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Edited by: kapekopicoffee
Reminiscing on Cheating Krypton and Shared Prosperity
The virtual wedding was scheduled for this year’s Qixi Festival <sup>1</sup> The Qixi Festival is celebrated on the 7th day of the 7th lunisolar month on the Chinese calendar. Qixi Festival may also be known as Double Seventh Festival or Chinese Valentine’s Day. .
The helmet was delivered in August to the authors in the food group with a hot wind.
A big red wedding invitation came with the letter.
Upon opening the red invitation, it read:
We are pleased to announce Li Shuoxing and Su Mingqian’s wedding ceremony on August 7th, 2019 at 11:00am by the witness Ask.
The venue is set in the cyber world.
We cordially invite you to attend!
***
August 7th, 10:50am
Everyone in the food group put their helmets on and entered the virtual world.
It first darkened and then lit up before their eyes, as if a black veil had been lifted from their eyes, revealing a beautiful landscape behind it.
Blue sky, white clouds, and green grass.
The wedding gate was entwined with branches and flowers; white chairs were placed on the lawn, green veils and pink roses adorning their backs; and the chairs were flanked on both sides by long tables, also covered with white cloth, on which refreshments and drinks were served.
Everyone gathered in front of the flower gate.
Deer Over Fragrant Grass and Six Flavour Monk looked around curiously.
Soren grabbed Calm Egg’s hand beside him and stroked the back of it with his pervert hands. “Eggy, let me touch it!”
Calm Egg’s hair stood on end and he pulled his arm back. “What are you doing? Don’t try to seduce me. I’m not interested in you!”
“Shit, I really touched your hand. There’s feeling. This virtual world can really simulate these feelings. Shit shit shit…” Soren said, drooling.
Calm Egg shook his head. “Crazy.” He turned and saw Interfinger Storm and Ten Zero Mausoleum standing underneath the flower gate. He didn’t know what they were looking at, so he approached them. “What are you looking at?”
Interfinger Storm pointed to the table in front of him. “See for yourself.”
Calm Egg took a look. Two small round tables were underneath the wedding gate, on top of which open red envelopes were arranged in fan-shapes, with these golden words written right on top: “One Yuan Gift Package”.
Calm Egg was curious. He reached towards a red envelope. The moment he touched it, a translucent pop-up box suddenly appeared in front of him, its title reading:
[Wedding One Yuan Experience Gift Package]
[Great Value Classic Wedding Best Man Set]
[Original Price 68, Current Price 1 Yuan]
Must Get:
Exquisite Best Man Tuxedo × 1
Exquisite Best Man Accessory × 1
Contribution points × 68
[In this beautiful moment, in this exciting moment, looking at the happy and radiant couple in front of you, do you, too, want to make yourself stand out and shine?]
A picture of the tuxedo was below this paragraph.
Calm Egg looked at the tuxedo that looked like it came from a high-end brand and fell silent.
It’s one yuan and comes with the best man set.
The best man set is alright, there’s even a diamond rose corsage pinned to it?
In all my life, I’ve never been to a wedding ceremony that was so fancy yet so frugal.
Really, it’s a bit of a bargain—
Calm Egg’s hand had a mind of its own.
It automatically lifted itself up, automatically extended its finger, and automatically tapped the payment button on the transparent box.
A new prompt popped up:
[The system has detected that you are carrying a mobile phone. Do you want to pay for the order via mobile phone? Yes/No]
Calm Egg chose yes.
Pale blue dots of light suddenly jumped out of thin air and gathered in front of Calm Egg, forming a shadow of his mobile phone.
Calm Egg subconsciously grasped the mobile phone. The virtual shadow flashed and became solid, then fell heavily into Calm Egg’s palm. It didn’t feel different from how his phone’s grip felt every day.
When Calm Egg fixed his eyes on the phone screen, he found that it was already displaying the payment page. It looked familiar, exactly the same as a usual shopping payment.
Fingerprint verification, successful payment.
His woollen sweater, jeans and sports shoes disappeared. Calm Egg was now wearing a black suit with a ruby rose on his chest, and his hair had even been restyled and groomed. He looked brand new from head to toe!
The surrounding eyes focused on Calm Egg.
The next second.
Manifest mobile phone, direct payment!
Everyone’s appearance changed at this moment. Most of the male authors looked similar to Calm Egg, just with different styles of accessories on their chests. As for Deer Over Fragrant Grass and Six Flavour Monk, they looked different.
As the only female on the scene, Deer Over Fragrant Grass wore a smoky purple fishtail dress with rose petal heels of the same colour, and her long black hair was pulled up high regally and elegantly. As for Six Flavour Monk, the system had also made the monk’s robe fancy. The robe on his body became a banquet style, and his outer robe buckle became a white jade buckle carved with Buddhist blessing scriptures on it, with understated connotations.
After everyone had finished Kryptoning one by one, the red envelopes located there disappeared.
