The next morning, Zhou Zhou woke up from the soft and warm bed and looked at the light yellow bear's head above the bed. There lay a little pink octopus, sleeping with its eyes closed.
Last night Zhou Zhou felt the little octopus crawling onto the bed and touching his forehead with its cold tentacles, before finally climbing onto the little bear to sleep. I don’t know if it was because the dolls possessed by the children left such a deep impression on it, but the little octopus chose the bear without hesitation.
Not long after Zhou Zhou opened his eyes, the little octopus also woke up and waved its tentacles to greet him.
After having dinner at home, Zhou Zhou took the octopus with him to read in the study. He had not finished reading the book about interstellar history yesterday, so now was a good time to read it for a while.
There are too many books displayed on the bookshelf screen. Zhou Zhou plans to read some every day and learn about the outside world through these books first. This way, he won't be asked anything without an answer. Besides, he likes reading very much. He has read all the books in the library when he was in the Love Academy. When reading, he doesn't notice the passage of time. It is a good way to kill time.
Now that he has so many books, he can read for a long time and learn a lot of new knowledge.
Zhou Zhou flipped through the book, which was thicker than a brick, very quickly. He had finished half of it in no time. It looked like he was just doing it perfunctorily, but in fact he had already read and memorized the previous content.
After reading half of the book, Zhou Zhou stopped because the little octopus accompanying him seemed very bored. It climbed up and down on him, and pulled Zhou Zhou's hair to make a braid for him. Although it failed because the hair was too short, it then gently touched his face with its tentacles.
"Play."
Zhou Zhou put down the book: "Where do you want to go?"
The little octopus pointed at the study door with its tentacles, meaning to go out from there. Zhou Zhou put the book back on the bookshelf and walked out of the study.
This time the little octopus's target was very clear, it was directly aimed at the floor-to-ceiling window on the balcony.
Zhou Zhou walked over and looked at the scenery from the window with the little octopus.
The street below was noisier than yesterday. There were a lot of people gathered somewhere. Zhou Zhou stared at the crowd for a while. It was too far away to hear what they were arguing about, so he took the little octopus with him to watch the fun.
There are two ways to go outside from the personal space. One is to take the elevator downstairs, just like in the real world. The other way is to use the shortcuts on the corridors on each floor. As long as you pay 1 point, you can be teleported to other places.
Yesterday, when Zhou Zhou went back to move house, he was teleported there via the express channel. Today, he just went downstairs, so he took the elevator down with the little octopus lying on his shoulder.
The closer you get to the crowd, the louder the quarreling becomes.
It sounded like there were two people arguing, a man and a woman. When Zhou Zhou approached, he found that he couldn't get in.
In the interstellar age, people's average height is very high, and Zhou Zhou is only of average height, so he can't see what is happening inside at all.
Even though he tilted his head back and stood on tiptoe, he could still only see the heads of the onlookers. However, the little octopus climbed all the way from his shoulders to the top of Zhou Zhou's head, allowing him to see more clearly.
Just as he was circling the crowd, trying to piece together what had happened from the curses coming from inside, a few people happened to back out of the crowd where he was, and he quickly squeezed in through the gap.
He was supposed to be in the middle, but Zhou Zhou was pushed around in the crowd and he didn't know how he ended up at the front.
There were several people at the center of the quarrel. Zhou Zhou stood at the front line and listened for a long time before he understood what was happening. People from both sides were preparing to do a copy, but they met on this street. It seemed that one side bumped into the other without apologizing, and then they started quarreling, and the quarrel got more and more intense.
The onlookers thought it was some kind of love-hate relationship, but it turned out to be just a collision. Is it worth arguing about for so long? Many people felt it was boring and left, leaving only the players who were coming and going around and didn't know what was going on, and squeezed in to watch.
Zhou Zhou stood there and listened for a long time, with the amazement on his face never disappearing. They were so good at scolding people, it turned out that they could scold like this. Although he doesn't know how to curse and can't say it, it's still quite interesting to hear others do it.
In the end, the two parties left in a hurry because the copy was about to start, and the onlookers also left.
Zhou Zhou walked back on the street and said to the little octopus: "Many things like this happened before."
Although there was no holographic technology in Love Academy at that time, players could only communicate through forums or dialog boxes. However, whenever a conflict occurred, the text of both parties in the dialog box would appear like lightning, and sometimes they would miss the previous words if they blinked.
Zhou Zhou watched with great interest, looking at the players writing long conversations in the dialog box, making the other party very angry or helpless. Every time he saw that, he thought they were so amazing.
