Night had fallen.

The night in *Hiyori*’s universe was nothing special.

Everything around them maintained its usual "gag manga" style, even the moon in the sky wasn't perfectly round.

"Hey, I'm over here."

As Wang Tanzhi turned a corner, he heard a familiar call.

He looked in the direction of the sound and saw a human (cat) figure under a street lamp diagonally across the intersection.

"Hoo..." Xiao Tan breathed a sigh of relief, looked around, and then walked over.

As Xiao Tan approached, Feng Bujue lowered his voice and said, "You're pretty punctual."

"Actually, I didn't deliberately calculate the time..." Xiao Tan replied, "From four o'clock in the afternoon until twenty minutes ago... I completed four side quests in succession. After finishing the fourth quest, I looked at the map and hurried over... and the timing was just right."

"Ah... I probably know all that." Feng Bujue continued, "When you receive a side quest, it will also be displayed in my game menu."

"Then you should also know... the extent of my current [bleep] pain, right..." Xiao Tan said expressionlessly.

"Heh heh... I'm not so sure about that." Feng Bujue said, "Based solely on the content of the quest itself, it's not easy to deduce..."

"Then let me put it simply." Xiao Tan continued, "First of all, the first side quest... I witnessed a 'duel' between Basho-san and Sora-kun."

"Yeah... I know those two." Jue-ge nodded, "The strong, air-headed, cute uke and the aloof, black-bellied seme, right?"

"Although I don't really like these ACG-heavy terms, I have to say your characterization is very accurate..." Xiao Tan replied with squinted eyes.

"Thank you." Jue-ge replied with a smile.

Xiao Tan licked his lips, and after two seconds, said again, "Then, in the second side quest... I was taken by an uncle who claimed to be the 'Product Development Department Manager' to a strange conference room, and I, along with a bunch of strangely dressed guys, researched the 'stickers' developed by their company."

"It's a rip-off, isn't it?" Feng Bujue continued.

"Whether it's a rip-off or not has nothing to do with me. Anyway, I don't buy their products. I'm just a randomly selected consumer giving them some suggestions." Xiao Tan replied, "But... I never expected that the model for the stickers... that is, a little brat who looked very patriotic... would run in on his own. According to the manager, he seemed to be 'the son of Oishi-kun, who was fired last month' or something... A few minutes later, their conflict escalated into a violent incident. The manager was crippled by the bear child with a whip kick, and finally left with a cane..."

"Heh heh... he's also quite dedicated..." Feng Bujue said with a dry laugh.

"Then, I encountered the third side quest." Xiao Tan shrugged and continued, "This may be the most inexplicable quest I've ever encountered..."

"Yeah, I was just about to ask you about that." Feng Bujue said, "What exactly is the plot of [Through false guidance, prevent her from reaching her destination before midnight]?"

Jue-ge was quite familiar with the plot of *Hiyori*, so when he saw keywords like "Basho", "Sora", or "stickers" in the quest log, he could immediately deduce who Xiao Tan had encountered. Only this third side quest triggered by Xiao Tan, judging from the quest content, was difficult to relate to any story in *Hiyori*.

"I'm not too sure either." Xiao Tan said, "That woman claimed to be a 'sweet and sour, strawberry-flavored beautiful big sister from a famous university, S1'. She said she was working part-time as a tutor in the evening. But she seemed to be geographically challenged, saying... 'she felt, atmospherically, and spiritually that she had found the client's address', but in reality..."

"Alright... you don't need to go on." Feng Bujue interrupted him, "This is a sad story."

"Eh? What's wrong?" Xiao Tan replied, "I think the NPC I met in this quest was the least silly one I've seen so far. Apart from being geographically challenged, she's basically a normal person. Seeing that it was almost midnight and she hadn't found the client's house, she said it was too late and she would go back first. Until she left my sight, there was nothing unusual about her." He thought for a moment and said, "Come to think of it... I really feel a little guilty... I led her around in circles for a few hours, preventing her from going to the client's house. I guess that counts as disrupting someone's work, right?"

"No, you did a good deed." Feng Bujue said, "You not only protected her safety, but also saved two people whose hearts were filled with distractions. You have accumulated immeasurable merit... Amitabha~"

Xiao Tan didn't understand what Jue-ge was saying, but he didn't think too much about it. He just assumed that the other party was joking and that he hadn't gotten the reference.

"Okay... then the fourth side quest." After a few seconds, Wang Tanzhi continued, "You saw it in the quest log... it's a combat quest."

"Yeah." Feng Bujue said, "You received it at 0:20 after midnight, right... [Survive the battle with the werewolf]..."

"That's right." Xiao Tan replied, "At the same time as the quest prompt sounded, a guy dressed as a high school student transformed in front of me."

"Hmm..." Jue-ge continued, "For the next hour, you were running away from his pursuit?"

"No... when he transformed, I happened to be standing in a dead-end alley." Xiao Tan replied, "There was no way to escape..."

"Huh?" Feng Bujue was stunned when he heard this, but the next second, he seemed to understand something, and a smile appeared on his face, "Oh... you encountered that... werewolf whose combat power is just about equal to that of an elementary school student, right?"

"You actually remember such a [bleep] terrible setting so well..." Xiao Tan's answer proved that Jue-ge was correct.

"What's so strange about that? I even remember that werewolf's name is Fujita." Feng Bujue raised his eyebrows and replied.

"Alright..." Xiao Tan spread his hands, "In short, I used the body of Hayataro, a fourth-grade student at Animal Elementary School, and fought that nearly two-meter-tall, ferocious-looking, and strong werewolf for more than ten minutes, and then... won."

"After he lost, did he bury his face between his knees and sit on the ground dejectedly for an hour?" Feng Bujue immediately asked.

"Yes... the system didn't prompt me that the quest was completed until an hour later." At this point, Xiao Tan had summarized his nearly ten-hour journey in the *Hiyori* world, "Therefore, I only just arrived here now."

"Hmm..." Feng Bujue nodded, thought for two seconds, and then said, "By the way, what kind of item is the doll you got from Basho-san? This is the only one of the four side quests that gave an item reward, it should be a good thing, right?"