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"Right!"

Before Chen Yi could respond, Tuberculosis Rabbit suddenly had an idea, jumped up on the spot, and looked toward the bikini-clad beauties playing beach volleyball not far away with a trace of curiosity in his eyes. He got up and trotted over to them.

He had been studying the marvels of this beach and the water just moments ago.

An aerial platform.

He had forgotten about these bikini-clad beauties who were laughing and frolicking.

What kind of beings were these?

Players from other planets? Employees of the Snow Sea Project Team? Or NPCs?

Soon.

Tuberculosis Rabbit ran up to a bikini girl who was lying on a beach chair, applying body lotion to herself, and coughed lightly like a gentleman before he said, "Excuse me for interrupting, but I want to ask..."

His voice abruptly stopped.

Because Tuberculosis Rabbit suddenly remembered something—that girl seemed to have been applying body lotion since the holiday environment had first appeared, right? Had it not already been half an hour?

Still applying?

Having realized this, Tuberculosis Rabbit took another careful look at the bikini beauties on the beach and, after observing them for a while, noticed that although their laughter was sweet and they were frolicking boisterously, they were all repeating the same motions.

Like low-intelligence... NPCs.

The once sweet laughter suddenly sounded a bit creepy.

"..."

Tuberculosis Rabbit fell silent for a moment before reaching out and waving his hand in front of the bikini girl lying on the chair. As expected, she had no reaction; so he snatched the body lotion from her hands again.

The heist was successful.

He now had a bottle of body lotion in hand.

But the next second, a new bottle of body lotion appeared in the girl's hands.

"..."

He continued snatching.

In a short while, he had already accumulated more than ten bottles of body lotion.

And the bikini girl on the beach chair still had a new bottle of body lotion, as if nothing had happened, as if she hadn't seen Tuberculosis Rabbit at all, continuing to apply it to her body.

Despite applying for a long time.

Her skin didn't look greasy at all but instead seemed refreshingly clean.

"This NPC's intelligence is just too low."

Tuberculosis Rabbit's mouth twitched slightly, a sign of his helplessness. It had been a long time since he had seen such low-intelligence NPCs, but the next second, his expression turned strange.

It's just an NPC, so a little pinch is okay, right?

A pinch.

Hehe.

Soft.

Another pinch, hehe, still soft.

What if he reached further in?

Realizing that no matter what he did, this NPC had absolutely no reaction, Tuberculosis Rabbit's expression grew increasingly more peculiar, and his actions became bolder and more reckless.

It must be said.

This feeling was more thrilling than that of a real person, a sort of... indescribable sensation.

Just as Tuberculosis Rabbit was about to take further action, Chen Yi's voice came to his ears.

"Stop fucking pinching, I don't have enough Points to cover your crap!"

"Uh..."

Tuberculosis Rabbit, who had thought that Yi hadn't noticed what he was up to, withdrew his hand somewhat sheepishly and quickly ran up to Chen Yi, looking slightly embarrassed and confused. "Yi, what did you mean just now about not having enough Points? Does pinching cost money too?"

"Yeah."

Chen Yi nodded expressionlessly and paused before saying, "Did you just snatch thirteen bottles of body lotion from her?"

"Uh... seems like it. Does that cost money too?"

"A hundred Points per bottle, that's 1300 Points in total, touching costs 200 Points per touch, you spent 800 Points."

"That's 2100 Points in total from me."

"We might be quite well-off now and not short on Points, but even so, we can't afford you blowing them all like this, right?"

In the system notification there was a line.

'PS1: The vacation environment is entirely physical, and extra fees are required for special entertainment facilities.'

Indeed.

The two things he did earlier are considered special entertainment facilities that require extra payment.

Beyond that, he had examined a bit earlier, and there were many places to spend money.

As small as—

'Purchase a designated personality for an NPC, equipped with high-level AI, available personalities include: cool girl style, Arrogant Style, Wayward Style, Cute Style... one-time cost of 5000 Points, permanent existence.'

'NPCs can be killed, buying a new NPC, with specified gender and age, costs 1000 Points each.'

'Customize an NPC with high freedom in face molding, free design costs 3000 Points per NPC, new NPCs come with low AI.'

'Add a cola and Sprite soda machine, costing 1000 Points.'

'Add an onion barbecue tower, costing 500 Points.'

'Add...'

With four or five hundred options, he had looked for ages and hadn't seen them all. Among them were many oddly-shaped decorations and structures.

Like that onion barbecue tower for 500 Points each.

It was roughly a huge chunk of lamb kebab, wrapped in onions, standing three meters tall, able to be placed on the beach.

Uneatable.

Serving only as a decoration.

There were quite a few of these uniquely shaped decoration structures.

But he simply couldn't understand who would spend Points on such useless things.

This is still one of the smaller things.

As for some of the bigger ones, there were even more.

