Wise also had a little selfish motive! If Belle could be with Ye Qingfeng, wouldn't he have someone to appreciate documentaries with him!
Ye Qingfeng glanced at Belle, who had a lecherous grin on her face, then at Wise beside him, who was trying to suppress a laugh. His face darkened, and he said through gritted teeth, word by word: "So, can one of you tell me what the current situation is?!"
"Cough cough!" Wise coughed lightly, shot a glance at his hopeless sister, and briefly explained to Ye Qingfeng what had happened a short while ago.
After hearing Wise's explanation, Ye Qingfeng breathed a sigh of relief. Only after knowing they weren't in immediate danger did his heart settle back down.
Ye Qingfeng understood that the only thing to do now was wait. Knowing he couldn't help, he walked to a nearby sofa and sat down. Just as he sat, Belle suddenly shouted to him, "Qingfeng, don't worry, just watch me work!"
"I'm counting on you!"
"Leave it to me!" Belle nodded solemnly at Ye Qingfeng, took a deep breath, and focused all her attention on operating the HDD.
Ye Qingfeng's mood was terrible at this moment! Whether it was with Nicole or with Belle, he couldn't help either of them. A sense of helplessness was continuously eating away at his heart.
[Ding! Host, you have six more draw chances. Would you like to draw now?]
'Draw...' Hearing the voice in his mind, Ye Qingfeng still felt no great emotional fluctuation. Although the rewards were always very practical, they still couldn't change anything.
[Ding! Drawing now...]
[Congratulations, Host, you have drawn the following rewards: A-Rank Reward: Marksmanship Talent (Proficient) Note: You are now a sharpshooter, and the bullets you fire will obey your will!]
'Wait! Wait a minute! Pause! Hey, Xiao Zhi, get out here!'
[You'd better have a good reason...]
'Don't I already have a Firearms Proficiency? Why another Marksmanship Talent? Aren't they the same thing?'
[They're obviously not the same thing! Forget it, just think of it as the difference between figure skating and speed skating!]
'...'
With this reminder, Ye Qingfeng instantly understood.
[Since this young lady is already here! I'll be the one to announce the rest of your rewards! Be grateful to me!]
[S-Rank Reward: One copy of real-time updating Rostta Data! Ahem! I knew you wouldn't know what this is! Let me explain it in detail!]
'Can you not be so extra? Hurry up!'
[Look at you, getting all impatient again?!]
[First, the Host needs to know that the Hollow is constantly changing, and 'Carrot' is the real-time map of the Hollow!]
[But as the Hollow changes, 'Carrot' will also produce errors. To ensure data validity, it must be calibrated with a special Hollow master data every few days, which is this S-Rank reward: Rosetta Data! To put it simply, it's 'Carrot's' dad! It's just very useful, okay! I know you're excited, kid, but don't get ahead of yourself!]
Sometimes being too human-like isn't a good thing... It felt like there was a person living in his head, and she was very talkative. If he had to say there was any benefit, this young, crisp voice was slightly better than the usual emotionless one.
[B-Rank Reward: 100,000 Dennies x3]
[S-Rank Reward: Harem Member (Title) Note: An essential option to prevent fires in your harem! No matter how many wives you marry, a tragic 'chopping board' incident will never occur!]
What the hell!!!?
'I'm a pure love kind of guy! Pure love! Are you really trying to get me to start a harem?!!"
[Purely loving everyone, there's nothing wrong with that! It's reasonable! I'm leaving!]
Forget it... I can accept that...
Ye Qingfeng took out the pistol Nicole had given him from his spatial backpack and started playing with it in his hand. Besides the same sense of familiarity from this morning, he felt that as long as it was within his line of sight, he could hit anything he wanted, at will.
"What's the current status?" Ye Qingfeng then tucked the pistol into his sleeve, where it magically disappeared. He stood up and walked to Wise's side, asking softly.
"Still connecting data... it might be a while longer..." Wise, thinking Ye Qingfeng was still very worried, put a hand on his shoulder to comfort him, "Believe in Nicole and the others!"
"I understand..." Ye Qingfeng knew that worrying about them was useless, so it was better to relax and trust them. However... he felt terrifyingly strong right now!!
With his firearms skill and marksmanship talent, he had the power to fight the Ethereal. The Rosetta data gave him the ability to move freely in the Hollow. The items stored in his spatial backpack gave him ample resources. And the melee combat skills that were useless against Ethereals gave him an agile body to escape with. A hexagonal warrior... the true value of a shooter! Do you get it yet?
Now that he had the power, he had no reason to stay here and wait.
This was his time to shine!!
"Are Nicole and the others still in the Hollow on 14th Street?"
"Yes."
Wise frowned, standing beside Belle and staring at the computer on the desk as he answered absentmindedly.
It took about ten seconds for Wise to react. He turned to look at the empty room behind him and the wide-open door, a bad premonition in his heart.
"Sister..." Wise called out tremulously to Belle, who was sitting at the computer desk with a serious expression.
"What's up?" Belle replied casually.
"Qingfeng might have gone to find Nicole..."
"What?"
"Even if I send him a message to come back, he'll definitely refuse... The most important thing now is to get in touch with Nicole and tell her about this."
"That's true... I hope Qingfeng will be okay..." Belle pouted playfully, but her eyes revealed a look of worry as she murmured softly, "I haven't even had him try on the suit I bought yet."
At that moment, Ye Qingfeng was already in a taxi, telling the driver to step on it for the first time in his life. Using the methods of offering extra Dennies and saying his wife was about to give birth, he arrived near 14th Street in just over ten minutes. As soon as he got out of the car, Ye Qingfeng rushed to a trash can and threw up everything he had eaten that day before he felt better. No matter what happened next time, he would never tell a driver to step on it again.
Because the Hollow on 14th Street was relatively stable now, many residents had returned to their normal lives, but it was still a bit deserted compared to 6th Street and other places.
Ye Qingfeng followed his memory to the place he had exited last time. After looking around to confirm it was the right spot, he decisively charged towards the wall in front of him.
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