Chapter 8 : Terrifying Indeed
8: Terrifying Indeed
As a legal citizen of the 21st century who had received nine years of compulsory education and even scored full marks on the college entrance exam's politics section, Su Mo, with a man's heart, would naturally complete tasks she had agreed to and already received payment for in good faith.
As for why she hadn't accepted Campus Belle Lin's friend request?
Su Mo sincerely and genuinely expressed that she really hadn't done it on purpose—last night had simply been too eventful for her to have the energy to check WeChat.
However, this explanation sounded weak and powerless even to Su Mo herself, let alone to Lin Muyao.
Thus, Su Mo and Lin Muyao's final communication ended with the sentence: "Hmph, come over later, you'll get what's coming to you."
After ending the call, Su Mo looked at the location the other party had sent to her phone.
Recalling the various scenes from the explanation just now, whether it was her imagination or not, she somehow felt that after not seeing her for one night, her fake girlfriend Lin Muyao seemed even more domineering than last night.
She couldn't pinpoint the specific reason, but she just had that feeling of being controlled.
At this moment, the puzzled Su Mo couldn't have imagined that on the other end of the phone, it was exactly as she thought—there wasn't just Lin Muyao alone, but also a loli strategist sitting beside her.
Walking out of the barbershop and heading in the direction of the location, Su Mo reflected on the voice call she had just had with her "girlfriend Lin Muyao" while hurrying along.
It was strange—clearly Lin Muyao hadn't shouted angrily, her tone was quite gentle, and she had only expressed dissatisfaction with a "hmph" at the end.
But what surprised Su Mo was that her heart was currently filled with a special emotion of "I should go coax her," and there was even a vague feeling that something big would happen if she didn't coax her properly.
This emotion felt very novel to someone who had never been in love.
Could this be the mental attack described online as "girlfriend being angry"?
Truly terrifying indeed~
Beyond the novelty, Su Mo couldn't help but reflect deeply on another issue through this recent incident.
As a liberal arts student who had gotten into Su University, Su Mo's grades were naturally quite good. Students studying liberal arts knew that aside from hard knowledge, attention to detail had a tremendous impact on grades.
Su Mo considered her attention to detail quite good, which could be proven by her perfect score in politics.
However, after accepting the SSS-level mission yesterday, although there had been many tense and exciting episodes in between, she had forgotten to look at the first mission when buying squid, and then completely forgotten about the girlfriend matter at night. Such careless incidents happening once could be understandable, but happening twice in a row to herself made Su Mo reflect on another question: besides bodily changes, would other internal aspects also change with transformation, such as details like carelessness?
As she silently pondered this question in her mind, the next second, the challenge system readily provided a response.
[Ding, the human body and spirit are connected. As the host's body changes, the heart, habits, reactions, etc., will naturally also adjust. This is human instinct.]
Hearing the system's response, Su Mo's delicate eyebrows furrowed slightly.
If her mindset would change with her body, then the difficulty of completing this mission had undoubtedly increased in disguise.
Indeed, it was the highest difficulty SSS-level mission—everything was far from as simple as imagined, with even invisible obstructing factors.
But there was no turning back once the arrow was shot—the mission had been accepted, and failure meant no little brother.
No matter what, she could only grit her teeth and continue.
From now on, she had to be much more careful and couldn't forget any details!
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Weiyang Apartments was located on the west side of Vanke Beautiful Plaza. Due to its position between the tech city on the left and university city on the right, it had an extremely broad target demographic and beautiful environment, plus guarantees in all three aspects of greenery, maintenance, and security.
Therefore, the rent was considerably higher than other apartments, and due to rental costs, residents were mostly working professionals rather than university students.
Su Mo was in her sophomore year, and having been at Su University for over a year, today was actually her first time coming to the foot of this high-end apartment complex.
Taking out her phone to check the time—only 7:10 AM, still quite a while before the appointment time with her "girlfriend"—it was too early for visits.
Having walked all morning with an empty stomach, Su Mo simply sat down at a breakfast cart, ordered fried noodles, thinking to pass time while eating breakfast.
While waiting for the fried noodles, the somewhat bored Su Mo curiously looked inside Weiyang Apartments.
It had to be said that Weiyang Apartments' greenery was quite good—the trees were all carefully trimmed, and there were smartly dressed security personnel standing straight at the entrance, occasionally saluting when residents entered, truly maximizing the atmosphere.
