Chapter 185
Chapter 185
The two of them sat down on the ground.
Yellow Hair sat in front, while Lin Junruo knelt behind him. With one hand, she loosely grabbed a handful of Yellow Hair’s hair, and with the other, she held a hair tie.
Then-
“Character Card Similarity: 80%. Character Card Experience Bar gained: 8%. Please keep working hard, Player, and upgrade your Character Card.”
Yellow Hair jumped up in excitement. “It worked! Eight percent!”
The background had probably cost him ten percent, and Yellow Hair’s hair had probably cost another ten percent, but no matter what, Yellow Hair had finally gained experience. He was so excited he could hardly contain himself.
Lin Junruo also let out a sigh of relief.
Thank goodness. It had finally gone up.
After his burst of excitement, Yellow Hair immediately dragged Lin Junruo into doing it again.
Lin Junruo could still help him grind two more times, and the two of them quickly used up the remaining two Points.
After five tries, Yellow Hair finally crawled out of the negatives and into the positives, ending with 11% experience.
At the same time-
Qin Weiyi looked at Jian Fan and said, “It’s just the two of us now. Want to grind for each other?”
Jian Fan glanced at the card image in his mind, then lowered his head and looked at Qin Weiyi’s height.
Qin Weiyi was smart, but he clearly hadn’t hit his growth spurt yet. He was… somewhat short. Jian Fan, on the other hand, was thin and weak, but his height was solidly over 1.8 meters.
“Are you sure?” Jian Fan asked.
Qin Weiyi froze.
He remembered what Jian Fan’s card image showed.
Kabedon.
Fine. With his height, he didn’t qualify.
Still, Qin Weiyi reached a hand out to Jian Fan. “My card image is dancing. Is that okay?”
Jian Fan did not refuse.
Jian Fan took Qin Weiyi’s hand and asked, “Then what?”
Qin Weiyi clasped one hand with Jian Fan’s and placed his other hand on Jian Fan’s shoulder. “Do a dip.”
Jian Fan quickly understood. He held Qin Weiyi and helped him perform a dipping motion from a partner dance.
Because the background was different, and because their movements were not especially standard, the final similarity was only 80%. After five tries, they obtained 40% experience.
The group gathered together again.
Lin Junruo’s experience could not be grinded for the time being.
Her requirement was a bed. Without a bed, if she simply sat down anywhere, the similarity would immediately drop, so Lin Junruo could only wait until they went inside the villa to investigate before grinding experience.
Qin Nan’s also had to stop here; no one could lift him. As for Jian Fan, he could not grind either, because there was no wall nearby at all.
As for Lu Jing, he had already given up and was lying flat, utterly indifferent.
That meant the only ones left who could grind experience were Yellow Hair and Qin Weiyi.
Everyone began cooperating with the two of them to grind experience.
They all reached 80% similarity, so one person could provide 40% experience.
After Qin Weiyi finished grinding with Jian Fan, he got another 40% with Lu Jing, then switched to Qin Nan.
On the third time, the System’s notification finally changed.
“Character Card Similarity: 80%. Character Card Experience Bar gained: 8%. Current Character Card Experience Bar has reached 100%. Character Card will automatically upgrade. Current Character Card level: R. Skill, Flying Dance, has upgraded. After use, it can make the Player spin in place for two minutes. Cooldown time: 15 minutes.”
“It upgraded,” Qin Weiyi said.
The others all stopped and looked at Qin Weiyi.
“The card is still R, but the skill upgraded. The duration increased, and the cooldown shortened,” Qin Weiyi said. Then, after thinking for a moment, he added, “Logically, the experience should overflow, but it only went to 100%. I don’t know if it has to start over from the beginning, or if it can only level up once.”
Qin Nan reached a hand out to Qin Weiyi. “Come on. Let’s test it and find out.”
The two of them worked together again.
This time, a long while passed without Qin Weiyi hearing any notification sound from the System.
“That’s it,” Qin Weiyi said.
As Qin Weiyi spoke, Yellow Hair’s side was also reaching its conclusion. He successfully raised his skill by one level.
“What do we do next?” Lin Junruo had been waiting off to the side for a while. Seeing that everyone was done, she finally spoke up.
“Let’s look around the garden first,” Qin Weiyi said after thinking it over.
Lin Junruo and Jian Fan’s card content could only be dealt with after they entered the villa, but if they ran over there now just to grind some experience, then ran back out to search for clues, it would waste too much time.
They might as well make a circuit around the garden first, then continue grinding experience afterward.
Besides, when Qin Weiyi looked at his own skill points, he honestly felt they were not all that useful.
Skills could only be used on Players. In other words, there was a good chance this world had no NPCs at all. Even if there were, this skill would be completely useless against them. As for using it against other Players, Qin Weiyi glanced at Lu Jing beside him.
He felt there was no need for him to take action at all.
And he, Jian Fan, and the others could be considered to have formed a fairly stable temporary team. If they really had to worry about anyone, it would be those few who were on their own.
Jian Fan had no objections and nodded.
Lin Junruo was not in a hurry to grind experience either. Since both Big Shots had spoken, she naturally followed their lead.
The group began wandering through the garden.
Earlier, they had been busy meeting up and had taken shortcuts. Only now, as they walked around properly, did they realize just how large this courtyard was.
As everyone searched for clues, they began analyzing the current situation based on the information they already had.
“What we can confirm right now is that this world should be a romance gacha game, but I really can’t connect this thing to the Realm of Death. What are we supposed to do here?” Qin Nan’s head was full of questions.
Escape Room, Murder Mystery Game-he understood those. But a romance game could be turned into a Death Game too?
Could it be that the background of this romance game was a suspense story?
But the main theme should still be romance.
He did not understand.
“Character Card skills,” Jian Fan said, offering a reminder.
Qin Nan looked over.
Everyone had a corresponding skill. Though they looked rather useless, since they existed, they had to have some purpose. And up until now, not a single person had shared what their skill was.
Everyone could share their card content. They could help each other grind experience points. But as for what their skills were, from beginning to end, no one had brought it up. It was as if everyone had completely overlooked that point.
Had they really not noticed?
Obviously, everyone had a line of defense in their heart. They were friends. They were teammates. But they could also become enemies.
Qin Nan thought of the skill description.
Usable on Players. In other words, in this world, they could kill one another.
Or to put it more bluntly, this world might have been designed to make them slaughter each other.
With that in mind, was this romance game still full of all that sweet, fluttering, girlish ambiguity? Hidden behind the so-called romance was danger on every side. You would never know, when you entrusted your back to a companion, whether he would reach for a knife and turn it on you.
What Qin Nan could think of, the others could naturally think of as well.
Qin Weiyi gave a soft laugh and said, “Good teammates are hard to find. I hope we can keep working together.”
Jian Fan looked at Qin Weiyi and gave a faint “Mm.”
This was the goodwill Qin Weiyi was showing toward cooperation. As for whether he could guarantee his own words, and whether Jian Fan would fully believe him, only they themselves knew the answer to that.