“Are there side quests too?” Feng Wang and the other one almost simultaneously called up the game menu.

[Assist Tumi in solving the bodyless murder case] was prominently displayed in the quest log.

[Two days later, the suburbs.] Two seconds later, the instantaneous scene change occurred again.

Blue sky, white clouds, green grass, green distant mountains.

The surrounding scenery adhered to an elementary school-level art style, and Feng Bujue and Wang Tanzhi were also integrated into this style in the anthropomorphic forms of a cat and a falcon, respectively…

[On a sunny afternoon]

[Tumi, Xiongji, Miaomei, Maosaburo, and Hayabusa Taro, these five little friends…]

[Agreed to go on a picnic in the suburbs together.]

[However, what awaited them was…]

This side quest… actually had a corresponding introduction.

“What’s going on this time?” Xiao Tan turned to look at Brother Jue beside him and asked.

“Sigh…didn’t the system prompt explain it very clearly…” Feng Bujue sighed and replied, “Because we’ve disrupted the investigation three times, we’ve triggered a side quest.”

“Could it be…after this, every time we help Xiongji get away with it three times, there will be a side quest?” Xiao Tan continued.

“Who knows…” Feng Bujue said, “Perhaps the side quest will only come this once, or perhaps…from the third disruption of the investigation onwards, every time we solve an incident, a side quest will be triggered. It’s also possible that, as you said…every three times we disrupt the investigation, a side quest is triggered.” He shrugged. “In short…we’ll at least have to wait until the second time we trigger a side quest before we can preliminarily determine the pattern.”

“Mm…” Xiao Tan nodded, “Speaking of…Brother Jue.” He seemed to have thought of something else and said in a prompting tone, “Since it’s a ‘side quest’, according to the game’s settings…even if we don’t complete it, it won’t affect the completion of the game, right?”

“That’s right.” Feng Bujue responded, “That’s a basic principle, so…it doesn’t matter if we just stand by and watch this quest.” He paused for half a second and then said, “Of course, it’s best if we can do it, that way we’ll get an extra reward after completing the game.”

“Hmm…” Xiao Tan heard this and immediately lowered his head to ponder. “Based on the information we currently have, what we can temporarily deduce is…the ‘culprit’ in this quest is definitely not Xiongji.”

“Oh?” Feng Bujue revealed an admiring expression and laughed, “Heh…tell me, how did you deduce that?”

Xiao Tan replied as he thought, “Since the quests are all given by the system, the two can’t be contradictory. Since one of our main quests is [Limit Xiongji’s number of arrests to within ten times], then the real culprit in [Assist Tumi in solving the bodyless murder case] must not be Xiongji, otherwise it would violate this principle.”

“Correct reasoning.” Feng Bujue said, “The key is…the speed of thinking to reach the conclusion is also very fast, it seems you have indeed been training recently.”

“Hehe…” Xiao Tan smiled sheepishly, “You flatter me.”

“From childhood to adulthood, I have patiently guided you, earnestly taught you, but you are still like an idiot.” Feng Bujue’s next sentence took a turn, turning on the taunt mode, “And Gu Xiaoling…only tormented you for a few months, and you have learned to answer quickly.” He paused for a moment, “It seems…you’re just cheap.”

“Hey…why wasn’t what you said blocked by the system…” Xiao Tan said with squinted eyes.

“I guess the system also thinks what I said makes sense.” Feng Bujue replied.

“The system also thinks I’m cheap!” Xiao Tan didn’t know why, but while complaining, he also looked up at the sky.

After the two of them stood there chatting for a few minutes, they saw two familiar figures walking from afar.

“Maosaburo! Hayabusa Taro!” Miaomei waved to them from a dozen meters away.

Tumi followed beside her, walking shoulder to shoulder with her.

Although they were out playing, their clothes were no different from when they usually went to school, even the backpacks on their shoulders were the kind of red backpacks that were common in schools.

Today, Miaomei was still wearing a light green dress, with a red bow tied on her right ear. And Tumi was also unchanging in her green shirt and pink skirt, the only thing that changed was the text on her clothes (the text on the front of Tumi’s shirt often changes, and each time she appears, it will be printed with things like ‘Beast’, ‘Carnivore’, ‘Soil’, ‘Ankle’ and other full of slots and meaning unknown content).

“Sorry to keep you waiting.” After they got closer, Tumi spoke to Brother Jue and Xiao Tan.

After saying that, she turned her head to look around: “Eh? Hasn’t Xiongji-kun arrived yet?”

“Uh…didn’t see him.” Feng Bujue replied, and then said to Xiao Tan, “Hayabusa Taro, use your eagle eye vision to take a look.”

“What eagle eye vision… Assassin’s Creed… isn’t it just looking at things normally for me…” While mumbling, Xiao Tan still stood on tiptoe and looked around.

He was just looking around casually, but he didn’t expect to actually see him…

“Ah, I see him, he’s about a kilometer away from here.” Xiao Tan said, looking in one direction.

“Oh.” Tumi responded, “Then let’s set off first.”

“Eh? Aren’t we going to wait for Xiongji? Tumi-chan.” Miaomei asked.

“He’s just a pervert, it would be better if he didn’t come.” Tumi replied.

“Then why did you ask where he was as soon as you came…” Feng Bujue interjected.

“Okay! Go!” Tumi ignored Brother Jue’s complaint, took Miaomei’s hand, and strode forward.

…

Fifteen minutes later.

“Haa… haa…” Xiongji, panting, finally caught up with the four of them, “That’s too much! Everyone! We clearly agreed to set off together! Fortunately, this is a plain, and I just happened to see you. Otherwise, I wouldn’t have known you had already left!”

Di di di—

Before Xiongji could finish speaking, the sound of the phone’s buttons had already sounded, this was the sound of Tumi calling the police.

In the silence, four different gazes were directed at Xiongji.

These four kinds of eyes… were either sharp, or awkward, or painful, or like a dead fish…

“Hey! Why are you calling the police again!” Xiongji, naked on his upper body and wearing a pink bra, looked at Tumi with a bewildered expression and asked, “What did I do?”

“Miscalculated…” Feng Bujue shook his head and muttered, “I almost forgot…the main quest doesn’t stop during the side quest…”

“In other words…while we are completing this ‘bodyless murder case’ quest, we still have to be wary of Xiongji’s various perverted behaviors?” Xiao Tan continued.

“Sigh…oh well…” Feng Bujue sighed, “Let’s think of it in a positive light, in this incident, we still have a chance to stop Xiongji before he commits a crime…”