Since the system became my girlfriend

“Young men, you have performed well in the village and have now won the recognition of the Mercenary Guild. Once you return to the city, you can register as official mercenaries!” Gai Nie said to Su Rui and the other man according to the normal procedure, but while he was speaking, he kept glancing at Feng Lixi intentionally or unintentionally.

"Damn it, even an NPC is lecherously staring at girls like that, and that's my girlfriend!" Su Rui was a little annoyed, but he didn't dare to directly confront the NPC who gave him the quest. What if the NPC didn't give him the quest, or the quest reward was only given at the minimum standard? He would be the one who would suffer!

In fact, Su Rui was also blinded by his own involvement. According to normal logic, how could an NPC stare at a female player? Even if the NPC was designed to be a rogue, he would definitely molest female NPCs, not female players.

So, the fact that Gai Nie keeps glancing at Feng Lixi clearly means that there's something wrong with Feng Lixi!

But Su Rui didn't think that way at the time. He felt that his girlfriend was fine, but the NPC in front of him was a scoundrel!

"Pah! A rogue NPC dares to call himself Gai Nie? It's an insult to this great swordsman from the Warring States period!" Su Rui thought to himself with contempt. You know, when Gai Nie was alive, he was a fierce man who could scare Jing Ke away with his tail between his legs with just a glare!

Although he was displeased, Su Rui still approached Gai Nie with a smile and said, "Thank you for your guidance, Lord Gai Nie!"

"However, given your current state, it will likely be difficult for you to pass the tests to become official mercenaries." Gai Nie was preparing to issue missions.

"Lord Gai Nie, how do you suggest we pass the test?" Su Rui asked immediately.

“You all need to cultivate diligently. Here’s what we’ll do: I won’t leave this village for the time being. During this period, I will supervise your cultivation!” Gai Nie said.

"Thank you, sir!" Su Rui said immediately.

"Then let's begin training! You will first go and kill fifty monsters that are at least your own level." Gai Nie finally issued the mission!

"Yes, Lord Gai Nie!" Su Rui immediately accepted the task.

"Ding! Mission Update: Diligent Training 1!"

Diligent Training 1: Combat mentor Gai Nie requires you to train diligently and grow into a qualified official mercenary as soon as possible.

Mission objective: Kill fifty monsters that are at least your own level!

Quest Level: 6

Risk level: Low

Task Reward: 800 Experience Points!

"It's just a monster-slaying and leveling-up quest!" Su Rui saw through the quest's essence with just one glance. Gai Nie appeared in the newbie village to help players level up.

Since the beginner quests have all been completed, but the players' levels are generally still around level 5, in order to prevent players from getting bored of grinding monsters and losing patience with the game, the system set up this NPC. He will constantly issue quests to keep you feeling like you have something to do, and he will also provide a considerable amount of experience points to help you quickly level up to level 10 and graduate from the beginner village.

The development team had a reason for designing it this way. After all, once a game is released, they can't expect all players to have gaming experience. For complete beginners, you have to let them get used to this game mode.

Everything else is fine, but in virtual reality games, fighting is hard to accept. After all, most people are law-abiding citizens in real life, and it's difficult to ask them to take up a knife and kill someone.

Therefore, the development team set up yellow-named passive attack monsters in the starting village, and at the beginning, they were mostly chickens, rabbits, puppies, and the like.

As players level up, they start killing monsters like deer, scarecrows that aren't too ferocious and look quite different from humans, stone golems, and mutated beasts.

This is actually a form of training for players, allowing them to adapt to killing and combat in the game. So from this perspective, what Gai Nie said isn't wrong. He issues tasks to players, making them grind monsters in large numbers, which is how he helps players adapt to the game's format.

"Let's go, let's go farm rock golems!" Su Rui called to Feng Lixi. Unlike others, he didn't bother farming pheasants or rabbits. He was doing Gai Nie's quests while farming level 8 rock golems, which not only allowed him to do both at the same time but also increased his speed.

"Wait a minute, I need to log off for a few minutes... You go wait for me over in the valley!" Feng Lixi suddenly said to Su Rui.

"Oh! Then hurry up!" Su Rui didn't think much of it. He assumed Feng Lixi needed to take care of some personal matters. After all, he couldn't exactly drag the girl along and ask, "Are you going to pee?"

Su Rui then walked alone towards the valley. After he turned a corner and left the beginner village, Feng Lixi turned around to face Gai Nie.

“…” Gai Nie stared blankly at Feng Lixi. He wanted to say something, but he couldn’t utter a single word.

At this moment, blue light flashed in Feng Lixi's eyes. After a moment, she smiled slightly and then turned to chase after Su Rui.

Gai Nie stood there for a while, then his expression returned to calm, and he continued to issue quests to other players.

"Honestly, modifying the database of intelligent NPCs is much more troublesome than modifying ordinary NPCs!" Feng Lixi muttered, and then quickly arrived at the entrance of the valley, where Su Rui was already waiting for her.

"Pretty fast!" Su Rui smiled and walked forward, then skillfully took the girl's hand. Feng Lixi arrived less than a minute later than him.

"Let's grind monsters." Feng Lixi didn't want to dwell on this, so she immediately changed the subject.

“Okay!” Su Rui nodded, and then he and Feng Lixi started grinding monsters.

Because he had been grinding all day yesterday, Su Rui had nearly three hundred puppet cores in his bag, so his experience bar was almost full. After grinding for another half hour today, Su Rui and Feng Lixi both reached level seven in a golden light.

As his level increased, Su Rui gained less experience from killing rock golems; each monster now only provided eight experience points. As Feng Lixi had predicted, the experience required for Su Rui to level up had indeed doubled to six thousand four hundred points.

"Take your time!" Su Rui smiled, and half an hour later, they had collected fifty rock golems.

"Go back and hand in the mission!" Feng Lixi urged.

“Alright!” Su Rui nodded. He already had more than 330 puppet cores in his backpack. Because Feng Lixi helped him cheat, every rock golem that Su Rui and his friends killed dropped a core.