiling Qingjiang again for a long time.
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With some time left before you log off, you decide to go to the kitchen and raise your assistant level to 20, so you can unlock new skills and get the recipe you've wanted for a long time: Stir-fried Octopus Tentacles with Dreamy Strawberry Sauce.
This is a rare dark cuisine recipe, and you don’t even know how it’s different from an ordinary recipe.
But players want it, players get it.
On the way to the kitchen, you met Kashuu Kiyomitsu and Ratoshiro.
"Master!" Rantoshiro ran up to you excitedly, his eyes twinkling, "Hey, Master, let me dress you up!"
"I will definitely dress my master up to be super cute!"
"I can do this." Kashuu Kiyomitsu squeezed in front of you, holding a bottle of nail polish in his hand, "Master, do you want to try this color? This is the latest popular style of Wanwu."
Oh, you get it, this is the thing... When the NPC's favorability reaches a certain level, they will take the initiative to give gifts to the player!
However, these NPCs have a basic favorability of 90 when they are summoned, but you have never triggered this plot, so you thought the full favorability is 1000. It seems that it is a special plot, and you have never met some hidden conditions before? Hmm... Is it because you just planted 100 groups of sunflowers? Or did you fail miserably at cooking ten times?
Don't understand, you shook your head and agreed to Liangjian's suggestion to transform your image.
"Hmm... the master's double ponytail hairstyle is quite cute. You can add some small hairpins between the braids." Kashuu Kiyomitsu took out a bunch of small white daisy-shaped hairpins from his pocket. "The master's hair color... is quite special. It will be more natural if you use fresh flowers to decorate it."
"You can also change the rubber band for your hair to something cuter." Rantoshiro untied the rubber band that came with your character and tied the two ribbons into a bow. "The secret to being cute is the bow!"
You expressed surprise at the fact that you can change your own hairstyle.
No wonder you only found the transmogrification cabinet with a projection appearance, but didn't find the summoning bell to summon Teacher Tony.
"White ribbon? Yes, it is indeed a good choice."
"The hairpin you chose is also very cute."
Liangren expressed satisfaction with the results of your hairstyle transformation, and then suggested changing your outfit.
You are alert, because you only have this one fluorescent purple dress, and you have never seen the same color dress in Wanwu or the system mall.
Once she takes off this dress, will Sunshine Little Fatty Eggplant still be Little Fatty Eggplant?
"No." You quickly rejected, "I want to be the cutest little fat eggplant spirit. You are all knife spirits, why don't you let me be the eggplant spirit?"
"Once the fluorescent green little fat girl loses her fluorescent purple disguise, all the good qualities and happy soul of my little fat girl will disappear."
California Qingguang, who has already adapted to your speaking style, automatically blocked out the parts he didn't understand and said, "Master, don't you want to try other styles of clothes? Children can wear more lively clothes."
Instead of being an eggplant and farming and cutting trees all day long.
“Child? Me?” You scratched your head. “But I’m an adult.”
“Eh——?!” Rantoshiro’s eyes widened and he covered his mouth in surprise, “Could it be…could it be that the master is…a dwarf…” He threw himself on you with a wow, “Wuwuwu, sorry, master…we didn’t know…”
“How… so rude!” You struggled hard in Randoushiro’s arms, “I am a dwarf from the fat race.”
But... Damn it... You NPCs are taller than Xiao Fei in every way! You are heartbroken. In the next instance, you must be a 2-meter-tall hunk and look down on everyone!
"Because the Judge was recruited by Jizheng through a special method." Kitsunesuke, who appeared out of nowhere, puffed out his fluffy chest, "Even in the entire Judge camp, there are only a few non-human races with such powerful spiritual power as the Judge."
You raise your head and chest with pride, yes, that's right, players are so invincible!
"Sir, the first team of 5-1 has returned." Kitsunesuke shook his tail, "You can take the sword man with you and go to the battlefield."
Your eyes lit up, you got out of Rantoshiro's arms, ran forward two steps, then suddenly stopped, turned around and said, "California... Kiyomitsu will go out with me."
If you bring a trained blade, the chances of catching a wild knife will be higher, right?
"Well, the master really likes me."
Radoshiro and Kitsunesuke stood there, watching you and Kashuu Kiyomitsu leave quietly.
"What are you laughing at, Lord Rantoshiro?" Kitsunesuke licked his paws. "I am the monitor of current politics and the protector of the Supreme Judge."
It squinted at the dagger beside it, and streams of data flashed through its eyes.
"Your Highnesses, please...don't do anything wrong."
"Ah..." Rantoshiro smiled, his tone light, "I just thought it was great that the master was not human."
Non-humans have longer lifespans than ordinary humans. They can spend longer time with their favorite owners and face separation later.
At that time, everyone can let go more calmly, right?
This way... the corners of his mouth curled up a little more. He no longer had to think of ways to make the master who loved them disappear.
That's great.