Chapter 118: Punchlord Spirit [VIP]
Following the vague description provided by the NPC and the integrated guidance of the system map, the player quickly locked onto an ordinary two-story house in the suburbs of Kumamoto Prefecture.
There is no sign, no logo, it looks like an ordinary home.
The player didn't care about that. She walked to the closed door and raised her foot—
Bang!
The door opened and hit the wall with a loud noise.
Inside the living room, three girls who looked to be in high school or college were gathered around a game console. They jumped up in fright at the sudden and violent intrusion.
"who?!"
"What are you doing?!"
The player ignored their exclamations, his sapphire eyes quickly scanning the room.
The [Insight] skill instantly locked onto its target—in a glass display case against the wall, a cassette lay quietly, emitting a faint but unique energy fluctuation.
Its appearance is almost identical to the player's previous "Punk Lord Spirit", but its material is more ancient and mysterious, and its energy is more restrained and profound. The system board clearly states:
[Punk Lord Spirit: Without a doubt, this is the essence.]
Target confirmed, the player walked straight towards the display case.
"Hey! Stop!" One of the girls with short hair and a more impulsive look subconsciously rushed over to stop her.
The player glanced at her and saw a yellow sign above the NPC's head, indicating neutral/alert.
Based on the principle of "I will not offend others unless they offend me", the player was kind enough not to hit anyone, but just moved his mind slightly - [Vector Operation].
The girl who rushed over felt that her body was instantly fixed in place by an invisible force. She could not move, only her eyeballs could move in fear.
"Zhizi!" The other two girls screamed in shock, looking at the player with eyes full of horror and confusion.
"Who... who are you? Why did you take our things?" A girl wearing glasses and looking quiet mustered up the courage to ask.
The player stopped in front of the display case, reached out and easily opened the unlocked door (it seemed the owner was very generous). He took out the real E-level [Punk Lord Spirit] cartridge and explained without turning back, his tone as calm as if he was stating the weather: "This is my stuff. I just came to take it back."
"You...your things?" The third girl with a ponytail was stunned.
The player holding the cartridge turned around and looked at them.
After hearing her words, the logos above the three girls' heads flickered noticeably a few times, and the yellow warning logo turned into a light orange that represented guilt and embarrassment.
"Um..." The girl with glasses pushed up her glasses, blushing slightly. "My name is Mingmei. We actually found this cassette on the road, on a nearby mountain road. It looked unique and cool, so we brought it back. But... we studied it for a long time, but we still don't know what it is or how to use it."
She pointed at the immobilized Tomoko, "Until... until Tomoko accidentally activated her ability."
Although Tomoko couldn't move, an embarrassed look appeared on her face.
"Tomoko's ability is 'copy,'" the girl with the ponytail (her name is Xiaokui, as revealed by the player's [Insight]) chimed in. "When she touched the cartridge, she accidentally made a copy of it... It looked like an ordinary game cartridge."
She pointed to the fake cartridge on the table, which had been pulled out and played by a player before. "We were curious, so we inserted the replica into the console to try it out... and the three of us took turns getting hooked! That game... it was so realistic, so shocking!"
Xiaokui's tone has completely turned into excitement.
Mingmei sighed. "We...we were so excited at the time, thinking this amazing game should be available to everyone. Tomoko copied a bunch of copies...and then we...released them anonymously. We really didn't know it would draw people into the game world! We only realized what had happened after seeing the news and some strange posts...We were scared too..."
Her voice dropped, filled with apology.
The player listened to their confessions and played with the real E-magic cartridge that had been lost and found again.
Well, he picked it up, copied it, and sold it, which caused the incident, but his subjective malice was not great, and he had a good attitude of admitting his mistake.
"Oh," the player nodded, indicating understanding. She conveniently put [Punk Lord Spirit] into her system backpack, and the real E fog was relegated to the important prop column.
The status of the quest [Punk Lord Spirit·Continued] immediately changed to [Completed].
Looking at the three girls' uneasy expressions, the players felt that they had a good attitude in admitting their mistakes.
So he decided not to embarrass them. After telling the three of them this, the player began to stroll around the room with a sigh of relief, his eyes sweeping over the bookshelves, desks, and corners.
"Hey! What...what are you doing?" Although Zhizi couldn't move yet, she had a bad feeling when she saw the player's actions.
The player didn't answer. She walked to the bookshelf, picked up a few hardcover collector's edition game setting collections and art books (which looked worth some money), and put them in her backpack.
I saw a model on the table) and put it into my backpack.
There were a few unopened rare figures (exquisitely crafted) piled in the corner, which I put into my backpack.
Refrigerator ingredients (beautifully packaged) and put into backpack.
He even stole a box of it when he passed by the kitchen.
