In fact, everyone is very curious. The backbone of their team is Zhou Zhou, so they also want to know more about him.
Shirley, Keli and Eddie came here just to cling to Zhou Zhou's thighs. Although Heya is very powerful, he follows Zhou Zhou in everything he does and speaks very little, like a responsible bodyguard.
Although Alvia can play a big role at critical moments, he doesn't talk much, and sometimes his presence is very low and he is difficult to approach.
So Zhou Zhou, who got along well with everyone, became the focus of attention. Whether it was his courage, his interpersonal skills, or his physical fitness, Shirley and Keli began to guess which university Zhou Zhou might be a student of.
Is it the Imperial Royal Academy? Or the First Military University? Or several other schools?
Just when Zhou Zhou was confused and didn't know what to say, Alvia suddenly said, "We are almost at the exit. You can check your points now."
"Can I check now? I don't know how many points I can get this time."
"I feel like my mental strength has increased a lot this time."
Everyone's attention was immediately diverted. After all, when playing games, the increase in points and mental strength is the top priority. Several people hurriedly looked through their task panels.
Heya casually opened the task panel, but his eyes were on Zhou Zhou. He just heard that Zhou Zhou seemed not to want to tell others his information, and His Majesty happened to help him out.
Could it be that Zhou Zhou has some unspeakable secret?
By the way, his previous mission was to track Zhou Zhou. Heya suddenly remembered Zhou Zhou’s identity. His identity and background were unknown. He might even be an enemy of the empire, but how could someone like him be an enemy?
Zhou Zhou also lowered his head to look at his task panel as if to cover up. Various tables and data came into view, but he could not read a single word.
Only then did he realize the huge gap between him and everyone else. He has no idea what the outside world is like. He knows nothing about schools, education, regions, history, and various things that have happened outside. Before, because he was not familiar with everyone, no one asked him these questions. But the longer he spends with them and the closer the relationship, the more flaws he will reveal.
Zhou Zhou lowered his head, his long eyelashes trembled slightly, and there was hesitation in his eyes. He felt very uncomfortable, as if something was pressing on his chest, making it difficult to breathe.
In the darkness, the other three were happily checking their points. With the help of the light, Heya could only see Zhou Zhou lowering his head obediently, as if he was concentrating on looking at the task panel.
Only Elvia noticed Zhou Zhou's abnormality. His ice-blue eyes, which seemed to contain endless coldness, stared intently at Zhou Zhou's profile. When he noticed the negative emotions emanating from the other person, he also frowned slightly.
"I actually broke through 10,000 points this time!" Eddie shouted in surprise as he looked at the numbers on the task panel.
"Me too!" Shirley was so happy that she almost wanted to beat up Keli to liven up the atmosphere, but there were too many people here, so she held back.
Keli was also smiling happily. His points this time exceeded 10,000, which was more than enough to buy resurrection items. Playing games after get off work every day not only makes money but also exercises his mental strength. He even wants to quit his job and become a professional gamer. But when I thought about the fact that I only got so many points by currying favor with others, I came to my senses.
"Zhou Zhou, how many points do you have this time?" Shirley had forgotten that they were still wondering which school Zhou Zhou was a student from, and started asking about his points. After all, their points were so high this time, so Zhou Zhou's points must be higher.
"Hmm?" Zhou Zhou came back to his senses and immediately looked up on his task panel, "My points this time are 100,000."
The three people who were just overjoyed: "..."
Eddie's eyes widened in shock, one hundred thousand! One hundred thousand! Wait, are they playing the same game?
"How much was your score last time? How many points did you get in the copy of the villa ghost?" Eddie asked with a trembling voice. He guessed that Zhou Zhou's score would definitely be higher than theirs, but he didn't expect it to be so much higher. It was too outrageous.
Zhou Zhou didn't even look at his points last time. He was so focused on whether his identity would be exposed that he didn't even think about checking his points unless someone reminded him.
So when he heard Eddie ask, he slowly began to search.
"Last time it was one hundred and twenty thousand."
One hundred and twenty thousand! Even more than this time!
Eddie looked at Zhou Zhou with awe: "Great God!"
Shirley calculated that Zhou Zhou’s points added up to nearly 300,000, and they were still happy because they had broken through 10,000. Is this the gap between ordinary people and the great gods?
Keli was also surprised, but then he thought about how Zhou Zhou scared the NPCs to tears in the copy, and in the end those little NPCs drew the exit because they were afraid of him. Without Zhou Zhou, they would definitely not be able to pass the level. It seems that there is no problem with such a high score. It is very reasonable. After all, there should be only one person who can scare the NPC to tears.
