Want to be human, but cube-like

After thinking for a moment, Ai Yin smiled and made a suggestion.

"Everyone has said that Chihaya sounds like a name, and my classmates call me Chihaya too."

"Well."

But Alex shook her head slightly.

"Let's just call her Ai-yin."

She opened her mouth, hesitated for a moment, and then stopped speaking.

After all, even without mentioning the unexpected shared name, just hearing Aine's voice was enough to remind her of her mother.

It's pointless to differentiate them by their titles.

"If Ellie doesn't find it bothersome, then it's up to you~"

Aine, of course, had no objections, she said with a light laugh.

"Alex, shall we open for business now?"

Xiangzi, who had been secretly observing the conversation between the two from a short distance away, suddenly asked a question.

For some reason, seeing Alex and Chihaya Aine grow so close to each other in such a short time, she suddenly felt a sense of unease.

Especially when the two of them were talking and laughing together, the frustration in her heart quickly turned into another kind of anxiety, prompting her to want to do something.

For example, interrupting the conversation between the two.

But clearly, Alex and I weren't that close at all, so what was the point of me doing this?

No, I just didn't want to waste time and wanted to start working as soon as possible.

She was justifying herself in her mind.

"Okay! Thank you for your help, Xiangzi!"

Completely unaware of Xiangzi's current mood, Alex turned her head, smiled, and nodded.

So Xiangzi went over, opened the shop door, and turned the sign over.

Not long after the sign was turned back, customers began to come in one after another.

"Well then, thank you for the treat! The burger was delicious, and I'll recommend it to my classmates!"

Seeing that Xiangzi and Alex had started serving other guests, Aine, who had already finished eating, didn't want to bother them any longer. She finally asked Xiangzi for her LINE contact information and then left.

Xiangzi finally managed to get rid of this troublesome fellow and secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

However, Xiangzi did not realize that after she taught Alex common sense many times, Alex was actually not so bad at maintaining a sense of distance when dealing with other people, especially strangers.

At the very least, she wouldn't be willing to approach just anyone.

In fact, Aine is not the type to be so proactive and completely unconcerned about physical contact with just anyone.

But for some reason, unbeknownst to Xiangzi, the distance between Alex and Aine disappeared very quickly.

It was as if there was no distance between them at all.

…………

P.S. Because I only updated one 4,000-word chapter yesterday, the chapter numbers weren't ending in even numbers anymore, which bothered my OCD. So today, I'll also only update one 4,000-word chapter to correct the chapter numbers.

So, are there really that many people who care about Alex's nerfed height? At first, I thought it was because many people were complaining that her 180cm height was too tall for a Bondi-esque character, hence the nerf.

Every time a new reader sees those chapters, they tell me not to cut them...

It's not impossible to change it back, even now it's still possible to go back and change it, for example, to 178cm. Height really isn't a big deal in terms of plot, it's just a matter of changing a few sentences. I personally don't think it's that important, height doesn't affect my outline or detailed outline at all.

However, if I go back and change it now, won't it make me seem indecisive, constantly changing the same setting?

Volume 1: Chapter 43 is completely missing!

"I'm back~!"

When Aine got home, she greeted her mother, who was doing housework, and then went upstairs to her room.

Ai Yin slumped heavily onto the sofa, letting out a soft sigh of relief. She picked up her phone and looked at the replies under her status update.

"Hehe~"

She rolled around on the sofa with a chuckle, then bent her long, slender legs, curled up, and turned to lie down.

He propped his upper body up on his elbows, held the phone in front of him with both hands, and tapped the screen with his thumbs.

"What questions will people ask you when you return to school after the weekend?"

She kept scrolling through her friends' comments, muttering to herself, her toes bobbing up and down behind her.

After a long while, he reluctantly put down his phone, sat up abruptly, and stretched.

Then he turned his head and looked at the bag he had casually placed aside.

Inside was the remains of her laptop.

"Well……"

When she thought about why she had gone out today, Ai-yin pouted.

He reached out and took the bag, then took out the battle-damaged laptop with the battery removed and placed it on the table.

She rummaged through the bag again and found a small box. She opened it, and inside was the only surviving, intact part of the laptop.

The after-sales staff even gave her a small, unused box to store the solid-state drive, so it wouldn't get bumped or knocked.

This is also why she wasn't too upset after her laptop burned out.

After all, all the game resources she had played for two years were stored on this small hard drive. It contained not only many of her save files, but also various skins she had drawn for her character.

Oh right, and there's also that official website she saved, which looks like a forum.

