Ning Xi looked like she really loved eating rice noodles. She ate with great relish.
Lin Mo had originally been starving as well, but for some reason, after seeing Ning Xi, he suddenly lost his appetite.
Maybe this was what people called being able to feast on beauty alone.
After finishing the rice noodles, Ning Xi noticed Lin Mo had been staring at her with great interest the whole time, as if he were just waiting for her to finish so they could move on to the next step.
Even though she had already prepared herself mentally, she still felt a little flustered.
"Are you full?", Lin Mo asked.
Ning Xi nodded lightly and said, "Mm! I'm full."
Just as Ning Xi's face flushed red and her heart was filled with unease.
Lin Mo suddenly said something she never expected to hear, "Since you're full, I'll walk you home."
Ning Xi froze for quite a while before coming back to her senses, "It's okay, I can go home by myself!"
Standing at the entrance of the shop, a gentle breeze lifted the hem of Ning Xi's dress.
She lightly hugged her shoulders with both hands.
At this moment, Lin Mo took off his jacket and draped it over Ning Xi's shoulders, "The temperature difference between day and night is big. Don't catch a cold."
Ning Xi looked up at Lin Mo, her eyes shimmering, "Thank you..."
After that, Lin Mo called a taxi for Ning Xi.
Only after watching Ning Xi get into the car did he turn around and head back toward his own home across the bridge.
In the taxi, Ning Xi looked at Lin Mo in the rearview mirror, watching him grow farther and farther away, and couldn't help wrapping herself tighter in the jacket he had given her.
A wave of warmth rose in her heart.
Because aside from her mother and her younger brother, Lin Mo was the only person in the world who treated her well without wanting anything in return.
Lin Mo knew very well that the foot massage parlor was not a good place.
But he didn't dare to easily change the course of history in this life, lest he trigger the butterfly effect and cause Ning Xi to enter Divine Oracle early, or even miss out on her SSS-tier talent from his past life.
So the only thing he could do was frequently visit Listening Rain Pavilion and, to the best of his ability, protect Ning Xi.
"After this time, the Empress should have doubled her favorability toward me, right?", Lin Mo felt extremely good about himself.
"Mm! Next I still need to keep working hard! Strive to push down the Empress as soon as possible!!"
Besides that, Lin Mo had another huge gain tonight.
That big White Rabbit milk candy Ning Xi gave him really did give Lin Mo inspiration.
Now, in his mind, he already had a strategy to deal with Wang Junjie.
It was just that he needed to rest well first, then log in to carry it out.
After all, after eight hours of high-intensity BOSS grinding, he was truly exhausted. He felt like he could fall asleep the moment he lay down.
So Lin Mo returned home, set an alarm for eleven o'clock.
Then he lay down on the bed and instantly fell asleep.
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At the same time, on the other side—
Ning Xi returned to a rental apartment with only one bedroom and one bathroom, so small it could only fit her alone.
She washed Lin Mo's jacket clean, hung it out to dry, then sat down by the bed and turned on the computer.
Carefully, she put on a pitch-black helmet and clicked a game app on the desktop called [Divine Oracle]. [T/N: Now I am convinced that she is the Liuli.]
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Ding! Ding! Ding! Ding!
Late at night, at eleven o'clock, the alarm rang like a death curse, jolting Lin Mo awake from his sleep.
Even though he had only slept a little over two hours, Lin Mo still felt extremely drowsy.
But he had no choice but to sit at the computer desk, put on the helmet, and log into Divine Oracle.
Because the double drop buff for poison bottles in the Insect Nest Underground Palace only lasted twelve hours. Three hours had already passed, leaving only nine hours.
Lin Mo had to seize the remaining buff time and make nine hours produce the effect of eighteen hours.
[Ding~ Player Rulebound, welcome back to the world of Divine Oracle!]
Whoosh!
White light poured down, and Lin Mo appeared in Blazing Ember City.
