Chapter 2821 - 1336: Interlude · Nonsense_2

Double Leaf couldn’t be bothered to make up more, and just waved her little hand: "Just say if you’ll help me or not, okay."

Motan exchanged a glance with Yu Chen, who seemed already moved (?), and then sighed helplessly: "What does this person look like?"

"More handsome than you."

"Not helping then."

"Damn!"

"Is there any obvious starting point?"

"Yes, in the game, he’s called Tan Mo, Tan like sandalwood, and Mo like unfounded."

"I’ve got a clue..."

"Hey!"

Double Leaf immediately widened her eyes and exclaimed: "What clue?!"

Yu Chen also turned her head in astonishment to look at Motan.

"My name in real life."

With a dry laugh, Motan said expressionlessly: "Read it backward, and that’s exactly the pronunciation."

Double Leaf immediately raised her hand to cover her small mouth, on the verge of tears: "So it’s you?!"

"No way it’s me!"

Making a strategic retreat, Motan slowly walked to the side armrest by Yu Chen and sat down with a huff: "I’m not that desperate."

As the saying goes, speak human words to humans and ghostly words to ghosts. Even with his current personality, Motan maintained a casual style in conversations with Double Leaf, and this attitude didn’t cause any awkwardness given their decent relationship. It wasn’t that being a bit unscrupulous would get him mistaken for Tan Mo.

In fact, Motan wasn’t shying away from the association between the name ’Tan Mo’ and himself; this was in itself a very subtle way of clearing suspicion.

As expected, Double Leaf soon impatiently said: "It’s got nothing to do with you, but I suspect he chose this name to shift blame onto you. Remember when we first met? Actually, I did some digging on you back then, and unless I’m mistaken, he probably noticed."

"How could he have noticed that?"

Yu Chen stared at the two, looking confused, and weakly asked.

"If it’s the person next to you... or a hacker at her level, it’s probably doable."

Motan gave a wry smile and answered, lamenting: "So how many people have hacked into my computer?!!"

Double Leaf gave him a disdainful glance: "Who are you blaming for your poor skills? Tell you what, if you can get the job done and find that person, I’ll stoop to teach you a few tricks. In the future, whenever our Saintess goes bathing with her phone, you can enjoy the view."

"That’s not happening!"

Yu Chen immediately blushed and stood up, waving her hands vigorously: "I... I really enjoy listening to music while bathing!"

Motan quickly raised both hands: "I wouldn’t look, seriously!"

"Swear on it... ah... swear it!"

Yu Chen was so flustered she almost bit her tongue.

[If I really had the mind, I would’ve looked long ago! Besides, I’m on the same level as this person next to me!]

Motan felt frustrated but was at a loss for words.

Double Leaf, on the other hand, was carefree about it. After stirring things up, she stood up, yawned, and stretched: "I’ll leave this to you guys then. No need to go out of your way, just keep a lookout if you can."

Yu Chen nodded lightly, uttering an ’Mm’.

Motan rubbed his nose, responding half-heartedly: "Depends on my mood."

"Alright, I’m off. Diana’s still waiting for me."

Double Leaf walked up to them, pinched Yu Chen’s cheeks first, then gave Motan a good slap on the shoulder: "My schedule’s pretty tight lately, and I’ve got some event to attend in a few days. Who knows when we’ll meet next, so take care."

Motan’s mouth twitched, but he nodded with a wry smile: "Thanks for your concern."

"I said, I don’t have many friends."

Double Leaf raised her eyebrows, folding her arms: "You, boy, were like half of one before, but after watching that match earlier..."

"You think my skills are decent enough to warrant being your friend now?"

Motan, relying on his understanding of Double Leaf, blurted out the standard response.

The latter didn’t hedge, nodding straightforwardly: "Correct, I’m just that realistic, so keep your complaints to yourself."

"No complaints, I’m honored."

Motan replied in a completely unenthusiastic tone, then chuckled: "Keep it up; work hard so that I, your friend, have more to boast about."