It should be the official website... Although I don't understand the Chinese characters very well, I use Google Translate to translate it into English while browsing, but I think Google Translate is so reliable that it shouldn't make any mistakes.

"Speaking of which, what exactly caused both the graphics card and the processor to overheat?"

In her memory, it seemed that she had installed an unfamiliar mod into the new save file of the modpack, which caused the save file to load abnormally and then start smoking.

But she forgot what that module was called.

I wonder if others have this problem?

Muttering something to herself, Ai Yin put down the hard drive, took out her tablet, and opened the browser.

Aiyin wants to search for the game's official website on her tablet, and then see if the mod is still there. There should be other players' comments below.

"Oops! I didn't save the website address on my tablet!"

Aine only remembered this after flipping through her bookmarks.

Because she usually plays games on her laptop, installing mods and searching for reviews and guides are all done on the computer. She usually only uses her tablet to watch beauty videos and draw character skins, so she has never used her tablet to access that website.

Now, I can only rely on my memory to see if the link I entered is correct.

"Let me think... Hmm, mcmod... I think that's it?"

Fortunately, the URL was quite short, and Ai Yin remembered it without much thought.

"Snapped!"

She confirmed

After reading it once, I confidently pressed the Enter key.

But the interface that popped up next surprised Ai Yin.

"Access denied?"

Did I type it wrong?

I refreshed the page, but I still can't get in.

She started to lose confidence, repeatedly looking at the URL she had entered and modifying it several times, but she still couldn't access it.

"Ugh... Could it be that I really remembered it wrong?"

With a troubled expression, Ai Yin leaned back on the sofa, her brows furrowed as she pondered deeply.

But naturally, she couldn't recall any details that would be helpful to her.

Or, why don't you post your question on some large gaming forums?

She suddenly thought of a solution.

Without hesitation, Ai Yin straightened up, casually opened a popular game forum, created a new account, thought for a moment, and then posted a new thread.

"Um, I'm looking for a pixel block game... its name is Mine...craft, I think I spelled it correctly?"

After thinking about it for a while, I've added some details about the game below, and also asked everyone what the official website address is, because I can't connect to it for some reason.

Although Ai Yin couldn't find any information about the game on search engines or video websites when she was searching for information before, that might be because everyone followed the community rules and only discussed it in the forum on the game's official website.

However, on second thought, it's also possible that this game has never appeared on Japanese websites, since the text on the official website is all in Chinese characters, and the country across the sea has certain restrictions on overseas networks.

But if that's the case, then bypassing the Great Firewall would be too difficult for Ai Yin.

I don't even remember how I ended up being redirected to that official website by some random small ad.

While pondering, she kept refreshing the screen of the post she had just uploaded to the forum.

The number of views has been steadily increasing, but I estimate that most users just click in, glance at it, and then close it.

There were very few replies and comments below, and no one could answer her question at all. They were all useless replies like "I don't know" or "What game? It sounds interesting."

Occasionally, one or two replies would appear, asking if she had remembered it wrong, and then introducing another seemingly similar but actually wrong little game.

Ai Yin didn't even need to search according to the name given by the other party to know that this was definitely not a game she had played before.

"No way..."

Slightly discouraged, Ai Yin was too lazy to look at the various comments that refreshed below.

In that case, I'll have to wait until I buy a new laptop to retrieve my old data by reading the data from that SSD.

Alternatively, she could buy a reader and connect it to her tablet, which would also be a viable option.

"……never mind."

Puffing out her cheeks, Ai Yin closed the browser, lay back on the sofa, and casually opened a video app.

"Since my computer is broken now and I can't play games, it doesn't really matter if I can connect to websites."

Even if you use a reader to retrieve the data from the SSD, it won't make much difference. Aiyin doesn't play games on the tablet anyway, so it's better to save this money and buy a new laptop later.

"Let's talk about it later."

She muttered something to herself and opened the feed of a beauty blogger she had been following.

"Hehe~ Another update!"

…………

PS (Publicly available information): Aine's computer accidentally connected to a Chinese forum via quantum entanglement, and she could only access module download links from it. This forum and the other links do not actually exist on the internet.

Then let's not change the height. Changing it repeatedly would actually make it look worse.

Next, let's return to Xiangzi's story.

Volume 1: Chapter 44 Missing...?

"I'm back, Father..."

In the dilapidated rented room, the blue-haired girl pushed open the door and entered. She paused halfway through her sentence.

"Father?"

The room was pitch black and deserted, just as it had been when she left home that morning, unchanged.

Has Father still not come back today?