Mission in another world with my transformed best friend

In the forest meadow under the setting sun, a blonde girl in a white robe stood with her foot on the chest of her "enemy," the tip of her sword still pointing at him. This scene, reminiscent of a Western fantasy film with a touch of otherworldly beauty, remained frozen for a full minute...

"You, Wang Kai!?"

The girl frowned, a look of disbelief flashing across her pretty face as if she had witnessed the most incredible thing in the world. She turned the short sword in her hand and pointed it at Wang Kai's throat, speaking viciously once more.

"Although I'm reluctant to admit it, you're such a young man, it's a pity your parents gave you such a handsome face. Why did you choose to become a robber? Hahaha!"

As she spoke, a lecturing expression reappeared on her pretty face.

“Young man, you need to remember and understand that there is no future in robbery. You might as well turn over a new leaf, go to some ‘arts class’ to learn rapping or dancing, and if you’re lucky, you can become a popular celebrity and make money even while you sleep. Now look at you, not only are your values ​​warped, but your brain is also messed up. You shouldn’t have impersonated that loser Wang Kai.”

"Let me be frank with you, Er Gou is a pathetic guy who's obsessed with saving face and suffers for it. He's got ambitions that are higher than his actual abilities. Just because he has an electrical engineering bachelor's degree, he won't do any job that pays tens of thousands a month. After relying on his parents and being beaten down by society for a few years, he still had to bite the bullet and become an electrician at a property management company, running around to different neighborhoods all day long."

"My goodness, this kind of privacy, which is more private than age and body fat, and can even be considered a stain on one's life, is being spilled out of this girl's mouth like beans pouring from a bamboo tube without any pause... Moreover, apart from my parents, I know very well that there was only one time when I drank too much last night and, fueled by alcohol, I vented my dissatisfaction with life for the first time, and the only person I could confide in was that person..."

Although it was hard to believe, Wang Kai had to accept the fact that the girl in front of him could be...

"You, Zhang Lan!?"

"Huh!?" The girl was taken aback. "Has conducting background checks on targets become a 'basic service' for robberies? If that's the case, then give me an honest answer: how long have you been planning to rob me and that fat guy?!"

"I'll tell you what?! I am Wang Kai, and you, you, you, are you really Zhang Lan? The one who lived next door to me since childhood, who climbed onto the roof with me to steal bird eggs, who went fishing in the river with me, and who secretly went up to the rooftop at night to spy on the older sister across the street taking a shower with her window open... And the one who, after losing contact for nearly ten years after graduating from university, suddenly came back to my hometown last night, acting crazy, and insisted on dragging me out for a big meal? The big meal you mentioned was just a roadside barbecue stall. I was eating grilled meat covered in layers of ash while smelling car exhaust, and you were making me drink alcohol. I woke up today and found myself in this godforsaken forest. What kind of misfortune have I suffered in my life?!"

The girl paused again, blinking her big eyes a few times. Perhaps it was at this moment that she realized that all the words she had spoken were spoken in a very girlish voice, and coupled with the change in her height, she finally noticed something was wrong.

Before jumping to conclusions, the girl took a deep breath, lowered her head, and her pair of emerald green eyes took in Wang Kai's face completely. Although he looked like a teenager, the fact that he could speak with the same expression and tone as her best friend meant that he was definitely not a fake.

When they realize that the current situation requires a leap beyond conventional thinking to understand, language and atmosphere instantly freeze. And so, their movements stopped again.

The few minutes it took to organize my thoughts passed quickly...

"You mean... we both blacked out last night, and you can't remember anything after that... you woke up a few minutes before me, and your memory of the time before that is completely blank? And what's this about me turning into a blonde, blue-eyed girl dressed as a magician?"

Wang Kai nodded, looking at the girl's puzzled expression. After slowly connecting it with his best friend Zhang Lan, he slumped down dejectedly, muttering to himself.

"God, please stop torturing me! I admit I'm incredibly lucky to have participated in this 'groundbreaking' ultra-realistic 4D+4K graphics game test, but why did they let Zhang Lan... control such a cute female character? It's blasphemy against the goddess! Give me back the beautiful magician who should be embarking on an adventure with me... No, I'm going to report this game company and complain about their 'discriminatory treatment of players'! Where did my phone go...?"

Zhang Lan was in slightly better spirits. Listening to Wang Kai's grumbling, she was curious about what kind of character skin she had chosen to cause him such disappointment and distress. But she didn't have a mirror or anything like that readily available…

Wait a minute, Zhang Lan picked up the short sword in her hand, and under the reflection of the polished blade, she could still see her face quite clearly.

