Chapter 254 has a kind of beauty that comes from being repeatedly run over by a large truck.

Jiang Nian clicked on it, and the video slowly played.

The damn System had evolved again; this time, it wasn’t playing videos through a panel, but directly projecting a giant screen before his eyes.

It truly was a good thing, just a small step in intelligence.

On the multimedia podium,

The psychology teacher, Lan Lan, was playing a short video related to psychology, which caught Ji Jiayu’s attention, and everyone present was watching the screen.

Jiang Nian also looked up, but he was watching the images provided by the System.

In the picture,

“Where are we going?”

Jiang Nian habitually acted as an audience member until the girl, whose face he couldn’t see, asked again where they were going.

Only then did he suddenly realize that this time it was an interactive memory. Was it to re-experience a memory for his thirty-eight-year-old self? To enhance the sense of immersion in the recollection?

However, for Jiang Nian, this was something that had never happened. So naturally, he didn’t know where to go, and after much hesitation, he could only blurt out, “Don’t worry about it, just go.”

The girl paused for a moment, probably never having heard such an absurd answer, and her tone already showed some Life Qi.

“You asked me out, and you don’t know where to go?”

Jiang Nian turned his head and found that this perspective could actually move. It’s just that he couldn’t control the character’s actions, otherwise, he would definitely pinch the female NPC in front of him.

Little sister, you’re just a memory NPC, be honest.

Although this isn’t my memory, I can still pull off your hairpin and throw it into a small gutter.

“Where can we go in the rain?” Jiang Nian complained, while observing his surroundings. “By the way, can you see what the dorm building looks like?”

“Of course I can, what are you thinking?” The girl was slightly displeased.

Seriously, are they selling gunpowder in the cafeteria, to speak so aggressively?

Jiang Nian glanced at the girl beside him, standing in front of the boys’ dorm entrance where rain poured down. He tried to use his mind to mobilize the primordial Qi within him, to make his hands and feet move.

Stupid System, put some effort into it!

Perhaps the System heard his prayer and actually granted him permission for one hand.

Anyone who has seen situational movies knows that one hand can do many things. It can not only work for oneself but also for others, and even create pain.

With a snap, Jiang Nian raised his hand and pulled off the hairpin of the girl in front of him.

You can’t deny it, you’re stuck.

“Ah!!! What are you doing?” The girl touched her hair, her tone growing more displeased. “You asked me out just to pull off my hairpin? I’m not coming out with you anymore!”

Jiang Nian thought to himself, if she doesn’t come out, she doesn’t come out.

It’s just a memory, I’m the Human Emperor!

“Just kidding, don’t be in a Life Qi.” Jiang Nian had a sudden idea. “I have a good idea, how about we go from here to the library with an umbrella, punch in, and then come back?”

He didn’t know much about universities, so he could only pick the most basic facilities to talk about.

“You go by yourself!” The girl, in a Life Qi, opened her umbrella and walked into the rain.

The surroundings began to blur, and Jiang Nian thought, “Yes!”

It felt like taking an exam naked.

Anyway, since he didn’t know the answers, he would just fill them in randomly. He would see how far this interactive video could go; after all, the video had to play.

After a while, the scene reappeared.

This time, it was in a large lecture hall. Jiang Nian looked around with interest, noticing that not only did the surrounding students have no faces, but even the details of the classroom were quite blurry.

A soft, lingering voice came from beside him.

“Shall we go to the Sixth Cafeteria for dinner after class?”

Turning his head, it was still the same girl, her face still unclear.

It seemed that his previous actions had no effect on these memories.

This was equivalent to interacting with individual memory cells. No matter what he did, it wouldn’t affect the playback of the next memory segment.

In other words, normally, this scene should have been quite warm.

Unfortunately, the System was out of sync. Jiang Nian had never attended university; his highest education was an uncompleted high school.

Facing the university girl’s question, Jiang Nian stroked his chin and thought for a while.

“Not so fast, how about we play a game?”

“What game?” The girl was puzzled.

