Hai Lan ordered the hotpot, Longwei hotpot.
Hai Lan enjoyed the hotpot made with dragon's tail, which can only be found on Brand Island, but Wan Xiang and Zi Gua Gao Shu could only watch from the side.
Because they used very ordinary VR equipment to log in, they couldn't taste the flavor of the food at all, and couldn't join Hai Lan's battle.
So everyone at the table sat there and watched Hai Lan eating hotpot awkwardly.
Mo Shigui's side was much calmer than Jiang Qiao had imagined. Even though Canxin had been frantically exposing Mo Shigui's secrets before, Mo Shigui's fiancée Nancy did not show any dissatisfaction.
She didn't even mention anything about Freya. Jiang Qiao eavesdropped on the conversation between Mo Shigui and Nancy. They were drinking and chatting about the past, as if they had met in a bar in reality instead of in the world of the Holy Spirit.
Canxin has been trying to stir up trouble. Even if Mo Shigui's eyes say, "If you keep talking nonsense, I will kill you within three days!", Canxin still doesn't know how to cherish his life.
When Mo Shigui was chatting with Nancy, he would also talk about some of Mo Shigui's past experiences visiting the Holy Spirit, which would occasionally make Nancy cover her mouth and chuckle.
Let’s end it here for today.
Jiang Qiao looked at Hai Lan's chubby cheeks. Hai Lan noticed Jiang Qiao's eyes and picked up a piece of dragon meat roll with chopsticks, as if asking Jiang Qiao if he wanted to eat it. Jiang Qiao shook his head to indicate that he had no appetite.
Now Jiang Qiao just needs to wait until Hai Lan is full and then he can leave this restaurant with a weird atmosphere.
But things never go as Jiang Qiao hopes. When Hai Lan was halfway through her meal, Jiang Qiao received a request for a video call.
This video communication request came from Free Milk Without Extra Charge, and Jiangqiao clicked the Ignore button the moment the request popped up.
"It's about time for us to level up, so we won't bother the president anymore?" The self-proclaimed high school student knew that the reason Jiang Qiao ignored the communication request from the free price increase was because they were there.
In fact, this can be regarded as a way for the high scorer to remind his sister that it is better to choose to quit and not to be too obsessed with something.
But Wanxiang's personality is good in every way except that once she becomes stubborn, no matter who persuades her, it's useless. And her competitive spirit can be felt even without words.
So when Zihang Gaoshu indicated that she wanted to take Wanxiang away, Wanxiang raised her hand and asked Meishen to add another menu. She was telling her sister in this way that she wanted to stay here for a while longer.
"Is it news from the wet nurse? She seems to have something urgent to tell you, so go pick up the phone!" Hai Lan was still chewing rice and spoke hesitantly.
But this does not prevent Hai Lan from caring about the latest developments of "Add Milk Without Price Increase". As the frontline customer service of Holy Spirit's power training, "Add Milk Without Price Increase" has earned Holy Spirit an unknown amount of Divine Power Crystals.
If Hai Lan is the God of all holy spirits, then the one who adds milk without charging extra may be the believer that God likes the most.
So when Jia Nai didn't raise the price and sent video messages to Jiang Qiao continuously, Hai Lan still hoped that Jiang Qiao could answer the call.
You said that yourself!
Jiang Qiao chose to accept the video call request from Jia Milk Without Paying More with the mood of pressing the self-destruct switch.
A translucent interface instantly appeared in front of Jiang Qiao.
“President, can you see it?” The cheeks with milk without price increase directly occupied the entire video call interface.
"I can see it...but you are too close to the camera, please step back a few steps." Jiang Qiao said.
"What now?"
Add milk without adding extra charge. Following Jiang Qiao's instructions, she stepped back a few steps, revealing half of her body. Judging from the decoration around the room, she should be in the room where she is temporarily staying in the Sanctuary of Sustainability.
"It's okay now. What's the matter?" Jiang Qiao asked.
"The Eternal Sanctuary has been under martial law recently. They seem to be searching for me. Miss Roche said that I should go back to Brand Island to avoid the limelight during this period. Also, my network signal has not been very good recently."
Unexpectedly...adding milk does not increase the price. This time I came to Jiang Qiao to discuss serious business!
"According to the game settings, you should be able to use the teleportation beacon to come back directly, right?"
Jiang Qiao can actually think of many ways to avoid the limelight for Jia Nai Bu Jia Jia. The simplest and most straightforward one is to go offline. However, after going offline, Jia Nai Bu Jia Jia's location will still have traces of the God Eater. At that time, the situation will become very tricky if he is guarded by a wave of corpses by the hunters of the Eternal Sanctuary.
"No, Rosh tried... the teleportation beacon from the Sanctuary of Eternity to Brand Island is locked."
Locked? Jiang Qiao used his GM authority to sense and found that his connection with adding milk without increasing the price had indeed become very weak.
To put it in the simplest way, the connection between Add Milk Without Adding Price and the Holy Spirit may be severed soon, and she may go directly into stand-alone mode.
If this happens, it will be a disaster for Jiangqiao and for adding milk without increasing the price.
This may be a countermeasure used by the Sanctuary of Eternal Sustainability after it realized that Add Milk Without Raising the Price was causing trouble in its own nest.
"But President! The breeder emailed me and said they have a solution!"
"what way?"
