Give You a Surprise

Log off.

Return to reality.

Ye Chuan stretched. Actually, he felt like he had just been playing a holographic game right now.

Even though that side was indeed a real world.

But thinking about it the other way around, if he went to a game world and hooked up with a beauty, wouldn't it be reality for her?

The dizziness slowly faded, and Ye Chuan arrived in the living room through the portal.

"Ye Chuan! You're baaack!"

It felt like a heavy truck had crashed into his arms, just that the front bumper wasn't hard.

Lan Xiaoke hung her entire body onto him. Her silvery-white long hair cascaded down her shoulders, the soft tips draping over the edge of his hoodie.

Lan Xiaoke's cultivation base was nothing to scoff at, so her pouncing really did hit like a truck.

"What are you doing?" Ye Chuan hugged her back.

At this moment, Lan Xiaoke's thick, straight bangs covered her left eye, revealing only her round, apricot-like right eye with a slightly upturned corner. When she looked up at people, she always carried a natural, endearing naivety.

"Ehehehe..." Lan Xiaoke scratched her head.

The most ridiculous part was that she had a bit of chocolate sauce smudged on the corner of her mouth without realizing it at all. As she looked up at Ye Chuan, her expression was incredibly serious.

"Ye Chuan, take a guess~"

Ye Chuan looked down at her and raised a hand to wipe the chocolate from her mouth.

"Did you miss me, do you need to recharge, or do you want pocket money?"

Lan Xiaoke hugged his waist and rubbed against him, her voice muffled against his chest. "Can I have all of them?"

After saying that, she restlessly reached out, her fingertips sliding up along the hem of Ye Chuan's shirt. Just as she touched his warm abdomen, Ye Chuan grabbed the back of her hand.

"Hard to say. You can only pick one."

Lan Xiaoke curled her lips.

She couldn't even get a taste of meat.

Next time I'll learn a thunderous ground-pound to teach you a lesson.

"Did Ke Ning come out today?" Ye Chuan asked.

"Nope~"

"Alright." Ye Chuan patted Lan Xiaoke's head and turned around to check on Ke Ning's situation.

Stepping through the teleportation array—

The laboratory door wasn't shut tight, and intermittent sounds of electric currents came from inside.

Ye Chuan pushed the door open. The first thing he saw was Ke Ning sitting cross-legged on the floor, her entire figure looking somewhat pale under the cold light of the screens.

Her fluffy, curly hair was as messy as if she had just been struck by lightning. Her black-framed glasses had slipped to the tip of her nose, and heavy dark circles hung under her eyes.

Ye Chuan raised his hand and cast a Healing Spell, followed by a Clarity Spell.

"..."

Ke Ning lifted her eyelids. Even though she had just been healed by Ye Chuan, she still had that groggy, half-asleep look.

"Oh... Ye Chuan, you're here?"

Ye Chuan leaned against the doorframe. "Do you... really not need sleep? Ke Ning, why don't you take a break?"

Ke Ning let out a long yawn. "Not important."

After saying that, she looked at Ye Chuan, seeming to understand why he had come. "You're here today... because you found the Source Stones?"

"Yep."

Ye Chuan raised his hand and opened his spatial backpack, casually pulling out some Source Stones and piling them to the side until they quickly formed a small mountain.

Every Source Stone glowed with a deep halo, and faint blue patterns flowed slowly within them.

Ke Ning stood up, walked over to the mountain of Source Stones, squatted down, and picked one up. Her expression became unusually serious.

"The purity is very high."

She placed the Source Stone into the Rubik's Cube V2, which immediately shot out a beam of light to analyze its structure.

"The internal high-dimensional vibration is extremely stable."

The Rubik's Cube V2 immediately shot out another beam, cutting a tiny fragment from the edge of the Source Stone and dropping it into the adjacent analyzer.

The screens instantly lit up with countless formulas. Blue data streams scrolled frantically, and continuous notification chimes echoed in the lab.

Ke Ning stared at the screen. She raised a hand to enlarge one of the waveforms, her eyes growing brighter and brighter.

"These Source Stones are just what I need to verify a hypothesis of mine. Very nice, Ye Chuan."

Ye Chuan raised an eyebrow. "So they're usable."

"Usable, and highly useful."

Ke Ning pushed up her glasses, the corners of her mouth curling up slightly. "I can make some things that you would never expect."

Ye Chuan looked at her rare excited demeanor and smiled.

"Looks like the trip wasn't in vain."

Ke Ning looked up at him. "I'll give you a surprise in three days. You can go now."

"Okay."

Just as she finished speaking, as if remembering something, she pointed toward the door.

"Don't bother me unless it's something else important. I need to catch up on progress."

Ye Chuan smiled and didn't bother her further, gently closing the laboratory door behind him.

By the time he returned to the living room, it was already dark outside.

Lan Xiaoke and Ye Yue were currently sitting on the carpet playing a fighting game. Lilith stood to the side, looking like she was watching children fight.

"Oh, you're back," Lilith said when she saw Ye Chuan.

"Yeah..." Ye Chuan glanced at Lilith, noticing that she was no longer holing up in her room as often as before. He suddenly smiled.

"Great-aunt, do you feel like I've gotten stronger?"

Golden Immortal Peak!

Lilith simply flashed a small canine tooth. "Not even close."

Ye Chuan: "?"

That's still not enough?

Just what kind of strength do you have?

Meanwhile, off to the side, Lan Xiaoke was clutching her controller. Her silvery-white hair was scattered behind her, and her sitting posture was crooked, but she was yelling fiercely.

"Ye Yue! You're not allowed to use your tentacles to secretly press my buttons!"

Ye Yue was sitting perfectly upright, her expression as innocent as if nothing had happened, yet several tiny tentacles behind her back had already quietly crept to the edge of Lan Xiaoke's controller.

The character on the screen was being rubbed into the dirt by Ye Yue's combo. Lan Xiaoke watched her health bar rapidly drop to zero, so angry she almost threw her controller.

"I'm not playing anymore, not playing!"

She tossed the controller onto the sofa and grabbed Ye Chuan's arm.

"Ye Chuan, help me get revenge!"

"She's cheating! She used her tentacles to press my controller! She's a cheater!"

Ye Yue hid all her tentacles behind her back and earnestly shook her head, looking completely innocent.

"I didn't. You're just a noob."

Lilith stood by and nodded, mercilessly rubbing salt in the wound.

"Judging from the battle results, contestant Lan Xiaoke indeed has obvious operational shortcomings."

Lan Xiaoke instantly bristled. "I'm not a noob! I just wasn't taking it seriously yet!"

Ye Chuan watched them bicker and suddenly felt that this scene was quite heartwarming.

He reached out, picked up a third controller, and sat down under Lan Xiaoke's expectant gaze.

"Alright, I'll help you get revenge."

Lan Xiaoke immediately looked at Ye Yue with a face full of smugness.

"See that? The cheat code has arrived."

Ye Yue blinked and leaned a little closer to Ye Chuan, as if she were also getting serious. "Brother might not be able to beat me either."

However, Ye Chuan's gaming talent wasn't actually all that great. After exchanging blows, Ye Chuan also quickly lost the match.

"Hehe." Ye Yue bared her snow-white teeth, happy that she had beaten her brother after all.

"Very impressive." Ye Chuan patted his sister's head. Seeing that the sky outside had already turned dark, he asked, "Where are Xixi and Qian Shuang?"

"They went to conquer the tower," Lan Xiaoke explained. Since the island tower hadn't been fully cleared yet, the two of them had gone to conquer the higher floors.

Ye Chuan, however, suddenly had a very strange feeling. "..."

Is that so?