A yellow arrow appeared on the path ahead, guiding everyone through the flower gate and into the middle of the lawn.
Everyone was enthusiastic and followed the arrow forward.
Interfinger Storm was satisfied. “One yuan, one coin. I usually don’t bother to pick it up if it drops to the ground. I never expected that I could get a tuxedo for it.”
Soren was studying. “What’re the contribution points for? Is there a system menu? What else can I Krypton?”
Six Flavour Monk came to the long table beside the audience seats. He studied the cake placed on the table and sighed. “If only there was vegetarian food…”
Just as his voice fell, another translucent box popped up.
He saw that the translucent box this time showed a shop, and that there was a vegetarian tab among the shop’s wide array of tabs.
Six Flavour Monk lightly tapped on it.
He saw a densely packed menu pop up. The dishes on the menu were exquisitely shaped, elegantly presented, and cheaply priced.
Most importantly, he could even redeem them with the points he’d just gained earlier.
Amitabha, so good and kind…
Even Six Flavour Monk’s calm, waveless heart emerged with ripples.
Deer Over Fragrant Grass was walking around on the lawn. She was thinking about an important issue.
Games generally had a dress-up system. The clothes she was wearing were indeed beautiful, but it’d be nice if she could enjoy and have more beautiful clothes. So… where could she open the dress-up system?
She thought, greatly concentrating.
Then, gradually, a line of words appeared in front of her eyes.
[If you need to dress up, please follow the dotted line]
Below it, a flashing dotted line was slowly appearing.
Deer Over Fragrant Grass followed the dotted line all the way to a tented house in the corner of the lawn.
The house looked like white chocolate sprinkled with coconut from the outside, shiny and bright. When she lifted the door curtain and looked inside, she saw:
Flowers hanging from heavy drapes, and balloons and hearts floating together.
A large floor-to-ceiling mirror, and a plush blanket covering all the grass.
As well as three rows of clothes, three rows of bags, three rows of shoes, and a whole window of jewellery and gemstones.
Deer Over Fragrant Grass’s feet also had a mind of their own.
They firmly latched onto the ground, took root, grew into it, and refused to take another step!
She began to check the prices of the clothes, shoes, bags and jewellery.
Unit = 68.
Set = 128.
Set plus special effects = 328.
She could also get contribution points with a 1:1 ratio, and those points could also buy clothes and jewellery. It was the same as getting two outfits for the price of one.
A hundred screaming chickens began a chorus in Deer Over Fragrant Grass’s heart.
How could it be this beautiful, how could it be such a good deal.
I’m going to splurge <sup>2</sup> 剁手 [duò shǒu] means to chop the hand and refers to compulsive buying. , no one can stop me, ahhhhhhhh!
***
The guests had arrived on the lawn, but Li Shuoxing and Su Mingqian were still in the groom’s dressing room and hadn’t gone out to greet them at the moment.
Everyone knew each other well. Instead of elaborate courtesies, they just let them eat and look around outside so they could get familiar with the virtual world.
The spacious dressing room was exactly the same as the cloakroom in Su Mingqian’s villa.
There were two cupboards with clothes inside, a table, and a sofa. Li Shuoxing’s things were on one side, and Su Mingqian’s were on the other, their things placed opposite each other. Xingxing and Qianqian were sitting in a line on the oval table in between.
Everything looked brand new at the wedding scene.
The two dolls, of course, had new outfits. They had changed into the same miniature suits as Li Shuoxing and Su Mingqian, and each held a bouquet of flowers in their arms, with a wedding pendant tied at the bottom, very chibi and very cute.
Li Shuoxing sat on the sofa with his arms crossed, seriously admonishing the manipulator behind the scenes through the dolls.
“Ask, today’s a big day for me and Mingqian. You can’t drop the ball.
“You’ll control the two dolls later on to be our flower girls. Make them walk beside me and Mingqian, and give the bouquets in their hands special effects that make the petals fall. By the way, how about special effects for them too? You can even say something gratifying when we go back to hand out wedding candy to the guests!
“Yeah… seems about right. Let me think about what else there is.
“Right! Money isn’t a problem. Daddy has money and can pay the bills. Don’t be stingy. Feel free to come up with any fancy stuff you think of, but don’t charge indiscriminately. Otherwise, I’ll have Mingqian teach you a lesson afterwards, and you’ll still have to spit out the money when the time comes.”
[System: …]
A cloud of gloom suddenly appeared above the table, and a thunderbolt struck down from it.
The system used special effects to express its mood.
Li Shuoxing had just been taken aback when Su Mingqian’s chuckle came over.
Su Mingqian had changed into his suit and was buttoning his shirt as he walked over. “You’re messing with Ask again?”
Oh no.
My wife caught me rearing my child!
Li Shuoxing immediately denied it. “I didn’t. I just made a legitimate request to Ask.”