The apartment building itself was also well-maintained. Due to the large glass design of the apartment building, the dark green structure looked very clean in the rising sunlight, gleaming brilliantly.
While Su Mo felt favorable toward it, she couldn't help but be curious about how much it cost to rent here per month.
If the price was reasonable, Su Mo decided to rent here temporarily during the SSS-level mission completion period.
After all, each time a crossdressing mission was completed, her body would change. In the end, she would evolve into the stunning beautiful girl described by the system.
Just spending one night in the male dorm last night had already exhausted Su Mo. Although living in the dorm didn't cost money, the price was an exponential increase in risk, which was really not worth it.
As for the option of staying in hotels, Su Mo had considered it. But aside from the high prices of hotels near the university city, just the matter of needing to use an ID card for hotel accommodation was problematic.
The early stages of transformation might be fine, but thinking of the beautiful girl form in the final stage of transformation, Su Mo silently shook her head.
After all, the photo and "his" ID card would clearly be severely mismatched.
So after thinking it over, Su Mo had been thinking along the way about renting a one-month apartment.
Now with a girlfriend, she had a legitimate excuse—truly the right time, place, and people.
And since it was only a short month of temporary residence, of course she should choose something she liked!
Just as Su Mo was looking at the apartment building and thinking, the breakfast vendor brought over fried noodles with added sausage.
Su Mo took out her phone to pay, and seeing the breakfast cart owner wasn't busy, she casually asked:
"Boss, do you know roughly how much it costs to rent an apartment here per month?"
What surprised Su Mo was that she had expected the boss to directly wave his hand saying he didn't know, or simply give a rough estimate.
But unexpectedly, the breakfast cart owner skillfully pulled out a flyer from his apron pocket with extremely smooth movements, even more practiced than his noodle-frying technique. Then he rubbed his hands together, showing a pleasing smile, and said to Su Mo:
"Hehe, young man, you're asking the right person about this. Don't look at me selling breakfast in the morning, but my real identity is a real estate salesperson. For this entire Vanke area, wherever you want to rent, I know about it."
Due to the situation developing too suddenly, Su Mo, holding the flyer, didn't react for a moment.
What was wrong with this world? Why were real estate salespeople disguising themselves as breakfast cart owners?
Were they filming Mission: Impossible?
Dazedly picking up her fork and stuffing a mouthful of steaming fried noodles into her mouth, thinking to ease her shock with food, but as the noodles entered her mouth, Su Mo suddenly understood why there was no one else around this breakfast cart.
Clearly fried noodles were pre-made food, but the real estate boss had made them indescribably bad.
It wasn't inedible, but compared to the same product at Su University's entrance, it was worlds apart.
If she had been somewhat shocked that the breakfast boss was a disguised real estate salesperson, after this mouthful of fried noodles, Su Mo was 100% certain the other party wasn't lying.
Looking at the rental property list the other party had handed over, Su Mo quickly saw the rental prices for Weiyang Apartments.
56㎡ one-bedroom one-living room long-term rent 4500, short-term rent 6000, one month deposit one month payment.
63㎡ two-bedroom one-living room long-term rent 5000, short-term rent 7000, one month deposit one month payment.
89㎡ three-bedroom one-living room long-term rent 8000, short-term rent 9800, one month deposit one month payment.
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Looking at the prices displayed, Su Mo was somewhat surprised.
She knew that apartments or residences near Su University could rent very good places for just over 2000 yuan per month—weren't these prices a bit exaggerated?
Although she knew that real estate salespeople's marked prices might have a tiny bit of bargaining room, these prices still made Su Mo hesitant.
After all, including the salary Lin Muyao had paid in advance last night, Su Mo had at most about 9000 yuan in capital.
One month deposit one month payment—even renting the cheapest wouldn't be enough.
After shaking her head at the real estate guy and expressing that the rent was really too expensive and she couldn't afford it, just as she was about to leave, she was unexpectedly stopped by the real estate guy.
"Young man, don't be in such a hurry to leave. I see you seem to be a nearby university student. I have a tutoring job here paying 6000 per month to tutor elementary school twins, requiring patience and a diploma. If your education qualifications are sufficient, would you consider it? This way you'd have money to rent an apartment, right?"
Looking at the kindly smiling breakfast shop real estate guy in his apron, who had dropped another bombshell suggestion about a tutoring part-time job, Su Mo, who hadn't yet encountered society, was so shocked that the plastic container of fried noodles in her hand fell to the ground.
Emmmmmmmmmm how was this society so competitive!
Terrifying indeed~~~