Chapter 487: Mr. Mu, Xiao Suo

A safe landing.

The feeling of weightlessness was fleeting, and Ren Suo felt as if he had been transferred from Dong Chengling's house to the outside in the blink of an eye. Apart from anything else, Dong Chengling's driving skills were much more stable than before, and Ren Suo, a passenger, said he had to give him a five-star rating.

Unlike Xuan Country where it was still dawn and the sky was still a cheap light blue, the sky in front of Ren Suo was already bright, and the bright sunshine covered the earth like a veil, making people feel lazy in the slightly lower winter temperature.

Even though it was already November and the days in the mid-latitudes of the northern hemisphere had gradually become shorter and the nights longer, the time zone where Tokyo was located was one time zone earlier than that of Tianjing. It was around seven in the morning in Xuanguo, while it was eight in the morning in Tokyo.

"Hush."

Qiao Muyi held Ren Suo's shoulders and leaned her head to look outside. Ren Suo followed and stuck behind her to observe and see if there was any difference between here and in the game.

After a quick recollection, he matched this place with the game screen - he was right at that time, this was indeed a shrine.

Not far away there is a vermilion torii with the word "Kai" in it, with stone lanterns guarding the surroundings. A clean and solemn main hall is located on one side. The stone floor and cobblestone passage are very clean and free of any debris. The vermilion railings around the main hall sparkle in the sunlight, indicating that someone cleans it regularly.

But Ren Suo took a quick look and did not see the priestess and the chief priest. Perhaps they had not yet gone to work, or perhaps they would not go to work - after all, in a small shrine like this hidden in a residential area in a big city, the clergy would not appear unless there were special days such as festivals.

The shrine was not empty. There were three old men in plain clothes wandering around, and they were about to leave.

Today, November 20th, is a fire day in Fanying. No one will delve into the true meaning, but in modern times it should include the meaning of "working hard". 8 am is the commuting time for many Fanying office workers. Those who can stroll around in casual clothes at 8 am are mostly "rich Tokyoites" who are retired and have generous retirement benefits, or tourists from other places. There is no need to be vigilant.

When Ren Suo was thinking, he suddenly felt a streak of black in front of him. The soft hair brushed against Ren Suo's nose, making it itchy, and he quickly took two steps back.

Qiao Muyi turned her head to look at him, rolled up her hair, and said unhappily, "You want to take advantage of me as soon as I arrive in a foreign country? I didn't say anything just now, but Suozi was really rude and kept sticking to me."

Ren Suo smiled awkwardly. He was so busy looking at the scenery that he didn't notice that he was sticking close to Qiao Muyi. He suddenly remembered something and asked, "Why are you calling me Suozi again? Didn't you just call me Ren Suo?"

Qiao Muyi stuck out her tongue and made a cute face, humming, "I like to call you Suo Zai, don't you want to? You can also call me Sister Qiao, I don't mind being called younger anyway."

Ren Suo felt a little depressed: "I think I'll vomit if I call you Sister Qiao."

"...Oh." Qiao Muyi restrained her smile slightly, glanced at Ren Suo and turned her head away.

Ren Suo felt something was wrong because he heard from his "listening headphones" that Qiao Muyi was unhappy.

Although it is no longer a game, the main quest still exists: finding clues and purifying filth and hatred. He does not want to ruin the arranged game plot because of his "unintentional mistake". After all, the current game plot is already on thin ice. If there is another mistake, even with the powerful fate correction power of the small world game console, other accidents may occur.

It was fine for other games, even if something unexpected happened it would not be his business, but this time it was different - Ren Suo had to fully grasp the real plot, so that he would have a chance of survival.

"I mean, how can I call Miss Qiao Muyi, who is smart, brave, beautiful, and powerful, my sister?" There was no one else around, so Ren Suo just gave up and went over to say, "It makes you seem like we know each other very well."

"Then we are not familiar with each other?" Qiao Muyi glanced at him.

Ren Suo hesitated for a moment. This wasn't mentioned in the guide: "70% done?"

"How well done is 70% done? Is it so well done that I can call you Suozai?" Qiao Muyi asked with a smile.

Ren Suo hesitated for a moment, but Qiao Muyi stopped teasing him and said seriously, "Okay, okay, I won't call you Suozi anymore."

