Chapter 30: Is There No Law Anymore?!
Dealing with Fu Xinyi using charm?
Easier said than done. What if the dice goddess gives me a huge failure, and she immediately takes me out?
“No way, I’m not going!” Luxianbei shook his head vigorously, like a rattle drum. “My abilities came out of nowhere, and I haven’t even figured out how to use them yet. The risk is too high.”
“Tsk!” Jumeng spat, viciously pinching a big chunk of flesh from Luxianbei’s cheek, pulling back and forth like stretching rubber. “How do you know if you don’t try? Do you have a better way to distract her?”
“Well…” Luxianbei thought for a moment and said seriously, “I could order her a takeout of fried sprouted poisonous potatoes. After she’s poisoned and fainted, I can find a place to dig a hole and bury her. What do you think?”
Jumeng nodded, her expression unusually serious. “Sounds good. Why don’t you give it a try?”
“Uh… I just said that as a joke, I didn’t mean it.”
Jumeng gave Luxianbei a sidelong glance. “Yeah, so did I.”
Luxianbei, “…”
In silence, he looked far off at Fu Xinyi, then at Jumeng, and after thinking for a moment, he quietly asked, “Do you really think the charm thing would work?”
“Young man, be a bit more confident in your handsome face! Just go over there casually, like you’re inviting a girl out normally. High-end charm is usually that simple and blunt.”
I actually had confidence in that area… Luxianbei thought to himself, hesitating before saying, “Then I’ll give it a try?”
“However, if I successfully distract her, you have to leave a creepypasta for me to experiment with! We agreed on that before.”
“Got it, got it!” Jumeng responded perfunctorily, then suddenly remembered something, clasped her hands over her chest, and looked at Luxianbei with a sidelong glance. “By the way, you have asked girls out before, right?”
If you don’t even understand the language of asking girls out, it’s probably more reliable to use vulgar seduction techniques, Jumeng thought.
“Of course!” Luxianbei said proudly, raising his chin. “You don’t know how popular I was among girls in high school. Almost every weekend, someone would ask me out!”
“Wow, that’s pretty impressive! Then hurry up? I’m rooting for you!”
Jumeng laughed as she climbed down from Luxianbei’s shoulder and ran toward Professor Ma, turning around to watch Luxianbei approach Fu Xinyi.
Luxianbei took a few steps, secretly took out a Zhipianxian and placed it in his right palm, then took a few more steps and fished out a smoke potion to hold between his left fingers, looking ready for battle, completely unlike someone trying to ask a girl out, but more like he was about to fight her.
Then…
Jumeng vaguely heard Luxianbei issue his invitation to Fu Xinyi.
“Hey, senior, I just saw a new internet café opened near University City with great setups. New members get a free milk tea with a recharge of a hundred yuan. Interested in going for a few rounds of gaming? My treat!”
“???”
Jumeng’s face almost twisted into a [subway old man’s phone.jpg] expression. She turned to look at Luxianbei, her eyes reflecting that she was looking at some kind of bizarre monster.
This is what you meant when you said girls asked you out every weekend?
They invited you to rank up?
I don’t even expect you to score directly; at least take someone to watch a movie, right? Jumeng thought indignantly.
However, what she didn’t know was that she had almost hit the nail on the head about the truth; after all, Luxianbei’s gaming talent was exceptional and he had even received an invitation to try out for a professional team.
But when it came to invitations from girls, he had never accepted even once.
How could he play games with girls who didn’t even understand the skill descriptions?
Strong individuals always choose to go solo; women only slow down the ranking!
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Fu Xinyi had not expected Luxianbei to approach her so abruptly with such a foolish invitation. She instinctively wanted to refuse, but at the moment she turned, her gaze met Luxianbei’s.
Those eyes were deep and captivating, as clear as a clear day, with slight glimmers in the deep brown abyss, like a moon reflected in water, conveying a subtle warmth, unfurling like a spring breeze, conveying a clumsy sincerity and an uncontainable passion.
Like a small puppy, seemingly always overflowing with enthusiasm for those around him.
This clumsy little boy, awkwardly expressing his emotions, did not make Fu Xinyi feel disgusted.
Even thoughts like “Dating a pure-hearted boy like this once wouldn’t be bad” and “A nurturing boyfriend like this might actually be interesting” flashed through her mind, and she couldn’t help but want to give him some positive feedback.
