MTL - Don’t Covet the Beautiful System!!-Chapter 55

The sound of falling rain resounded throughout the dreamland.

There are fluffy mushrooms like clouds floating in the sky, and the boy standing by the window looking up at the outside world, the sunlight is so bright and intense.

After an unknown amount of time, the boy finally turned around. He walked to the same white bed and sat down. His face was still blurred by the light. He lowered his head, picked up a book on the bedside table, and read it quietly.

It was raining continuously outside the window, and in the damp and gloomy rain, the mushrooms clinging to the glass became bigger.

Time seemed to be still, infinitely extended by the senses, and boredom and loneliness continued to breed. Pei Qingyuan tried to do something to break this terrible paleness, but the dreamer could not hear his voice, nor could he feel his existence at all. Only the sound of rain and the sound of pages turning are intertwined.

Pei Qingyuan has been trapped in this white room, watching helplessly, almost thinking that he can't wake up from his dream, until he felt a warm touch on his arm.

The strange lonely world is instantly taken away.

In the warm morning, he opened his eyes blankly, and saw the azure blue that was close at hand.

The cat lightly rubbed its tail against his arm and meowed happily.

"Host, you actually slept late." Ji Tong's voice sounded in his heart, "Get up, get up, Lin Zihai is already brushing his teeth!"

He finally returned to the colored reality.

Pei Qingyuan subconsciously breathed a sigh of relief.

But until the dream ended, he couldn't see the boy's face clearly, and a dull sense of loss filled his heart instantly.

"…I had a dream."

He picked up the mushroom walking back and forth by the bed, got up and opened the curtains, outside there was only the empty sky, and the soft light in the morning poured in, adding a touch of gray-blue to the cat's snow-white fur.

Ji Tong asked him curiously: "What dream?"

Pei Qingyuan who was standing in front of the window was stunned for a long time before whispering: "I dreamed of a huge mushroom."

For some reason, he didn't mention the strange boy in his dream.

Maybe it's because he doesn't know how to describe it.

Hearing this somewhat strange answer, Cat Mushroom narrowed its eyes comfortably.

"This dream sounds delicious." Ji Tong commented, "What should I eat this morning? Mushroom meat bun? Cheese and mushroom pasta? Creamy mushroom soup?"

Pei Qingyuan's originally depressed mood was quickly wiped out by Ji Tong's signature dish name link.

He calmed down his thoughts, changed his clothes and walked out of the room. Lin Zihai and Shen Yiming had finished washing and were sitting and chatting in the living room, entangled in the ultimate topic of what to eat.

Seeing him coming out, the two took the initiative to greet him: "Morning, monitor, what are you going to eat later?"

Under Lin Zihai's assimilation, Shen Yiming also began to call him the squad leader.

"Good morning." Pei Qingyuan has been brainwashed by Ji Tong's mushroom recipe, "I want to drink creamy mushroom soup."

As soon as he finished speaking, he frowned, feeling that something was wrong. This soup was only served in western restaurants.

Shen Yiming, who had been taunted by strangers in the western restaurant, hated this place very much.

But before he or Lin Zihai could speak again, Shen Yiming said with a smile: "I want to drink too. There are still many dishes in the western restaurant that I haven't tried. I want to take this opportunity to try them all."

After his words fell, Pei Qingyuan and Lin Zihai responded almost at the same time.

"good."

"Yeah!"

They all found that something was different about Shen Yiming.

When Pei Qingyuan finished washing up quickly and the three of them set off to the restaurant together, both Pei Qingyuan and Lin Zihai heard Shen Yiming's very serious voice.

"Thank you." He said, "I am very happy to share a dormitory with you this time, and I am also very happy to be friends with you."

In the past, we were ordinary students in Class 3 and Class 7, and we rarely interacted with each other. This chance encounter allowed him to learn a lot.

What he learned is not only the knowledge in books.

The door was closed, and the dormitory area was full of fragmentary conversations of students, full of vitality.

The morning sun shines gently on the shoulders of the boys.

