It’s Not Okay to Kiss Me as Soon as We Meet (ABO) - Chapter 25

Lin Huaiyi soaked in the spiritual spring water, blowing bubbles. She was carefully studying her body.

One had to say, Floating Dream World’s virtual reality scene setup was too meticulous. In the script, she had been stabbed by Shen Li’s role, and she could really feel the bone-piercing pain and the weakness from bl00d flowing out of her body.

Looking around, exotic flowers and plants surrounded the spiritual spring, all beautiful to the point of fantasy. The spiritual spring water felt truly tangible in temperature. Lin Huaiyi found her clothes sticky and uncomfortable on her body, so she decided to actually take a bath here.

She mustered her courage and thought, anyway, besides Shen Li and me, everyone else is NPC. This was a perfect chance to test how well the body modeling was done.

After taking off her outer clothes, Lin Huaiyi let out a sigh of relief. She had a bit of a cleanliness obsession herself, and the jacket from earlier was covered in both mud and bl00d, which she really could not stand.

She relaxed her body and floated in the spiritual spring, looking at the fantastical world enveloped by various rare herbs and plants. She felt utterly comfortable.

After Shen Li entered this world, she first checked her mission panel.

She was Ling Yue, the outstanding disciple among the third generation of Kunlun Sect, who had a secret romance with Mo Feng.

Seeing this line, Shen Li paused slightly. Mo Feng was not the role Lin Huaiyi played? Her face reddened a bit, and she continued reading.

Mo Feng had gone mad from cultivation deviation, fallen into the demonic path, and killed several fellow disciples. Ling Yue had severely wounded Mo Feng while pursuing her, and now Mo Feng’s whereabouts were unknown. Ling Yue had returned to Kunlun Sect to report.

Ling Yue’s goal was to find Mo Feng, stop her from becoming a great demon king, and prevent harm to the common people.

Shen Li wandered around Kunlun Sect, trying to talk to her senior and junior brothers.

She found their dialogues were still templated responses, not very intelligent. It seemed in this script, only key character roles had artificial intelligence systems implanted, while other NPCs were done quite roughly.

She silently noted this point for improvement in her mind.

Just as she wandered bored in the sect, a disciple came to find her, saying the sect leader sought her and asked her to go to Lingxiao Hall quickly.

When Shen Li stepped into Lingxiao Hall, the sect leader Shang Xu Zhenren already stood in the hall waiting for her. Shen Li deliberately delayed a bit, not bowing immediately, wanting to see Shang Xu Zhenren’s reaction.

Shang Xu Zhenren saw his usually most obedient little disciple Ling Yue enter without bowing, and displeasure gradually showed on his face. His body also emitted pressure.

Shen Li’s prompt panel’s alert value rose rapidly, simultaneously prompting: Please note not to OOC (break character). If the alert value exceeds one hundred, the player will be directly kicked out of the script world, and the mission will be judged as a failure.

She had not expected Floating Dream World to set such meticulous restriction rules. While noting this in her mind, Shen Li’s body naturally bowed to the sect leader.

“This disciple came late. Sect leader, do not blame me.”

After she bowed, the alert value slowly dropped again, and the panel’s color returned to healthy green.

The sect leader saw her bow obediently and did not dwell on her earlier disrespect. He waved his hand, and an object floated into Shen Li’s hand.

“This magic treasure is called the Big Dipper Plate. It can help you locate that wicked disciple Mo Feng’s general position. Place a personal item of Mo Feng on it, input a strand of spiritual energy, and this plate will guide you to find her.”

“Once you find Mo Feng, remember to kill the wicked disciple and return to report. Never forget your mission.”

Shen Li boldly looked up, only to see the sect leader’s gaze cold and stern. Her heart chilled. She did not know how much the sect leader knew about Ling Yue and Mo Feng’s secret romance, or if this was a trap.

But for now, she was eager to find Lin Huaiyi and exchange thoughts on this Floating Dream World virtual reality script-killing.

She had no idea where to find Lin Huaiyi, but this sect leader was timely—like sending a pillow when sleepy. He had sent a locator to find Lin Huaiyi.

She decided to rendezvous with Lin Huaiyi first and plan from there.

The sect leader watched Ling Yue’s figure in fluttering white clothes. A male voice beside him asked, “Sect leader, are you at ease letting Ling Yue go find Mo Feng? What if they conspire together?”

The sect leader laughed darkly. “That Big Dipper Plate can only be activated by someone whose heart is connected to Mo Feng to find her position. If Ling Yue wisely captures Mo Feng, fine. If she colludes with that wicked disciple like rats in a nest, we can take them both—it is no big deal. I have left a mark on Ling Yue’s clothes, so her position is clear to me.”

The male voice beside him flattered with a laugh. “Sect leader is so wise. It is I who overthought.”

The sect leader felt pleased by the flattery from the man beside him, and the two let out eerie cackles together.

After taking the magic treasure, Shen Li studied it carefully and felt it should be a specific game prop with a built-in positioning system.

She rummaged in the storage bag and actually found a personal item of Mo Feng.

[Betrothal Token · Mo Feng’s Personal Jade Pendant] Superior spiritual jade. Legend said it was the token Mo Feng’s never-met mother had placed in her swaddling clothes, later gifted by Mo Feng to Ling Yue as a betrothal token.

This was it. Shen Li placed the jade pendant on the Big Dipper Plate and tried inputting a bit of her spiritual energy.