“It’s…” Jiang Nian looked around at the dense crowd of students listening to the lecture, and lowered his voice, “An adult game, very cruel.”

“Huh?”

“Rock-paper-scissors, the loser has to shout their name three times.”

“Huh?” The girl was puzzled a second time, seemingly not understanding what was so fun about this game. “No, I don’t really want to play this game.”

“Then no dinner, and you can’t go eat either.” Jiang Nian blurted out something despicable, and calmly said, “Even if I starve to death, I’ll drag you down with me.”

Rules? I am the rules!

The girl: “…”

After a long pause, the NPC girl finally agreed.

“Alright then.”

Excellent, reveal your name in shame!

It was all his fault for habitually reading only half of the mission. If he had read the entire mission content and rewards, he wouldn’t have had to watch this faceless memory.

The main task now was to figure out who this person opposite him was.

Five minutes later,

“Jiang Nian, Jiang Nian, Jiang~” He mumbled, accepting his eighth failure. “Damn, do you have cheats or something? I haven’t won once.”

“No, I don’t know what you’re talking about.”

“Seriously, NPC.”

“What?”

“I said… being able to eat this meal is entirely your skill, I’m not playing anymore.” Jiang Nian took a deep breath and solemnly said, “Let’s exchange names.”

“Why?”

“No why, if you don’t agree, we’ll sit here until the end of time.” Jiang Nian, the scumbag, once again spouted nonsense.

“So romantic.” The girl covered her face.

“Hmm?”

Fortunately, after some negotiation, the girl still agreed to his rude request.

“Jiang Nian.”

“***.”

Jiang Nian was dumbfounded, couldn’t she play fair?

Why was there a censor?

However, he could now confirm that the other party’s name had three characters, which was a significant breakthrough. After all, in China, people with three-character names…

Damn, the progress bar was at zero.

This really angered Jiang Nian, who used his only movable hand to fiercely touch the female NPC’s leg! A real sensation was transmitted!

He froze, carefully examining the female NPC.

Alright, campus romance will pause for a moment, now entering the campus spring scenery!

This is a large lecture hall, can’t be that crude, right?

Hehe, of course you can.

“I’m sorry, I was too aggressive just now.” Jiang Nian apologized humbly and sincerely said, “I’m not usually like this, baby, pat pat, don’t be scared.”

As soon as his hand reached out, the screen began to blur.

“Hey, System, you motherfucker…”

The scene before his eyes began to change, and in a blink, he was on a train.

“Because someone bought the wrong ticket, we had to change our reservation temporarily.” The girl said this, but there wasn’t a hint of blame in her voice. “How are you going to compensate me?”

Jiang Nian was unfazed, extending his only movable hand and saying,

“Let me play with your phone.”

The scumbag had reached a new height of scumbaggery, with a kind of beauty that came from being repeatedly run over by a large trailer.

“Who is he?” Jiang Nian couldn’t see the words on the phone at all, and casually bluffed.

The girl glanced at it and weakly said,

“It’s the 10086 official account.”

“Oh, oh.” Jiang Nian casually swiped a few times, thinking that since he was idle anyway, he might as well bully the NPC. “Then this one, who is this?”

“Ah!” The girl suddenly shrieked and snatched the phone back.

“Oh, tell me, when did it start?” Jiang Nian was completely unrestrained, exploring all possibilities of this video as much as he could.

“The gift for you was found by you.” The girl looked up at him, her voice pleading, “Um, can you pretend you didn’t see it?”

“Let me see, is my name on the gift?” Jiang Nian glanced at it, continuing his scumbag routine.

It wasn’t until the NPC girl was about to cry that he finally let out a long sigh.

“Actually, I can’t see.”

“Huh?”

The screen blurred again, and the next memory segment began to load and scroll.

“Giving you flowers, they say boys like flowers too?”

“It’s okay, if there’s no last bus, we can share a car back. No need, I can still play games with you at the internet cafe, mm-hmm, I have money.”

Under the streetlights, it was dark on all sides.

