[Transformed Fugua] is really fashionable and weird. Hojo Natsuki watched the promotional video several times and decisively chose [Hire].
Then tell Qinwa: "Before you have a driver's license, you are not allowed to drive on the road by yourself. I have hired a driver for you, and you can also order him to do other things."
It is worth mentioning that the settlement currency used for hiring [Transformed Fugua] is clover, because this belongs to the development section.
Then Hojo Natsuki opened the [Simulation Management] and saw that he could also hire [Transformed Fugua] in the [Recruitment] column. This time the settlement would be made with (virtual) Japanese yen, and what he had the most was the Japanese yen earned by the frog employees diligently, but Clover had to recharge it himself.
In other words, you could have gotten it for free, but you spent money!
Although Fugua was very cheap, the price of hiring him for three months was not even as expensive as a Qinwa windbreaker, but Hojo Natsuki still couldn't help feeling distressed and shed two tears of a cyber capitalist.
“Beep—”
[Gin]: No
Qinwa decisively rejected the driver.
[Natsuki]: It’s nice to have a little brother running errands.
[Gin]: No
However, Hojo Natsuki also has his own methodology for dealing with the little frog who says one thing and means another.
[Natsuki]: I have given him your email address. We will meet at 7pm tomorrow night near the Third Overpass...
[Natsuki]：If you don't go, it's ok
[Natsuki]：But you don’t want your simulated shooting range to disappear suddenly, right
Soon after, the frog sent a reply, saying that it had the following six points to respond to: […]
Just like the readers who were successfully puaed by the ugly cover, Qinwa is currently receiving this kind of threat which is neither painful nor has any negative impact, and is too lazy to reduce its favorability.
The next day, although it was forty minutes late, it obediently went to the agreed location to meet its driver, Transformed Fugua.
Favorability began a new round of ups and downs.
[[Transformed Fugua] has good driving skills, [Qinwa] is satisfied, favorability 1]
[[Qinwa] takes [Transformed Fugua] to perform a mission, [Transformed Fugua] is slow to react and holds back]
[[Qinwa] thinks [Transformed Fugua] is as stupid as a pig, and takes his anger out on you, Favorability -2]
[[Qinwa] beat up [Transformed Fugua] and took his anger out on you, Favorability -2]
Wait, it has already beaten other frogs, but it is actually taking its anger out on the players!
Tsk, this behavior is quite frog-like.
Hojo Natsuki was too lazy to look at how the favorability was deducted. Anyway, no matter how dissatisfied it was, what could it do? Even if it was angry to the point of exploding and running away from home, Qinwa was still an employee of the Frog Organization and could not escape, so just let it be angry.
He clicked through the system reminders one by one.
I've been busy recently and haven't been online for three days. 10 days have passed in the game, and I've been with Qinwa and Transformed Fugua for 10 days.
On the seventh day, things began to take a turn for the better.
[[Transformed Fu Gua] runs errands diligently and never complains]
[[Qinwa] thinks [Transformed Fugua] is stupid, but really obedient (Zhen O Chuan's tone)]
[[Qin Frog] Favorability 1]
[[Qin Frog] Current Favorability -50]
Xia Shu: “.”
Why did he remember it was -45 before
Forget it, just start improving your impressions now.
After reading the system message, Hojo Natsuki quietly exited the app and said to the bartender, "Please give me a glass of hot milk."
The bartender was elderly, wearing a British-style vest, and smiled kindly, "Okay, sir, please wait a moment."
"Don't be so polite, Natsuki-kun has always been like this." Dazai said to the two office worker friends sitting next to him, "He is still a high school boy who only drinks milk and wants to grow to 180cm tall."
This is Lupin Bar, with retro decoration and a narrow storefront. Dust seems to be dancing in the dim light. A vinyl record is spinning silently in the corner.
, sending out soft and soothing music.
"First, I'm allergic to alcohol," Hojo Natsuki (179) said expressionlessly, "Second, I've grown so tall."
Dazai Osamu (180): “Oh, really?”
Xia Shu: “…”
Upon comparison, I find that there is a 1 missing for no reason, which always feels a bit bad.
Lupin's bar was long and narrow. He sat on Dazai Osamu's left, with Dazai's other two friends on the other side.
One is Oda Sakunosuke, a kind-hearted red-haired young man who had met Natsuki at M-Mon a few days ago and praised Kotowa for being cute (key point); the other is Sakaguchi Ango, who has neatly combed black hair, wears a pair of round-framed glasses, and has the expression "I'm a mature, reliable, and tired office worker" written all over him.
The daily routine of most office workers is "If you don't drink after get off work, your life is in vain", but Hojo Natsuki is an exception. However, he was dragged here by Dazai today for a strange reason.
Dazai Osamu whispered to Odasaku, "He accidentally discovered the card I used to steal Chuuya's card, so he went to report it lost. So today, he brought a rich guy over to pay the bill and let him drink as much as he wants."
Hojo Natsuki: “?”
This bastard.
"I can hear you." Hojo Natsuki said, "Are you human?"
Dazai: “Why not?”