The spiritual energy system was quite interesting—it was actually a skill key called spiritual energy. After clicking this key, a wisp of immortal mist appeared at the fingertip.

Shen Li jabbed her index finger upward, and the Big Dipper Plate began spinning wildly.

After a while, the Big Dipper Plate stopped. Shen Li tapped it with her finger again, and the small map inside the Big Dipper Plate projected and enlarged into mid-air. Shen Li looked up at the other fellow disciples—none noticed the large map appearing in the air.

Shen Li nodded inwardly. It seemed this map was visible only to her.

Now, a small red dot on the map represented Mo Feng’s position. Seeing the small red dot motionless, Shen Li inwardly grumbled about Lin Huaiyi. “She does not even walk around more or look more. Did she forget we came here for research?”

How to get there? Shen Li felt troubled and had to rummage in the all-purpose storage bag again.

She found a flying sword as wished in the bag. Checking the prompt beside it: [Superior Flying Sword].

This was the prize Ling Yue, third-generation disciple of Kunlun Sect, had won first place in the flying sword exam. It could be activated with spiritual energy or powered by spirit stones. Spirit stone consumption: one mid-grade spirit stone allows flight for one hour.

Spirit stones. Shen Li rummaged again and indeed found a small pile of spirit stones in an inconspicuous spot in the storage bag—100 mid-grade spirit stones and 500 low-grade ones.

Shen Li thought the game clearly had no intention of restricting players on spirit stones; it just wanted players to experience the joy of sword flight.

Shen Li tossed a mid-grade spirit stone into the flying sword’s card slot. The flying sword whooshed into flight, and Ling Yue’s body seemed to have autonomous consciousness as it leaped onto the flying sword.

The flying sword suddenly rose high, and soon the sect and disciples below looked like tiny black dots, invisible to the naked eye.

Even the usually composed Shen Li broke out in a cold sweat. No wonder the staff had seriously confirmed with them upon entering the script whether they were all healthy, especially without heart disease or high bl00d pressure history.

This process felt a bit like the inverted version of bungee jumping—zooming up to several hundred meters in an instant, quite unscientific.

Most outrageous was that Shen Li truly felt the weightlessness.

She steadied her mind and gazed below.

She saw white clouds drifting below, wisps of green smoke, rippling blue waters, and dense green forests.

The ecological environment in the script world was far better than in reality. Shen Li almost subconsciously thought of commercial scenarios. This one-second outdoor vacation mode suited busy white-collar workers who had neither opportunity nor time for real vacations.

Shen Li reached out her hand, wind blowing up her hair strands, cool breezes brushing her face. Shen Li nodded inwardly. It seemed Floating Dream World’s virtual reality system had a separate sensory system.

After flying for a while, the flying sword stopped on a grassy lawn. Shen Li lightly stepped down from the flying sword.

She walked a few steps forward and saw mist drifting ahead. Curious, she looked closer.

Shen Li’s eyes widened round.

She saw Lin Huaiyi, wearing only underclothes, floating asleep on the water surface. Large expanses of skin were exposed outside, and some spots not covered by the underclothes were rendered as mosaics by the virtual reality, yet it only stirred more imagination.

Shen Li had not expected Lin Huaiyi to feel so safe, daring to undress in an unfamiliar environment.

She could not help coughing twice, hoping Lin Huaiyi would wake up quickly and put her clothes back on.

Who knew Lin Huaiyi slept deeply. These two coughs did not wake her but instead summoned the Qilin auspicious beast that had carried her to the spiritual spring earlier.

The Qilin auspicious beast in the virtual world looked both majestic and cute, opening its round eyes to look at Shen Li, as if asking why Shen Li was peeking at Lin Huaiyi bathing.

Heat rose on Shen Li’s face. She wanted to explain to the Qilin that she was not peeking at Lin Huaiyi, but language barrier prevented her from making it clear to this Qilin.

The Qilin tilted its head and quietly watched Shen Li and Lin Huaiyi for a while, then stretched out its nose to sniff Shen Li.

It probably smelled the jade pendant Shen Li had used to activate the Big Dipper Plate and detected Lin Huaiyi’s scent on Shen Li, knowing the two were together.

It pondered a bit, then gently bit Shen Li’s clothes.

Shen Li: !!! What are you doing!

The auspicious beast lightly shook its head and flung Shen Li into the spiritual spring too.

Shen Li held her forehead. She was not coveting Lin Huaiyi’s bathhouse!

Lin Huaiyi opened her eyes to this scene: Shen Li in white clothes soaked by water, turning semi-transparent and clinging to her body. Water droplets on her face sparkled crystal clear under the sunlight.

She thought she was dreaming and inwardly thought: Lin Huaiyi, oh Lin Huaiyi, I despise the filth in your heart!

Yet her hands wasted not a moment of the good dream time, reaching out familiarly to pull Shen Li into her embrace.

She could even feel the softness of Shen Li’s chest pressing against her, like skin touching skin.

Shen Li was stunned for an instant when Lin Huaiyi suddenly reached out and hugged her without a word.

Then she heard Lin Huaiyi murmuring from her mouth, “How is this dream so realistic?”

She let out a breath. So this person was dreaming.

Lin Huaiyi looked at Shen Li and thought it truly magical—how was this woman always so incomparably beautiful no matter the time.

Thinking it was her dream anyway, she gritted her teeth and stamped her foot. Better go big. She steadied the back of Shen Li’s head and leaned down to kiss Shen Li.