Mini World Game Console

Recently, many people who knew Ren Suo were feeling quite puzzled, which led to Ren Suo's mother finally calling him, "Son, did you get a girl pregnant and then make her have an abortion!? I don't have a son like you!"

"...Please calm down, Mom. Your voice is too loud; the people next to me can hear you."

Ren Suo glanced at Zhao Huo, who had just dropped his soup spoon, and then at Dong Chengling, Gu Yueyan, and Lin Xianyu at the opposite table, who had all stopped eating. He felt his public image was about to undergo a radical change—from 'single' to 'supreme scumbag'.

He took his phone outside the cafeteria and then said, "Mom, I'm your son. Do you really think I'm that kind of person!?"

His mother replied, "I used to think Xiao Jiu was a good cat, but didn't it still get another family's female cat pregnant, then come home pretending nothing happened?"

Ren Suo responded, "I've told you before to get Xiao Jiu neutered! Aren't you annoyed by its constant yowling in heat?"

A meow came from the phone, and his mother raised her voice, "Look at you! Xiao Jiu has been with you for so many years. How could you be so heartless as to castrate him? If you can be so cruel to Xiao Jiu, aren't you just as cruel to your girlfriend?"

Ren Suo despaired. "Suggesting neutering the cat is being heartless? How are we supposed to deal with it meowing all day and affecting my little sister's studies?"

His mother paused, clearly taken aback, and after a moment of Silence, she said, "...Let's have Old Zhang from next door take care of Xiao Jiu for the next few days."

"Mom, let me tell you, my little sister loves Xiao Jiu dearly too. She wouldn't complain even if it affected her. If you had gotten Xiao Jiu neutered sooner, my sister might have even scored a few extra points on her college entrance exam..."

"Don't change the subject!" His mother was clearly feeling flustered and hastily shifted the topic, "Your classmates have been calling these past few days, saying you got a girl pregnant and then made her have an abortion. Is that true?"

Ren Suo said, "Even if I did something so unethical, I wouldn't tell that group of good-for-nothings who only come over to pet my cat, are single, and can't even hold a proper conversation!"

His mother retorted, "But Xiao Sanzi told me exactly that. You asked in the QQ group about a 'friend' who got his girlfriend pregnant, made her have an abortion, broke up with her, then regretted it and wanted to start over but lacked a convincing reason..."

Ren Suo admitted, "...That did happen."

His mother immediately flared up, "You rascal! Do you think I don't know you inside out? When you say 'a friend,' you mean yourself, don't you! You actually did something so despicable!? Hurry up and apologize, then bring your girlfriend home so we can meet her!"

Ren Suo said, "But it really is a friend of mine! He asked me what to do, and I didn't know, so I asked in my high school and college QQ groups."

His mother scoffed, "Nonsense! If someone did something so despicable, would they tell you, a good-for-nothing who spends his days petting cats, is single, and can't even speak properly!?"

Confronted by his mother's rebuttal, Ren Suo was momentarily speechless.

It took him a while to come up with a new excuse. "To be honest, Mom, your son, yours truly, is Lianjiang's Intimate Older Brother. Many people confide in me to clear their minds; I'm incredibly popular with countless lost young people... Anyway, I swear, if I ever do something so utterly unethical, I'll change my last name from Ren! Phone calls are expensive; let's talk next time."

His sister, who was placing food on the table, noticed their mother putting down the phone with a strange expression. "What's wrong? Did brother get on your nerves again?"

Ren's mother said with a deadpan expression, "Nothing much. He says he's very popular with men in Lianjiang."

Her daughter blinked. "..."

Ren's father, who was watching TV, mused, "...Genetics are truly a wondrous thing..."

When Ren Suo returned to the cafeteria and sat down, he was met with a peculiar atmosphere, so he repeated the excuse he had just given his mother.

Ever since Gu Yueyan started dining with Dong Chengling, Zhao Huo noticed they weren't in their 'couple's world' anymore, so he began joining them. Lin Xianyu, it seemed, was a 'meat and wine friend' of Gu Yueyan, often mooching off the Rich Lady's meals in the third-floor cafeteria.

Zhao Huo said, "TCH. I actually have a 'friend' who often uses the 'a friend' excuse to hide his own disgraceful actions. TCH. While I can't outright criticize him publicly, I'll TCH at him a few times to express my disdain."

The others also looked skeptical, so Ren Suo took out his phone and showed them his chat records. "Look for yourselves. I can't suddenly be a scumbag who forced his girlfriend to have an abortion one moment, and then a high school student who wants to apologize to a friend the next, can I?"

Zhao Huo and the others passed the phone around. They found that Ren Suo had indeed been asking numerous questions in various QQ groups over the past few days. The questions pertained to people aged 13 to 20 and covered topics ranging from family, friendship, and love to various other trifles.

Zhao Huo asked, "Have you become a special writer for an emotional advice column?"

Gu Yueyan said, "More likely, he's trying to mix his own problem in there, hoping to pass it off unnoticed by mingling it with others..."

Lin Xianyu exclaimed, "Big Brother Ren is amazing! Do that many people really come to you with questions?"

Dong Chengling eyed Ren Suo's dinner plate and asked, "Are you going to eat your roast chicken leg or not?"

"I'm not full yet! Of course I'm eating it!"