Before Ren Suo could smile, Qiao Muyi continued, "But I won't call you Ren Suo, otherwise when I talk to you, the people from the Spirit Hall will notice me, and then you will be discovered too."

"The reason I call you Suozai is because I don't want to implicate you!" Qiao Muyi said earnestly.

Ren Suo raised his eyebrows. He was not stupid. "Then why did you call me that before?"

"Because it's fun, it sounds like you're my little brother." Qiao Muyi blinked, "Oh, by the way, the most important thing is that I think this kind of address can help us get closer as friends."

The most important reason must be just because it's fun! Bringing friends closer is just something I just thought of!

Ren Suo no longer paid attention to this, but thought seriously: "But what you said makes sense. I can't call you Qiao Muyi anymore. There must be many people in Fanying who can speak Xuanguo language. If it is exposed because of the name, it would be too stupid."

"Then what should we call each other?" Ren Suo looked at himself and Qiao Muyi. "We can't change our names right now. Why don't we pretend to be siblings, or brother and sister?"

"Why not sisters?"

Qiao Muyi asked back, and said seriously: "If you wear women's clothes, then it will be absolutely safe. No one will definitely associate a cross-dressing pervert from Fanying with Ren Suo from Tianlian Academy."

"What you said makes sense, but I refuse." Ren Suo said.

"I don't like pretending to be brother and sister either." Qiao Muyi also refused.

"Why?"

"No reason."

Ren Suo stared at Qiao Muyi's eyes seriously, causing Qiao Muyi to turn her head away and snort, "What are you looking at? Haven't you seen a beautiful woman?"

Ren Suo could only hear from the "listening headphones" that Qiao Muyi really didn't want to pretend to be siblings, and he couldn't hear more about why. But this matter wasn't a big deal, so he followed suit and continued to ask, "Then let's pretend to be mother and son?"

Qiao Muyi narrowed her eyes and looked at him with a cold look. Ren Suo immediately knew that she didn't like pretending, so he immediately changed his tone: "How about being husband and wife?"

Qiao Muyi didn't say anything, still squinting at him.

Ren Suo felt uncomfortable being stared at by her, but Qiao Muyi didn't say anything, so Ren Suo naturally couldn't hear the echo of her desire, and didn't know whether she liked this suggestion or not. He thought about it for a long time, and finally said: "Forget it, let's not pretend that there is any impure relationship. I will just call you by your name, Muyi?"

Hearing Ren Suo give up the previous option, Qiao Muyi breathed a sigh of relief, but also felt a sense of loss - I didn't say anything, why didn't you make up your mind quickly? Do you expect me to happily say "Okay, okay, son, I want to be your mother" or "Okay, okay, husband, I want to be your wife"?

"What's the difference between this and Qiao Muyi?" Qiao Muyi said unhappily, "Muyi is not Mai Yi, she is too iconic. My name only has three characters, and you called out two characters. If someone with ulterior motives heard it, it would basically be like being exposed."

Ren Suo spread his hands and said, "Then I should call you Muzi? I heard that women in Fanying like to add the word 'zi' to their names?"

"That's old news. People only named their children like that 40 or 50 years ago, just like naming girls 'Cuihua' or 'Xiaohong' in China." Qiao Muyi disagreed, "Besides, my last name is not Li, why call me Muzi?"

Ren Suo was convinced that it was so troublesome to pick a pseudonym. However, Qiao Muyi pronounced the name "Muzi" several times, and suddenly his eyes lit up. He said, "I don't like Muzi, but Mu Gongzi is good. I like this name, and I guarantee that it will not be associated with my real name. If you call me Gongzi normally, I can react immediately."

Master Mu, Master Mu?

Without waiting for Ren Suo to have any opinion on this name, Qiao Muyi looked at Ren Suo and said, "I can't call you Ren Suo now, and you don't like me calling you Suozi, so I will call you Xiao Suo."

Small rope, small lock?

Ren Suo wanted to say something, but when he saw Qiao Muyi's satisfied look on his face with the two names, he finally shut up.

He has been completely convinced by the arrangements and evil tastes of the Small World Game Console. Now, as long as the Small World Game Console does not ask him to go to Thailand to undergo a sex change and become the real maid Xiao Suo, Ren Suo will be grateful to it.

