Chapter 55

Once he figured it out, Li Shuoxing was quick to change his thinking.

Li Shuoxing: “Cub!”

Su Mingqian: “Ximu?”

Li Shuoxing: “Do you like playing games?”

Su Mingqian: “?”

Li Shuoxing: “Let me show you my games.”

Su Mingqian: “??”

Li Shuoxing said schemingly, “Games can make people relax. Ah, I’ve been under a bit of pressure lately. It’d be great if I could play a two-player game with you to relax.”

Su Mingqian: “???”

Li Shuoxing’s actions didn’t lose to his speed of thought.

Since he decided to help the little person, his speed of thought naturally shifted to how to help the little person.

Firstly, favourability is the basis of everything. Favourability must not be lost. It’s related to the cub’s dependence and love towards me.

Secondly, as the cub is in the game, helping the cub understand games similar to this game means helping the cub understand his own situation. This subtle effect should be mild.

Finally, since the cub may be a real person, I should proceed with caution and not reveal too much to others once I know the real reason why the cub entered the game. I should strive to play the game more and unlock more memory fragments!

Three basic guidelines had been drawn up.

Li Shuoxing undertook a second deep reflection.

Now he had 137 favourability points, and the growth wasn’t slow. Since he bought the sprinklers and got the self-service weekly rack, the little person would look at the sprinklers and flip through weeklies, increasing the favourability at a rate of 50–100 points per day even if he did nothing.

With this foundation, he could easily reach the target of 1000 favourability points by late November or early December.

He didn’t know what kind of rewards would come out after 1000 favourability points.

There was also the “Outward Opening Window”.

Li Shuoxing couldn’t help pulling this item out from the game backpack.

Combined with his latest conjecture, the words “to reality” in the window’s note became extra meaningful.

He just didn’t know what kind of hidden condition was involved in the prerequisites for using the item, “Achieve the hidden condition”.

Li Shuoxing muttered to himself, “This crap game, not giving any clear hints…”

Su Mingqian’s sharp ears heard him. “Crap game?”

Li Shuoxing woke up with a start. “Uh, I mean—”

He looked around, and his sight touched the console connected to the television. He quickly took a photo and uploaded it to the game, saying to the little person, “I’m talking about this crap game. It developed so many fun two-player games, but I’m alone. Cub—”

He meaningfully and emotionally called out again.

“So, do you want to have a… game console that you can play games with me on?”

Su Mingqian didn’t want to have a game console at all.

He felt that Li Shuoxing was strange today.

He pondered for a moment. “Ximu, did you not write six thousand words yesterday?”

Li Shuoxing didn’t turn at all. “Of course I did.”

Su Mingqian questioned again, “Then you don’t plan to write six thousand words today?”

Li Shuoxing: “Of course I plan to. But it’s still only noon. There’s no rush.”

Su Mingqian had a touch of doubt. “Since you haven’t done anything bad, why do you keep trying to divert my attention?”

Li Shuoxing: “…”

Su Mingqian said bluntly, “I don’t have much need for games, and I also don’t know much about them.”

Li Shuoxing: “…”

The long silence from the other side made Su Mingqian a little uneasy.

He reviewed his attitude and felt that his rejection just now might’ve been too direct, making Ximu sad. So he softened his tone and gave in, agreeing to his suggestion in a roundabout way. “But if you want to have some discussion about the core code content of the game, I can look up information on this aspect first, and then talk to you.”

Li Shuoxing: “…”

But I don’t want to discuss the core code content of the game with you.

I just want you to know that the environment you’re in is very similar to the game.

Life is really hard.

But he had to smile and accept it. “Right, alright. Cub, you’ve thought this through. Let’s take it step by step and understand the game inside before we understand the game on the surface…”

***

The first attempt didn’t turn out too well, but it wasn’t so bad either.

Anyway, he finally succeeded in shifting part of the cub’s mind to the game.

With a start, the path ahead would be easy to follow. He just had to continue to be cautious and take it step by step.

But this feeling of caution was a little suffocating after all.

When things reached an extreme, they could only move in the opposite direction.

In the novel, Li Shuoxing simply released himself completely. With a turn of his pen, he directly woke up Cunxing, who should have slept for a while before waking up, and happily wrote a rivalry scene between Su Mingqian and Cunxing.

[The new world was full of dangers.

A sudden battle was resolved by Su Mingqian. After hiding behind a mountain rock, he breathed a sigh of relief, pressed his hand to the wound in his abdomen, and counted his loot.

