Chapter 1 Three Days Later, At School

Three days later, at school.

After a series of system prompts, the scene shifted.

Feng Bujue and Wang Tanzhi, who were in the police car a second ago, now reappeared in the fourth-grade classroom of Animal Elementary School.

"Ha! So, there's this trick!" After settling down, Xiao Tan paused for two seconds, then smiled and said to Feng Bujue.

"That's right." Feng Bujue knew that Xiao Tan had understood his strategy. Therefore, he replied directly, "The key is... we can't let Xiong Ji be arrested as the Phantom Thief BeArs_eye." He spread his hands. "Let him be arrested as himself... Although it will lead to the failure of the main quest, it's better than failing the instance."

"Yeah..." Wang Tanzhi nodded. "So... you took on the title of BeArs_eye in front of the NPCs, and then sold a cute act with us, turning ourselves in... This way, the event is over, and we're safe."

"Yes, but..." Feng Bujue changed the subject. "This kind of completion is actually quite bad... I barely managed to change the situation from 'script failure' to 'event failure.' In essence, my behavior just now was similar to 'substituting Xiong Ji for self-surrender.'"

"Eh? So, you were judged as playing passively again?" Xiao Tan asked.

"Not this time." Jue Ge replied. "Compared to the previous 'peeping incident,' my actions this time still had some skill involved; and this main quest itself failed anyway... Under such circumstances, the system won't judge me as 'passive.' However... in terms of 'Xiong Ji's hatred value,' I still suffered some punishment."

"Yeah... I also added a lot this time, 7%." Xiao Tan responded. "Counting the previous additions and subtractions, it's already 9%."

"Oh." Feng Bujue calmly replied, "Compared to my 41%, it's still relatively optimistic."

"What, what? How much did you say?" Xiao Tan widened his eyes and asked with an incredulous expression.

"Don't be nervous." Jue Ge said. "It's not over 50% yet..." As the person involved, he was quite calm. "I've been mentally prepared for this level..." He even leisurely explained, "After being arrested, Xiong Ji will inevitably lose those stolen underwear... The resulting powerful resentment will undoubtedly transfer a portion to me."

"Actually, I've always been concerned..." Xiao Tan continued, "What will happen when this value gets high?"

"It's hard to say..." Feng Bujue's expression became very strange. He glanced at Xiong Ji and Tu Mei, who were chatting on the other side of the classroom, and said in a deep voice, "I always feel... this script... no, I should say this 'universe'... has something wrong with it. The IQ and EQ of those NPCs don't seem as low as they appear; taking Xiong Ji as an example, some of his behaviors, and even his personality, have contradictions..."

"Yeah, I wanted to say that too." Wang Tanzhi added, "The case I disrupted earlier... thinking about it carefully, it's very abnormal... Does Xiong Ji have the guts and courage to chop off Penguin Assistant's head?"

"Well... I think..." Feng Bujue took over, thoughtfully, "When Xiong Ji's hatred towards one of us reaches a certain level... these doubts will gradually reveal clues..."

"Meow—"

Screaming, the usual screaming, Meow-Mei-chan's usual screaming.

Incidents, criminal incidents, Xiong Ji-kun's criminal incidents.

When that "Meow" entered his ears, interrupting his thoughts, these two sentences flashed through Feng Bujue's mind.

"Ah—" Jue Ge lazily groaned and looked at Xiao Tan, "Same as usual, let's go take a look."

"Sure~" Xiao Tan shrugged and stood up with Jue Ge.

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In the next few hours, Tu Mei-chan's famous reasoning and Xiong Ji-kun's self-exposure continued.

Incidents occurred one after another, mostly in the form of the "Phantom Thief BeArs_eye" crime forecast incidents.

However, the resolution time of these incidents was not long. Things like "lost flute tip," "taking pictures under skirts," "theft of sports shorts," "teacher's triangle ruler missing"... were all completed or ongoing crimes.

In the battle of wits with the famous detective Tu Mei-chan, Feng and Wang did not gain an absolute advantage... because Xiong Ji's self-exposure attribute was there, and the difficulty of the incident had changed from "successfully disrupting before being taken to the police car" to "successfully disrupting before obvious evidence is exposed," so it was inevitable that some situations were hard to defend against.

Even though the two players had worked very hard... the number of times Xiong Ji was "arrested" inevitably increased.

Of course, in comparison, there were more situations where he "successfully escaped conviction."

Just like that... unknowingly, the number of times Xiong Ji was arrested accumulated to "9," and Xiong Ji's hatred value towards Feng Bujue and Wang Tanzhi reached 95% and 72% respectively...

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Chapter 2 The Next Day, First Class in the Morning

The next day, first class in the morning.

Jue Ge and Xiao Tan completed another disruption, and the scene shifted.

At this time, their mental and physical states had reached a very poor condition.

"Phew... how much game time has this script... consumed?" Xiao Tan said, "I feel like it's been almost seventy-two hours?"

"Shorter than you think." Feng Bujue replied, "Only fifty-six hours."

"Ah... also a long script... I suddenly feel like 'Cang Ling Sword Debate' was like a pleasant trip..." Xiao Tan added.

"Well, the fact that 'stamina doesn't recover with scene transitions' is a real problem." Feng Bujue said, "Plus, the main quest of this script requires our concentration to always be maintained at a certain level... the mental burden it brings is also not small." He said, but he didn't show a bit of fatigue or impatience on his face. "It seems... the greatest difficulty in the later stages of this script is 'endurance'... He also laughed inexplicably, "At first, we thought Xiong Ji's limit of 'ten arrests (including the tenth)' was very generous, but in the blink of an eye, there's only one chance left... This kind of situation where you're on the verge of exhaustion, tense, and can't afford to fail is really exciting..."

"Exciting my [Bleep]..." Xiao Tan was really tired. When the human brain is tired or numb, it's easy to be careless and swear more often, which is normal. "If Xiong Ji gets caught two more times, we'll have failed completely. What's so exciting about this huge 'pressure'?"

"When you're on the operating table, aren't you under that kind of pressure every minute and second?" Feng Bujue retorted.

"Uh..." Xiao Tan was really stunned by the question, but he quickly regained his senses and said, "Hey... the time is different, okay? The duration of this script is already five times longer than a major surgery, okay?"

"You can treat it as a high-intensity concentration training." Feng Bujue said in a very relaxed tone, "Besides, doesn't this script also have rest periods?" He tilted his head. "Leaving aside the situation in the early stages of the script, after the difficulty of the main quest increased, we all had a few minutes to catch our breath after each scene transition, right?"

Before he finished speaking, he heard...

"Attention, students." Panda Teacher's voice came from the podium.

In two seconds, the attention of all the students in the class was drawn over.

"Haa..." Xiao Tan breathed out and muttered softly, "Here it comes again... what will it be this time... did the teacher's underwear get stolen..." He turned his head and glanced at Xiong Ji. "Well... let me check first... okay... not directly worn on the outside of the clothes or on the head..."

He complained like this because Xiong Ji had really done that before.

"Students, today, we have two special guests coming to our class." Panda Teacher continued, "They will spend a day of learning with you."

"Two..." Xiao Tan's first reaction was, "Could it be Basho-san and Sora-kun?"

"They are..." Panda Teacher raised his hand and pointed towards the door.

Just as she was about to say the names of the two people, a figure flashed in from outside the door, interrupting in a very effeminate voice: "Yaho~ Hello, students~"