Chapter 67: Mr. Bei and the Player

Although Mr. Bei, who was unlucky twenty-four hours a day, had broken the BOSS’s precious magic potion upon their first meeting, he was still very lucky not to have been fired, failing to create the great record of being dismissed on his first day of employment.

Ella, who had a clear understanding of his bad luck, was vigilant when she led him to pick out a bed.
She asked him to stand ten meters outside the warehouse, and then she went to get what he wanted for him.

In the end, Bei still chose a bed that could sleep eight people, and politely declined the hard shell bed, choosing instead a soft velvet cushion that imitated the human world.

He claimed that such a sleep was the most perfect sleep, but when Ella asked him where he had gotten this information, Bei shook his head in a daze.

The new rune mentor’s house was placed not far from the octopus Xavier.
Originally, Ella had wanted to arrange a house for him farther away, but when Bei walked near Xavier’s place, he twitched his nose and stood in front of a certain house not far away, refusing to leave.

“I want to live here,” Bei pushed open the door on his own.

Ella wouldn’t go against the rune master’s wishes in such a small matter and readily helped him place the soft bed on the empty second floor.

The first person to discover the arrival of the new NPC was none other than Contemporary Foodie, who had just come online and made a new pot of fish fillets.

She was originally in her own yard, using a pair of long wooden chopsticks to put the steaming hot fish fillets into boxes one by one.
When she looked up, she found that a head was hanging on the side of her courtyard wall at some point.

The head had thick, dark long hair that covered a small half of its face.
The remaining half of the exposed face was also extremely pale.

When the person turned his eyes from the fish fillets to the foodie, the pitch-black eyes almost made her scream out in fright.

A, B, C, D, all kinds of classic supernatural films flashed through the apple-faced girl’s mind.
Then, because of the shock, she took two steps back and directly bumped into the table with the fish fillets.

The not-so-sturdy handmade small wooden table shook a few times, and it looked like it was about to be completely overturned onto the ground.

With a ‘swish’,

she felt a gust of wind blow past her.
The next second, she saw a tall but thin figure standing in front of her.
The person’s hand was firmly on the small wooden table, preventing the tragedy of a pot of fish fillets being discarded.

“Thank you…” The foodie girl, still in shock, wanted to thank the kind person.
But when she looked up, she found that the head on the kind person’s neck was the one that had just scared her?

“What a reckless cub.”

That person was still complaining lazily, his eyelids half-raised, as if he wanted to fall asleep on the spot, so unmotivated.

Seeing the other party like this, even the usually good-tempered Contemporary Foodie was a little angry at this moment.

“I say, if you hadn’t suddenly scared me on my courtyard wall, I wouldn’t have bumped into the table, okay?”

Unexpectedly, that person slowly tilted his head.
“Scared you? Did I scare you just now?”

As he spoke, his hand also reached towards the fish fillets, as if he was very curious about that thing he had never seen before.

“Isn’t that so?” The foodie angrily snatched the plate of fish fillets from in front of him.
“Are you trying to say I’m not a person?”

The black-haired uninvited guest lifted his eyelids and sized up the foodie carefully, then lowered them again, and answered rather seriously, “But you are indeed not a person.”

Before the foodie could grab a spatula and beat the other person out, she heard his next words—

“Why does a merman cub insist on saying she’s a human? So strange.”

Her reprimanding words were suddenly stuck in her throat, and then she found that something seemed to have been wrong from the very beginning.

The foodie’s eyes rested on that person’s pale, handsome face, then slowly moved up.
There should have been a player ID there, but now there was nothing.

She confirmed it over and over again.
It wasn’t until the person opposite her also looked up curiously at the empty space above his own head, to see what was there, that the foodie finally reacted—

That is to say, this person was not, as she had initially imagined, a player disguised in human form with a transformation potion opened from a maintenance gift pack, but a genuine NPC??

When did a new NPC appear in Sea Realm?

She stood there in surprise, her hands subconsciously clutching the plate of fried fish fillets.
“Who are you?”

That person smacked his lips, still with that unmotivated look.
“You can call me Mr. Bei.”

“Bei?”

“It’s Mr. Bei,” the person frowned and corrected her.

“Alright, Mr. Bei,” the foodie was still a little curious about the newly appeared NPC.
Curiosity pushed all the little annoyances from just now to the side.

Before she could react, the NPC named Mr. Bei spoke first.

“What’s that in your hand?” She was holding the fish fillets .

