> Hong Kong City, Sham Shui Po, northwest of Kowloon Peninsula, near Apliu Street.

Although Apliu Street sounds very exciting and seems to be frequented by many wealthy women, men are the target customers of this place - because this is a place that sells electronic products, audio games.

This place is very prosperous, with all kinds of goods gathered here, and it is famous for its low prices. Many tourists are willing to come here to shop - or to be ripped off. Some tourists come to Apliu Street to buy parallel-imported and licensed machines. Unscrupulous merchants will not hesitate to raise their knives as long as they are not locals and do not know the prices. After all, it is a waste not to kill the fat sheep in front of them.

Places with high traffic flow are naturally favored by the catering industry. At night, many street vendors will appear there, and the sizzling sound of boiling fat and the pungent smell of various seasonings will spread throughout the streets. Hungry travelers can find food to replenish their energy and continue shopping.

After the shops close at night, the area becomes a food market with everything from barbecue to fried rice and stir-fried noodles.

Tonight, near midnight, the ghost vendor opened the shop early and chatted while preparing ingredients:

"I was so unlucky today. I almost couldn't open the store."

"Huh? Fatty, you too, I'm really screwed today. When I was about to start the business, I found out that a pot was missing."

"What a coincidence? My rice cooker is missing for some reason too."

"You guys lost something too?"

"The same to you?"

"Yeah, I lost a whole set of kitchenware. If the supermarket wasn't open at night, I wouldn't be able to open my stall tonight."

"Everyone lost something? ... Then is there a glass of water where you all put your things?"

"Did you see that glass of water? It's a really nice glass of water."

"Yes, yes. After drinking it, I felt refreshed both physically and mentally. I wondered who put the water there."

"Me too. You know my husband passed away early, and I was left alone to raise my son. I felt tired and annoyed, and life was meaningless. But after drinking the water, I went to pick up my son from kindergarten, and suddenly I felt that life had a purpose."

"Yeah, actually I also..."

A customer came over to order food and heard their conversation. He was surprised and asked, "You lost something, and then you saw a glass of water and drank it directly? Did someone steal your things? And they also put something in the water. Look how happy you are."

"What's so good about stealing a pot?"

"Yes, yes."

"But that glass of water is really delicious. If you really use that almost scrapped rice cooker to exchange for that glass of water, it would be really ridiculous."

"Yeah, I drank a lot of water afterwards, but I couldn't find that feeling anymore. I felt relaxed and refreshed."

The customer asked curiously, "You guys aren't angry when something is thrown away?"

"Why are you angry? The most important thing in life is to be happy. One day you are happy and another day you are unhappy...Okay, I'll give you something to eat."

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After Ren Suo asked Dong Chengling to help buy a set of clothes, Dong Chengling was silent for thirty seconds, then said that he wanted to discuss it with his friends, took his phone to the bathroom, and when he came back, he gave Ren Suo the Taobao link of the clothes.

"My size may not be suitable." Dong Chengling said calmly: "You should choose it yourself."

Then Ren Suo carefully observed Dong Chengling and shook his head: "No, it fits very well. I just need your size."

Dong Chengling then picked up his phone and went to the bathroom. When he came back, he told Ren Suo his size and left in a hurry.

Although Ren Suo had a vague feeling that something was wrong, he was soon drawn to the information from the bond system - the bond between him and Dong Chengling had been upgraded.

"Dong Chengling, Level 2 bond, bond ability 'A world away': teleport 10 meters (the starting point and the landing point must be in the same plane). If your surface density (skin, hair, etc.) is lower than the average density of the landing point, you cannot teleport. Cooldown time 20 hours, no consumption."

The teleportation distance has been doubled and the cooldown time has been reduced by one-sixth, but it still seems to be only usable as a life-saving skill.

But this is not important. What is important is that Ren Suo discovered a use for "Desire Detection"!

Although the bond upgrade should be a natural process - after all, the food I have eaten for so many days is not in vain - but the bond upgrade should require an opportunity event, otherwise why is the bond between Ren Suo and his sister only at level one? It is because Ren Suo failed to trigger an event such as a life discussion with his sister after obtaining the bond system...

It was fine to slowly improve the favorability, but the problem was this opportunity event. Ren Suowan was confused. He estimated that these events should represent the deepening of the relationship between the two sides, but he didn't know how to trigger it...

Moreover, Ren Suo had a vague feeling that each triggering event must be different. For example, after he helped Li Dan sleep for the first time, he failed to trigger the bond upgrade for the 23,456th time, which must have failed.

However, "Desire Detection" gave him a shortcut: see if he can satisfy the bonder's desire. If he can, there is a high probability that the bond level can be increased!

Although other people may not be as simple as Dong Chengling, who can deepen the relationship by just chatting, but having this additional way is better than Ren Suo searching alone.

Therefore, Ren Suo was very happy during dinner. Gu Yueyan didn't know Dong Chengling had been promoted until she came back at night. She kept talking to Dong Chengling about cultivation during dinner. Gu Yueyan noticed that Dong Chengling looked happy with a little complexity. Then she saw Ren Suo's happy expression and felt suspicious.

But when Ren Suo returned home and went to Maomao.com to buy clothes, he remembered that the clothes were for seekers.

Then when the seeker shows up next time, his clothes will surely be exposed, so will he be found by others?

But Ren Suo felt relieved after opening the Maomao online shopping app: although these clothes are not hot-selling items and the prices are not cheap, their monthly sales are over ten thousand, and their total sales are over one hundred thousand. Moreover, they are shipped by the manufacturer, so the possibility of exposure is extremely low.

