The two of them were sitting across the table, holding hands, looking very intimate.
Zhou Zhou had a bright smile on his face, and his bright eyes stared at Elvia with emotion.
"Al, would you like to be my brother?" Zhou Zhou asked expectantly.
Alvia only felt that in just a few minutes, his mood was like a roller coaster, from being up high to falling rapidly. Now not only could they not even be friends, but they also couldn't be brothers?
Is there no chance at all?
But soon, Elvia realized that something was wrong. Zhou Zhou had a simple mind and only had a vague understanding of things that everyone took for granted, so why would he want to be his brother?
When he asked, Zhou Zhou immediately gave up Shirley and Keli.
It was because of his reminder that Zhou Zhou realized that his behavior of having multiple relationships was problematic, but he didn't know how to solve it. So after listening to the unintentional advice of Shirley and others, he went from one misunderstanding to another.
From having multiple boats under one roof to having brothers all over the world.
"Al, what's wrong with you? Do you have a headache?" Zhou Zhou asked with concern.
Elvia held his forehead with his other hand, shook his head, and let out a long sigh. It seemed that he was a little impatient. Zhou Zhou still didn't understand anything. Although he was constantly absorbing knowledge from all aspects of the world, he had no one to teach him and could only stumble and grope on his own.
Or maybe it was because he was too confident. He relied on his understanding of Zhou Zhou's preferences, so he wanted to wait until he agreed before slowly developing feelings for him. Now it seems that his idea itself is problematic. The top priority now is to let Zhou Zhou integrate into this world as soon as possible and understand common sense in all aspects.
We’ll talk about the rest later.
"Al? Are you willing to be my brother?" Seeing that Al was slow to respond, Zhou Zhou asked again. He calculated clearly that he was nineteen years old and Al was older than him, so in terms of age he was his older brother.
"Don't even think about it. Let's just be friends first."
Elvia refused immediately. The first half of her sentence was righteous, but the second half was weak. Zhou Zhou, who was originally shocked as to why it was not possible, tactfully stopped asking questions. If it is not possible, then it is not possible. Isn’t it said that family ties are more solid than friendship? Why is Al unwilling to do this and that? It's so difficult to deal with him.
We can’t have a relationship, and we can’t even be brothers, Zhou Zhou silently complained in his heart.
As soon as she saw Zhou Zhou's pouting expression, she guessed what he was thinking. Alvia changed the subject: "Didn't you say we were going to other games? Let's go now."
Zhou Zhou immediately forgot the unpleasantness just now and excitedly took his hand and was about to leave.
Elvia reluctantly followed him and stood up. The next moment Zhou Zhou remembered to ask, "How are we going to get there?"
Taking him to the holographic device, which can connect to all holographic games on the market, Alvia carefully explained the functions and usage of the holographic device to Zhou Zhou. Zhou Zhou nodded and asked, "Should I lie down in it?"
"No, what game do you want to play? I'll go in and set your data as a player account, and then you can enter the game."
"I want to play the love game!" Zhou Zhou said loudly.
Alvia: “…”
Okay, a love game is a love game.
After Alvia entered the holographic device, Zhou Zhou lay on the closed transparent cover and looked at him curiously, making Alvia feel like he was being visited.
Watching Elvia close her eyes, Zhou Zhou lay there waiting quietly, staring at Al's face inside.
Not long after, Zhou Zhou disappeared from the spot.
Zhou Zhou's eyes blurred and he found that he had changed places. He was now in a busy town. The players coming and going nearby were wearing Western clothes, with bows and swords on their backs. Some of them even had swords on their waists, chatting and laughing with the NPCs around them.
Zhou Zhou looked down at himself. He was wearing very simple clothes, had no weapons, and did not have any game instructions.
"Zhou Zhou." A strange voice suddenly appeared in his ears. Zhou Zhou looked up and found a very ordinary-looking man, almost forgettable, standing in front of him. It should be said that Zhou Zhou appeared next to him, but he didn't notice him when he first came in.
"Al?"
The other party nodded and said: "This game allows you to customize your face. I chose the system's initial template and did not change your data. If you want to change it, you can reset it."
Zhou Zhou didn't change, he felt that his appearance was good enough.
Alvia had never played a love game before, so he chose the one with the highest rating. He was not very clear about many of the processes in it. In addition, he was mainly playing with Zhou Zhou this time, so he just stayed aside and watched Zhou Zhou who was very interested.
"In short, it's a love game where you take on quests to win the favor of NPCs, right?"
The game's beginner instructions were given to players by the NPC in the form of a letter. After reading it, Zhou Zhou summarized it very familiarly. In his opinion, this game is similar to Love Academy, with the same substance in a different form. It is very easy for him as a professional NPC.
There are many NPCs that can be conquered, with different professions, races, and genders. Zhou Zhou chose the elf girl Lilith who ranked first.
