I Was Wrong! Let Me Explain!

In a daze, Su Qun found himself back home. Before he had been suddenly and randomly pulled into a Night Battle, he had been planning to lie down for an afternoon nap. But now, all sleepiness had vanished!

He flipped over and sat up, looking at the item in his hand.

An unopened package of women's underwear.

Since he had been able to bring this thing out of the scenario, that confirmed it—it had come from Night Raven!

Then... didn't that mean...

Having studied reconnaissance and detection, Su Qun boldly drew a conclusion from the "evidence" in his hand!

Night Raven was actually a woman!

Su Qun grew serious. Recalling his fight with Night Raven, he became more and more certain of his deduction. That person's final move had undoubtedly been an Illusion Technique. And if that person possessed an Illusion Technique, then they must have been using it to disguise themselves.

Combined with this package of underwear that had fallen from Night Raven, and the sudden nature of this Night Battle!

Night Raven had to be a woman!

Su Qun became excited. He felt that he was already close to the truth.

But reaching that conclusion was not the most important thing. The most important thing was—

"No, I need to take another look."

He sprang up and went to his computer, opening an encrypted document. It was a file issued several days ago by the Huaxia official Night Bureau, the organization he belonged to.

The description was extremely vague, but it mentioned two points.

A powerful beam of sword light!

And that person seemed to have suddenly appeared within the scenario!

Su Qun read the document's description carefully. The matter had begun with a scenario operation carried out by the Night Bureau three days ago. Through certain special means, the Night Bureau had obtained the reward—an artifact that the nation had lost in history.

The Night Bureau immediately posted an announcement on Night Web, declaring ownership of the reward.

Yet people had still forcibly joined in to cause trouble. In the end, someone who had never appeared on the participant list showed up. That person unleashed a massive sword beam and seized the artifact.

Afterward, it was confirmed multiple times that the person had indeed not been among any of the participants. Even the number of participants displayed by the system had not changed.

A person had appeared out of nowhere!

After finishing the document, Su Qun looked at the name written in the signature field at the end.

Ye Sheng.

He picked up his phone. After hesitating for a long time, he made the call, and a voice came through from the other end.

"What is it?"

"Sister Ye Sheng, there seems to be a lead on that person..."

"What!?"

The night was quiet. The campus had fallen completely silent after dark, with only scattered lights still shining in a few buildings.

At the club building, someone from the school had already come to clean up the shattered glass light tubes scattered across the floor. When everyone checked the surveillance footage, all they saw was the glass exploding out of nowhere, causing quite a commotion.

But everything had quieted down now. As night fell, everywhere on campus except the dormitories had become still.

In the Female Locker Room, the shattered light tubes and broken glass had been cleaned up. Aside from the draft coming in, it did not affect its use. Yet in the darkness, a faintly glowing Power Bank floated in midair.

Night. Darkness. No one. The Female Locker Room. Broken lights. Glass. A creepy floating Power Bank.

With even a little imagination, this would head straight into a third-rate horror movie!

Yet the actual situation was—

"This lucky pervert."

Ling floated outside Xia Yao's locker, looking at her underwear with a disdainful snort.

With Ling's intelligence, after searching unsuccessfully for a while, she could naturally deduce what had happened to that guy.

He had definitely been dragged away by the system again.

"Hopefully someone beats him to death once, so he understands that Night Battles aren't something to fool around with."

Ling frowned and snorted. Last time, she had wanted to teach him a lesson but failed. In the end, that guy who had stepped in dog shit had actually won. Tch.

Next time, she definitely had to find an opportunity to make him understand what it was like to have died once!

Ling was a little bored. With Fang Ran gone, she had even lost the ability to browse Night Web. She casually used telekinesis to close the locker door, but just as she did—

"Lushan Rising Dragon—ow, fuck!!!"

Something inside the locker made a deafening clanging sound. After an impact painful enough to make anyone nearby wince, a guy wearing only underwear fell out of the locker, rolling around the floor in agony.

"Ahhh! Ooh! Ow, ow, ow~~~ That hurts like hell!!!"

Fang Ran tightly clutched his right hand, tears falling from the pain as he rolled all over the floor.

Ling silently watched this pervert who was left with only a pair of shorts.

She considered whether she should just fly back to the Arctic on her own.

After a long while, Fang Ran finally recovered from the pain of punching the metal locker directly. Then he shakily stood up. A gust of night wind blew through the glassless Female Locker Room, chilling him into instantly standing at attention.

