CHAPTER 32: CHAPTER 32: MISSION ACCOMPLISHED!

The paper was in hand, and Yu Xia couldn’t focus on anything else.

Wei Yaoyao stared at her resentfully for a while, but she ignored it.

Finally, the three of them huddled together again, squatting in the corner to carefully examine the love letter.

On the yellowed paper, some Chinese characters and numbers were scrawled crookedly, along with a few incomplete English words.

Strangely, besides these, there were also solitary letters labeled next to them.

For example, three-3-water, followed by an s.

Yu Xia shared her guess with Xie Qingci and Wei Yaoyao, intuitively believing that the key lay in these solitary labeled letters.

Wei Yaoyao: "We’ve tried the numbers; Chinese is impossible. It has to be words and letters. There’s quite a string of numbers, which would be very long if translated into complete words. The letters are indeed the most likely."

Xie Qingci also nodded, squatting beside them, took Yu Xia’s phone decisively and said, "Let’s try it once."

Yu Xia and Wei Yaoyao followed the paper to match the numbers to the corresponding letters, corresponding them to the code numbers of ’Mah Lanhua Bloom Twenty-one’, and then got a string of letters.

tatfstatfstatnsw.

Xie Qingci listened to them recite while entering quickly, then clicked to connect.

Connecting... Connected.

Connection successful!

Yu Xia and Wei Yaoyao jumped up excitedly in celebration.

Yu Xia got up a bit too fast, her leg went numb, nearly stumbling, and Xie Qingci quickly reached out to steady her.

The warmth of his touch passed in an instant, and Xie Qingci said, "Careful."

Yu Xia replied nonchalantly, "Thanks, bro."

Then she regained her mentor-like composure and said to Wei Yaoyao, "Hold your excitement; what if it turns out like the first time?"

Hearing this, Wei Yaoyao was a bit nervous, leaning over to look at the phone screen in Xie Qingci’s hand.

"It didn’t disconnect! Hurry, seize this chance to take a picture and post on Weibo!"

Saying so, she changed positions, moving Yu Xia to the middle between the two of them.

On the right was Xie Qingci’s arm, with its thinly layered muscle that radiated warmth, subtly touching against it. Yu Xia dared not get too close and tried hard to maintain a distance.

Xie Qingci was the one taking pictures; with his long arms, he could capture them even from afar. If ignoring the others and just looking at the two of them, the pose looked somewhat like a couple’s selfie.

Tsk, Yu Xia lightly chided herself inwardly, hurriedly clearing the thought, then enthusiastically called over the other NPCs to join the photo.

The three of them stood in front, with a bunch of quirky NPCs behind, Xie Qingci’s smiling voice counting down three, two, one, and a few continuous clicks resulted in several fresh group photos.

Yu Xia checked the final product.

After all, she was a female star and couldn’t let unflattering photos circulate.

Fortunately, Xie Qingci’s skills were good. In one photo, her makeup was intact, her hairstyle was not messed up, and she had a sweet smile.

Next to her, Xie Qingci was also smiling, but unlike Wei Yaoyao’s silly grin, his expression towards the lens was gentle and lazy, yet one could easily tell he was in a good mood.

Like a serene senior captured candidly in a crowd, even doing nothing in the bustling crowd, he stood out the most.

She selected this photo and posted it on her Weibo, then also let Xie Qingci and Wei Yaoyao pick photos and post them on their respective Weibos.

This was one of the few chances to attract fans; during the two to three months of training at the base, their Weibos were managed uniformly by the production team, leaving nearly no opportunity to post themselves.

After posting, they cleared their account information, and an electronic voice announced overhead.

"Southwest Region, Yu Xia, Xie Qingci, Wei Yaoyao have completed the task!"

Announcing three times in succession so the entire square area could hear.

"It’s completed just like that?" Wei Yaoyao couldn’t quite believe it, "Really no more pitfalls this time?"

Yu Xia was excited too: "I thought this was just one of the links in the chain clues, but it ended directly!"

"We were lucky; we picked the final one out of two or three untried options," Xie Qingci also said.

Meanwhile, a few nearby NPCs had fulfilled their mission and had nothing to do; classmate Gang Ruannuan returned in her original voice, saying:

"You guys were indeed lucky; if back at the village entrance you chose another WiFi, we would have given you another clue, and you’d have to rule out other possibilities first to find Chen Ergou’s trail."

Yu Xia glanced at the camera, turned to Xie Qingci: "Impressive, you picked the right clue directly."

Wei Yaoyao kept praising him.

Xie Qingci didn’t say anything, just curved his mouth at them. The camera zoomed in for a close-up.

This episode, Xie Qingci’s popularity won’t be low.

[Ahhhhh, brother is handsome, smart, and lucky, love him, love him]

[What’s brother’s Weibo ID, hurry and follow him]

[This first outdoor derivative program is a golden spaceship, Xie Qingci grabbed the opportunity, and the popularity is bound to soar]

[This password is too freaking interesting, damn, I’d circle around until dusk and wreck my brain, still couldn’t figure it out]

[Wei Yaoyao and Ning Yunchao’s popularity won’t be lagging either, the three in the same dorm hit it off this time]

[Such a pity our Song Xi couldn’t join this episode! Such a waste!]

[Ha, Xie Qingci and the other two were on last time too; now this time again, only them repeating participation, favoritism, eh?]

[What else could we do, blame our Song Xi for not fighting for it? Look how impressive Xie Qingci is, turning the tables just with his face, not relying on the stage, just these derivative shows to gain fans]

[Sarcastic much, as if his stage presence isn’t good]

[...]

With the task finished, the three bid farewell to Gang Dan’er and others, firmly deciding on "go find a cool place to drink water and feel the breeze" over "go see other NPC performances for clues."

They retraced their path from the start, but this time without Dajun to escort them.

Originally thinking their game was over, NPCs should also be off duty, but at the spot they first met Dajun, a middle-aged man popped out from the side.

Oh, it’s the guy with the pole selling loquats.

This time he directly stopped in front of them, then lifted the cloth on one side, revealing a few bottles of mineral water inside.

"Want to buy water?"

"..." Yu Xia raised an eyebrow, "Uncle, are you liking the taste of forced sales earlier? How much for a bottle?"

The uncle rubbed his hands: "For the two of them, one yuan a bottle; for you, it’s fifty yuan a bottle."

Yu Xia: "???

"What do you mean?" She was dumbfounded, "How come I have to pay fifty yuan a bottle?! Even robbers don’t play this big!"

The uncle rubbed his hands again: "Because you drew the bad luck card, originally even no amount would get you a drink, but I figured your entire fortune is only five bucks, so saying fifty makes no difference, same result."

Yu Xia pressed her lips tightly, and before she could do anything, Xie Qingci and Wei Yaoyao each grabbed an arm.

"Calm down! Calm down, Sister Yu Xia!"