And Xiao Suo is better than Suo Zai, because in the dialect of Lianjiang area, "Suo Zai" is equivalent to "fool". With this comparison, being called Xiao Suo is not unacceptable.

"By the way, can you speak Japanese?" Qiao Muyi suddenly asked.

Ren Suo shook his head: "I haven't learned it."

Qiao Muyi: "Aren't you familiar with Zhao Huo? I remember Zhao Huo's Japanese is N1 (the highest level of the Japanese Language Proficiency Test). I thought you would learn something from hanging out with him more or less..."

Ren Suo continued to shake his head: "Zhao Huo is already in his twenties, but he still watches anime, plays with figurines, and follows new magical girl shows. He is also emotionally entangled with three women. His life is very fulfilling. Apart from eating and drinking for free, I rarely play with him."

Qiao Muyi glanced at Ren Suo and said, "In terms of being a otaku or emotional entanglements, are you really qualified to despise Zhao Huo?"

"In that case, I have to teach you Japanese." Qiao Muyi sighed: "Because of the frequent disasters in Japan this month, many domestic travel agencies have urgently stopped all Fanying tour groups. Now there are very few Xuanguo tourists in Tokyo, and most of the Xuanguo people who stay are Fanying international students and Fanying staff.

Our skin color and appearance are very similar to the locals, and even if someone thinks we look like Xuan people, it won't attract attention - there are many international students in Fanying. But Xuan people who can't speak Japanese may not be able to get away with it.

When we take action later, you don't need to say anything, just follow me and don't reveal your identity as a Xuan countryman."

Ren Suo only knew that disasters occurred all over the world, but he didn't know that the disaster in Fanying was serious enough to affect the tourism industry.

No wonder those people from the Countermeasures Bureau, the Watchers and the Spirit Hall wanted to skin Qiao Muyi alive. Even Fanying, a major tourist country, suffered heavy losses due to the disaster. I'm afraid that all countries have been troubled by disasters during this period.

Qiao Muyi looked at Ren Suo again and said, "Although we have already come to Tokyo from Xuan Country, according to what you said, this is a joint pursuit by all the large supernatural forces of the Countermeasures Bureau, the Watchers, the Spirit Hall, and the Wizard Council. I estimate that they will soon use domestic forces to try to find my whereabouts.

But unlike me, they didn't look for you. And you, a Xuan country cultivator, suddenly appeared in Tokyo. If you were noticed, it would be difficult to explain when you return to China. It's better to cover it up a little and pretend that you are not familiar with me.

If something really happened to me, you who are hiding in the dark could still find a way to save me - although I would never let myself fall to that level."

Ren Suo nodded, pulled up the hood of his coat and put it on, covering his hair and bangs, then took out a white mask and put it on, fixed the headphones hanging around his neck, and asked, "Is this okay?"

Qiao Muyi was slightly startled. She found that the person in front of her seemed to be blurred, becoming ordinary and inconspicuous, and it was even difficult to tell whether he was a man or a woman.

Ren Suo...you...

Do you really have a talent for dressing up as a woman?

Qiao Muyi felt more and more that it was a good idea to let Ren Suo disguise himself as a woman, but Ren Suo didn't want to, and she couldn't force him. She just silently took note of Ren Suo's hidden feature and said, "Take out your phone."

Ren Suo handed over his phone obediently. He didn't know how Qiao Muyi operated it, but she just used her finger to dig out the phone card slot and took out the SIM card.

After Qiao Muyi pulled out the SIM card at Dong Chengling's house, she threw the phone out of the window. She was the deputy director of the Countermeasures Bureau, so she knew that when the Countermeasures Bureau wanted to catch a criminal, they would directly use satellites to lock the location of the target phone. Her phone was no longer usable.

It was a little dangerous to use Ren Suo's phone now, but it was basically safe after removing the SIM card. Then Qiao Muyi took Ren Suo away from the shrine. Ren Suo glanced at the shrine full of painted horses and followed Qiao Muyi down the long staircase with vermilion railings.

When he was leaving, he saw some people standing on the stairs and taking pictures. There was a sign on the side of the road telling Ren Suo that the shrine they had just stayed in was called Suga Shrine, which was located in Shinjuku District, Tokyo.

They walked for a few minutes and left the residential area, then found a convenience store. There was an ATM in the convenience store, and Qiao Muyi walked over, took out her wallet, and inserted her card to withdraw money.

