Life Game In Other World
Chapter 99: Praised by Everyone (Please Favorite, Follow, and Vote for the Monthly Ticket)

Chapter 99: Chapter 99: Praised by Everyone (Please Favorite, Follow, and Vote for the Monthly Ticket)

"Have you never thought about finding a girlfriend?"

Sitting in the taxi, Liu Nan cradled the warm sweet potato in her hands, its gentle warmth softening her slightly stiff fingers. "At this rate, you might end up living alone forever."

He could remember the cold, remember the girl’s cold hands.

Putting aside He Ao’s behavior of asking for money, he was actually quite considerate.

He Ao looked at Liu Nan warily. When someone who owes you money tries to lecture you about life, there’s a good chance they’re trying to wiggle out of paying,

"The total comes to six fifty. I’ll knock off the fifty cents at most, can’t make it any cheaper. I bought these roasted sweet potatoes from a familiar auntie, six yuan is the cost price."

So you’re telling me you made a profit of fifty cents off me.

Liu Nan’s brows twitched.

Then she tilted her head back, leaned against the seat, and pondered for a moment, "How about this, I’ll trade you some information for this roasted sweet potato?"

"What information?"

He Ao looked at her with interest.

Liu Nan blinked and pursed her lips as she thought for a moment, "About the Research Institute!"

"Deal."

He Ao nodded his head.

The essence of currency is that it’s a universal equivalent; to possess a certain amount of currency means you have the ability to exchange for goods of that value.

If what the other person offers is good, He Ao doesn’t mind bypassing currency to barter directly.

Xidu University was roughly eighteen kilometers away from the destination Liu Nan had selected. With sparse nighttime traffic, it took them only about half an hour to arrive.

He Ao glanced at his phone. It was now around nine twenty.

Liu Nan and He Ao got out of the car one after another.

With her hands behind her back, Liu Nan walked in front of He Ao with a slight bounce in her step, feeling for some reason like she was on top whenever she wasn’t paying.

The two walked leisurely to a small dock, and looking up, they saw the sparkling water under the moonlight.

"We need to wait for a boat,"

Liu Nan said softly, then she smiled at He Ao, "Do you know what ’Talent’ is?"

"I do."

He Ao answered calmly.

"Huh?"

Liu Nan was taken aback, "Then do you know what pollutants are?"

"I do."

He Ao’s face was impassive.

"Ah?" Liu Nan deflated a little, her head drooping like a kitten that couldn’t find any food, "Then is there anything you don’t know? Maybe I should just transfer you the six yuan."

"Is there a hierarchy among Talents?"

He Ao asked quietly.

"I know that," Liu Nan perked up instantly, straightening herself and chuckling, "There wasn’t in the past, but in recent years, as the number of Transcendents has surged, the Research Institute has roughly divided them into six levels."

"A, B, C, D, E, F?"

He Ao raised his head to look at her and asked slowly.

"Yeah, it’s somewhat like that," Liu Nan nodded, "I heard there were some complicated proposals at one time, the kind where each level had a name made up of several letters, but in the end, the Research Institute decided to simplify the names and levels. After all, standards need to appeal to the broadest demographic—the simpler and more colloquial, the easier they spread and are understood."

"Mhm,"

He Ao nodded, looking out at the lake. Liu Nan had been utterly ignorant about the Transcendent world the night before last, yet today she was able to share intel with He Ao, which proved she had her own source of information.

This could be interpreted as Liu Nan obtaining this Transcendent knowledge through her family connections, but considering how clueless she had been before, He Ao leaned towards another possibility, and so he asked softly, "What’s your Talent?"

"Reader"

Liu Nan rubbed her own cheek, walked over to He Ao, and hadn’t expected He Ao to guess so quickly, but she didn’t intend to hide it either,

"An F-grade talent, my ability is being able to understand text and language more easily, plus a certain improvement in imaginative thinking skills. It seems my physical fitness has also improved somewhat, but not much, just a bit stronger than the average adult male."

The girl stood beside the young man, both gazing at the sparkling surface of the lake where the moon’s pristine reflection shimmered on the tranquil water; a small white boat gently sailed in from the moonlight.

Standing under the streetlight, Liu Nan waved towards the elder steering the boat at the bow, "Uncle Xiao, I’m here."

When the boat reached the shore, Liu Nan jumped aboard and waved to He Ao, "He Ao, get on."

"Is your home accessible by boat?"

He Ao glanced at the boat with a touch of surprise.

Xidu lies in the west of the Republic, beyond which stretch continual mountains, a typical extremely inland city characterized mainly by hilly terrain. Moreover, water resources aren’t abundant here, so lakes are even less common.

He Ao paused for a moment, recalling where he currently was.

This lake is known as White Bird Lake, Xidu’s earliest large artificial lake. The White Bird Group sectioned off ten thousand acres here, transforming the land’s hills into an artificial lake crisscrossed with waterways. Then they developed real estate and built commercial facilities on the lake’s central visible ’islands’ and along the edges of the lake.

In this inland city with scarce river flow, they made a commercial residential area where one must take a boat to reach one’s home.

Of course, it’s also very expensive.

"Not my home, but a house my dad has here; he likes to come here," Liu Nan shook her head, signaling He Ao to board the boat, "I usually live in a small house bought near the school, for the convenience of attending classes."

"Hmm."

He Ao nodded and stepped onto the boat.

The elder at the bow started the boat, moving waveringly forward over the gleaming waves.

Through the hazy night, He Ao stared at the luxurious villas under the lakeside streetlights.

"What’s the matter?"

Liu Nan moved closer, noticing that He Ao seemed to be lost in thought.

"Just thinking of an old friend."

He Ao rested his head in his hand, pondering for a while.

"Do you have friends living here?"

Liu Nan sat beside him, staring at the villas, most of which were dimly lit, "The occupancy rate here is still very low, though it might look good."

"Yes, I do," He Ao nodded, "I tailed him for three months two years ago before I could get him nicked, earning a substantial bounty. He was worth a lot."

Liu Nan: ?

This story wasn’t progressing as she had expected.

"Then..." Liu Nan tried to follow He Ao’s train of thought, "how many years did he get?"

"He was executed last year," He Ao nodded, "Before his death, his lover took his money and ran off with his minion. I was the only one to pay my respects."

"You even paid your respects?"

Liu Nan was somewhat astonished; she felt like she was listening to a legendary tale.

"Important client, right?" He Ao earnestly said, "After-sales service is still necessary. My service is excellent, highly praised. So far none of my significant clients have given me a bad review."

Then he glanced at Liu Nan, "The same goes for you. If one year you’re worth a lot, I’ll also go pay my respects when you’re gone."

"Don’t!"

Liu Nan crossed her arms over her chest.

She was still young, didn’t want to be worth a lot, nor did she want to be sent off.

Just then, the boat slowly approached a private dock.

At the edge of the dock, a middle-aged man sitting under a streetlight reading a book slowly lifted his head.