The sequel of OE that "we" expect (Thirteen)
It's strange that the store's sales have been surprisingly good lately.
Ever since Z01 posted their temporary marriage certificate and adoption certificate at the door, more and more NPCs have come to the store.
Do NPCs also like gossip? Jiang Yuanshi couldn't figure it out, but that wasn't the point right now.
The little dragon flapped its wings, chewed gold coins in one hand, and sowed seeds in the fields at the same time.
Jiang Yuanshi is on this side, and Z01 is on that side.
Originally, his low stamina was of no use at all, but Jiang Yuanshi was too curious about what it was like to work in the game world. Finally, with Z01's promise of safe care, Jiang Yuanshi rushed into the field with a handful of seeds in his hand.
In the game, all you have to do is click to sow, but in this world, he can manually throw seeds into the field. Although it is very simple, it is quite fun for him who has never seen it before. It is boring but addictive and he can't stop.
Human potential is unlimited. In order to find a new way to play Jiang Yuanshi, he found that as long as he worked while eating, his physical strength would remain conserved as long as he ate fast enough.
That’s too easy, Jiang Yuanshi said while holding the gold coin in his mouth.
The shop was just left aside. No one would really steal it anyway. Jiang Yuanshi and Z01 worked secretly in the fields outside the city. When they were tired, they slept in the self-built house beside the fields. The only useful things in the empty villa were the kitchen and a double bed.
Every day when I open my eyes, I start farming, building a ranch, learning magic to build a constant temperature greenhouse. After the greenhouse is built, I buy seeds and plant all the crops for each season, collect illustrations, and when there is nothing to do, I go into the forest to fight monsters. If I don’t want to work, I just stay in the house and mess around.
According to the progress of the game, these tasks would take many days to complete, but because they had money and strong combat power, Jiang Yuanshi and Z01 finished them all within a week. They just waited for the plants and animals to grow up to help them complete the illustrated achievements.
In fact, Jiang Yuanshi didn't care much about the complete illustrated encyclopedia. Instead, he was interested in Z01. After all, this system was a workaholic and had obsessive-compulsive disorder. It was normal for him to finish the game as work. Anyway, Z01 didn't force others, so they could do it themselves. He also didn't intend to let the host do it, unless the host really wanted to. Otherwise, Z01 would rather Jiang Yuanshi lie on him and rest, and not be too far away.
After all, they were too far apart when they were farming. Z01 would unconsciously touch the empty shoulder from time to time, feeling as if a piece of his program was missing.
Jiang Yuanshi yawned, holding a biscuit in his mouth, patted his hands after sowing seeds, and flew over to Z01. Seeing Z01 touching one of his shoulders with a complicated ball of thread popping out of his head, Jiang Yuanshi took the biscuit and asked with concern, "What's wrong? Is your shoulder hurting?"
Z01 shook his head, but Jiang Yuanshi touched his belly, thinking that he had always been on Z01's right shoulder, could it be...
He was a little worried: "Did I stay on your shoulder for too long and cause you to have frozen shoulder?"
Z01 was somewhat speechless but replied: "No."
Jiang Yuanshi didn't believe it: "Then why are you touching my shoulder?" He stared at Z01 with one eye bigger than the other, making a bad guess, "Will you have uneven shoulders in the future? Or should I just fly by myself? I've gained a lot of strength recently."
Jiang Yuanshi's words came from the bottom of his heart. He was really worried whether the other party would walk up and down with an expressionless face in the future. His meals were very good recently. When he was hungry, he could not only help himself but also be fed by Z01. In addition to working, his physical strength had increased from 10 to 99 in a week. However, staying on Z01's shoulders had gradually become a habit, and he was not aware of it. Now thinking about it, it seemed that he was too disrespectful to Z01.
However, Jiang Yuanshi's thoughtfulness at this time was bad news to Z01. Z01 shook his head more vigorously than ever before and said in a serious tone: "You are very light, and the system itself will not feel tired. Please rest assured and continue to use me."
"."
What a serious and affirmative statement.
Jiang Yuanshi opened his mouth, not knowing what to say, so he simply stuffed the biscuit in his hand back into his mouth, said "oh" vaguely, and sat back on Z01's shoulder very naturally.
At that moment, it was as if the missing components were finally assembled, and Z01's face showed: (I_I)
Jiang Yuanshi looked up at the expression in the pop-up bubble: (II)
Jiang Yuanshi: …………
Although I have never seen Z01 smiling, I have seen the expression in this bubble box quite often recently. I have to say it is a bit weird.
When Jiang Yuanshi saw this expression for the first time, he somehow gave up the idea of seeing Z01 smile. It was hard to imagine that such an expression would appear on Z01's face. It was too scary. Jiang Yuanshi couldn't bear to see it at all.
