Nakajima Ai: "?"
The sudden sound brought her back to her senses, making her a little more alert.
Am I still in the game?
Or am I having a lucid dream?
That's what Nakajima Ai was thinking.
However, upon seeing the data panel, her mind went blank again.
Level 1?
I'm already level 33...
What does the note after the Life Level mean?
Life Level power is synchronizing, please wait for system message...
???
Nakajima Ai looked at this ambiguous description, a hint of life stirred within her hazy consciousness.
After all, she worked hard and completed many tasks to reach level 33. How could she just disappear like that?
If you're going to ban my account or something, please explain it to me clearly.
Nakajima Ai felt a pang of grievance, but didn't know who to tell.
Before she could think any further.
A slight pain came from my arm, and the familiar drowsy feeling returned.
Nakajima Ai quickly looked at the status bar.
Coma, blood loss, poisoning...
Three consecutive negative statuses left Nakajima Ai dumbfounded.
Why am I in this negative state?
Despite not understanding the current situation, Nakajima Ai still activated her Innate Talent [Plant Synergy], which she had extracted. She gathered magic power to create an inconspicuous seed that parasitized the enemy, causing damage and restoring her own health.
When Nakajima chose a host, she discovered that there were hundreds of red dots around her.
The dense cluster of red dots startled her.
Did I faint while doing the Polluted Crocodile quest?
Nakajima felt her thinking getting slower and slower. She thought she was still on the mission of killing crocodiles, so she tried her best to activate her talent and parasitize ten seeds within a limited time before falling into a deep sleep.
Before falling into a deep sleep, he was thinking of killing more crocodiles, hoping it would help Her Highness the Saintess...
That way, Her Highness will definitely like me even more, hehe...
However, Nakajima Ai was unaware that the day she met Su Xi at the mission site was already a week ago.
She simply couldn't realize that she had lost a week in a drug-induced coma.
The next day.
Qiqi rubbed her eyes and woke up.
In order to minimize the pain caused by the Mana Backlash and get better sleep, Su Xi had no choice but to transform into Qiqi.
As soon as she woke up, Xiao Yu rushed over to her.
She called out cutely, "Auntie, get up!"
Qiqi glanced at the alarm clock, which showed 15:08.
I logged off around 6 a. m. and ended up sleeping for nine hours straight.
Walking into the living room, intending to ask Kurumi (Su Jiang) if she had made anything to eat, I ended up seeing three unexpected people there.
Nan Shuang looked surprised, then quickly regained her composure and said, "Good afternoon, senior."
Li Zhinian sat dejectedly on a single sofa with his head down, while a person even fatter than Li Zhinian next to him.
He looked up when he heard Nan Shuang's voice.
The moment Li Zhinian saw Qiqi, his eyes lit up with intense excitement, and he blurted out, "Qiqi! Wow, your cosplay is spot on!"
The fat man sitting next to him glanced at him, making Li Zhinian immediately fall silent. He muttered, "I didn't expect Su Xi to be such a high-quality cosplayer. I actually fired her. I deserve to die!"
Qiqi had a general idea that Li Zhinian was a shut-in, but since he never got close to his subordinates, she wasn't sure.
Even without her cosplay outfit, she was able to recognize the character Qiqi at a glance, and her expression was so excited. Now I'm sure she's a hardcore otaku.
As for the person who stopped Li Zhinian with a look, that face...
Qiqi remembers seeing it in photos promoting corporate culture.
He is Ren Niansheng, the chairman of Hengbing Group.
She was a little surprised. Such a person was someone she could never have reached before. How could he condescend to come to her, a commoner's, home?
"You guys...?" Qiqi asked, somewhat puzzled.
"They've all come to see Auntie," Su Yu said, standing out conspicuously.
Qiqi patted her head to indicate that she knew, and asked, "Where is Kurumi- neechan?"
"Kurumi- neechan went out to buy groceries."
"Oh."
This guy, how could he be so comfortable leaving these three people at home?
