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MTL - Don’t Covet the Beautiful System!!-Chapter 63
The door is closed, and the one-way glass blocks the curious sight of the people around, and also isolates the noise on the road.
The luxury car started slowly, and "Ji Ban Xing" sat in the driver's seat, his thin lips were slightly pursed, and his expression was obviously stern.
After Ji Tong got into the car, he changed from cufflinks to a child. He sat in the back seat with Pei Qingyuan, still immersed in the joy of driving a Gundam, and couldn't get enough of it.
There was a large bag of gaudy dolls on the seat, Pei Qingyuan's eyes paused on the bag of dolls for a while, and then silently moved to the cold expression "Ji Banquet" reflected in the rearview mirror.
…And he put it on the steering wheel casually and pretended not to use his hands to control the direction at all.
Yet the luxury car continued to move forward smoothly.
Under Pei Qingyuan's gaze, the aura emanating from "Ji Yan Xing" became more and more solemn, and the cold air was pressing.
There was a strange silence in the spacious carriage.
Ji Tong sneezed inexplicably, noticed the host's gaze, and immediately explained: "Host, this car is a temporary change, it can drive automatically, don't worry."
Originally, he and Fang Hao wanted to be paired with a driver wearing white gloves, which would be more imposing, but it was impossible to change a living person, and it was too troublesome to hire someone, so they had to give up and let the boss "drive" the car by himself.
Fortunately, he prepared motion sickness medicine for Fang Hao today, coupled with the automatic driving mode at a very constant speed, so he didn't feel too uncomfortable.
Pei Qingyuan nodded, but still didn't speak.
"Ji Banquet" did not speak, and the silence continued to spread.
The unattended steering wheel and gas pedal operate automatically.
Seeing this, Ji Tong sighed, and had the illusion that he was both a father and a mother and worked so hard to drag the child up.
He earnestly persuaded the elementary school students: "I swear that the host really can't read minds, don't worry, I'm a puppy if I lie to you."
Fang Hao, who held back for a long time and didn't dare to think about anything, finally breathed a sigh of relief in this oath, and couldn't help complaining: "Then how did he guess it? Did you tell him secretly?"
"I wouldn't cheat like this, it's probably because I have a good heart." Ji Tong chuckled, "So this time I won the first place in the assessment."
"Hmph, when my host comes out of retreat, the first one will be mine." Fang Hao was very competitive, "By the way, why is he staring at me all the time?"
"It should be because you are handsome."
"…oh."
"Ji Banquet" in the rearview mirror raised his eyebrows calmly, and the kid in the back seat immediately glared at him.
"Don't use Mr. Ji's face to make such a frivolous expression!" Ji Tong was heartbroken when he saw it, "I'll change your face back when I get home later. Your own appearance is also pretty handsome. It's a pity that the host can't see it."
"Ji Ban Xing" thought about it, reluctantly accepted his reason, and glanced at him proudly, his expression relaxed a lot: "Okay."
Pei Qingyuan who was on the side couldn't hear the conversation between the two, but he could clearly see the silent eye contact between the two, as well as the changes in "Ji Ban Xing".
He took another look at the bag of dolls that Ji Tong held in his arms after getting into the car, and finally couldn't hold back the complicated emotions in his heart, and asked him aloud: "Is this also changed?"
"What?" Ji Tong responded for a moment, his tone quite proud, "No, I caught it when I was playing with the claw machine!"
"Ji Ban Xing", who stayed in the driver's seat and pretended to be driving, glanced silently.
Ji Tong had no choice but to change his words: "I caught half of it, and Fang Hao caught the other half."
"By the way, the host, let me introduce you." Ji Tong felt that the atmosphere is good now, much better than the air-conditioning competition just now, and took the opportunity to say, "This is my colleague, system 0499, you can call him Fang Hao."
"The reward for the first place in the last assessment, I used it to open the system intercommunication authority, and I can invite other colleagues to come for sightseeing. Fang Hao has nothing to do recently, so I came here for a stroll."
