under the mask

Standing alone under the federal flag in the sand, Li Wei gave a military salute to Joan and accepted the enthusiastic applause and cheers from the soldiers.He looked up and saw that the flag was actually the pattern of the national emblem of Jialai Vance, and he felt quite complicated.He is like this, as if he has immigrated abroad. Although his roots are still on the planet in an unknown time and space, at this moment he has the rights and obligations of citizenship to Jialai Vance.Maybe in a few more decades, he will gradually bury the past in his heart and regard this place as his own, but now he has the urge to cry.

After the ceremony, Abel walked up to him and said with a smile, "Hey, did you hear the announcement?"

Li Wei's melancholy has not subsided, and he looked at him blankly when he heard the words: "Announcement? What announcement?"

"Didn't you hear?" Abel couldn't help poking in front of him with a black line: "Where's the main panel? Call it up and let me see."

Li Wei clicked on the main function panel to show him, and saw that Abel ticked off several options on it with a blank face, and suddenly there was a sound in his ear that kept ringing. It turned out that some major system prompts and the World Channel were not turned on. Also not turned on.

After filtering out a lot of old tips, the latest one turned out to be a world announcement.

"System World Announcement: Player Li Wei completed the hidden mission "Secret Laboratory in the Flaming Desert", and the flame infantry garrison was upgraded to a second-level garrison. Player Li Wei received 100000 virtual points from the system, increased meritorious service by 50000 points, and was promoted to a sergeant."

"System World Announcement: Player Sterling assists player Levi to complete the hidden mission "Secret Laboratory in the Flaming Desert". Player Sterling will receive 50000 system reward virtual points, and his meritorious service will increase by 50000 points."

Ah, is this called an online game?Li Wei only thought of this for a moment. He lowered his head to check the world channel. Since it was still class time, there were not many people online. However, after the announcement sounded, the speed of swiping the screen suddenly increased. It's a hidden mission, only at the very beginning, someone asked Li Wei if he was the one whose ass was pinched by the red-haired Jacob at the entrance ceremony...

The corner of Li Wei's mouth twitched, how could anyone still remember the embarrassing things about the beginning of school?He glanced sideways at Abel, who could only touch his nose and look away guiltily.

He continued to browse the world channel. From everyone's conversations, he learned that since the beginning of this semester, there are a total of three hidden tasks that have been triggered so far, including his, and only one of them was triggered and completed. Judging from the data, there should be at least ten hidden missions refreshed every month.From this point of view, the chance of the hidden mission being triggered is very small, and it is even more difficult to complete it.

In the game, it is not difficult for army players to obtain system reward points. Even like Li Wei, it is often possible to upgrade the entire garrison, but it is almost impossible to upgrade the military rank through a task. Only by continuously participating in daily training garrison infrastructure military operations To accumulate meritorious service, it is possible to get advanced after a period of time.

As a result, the shortcut to get promoted quickly is currently only triggering hidden tasks.This is for military players.

"How much merit do you need to be promoted to captain?" Li Wei asked Abel sideways.

Abel opened his character panel to check, shrugged: "It's still more than 90000 points away, it's very early."

Li Wei was startled, why so many?He leaned over to take a look, and hey, it costs 15 merit points to be promoted from second lieutenant to lieutenant, and the system's one-time reward of [-] points is less than half?He thought a hidden mission would be very profitable...

"I've made a lot of money," Abel grinned, "I've been promoted to lieutenant for several months, but I've only saved less than [-] points...not to mention there are still [-] points, which are worth a lot when converted into currency."

Li Wei looked at his own silently, and sure enough, it was easier for a small soldier to be promoted. He only needed 90000 meritorious service to be promoted from sergeant to sergeant, and this time the task reward was 50000.He couldn't help but get excited, feeling a little like playing keyboard online games before, why don't you spend some time looking for hidden missions?It's too profitable, isn't it!

Abel sneered and patted his ass, pouring cold water on him: "You think the hidden mission is so easy to find? It's just a coincidence, if we didn't meet the female scorpion, it would probably come back after taking the mission objective, so It's just a reward of a little points... And you're not going to participate in the competition this time? Are you not ready?"

