Zhou Zhou was very sure that he had never seen the man in front of him before, but the shock on the other's face was too obvious, even the hand pointing at Zhou Zhou was shaking slightly.
Several players at the resurrection point also looked over, with a strong desire to gossip.
"Excuse me, who are you?" The good-looking boy's eyes were full of doubts.
"It's you! You are the guy who plays tricks on other players in the dungeon." The man pointed at Zhou Zhou and shouted.
Zhou Zhou:?
Alvia:?
Players who listen to gossip: Look what they hear!
play? Alvia raised her eyebrows slightly and looked at Zhou Zhou meaningfully.
Zhou Zhou lowered his head and thought for a moment, then said with certainty: "I don't know you."
The man's expression immediately became serious: "Do you know Zhao Yi?"
Zhao Yi? Zhou Zhou shook his head in confusion. He had never heard of this name.
"He was doing a copy of Love Academy with you, and then he died in the copy."
Zhou Zhou waited for a long time, but there was no response from the other party. In the Love Academy, he only knew three people: Shirley, Coli and Al, and he didn't know anyone else, so who is Zhao Yi?
Seeing Zhou Zhou's confused look, still unable to remember what he had done, the man could not help but remind him: "If you die in the dungeon, you will turn into a ghost."
Zhou Zhou still didn't respond: "I know."
Looking at the man's choked expression, Alvia had already guessed what was going on. Although he and Zhou Zhou did not interact much in the Love Academy, he had a certain understanding of his personality and hobbies, and Zhou Zhou probably didn't know that there was such a rule in the game.
“When you die, you will become a ghost. The eliminated players can see what happened to the NPC that was generated in their image after they turned into a ghost!”
The man didn't expect Zhou Zhou to be indifferent. After the player dies in the copy, he will exit the copy. At the same time, they can see on the task panel what is happening inside to the ghost NPC that is exactly the same as themselves.
This is not only a way to review your own performance in the dungeon, but sometimes it is also a comfort to them to see other surviving players being scared to death by ghosts.
But this guy, this guy who looks fair and tender and has a kind and well-behaved appearance, actually doesn't play by the rules.
Zhao Yi is a friend he met in real life. He failed in the first copy and is still checking in and accumulating points in the real world. He saw the video exported by the other party yesterday. When he saw the player's actions in the video, he couldn't believe that there was a player who treated the ghost as a toy, rolling it into a ball and flattening it, and playing with it in his hands.
Although the ghost is just an NPC set by the system and has no relationship with the player except for the same appearance, watching such a scene is really depressing.
Normal players would either be terrified or run away when seeing a ghost. Even the brave ones would try to ignore or subdue it. Only this person treats ghosts as toys. It is not enough to catch one, but he wants to catch them all.
Yesterday's video left a very deep impression on him. As a result, he was eliminated while doing a dungeon today and met the real person at the resurrection point, but the other party had no reaction to his actions at all.
Zhou Zhou suddenly realized that other people could see what happened to ghosts after they died: "Oh~"
The man was so angry at the other party's attitude that he couldn't help but say: "You, you, you are too much. Ghosts also have dignity."
Zhou Zhou looked at him: "So who is Zhao Yi?"
man:"……"
He felt that he and the other person were not on the same channel at all. This guy only looked innocent, but he was actually a sinister person.
"Zhao Yi is my friend, the ghost who was twisted and squeezed by you in the Love Academy."
Zhou Zhou immediately remembered the first ghost he saw in the library, that was Zhao Yi. At that time, he thought he had no way to get out of the school, so he collected a lot of ghosts. Who would have thought that he would actually get out of the copy.
"Is he okay?" Zhou Zhou asked.
"He's now accumulating points to prepare for his return. That game left a very deep impression on him!" the man said gritting his teeth.
Zhou Zhou nodded: "Oh."
"Don't you think you should apologize to him?"
Zhou Zhou tilted his head in confusion, he didn't think he needed to apologize for this, the ghost NPCs in the dungeon were different from him, they had no thoughts, no emotions, just like his former 'companions', they would neither move nor speak if there were no players around. They were different, he himself was different from anyone else, he had no peers.
The ghost is just a prop. To him, it is just a fun toy or a part of the dungeon. It has nothing to do with the player himself. He has not harmed those players, so why should he apologize?
Zhou Zhou thought about it, the other party's behavior seemed...
"Are you being unreasonable?" Zhou Zhou said suddenly.
Man: “…No, I’m just…”
"We still need to buy props, please make way." Elvia's tone was neither slow nor slow, but she successfully made the man who was pestering her stop.
Those blue eyes were like sharp ice, which made the man
The man shuddered reflexively and dared not say anything.