"Can add floating function, priced at 5000 Points."

"Can add a power system, priced at 5000 Points."

"Can upgrade the power system, 5000 Points per upgrade."

"Can activate extravagant fireworks, 10000 Points per launch."

"Can..."

A mess of things, countless!
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The beach they were standing on was floating above the neighborhood as well, but that was because they activated the beach chairs on the rooftop, making the focus point the neighborhood rooftop, without the ability to float, just resting on the rooftop.

But if they bought that floating function—

even if they activated the beach chairs on flat ground, they could still make the beach vacation environment float mid-air, a feature of dubious utility but seemingly somewhat useful.

If they added a power system too, it would become a complete means of transportation.

No, to be precise, a movable large-scale battle platform.

There was a lot that could be added.

But they could not add any weapon systems, supposedly because the prop was designed with vacationing in mind, and the paid features added were meant to enhance the vacation experience. Adding weapon systems would be a departure from its intended use.

"This..."

Tuberculosis Rabbit spent a full 30 minutes to look through all the available pay-to-use options, feeling dizzy and confused, "Why does everything seem to cost money?"

"We'll talk about it when we get back."

Chen Yi stood up and walked to the edge of the beach, looked down at the ground, and without hesitation, calmly took a step forward.

He fell freely from the rooftop until he plummeted to the ground.

"Now set to forcefully enforce: falling from a height of 18 meters or above will definitely result in death."

This rule had been in place for a long time.

The distance from the rooftop to the ground had long exceeded 18 meters. Hanging down from there, no matter how many props he had, it guaranteed death.

Unless he jumped down with the beach chair strapped to his backside—he should be fine then.

Time to pick up Jiaye from hell.

He had never experienced this way of dying; now with the opportunity, he wanted to experience what jumping off a building felt like.

But at the moment of impact, Chen Yi suddenly regretted it.

Jumping off a building hurt too much.

...

Very soon.

Jiaye was brought back, with Sword Without End trailing behind. Sword Without End had to return from the comeback map, so naturally, he wasn't as quick as the others.

"What's this...?"

Tie Chui, who had just returned, looked at Tie Chui grilling tendons on the beach, and somewhat confusedly said, "Wasn't this a rooftop before? Where did this beach come from?"

"It's a long story, let's just say it's the effect of an A-level prop, prepared for vacationing."

"Alright."

Chen Yi patted Jiaye's shoulder, "You've worked hard these past few days, and it's been tough on you, too. This place is perfect for a vacation, so rest for a few days."

"I'll take you to see the Northern Lights in the Arctic in a few days."

"Northern Lights in the Arctic?"

A spark of excitement suddenly flashed in Jiaye's eyes.

"Yeah, the Northern Lights aren't always there when you want them. Let's go have a look first, see how our luck turns out. There's a chance to see them this season."

Chen Yi paused and then turned his head towards the little reindeer curled up in a ball and sleeping not far away, lost in thought as he spoke, "And along the way, we can check out that neutral boss Santa Claus in December. It won't be long now."

That neutral boss Santa Claus from December had chased him all around Blue Star!

For a full 24 hours!

And to him at that time, this boss was an invincible entity, regenerating a hundred percent of its maximum health value every second. Unless it was an instant kill, it posed no threat whatsoever.

It was quite an embarrassment for him back then.

As for now.

Showing its face would mean certain death, and naturally, it wouldn't be him dying.

Whether to settle that old score or not would depend on how alert Santa Claus was at the time.

...

"This feels great."

Tuberculosis Rabbit lies lethargically on top of the bikini-clad girl reclining on the beach chair, resting his head between her peaks, feeling the softness as he lit a cigarette and brought it to his lips, enjoying this moment of pleasure.

Nice.

It's indeed a fine prop for vacation.

Enabling a high-level AI for an NPC would cost just 5000 Points, and neither he nor Yi were short on Points, but they still didn't spend them.

Because he had suddenly realized that NPCs with low-level AI were a bit more interesting, giving a sense of complete control—in other words, you could disregard the NPC's personhood, like now, where he could just use the NPC as a cushion.

Extremely soft.

The NPC wouldn't resist, nor show any reaction.

But with a high-level AI, there would be lots of issues.

Comparatively, low-level AI was better, perfect in every way except for being unable to take pants off. To do that, a high-level AI was necessary.

It wasn't long before Sword Without End also returned.

The usual routine.

Time for a barbecue party.

Chen Yi, sparing no expense, purchased an iced draft beer dispenser, with five people gathered around the barbecue grill, alternately eating meat and drinking beer—it was exceptionally lively.

Although Chen Yi was the only one who had gone out to fight this time, the other four seemed to do nothing, but in fact, they were contributing their strength silently from behind the scenes.

Like Jiaye, who provided Chen Yi with his greatest fighting strength.

Through your pain, I grant you invincibility in this world.