I really don't want to date a girl addicted to the internet!

"Where are you going?"

The girl stared at him and said, slowly and deliberately, "Make equipment."

"what?"

"Has Cheng Feiyu lost his memory again? He promised to finish making me the top-tier equipment before the summer vacation ends." Shen Xi stared at him, her tone low and gloomy.

"Yes, Your Highness." The boy smacked his lips and stood up.

Soon, under Loki's puzzled yet accustomed gaze, Nagasaki Asuna regained consciousness, and the three of them left the attic together.

……

On the fifth floor of the corridor, the world is shrouded in ice and snow.

Apart from Ye Shuang and Lin Xuanqi, the entire Corridor Research Department, now online, trekked through the snow.

A petite girl, completely clad in an orange combat suit, followed beside the boy, blinking her round eyes as she looked at him. "Cheng Fei, Cheng Fei, Lin Xuanqi didn't notice anything at the hot spring hotel that day, right?"

"No." The boy shook his head.

"That's good. I thought I had caused you to be exposed." Zhou Han patted her chest, feeling relieved.

"It has nothing to do with you. If we're really talking about it, the person who almost exposed me that day was someone else." Cheng Fei glanced sideways.

As soon as he finished speaking, he received a piercing stare from not far away, a stare several times colder than the air on the fifth floor.

The boy shuddered and quickly looked away.

Zhou Han thought for a moment, but still didn't comment on what happened that day. Her eyes darted around, and her gaze became unfocused. "Speaking of which, don't misunderstand about me asking you to go to the hot springs that day. I was just drunk and talking nonsense. I can't hold my liquor very well."

"I didn't misunderstand, I can tell." The boy continued to shake his head.

"Okay, that's good." Zhou Han smiled and her steps became lighter.

Ruan Jingyi glanced at her best friend without saying a word.

Just then, Miriam, who had been chatting with Nagasaki Asuna about something, suddenly turned around, inexplicably excited, "Junior! Miss Nagasaki said your robot is finished, is that true?"

"That's true." Cheng Fei nodded.

"How about you take me to see it sometime?!" The blonde girl became even more excited, blinking at him frantically to send him signals.

Although he couldn't decipher what she was trying to say, Cheng Fei nodded anyway, "No problem, if you want to."

As soon as he finished speaking, a faint, cold laugh came from the side, emanating an increasingly chilling aura.

The boy shivered again and turned his head. "Teacher Shen, if you want to chat with me, you can just come over?"

Shen Xi walked beside him, holding her staff, her face indifferent and avoiding his gaze, maintaining a distance. "Sorry, I don't like dealing with people who are too popular."

Upon hearing this, Zhou Han suddenly snapped to attention, her eyes glazed over, and she quickly distanced herself from the boy.

"Teacher Shen, why are you so gloomy now?" Cheng Fei moved slightly closer to Shen Xi.

"Get to the bottom of this; I've always been like this." The girl chuckled and tossed her hair.

"That's true, you're the kind of introverted kid." The boy shook his head and sighed.

"Stop talking nonsense, I have a question for you." Shen Xi glared at him, then looked thoughtful.

"please say."

"You've been inside the large portal on the second level, haven't you?" The girl raised her chin.

Cheng Fei recalled, "That's true, after all, it's the final boss area in the Great Portal raid."

"Did you see any upright glass tubes inside, filled with colorful special crystals?" the girl asked, staring at him.

"I think so? There's a whole circle of them around the BOSS area, it looks pretty cool." The boy nodded.

"Go get a few pieces." The girl said without hesitation.

"Huh?" Cheng Fei was stunned.

"I'll ask you to get a few of those rainbow crystals." The girl's tone remained unchanged.

"Okay." Cheng Fei nodded decisively.

"Ideally within three days." The girl glanced at him, seemingly somewhat satisfied with his attitude.

The boy rubbed his chin. "I didn't expect Teacher Shen to be able to joke around sometimes?"

"I'm not kidding. You have three days to get those things back." The girl frowned slightly.

The boy hesitated, then asked, "After clearing the second level, I can't get back into that area. Where am I supposed to get it?"

"It's very simple, it's inside the large portal on each level of the corridor."

"I see. So, all I have to do is find a large portal that I haven't cleared yet and storm in, right?"

"Cheng Feiyu has some comprehension ability. If you understand, then carry it out as soon as possible." The girl nodded slightly.

There was a moment of silence between them.

The boy sighed and looked at the earnest little face. "Little cutie, at least explain from the beginning? What good thing are you planning now?"

“Just obeying orders is enough, why do you have to ask for reasons? Cheng Feiyu is such a troublesome person.” The girl said with disdain, then paused, “Listen carefully, I received a signal from our home planet this afternoon.”