He suddenly regretted why he came here. He clearly didn't know these two people at all. Moreover, if he offended that sinister guy, he might trip him up when he met him in the game. Plus, the person next to him looked even more complicated, and that glance just now actually made him feel timid.
The man looked at Elvia with a complicated expression as he tried to divert Zhou Zhou's attention by telling her what kind of props she was going to buy. He knew very well that he couldn't afford to offend these two people, but he was unwilling to just let it go and couldn't bear it.
Seeing the man who had come forward to provoke him return empty-handed, the other players gathered around him and asked him questions. They were confused by the conversation between the two men and had no idea what it meant.
The man's eyes rolled. Although those two people were not easy to deal with, he could try another approach. So he exaggerated and told others that Zhou Zhou was a player who liked to torture ghosts and enjoyed it.
All the players present had died in the dungeon, and appeared here because they had resurrection items, so some players immediately felt sympathy for Zhao Yi, a person they had never met before.
Some players also think it is boring. If they die, they die. What does the ghost have to do with them? It’s just that later when players exchange information with each other, there is an additional topic of entertainment gossip.
Zhou Zhou and Elvia both had very good hearing, and even though the group of people spoke in a very low voice, they still heard every word they said.
Alvia looked at Zhou Zhou, who was leaning on the counter, thinking about what other props to buy, and asked, "Don't care?"
Both of them knew what this meant. Zhou Zhou looked at Alvia and shook his head: "No matter what, let them say whatever they want."
After going through several copies and hearing from others, Zhou Zhou already knew that it was impossible for everyone to like him. There are always some people who will never like him no matter what he does.
"As long as the person I like likes me too, it doesn't matter what other people do." Zhou Zhou looked at Elvia and said seriously. Shirley, Keli, Heya, Qianle, Eddie, Molan and they all like him, so he likes them too. The others didn't know him and didn't like him, and he didn't like them either.
Being stared at by those doe eyes as bright as stars, Elvia seemed to be pierced by the overly bright light in the other's eyes, and slowly turned away her gaze.
After Zhou Zhou finished speaking, he went back to the counter. He also wanted to buy a flying talisman. It was really interesting to see Eddie flying in the sky before. He also wanted to fly. There was also a hovering talisman, which sounded very interesting as well.
In the end, Zhou Zhou bought five flying talismans, five hovering talismans, a necklace-like resurrection item, and a pair of large white wings.
These together with the food would cost tens of thousands of points. Zhou Zhou paid the points without blinking, which made the players around him envious and jealous. It was already very difficult for them to collect enough points for one resurrection item, but this player actually bought so many, including a lot of useless things. These points were enough to buy several resurrection items.
Alvia didn't actually need these props, but she still bought some.
After leaving the store, Zhou Zhou originally thought that Elvia would log off after buying the props, but he didn't say anything and just walked silently beside him.
The two were preparing to board a flying vehicle and headed to the ground first, but they unexpectedly met four people from the Sharp family on the street.
"It's you." Xia Yan's eyes swept over the two of them, but his tone was not as friendly as in the copy, but with a hint of coldness.
Zhou Zhou also noticed the change in their attitude. When he went out to attract the ghosts, he didn't hear what these people said, so he was still very polite to them: "Well, you also successfully passed the level?"
Unexpectedly, this sentence successfully changed the expressions of Xia Yan and the other three people around him.
Didn't you pass the customs? Zhou Zhou was puzzled.
Xia Yan stared at Alvia and said, "Yes, we also passed the level successfully."
Why was he unhappy after passing the level? Zhou Zhou looked at Xia Yan, then followed his gaze to look at Al who stood beside him with an indifferent expression. What happened between them?
"Thank you so much for telling me the pattern of room movement. We passed the level just before the deadline." It sounded like he was saying thank you, but there was sarcasm on his face when he spoke.
In the copy, there was a problem with the rules the man told them. When they finally got rid of the ghost and reached the third floor, they opened the door and found that the children's playground was not in that room at all. In the end, he succeeded after re-deducing it under the cover of his companions.
He finally found the children's playground and fought a battle of wits and courage with a group of little kids inside, and finally got through it before the last minute. If there hadn't been a problem with the rules the man told him, how could he have been in such a mess?
"Congratulations." Alvia said lightly. The tone was very calm, but it successfully made Xia Yan furious. However, his good upbringing prevented him from swearing at the other party.
Xia Yan glanced coldly at Alvia, then at Zhou Zhou who had a dazed expression. His slender eyes were like a venomous snake staring at its prey: "We will meet again."
After saying this, he left with his three companions.