Their first task is to go to the herbal medicine shop to buy potions and gain the favor of the owner, Lilith.
Zhou Zhou took El to do the mission. He was worthy of being a professional love NPC. Tasks that would take others several days to complete were completed by Zhou Zhou in just a few hours, and the elf girl’s favorability also reached 90%. At this time, Lilith shyly invited them to go to the mountains to collect herbs.
"Once we come back from collecting herbs together, our favorability will become 100%." Zhou Zhou vowed to Elvia.
Alvia was slacking off the whole time. Although he was doing the mission with Zhou Zhou, his favorability was less than half. Fortunately, this love game has a high degree of freedom. In addition to completing strategy missions, players can also do some daily tasks to save gold coins, so Alvia mainly watched Zhou Zhou do the mission.
Seeing him seriously trying to conquer the elf girl, Elvia felt very complicated. Seeing the person she liked trying to conquer other people, even though these other people were just NPCs in the game, she felt even more upset when she thought that Zhou Zhou was also an NPC and their identities seemed to be more compatible.
Lilith moves freely among the steep cliffs, as graceful as the wind. The modeling of the game is indeed very well done, fully showing the girl's agility and liveliness. Both her facial features and body shape are very natural and realistic.
"Zhou Zhou, this is for you."
The elf girl handed the flowers she picked to Zhou Zhou. Anyone could see her feelings from her shy yet expectant eyes.
Zhou Zhou was about to take the bouquet of flowers, but was intercepted by Al halfway.
"I'll get it for you."
"Al, I'll take it myself. It was given to me by Lilith."
"Since it's for you, you can give it to me. Aren't we best friends?"
This sentence hit Zhou Zhou's soft spot: "But..." But he didn't even get the flowers, so it's not a good idea to give them away like this.
The elf girl whose flowers were taken away by a "passerby" smiled and did not react at all to this matter.
When Zhou Zhou and Alvia were still arguing about who should take and who should give, Lilith suddenly said, "There is a legend among the elves that if a pair of lovers can find a red elf flower, it means they can be together forever. Zhou Zhou, are you willing to accompany me to find the elf flower?"
Zhou Zhou realized that this was the key to increasing the last 10% of favorability, and immediately agreed. Alvia watched coldly and thought that this game was really boring. So why would such a boring game be ranked first in the love game rankings?
Zhou Zhou and Elvia followed the elf girl to the top of the mountain. Lilith told Zhou Zhou the color and appearance of the elf flowers, and said that she had seen seedlings here before, and that they would bloom in the next two days.
Zhou Zhou was searching seriously. Although Elvia was paddling, she was still following Zhou Zhou, holding the bouquet of flowers and casually scanning the ground.
"Ah." Suddenly there was a scream from behind. Zhou Zhou and Elvia looked over at the same time, only to find that Lilith had somehow fallen off the cliff. At this moment, she was holding on to the rocks on the cliff with one hand, and there was a deep abyss below.
Zhou Zhou immediately ran over there: "Lilith, hold on, I'm here to save you."
But when he grabbed Lilith's hand, he found that he couldn't pull it up at all. Zhou Zhou tried his best, but the slender elf girl didn't move at all and was still hanging on the cliff.
Zhou Zhou turned to Elvia for help, and then the two of them pulled together, but still couldn't pull it up.
"This game weakens the players' physical strength." Alvia realized the reason instantly. This is a holographic game. Since it is not a combat game, it will weaken the players' real physical attributes and make everyone on the same level at the beginning.
In other words, it’s not because Lilith is too heavy, but because they are too weak now.
"What should we do then?" Zhou Zhou asked.
Before Alvia could speak, Lilith below shouted, "Zhou Zhou, I can't hold on any longer, let go!"
Zhou Zhou didn't say anything, but tried to continue pulling up. Although he knew that this was just a game and the NPCs in it were different from him, their behaviors were designed in advance and they had no life, but Zhou Zhou couldn't let go of the other party in this state.
"Zhou Zhou, let me go. You must find someone better than me in the future and forget me forever, so that you won't be sad."
Zhou Zhou: "I will definitely rescue you, don't give up."
Alvia: “…”
Looking at Lilith with tears in her eyes and forced emotion, Elvia remained calm and wondered silently whether he had chosen the wrong game.
"Zhou Zhou, I have a secret to tell you. Actually, I have liked you for a long time." Lilith said this with tears in her eyes and trembling lips, then let go of his hand.
Obviously, both of them were holding each other's wrists and arms, but when Lilith took the initiative to let go of her hand, the arm suddenly became slippery, making it impossible for both of them to hold her.
All he could do was watch Lilith fall off the cliff.
The last scene the two saw was the tears in Lilith's eyes sliding down her cheeks, slowly falling in a very sad and beautiful posture.
