After Elvia went offline, he went to handle government affairs. In the palace where he worked, Zeus appeared with a resentful look on his face, wandering around the palace, making his presence felt.
This was not the first time that Alvia had seen him like this. She didn't even glance at him and continued to handle government affairs.
There has been no war in the empire in recent years, but there are always people making moves in private. The reason why Zhou Zhou was suspected before was because some people could no longer hold back recently, and it was estimated that there would be some moves during the founding ceremony.
The founding ceremony of the empire is a very grand festival, and it is also the only day in recent years that Elvia appears in public.
When the early empire was still at war, Elvia could often be seen on the front lines. After the war ended and he succeeded to the throne, he became more low-key and could only be seen in some public occasions where he had to attend. If one wanted to take action against him, the founding ceremony was the best time.
Elvia was not worried about this, perhaps because he had kept a low profile for so long that those people had forgotten his former name.
Looking at the content collected by Heya and others during the investigation, there was a coldness in Elvia's ice-blue eyes, which was completely different from his calm appearance in the game.
Zeus, as the most powerful artificial intelligence in the empire, can come and go freely in this palace. He hung around Elvia for a long time, but the other party kept her head down, which made Zeus even angrier.
"snort!"
"What's wrong?" Alvia asked helplessly, looking up. Zeus has existed for thousands of years. Although he sounds very old, he has always had the personality of a child. If you ignore him, he can hang around here for several days.
Seeing that Alvia finally noticed that he was angry, Zeus angrily conjured up a chair and sat face to face with Alvia across the table, as if he was preparing to have a long talk with her.
"How could you do this?" Zeus complained, "You guys have ruined my carefully prepared appearance."
Although I don’t know what Zeus is talking about, is the appearance he mentioned the one he had been talking about before, the appearance in front of Zhou Zhou?
"When did you come out?" Alvia asked.
"I've been at the bottom of the sea!"
On the seabed they only saw dead passengers, gray-black fish, and giant octopuses. What about Zeus?
Zeus put his chin on the table and said, "In the Deep Sea Thing instance, if the player keeps holding the quest item, the people on the ship will be constantly thrown into the sea by the skeletons. There are a large number of ghosts on the seabed, which will drag the players who fall into the sea to the deep sea. When the number of eliminated people reaches a certain level, the ghost ship will sink because it is too old. The subsequent plot point is that the players will swim to a small island, but the island is actually the back of a turtle, so in the end they will still be eliminated because their health points are reduced to zero. I originally thought that you would be thrown into the sea and turned into a whale waiting for you in the sea, waiting for Zhou Zhou to come down and save him."
"But I waited from the beginning to the end of the dungeon, and you guys actually..."
Zeus was very resentful. Who would have thought that Zhou Zhou had found another way to clear the dungeon? The reason why the players' settlement points were so high this time was because the clearance rate of the Deep Sea Objects dungeon was very low. They actually completed the most unexpected main line.
In the game forums, although many people post dungeon guides, very few people can complete the game according to the guides.
Not only are there a large number of copies, the tasks and main lines in them will change randomly, and even some copies designed by advanced players will open up different ways of passing due to the players' choices.
Zeus had said before that his appearance must be grand and eye-catching, with great fanfare and something like that. But he turned into a killer whale and waited at the bottom of the sea for a long time. Zhou Zhou and his friends actually opened another way to pass the level, so he waited for nothing.
I had wanted to use the appearance of a killer whale to perform a touching heroic rescue of a beautiful girl on the seabed, but I didn't expect that they would choose a main line that was completely different from other players. The captain drove the boat away and I didn't know where he went. When he chased after him, he found that he had nothing to do with it.
Having missed the chance to get to know Zhou Zhou again, he had to think of a new way to make his debut, so of course he was unhappy.
Zhou Zhou couldn't be blamed for this matter, so he could only complain about it in front of Elvia.
Elvia listened to Zeus' complaints calmly, and then she realized that there were other ways to clear the Deep Sea Object. However, the dungeon had already ended, and it was useless to know now, so she continued to work without any intention of comforting the angry Zeus.
Zeus was so angry. Why could Elvia and Zhou Zhou be inseparable and work together on missions while he could only watch from the side? Even now Zhou Zhou didn't recognize him.
Zeus hummed a few more times, curled up in the chair and swung his short legs. He had countless clones, monitoring the game and the entire network of the empire. When Elvia was working, he was also working.
Several hours passed like this, and Zeus suddenly sat up straight on the chair, his expression flustered and a little shy. Before Alvia could ask him what was wrong, Zeus disappeared on the spot.
Alvia frowned slightly. Zeus had never changed his habit of leaving without saying goodbye, but his expression just now was very strange. It was the first time she saw him with such an expression.
He wanted to find out what had happened to make Zeus so panicked, but the noise that continued to emerge in the palace left him no time to pay attention.
The royal family was not populous, and there was such a big commotion in the deserted palace. It went without saying that it was directed at him. Elvia walked out of the palace with a cold face.
Zeus didn't expect that his first meeting with Zhou Zhou would be under such circumstances.
The body of the killer whale that was prepared to save Zhou Zhou in the copy was not destroyed but placed in Colt Lake. Anyway, the lake was always covered with white fog, and there were no bored players who would swim in the lake, so no one would notice that there was a killer whale in it.
Who would have thought that Zhou Zhou would fish him out.