“You’ve never asked a girl out before, have you?” Fu Xinyi smiled lightly, her clear eyes carrying a hint of playful teasing.
Luxianbei had once seen this kind of gaze when he was with his father exploring underground entertainment venues, where a woman looking somewhat mature used the same gaze when looking at Water Brother and his father.
Back then, the young Luxianbei did not understand what that gaze meant; now he did, and being looked at like that made him feel somewhat at a loss.
But this feeling of being at a loss, under the effect of charm, was like being enhanced tenfold with beauty filters.
“……”
Can you do this?
You’re supposed to charm others; why are you getting shy yourself first?
From a distance, Jumeng clenched her fists tightly, gripping Professor Ma’s shoulder hard enough to make him twitch.
“Ah—! Liu, Liu Xiaoyou, what are you doing?”
“Professor Ma, I saw you were working hard, so I wanted to help you massage your shoulders,” Jumeng said in a soft voice, instantly melting Professor Ma’s heart.
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Seeing that Luxianbei had stayed silent for so long, Fu Xinyi’s cheeks faintly flushed, and her smile grew.
This is pretty cute, isn’t it?
“It looks like you haven’t dated girls before? Let me give you some advice, as a senior: when asking a girl out for the first time, it’s best to plan ahead.”
“If it’s just because of a whim to take someone to a net café to game, that won’t do! Seven or eight out of ten girls will have a bad impression of you.”
“So what you mean is…” Luxianbei hesitated.
So, are you going with me or not?
“I mean, it seems we can’t be of much help here.” Fu Xinyi glanced around. “So I might as well accept your invitation and teach you how to date girls. However, I really don’t want to go to an internet café. How about we watch a movie instead?”
“Sure!” Luxianbei’s eyes lit up. “A new movie called ‘Love and Magical Girls 3: Flower Girl and Flower Girl’ just came out. I’ve wanted to see it for a long time!”
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Watching Luxianbei manage to pull off something that normally wouldn’t work for any typical male, Jumeng gave a frustrated little punch on Professor Ma’s shoulder.
The girl openly suggested going to watch a movie, can’t you at least suggest something more normal?
Professor Ma grimaced at the pain but opened his mouth to say something, only to hear her chirp, “Professor Ma, let me massage your back some more~!”
“Okay, okay!” Professor Ma nodded tightly.
My granddaughter is so sweet, so considerate, like a warm little cotton-padded jacket, but…
Her strength is a bit too much. Professor Ma thought, both pained and happy.
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“Poof—!”
Seeing Luxianbei’s somewhat excited demeanor, Fu Xinyi covered her mouth and laughed, “Since you’re so eager to see it, I don’t mind accompanying you, but I haven’t seen the first two…”
“You…”
You don’t even watch such an interesting movie?
We might as well go our separate ways; honestly, if it weren’t to help Stinky Sister distract you, I wouldn’t want to go out with you!
Luxianbei thought indignantly, taking a deep breath to suppress his displeasure, and patted his chest, “It’s fine, I’ll just explain it to you on the way.”
“Sounds good~!” Fu Xinyi smiled sweetly.
“Um… let me think. It’s a bit complicated, so how about I start from ‘Love and Magical Girls Prequel: The Fallen Flower’? The story begins like this…”
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“???”
Jumeng watched as Fu Xinyi left the conference room laughing and chatting with Luxianbei, absorbed in his story, knitting her brows in thought and occasionally chuckling, a series of question marks appearing in her mind.
This works?
You’re a walking hormone?
A poker-faced BB machine, using that stupid invitation method, actually succeeded in getting that beautiful girl to go out with him. It left Jumeng, the mythological species responsible for reproduction with a bit of fate, dazed.
She suddenly felt that Luxianbei’s charm ability might exceed her imagination and had a tendency to develop in an indescribable direction.
But then again, with the charm filter on, a chatterbox isn’t a chatterbox anymore; it’s being talkative; a poker face isn’t a poker face anymore; it’s called being cold and handsome; clumsiness isn’t clumsiness anymore; it’s just pureness.
So far, he had successfully distracted Fu Xinyi, which indeed was a good thing.
Lost in thought, Jumeng leaned on Professor Ma’s shoulder and weakly asked, “Old man, do you think that beautiful people in this world really can do whatever they want?”
“…” Professor Ma pondered based on his personal experiences for a while and nodded, “In certain matters, that is indeed true.”
