Love NPC in Nightmare Game - Chapter 122

Chapter 122: The Real World 20

Under the watchful eyes of everyone, Zhou Zhou successfully kissed Alvia, but this kiss was too brief, basically just a fleeting touch, as quick as a mayfly alighting on water and then leaving.

The others: Just this? You took off your pants just to show us this?

The crowd’s condemning gazes turned towards Alvia. In their eyes, the roles of attacker and receiver between these two were already very clear. Faced with such a passionate lover, shouldn’t he have welcomed him with a fiery, scorching hot kiss?

Tsk tsk, Alvia is really too…

Although he is the Imperial Emperor, in this aspect he is far inferior to them. Somehow, the mercenaries and prisoners all felt a strange sense of superiority.

Of course, Zhou Zhou was unaware of the others’ strange thoughts. As a romance NPC, when dating, he naturally had to do what lovers should do. The knowledge he had before was no longer applicable, so he had to learn and practice new knowledge.

Previously, he had no one to practice with, but now he did, so he naturally wanted to practice and learn more. Although he had only learned the basics, it seemed that Al knew even less than he did.

Zhou Zhou looked at Al, who seemed a bit dazed. He seemed to be stunned by Zhou Zhou’s kiss, looking a bit cute.

Perhaps it was a case of love being blind, while in the eyes of others, Alvia always had a cold and aloof demeanor that was difficult to approach, to the point where they dared not even directly look at him, let alone condemn him.

Only Zhou Zhou noticed that when he was about to kiss Al, his pupils suddenly constricted sharply, and then his eyes went blank, as if he had lost his senses.

Zhou Zhou felt quite good, still wanting more, so he could try it again.

Thus, before Alvia could regain his senses, Zhou Zhou gave him another fleeting kiss.

This time, Alvia finally came to his senses.

His heart was beating so fast that it was almost out of control. Alvia knew this was because of excessive adrenaline secretion. He unconsciously licked his lips, suddenly realizing that Zhou Zhou had just kissed here, and his originally pale skin immediately flushed red.

With the back of his right hand lightly covering his cheek, the blush gradually spread to his neck. Feeling the heat rising to his face, Alvia feigned composure and said, “I… I’ll go out for a bit.”

After saying that, he actually turned and left, his retreating figure appearing to be a hasty escape.

Was Al shy? Zhou Zhou watched Alvia walk away, calmly accepting the worshipful gazes of the crowd, and even had the mind to answer Mo Lan’s previous question: “We’re lovers.”

Mo Lan: …She had already seen that.

The others almost wanted to kneel and worship Zhou Zhou. This was the true master.

It was unknown what Al was going to do, but he disappeared shortly after. After Alvia’s figure vanished, Zhou Zhou suddenly turned and asked, “Mo Lan, is this how lovers are? Do they have to kiss every day? I think it feels pretty good, what do you think, would kissing ten times a day be enough in the future?”

His expression was very serious, not at all like he was joking.

Zhou Zhou treated Mo Lan as a good friend, so whenever he had a question, he wanted to ask her opinion. Moreover, when designing instances before, he would also ask Mo Lan’s opinion. In his view, matters between lovers and designing instances were about the same.

Mo Lan: …She didn’t want to talk, and why was he asking her this kind of question? Did she look very experienced?

They were the experienced ones!

The people standing by had a lot they wanted to say. When Alvia was present, they didn’t dare speak, but now that Alvia was gone and they were facing just a youth, they naturally weren’t afraid. In fact, many of the seniors even had advice they wanted to impart to this newbie.

“What was that just now? Come, come, let me teach you a few moves.”

“Old Li, don’t corrupt the kid. By the way, are you an adult? You look so small. Oh, you are an adult? Then it’s fine.”

“Let me! I’ve been married for twenty years, with a happy and blissful family life. My wife still loves me to death. When it comes to romance, I’m an expert passed down from my ancestors.”