Each of Zeus' clones is connected to his original body and can share memories and various information. The only difference is that he has human thinking because he has been in contact with humans for too long, while other clones will only act according to the program. If there is something that the clone cannot handle, it will notify the original body to handle it.
All electronic government affairs of the empire are handled in this way, and generally nothing happens that cannot be handled.
But at this time Zeus encountered a big problem.
In the copy, he is the killer whale. After leaving the copy, the original body leaves the killer whale's body. The killer whale becomes his clone, which is also himself. Because of his memory, when the killer whale found Zhou Zhou fishing on the shore, it actually rushed over.
After all, the killer whale does not have human thinking, and did not think about whether the timing and identity were appropriate. It just had a good impression of Zhou Zhou and wanted to get to know him, so it bit the hook very directly and voluntarily let itself be fished away.
Now this mess was handed directly to Zeus. When he returned to the killer whale's body, he saw Zhou Zhou gesturing at him and muttering about how to eat it.
what to do!
Zeus, who claimed to be super smart, didn't know how to deal with the situation. He could either escape and go back into the lake, or take this opportunity to get to know Zhou Zhou.
Zhou Zhou watched the killer whale for a long time, but he didn't know whether it was dead or alive. The lower half of the killer whale was still soaked in the lake water, and only the upper half was lying on the shore, motionless and stiff, looking as if it was dead.
This is really too big. Not to mention how to eat it, just bringing the whale home is a very troublesome thing. Although it can be teleported to the doorstep with one click, the whale is so big that I don’t know if it can be teleported there. After teleporting, it may not even be able to enter the house.
After weighing the pros and cons for a long time, Zhou Zhou decided not to eat such a big fish. The fish in the bucket alone were enough for him and the little octopus to eat in the afternoon.
He dropped his fishing rod and pushed from the front of the whale, trying to push the whale off the shore and back into the lake. After pushing for a long time, the whale was still lying there motionless. Zhou Zhou frowned and looked at his hands. Didn't he just fish the whale out? Why can’t we push it forward now?
While Zhou Zhou was trying hard to push the whale, Zeus also thought of how to get to know Zhou Zhou. He swung his tail violently and successfully returned to the lake with the weight of his tail falling.
Zhou Zhou released the whale back into the lake. Looking at the whale swimming around the lake, he nodded with satisfaction. Sure enough, it was still alive. Then he picked up the fishing rod and the bench and prepared to go home with the little octopus on his shoulder.
"Thank you for saving me." A timid voice suddenly came from the lake.
Zhou Zhou turned around and looked in the direction of the sound, and found that there was a little boy in the lake, about five or six years old, with his clear black and white eyes staring at him.
Zhou Zhou:?
Saved him? Zhou Zhou looked around. The fog on the lake was getting thicker and thicker. Only vague human figures could be seen in the distance. No one noticed that Zhou Zhou had caught a whale. So where did this kid come from? Why should I thank him? How could he save him when he didn't even know him?
Zeus could tell from Zhou Zhou's expression that his head was full of question marks, so he could only explain himself: "I am the whale. You just saved me, and I want to repay you."
The method is very old-fashioned. It is probably because Zeus has read too many novels about ancient Earth recently and was influenced by them. But it works, no matter whether he saves Zhou Zhou or Zhou Zhou saves him, the purpose is the same.
Zhou Zhou was silent for a moment, then asked in confusion: "Are you a whale?"
Zeus nodded.
Now that I know a child who can turn into a doll, it doesn’t seem so strange to see a child who can turn into a whale.
"I just fished you out." Zhou Zhou said honestly, "And you went back by yourself just now. I didn't do anything."
He couldn't even push the whale, and he was the one who was responsible for fishing the whale, and he didn't save him at all.
Zeus blinked, completely ignoring Zhou Zhou's explanation, and said stubbornly: "It was you who saved me."
"Are you a whale or a player? You are not allowed to enter the game if you are under 18 years old. How did you get in?" Zhou Zhou looked at the other person's body still soaked in water and stretched out his hand towards him. Although he was just an NPC, he had heard some of the rules of the Nightmare City game from other people.
Zeus was delighted and quickly grabbed Zhou Zhou's hand and climbed up.
Naturally, he knew the rules of the game best. At first, he wanted to say that he was a minority race, so he could make an exception and enter the game, but this statement had already been used by the children of the Eldar.
Zeus could only think again. Looking at the little octopus clinging to Zhou Zhou's shoulder, Zeus suddenly thought: "I am a mermaid in the Deep Sea Thing dungeon. When you cleared the dungeon, I came out with you, and I can't go back."
As he spoke, he squeezed out two tears and looked at Zhou Zhou with tears in his eyes, looking so pitiful.
Zhou Zhou was originally helping the child wipe the water stains off his face, but he suddenly stopped when he heard his words. He pursed his lips, looked down at the kid's tearful eyes, and suddenly said, "If you have nowhere to go, do you want to go home with me?"
Zeus: There is such a good thing!
He originally wanted to get to know Zhou Zhou, and it would be best if he could go back with him. However, he hadn't said the rest of the words yet, so why did Zhou Zhou take the initiative to take him back?
Zeus didn't understand, but he didn't need to understand at this time. He quickly grabbed Zhou Zhou's hand and gave him a sweet smile.
Zhou Zhou held a bench and a fishing rod in one hand, and with the other hand he held the child's hand, which was pressed into his palm, and walked home with him.
As Zeus happily followed Zhou Zhou home, news quickly spread in the imperial palace that the current emperor Elvia had been attacked and seriously injured.
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