The first thing Shekh said when he came out of the dungeon was, "When did you become this fast?"
Shi Jinzhe: "That depends on you."
During my two-week break from working for free, I leisurely walked to the wardrobe to change into my pajamas.
After she changed, I took out Sheikh's clothes and gave them to her, then stood there waiting to admire them.
Sheh handed him the purple dress she had changed out of and hung it back up. When she heard this, Shi Jinzhe asked himself, "Have you noticed that we always enter dungeons a step slower than others, or that our teleportation points are always separated from the main group?"
Shekh: "Yes, we're always farther away than others."
She remembered that they were half an hour late entering the two instances: the charity event and the one about her deceased wife.
All the other players were waiting at the meeting point to start the instance early, but she and Shi Jin had to walk there by themselves.
And the day she first entered the dungeon, Shi Jinzhe had just come out of the game at six in the morning, and then entered the dungeon for the second time that very night, with a very short interval.
His reaction at that time was one of surprise; he clearly hadn't expected to be promoted again so quickly.
Shekh's gaze was fixed on Shi Jinzhe, his mind racing.
Although Shi Jinzhe's frequency of entering the game has returned to normal, this unusual situation made her realize another suspicious point.
Unlike Shi Jinzhe, who entered the local area, she encountered neither unexpected events nor extra clues along the way. Why did they have to go through an extra process compared to others when it was so meaningless?
And today is the same. Generally speaking, the time to enter the dungeon is between 8 pm and 6 pm. If it is not their time to enter the dungeon, the system can simply say that the time has not arrived.
However, every time she asked, it would just give a quick, perfunctory response, seemingly rushing to meet a deadline, but in reality, it was just dragging its feet.
Once is enough, twice is not enough, but a third time is not enough. This is practically like making them deliberately late.
After sorting things out in his mind, Shekh asked Shi Jinzhe, "Is the system still targeting you?"
"When will the system stop targeting me?"
Shi Jinzhe explained everything to her in detail, as if he were doing accounts, and remembered it very clearly.
"The first time I entered the game, the dungeon wasn't difficult, but I didn't have any skills or items and couldn't get normal food. I was hungry for several days and had a very miserable time."
The second time I entered the game was a survival mission. I drifted at sea for twenty days and was chased by sharks for half a month. I barely slept. Although I survived both games, I just couldn't get over the physical exhaustion.
The third time was when I met you, and this was the only time the system didn't target me; it was the luckiest time yet.
[I'm not targeting him! The first time he teamed up with an experienced player in the dungeon, he went hungry for less than two days. The second time, the shark wasn't that big, and he ate it long ago. The third time...]
Shi Jinzhe's face showed a look of reminiscence, and he continued talking, recounting past events to Sheh sentence by sentence:
"As you know, cooperation between unequal forces is difficult. Although that shark wasn't big, it had to endure a lot of psychological pressure drifting alone at sea for so long."
There was a third dungeon, and the system didn't provide the correct way to clear it at all. I only managed to find you through sheer willpower.
[He's lying! He ate some candy to stave off hunger three hours before finding you!]
"You probably don't know what it feels like to eat apples for a week straight, have an acidic stomach, and feel like throwing up just standing there. I was chased and stabbed several times. My body couldn't react or dodge at all. I don't know how I survived it. Maybe this is the test you have to go through to meet me."
[...]
Sheh listened intently to the system, then, seeing its silence, she asked, "Why aren't you saying anything?"
[...No targeting.]
"Then why is Shi Jin's approach different from others?"
[...]
"Not answering means he agrees. He's no longer a cheater, so why is his entry process different from others?"
I really didn't mean anything by it.
"If it's not targeting him, then is it targeting me?"
The system crashed and ran away.
Sherpin sensed something unusual: "It really is me?"
Unexpectedly, her casual remark actually yielded some insightful comments.
"It always fails at crucial moments, this system is no good." Shi Jinzhe didn't hear the conversation between the system and Shehe, but from Shehe's self-talk, she could guess that it had something to do with her.
He pondered to himself that when the system gave Shekh to him as a reward, it was in such a hurry, as if it were fleeing a disaster, that it clearly didn't want her to stay inside any longer.
But now it's slowing them down, making them enter the instance map later.
This looks like they don't want Sheikh to stay in the game any longer.
He didn't want her to enter the dungeon, yet he was also bound to her...
The phrase "having ulterior motives" immediately came to mind.
The system diagram wasn't just drawn by Schech, but also by him.
See his skill effects.
The ability to awaken Shekh can accelerate her evolution and provide numerous buffs.
Having deduced this, Shi Jinzhe had a new guess.
Is it possible that the exit in the maze is correct, but it's just not useful to him?
Maybe others can actually take the key and go out, but he can't?
Shekh emerged from the statue and, without asking why, angrily began dismantling the dungeon. This was definitely not the right way to clear the game.
Furthermore, on his way to the palace, he didn't encounter a single maze monster for a full three hours. The smell of blood on him was the same as the location marker. Could he really be safe for that long?
It seems the system has intervened again.
Time seemed to stand still, and I was suddenly struck by a sudden realization.
What is a dead end for others is a way to live for him; he lives towards death, and he and Shekh are deliberately tied together.
Seeing Shi Jinzhe's expression change repeatedly, Sheh waved his hand in front of his eyes, "Have you thought of any clues?"
Shi Jinzhe grabbed her hand: "We really are destined for each other."
"...Didn't you think of any clues?"
"You are the clue."
"A clue to solving your mystery?" Shekh calmly withdrew his hand. "Well, sometimes I really don't understand you."
"I understand." Shi Jinzhe turned off the light and covered her with the blanket. "Go to sleep early. Cheng Yun will send you that big house tomorrow."
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