“You kinda look like Priest Hero.”
Faced with such a direct question, Bai Yue Ling’s heart skipped a beat, but she kept her composure. “Really? Show me the video.”
Mu Yao blinked her lively eyes. “Totally! In the video, she’s recruiting people at the dungeon entrance and even clashed with Blood Rain.”
She pulled out her phone and opened a video from the World of Fate forum.
The footage was shot from a crowd, some distance from Bai Yue Ling, but zooming in revealed her clearly.
Mu Yao compared the confident, smug face on the screen to Bai Yue Ling’s lazy, helpless expression in reality, gasping, “They really do look alike!”
She paused, her big, cute eyes widening. “Zero-Zero, you’re not actually Priest Hero, are you?”
Bai Yue Ling feigned confusion, shaking her head vigorously.
“Look closely, Mu Yao,” she said, pointing at her on-screen self. “Don’t her eyes seem a bit bigger than mine?”
“Hmm, do they?”
“And her eyebrows are shorter and perkier than mine.”
“Uh? Yeah, maybe.”
“Compared to my dashing, dominant vibe, her whole aura is way more submissive—like a weak little girl who’d get wrecked by any older sister. Totally fragile.”
“Um, now that you mention it, I guess that’s true…”
“So~” Bai Yue Ling tilted her chin up confidently. “Priest Hero is Priest Hero, and I’m me. We’re not the same person!”
“Oh…” Mu Yao tilted her head. “Then what’s your game name, Little White?”
Bai Yue Ling blurted out, “I’m called ‘PenningDiary.’”
“But last time you said it was ‘StirFriedSprite,’” Mu Yao countered.
“Uh…”
“Okay~” A glint flashed in Mu Yao’s bright eyes as she casually stroked Bai Yue Ling’s thigh, clad in white stockings, and asked offhandedly, “So, what do you think of Priest Hero as a player?”
“What do you mean?”
“Well… didn’t she defeat a Heroic-tier boss? Those start at level 41 at least. How’d someone at her level—barely in the teens—pull that off?”
Feeling her sensitive thigh under threat as Mu Yao’s hand crept higher, Bai Yue Ling stammered, “I… I don’t know! I’m not Priest Hero.”
“But aren’t you a gaming pro, Zero-Zero?” Mu Yao’s soft, pink lips parted, her voice carrying a gentle but firm certainty. “A pro should know everything, right?”
Staring at the pure, adorable Mu Yao, Bai Yue Ling felt a cold sweat trickle down her back, as if her secret was being tightly gripped—like a fox girl with a big butt stuck halfway through a wall, her tail firmly in someone’s grasp.
She shivered, shaking her head.
No, no… Why am I feeling like this?
Mu Yao was just a harmless kid. They’d gotten along fine through nine cycles of reincarnation.
“I got it wrong last time. My real game name is ‘PenningDiary,’” she insisted.
There’s no way she’s a threat.
But… why does she keep asking about Priest Hero? Has she really dropped her suspicions?
Bai Yue Ling took a deep breath and explained patiently, “I’m guessing an NPC helped her.”
“Oh, oh, oh! Any other possibilities?”
“Maybe a terrain kill—like luring a water-fearing monster into a river and letting the environment take it out.”
“Environment… Got it. Anything else?”
“Or maybe the monster was already super weak, weak enough for a low-level priest to finish it off.”
Bai Yue Ling rattled off several possibilities, finally satisfying Mu Yao’s curiosity.
Mu Yao pulled out her phone, jotting down everything Bai Yue Ling said, and exclaimed, “Thanks, Zero-Zero! I’m gonna post all this analysis on the forum to farm some EXP!”
Bai Yue Ling: “Huh?”
So it was just about farming EXP!
The two dug into the food, eating heartily. Once full, Mu Yao left with her tray.
Bai Yue Ling slumped in her chair, rubbing her slightly bloated stomach and picking at her delicate white-stockinged feet, letting out a contented sigh.
With a sweet childhood friend like Mu Yao who’d cook for her, Bai Yue Ling felt her life was set.
“Speaking of which, Princess gave me that card with a million in deposits. Probably fake, right?”
She hesitantly entered the card number and password into her phone to check the balance.
Gasp— “One, two, three, four, five… six zeros!”
Bai Yue Ling shakily closed her phone, her heart pounding.
“That Princess… she’s a legit rich lady!”
And she seemed to have a vibe like she wanted to keep Bai Yue Ling.
But Bai Yue Ling wasn’t some spineless pretty boy who’d fall into a rich lady’s trap so easily.
She tidied the table and headed back to her room to log in.
As soon as she entered, she saw a pale blue Slime sprawled on her desk, the pink mouse and keyboard engulfed in its body, frantically watching videos on the computer.
Bai Yue Ling sucked in a breath, remembering the creature hiding in her room.
“You’re back?” Jelly said calmly. “Using this tool, I’ve figured everything out.”
Bai Yue Ling sat on the bed, cautiously asking, “Figured what out?”
“I finally understand why you don’t leave corpses when you die and instead vanish in a flash of white light,” Jelly said.
“You’re ‘projections’ from another world, summoned to ours by the goddesses as otherworldly travelers.”
“Uh…” Bai Yue Ling nodded. “But that’s common knowledge. Everyone in your world knows that.”
“But they can’t see World of Fate from the perspective of an otherworldly traveler like I can,” Jelly said, switching the screen to the forum.
“This forum lets me keep tabs on everything happening in World of Fate. It’ll be a huge help for my future world conquest!”
“…”
So?
“So, you otherworldly travelers should team up with me,” Jelly declared proudly. “With my Slime army and your clever minds, we can defeat the gods and conquer the world!”
“Oh… We’ll talk about that later. Let’s head back to World of Fate for now.”
“Fine.”
Jelly promptly slithered into the gaming pod with Bai Yue Ling, clinging tightly to her chest and hips.
With a flash of white light, the familiar system prompt sounded:
[Welcome to World of Fate.]
Bai Yue Ling opened her eyes to the bustling plaza.
But this time, something was different. A group of heavily armed knights wielding swords and shields surrounded her.
“Sorry, Little White.”
The elf secretary Shi Qianla sauntered forward, her thick thighs swaying, and gave Bai Yue Ling a slight smile.
“Her Highness requests your presence. Please come with me.”