“Ah!” Jumeng sighed lightly, pointing to a bronze peach blossom vessel not far ahead, “Old man, let’s go check that out; I think that one is real.”
“Alright! Let’s go take a look!” Professor Ma replied.
However, just as Professor Ma put Jumeng down, and she jogged toward the vessel, a hand suddenly reached from the side, seizing it before she could grab it.
“Hey?!” Jumeng gasped, looking at the owner of the hand and saw a burly, disheveled man.
It was Mao Sanyou.
Mao Sanyou, who had arrived at some point, smiled at Jumeng and then at the vessel in his hand, swaying it left and right. “Little sister, you seem to really like this?”
While speaking, he leaned closer to Jumeng, lowering his voice to a tone only the two could hear, “I know a place with many similar, very special artifacts. Are you interested in taking a look?”
Upon hearing this, Jumeng froze for a moment, then tilted her head, blinking her confused large eyes at Mao Sanyou, as if saying, “Big brother, I don’t know what you’re talking about!”
Seeing this, Mao Sanyou chuckled lightly and added, “Little sister, what’s sealed inside here is something, right?”
Jumeng, “!!!”
This man knows there’s some creepypasta sealed inside the artifact?!
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Meanwhile, twenty minutes later.
On the third floor of a shopping center three kilometers away from Tangcheng University, in front of the Hengdian Film City, Luxianbei held popcorn and cola, staring blankly at Fu Xinyi, who was retrieving tickets from a self-service ticket machine not far away.
To be honest, he had never been on a date with a girl in his life. Although it was just a completely indifferent object, there was still a slight flicker of anticipation.
Perhaps he could take the chance to learn a bit of dating experience from her, so when he later asked Miaomiao Sauce out, he wouldn’t be completely clueless.
As Luxianbei thought this, he couldn’t help but picture a certain silver-haired girl in his mind.
After spacing out for a few seconds, he turned his gaze back towards Fu Xinyi, only to see she had disappeared.
Where did she run off to? Luxianbei furrowed his brows.
“Ding————!”
The shopping mall’s fire alarm suddenly rang, and with the piercing sound, a flicker of panic appeared on everyone’s faces.
What’s going on? Is there a fire?
Luxianbei, filled with confusion, craned his neck to look around, then he heard the sound of whistling wind amidst the noise, like an illusion.
At that moment, he suddenly felt the mournful Gray Owl Badge in his arms trembling violently.
A sharp cold wind suddenly swept in, cutting across his back like a blade.
What the heck? What’s happening? Did Miaomiao Sauce find out about my secret date? Luxianbei thought in panic.
The very next moment, the warm shopping mall seemed to tear open a large gash, and the bone-chilling wind and snow poured in, sweeping through the entire third floor of the mall with its harsh cold.
In an instant, everyone felt their consciousness eroded by the sudden icy chill, and in a daze, thunderous roars erupted in their ears as people began to faint and collapse.
His eyes burned painfully, and the shadow of d*ath loomed without warning; a fierce and brutal sense of fear gathered in Luxianbei’s chest like ice cubes.
Oh no! Are those assassins from the Siye Society here?
d*mn it, I nearly forgot about that; Fu Xinyi is an insider!
Going out with her only increases the risk of being assassinated!
Realizing Fu Xinyi’s sudden disappearance, a chill shot through Luxianbei’s heart.
He knew that as long as he stayed in Tangcheng, that mysterious force’s assassination would inevitably reappear sooner or later.
However, he never expected that they would dare to launch an assault in broad daylight, under everyone’s gaze.
Is there no law anymore?!
Luxianbei thought, stiffly turning back toward the source of the terrifying spirit energy fluctuation, only to see a figure abruptly appearing in the empty corridor of the mall, and the burning pain in his eyes intensified.
He struggled to close his eyes, then opened them again to finally see the face of that figure. Luxianbei’s pupils constricted sharply, and his body jolted as if struck by a heavy hammer to the chest.
【Solang Pema, codename White Lotus, defector from the Siye Society, spirit pattern: Nine-Color Lotus, spirit energy fluctuation level A+ or higher [Image], [Image] (Warning! This person is extremely dangerous).】
The information about the attacker who assaulted Lu Ming that he had received earlier from Void quietly floated in his mind, then gradually overlapped with that figure, merging into one…