Everyone eagerly passed on their own experiences to Zhou Zhou. These people were uninhibited veterans, not having lived such dissolute lives for nothing.

So it was that Zhou Zhou, who had just begun learning how to date and what real lovers should do, received a deluge of “senior” teachings, rapidly accelerating his theoretical knowledge from cautiously driving a beginner’s bumper car onto the high-speed lane.

Even the prisoners couldn’t help chiming in.

Mo Lan pulled her sister aside. These people’s voices were too loud, and they were unusually excited discussing such matters. Even from far away, she could still hear them. Seeing her sister’s curious expression, Mo Lan led her even farther away.

Children shouldn’t hear these things.

Zhou Zhou had an exceptionally pure and innocent appearance. When listening seriously to others speak, he looked even more well-behaved and obedient. The content they were discussing was precisely what Zhou Zhou lacked and wanted to know, so he naturally listened very attentively, occasionally showing dawning realization, occasionally nodding in acknowledgment. He was just short of taking out a little notebook to record everything.

And those imparting their experiences, seeing Zhou Zhou’s eager and sincere eyes, all felt a bit carried away, wishing they could tell him all their secret skills.

In fact, the person they most wanted to tell was Alvia. After all, Alvia’s earlier performance was simply… jaw-dropping, way too embarrassing. But no one dared say such things to the emperor unless they were tired of living. So telling his partner was just the same.

It should be the same, right?

They could consider this as contributing to the empire!

Unaware of the baptism Zhou Zhou had received after he left, Alvia circled around to the back of the ship, where no one could see him. His wildly beating heart still hadn’t calmed down.

His azure eyes seemed to be veiled in a layer of mist. His hands clenched and unclenched. So now, he and Zhou Zhou were lovers? He had a sweetheart?

He didn’t know what he should do. He wanted to run a few laps, wanted to find someone to battle, yet felt such behavior was simply silly.

After pacing quickly for a few circles nearby, he still couldn’t vent his excited feelings. He suddenly raised his head to look at the sky.

At this time, the sky was already slightly brightening. Alvia’s spiritual power extended at an extremely rapid speed in a certain direction.

It was the direction Alan had fled.

After Alan entered the spacecraft, a few small spaceships have been maintaining maximum speed, while the mercenaries chasing behind them, seeing the distance getting farther and farther, couldn’t help but want to curse.

Their own spacecraft was considered the best among all the mercenary groups, but now they couldn’t even catch up with the few runaways. The speed was simply too much. They didn’t know where those people got these spaceships, they were way too fast.

At this rate, they would definitely not be able to catch up.

Just as they were about to send a communication to ask the boss what to do, the data suddenly showed that the speed of the spaceships in front had slowed down.

“What’s going on? Why did they slow down?” a mercenary asked in confusion.

“How would I know? Could it be that they ran out of energy?”

“Why bother with all that? Now is a good opportunity, hurry and catch up.”

The few spaceships in front slowed down more and more, and eventually stopped completely. At this time, Alan finally felt a sense of panic.

“What’s going on? Why did we stop!” Alan roared.

The operator in the pilot’s seat was drenched in sweat. All of his controls had failed, and the entire spacecraft was no longer under his control, unable to move at all.

No matter how angry Alan was, even holding a gun to his head, he could not control the spacecraft in the slightest.

With a look of despair, the pilot stopped his final resistance and said to the raging Alan behind him, “Prince, give up. We can’t escape anymore, the spacecraft is out of control.”

How could this be possible? These small spaceships weren’t even connected to the star network, so Zeus shouldn’t be able to control the systems on board. How could they be out of control?

Could it be Alvia?

Impossible!

Alan immediately rejected this idea. They were already very far away from that planet. No matter how powerful Alvia’s spiritual power was, there was no way he could control the spaceships from such a great distance. They must have used some kind of trick!

There weren’t many weapons loaded onto the small spaceships, and even the personnel were very minimal. Faced with the pursuers behind them and the inability to start the spaceships, they had no way to retaliate.

