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The cracks spread rapidly across the surface of the sphere and then throughout the entire space.
The next second, the core, along with the surrounding scenery, shattered with a deafening roar.
The Hollow Leader has been defeated.
[Settlement in progress...]
[Darklands (Low-level)]
Total time: 2 hours 01 minutes 32 seconds
[Time to kill the leader: 19.31s (New record!)]
[Output percentage:]
【"Cursed Blade" - 69% (MVP)】
[Echo - 31%]
[Treatment percentage:]
【none】
【...】
Koshimura didn't have time to look at the long string of data and evaluations before selecting "Exit Simulation".
The familiar feeling of being pulled at came again, accompanied by a slight sense of weightlessness, and countless colorful lines once again swept across the edge of my vision.
At one point, Koshimura felt himself suddenly regain control of his body.
However... this feeling was unusually heavy and sluggish, just like the so-called "sleep paralysis".
He tried desperately to raise his arm, but in the end only his fingers trembled very slightly.
You call this "controllable"?!
Time was ticking away, and the pulling sensation in my consciousness was gradually lessening, as I was about to return to the main interface of the simulation system.
This also means that even the last chance is about to be lost.
Damn...
If Lixi were to escape here, her job as a shop assistant would be over...
Although it could be barely concealed if only the two of them knew, Rinrinko would definitely come to check the situation herself after the scheduled time ended once she discovered that the simulation system was offline.
Moreover, trying to dispose of wet sheets and secretly replace them with clean ones without being discovered is practically impossible.
I never imagined that Lixi, at such a young age, would have to experience the taste of social death just like him.
From now on, I'll stand at RiNG's counter and let people talk about me for a lifetime.
Damn it! I absolutely cannot allow this to happen!
Is there really no other solution?
Koshimura Sawa shouted in his heart, summoning all his willpower and concentrating all his thoughts on his right arm—
Trembling, he lifted his hand, moved with difficulty... Finally, his fingers touched the edge of the glasses, and with his last bit of strength, he ripped them off!
The moment the patch on my temple was ripped off, a blinding red light suddenly appeared before my eyes, followed by a sharp alarm sound.
Ignoring the stinging light that hurt his eyes, Koshimura Sawa practically rolled off the bed and staggered to Shiina Tatsuki's bedside, ripping off her glasses.
"Ugh..." Shiina Riki let out a painful groan and suddenly opened his eyes.
Those usually stern purple eyes were now filled with tears, brimming with an unbearable plea.
"Quick!" Yuecunze grabbed her wrist, not even bothering to put on his shoes, and dragged her stumbling towards the door of the simulation training room, pressing his hand on the doorknob and slamming it down—
[A. Turns around and blocks the door, "Hmph, trying to escape!"]
[B. "Is there still time to run to the bathroom? Or should I just catch it with my mouth?"]
【C. "Lixi, actually, you're super cute when you're holding back!"】
Koshimura took a deep breath, suddenly turned around, and said to Shiina Riki, who was on the verge of tears, "Riki."
"Huh?" Shiina Riki, who was trying her best to endure, was taken aback.
"Actually, you look super cute when you're trying to hold it in!!!"
"Huh?! What nonsense are you spouting! You pervert!!!" Shiina Riki's face instantly turned bright red as she shouted, filled with shame and indignation.
"Alright!" Yuecun Ze quickly opened the door to make way for her. "Go on!"
Shiina Riki could no longer care about anything else. Her face was flushed, her head was lowered, and her feet, clad in black calf socks, touched the cold floor as she rushed towards the bathroom without looking back.
"Finally made it..." Yuecun Ze watched her figure disappear around the corner of the corridor before letting out a long sigh of relief and wiping the sweat from his forehead.
Next, I need to hurry back to check what's going on with the alarm in the room...
He had just turned around when he caught a striking white figure out of the corner of his eye.
Koshimura's body stiffened instantly.
He turned his head very slowly, little by little.
Yoro Nai was leaning lazily against the wall of the corridor, her lips pursed, her beautiful heterochromatic eyes fixed on them with great interest.
"Uh..."
“I saw it,” Kaoru said calmly.
"...What did you see?"
"You and Rikki came out of a room, and you said she looked cute when she was holding back her tears. Then Rikki blushed and limped away," Yoru Nai recounted, word by word.
She paused, seemingly thinking for a moment, and asked with curiosity, "Do you like watching girls hold back their laughter?"
"No, no, no, it's definitely not what you think!" Yuecunze felt cold sweat instantly pour down his forehead, and he waved his hands repeatedly. "Listen to me, you just happened to be passing by here. You didn't see anything, and you didn't hear anything, understand?"
You Le Nai looked at him quietly without saying a word, only tilting her head slightly.
After a few seconds of silence, she suddenly spoke:
“Matcha parfait.”
"Ugh?"
"Matcha parfait." Kaoru licked her lips and repeated earnestly, "I want to eat it."
Why did you have to pick a time like this to rip me off with these keycaps?!
Chapter Seventeen: A Serendipitous Encounter
"The record for simulated cavity exploration has been broken."
As a crisp system notification sound rang out in RiNG's lobby, the large display screen hanging on the wall instantly attracted everyone's attention.
People began to gather in twos and threes in front of the screen, looking around curiously.
"Record refreshed...low-level Underdark?"
"What's going on? Did some pro player use a smurf account to smurf in the newbie village?"
"No, you wouldn't choose the lowest-tier Underdark for smurfing, would you? What's the point of smurfing eggs?"
