Lying under the tree, listening to the rustling of the leaves when the breeze blows through the forest, time seems to slow down like this.

When the sky was getting dark and the whole forest was covered with a layer of darkness, Frost released the hand that was holding Xiao Zhi tightly. Feeling the movement, Xiao Zhi asked in a low voice, "Does your head hurt?"

Frost propped up his body, looked down at Xiao Zhi, shook his head slightly, and stretched out his hand to gently comb Xiao Zhi's messy temples.

Xiao Zhi let him move without saying a word.

For a while, there was a quiet and peaceful atmosphere in the air.

Suddenly, Xiao Zhi felt the movement from the address book. Whenever the player received a private chat, he would feel the prompt in his head.

Xiao Zhi took out the address book, it turned out to be a message from Einstein.

Hey, hey: Junior Brother, come to my dormitory! ! ! Show you a big baby! !

7654321: Hey, the genius just got dark. Brother, your words can easily make people shy.

Hey, hey: ... Little Junior Brother, so you actually have this style of painting?

7654321: I'm guarding a big baby right now, what kind of big baby is over there? Let's talk about it, I'll consider whether to go there or not.

Hey, hey: I have an accidental discovery. The original secret about the ZERO world is absolutely exclusive. Now the teacher and Vidi are ready to come, you will lose if you don't come.

7654321: About ZERO?

hey hey: yes, are you sure you won't come?

7654321: I was wrong, come right away.

Hey, hey, hey, the dormitory location will be posted to your terminal later. Today, my brother invites you to have a late-night snack.

7654321: Thank you, brother, happy~

Xiao Zhi closed the address book with a smile on his face, and then met Frost's faint gaze. Tonight's moonlight was good, and it reflected Frost's eyes like a hunter in the jungle, with a light-colored cold light. .

Xiao Zhi's smile was a little stiff.

Ah, chatting with senior brother so much, forgot Frost. After a while, Xiao Zhi has to go offline, leaving Frost and his fellow apprentices behind to eat supper happily, thinking about it, what is it that he suddenly feels a little bit of guilt?

Frost's tone sounded calm. "Did something happen?"

Xiao Zhi bite the bullet and said, "I...may have to sleep for a while later."

There was a suspicious light in Frost's eyes.

Xiao Zhi: "You also know that when we Asanaxi people sleep, our souls will save the world in our dreams."

Frost: "..."

Why does this sound so familiar?

Xiao Zhi has skillfully started to talk about bullshit: "I just received a revelation that a catastrophe is about to happen in another world, and someone like me is needed to save the world."

It's been a long time since I didn't talk to Asen, Xiao Zhi realized that his skills were not unfamiliar, he was still so fluent, and he came casually.

Hearing this familiar nonsense, a slight smile appeared on Frost's mouth. This is Xiao Qi, and it hasn't changed at all.

He stretched out his hand to Xiao Zhi with a smile, and Xiao Zhi also handed it over. Just when he thought Frost would pull him up, Frost pulled him closer with a force in his hand. He took care of himself, and the other free hand crossed Xiao Zhi's back and hugged the person in his arms.

Xiao Zhi: "..."

This……

The smile on Frost's face did not change. He kept his posture and lowered his head towards Xiao Zhi until the foreheads of the two of them touched each other. In Xiao Zhi's line of sight, apart from Frost's chin and drooping silver hair, he could no longer see it. At other times, he heard Frost's voice: "Okay, you go to sleep, I will take you back to the Palace of Bones."

"Boom thump... thump thump..."

Accompanied by the sound of a heartbeat that gradually became faster, it seemed like someone was dancing to the beat of a cheerful drum.

At this moment, among the two of them, only Xiao Zhi could have a heartbeat.

Xiao Zhi felt that his voice was a little hollow: "Then...good night..."

"Good night," Frost replied.

After the person in his arms was breathing evenly, his eyes were tightly closed and no longer opened, Frost raised his head and stared at the sleeping face of the person in his arms: "Athanasi..."

Xiao Zhi calmed his heartbeat before leaving the game cabin.

"Hello, master." 0724 took the initiative to greet Xiao Zhi while cleaning.

"Hello." Xiao Zhi also responded, just like greeting a friend.

"Does the master have any plans today?" 0724 asked.

Xiao Zhi said while changing his clothes, "I want to go out, there are no special arrangements."

0724: "Do you need to rent a scooter for you?"

Xiao Zhi thought that everyone was a dormitory, and probably wouldn't be too far apart, just two steps away, so he said, "No, it's very close."

After greeting 0724, Xiao Zhi walked towards the dormitory sent by Einstein.

But the more he walked, the more wrong he felt. Why did he leave the dormitory area? And also left the teaching building area of ​​the history department and went further?

Where is this going?

Then he looked at the distance displayed on the navigation - there was still 565km to the destination.

Xiao Zhi: "..."

Oh, is this the dormitory of the rich?

A little bit beyond the imagination of traditional earth people.

Xiao Zhi couldn't help but open the big map and take a look. Fortunately, Senior Brother Ai's dormitory is still on the same land as his, so there is no need to cross the sea.

