Forces of Temptation

Standing still for a long time, Jiang Fang smiled and shook his head at another self reflected in the window:

Think so much to do.

As long as the goal is achieved.

Now that he has fulfilled his childhood wish, he will concentrate on working for his employer.

Not long after, the rich second generation sent Jiang Fang a post summarizing the skills of brushing rare materials published on a forum.

After a cursory glance, Jiang Fang confirmed that he was among the first to obtain these so-called rare materials.

Several of these tricks are still wrong.

But Jiang Fang has never been in the habit of correcting others' mistakes.

Smiling, when he clicked to exit, his eyes caught sight of the "Eternal Day" strategy post posted by a certain player.

After clicking in and browsing briefly, his brows furrowed.

...Should I pass the level like this?

He never felt that what Nan Zhou needed was "relief".

What he needs is freedom and companionship.

When he came back to his senses, looking at the half-screen explanation that had already been typed on the screen, Jiang Fang suddenly felt that he was very funny.

That's a copy of the game.

Games always need a clear goal.

Compared with the illusory concept of "freedom and companionship", of course the goal of "killing the boss" is clearer.

My own explanation is nothing but a self-moving manga reader.

Jiang Fang tapped on the keyboard, deleting his explanation word by word.

Click, click.

Watching the cursor gradually moving back and approaching its starting point, Jiang Fang's fingertips tapped more and more slowly.

10 minute later.

Jiang Fang stood outside the floor-to-ceiling windows of the "Eternal Day" library.

Nan Zhou was lying prone on the table, with a magazine under his head, and his hands were neatly pressed under the magazine.

He took off his shoes, and the white socks gleamed slightly in the sun.

He showed off the beautiful and flexible curve of his waist without vigilance, and he didn't shy away from being seen by others.

When Jiang Fang pursed his lips in disapproval at his defenselessness, Nan Zhou moved his body.

A corner of his white shirt was lifted up, revealing traces of electric injuries.

Nan Zhou's skin was so white that it was glowing, so when large patches of red wounds were burned on it, they were extremely bright and eye-catching.

Jiang Fang's fingertips touched the glass unconsciously.

Click, click.

Like a slight knock on a door.

Nanzhou didn't even move.

I don't know if I am extremely tired, or I am concentrating on studying.

Jiang Fang lowered his hands, turned and left.

The communication skills he learned from casinos, car factories, ice hockey rinks and schools really don't know how to use them on this virtual friend who has never had normal communication since childhood.

He turned around and came to the apple tree in front of the window of Nan Zhou's house.

Seeing the lush fruit trees and the red apples on the branches, Jiang Fang's eyes slightly curled up.

... Wasn't it forced to be updated by the system?

He really delivered this gift.

If this is the case, then Jiang Fang has a new idea.

As far as he knew, there was a monster in the copy of "Home Island".

This is a combination of real-life tower defense and farming games. The purpose is to beware of waves of monster attacks and damage to crops, and finally win the victory of defending the farmland.

The bottom boss of No.30 level [-] is a small monster designed based on the sugar glider.

It looks small and cute, harmless to humans and animals, and cute.

But when it attacks, its head will swell to more than 800 times its size, open its mouth, and bite off the player's head in one bite.

In ordinary stealing, players can only use the lowest level, that is, green weapon level weapons to attack and drive away.

Weapons higher than the level of green weapons can't hurt them at all.

They just get better and better.

But after the accumulation of normal attacks to a certain extent, it will suddenly transform, with a bloody mouth open, chasing the player to bite the head, knocking the player's head as a melon seed.

When the player finally escapes from the surrounding dangers and switches weapons, it will often return to its normal size, continue to steal fruits brazenly, and treat the attacks of advanced weapons as air.

...so it was extremely difficult.

Jiang Fang went through this dungeon six or seven times.

In the end, among a group of sugar gliders that had become remnants, Jiang Fang finally chose the most pleasing and beautiful one.

The little guy has bright fur, neat teeth, and round eyes. His appearance is the best among the bosses he has ever seen.

It was seriously injured, and it was still a young rat, its blood strip was cut to a thin line, and it was squatting on the ground and whimpering, looking very pitiful.

Jiang Fang held it by its small tail, opened the warehouse, and threw it in.

The warehouse can't read the data, and the code is just messed up.

Before the system cleared the bug, Jiang Fang immediately chose to transfer to "Eternal Day".

He didn't hold out much hope for this gift.

Anyway, it is automatically refreshed by the system.

Even if it is erased by the system, it is nothing to lose if you practice a few more copies.

Fortunately, when he came to "Eternal Day", the sugar glider hadn't had time to disappear from the inventory.

Sitting under the tree, Jiang Fang lifted the semi-conscious little guy out.

He pulled the little red ribbon on the scabbard, tied a neat gentleman's bow tie around its neck, and dressed it up as a gift.

He looked back at the apple tree behind him.

He still couldn't understand why the copy of "Eternal Day" was so different from the others.

