NOVPUBChapter 590: Chapter 510: Why Bother Being Petty About a Newbie?
Chapter 590: Chapter 510: Why Bother Being Petty About a Newbie?
In another Script Space.
After leaving Xu Shuo’s side, Hong Rao had just stepped into the courtyard with a garden when her whole body suddenly jolted!
She swiftly turned around and saw in the shadow of the corner pavilion, a person sitting there emotionlessly watching her, his dark blue military uniform accentuating a stern and ruthless aura.
As their eyes met, the silent tension caused Hong Rao to frown slightly.
Then she redirected her gaze, intending to go straight into the house, but as she turned to leave, the other spoke.
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“Where have you been?”
Hong Rao’s steps halted, her eyes betraying an unclear intent, but as she turned around, a smile that was more a sneer than genuine spread across her face, “What?
Does the Capital Commandant need to check on me?
But I don’t believe I’m one of your soldiers, am I?”
The man watched her in silence, his voice as emotionless as a bottomless well, “You disappeared as soon as you returned.
Did you go to see your student because of the script that collapsed again?”
At these words, the smile on Hong Rao’s face instantly dropped, her alluring and striking face now carrying a trace of coldness.
“I know you’re always suspicious, but it would be better if you didn’t project your disgusting habits onto me,” Hong Rao spoke indifferently.
“If you’re worried about your missing high-level script, you might as well search for problems in the world itself rather than blaming others.”
“There have been many scripts collapsing recently.”
Facing Hong Rao’s scorn and mockery, Helian Mian remained emotionally unaffected, continuing on his own accord, “And the activity in the Abyss has also been abnormally high.”
Hong Rao grew impatient, “And then?”
“I’ve calculated the timeline, and it seems all these events started after you took in that student,” Helian Mian said earnestly.
“I think it’s necessary to investigate him.”
“Is that so?
Just that?
Is this slight connection enough for your speculation?”
“Your world was not troubled before, yet it has also been eroded by the Abyss lately.
This anomaly is quite evident.”
“…”
Upon hearing about her own world, the previously dismissive expression on Hong Rao’s face changed.
But soon enough, Hong Rao realized something.
This man was trying to gauge her reaction.
She looked at him sharply, her tone turning ice-cold, “Helian, I’ve told you, I hope you can restrain that disgusting habit of yours and not use it on your own companions.”
With those words, Hong Rao did not continue to quibble with him and turned to enter the grand hall behind the courtyard.
It was impossible to have a normal conversation with this person.
You say one thing, and he’ll imagine ten more.
So the best thing to do is to just keep quiet.
Helian Mian watched her disappearing figure at the doorway with a calm façade, then after a while, turned his gaze toward the entrance of the courtyard.
The Light Gate at the entrance fluctuated once more.
Following that, a man with a gentle smile and a peaceful demeanor emerged from it.
He looked toward the grand hall, then turned his gaze to Helian Mian, still seated in the pavilion.
“Why do I arrive to see you quarreling with Hong Rao again?
Her world has just been through an incident, she’s in a terrible mood, and yet you still provoke her,” Mo Nuo said helplessly.
“I was just analytically discussing with her the anomalies in the Script Space recently.
Obviously, she isn’t inclined to tell us the truth,” Helian Mian said.
“Are you suspecting her new student?”
Mo Nuo stroked his chin, “Then aren’t you just deliberately running into the line of her fire?
She’s been worrying about her student and took great effort to find a satisfactory one.
Naturally, she’d cherish him.
Last time Sikong wanted to see her student but was firmly kept out by her.
And now you’re thinking of laying hands on her student?”
Helian Mian voiced his doubts, “Is it necessary?”
“You can’t think that way.”
Mo Nuo earnestly tried to mediate team relationships, “Everyone has different things they care about.
You think a student can easily be replaced, but think about it, she’s lost over a dozen students already!
Over a dozen!”
