Huh? Isn't This A Galgame?
Chapter 135 - 132: The Fastest Man

Wen Nan incredulously brought up the main task countdown from the system—

[47:05:36——]

From the time Wen Nan, in the role of guild leader, assigned the task to Yang Mingzhong, only thirty minutes have passed...

Did they find it so quickly? Seriously?

Is this dude really a map-scanning fanatic? How many times has he swept through this map before to be so skilled?

As he was thinking, a message from the other party came through again—

[Y.M.Z.: [Image][Image][Image]]

[Y.M.Z.: [Video]]

[Y.M.Z.: I've confirmed by scanning it through the system, it should definitely be what we're looking for this task.]

Wen Nan clicked open the images—it was a stag beetle about the length of a finger, and the photos showed close-ups of the beetle from the front, back, and sides.

From the images, it was clear this wasn't an ordinary stag beetle, it was a beetle filled with cyberpunk style—

At first glance, besides being slightly larger, it didn't differ from an ordinary wild stag beetle. However, upon closer inspection, you'd find its antennae and mouthparts, as well as the structure and material of the shell in other parts, were different.

Its antennae and mouthparts were made of some kind of brown-black metal "prosthetic," where the "mechanical prosthetic" mouthparts were much larger than the original beetle's, looking like crab claws protruding from the head, snapping and clashing, appearing quite imposing.

Clicking the video, Wen Nan saw, at the center of the screen, the stag beetle was perched on Yang Mingzhong's finger. When Yang Mingzhong brought a pinky-sized metal rod to the beetle's mouth, the beetle immediately bent its antennae tightly around the rod, moving it to its iron-claw mouth. Then, with a few snaps, it easily swallowed the metal rod like a crab eating seaweed.

Quite impressive.

If it weren't for its small size, and the rule that task key items couldn't be taken off the map, Wen Nan would have liked to add this beetle to his equipment stash.

While considering this, consecutive system notifications echoed in his mind—

9527: [Congratulations! Player Yang Mingzhong has successfully found the key item for Main Task 3, Mr. Jiao.]

9527: [Due to the uniqueness of this key item, it cannot be evenly distributed among all players. Therefore, for this task, finding the item and having any player pick it up is considered a success. This main task accepts shared task completion.]

9527: [Player Yang Mingzhong has confirmed task completion sharing, and you have been selected as one of the beneficiaries.]

9527: [Congratulations, player! Main Task 3 current completion: 100%.]

9527: [You may choose to immediately return to the respawn point for confirmation, or return at any point before the task countdown ends to ensure task clearance.]

Could it really be the Mr. Jiao mentioned in the main task?

Did we just complete the third main task at lightning speed?

It has only been an hour...

Even for a regular player like Wen Nan, he's never encountered such a smoothly completed main task.

It's almost like a reward task given deliberately by the system.

Obviously, according to the requirements of the task assigned by Wen Nan earlier, Yang Mingzhong shared this result with all the guild members, and the Wenna Guild group chat quickly exploded—

[Huo Huo Huo: Holy crap! The task is complete?!]

[Huo Huo Huo: Am I seeing things? Or dreaming?]

[Little Fu: Really, not dreaming. I received it too! Thanks, Uncle Mingzhong!

[Jin Xing: Thanks @Y.M.Z., this speed might be record-breaking]

[Yao: Awesome, bro! From now on, you are the fastest man in my heart!]

[Y.M.Z.: Uh... maybe that title is unnecessary]

[Y.M.Z.: @Jin Xing, you're welcome. It's mainly thanks to the clues in your diary notebook]

[Yao: Seriously, bro, how did you do it? Even with the notebook's location hint, it only mentioned a tree downstairs, and the whole office building is surrounded by trees. How did you find it so quickly? Did you buy a map hack?]

[Y.M.Z.: No, with this kind of info, playing enough often reveals it easily, the clues aren't just in the stag beetle part; they're throughout the context.]

[Y.M.Z.: In the diary, the entry above mentioned seeing a fat cat and naming it Mi Xiaoxiao.]

[Y.M.Z.: In a previous task, when taking a break, I sat by the flower bed downstairs at the company, smoking, when I happened to see such a fat cat—clearly larger than others, round as a gas canister, so I remembered it distinctly.]

[Y.M.Z.: After leaving the respawn point this time, I went directly near where that fat cat frequently appeared to wait.]

[Y.M.Z.: The cat's lazy, barely moves; I was waiting for just a few minutes when I found it. According to the diary's record, I tried calling it Mi Xiaoxiao. It understood, immediately meowing and running to my feet, rubbing against my trouser leg, then raising its tail, leading me to a nearby tree.]

[Y.M.Z.: I found Mr. Jiao under that tree.]

[Huo Huo Huo: Impressive]

[Huo Huo Huo: To think of such a solution in such a short time is also quite amazing.]

[Huo Huo Huo: Besides our boss, you are now my most admired person.]

[Little Fu: Uncle Mingzhong certainly has much more experience than us]

[Little Fu: [Eyes of admiration].jpg]

[Yao: Old ginger is spicier [thumbs up]]

[Jin Xing: To be safe, should the key item be returned to the respawn point? @Y.M.Z.]

[Y.M.Z.: Yes, I'm on my way back]

With a quick glance at the flooding group messages, Wen Nan soon closed the chat interface.

His focus was now entirely on those few lines of system prompts he received moments ago—

Much like when the second main task was completed, this main task also operated in a sharing mode due to the uniqueness of the "key item."

However, the prompts received during these two task completions weren't entirely the same—

During the second main task, the system prompt stated that the item needed only to be found, not retrieved, to be considered complete, and its results could be shared.

Yet for the third task, the prompt indicated the item needed to be both found and picked up by a player to be considered complete before sharing.

Clearly, both due to the "uniqueness of the key item," but why was it that in the second task, finding was enough, yet in the third, finding and retrieval were necessary?

As he was lost in thought, a figure approached, followed by that familiar, cool voice ringing in his ear:

"The accident site at the map's edge has been fully investigated, Master."

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