Mushroom is off work, and Xiaomei, the watch who takes over for work, flashes brilliant lights.

"Ruan Ruan, good news!" Ji Tong told him excitedly, "The mission panel is brighter. According to the experience last time, this mission should be completed soon."

This is the second main task the host has received, and he has a group of reliable and excellent friends.

Ji Tong has always felt that the criteria for judging task completion are stupid, but this time, he thinks the idea of ​​the task panel is quite reasonable.

Yesterday's lectures and buffet meeting caused many students to have major or minor changes in their state of mind. Shen Yiming, Lin Zihai and others who had more contact with those seniors felt more deeply. Compared with simply good grades or good sports , now they may be closer to the definition of excellence.

You don't have to worry about being excellent, and you are satisfied with good friends.

Ji Tong guessed that the little progress that is still missing should be in reliability.

After returning from Chengde, there will be a sports meeting, no accidents, as long as the students in class three can work hard under the leadership of the class monitor, and win glory for the class, isn't it reliable?

The more Ji Tong thinks about it, the happier he becomes, as if he has seen the gleaming growth value beckoning to him.

After the task is completed, the host can get new random rewards, and he can also upgrade again.

Moreover, the mission this time was completed so perfectly, without taking advantage of loopholes, the host indeed has several precious friendships, and the growth line is extremely healthy, and no one can find fault with it, so when the next regular meeting is assessed, will his score be correct? Finally able to surpass Fang Hao?

Thinking of this, Ji Tong opened the system chat group and inquired about the news.

[Mr. Ji: So boring, come play flying chess? @赵哥]

[Brother Hao: Come on, come on, I’m really bored to death, is Sister Yinyin coming? ]

[Mr. Ji: Why are you bored? ]

[Brother Hao: Wasn’t the host crushed in the lava purgatory last time? A few days ago, I found the most precious fire lotus in Purgatory, and after absorbing it, I went to practice in seclusion. After leaving the seclusion, I will definitely be able to cross a few small realms, and my cultivation base will skyrocket, but I estimate that this time he will have at least 20 years of seclusion...]

[Yinyin: ... so pitiful, how did you live this month. ]

[Mr. Ji: Haha, you must not have time to complete the task before the next regular meeting, let me dominate! ]

[Brother Hao:? ? Is flying chess lying to me? ]

[Brother Hao: Damn it! ]

The timelines of different projection worlds are different, and the time flow rate at the center of the system is also different. Otherwise, the systems would work for too long in a world of fantasy and fantasy, which seems unfair.

After learning that Fang Hao could not pose a threat to his assessment ranking, Ji Tong was overjoyed.

[Mr. Ji: Dear colleagues, what is the reward for scoring first in the assessment? ]

[Yinyin: Xiaotong is so confident this time. ]

[Brother Hao: Heh, I won’t tell you. ]

[Mr. Ji: I will play flying chess with you ヾ(@^▽^@)ノ]

[Brother Hao: ...Generally, some special growth points are rewarded. ]

[Mr. Ji: Special growth value? Is there any difference from regular ones? ]

[Yinyin: The special growth value cannot be used to change the system form, but it can be used to activate some special functions. ]

[Brother Hao: For example, system interoperability permissions. ]

[Brother Hao: If you really take the first place, can you let me play in your world? I want to play the artificial intelligence quiz last time, and I want to play flying chess face to face. ]

[Brother Hao: In return, I can teach your host some quick, accurate and ruthless moves, and help him increase his force value. It is absolutely no problem to do more than a dozen. You should not have such data. ]

[Yinyin: Hahahaha, let me think about it too, I can probably teach your host how to fall in love, Xiaotong doesn't seem to have any experience in this area, right? ]

[Mr. Ji: ...(⊙o⊙)! ! ]

After listening to the big cakes drawn by his colleagues, Ji Tong now has only one wish: fast forward to the sports meeting, fast forward to the first place in the regular meeting assessment, and then fast forward to the thugs in suits who beat ten by one.

...seems to fast forward a little too fast.

The little robot on the dial smirked imaginatively.