"I vaguely remember this [Echo], it seems to be a RiNG employee, I often saw it on the leaderboard... And who is this [Cursed Blade]?"
"I don't know... I haven't seen it much."
"Just a passerby, isn't this username a rip-off of our Pastel*Palettes' Eve Wakamiya?"
"The group whose lead singer is selling counterfeit goods is causing a huge uproar; they're even using the word 'curse' in their names. Isn't this obviously Morfonica's Yui Yashio?"
"Just because someone has a sword doesn't mean you're pushing them? I could just say this is Roselia's Glacier Saya."
"Hehe, these even have the 'luo' symbol, not bad."
"Alright, alright, whether you want to argue, stir up trouble, or are genuine fans, please open a simulation training room and practice yourselves. Don't start fighting in my lobby." Rinrinko frowned, walked through the gradually gathering crowd, stood in front of the screen, looked up, and said, "Huh?"
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Meanwhile, in the corridor outside the simulation training room, a man and Hakimi were still locked in a tense standoff.
"Even if you don't say anything, Lena won't hold back and let you see it." Lena said in a calm tone.
"Fine, fine, I'll buy it for you, okay..." Koshimura finally couldn't take it anymore and gave in.
Duzhu Shichuan, how did you raise Yao Le Nai? This child curses my big star beat every day!
I think this Lena is a top-tier cross-dresser too.
Yoro Nai tapped her cheek with her finger, thought for a moment, and then slowly extended two fingers.
"Two drinks."
How can they raise prices so arbitrarily?
"Koshimura Sawa—" Rinko rushed up the stairs, paused when she saw the two in the hallway, and exclaimed, "Rakuna-chan? What are you doing here?"
"Interesting men want to see me hold back my laughter—" Before she could finish speaking, Yuecun Ze covered her mouth.
"It's nothing, it's nothing. The kid doesn't know any better, he was just joking." Yuecun Ze looked at Rin Rin and gave an awkward laugh.
Rinrinko looked at him suspiciously, then at Kaname, whose mouth he was covering and who looked completely innocent, and decided to skip the topic for now: "Okay... I don't know what happened between you two, but the front desk system just showed that the training room you were using triggered 'alert mode'? What's going on?"
"Actually, I'm wondering about that too," Koshimura said helplessly. "I don't think I've done anything wrong..."
“Of course I believe you wouldn’t do such a thing.” Rinko frowned slightly. “So it’s a bit strange that this alert mode was triggered…”
As Koshimura listened, he glanced back and said, "Hey, why did the alarm suddenly stop? It was just going off a moment ago."
"Wouldn't it be even stranger if it shuts off automatically?" Rinrinko's expression instantly turned serious. "Generally speaking, once alert mode is entered, the alarm will not stop automatically unless the administrator manually deactivates it."
She walked quickly to the door of the training room and placed her hand on the doorknob: "May I come in and take a look?"
"Go ahead, I'll go—" Yuecunze suddenly felt a damp, slightly rough texture on his palm and quickly let go. "What are you doing?"
Lena took the opportunity to wriggle out of his arms, lightly licked her lips with the tip of her tongue, and looked completely indifferent.
"Not tasty, boring man."
What kind of strange judging criteria are those...?
Hakimi definitely needs love, I think.
Koshimura quickly wiped his hands on his pants twice and followed Rinrinko into the training room.
Most people would never wash their hands again, but unfortunately, he's not one of the Straw Hat crew.
However, the texture is indeed a bit...rough?
Is this a cat's tongue?
As Koshimura watched Rinrinko quickly operate the main control screen, the serious expression on his face gradually turned into confusion.
"What's wrong?" he asked, leaning closer.
Rinrinko brought up the virtual keyboard, her fingers flying across the keys: "Backend logs show... it seems someone remotely modified the data, manually putting your status into alert mode and cutting off the network connection. Then... they set an automatic recovery timer. But... this doesn't make sense! If the logs are correct, alert mode only ended 3 minutes ago. If you couldn't exit normally... how did you get out of the simulation?"
“Lixi said that from the end of the simulation to the complete return of consciousness to the main interface of the empty simulation, there will be a gap in the consciousness transfer. We used that to control the body to take off the glasses and physically force the exit,” Yuecunze explained.
“I see… Senior employees would indeed know about this vulnerability…” Rinrinko said thoughtfully, “But since someone exploited this vulnerability to skip out on their bill before, shouldn’t this bug have been fixed a month ago?”
"Huh?" Koshimura Sawa was taken aback.
“Never mind…” Rinko shook her head. “There are probably still some undiscovered vulnerabilities that haven’t been fixed… I’ll have to talk to those otaku in the association’s engineering department and tell them to stop messing around with their 2D image AI-to-model 3D printed figurines and get to do something productive.”
You really can't blame them for this; I'd want to play too if I were in their shoes.
"Speaking of which, where's Lixi? I haven't seen her." Rinrinko seemed to suddenly remember something and looked around.
"Um... she seemed to say she had something urgent to attend to and left in a hurry. She probably won't be back for a while," Yuecunze said vaguely.
"Alright." Rinrinko stopped asking questions and refocused her attention on the debug mode system interface. "But... if someone really maliciously hacked and modified the backend data... why would it only target the two of you? Have you gotten into some trouble lately?"
"Well..." Koshimura's eyes flickered for a moment, "...I can't say for sure, I don't think so, right?"
Judging from your reaction... could it really be true?
Rinrinko glanced at him with a suspicious look.