The first time Jiang Qiao knew about adding milk without increasing the price, he contacted the Breeders. However, the Breeders were recently persuaded by the Sharp Gun Alma to help rebuild the Sanctuary of Sustainability. The Breeders have a lot of black technology. After all, their people are the largest-scale creations in the Sanctuary of Creation.
Jiang Qiao was just wondering if the breeder was going to release another main quest when the expression on the man's face said "add milk without raising the price" made Jiang Qiao put down the coffee cup in his hand.
"First, the president must marry me."
"… "
Jiang Qiao was very glad that he didn't drink anything while chatting with Jia Milk Without Adding Charges. He was choking at this moment, while Wan Xiang was still holding a glass of juice and drinking it through a straw.
What was strange was that Canxin, Mo Shigui and Nancy, who were originally chatting happily at the bar on the other side, all stopped communicating at the same time.
At this moment, it seemed that everyone was waiting for Jiang Qiao's reply.
"Why?"
Jiang Qiao still wants to know why after marriage, the Internet connection is stable and the milk can be added without any additional charge.
"Didn't the Holy Spirit launch a child-rearing system recently? This system seems to be based on the settings of the breeders. The breeders said that children are a small part of the Holy Spirit's soul separated and then cultivated. In other words, babies who are still being cultivated can be used as network cables. This is what my mission setting is."
What the hell? How come I didn't know about this setting
There are too many unknowns in the breeder's technology. Jiang Qiao thought that the offspring cultivated in the soul fusion facility were really just a vase, but he didn't expect that they would actually be of such a use
"But you have to get married before you can use the childcare system. You are the only one on my list who meets the required favorability. Let's just get married and build the network cable, and my mission will be accomplished."
When he said "adding milk without paying extra", he did so in a joking tone, and it was indeed a joking tone.
Because this is just a game, getting married and having children in the game is just part of the gaming experience for most people and it's no big deal.
Adding milk does not increase the price. While talking, she also tried to regard "marriage" and "raising children" as her goals and tools to complete the task.
"How's it going, President?"
As expected, Jiang Qiao received a marriage proposal. He had to get married first before he could use the parenting system. This seemingly routine setting ended up pitting Jiang Qiao himself.
"I think we can give it a try."
Hailan's cheeks were still puffy, but her voice was very clear.
"no!"
But soon after Hai Lan finished speaking, Wanxiang, who was sitting next to Jiang Qiao, suddenly spoke. After saying these two words, she realized that she had lost her composure and looked around in panic.
Finally, she lowered her head and looked at the drink in her hand, turning the cup uneasily.
"Eh? Is there anyone sitting next to you, President?" The camera angle of the free-for-all milk sale made it impossible to see anyone sitting next to Jiang Qiao.
"Regarding the mission the Breeder has given you, I will go to the Breeder's main city to check and see if there is anything I can do to help you."
When Jiang Qiao was communicating with the free-price-for-add-milk service, Nancy on the other side was also interested in the conversation between Jiang Qiao and the free-price-for-add-milk service.
So she asked Zanshin about the Holy Spirit's child-rearing system.
"How can it be possible to really give birth to a child? Although the game of Holy Spirit is very realistic, there is a good balance between gameplay and realism. I saw on the Holy Spirit forum that there is a camp called Breeders in Holy Spirit. If you complete some of their tasks, you can activate this system and have a child."
Canxin seemed to gradually figure out that Nancy and Mo Shigui were not just two netizens who had just met online, so he became a little more restrained when he spoke.
"A parenting system, I really want one...either in real life or in the game." As Nancy spoke, she suddenly leaned over the table and looked at Mo Shigui sideways and said, "I should be able to reach level 50 tomorrow. Then I'll go to the breeder's map and take a look."
"Maybe it won't work." Mo Shigui checked his and Nancy's affection in the game and said, "It seems that the game setting requires two people to have an affection of more than 50 before they can get engaged..."
"Why is there such a setting? The game Holy Spirit is really troublesome." She complained with some dissatisfaction. Mo Shigui was thinking of how to comfort his girlfriend and tell her that the favorability can be increased quickly.
Nancy suddenly sat up and held her chin with her hand and looked at Mo Shigui...
"So how much do you like the girl named Freya?" She looked at Mo Shigui and asked.
"That's just an NPC character in Holy Spirit. Every player has one..." Mo Shigui acted very calmly. "Didn't you also see Freya when you first logged into Holy Spirit?"
"Yeah, I always thought VR online games were all about fighting and killing, but the game Holy Spirit brought me so many surprises. It felt like I was in the real world." Nancy suddenly changed the subject and swiped her index finger across the table and said, "But no matter how real it is, NPCs shouldn't be able to reproduce, right?"
"… "
"I want to have a child. It may not be possible in reality, but the game of Holy Spirit can..."
When Nancy was looking at Mo Shigui with a meaningful look, Canxin stood up again and ruthlessly interrupted the atmosphere between the two.
"Sister-in-law Nancy? No, I'm at a disadvantage here, Mrs. Nancy. Your wish may have to be postponed for a while. I saw a post on the forum saying that there seems to be a bug in the parenting system." Canxin said.
"BUG?"
This is not some weird bug. Jiang Qiao just received a message for help from the Breeder's mother. The Breeder's base was "invaded" by the Sanctuary of Sustainability.
(End of this chapter)