However, since Nan Shuang is also here, it seems there's not much to worry about.
Let Su Yu play by herself. She sat down next to Nan Shuang, crossed her legs, and asked curiously, "So, what are you doing at my house?"
Ren Niansheng asked, "Are you Su Xi, Li Zhinian's subordinate?"
"She used to be my subordinate, but not anymore," Qiqi emphasized.
"You look a little different from the photo," Ren Niansheng said in a strange tone.
Qiqi calmly replied, "That's what young people do: cosplay."
"Yeah..."
Director Ren wasn't one to be bound by tradition; he naturally knew what cosplay was, but a hint of doubt still inevitably flashed in his eyes.
At thirty-five years old, with such a petite figure and a youthful face, how could HR have dared to hire her...?
Then, still not entirely confident, she whispered to Nan Shuang, "Is this really a colleague from your department?"
Nan Shuang was initially puzzled, since her senior seemed to have shrunk considerably, but since Su Yu was calling her aunt, there couldn't be anyone else but her senior, right?
So in the end, I nodded in confirmation.
Since that's the case, Director Ren gestured to Li Zhinian: "What, aren't you going to apologize to others soon? When are you going to wait?"
Qiqi hadn't even had a chance to ask what the apology was.
Li Zhinian stood up from the sofa with a serious expression, walked to Qiqi, and immediately knelt down on Qiqi fours, kowtowing three times to her with his head thumping loudly.
Qi Qiqi jumped up in fright and hugged Nan Shuang, asking, "What are you doing?"
"Lord Su Xi! I! Li Zhinian was wrong! I shouldn't have dismissed you because I was worried you would affect my prestige in the department! I'm sorry! Please forgive me!"
His voice was booming, as if the other party was very proud of apologizing.
Nan Shuang was rendered speechless by her boss's actions.
Ren Niansheng also fell silent. He had asked Li Zhinian to apologize, but he hadn't asked Li Zhinian to apologize like this!
Is she your mother?
An apology was met with three prostrations – utterly outrageous!
In front of outsiders, Ren Niansheng doesn't easily lose his temper; his face is just as black as the bottom of a pot.
Then Li Zhinian handed over a bank card and said, "Lord Su Xi, this is a small gift from me to express my apologies. I hope you will accept it."
Qiqi: "..."
What era are we living in? They're still giving away bank cards.
Qiqi mentally complained, but still asked the question that had been bothering her, "You came all this way just to apologize to me?"
Li Zhinian nodded humbly.
Ren Niansheng then said, "I hope Miss Su Xi will forgive Li Zhinian for his ignorance and magnanimity."
Qiqi: "???"
Why do you make me sound like some kind of great demon?
"When I was fired before, you didn't come to apologize. Why are you apologizing now?" Qiqi had a guess in her mind, but she wasn't sure, so she asked.
Ren Niansheng said quite frankly, "At the time, I didn't know that the flood had washed away the Dragon King Temple, so I'm here to apologize now."
Qiqi rolled her eyes, thinking to herself, "Just as I thought."
Before the Meta World existed, she was just a lowly dragon king, a programmer who could be manipulated at will.
It should be China that's making them lower themselves and apologize now.
If Qiqi hadn't known that the authorities were paying attention to her, she definitely wouldn't have guessed why these two people suddenly came to apologize.
Now that she knew the truth, Qiqi was too lazy to talk to them anymore. She handed the bank card back and told them to transfer the money directly.
Mainly because I'm too lazy to go to the bank to withdraw money.
After seeing them out and closing the door, Qiqi could still hear Ren Niansheng slap Li Zhinian on the head and yell, "Are you sick? Bowing and kowtowing to a stranger like that! You've completely disgraced us!"
"Uncle, she's Qiqi, what's wrong with me kneeling down?"
"Seventh day my foot! Go back and let your parents teach you a lesson."
"Ah... no way..."
Qiqi was speechless.
Close the security door.