Chapter 1 The Win in NTR

Yin City, a certain floor of the City Spire, a milk tea shop.

"What do you guys want to drink?"

Li Ang, dressed in casual clothes, stood behind the milk tea shop counter, skillfully pried it open, and rummaged inside for cups.

Wang Congshan, in a blue dress, stood in front of the counter, thinking for a moment, "Red bean double-layered milk, I guess."

"I'll have the Mango Pomelo Sago,"

Chai Chai, sitting by the window of the milk tea shop, playing with her phone, drawled without looking up, "Double mango base, please."

"Okay."

Li Ang picked up a cup filled with red beans and, like a bartender, twirled it flamboyantly before operating the machine to make milk tea according to the illustrated instructions in the employee handbook.

At this moment, the milk tea shop, which should have been crowded with people, was empty except for the three of them.

Even the streets outside the shop were devoid of people.

This was all because Li Ang was coming.

To avoid accidents (mainly to protect the ordinary people in the City Spire), the Special Affairs Bureau activated the [Idlers Begone] spell in this area an hour before Li Ang arrived, clearing the city district.

Li Ang's first visit to the City Spire had a street-sweeping effect.

Li Ang was not disappointed by the surrounding quietness. He hummed a self-composed melody with satisfaction and quickly finished making two cups of milk tea, handing them to Wang Congshan.

Then, he casually made himself a cup of jasmine green tea, took the milk tea, sat by the window, slowly inserted a straw, and chatted with Wang Congshan in a casual manner.

"So, you've got the third Earth card now?"

"Yeah."

Wang Congshan nodded, "Liu-xiaojie, Mule, and I carried out a team cooperation script mission together.

"That script was close to a steampunk-style, early twentieth-century reality.

"The three of us players were teleported to a huge passenger ship, similar to the Titanic, with complete and luxurious internal facilities.

"There were two thousand two hundred crew members and passengers on board, as well as hundreds of anthropomorphic mechanical guards driven by steam power.

"Our task was to find and kill alien monsters that could disguise themselves as humans on the passenger ship.

"This kind of alien monster initially only had one, but after a period of time, it would attack, erode, and replace humans.

"The replaced humans had no abnormalities in appearance, their words and actions were all normal.

"Inside their bodies, the alien monster would proliferate and split.

"After the division was completed, the alien monster would control the human body to find the next target.

"Through physical contact,

"Like shaking hands, hugging, kissing,

"The sub-bodies would parasitize others, achieving expansion silently."

She inserted the straw into the milk tea lid and said casually, "The system requires us to protect as many ordinary people as possible.

"The more survivors there are in the end, the richer the rewards will be.

"If the number of survivors is less than three hundred, then the mission will fail."

"Oh?"

Li Ang slurped his milk tea, "From the description, it sounds quite interesting.

"Were your strengths suppressed?"

"No."

Wang Congshan shook her head, "But how should I say it...

"The tech tree of that script world was weird.

"The ship clearly used only ordinary steam engines, with a maximum speed of only 23 knots,

"But the steam-gear robots they made had ridiculously high combat power.

"They were invulnerable to swords and guns, indestructible, and unaffected by any mind interference skills.

"They only listened to the master's orders—each steam-gear robot had a matching whistle at the time of manufacture, and the user could issue instructions by blowing the whistle.

"Since the shape of the whistle was designed according to the customer's mouth shape when ordering the robot,

"Even if other people picked up the whistle, they couldn't command the steam mechanical guards.

"Moreover, that ship, like the Titanic, was a world-renowned, luxurious transoceanic cruise ship, with many dignitaries on board..."

"Oh, oh."

Li Ang immediately thought of the difficulties of the mission, "Let me guess, many of the crew members on the ship have corresponding whistles to command the steam mechanical guards.

"The dignitaries on the ship also have their own steam mechanical guards.

"These people definitely won't listen to strangers at first. Even if the players warn them that there are alien monsters on board, they won't take it seriously. Instead, they will let the steam mechanical guards attack suspicious alien travelers.

"And the alien monsters can expand wantonly in the dark,

"Or parasitize people with the authority to use steam mechanical guards, manipulating the mechanical guards to deal with the players.

"Or take the opportunity to stir up trouble, accusing the players of being spies from enemy countries, and so on.

"Although the players have extraordinary powers that can destroy the ship,

"The ultimate goal is still to protect as many ordinary people as possible."

"That's right."

Wang Congshan nodded, "As soon as we teleported in, the alien monsters began to expand secretly.

