An infinite journey starting from paradise

Then, a wet and soft touch wrapped around his ear. Zhen Zhong Hehuan licked the blood that seeped out while stimulating the wound on Lin Shangren's earlobe.

The slippery tongue gave Lin Shangren a strange feeling. He felt something hot surging up from behind him.

"no!"

Lin Shangren broke free from Zhenzhong Hehuan's embrace, turned around and asked, "What do you want to do?!"

Manaka Hehuan smiled and said, "Nothing, I just want to talk to you."

Chapter 5 A Virtual But Real Kiss

"What do you want to talk about?"

In fact, compared to this question, what Lin Shangren wanted to ask more was: "What is your relationship with Tyson? You started to bite his ear right away. You are even more stupid than Tyson!"

"However, the feeling of being teased like this is not bad." Lin Shangren thought to himself.

"About this game." Manaka Hehuan looked at Lin Shangren with an ambiguous expression, "I originally thought Shangren-kun was an upright person, but I didn't expect you to be such a hidden 'gentleman'."

Lin Shangren did not argue. He was very curious about what this strange girl in front of him wanted to do.

Manaka Kazuhan continued, "Shang Renjun, you definitely don't want anyone to know about this, right? Especially in this situation, what will others think?"

"So? What do you want to say?"

"I can help you keep this secret, Shang Renjun. In exchange, can you agree to a few requests of mine? Three is fine, and they're not mandatory. How about it?"

Manaka Hehuan showed a mysterious smile, and it seemed that she thought she had Lin Shangren in her grasp.

"So, what's your response, Shang Renjun?"

Lin Shangren didn't answer directly, but instead asked, "I want to know, if you hadn't seen me investigating the squad leader's death, how would you have tried to coerce or persuade me to agree to your request?"

"this."

"?!"

Zhen Zhong He Huan suddenly hugged Lin Shang Ren, this time from the front. She stood on tiptoe, put her arms around Lin Shang Ren's neck, and moved her lips closer to his.

A refreshing fragrance drifted into Lin Shangren's nostrils, light and not too strong, but definitely impressive, like vanilla in a valley.

This is a fragrance that is completely different from the external temperament displayed by Zhen Zhonghehuan, but it makes Lin Shangren, who always prides himself on being calm and rational, feel his mind shaken.

"System, am I under mental influence again?"

[No external threat detected...]

"Well…"

At this moment, Zhen Zhong Hehuan's lips were already imprinted on Lin Shangren's mouth.

“Shut…shut up!”

Lin Shangren pushed Zhenzhong Hehuan away all of a sudden.

"Ah~ Is this your first kiss, Shangren-kun? You're so shy?"

Manaka Hehuan tilted her head slightly and narrowed her crimson eyes, like a kitten that had succeeded in a mischievous trick:

"It's my first kiss too. How about using a beautiful girl like me's first kiss in exchange for three trivial requests?"

"Well, it's not mandatory, right?"

Manaka Hehuan nodded.

"I'm curious, what exactly do you want to do, Manaka-san?

Calling me 'Shang Renjun' in a familiar way, teasing me, or just saying something that made me a target of public criticism...

What's the point of doing all this? Especially in this situation, in a game where you can die if you're not careful."

"Just think of me as the kind of annoying person who loves to cause trouble." Manaka Kazuhan said with a smile, "The kind of annoying person who is anxious for the world to be in chaos and just wants to have fun as he pleases..."

She paused, then continued, "Also, Shang Renjun, can you call me by my first name, 'He Huan'? This is my first request, is that okay?"

"Okay, Hehuan-san."

"Do not."

He Huan approached Lin Shangren and lightly touched his lips with his index finger: "It's 'He Huan', He, Huan."

"Okay, Hehuan."

"That's right."

Hehuan smiled with satisfaction.

“This has…”

"You want to ask, 'What's the point of this?'" He Huan interrupted Lin Shangren. "No, it's just what I want. I like it this way."

"Okay. Then, what about your other two requests? Tell them all at once." Lin Shangren said.

"Kiss me. Give me a serious kiss."

"what?"

Lin Shangren was stunned. What kind of magic trick is this girl selling?

"No? That first kiss just now was too casual and perfunctory. It doesn't count."

Manaka Hehuan placed his fingers on Lin Shangren's chest and started drawing circles and poking dots again.

"!"

Lin Shangren's expression suddenly froze, then he regained his composure in an instant.

"So, it's not a disadvantage for Shang Renjun to kiss me." Hehuan continued.

She raised her head and stared at Lin Shangren's eyes provocatively with her crimson eyes: "Anyway, you will do something more extreme to us later. It's just a kiss now, so it's nothing, right?"

"Okay. But are you sure you want to do this in this situation?"

Hayashi Naoto pointed at Ando Tomoko's "corpse".

"What does it matter? It's nothing important anyway. Besides, we just had a first kiss that didn't count, didn't we?"

As she spoke, Hehuan leaned her body against Lin Shangren, put her arms around his neck, and moved her face closer and closer.

