Chapter 41: Forty-One Cuts "Introducing a Sharing System"...
“A primordial spirit is a primordial spirit, I’m a system and I’m proud!” the system immediately chimed in. Now that he was in Luo Mingshu’s hands, he was very cooperative and said to Luo Mingshu, “Host, we are currently in the Misty Star Sea. I haven’t updated yet, but once we get out, I will provide you with what you want.”
"Oh, I want all four demon gods to come and dance the hula in front of me. Can you do that?" Luo Mingshu asked.
Xie Changming: "..." Let alone whether this bracelet can be made, I can't even make this happen.
System: "..." How am I supposed to do this?
The matter of Luo Mingshu persecuting the system is not over yet. She wants to see if the system automatically binds to anyone who touches it.
then--
"Manman, come on." Luo Mingshu took a fat little mouse out of the cage. Manman had become much fatter by Luo Mingshu's side during this time. It hugged Luo Mingshu's finger and croaked twice.
What Luo Mingshu did next was absolutely inhumane. She put the green bracelet on Manman. This mouse was just a cub and couldn't even learn human language. No one knew how the green bracelet would react.
The green bracelet was put on Manman, and after a moment of silence, the system made a loud "quack" sound.
Luo Mingshu: "..." Will this really work?!
Xie Changming: "..." It actually worked?
Slowly, he responded with a "quack" sound. Then, he slowly crawled to the table, picked up the white handkerchief that Luo Mingshu had placed next to the fruit plate, and obediently wiped away the scorch marks that Luo Mingshu had burned on the green bracelet.
After slowly wiping it clean, an interface popped up above the green bracelet, showing that one point had been earned.
Then, the system started making "clucking" sounds and slowly responded to him. In the end, he used one point to exchange for a roasted chestnut. He peeled off his "fruit of labor" and sat down to eat it.
"It is forbidden to employ child labor!" Luo Mingshu carefully took the green bracelet off Manman's body, and she stuffed a piece of sugar-roasted chestnut into Manman's hands.
Xie Changming didn't understand the meaning of the different tones of the "Gugua", but he knew that Luo Mingshu understood it.
I didn’t expect that Luo Mingshu actually knew the language of the Earth-Moon Mole. It’s... so cute.
Xie Changming pursed his lips and asked, "What did they just do?"
Luo Mingshu played with the green bracelet and translated, "The green bracelet said, 'Little mouse, I'm giving you your first task. You use a white cloth to wipe my body clean, and I'll reward you with one point.' Slowly answered, 'What are points?' and he tricked Slowly, saying, 'Points can be exchanged for candied chestnuts.' Then Slowly crawled over to do the task."
"Any intelligent creature can be bound to this task system." Xie Changming nodded. He knew the operating principle of the system.
However, such a thing is even more terrifying. It can grant any wish. What if the bound host has even greater desires? What exactly is behind the system that can satisfy all their desires?
Xie Changming and Luo Mingshu had the same goal: to find out what was behind the system. Of course, Luo Mingshu was clearly more cunning.
"Before leaving the Misty Star Sea Investigation System to uncover the truth, I'm going to squeeze you dry." Luo Mingshu pointed to a whole column of exchange lists on the system interface, "The first-generation Purple Gold Cloud Boat can be exchanged back as a birthday gift for the sect leader, and other trinkets can also be sold for money."
Seeing how enthusiastic Luo Mingshu was about exploiting the system, Xie Changming thought that after leaving the Misty Star Sea, he would also buy a copy for Luo Mingshu, otherwise what would he do with the money?
The public funds used for building the Demon Realm cannot be misappropriated. He didn't have the habit of saving money before, and he spent all his money on the Demon Realm. Only after the Demon Realm returned to normal operation did he have some spare money.
In short, he was indeed quite poor.
Just as Xie Changming was thinking about how to make money, he heard Luo Mingshu's conversation with the system.
"Alright, system, you can give me a task now. Give me a task that makes me stand up and walk around the room one-third of a lap—don't ask me why one-third of a lap, because I'm too lazy to walk the whole lap." Luo Mingshu began to point out the task given by the system. "The reward should be over 10,000 points, because my feet are quite valuable."
The system exclaimed in alarm: "This doesn't meet my price standards. I can give you the simplest task right now."
"Say it." Whether or not to do it is up to Luo Mingshu to decide for herself.
"Please win over the Supreme Immortal Lord and gain his favor. Favor can be exchanged for points," the system said after thinking for a moment.
As soon as he finished speaking, Xie Changming flicked the green bracelet away from Luo Mingshu's hand.
