Volume One: First Steps in the City Chapter Thirty-Two: The Fourth Night—Prelude

“Xinran, you scared me to death, you really scared me.” Lu Ningyu kept muttering as she hugged Li Xinran tightly.

Lu Yi looked at Lu Ningyu, speechless for a moment. There were no dangers at all, and an experienced veteran was nearby—what was there to be afraid of?

“All right, all right,” Li Xinran comforted Lu Ningyu repeatedly. At that moment, Li Xinran’s phone rang unexpectedly. She glanced at the screen, then looked at Lu Yi.

“It’s fine, go ahead and answer. As long as you don’t discuss anything important, it doesn’t matter,” Lu Yi said to Li Xinran through the team channel.

Li Xinran wrinkled her nose, clearly feeling uneasy about the phone that might have monitoring software installed.

“Anxuan, what’s up?” Li Xinran answered the call casually.

“Xinran, I’ve been assigned a forced script. Do you think I’ll die?” Xu Anxuan’s voice came through, crying and sniffling.

“A forced script?” Lu Yi was startled. According to his understanding, the city wouldn’t deliberately assign a crisis that would send a veteran to their death. Only in rare cases, like when Lu Yi himself had been caught in a crisis that coincided with a forced script.

Li Xinran looked to Lu Yi, who nodded and sent her a message through the team channel.

“Anxuan, it’s usually nothing to worry about if it’s a forced plot. Look at the prologue, or the time we were called back, and even when Xie Ruidai gathered everyone not long ago—none of those were dangerous, right? So you don’t need to be afraid of forced scripts; it’s the regular ones or when nothing is assigned that you should worry about,” Li Xinran reassured Xu Anxuan.

“No, that’s not it. This time, the script was upgraded to forced because the city said I’ve exhausted my basic mission rewards. It’s now a forced script. What should I do? Did I avoid too many plots, and now the city wants Death to kill me?” Xu Anxuan sounded extremely anxious.

Lu Yi and Li Xinran exchanged surprised glances. They hadn’t expected that constantly refusing scripts and overusing mission reward points would turn some plots into forced ones. Lu Yi was secretly amazed—how many invitations must she have declined to reach a deduction of a thousand points?

“Xinran, what should I do?” Xu Anxuan’s voice was trembling, on the verge of tears.

“Don’t be afraid, don’t worry. Have you informed the experienced veteran?” Li Xinran asked.

“I did, but they went to the amusement park with Jia Jun. According to Xie Ruidai’s recent intuition, Jia Jun will encounter danger at the amusement park,” Xu Anxuan replied anxiously.

“If Xie Ruidai senses the danger at the amusement park—”