"What's wrong with them?" In the dungeon, Xia Yan's attitude towards Zhou Zhou had always been very good, but after leaving the dungeon, Xia Yan seemed like a different person.
Alvia chuckled and looked at Zhou Zhou: "Do you know the pattern of moving rooms in the dungeon?"
Zhou Zhou: "Yes, the room moves every half an hour, and each time it moves in an S shape."
Alvia's lips curled slightly, and she was about to say something but was interrupted by Zhou Zhou's next words.
"However, this pattern doesn't seem to be accurate. When we looked for the pattern of room movement, other rooms did move in this way. But according to the pattern, the children's playground should have been in the first room on the third floor. You took us to the fifth room on the third floor."
"Did you find out? The original movement pattern of the Children's Park is the same as that of other rooms, but after being opened by a player once, the next time it changes, it will swap positions with the first room on the first floor and rotate again."
Elvia just didn't tell Xia Yan about this exception. If they had not acted so indifferent when Zhou Zhou was buying time for everyone to attract the ghost, or if they had not trusted them to go to the third floor together, they would have followed everyone out long ago.
Since there is no trust between each other, everyone can only rely on their own abilities.
Zhou Zhou looked at Alvia, eyes wide open in surprise, and whispered in a low voice like a thief: "You deliberately didn't tell them."
Alvia couldn't help laughing and rubbed Zhou Zhou's hair: "Don't you think what I did is..." a little despicable? After all, Zhou Zhou didn't know the true identities of Xia Yan and his people.
Zhou Zhou also heard the unfinished meaning, and he shook his head without hesitation: "I saw that when everyone was fighting with the ghost, they led the ghost to other people."
It was also because Zhou Zhou saw that several ghosts were attracted to Shirley, Coli and Eddie and they were almost unable to resist, so he shouted loudly to attract the ghosts. Although Elvia later discovered that ghosts would not attack if they were still, he did not mention this matter in front of everyone afterwards.
"You did the right thing." If it were him before, who had always stayed in the Love Academy and knew nothing, he would think that what Elvia did was not right, and that no matter what the other party did, he should bring everyone out. But now he understood that Elvia had given them a chance and did not block their way in the end, so there was nothing inappropriate about his actions.
Alvia took note of Xia Yan's threat. Although it looked like some threats between teenagers, the people of the Sharp family would never let go of any grudge, and it was definitely not just a matter of talking. It seemed that he had to keep a closer eye on the Sharp family in the future.
The two of them took a flying vehicle back to the ground from Tianzi Street which was suspended in the air. Zhou Zhou didn't dare to say that he wanted to go back to the rented house. After all, everyone had logged off and gone home. What if Al asked him why he was still offline so late? He could only take a walk with him in silence.
The two people walked aimlessly from one street to another. It was now night, and the scenery of the Nightmare City turned into a night scene. There were bright lights in the distance, and the flickering lights were reflected on the two people, as if they were covered with a layer of light-colored gauze.
I don’t know how long they walked, but when Zhou Zhou couldn’t help yawning several times, Elvia finally spoke.
"Are you going to the amusement park tomorrow?"
Zhou Zhou turned his head to look at Elville. Yes, he said in the copy that he would apologize to El and then go to the amusement park with him.
"Go ahead. We'll go tomorrow."
"Yeah." Elvia responded, looked at Zhou Zhou's eyes which were slightly moist because he had just yawned, then said goodbye to him and logged off.
After sending Al away, Zhou Zhou returned to his rented house. It was already time for bed, but he had been holding on until now. Then Zhou Zhou fell asleep in a second while hugging his toy bear.
Zhou Zhou was very quiet when he was sleeping. His breathing was almost inaudible and the rise and fall of his chest was very weak. However, it seemed like something was moving in his arms. A pale yellow head quietly moved out, a little bit at a time, then quietly observed whether Zhou Zhou woke up, and then continued to move out, and finally succeeded in breaking away from Zhou Zhou's arms.
The room was pitch black, and the teddy bear's pair of bright black eyes were glowing red, like two small lanterns, staring quietly at the person sleeping on the bed.
After staring for a while, the yellow bear suddenly stretched out a round, short and fat hand and poked Zhou Zhou's cheek.
At the moment when his hand was about to touch Zhou Zhou's cheek, the person who had been sleeping suddenly opened his eyes and looked at the teddy bear on the bedside with clear eyes.
"What are you doing?"
Unexpectedly, Zhou Zhou would wake up, and it was as if he had known he would come. Xiao Xiong took a few steps back suddenly, missed a step and fell off the bed.
At the moment of falling, a hand grabbed the teddy bear.
The author has something to say:
Continue read on readnovelmtl.com