The green bracelet lay on the ground, clinking twice, but it didn't break. He was so angry that he cursed, "I just had that cute little mouse wipe my body, he's the only good person here!"
"Change it." Xie Changming said to the system.
Well, now it’s not just Luo Mingshu who is pointing fingers at him, there’s also Xie Changming.
"Then... Master Ye Nan is not impossible." The system said hesitantly.
"I'd rather boost Lu Yaoyao's favorability than do that. Get lost, I don't care about your little reward. Go play by yourself." Luo Mingshu beckoned to the green bracelet, and it flew back. She prepared to put it back in the corner of her spatial pouch.
Xie Changming offered a reasonable suggestion: "You can try to win me over."
System: "..." Although I can't detect any information about you, I can tell your favorability rating is maxed out. What's the point of trying to win her over? Am I supposed to give her points?
"No, that won't work." The system refused.
"Let me play with it." Xie Changming took the green bracelet from Luo Mingshu's hand, "I can conquer her."
Luo Mingshu: "?" What are you doing? Is this a dating system?
"Okay, this is actually a romance system," the system told Xie Changming. "Congratulations, host, on successfully binding with this system. Please try to win over the beautiful woman in front of you and gain her favor, which can be exchanged for points."
Luo Mingshu: "I...you...Xie Changming, this won't work, I won't..." I won't like you! She's someone who's into online scams, there's no way she could like an anonymous cultivator—this stinky man who blocked her.
"Currently, the favorability rating is 23 points, host. This is a very high initial value. Please continue to work hard." The system's cold voice sounded at the right time.
Luo Mingshu: "..." I'm the only one who has a mouth, right?
She looked at Xie Changming, only to see him looking at her quietly, his face expressionless, but!
The dog's tail, which she had been looking forward to for so long, had somehow appeared from under his clothes, its tip wagging excitedly. He looked really... happy.
Oh my god, so cute!
"Host, your current favorability rating is 25 points. You are truly the most amazing host I have ever met (because the last one was Lu Yaoyao). This progress is incredibly rapid," the system continued.
Luo Mingshu's face flushed instantly. She turned her head away, trying her best not to look at Xie Changming's sinful, inciting, and suggestive dog tail.
"I won't let you play with it!" she tried to snatch the jade bracelet back.
Xie Changming hooked the green bracelet with one hand, secretly pleased, a slight smile playing on his lips.
He mischievously raised the green bracelet a little higher. Luo Mingshu blushed, afraid that she would be exposed in front of the system, so she pounced on him and raised her body to reach the green bracelet.
Okay, she's now certain that he really does seem to be 192, because she didn't make it there.
Of course, just as she was getting a little annoyed, the green bracelet's honest voice rang out: "Host, please note that your favorability rating has decreased slightly."
Xie Changming stuffed the green bracelet back into Luo Mingshu's hand to cheer her up.
"This... this is a hateful evil thing." Luo Mingshu stuffed the green bracelet back into her space bag. The task issued by the system was too difficult, and she didn't care about the reward, so she threw it back and simply ignored it.
Xie Changming raised an eyebrow, looked at her, and nodded: "Yes, that's right."
Luo Mingshu put her hand on his shoulder, and only then did she realize that because of the noise earlier, she had accidentally fallen on Xie Changming.
He was tall and strong, and she clung to his shoulders, managing not to fall due to loss of balance, because—
Xie Changming's arm was across her waist. Just now, when they were fighting for the green bracelet, Luo Mingshu almost fell, and he was the one who raised his hand to support her.
"You...you shameless!" Luo Mingshu said to Xie Changming, "You stole my things."
"Can't I borrow it to play with?" Xie Changming said innocently.
"Then don't take this kind of...this kind of task of reporting false information." Luo Mingshu said angrily, her face still red, mainly because the system had seen through her little thoughts just now.
In fact, her subtle words and actions can reveal her inner world. The system determines her level of favorability by capturing her micro-expressions, small movements, and other information. However, Xie Changming has never been in a relationship, so he can't tell.
"Put me down!" Luo Mingshu said to him.
Xie Changming obediently released his hand that was across Luo Mingshu's waist.
Luo Mingshu lost her balance and fell backward, but luckily she reacted quickly and caught Xie Changming around the neck.
Her waist was slightly bent, and her arms were wrapped around his neck. Due to inertia, their cheeks almost touched.
Luo Mingshu's nose touched his, and his cool, pleasant scent wafted over, causing his long, thick eyelashes to tremble slightly.