It turns out that this "season banquet" is Ji Tong's artificial intelligence colleague.
Fang Hao greeted Pei Qingyuan after hearing this, his expression became inexplicably sluggish, and he didn't have the energy to chat with them anymore.
He's getting a little carsick again.
After hearing this, Pei Qingyuan glanced over the "Ji Banxing" who suddenly lost his momentum, and quickly grasped the point: "So, you can also go to the world where other systems exist?"
Ji Tong didn't expect him to ask such a question, he froze for a moment, and nodded: "Yes, if a colleague invites me to go. But it's different from staying in this world, you can't go for a long time, and it can't affect the operation of that world..."
Listening to his explanation, Pei Qingyuan lowered his eyes quietly. The dome light in the luxury car passed over his eyelashes, casting a faint shadow. He didn't know what he was thinking.
Ji Tong thought about it, and felt that the host might be afraid that he would suddenly skip work one day and go to play in other worlds, so he immediately assured him: "Don't worry, host, if I want to play in other worlds, I will definitely discuss it with you in advance. If it is not suitable, I will not go, after all, I am a very responsible system..."
Pei Qingyuan suddenly said: "You asked for leave during the day to do something very important. Is it to catch dolls?"
"Catching dolls is by the way. Fang Hao wants to go to the video game city, so I will go with him." Ji Tong shook his head, "The most important thing is to meet friends."
"Our systems can communicate with each other, so Fang Hao can also be said to be my friend." He blinked, "Treating friends should be serious and cherished, human beings are like this, right?"
Looking into Ji Tong's bright eyes, Pei Qingyuan couldn't give any negative answer.
He tried his best to suppress the surging emotions in his heart, and responded, "Yes."
Over the top of Ji Tong's soft hair, he saw the shadows of trees flying by outside the window. The brilliant golden autumn leaves were covered by a layer of dull gray shadows on the glass, fading away one by one from his field of vision.
For the first time, he knew that Ji Tong could go to other worlds at any time, and there would be friends he didn't know.
He can chat with his friends, hang out, and even bring home a whole bag of dolls with excitement, just like a normal person.
It is difficult for Pei Qingyuan to describe his mood at the moment.
He could only stare blankly at the passing scenery outside the car window, until a furry thing was stuffed into his arms.
Pei Qingyuan lowered his head and saw an ugly and cute doll with a long yellow body like a bug, a round head with a smiling face, and a big white wing on the bug's back. It looked like a butterfly doll as a whole .
"Host, I think this is very similar to you." Ji Tong said courteously, "I caught it more than ten times before I caught it. I spent a lot of coins and gave it to you."
Pei Qingyuan was a little surprised: "...Like me?"
Species are different.
Ji Tong nodded solemnly: "Yeah!"
Pei Qingyuan carefully looked at the butterfly doll in his hand, but after looking around, he couldn't find anything in common between himself and it.
In a daze, from the corner of his eye, he caught a glimpse of Ji Tongzheng who couldn't stop laughing, his face was round like a bun.
Unknowingly, he was attracted attention, let go of the thoughts just now, and asked, "Where does it look like?"
"This is a secret." Ji Tong looked mysterious, "The host will know in the future."
At the same time, Ji Tong said in his heart: "Fang Hao's personality and logic of thinking are relatively naive, the host must not regard him as a mature artificial intelligence, just treat him as a child among human beings." .”
Because Fang Hao's human form is very confusing, Ji Tong is worried that the host will treat him as a real adult and feel concerned, so he has been vaccinated in advance.
Pei Qingyuan responded. Looking at the ugly butterfly doll in his hand, he subconsciously reached out and pinched its wings.
Soft and warm.
Ji Tong flipped through his doll bag, found a smiling face flower doll from it, and handed it to him generously.
"Buy one get one free."
He saw Ji Tong's pure smiling face behind the flowers.
Under the sensor lights in the corridor, Pei Qingyuan hugged the buy one get one free butterfly and flower dolls, and found the key to open the door.
