Since the system became my girlfriend

After leaving Feng Lixi's house, Su Rui practically collapsed into his gaming pod.

Fortunately, Su Rui, being a professional gamer, is very willing to spend money on his gaming pod. His gaming pod is fully equipped with functions, including a massage function, which allows people to relax their bodies while playing games.

After activating the game pod, Su Rui's body gradually relaxed during the massage, and he returned to the game.

Fifteen hours had passed since the emergency maintenance, and the game had already been open. Su Rui appeared in Xuanwu City after logging in, while Feng Lixi had already logged in before him.

"Brother Rui, let's do a quest. There's still one quest we haven't finished!" Feng Lixi said to Su Rui with a smile. She had maintained the game in advance to prevent Su Rui from being surrounded by those players with ulterior motives. Now that so much time has passed, those players will definitely give up their plans if they can't find Su Rui. After all, they are only after money and don't have a blood feud with Su Rui, so they won't waste too much time on him.

"Okay!" Su Rui nodded. After entering the game, he felt as if he were in a dream. Although Su Rui's body was extremely tired, he could not feel it in the game.

After leaving Xuanwu City through the west gate, the two traversed the low hills and arrived at the spawn point of the hill wolves.

With his extremely high magic damage and ability to resurrect corpses, Su Rui was very efficient at killing monsters. Even though Feng Lixi was just getting experience for free, he didn't care at all.

Soon, Su Rui had also collected all the wolves, and the two of them successfully returned to the city and turned in the quest.

After gaining experience, Su Rui's experience bar increased again, and with one or two more tasks, he would be able to reach level thirteen.

"Leveling up in this game is really slow!" Su Rui sighed. He had been playing "Source" for several days, but he was still not level 13. Other players were leveling up slower than him, with many only around level 11. Very few players could surpass Su Rui's level.

"If the leveling speed is too fast, it will shorten the lifespan of this game," Feng Lixi said from the side. If players reach the maximum level too quickly, then the game will either have to release an expansion pack or develop more dungeons, but either way, it will overdraw the life of the game.

Therefore, the simplest way to extend the lifespan of a game is to increase the difficulty of leveling up, so that players spend all their time on leveling up. In this way, not only will the speed of equipment updates be slowed down, but the development team will also not need to design too many storylines and dungeons.

“That’s true. If players level up too quickly, the dungeons and such that the development team has worked so hard to create will soon become outdated. In that case, the development team will have to design new dungeons, which will increase their workload…” Su Rui nodded.

“Hehe…” Feng Lixi didn’t respond to Su Rui’s words, because designing the dungeons was also her job. However, since the development team was taking the blame, Feng Lixi wouldn’t point it out.

"Right, since we're talking about dungeons, how come we haven't seen any news about dungeons even though the game has been open for so long?" Su Rui suddenly said. Players have been leaving the starting village and arriving at their respective main cities for some time now, and the area around Xuanwu City has been basically explored, but no one has found any trace of dungeons. Could it be that there are no corresponding dungeons when you are around level 10?

"There should be a copy, it's just that it hasn't been found yet," Feng Lixi said from the side.

"Really... Xuanwu City must have been thoroughly searched. If there's a dungeon, why hasn't it been found yet?" Su Rui frowned. Although the game "Source" has many main cities, each main city has more than 100,000 players. With so many people exploring outside the city, if there were a dungeon, it should have been discovered long ago.

"What if the instance isn't outside the city?" Feng Lixi revealed a crucial piece of information to Su Rui.

"Huh? A dungeon can be in the city?" Su Rui was stunned. Xuanwu City is the main city, and this is a safe zone. How could there be a dungeon here?

"I was just saying. If the dungeon were outside the city, it would have been found long ago. After all, the monster area for level 10-15 monsters is only so big, and with so many players leveling up there, how could it not be found?" Feng Lixi said.

“What you said makes sense!” Su Rui nodded. Although it was unusual for the dungeon to be in the main city, Feng Lixi’s words were not without merit.

Players in Xuanwu City level up in the monster zones outside every day. If a dungeon with a level of ten or so existed, it would have been found long ago. After all, a dungeon with a level of ten or so couldn't possibly exist in a monster zone with a level of twenty or thirty, otherwise its existence would be meaningless.

Conversely, if the instance is indeed in the city, then it is quite possible, after all, it's darkest under the lamp! Although players often return to the city, they don't spend much time there. In order to level up, everyone actually spends most of their time grinding monsters and doing quests in the wild. When they are in Xuanwu City, they are mostly near the central square, since the main shops and service NPCs are concentrated there.

As for some corners of Xuanwu City, many players don't go there. After all, there are no quests or anything worth discovering there, so it's normal that no one goes there.

"Should we go look for it?" Feng Lixi suggested.

"Forget it, we'll have to see if it even exists. What if there isn't a level 10+ dungeon? Xuanwu City is so big, it's a waste of time for us to run around like headless flies!" Su Rui shook his head and said.

"Brother Rui, just come with me for a walk... Even if we can't find the dungeon, it'll be nice for us to wander around!" Feng Lixi grabbed Su Rui's arm and shook it vigorously.

“That would be a real waste of time…” Su Rui was clearly unwilling to do something so pointless.

“Brother Rui, I think we need to double the frog jump training tomorrow morning,” Feng Lixi said with a serious expression.

"Let's go! Let's take a stroll around Xuanwu City and see if there's anything interesting!" Su Rui's ability to change his expression was comparable to SC's ultimate skill.

"Hehe! Let's go!" Having achieved her goal, Feng Lixi grabbed Su Rui's arm and set off.

The two strolled through the streets of Xuanwu City. In fact, apart from the area around the central square, the rest of the city was quite deserted. Not to mention that no players came by, there were hardly any NPCs either. After all, although Xuanwu City was magnificent, not every place had NPCs giving out quests, so it was normal for some corners to be deserted.

The two claimed they were looking for a dungeon, but it was more like they were just strolling around. Feng Lixi leaned on Su Rui's shoulder, enjoying their time alone together, while Su Rui looked around, savoring the faint fragrance emanating from the girl.