"Huh?" The boy hesitated. "Other Protoss? You really called in the fleet?"

"Heh, is Cheng Feiyu scared?" Shen Xi glanced at him with a gloating look, then returned to her expressionless face. "Unfortunately, he only received a guiding element for the jump, which can only help us teleport there."

"So you've been to the Protoss homeworld? Are you still Shen Xi?" The boy was shocked, looking her up and down. "No wonder the way you glared at me today seemed fiercer than usual."

“I’m glaring at you because it’s your own fault for going out and fooling around. It’s only to jump to the home planet that I need you to collect materials.” The girl glared at him again as she spoke. “The teleportation function of the research station is malfunctioning. We can’t initiate long-distance jumps. We can only dismantle things and repair them by using the large teleportation portal in the corridor.”

"I see." The boy breathed a sigh of relief, his tone becoming more relaxed. "But it's such a shame that we can't get that rainbow crystal now. Sigh."

"So let's add another task to the previous one: help me obtain a unique, limited-edition weapon while collecting enough rainbow crystals," the girl said immediately.

"How do you still remember that topic?" The boy was surprised, then stroked his chin with a serious expression. "Little cutie, listen to me. Although it's true that the signal might have come from your home planet, the Protoss have all been destroyed. If there were still people alive, why wouldn't they come to rescue you, the Protoss Queen? So it might be a trap set by the enemy to lure you into walking into their trap."

Shen Xi narrowed her eyes, her sharp gaze seemingly seeing right through him. She then kicked him and sneered, "Cheng Feiyu, you hopeless idiot. Don't think I can't see through you. All you're saying is that you're worried I'll turn into someone else after I leave? Your insecurity and fear of losing me is so endearing."

"Teacher Shen, who's talking nonsense right now?" The boy met her gaze, looking shocked. "I'm just being cautious. Besides, what if you really find the fleet and impulsively decide to put me on trial? Do you think I'm as naive as you?"

"It's hard to say who's being childish and refusing to admit it," Shen Xi sneered.

Just as the two were getting into an unexpected argument, Nagasaki Asuna, who was on guard duty, turned around and said, "Um, isn't that the BOSS we're looking for up ahead?"

854. Shen Xi obtained her fifth-tier magic staff.

……

On the rugged snow slope, the towering mechanical nine-tailed fox transformed into a whistling afterimage as it chased after the boy ahead.

"Junior!" Miriam, wearing a heavy bomb suit, rushed into the battlefield, panting, and pulled the trigger on the BOSS with a plasma bomb gun.

The sensors on the mechanical nine-tailed fox's head flashed red, and its nine tails twisted in mid-air, abruptly interrupting its forward lunge. It then jumped back to avoid the incoming plasma ball and pounced on Miriam instead.

A deafening afterimage instantly enveloped the blonde girl, her sharp forepaws, made of a special material, lashed out, a flash of cold light.

Miriam was sent flying like a screaming tin can, crashing heavily onto the snow slope and rolling several times before coming to a stop. "Ugh! Miss Nagasaki, I can't go on! Help... wait, I'm alright?!"

Because the equipment was too heavy and made it difficult for her to move, she finally managed to get up. She touched the spot on her chest where the claws had attacked her and found that she was unharmed except for a small mark. She was overjoyed.

"Hmph, it seems you're nothing special after all. Take this!" She picked up her explosive gun and fired repeatedly at the BOSS who was right in front of her.

The mechanical nine-tailed fox's head sensors flashed faster, and it ran around her on all fours, leaving a series of explosions behind. When the blonde girl emptied her magazine, it braked sharply and stopped in place, its nine strangely shaped mechanical tails pointing forward at her.

"What are you going to do?! You..."

Miriam, who was hurriedly changing magazines, looked bewildered and hadn't even reacted when she was engulfed by the eerie blue flames spewed from the BOSS's tail.

The flames adhered to whatever they touched, burning silently and continuously.

"Miss Nagasaki! Help!" The blonde girl screamed in agony, looking like a tin can being roasted over charcoal.

The BOSS tucked its tail, its slender body suddenly spun around and exerted force, its sharp front claws flashing past, sending Miriam flying again.

This time, three cuts were made into the sturdy armor on the blonde girl's chest, and crimson liquid splattered out.

As the mechanical nine-tailed fox aimed at the flying blonde girl and lunged forward, a sharp bullet accurately struck its head sensor, piercing its outer shell before exploding. The deafening gunshot rang out a beat later, creating visible ripples on the snow. The mechanical nine-tailed fox staggered slightly.

In the distance, Zhou Han clapped his hands excitedly, "Ruan Jingyi, you hit it!"

