Chapter 005
Unable to bear the sight, Shi Jiu quickly removed her makeup.
Jin Meng was tired and hungry, so she found some instant food in the box. When Shi Jiu finished washing her face and came out, she was greeted by the aroma in the room. Jin Meng was making instant noodles.
"I don't know what flavor you like, so I made you some tomato-flavored noodles. You..." When she heard the wine coming out, Jin Meng raised her head from her instant noodles. Then she was completely stunned and bit off the noodles in her mouth, "Ajiu?"
Jin Meng had no idea that Shi Jiu had gone in to wash her face, remove her makeup, and become a different person. Jin Meng ran to Shi Jiu's side, looking left and right, and simply couldn't connect the beautiful woman in front of her with the female ghost from before.
"What are your hobbies?"
"Um?"
"You're so beautiful, why do you dress yourself like that?"
“.......”
She was already in the game when she came here, and she didn't realize she was wearing such strange makeup. Now Shijiu also understood why some people always looked at her strangely before.
Without her makeup, Wen Shijiu looked about sixty percent like her before. She'd spent years at home in the lab, looking frail and always looking pale. Wen Shijiu looked healthier than her, with beautiful peach blossom eyes, long eyelashes, and delicate features.
Even though she had a good foundation, Shijiu didn't understand why Wen Shijiu had to paint herself like that. In Wen Shijiu's fragmented memories, Shijiu knew that she would always wear makeup when she live-streamed games.
Is it because she is a funny anchor?
Seeing that Shi Jiu didn't answer, Jin Meng asked again, "Are you not very good at putting on makeup?"
That's a pretty good explanation. Shi Jiu replied, "Yeah."
She used to be so absorbed in gaming that she hardly ever touched cosmetics.
Jin Meng slapped his forehead and said, "I understand."
"Don't do your own makeup from now on. I'll do it for you."
"good."
"Wait until you're more proficient before you paint it yourself. You were wasting the material you created before, didn't you know that?"
Shi Jiu smiled and replied, "Yeah."
Jin Meng didn't know whether to laugh or cry: "I've made instant noodles for you, eat them while they're hot."
When the trainees' break came, the sky outside the window also turned dark. There was no light on in the room, so it was very dark.
Jin Meng tossed and turned in bed, unable to sleep. "Ajiu, are you asleep?"
Soon she got a reply: "Not yet."
"I'm curious about something." Jin Meng turned sideways and looked in the direction of Shi Jiu.
"Even back in the Dark Space, how did you know the NPCs would help us? When I think about it now, it still seems amazing. At that time, I thought I was going to be eliminated."
"Maybe it's just intuition." Shi Jiu smiled softly and said, "I don't think he has any intention of hurting us."
After all, she had created them, so she understood their little habits, which was why she could sense his kindness. She had a good memory, and she never lost track of any of the NPCs in the game. When each NPC was created, she would spend a long time in the game, getting used to playing with them.
She never thought that game NPCs were just data. In her eyes, they were more like real people. In the game, they would think independently, act independently, and even develop emotions.
But she didn't quite understand how it recognized her.
Or did it not recognize her at all and was simply kind to her?
Among the NPCs she had created, the Golden Octopus had an IQ that was below average. Shijiu considered it from various perspectives and still felt that the chances of it recognizing her were slim.
In the morning, Shi Jiu and Jin Meng had just gotten up and washed up when they heard a knock on the door.
It was Gu Jie who knocked on the door, and Jin Meng went to open it.
"Good morning." Gu Jie said with a smile.
"Good morning~" Jin Meng was obviously not awake yet. She squinted her eyes and tried hard to keep herself awake.
"Would you like to have breakfast together?" Gu Jie invited.
"Okay, I'll ask Jiu if he wants to go." Jin Meng said, then turned around and said, "Jiu, do you want to go downstairs for breakfast together?"
When Shi Jiu heard someone coming, she also walked to the door and said, "Okay."
"Huh?" Gu Jie asked, somewhat puzzled, upon seeing Shi Jiu. The girl in the room was slender, wearing a yellow training suit tucked into her pants, which accentuated her waist. Her hair was simply tied up, and her features were delicate and beautiful.
"Are you Shijiu?" Gu Jie was a little incredulous.
"Yeah." Shi Jiu replied with a smile.
