This is clearly a benefit!

In a dark living room, a thin girl covered in stains and with disheveled hair huddled in a corner, clutching her knees. She gripped a blood-stained dagger in her hands, and beneath her messy bangs, her gaze was fierce and sharp, like a predatory beast waiting for the right moment to strike!

On the floor in front of the girl lay several corpses, their blood staining the entire living room red...

A group of plainclothes police officers rushed in from the door, subdued the girl, and forced her to drink something.

"From now on, I ask a question, you answer it."

"What is your name?"

The girl's eyes were no longer sharp, becoming vacant and dull instead.

"My name is Zhao Yingzhi."

"Brother Ran, I followed your guide for chasing goddesses, and I successfully got a date with Meng Ge."

At the apartment complex meeting point, Lu Zhaohui looked at Li Ran with an expression of pure admiration.

"Men really do have to be proactive to win over a girl," Lu Zhaohui said.

"Chasing girls requires technique. There's no need to be blindly proactive; who can handle constant one-sided effort? Even on his way to save the princess, Mario still collects gold coins."

Upon hearing this, Lu Zhaohui's expression shifted into one of sudden enlightenment, as if he had been struck by a bolt of wisdom.

"Hearing your words is worth ten years of study," Lu Zhaohui praised.

Li Ran smiled, checked the time on his phone, and frowned. "Song Linjia is late today."

"That shouldn't be. She's always punctual; something must have delayed her."

"Forget it, let's not wait for her. Have you found any new mission clues these past two days?" Li Ran asked.

Lu Zhaohui scratched the back of his head and said awkwardly, "Brother Ran, you know I'm a coward. If it weren't for the guide you gave me, I probably wouldn't have even taken the first step."

"However..."

Li Ran frowned slightly, looked at Lu Zhaohui, and asked, "However what?"

Lu Zhaohui's expression turned complex, and he hesitated. "Brother Ran, there's something wrong with Meng Ge."

"No kidding, which native doesn't have issues?" Li Ran rolled his eyes in silence.

He stood up, brushed the dust off his pants, and glanced at Lu Zhaohui. "If you don't have any new mission clues, I'm going to go do my own tasks. I still have a pile of things to finish."

"Brother Ran, I think you need to help me with this. I'll give you five hundred points," Lu Zhaohui suddenly said.

"Five hundred?"

Li Ran's lips curled upward; things were getting interesting.

"A one-thousand-point mission?" Li Ran asked.

"Yes, Brother Ran."

"After I completed the mission where Meng Ge asked me out, I followed the guide to the next step. When it came time to go to a hotel, Meng Ge refused. I thought I had been too blunt; girls are usually a bit more reserved, after all."

"But last night around nine, I saw her bring a strange man home. Oh, I live in Building 3, and I can see the entrance of Building 6 across the way perfectly."

"Actually, I noticed it a few days ago. She's brought men home more than once, and it's a different man every time."

"But I don't understand why it doesn't work with me. Or is everything I'm seeing just an illusion, and she's actually a self-respecting girl?"

"Brother Ran, I'm really breaking down over this mission. If I give up, all the effort I've put in these past few days will be wasted. But if I keep going, I'm afraid I won't be able to handle it if I discover some dark secret."

Lu Zhaohui's words made it seem as though Li Ran were witnessing the self-cultivation of a simp.

Li Ran opened his mouth and looked at Lu Zhaohui in astonishment. "You don't actually like her, do you?"

Lu Zhaohui didn't dodge the question and nodded. "I think so."

"Respect!" Li Ran gave a thumbs up.

"She gives me that feeling of being close yet distant that girls in reality can't provide. It's like the taste of a naive, innocent First Love."

Li Ran said speechlessly, "Your First Love brings a different man home every day? Seriously, could it be that you've been played for a fool?"

Although Lu Zhaohui's statement provided no new mission clues, his words suddenly reminded Li Ran of one of the apartment rules Grandpa Ge had mentioned.

(The female resident of Building 6 brings a man home every few days, but no man has ever been seen leaving. Unless you have a strong pair of kidneys, it is best not to provoke her.)

So it seems the female resident Grandpa Ge spoke of is this Meng Ge that this fool is chasing. She brings men home often, and they never come out—isn't this clearly a female demon sucking the life force out of men?

No wonder Grandpa Ge warned about needing strong kidneys.

Clearly, Lu Zhaohui had been working on the follow-up stages of a guided mission. From his description, it was highly likely he had encountered a female demon.

"What is your mission?" Li Ran asked.

When Li Ran asked, Lu Zhaohui's face suddenly turned red, and he whispered, "To... to sleep with her."

"What? Sleep with her?!"

Li Ran's jaw nearly hit the ground; he thought he had misheard.

"What kind of mission is this? Isn't this just a straight-up reward?"

To be honest, Li Ran felt envious at this moment.

"Brother Ran, you must be mocking me. There aren't any perks at all; I feel like I'm hitting a wall everywhere. On WeChat, she just replies with 'mm' or 'oh,' and after a few sentences, she says she's going to shower. I can't even get her out on a date, let alone sleep with her." Lu Zhaohui kicked a small stone at his feet in frustration and continued, "I don't just want to sleep with her; I genuinely want to be with her."

"I just want to figure all this out. Why is she so casual with other men, yet blows hot and cold with me?" Lu Zhaohui pleaded bitterly, "Brother Ran, please, grant me a brilliant strategy."

How could Li Ran possibly miss out on a mission worth five hundred points?

Although this mission was indeed a massive headache, Li Ran was still confident he could help Lu Zhaohui complete it.

Whether Meng Ge was a "scumbag" remained to be seen; after all, seeing isn't always believing, and it was hard to judge based solely on a few chat logs from Feixin.

Moreover, Meng Ge's attitude toward Lu Zhaohui was rather strange. If she really were the succubus that Grandpa Ge described—one who drains a man's life force—why hadn't she made a move on Lu Zhaohui?

Could it be a reenactment of Nie Xiaoqian falling for Ning Caichen?

Could it be that she couldn't bear to do it?

It seems that to get to the bottom of this, I not only need to strengthen my kidneys but also win through an unconventional strategy. These five hundred points aren't going to be easy to earn.

Thinking of this, Li Ran said to Lu Zhaohui, "Give me your phone. Let's get her out first."

Lu Zhaohui handed the phone to Li Ran, saying, "I've already tried. I can't get her to come out."

Li Ran rolled his eyes at him, then took a quick glance at the chat history before typing rapidly on the screen with a flurry of taps.