"Give it a rest, isn’t that monster ranked second your buddy? Do you really need more?"

Double Leaf kicked Motan and then turned to walk towards the audience, waving her hand back at the two: "Bye~"

...

One minute later

Yu Chen gently bumped Motan’s shoulder and whispered: "Um... you..."

"I swear I won’t peek at you bathing, whether or not I have the skills, I swear!"

Motan immediately raised his hand and swore.

"Who asked you about that?! From now on, I’m not bringing my phone when I bathe!"

Yu Chen, annoyed, pinched Motan’s arm, then continued in a lower voice: "Motan, about what Double Leaf just said..."

Motan’s mouth twitched as he glanced at the audience seats with slight annoyance: "I’m telling you, it’s all made up, and not even thoughtfully. It’s filled with flaws everywhere."

Yu Chen, who had perceived a number of issues with Double Leaf’s story shortly thereafter, nodded slightly and then asked somewhat uncertainly, "So, should we still help her find that person?"

"We don’t need to help deliberately. If we happen to find out something, we can mention it."

Motan blinked, musingly saying, "I just tried adding that person’s friend, but there’s no feedback."

Yu Chen hesitated a bit, tentatively said, "Then I’ll try to add..."

"No!"

Motan immediately jumped in with a frenzied response, utterly flustered.

He really wasn’t afraid that Yu Chen wouldn’t be able to add the ’Tan Mo’ character as a friend; he was afraid that Yu Chen would succeed in adding him!

That’s right, Motan had no trust in himself when his personality was in ’chaotic neutral.’ In fact, he always felt that if he as ’Tan Mo’ received a friend request from Yu Chen, there would be a very, very high chance he’d accept it and then do something egregious that no normal person would think of.

He couldn’t think of exactly how egregious, but nothing good would come of it. It’s known that in that state, he never picked targets; after all, he’s someone who could gamble his entire future (meaning permanent confinement in a psychiatric hospital) on the table, who knows what he’d do.

However, to Yu Chen, Motan’s words implied something different...

"Speaking of which, how’s it going with him and Teresa’s little sister?"

Yu Chen said casually, making Motan beside her turn to stone.

However, Motan, who did steadfastly reject Teresa, quickly calmed down and recounted, in as calm a tone as possible, most of the content except for Teresa turning into light.

"Hmm, this person is quite popular~"

Yu Chen nodded with a smile, speaking in a light-hearted tone, "Such charm!"

Motan didn’t take it passively, instead, he replied with a wry grin, "In that aspect, I can’t compete with someone; I remember there was a young talent in the competition area who kept staring at you for a long time."

"Eh?"

Yu Chen instinctively hugged her shoulders, looking around: "I... I didn’t know that!"

"Probably because..."

Motan clicked his tongue, diverting his gaze elsewhere: "After discovering this, I kindly reminded that classmate. That student from the College of Divine Radiance, Richard Ryan, had to stay in the hospital for so long because of his devoted attentions towards Her Highness the Saintess that day."

Yu Chen jolted with surprise, then burst into a laugh, "You’re so bad!"

"I was just stating the facts."

Motan whistled as if nothing were amiss, his face full of innocence.

"Hmm, this person sure likes to meddle."

"Is it necessary to be so curious about who I talk to?"

"What, do you think I’m meddling too?"

"No, no."

"Think I’m not rightful enough?"

"No, no!"

"Think I’m interfering too much?"

"That can’t be!"

"I’m just curious, can’t I be?"

"Yes, yes, yes!"

"Come here!"

"Okay, okay, okay..."

"Massage my shoulders!"

"Alright, alright, alright!"

"Hei Fan."

"Uh?"

"Is it Morning Forgotten Language’s?"

"...uh."

"Is it?"

"..."

"..."

"Yes."

"Then for now... I’ll let you go."

"You..."

"Pretty bad, huh?"

"Far worse than me..."

"That’s true~"

Chapter 1336: End