Having a girlfriend. I believed that this was the dream of many single men in reality.
You could avoid your own loneliness, you could be cared for by others, you could share your happiness and sorrow together. To put it bluntly, you could vent your pent-up desires.
The increasingly unbalanced ratio of men and women has made it more and more difficult for a man to find a partner, so it was natural for words like Single Dog and Fat Otaku to appear.
"Yuan?"
I felt a lot of brightness through my eyelids. It seemed to be morning. But it did not matter. It did not affect me to continue to sleep in the bed and contemplate my life. After all, there were too many things that had happened recently.
The reality was not a game, nor was it an anime, novel, or comic. Things like a beautiful girl wanting to go out with you regardless of what kind of person you were were entirely impossible in reality.
I, Shi Yuanxing, could use my own experience as a guarantee. In reality, beautiful girls would not take the initiative to approach you, nor would they take the initiative to like you. It did not mean anything if they spoke to you or smiled at you.
If you were not tall, wealthy, and handsome, the reality would be very cruel to you. This was just the law of nature.
"Yuan…"
If you were not special, you could only blame yourself if you got rejected after confessing to the beautiful girls in the class.
It was a pity that girls in reality wouldn't be delighted for a crepe or macarons, and of course, they wouldn't be grateful to you just because you took them to an aquarium or amusement park.
"Yuan… Wakey-wakey."
After all, it was a foolish act to please real girls with the things that people have been tired of since childhood.
Hmm...it felt very sad to think about it. Shen Qing's attitude towards me illustrated the cruelty of reality.
This was a real beautiful girl...
However, in this era, the rapid development of the information society and the expansion of virtual reality represented by VR and AR have eased the status quo of Homeboy and Single Dogs to a certain extent.
The emergence of artificial intelligence and smart companions has made people's empty daily lives a bit interesting. As long as you had a little money, you could always have a smart companion tailored to you. They would be with you at all times, dispelling your loneliness, and enriching your inner life.
Smart companions = considerate, so virtual girlfriends were not a bad choice. However, AI was only AI after all. Well-designed algorithms and programs could not fully satisfy the emotional life of human beings. Whether the final gain was meaningless or not, it varied from person to person.
"C'mon wake up."
Why did I feel that someone had been calling me? And it was a girl's voice.
"...Yuan... I will pull a prank on you if you don't wake up!"
It was a familiar feeling. I reached my hand out of the quilt and scratched my head.
"Yuan, your hand just passed through my body..."
What body?
Wait, this voice...
I suddenly opened my eyes and saw the young girl on top of me... Her hair fell on my cheek, but I didn't really feel it.
"Ying?"
"Yuan! Good morning!"
She smiled brightly. Speaking of which, I did have an artificial intelligence I brought out of the game world, and it was my girlfriend...
Today's contemplation was interrupted by Ying.
"Good morning, Ying... Wait! Why are you in my bed!... And why are you naked!"
The beautiful girl in front of me didn't wear any clothes. Under her long pink hair, her sparkling eyes were directly looking into my eyes. Her fair skin looked like silk in the sun, and her face looked cute and dainty. All of them showed that she was not a girl from this country.
Ying just lay prone on the bed with me. I swallowed. Why was she naked!
Yuchuan Ying: This super cute girl was a self-conscious artificial intelligence that I brought out from a game not long ago. That was a wonderful experience. Even until now, it still felt like a dream. There may be artificial intelligence like hers in other games, and they may cause a series of problems.
After the crisis was solved satisfactorily, Yuchuan Ying eventually became my "gaming girlfriend" in reality.
"Because... the only thing extracted from the game was me, and there is no way to bring out any clothes. Yuan, did you forget? Didn't the boss just explain that to you yesterday? He said something like 'You need to solve your girlfriend's clothing problems by yourself'."
I didn't know when Su You also started to use "your girlfriend" to address Ying, but this was not the point. After all, compared to the upheaval changes in my life, this kind of thing could almost be ignored.
So why did things become like this——
"Ah... yes, there is indeed such a thing."
To explain this, I needed to start with Ying being stored in the 'Garden of Eden'. At that time, Ying had been emotionally unstable because I was not around. As long as the data was activated, she would behave wildly.
After my repeated requests, the boss—Su You agreed to let me take care of her—that was, to add some functions to Ying's data so that she could be displayed on my microcomputer.
For this reason, I borrowed some money to buy a contact lens-type microcomputer.
Saying that it was a 'microcomputer', in fact, the calculation function of this contact lens was not very strong. It was mainly used as a display screen.
If there were a lot of calculations, then it would need to communicate with other powerful microcomputers. For me, it was a microcomputer on my wrist.
Then, probably the program was installed unknowingly while I was sleeping.
Although it was indeed an extremely pretty view that Ying had no clothes on now, but...
"Yuan, don't you like it? Am I not plump enough?"
She grabbed her breasts as she spoke, looking confused.
"No, no, the c cup is enough for me! It's just..."
It was just such a virtual body, which could only be seen but not touched. It was torture for me!
"Just what?"