In the end, Xiao Zhi had to rent a scooter at the school and continued to head towards Einstein's dormitory. Fortunately, human beings have entered the interstellar era, and the speed of transportation is no longer the slow level of the earth. In fact, 565 kilometers can be reached in less than 20 minutes.

What appeared in front of him was a super, luxurious, huge, manor, which monopolized the entire lake and mountains. There were no other neighbors around to disturb it, which showed the low-key and simple happiness of the rich.

Xiao Zhi: "..."

No, can this be called a dormitory? !

Xiao Zhi followed the instructions and parked the scooter. At this moment, a man with blond hair and wearing a traditional tuxedo came to his side, and the man saluted Xiao Zhi respectfully: "Welcome, Mr. Xiao Zhi, I am It's the master's AI butler, Sarian, and it's an honor to serve you."

Xiao Zhi followed Sarian and changed to the scooter inside the manor, heading towards the most luxurious building.

Along the way, Sarian and Xiao Zhi chatted and laughed freely, without the slightest bit of rigidity, just like a real human being, completely different from 0724 in Xiao Zhi's dormitory.

Finally, Xiao Zhi came to the hall of the mansion.

As soon as Sarian opened the door, Xiao Zhi heard voices coming from inside.

"Hahaha, I still won. I said that Junior Brother is so smart that he will definitely find my dormitory!"

"Why……"

"You are the only one who will get lost in the interstellar era."

"Come on, this cup of super spicy happy water is yours."

Xiao Zhi saw the familiar face of the teacher's family playing the casino again. Every time Einstein and Wei Di bet, it seems that Wei Di loses. It is obvious that he should be the one with the highest IQ in the teacher's door, but every bet must be lost. No exceptions.

Wei Di drank the red-black liquid in the cup with a face full of reluctance, and then Xiao Zhi saw his face changed, and finally jumped up like his butt was on fire, and ran to the small room next to him. He seemed more energetic than usual.

After delivering Xiao Zhi, Sarian left.

Li Daye and Einstein were both sitting on the luxurious sofa, Xiao Zhi walked over to greet them, and sat up as well. The sofa is very soft, yet capricious. The surface material has a low-key luster and texture, revealing a smell of money.

Xiao Zhi was paralyzed on the soft sofa: "Senior Brother Ai, your dormitory is too different from that of our commoners. I thought I would be able to walk over, but after looking at the distance..."

Einstein scratched his head embarrassedly: "I originally thought that living in a student dormitory was almost the same, but when my dad donated money to repair the dormitory, he specially arranged one for me. It's inconvenient to attend classes, and I have to go up and downstairs to play games... …”

Li Daye looked at Xiao Zhi and told him: "Our professional game equipment is also donated by his family, including the latest ZERO game cabin."

Xiao Zhi suddenly realized, no wonder the professional style of painting is so unique, it turns out that there is a big money owner.

Xiao Zhi looked at Einstein as if he was looking at a lively God of Wealth, this is the true light of the teacher! The golden light of local tyrants!

After chatting for a while, Wei Di also came back. Although it looked a little sloppy, the degree of sagging was not much different from usual.

Xiao Zhi looked at Einstein: "So, what kind of big baby is it that is so mysterious?"

Einstein greeted everyone to a small hidden room, where the temperature and humidity were specially set to store fragile items.

He took out a white box mysteriously, put the box on the table and said, "I found a manuscript of Gu Shenxue at the Nibile auction."

The Nibile auction, the highest-level auction in the three galaxies, is not one of them. It belongs to the place where the rich and famous all over the world show their identities and status. Ordinary people don't even think about it.

Einstein said: "Gu Shenxue, that is, the deep snow boss in the game, is a person who still has the habit of hand-painting in the information age. You will be surprised by the content here."

With that, he opened the white box.

The eyes of the other three all looked towards the inside. There were many hand-painted drafts in the box. It could be seen that the people who drew them were very skilled. Every line was very smooth. The movement of the hand is very stable.

Einstein put on his gloves and spread the papers on the table one by one.

With his actions, Xiao Zhi saw more and more familiar pictures, pictures he had seen in the world of ZERO.

Wei Di pointed to one of them: "This is King Chiba!!"

On the screen is King Chiba, whom Xiao Zhi once met. He has been on the throne since the beginning of ZERO's operation, and has never been replaced, and nothing has changed until now. Although it is only a draft, it still does not affect the beauty of this great beauty.

Li Daye noticed the handwriting on the manuscript: "It turns out that his name is Chiba Sanjiu... Who came up with this name, why is it so casual?"

Some familiar scene concept drafts appeared later. The lush Chiba king tree, the vast desert, and the continuous black forest... are all what ZERO looked like when the server was first launched.

Xiao Zhi looked at these: "It turns out that Shenxue has participated in the development of ZERO, but no news has come out."

Einstein said: "I was a little curious, so the client investigated about Gu Shenxue and found something even more surprising - Gu Shenxue should be Noah Pei's wife."

The other three looked at him in surprise.

Einstein used the terminal to project a piece of information: "They got married a long time ago, when both of them were very young. At that time, Noah Pei was already famous, but Gu Shenxue was still unknown. The relationship has never been made public, even when both parties are famous later on."

