Chapter 1 You're Awake!

"Host, you're awake!"

The game pod opened, and Mingmei abruptly opened her eyes. Guigui's voice continued to ring out.

"Guigui, how did you…" Mingmei glanced at the optical computer on her wrist. A smiley face emoji popped up on the screen, followed by a shota electronic voice coming from it:

[Host, didn't you ask Mr. Liu Liu a few days ago to upgrade me? Then, the Main Brain upgraded me before the game. Now I'm in your optical computer as your artificial intelligence!]

The Liu Liu and Main Brain that Guigui mentioned were Mingmei's two honorary godfathers. However, the latter… Mingmei felt that whether to call him godfather or godmother depended on which identity this "godfather" was using.

As the highest level of silicon-based life in the interstellar era, their gender was up to them, ahem…

Listening to Guigui's joyful tone reminded Mingmei to thank her godfather.

"Guigui, dial my godfather's optical computer number. I haven't seen him in a long time."

Mingmei walked out of the game pod, went to the refrigerator, and took a glass of juice. A 3D image of a young man was projected from the optical computer in front of her.

"Meimei!"

The young man had a bright smile and an enthusiastic tone. He stared at Mingmei, who was obediently drinking juice, with wide eyes. After a moment of scrutiny, he said, "You've lost weight!"

Mingmei: …

"Godfather…" Mingmei held her juice and looked at the very tender-looking young man in front of her, obediently shaking her head helplessly. "I've been eating well at school. I haven't lost weight."

"School?"

Mentioning school, a trace of confusion flashed in Liu Liu's eyes. Then, he looked at Mingmei again, his eyes widening in surprise. "How old are you? Still going to school!"

"I'd like to know too…" Mingmei took a sip of juice and said, "My uncle even changed my identity and age. I'm twenty years old now."

"Oh! Yan Hui this thing…" Liu Liu said halfway, then looked at the eyebrows and eyes that resembled someone, and finally changed the subject. "It must be your mother who asked for it!"

"Ah… it seems like my uncle and them did say that." As Mingmei spoke, she looked at Liu Liu for a long time. Across the optical computer, Liu Liu felt that his goddaughter's gaze was a little eerie.

"What are you doing?"

"Well, I just want to ask you one thing, Godfather."

"Hmm? What is it?" On the other side of the optical computer, Liu Liu had already started browsing the Star Net, preparing to order a bunch of fattening snacks for Mingmei.

He didn't care, his goddaughter had just lost weight, so she had to eat more to make up for it.

"It's just… do you know about my uncle wanting to introduce me to someone?"

Liu Liu: ???

Guigui: ???

"What?!"

The image on the optical computer froze for two seconds, and Liu Liu suddenly yelled, his eyes widening. "What's going on? Who? Which uncle? How could Gui…"

He stopped halfway, almost revealing that he was in contact with Mingmei's artificial intelligence behind her back.

"You don't know, Godfather?"

After saying that, Mingmei put on an expression of fanning the flames. The surprised look of "No way, you don't know?" made Liu Liu feel a little heartbroken for a moment.

"Nonsense! How old are you! What are you talking about dating? Who?! I don't agree!"

Just now, when school was mentioned, Liu Liu disliked Mingmei for going to school at such an old age. Now, when it came to the matter of a boyfriend, it became like this.

"Ah… then maybe I misunderstood. Uncle shouldn't mean that."

As a result, while Liu Liu was anxious, Mingmei's face changed and she hurriedly turned off the video. The guilty look, as if she had slipped up, immediately aroused Liu Liu's strong gossiping heart!

As a result, another uncle who was dragged into this topic received a series of harassing calls from Liu Liu that night.

And Guigui, who witnessed his host's troublemaking the whole time, didn't know what to say for a while when faced with a bunch of inquiries from Liu Liu and the Main Brain in the background.

[Host, did Mr. Yan Hui introduce you to someone? When?]

In the end, Guigui couldn't bear it and came to ask Mingmei.

"No."

Mingmei was confident and didn't mean to have tricked her uncle at all. After putting the empty drink bottle in the trash can, she started changing clothes, planning to go out.

"It's just… I feel like Mu Chen gives me a strange feeling."

