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6:15 PM, Village Committee Office.
The sound of a speeding e-bike rushed past the window.
A few seconds later, the not-yet-distant vehicle turned around and came back, finally stopping right outside the village committee office door.
After the e-bike steadied, two young men got off.
One of them stood out remarkably in both physique and features, though his hair was slightly long, and a hint of casual nonchalance lingered between his brows.
The bright pink flip-flops on his feet added a very relaxed vibe.
He didn’t look like a conventional, upright youth.
The flip-flop-wearing youth knocked on the office door.
Only after an impatient “Come in” did he push open the slightly ajar door.
Su Lai noticed a thin layer of dust had accumulated on the steps and the door handle.
It seemed residents rarely visited this place.
“What can I do for you?”
An auntie wearing dust-proof sleeves spoke with impatience.
The staff were already packing up, preparing to clock out.
Su Lai: “To register the population.”
The cat plushie that had been hanging on the handlebars was now cradled in his arms.
The staff member’s packing hands paused.
She looked over, puzzled.
“Population registration?”
Su Lai hugged the eyeless cat plushie, his expression blank as he nodded.
“My name is Wang Xiaosi.
I live at 444, Fourteenth Lane.
My father is Zhang San.”
Beside him, Bai Ke, completely unprepared, widened his eyes in disbelief.
‘Was this expert’s playstyle this wild?
‘Chatting with the spirit-money-burning granny earlier was just to fish out the doll owner’s identity for impersonation?’
‘They say information online isn’t safe, but in this kind of close-knit society, it’s about the same…’
Meeting Bai Ke’s utterly unprepared gaze, Su Lai smiled and continued.
“This is my distant cousin, Wang Xiaoer.
He’s unemployed, coming to stay with my family for a while.
So we’re here to do a floating population registration, get a temporary residence permit.”
The one in disbelief wasn’t just Bai Ke, but also this NPC staff member who had been ready to slack off and leave work.
The staff member looked Su Lai up and down, then shook her head.
“Wang Xiaosi has been missing for years.”
“His missing person information is still registered in the village committee records.”
Su Lai nodded calmly.
“I’ve outgrown the age of running away from home.
I missed home, missed my parents, so I came back on my own.”
The staff member gestured vaguely, frowning.
“I remember Wang Xiaosi was just a little kid.”
Su Lai: “Kids grow up fast.”
The staff member kept shaking her head.
“In my memory, Wang Xiaosi didn’t look like you.”
Su Lai hugged the cat plushie tightly to his chest.
“You remember wrong.”
Skeptical, the staff member pulled out the missing persons registry.
In the drawer was also a yellowed missing person poster.
The poster was left by Wang Xiaosi’s family.
Back then, they plastered them all over the streets.
It used a childhood photo of Wang Xiaosi holding the cat plushie.
But over the years, the boy’s features in the photo had become very blurry.
Su Lai glimpsed the boy in the photo holding the cat plushie from the corner of his eye.
He struck the same pose for the staff member.
Su Lai added a reminder.
“Almost time to clock out.”
Pre-closing time was often when staff processed things most swiftly.
The staff member looked at the photo, then at this 1.84-meter-tall youth holding a plushie.
After several back-and-forth glances, she actually felt the youth bore some resemblance to the photo.
Both had one nose and two eyes.
“Fine.
You’re Wang Xiaosi.”
The staff member nodded.
She was eager to leave and didn’t want to argue.
“?”
Bai Ke was almost shocked speechless.
‘Just like that?!’
Su Lai gave him a push.
“Please process a temporary residence permit for my cousin, Wang Xiaoer.”
The staff member repeated Su Lai’s words.
“Almost time to clock out.”
Su Lai pointed at the clock.
“It’s 6:18 now.
Still 12 minutes till closing.
Plenty of time for registration.”
“If it’s really too late, I can turn the clock back a few minutes for you?”
Staff member: “…”
This resident was not only hypocritical but also barbaric.
‘Who acts like this?’
Su Lai didn’t waste more words.
He checked the temporary residence procedures chart on the bulletin board while picking up a floating population registration form from the desk.
Name: Wang Xiaoer.
Residential Address: 444, Fourteenth Lane, Spring Breeze Community, City G.
Occupation: Unemployed.
Reason for Mobility: Unemployed, seeking refuge with relatives for sustenance.
Remarks: Cousin of Wang Xiaosi.
In the contact phone number section, he even filled in his own delivery business number for future business expansion.
“Filled out.”
