Chapter 102: A Matter of Size and Feel

"Boobs?" Hu Jiayao froze midstep at the words, then lowered his head almost involuntarily to glance at what he was holding in his arms. He straightened his neck and said, "This is clearly a butt!"

Huang Yan shook his head and argued reasonably, "But this size... doesn't seem right, does it?"

Standing nearby, Guo Xiaofu, the youngest of them, could not bear listening any longer and interjected helplessly, "Isn't that not the point right now..."

Huang Yan thought about it, nodded, and asked, "Where'd this thing come from?"

Hu Jiayao was already carrying that pile of pink little puffs toward the living room. He bent down and laid them out one by one on the coffee table. "Where else? The G-Spot."

Wen Nan looked to Gu Jinxing with a questioning gaze, and Gu Jinxing explained, "There were exactly six, so I brought them back."

Wen Nan nodded. "All right."

No sooner had he spoken than Huang Yan had already rushed to the coffee table. He picked the softest, most springy-looking pink one, held it in his hands, and kneaded it hard. "Just like it! It's so much like it! The feel is even more convincing!"

Hu Jiayao also pinched one in his hand. "Not just like it. It's practically identical!"

Wen Nan stepped forward, picked up one as though weighing a watermelon, and gave it a few turns in his hand before shaking his head. "Not quite. This one still isn't soft enough, and it feels very plasticky when you squeeze it."

At Wen Nan's words, Huang Yan and Hu Jiayao immediately smiled in embarrassed agreement, unwilling to reveal that they had zero experience in this area. Like a pair of dutiful echo machines, they hastily chimed in:

"Yes, it really isn't soft enough."

"Right, it does feel very plasticky when you squeeze it."

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Above them, the settlement countdown began to flash a searing crimson.

Wen Nan let the teasing look fade from his face and instructed the members present, "Each of you take one."

The members came forward one after another, each taking a soft pink lump into their hands.

At that moment, the crimson countdown vanished from the floating screen overhead, replaced by the familiar settlement interface.

[Main quest settlement now commencing]

[All players, please stand by]

As with the settlement in the trial map before, a row of prompt text appeared quickly on the screen.

[Please have Player Huang Yan confirm identity]

The blond man held a pink lump in one hand and raised the other to press the confirmation button.

The next instant, a beam of laser light dropped from the screen and scanned the thing in his hand carefully. Then a line of text appeared on the screen:

[Detected G-spot bonus item. Confirmation complete!]

Immediately after, the settlement panel displayed:

[Player Huang Yan, your main quest settlement is as follows:

Completion status: Completed;
Task score: 60 points;
Task rating: Average;
Additional reward: None;
Chosen target: None (soul puppet transferred);
Target affection level: N/A;
Livestream popularity settlement: 28,693 gold coins;
Livestream betting settlement: 21,337 gold coins;
Livestream tips settlement: 1,000 gold coins;
Account balance: 0 gold coins (all transferred to the Sure Win Guild account).]

As expected, once the soul puppet of the character he was pursuing had been transferred away, Huang Yan's task score settled right on the passing line.

What surprised Wen Nan, however, was that Huang Yan's livestream popularity was actually very high.

A single task had earned more than fifty thousand gold coins, all of which had been transferred into the guild's communal account. Among all the task settlements Wen Nan had seen so far, this was the highest livestream popularity, aside from his own.

Still, on reflection, it made sense.

Though the blond looked unreliable, he had advanced to Level 4 on the strength of a single trial map alone. In truth, that was talent of a rare sort among newcomers, and it was only natural that he would have gathered a stable audience of his own in the livestream room.

As Wen Nan was thinking this, the floating screen above them changed to the next prompt.

[Please have Player Yang Mingzhong confirm identity]

At the somewhat unfamiliar name, everyone in the room simultaneously turned to look at the man by the wall.

He was the fifth member recruited by the Sure Win Guild.

What set this member apart most from the others was his age: he looked to be around fifty.

The man wore a plain gray cotton shirt, paired with light brown casual trousers and black leather shoes. His hairline had receded so far that there was almost nothing visible from the front, and he wore a pair of glasses so large they nearly covered half his face. The frames were an old-fashioned tortoiseshell brown.

With that appearance, together with the air he carried about him, one got the distinct impression that if he were handed a lesson plan, he could step straight up to the lectern in a university classroom and teach an open lecture on the spot.

When Wen Nan first saw him at this respawn point, he had been quite surprised. A romance strategy game, and it had drawn in men of this age group?

This uncle really was a vigorous old hand.

But that was only what Wen Nan thought to himself. In reality, the total number of words exchanged between him and this member did not even reach three sentences.

It was not just Wen Nan; the other members rarely spoke with him either.

Perhaps the age gap was too large, creating a generation divide. He diligently cleared maps, then silently placed every piece of gear he picked up into the Sure Win Guild's equipment vault, repeating the same routine day after day.

He had also been added to the guild chat group, but he never spoke there. In fact, he hardly ever spoke at all, even in real life.

At this moment, under everyone's gaze, Yang Mingzhong stood directly beneath the settlement screen, a soft pink lump pinched in his fingers.

As before, once the system successfully confirmed the [G-spot bonus item] in his hand, his settlement results appeared on the screen:

[Player Yang Mingzhong, your main quest settlement is as follows:

Completion status: Completed;
Task score: 60 points;
Task rating: Average;
Additional reward: Portable storage ring (one);
Chosen target: None (soul puppet transferred);
Target affection level: N/A;
Livestream popularity settlement: 313 gold coins;
Livestream betting settlement: 362 gold coins;
Livestream tips settlement: 0 gold coins;
Account balance: 0 gold coins (all transferred to the Sure Win Guild account).]

Just like Huang Yan, because he had transferred the soul puppet of his chosen target, Yang Mingzhong's task score had also been held at the passing line.

And as a nearly silent middle-aged player, the popularity of his livestream room was pitifully low. By the end of the task, he had earned only a little over six hundred gold coins.

But...

He had also received an additional reward: a storage ring.

Wen Nan was not certain what the ring was for, but according to the contract, as a guild member, any property or equipment he obtained would automatically be transferred into the Sure Win public account.

Since this storage ring had not been transferred, that meant the system had judged it to be something like a backpack, an equipment slot, or a spare equipment slot, a player's own storage space rather than an item or piece of gear, and therefore it did not need to be handed in.

That was understandable enough.

As Wen Nan was thinking this, he saw Yang Mingzhong walk over to him, holding the portable storage ring between two fingers.

He extended the ring toward Wen Nan and said, "Guild leader, take it. You probably need this more than I do."

End of Chapter.