Chapter 10: Meeting in person?
At 10:30 p.m., Zhou Jiu officially exited the virtual space, still unable to pass the fourth level.
The three-player cooperative mode is much more difficult than the solo mode, and the mech collaboration is very different from their previous three-player cooperation. It is easy for the mech arms to collide when they are too close to each other while helping each other.
Zhou Jiu walked out of the bedroom, greeted C-582, and went to the bathroom. While showering, she reviewed the day's operations. Zhou Jiu rubbed her head with soap, feeling sullen. She had been a hindrance many times in the three-person teamwork today.
Before falling asleep at night, Zhou Jiu greeted Chu Zhao as usual. She didn't know if Chu Zhao was on a mission. In her dream, when she met Chu Zhao being chased, his rank was major. Later, based on divination and other reasons, she chose to join the army.
Zhou Jiu: "I've arrived at Central Star."
Another familiar question mark appeared on the other end: "?"
Zhou Jiu: "Do you have time to meet up?"
Suddenly, a voice call came in from the other end. Zhou Jiu sat up abruptly, coughed twice with a slight nervousness, and then answered the phone.
"Good evening." Zhou Jiu's voice was as sweet as her face.
A hesitant voice came from the other end: "Hello, you seem to have mistaken me for someone else. I don't know you."
Zhou Jiu hesitated slightly. Initially, she couldn't forget the dream after waking up, so she added the contact number she saw in the dream. But then, she was unwilling to admit defeat and felt embarrassed that she had been blocked and her friends had seen it, so she bought a new account and added it again. Now she was too embarrassed to answer.
A voice came from the other end: "Hello? Are you alone on Central Star or with companions? Please tell me your location."
"You're not going to have the interstellar police arrest me, are you?" Could this really be considered harassment? It's so hard for her to find a relationship. Zhou Jiu's first thought was of Lin Xiu's previous complaints, and she couldn't help but ask directly.
"No... You're twelve years old now, you don't yet have the full capacity for independent thinking..."
Before Chu Zhao could finish speaking, Zhou Jiu interrupted him, saying directly, "I'm sorry, I'm 17 years old now. Although I'm still a minor, I have the ability to think independently and take responsibility for myself. If you want to date me, I think I can make my own decision."
Zhou Jiu suddenly heard laughter from the other end of the line, and his brows furrowed. "Excuse me, are you playing the girl's confession call on speakerphone?"
Chu Zhao's face suddenly flushed red. She dodged the laughter and teasing of her roommates, returned to her room, and said, "I'm sorry, I thought..."
Zhou Jiu suddenly felt that all her filters had disappeared, but she didn't interrupt Chu Zhao's intermittent words. She lay down with the microphone on. Why was she with him in the future? Was it because he was good-looking? But now she couldn't even remember what he looked like in her dreams. Thinking about it carefully, she felt that she only had lingering feelings for him in her dreams, but she couldn't remember them very clearly.
"I thought you had been scammed because after receiving the messages, I asked a friend to check your account's backend information, which showed that you were only twelve years old. Just now you said that you came to Central Star."
"Oh~" Zhou Jiu drawled out.
But Chu Zhao on the other end quickly retorted, "You're not one of my classmates, are you? Did you buy an account just to scam me?"
"No." Zhou Jiu's voice softened. The voice on the other end of the phone was quite different from the voice in her premonition dream. The person on the other end seemed younger, and perhaps the events in the dream were still many years away. Zhou Jiu didn't know if her early contact was in accordance with her destiny or would change it.
"Then how did you get my contact number?"
Zhou Jiu answered in her heart: In a dream. But she had mentioned it in a previous chat, so it seemed the other person didn't believe her.
Zhou Jiu didn't answer directly, but instead asked indirectly, "Do you believe in a mysterious divination method from the ancient planet Blue?"
"Um?"
“There’s a half-baked fortune teller shop in the virtual world that predicted you’ll be my future lover,” Zhou Jiu said.
"So you don't know me, and you only added me because someone said I was your future lover?" Chu Zhao didn't quite believe it, thinking that Zhou Jiu had been deceived. "You don't like me either. You're too young. Focus on your studies. Lovers can only be lovers if they like each other."
Zhou Jiu raised an eyebrow, beating around the bush with Chu Zhao, and said, "So you haven't even had any contact with me yet, how do you know you won't like me?"
Chu Zhao was speechless. Hearing the gossiping voices of his classmates behind his door, he frowned.
Zhou Jiu didn't receive a reply from Chu Zhao. Thinking that perhaps he wasn't good with words, and to avoid embarrassment, he glanced at the time and said, "I added you before, using a different account. You can look it up if you're interested. Now it's time for my sleep. Goodbye."
"…goodbye."
Zhou Jiu hung up the call, blinked in the darkness, and felt that she had messed up. This kind of chat had no breakthrough and made no progress.
Chu Zhao opened the door somewhat speechlessly, and seeing several people craning their necks to look at him, he explained, "She said she's 17 years old, and she added me before, so I guess this account is a discarded account that she bought."
"Brother Chu, how did she know your contact number?"
Chu Zhao recounted what Zhou Jiu had said about the small shop, and then, using her personal terminal, finally found a contact number that matched the one Zhou Jiu had mentioned from the past. She handed the number to the classmate next to her: "Nan Yu, help me search for her information."
Nan Yu stared at Chu Zhao's face curiously and asked, "Actually, you could have just blocked him. Why did you have to find out? You... do you really want to develop a relationship? If you really have this idea, I suggest you don't investigate. If you really get together in the future, it will be easy to quarrel."
But before Chu Zhao could make up his mind, Zhou Jiu sent a message: a provocative emoji accompanied by the caption, "Go ahead and investigate, if you find out, I'll treat you to dinner."
Nan Yu burst out laughing and said to Chu Zhao, "This girl is quite interesting. Should we continue investigating?"
Chu Zhao said with a matter-of-fact expression, "They've already provoked us, of course we'll investigate."
After operating for a long time, Nan Yu looked at the densely packed "no permission" messages on the computer and raised his shoulder. "Do you still want to check? If you want to check, I'll find a way to help you find it." If this old method doesn't work, the high-level permissions of the military system can always find it.
Chu Zhao shook his head. "No, she's still looking for me."
Nan Yu watched as Chu Zhao, confused and puzzled, scrolled through the chat history, then winked at the others, pointed, and went back to their rooms.
Chu Zhao looked at the records above and then looked away. He had no intention of dating for the time being. He still hoped to focus on training rather than on unrealistic feelings like talking about dating when he didn't even know the other person.
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