Gu Yueyan, however, was staring at Ren Suo and casually remarked, "Although I'd like to believe Teacher Ren, it seems Teacher Ren has often tried to get Lin Xianyu to sleep in the Healing room... Isn't that right, Xiaoyu?"

Gu Yueyan used the prop 'Salted Fish Surprise Attack', inflicting reputation damage on the pervert.

Lin Xianyu nodded. "Yes, one night I was playing on my phone too late and slept wonderfully in the Healing room."

"Right, right," Gu Yueyan nodded. "But Teacher Ren definitely didn't do anything, did he?"

Ren Suo gnawed on a chicken leg as he spoke, "I just patted her head for five minutes."

Lin Xianyu stuck out her tongue. "I only touched your head once before, and you've held a grudge for so long that you even started wearing a hat, hmph."

Ren Suo used 'Perverted Candor' and avoided the reputation damage.

Gu Yueyan: Ren Suo, 1:1.

After dinner, Ren Suo walked back to his dormitory, doing some stretching exercises—he had been terribly exhausted these past couple of days.

He opened the door to his place, put his laptop in the living room, powered it on, and went straight to his QQ groups. He found that people had already replied to his questions in the several emotional counseling groups he had recently joined.

Inspired by Gu Yueyan two days earlier, Ren Suo realized that relying solely on his own life experiences might not provide the owners of the red light hats with reasons compelling enough to overcome The Mist Girl's enticement.

So, he opted to search for answers online. If he couldn't find them, he would ask in various QQ groups to crowdsource wisdom. He believed some of his classmates must have faced the same troubles as the hat owners, and indeed, that was the case.

However, asking these types of questions once or twice was fine, but after several times, no one in the student groups would respond. So, Ren Suo created an alternate account and joined various psychological counseling groups to ask directly. Although he received plenty of 'chicken soup for the soul,' he also found many encouraging words that could help untie emotional knots.

Like a student sneaking a phone into an exam, Ren Suo, armed with such powerful cheating tools, managed to conquer 11 hats in just two days. If it weren't for the need to collect hats for resources, he could have been even faster.

Moreover, most of the Skills gained from converting the red light hats had little practical significance, but in the trials, they had various ingenious uses: confessing, apologizing, consoling... Truth Seekers who obtained special effects could pass them on to the red light hat owners, enabling them to break free from The Mist Girl's seduction.

Ren Suo synthesized the answers from the emotional counseling groups, selected the best few, and opened "Pass the Hat" to continue tackling the 19th hat!

This was the last hat, and it was also the second-to-last day before the game's final deadline!

Ren Suo had no interest in waiting until tomorrow, when the 20th hat would appear, to clear the game!

Today, he was determined to beat this eerie game!

Li Dan, his body encased in a nutrient pod, looked at the man sitting on the iron Throne. Although he couldn't speak because his lungs were filled with nutrient fluid, he knew the man would understand his words just from the shape of his mouth, "Do you also have times when you detest Destiny?"

After a moment, the man on the Throne said, "Over half a year ago, I lost all my family members. Believe me, the Resentment I've felt in these past six months has been heavier and more prolonged than all the Resentment you've harbored over the years."

"Champion Bloodline," Li Dan affirmed with a nod. "We were both given new life by the revival of Spiritual Energy but also faced disasters because of it."

Ren said, "While you were asleep, '236' underwent a transformation. Anyone who first came into contact with '236' became its prey. This item is not a real object but a projection based on matter; it can Move but cannot be destroyed."

Li Dan was a bit perplexed—the man hadn't shared such details with him before.

"I guarantee that it will be contained and observed under absolutely safe conditions. With my strength, it absolutely cannot affect me. I will not let your sacrifices be in vain," Ren earnestly stated.

"...Thank you," Li Dan mouthed.

Li Dan turned his head to look at the nineteen sleeping teammates beside him, each also in a liquid-environment life-sustainment device.

They had merely been strangers who met by chance, and Li Dan had only been temporarily assigned to this squad to search for Earth Spirits.

But unexpectedly, they had become brothers in arms, bound by life and death, walking together to the grave's end.

"I Hope that when we go down, the wine is still warm, and the dishes haven't cooled," Li Dan thought as he closed his eyes, believing he finally wouldn't have to wake up anymore.

Seeing everything, hearing everything, having Insight into everything—it was just too tiring...

Even with his eyes closed, he could still hear many things. There was the thunderous roar of blood, heart, and internal organs—all wrapped in Spiritual Energy—from the man named 'Ren' on the Throne nearby. He could hear the sound of nutrient fluid filling up from the bottom. He could also hear the heartbeats of his sleeping teammates, and even the gurgling sounds they made with their mouths open...

Huh?

Li Dan turned his head and saw Cheng Xiao to his left, who had nearly cooled completely, actually open his eyes, raise his hand to his mouth, and yawn!

And to his right, Wen Junjie rubbed his eyes, looked around, Bewildered, then glanced down to see he was only wearing underwear, which made him clench instinctively in shock.

Li Dan was stunned.

Ren, sitting on the Dispersing Spirit Iron Throne, was also stunned.

At that moment, a new message popped up on Ren's computer. He glanced at it, and his pupils dilated instantly!

"The heroine of 'If You Are Strong, Climb Ten Thousand Meters'... has reappeared!?"

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Meanwhile, a ticketless, unchecked passenger secretly slipped onto a northbound high-speed train at the Anshun High-Speed Train Station...