He stood up from the sofa, picked up the tie that he had set aside in advance, and said to Su Mingqian, “Cub, we’re about to have a virtual wedding.”
The purple tie flexibly passed through the seam of the collar and was tied lightly in a loose bow tie at Su Mingqian’s chest.
This tie was what Li Shuoxing had matched out.
At that time, he and Su Mingqian were shopping for wedding items and had been lingering in the mall’s tie counter for a long time, when he had spotted one in purple satin with yellow stars and another in purple satin with a grey hat.
The former reminded Li Shuoxing of himself and the latter reminded Li Shuoxing of the Star Magician.
He took both ties home, then quietly contacted Ask to combine both patterns so that the grey hat would be embellished with yellow stars… In that way, it had become the one on Su Mingqian’s chest now.
After our virtual wedding, we’ll go get our license, and then find a suitable time to invite your colleagues to have a real wedding. That way, we’ll be completely settled,” he said.
Su Mingqian quietly listened.
He liked this moment.
It felt gentle, peaceful, like the warmth and comfort of the afternoon sun shining on his body.
+5
+5
…
A series of small favourability numbers popped up from Su Mingqian’s head.
In response to the wedding today, the favourability numbers this time looked different from the ones in the past. They had turned pink in colour and had peach hearts embedded in them, which also pounded, making Li Shuoxing’s heart itch.
“Then we can be together officially for a long time…” he said.
Su Mingqian was slightly puzzled. “Ximu, I’m glad that you’re saying this, but why do you keep looking above my head while you’re talking?”
“I was looking at your hair. It looks a little messy,” Lu Shuoxing responded extremely quickly.
With that, without waiting for Su Mingqian to react, he reached out to tidy Su Mingqian’s hair. In the process, he moved his fingers through the jumping favourability numbers, lightly touching the pink peach hearts.
They jumped onto Li Shuoxing’s fingers and rubbed against them.
Li Shuoxing drew a cold breath and quickly contacted the system in his mind:
Ask!
I’m the only one allowed to see this favourability system!
Don’t let Mingqian see it, or anyone else like Calm Egg or Deer Over Fragrant Grass, understand?!
A “ding dong” sounded.
Li Shuoxing froze.
This sound sounded like the system’s response to him… but was the system the kind of system that would give a response to him?
Li Shuoxing felt that something was wrong. He asked Su Mingqian, “Cub, did you just hear—”
“Ding dong.”
“Ding dong.”
Two more times.
Without Li Shuoxing having to say anything more, Su Mingqian heard it too. “A ding dong sound?”
Li Shuoxing: “Yes.”
Su Mingqian: “It’s a system prompt sound effect. Something’s been written in the system log.”
Li Shuoxing understood. Wasn’t the system log now the same as the system narration in the original Love Bar app?
He opened the system log familiarly and saw a series of message records rushing down like a waterfall.
[System income 1 yuan]
[System income 68 yuan]
[System income 128 yuan]
[System income 648 yuan]
…
Both of them froze.
Li Shuoxing unconsciously tapped on the numbers on it, and more detailed content popped up in front of them.
For example, how much money Calm Egg had spent on what he bought, how much money Soren had spent on what he bought, and how much money Ten Zero Mausoleum had spent on what he bought.
And Deer Over Fragrant Grass.
She had spent a 648, another 648, and another 648…
Both saw it at the same time, and blurted out at the same time.
Su Mingqian: “Ask, stop them. Don’t let them Krypton.”
Li Shuoxing: “Ask, you did a great job!”
After they finished speaking, they looked at each other.
Su Mingqian: “Ximu…”
“Cub, you let them Krypton. Everyone’s an adult. Can’t they spend some money on what they like?” Li Shuoxing justified.
Su Mingqian had tapped on the system log several times, and had gotten a detailed understanding of what exactly they had Kryptoned on.
Calm Egg had Kryptoned on scenery.
Ten Zero Mausoleum had Kryptoned on music.
Six Flavour Monk had Kryptoned on vegetarian food.
Deer Over Fragrant Grass had bought lots and lots of clothes, with lots and lots of people…
After reading these, Su Mingqian said, “Those are all very easy for Ask. There’s no need to charge for them.”
The system suddenly created a lot of redundancy.
But, this time, Li Shuoxing flashed to the system’s side. He said firmly:
“No, Ask earned its money by its ability and will never give it back!”
It turns out that when I stand with Ask, when I become a GM, when I collect money and get rich together with the system, all the Krypton scams that make people sink deep into the mud are so witty and charming…
Ask, you’re really daddy’s good boy!
The system created a lot more redundancy.
1
The Qixi Festival is celebrated on the 7th day of the 7th lunisolar month on the Chinese calendar. Qixi Festival may also be known as Double Seventh Festival or Chinese Valentine’s Day. 2
剁手 [duò shǒu] means to chop the hand and refers to compulsive buying.