Chapter 252 : Heartbeat Hide and Seek 2
In Heartbeat Hide and Seek's first phase, Su Mo had to 'crossdress as a man' to complete ten ring missions.
Based on the first phase's mission description and the keyword 'Heartbeat Hide and Seek,'
Su Mo had actually guessed that Heartbeat Hide and Seek's second phase mission should also proceed in 'hide and seek' format.
When her popularity value reached 50 million, successfully activating the mission and reading the description,
what surprised Su Mo was that this second phase mission was much more straightforward than the hide and seek she had imagined.
In a sense, it was exactly the same as childhood hide and seek!
[Heartbeat Hide and Seek ② Mission Objective: If you can see this description, it means the host has accumulated certain popularity value. Please host, within ten days, without using money, Challenge Coins, or leaving the current 'Su City,' play a large-scale hide and seek. Not being discovered and caught by two or more people means challenge success]
[Mission Details: When the host confirms choosing to complete the mission, the Challenge System will release 'Hide and Seek Wanted Notice' on various platforms.
Wanted Notice Details: I, Su Mo, will conduct hide and seek in Su City within ten days. Those who catch me will receive 1 million RMB reward (actually paid by the system)
Besides the wanted notice, for each day the host successfully hides, the Challenge System will randomly select a beautiful photo from that day and post it on social media with mocking bratty quotes. As time progresses, mission difficulty is expected to increase progressively]
[Mission Rewards:
Choice ① Directly become a tough guy, Constitution +4 Strength +4, with skill: Unlimited Energy
Choice ②: Time rewind, return to Heartbeat Hide and Seek ① completion point (Note: If Heartbeat Hide and Seek ① re-challenge fails, punishment is not only becoming a real beautiful girl, but additional punishment: octuplets in one birth)]
[Failure Punishment: Body receives random Seven Deadly Sins crest marks daily, including: Pride, Envy, Wrath, Sloth, Greed, Gluttony, and Lust. Warm reminder: Crest marks will subtly influence host's actions and thinking patterns.]
After carefully reading this Heartbeat Hide and Seek ② mission, Su Mo couldn't help but swallow.
Completely different from Heartbeat Hide and Seek ①'s nature, the previous ① was about disguising as a boy while keeping identity undisguised, focusing more on low-key behavior.
Now ② was real hide and seek, and with her current popularity, plus the 1 million bounty and the system's daily 'bratty' provocative posts,
Su Mo felt this mission's difficulty was really enormous, possibly escalating to city-wide manhunts by the end.
Although she possessed 'Twilight Disguise Technique' allowing her to cosplay as various people through heaven-defying makeup skills, there were many problems.
The main issue was: not being able to use cash for ten consecutive days, so where should she sleep at night? What should she eat each day?
Moreover, with the system posting updates daily, wouldn't she need to change locations every single day for ten days?
Finding a quiet place to hole up safely like in battle royale games seemed impossible!
Thinking of these possible scenarios, Su Mo couldn't help but feel overwhelmed.
No matter how she thought about it, Heartbeat Hide and Seek ②'s difficulty was really too high.
Just as Su Mo was looking at the mission description while also seeing her soon-to-upgrade Candy Value of 95,312/100,000, feeling tearful, an electronic synthetic voice suddenly rang in Su Mo's mind.
[Ding, detecting host has accumulated ten Golden Treasure Boxes, open now?]
Hearing the Challenge System's message, Su Mo's eyes brightened.
Right, she still had ten Golden Treasure Boxes to open! Maybe she could get some items to help complete the mission.
After all, the mission description said she couldn't use Challenge Coins and money after the mission started, so preparation work before mission start must be thorough!
Thinking this, Su Mo focused on the Golden Treasure Boxes in her mind.
Just as she rubbed her cute white hands, about to start the ten-draw, Su Mo suddenly remembered a detail.
Since it was lottery drawing, she could completely buy some luck value from the shop to possibly get better items.
Having been scammed by 'Lucky Four-leaf Clover' once, Su Mo didn't buy the 10,000 four-leaf clover again, instead purchasing a 5,000 Wishing Charm item. Its effect was simple—subtly improving lottery probability, increasing high-quality output probability by 5%.
Normally, Su Mo wouldn't bear to spend 5,000 Challenge Coins on this.
But with 50,000 Challenge Coins rewarded for reaching 50 million popularity, Su Mo was now a little rich girl. To become a tough guy, although Su Mo didn't usually play gacha games, she decided to be a little extravagant.
After buying the 'Wishing Charm,' Su Mo washed her already clean small hands and pearly white face 5 times, clasped her hands in prayer: Buddha, Monkey King, Earth God, Guanyin, God, Jesus, Holy Maiden bless the draws.
Finally, trembling, she clicked the ten-draw option in her mind.
As the treasure boxes opened, the next moment, Su Mo's mind was filled with flashing white, yellow, blue, orange brilliant lights.
Seeing these radiant colors, Su Mo could judge that this ten-draw probably had various quality treasure boxes.
As all the flashing light dimmed, the first item in Su Mo's view was a white object.
[Congratulations host on obtaining common quality item: Calming Pills. After consumption, keeps host calm and determined for 24 hours, sweet aftertaste, not bitter at all. Best effect for those with poor exam mentality or taking driving tests]
Looking at this first white item, Su Mo's eyes flickered slightly.
