This was where they first met, same scene, same two people, but the difference was that the corridor, which was once swallowed by darkness and where nothing could be seen, was now extremely bright, with sea blue patterns painted on the white walls. The warm and clean corridor did not have a single shadow.
Alvia raised the corner of his mouth and stretched out his hand towards Zhou Zhou.
"OK."
When Zhou Zhou held Elvia's hand, the blue zero above his head suddenly turned red, and the value began to rise continuously until it reached 90%.
"Ah!" Zhou Zhou widened his eyes in surprise and broke off the hanging number with 90 percent above his head.
Alvia: Can this thing be taken off?
Looking at the bright red value in his hand, Zhou Zhou frowned and said in distress: "You haven't completed the task yet, how come your favorability is so high?"
Alvia stared at the number in Zhou Zhou's hand and suddenly asked, "Why is your favorability towards me not 100%? Where did the other 10% go?"
Zhou Zhou:? ? ?
This is already very high, okay? Other players will have to complete tasks for a long time to reach 80%!
Because he couldn't break the rules of the game, Zhou Zhou turned 90% to the bottom. There was a small spring at the bottom, and it took him a long time to turn the value to zero.
Alvia: Why is there a clockwork?
"Okay."
Putting the number back on top of the head, Zhou Zhou looked at Alvia and said seriously, "You should do the task. Only by doing the task can your favorability increase."
Alvia looked at the number hanging above Zhou Zhou's head and turned back to zero, and suddenly reached out and pinched Zhou Zhou's face.
The favorability instantly returned to 90%.
Zhou Zhou: ...Ahhh, there’s a BUG in the copy!
After searching for a long time, he still couldn't find the problem. Fortunately, he was the only exception in the dungeon, otherwise other players would not be able to complete their tasks.
Zhou Zhou looked at Elvia apologetically: "In order to ensure the fairness of the game, you will not get any points even if you successfully pass the level this time."
Alvia didn't care. Anyway, his real purpose of coming here was not to play games.
What he cares about most is another thing: "How can I get the last 10% of favorability?"
“You can gain favorability by completing daily tasks.”
"What mission?"
"Look at the task panel. There are prompts on it."
Elvia opened the task panel, and sure enough, the information of the characters to be conquered appeared on it.
【Name: Zhou Zhou
Age: 19
Identity: Freshman at Love Academy
Personality: serious, lively, strong learning ability
Hobbies: I like all kinds of food and I like to travel around.
The above information is very simple. It seems that you need to figure it out on your own if you want to increase your favorability.
Elvia extended her hand to Zhou Zhou: "I remember there was a lake at the exit of the previous mission. Let's go there and take a look."
Unexpectedly, Zhou Zhou pulled his hands behind his back and said, "We just met, we can't hold hands."
Zhou Zhou was playing the role in the game conscientiously, but Alvia looked up and pointed at the top of his head, teasing: "Ninety percent of the time, we can't hold hands?"
Zhou Zhou: It seems like it’s okay.
Hand in hand, they walked slowly towards the lake. Since they confirmed their relationship, Elvia was busy and Zhou Zhou was playing, so they had no time to be alone together.
The two walked quietly and in tacit understanding. Elvia lowered her eyes and looked at Zhou Zhou. It turned out that even if lovers didn't talk or do anything, they would feel at ease as long as they were together.
Zhou Zhou suddenly approached Alvia slowly and said stealthily: "There seems to be a trash can following us behind us."
Alvia enjoyed this kind of time very much. When she heard Zhou Zhou say this, she didn't even turn her head back: "Don't worry, it's Zeus."
Zhou Zhou nodded: "I guess so."
Not far away, a frog-shaped trash can was hiding behind a big tree. When no one was paying attention, it immediately jumped forward a few steps.
He just knew it! These two secretly held hands while he was away and didn't even bring him along to play!
A passing player saw the Zeus brand trash can and wanted to throw trash into it, but the frog's mouth wouldn't open no matter what. The player started to compete with the trash can and stood there for a long time without leaving.
The two people in front were no longer visible. Zeus rolled his eyes at the player angrily, and his vivid eyes suddenly rolled up, scaring the player.
The player was scared away, and Zeus quickly chased after him.
Along the way, in addition to the trash can where the dog was sneaking around, many players also turned their attention to the two of them.
After all, this group of players entered the dungeon at very similar times, and the NPC's favorability was basically around 20 to 30 percent. It was too abnormal to suddenly reach 90 percent.
A player with a female NPC stopped the two of them. He looked at Zhou Zhou and saw the two holding hands. He smiled at Alvia and asked, "Brother, can you teach me how to improve your favorability?"