"Hey, do you think there is a ranking list in the game? Will Zhou Zhou be number one?"
Because she likes Zhou Zhou, after being surprised and envious, Shirley’s first thought is to show off and let more people know that their Zhou Zhou is very capable.
Eddie, who loves gossip, is well-informed: "Not yet, because the game has just been launched and the score difference is not big, so the ranking list will be announced in a month."
"It still takes so long?" Shirley exclaimed. However, what Eddie said was right. After all, everyone had just started playing the game. The empire had such a large population now, and there might be people with higher scores than Zhou Zhou. Since they were busy with work during the day, they did not have a deep understanding of the game, and they did not know what the average score of other players was. Maybe their own points would not even reach the average.
"The leaderboards are not open yet, but the forum will be open soon." Eddie touched his chin, "Do you think that after the forum is open, if someone posts guides for each dungeon on it, will it be easier to play the game?"
"Impossible, Zeus will not leave such a loophole." Keli said immediately. As the country's highest-level artificial intelligence, how could it allow other players to find loopholes in the game?
The reason why Nightmare City is able to stimulate the player's five senses is because each copy is random and unknown, allowing everyone to concentrate on it. If you know everything in advance, then what's the point of playing, and your mental strength will not fluctuate at all.
"That's right. It will open tomorrow anyway. Let's go and take a look then." Eddie had also thought about this problem. Let's wait and see tomorrow.
forum?
Zhou Zhou knew what a forum was. People could exchange all kinds of information in a forum and ask other people questions. So could he use the forum to understand the outside world and learn all kinds of things so that he wouldn’t be exposed in front of everyone later?
Just now he thought he was doomed and his true identity would be discovered soon, but now everything seems to be bleak. Zhou Zhou immediately perked up and nodded in response to Eddie's words. Tomorrow he will go to the forum to find out what schools there are out there. He wants to find a very remote school that no one has ever heard of.
A few people walked outside while chatting. They had already reached the exit of No. 01 Tianzi Street. The scenery in front of them changed from pitch black to bright and transparent. A few people stood at the entrance of the giant tree hole, looking at the scenery outside and feeling relaxed.
"We still have to go to work tomorrow, so we'll go offline first. You should go back and rest early." Keli said to everyone, and Shirley waved.
Eddie and Zhou Zhou nodded and waved to them.
The two people suddenly disappeared from the spot, and then Eddie said goodbye to everyone and logged off.
Zhou Zhou looked at the two people behind him and asked, "Aren't you going to log off?"
Heya hesitated. He actually didn't want to leave. After all, falling asleep in the game was like resting. As long as he replenished enough nutrition on time, he could stay in the holographic game forever. Others went back to sleep just to get used to their daily routine. They always felt that if they didn't log off and have a good sleep, they would lack energy the next day.
He is a mercenary and hasn't taken any jobs recently. It's fine for him to stay here all the time, but if he doesn't do dungeons, there seems to be no reason for him to stay here all the time. And your majesty...
Thinking of this, Heya glanced at the expressionless Alvia, and said to Zhou Zhou: "I'm going to log off too."
After watching Heya leave, Zhou Zhou looked at the last person: "Al, aren't you going to log off?"
Alvia lowered his eyes and looked at Zhou Zhou, and asked, "What about you? Aren't you going offline?"
Zhou Zhou shook his head: "I still have things to do, so I won't log off."
"What's up?"
Zhou Zhou took out the words he had thought of in advance and said, "I want to buy props."
After seeing the flying talisman in Eddie's hand in the copy, Zhou Zhou became curious about the props. He wanted to know what other types of props there were and was planning to buy some to use in the copy, so it couldn't be considered a lie.
"I'm planning to buy some too. Do you mind coming with me?" Although Elvia's facial expression was indifferent, it was obviously different from when other people were present. When he and Zhou Zhou were alone together, his tone of voice seemed to be much gentler, but neither of them noticed.
"good."
The props in Nightmare City cannot be purchased on the task panel. If you want to buy them, you can only go to the stores in the city. Moreover, the types of props in each store have different uses. It is very time-consuming to find practical and cheap props from them.
However, the only thing in common for each store is that they all have resurrection items. After purchasing the resurrection items, you can be resurrected no matter how you died in the copy. Of course, the resurrection here does not mean resurrection on the spot, but resurrection in the store where you purchased the resurrection item. The copy mission is equivalent to failure, and the points obtained are zero.
