Chapter 1 My God!!!

The moment Lu Xiaoyao received her boxed lunch, she screamed!

Talk about luck!

This was luck!

She, Lu Xiaoyao, was the chosen one in this game!

She had just casually run into the "Mysterious Merchant"!

"What are you yelling about?"

Before they could even ask for information from the suspects present, everyone heard Lu Xiaoyao, who had slipped away unnoticed, shouting outside the building. They rushed over to see what was happening.

They saw Lu Xiaoyao holding a boxed lunch, extremely excited.

"Boxed lunches! Do you guys want some? They're so good!"

Lu Xiaoyao not only bought one for herself, but also enthusiastically promoted the boxed lunches to others. Lou Jia stared at the Sun-Moon Boxed Lunch stall for a long time before finally relenting.

He had to buy this! Intuition told him to buy things from the game!

Even Charlie, who didn't get along with Lu Xiaoyao, vaguely felt that he should buy a boxed lunch.

With that, selling three boxed lunches at once made the fake food NPC so happy that his smile became even more genuine.

[It's over, this kid is single-handedly ruining everything.]

[Oh my god! Someone save them! This is going to be a disaster, isn't it?]

[Help! Don't listen to my kid's nonsense, run!]

[Why don't these people learn? Can you listen to anything my kid says?]

…

Whether the comments were going crazy or not, Mingmei didn't know, but having witnessed everything, Mingmei's heart was already filled with mythical beasts spamming the screen.

Why?

Why did Lu Xiaoyao always precisely avoid her every time she tried to sell boxed lunches, but as soon as someone else, even with her own face, sold them, Lu Xiaoyao was hooked?!

Before Mingmei could even voice her thoughts, Guigui sensed her inner collapse and added insult to injury: [Maybe, it's just a matter of luck.]

Mingmei: ??

"That boxed lunch vendor looks familiar..." Unlike Charlie and Lou Jia, who immediately agreed, Li Yuan looked at the boxed lunch stall with a hint of suspicion, then looked at Mu Chen, his eyes questioning.

Li Yuan: That's your boyfriend's face. Do you have any comments on this NPC?

In response, Mu Chen simply glanced at it, lowered his eyes, and said he wasn't hungry.

He had no intention of saying anything else.

Then, following his intuition, relying on his strong survival instincts, Li Yuan decided to stick with Mu Chen to the end!

Even though Charlie and Lou Jia kept winking at him, wanting him to buy one, he ultimately chose the same reason as Mu Chen—he wasn't hungry, he wouldn't eat, and he wouldn't buy.

"It's okay, if you're not hungry now, you can buy one later."

The fake food NPC's tone was gentle, and he didn't sound angry at all, which made Lu Xiaoyao feel a little guilty.

"This Mysterious Merchant NPC is so gentle, even nicer than my bestie," Lu Xiaoyao sighed softly.

The audience in the live stream: [...]

Ming - Lu Xiaoyao's bestie - Mei: ...

Heh.

While the three of them were engrossed in eating their boxed lunches, only Li Yuan noticed the annoyance and impatience that flashed in Mu Chen's eyes when he looked at the boxed lunch vendor.

"Is there a problem?"

Although Li Yuan was a little timid, it concerned his academic credits, so he spoke fluently to Mu Chen.

"It's nothing, I'm just a little tired and want to walk around. That corpse is lying there with no one to clean it up; it's going to stink soon."

Mu Chen left with an excuse that even a fool wouldn't believe, leaving Li Yuan confused and not knowing what he was talking about.

Mu Chen left Lu Xiaoyao and the others, and after walking a few steps, he turned a corner, using the difference in perspective to see Mingmei.

The Mingming Boxed Lunch stall next to Mingmei was also very eye-catching. The faint hostility that had been emanating from Mu Chen's body instantly disappeared when he saw her. His smile was like a spring breeze, and his entire demeanor became cheerful when facing Mingmei.

"I thought you weren't in this round."

Mu Chen took two steps forward and stopped in front of Mingmei, his voice carrying a hint of grievance. He lowered his head, staring straight at her, and asked, "I'm hungry. May I buy a boxed lunch from you, boss?"

In response, that familiar boxed lunch sound rang in his ear once again—[Ding—Congratulations to the player for discovering the Mysterious Merchant. Please trade for a boxed lunch within the limited time. Eating it will give you a correct piece of information~]

"Sure, fresh and delicious spicy hotpot boxed lunches. How many would you like, sir?"

Mingmei's eyes instantly curved into crescents. She was very happy that the person in front of her could immediately tell that she and the other person were not the same.

"Three, please." Mu Chen saw that the prompt showed 2 academic points per serving, and the maximum was three servings, so he went all in.

"Okay."

Mingmei packed three bowls of rice and three servings of meat and vegetables evenly into the spicy hotpot and handed them to him. As Mu Chen took the boxed lunches, he said, "By the way, what's going on over there?"

"Fake," Mingmei said, her anger flaring up at the mention of the imposter. She pouted and said, "She's so diligent!"

"It's okay, I'll have Li Yuan come over later." Mu Chen freed up a hand to touch Mingmei's head, and as if he had thought of something, he asked, "Are you going to show yourself in front of Lu Xiaoyao and the others?"

"Is it necessary?"

"Yes." Mu Chen's smile carried a hint of mischievousness, and Mingmei quickly understood, saying, "You want them to regret it? To cry their eyes out?"

"That's good, but you can also choose to go over later. It's cool here now, but it would be good to go into the building and sell boxed lunches in front of them when everyone is analyzing the case."

As Mu Chen spoke, Mingmei felt that something was wrong.

"What's your identity in this round? What's your mission?"

Mingmei suddenly remembered that the comments in Lu Xiaoyao's live stream had mentioned that this game was not just a simple role-playing detective case.

Thinking this, Mingmei's gaze towards her boyfriend became strange.

With her boyfriend's intelligence... it seemed a little wasteful to be an ordinary player.

"It's okay, just a normal player... um."

"What's that 'um' for at the end?" Mingmei wasn't stupid. He paused and smiled knowingly as he said that, as if he was holding back something bad!

"I'm just a little impressed... Mr. Yan Hui is getting more and more flamboyant."

Mingmei: ???

What exactly did her uncle do in this round to make Mu Chen say something like that!

While Mingmei was puzzled, Mu Chen had already returned with the genuine boxed lunches. Under his guidance, Li Yuan quickly found Mingmei and bought two boxed lunches.

So, when Mu Chen and Li Yuan took out boxed lunches in front of Lu Xiaoyao and the others, Lu Xiaoyao and the others realized that something was wrong.

"Huh? Where did you guys buy your boxed lunches?"

"Somewhere else," Mu Chen said vaguely.

Li Yuan glanced at Mu Chen, then looked at the three people who looked puzzled, and said ambiguously like Mu Chen, "Well, they sell them in other places too."

Just as Lu Xiaoyao and the others began to show confused expressions on their faces, Mingmei made her appearance, pushing her Mingming Boxed Lunch stall.

Lu Xiaoyao: 0.0?

Julian & Charlie: 0.0?

Mingmei: "Fresh spicy hotpot boxed lunches, is anyone interested (´-w-`)?"