Gu Jie scratched the back of his head a little embarrassedly, "I'll go ask them if they want to go downstairs to eat. After dinner, we can go to the practice room to practice, okay? We have a small test in five days, so we don't have much time left."
Shi Jiu replied, "Okay."
Quite a few trainees came to the cafeteria for lunch that morning. Shi Jiu and Jin Meng came down first to get their food, and soon after, Gu Jie and the couple followed. Jin Meng chose a seat by the window, next to Shi Jiu. Gu Jie and the others also came over after getting their food.
When they saw Shijiu, the couple were both stunned for a moment. They said nothing and sat opposite Shijiu.
"The porridge in the cafeteria is delicious. What do you think, Ajiu?" Jin Meng was drinking the porridge with a grunt, and did not forget to chat with Shijiu.
Shi Jiu curved his eyes and said with a smile, "Well, I think it's not bad."
Gu Jie also laughed, "The food in the cafeteria is really good."
"By the way, have your hidden abilities appeared?" Gu Jie asked.
Anyone who's played the game knows that every time a player enters the game and clears a dungeon, a different hidden ability will randomly appear. There are many different hidden abilities, some very powerful, some quite bizarre, depending on the player's luck. Because of these hidden abilities, every dungeon experience is filled with new and surprising experiences.
"Hidden ability?" Jin Meng paused while drinking porridge. "I don't think I have it yet."
"Me neither." Tong Le said.
Tong Le wore a black training suit today, the same as her boyfriend's. Tong Le's straight black hair was simply draped, and the makeup on her face was very cool, giving people a cool feeling.
"It should appear after entering the game copy." Jin Chen next to Tong Le said.
Shi Jiu was eating quietly, Tong Le was sitting opposite her, and Tong Le's eyes kept unconsciously looking at Shi Jiu. It wasn't until Shi Jiu was about to finish the porridge in her bowl that Tong Le said, "I've seen you before."
"Hmm?" Shi Jiu raised his head.
"We are doing live broadcasts on the same platform and have occasionally encountered each other while playing games, but only once or twice," Tong Le said.
Hearing her words, Shi Jiu felt relieved.
She had some memories of warming the wine, but they were fragmentary. If someone familiar with her had been around her, they would have noticed something was wrong. If they had only met her once, it wouldn't matter.
Shi Jiu just smiled and didn't respond.
The next second, she vaguely remembered a clip of Wen Shijiu playing games. Wen Shijiu often livestreamed her games, sometimes spending entire days in the game. She also wore makeup in-game, looking like the person she'd seen before. She was terrible at gaming and timid, often frightened to tears by in-game NPCs and bullied by her matched teammates.
She obviously doesn't like playing games, but why does she play so crazily?
Shi Jiu was a little confused.
The practice rooms are open, and the second and third floors are packed with trainees. Now there's a problem: there are too many trainees and not enough practice rooms. There are forty practice rooms in total, but eighty trainee teams.
The so-called practice room is actually the door to the game dungeon. Entering the practice room is like entering a game dungeon. The dungeon contains live footage, and if you successfully complete the dungeon, you will also receive a certain reward. The reward for completing the game may be some supplies. The more supplies you have, the more helpful it will be for them to participate in their first major elimination match.
Shijiu's team arrived a bit late, so they had to wait for the other teams to complete their missions before entering the practice room. The purpose of the practice room was to allow team members to work together to complete dungeons and improve their chemistry. The first elimination match was also a team competition, so team chemistry was also very important.
They received their number badges and entered the waiting room, where there were also quite a few trainees. Seeing the five of them come in, the trainees sitting in the practice room were still looking at them.
"Wow, this team is so good-looking! That girl in black is so cool!"
"I prefer the girl in the yellow training suit. She has a cool and gentle temperament, which is exactly what I like!"
"Shh, keep quiet, they are coming."
They weren't in the elimination rounds yet, so most people looked at them with kindness and curiosity. But Shijiu noticed that a few girls looked at her with something a little off. Shijiu didn't know them, so she didn't pay much attention to them.
According to the numbers on the cards, they sat in the corresponding seats.
"I wonder if the production team deliberately gave us so little practice room," Jin Meng muttered after sitting down. The waiting room was boring, and there were no cameras. They were simply bored here, but there was nothing else to do except wait.