Then he and Ling stared at each other for about three seconds.

"Ah!! Power Bank!!! I-I... I...!!!!"

Fang Ran immediately looked as though he had found a lifesaving straw. With a tearful face, he threw himself toward Ling.

Then Ling viciously smacked him in the face!

"Stay away from me! Get lost, you pervert in nothing but shorts! Are you some bear named Nobi?! You're a grown man—stop making that miserable face!!" Ling roared!

"Uh..."

Only then did Fang Ran behave himself. Then, unable to help it, he knelt before Ling with the appearance of someone consciously admitting his mistake.

"Sigh..." Within the data space, Ling watched him with a headache, rubbing her temples as she suppressed the urge to complain and asked:

"First of all, where are your clothes?"

"I accidentally touched someone else's equipment, and it burned my clothes away."

Fang Ran covered his face, feeling too ashamed to face Ling's questioning.

"Equipment? What equipment?"

Ling immediately caught the keyword in Fang Ran's words.

"Uh... a Night Device..."

Fang Ran scratched his head, gritting his teeth in anger. He had the distinct feeling that Big Brother Ai had done it on purpose. What did he mean, he couldn't control it? If he couldn't control it, why were Fang Ran's shorts still there!?

That guy had definitely done it on purpose!

Hmph! May he never have any luck in love!

"A Night Device!? A random Special Instance involving the fight for a Night Device!?"

Ling instantly realized what had happened and pressed him.

"Uh, y-yeah..."

Fang Ran's gaze drifted away. He could not help looking to the side, not daring to face his Summoned Beast's interrogation directly.

"So it was a special scenario for fighting over a Night Device."

Ling frowned and muttered under her breath. She had not mentioned Night Devices to Fang Ran yet, because she had thought this noob could not possibly come into contact with something like a Night Device right now. But she had not expected this guy to randomly enter a Night Device scenario so early?

"And then?"

Ling asked Fang Ran, looking at the guy sitting on the floor in nothing but shorts.

Fang Ran guiltily said nothing. Covering his face, he wailed at Ling in grief and indignation!

"Didn't you say Night Battles were super dangerous!? Didn't you say they could get people killed!? Why didn't you tell me earlier that nobody dies at all?!"

Fang Ran knelt and pounded the floor, issuing an accusation full of blood and tears!

"Fuck, this doesn't fit the plot or make any scientific sense! In novels, the protagonist's friends clearly die and then the protagonist works hard to grow stronger. Why isn't mine like that?!"

Ling: "..."

She could not understand a word this guy was saying.

"When did I ever tell you people die in scenarios? And the danger to your life was when you helped me with that matter, right? As for the danger of Night Battles..."

Ling spoke coldly. "The danger of Night Battles comes from the actions of those who gain power in reality. They can threaten your life, your family, and your loved ones. Isn't that dangerous enough?"

At the mention of reality, Fang Ran guiltily shuddered.

But Ling sharply noticed it. She frowned suspiciously and asked:

"Don't tell me you caused some kind of trouble?"

Fang Ran immediately guiltily turned his head away.

"Turn back around!"

Ling instantly realized something was wrong and shouted. Then, unwilling to believe it, she asked:

"Y-you didn't go and provoke someone you shouldn't have provoked yet, did you? Let me tell you, in my current state, even a D-rank coming after us in reality would be a huge problem!"

Fang Ran shuddered all over again.

"What exactly did you—"

Ling began threatening him viciously, but halfway through her words, the Night Web alert she had set suddenly sounded.

She could no longer receive information the way she once had, so Ling had set alerts for certain Night Web messages. And now that Fang Ran was back, she had naturally reconnected to Night Web.

Ling opened a page and saw a chilling message written there.

In light of Night Raven's forcible interference in this special scenario for fighting over a Night Device, as well as the various despicable methods used, we jointly place Night Raven on the enemy list. Kill on sight within scenarios!

Below the message, several Night Battle Participants had left comments, each declaring the same stance. Among them, three people belonging respectively to the forces of Midnight, Against the Current, and the Night Bureau stood out in particular.

Ling suddenly had a terrible suspicion.

"Fang Ran...!!!!!"

Ling suddenly called Fang Ran's name in a chilling tone, like a demon interrogating him.

"That Night Raven and you..."

"Your Majesty! I was wrong! Let me explain!"

Fang Ran jolted in fright and blurted out the most fitting line possible! What followed, naturally, was Ling's ultimate fury!

"You're dead!!!!!!!!"

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