"One became two, two became four, four became eight.

"If we left it alone, everyone on the ship would probably be parasitized and replaced in just five hours—

"If the alien monsters, after occupying a numerical advantage, didn't choose to hide, but instead exposed themselves directly,

"Relying on their numerical and strength advantages,

"Forcibly parasitizing, the time might be even shorter."

"Hmm..."

Li Ang thought for a moment, "So what did you do?"

"Slurp,"

Wang Congshan sucked on her milk tea and said casually, "Time waits for no one.

"We scattered to various parts of the cruise ship to find the alien monsters.

"Mule noticed that someone at the cruise ship's ball was frequently contacting others.

"Following the clues, she caught an alien monster that had parasitized a certain scumbag nobleman,

"And dissected him in public, proving the existence of the alien creature.

"Then we claimed to be professionals who solve alien creatures, took over the command of the ship,

"And asked the captain to use the ship's broadcast to gather everyone on the ship in the ballroom, standing apart.

"Then we had Liu Wudai's crystal familiars take the ship's crew and steam mechanical guards to find those passengers who hadn't heard the broadcast and were sleeping in their respective cabins.

"After everyone was standing still, we started the identification work."

"Identification?"

Li Ang asked casually, "Isn't that kind of alien monster difficult to distinguish?

"With so many people, it's impossible to screen them one by one, right?"

"Yeah, that's right."

Wang Congshan nodded, "Alien monsters have a certain degree of intelligence and telepathic abilities.

"In a concealed state, they like to parasitize through physical contact.

"And if they are discovered by humans, then they will try their best to hide themselves and stop parasitizing activities.

"In this state, only directly killing the parasitized person can expose the alien monster in the body."

"Oh?"

Li Ang smacked his lips, "Even the skills and props on the players can't directly screen them out...

"So you used a method other than killing the host?"

"Yes."

Wang Congshan nodded, "This mainly relied on Liu-xiaojie.

"She discovered that ordinary people parasitized by alien monsters haven't actually lost their free will,

"But are trapped in their own bodies like locked-in syndrome patients, losing control of their bodies and only being able to watch the alien monsters control their bodies.

"In most cases, the parasitized are powerless to do anything about it.

"Even if the alien creature, through his body, parasitizes his parents, lovers, and children in front of him, it is still the same.

"Except for one situation,

"NTR."

"Uh, what?"

Li Ang was startled.

"You heard right, it's *Niu Tou Ren*, ntr." (*Niu Tou Ren* means cuckold)

Mentioning this, Wang Congshan's expression was subtly embarrassed, "Ahem, through observation, we found that,

"Although alien creatures have various heaven-defying characteristics, they are unexpectedly simple and pure,

"The essence of life is to reproduce, pass on the family line, and pass on genetic information as much as possible.

"Humans are like this, and so are alien creatures.

"They parasitize humans, cats, dogs, and mice in order to propagate and spread.

"In order to better achieve this, they have telepathic abilities and a certain amount of wisdom.

"They will make the parasitized person seem to have better eloquence, a better temperament, and be more affable,

"So that the parasitized person has the opportunity to come into close contact with others.

"After we players jumped onto the stage,

"All the alien monsters chose to lie dormant, striving not to expose themselves,

"But the alien monsters' biological characteristics of actively and passively manipulating the parasitized person to have reproductive advantages can still be used by us."

Wang Congshan paused, embarrassed, "We divided all the passengers, let them stand separately, and not touch each other.

"Then find all the couples, lovers, and sweethearts,

"And let them tentatively kiss others separately—without any physical contact.

"In this case,

"If one of the couple is parasitized, then the original owner who can't control his body will definitely be particularly resentful in his heart.

"This resentment will also confuse the alien monsters—their purpose is to reproduce and spread, but the act of being ntr in front of others clearly violates the purpose of reproduction and spread.

"Therefore, the parasitized person who is watching his lover tentatively kissing a stranger will involuntarily rush forward, trying to break up the happy couple and stop this shameful ntr behavior,

"And we players can rush up, release skills, and subdue him."

"So all the alien monsters are pure love warriors?"

Li Ang marveled, "There's such an operation."

"Ahem,"

Wang Congshan's face was slightly red, and she was too embarrassed to say that this unscrupulous method was her idea, "Since that ship was a luxurious cruise ship traveling across the ocean,

"There were many couples, or passengers with lovers, mistresses.