"It's okay, you can chat with me if you feel bored." Shi Jiu comforted her softly.
She was calm and composed, and under her influence, Jin Meng gradually calmed down and was no longer so anxious.
"Warm wine?"
When she heard someone calling her from behind, Shijiu turned around and saw a girl wearing a black training suit. She had dark skin, thick eyeliner, and a bit of a gangster vibe.
Not only her, but her teammates also felt the same way.
"Do you know her?" Jin Meng also looked back and then whispered in Shijiu's ear. Shijiu was gentle and easygoing, and he didn't seem like someone who would be friends with that kind of little gangster girl.
"It's really you." The little gangster girl looked at Shi Jiu, smiled disdainfully, and spoke in a sarcastic tone.
Shijiu actually didn't know them, nor did she know their names. But some fragments quickly flashed through her mind, which were some of the things that happened to Wen Shijiu at school.
She was cornered, her hair pulled, and beaten. They were so mean, they smeared something on her face and even tried to scratch it. Wen Shijiu was terrified, covering her face tightly with her hands, which bled profusely.
Shijiu: “….”
This memory was indeed not a good one. Even someone like her who had almost no temper was starting to get angry. Shi Jiu took two deep breaths, trying to calm her heart which was a little shaken by the memory.
She lowered her eyes to look at the back of her hand, and there were indeed some scars on it. Wen Shijiu must have a physique that was not prone to scarring, and the scars on her hand were very shallow and almost invisible.
"You haven't given up yet?"
"How shameless! You've even come this far to throw yourself at me?"
"Hey, why don't you continue putting on that drop-dead gorgeous makeup of yours, hahahaha!"
Several teammates began to mock him verbally.
Shijiu now remembered that the people in front of her went to the same school as her. Wen Shijiu dropped out of high school in her third year, which might have had something to do with these people.
"What are you talking about?" Jin Meng couldn't bear it anymore, she turned around and shouted at those people.
"Tsk, do you think the person sitting next to you is a good person?"
"Wen Shijiu, you are amazing. Someone has been fooled by you so quickly?"
"Miss, after a while you will know how bad the behavior of the person in front of you is!"
"Hmph, I don't think you are good people at all." Jin Meng retorted without showing any weakness.
"Say it again?" Perhaps because she was used to being a bully in school, the little girl had a bad temper. She raised her hand and wanted to grab Jin Meng's collar.
But before her hand touched Jin Meng's clothes, someone grabbed her wrist. She couldn't move her hand at all. The little girl looked at the person who grabbed her wrist with a puzzled look, "Warm wine!"
Gu Jie, Tong Le, and Jin Chen also stood up. Tong Le glanced at the little girl and said coldly, "You dare to move again?"
Gu Jie also smiled, but there was no smile in his eyes: "Keep quiet in the waiting room, otherwise..."
Before he could finish his words, some staff members in black clothes came into the waiting room. They walked straight towards the group of young girls and handed them yellow cards.
"Your team will be disqualified from practicing today for violating the rules of the waiting room."
"Why?" The little girls still wanted to resist.
The staff directly played the recording of them speaking loudly and provocatively.
"If you don't cooperate, you will lose five days of practice."
Little girls: “…”
"It's so satisfying. What kind of people are they?" Jin Meng said with great relief as she watched them leave the waiting room.
"But how did the staff know..." Before Gu Jie finished speaking, he noticed the recorder that Shi Jiu was turning in his hand.
The three people around him also noticed Gu Jie's gaze, and they all looked down in unison. Shi Jiu's hands were beautiful and slender, and at this moment, she was holding a long recorder in her hands, gently turning it.
"Well done!" Jin Meng gave a thumbs up.
Gu Jie's focus was different. The voice recorder that appeared in the game was a game item, a type of item that needed to be purchased. Since it wasn't essential, it wasn't very expensive. Game items required Favor points to redeem, but Favor points were crucial for advancing in the competition, so they weren't usually necessary, so people wouldn't use their Favor points.
At the beginning of the game, each trainee's popularity was not very high. Especially for the less famous F-ranked trainees, their popularity was even pitifully low.
Gu Jie noticed the bracelet on Shi Jiu's hand. At this time, her bracelet showed that she still had three favorite points.
Exchanged all your likes for a voice recorder?
How to say it.
He is also a ruthless person.
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