Chapter 9

Lu Yu felt like his brain had crashed; he couldn’t understand the phrase “intimate behavior.”

He understood gaining favor; didn’t those online games often have that? Get on good terms with Non-Playable Characters (NPCs), and they’ll give you quests with rewards.

But…

What the hell was “intimate behavior”? Damn it!

Clearly, he was a man, and the special character was also a man.

…Even if he weren’t a man, it still wouldn’t work!

If this were in China, a game like this would be heavily criticized! It could be accused of being obscene!

Although Lu Yu was filled with righteous indignation and fiercely criticized his broken golden finger, his golden finger couldn’t speak, it wasn’t intelligent, and cursing it was useless.

Lu Yu was frantic, not knowing what to do.

Tai Li saw him squatting on the ground without moving for a while, walked over, and asked in a deep voice, “What’s wrong?”

Lu Yu scratched his head, with a constipated expression, “Um…”

How could he explain this?!

Initially, he had explained to Tai Li and the others that he possessed magical powers as a witch to obtain treasures. But no witch would say that they had to rub oil from their own king to perform magic.

He had just said he wanted to become brothers with Tai Li; he couldn’t just turn around and do something like that with his brother—

Wait a minute!

Lu Yu’s body shook, suddenly thinking of something.

Could it be that his thoughts were too dirty? Did he misunderstand what the game screen meant?

Intimate behavior didn’t necessarily mean “those” behaviors; friends and family could also have intimate behaviors.

For example, mothers always give their children hugs, girls always hold hands when going to the bathroom, boys always…

Uh, help each other scratch their backs?

Lu Yu glanced at a certain indescribable place on Tai Li’s body, not knowing if it was innate to Matai people, but under that animal skin skirt, there was a bulging, large lump that looked impressive…

Tai Li frowned, “What are you looking at?”

Lu Yu suddenly came back to his senses, his old face turning red, his gaze evasive, “N-nothing, nothing.”

What the hell was he thinking about?

Scratching each other’s backs and whatnot, he couldn’t demand primitive people to have the same morals as modern people. Maybe Matai people were very conservative.

Tai Li didn’t continue the conversation and instead said, “If we can’t obtain the treasure, let’s go.”

His expression was very plain, as if spending so much effort without gaining anything wasn’t something worth worrying about.

“W-wait, don’t go!”

Lu Yu saw that he was becoming even more anxious with Tai Li acting like this.

The item must be obtained.

Think fast, think fast, what are some common, universally accepted intimate behaviors between boys?

His eyes darted around, and inadvertently caught sight of the wound on Tai Li’s body. His eyes lit up.

Got it!

Boys don’t like going to the bathhouse together, so wouldn’t scrubbing each other’s backs be very intimate?

He could use the excuse of cleaning Tai Li’s wounds to help him scrub his back!

So clever, right?

Lu Yu stood up quickly, cleared his throat, and adjusted his expression, pretending to be worried, “King, you have too many wounds on your body, and we don’t have any medicine pills right now. Let me clean them with water first.”

Actually, there was a big red pill, dropped by a she-wolf, but he didn’t pick it up!

A trace of inexplicable emotion flashed in Tai Li’s eyes, “Here?”

“Yeah, yeah.” Without waiting for him to refuse, Lu Yu took out a bamboo tube filled with water and soft plant leaves for washing bodies from his ring and ran behind him.

“King, it’ll be quick, I’ll just do a simple cleaning.”

Lu Yu dipped the leaves in water and first wiped away the blood stains on the wounds on his back. While wiping, his hands would unintentionally touch his body.

The young man’s fingers were soft, neither cold nor hot, just the right temperature.

He moved carefully and gently on the man’s back.

Tai Li’s back suddenly tensed.

His expression gradually became serious, with a hint of confusion.

Why did the simple touch of this person behind him make him feel like he had been poisoned, making his whole body numb and unable to move?

And why wasn’t he supposed to speak up to stop him, but somehow, he couldn’t seem to open his mouth…

Seeing Tai Li not speaking, Lu Yu felt relieved and quietly rubbed his back with the plant leaves.

A hollow purple progress bar suddenly appeared on the game screen, labeled, [Favorability Progress Bar].

Lu Yu was overjoyed; it worked!

He began to energetically focus on washing, in order to make progress, he even took out another leaf from his ring, using both hands to scrub left and right.

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