Chapter 276 New Mission
"System? What is that?"
Hearing Liu Bai's sudden exclamation, Nashida asked in confusion.
"...Girl, I can't laugh anymore. I can't be as happy as before, woo!"
Liu Bai let out a cry and lay back on the bed, then pulled the quilt to cover his head.
"So what happened?"
Because Nashida was held in Liu Bai's arms and her head was also covered by the quilt, she immediately pulled open the quilt and looked at the grieving Liu Bai in confusion.
"Aww——!"
Liu Bai let out a loud cry without saying anything, but the sound was so sudden that it scared Nashida.
After a long while, Liu Bai suddenly came to his senses.
"Oh, girl, let's go have breakfast first. I'll continue crying after we come back..."
He lowered his head and suggested to Nashida who was sitting on his stomach.
"Okay, I'll cook you some seafood vermicelli for breakfast. It's what's left over from yesterday."
Seeing that Liu Bai had recovered, Nashida nodded and got off Liu Bai.
Soon, the steaming seafood vermicelli soup was served on the table.
After simply filling his stomach, Liu Bai asked Nashida to dress him up and returned to his bedroom in mourning clothes.
“Second brother… Second brother… You died so tragically… How can I live without you…”
Then Liu Bai threw himself to the bed and cried in grief.
"He wouldn't want to sign up to join the Wangsheng Hall, would he?"
Seeing Liu Bai wearing mourning clothes and crying so realistically, Nashida touched her chin with one hand and thought in confusion.
"Ding ding, special dialogue detected, please be prepared, the main mission is about to begin!"
Just when Liu Bai was crying, the system's voice suddenly rang in his ears again, accompanied by a harsh prompt sound.
"Ah? What's the main quest? What happened?"
Liu Bai wiped the tears that he had squeezed out with great difficulty, raised his head and asked in confusion.
Nashida in the back suddenly found that she could not understand what Liu Bai said again.
"Ding ding, according to the host's understanding, the 'protagonist' of the game world is about to officially set off, and will soon enter the plot that players see when they enter the game."
The system explained to Liu Bai.
As the matter was urgent, it had no time to continue trying to make Liu Bai happy.
"……main character?"
Liu Bai was stunned for a moment.
Although he had never played the game and didn't know the protagonist's name, he knew who the protagonist was.
The reason is very simple. In the video of "The Goddess Splits the View", there is a little yellow-haired boy standing with the "Goddess". Even if he has never played the game, he knows that the little yellow-haired boy is the protagonist.
"Ding ding, new demon mission released!"
[Different Journey: The host's behavior interferes with the original journey. The greater the deviation between the traveler's experience and the original one, the better the reward will be. However, if the traveler gives up or cannot continue the journey, the mission will fail. Success reward: random according to the score, failure penalty: Nashida becomes ten centimeters shorter]
"Fuck, you dog system, don't touch my girl..."
"She's already short enough!"
Seeing the system's failure penalty, Liu Bai quickly turned around and held Nashida in his arms.
"?"
Although Nashida didn't understand what Liu Bai was saying, she could understand the second half of the sentence, which made her little fists clench.
I've grown taller but you don't recognize it, and you even complain that I'm short. I can't live like this!
"But then again, why do we have to disrupt her journey? There's no benefit, right?"
For some reason, Nashida broke free from his arms and ran to the side, looking unhappy. Liu Bai had no choice but to continue asking the system in confusion.
"Didi, this involves the underlying code of this system."
"The operation of this system requires energy supply. It can extract abstract emotional energy from all objects related to intelligent life. That's why the system feeds on Mora, which is home to a large amount of emotional energy."
"If the host hands me the concession ticket in Melo Petersburg, this system can also be used as Mora. After all, it is also a kind of currency, hosting the emotional power accumulated when it circulates among the people."
"As the protagonist, there are countless emotions attached to them in the form of abstract concepts, whether it's love, hate, or lust. These emotions cannot be perceived in this world itself, but this system can break through the abstract concepts and absorb them. The prerequisite is to make the protagonist perform inconsistent behaviors to make these emotions ownerless. Otherwise, this system needs to swallow the protagonist into its stomach to squeeze them out."
The system carefully explained to Liu Bai the energy required for its operation, which also explained why it issued this task.
"Oh... I don't understand."
Liu Bai showed an expression of sudden enlightenment and spoke affirmatively.
"But all I have to do is tie him up and feed him to you, right? That's easy."
Liu Bai accurately extracted the key words from the long paragraph in the system, and immediately rolled up his sleeves and nodded.
"Girl, we should go out...Girl?"
Liu Bai wanted to take Nashida away from the little white house, but when he turned around, he found Nashida sitting aside with her arms folded across her chest and her back to him, sulking.
"What's wrong, girl? What are you looking at?"
Liu Bai moved closer from behind, resting his chin on Nashida's shoulder, and asked with his face close to hers.
Her ears were soft and were pressed against her head by Liu Bai's face.
"I'm having a fight with some idiot who thinks others are short."
Narcida said, turning her head to the other side.
"Wow, how can there be such a person? You are small to begin with, and he even exposed your wounds. This is really too much... Ouch!"
Before Liu Bai could finish his words, Nashida raised her hand and grabbed his ear.
"It's about to fall off, it's about to fall off, the ear that the system just rewarded me is about to fall off..."
After that, Liu Bai tried his best to coax Nashida, until he planned to cook a meal himself to apologize to Nashida, and Nashida reluctantly forgave him.
……
At the same time Liu Bai and Nashida left the little white house, in Mondstadt's Falling Star Valley.
"So, you drifted here from outside the world?"
"But when you want to leave here and go to the next world..."
"But there are strange gods standing in front of you?"
On the low beach around Cape Lookout, a girl floating in the air like a large doll asked curiously.
She has short white hair that reaches her shoulders, a black and blue cape with a starry sky pattern on her back, and an ornament on her head that looks like a crown.
In front of her, a girl with golden hair and two flowers on the side of her head was drawing patterns on the ground with branches.
"How many years ago was that? I don't know... but I'll try to find out."
"After I woke up, I always wandered alone until two months ago, when I fished you out of the sea..."
The girl turned around and explained to the girl floating in the air.
"Yeah, thanks to you, I would have drowned otherwise!"
The girl in the air nodded excitedly.
"So, I will try my best to be a good guide~"
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