Only then did Li Wei wake up from the generous mission rewards, feeling a little ashamed.It's over, he actually taught a lesson to a guy who could be his own son... But the other party was not wrong at all.He clicked on the online storage space on the panel that cost money, and a series of small three-dimensional pictures of items were displayed, spinning quietly, a dark blue phantom, four ordinary battleships, and a yearbook of battleship blueprints. Book, some metal parts.In any case, this time has been very fruitful, so I will tell them about this surprise after class is over.

"By the way, remember to play the game early when you have a rest tomorrow." Abel said to him, "The doctor sent me a message just now, and the resident has to go to the underground workshop to clean up the scorpions, and we have to get some benefits before the government takes over... I guess today We can’t get online here at night, and the station needs to be upgraded and maintained.”

"Understood," Li Wei turned off the panel casually: "Come find me after class later?"

"Yes." Abel agreed without hesitation. He lowered his head and glanced at the continuous message prompts on the communicator, all of which came from Jacob.He ignored those prompts without guilt at all, don't worry Xiaoya, brother will fill his stomach when he goes out, anyway, he has a lot of extra money, and he will bring you something to eat at night.

When going offline, Li Wei received a system maintenance notice.After he exited the game, he turned off the holographic system, his eyes were pitch black, and he reached out to take off the helmet. The evening sun shone in from the window by the table, dyed the white sheets into brilliant orange, and the elegant vase placed by the table projected There was a slanting shadow, and the room was quiet.

He stared at the light screen for a while, but his head was still a little dizzy, probably because he ignored the relationship between breakfast and Chinese food.After spending two days in the game, he suddenly returned to this small white dormitory in reality from the bare desert and the low and monotonous residence. During the two days, the gorgeous and eye-catching flag in the game seemed to be still floating in front of my eyes.He touched the sleeves subconsciously, and found that he was wearing a vest cut by himself. It had no sleeves at all, and naturally there would be no three golden corner lines on the sleeves.

"Reality..." Li Wei couldn't help muttering. Sure enough, no matter whether the game announcement is used as a course tutoring tool, it has nothing to do with whether it makes players sink into it.If in reality, he never had the chance to be promoted from corporal to sergeant in just over a month of game time, a mission like the giant scorpion, even if he gets promoted, it would be meaningless if he was disfigured and paralyzed... Tsk.

He looked at the time in the corner of the screen, it was only three forty, and it was still a while before get out of class ended.After turning off the optical brain, Li Wei stood up from the chair and stretched his limbs. Except for the protest of his stomach, the expected soreness in his neck and back did not appear.He looked down at the armchair, and it seemed that the armchair activated the massage device because he sat down for too long.

In fact, in addition to the glasses, the general holographic game will also have a game compartment in the helmet. The nutrient solution configured in the game compartment can keep the player online for half a month, which is quite impressive when converted into a game.However, at Imperial University, Starship Fleet is obviously not purely for the entertainment of students, so it is impossible to equip them with game cabins.Although according to Li Wei's guess, Dida is probably reluctant to let the high price of the game warehouse far exceed other equipment.

He picked up the communicator on the side and put it on to check several newly received messages, which was as he expected.

"Boss, have you been to the restaurant yet? What are you having for lunch?—Kashgar"

"Hey, what are you doing, we are waiting for you, why don't you come to eat? - Kashi"

"I've been to your dormitory. The blue-haired guy said that you haven't played the game since last night. I relied on you to skip class all morning! Since you're still in the game, I'll take the tonkatsu away ?—Kashgar.”

"Why aren't you here yet? Haven't played the game yet? It's time for class. ——Commander (Ai Mi)"

"John called your name, I said you suddenly felt uncomfortable, but you need to make up a note afterwards. - Commander (Amy)"

"I'm going to study military science, have you come to class? - Commander (Amy)"

……

Li Wei deleted while watching, and suddenly a new message popped up after deleting all of them.

