CHAPTER 242: CHAPTER 226: MATURE BABY (EXTRA FOR MONTHLY TICKET)

When Wen Nan was lingering with Lin Xue Mei on the carpet beside the sofa, a golden light suddenly appeared and pierced straight through Lin Xue Mei’s body.

Her skin, white with a hint of pink blush, was split open by the golden light from the middle.

Wen Nan’s brow furrowed as the scene before his eyes gradually broke apart under the glare of the piercing golden light.

When he regained his senses, he was back in room 404 of Taoyuan Mental Hospital, finding himself still lying on the same bed, and in front of him stood Yu Shujun, holding a sword and looking at him coldly.

Wen Nan propped himself up with his arms and rubbed his head.

Recalling what had just happened, it felt like a dream within a dream.

The dream within a dream was forcibly awakened, and he returned to the first layer of the dream.

"Don’t indulge in your fantasies," Yu Shujun stared at Wen Nan’s face and said coldly, "The Divine Staff Sheath wants to use your memories to invade your thoughts, trapping you in one dream after another, sinking deeper and deeper, until you can no longer wake up, never able to leave."

"Is that so?" Wen Nan chuckled, savoring the recent events, and couldn’t help but regret, "Couldn’t you at least have let me finish that dream before waking me up?"

Yu Shujun’s eyelids drooped, "Haven’t you done enough of that in the instances? Even stuck here, you rely on erotic dreams to quench your thirst?"

Wen Nan stood up from the bedside, shook his head at the remark, and lamented, "How did you, being so unromantic, climb to such a high rank in the Gold division? How did you manage to successfully guide those instance characters?"

Yu Shujun didn’t respond, again giving him that look of seeing an idiot.

Wen Nan waved his hand indifferently, walked to the window, and looked at the white wall outside, "So, any progress, lumberjack?"

Actually, he just asked offhandedly with a bit of teasing, not expecting the other side to have any progress—

From the moment Yu Shujun slashed his first sword, Wen Nan had no hope for the so-called [Root Breaking Slash].

However, unexpectedly, Yu Shujun answered seriously, "Yes."

Wen Nan’s eyebrows raised slightly, genuinely surprised.

Yu Shujun raised his hand, his fingertip pointing at a certain spot on the wall outside, "Progress... not much."

Wen Nan bent down, brought his face close to where the other’s finger pointed, raised his hand above his eyebrows, then squinted his eyes, trying hard to discern the traces within through the blinding white glow of the barrier—

Originally, there was indeed a hair-thin black line on the flawless smooth inner wall, now appearing like a peeled egg.

That should be the sword mark Yu Shujun formed with his skill [Root Breaking Slash] after multiple layers of strikes.

But...

This progress is too small, almost negligible.

"At this rate, by the time the dog licks the flour mountain clean, the chicken pecks the rice mountain away, and the candle burns through the iron lock in Sun Wukong’s story, we still won’t be able to get out, will we?"

Yu Shujun looked at him coldly, "Who’s Sun Wukong?"

Wen Nan was already used to the fact that Yu Shujun’s village still didn’t have internet access, so he waved his hand dismissively, "Your skill is really impressive, to even leave marks on this one-way barrier. But at your ’cupping therapy’ speed, even if you don’t die from exhaustion, I might just die of old age first."

Yu Shujun had no rebuttal to this.

Gripping the light sword in his hand, Yu Shujun’s eyelashes lowered as he whispered, "The internal restraint effect of the Divine Staff Sheath is very strong, drastically reducing the damage caused by [Root Breaking Slash], leaving less than 10% output."

Although Yu Shujun had vaguely anticipated this when deciding to pursue, he hadn’t expected the restraint effect to be so strong. Even estimating at 10% was conservative; it was likely only about 5%.

Relying on this output to break through the barrier is almost more difficult than grinding an iron rod into a needle.

During their conversation, a floating light screen descended from the ceiling of the room.

The moment that screen appeared, Wen Nan and Yu Shujun were both shocked—

Inside this Divine Staff Sheath, the system signal is blocked, and both of their player systems have been down for a long time. How could an internal system screen suddenly pop up?

What’s this? The Divine Staff Sheath’s own system?

This idea was quickly dismissed because the words on the light screen changed—

[Now entering mainline task settlement time.]

[All players, please take your positions.]

[Detected player Ye Jiu has successfully received the additional reward of "One Wish" during the settlement of Mainline Task 1.]

[Ye Jiu’s wish is: Starting from Mainline Task 2 until the end of this instance, the player has the exemption right of "not having to return to the refresh point, can complete settlement at any location within Snow Mountain Villa."]

[Current location of player Ye Jiu: Inside Divine Staff Sheath.]

