Right now, Fang Ran’s entire face was filled with… No!
His entire mind was filled with confusion.
‘What! The! F*ck! What is going on?’
Trembling, Fang Ran withdrew his hand and buried his face in his hands as if he was about to cry.
‘Oh my God! What on earth happened to make the super beautiful girl turn into a burly man who scratches his foot!’
‘And a pervert without clothes at that!’
‘No! Calm down!’
‘Calm down!’
‘Fang Ran, you must calm down!’
‘The more it is a time like this, the more you must display your manly composure!’
…
‘F*ck… I seem to have said this more times in the past week than I did in the past year.’
Fang Ran trembled as he looked ahead, reconfirming that it was indeed Impetuous in front of him. Then, he saw that Impetuous was only wearing his underwear with his upper body naked, and right now, Impetuous’ face was twitching as he also stared at Fang Ran.
‘F*ck, what kind of outfit is this guy wearing?!’
‘Fuck, what kind of style is this guy in?!’
The corners of Impetuous’ mouth were also twitching as he looked at Fang Ran. He saw that Fang Ran was wearing a dusty and tattered outfit, as if he had just knocked off from work at a construction site. The worst thing was that the blood on his right face was just like that of a male protagonist in a hot-blooded comic, flowing over his eyes.
‘Oh my god, is my younger brother cosplaying?’
Little did he know that Fang Ran was also madly roasting him in his heart right now, about how he only had underwear on his entire body.
‘Holysh*t… Did you just finish some “special service”?!’
However, after a fierce internal struggle, Fang Ran finally verified the fact that the person across from him was indeed Impetuous. Then, a huge question mark popped up in his mind,
‘Why?’
However, Fang Ran soon understood why. He subconsciously looked around at his surroundings…
And saw that he was in a spacious tea room at the moment. Several high-end tea tables were placed here and each table was equipped with a few chairs. Some were with two seats opposite each other, while some had three seats facing each other.
Then, Fang Ran saw that on the bustling streets outside, which he had never seen before…
The sky was dark and there was nobody around.
‘Hmm….’
‘Alright, I get it.’
…
“F*ck me…”
Fang Ran buried his face in his hands as he cried, feeling as if he could never look fate in the eye again.
‘Why, exactly why… Why did I come in again?’
F*ck you, I’ve only rested at home for one day!’
‘On the first day, the building collapsed! On the second day, I parachuted from the sky! On the third day, the women’s locker room was blown up!’
‘After I finally managed to get some rest during the daytime on the fourth day at long last, I still had to f*cking confront drug traffickers in the middle of the night!’
‘Fine, putting all these aside…’ Fang Ran felt that he was so open-minded to even be able to tolerate all these.
‘You dragged me in again on the fifth day?!’
‘Isn’t that too much?!’
‘I came in four times in five days!’
‘Even periods don’t come that diligently!’
Fang Ran’s face right now was a picture of despair, feeling like he had nothing to live for. He felt like he was just short of writing ‘If I have to participate in this bloody thing again, I would rather be crushed on the ground’ on his face.
‘Also! It’s not that everywhere I go collapses!’
‘It’s those who say that everywhere I go collapses are bad people!’
“Older brother, can you explain to me, what’s going on?” Fang Ran asked in melancholy.
“Younger brother, you have to believe me. There is a reason why I am doing this… You must not get the wrong idea, I just happened to be…” Meng Lang explained with a serious face.
“I didn’t ask you why you look like that, alright?!” Fang Ran rolled his eyes and collapsed onto the chair, not wanting to move. ‘Who the hell would want to know if you were captured here in the midst of receiving “special services”.’
“Uh.” Meng Lang was speechless for a second. After that, he immediately puffed out his chest and held his head high as he said righteously,
“In that case, I have nothing else to say!”
‘Oh my God. At the end of the day, you don’t actually know anything else besides the reason why you’re wearing only underwear?’
Fang Ran let out a sigh. ‘They’re really trying to kill me. I was just fighting for my life with others outside and just had a life-and-death crisis. Is it really a good idea for you to drag me in so suddenly?
‘Can you not keep playing this mentally exhausting game of having a new problem arise before the old problem is resolved…’
“By the way, older brother, why are the both of us together?” Fang Ran looked around. Only he and Impetuous were sitting in this place that looked very high-end and elegant, where a cup of tea would cost at least 100 Yuan.
“Team scenario.”
Unexpectedly, it was Ling who answered him. At this moment, Ling, who was in Fang Ran’s hood, was also extremely surprised.
‘This idiot actually managed to chance upon a scenario again, and a team scenario at that?’
‘This is seriously…’
When he heard his “benefactress” speak, Fang Ran immediately became energetic and asked in a flattering tone in his mind,
“Boss, what’s going on, what’s this team scenario? Also, I got dragged in so suddenly, will that girl outside be fine… Also, I…”
“Shut up!”
