Chapter 1126: Follow Me for Benefits (1/2)

After entering Jiang Fei’s room, Ariel looked at Jiang Fei silently for a while. By then, Jiang Fei had already entered the game and was fast asleep. When he was in the game, it was the equivalent of being in a deep state of sleep. Therefore, he would not have his usual sense of vigilance.

“I know you can hear me,” Ariel said after a while. “I also know that you have secretly sent a message externally. Although you can keep it a secret from Jiang Fei, you can’t keep it a secret from me.”

“…”

There was complete silence. Ariel did not get any response at all.

“Alright. You can continue to act your part. I know that Jiang Fei trusts you a lot. However, I do not want you to hurt him by taking advantage of his trust toward you.” Ariel waited for a while. There was still no response. “Fine. I don’t care if you don’t want to speak to me. However, I will continue to observe you. If you secretly send another message, I will kill you immediately!”

If someone else had said this, it would have been an empty threat. However, Ariel was different as she was well-trained in electromagnetic abilities. Although 0542 was powerful, he was only a series of programming that did not have any actual capabilities. If Ariel forcefully used her electromagnetic abilities to wipe 0542 out of existence, it would not be able to defend itself at all.

In actual fact, Ariel was confronting 0542 mainly because she did not really understand what kind of existence it was. Although Jiang Fei had briefly mentioned the Intelligent Assistance System to the women around him, it was an alien technology that even humans on Earth could not understand, let alone Ariel and Bella who were female NPCs from Dawnlight City.

Therefore, Ariel did not know that 0541 had been sealed or that 0542 had replaced it as Jiang Fei’s Intelligent Assistance System. To Ariel, 0542 and 0541 were the same being. Moreover, Ariel was unaware that 0543 would appear after 0542 died. Therefore, 0542’s death would not affect Jiang Fei.

Due to such misunderstandings, Ariel was concerned that Jiang Fei would lose his Intelligent Assistance System if she killed 0542. She was also concerned that Bella’s treatment would be delayed, not to mention her two sisters’ revival. Even more so, she was worried that Jiang Fei’s advancement to Level 5 would be affected. As such, Ariel decided to confront 0542 instead of killing it right away.

To be honest, Ariel had wanted to raise her suspicion toward 0542 to Jiang Fei. However, she did not have solid proof for her suspicions. Moreover, she knew that Jiang Fei greatly trusted the Intelligent Assistance System. Hence, Ariel did not want to alert others before obtaining solid proof.

After having confronted 0542, Ariel did not walk away. Instead, she sat on the couch in Jiang Fei’s room.

Meanwhile, Jiang Fei remained silent as he was still in the game. 0542, on the other hand, was either pretending not to have heard Ariel or pondering something else as it did not reply to Ariel’s confrontation.

Jiang Fei who was now in the game had no idea what was happening in the real world. He continued to bring players to fight against the Cultist armies. The attacks from their enemies seemed to be extraordinarily powerful today. Two of the middle-sized guilds had already lost their defensive zones. Fortunately, Jiang Fei was powerful enough after transforming to defeat the monsters with his Celestial capabilities.

As such, the Empyreal Dragon had managed to absorb two more defensive areas which made the players in the guild extremely happy. Not only could the main groups gain experience by following Jiang Fei around, even the secondary groups were able to gain some benefits.

When Jiang Fei logged out of the game the next day, everything seemed normal in his room apart from Ariel who was smiling at him on the sofa.

“Ariel, you’re up early today!” Jiang Fei smiled. He sthought Ariel was there because it was already noon due to the time difference.