“Ah? This?” The foodie moved the plate in her hand, only to find the other person’s gaze shifting to the right. 
Heaven knows how she suddenly changed, but the other person’s behavior was indeed like a cat, spun around, attracted by a colorful cat toy.

“These are the fish fillets I just fried. It’s a dish that can supplement your stats,” the foodie girl simply extended the plate forward and handed it to the other’s face.
“Want to try some?”

Bei’s eyes lit up by a lot.
Although he still looked depressed, a small flower bloomed in his dark eyes.

He politely took out a somewhat rusty fork, forked a piece of fish fillet from the plate, and then put it into his mouth elegantly.

The foodie sized up the other’s actions and suddenly felt that this was probably the most dignified time her fried fish fillets had been eaten.
The other’s performance was so elegant that it didn’t look like he was eating fried fish fillets, which were classified as junk food, but some delicacy that would only appear on a nobleman’s table.

Bei took out a handkerchief from his pocket, wiped the corner of his mouth, and then politely thanked her, “Thank you for your hospitality. Your name is… Contemporary Foodie?”

“Although it’s a strange name, you’re a good cub,” he slowly confirmed.

Putting aside the bad first meeting, the foodie had a good impression of this new NPC.
This not-so-likable personality was a bit like her certain little cousin, who didn’t seem to have any bad intentions but just wasn’t very good at talking.

Thinking this, the foodie’s gaze towards Bei had become much more magnanimous and loving, which made Bei rarely take the trouble to think about it—could this cub have some congenital problem?
Why did she suddenly become so strange?

Holding the mentality of caring for a disabled cub, plus the premise that he would have his salary deducted if he didn’t perform well, Bei decided that he had to be a little more patient with her.

Two completely different creatures thus inexplicably reached an agreement.
One gave the other a whole plate of fried fish fillets, while the other touched his trouser pocket, took out a small sticker-like thing, and with a ‘smack’, stuck it on the other’s flame pedestal.
The flame that reappeared was obviously much easier to control, and the atmosphere between the two looked quite harmonious.

One can only say, it’s a good thing that neither players nor NPCs had the function of reading minds.
Otherwise, what kind of scene it would be now, it’s hard to say ╮(╯▽╰)╭.

The arrival of the new mentor undoubtedly caused a sensation among the players.
Especially after discovering that the other was interested in the food they made, both life-skill players and combat-oriented players were keen on feeding him some snacks when they saw him, and then receiving the system’s increase in favorability ×0.1.

To be honest, the first time they received this prompt, it had startled the players.
No one had expected that besides the lord, there would be an NPC who was so stingy with giving favorability!

The lord has a magnificent beauty and can be forgiven for anything, but this new NPC!!

The player raised his head and met the other’s eyes.
Then Bei noticed it and looked down in confusion to meet the cub’s eyes.
Because he was looking down, Bei’s eyelids were raised a lot.

Then the player happened to look into a pair of dark, half-eyelid-less eyes.

“!!!! Hiss!”

That player sucked in a cold breath, and a row after another of fish scales on his tail stood on end.
Instantly, all his resentment was gone.

It’s okay.
Anyway, it’s not bad to get 0.1 favorability so steadily.
Day by day, a little makes a lot!
Hahaha! (Dry laugh)

It’s not because I’m scared!
Absolutely not!!

In short, for this bit of favorability, the players, in their spare time from fighting slimes, had managed to stuff Bei with a whole handful of snacks, making it a bit difficult for him to move.

“Space… rune…” Bei struggled to reach into his waist side and pulled out a scroll covered with characters.
Until he had sucked the pile of snacks into the scroll, he breathed a sigh of relief as if he had come back to life.

That’s right, he was not at all like the all-powerful NPC mentor that the players had imagined.
He was even more different from his sturdy octopus neighbor.
He was just a salted fish, listless star person who would get tired from just holding a few snacks.

What’s wrong with being a salted fish!

After complaining to his boss, who was also Sykes, about the overly enthusiastic cubs he had met, Bei received sincere advice from the other—he could appropriately send the cubs to do something else to burn off their energy.

Bei went back and thought about it.
He issued a quest to the players who were once again squatting at his door—

[Mentor Quest · Kill Slimes: Kill 100 slimes in exchange for the mentor’s free repair ×1.]

[Note: It’s not guaranteed to be fixed.]

[Further Note: The repair date depends on Mr. Bei’s mood.]

But what Bei hadn’t expected was that as soon as this quest was issued, those cubs seemed to be even more enthusiastic about him.

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