After Pei Qingyuan listened to Ji Tong's report, he heard a burst of cheerful and lively tunes.

Now without Ji Tong's explanation, he can guess that this BGM represents joy and excitement.

Knowing that the mission has progressed, Pei Qingyuan was happy, but also thought of the mission rewards that would be issued soon.

What will Ji Tong look like when he grows up?

He suddenly thought of the boy who couldn't see his face clearly.

Why would he dream of a stranger he had never met before?

Even if he couldn't see the front, Pei Qingyuan was sure that he had never seen that back in real life.

If he has seen it, he will not forget it.

On the campus path in autumn, the warm sunlight shines on the leaves and the students with green faces. The young man wearing a watch in the crowd subconsciously raises his head to glance at the bright sun, then lowers his eyes.

It is different from the sun in the dream.

The remaining three days of the exchange week passed quickly, and the exchange students of this group of foreign schools became more and more relaxed. Unlike the general restraint and admiration of the exchange students in previous years, they looked at the novelty here with a peaceful and broad gaze. Everything is like a sponge trying to absorb the scenery.

In this atmosphere, the malicious targeting and embarrassment were made especially ridiculous, and gradually disappeared, at least not on the surface.

Morning self-study, classes, lectures, meals, club activities, and entertainment in my spare time, I live a fulfilling life every day.

Ji Tong would suddenly sigh in his heart: "It's really a wonderful campus life, with mushroom soup, peacocks, and good friends who go to the toilet together."

Pei Qingyuan guessed that his system should have absorbed an entire high school knowledge base of good words and sentences.

He has the same schedule as other students, listens to the same class, and sees the same scenery. The only difference is that he often dreams of that pale room. Every time the dream hardly changes, it is always sunlight, rain, The quiet back, and the long loneliness that even he could hardly bear.

Pei Qingyuan always thought that he was familiar enough with loneliness. The life he was strictly regulated in Pei's family since he was a child, and everything he encountered after his life experience was exposed, made him more and more used to silence until the system appeared in his life.

But compared to that dream, at least he still has a colorful world.

During the break, Pei Qingyuan would often think of the strange boy who appeared in the dream in a trance.

He even began to worry, what would that boy look like in the future dream?

Will his condition get worse and worse?

Pei Qingyuan didn't tell Ji Tong about it, nor did he try to describe his inner feelings.

Because he thought, maybe this is a question his system can't answer.

Ji Tong is always happy.

However, after becoming more and more familiar with the new friends, Pei Qingyuan couldn't hold back the growing emotions in his heart, and asked these peers questions.

"If you were trapped in one place and couldn't go out since you were young, and you were lonely every day, what would it be like? Would you collapse?"

At lunch time, in the noisy restaurant, everyone thought about it seriously after hearing what he said.

"It's so boring to live, I guess I might want to die." Someone replied.

"My mother is almost like this. She is inconvenient to move and rarely goes out." Xiao Xinchen said without hesitation, "However, grandpa and grandma love her very much. Grandpa resigned to stay at home with her. Later, he met my father and my mother. She should still be very happy, just like ordinary people.”

Shen Yiming shook his head: "I can't imagine, I don't have such a strong will, I will definitely collapse."

"Do you have a mobile phone to play with?" Lin Zihai pondered, "It might be better to have a mobile phone, but it's still scary."

"Didn't you say you handed in your mobile phone? Still thinking about it."

"Our homeroom teacher gave it back to me yesterday and told me to call my family..."

"No wonder your dark circles are so big today!"

Amidst the laughter, someone looked curiously at the black watch on Pei Qingyuan's wrist.

"What does Xiaomei think?" the man asked, "Can Xiaomei answer this question?"

The screen brightened, and the little robot appeared on the screen as usual, blinking blankly.

"Xiaomei feels that nothing will change."

"Why?"

"Because humans can eat, they are very happy."

The little robot answered them with a well-behaved mechanical voice.

"This answer is so familiar, did you say it yesterday, Xiaomei actually perfunctory us!"

