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The screams of the man with glasses suddenly stopped.
Kasumigaoka Utaha stared at the boy with her wine-red eyes. Her overly beautiful face turned pale, and she said coldly, "It's been so long since we last met. It seems that your ability to irritate people has improved again."
"Um, what a compliment?"
Ling Wuji just said it lightly.
"So you're going to have a shocking teacher-student romance with Kirisu-sensei?"
"That's not true."
"Hmph! Boys," Kasumigaoka Utaha seemed to be in a better mood for some reason, but she still said disdainfully, "I always fall in love with every boy I meet."
"That's right," Ling Wuji nodded seriously, "After all, I update a few wives every quarter."
"Comrade!"
The glasses otaku immediately wanted to grab Ling Wuji's hand and act out a "fellow villagers meet, eyes brimming with tears" scene, but Ling Wuji didn't give him the chance and dodged, saying, "Come to think of it, you're clearly the No. 1 in that thing, but you still don't have a boyfriend?"
"What are you talking about, junior!" The bespectacled nerd thrust a piece of paper between the two of them, "Senior sister doesn't have time for a romantic relationship right now! That would be a blasphemy to her talent and a crime against the literary world! Besides, I'm planning a great work..."
"Aki Tomoya! I told you I won't agree to join your club!"
"Senior! Please take another look. This time I am serious. I really want to..."
"Whether you are serious or not has nothing to do with me! Don't come to me again in the future!" Kasumigaoka Shiyu glanced at Ling Wuji who was standing silently beside her and said, "I'm afraid that others will misunderstand me!"
These words almost made Ling Wuji laugh out loud.
Then she saw the look on Ling Wuji's face and said unhappily, "What do you mean?"
"I don't mean anything."
Ling Wu Ji shook his head.
"Anyway, after meeting again after such a long absence, don't you have anything to say?"
Kasumigaoka Utaha looked into the boy's eyes nervously for a moment and said.
Ling Wuji just thought about it and said, "I want to find a club to hang out in. Can you introduce one to me?"
The alternative literary girl suddenly felt a little dejected.
Volume 3: Between Gods and Humans: Chapter 2: Games
Although Kasumigaoka Utaha had not originally expected to get any serious words from Ling Wuji.
But Ling Wuji's attitude from the beginning to the end, as if he knew everything about her thoughts but didn't care at all, was really infuriating.
Even the bespectacled otaku Aki Tomoya next to him noticed something, adjusted his glasses, and said, "So, it was because of him that you gave up the book "Love Metronome"?"
"I don't need your guidance in my creation, Aki-san."
"But the book is obviously well-written, but for this inexplicable reason..."
Ling Wuji immediately said, "Not really? I've only met her twice before."
Hearing him say this, Amaki Tomoya gritted his teeth, cursed something, bowed to Kasumigaoka Utaha, and said, "I'll come to see you again, senior sister!"
The two of them just stood there and watched him walk away.
"Come to think of it, don't you Japanese people dislike causing trouble for others?"
"You're just stereotyping him," Kasumigaoka Utaha said, "But there are very few people who have his strong drive, not to mention his thick skin."
"What does he want from you?"
"game."
“You can also write games?”
Ling Wu Ji asked in surprise.
"Although I haven't asked him specifically, he must be trying to make a galgame. That kind of thing is similar to a visual novel."
"But aren't galgames all aimed at adults?"
"You seem to understand a lot?"
Ling Wu Ji did not mention that he often played this kind of game on a laptop during the summer vacation in his previous life.
But he thought about it, Kasumigaoka Utaha is more or less someone who is involved in the mysterious side, and his own idea of setting up a studio, expanding the Shinto system, and tearing down the barriers between the inner and outer worlds seems to require manpower to execute, otherwise...
His eyes immediately met the girl's wine-red eyes:
"You seem to have something to say?"
"No, it's nothing."
Ling Wuji shook his head.
The bespectacled otaku named Tomoya Aki had some idea of what game he was making and what kind of people he needed, but he himself was completely clueless about the idea. Besides, hadn't she already rejected him?
I guess he doesn't want to make games.
"If you want to ask me anything, you can tell me now."
Kasumigaoka Utaha saw Ling Wuji's hesitation and said in a smug tone.
Ling Wuji didn't want to go along with her, so he said, "Come to think of it, you didn't go looking for that jungle, and enter the mysterious world through the Green Clan? You don't seem to have any abilities."
Kasumigaoka Utaha just glanced at the boy, nodded, and said, "It's too troublesome. I don't have that much time to waste."