Each shop is equivalent to a resurrection point. On the open space on the other side of the shop, white light flashes from time to time. Players appear out of thin air one after another, and their faces do not look very good. After all, resurrection not only means the failure of the copy, but also means the loss of a resurrection item worth 10,000 points. Either way, it is heartbreaking.
After Zhou Zhou and Elvia entered a store, they saw several players standing near the open space on the other side of the store counter, sighing with depressed looks on their faces.
Zhou Zhou was very curious and stood at the counter looking at the props displayed there.
I don’t know if it’s because they are now in Tianzi Street, which is suspended in the air, so most of the props are related to flying.
There are relatively expensive physical props that can be used directly, such as various wings and various aircraft.
There are also paper props that are slightly cheaper and only have a few words written on them, such as flying talismans, suspended talismans, etc.
The first thing Zhou Zhou looked at was the flying talisman that Eddie had used before. When he was about to buy a few, he found a lot of food placed in the corner of the counter.
Except for clothes and props, nothing else can be brought into the dungeon. In fact, before Zhou Zhou did the dungeon of the villa ghost, he had a few candies in his pocket that were given by the restaurant when he was having dinner with Qian Le and He Ya, but the candies disappeared after he entered the dungeon.
And when he came out of the copy, the candy automatically returned to his pocket.
Now I see food is displayed in the store, does that mean that these foods can be brought into the dungeon?
After asking the clerk and learning that all food in the store could be brought into the dungeon, Zhou Zhou immediately changed his target.
"This, this, and this." He pointed at three items of food on the counter.
"Do you want these three types?" asked the clerk with a sweet smile.
Zhou Zhou shook his head. He ate everything. As long as the food had flavor, it was delicious to him. These were the things that Shirley, Qian Le and Al didn't like to eat, so they didn't want them.
"I don't want these three. I want eight portions of each of the others!"
There are only seven contacts on Zhou Zhou's task panel. In addition to the six-member group from the Doll's House, there are also Qian Le and Molan. If you buy eight servings, each person can have one. This way, if everyone wants to eat something in the copy, there will be something for everyone.
No matter who enters the store, the clerk who always keeps a perfect smile is silent for a rare moment, and asks again: "Besides these three foods, do you want eight servings of each of the others?"
Zhou Zhou nodded. The prices were all marked on it. He had calculated and found that he had enough points.
Only then did the clerk become convinced that there were indeed players who bought these foods that were of no use in the dungeon, and they bought a large amount of them.
Alvia looked at Zhou Zhou, who was staring at the food, and asked, "Why don't you want these?"
Zhou Zhou looked back at him and told him the reason.
After learning that those dishes were not eaten by them, Alvia recalled that he and Zhou Zhou had only eaten together once before, but that time he ate all the food on the table, which was also his usual eating habit, so how did Zhou Zhou know that he did not like that dish.
"Because you only ate one bite, you would eat at least two or three bites of other dishes." Zhou Zhou turned back, staring at the counter, unable to pull his eyes away, and answered very casually.
Alvia was stunned. Zhou Zhou was eating very attentively at that time. Although his posture was proper, his hands never stopped stuffing food into his mouth. But he actually noticed this. He curled the corners of his mouth and looked at the slightly curly hair on the back of Zhou Zhou's head swaying back and forth, without saying anything else.
The game has not been launched for long, and players do not have much money, so they try to save points to buy resurrection items. If they have extra points, they will only buy various practical items.
Food is useless except for its taste in the dungeon. After all, there is no rule in the dungeon that eating food can replenish health or mana, so players treat food as garbage items.
In the cities of Nightmare Capital, you can spend points to eat delicacies from all over the world and satisfy your appetite. Even bringing these useless things in the dungeon is not as useful as a flying talisman.
Therefore, Zhou Zhou's blatant display of wealth immediately aroused the dissatisfaction of several players who had just been resurrected nearby. These people had just been resurrected, and not only had their mission failed, but they also had very few points left. They were in a depressed mood, and when they saw other players wasting a lot of points buying junk props, the strong contrast with them immediately made them dissatisfied.
A bearded man squatting at the resurrection point squinted his eyes at the two people standing by the counter. Although the two people looked very outstanding and were obviously not ordinary people, the indignation in his heart still drove him forward.
"Hey, you two, are you crazy for buying this kind of rubbish?"
Alvia stared at the back of Zhou Zhou's head. A few strands of slightly curly hair swayed with the movements of their owner. He seemed not to hear what the person behind him said at all.
Zhou Zhou frowned and turned around to retort: "Food is not garbage."
When the man saw Zhou Zhou's face, he suddenly opened his eyes wide, as if he had seen something that frightened him, and shouted loudly: "It's you!"
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