Hojo Natsuki thought that he was a dad-type player who needed to make money to support his frog, not a lonely person like Dazai, so he raised his eyebrows slightly and refuted from the moral high ground: "Is this really okay? Do you have to trick me into paying? Wouldn't it be better to get another credit card from Shunzhong? I've already found out where he's hiding, how could you not know!"
Dazai Osamu: "It appears! Natsuki-kun's flexible moral standards! Don't you have any morals?"
Xia Shu: "How dare you laugh at someone who is only 50 steps ahead?"
Dazai: "My mouth is on my face, of course I can laugh."
Xia Shu: "Where is your face? Why can't I see it?"
Odasaku: “.”
Sakaguchi Ango: “.”
The two people's thoughts were rarely in sync at this moment - it was indeed not normal for someone to be Dazai-kun's friend.
Dazai and Natsuki, elementary school students, bickered for a while, and finally stopped at the same time.
"I forgot to introduce you, this is Natsuki-kun." Dazai said, "The second youngest executive of Port Mafia, Mr. Mori's adopted son, and he may very well be the future leader."
Natsuki: "… Hello, Mr. Odasaku, Mr. Sakaguchi."
Oda Sakunosuke didn't bother to correct his address: "Nice to meet you again, Mr. Hojo."
Sakaguchi Ango nodded: "Hello."
Under Dazai Osamu's help, the few of them quickly established a polite but plastic friendship as if they were at a social gathering, and for some unknown reason they began talking about work.
Recently, Hojo Natsuki has been busy investigating a foreign supernatural criminal organization, Mimic, which entered the country a week ago. This supernatural criminal organization is notorious in Europe, aggressive and with unknown purposes, which makes Yokohama's official supernatural group - the Supernatural Agent Division extremely wary.
Sakaguchi Ango and Oda Sakunosuke discussed mimics casually as if they were gossiping, and Dazai followed suit, acting crazy and talking nonsense along with their lead.
The four of them drank and chatted. Half an hour later, Hojo Natsuki got up and said goodbye, saying that he had work to do.
Dazai lifted his coat off the back of the chair and followed him, "I'll walk Natsuki-kun to the intersection and I'll be right back."
Hojo Natsuki: “?”
What's wrong with this guy today
He couldn't figure out what Dazai was up to, but it looked like he wanted something from him, so Xia Shu was not in a hurry and waited for him to speak.
The intersection where Lupin is located is a single lane and the speed of vehicles is very slow.
While waiting for the bus, Dazai Osamu suddenly asked a question out of nowhere: "Natsuki-kun, do you remember the bet we made before?"
He and Dazai met when they were seven or eight years old. When they were young, they liked to bet on some boring things, such as walking to the forest at the same time.
In front of Ouga, who will Mr. Mori talk to first? Dazai Osamu has a high level of attainment in understanding people's hearts since he was a child, so he always wins.
The stakes are pretty boring too, the biggest stakes being… "Natsuki-kun, please lend me your 'book' that can predict the future."
That time, Dazai Osamu lost.
Dazai did bring it up: "Yeah, the most important time, I lost."
Xia Shu guessed what he wanted to say and rejected it coldly: "I won't bet with you. I won't show you the 'book'. I haven't read it for ten years. Is it really a good thing to know the future in advance?"
Dazai blinked, not surprised at all, "Okay."
The matter seemed to have come to an end. Dazai Osamu calmly accompanied him to wait for the car. When the car to pick him up arrived, the other party waved and turned back to Lupin.
Hojo Natsuki didn't know why he suddenly wanted to read a book. He had a few guesses in his mind, but he was too lazy to verify them. He vaguely felt that Dazai might be thinking about an important decision about the direction of his life.
But what business was it of his? He was too lazy to guess what the Riddler was thinking.
It’s much more interesting to see a frog driving a tricycle than this!
After returning home and taking a shower, Hojo Natsuki opened the game happily, and saw another unexpected scene.
It was still the familiar late-night highway. The frog sat on the tricycle, with its paws off the steering wheel, hugging its shoulders in an extremely defiant manner (its paws were too short to reach its shoulders). The unmanned tricycle under it was carrying it at lightning speed.
Below the steering wheel, there is a prototype keyhole with a light green glow flashing.
[[Transformed Fu Gua] is driving a [Porsche 356A], players don’t need to worry]
Help, I'm even more worried.
Hojo Natsuki was in a complicated mood, but he was always good at comforting himself. He thought that Fugua was at least an adult (he looked at his age, Fugua was 24 years old), and his driving skills were A. In short, Fugua driving with Qinwa was definitely better than Qinwa who had never learned to drive systematically and was messing around on his own.
I have to say that Fu Gua's driving skills are quite excellent—
Perfect reverse swing, perfect curve drift, perfect frog pass! (BGM: Dai Xiahu, I've been in this place before...)
That’s amazing! Even the simple painting style cannot hide the full driving skills!
Driving in the middle of the night is a normal thing, and it is not illegal...
After a few seconds, a children's scooter rushed out from the far left of the screen and hit Xia Shu hard in the face.