There seems to be no concept of "refreshing to zero" for normal copies at all.

Neither the apple tree nor the injuries on Nanzhou's body disappeared.

Jiang Fang put the small gift sugar glider on the branch and tied it tightly.

He forcibly quit an instance, and chose to enter "Eternal Day" again.

The sugar glider really hasn't disappeared.

It hung on the branch of the tree at the same level as his line of sight, with tears streaming down its face, its eyes raised, and it held its paws weakly and arched twice, trying to beg for mercy.

Jiang Fang crossed his arms and looked at it with interest.

If it's ability to hit people's heads when it's not happy is not erased, he must seriously consider its danger.

He wrote a small sign and hung it around the sugar glider's neck with a thin thread.

"This thing is dangerous, be careful."

Seeing that begging for mercy didn't work, the little guy suddenly became angry, and grinned at Jiang Fang with impotent rage.

Jiang Fang tapped its nose lightly with the pen tip.

It froze for a moment, then struggled even more angrily, chirping and screaming.

After giving this gift, according to Jiang Fang's incomplete observation, it fought Nan Zhou at least seven or eight times.

... But the problem is, Nan Zhou doesn't seem to think it's an attack.

When its head suddenly became bigger and tried to bite off his head, Nan Zhou moved nimbly around the back of its neck, pressed down on its head, and gently grabbed the small soft hairs that exploded behind its head.

Jiang Fang wanted to remind him many times that the sugar glider had no intention of playing with him.

If it couldn't beat it, it really wanted to kill him.

But looking at Nanzhou as if no one was around, having so much fun with this little monster that would never disappear and leave, Jiang Fang didn't try to intervene to do anything.

The employer was generous with his unique taste, and he was willing to spend a lot of money, buying him a dozen or so lo suits for his account.

He wore a snow-white gauze ornament with swallowtail butterflies on his Ji hair, and his koi-colored Lo attire was brightly colored, and his waist was tightly bound by a maple-gold belt.

He held a fan inlaid with snow-white thin velvet with one hand, and tapped his palm lightly.

Jiang Fang sat in Nanzhou's room, gently stroking with his fingertips on the blue sky and white dove window painted by Nanzhou.

Nan Zhou was playing with his little pet on the roof not far away.

The sugar glider was fighting him one-sidedly.

Everything in front of him made Jiang Fang suddenly stunned.

It seems that "Nanzhou" is really a real person.

Where the manga writer can't draw, he draws on his windows and loves furry animals.

Will... keep a diary.

In his hand, there is Nan Zhou's painting diary.

He tapped the cover of the diary repeatedly with the end of his fan, and had the urge to take a look, but chuckled again.

Giving a gift to a virtual character is already outrageous.

What's the point of reading the diary of a virtual character?

I also want to know that this is an illusion provided to him by the system design.

No matter how real it is, it is also false.

I can give him a tree and a pet outside the system, and imagine that a prepared data will be happy because of it, which is my own extraordinarily unilateral whimsy.

……

Now, the little pet that he gave him is lying on Nan Zhou's shoulder.

... Nanzhou is closer to it than to himself.

Jiang Fang managed to overcome the soreness in his heart, and when he turned his head, he saw Nan Jixing squatting on Nan Zhou's chest, chirping coquettishly into his clothes.

Jiang Fang: "..."

Nan Jixing, who was forcibly pulled out of Nanzhou's collar with his short legs upside down, turned his head and struggled to protest: "Hey!"

Jiang Fang put the little thing on the ground and said with a gentle smile, "Little animal, don't be too close, it's dirty."

Nan Zhou didn't care much: "It's always been like this, it's very sticky to me."

Seeing that he was willing to talk about his pet, Li Yinhang consciously found a breakthrough point for conversation: "Hey, Teacher Nan, when did you raise Nanjixing?"

Nanzhou replied: "Eight or nine months ago."

Li Yinhang: "How much did you buy it for?"

Nan Zhou: "I picked it up."

Li Yinhang: "You picked it up?"

Nan Zhou: "Yeah. I caught it when I was eating apples from a tree. I got a little bit injured. I bandaged it up and it's mine."

Jiang Fang: "..."

Jiang Fang hesitated to speak: "Didn't you see..."

Nan Zhou tilted his head: "What?"

Jiang Fang laughed: "...it's nothing."

No wonder.

I'm afraid my own rope failed to control this little monster.

After leaving by itself, it bit the rope, ate the warning sign angrily, and had a fit of nature again, and went to steal Nanzhou's apples, and Nanzhou regarded it as a good friend from then on.

Seeing Nanjixing jumping up and down and jumping at the dragonfly, with a heartless look, Li Yinhang let out a long sigh.

"Why did we encounter such a thing? In the end, the innocent little guy was brought in."

For this little thing that seemed to know nothing and was so fragile that it could be stabbed to death with a finger, Li Yinhang felt quite hurtful: "...what does it know?"