"Lilith!" Zhou Zhou lay on the edge of the cliff, stretched out his hand and shouted in grief.
Alvia: “…”
[Lilith fell off the cliff and died, the strategy failed! 】
Looking at Zhou Zhou who was in low spirits, Alvia asked tentatively: "Do you want to continue?"
"Huh?" Zhou Zhou seemed to have not recovered yet.
"Re-attack Lilith?"
"Is it okay?" Zhou Zhou stood up from the edge of the cliff and clenched his fist firmly: "I will definitely not let her die this time."
[Lilith was bitten to death by a poisonous snake, the strategy failed! 】
[Lilith was killed by the thief, the attack failed! 】
[Lilith tripped over a tree root and fell to death, the attack failed! 】
…
After trying countless times, Zhou Zhou finally gave up.
He raised his head and said worriedly: "Lilith is indeed a short-lived girl. I can't save her."
Alvia went from being speechless at first to finding it funny. Even though he had never played a love game, he knew that this game was indeed very strange.
"Why don't we try to conquer other characters?" Elvia suggested when she saw Zhou Zhou looked depressed.
Zhou Zhou no longer had the passion he had when he first entered the game, but he still wanted to give it a try. NPCs like Lilith who could not be rescued no matter what methods were used should be rare.
This time Zhou Zhou chose the male NPC in the game, a blond-haired and blue-eyed human prince, and their identity was the guards who protected the prince.
Through various tasks in the early stage, Zhou Zhou raised the prince's favor to 95%. After that, Zhou Zhou began to be wary of everything that might happen around him.
Judging from the previous experience, a rope or a blade of grass could cause the prince's death.
But this time it seemed to go much more smoothly and the prince did not encounter any unexpected situations.
When Zhou Zhou finally calmed down and thought that Lilith's case was just an isolated case, the prince was assassinated.
As guards, they naturally have to protect the prince. Although Zhou Zhou cannot fight, as a guard, he can successfully repel these assassins just by pretending to do so.
Just as he was easily dealing with the last few assassins who were running around with swords, the prince who had been hiding in the protection circle suddenly rushed up and stood in front of Zhou Zhou with his arms outstretched.
The assassin's sword, which could not cause any damage at all, or even a layman like Zhou Zhou could easily dodge it, pierced into the prince's chest with a whoosh.
Blood splattered, staining the prince's gorgeous clothes red.
Zhou Zhou was dumbfounded. He supported the dying prince and half-knelt on the ground. He wanted to ask him if there was something wrong. The battle was about to end, but he was the one who rushed forward facing the sword.
Compared to Lilith, who encountered various accidents and was extremely unlucky, this guy was clearly seeking death.
"Zhou Zhou, I, I want to say sorry to you. I have been so rude to you all this time. Actually, I did so many nasty things because I liked you and wanted you to pay more attention to me. I am about to die. Can you forgive me?"
What else could Zhou Zhou say at this moment? He could only nod in grievance.
"That's great. I hope, I can meet you earlier in the next life." After saying this, the prince closed his eyes with a smile.
[The human prince was assassinated and the attack failed!] 】
Alvia: “…” He must have chosen the wrong game. A normal love game wouldn’t be like this.
Zhou Zhou sat on the ground, his eyes blank and helpless. He suddenly began to doubt his life. Was he not suitable for playing love games? Why did it always end in be?
Alvia looked at the game ratings again. This game was indeed ranked number one in the romance category, but... he hadn't read the reviews before.
"Hahahahaha, this game is really fun, let's all play together."
"Don't miss it. This is the best love game in history. It will make you want to beat up the creator every minute."
"It's really fun. I've already played the same character hundreds of times. Hahahaha I'm not crazy."
"Whoever said it was fun, die!"
"A touching love story, an unforgettable separation of life and death, and the favorite game of the great enemy."
"Is it fun? I feel like everyone's comments are so exciting."
“Go play it now, I highly recommend it. Once you play this game, you will understand the true meaning of life - just live!”
Looking at the comment section, many people are going crazy, and some are desperately trying to drag others into the trap so that everyone can share the suffering.
If Alvia had taken a closer look at the comments when searching for a dating game, he would definitely have noticed something unusual. However, he was so confused after being rejected by Zhou Zhou that he did not pay attention to these details. As a result, Zhou Zhou began to doubt his life like other players.
"Why don't we change the game? What type of game do you want to play?" Alvia felt a little guilty, which was rare.
Zhou Zhou blinked slowly. Since his connection with this world became closer and closer, he rarely appeared in this state. After a long while, he replied: "It's all right."
Elvia immediately took Zhou Zhou out of the game and decided to play a fighting game. This year's students had just returned from field training, and there should be many of them fooling around in the holographic game. This was a good opportunity for Zhou Zhou to have more contact with young people, and maybe after a few exciting battles, Zhou Zhou would be able to return to his normal state.
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