The three Gases were stunned. They searched their house inside and out, looking for anything that looked pleasing to the eye or was possibly empty!
"Hey?!" Tomoko was finally able to move (the player released the vector control). She pointed at the suddenly empty room and jumped up in anger. "This...how can you say you didn't give us a hard time?! You looted everything we own inside and outside! Hey?!"
The player had just stuffed the last box of cookies into his backpack when he stopped and looked back at the furious Zhizi. His expression remained calm, even a bit righteous. "I didn't hit anyone or tear down the house. I just took some things. Isn't that good enough?"
Zhizi: "..."
Mingmei: "..."
Xiao Kui: “…”
The three of them looked at the player's little face that was full of "I am very reasonable" and were speechless for a moment.
This logic... seems really impossible to refute. What should I do?
The players didn't care about their messy moods. They hummed a tuneless little song and walked out of the looted Gases base with satisfaction.
I got some rare items and also picked up a bunch of loot. This trip was worth it.
As soon as he stepped out of the door, the player remembered a small episode before coming here, so he opened the task board and checked the task that was triggered after exchanging names with the NPC:
[Quest: Clues to Strange Objects]
Description: A young man named Natsume Takashi seems to have recently come into close contact with another of your lost artifacts. However, he has no memory of it. Help him recall the relevant clues, or... follow him quietly? Perhaps you'll find something unexpected.
Well, Natsume Takashi... I remember now, he was the brown-haired boy with the fat cat monster.
The player tilted his head in thought. He did indeed have a strange artifact vibration. Good thing, now that [Punk Lord Spirit] was done, he could check out this new clue.
The player calls up the map to check the location of the Fujiwara family, which was automatically marked by the system after the tracking mission.
The distance is not too far, and you can parkour over there in a very short time.
The player looked at the surrounding low houses and walls, then at the straight-line distance on the map. Well, the straight line is the shortest distance between two points!
So, on a quiet night in Kumamoto Prefecture, a small black shadow began her parkour journey.
He climbed over the neighbor's low wall, stepped on the carefully tended flower beds (leaving a few small footprints), climbed onto the roof of someone's garage (startling a few wild cats), ran and jumped on the roof as if it were flat ground, and finally landed precisely outside the second-floor window of the house marked "Fujiwara family".
The player unceremoniously opened the window (luckily it was unlocked, though it would have been useless if it had been), and nimbly climbed in as if he were returning to his own home.
——
Inside the room, under the warm yellow light, Natsume Takashi was sitting at the desk reading a book, while the fat cat teacher was lying on the carpet with his belly spread out, taking a nap.
"Wow!" Natsume was startled by the player who suddenly broke in through the window, and the book in his hand almost fell to the ground.
"Meow?!" The cat teacher woke up instantly, leaping up with his fur standing on end. After seeing that it was the player, he was so angry that his beard stood on end. "It's you again, you rude little brat! Breaking into someone else's room in the middle of the night and going through the window?! Are you a stray cat from somewhere?!"
Player patted the non-existent dust off his body, completely ignoring the cat teacher's meows, and walked over to Natsume Takashi Bai. He reached out and tugged at his sleeve, staring at him with sparkling blue eyes, and got straight to the point: "Clue."
Looking at the girl in front of him who was so elusive and whose behavior was completely unpredictable, Natsume Takashi felt a deep sense of powerlessness in his heart, and his face was full of helplessness: "Player... Miss... clues... I really..."
"Hmph!" The cat teacher walked over and stood in front of Natsume, glaring at the player with his round head tilted up. "Idiot! Idiot! Disturbing others' rest in the middle of the night! And you're so confident! You have no manners at all!"
Player tilted his head, looking at the angry fat cat. Instead of an apologetic look, his face showed a confused expression of "being praised?" Then, as if he had figured something out, he confidently gave the cat teacher a shining thumbs-up and nodded vigorously: "Yeah!"
Cat teacher: “…”
Natsume Takashi: "..."
The air froze for two seconds.
"You...what are you so proud of, you bastard?!" The cat teacher was completely mad, and his fur stood up even more, like a fluffy ball of fur. "I'm not praising you! I'm scolding you! Idiot! Idiot! Idiot!"
It was so angry that it was spinning in circles, slapping its tail on the floor.
Player blinked, seeming a little confused as to why the cat teacher got even angrier.
But the clue is more important! She quickly gave up thinking about this complicated problem, and instead tugged at Natsume Takashi's sleeve, repeating persistently: "Clue! Strange things!"
Natsume Takashi sighed deeply as he looked at the little girl in front of him, whose thinking was unique, whose actions were extremely powerful, and whose behavior could not be understood by common sense at all.
It seems like I won’t be able to read quietly tonight.
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