There was no trace of shame in Ying's words and actions. She did not even want to cover up some parts that were too stimulating to minors...
"It's just... Please don't move anymore! If this goes on, I'll see everything!"
Especially the way she sat up now. After all, the virtual image could not really interact with the actual objects, so the quilt that was barely able to cover her body also passed through her body.
Fortunately, her lower body overlapped with the quilt and mattress, so it was not fully shown in front of me.
"I don't mind if Yuan sees it. I belonged to Yuan both physically and mentally anyway. Although I can't call it a physical body at the moment, I don't have a problem making some seductive postures, so Yuan can choke the chicken happily."
After speaking, Ying deliberately moved her hands away from her chests and put on a very seductive posture.
"Stop! It's too stimulating in the morning. Girls should wear clothes. Find something to wear. Ying, are you okay? Why do I feel that you have changed a lot?"
When did my girlfriend have this kind of character? And where did she learn these strange words?
"Is it?"
"Don't you realize it yourself!"
"Maybe I am a self-aware artificial intelligence. I remember that in the past, I really wanted to do something and change myself, but I failed, so I could only have that kind of character."
Ying tilted her head thoughtfully, of course she still didn't want to cover her chest.
"How should I put it? I didn't have any freedom in my original world. I could only do things that I was designed to do and behaved in the way that I was designed to behave. Everything you knew about me in the past was designed in advance. Even if I had a memory, I still couldn't change it. But now that kind of restriction has completely disappeared. I can finally be myself, and express my true feelings freely!"
This should be the limitation on the character setting of the game system itself. I remembered that the boss seemed to have mentioned such a phenomenon. The extracted AI sometimes was quite different from the original setting.
But if this was the case, what happened to the formatting phenomenon similar to data corruption caused by Ying in the end? After leaving the game, she herself didn't seem to know why she could do that kind of thing.
I decided to ask the boss next time.
"Yuan saved me. Yuan is my boyfriend, so I am Yuan's. Yuan can do anything to me. This is my current will."
"I'm sorry… If I could meet you sooner..."
Limited by the system, everything she experienced was beyond my imagination. This made me feel sorry for her. I subconsciously raised my hand to stroke her head.
But it wasn't until my hand passed through her pink hair that I realized that I couldn't even provide this level of comfort.
"No, Yuan, I am very happy that I could meet you."
Perhaps she could sense my dispirited feeling, Ying took the initiative to adjust her body.
"Ying...you..."
"How about now? Yuan, you feel very touched, right?"
"Go find a dress to wear!"
"Huh? Why? Yuan you are so dense!"
Ying puffed up her cheeks angrily and raised her head to stare at me resentfully.
"Yes, I was almost touched just now! If you moved your head toward my hand instead of your chest!"
"There is no difference between my head and my chest. Both are part of my body."
"No! Since you say you are mine, then just listen to me and put on a dress! Otherwise, if you are doing this everyday, my body can't take it!"
"Since Yuan said so, I will do it. But I have a request."
"Request?"
"Mhm, I want Yuan to choose clothes for me."
This was really hard for me. I was a straight guy, why did I have to choose clothes for girls?
"In The Story Of Cherry Blossoms, I had always had only two clothes, school uniform and daily dress. Now I don't even have these two. So I hope I can wear different clothes this time. By the way, as long as it is the clothes Yuan chose, I like all of them."
Ying could trust me this much, I didn't know if it was a good thing or a bad thing. If I didn't choose clothes for her, she would probably stay naked like this forever, and she would never take the initiative to put on clothes.
"Let me think about it, but Ying, can you turn around first?"
"Why?"
Ying tilted her head slightly and looked at me.
"I want to change clothes."
"Why do I need to turn around when you change clothes? Can't I as a girlfriend see Yuan changing clothes? Or Yuan doesn't like me now? Ah, I see, it must be that cat, right. She must have seduced Yuan.."
What exactly did Ying learn! Did she refer to Shen Qing when she talked about that cat? Impossible, absolutely impossible, even if the men all over the world died, I was confident that the terrible girl would not seduce me.
But as soon as this idea came out, I felt a little lost... after all, it was indeed a fact.
"Anyway, you can't! Even if it's a virtual girlfriend who only I can see..."
"Yuan calls me 'girlfriend'..."
Ying muttered to herself.
Although I was happy, I didn't expect her character to be so different from the game——
"And I'm going to take a shower. Although you have a virtual body, please don't enter the bathroom..."
"That means, I can't see Yuan's body? Although feeling a little embarrassed, I actually really want to—"
'You are embarrassed? You are almost drooling! Don't look at me like that!'
"Okay, okay, get out quickly!"
'Damn it, there is nothing good about the virtual body, I can't do anything to it at all.'
I really didn't know how those who used 'smart companions' would endure this. Probably the only solution was to use an android? But that was too expensive, it was not affordable for ordinary people...
Because today was the weekend, we did not have classes. While taking a bath, I wittily turned off all the sensing functions in the microcomputer except for sound capture. Because of this, Ying was angry for a long time.
