He still remembered that his system missions updated according to the circumstances around him. Once the day's missions were set, they would not change.
But today, he had met Kiana, one of the female leads of Honkai Impact 3rd. He was certain that tomorrow's missions would definitely change.
The system missions refreshed at midnight. With two female leads, perhaps he would receive double the mission rewards.
Soon, the missions refreshed. Qin Mo rolled his eyes at the new tasks.
This would have been better left unrefreshed.
Half of his expectations had come true: the missions had doubled, but the rewards had not.
The four tasks of talking with Mei, giving flowers, confessing, and reaching the top of Senba Academy had become talking with Kiana, talking with Mei, dining with Kiana, and dining with Mei.
The fifth was the Honkai Beast extermination mission he had completed earlier that day.
The mission reward was still one crystal.
He should not have expected anything.
The next morning, Qin Mo went out early to complete the Honkai Beast extermination mission. With experience from the previous time, dealing with this trash-tier Honkai Beast was no longer a problem.
Then, at noon, he went to find Mei and had lunch with her. Although there was no longer a mission to give flowers or confess, Qin Mo still kept up the habit.
Without realizing it, it had become something like an unspoken understanding between them.
Besides, Qin Mo had noticed that Mei prepared a new place for flowers every day. Wouldn't showing up without flowers make all her preparations pointless?
That evening, he went to find Kiana.
"Kiana! Come out, I'm treating you to dinner!"
Kiana opened the door. Even from outside, Qin Mo could see how messy the room was. Unlike Mei's neatly organized room, Kiana clearly did not sweat the small stuff.
"Why did you suddenly decide to treat me to dinner?"
"Why does there have to be a reason? Just tell me, are you coming or not?"
"I'm coming, I'm coming. Wait for me to change."
The two of them found a roadside stall and started eating ramen. Qin Mo knew Kiana had a huge appetite, so he could only bring her to a place with large portions. It was not that he did not want to go to an all-you-can-eat restaurant; he had just learned that Kiana had been blacklisted by every buffet restaurant in the city after being there for less than two days.
Well, quite a few of them had blacklisted her because they were chains.
"Kiana, didn't I say before that I needed your help with something?"
Hearing Qin Mo's words, Kiana realized what was going on. "Aha, I was wondering why you were being so nice. So this is why. Go on, what do you need me to help with?"
Qin Mo took out the phone he had prepared beforehand, pretended to operate it, then opened a game's card-drawing screen and placed it on the table.
"Draw some cards for me. I know you had great luck when you were little."
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The Immortal Dog
"My luck is good?"
Kiana herself had no such awareness. She instinctively reached for the phone.
"Don't. Draw them like this."
If she took it, the trick would be exposed. That screen was not displayed by a game at all. Qin Mo had shrunk his system panel to the size of the phone screen and placed it over the phone. Whenever he moved the phone, he moved the panel with it. He had practiced this for a long time yesterday while waiting for the missions to refresh.
"Fine, you're weird."
Kiana did not suspect a thing and reached out to tap the ten-pull option.
The two watched the card-drawing effects together. Qin Mo did not even tap skip to speed them up. Instead, he watched bit by bit as the effects ended and the cards appeared.
The first card appeared before Qin Mo in a purple glow.
Purple meant A-rank. This time, an S-rank, meaning gold, was guaranteed. In other words, this A-rank was not the guaranteed pull.
Kiana's luck was ridiculously good!
Tree of Harvest (A)
Effect: Choose a plot of land to plant it on, and it will produce all kinds of fruit. After the harvest, it will bear fruit again the next day.
Description: A card from Greed Island. It can only be used once. Once the tree is transplanted, it will immediately die.
Although it was not particularly useful, it was still an A-rank item without any negative effects. Overall, it was more worthwhile than some of the consumable food items he had drawn.
After several more blue consumables in a row, a flash of gold appeared on the screen.
Dog Talisman (S)
Effect: Immortality. Immune to all lethal attacks, keeping the holder's body in a youthful state.
Description: One of the Twelve Talismans.
"..."
"..."
After a moment of silence, Qin Mo suddenly jumped to his feet.
"Ahhh! I got it!"
Qin Mo abruptly hugged Kiana, giving her a huge fright.
"Huh? Huh? What happened?"
Kiana still looked completely confused. She thought it was just a game, and she could only see the names of the items that appeared. The effects only appeared in Qin Mo's mind.
So she did not know what this S-rank item meant to Qin Mo.
Qin Mo had always been searching for something that would keep him from dying in the Honkai world.
Originally, he had only hoped to find a way to increase his resistance or adaptability to Honkai Energy. But now, although his adaptability had not increased... if he was immortal, did he still need it?
He would still be eroded by Honkai Energy, but as long as he remained alive, it was fine. He knew there were many things in this world that could eliminate Honkai Energy. They simply could not be used as medicine to treat Honkai disease, because the patient would still die afterward.