"But their relationship should be very good, they've never been separated in their entire lives, and the two of them have multiple records of vacations together each year."

Einstein turned to another document: "About ten years after the two were married, Gu Shenxue had a car accident, which left her half paralyzed and lost her unborn child and fertility. After that, Noah Pei Cai began to make achievements in the medical field, and after many years, he successfully made Gu Shenxue stand up again."

"It was also from this year that Noah Pei had the idea of ​​​​creating the game world. It is not clear whether his motivation for creating the game is related to Gu Shenxue, but the time points are almost synchronized."

Wei Di suddenly said: "I think, maybe it's related. Look at these people, do their eyes look very similar to when Noah Pei was young, and their noses are almost exactly the same as Gu Shenxue's."

He pointed to the photo in the document, and then to a certain manuscript on the table.

Xiao Zhi followed Wei Di's fingers and found a manuscript full of portraits in the corner. The characters in the manuscript are all different in height, short, fat and thin, and they all look like children, teenagers, and youths, but what they have in common is that they all have almost the same face, a face that combines the features of Gu Shenxue and Noah Pei.

And this face...

Xiao Zhi couldn't help but hold his breath - like Frost!

Especially those pictures of young people looked more and more similar. Although they were only line drafts, Frost's iconic silver hair and platinum eyes could not be seen.

In the past, Noah Pei was an old grandfather in his impression, and Gu Shenxue only became famous when he was middle-aged. Xiao Zhi had never paid attention to how the two looked when they were young, but he didn't expect the combination to be so similar to Frost.

Could it be that... Frost is the child created by Noah Pei and Gu Shenxue? After discovering that they may never have children of their own again.

Even created a world for this child.

Xiao Zhi remembered that Frost had told him a little about Noah Pei's lingering memory, and Noah Pei had personally said that he was Frost's father. Think there is a deeper meaning in it.

Xiao Zhi suddenly thought about Noah Pei's treasure.

Could it be... Noah Pei's treasure, is Frost?

In other words, as Noah Pei's child, if there is really a treasure, he is the one who is most likely to know.

Is this why Andre arrested Frost?

"Junior Brother Xiao, what are you thinking?" Wei Di's voice suddenly sounded, pulling Xiao Zhi out of his thoughts.

"Huh?!" Xiao Zhi hurriedly returned to his senses, but he couldn't get the words out of his mouth, he just said: "...I was just thinking, I don't seem to have seen this person in the game."

The brothers and teachers didn't know Frost's appearance, so naturally they couldn't match his identity with the people in the manuscript, but it was about Frost's safety, Xiao Zhi didn't know whether to tell the brothers what he found. .

Although he didn't know how Andre learned about Frost's identity, just thinking about what he did to Frost, Xiao Zhi didn't dare to tell Frost's affairs easily.

In case more people find out... how will they treat Assen...

Li Daye also rubbed his stubble and thought: "It seems that I have never seen this person. Could it be the previous NPCs, or maybe they didn't make it in the end?"

Einstein shrugged: "It's also possible, these are just initial drafts, and some scenes in the manuscripts didn't end up in the game."

Wei Di nodded: "In the game development process, it is normal to scrap drafts."

After that, several people left the room and went outside to eat the supper prepared by Sarian.

Einstein is worthy of being from an interstellar super-big family, and the late night snack is unimaginable.

Barbecue and lo-mei, which have been popular since the earth era, are only basic configurations. There are also many novel foods that are exclusive to the interstellar era, as well as some special delicacies from remote planets. It is a joy to eat.

When the happy supper time was about to end, Vidi's terminal suddenly rang, followed by Li Daye and Einstein, and Xiao Zhi's side was quiet, and he looked at the three of them for unknown reasons.

After a while.

Li Daye read the news in the terminal, and raised his eyebrows slightly: "Noah Peike is really amazing..."

Wei Di said excitedly: "It is indeed Noah Pei!"

Xiao Zhi was at a loss: "What?"

Einstein answered his doubts for him: "Junior Brother Xiao, don't you have a special push for ZERO-related news?"

Xiao Zhi shook his head: "No."

He is an earth-era old man who is addicted to games. He really didn't know that the terminal of the interstellar era has this kind of customized news function.

Einstein simply opened the projection screen in the hall, and the latest news was playing on it:

"A brand new habitable galaxy was recently discovered by the pioneering fleet. According to detection, the area of ​​this new galaxy will not be smaller than the Milky Way. The area where the galaxy is located perfectly matches the inference of Mr. Noah Pei 602 years ago. In order to commemorate this An immortal genius, the new galaxy will be named - Noah System, which may become the fourth largest galaxy inhabited by humans in the future."

Li Daye flipped through his terminal: "Because of Noah Pei's relationship, ZERO's online number will definitely see another surge recently, even people who are not interested in games will be curious about what Noah Pei's games are like. ."

Wei Di also looked at the terminal: "There are more and more people discussing Noah's treasures. Some people actually guess whether there is a secret of another galaxy hidden in it..."

Xiao Zhi watched the news and couldn't help clenching his palms quietly.