Mission in another world with my transformed best friend

At this crucial point, Wang Kai couldn't help but raise his hand and gently touch Zhang Lan's face with his fingers, tracing the two scratch marks. A look of heartache appeared in his eyes.

Who can imagine how much force and pain it takes to leave such obvious scratch marks on the face with fingernails, and even make them into conspicuous numbers?

Zhang Lan became slightly excited, feeling closer to her expected arrival at the end of the journey, and pressed for an answer.

"So, which two numbers do you see on my face?"

"One side is '9' and the other side is '5'... which means 'save me', right?"

As soon as he finished speaking, a few drops of still-warm, glistening liquid dripped onto Wang Kai's fingers...

Tears of excitement welled up in Zhang Lan's eyes the moment she uttered the "correct answer."

Before Wang Kai could react in time, a pair of soft little hands suddenly grabbed his hand, turned it over so that the palms were facing the soft little face.

Zhang Lan gently rubbed her face against the hand that had saved her, while sobbing softly, the scene from just moments before still flashing through her mind.

If Wang Kai hadn't noticed the signal from the "sensing ring" or seen the numbers on the "scratches" he had left on his face in a moment of quick thinking...

If any one of these points is missed, and the other side's plan succeeds, not only will all the efforts of the past few months be wasted, but lives could even be lost, because the maid also said something like this... "It's a bit troublesome to deal with another corpse."

"I've been grinding levels and farming points like crazy these past few months, my hands are all calloused. Don't rub them, it must hurt..."

"Well, a little bit."

Seeing Zhang Lan's eyes filled with tears as she rubbed her cheek against her palm, Wang Kai gradually became stunned. In his memory, this was the first time he had ever touched a girl's soft face so closely. Coupled with her teary-eyed sobs, in the quiet of the night and in this atmosphere, he was bound to have some distractions.

Therefore, Wang Kai couldn't help but secretly use his thumb to gently wipe Zhang Lan's vermilion lips.

After Zhang Lan realized what Wang Kai was doing, their eyes met briefly. She gently released Wang Kai's hand, moved a little to the side, and then patted the bed...

What does that mean? Is patting the bed surface to ask me to get on it...? It sounds like I'm inviting a pet onto the bed.

"What are you standing there for? The stool is so hard, won't your butt hurt if you sit on it? Come sit here..."

"Oh, alright……"

He was right! Although Wang Kai was a little annoyed, he still got up and sat on the edge of the bed, causing the soft bed surface to shake a few times...

Zhang Lan took a deep breath, pointed to Wang Kai's thigh, and said.

"Can I borrow it for a moment?"

"borrow?"

Wang Kai was stunned again; this indication was far too vague.

"I want to lie down for a bit, like a lap pillow..."

"Oh, please be more specific. Please feel free to ask."

Zhang Lan slowly leaned over, turned to her side, and lay down with her face facing outwards. Finally, her little head gently rested on Wang Kai's lap, her soft, long golden hair spreading out on his legs, and a fragrance slowly wafted around them...

Wang Kai unconsciously glanced down, and just then Zhang Lan was also glancing at him sideways. Their eyes met, then looked away.

Something's not right...

"Ergou, what do you mean by something's wrong?"

"Isn't this backwards? Usually, requests like 'lap pillows' are made by men to women, but you..."

"Let's turn it around then. You didn't ask for anything after you 'saved the damsel in distress,' so it's not a problem for me to ask for something first, right?"

As if struck by a sudden realization, Wang Kai disregarded Zhang Lan's evasive gaze and lowered his head to stare intently at her profile. A blush began to appear on her cheeks from her earlobe. Seemingly understanding something, and to avoid repeating the mistakes of the previous night and to be on the safe side to avoid embarrassment, he asked in a low voice.

"Since you've put it that way and started this, now it's my turn to ask for your reward for 'saving the damsel in distress'."

"That's possible, but don't come up with ideas like 'I can't repay your life-saving grace, so I can only offer myself in gratitude'..."

"Um... could you please not use such a stilted tone, like reciting a book? Does this sound like a scene of expressing gratitude to a hero?"

"Oh, sorry, let me adjust..."

Zhang Lan closed her eyes, coughed softly twice, adding a touch of Alice's unique vocal tone, and her eyes became quite feminine before she spoke softly.

"I wonder what kind of gratitude this hero hopes to receive?"

Although it wasn't the first time he'd heard that uniquely "Alice's" natural, high-pitched voice, Wang Kai, who still couldn't resist it, started to feel his face burning.

To him, that pretty face, brimming with a girl's expectant expression, was practically a "weapon of mass destruction."

My wandering gaze didn't know which part of that pretty face to look at, but it quickly settled on her slightly parted pink lips that revealed half a row of pearly teeth.

"Can I give my savior a kiss?"

A simple sentence, spoken at almost the same time, in the same place, with the same posture, and in the same tone as yesterday.

Upon hearing this, Zhang Lan smiled calmly, nodded slightly, and then closed her eyes, appearing completely resigned to her fate.

Wang Kai was stunned. This was completely different from the situation last night. He had just said "OK" so easily.

"Wait, is this another trap or smokescreen? They might even throw out a weird question later. This time, I absolutely mustn't get carried away and think carefully about the answer. We've finally managed to get the 'affinity event' back, we can't afford to mess it up again..."

First, stay calm, stay calm!

Although his mind was racing, Wang Kai's face had already lowered under the influence of emotion, getting closer and closer to that face he could never tire of looking at...

The taste of a first kiss is like a gentle early summer breeze, fresh and sweet. The other person's lips are soft and warm, seemingly possessing a magical power that intoxicates, making it impossible to escape. At that moment, time seems to stand still; all the noise and chaos disappear, leaving only the beating of our hearts and our breaths.

"Wait, it seems like they haven't actually kissed yet. Where did this series of AI-sounding descriptions come from? But to be honest, at this moment, the surrounding air and time seem to have frozen. My earlobes are completely surrounded by the breathing of the girl beneath me and the beating of my own heart; everything else is completely silent."

The distance between their lips remained just a centimeter or two. While Wang Kai's mind was racing, his spine and cervical vertebrae seemed to be "welded" shut, unable to move. Perhaps out of rationality, he was still on guard, worried that the other person might suddenly throw a question at him, which made him hesitate to make the first move.

At that moment, a warm, small hand reached out and touched Wang Kai's face. Under the guidance of this hand, the last one or two centimeters of distance between them instantly disappeared.

In that special moment, my heart pounded like thunder, my cheeks flushed slightly, and it felt as if the whole world had stood still. The feeling of my first kiss was like an electric current coursing through my body, sending shivers down my spine. It was both shy and bold—a unique experience of adolescence (?).