Mingmei, who was holding her clothes in front of the dressing mirror, muttered again, "Saying that he sold the portrait rights to his uncle, and the villain's model in the game was based on his face, that kind of talk, even if it's fooling others. Whether he's an NPC or a player, he's always seemed to recognize me, and he's come to provoke me… It's too obvious~"

Mingmei wasn't a fool. How could she not be suspicious when a handsome guy appeared in front of her in various forms every day?

[So, you think he was also a real person playing an NPC before, but then he started as a player, and no longer plays an NPC, right?]

"That's what you said, Guigui~"

Mingmei tilted her head at herself in the mirror, and for a moment, Guigui, who had just been promoted to artificial intelligence, was confused.

"By the way, Guigui, are you hiding something from me too?"

Guigui: […N-No…]

"Is that so? I feel like you can watch the Xing Sika Acting Training Manual."

Guigui: […]

Help!

Can it still go back to being a system now?

…

Mingmei still remembered the moment the amusement park exploded, the smile on his face when he saw her running towards him in the fire.

Before she could ask him, why are you so nice to me?

Mingmei heard him say one sentence.

"You still came."

A definite sentence, but it made the always calm lake in Mingmei's heart no longer calm.

"Why… are you so nice to me?"

It was just that the sound of the explosion rang out in an instant, and Mu Chen's answer to this sentence was drowned out by the surrounding explosions…

Mingmei looked at herself in the dressing mirror, stretched out her hand, and gently poked the corner of her mouth with her finger, poking up a little bit of an upward arc. After looking at it for a moment, Mingmei released her finger and used her facial muscles to maintain the smile she had just poked out.

Tight, upturned, corners of the eyes downward—

[Host, why are you smiling so scary?]

Mingmei: …

Guigui's words immediately made Mingmei return to her poker face. Then, Mingmei sighed, rolled her eyes, and went out directly.

Forget it, maidenly feelings aren't suitable for her, it's more suitable for her to be a happy little salted fish with a poker face.

Going out, she knocked on the door of the dormitory next door, Lu Xiaoyao's door opened, and welcoming Mingmei was Lu Xiaoyao with a pair of walnut eyes.

Mingmei: =.=

Lu Xiaoyao: ┭Q﹏Q┮

"What… what's wrong with you?" Mingmei saw that Lu Xiaoyao was crying like this, and for a moment she suspected that she hadn't watched the live broadcast for a while, and as a result, she had missed something big?

"Wuwuwu, my, my score this time is so low QAQ!!" When Lu Xiaoyao woke up this time, the game was over, not to mention that she didn't know when the live broadcast room was turned off by herself, and when she checked the game score—3.4 points.

Failure to participate in one bomb disposal, 0.2 points deducted;

Failure to participate in the capture of the bomber, 0.5 points deducted;

9 personnel died, 0.9 points were deducted.

In other words, after deducting the bento credits in this round, Lu Xiaoyao earned 1.9.

However, now that she thought about it, why were there 9 people?

Mingmei didn't see the whole process, but she also saw most of it. Including herself, she could count six?

However, thinking of this, Mingmei still secretly said sorry to Lu Xiaoyao in her heart.

Otherwise, in this round, if she hadn't run back, Lu Xiaoyao would have earned at least 2 credit points.

"Wuwu, I can't figure it out, why are there nine people? Four colleagues who disarmed the bomb earlier went by accident, and where are the other five?"

Lu Xiaoyao looked like she didn't remember what happened in the end. Mingmei opened her mouth, wanting to say something, but she didn't know where to start.

"I can't even play the live broadcast playback, wuwuwu, why did the live broadcast disappear later!" The more Lu Xiaoyao thought about it, the sadder she became, and when she was sad, her stomach started to wail along with her.

Mingmei, who heard clearly, slightly covered her upturned lips with her hand and asked, "Anyway, it's like this… are you hungry? I wanted to ask you to go out to eat."

"Eat!" As soon as eating was mentioned, Lu Xiaoyao immediately wiped away her tears and said, "I've been crying for a long time, and my stomach hurts from hunger!"

Mingmei: …

It's good, she can still remember to eat, which means she's still normal.