“So why does she still care so much?” Helian Mian held to his opinion, “She should be used to it by now, shouldn’t she?”
“Are you also used to spies walking around Area Thirteen every day?” Mo Nuo blinked and said.
“…”
As his words fell, the atmosphere in the pavilion became silent, the chill and killing intent emanating from the Capital Commandant intensifying.
Mo Nuo patted his shoulder with a laugh, “Well, that’s how things are.
You could suspect anyone, so why insist on suspecting the student that she barely managed to take in?”
“Because I’ve followed the timeline and investigated,” Helian Mian said gravely.
“Around the time Hong Rao took in that student, the Script Space began to experience frequent anomalies.”
Mo Nuo was unconcerned, “Maybe it’s just a coincidence, after all, that was the season for newcomers, and a batch of new players had entered Script Space.
I guess it was then that the Abyss found a loophole to exploit.”
“But don’t you think her behavior has been strange during this period?”
Helian Mian continued, “Before when there were new students, she would immediately tell us, so why is she hiding it this time?
And she has shown strange behavior several times, even avoiding us when returning a message.
Isn’t it just because there’s something wrong with this new student?”
Mo Nuo persisted patiently in arguing, “She isn’t really hiding it.
If she truly were, she wouldn’t have put the student into the ‘Free Night’ script.”
“Speaking of the ‘Free Night’ script, the actions of her student inside it are also very illogical, and to this date, she hasn’t let any of us meet her student face to face.”
“Is it possible that she’s reluctant to let you meet because you seemed ready to make a move on her student?”
“…”
“You’re not suspecting that her student messed up ‘Five-star Hotel,’ are you?” Mo Nuo said, looking at him in surprise.
Though Helian Mian remained expressionless as if carved from stone, Mo Nuo could read serious implication in his demeanor.
He twitched the corner of his mouth and said, “Helian, that’s too much, really too much.”
You’re already a level six player, why bother being so petty about a new student who just entered the scripts.
Besides, at that time, Hong Rao’s student was only level one, right?
They couldn’t even enter a Second Level Script.
So the conclusion is—you’re making a mountain out of a molehill!
As if struck by a thought, Helian Mian glanced at him, and said indifferently, “But Themis also said there was something off about that person.”
As soon as he finished speaking, Mo Nuo’s gaze shifted almost imperceptibly.
He asked curiously, “Themis mentioned it too?
What did he say was the problem?”
Helian Mian: “He said he doesn’t know yet.”
Mo Nuo: “…” Then you’re still making a mountain out of a molehill.
After going back and forth with each other for a while, Helian Mian seemed to feel that such a conversation was meaningless, and suddenly stood up to leave.
“Where are you going?” Mo Nuo asked.
“To the Star Guild to take a look.”
Helian Mian’s voice lingered in the air.
He was always decisive in his actions, disappearing into the Light Gate in the blink of an eye.
The courtyard quieted down again.
Sitting in the pavilion, Mo Nuo was lazily tapping on the table with his fingers, when suddenly, Hong Rao’s student’s personal player panel unfolded in front of him.
Name: Xu Shuo.
Level: Two.
After glancing at the level tab, Mo Nuo opened the ‘Performed Scripts’ list to have a look.
The results came one after another.
Most were those ordinary scripts.
Even after coming out from the team endeavor of ‘Free Night,’ this person had only taken on the ‘Explosive Amusement Park’ script and had no other new works.
Though the rest times seemed to align, it was indeed a bit odd.
Especially considering Hong Rao’s behavior during this period, she seemed to value this student highly.
So why would she let them slack off?
Mo Nuo stroked his chin thoughtfully for a while.
Then, he lifted a finger.
His fair finger pressed on the personal panel, releasing a trace of golden-red light.
Next, he waved his hand to the side.
Another system interface flew out from the personal panel in an instant, displaying the skills the player currently possessed.
Mo Nuo glanced over it.
His eyes widened instantly!
“Damn it!”
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