His target's favorability is only 20 percent so far, and it will probably take a long time to raise it to over 80 percent. Since someone has already completed the first task, it means that some shortcuts can be used to quickly improve favorability. I just don’t know if this player will share his experience.
Perhaps because she was in a good mood at the moment, Alvia thought for a moment and looked at Zhou Zhou again: "Because of love."
There was a sudden loud noise behind him. Zhou Zhou looked over and saw a green trash can fell to the ground. As Zhou Zhou watched, the round body of the can slowly rolled away along the road. He couldn't hold it in any longer. Did Alvia hit her head today?
Watching the trash can rolling out of sight, Zhou Zhou was very confused. What was Zeus doing?
The corners of the player's mouth twitched as he looked at this handsome man with a cool temperament, but he was so, so humorous?
If you don't want to tell him, you can just say it directly. What a joke! It's not funny at all.
The player was dissatisfied, but seeing that Elvia looked like someone who was not easy to mess with, he couldn't say it directly, so he could only smile awkwardly: "Is that so."
Zhou Zhou also thought it was a little funny that Alvia said such a serious thing, but he still cooperated and shook their hands: "He is right."
The player felt bored and walked away with his NPC, but he kept thinking on the way. He felt that the NPC seemed to look a little different, and both the expression and reaction on his face seemed more real.
Looking at the NPC beside him who only knew how to smile, the player stroked his chin and thought for a long time before deciding to give it a try as Elvia said, just in case the other party really did not lie to him.
How can we make NPC feel his love?
The player loudly confessed to the NPC, hoping to gain favor in this way, and the female NPC, who had been smiling all the time, finally had a change on her face.
Her smile became a little subtle, and she turned her face away: "We are not very familiar with each other yet, it's not good for you to do this, it's very embarrassing, I feel like we can't even be friends anymore."
Then the 20% favorability above her head dropped to negative 20%.
Player: ...Woo~ I got cheated.
"To improve the favorability, you have to figure it out yourself according to the NPC's preferences. Every NPC has a different personality, so you have to proceed step by step." Now Elvia is no longer a regular player. He won't get any points even if he passes the level, so Zhou Zhou simply gave him some tips.
“What if it doesn’t reach 80 percent?”
Zhou Zhou looked a little excited. He shook his head and said, "I can't tell you that. You will know when the time comes."
Elvia actually guessed a little bit. Although the scene here is very romantic, it cannot change the fact that this is a horror game. Judging from the experience of the cozy cottage, players who do not meet the favorability standards will definitely be punished, but she doesn't know what the punishment will be.
The scenery by the lake is very beautiful. It is exactly the same as the scene in Zhou Zhou’s memory, with the sparkling lake, the white statues standing beside it, the deep blue sky and the emerald lake, each color is extremely rich.
Last time, Elvia was only thinking about passing the level as soon as possible, and just glanced at the surrounding scenery. He didn't think it was any different from other places. But now it seems that the scenery here is really beautiful. The blending and collision of colors merge into a picture that is unforgettable.
Or maybe it’s because you have someone to watch the scenery with that you feel the scenery becomes better.
It seemed that Elvia's sentimental side was discovered. Just as he was feeling deeply moved by the scenery, Zhou Zhou's eyes drifted around as if he was looking for something.
For him, he had seen the scene here countless times, and he was not sentimental.
"Al! There are boats over there, let's go boating." Zhou Zhou pointed to several swan-shaped boats docked by the lake. Those boats were two-seater boats, and the small one looked very cute.
Elvia cooperated very well and took Zhou Zhou on the boat.
There was no power device on the boat, only two oars. Originally, Elvia wanted to row with both oars, but Zhou Zhou also wanted to join in, so in the end, each of them took one oar and began rowing towards the center of the lake.
The little swan was circling on the lake, not moving in the direction they expected.
The two stopped at the same time. Zhou Zhou looked at his oar and then looked at Elvia's oar. There was no difference between the two oars.
Zhou Zhou: "My strength seems to be too weak."
Elvia also said at the same time: "I pushed too hard."
The two people sitting side by side were stunned, and suddenly they both laughed.
After that, the two of them tried for a long time, floating on the lake, and finally they coordinated perfectly to make the little swan move straight forward.
The little white swan carried the two people and danced on the sparkling lake. The faint light of the lake seemed to add a layer of highlight to the two people, making the already outstanding people look dreamy and beautiful.
Perhaps the atmosphere was so good that many players brought their NPCs on the boat.
Soon, there were several small boats floating on the lake.
