Chapter 34 Three Days Later, at School

After a series of system voice prompts, the scene changed.

Feng Bujue and Wang Tanzhi, who had been sitting in a police car just a second ago, now reappeared in the fourth grade class of Animal Elementary School.

"Ha! So there's this trick!" After sitting down, Xiao Tan paused for two seconds, then smiled and said to Feng Bujue.

"That's right." Feng Bujue knew that Xiao Tan had understood his strategy. Therefore, he replied directly, "The key is... we can't let Xiong Ji be arrested as the Phantom Thief BeArs_eye." He spread his hands. "Let him be arrested under his own identity... although it will lead to the failure of the main storyline, it's better than failing the instance."

"Yeah..." Wang Tanzhi nodded. "So... you took on the title of BeArs_eye in front of the NPCs, and brought us along to play cute, throwing ourselves into the net... so the event is over, and we're safe."

"Yes, but..." Feng Bujue changed the subject. "This way of completion is actually quite terrible... I barely managed to change the situation from 'instance failure' to 'event failure.' In essence, my behavior just now was similar to 'surrendering in place of Xiong Ji.'"

"Eh? Then you were judged as playing passively again?" Xiao Tan asked.

"Not really." Jue Ge replied, "Compared to the previous 'peeping incident,' my actions this time still had some technical content; and this main event itself also failed... Under these circumstances, the system won't judge me as 'passive.' However... I still received some punishment in terms of 'Xiong Ji's hatred value.'"

"Yeah... I also added a lot this time, 7%." Xiao Tan responded, "Including the previous additions and subtractions, it's already 9%."

"Oh." Feng Bujue calmly replied, "Compared to my 41%, it's still relatively optimistic."

"What, what? How much did you say?" Xiao Tan widened his eyes and asked with an unbelievable expression.

"Don't be nervous." Jue Ge said, "It's not over 50% yet..." As the person involved, he was very calm. "I was mentally prepared for this level..." He leisurely explained, "After being arrested, Xiong Ji will inevitably lose the stolen underwear... The resulting powerful resentment will undoubtedly be partially transferred to me."

"Actually, I've always been concerned about this..." Xiao Tan continued, "What exactly will happen when this value gets high?"

"It's hard to say..." Feng Bujue's eyes became very strange, and he glanced at Xiong Ji and Tu Mei, who were chatting on the other side of the classroom, and said in a deep voice, "I always feel that... this instance... no, it should be said this 'universe'... has something wrong with it. The NPCs' IQ and EQ don't seem to be as low as they appear; taking Xiong Ji as an example, there are contradictions in some of his behaviors and even his personality..."

"Yeah, I wanted to say that too." Wang Tanzhi continued, "The case that I disrupted earlier... thinking about it carefully, it's very abnormal... Does Xiong Ji have the guts and courage to chop off Penguin Assistant's head?"

"Yeah... I think..." Feng Bujue took over, thoughtfully, "When Xiong Ji's hatred towards one of us reaches a certain level... these doubts will gradually become apparent..."

"Meow—"

Screams, classic screams, Meow Mei-chan's classic screams.

Incidents, criminal incidents, Xiong Ji-kun's criminal incidents.

When that "Meow" entered his ears and interrupted his thoughts, these two sentences flashed through Feng Bujue's mind.

"Ah—" Jue Ge lazily groaned and looked at Xiao Tan, "Same as always, let's go take a look."

"Okay~" Xiao Tan shrugged and stood up with Jue Ge.

...

In the next few hours, Tu Mei-chan's famous deductions and Xiong Ji-kun's self-revelations continued.

One incident after another occurred, mostly similar to the Phantom Thief BeArs_eye's crime prediction events.

However, the resolution time for these incidents was not long. Things like "the missing flute tip," "taking pictures under skirts," "stealing athletic shorts," "the teacher's set square is missing," etc... were all completed or ongoing crimes.

In the battle of wits with the famous detective Tu Mei-chan, Feng and Wang did not gain an absolute advantage... because Xiong Ji's self-revealing attribute was there, coupled with the fact that the difficulty of the event had changed from "successfully disrupting it before being taken to the police car" to "successfully disrupting it before exposing obvious evidence," some situations were inevitable and difficult to defend against.

Even though the two players had worked very hard... Xiong Ji's "number of arrests" was still inevitably increasing.

Of course, compared to that, there were still more cases of "successful escape."

Just like that... unknowingly, Xiong Ji's number of arrests accumulated to "9," and Xiong Ji's hatred value towards Feng Bujue and Wang Tanzhi also reached 95% and 72% respectively...

...

The Next Day, First Class in the Morning.

Jue Ge and Xiao Tan completed another disruption, and the scene changed.

At this time, both their mental and physical states had reached a very poor level.

"Phew... how much game time has this instance already consumed?" Xiao Tan said, "I feel like it's almost seventy-two hours, right?"

"Shorter than you think." Feng Bujue replied, "Only fifty-six hours."

"Ah... also a long instance... I suddenly feel that 'Azure Spirit Sword Debate' was like a vacation..." Xiao Tan continued.

"Yeah, the fact that 'stamina value doesn't recover with scene transitions' is indeed a problem." Feng Bujue said, "Plus, the main storyline of this instance requires our concentration to be maintained at a certain level all the time... the mental burden it brings is also not small." As he said this, he didn't show any signs of fatigue or impatience on his face. "It seems... the biggest difficulty in the later stages of this instance is 'endurance'... Heh..." He even laughed inexplicably. "At first, we thought Xiong Ji's limit of 'ten arrests (including the tenth time)' was very generous, but in the blink of an eye, there's only one chance left... this situation of being on edge and not allowing failure in an almost exhausted state is really exciting..."

"Exciting my [BEEP]..." Xiao Tan was really tired. When a person's brain is tired or numb, it's easy to be reckless with words, and it's normal for swear words to increase. "If Xiong Ji gets caught twice more, we'll lose all our previous efforts. What's so exciting about this huge 'pressure'?"

"Weren't you under this kind of pressure every second when you were on the operating table?" Feng Bujue retorted.

"Uh..." Xiao Tan was really stunned by the question, but he regained his senses and said, "Hey... the time is different, okay? The duration of this instance is already five times longer than a major operation, okay?"

"You can treat it as a high-intensity concentration training." Feng Bujue said in a very relaxed tone, "Besides, doesn't this instance also have rest periods?" He tilted his head. "Putting aside the situation in the early stages of the instance, after the difficulty of the main event increases, don't we all have a few minutes to catch our breath after each scene transition?"

Before he could finish speaking, he heard...

"Attention, students." Panda Teacher's voice came from the podium.

In two seconds, the attention of the entire class was drawn over.

"Haa..." Xiao Tan exhaled and whispered, "Here it comes again... what will it be this time... did the teacher's underwear get stolen..." He turned his head to glance at Xiong Ji, "Yeah... let me confirm... okay... not directly worn on the outside of the clothes or worn on the head..."

He said this because Xiong Ji had actually done that before.

"Students, today, we have two special guests coming to our class." Panda Teacher's words continued, "They will spend a day of study life with you."

"Two..." Xiao Tan's first reaction was, "Could it be Basho-san and Sora-kun?"

"They are..." Panda Teacher raised her hand and pointed towards the door.

Just as she was about to say the names of the two people, a figure flashed in from outside the door and interrupted in a very effeminate voice, "Yahoo~ Hello, everyone~"