Because tourists from Xuanguo contribute a lot to the GDP of Fanying's tourism industry, all ATMs in Fanying convenience stores can use UnionPay cards to withdraw Japanese yen, and even provide Alipay and WeChat payments. It can be said that 'money makes the world go round'.

Ren Suo was stunned for a moment, then quickly walked over and asked, "Will you be discovered if you withdraw money here?"

"No, this card has nothing to do with me. It is a savings card opened by my neighbor aunt in the name of her son. The money in it is only the New Year's money saved by the aunt. It is very clean and cannot be traced to me." Qiao Muyi looked at the ATM machine and did not change the Xuanwen interface. He directly operated it according to the Japanese interface.

Ren Suo blinked his eyes and said, "Then why do you have this card? And you know the password?"

Qiao Muyi glanced at him and said, "Because... the neighbor's aunt's son likes me."

"ha?"

"He likes me, so he gave me his most precious New Year's savings card, saying it's a betrothal gift." Qiao Muyi looked at Ren Suo proudly, as if to say, 'There's someone pursuing me too' and 'Why don't you learn from me'.

"I just kept it for fun and told him that there wasn't enough money in the card, and asked him to study hard and save more New Year's money in the future. I didn't expect to use it here."

Ren Suo asked: "How old is he?"

"About ten years old? Anyway, he's a very cute little fat boy. I like to pinch his face."

Qiao Muyi said with a smile: "I had planned that if he was really stupid enough to wait until the New Year to receive his pocket money before asking me to return the savings card, I would return the money in the card to him doubled, and then tell the auntie that she has a stupid son, and ask her to teach the fat boy a lesson and not let him give his bank card to others casually again."

Ren Suo silently mourned for the little fat boy in his heart, and at the same time sang praises for his courage.

Is it that the mobile phone is not fun? Is it that the game console is not fun? Is it that the computer is not fun? Why do you have to like Qiao Muyi when there are so many people you like...

Although the fat boy finally received double the New Year's money, he was still beaten with a cane by his mother.

As expected, if you like Qiao Muyi, you will definitely be cheated by her in the end.

"But if I can go back safely this time, I will immediately return the money in the card tenfold to him."

Ren Suo nodded: "That's right. After all, this card saved us from an urgent need."

Neither his bank card nor Dong Chengling's bank card could be used, and they had no Japanese yen in cash, so it was difficult for them to move around in Fanying. Now that they had the starting capital, it meant that they could still struggle in the steel jungle of Tokyo through normal means.

“That’s not the reason.”

Qiao Muyi took the spitted out Japanese yen from the ATM machine, pulled back the bank card, and smiled faintly: "I return the bank card because I want to quit my job."

Ren Suo complained: "Then you're going to tell the fat boy that you don't like weaklings, and humiliate him severely, so that the fat boy will work hard to train his body and study hard, and then find you ten years later and yell 'Thirty years in the east, thirty years in the west'?"

Although Ren Suo was joking, he felt that Qiao Muyi would really do something like this - even if Qiao Muyi was nice to others, she would usually choose very strange methods.

“It’s not that complicated.”

Qiao Muyi tilted her head and glanced at Ren Suo, her lips curled up as she smiled slightly: "It's just because I can't be his bride anymore."

"Yes, the age gap is too big. This is like an old cow eating young grass. No, it's like a young cow eating old grass..."

Coming out of the convenience store, Ren Suo touched his waist which was sore from being pinched. It looked like he had excessive kidney deficiency.

Qiao Muyi is replacing Ren Suo's mobile phone with a Dharma card. Now Ren Suo's mobile phone can access the 4G Internet through the docomo operator, with unlimited data within seven days (this is what the advertisement says).

Qiao Muyi opened the map on his phone, leaned against the wall, dug into his memory, and quickly marked 33 survey points on the map.

These 33 places were all recorded by the Countermeasures Bureau as places where disasters had occurred this month. If she wanted to investigate clues through disasters, these 33 places would be the best entry points.

But these 33 locations were the limit for her. She could not remember much about what happened in these 33 locations, and she could not judge where to start first.

At this time, a finger stretched out from the side, moved the map, and clicked on a marked point farthest to the northeast.

"Investigate here first."