I was originally planning to go upstairs to play with the little octopus, but then I received the message.
The two female players who were added yesterday asked Zhou Zhou to go have lunch together. They are already in the restaurant.
Since he had promised to go yesterday, of course he had to go. Zhou Zhou looked at the little octopus that had climbed back onto his shoulder and asked, "Do you want to go home or go out to eat with me?"
"Eat!" the little octopus said without hesitation.
Zhou Zhou brought Little Octopus to the restaurant location the other party had sent him. As soon as he entered the door, he saw the two female players from yesterday waving at him.
"Zhou Zhou, here!"
Zhou Zhou walked over and found that in addition to the two female players who were doing tasks in the dungeon together, there were four other girls at the table.
"This is the Zhou Zhou I told you about."
"Wow, she's really cute."
"Hello, we are friends of Yue Ling and Lan Ya."
Facing a group of girls watching, Zhou Zhou did not show any abnormality, with a perfect smile on his face: "I am Zhou Zhou, and this is Little Octopus."
The little octopus is the captain, and Zhou Zhou doesn’t know what it’s called, so he can only call it that for now.
"Huh? So it really is an octopus. I was wondering why the decoration on your shoulder is so unique."
"How cute! This octopus has such big eyes."
When the little octopus faced the girls' outstretched hands, it quickly used its tentacles to resist and hide behind Zhou Zhou's neck. It carefully poked its head out and looked out with its big eyes, fearing that someone would touch it.
This evasive look made the girls laugh.
Zhou Zhou sat in his seat and said to everyone: "Hello, I am Zhou Zhou."
The other four girls also introduced themselves.
When they finished talking, Zhou Zhou turned to the two female players from yesterday and asked, "Your name is Yue Ling? Are you Lan Ya?"
The two nodded. They were indeed as their names suggested. The quiet one was called Lan Ya, and the more lively one was Yue Ling.
Zhou Zhou then continued, "You forgot to tell me your names yesterday."
"No way, you two said you wanted to treat me to a meal but you didn't even tell me my name."
Yue Ling slapped his forehead and muttered, "It seems like I really never said that. You don't know what we went through in the dungeon yesterday. I'm lucky I didn't forget your names."
Their companions then asked about the dungeon. Zhou Zhou had already done four dungeons. While the two female players were introducing them to their friends, he was also adding to the information.
It looked like a party of six girls and one boy, but Zhou Zhou quickly integrated into the group. From what to eat to what clothes and makeup they wore that day, Zhou Zhou was able to follow up on everything.
The girls didn't expect that Zhou Zhou knew so much, and soon he added the contact information of the other four girls.
"Zhou Zhou, do you have someone you like now?" Sure enough, this is a common topic among girls, and soon someone asked about it. Because Zhou Zhou has an easy-going personality and is the only person of the opposite sex among them, he was the first to be asked.
Zhou Zhou put down the hand that was feeding the little octopus and answered seriously: "Yes."
"Sure enough, I knew that the good man had been taken away by someone else."
Yue Ling blinked, thinking of El who was inseparable from Zhou Zhou in the dungeon: "Is the person you like the one in yesterday's dungeon?"
Zhou Zhou nodded: "Yes." Currently, there are only Keli and Shirley. The others have not been in the game recently. They seem to be very busy, and he has no time to get along with everyone.
The first person Lan Ya thought of was Al: "You two look very compatible." After all, both of them have outstanding looks, and Al is very skilled. Whether they are lovers or partners, they can get along very well.
The other girls joked that they were late, and Zhou Zhou blinked, wanting to say that it wasn't that late, but he keenly realized that everyone was joking and didn't really want to date him, so he never mentioned it again.
Love Academy is a game, and this world is also a game, but Zhou Zhou has long discovered that there are big differences between the two. In the Love Academy, everyone comes here to fall in love, but the players here prefer to do dungeon quests.
Moreover, he doesn't want to fall in love with someone as soon as they meet. He has to get to know each other first, and at least spend some time together. After all, which dating game puts two people together right from the start? They have to trigger various events before they can finally hold hands and fall in love successfully.
In Love Academy, Zhou Zhou, one of the main NPCs, basically spends some time with the players through various events such as classes, dates, eating and chatting together, etc. He will only accept a girl's confession after his favorability reaches 100.
There are two forms in the game. One is that the NPC's favorability reaches 100, and then he confesses to the player, and the two are together.