The police lights were beeping, and the puppy policemen were trying to pull the car while holding up their horns and yelling: [Woof woof woof woof!! Woof woof woof!! Woof woof woof! ]
[… It’s this Porsche 356A again! ]
[Porsche in front, stop! Stop! If you don't stop, you will face a fine of 500,000 yen and up to 3 years of imprisonment! ! ]
[Friendly reminder] [[Transformed Fugua] The last fake license was checked, and the current driving is without a license]
[Friendly reminder] [There are thousands of roads, but the first one is to verify. Please guide your quack correctly...]
Hojo Natsuki: “…”
Numb.
But it wasn't surprising.
At least Fu Gua is a professional driver... so that's it.
Xia Shu remained calm, and with the expression of a sad frog holding a lotus, he watched Fu Gua send Qin Wa to the designated intersection - Qin Wa was cautious and did not tell his younger brother the specific location of his residence. This intersection was still one or two kilometers away from his real residence.
A bunch of green light suddenly shot out from the keyhole of the twisting car, and shot onto the ground, transforming into a frog... or rather, a slime that looked extremely like a frog.
It turns out that this is the transformation of Fu Gua, and it’s quite simple.
Transformed Fu Gua: [Big brother, I'll leave first. Call me anytime if you need anything.]
Frog: [Oh.]
Hojo Natsuki was a little curious about the slogan 'Big brother has no car, I am big brother's car', and tried to poke Fu Gua to see if he could make a third form.
He didn't have any
What expectations were there? However, a green light flashed on Fu Gua's body, and a slime transformation occurred the next second. He changed from a newly formed frog back into a ball of slime, and then the green slime kept pulling - a few seconds later, a frog twisting car that was almost exactly the same as the "Porsche" appeared.
Xia Shu was shocked.
It turns out that it can really transform into a car!
When you swipe your finger over it, there is actually a text description attached...
[Transformed Fugua (New Energy Vehicle Edition)]
[Introduction: It doesn't drink gasoline but only eats food, Fu Gua, a real new energy vehicle! After transformation, it comes with a new energy green license plate, no license plate restrictions, any time, the inner ring is unobstructed! ]
Hojo Natsuki: “…”
Wait, wait... "Brother doesn't have a car, but I am the car" means...
When the big brother's Porsche is restricted, can he drive the new energy Volvo on the road? (Universe Frog Sublimation.jpg)
Hojo Natsuki couldn't understand it and felt that this matter was not something that could be thought about too deeply.
Kurosawa Jin asked expressionlessly: "…What are you doing?"
Saburo Uozuka, nicknamed "Vodka" because of his love for vodka, was confused and could not answer.
He had been hired as Kurosawa Jin's driver for more than ten days, doing trivial things. Although he was beaten and called a fool every day, Vodka was not discouraged. He was born with a big heart. But at this moment, Vodka suspected that he was really an idiot and could not understand his own behavior.
Just now, it seemed as if some mysterious force was controlling him, causing him to squat with his back to Kurosawa Zhen and raise his hands, as if inviting the other party to jump onto his back and be carried away by him.
He stood up awkwardly and scratched his face: "Sorry, brother, I was distracted."
After spending these days together, Kurosawa also realized that the other party was often just an idiot and his actions had no deep meaning, so he did not take it seriously and decisively turned around and left.
Ten minutes later, he returned to his residence, put his things away, and turned on the desk lamp.
Start doing college entrance examination questions (.
There are only more than twenty days left until the Japanese college entrance examination.
Kurosawa Jin will never slack off on anything that can be called a 'task'. Although the college entrance examination is a 'boring', 'useless' and 'meaningless' product in his eyes, the test results involve a simulated shooting range, which is quite important to him.
Examination-oriented education, after all, is all about doing questions, and the difficulty is not that high. Kurosawa went through the question bank again and again, and had a good idea of his level. Not long after, he threw the draft paper aside and sent a message to Natsuki with a warning tone.
[Gin]: After the exam, don't ask me to do this again
Xia Shu, who happened to be online, said: "?"
Who did you take the college entrance examination for? (Parents scolding)
But in order to coax Guagua, Xia Shu had to say gently: "When you get into university, graduate successfully and get your degree certificate, I will definitely not take care of you."
[Gin]：…
[Gin]：Why go to college
Natsuki didn't understand.
Frog, what Thai pig language are you talking about? Isn't this a matter of course
[Natsuki]：Isn’t the purpose of the college entrance examination to go to college
[Gin]: I won’t go
Xia Shu smiled and shook his head, thinking that this unlucky little Gua really didn't learn well. But he just looked at the results of Qinwa's practice test on Gua Tutoring, and the correct rate was unreasonably high. Qinwa's deviation value was ranked in the top 1% among small animals in the country, so there was absolutely no problem for Qinwa to go to a prestigious school.
He didn’t know how to describe the fact that he was still so arrogant even when he was in college... Was he afraid that he wouldn’t pass the entrance exam, so he was deliberately saying discouraging words to lower his expectations
[Natsuki]: It's okay. Even if I don't get into the University of Tokyo, it's still great! I won't blame you!
[Gin]：
Kurosawa Jin: “…”
When did he agree to go to the University of Tokyo
(End of this chapter)