Su Lai handed the completed form to the staff member.
“From now on, my cousin Wang Xiaoer is a member of the community residents, right?”
“Certified by me, a local.”
The staff member seemed never to have encountered such a self-sufficient resident.
She nodded blankly.
“Theoretically, yes.”
As long as it didn’t delay her leaving work.
At the same moment, a ding sounded from Bai Ke’s system interface—
[Congratulations, player Bai Ke, on obtaining Spring Breeze Community resident status.
Survival Task One completed.]
[Identity Change Notice: Bai Ke (A conspicuous outsider) → Wang Xiaoer (The mysterious cousin of Wang Xiaosi), an unemployed individual seeking refuge with relatives at 444, Fourteenth Lane, Spring Breeze Community.]
[Main Quest has been activated: Please explore the rules, abide by the rules, and live in Spring Breeze Community for seven days and seven nights.]
[Side Quests: Side quests for this instance unlock as exploration progresses.
Stay tuned.]
[Initial Survival Time Allocation (Random Distribution): 48h.]
[Survival countdown has begun.
Please take active action.]
Receiving the survival task completion notice, Bai Ke couldn’t help a soft exclamation.
“Lai-ge!
We succeeded!”
Su Lai, who had received no system tasks and failed to activate any interface, fell silent for a moment.
Then he nodded thoughtfully.
“Oh.”
‘What was going on?
Was he really not a player?’
But to be safe, he decided to follow Bai Ke’s main quest as a reference.
He wanted to see firsthand what this so-called instance and contamination were all about.
Seeing Su Lai’s odd expression, Bai Ke thought perhaps the expert had bad luck, randomly allocated a very short initial survival time…
But since the other didn’t mention it, he didn’t feel right asking.
He chose to cautiously remain silent.
He had his own calculations.
Since this Lai-ge’s plays were so unorthodox, he might have ways to siphon survival time from teammates.
In this survival-of-the-fittest instance world, the intent to harm others might be optional, but the intent to guard against others was absolutely mandatory.
“Although you are Wang Xiaosi’s cousin, in our Spring Breeze Community, you are still considered an outsider.
Please approach the ‘Guidelines for Outsider Residents’ with the determination of cramming before an exam.”
As she spoke, the staff member pulled down the black cloth covering the notice board.
A lengthy passage of text appeared before Su Lai and Bai Ke.
As an outsider in Spring Breeze Community, for the sake of your life and mental health, you must abide by the following rules—
Always remember your name, gender, and appearance.
Do not forget who you are.
Neighbors should live in harmony.
Please do not refuse a neighbor’s (any) request to their face.
After 7 PM, you must return to your own home.
This community does not welcome the homeless at night.
Neighbors dislike those who are different.
Please do not act in ways that set you apart from the group.
Do not offend your neighbors.
Neighbors are happy to share, but please (do not) share your achievements and happiness.
They (will not truly) be happy for you.
Do not wash dirty linen in public.
Remember this.
If you fail to comply with rules 4, 5, and 6, you may trigger the neighbor’s [Pointing and Whispering] status.
When the [Pointing and Whispering] status is triggered, your family may come to harm.
Self-built houses have poor sound insulation.
Do not resent your neighbors for this.
Also, please do not make excessive noise that disturbs your neighbors’ daily lives.
Under normal circumstances, please trust the village committee.
The village committee will protect the rights of outsiders.
The original residents are friendly, but not all are trustworthy.
The village committee staff are composed of original residents; (crossed out with a horizontal line)
Su Lai immediately took out his phone and photographed the rules.
In case something happened later, photographic evidence could serve as proof.
And judging by the staff member’s demeanor, there was no way she’d let him take the entire notice board.
Sure enough, before the two could finish reading the rules, the staff member covered the notice board with the black cloth again, as if afraid they’d look too long.
“Time’s up.”
The staff member was unwilling to delay for even a minute.
She shooed them out of the office like chickens.
Before leaving, Su Lai aimed his phone at the desk and clicked twice, quickly capturing a photo of the urban village map on the desk.
Only then did Bai Ke fully snap out of it.
“We almost didn’t make it.
Thanks to you, Lai-ge.”
Su Lai: “You should call me ‘cousin’ now.”
Bai Ke: “…”
“That rule, the twelfth one was deliberately crossed out.
What do you think…”
He intentionally paused, leaving ample space for the expert to share his thoughts.
Su Lai: “The village committee is trustworthy.
The original residents are not trustworthy.