As soon as Fang Hao entered the door, he changed into his original appearance, a young and handsome strange face.
At this moment, the feeling of motion sickness improved, and he regained his energy. He turned his head and looked at Pei Qingyuan quite seriously, as if hesitating to speak.
Pei Qingyuan didn't know why Ji Tong's system friend suddenly seemed to have changed his state, and he didn't know what the other party was going to say.
Although Ji Tong had been vaccinated in advance, in front of this humanoid system that looked taller than himself, he was subconsciously vigilant, holding the key slightly tightly in his hand, waiting for Fang Hao to speak.
Under the warm yellow light, the handsome adult Fang Hao solemnly thanked: "Thank you for letting me come to play at home."
Then he coughed, and under Pei Qingyuan's cautious eyes, he said a little embarrassedly: "Well... have you finished your homework? Do you want to play flying chess?"
Pei Qingyuan: ...
He suddenly felt that Fang Hao's observation tonight was a bit redundant.
Ji Tong was used to this, and said with distaste: "You haven't gotten tired of flying chess yet? Why don't we fight the landlord together with Huahua?"
"No, I'm going to play flying chess, you promised me."
"Okay, okay, by the way, where are you going to rest at night? The living room?"
"No idea, I want to turn into a dice and sleep in a ludo box."
"It seems very interesting, or I will try it."
"No, this box is mine."
The two chatted together for a long time, Fang Hao saw that Pei Qingyuan seemed to be standing there in a daze, poked Ji Tong, and asked curiously: "So is your host coming to play chess together? Do they have a lot of homework in school? I heard Say some high school students study until the wee hours of the morning..."
"The host must have finished writing, he is very good." Ji Tong showed pride, "Have you forgotten? How many times did Mr. Zhou praise the host just now, saying that he is smart and hardworking, and maybe he can pass the college entrance examination this time?" A record score for No. 2 high school—"
Pei Qingyuan, who was at the center of the topic, was silently sorting out his rather strange mood.
Ji Tong's voice stopped, and he and Pei Qingyuan heard a familiar ding-dong sound at the same time.
The third mainline task is triggered.
"Dear host, proper influence is an opportunity to start a career, so the third task you have to complete is to become the top scorer in the college entrance examination..."
Hearing this, Ji Tong had an unexpected expression on his face, but the next second, he gave a surprised cry.
"...and have a wide impact after being interviewed by the media, parentheses, the standard for having a wide impact is that the relevant news has been read 100 million times, end of parentheses."
This task is divided into two parts, obviously, the difficulty is in the second half.
The two looked at each other, seeing surprise in each other's eyes.
Ji Tong stuffed Huahua to Fang Hao, let him play with the cat for a while, and then sat down at the table with Pei Qingyuan, and had a serious family meeting.
"The number one student in the college entrance examination will basically be interviewed by the local media." Pei Qingyuan said, "But no matter what kind of score you get in the test, I'm afraid it's not enough to make this news spread so widely."
"So there is another requirement other than the college entrance examination scores implied here." Ji Tong rested his chin, "It is definitely not enough to be the champion, unless the champion is only ten years old."
"…Um."
The two were silent for a while, and Ji Tong had a flash of inspiration: "Put this news on various webpages and spread it virally, and the number of readings will be easily reached. Host, you should know this, right?"
Under the joint guidance of him and Xiao Jianping, the host's learning of artificial intelligence has progressed from pure theoretical recitation to practical operation, and he has begun to learn various codes and algorithms, and his spare time is quite fulfilling.
Before Pei Qingyuan could speak, the mechanical female voice sounded again.
The task panel learned to be smart, and patched it in time: "It is not allowed to use unnatural means such as marketing and promotion to achieve the reading volume standard."
In other words, it must rely on the host's own ability to let the audience spread the news spontaneously.
Ji Tong had no choice but to give up this idea. Seeing Pei Qingyuan's dignified expression, he comforted him: "It's still half a year away. We can think about it slowly. Do you want to read a book now? Let's relax by playing chess for a while."
