CH 118

Chapter 118 - Who will these three people be? (1)

The small metal car stopped at a hot pot restaurant.

The zombies that had been chasing the small metal car heard the sound of the jeep's engine. Attracted by the noise, they rushed over to join the army that was running after the jeep.

"There's probably someone controlling that toy car." Curious about the toy car, Du Ruo knocked on the back of Lu Xingchi's seat. "Let's stop and have a look?"

Lu Xingchi pulled over without saying a word. His expression was apathetic without much emotion, but those that knew him well could tell that he was unhappy. He had been sulking these past few days.

Since Bei Nuan kissed him that one time in Shui University's library, she refused to have any intimate actions with him again. She guarded him like he was a bandit. He had calmly created many opportunities for them to be alone, but he hadn't even gotten close to Bei Nuan in the past few days.

He hadn't said a word while driving today. And now, after getting out of the jeep, he continued to be silent as he shot down dozens of zombies. Finally, he said, "Where's the toy car?"

Everyone had seen it except him. Bei Nuan didn't know what had made him so distracted that he didn't notice. She poked her head out the window and pointed it out to him. He had driven the jeep a bit of distance, and it was somewhat far from them.

Lu Xingchi only glanced at it before walking over and opening the jeep door for Bei Nuan. He offered his hand to her. The jeep door wasn't close to the ground. He wanted to hug her to bring her down.

Bei Nuan immediately scooted away from him.

"Why are you avoiding me?" Lu Xingchi didn't force her. He quietly asked, "I can't even hug you?"

Du Ruo and the others had already gone out of the keep and were walking on the sidewalk towards the toy car.

Bei Nuan ducked under his arm and nimbly jumped off the jeep. She murmured, “If the terminology is not corrected, then what is said cannot be followed. The issue at hand is the terminology."

(T/N: She's quoting a line from the Analetics of Confucius. That's why the line is esoteric.)

Lu Xingchi followed her logic and calmly said, "Then be my girlfriend."

Bei Nuan bluntly refused, "No."

"If you don't want to, then don't. I won't force you. But, do you have to stay so far away from me? Can't I hug you and kiss you occasionally?" Lu Xingchi quietly asked.

"No," Bei Nuan fluently repeated, “If the terminology is not corrected, then what is said cannot be followed. The issue at hand is the terminology."

"Then be my girlfriend."

"No."

Lu Xingchi: "..."

He was stuck in an infinite loop.

After Bei Nuan put away the jeep, she saw the toy car had already quietly entered the hot pot restaurant when the zombies weren't paying attention to it. There were several steps to get to the door from the ground. How did the toy car manage to smoothly go up those stairs? Pretty amazing.

The group secretly followed after the toy car and went into the hot pot restaurant.

The hot pot restaurant's door was open, but there weren't any zombies inside. It was neat and clean. The restaurant probably hadn't opened yet when the zombies reached here.

Bei Nuan saw the toy car silently slip into the kitchen in the back.

Just as Bei Nuan was looking over there, she heard Little Three say, "Bei Nuan, there's -"

Bei Nuan simply interrupted him, "Don't say there's a new task. Just be straightforward. Just say you're going to mess with me again. Right?"

Bei Nuan still had lingering fears from the last Holy Mother's task. She felt like a lunatic, having to doggedly get people to praise her for being kind.

The aftermath of that episode was still here. Du Ruo endlessly looked for various opportunities to praise her in an assortment of ways. Several days had passed, but he hadn't forgotten about it.

Little Three comforted his host, who was like a cat with its fur puffed up, "Don't be afraid. The task this time isn't bad, and the punishment for failing isn't too severe either."

Not "too" severe?

Bei Nuan despairingly asked, "There's a punishment if I don't complete it. So it's another mandatory task? Let me ask first, what's the punishment?"

Little Three breezily answered, "You just lose half of your pocket space. But Bei Nuan, it's a pity to lose so much space. I suggest that it's better for you to complete the task."

That's what he called not too severe?

Bei Nuan sighed and glanced at the new task that appeared in the task bar: Holy Mother's Wishes.

"Fulfill three wishes from each of three target people, and you'll be rewarded with a lot of Holy Mother value," Little Three coaxed her, "You'll be like a little fairy that fulfills the wishes of others. Isn't that cute? Like a fairytale, yes?"

Little Fairy Bei Nuan cautiously asked, "Who will these three people be?"

(T/N: I think this is the first use of a gendered pronoun for Little Three. It was also mentioned early in the novel that Little Three speaks with a male voice, which is unusual for a system.)