Xie Changming was naturally handsome. The appearance of demons was captivating and stunning. Moreover, in front of someone they cared about, that strange attraction was even stronger. They could easily seduce people into falling for them.
But this race, despite possessing a natural advantage that should have made them irresistible, is also damnably loyal. Therefore, they generally only reveal this captivating demeanor to those they have chosen.
Xie Changming himself was unaware of this situation.
So, he clumsily tried to attract Luo Mingshu's attention, but no matter what he did, he could easily draw her attention to him. The Yinglong clan was indeed a race that valued appearances very much.
Luo Mingshu's gaze fell on Xie Changming's face. She could hear her own heartbeat, each beat striking her heartstrings. Every line outlining his features was so perfect. She just loved to admire such perfect and exquisite things.
She held her breath, her eyes lowered slightly, and the tips of her long eyelashes brushed against his skin, making it itch terribly.
The beaded chain on the soft couch jingled softly, the glass beads colliding with each other, and as he leaned forward, strands of hair slipped from his shoulders, brushing against the brocade patterns on his clothes.
His teeth lightly touched Luo Mingshu's nose; in short, he gave her a very light bite because he didn't dare to kiss her.
Luo Mingshu's eyes widened suddenly. Even if Xie Changming kissed her at this moment, she wouldn't have reacted so strongly. But... why did he bite her again, right on the tip of their noses that had been touching for so long?
"Ah, that cunning demon!" Luo Mingshu thought angrily.
She maintained her balance, and after Xie Changming lightly bit her, she bumped her forehead against him.
Luo Mingshu jumped off him, patted her cheeks, and preemptively accused him, "If you bite me, you're a little dog."
Xie Changming raised his hand and touched the tip of his nose. Before he could come to his senses, he made a "hmm" sound for some unknown reason.
Luo Mingshu couldn't believe her ears, because Xie Changming had always denied that he was a scoundrel.
This demon is extremely strange. Luo Mingshu thought to herself as she looked him over.
Of course, this little incident successfully made the shy couple forget the topic they had discussed before the system appeared.
Xie Changming himself knew very little about Ying Long, so even if Luo Mingshu understood his identity, it wouldn't be of any help.
Luo Mingshu sat down to the side and began to do her own thing to distract herself. She laid out many of her small items and played with them casually in her hands.
These small items included the long-forgotten Soul-Summoning Bell. After learning that Wei Qing was also in this exploration scene, Luo Mingshu did not think about finding him. She only needed to clear the exploration secret realm to bring him out of the Misty Star Sea. Therefore, she was so engrossed in unifying the immortal realm that she forgot about Wei Qing.
But just after she took out the soul-calling bell, the small bell rang softly again because it was exposed to her magic power, suggesting that Wei Qing might be nearby.
"Huh?" Luo Mingshu picked up the Soul-Summoning Bell and said in surprise, "I have news about my junior brother again."
Xie Changming's reply was utterly indifferent: "Oh."
"I'd better go and take a look." In fact, Luo Mingshu just felt a little nervous about being in the same room with Xie Changming, so she wanted to find an excuse to go out and get some fresh air.
Online scammers must not deceive themselves first. This is the secret that Lu Yaoyao shared before.
Xie Changming half-flipped his eyelashes and mumbled a reply: "Okay."
He knew that this was the task assigned to her by Master Luo Mingshu.
As a result, as soon as Luo Mingshu stood up and walked outside, the soul-calling bell in her palm stopped ringing again.
"How could this happen?" Luo Mingshu said to himself curiously.
Actually, it is like this——
Wei Qing went alone to the most remote small newspaper sales point opened by Wuji Palace to buy "Truthful First-hand News from the Heavenly Realm". Because Wuji Palace's sales point was connected to Wuji Palace, Luo Mingshu received the Soul-Summoning Bell's signal when he arrived at the sales point.
Actually, Wei Qing didn't want to be in crowded places, but "Heavenly Real First-Hand News" was just too cheap, and the content was interesting.
After paying for the newspaper with a spirit stone, he thanked them and left, disappearing into the vast crowd. The call to soul bell naturally faded away.
Wei Qing found an abandoned and desolate pavilion outside the city, sat at a broken stone table, and unfolded the tabloid. The content of the tabloid shocked him.
"There are explorers who can easily defeat Ye Nan?" Wei Qing muttered to himself. You have to know that in this exploration scenario, Ye Nan is a boss-level existence. Just who is it that has entered the Misty Star Sea this time?