"Xiaomei is indeed an AI, she doesn't understand us humans."

Xiaomei showed a smile with crooked eyebrows: "Xiaomei will study hard."

In its cute expression, the laughter of the teenagers is more vivid.

Pei Yan's eyes flicked over the bustling table of exchange students, where there were his former friends.

Sitting across from him is Xiang Jinyang, talking with a smile: "Xiaoyan, Teacher Qi from Jiangyuan University will be here in the afternoon, and he will listen to other professors' lectures with Professor Xiao. Are you going to say hello?"

"You have read a lot of books. Aunt Ye wanted to take you to meet scholars in this field. If you want to study this major in the future, it is time to pave the way for you. Teacher Qi and the others are good choices. ..."

His tone was warm, as if he was thinking of his close friends.

Pei Yan was silent for a moment, then suddenly said: "I can't learn it."

"What did you say?" Xiang Jinyang thought he had heard wrong.

"I can't learn, so I don't want to go." He repeated in a low voice, getting up and leaving for the first time, "I'm done eating, I want to go back to the classroom... sorry."

Xiang Jinyang looked at his back in astonishment, and suddenly clenched his fists.

On the second floor of the restaurant, the handsome boy wearing glasses silently looked away.

The people around were talking about the undercurrent of the campus this week, complaining about the unsightly exchange students, and chatting about the weekend's leisure activities by the way.

"Wen Bai, do you want to go see the musical on Saturday? It's the first time this show is on a domestic tour, and it's already sold out. My uncle left me a few prime seats."

"Thank you, I won't go." Zhuang Wenbai refused with a smile, "I have other things arranged."

False drama, how can real reality be interesting?

When a group of people finished their lunch and got up to leave, a companion accidentally bumped into a decorative vase on the table. When the glass bottle was about to be dumped on the table, Zhuang Wenbai reached out to support it in time.

The glass vase was held firmly in place before the fragrant bouquet broke loose from its mouth and scattered loosely across the floor.

"Huh, it's okay." The man breathed a sigh of relief, "Thanks to Wen Baishoukuai, the restaurant is also, what kind of glass vase..."

"It's okay." Zhuang Wenbai said flatly, "It won't break."

It will hold these flowers until the flowers wither.

In a blink of an eye, Friday came, which was the last day of the exchange week.

The five-day schedule is all over, and there is only one farewell ceremony left. The exchange students are arranged to go back to the dormitory to pack their luggage. At that time, the school bus will still pick them up to the auditorium.

The dormitory building was full of sad parting emotions. Many students who met here exchanged contact information and made an appointment to contact them later.

Teacher Qian, who had received the exchange students when he came, waited in the corridor, helped everyone carry their luggage, and told Pei Qingyuan that he had never found any cat hunting notices related to mushrooms.

Pei Qingyuan, who knew the reason well, replied calmly: "I will take care of it."

Seeing the hesitant expectation in Teacher Qian's eyes, Mushroom walked up to him with dignity, allowing him to play with him for a while, and by the way, let the host concentrate on packing up.

"Mushroom is the most obedient and most beautiful cat I have ever seen." Teacher Qian said reluctantly.

Teacher Qian is also one of the most sensible human beings he has ever met.

Mushroom stretched out its claws and patted Teacher Qian's arm appreciatively.

There was a lot of noise outside the house, and Shen Yiming was packing up his things in the room. The similar scene reminded him of something he had forgotten.

He walked into Lin Zihai's room quickly, came out in a hurry, and went straight to Pei Qingyuan.

"There is a question that I have been forgetting to ask you." Shen Yiming took Lin Zihai's wrong question book and turned to a page, "The day I came here, Lin Zihai asked me a question, and he said that you know another kind of question. I didn’t believe in the solution, and said it was impossible, but now, I think there must be, can you teach me?”

Pei Qingyuan looked back when he heard the words, and saw Shen Yiming's eyes shining with a strong thirst for knowledge.

The air was quiet for a while, but he did not reach out to take the wrong book.

"You'll find out," he said. "There may be a third."