The quiet girl lying on the snow glanced through the sniper rifle scope and said nothing.

Cheng Fei, who had been forced to retreat earlier, ran towards the BOSS, shouting, "Teacher Shen!"

A crimson beam of light, as thick as a washbasin, surged from a certain direction, washing over the sluggish mechanical nine-tailed fox and turning everything it touched red-hot and melting.

Once the light stream faded, the lightning-fast boy rushed forward, and the dimensional separator severed the dense cables exposed deep within the BOSS's torso.

The mechanical nine-tailed fox struggled to leap up again, its body emitting a roar of overload, before finally collapsing slowly, its indicator lights going out.

Everyone on the battlefield breathed a sigh of relief.

"Miss Nagasaki! Miss Nagasaki! Miss Nagasaki, save me!" Miriam screamed and rolled on the ground.

The eerie blue flames on the blonde girl's body continued to burn, refusing to go out no matter how much she rolled around.

Nagasaki Asuna tilted her head slightly, looking puzzled, and aimed her healing staff at her again, shooting out a green light. "Um, I've already healed you, but the fire seems to be stuck?"

Miriam lay on the ground, tears welling in her eyes, her face filled with despair. "What am I going to do? Am I doomed?"

"Senior, the Nine-Tailed Fox's fire itself doesn't do any damage; it only reduces physical resistance. It'll be gone after a while," Cheng Fei said casually as he passed by, heading towards the BOSS's remains to dismantle the materials.

Miriam examined her body, first shocked, then moved, "Huh? Eh? It's really true? Junior!"

Shen Xi, holding her staff, followed the boy expressionlessly, observing his work.

Zhou Han also came over, patting her chest with lingering fear, "This BOSS is fragile, but it's incredibly fast. Only Cheng Fei could keep up with it."

She was on guard duty and observed the entire fight from the sidelines.

Cheng Fei disassembled the materials from the mechanical nine-tailed fox's front paws and tail, examined them in his hand, and nodded in satisfaction, "Now we have the final materials."

……

The group successfully returned after the battle and were transported to another world.

In the pitch-black slit dimension, beneath the withered World Tree, a teardrop-shaped airship rests silently beside the Protoss research station.

In the cockpit of the Miriam, under everyone's watchful eyes, Cheng Fei opened the game interface at the map table, found the pre-ordered fifth-tier staff, and used the large amount of rare materials he had collected over this period to craft it.

A progress bar that was slowly increasing appeared.

Zhou Han rested her chin on her hands as she watched this scene, blinking her round eyes. "Speaking of which, why is there a game interface here even though we're not in the corridor area?"

Isena's projection stood beside her, hiding her white umbrella behind her back. "Because I recently found a way to relay the data stream from the corridor to the research station, I'll be able to use some of the game's features here from now on."

"You can do that? Xiao Yi is amazing." Zhou Han said in surprise, and patted her head.

"Hehe, after all, I'm high-performance, so you can praise me a little more." The girl in the blue and white sailor uniform squinted her eyes and puffed out her flat chest, looking quite pleased.

"So cute, so cute." Zhou Han smiled and continued to pat her head.

Leaving aside their little interaction, soon the crafting progress bar in front of Cheng Fei reached its end. The boy found the newly acquired staff in the warehouse and sent it to Shen Xi, saying, "Little cutie, it's yours."

"Thank you." The aloof girl accepted the gift expressionlessly, then took out an item, a staff with a faint blue luster appearing in her hand.

"This is the legendary Tier 5 equipment?!" Miriam stared at the staff, her eyes gleaming.

Shen Xi opened the item description.

"Voidfire Staff: Uses modulated phantom energy pulses to simulate voidfire burning the target, continuously weakening electromagnetic forces and making the target's physical structure vulnerable."

"Wow, although I don't quite understand its specific function, it seems really amazing!" Zhou Han exclaimed.

"To put it bluntly, it weakens physical resistance, but it's ineffective against shields and the like." Cheng Fei rubbed his chin. "In actual combat, if Teacher Shen uses this on an important target, everyone's damage will be..."

As soon as she finished speaking, the aloof girl waved her staff, sending out a ball of eerie blue flame that adhered to the boy's body, causing half of his body to burst into flames.

"Cheng Fei?!" Nagasaki Asuna exclaimed, covering her mouth in surprise, and quickly began to treat him.

Unsurprisingly, nothing changed; the boy was still being scorched by the eerie blue flames.

Cheng Fei remained motionless, turning his head expressionlessly. "Teacher Shen, may I ask what this means?"

"It's just a test, it doesn't cause any harm anyway." Shen Xi glanced at him, her lips twitched slightly, and she subtly turned her face away.