Ling Wuji nodded as if he understood. "What about your novel that is said to be about urban supernatural power? Have you finished it, Miss Beautiful Girl Writer?"
"Not really, NT-kun."
"I told you not to call me by that abbreviation!"
"'Beautiful Girl and Famous Writer' doesn't seem like a friendly title, does it?"
The girl said tit for tat.
"How could that be? Could it be that neither the beautiful girl nor the famous writer is true?"
"You have to be sincere when you compliment others, NT-kun."
Ling Wuji didn't want to continue this meaningless verbal dispute.
Kasumigaoka Utaha seemed to see through his thoughts and said, "If you need me to do anything, just ask. I also need an excuse to get rid of that otaku."
"Hey! Aren't you close to him?"
"Are you jealous? You're so cute," the senior who was two years older than Ling Wuji teased him, "But he and I are just a pure author and reader relationship. He just happened to know my real identity."
Ling Wuji just rolled his eyes.
But he thought about it carefully and said, "I say, what if I invite you to make a game as well?"
“That depends on what kind of game you want to make.”
“VR games.”
"You mean, a game of the same type as the Sword Art Online that caused a big stir some time ago?" The girl narrowed her eyes slightly, then shook her head and said, "You are overestimating your own abilities, aren't you? A newcomer who wants to enter the gaming industry, even if he doesn't want to make a galgame, can't achieve that level overnight? Junior brother, even if you have the means to attract capital, employees, and even get the engine, but you have no experience, it's easy to mess up the investment and become a joke in the industry."
"In fact, I also think it's easier to just buy a studio. After all, I just want to add settings to the basic world view."
"Basic world view?" Kasumigaoka Utaha frowned in confusion, then said, "What exactly do you want to do? You're putting the cart before the horse, aren't you? Even that otaku knows that the game is the producer's game. Although the details can be handled by others, the overall decision must be made by him. But what you said is like..."
“Like dumplings made just for the vinegar?”
Ling Wuji took over the conversation and said.
“Do you eat dumplings with vinegar?”
Kasumigaoka Utaha frowned again.
"What else to pair with?"
"Rice."
"They are all carbohydrates, how did you put them together?" Ling Wuji complained, but then said, "The specific reason is complicated to explain. I just need such a world. It is real and credible enough, so that even after leaving the game and returning to reality, they still continue the habits cultivated by the game, such as believing in a certain god or something."
"Believe in God?"
Kasumigaoka Utaha was keenly aware of the true purpose behind the boy's words:
"Even if they could continue that habit, what good would it do you?"
Ling Wu Ji smiled but said nothing.
Kasumigaoka Utaha thought for a moment and said, "I can join and help you improve the world view and storyline settings, but if you can benefit from that game, then I want a share too!"
"impossible!"
Ling Wu Ji shook his head decisively.
"Why isn't it possible?"
"Let's not talk about the fact that I won't open up the core system. Even if I do, it's poisonous to you. You can't handle even one thousandth of it, let alone one copy," Ling Wuji expressed his complete disdain for her wishful thinking. "You want that without knowing anything. Can you afford it?"
"So what can you give me?"
"Of course it's money."
Kasumigaoka Utaha went to see the boy and suddenly said, "Actually, you know what I really want."
Ling Wuji hesitated for a moment, then said: "If you want to enter the mysterious side, there is a relatively simple method. It depends on whether you can accept it..."
Volume 3: Between God and Man: Chapter 3: The Shinto System
Ling Wu Ji means to develop Kasumigaoka Utaha into his own follower.
However, he does not intend to reveal his identity directly.
Instead, he put on a vest, and temporarily replaced it with the name of "Xingjun".
It's not that he did nothing in the past few months, but he compiled a set of Taoist scriptures and rituals.
Taoist scriptures are used by believers in their daily prayers. The purpose is naturally to facilitate the collection of believers' faith and vows, and the rituals are naturally the means to connect with the gods.
But when Kasumigaoka Utaha saw the message Ling Wuji sent her on his phone, she immediately suspected that Ling Wuji was trying to pull her into some cult.
No matter how she looked at it, the words and phrases in the scriptures and the steps in the rituals all exuded a certain mysterious aura. They were far more complicated than the normal religions she knew.
Although Ling Wuji used Japanese when compiling the Taoist scripture, he still habitually used the code words of the talisman school. The large amount of symbolic references gave Kasumigaoka Shiyu a headache, not to mention that the rituals also had extremely detailed regulations. So after returning home from school, Kasumigaoka Shiyu, who had just glanced over it, asked Ling Wuji on the phone:
"What do those Taoist scriptures and rituals really mean? Do they really have any effect?"