[This location is inside Snow Mountain Villa and has successfully triggered your exemption right.]

[This task settlement system has no access to the inside of Divine Staff Sheath. It detected that in the player’s equipment inventory there is a key item [Omniform Eve] crafted by Yu Shouling by hand. Yu Shouling is the exclusive Guardian that the Divine Staff Sheath subdivided from, and the item made from part of Yu Shouling as material has the permission to be transmitted into the Divine Staff Sheath.]

[This system has successfully accessed the internal interface of [Omniform Eve], using this key item to connect inside Divine Staff Sheath.]

[Now reopening the task settlement process...]

[Please confirm your identity, player Ye Jiu.]

Seeing one system prompt after another, Wen Nan was truly startled.

He lowered his gaze and saw that there were three exquisitely styled small bottles in his pocket—these were the [Omniform Eve] that Yu Shouling had given him earlier.

It had to be said, this instance refresh point’s internal system was really a "good citizen" keeping its promise.

To fulfill Wen Nan’s wish to "settle anywhere and anytime," it went to great lengths—and even came up with the crafty solution of connecting to Yu Shouling’s [Omniform Eve].

Tsk tsk tsk, this wish really paid off.

Raising his hand, he pressed the [Confirm] button, and Wen Nan’s settlement panel quickly appeared.

No surprise, he still received an excellent rating, but this time, because it wasn’t "too excellent," he didn’t receive any additional reward.

After completing the settlement alone, the prompts on the screen quickly changed—

[Congratulations to all players! Mainline Task 2 has officially ended!]

[Next, entering the countdown for Mainline Task 3—]

[00:00:03—]

[00:00:02—]

[00:00:01—]

[Beep!]

[The new player task has been delivered, please check!]

The familiar mainline task distribution process made Wen Nan tense at heart.

Having stayed inside the Divine Staff Sheath for too long, his sense of time had become very weak.

Just waking up from a dream of springtime passion, Wen Nan almost forgot that before entering this illusion, he still had a mainline task on him.

Now, seeing the prompts on the floating screen above, he realized an urgent problem—

He was trapped inside the Divine Staff Sheath; how would he complete the next mainline task?

Should he wait for the task time to end and then automatically forfeit?

While he was thinking, the prompts on the screen changed again—

[Mainline Task 3: May you gather many flowers, for this object is the most evocative.]

[Task description: Congratulations, you’ve successfully found them and spent a wonderful time with them in Snow Mountain Villa. Now, the time for departure has come. Sending you a thousand miles away, there must eventually be a parting.

Do not be sorrowful because of parting; as long as you successfully win their heart, even after leaving, you will forever be remembered by them.

Now that you’ve conquered them, before parting, figure out a way to use your portable items to let them remember you, never forgetting!]

[Now entering task countdown—]

[12:00:00—]

[11:59:59—]

This is the last mainline task on the Snow Mountain Villa map, theoretically, after completing this 12-hour task, Wen Nan can smoothly end this "vacation" and return to the rest hall.

According to the task description, he needs to use the small rain umbrella to give the other party an unforgettable memory of a lifetime.

For Wen Nan, this is very simple.

He is quite confident in his skills in that area.

However, now the problem is, he’s trapped inside this "living coffin" and can’t get out, not even to see Yu Shouling, much less give her an unforgettable exquisite experience.

If he can’t complete the task on time, he’s done for, and his player account will be deleted. As for what will happen after the player account is deleted, no player knows.

But in any case, Wen Nan certainly doesn’t want to leave the game world at this time.

So what should he do?

While Wen Nan was pondering, the prompt on the floating screen changed—

[Detected your strategy character "The Gentlewoman of the Villa" is reminiscing over items you’ve used.]

[Your mainline task 3 completion rate is now 2%.]

[Detected your strategy character "The Gentlewoman of the Villa" has opened items you’ve used trying to make special aromatic oils.]

[Your mainline task 3 completion rate is now 5%.]

[Detected your strategy character "The Gentlewoman of the Villa" has successfully made aromatic oil named after you using materials collected from your items.]

[Your mainline task 3 completion rate is now 10%.]

[Detected your strategy character "The Gentlewoman of the Villa" successfully used the aromatic oil named "Ye Jiu", and became immersed in a past night of spring passion, unable to extricate themselves.]

[Your mainline task 3 completion rate is now 20%.]

...

One prompt after another continued to roll on the screen.

After the start of Mainline Task 3, in just this short one-hour time, the gentlewoman helped Wen Nan increase the task completion rate to 20%.

Wen Nan’s lips curled up—

It seems that Yu Shouling has already become quite a mature darling, even if Wen Nan isn’t around, she’ll play strategy with herself and seems to be enjoying it quite a bit?