Without another word, Qin Mo equipped the newly acquired Dog Talisman and quietly let out a sigh of relief.
By then, the card-drawing results had also ended. After the Dog Talisman, he had actually drawn two more A-rank items.
Beauty Hot Spring and Shadow Dancer Monthly Pass.
Both were cards from Greed Island. Like the Tree of Harvest, the former needed to be placed somewhere and would create a hot spring that beautified the skin. Just thirty minutes in it would make one's skin as smooth as a baby's. The latter was a set of cards, one thousand in total. By giving a card to someone else, you could take their place for twenty-four hours.
For example, if Kiana had an exam, Qin Mo could give her a card and take the exam in her place. No one would discover it; they would think Kiana had taken it.
But in reality, you would still be yourself. Nothing about you would change, and you would not gain the other person's abilities. If somewhere required their fingerprint to open, you could not use your own fingerprint to open it.
And you had to give the card to someone else. While you could force it on them, if you could not beat them and they refused to accept it, then it was meaningless.
But it was enough!
Anyway, they were all freebies. As long as he had the Dog Talisman, that was enough.
Come to think of it, he had drawn three items from the same place in a row this time. Qin Mo finally became certain that this card-drawing system seemed to have some kind of chain mechanism. After drawing something from one place, the odds of drawing something else from the same world increased.
He had also drawn quite a few items from Ezio's world before. Setting aside the Wrist Blade he had yet to use, he had drawn plenty of swords, hidden weapons, and the like. They were all white-quality items, completely worthless.
"You're seriously overreacting."
Kiana patted the wrinkles out of her clothes from the hug, but she was not angry.
"Still, judging by that reaction, I really am amazing, aren't I?"
She really was amazing, at least when it came to luck...
"Ah, Miss Kiana is incredible. You really saved my life."
More than one life, really. With an immortality effect like that, how many lives did it count for?
He quietly put his phone away.
"I've decided. No more ramen! We're going for sukiyaki! Eat as much as you want today!"
"Huh? Okay!"
Qin Mo put down his half-finished bowl of ramen, while Kiana gulped down all her noodles in one bite before following him to the next place.
The Kaslana family's massive appetite was fully on display in Kiana even now.
After ordering a large amount of food, the two began eating heartily. Qin Mo soon started worrying. Although he had saved up money for a long time, it almost was not enough to feed Kiana. It would be awkward if he could not pay the bill afterward.
Sukiyaki was not cheap to begin with. By the time Kiana was done stuffing herself, Qin Mo's money had shrunk by eighty percent.
It seemed that bowl of ramen before coming here had really helped.
Still, Qin Mo was not too upset about it. On one hand, Kiana had done him a huge favor. On the other, he did not care much about that little bit of money. In the Honkai world, it was not all that useful anyway.
"Ahh, I'm so full."
As they walked down the street, Kiana leaned her entire body against Qin Mo.
"I haven't eaten this much in ages."
That made Qin Mo's face darken.
"So you deliberately took me for a ride?"
"Hehe..."
She smiled sheepishly. "When I'm with you, Qin Mo, it feels like I'm back home, like I'm with that stinky old man."
"Looks like we really were close before. I can't remember it, but it feels familiar."
No, you were just too lonely.
Qin Mo did not say it aloud. He knew he had made the whole thing up, but he did not mind treating it as the truth.
When someone with bad luck met a small liar, that liar would only deceive them for a while before breaking their heart.
But when someone with good luck met a great liar, one who deceived them for their entire life, then at least they would be happy while they were alive.
When it came to luck, perhaps no one in this world could surpass Kiana.
Watching Kiana walk while still leaning against him, Qin Mo did not mind continuing to deceive her forever.
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A Love Triangle?
In February, Senba Academy began classes again, and Kiana officially enrolled.
But this girl...
Had she enrolled just to sleep?
Looking at Kiana sleeping face-down on a table in the auditorium during the opening ceremony, Qin Mo shook his head. He had forgotten that the first day of school required sitting through an entire morning's opening ceremony.
He could only crouch on the roof of the auditorium and wait for the opening ceremony to end.
For bad students, classes, reading, and meetings were all excellent lullabies.
Kiana had basically slept through the entire opening ceremony.
When she woke up, the ceremony had just ended, and they were wrapping up by having everyone leave in an orderly manner.
It had to be said, not many people could pull that off.
Kiana followed the crowd out of the auditorium when she suddenly heard a small commotion ahead.
Listening carefully, she caught words like prince, romance, and queen.
When she looked over...
"Qin Mo!?"
Kiana saw a familiar figure walking toward the teaching building with a girl.
"!!!!"
She even saw the girl holding a bouquet of roses.
"What's going on with them!? Isn't this a girls' school!? Why is there a guy here?"
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