Ling coldly shouted at him to stop, and said in a harsh tone,
“Whatever I need to tell you, I will naturally tell you about it. Also, don’t address me in such a crude manner! That girl will definitely be fine, but do you know…”
Ling stopped talking all of a sudden.
Then, she said coldly,
“Anyway, don’t ask too many questions. I will tell you what you have to do.”
“Alright then. But is that girl really alright?”
Fang Ran was still a little worried and asked again. Leaving a girl behind in narrow darkness, Fang Ran still felt a little concerned about it.
Even though that girl had nothing to do with him.
“You are quite worried about that lass,” Ling said with a sneer, “The time in the Night Battle scenarios is different from the outside world. It’s just two floors collapsing, she’ll probably be rescued out of there in less than half an hour.”
‘This idiot still doesn’t know how much trouble he has caused.’ In the data space, Ling’s eyelids became hooded and she did not continue explaining.
‘If worse comes to worst, I will just hibernate for a few years. If I tell this coward that he’s about to die, who knows how much of a mental breakdown he’ll have.’
“Oh, that’s good then. So, what should I do now?”
Fang Ran asked while sitting upright and still. Ling slowly floated out of his hood. Impetuous also knew how awesome Fang Ran’s power bank was. When he saw Fang Ran “welcoming her respectfully”, he immediately rubbed his hands together like a brown-noser.
“Oh hey, um, Your Royal Highness, you are here too.”
“Don’t call me Your Royal Highness!”
Ling bellowed at this underwear-wearing deviant who had a perverted expression on his face!
“Listen up, this is a team scenario, which is why the both of you, who have just formed a team, have appeared here.”
Suppressing her fury in wanting to wallop these two cowards who hid in the previous scenario, Ling explained coldly.
“Yep yep yep!”
“Oh oh oh!”
The two of them appeared obedient, like chicks pecking at their rice. Ling rolled her eyes speechlessly. She was certain that when the two of them were faced with imminent danger, they would instantly become cowards again.
“Team scenarios are generally scenarios where teams have to achieve a certain goal to compete for the reward awarded by the Night Battle system.”
“Now, open your interfaces, and the system will provide information about this scenario.”
The two cowards hurriedly opened their respective interfaces. Fang Ran secretly opened his pink Cardcaptor Sakura interface. Then, a normal version of the system interface popped up.
[Ding! You have been selected for this Night Battle Team Scenario]
[Mission Target: Locate and kill C-13]
[Target Description: C-13 is composed of various [Data Expunged]. It has the ability to imitate the appearance of any creature within its current scope of knowledge, and has the ability to imitate most behaviors of living creatures. When imitating any creature’s appearance to deceive another creature that knows of the former creature, C-13 can use all the abilities the creature whose appearance it is imitating. However, as it is an existence composed from [Data Expunged], when C-13’s disguise has been exposed, it will immediately enter a state of screaming panic, and swiftly escape from the line of sight of the creature which saw through it.
[Mission Reward: 100 points of mana/physical stamina for each team member×5]
[Bonus Reward for Mission: Unknown]
[Mission Duration: Three nights in Night Battle time]
[Number of participants ready: 2/16]
This was the first time that Fang Ran saw so much text in the system description. The cold description of the system text made Fang Ran a little short of breath, which made him puzzled as to why even an A-grade Night Equipment was just described with a simple long name like [Night Pilgrimage of Huginn and Muninn], without even an instruction manual.
Yet, there was actually so much description for a team scenario this time!
“I keep getting the feeling that I’ve seen this descriptive style somewhere before…” Fang Ran stammered nervously.
“Don’t!”
Impetuous promptly cut him off, and hurriedly criticised whatever dangerous things Fang Ran was about to say next,
“I know what you want to say, but don’t voice it out! I don’t want to know what kind of bad taste it would leave in my mouth if I encounter a monster that could teleport behind you and break your neck in the blink of an eye!”
Ling did not care about the two buffoons amusing each other. Reading the introduction to the Night Battle scenario this time, her brows furrowed as she pondered,
‘C-grade top 20?’
‘And the reward is for increasing mana and physical stats?’
‘A scenario with a total of 16 people?’
Then, she noticed that the two cowards next to her were chattering away about trivial matters. Suppressing her rage, she roared in a low voice,
“Cut the crap!”
Fang Ran and Impetuous immediately sat upright like primary school students who had been caught red-handed by the teacher. Ling looked at the two idiots. One was shirtless and wearing only underwear, while the other was covered in dirt with blood on his face. She let out a deep sigh.
“Pay attention, the other participants will show up soon.”
As soon as her voice fell, the other seats in the tea room flickered.