And he didn’t notice that, with the flow of his blood, the rusty copper strip on his body flashed with a black light.]

— Nine Crossings

[Su Mingqian stayed in the hiding place without expression, bandaging his wound.

The scent of his blood diffused in the air.

The black light of the rusty copper strip flashed repeatedly.

Suddenly, the copper strip was wrapped in a faint black light, and that deep and distant voice sounded again. “Human, you are too weak, always wounded. Every time you get wounded, I am awakened by you. You disturb my sleep… I have decided to punish you!”]

— Nine Crossings

[A black fog floated in front of Su Mingqian’s eyes.

It was the size of a fist, like a black star.

Cunxing bounced left and right, and finally landed on his head, emitting a deep voice. “Human, I punish you to find the most fun thing on Earth for me right away. Quick!”

Su Mingqian: “…”

He almost didn’t restrain his expression.]

— Nine Crossings

[Cunxing’s demands were increasing.

It was no longer the newly awakened Cunxing who knew nothing about Earth.

It had learned to demand Su Mingqian for specific things to bring it.

From small game consoles to big planes, cannons and missiles.

Su Mingqian satisfied its small demands and told it there was nothing he could do about the big things.

Cunxing was dissatisfied.

“Useless. Forget it, buy me an ice cream. I want a double scoop, one scoop of chocolate and one scoop of milk.”

Su Mingqian, who was on the run: “…”

He really wanted to blow the black star’s dog head off.

But he still satisfied the black star’s demand, buying a double scoop ice cream and handing it over.

The black star turned into a black fog and circled around the ice cream.

Su Mingqian only heard clattering sounds from the black fog. Within two minutes, the black fog turned back into the black star and bounced towards the rushing enemies.

Cunxing: “Alright, throw the ice cream over there.”

Su Mingqian subconsciously did as he was told.

The ice cream contacted the enemy.

Crash—

Ice crystals bloomed like flowers.

All the enemies that rushed at them were frozen into a beautiful picture of vitality.]

— Nine Crossings

A series of compact plots developed.

Li Shuoxing wrote with a blast, and the readers seemed very high too.

The character tags about Cunxing were refreshed almost once a day, and each one was full of spirituality.

#Little princess Xingxing#

#Little expert craftsman#

#Quick, give me a little inspiration#

Even the male readers began bantering.

“I think Cunxing is the soul male lead. Come and shake hands if you agree.”

“Once the originally beautiful strong and miserable Sister Qian met Cunxing, the style suddenly changed.”

“Hahahaha Sister Qian’s reputation was killed. Originally super serious to fight and run away, and midway suddenly shouted stop. The reason: ‘Everyone wait, I have an emergency. I have to go buy an ice cream, double scoop!'”

At that point, Li Shuoxing also wrote about a more critical plot.

He’d recently been thinking about the outward opening window item. Every time he thought about it, he felt that a window would open on his phone’s app, and then the cub inside would plop out of the window and into his palm.

Then he could play with the cub in reality!

The more Li Shuoxing thought about it, the more he was excited, and the more he was excited, the more he was tempted.

So he decided that what he didn’t achieve in reality, he would first enjoy in the novel.

[Su Mingqian fell to the ground, blood clouding his eyes.

The world in his eyes, gradually changing colour…

The world was really changing colour.

In this space, the coloured world turned black and white, becoming old.

Countless black fog surged up from the ground.

The black fog formed the shape of a human, and the figure stood in front of Su Mingqian in a blur.

Behind him, the remaining black fog, like a blooming flower as well as a huge palm, slowly lifted Su Mingqian from the ground.

Chaotic sounds rang in the ears of the creatures in this space, and among the sounds, there was a devilish whisper.

“He’s mine.”

Then, the three-dimensional world became flat.

The flattened world began to collapse.

Only Su Mingqian, surrounded by black fog, and the faint black figure standing in front of Su Mingqian, were three-dimensional and alive.]

— Nine Crossings

Once this plot appeared, the readers were once again shocked!

Male readers: “?!”

Female readers: “?!”

At the same time, on the same day the new chapter was published, a Nine Crossings fanart suddenly appeared on Weibo.

A fan artist expert posted a picture.

Moonlight Happiness: “#Xing Su# #Nine Crossings# Today’s chapter is too touching. I really like the feeling of this pair and couldn’t help drawing them, kiss (づ￣3￣)づ╭～. [image]”