VAP - Chapter 10
Chapter 10: The Sleeping Beauty Whose Words Are Law (9)
It was evening when they arrived. A setting sun, red as blood, hung lazily above the horizon.
While the other passengers disembarked to claim their checked luggage, Qi Jiu, carrying only a small bag, made her way unencumbered toward the airport exit.
Yue Du had already booked a hotel near Z University. It was about a ten-minute walk to the edge of campus, making it the most convenient location for getting close to Professor Xing.
Unexpectedly, Qi Jiu didn't immediately call a taxi to the hotel. Instead, she began to walk along at a leisurely pace by herself.
"...You're not planning to go to the hotel and sleep?" Yue Du asked, finding it rather hard to believe.
Qi Jiu replied lazily, "What, in your eyes, do you just see me as someone who's sleeping all the time?"
Yue Du: "..." Aren't you?
Qi Jiu shook her head and sighed with a laugh. "Sleeping is comfortable, of course, but I'm not opposed to the occasional stroll. Walking like this in the evening breeze... it's quite pleasant, isn't it?"
Yue Du was speechless.
Ignoring her host, who was enjoying a pleasant stroll for the time being, Yue Du accessed Z University's internal system and began to modify the student roster and various records.
Now that Qi Jiu was in S City, the mission's prerequisite had been met. The next step was for Yue Du to figure out the arrangements.
For a System, the virtual world of data was like a private backyard they could enter and exit at will, holding no secrets. Moreover, this world's technological level wasn't particularly high; a typical university firewall could be breached as easily as an anthill.
Yue Du commanded the data like a general directing the most obedient soldiers, moving it with the ease of her own limbs.
While she was busy, Qi Jiu strolled along the street. The afterglow of the sunset scattered across her long, wavy hair, creating a serene and beautiful scene.
Suddenly, she spoke softly, "If you Systems fail to complete a mission, do you get punished?"
"No, we just don't get the point reward." Yue Du multitasked, answering while continuing her work. "Oh, and it probably affects our system rating... but you can't really call that a punishment. After all, the rating is basically useless. At most, it just makes you look a bit more high-level."
As she said this, a sense of crisis suddenly welled up in Yue Du's heart: This young lady isn't thinking of giving up, is she?!
Qi Jiu hummed thoughtfully. Then, as if sensing Yue Du's unease, she smiled. "What are you thinking? That I'm planning to give up on the mission?"
Yue Du immediately replied in a deadpan voice, "You're overthinking it."
As if she could read Yue Du's true thoughts like an open book, Qi Jiu gave a casual smile. She twirled a lock of hair around her finger and said, "Since I've agreed, I'll definitely see it through. Do I look like the kind of person who would break a promise?"
Yue Du replied perfunctorily, "Not at all, not at all. Young Miss Qi's promise is worth a thousand pieces of gold. Young Miss Qi is a woman of her word."
Qi Jiu sighed. "Sigh, that sounds so perfunctory. You definitely still don't believe me."
Yue Du said with utmost sincerity, completely devoid of her previous perfunctory tone, "I believe you!"
...All while diligently continuing to modify the data.
Believing her was one thing, but making her own preparations was another matter entirely, right?
When the data had been successfully modified, the notification sound for mission completion didn't play.
As expected, that method didn't work.
Undiscouraged, Yue Du restored the data to its original state to prevent anyone from noticing the discrepancy later and causing trouble.
Next up was the second plan: have Qi Jiu audit Professor Xing's physics class.
"Professor Xing is teaching next Wednesday at eight in the morning. There will be eighty registered students and a number of auditors." Yue Du paused, then said seriously, "But according to posts on the Z University student forum, if you want to audit his class, you have to get to the classroom forty minutes early to save a seat. Otherwise, you'll have to wait for the next one."
Qi Jiu stopped walking. She frowned. "Seven-twenty?"
Even though she knew Qi Jiu couldn't see her, Yue Du still nodded gravely. "Yes."
There was no helping it.
As the protagonist of this world, Xing Qingcang was handsome, proud, and exceptionally talented. He was Z University's youngest professor and was admired by countless female students.
Want to register for his class? Your clicking speed had to be faster than ninety-nine percent of the student body.
Want to audit his class? Don't even dream about it if you weren't willing to wake up early.
But for Qi Jiu, this was simply a joke.
"There's no way I'm getting up that early just to listen to his class," Qi Jiu refused flatly.
Yue Du said helplessly, "But it's for the mission."
"But that's completely useless, isn't it? There's no way the system will recognize me as his student just for auditing a single class," Qi Jiu said coolly.
Yue Du tried to persuade her, "But we have to at least try. What if it works?"
Qi Jiu was set on not waking up early. "You must have other plans, right? Try those first."
Yue Du: "..."
After a moment's consideration, Yue Du compromised. "Fine."
Then she quickly added, "But if those don't work either, you absolutely have to go to the lecture."
Qi Jiu let out a deep sigh.
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