Using the bamboo dragonfly, Leng Yue felt much more relaxed.

Fortunately, she didn't listen to Ling and use the rolling method. Only after Leng Yue flew up did she realize that she was in the mountains, and the place she needed to go was far away. She would have to cross several mountains to get there.

In other words, although the straight-line distance is ten miles, the actual walking distance is far greater than that. Let alone a year, even someone of Leng Yue's skill level might not be able to reach it in ten years.

"Yueyue, you are still the wise and powerful one!" Before Leng Yue could even complain, Ling was the first to flatter her.

Leng Yue was speechless. "You're quite clever; you knew I would definitely scold you."

"Hehe, you can't hit someone who's smiling..." Zero replied with a grin.

Leng Yue imagined Ling's smiling face, and her lips twitched slightly. "With your appearance, is there any difference between smiling and not smiling?"

Ling's fish-like face stiffened from Leng Yue's attack. "Yueyue, why are you saying that about her?"

"Oh right, I forgot to ask you, how did you upgrade yourself into a big-eyed fish monster? And in all colors at that! You have such unique taste!" Leng Yue chatted with Ling while enjoying the breeze on her bamboo dragonfly.

Zero felt wronged, "Yueyue, you also think it's not good-looking, right?"

Leng Yue nodded, even though she couldn't distinguish between the head and body, it didn't stop her from wanting to agree. "Yes, I really can't appreciate it."

"Why didn't you say so before?" Zero asked, sounding aggrieved and her tone wasn't very friendly.

"Oh, I didn't notice it then, I only remembered it now that I have some free time." Leng Yue's attention was drawn to other things at the time, and she only remembered it when she was sitting on the bamboo dragonfly just now.

Lingqi's cheeks puffed up, transforming from a colorful, big-eyed fish monster into a colorful, big-eyed pufferfish. "Yueyue! So you don't care about me at all!"

"Why are you acting like a child? Where have I not cared about you? I just saw that you're alright." Leng Yue knew that Ling's childish temper was acting up again, so she could only coax her gently, "I care about you, I care about you the most, don't be angry."

"Hmph!" Zero still puffed out his fish-like face. "You didn't even notice my dazzling colors right away? I'm so disappointed in you!"

Leng Yue doesn't have hands right now. If she did, she would definitely rub her head properly. What kind of mess is this?

"Then what do you suggest we do?" Leng Yue relented.

"Praise me for being good-looking!" Ling pressed on, "Give me a few more compliments, the kind that are genuine."

"..." Leng Yue fell into an eerie silence.

"Yueyue!" Ling exclaimed anxiously. Was it really that ugly?

"Um... Zero, lying is bad." Leng Yue was embarrassed. "I really can't appreciate your beauty!"

"Waaaaah..." Zero burst into tears, "I told you it didn't look good, but the maintenance staff said it was the trendiest design this year!"

"People wanted fish from The Adventures of Goldfish, but they got fish from Treasure Island instead..."

"That's not all, they even had to add some dazzling colors, and claim it's the most dazzling ethnic style!"

"They were misled by the repairman's nonsense, and they're going to file a complaint!"

………………

He rambled on and on, complaining for ages. The rambling, off-topic content was enough for Leng Yue to write a book about.

Once Zero calmed down, Leng Yue finally spoke, "Zero, can your appearance still change?" Leng Yue wanted to add a cringe-worthy comment, but then thought about how it might cry, so she held back.

Zero still cried, "They can replace it, but only after a certain period. They can't replace it immediately. I'm going to complain about the repair department, I really have to complain!"

Seeing Ling like this, Leng Yue quickly comforted her, "Ling, don't get excited! Anyway, we're not going to see anyone. Whether it looks good or not, I don't mind."

"Yueyue, have you forgotten? He has an online girlfriend too!" Ling said this with a shy and coquettish tone.

"That's alright, just use a beauty filter!" Leng Yue suggested to Ling, "Once your deadline is over, I'll give you some advice and we'll definitely come up with the coolest look!"

"But...but Xiaomei said she wants to see me." Ling was a little embarrassed.

"Hey, what do you mean?" Leng Yue didn't know what to say to him. He wanted to meet her so soon, did he even understand feelings? Seriously, "You agreed?"

“No,” Zero shook his head. “They’re not ready yet and don’t want things to move so fast.”

"Then what are you struggling with?" Leng Yu was getting a little frustrated. Did this person, no, this system, even have a brain?

"But, but she won't have a good excuse soon. What if Xiaomei brings up meeting again next time, and I don't say it well, and she gets angry?" It seems that Ling really cares about Xiaomei.

Leng Yue thought for a moment, "Isn't Xiao Mei very pretty?"

"I don't know, I've never seen it." Zero shook his head.

"No video?" Leng Yue didn't believe it; they were in such a hurry, why wouldn't they make a video call?

"We did a video call, but we both coincidentally used cartoon images to cover our faces," Zero replied, then added with a hint of relief, "See, we're so in sync, so perfectly in sync!"

“…Yes…” Leng Yue was speechless. It was clearly two hypocritical people having an online romance, and they were talking about telepathy? Bah! It was an insult to that beautiful word.

"You two are doing great. Your relationship will probably last forever," Leng Yue said with a numb sarcasm. "You don't have to worry about meeting up in person at all."

Ling took it all as a compliment, as Leng Yue's blessing to them. "Yueyue, do you really think Xiaomei and I can be together forever? Can our love really be that great? I'm so touched..."

"...Whatever makes you happy." Leng Yue suddenly felt that this upgraded system wasn't all that great; at the very least, it still didn't have a brain.

Leng Yue had initially thought Zero's IQ had increased, but upon closer inspection, it seemed it hadn't improved much. She wondered if it was because the initial intelligence was too low, making further improvement difficult. Functionally, it was alright, but Zero wasn't very proficient, so it could only be described as mediocre.

Especially this chat function—Leng Yue really didn't know whether to say it was good or bad. For some reason, she had a feeling that Xiao Mei might actually be a burly man. But since they hadn't met yet, it was still uncertain.

Suddenly, a gust of wind blew in, and the bamboo dragonfly was uncontrollably swept into the eye of the storm. Leng Yue floated up and down with the bamboo dragonfly, spinning endlessly, feeling dizzy and disoriented.

"Yueyue, what's wrong with you?" Ling could no longer see Leng Yue, only hear static coming from the communicator.

Leng Yue couldn't hear Ling's voice at all because she was about to fall off the bamboo dragonfly. Luckily, she shrank the dagger and hid it under the bean curd skin, otherwise she would have fallen off long ago. Suddenly, the wind picked up, and the bamboo dragonfly spun even faster. Leng Yue accidentally fell off.

As the bean plummeted rapidly, Leng Yue felt as if she were falling off a bottomless abyss, never reaching the bottom. After an unknown amount of time, Leng Yue finally crashed to the ground. After a bounce, Leng Yue felt her vision go black, the world spin, and she quickly lost consciousness.

The evil wind subsided, and everything returned to calm. Only broken branches, fallen leaves, and tangled grass proved that this place had been ravaged by a gust of wind.

Leng Yue lay quietly on a leaf, and the bamboo dragonfly lay unharmed beside her. The scene in the space returned to normal, and Ling looked at the black bean on the leaf and Leng Yue breathed a sigh of relief!

Zero: Thank goodness it wasn't lost!