He continued browsing, resting his chin on his hand as he analyzed, "The person who wrote this tabloid is quite capable; their writing is scathing and hits right where it hurts."
“But this ‘Heavenly Gossip Gazette’…” Wei Qing took out another tabloid he had bought at a high price and compared it with others, saying, “Eastern Bran Immortal Realm is at a disadvantage.”
"Dongzhi Wonderland is at a disadvantage. Should we go and help them?" At this moment, a figure was outlined in the yellow sand and gale behind him—this was Wei Qing's teammate. There were four exploration teams in total, and they were the last team that had not yet surfaced.
"With such a huge disparity in strength, I'm afraid the powerful Wuji Palace will soon surpass Dongzhi Immortal Realm, which will prevent us from extending our exploration time in the Misty Star Sea," Wei Qing analyzed softly. "Our goal is to continue our slacking off to the end, so it seems we must stir things up now."
"Go to Dongzhi Wonderland to join them?" the figure in the yellow sand asked.
"Okay." Wei Qing thought for a moment and agreed.
The reason why he stayed in the misty star sea was to escape from something, and he couldn't let this exploration scene end so quickly.
Because the Misty Star Sea has an exploration time limit, if the time limit is exceeded and any cultivator in the exploration scene fails to complete the exploration goal, the Misty Star Sea will restart the exploration scene and re-match the exploration team with a new competing team and a new scene.
Using this principle, they can artificially intervene in the exploration progress and force the exploration time limit to end, so that they can stay in the misty star sea.
Wei Qing was fortunate to have met teammates who were also slackers—the Spirit Network Matching System was no joke; they really did match cultivators with the most suitable teammates.
However, his teammate is even more mysterious, and has not yet revealed his true identity. He or she is good at using the surrounding environment to hide themselves.
Wei Qing still remembers the conversation between the two of them when he first met this teammate.
"I don't really want to leave the Misty Star Sea, what about you?"
"As long as it's not in the human world, you can stay anywhere."
"I don't want to go to work," Wei Qing said with a wry smile.
“I don’t want to face reality,” he said.
"Shall we set them up together?"
"Screw it, let's slack off together."
Wei Qing snapped back to reality. When this exploration scene was generated, his keen senses immediately alerted him to something amiss. The scene was too large and too realistic. More importantly... it was too strange, strange yet strangely familiar.
He found it hard to imagine what strange creatures had come to this exploration scene. He had been suppressing his curiosity these past few days, but now he had a good reason to observe them up close.
While Wei Qing was discussing with his teammates how to prolong the exploration time of the Misty Star Sea, new developments emerged at the Wuji Palace.
"A stunningly beautiful goddess—" Han Yu rushed over and bowed to Luo Mingshu.
Luo Mingshu still took out the green bracelet secretly with a pretentious attitude. She had set up the system in advance to automatically search for attackable targets around.
"Host, a target for your conquest has appeared. Please gain the favor of the Jade Fairy," the system said reluctantly.
Luo Mingshu treated the green bracelet as a favorability detector, waiting for the system to give her a number.
"Fairy Hanyu's current favorability towards you is negative eight, which is an amazing favorability value." The system reminded Luo Mingshu.
Luo Mingshu was shocked. Although she was prepared, she couldn't accept that the system was actually presenting the facts.
"How dare you not like me?" Luo Mingshu asked, pointing at Han Yu.
System: "..." I've never seen anything so straightforward.
Han Yu looked up at Luo Mingshu and said, "Han Yu... Han Yu dares not."
Luo Mingshu was beautiful, so Han Yu only glanced at her twice.
"Congratulations, host. Han Yu's favorability has increased by five points. It is currently at -3. Please keep up the good work, host," the system reminded you.
"Keep looking at me." Luo Mingshu had no intention of listening to the news Han Yu brought, and ordered, continuing to use her face to gain favor.
Han Yu didn't dare to disobey her order, so he could only look at her and dared not speak.
The system's favorability rating was steadily increasing, and Xie Changming, standing next to Luo Mingshu, also heard the system's continuous notifications.
Han Yu's favorability towards Luo Ming Shu increased by one, two, and three more. Wow, it's already reached ten! Host, you're awesome!
"Stop looking!" Xie Changming couldn't take it anymore and said, "Let's get down to business."
Han Yu felt as if she had been granted a pardon. She lowered her head and whispered, "Master Ye Nan of Dongzhi Immortal Realm could not tolerate your behavior, Goddess, so he sent a message to the Supreme Immortal Lord. He will be returning to Wuji Palace soon."
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