After examining her for a while, Zhang Lan's surprise gradually increased. Then she touched her face, smoothed a few strands of hair, tilted her head and made a few smiling expressions, even sticking out her little pink tongue. Only after she was satisfied did she say in amazement.

"Hey, Wang Ergou, I didn't expect this kind of fantastical blonde, blue-eyed beauty to be your type. You've really found a good reason to be single for thirty years. In reality, girls like this probably don't even exist..."

"Waaah, stop talking about me. You've been working hard away from home for almost ten years since you graduated from university, and I haven't seen you send back a single wedding invitation..."

"Oh, my guy already bragged about that... Wait, you think this is just some first-person game, but the touch and feel are just too realistic..."

As soon as she finished speaking, Wang Kai's eyes widened, because the girl in front of him silently reached out a small hand to her chest and gently kneaded it, even closing her eyes and concentrating all her senses on her sensations...

Regardless of what Zhang Lan, the character controlling the young girl, was thinking, the entire scene is already starting to veer towards a rather disturbing "prohibited for minors" direction...

"Gudong!"

Wang Kai didn't know how many mouthfuls of saliva he swallowed; he could only stare blankly at everything in front of him.

After Zhang Lan confirmed certain things, she opened her eyes wide, looked at the other person's blank expression, and couldn't help but chuckle mischievously, saying...

"Hey, I feel like this is fundamentally different from the games you were talking about..."

"Huh, what's the difference?"

"Don't you understand? I mean it's exactly the same as 'self-touching'."

"What did you say?!"

"Huh? Don't believe me? Come and touch it..."

After saying that, Zhang Lan took a step forward, grabbed Wang Kai's hand, and pressed it against her chest...

Before Wang Kai could react, a sensation that had existed only in his imagination for over thirty years was now continuously transmitted to his brain through the nerves of his skin cells. Although there were still several layers of fabric between them, this feeling, which was completely beyond reality, dealt a fatal blow to his already fragile nerves.

"Hey, how are you feeling!?"

"It's soft but a little small... Wait, Zhang Lan, are you out of your mind?"

"My brain isn't broken, but your hands have started to get naughty. You've not just touched me, you've started rubbing me."

Wang Kai quickly withdrew his hand. The sensation from that moment was still deeply etched in his mind. Before he could even process it, Zhang Lan, with a strange grin on her face, seemed to have thought of something else. Taking advantage of a moment when he wasn't looking, she quietly slipped her small hand under her body...

Wang Kai was startled and took a step back. He couldn't bear the thought of his childhood "goddess game character" behaving this way. Before he could stop her, Zhang Lan's face already showed an expression of complete understanding, only with a hint of surprise in it...

"What's going on!? There's nothing here... but it also feels like there's something..."

"What do you not have!?"

Zhang Lan stopped groping around, sighed deeply, and looked like she was doomed.

"What should have been there is gone, but what shouldn't have appeared has appeared!"

Upon hearing these nonsensical words, Wang Kai's head exploded again, and he couldn't help but ask loudly when he came to his senses.

"Speak clearly! What do you mean by 'not having' or 'not having'? This is such a cute girly game skin, it's impossible for it to have something on top and something else on the bottom, right? You better explain yourself!"

A blush crept onto Zhang Lan's face, and she shook her head, replying, "I mean, I've lost my manhood..."

"Huh!? What about the women's?"

"What do you think! Ask again and I'll get you!"

Seeing all this, Wang Kai wasn't sure whether to keep his mind on the matter or let it go.

Regardless, the blonde, blue-eyed female mage character in front of them was undoubtedly being controlled by Zhang Lan. Although she had just shown some suggestive behavior, the game's settings weren't so outrageous as to include other "cross-dimensional gender" settings. Otherwise, let alone whether the game could continue, her current state would have been enough to drive him crazy.

Faced with this, Zhang Lan could only accept reality and handed over the short sword in his hand.

"Okay, stop spacing out. I know you feel a little nauseous, but looking at you, compared to your previous pig face, I feel even more physically uncomfortable... Never mind, just look at yourself."

Wang Kai took the short sword and saw his own face. Holy crap, who is this handsome young man who's even more handsome than he was in his youth… no, several times more handsome? No wonder Zhang Lan didn't recognize him and almost mistook him for a robber and executed him on the spot…

Putting all that aside, every subtle change in expression on this face is reflected in sync, every single hair is so clearly visible, it's completely my own face...

Soon, Zhang Lan let out a breath and said something in a summarizing manner.

"I know you still have some doubts, but after all that confirmation just now, this isn't a game, it's reality!"