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Chapter 054 Assimilated by the Body?

Even from just the text, Ling Mo could see the excitement of the chubby guy.

And the smugness—

【Zhang Dari: Am I awesome or what?! Managed to get on the plane at the last second of mutation, consider me cleared! Haha, heehee, hehe!】

【Zhang Dari: Damn, that was intense! You have no idea, I felt like a Spartan, just wanting to charge into people! The moment I got up, I saw you all running past the human wall, totally dumbfounded!】

【Zhang Dari: No, I was already dumb before that! Otherwise, I would’ve seriously lost my mind and charged into the wall of people, almost fell off! Over sixty floors, thinking back, I don’t even know how I dared to go— I have mild acrophobia!】

【Zhang Dari: Seriously, I’m really awesome, too strong, and now I’m so excited I can’t even sleep! Extreme operation, I could make it to the leaderboard!】

【Zhang Dari: Oh right, I could really turn this dungeon run into a video, might go viral!】

【Zhang Dari: I’m charging in!】

……

Ling Mo: “……”

He slightly regretted adding the chubby guy as a friend at the hotel.

But before he could decide how to respond, another message popped up—

【Murong Yue: Did you guys clear it?】

【Murong Yue: I got blown up???】

【Murong Yue: Damn! That idiot died, and then took us down with him??】

Seeing these three messages, Ling Mo thought for a moment and replied—

【Ling Mo: The chubby guy said he cleared it.】

Then he switched his status to invisible.

Let those two chat away; he had his own things to worry about.

But… why hasn’t Xia Xinyan come to find him yet?

After clearing the dungeon, didn’t she normally come over to talk about things post-dungeon? It was the same last time.

After a pause, Ling Mo suddenly had a guess—

Could it be… she got shy?

…It actually seemed quite possible.

After thinking for a moment, he raised his hand, opened his friend list, selected Xia Xinyan’s name at the top, and entered her private space.

Since they were both using the same Game Pod, their permission levels were much higher, and entering each other’s private space didn’t require consent. Xia Xinyan had done it a few times before, but this was the first time he was entering her private space.

When his vision resumed, it revealed a green forest.

Xia Xinyan was sitting at a wooden table in front of a wooden cabin, her back to him, seemingly in a daze.

He stood behind her, paused for a few seconds, then slowly walked over and lightly rested his hand on her shoulder: “Xinyan…”

“Hmm?!” The sudden touch startled Xia Xinyan slightly, and she turned her head to glance over cautiously. Upon realizing it was Ling Mo, she relaxed immediately, “You’re here…”

Ling Mo smiled: “Yeah, I came.”

A little awkward.

But she really looked adorable just now… like a startled cat, as if she was about to attack at any moment, yet he felt no threat at all, only that overreactive… um, cute contrast.

This was the first time he’d seen Xia Xinyan like this.

So she really was in a daze just now?

Thinking about the previous dungeon?

—Actually, Xia Xinyan was looking at the dungeon rewards.

And being caught off guard with that slap, she almost instinctively retaliated. It must be that she had relaxed a bit since her rebirth; otherwise, in her prime state, the moment Ling Mo touched her, she would’ve already pinned him down and delivered a deadly blow.

Unfortunately, Ling Mo didn’t witness the intense killing intent beneath her cute exterior at that moment.

Or perhaps it was just the lens too thick.

“Well… the chubby guy cleared it too.” Noticing the silence, Ling Mo took the initiative to find a topic, “He almost got completely infected; in the end, he probably charged through relying on willpower, and then the system declared him as having cleared it. Really lucky.”

“Ah… yeah,” Xia Xinyan absentmindedly nodded, “That’s some good luck.”

And then there was silence again.

After a few seconds, Ling Mo lightly cleared his throat: “You… okay?”

“Hmm, I’m fine.” Xia Xinyan shook her head and smiled, “It’s getting late; you should log off and rest. Don’t you have classes tomorrow?”

“Uh… oh.”

And just like that, they logged off.

He had things he wanted to ask, but they ended up unsaid.

Of course, even after logging off, they were still together, but the difference between this game and traditional games made him uncomfortable discussing game issues in reality. Xia Xinyan didn’t seem keen on chatting either. After they both took showers, they returned to their rooms to rest.

Ling Mo’s bedroom was right next to Xia Xinyan’s. Though it was a secondary room, its size was not much smaller than the master bedroom—at least much more comfortable than living in a school dormitory.

On this second night spent here, Ling Mo found himself unable to sleep again.

It was only the second night…

It felt like many days had passed, even though only a weekend went by… Was it the game’s influence? No matter how long spent, it was calculated as a maximum of three hours; that setting really seemed too much like a bug.

Though Xia Xinyan had mentioned the fading memory issue of the dungeon, he didn’t adjust the level, still remaining at default; the degree was not enough to confuse the game with reality, and it was sufficient for him to remember every detail of the dungeon.

So now, whenever he closed his eyes, the final moments would flash through his mind, the scene of Xia Xinyan pulling at his collar and kissing him.

In that moment, Xia Xinyan was calm, steady, even somewhat domineering.

So different from her previous self.

He couldn’t help but wonder, which one was her original self?

And those two kisses…

So this is what kissing feels like…

—Not great at all.

This was how Xia Xinyan on the other side was thinking.

She was also sleepless at this moment.

This time, the dungeon exposed several issues; the most important being that she was nowhere near as powerful as she imagined.

Even just a single bomb almost ended all her efforts.

It forced her to breach her limits twice.

This was something she had never considered before entering the dungeon.

Naturally, she didn’t like such behavior, but the confusing part was—she found she didn’t really resist it.

How absurd.

Could it really be the assimilation effects of this body?

【The concept of gender exists only physiologically; the soul has no such thing as gender. The host’s soul is currently within a female vessel, so these feelings are normal, and there is no assimilation involved.】

“……Shut up!”

Xia Xinyan felt like cursing again.

She could hypnotize herself into thinking those two were only to save someone, but whenever she recalled it, why did it feel so strange?

And then there’s that succubus healing skill… is using blood necessary if she doesn’t use that method in the future?

No way, she hates pain.

【The succubus’s healing ability has a derivative effect. If the host is unwilling to use this simplest method, it is suggested that the host can store her bathwater. As long as it has come into deep contact with the host’s body, this external liquid will also carry a healing effect, although its efficacy is not as efficient as the host herself.】

Xia Xinyan: “……”

Unbelievable.

 

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