"Boss! I heard that you didn't go to class for a day, and you dated Lieutenant Jacob in the game! Oh no, they said that you triggered a hidden mission by making an appointment! That's awesome! ——Small man (Tony)"

Pfft——Lee Wei spit all over the table.

What does it mean?Isn't Tony not in the game?wrong!who are they?Tony and him are not a professional...Could it be that Kashi told him?No, Kashi and Tony are not in the same class...

Li Wei stared at the small light screen on the communicator speechless.What is an appointment?

He didn't expect that this short message represented more than just "hearing" among a few people. In fact, almost all the first and third graders were eagerly waiting for class to end, even the second graders There are also some of them, like them, all waiting to huddle together after class to have a lively discussion about the little scandal between a celebrity they are familiar with and another celebrity they are not familiar with.

It may be an exaggeration to say so, but life before the start of the competition is too boring, and the students are eager to find some gossip to warm up the competition.What's more, one of the people involved in this scandal has won his category in the mock battle competition for three consecutive years.Whether it is for the girls who are chattering or the boys who pretend to be disdainful, this matter is attractive enough to arouse their heated discussions.

Li Wei stepped into the restaurant 10 minutes after class, and couldn't help feeling a little regretful.Since he entered this university, the former way of turning a blind eye doesn't seem to be very effective...Because in the past, he only attracted the attention of others because of himself, and this attention is always limited, but now, he is superimposed with the brilliance of another person , the sight of people around has reached an unbearable level.

"It's him...the one named Li Wei..."

"... not bad looking..."

Three or four female students in junior uniforms walked past Li Wei with their plates, their scrutinizing eyes cast obliquely on his body through the smeared thick black eyelashes, scanned from head to toe, and stopped at him Especially on the face and buttocks.

Veins popped out of Li Wei's forehead, and he slammed the book in his hand on a nearby table, startling those proud girls.He snorted coldly, and sat down rudely on the chair.

"Scared me to death..." One of the girls looked back at him.

"... quite individual..." Another person wearing purple lipstick suddenly winked at Li Wei's cold gaze.

"You are poaching the corner of the Tyrannosaurus rex, be careful that he troubles you!" Several girls walked away muttering.

Li Wei: "..."

These are nothing, when the red-haired boy walked towards him with a happy smile, the whole restaurant made a huge noise, whether it was boos or shouts.

"Are these people sick?" Abel sat next to Li Wei, frowning and looking around dissatisfied.

Li Wei turned to look at him speechlessly: "Haven't you heard? We have become the protagonists of the entertainment version of gossip."

Abel blinked and suddenly realized.

"A lot of third graders have no class in the afternoon. I guess they heard the world announcement?" He said slowly, "You didn't go to class for another day. Everyone connected the two of us together, thinking that we deliberately skipped class to play games." In…" a date.

Li Wei squinted his eyes and looked at the proud red-haired boy in front of him. Although he didn't deny the word dating, isn't it a bit suspicious of being so obvious?It's a pity that he was able to beat the opponent without hesitation before yesterday, but now he can't do it.

"Listen, I don't like to be a topic of discussion," he poked Abel's chest with a straight face: "If someone asks you, you should know how to say it."

Abel: "..."

He was still planning just now, if someone asked him later, he would cough, and explain his current relationship with Li Wei by the way, so as to dispel the evil thoughts of those women with long breasts but not long brains in the third grade.Just kidding, he can't wait to put some marks on Li Wei's body, how can he tolerate others approaching him with unscrupulous purposes?Fortunately, it was him, if it was Xiaoya, he would have dragged those guys to the toilet directly.

"Well, since you said that..." Abel reluctantly pinched the corner of Li Wei's clothes under the table.

After a while, Kashi and Amelia found them.

Li Wei met Kashi's shining eyes, and his eyelids twitched.

"You guys...is this a sure relationship?" Kashgar winked, and then said to himself in confusion: "Why do I feel like I asked this question?"

Emilia turned a deaf ear and nodded slightly to Abel.When Abel looked at her, he was unexpectedly cold and serious. After nodding, he continued to look down at Li Wei's clothes with great interest.

Li Wei has nothing to say, and feels that since he went to school, he has been under a lot of pressure.