In front were blurred tall buildings, and the street looked as if it were covered with a blanket of dim yellow fallen leaves.

Their shadows stretched infinitely, standing obliquely by the roadside.

“Be happy, today is your birthday.” The girl chattered, “I originally bought you a cake, but it fell when I was riding my bike.”

“Now all the cake shops are closed, how about we buy a small pocket cake to make do later?”

Jiang Nian could no longer utter scumbag remarks, and he let this poor NPC off the hook. Even though everything he did had nothing to do with the memory provided by the System.

This was a single-player CV.

But that thirty-eight-year-old idiot really did have such an incredibly normal girlfriend in college. One could even say she was rare, buying flowers and cakes.

She even went to the internet cafe with him and paid for things.

Even a scumbag would be silent after seeing this.

No, brother, you couldn’t even hold onto this? Did you walk to school every day?

What were you doing in college, a farmers’ market?!

Jiang Nian felt a bit disappointed, but thankfully it wasn’t his loss. Anyway, he wouldn’t be taking the second-tier exam; a 985 is no worse than a second-tier, it’s a small matter.

The scene shifted, and Jiang Nian listlessly watched them embrace in the snow, hold hands in the library corridor in winter, and ride the train home together.

Wait, going home together?

Jiang Nian became fully alert. Meeting the parents in college?

The scene stopped abruptly.

“Damn it, can’t you do something humane!” Jiang Nian cursed the stupid System, but could only accept that the viewing was over.

His vision instantly plunged into darkness.

The first ray of light shone in, followed by the second and third. Until the light filled his vision and then dimmed again, the scene before his eyes slowly emerged.

Lan Lan was still explaining the PPT.

Jiang Nian couldn’t hold back, “Damn, this psychology lecture is just a pure university filler course!”

“Hmm?” Ji Jiayu beside him turned her head, curiously glancing at Jiang Nian. “From your tone, it sounds like you’ve been to university?”

Strictly speaking, he had indeed attended. One class.

Although he was surrounded by System NPCs at the time, the environment in the video was, after all, a one-to-one replica of the quality of a trashy second-tier university’s filler courses, based on memory.

It couldn’t be called lifelike, but it was at least identical. The first three rows were empty, while the back rows were full of talent. The teacher buried her head in explaining the PPT, and the students in the fifth row were deeply engaged in gaming.

Now, under this psychology lecture, everyone was either reading, doing homework, or sleeping with their heads down; it was basically a replica of a university filler course.

“Uh, haven’t eaten pork, but haven’t I seen a pig run?” Jiang Nian said perfunctorily.

“Speaking of which, I really haven’t seen a pig run.” Ji Jiayu was also a bit abstract; people in Class Three were somewhat crazy. “Pigs are so fat, why can they still run?”

Jiang Nian frowned, and after serious thought, said,

“Because trotters are springy, tender, and chewy, otherwise how could a pig run?”

Upon hearing this, Ji Jiayu was momentarily stunned, then suddenly enlightened.

“So… that’s how it is?”

In the back two rows, Yuan Zhengchuan stared ahead with a gloomy expression. Watching his ex-girlfriend and Jiang Nian whispering, his heart felt as if it were being cut by a thousand knives.

Looking at them, speaking in low voices, secretly, his heart felt as if it were tightly clenched by a hand, then twisted forcefully, overflowing with bitterness.

Jiang Nian seemed to remember something and suddenly asked,

“By the way, how many minutes has the psychology teacher been speaking?”

“If you include the video that just played, all together…” Ji Jiayu looked down at her watch. “Oh, twelve minutes in total.”

“Oh, oh, I see.”

Twelve minutes?

Jiang Nian casually waved his hand, pretending it was unintentional, and directly opened the System panel. The unbrowsed mission lay there quietly, the video already showing ‘playback complete’.

He continued to scroll down, wanting to know who the NPC girl who would send flowers in college was.

【(Meaningless narration)

Mission: Re-establish contact with Song Xiyun. Reward: 300 RMB.】