After going to the potion shop to restock some mana potions, Lin Mo headed straight for the Insect Nest Underground Palace.
When he arrived outside the dungeon, he indeed discovered that nearly a hundred players from the Chaotic World Guild were stationed at the dungeon entrance.
It went without saying that the inside of the dungeon must also be full of Chaotic World people.
With them around, Lin Mo had no way to go in and farm poison bottles.
There was no time to lose. Lin Mo immediately began carrying out his plan.
He opened the Blazing Ember City leaderboard and, through the fourth place on the level rankings, found the level 21 warrior Dragon Soul Aoshi, and sent him a message.
Inside the Insect Nest Underground Palace, because of their limited strength, most Chaotic World Guild players were concentrated on the first and second floors, farming low-level poison bugs to collect poison bottles.
"The boss has ordered it! Complete a full set of Tier 1 Venom gear, reward thirty thousand! Complete a full set of Tier 2 Venom gear, reward one hundred thousand!"
"Brothers, put in some effort! Let's split the reward money together!"
Because of this reward strategy, Chaotic World's players were enjoying themselves immensely.
And at this very moment, Wang Junjie was offline, left arm hugging one girl and right arm hugging another, sleeping soundly.
Until a sudden burst of phone ringing woke him up.
Wang Junjie grabbed the phone impatiently.
"Fack! Who is it?"
"Boss, this is bad! Our brothers over at the Insect Nest Underground Palace were attacked by the Dragon Soul Guild!"
Hearing this news, Wang Junjie instantly woke up.
"Dragon Soul? Fack! Damn it!"
"Over and over again you go against me. You're really asking to die!"
As he spoke, Wang Junjie immediately put on his clothes, leaving behind two sexy, beautiful girls on the bed with confused looks on their faces.
He turned and went to the game room next to the bedroom, put on the helmet, and logged into Divine Oracle.
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Night covered the land.
Insect Nest Underground Palace—
Players from two different factions were engaged in a fierce battle outside the dungeon.
And these two forces were none other than Dragon Soul and the Chaotic World Guild.
Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!
Beams of white light shot into the sky one after another.
Screams and shouts rang out continuously.
Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!
The second-ranked player on Blazing Ember City's Heavenly Rankings, the level 22 archer Su Muqiu, wielded the [Spatial Executioner Crossbow] and personally led the charge.
Leading one thousand elite Dragon Soul Guild players with an average level of 20, they beat Chaotic World's group of cannon fodder, whose average level was only 18 or 19, into constant retreat.
When Wang Junjie hurried over from Blazing Ember City, he saw the scene of his underlings being slaughtered like a bunch of chicks by Dragon Soul's elites, and immediately flew into a rage.
"Fack your mother! I spent so much money raising you, and this is the trash you turned into?"
"Three assassins stabbing one mage and still getting counter-killed by two? What the Fack are you even playing! Even my housekeeper plays better than you!"
"A bunch of trash! What the hell do I need you for!"
The surrounding underlings had grievances they couldn't voice:
"Boss, ever since we came over to the third-tier main city, we've been following your arrangements, grinding the Shadow Legion in Shadow City, then coming to farm the Insect Nest Underground Palace."
"We're only relying on that little bit of experience from killing monsters, and there's always the risk of dying and losing levels. Dragon Soul has been doing high-level quests and getting rewards the whole time. Their growth speed is definitely far beyond ours."
Wang Junjie slashed the complaining underling with a single sword, turning him into white light, scaring the surrounding underlings pale with terror.
"Don't give me this bullshit! If you can't bring me benefits, why the hell am I paying to raise you?"
"Kill them for me! If you can't take down Dragon Soul today, every single one of you can get lost! I'll recruit new people!"
As soon as these words came out, the Chaotic World Guild players were terrified.
Afraid of losing Wang Junjie, their wealthy patron, they all picked up their weapons and, gritting their teeth, launched an attack on Dragon Soul's players.
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