But the village committee staff are composed of original residents.”
“That’s contradictory!”
Bai Ke took a deep breath.
“Not necessarily.”
Su Lai murmured thoughtfully.
“A person’s identity and stance aren’t fixed.”
“Lai-ge… no… cousin, I have a question.”
Bai Ke asked curiously.
“Just who is Wang Xiaoer?”
Su Lai gave him a strange look.
“Wang Xiaoer is you.
My cousin.”
Bai Ke was momentarily speechless.
“I mean, when did you know the character Wang Xiaoer existed?”
He thought, ‘The expert truly is an expert.
Committed to the role.’
Su Lai: “There’s no such character.
I made it up.”
“Ah?”
Bai Ke was stunned.
Su Lai: “It’s normal for Wang Xiaosi to have a distant cousin.
The staff wouldn’t know every family’s situation in detail.
They can’t refute it.”
This office drone’s hairline was already so high.
He couldn’t very well claim him as a younger cousin, could he?
Bai Ke: “…Then why Wang Xiaoer?”
Su Lai: “Do you think Wang Xiaosan sounds better?”
Bai Ke: “…”
He decided to make himself shut up.
Less than half a minute later.
“Cousin, where do we go next?”
Su Lai put his helmet back on.
“Get on.”
“Since I’m Wang Xiaosi, and you’re Wang Xiaoer, we’re both children of the Zhang family.
When it gets dark, of course, we go home.”
Following the map he’d just photographed, Su Lai drove into Fourteenth Lane with Bai Ke and the delivery box on the back.
Perhaps because Bai Ke had obtained a legitimate resident identity, the journey was smooth, without any supernatural circling.
Fourteenth Lane was extremely narrow.
The anti-theft grilles extending from the windows of buildings on both sides took up most of the road’s width, making passage on the e-bike very difficult.
Clothes hung out to dry on the second and third floors weren’t wrung dry.
Water dripped drip-drip-drip continuously.
The damp smell of detergent mixed with garbage fermented in the darkness.
Hearing the e-bike sound in the alley, a middle-aged man pulled open his security door.
The middle-aged man didn’t step out.
Instead, he poked his head out from the cracked door, watching the two “uninvited guests” with a wary gaze.
Although Su Lai had switched to low beam, the light hadn’t diminished much.
Under the strong illumination, the middle-aged man’s eyes rolled like marbles mixed with impurities.
Su Lai double-checked.
444, Fourteenth Lane—the self-built house where the man was peeking out.
“Cousin, we’re home.”
Su Lai braked.
Bai Ke felt unnerved by the middle-aged male NPC’s stare.
He whispered in Su Lai’s ear.
“That man should be Zhang San, right?”
“He doesn’t look very friendly…” Bai Ke muttered.
Even so, he didn’t forget the village committee rules.
He managed a smile for the middle-aged NPC.
Through his helmet, Su Lai faced off with this stern-faced middle-aged man for a moment.
Then he removed his helmet and got off the bike.
He walked briskly towards No. 444.
The middle-aged man stared at him without blinking.
Su Lai stopped before the steps, his tone calm.
“Dad.”
Beside him, Bai Ke secretly gave Su Lai a thumbs-up.
‘Impressive.’
‘Truly an expert, calling anyone ‘Dad’ on sight.
‘Quick to get into character, able to bend and stretch.’
This middle-aged NPC who had been called “Dad,” however, remained unmoved.
The confusion in his eyes only deepened.
Su Lai held the cat plushie against his chest.
“I’m Wang Xiaosi.
I’ve come home.”
The middle-aged NPC froze.
Then a click sounded from behind the door—the inner lock was undone.
The security door was pushed open fully.
Another middle-aged woman walked out, expressionless.
Her eyes, too, resembled inorganic glass beads.
They shifted between Su Lai’s face and the cat plushie in his arms.
“Little Four?
Is it really you?”
“It’s me.”
Su Lai mirrored her expressionless face.
Since they were “family,” their expressions should match.
The middle-aged woman showed no trace of a mother-son reunion’s excitement.
After a brief stare, she spoke coolly.
“Little Four, how could you not even remember your own father?”
“This is Uncle Wang from next door.”
So there really was a ‘Wang’ next door.
Su Lai was speechless.
The air instantly solidified.
Awkwardness spread among the three.
“My apologies, Uncle Wang.”
Su Lai looked directly into the middle-aged woman’s eyes, his tone sincere.
“I’m face-blind to middle-aged men.”
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