Zhou Zhou and Elvia were just here to play, so they didn't go fast. They moved slowly across the lake, chatting and appreciating the surrounding scenery.
A small boat quickly overtook Zhou Zhou. They were going very fast and Zhou Zhou didn't care at first, but the young man on the boat suddenly turned around and made faces at them.
"You're not as fast as us, hahaha, you two weaklings."
Zhou Zhou: “Hmm?”
Although he was not angry about this childish behavior, he was very competitive and immediately paddled forward with all his strength.
Elvia seemed to be able to control the direction of the boat while coordinating with Zhou Zhou's pace.
Soon they surpassed each other, and Zhou Zhou looked at the boy with a bit of pride: "I won!"
The boy was unwilling to accept the defeat and wanted to overtake, but he forgot that the NPC would not actively match his speed, and their boat began to circle in place.
"Goodbye." Zhou Zhou waved towards the boat behind him, looking particularly happy because of a small victory.
Alvia glanced at him, then looked ahead: "There are a few more ships ahead, do you want to overtake them?"
"want!"
The originally warm and romantic rowing somehow turned into a competition. After a melee, a small boat even capsized. The other players suddenly realized after the two left that weren’t they improving the NPC’s favorability? Why did the rowing race suddenly start?
Seeing that the favorability values of the NPCs had not changed and some of them had even decreased, the players were almost crying.
Their next destination was the library. Because he won the rowing race, Zhou Zhou felt a little unsteady when walking.
“Yes.”
Zhou Zhou didn't realize what this meant, and asked stupidly, "Who gave birth?"
"The favorability has increased."
It was then that Zhou Zhou noticed that the favorability had become 91 percent.
"Really? I didn't even notice it." Zhou Zhou muttered as he touched the number above his head.
Elvia also touched it. The favorability value looked translucent, but it could be felt to be solid, and even felt as hard as glass.
Why should the favorability be made in this form? It can be directly expressed with virtual values, so why does it have an entity? Touching the cold numbers, Alvia couldn't help but think.
"Ah, don't touch it." Zhou Zhou was not paying attention when the number on his head was grabbed. He quickly protected it with his hands and refused to let Elvia continue to touch it.
"Why can't I touch it?"
"According to the rules, players who touch this will lose favorability."
Elvia's lips curled up slightly: "The favorability is still 91% now."
Zhou Zhou: ...So why are you so proud?
The two of them were arguing all the way, and before they reached the library, a bell suddenly rang in the campus. The sound was clear and audible, and everyone in the copy scene heard it.
"It's time to go." Zhou Zhou suddenly said.
"What time is it? Where are we going?" Alvia was puzzled.
Zhou Zhou: "It's time for a break. I'm a student now and I need to go back to the dormitory."
They had clearly only been in the game for a short while. Just as Alvia was thinking this, she noticed that the sky had changed color, from the original clear blue to crimson. It seemed that time passed very quickly in this copy.
"I'm leaving first. The dormitory manager will scold me if I'm late." Zhou Zhou waved to Elvia, then ran towards the dormitory building alone.
Other NPCs appeared one after another along the way, and their target was the same as Zhou Zhou's, the dormitory building.
Elvia followed them and found that many players didn't know why the NPCs suddenly abandoned them, so the players also followed these NPCs.
But when we arrived at the dormitory building, we saw a man and a woman guarding the door. They were both in their 40s or 50s, with serious expressions. They were wearing blue work clothes and had armbands on their left arms that read "Dormitory Manager" on them.
They only allow NPCs to enter the dormitory building, and players are not allowed to enter.
The players stood at the door and watched all the NPCs enter the building, and the two dormitory managers who looked like door gods closed the door under the gaze of all the players.
"Well, what should we do now?" a player suddenly asked.
The others looked at each other, they didn't know either.
"Is the NPC off work? Let's come back tomorrow?" Someone was joking.
Suddenly, a countdown appeared above the heads of all players, and new information appeared on the task panel.
There are three hours left until the first date. 】
The previous task was to raise the favorability to over 80% before the first date. They thought that the date time was set by themselves, but now they are told that there is still an hour left!
Their favorability level is not even 80 percent!
And the target of the strategy is not here, how can I improve his favorability?
Looking at the closed door of the dormitory building, a player said: "Now it seems that we must go in and find our own target, otherwise it will be too late."
Everyone else agreed immediately and looked towards the door.
Alvia’s favorability is already high enough, and it doesn’t matter whether he passes the level or not, but he will follow the other players in because he has a question he wants to know.
How many people live in one dormitory?
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