"Yes." Jiang Fang looked at Nanzhou, "Why?"

Nan Zhou shrugged.

The thoughts of the two returned to a year ago in unison.

For them, it was an extremely strange mutation.

A weird fourth natural disaster that occurred half a year earlier than the large-scale disappearance cases in the world.

For Nanzhou, as the influx of players accelerated and the number increased, his life as an aborigine became more and more difficult.

At first, he observed that the flow of time in Neverland was rapidly increasing.

Almost every three days, there will be a full moon night.

Later, every full moon night, he would be forcibly controlled on the street where his family lived.

He can no longer use his knowledge of Nevertown to evade players.

And all the houses on the street were cordoned off.

He could only be forced to be exposed to the glare of the moonlight for a long time, and his hiding place was greatly reduced.

Nanzhou is very fortunate to have encountered Nanjixing.

It played with him every day at first, jumping around, not very obedient.

After getting acquainted with itself, it found that it was always unable to catch itself, so it learned to pamper him and ask for apples.

Sometime later, when he was attacked and unable to resist, it suddenly jumped out and bit off the head of the opposite player.

Seeing that the situation was not good, Nan Zhou hurriedly put it back into his pocket.

He has already realized that the last two weird changes in the world were all due to someone secretly manipulating them behind the scenes.

He was afraid that the person who had the ability to manipulate the world would take away the Antarctic star that had finally come to him.

Nan Zhou hugged his little pet like this, worrying quietly for two days.

But since that day, strange things have happened.

No players come to this instance anymore.

His world suddenly fell silent.

It was so quiet that people felt vaguely ominous.

……

For Jiang Fang, that day was quite ordinary.

In the morning, he was woken up by a phone call from his employer.

The host on the other end of the phone was very dissatisfied: "I urged you last time, all achievements, all achievements! Didn't you get all the others, why is the one from "Eternal Day" missing?!"

Jiang Fang responded gently and politely: "That dungeon is really difficult. You know it."

The employer was also dumbfounded for a moment.

The abnormal difficulty of "Eternal Day" is the consensus of all "Gravity" players.

After repeated complaints from players, the official has reduced the difficulty of the copy of "Eternal Day" twice in a row.

One is to increase the update time of the debuff, and the other is to modify the active range of the boss in the debuff state.

However, eggs are not used.

This boss seems to have the ability to mobilize the Light Charm in Never Town.

After being restricted, quite a few of Guangmei were willing to work for him.

When the player ambushed Nanzhou, there were at least seven or eight light charms with no abilities, secretly squatting in the grass behind the player.

This morning, some players posted a post, saying that they were about to kill the boss successfully, and suddenly a mouse popped out out of nowhere, with a big mouth, and bit off his head.

He asked the official whether everything in this dungeon would become refined.

At present, the official has not given a corresponding solution.

The employer, who is well aware of these objective situations, had no choice but to urge dryly: "It's hard to return to hard, you have to find a way, my buddies have already passed "Eternal Day", and they are about to get all achievements, you can hurry up!" Take it easy."

After hanging up the phone, Jiang Fang chuckled helplessly, stepped into the game cabin, and started his daily game time again.

When the game helmet was gently moved and closed on the side of his head, a slight needling sensation came from the temple, which made Jiang Fang frowned slightly.

…Lately, when logging in and out of Gravity, something like this keeps happening.

In the forum, some players suspected that the device was leaking electricity.

Some players also reported that the game is always stuck when logging out recently, and the exit is not smooth enough.

Sometimes you have to click the exit button several times in a row to successfully exit.

The official also expressed their position immediately, saying that the game is being optimized and rectified for such situations, please be patient.

When he first entered Rust City Street, Jiang Fang was still thinking about whether he should visit Nanzhou later.

I don't know if the sugar glider, a bug that shouldn't exist, will be officially banned.

However, before he took two steps, a sharp pain suddenly struck, piercing Jiang Fang's head like a needle.

Jiang Fang reacted very quickly, and under the severe pain, he still did not forget to click the logout button immediately, trying to leave the game.

However, seconds passed.

In the residual pain and dizziness, under his feet was still the rusty and cold concrete floor.

Gritting his teeth and panting slightly, he clicked the logout button several times in a row.

...still no response.

Before Jiang Fang realized what had happened, the neat military loom on his body gradually separated from his body as if the layer had been removed.

Jiang Fang suddenly raised his head and looked around——

The players next to him have all returned to their true colors in reality.

The beautiful, curvy beauty turned into an uncle with a protruding belly.

The tall, handsome and heroic man has shrunk in height and turned into a bewildered college girl.

And Jiang Fang looked at the snow-white home clothes on his body, and seemed to feel something. He raised his hand and touched the choker around his neck.

He hates his scars, so when pinching his face, he removed the scars on the basis of simply retaining his facial features.

--What's wrong?

The author has something to say:

Nanjixing: Chirp! (eat you!)

Nanzhou: It's super sticky to me.