My lord, spare his life!

This title now belongs to the men in the carriage.

But it soon belonged to Zhang Yang.

She closed one eye, while the other searched through the gap in the bamboo curtain of the carriage window for the letter appointing her as the Prefect of Tianyue. Inside the carriage, the man held a book in one hand, appearing like a virtuous gentleman, while his other hand slipped under the woman's skirt.

Calling her a woman wouldn't be accurate; she looked to be under twenty. Unperturbed by the man, she rhythmically massaged his shoulders with both hands. Besides them, there was also a maidservant refilling tea in the carriage.

Little did they know, Fan You's pupils had already been trembling.

Puyang Kui asked him, "What did you see?"

Fan You: "..."

Could he say that he saw the lord's transparent figure with his bones twisting, shrinking, and folding, eventually turning into a flat, bamboo-like thing that flowed in like water through the gaps in the bamboo curtain?

Which star is the Lord's?

Meanwhile, Zhang Yang cautiously slipped into the carriage.

Even with the spaciousness of the carriage, it felt a bit cramped to fit four people in. Zhang Yang squeezed in, his body as light as a goose feather, without even the soft cushions under his feet getting sunken or deformed.

The other three people in the carriage were completely unaware.

Zhang Yang scanned the area but didn't see the [Letter of Appointment as Prefect of Tianyue County]. He wondered if it was on the NPC or in their luggage. He tried using [Steal] to see if he could take the item. He tried twice, but failed.

[My skills are still not very proficient; the success rate is too low.]

"Stealing" is a thieving skill that every player can learn, with ten levels from low to high. The higher the level, the higher the success rate of the theft. The most basic "Stealing" has only a 1% success rate, and there is also a significant chance of alerting the target NPC. As an NPC, Zhang Yang naturally couldn't learn it instantly like a player by simply finding an NPC; she put in real effort.

Learning skills is difficult, and leveling up skill proficiency is even more difficult. Therefore, after many years, the skill "Stealing Sheep" is still only at level three.

The success rate is pitifully low.

She used the phrase "taking advantage of someone's opportunity" seven or eight times in a row.

Several system logs also popped up to indicate this.

Congratulations on winning a men's waist pack.

Unfortunately, the attempt to "steal" failed.

Unfortunately, the attempt to "steal" failed.

Congratulations on obtaining "a starched and washed trousers".

Congratulations on obtaining "Mr. Ivory Horn".

Unfortunately, the attempt to "steal" failed.

Zhang Yang stuffed all sorts of random things into her game inventory, but she didn't have the [Letter of Appointment as Prefect of Tianyue] that could give her the title. Zhang Yang's little patience ran out.

Somewhat troubled, he turned his gaze back to the three of them.

【No, no!】

She reflected: "I can't dwell on this; it's too inhuman."

The observation samples will not be troubled.

Based on Zhang Yang's sixteen years of secret observation of the subjects, they have an extremely strong sense of entitlement! In layman's terms, anything they have their eye on should belong to them, even if it doesn't belong to them now, it will in the future; they love to force things on others.

Forced melons are never sweet, but they certainly quench thirst.

The observed subjects would infiltrate and assassinate a base leader because a pendant would drop; they would arrest an old lady because they could get an achievement by riding her across the street; and they would kick down the door of an NPC's house to visit it because the interior design was nice...

That's what real humans are like.

Never restrained, they can fight whoever they don't like, take what they want, and if they can't get it, they can just steal it...

If a true player is eyeing the [Letter of Appointment as Prefect of Tianyue County], their first choice is to use force to kill all the red-named NPCs and loot the drops from their corpses. Their second choice is to take a roundabout approach and steal it if possible.

Zhang Yang silently recited the ironclad rule etched into his bones.

At the same time, she set her sights on men.

The appointment letter for the governor of Tianyue County was mostly on him.

Zhang Yang's gaze shifted upwards, quite pleased that the name above the man's head was Huang Ming—Huang Ming meant she could launch an attack without any preparation. For some reason, the man, who had been enjoying the service of his two maids, suddenly put down the book in his hand and called out for someone.

"Is there any unusual activity outside?"

A response came from outside the carriage: "Everything is as usual."

Upon hearing this, the man finally felt relieved.

That extremely faint palpitation he felt just now must have been his imagination.

The man continued to look down at his book, but couldn't concentrate on a single word.

Disturbed and confused, he tossed the expensive book aside, grabbed the nearest maid's arm, pulled her into his arms with a little force, and teased her by the ear.

Before long, the teasing and joking had gone from two people to three.

Zhang Yang: "???"

Game designers, there's a bug here!

Overwhelmed by shock, Zhang Yang hesitated, his mind racing. As everyone knows, this wasn't a free-to-play game for adults over thirty; anything in the adult channels was strictly prohibited. Players were forbidden from touching each other's body parts, and players couldn't touch certain parts of NPCs' bodies either; NPCs also couldn't touch each other.

Even if the plot requires this kind of portrayal, it's been heavily pixelated in high definition, so you can't see a single thing.

She said something was wrong!

This male NPC is brazenly touching the female NPC's thigh, and these three are even exchanging saliva mouth-to-mouth? Zhang Yang felt her brain was going blank. Her pupils contracted as she watched the man's right hand slip inside the maid's clothes.

Where's the mosaic?

Where is that black and white mosaic?

Zhang Yang blinked rapidly, unable to see the high-definition mosaic.

She was certain she wasn't hallucinating!

Either the game had a bug that removed the minor censorship protection for Zhang Yang's side, or the game was breaking the law by secretly adding adult elements to the home side quests! Thinking this, she suddenly realized!

No wonder so many observation samples returned after the Home branch went online, with the peak number of online users once exceeding 300 million!

So it's because the Homestead side quests have added these mundane features?

No wonder the observed samples were so happy in their home environment that they didn't want to leave.

No wonder...

All the mysteries have been solved!

Zhang Yang figured it out.

Now it's time to get down to business.

Zhang Yang hesitated for a second between "defeating the NPC to obtain the [Letter of Appointment as Prefect of Tianyue County]" and "waiting a bit longer to see what's behind the mosaic," and then decisively chose the former.

The man, who was indulging in the beauty, felt a sudden pang of fear, this time many times stronger than before. Simultaneously, an overwhelming sense of crisis assaulted his senses. He instinctively cried out for help, but a chill ran down his neck. His vision went limp, falling onto the soft cushions. Out of the corner of his eye, he vaguely caught sight of two beautiful women's heads folded back strangely, pressed tightly against his back.

A transparent, flowing figure squatted beside him.

A light yet indifferent female voice drifted into my ears.

[Oh dear, the title item is indeed on him.]

Besides that sound, the man vaguely heard a cacophony of noises outside the carriage, but even more so, a heavy, soul-weary sound. The colossal beast lurking in the darkness opened its blood-red maw and devoured him completely, leaving him unconscious.