But after watching it for a long time, Jiang Yuanshi got used to it. He watched it no less than ten times a week. Every time, it was either when Jiang Yuanshi flew back, when he said goodnight before going to bed, or when he accepted the flowers he sent every day...
I don't understand.
Forget it, as long as he is happy. Although Jiang Yuanshi doesn’t understand why Z01 is so happy, maybe this is the generation gap between humans and systems.
Regarding the flowers, I originally thought that the other party had bought some kind of bouquet for confession, but when Jiang Yuanshi took it, he found that there was no such information. It was just an ordinary mix of various flowers, but the aesthetic was very systematic, blue, red, yellow, white, green, purple, pink, green, black, red... and so on, one bunch every day, weird, no idea where they came from. Even the maker Jiang Yuanshi sometimes couldn't remember that there were so many colors and varieties of flowers?
Jiang Yuanshi didn't understand but took it anyway, then put it in the vases at home, in the vases in the store, in the decorative baskets in the mailbox... Everywhere he went, there were strange flowers, and he got used to it after seeing them for a long time.
Strange flowers are still being updated daily.
But the store remains the same as before, and will never restock until the products are sold out, unless the boxes made by the bosses can no longer hold them.
Then this kind of bad behavior was met with feedback and complaints from customers, but Jiang Yuanshi and Z01 were unscrupulous businessmen. They didn't care. They just believed that their own happiness was the most important thing and they were busy farming and reclaiming wasteland.
I have almost finished farming and I don't try to get the favor of NPCs. The reason is very simple. It's okay in the game, but if I become a character in the game, I won't be social. I follow the same principle as living in the real world, I won't be social if I can avoid it.
Jiang Yuanshi, who had nothing to do at home, also had new ideas. He started to play games with Z01. After all, he had made a lot of mini-games in the game, so he was very busy and played with Z01 until late at night every day.
Jiang Yuanshi, who has always been a single-player player, has an online friend in this world. He competes with Jiang Yuanshi every day. The battle is fierce. Z01 closes his database and fights Jiang Yuanshi fairly like an ordinary person.
From being unable to operate at the beginning, he gradually made rapid progress under the guidance of his master Jiang Yuanshi. Fortunately, the master was strong enough and did not teach his apprentice to starve himself to death. However, the battle situation changed from Jiang Yuanshi's undefeated state to a draw in the end.
But Jiang Yuanshi was very happy, because this way he didn't have to let the other party win anymore, and the man and the dragon fought fiercely and were evenly matched. Gradually, the two people who used to have polite conversations began to argue about winning or losing, bickering, and playing tricks, and sometimes they even took turns to be so angry that they had to sleep on the floor at night, live separately, and have you cook and wash dishes tomorrow.
Today was the day Z01 lost. He lay straight on the floor beside the bed, looking up at the sky expressionlessly, expressing his silent dissatisfaction.
Xiao Long, lying on his belly with his hands spread out, said, "Hey, why are you like this again?" "Isn't it just a loss?"
Z01 calmly analyzed, "One round is still one round. To ensure balance, I suggest playing another round."
Jiang Yuanshi decisively refused: "No."
Z01: "Why? It's just one game. You're so good, you shouldn't be afraid of losing."
Nowadays, the polite address "you" seems to sound sarcastic.
Jiang Yuanshi: "Don't be polite. It sounds like you are scolding me."
"It's an unexpected disaster." Z01, who studies anthropology, used a four-character idiom to summarize his experience, and then continued to ask, "Is it really impossible to play another game?"
“…No.”
"Why?"
"…Because my claws hurt. You have to know that it is really uncomfortable for a dragon to hold the handle." Jiang Yuanshi raised his claws to look at himself. They were rubbed into roasted pig's trotters.
"Then come here, I'll apply medicine for you." Z01 stretched out his hand towards the bed. Jiang Yuanshi glanced at him and said, "I don't want to go over there."
According to the past, Z01 would have moved over as soon as Jiang Yuanshi said this, but now, they were having a quarrel over a game.
Jiang Yuanshi didn't move, and Z01 didn't move either.
Jiang Yuanshi: “…”
Z01: “…”
The air was quiet, but after a while, the sound of clothes rubbing against each other was heard in the room.
Z01 moved closer to the bed.
Jiang Yuanshi moved towards the bed.
Move, move, and the sound of fabric rustling stopped.
As a hand rested on the bed with its palm open, a small paw reached out.
Just like that, the two childish ghosts grabbed the edge of the bed, each stretched out a hand, and used their big hands to apply medicine to their little paws.
Z01 said, "What are you going to eat tomorrow, Yuanyuan?"
Jiang Yuanshi yawned and said, "I don't know. As long as I have food to eat, that's fine. By the way, why are you talking like my grandma now? All you talk about is eating every day."
"You don't want to eat?"
"eat."
"Does grandma also say wishes?"