"Through this method, we quickly eliminated about 47 of the passengers,

"And for the rest of the people, we held a thousand-person wedding."

"Huh?"

"We entrusted a priest to urgently marry the rest of the people."

Wang Congshan said, "The human society in that script world has a pretty simple concept, and marriage has a sacred nature.

"When you see a legally married wife or husband,

"Flirting with strangers, being lovey-dovey,

"It will still make people very upset and angry, thereby activating the alien monster's passive weakness.

"In this way, we quickly screened all the passengers,

"Found and isolated all the alien monsters.

"In order to improve the mission score as much as possible,

"Ms. Mule also invented a way to directly take out the alien monster and save the parasitized person's life.

"So in the end, the entire mission had fewer than twenty deaths,

"And dozens of steam mechs—some alien monsters who had the command of steam mechs, saw that they were about to be exposed, broke the pot, blew their whistles, and tried to resist,

"As a result, they were defeated by players and other ordinary people with steam mechs.

"In the end, the mission score for the three of us was s+,

I also got the third black Earth card."

Wang Congshan snapped her fingers and summoned a pitch-black Earth card from the void.

"It really is... the victory of *Niu Tou Ren*."

Li Ang said with emotion, giving Wang Congshan a thumbs up.

Wang Congshan is making faster and faster progress in terms of having open and flexible ideas and not sticking to the rules.

"It's okay, it's okay."

Wang Congshan casually canceled the Earth card, and happily sucked up the milk tea.

"Ah, my phone is almost out of battery."

Chai Chai breathed a sigh of relief, took off her headphones, and looked up from the phone screen, "Lend me your power bank.

"By the way, what were you two talking about just now?"

"Nothing, just a script mission."

Li Ang took out a power bank from the sodium ring and handed it over,

Chai Chai plugged the power bank into the phone and turned on the phone's external speaker,

"Is what our young people are hoping for now is that housing prices are very low, and then jobs are easy to find everywhere, and there is no pressure in life? No way, no way?"

"In comparison, American young people buy their own houses at a very early age. Go to other countries and try it. See how old you have to be to pay off your mortgage."

"I don't want to be a person full of thorns, mocking the success of others, laughing at the failures of others, unable to stand people who are doing better than him, and looking down on people who are not doing as well as him..."

Somewhat sarcastic voices came from Chai Chai's phone,

Li Ang leaned over and saw two young-looking American middle school students on the phone screen, "What is this?"

"An American documentary about their City Spire."

Chai Chai explained, "They're going to build City Spire over there too. I heard that the environment is not as good as ours, and the housing pressure is much greater than before."

"Oh, that."

Li Ang remembered that the American City Spire plan was not actually later than the Special Affairs Bureau's.

In fact, Prometheus Laboratory Company was the first to invent new high-strength building materials, but it has not been promoted in large cities such as New York and Washington due to various obstacles.

Some time ago, due to the successive establishment of City Spire in international metropolises such as Yin City and Tokyo,

Coupled with the civilization war pressure brought by the Stargate portals,

Major American cities have also begun to promote the City Spire plan, forming extraordinary construction teams to work overtime and build buildings.

However, their construction projects are somewhat different from City Spire in other places.

Instead of being built by the state, they are jointly contracted by multiple private enterprises and sold to the public.

The best and safest villas are priced in the "hundreds of millions",

The villa area is equipped with an extraordinary security force that patrols around the clock to ensure that no abnormal events occur.

Slightly worse high-end residential areas are also priced at millions or tens of millions of dollars.

Even middle-class families have to bear high mortgages to barely live there.

This behavior of publicly selling the qualification to live in the City Spire is very in line with the national conditions of the United States.

But everyone knows that as the Killing Field Game progresses,

Ordinary people living alone in the wilderness and old districts are tantamount to waiting for death.

Only in the City Spire can the safety of ordinary people be guaranteed.

However, even the cheapest and narrowest apartments are completely unaffordable for many American families.

Therefore, the American City Spire plan has been widely opposed and criticized on media platforms,

And the private enterprises that contracted the City Spire have also responded to this—Americans need to have a spirit of struggle to be able to afford and buy a house.

If you really can't afford a house,

Six elders, grandfathers, grandmothers, maternal grandfathers, maternal grandmothers, and parents, can all contribute money. Three generations of a family can squeeze into one house together and still be able to live there.

If even this can't raise enough down payment, then the City Spire also has a welfare project with a sense of social responsibility—ordinary American families can draw lots to win the qualification to move into the City Spire.