"At times like this, shouldn't men take the initiative?"

Thinking of this, Lin Shangren hugged Hehuan's slender waist and supported her neck.

Feeling Hehuan's body temperature and the slight itch of her hair tickling his palms, Lin Shangren kissed Hehuan's lips.

Extraordinarily soft, gently exhaled warm breath, the faint fragrance of orchids... This is undoubtedly a beautiful kiss.

Hehuan's soft little tongue invaded Lin Shangren's mouth somewhat awkwardly. The slightly sweet saliva merged, and the soft little tongues intertwined and squirmed. The two of them just hugged and kissed almost instinctively.

Lin Shangren felt a heat rising from the base of his spine and rushing into his brain. An indescribable feeling erupted in his mind, as if all the violets in the world were blooming at once, and the sky was bursting with countless rainbows...

He felt a flicker deep in his pupils, his eyes gradually lost focus, and the white room he was in gradually became blurry.

Then, a person appeared in Lin Shangren's sight. She was standing not far away, watching Lin Shangren and Hehuan kissing.

Fan Qieye is Lin Shangren's so-called "childhood sweetheart".

The male protagonist kisses the girl who falls from the sky, and Qingmei looks on from a distance. This composition feels very "white school" just thinking about it. Combined with this pure white room, it makes people want to play the song "Unreachable Love".

However, Lin Shangren knew that there was definitely something fishy about this Fan Kariye. This scene was not so much about the childhood loser bumping into the male protagonist and the sudden white school moment, but rather that she had been monitoring Lin Shangren and Hehuan's private contact.

"Shangren..."

Fan Qiye stood there in a daze, making a sound that was filled with shock, grievance and sadness.

"you…"

However, Hehuan and Lin Shangren had no intention of stopping the kiss.

The two did not separate until the deep kiss ended.

"Hey, Hokari-san, you're here too?"

He Huan's frivolous attitude broke the seemingly awkward situation. She quickly wrapped her arms around Lin Shangren, gently rested her head on his shoulder, and smiled a smile that would attract anyone.

"That's the thing anyway."

"!!"

Fan Qiye suddenly turned around and ran away in the direction of the two of them.

"leaf!"

Lin Shangren pretended to be remorseful. Based on the character he had portrayed before, he should have reacted in this way and tried to win back his childhood sweetheart who had been misunderstood.

"No, you are not allowed to go."

Hehuan's voice wrapped around Lin Shangren's body like silk.

"You care about her a lot, don't you? Naoto-kun, you really like your childhood friend Hokari-san, right?"

"Why are you talking about this now?"

"Humph…"

Hehuan stared at Lin Shangren, his gaze heavy and unreserved.

"My second request has been decided. For the next game, you choose Fan Qiye," He Huan said coldly. "You like her, and she's interested in you, right? Why not break that thin membrane today?"

"Hey...wait, the second one?!"

"Yeah, I didn't say kissing was my second request~" He Huan said in a matter-of-fact tone, "Besides, weren't you also very proactive just now?"

"From the context just now, 'kiss you' is obviously the second request, right?"

"Can't I just answer the question that's not asked?"

Then, He Huan smiled mysteriously again:

"I'm looking forward to your next choice. I just want to see you being toyed with by my demands. And then struggling in distress and pain. Worry, be depressed. Let me see you like that forever."

"You have a terrible personality." Lin Shangren said.

He Huan narrowed his eyes leisurely: "Hee, I'm curious whether you will agree to this request. Will you choose your childhood sweetheart, or choose to protect her chastity and hurt others. I am looking forward to your choice."

After saying that, Hehuan shook off Lin Shangren's arm, turned around and left the room.

"Childhood sweethearts?"

Lin Shangren looked at the scar on his hand and fell into thought.

Following the conventions of the system-based novels he'd read in his previous life, Lin Shangren had assumed that the information about the people present that appeared in his mind was due to the legitimate identities assigned to him by the system. However, this didn't seem to be the case.

"System, has my memory been tampered with?" Lin Shangren asked in his heart.

[Unable to confirm... The system does not have permission to access the host's memory.]

[However, after the system is recharged, the host's consciousness will remain under the system's protection.]

"Recharging completed? What does this mean?" Lin Shangren immediately discovered the blind spot.

[Stopping the time in the original world and traveling to the new world both consume a lot of energy.

[Since this was the host's first time traveling through time, and there were no props like the World Anchor to assist, the system went dormant for a while after traveling through time due to insufficient energy.]

[During that time, the system was unable to protect the host's consciousness.]

"Ah?! No, why didn't you tell me such an important thing earlier?!" Lin Shangren asked a little annoyed.

You didn't ask me?

"..."

Lin Shangren was speechless. Why was his system so useless?

"So, how long have you been dormant?"

Three Ordinary Earth Days

"Three days..."

In other words, Lin Shangren stayed in this world alone for three days, but he had no memory of these three days.

"So, something must have happened during these three days to throw me into this virtual space. But I can't remember it at all now."

"Damn brain, I order you to remember it!!!"