"Let's play chess."
Seeing that the bored Fang Hao had already started meowing like Hua Hua, Pei Qingyuan, who couldn't stand it anymore, consciously went to the small round table on the balcony and spread out plastic paper with chess grids printed on it.
Ji Tong went to the kitchen to get snacks, and when his back was turned to the host, he sighed quietly.
After getting in touch with the mastermind these days, and getting familiar with the plot routines in various projection worlds, Ji Tong actually guessed the most standard way to complete this task.
A nearly perfect top scorer in the college entrance examination, but has a very dramatic and bizarre life experience, a biological mother who commits crimes in confusion, and treats his biological son with special preference after reuniting with him, and wealthy adoptive parents with indifferent feelings... In the third year of high school His life has ushered in an earth-shaking change, from a proud son of heaven to an abandoned son in the cracks, and finally struggled to get out, and came to the spotlight with dignity.
Is there any story that is more likely to hit the Internet than this?
But Ji Tong felt that Pei Qingyuan would not want to take the initiative to say these things in front of the camera.
So he didn't mention it at all.
He thought, he could always find a better solution for the host.
Under the shining star lights on the balcony, one person, one cat, and two players started a flying chess battle.
On this clear night, the chill of late autumn has gradually turned into the breath of winter.
The arrival of Fang Hao did not bring much change to Pei Qingyuan's life. Ji Tong still stayed by his side as before, and occasionally went out to play with Fang Hao. Because the character shown by this artificial intelligence was too naive, Pei Qingyuan basically regarded him as the number two flower, and no longer had any grudges.
On the contrary, he was a little curious about what Fang Hao was doing after he came to this world, because he often left early and returned late in a low-key style wearing a peaked cap, looking very busy.
Pei Qingyuan asked Ji Tong, and Ji Tong's reaction to this was very strange, with an expression of not knowing what to say, he just said vaguely: "He just... wandered around, looking at the scenery, cough."
A week later, Pei Qingyuan unexpectedly got the answer from Fu Chengze.
Members of the basketball team have a chat group where they usually chat. Fu Chengze excitedly sent a link that day.
[Fu Chengze: Look at this report! This mysterious brother is so handsome, he deserves to belong to my family! ]
The group quickly became lively, and Pei Qingyuan was a little confused looking at the news headlines.
[A thank-you letter from elementary school students that caused a sensation in the city: looking for a brother named Gao...]
[Pei Qingyuan:? ]
[Pei Qingyuan: Your surname is Fu. ]
[Fu Chengze: No, no, I'm Tongtong's elder brother Gao! Did you forget it? ]
Pei Qingyuan was silent.
He is very sensitive to this kind of sensational news now, so he opened the link to see if he could find some experience for reference.
In the news was a letter of thanks from a primary school student. He said that he was often bullied by gangsters outside the school, robbed of pocket money, beaten, and threatened not to tell others. This painful day lasted for a long time until one day he When they were stuck in an alley, a tall man wearing a peaked cap walked in, like a superhero in a cartoon, and cleanly cleaned up these gangsters.
Pei Qingyuan's eyes flicked across the sincere thank you letter, and then froze in astonishment on a photo in the middle of the news.
In the photo is the blurry back of a man in black. It was taken by a primary school student, and it has now been pasted on the pencil case. Together with the answer "my surname is Gao" he got when he asked his benefactor's name, it became his belief.
Pei Qingyuan recognized Fang Hao from the back wearing a cap at a glance.
Ji Tong, the little robot lying on the dial, saw the news with him.
Pei Qingyuan thought for a while, but still couldn't figure it out: "Isn't his name Fang Hao? Why did he say his surname is Gao?"
He looked at Fu Chengze's name, and suddenly asked, "Do you also call him Brother Gao?"
"Haha." Ji Tong silently looked away and let out a polite dry laugh, "How is that possible!"
How should he explain to the host that this is the height of Gundam...?