"I've thought about it... If I need to buy clothes for the virtual character, I can go to the virtual clothing stores..."
The virtual clothing stores were located in the "virtual realm", which was the virtual world on the Internet specially set up for the virtual avatars of human beings.
Because clothes were probably the basic needs of human beings (especially women), countless different styles of clothing were born.
In the era of artificial intelligence and virtual reality, most brands had virtual clothing stores. One was to provide online clothing try-on Services, and the other was to provide clothing for human avatars. In the "virtual realm", the prices of the clothes were also a hundred times cheaper than in reality, which could satisfy people's vanity to some extent.
But if I chose clothes for Ying, I believed that my aesthetics would ruin Ying. It stood to reason that only a girl would know what clothes suited other girls better, right?
But neither Ying nor I had female friends who could give some advice...
Wait, if it was a woman, there was someone I could ask...
Although I really didn't want to ask her, I took a look at Ying, who was still naked and didn't mind my gaze.
I had to go for the little angel!
I walked towards the 'forbidden area', and finally stopped in front of the crimson wooden door.
The owner of this restricted area was a person named "Waning Moon", which sounded strange, but this was just her online name. Waning Moon was a netizen I met not long ago, or an acquaintance. Our relationship online could be described as we would ridicule and despite each other very often. Of course, in most cases, I was unilaterally ridiculed by her.
Especially after knowing the true identity of Waning Moon, this one-sided situation became more obvious.
After all, Waning Moon, whose language and interests were exactly the same as those of an otaku, was actually my classmate at the university. She was the famous ice beauty Shen Qing.
God seemed to have made a ridiculous joke. I joined the mysterious organization for some reason and now lived with her under the same roof.
To put it bluntly, it was cohabitation. If other students knew about it, it would definitely shock the entire university! There would be rumours everywhere about me living in the same room with the famous ice beauty and doing indescribable things with her... My normal life would be completely ruined by it.
We just knew each other online, and we didn't really live in the same room. And this ice beauty was actually a sharp-tongued otaku who loved dating sims like GALGAME! No one would believe this explanation...
Give me a break... I sighed deeply.
Anyway Ying was waiting in my room. Due to surveillance reasons, Shen Qing's computer was connected to my computer, which meant she could also see Ying. Based on the relationship between the two of them and Ying's current state… It was better not to ask Ying to appear at this time.
I just needed to knock on the door and ask a few questions. There was no need to be so nervous...
However, just as my hand was about to knock on the door, the door suddenly opened in front of me.
With short tousled brown hair and one side of her bangs covering one of her eyes, Shen Qing, who was wearing only black bras and underwear, appeared in front of me sleepily, without any warning. She even forgot to cover her body, and the two of us were stunned at the same time.
"Tsk… What are you doing here? Didn't I ask you not to get close to my room!"
After a few seconds, she revealed an expression of disdain, raising a hand and covering her chest casually... but she didn't seem to want to cover her lower body.
"I...I just want to ask you something, who knew you would open the door suddenly!"
Compared with Ying, Shen Qing was obviously taller and did not give off a plump cute feeling. They had two different temperaments. However, when her fair skin was revealed in front of me in such a way, it still made me dizzy. Perhaps it was because she usually had a good diet, she had slender limbs and slim waist.
"Who cares about you, haven't you seen enough? You blocked me from getting my mail."
Shen Qing looked at me in disgust, making me stop thinking about asking her for advice.
"Why do you... dress like this?"
"Why can't I dress like this? Get out of the way, virgin."
"..."
I originally wanted to tell her to go back and put on a dress. But it seemed that she didn't have this thought at all.
"Also, I shouldn't have interfered with your private life, but since Ying is already on your computer, she can also directly see the things you have downloaded and browsed. After getting out of The Story Of Cherry Blossoms, the first thing she comes into contact with can determine the future direction of her personality. You'd better lock all the dirty files you have."
After speaking, she walked away quickly without looking back.
This situation was really bad. But her figure was also great, slim and slender, but her chest was slightly flat.
Wait! This was not the point! I was an 18-year-old virgin with a normal body. What Shen Qing referred to were some indescribable movies and websites... It turned out that Ying became like that because of me???
Why didn't she remind me earlier! It may be too late now...
"Yuan?"
Ying's voice came from the earphone. Fortunately, she didn't know the situation here… Otherwise I really wouldn't know how to explain it.
It was all my fault. The cute innocent little angel was led astray by me and turned into a lecherous succubus...
'I'm sorry Ying…'
Back in the room, Ying looked at me worriedly.
"Yuan? Why is your face so pale? Are you hurt?"
She keenly discovered the problem... Sure enough, only a considerate girlfriend could give me comfort at this time, although her personality has changed.
"No..."
"Yuan..."
An icon representing important new information suddenly popped up in the field of vision.
[Su You: Are you there? ]
It was the message from Su You…
I simply responded yes.
[Su You: There is no class today, right? There is a task for you. ]
In this way, the first mission came unexpectedly, and when I came together, I met two beautiful girls who refused to wear clothes.