Although this Calming Pills was white quality with seemingly average effect, just mental assistance, Su Mo suddenly remembered she still had two green hat and pink-haired little loli pills in stock from the 'Loli Wants to Play' mission.
If she ate calming pills then became a little loli, wouldn't she safely pass one day?
Thinking this, Su Mo's eyes brightened, becoming more expectant of the remaining draws.
Looking at the second treasure box reward, Su Mo was slightly stunned.
[Traditional Chinese Medicine Manual: After learning this manual, gain old Chinese doctor experience, diagnose some physical ailments and perform minor treatments.]
Looking at this manual-type book, Su Mo felt complex emotions.
Although the Traditional Chinese Medicine Manual sounded impressive, and Su Mo herself admired traditional Chinese doctors and yearned for Chinese medicine, how should she put it—this manual seemed unhelpful for the mission.
However, despite being unhelpful, Su Mo still briefly read the manual and took her own pulse.
Mm, slow heartbeat, unstable pulse, probably caused by too much lewdness, kidneys also...
After brief self-diagnosis, Su Mo continued looking at other treasure box rewards.
Perhaps due to the 'Wishing Charm's' effect improving rates, the next item was also purple quality.
[Hypnosis Ring (One-time Consumable): Place the pendant on index finger and swing gently. Those watching the pendant will enter hypnotized state. For 8 hours, they will follow any command from the user, even forgetting some memories.]
Looking at this evil item, Su Mo became excited.
Because she could not only use it to complete the mission,
but with it, couldn't she bring her other wives to play with the 'tentacle suit' together?
The only regret was that Heartbeat Hide and Seek ② couldn't have two or more people discover her.
If playing during the mission, she could only choose one!
Just as Su Mo was struggling over which beautiful girl to give an additional weakness,
as if sensing Su Mo's dilemma, the next three treasure boxes were consecutively three more hypnosis rings.
The first six items had already produced many good rewards, improving Su Mo's mission completion probability.
As the seventh Golden Treasure Box opened, seeing the orange-yellow luster, Su Mo's eyes couldn't help but brighten—this was actually a golden legendary!
[Invisibility Ring: As the name suggests, after use, makes 'person' enter invisible state. Note that clothes cannot become invisible, requiring removal of all items when using. User retains physical form and will have object collisions. Invisibility duration: 3 hours, Invisibility CD: ten days]
Looking at this ring's description, Su Mo couldn't help but think of the exposure mini-game she played on evil loli senior's computer a few days ago.
Thinking of the girl's punishment after being discovered, Su Mo silently shivered.
This seemed to require careful use.
After drawing the seventh item, Su Mo then drew small white socks that increased running speed by +15m per minute and a white leather giant teddy bear she could crawl into.
These two items were fairly standard.
Unknowingly reaching the final treasure box, Su Mo was attracted by an even richer aura.
[Ding, congratulations host on explosive luck, obtaining gold quality item: Time Stop Watch!]
[Time Stop Watch (Consumable): After wearing the watch, long-press the side button for ten seconds to pause time for 2 minutes. During the 2-minute time stop, host can move freely. Come on, do what you want to do, hehehe!]
Looking at the super reward from the last treasure box, just as satisfied Su Mo prepared to exit the lottery interface and examine the rewards,
[Ding, detecting host opened ten Golden Treasure Boxes at once, additional bonus reward——Fortune Teller Daoist Robe Set]
[Fortune Teller Daoist Robe Set: After wearing this set, you will subtly possess some special abilities: fortune telling, feng shui reading, exorcising haunted houses... (Note: Due to karmic cycle, cannot divine fortune/misfortune of close ones or yourself)]
Looking at this additional bonus fortune teller daoist robe set, Su Mo felt somewhat complex.
Emmmmmmmm this reward seemed a bit strange.
Why both fortune teller and traditional Chinese doctor!
However, strange as it was, Su Mo was still quite satisfied with this lottery.
Because with these items' enhancement, completing the mission seemed to have several more insurance policies!
...
Just as Su Mo finished her lottery,
Lu Mingyuan, as Su Mo's agent, having accumulated a small treasury due to Su Mo's recent diligence and living quite comfortably, had returned to his slacking time.
Having no morning classes, he stayed home and used his membership to watch the newly released movie "The Great Wilderness Legend."
As Su Mo playing Yun Mo appeared on screen, seeing the overwhelming 'wife, fairy sister' bullet comments,
Lu Mingyuan, as Su Mo's advisor and agent, felt very gratified.
After all, compared to freshman and sophomore years, Junior Su Mo was really too well-behaved.
Not only did she not cause daily trouble, she even sponsored the fireworks display, no longer the troublemaker king of old but transformed into a cute obedient girl.
Just as Lu Mingyuan was gratefully reflecting on the cute changes in Su Mo, who no longer caused trouble,
suddenly, his right eyelid uncontrollably twitched twice.
Facing this scene, Lu Mingyuan felt somewhat familiar.
However, Lu Mingyuan didn't pay much attention.
He just treated it as an illusion.
After all, Su Mo had already reformed and even crossdressed as a man before—
Just a university student, what big trouble could she possibly cause?