Hidden Patterns, Small Changes to the Main Plot [Part 2]

"The ten treasures spin forth with glazed light. The ten treasures are named. Second: Speed.

It can increase a target's speed by one hundred percent.

Second: Divine Speed.

It can increase my own speed by four hundred percent. Hyper-Acceleration Domain can give me an additional one-hundred-percent speed increase. Within the domain, targets' speed is reduced by twenty percent, and slowing effects from targets are ignored.

Divine Speed trait: Flight. I can fly without consuming Soul Power, and I can also create a wind vortex for a short time, granting targets the ability to fly briefly."

Good lord!

"Flight? And I can even make other people fly?"

Ning Rongrong was so delighted she couldn't close her mouth.

Normally, only high-level Soul Masters with flying Soul Skills and Titled Douluo could fly. Now, she was just a mere level-thirty Soul Elder, yet she could fly, and could even make others fly.

It was a little outrageous.

Of course, it was a good thing she was the one who had gained the ability. Otherwise, she wouldn't have agreed to it!

She tapped her toes lightly, and suddenly, an emerald-green swirl of wind appeared around them. Just like that, Ning Rongrong slowly rose into the air.

Then she released a wind vortex, lifting Zhu Zhuqing and Xiao Wu, who were watching openmouthed beside her, into the air as well.

"Rongrong, when did you gain the ability to fly?"

"Waaah! A rabbit can fly too! A rabbit can fly too! From now on, I'm a flying rabbit!"

The two girls were overjoyed as they experienced the wonder of flying through the air, unable to get over it for a long time.

They paid no attention to the other members of Shrek Academy, who had already arrived below.

"Xiao Wu's panties are pink..."

"Drop dead!" Tang San instinctively wanted to punch the person who dared make such a lewd comment to death, but then he saw it was Dai Mubai, so never mind.

Now, whenever Dai Mubai saw a woman, it was like seeing a hundred Big Sausages. He could eat them, but he had no interest whatsoever and even wanted to puke.

But looking up from below...

Mm, they really are pink.

As for the other two girls'...

Fuck, long pants.

Since when did Zhu Zhuqing start wearing long pants too?

Damn those fitted clothes!

"All right, you boys, if there's nothing else, go to bed." Zhao Wuji cast one last lingering glance at Xiao Wu in the air, then turned to the others. "Don't forget what happened to Ma Hongjun."

Oscar: "Ahhh, I'm going to bed, going to bed. I'm suddenly so sleepy. I miss my mom."

Dai Mubai: "Hmph, utterly boring. What's there to look at? I'd rather go back and look at my own."

Tang San: "..."

Although Tang San was more worried about Xiao Wu, Ning Rongrong was there, so he couldn't really say anything. He could only follow the other two into the hotel.

Up in the air.

Ning Rongrong was also surprised by the flying ability she had suddenly gained.

She hadn't expected that the people from Canghui Academy, who were clearly just nameless passersby A, B, C and D in the original story, could bring her such a huge improvement.

It forced her to start studying the pattern behind triggering hidden missions.

So she could grow stronger sooner.

So what exactly was a hidden mission?

For that, she had to go back to the first hidden mission.

Back at Shrek Academy, Ma Hongjun had dared to lay a hand on her, provoking her anger, and the first hidden mission had appeared.

Then, when she faced Flender's Obstruction, the second and third hidden missions had appeared.

This time, the fourth hidden mission had appeared when she heard the Canghui Academy students hurl insults at her.

Thinking back, it seemed hidden missions only appeared when someone deliberately made things difficult for her or insulted her.

But why hadn't a hidden mission appeared that time Dai Mubai insulted her?

(P.S. I reckon the author forgot to write it. Sorry, but the author needs to come up with a reason.)

It must have been because she had taken the initiative to provoke Dai Mubai that time, making him angry first.

And although she had been angry that time, she had acted as if she didn't care, making the system feel that she was merely following the original story's course. That was why no hidden mission had been triggered.

Now, to look at what these hidden missions had in common.

First, they were based on the original story, but something had changed in it. Because of her changes, characters from the original story changed and saw her as someone they could pursue or bully.

Ma Hongjun had done something different from the original story and come to provoke her.

Flender had also done something different from the original story, deliberately making things difficult for her.

There was no need to even mention the people from Canghui Academy. The filthy words they hurled could stretch a billionth of the way around the Earth.

But—they had insulted her all the same.

These things hadn't happened in the original story.

And if she could resolve them, that amounted to completing a hidden mission.

That was why there were so many rewards.

In other words, when she sensed that something significantly different from the original story was about to happen, she only needed to face it calmly and resolve it to obtain a reward.

Rather than doing something significantly different from the original story herself and forcibly changing the plot.

That also meant the other party had to change the plot first, not her.

Fortunately, the other party didn't know what happened in the original story.

To put it more plainly, the necessary condition for a hidden mission to appear was a small change to the main plot.

And she couldn't be the one to make that small change. It had to be another character.

Only if they changed the main plot themselves could she obtain a reward.

Ning Rongrong pondered the hidden missions thoughtfully.

In the end, she arrived at this conclusion.

As for whether the conclusion was right or wrong, she could only judge by how things developed from then on.

Zhu Zhuqing flew through the air, occasionally using her Martial Soul and Soul Skills to accelerate. Finally, she stopped after crashing into Xiao Wu. "So Rongrong's flying ability doesn't stop me from using Soul Skills in the air..."

Xiao Wu had nearly been knocked out of the air. Holding the stomach Zhu Zhuqing had just crashed into, she said, wanting to cry but having no tears, "Didn't you already know that when you first used your Soul Skill? Did you really have to crash into me before you understood?"

Although Xiao Wu was a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast, during her days as a Soul Beast, most of the time she had no brains, only strength. But in her days as a human, her brains were fine, while her strength wasn't.

Especially with Ning Rongrong right there, she knew Zhu Zhuqing and Ning Rongrong had an unusual relationship. No matter how much she was wronged, she couldn't strike at Zhu Zhuqing, lest Ning Rongrong deal with both her and Tang San at once.

Of course, there was another important point.

Xiao Wu herself felt that, most of the time, being with Ning Rongrong and Zhu Zhuqing actually seemed happier than being with Tang San.

After all, Tang San wore a gloomy face most of the time.

As Ning Rongrong put it, it was a "dead-mom face."

She wondered just how deeply someone would have to love Tang San to be moved by that dead-mom face.

Although Xiao Wu didn't think so herself, she had also grown distant from everyone except Tang San.

Now was a good time to make up for it. She absolutely couldn't let a small matter damage their harmony.