Another situation is that when the favorability reaches above 80, the player will confess his/her love, and there is a high probability that the confession will be successful, but there are also a very small number of players who are unlucky and are rejected by the NPC.
Zhou Zhou's favorability towards players increased the fastest among all NPCs, but he had not confessed to many people. Most of the time, he only agreed after the players confessed to him first.
The same goes for Shirley and Keli, who only agreed because Zhou Zhou misunderstood Keli's words "the moonlight is beautiful" as a confession to him.
So Zhou Zhou is not suitable for everyone, especially now that he has a deeper understanding of the players and knows that some of them are not good people. Even if such people confess to him, he will definitely refuse.
Everyone was very happy during the meal. After all, a treasure boy like Zhou Zhou is not found everywhere. He doesn't speak to people in a rude way and is not a straight man. He can always keep up with their topics. He has good dining etiquette and knows how to take care of girls. It is really comfortable to get along with him.
After eating, several girls wanted to adopt Zhou Zhou as their younger brother. Although he couldn’t be their boyfriend, it was also nice to have him as a younger brother. If they had a younger brother like him, they would probably wake up laughing in their dreams. Especially there is a girl who has two younger brothers at home. Compared with Zhou Zhou, she really wants to retrain those two noisy guys.
"Can we have dinner together next time?" Lan Ya was a bit shy and didn't say much during the meal. She just listened to everyone talking. After the meal, she asked Zhou Zhou in a low voice with a blushing face.
Seeing Zhou Zhou blinking and looking at her, Lan Ya felt an inexplicable similarity with the little octopus on her shoulder who tilted his head to look at her. Lan Ya waved her hand hastily: "I just think you are a very nice person. It's a pleasure to have dinner with you. You can bring Al with you next time."
Although he didn't know why Al was suddenly mentioned, Zhou Zhou agreed immediately. He usually wouldn't refuse such an invitation.
When it came time to pay the bill, they had originally agreed to split the bill, but the girls actually paid for Zhou Zhou's share, saying they would talk about it the next time they dine out. Even if Zhou Zhou wanted to give them the points, they refused to accept them.
Zhou Zhou had no choice but to give up, thinking that next time they went out to eat together he must run the fastest and be the first to pay the bill. There were too many of them today and they stopped him from leaving, so Zhou Zhou was unable to pay the bill.
After saying goodbye to the girls, it was still early, Zhou Zhou said to the little octopus; "Let's go to the lakeside and wait for the captain now."
The little octopus had just eaten a lot of food, and the girls liked it very much. Although it would not let them touch it and would not eat the food they handed to it, the little octopus ate a lot after being fed by Zhou Zhou. At this time, it was lazily nestling on Zhou Zhou's shoulder, leaning against him with squinting eyes, and did not react when it heard that they were going to find the captain.
Zhou Zhou went back home, took the captain's bucket, fishing rod and bench from home, and then went to Lake Colt to continue waiting for the captain.
This time he was alone, and Zhou Zhou was a little bored, so he sat on a bench and fished with the captain's fishing rod. Originally, he should not have caught anything, after all, he had no bait. But after a while, the fishing rod moved. Zhou Zhou hurriedly retrieved it and found that he had actually caught a fish.
After staring at the unfortunate fish for a long time, Zhou Zhou quickly put it in the bucket and said to the little octopus happily, "Let's go home and eat fish tonight!"
After catching the first fish in his life, Zhou Zhou became interested and sat there to start fishing again. He didn’t know if it was because of the system settings, but even without any bait, Zhou Zhou caught every fish and there were several in the bucket.
Zhou Zhou didn't wait for the captain, but instead caught several fish from the lake. He estimated the time and prepared to catch one more fish before going home.
When the fishing rod made movement again, Zhou Zhou hurriedly pulled the rod and reeled in the fishing line, but this time the fish seemed to be very big, the rod became an arc, and he still couldn't pull the fish out of the water.
Zhou Zhou reeled in the line while backing away, thinking about pulling the fish ashore first.
The splashes in the lake were getting bigger and bigger. When Zhou Zhou pulled the fish ashore with all his strength, he looked at the huge creature in front of him and was very confused.
Is he that strong now? I actually caught such a big fish.
Lying on the shore was a fish even bigger than him, with a black back and white spots on both sides of its head and under its body. It looked like a whale.
Zhou Zhou looked at the fishing rod in his hand, then at the whale, his eyes filled with confusion.
Are there still whales in the lake?
What is this fishing rod made of? Why can we still catch whales?
And this fish is so big, it won’t fit in the pot.
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