"Well, my name was changed by my grandma."
Z01 didn't quite understand and asked, "Why change the name?"
Jiang Yuanshi replied: "Because the name my parents originally gave me was not nice. It sounded very resentful."
Although Jiang Yuanshi, who was lying on the bed, could not see Z01's face, he could see the huge question mark bubble on the other side. Jiang Yuanshi said: "My original name was Jiang Yuanshi, which means complaining."
Jiang Yuanshi rarely mentioned his experiences when he was alive, and Z01 didn't intend to pry, but this time he took the initiative to speak, which Z01 couldn't understand: "But... most of the names humans give their children have beautiful meanings."
"Yes, because my parents felt that I was born at the wrong time, so they blamed me." Jiang Yuanshi said indifferently, "After all, I am an accidental product. If the doctor hadn't said that my mother might not have children after the abortion, they probably wouldn't have kept me. Who wants an accident to happen when they are about to get a promotion?"
Z01: "Why should promotion be linked to children?"
Jiang Yuanshi: "Because I have to take leave to have a baby, it will delay my promotion. After all, work is important and pregnancy is very hard, which is understandable."
"But that's not why you were given that name."
"It's okay. It was changed back in the end anyway."
"Because of grandma?"
"Well, my grandmother didn't agree, so she scolded my parents. They didn't agree at first, but they changed it later. Fortunately, I didn't register the name directly at that time, so I changed it on the spot." Jiang Yuanshi said, "Otherwise my parents would hate me even more. If the household registration book had this former name, I would be even more of a stain."
"I don't understand." Z01 sat up and looked at Jiang Yuanshi, who was lying on the bed looking at the ceiling and said, "How should I put it? They are a model couple in everyone's eyes. They are good people and very kind, so they will not and cannot give their child such a name. A child's name to some extent represents the parents' expectations. Once the name Jiang Yuanshi is exposed to the public, what do you think people will think of them? Will they say that the parents are bad and why would they give their child such a name? They must not love him. Then people might even say that they are pretentious scumbags. How can they agree to it?"
Z01 frowned and had a bad idea: "So grandma didn't awaken their conscience, but the interests influenced them to change their minds, right?"
Maybe later on we will be glad that we didn't give the host this name, otherwise it would be very embarrassing. In the end, those two humans were just doing it to save face.
Jiang Yuanshi said "hmm" indifferently, without much emotion. Instead, he looked at Z01's angry expression with a frown on his face, laughed and said, "I'm fine, what are you doing? Human-machines can also be angry."
Z01 looked at the host with a normal expression. Human reproduction is very hard. They gave Jiang Yuanshi life, but that doesn't mean Jiang Yuanshi can't blame his parents. But in the end, Jiang Yuanshi said nothing. He just asked Z01 to wait for a while and start a new game after his hand healed.
"No, maybe next time."
"Why, you're not going to start sympathizing with me because of something like this."
Z01 stood up and put Jiang Yuanshi against the wall, then climbed onto the bed, lay on his side, held Jiang Yuanshi in his hands and said, "I'm just a little... sad?"
Does the system feel sad? Jiang Yuanshi didn't know, and neither did Z01. He just felt that he should say so.
Jiang Yuanshi leaned over and poked the other person's face: "What are you sad about?"
Z01: "I'm sorry that your hand hasn't healed yet and you can't play another game with me right away to make up for my defeat."
Jiang Yuanshi pinched Z01's face hard, but Xiaolong's hand strength was just a massage at best. Jiang Yuanshi said angrily, "You guys are getting more and more outrageous with your words."
Z01 blinked and said, "Yuanyuan taught me well."
"Tsk." Xiaolong made a dissatisfied sound, "If you keep doing this, I won't let you call me Yuanyuan. Only my grandma can call me that, and you are taking advantage of me."
No wonder Jiang Yuanshi was stunned when he heard this name. So that's why.
Z01 came close to Jiang Yuanshi, with his head very close to her forehead, and said, "It's my pleasure, thank you for your generosity."
Jiang Yuanshi snorted, put his head against Z01's and said, "Go to sleep. We have to go to the store to put some things away tomorrow. The warehouse is full."
"OK."
"Good night then, Z01."
"good evening……"
“…”
"Wait, what then?"
"Um, what?"
Jiang Yuanshi, who had just closed his eyes, opened them again. In the past, Z01 would always say good night with his name before going to bed. After getting used to it, he still couldn't fall asleep without Jiang Yuanshi. Z01 looked at him, and Jiang Yuanshi felt that the other party must have done it on purpose. What was he trying to do?
The two stared at each other in silence for a long time. When Jiang Yuanshi's patience was exhausted and small bubbles of fire appeared above his head, Z01 said, "Good night, Yuanyuan, I love you very much."
“…”
“Thank you for being here.”
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