Furthermore, after receiving the goods, Ren Suo would definitely not touch them at all, and let the seeker open them himself, based on the possibility of contamination.

The only question is whether to buy underwear.

But Ren Suo thought about it and realized that the seeker didn't seem to have the habit of wearing underwear. And Ren Suo searched and found that there were many things to pay attention to when it came to underwear. He basically couldn't tell them apart unless he measured the seeker...

The seeker only talked about buying clothes, so Ren Suo let the matter go. Isn't it nice not to wear underwear?

After taking care of these chores, Ren Suo turned on the Small World game console.

Because he was interrupted by Dong Chengling, he had not yet finished studying his gains.

First of all, Ren Suo also discovered that there was a rotating disc in the lower right corner of the game icon of "Midnight Walker".

Based on previous gaming experience, it can be concluded that the rotating disc icon should represent that "Midnight Walker" is becoming a reality. Generally speaking, the rotation of the disc in electronic devices represents "reading" or "importing", and in the Small World game console, it represents the "game" being imported into "reality".

This was just a small matter. Ren Suo was concerned about another point - "the sound of flowing springs".

The power of "Clear Spring Flowing Sound" is unquestionable. It not only means that Ren Suo in reality can summon game characters at any time, but also means that if Ren Suo encounters difficulties in the game in the future, he can summon the game characters who have already passed the level to help him.

Although the summoning time of "Clear Spring Flowing Sound" is limited, and you basically have to complete a game with four stars or above to replenish the time, it is still worth the money.

In addition to the limitation of summoning time and the disadvantages of being able to only remotely control game characters through commands, "Qingquan Liuxiang" has another limitation: it can only summon characters with a star level lower than Qingquan Liuxiang.

Clear Spring Flowing Sound is a 4-star character, so Ren Suo can only summon game characters of 3 stars and below.

As for the star rating of the game characters, if it hadn't mentioned it, Ren Suo really wouldn't have noticed...

The initial star rating of the game character is linked to the game. For example, Seeker and Asgard Killer are both 1-star game characters, and Ren Woxing is 2 stars.

However, according to the introduction, this star rating does not seem to be related to combat power.

Rather, it is related to the frequency of the character's deployment and the impact it causes.

For example, the Seeker, in addition to appearing in "If You Are Strong, Go 10,000 Meters", also appeared in "Pass the Hat" and "The Wizard Under the World Tree". These two extra gaming experiences allowed the Seeker to upgrade from a 1-star character to a 2-star character.

If the player summons a seeker in reality, the seeker's star experience will also increase.

According to this setting, Ren Suo had just summoned the seeker to chat, which actually allowed her to gain some star experience, although not much.

In addition, according to the setting of star experience, the stronger the game character is and the greater the impact it causes, the more star experience will be gained.

For example, if you summon the World Devouring Spirit to take a stroll around Lianjiang, if you fail to grasp it, it may be promoted to a 4-star game character.

This also means that even if Ren Suo gets more summoning time in the future, if the star level of Qingquan Liuxiang cannot be raised, sooner or later his game character will not be promoted to 4 stars.

Therefore, the current usage of "Clear Spring Flowing Sound" is: if possible, try to use low-star game characters with relatively small impact and just the right strength.

Try to use powerful high-star characters as little as possible, otherwise when the critical moment comes, you will find that the high-star characters you urgently need are not available, which would be a pity.

Ren Suo also has a long-term goal: to raise the star rating of "Clear Spring Flowing Sound".

The higher the star rating of "Clear Spring Flowing Sound", the fewer restrictions there will be on Renso's summoning of game characters.

Although Ren Suo didn't know how to upgrade the star level of "Clear Spring Flowing Sound", there were only three reasons: either Ren Suo's player level needed to be increased, or Ren Suo needed to complete a 5-star game, or both the player level and the 5-star game were required.

Moreover, because "Clear Spring Flowing Sound" cannot summon characters of the same star level, Ren Suo is also unable to summon the God of Cookery that he just cleared.

At that time, Ren Suo thought that the game evaluation was being uploaded, so he couldn't summon her. Now that he took a closer look, he found that the Female Goddess of Food was already a 4-star character.

Ren Suo even wanted to summon her directly to come over and cook him a delicious meal that would not be used to feed him shit, so that he would save himself the trouble of going through the ghost file.

Should we wait until "Clear Spring Flowing Sound" is upgraded to 5 stars? Then we can summon the Goddess of Food and eat whenever we want.

Ren Suo hesitated for a moment, but quickly gave up the idea. First of all, he didn't know when "Clear Spring Flowing Sound" would be upgraded. If the upgrade of this thing unexpectedly took time, he would be in trouble.

Secondly, even if the female food god is summoned, it is not necessarily possible to summon the ghost-walking gear... Ren Suo has never seen the female food god have a special treasure called "ghost-walking gear". God knows if she can only fight and cook home-cooked meals after being summoned - the female food god's fighting power is not weak.

Thirdly, Ren Suo was already prepared. If he gave up now, he would feel like he had wasted all the midnight snacks he had had over the past ten days!

Moreover, recalling Lian Jiang's gaming experience on the tenth day, Ren Suo narrowed his eyes slightly and opened his laptop to record his thoughts.

He needs to verify the idea.

This was the first time he had seen such a situation happen in a game, and although it felt a bit risky, Ren Suo thought it was safe enough and worth a try.

"Small World Game Console..." Ren Suo also began to look forward to it, feeling a little excited.

He likes the feeling of exploration and enjoys the process of peeling off the secrets behind the truth layer by layer.

It's like throwing firecrackers into the toilet in the countryside when I was a kid, so exciting and thrilling.

“It’s really fun.”

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