The mercenary group’s spacecraft finally caught up and forcibly connected a passage to board these extremely fast small spaceships.

Everything went smoothly in a way that seemed unbelievable. The mercenaries always felt it might be a trap set by the other side, so they were extremely cautious after boarding the spaceships. Although they encountered several attacks, the opponent’s attack power was obviously smaller than expected. After some effort, they still managed to gain control over everyone on board.

All the people on these few small spaceships were gathered together. The mercenary group completed their mission and immediately returned with the captured people and spaceships.

Alan had lost all composure. The mercenaries didn’t even recognize that among the people they captured were former members of the royal family. With his hands bound, Alan glared at the mercenaries guarding them and suddenly questioned, “What method did you use to control the spaceships?”

As just a lowly prisoner, he dared to use such a tone. A hot-tempered mercenary sneered, “Maybe the heavens just don’t look favorably upon you.”

The few other mercenaries also realized that these people didn’t know why the speed of their spaceships had slowed down. Could it really be that they were just lucky? The heavens were helping them?

At this time, Alvia finally withdrew his spiritual power. His spiritual power had been depleted again.

Originally, his injured and unrecovered spiritual power had not only been immediately replenished by Zhou Zhou’s stimulation, but its range had even expanded considerably compared to before. Now that he had squandered his spiritual power, his head began to ache dully again.

However, the effect was still quite good. He finally calmed down.

Controlling the spaceships was just an incidental action. Alvia hadn’t paid any attention to Alan at all. Now all his thoughts were focused on Zhou Zhou. Only afterwards did he realize that his earlier behavior seemed to be quite poor.

How could he have just left Zhou Zhou behind right after they had become lovers? Zhou Zhou must be very upset now.

It was only then that Alvia finally thought to use his spiritual power to check on Zhou Zhou’s condition, but he had just depleted his spiritual power and couldn’t use even a tiny bit of it.

He immediately turned to go back and find Zhou Zhou. Fortunately, he wasn’t far away. But as he approached, Alvia, with his excellent eyesight, saw Zhou Zhou chatting with those mercenaries, and there were even a few prisoners also joining in and saying something. They seemed quite happy.

Those mercenaries were really getting into it, laughing boisterously and about to pat Zhou Zhou on the shoulder. But before their hands could land on Zhou Zhou’s shoulder, they were intercepted halfway.

Alvia had appeared behind Zhou Zhou at some unknown point, using his hand to block the mercenary’s fan-like large hand.

“Dammit!” The mercenary abruptly pulled his hand back, shock written all over his weathered face. When did His Majesty appear here?

Although there were quite a few people around and most people’s attention was on Zhou Zhou, even in such a relaxed atmosphere, these mercenaries would not completely let their guard down. After all, unexpected situations that could cost them their lives were likely to occur in an unfamiliar environment.

But even so, no one knew where Alvia had emerged from. It was as if he had just appeared here in the blink of an eye.

The lively scene instantly fell silent, and quite a few mercenaries who were startled by Alvia’s sudden appearance instinctively took up their weapons to attack. They awkwardly put them down after realizing it was His Majesty.

Well, His Majesty probably didn’t hear what they were saying just now, right?

Don’t look at how they shamelessly said whatever they wanted in front of Zhou Zhou. But with His Majesty present, they didn’t dare let out even a fart. They unconsciously straightened their bodies, their gazes shifting to those prisoners and scanning around.

Hmm? Why did these people break formation? Were they trying to escape?

The poor prisoners: Just now we were chatting happily, why the sudden cold shoulder?

Alvia hadn’t heard a single word. Initially, his emotions had been too turbulent, and then his spiritual power had been depleted. By the time he saw these people surrounding Zhou Zhou and hurried back, he had conveniently missed their brilliant quotes.

And Zhou Zhou had already recorded all of the “seniors'” experiences!

His excellent memory allowed him not to miss a single word. Seeing these people fall silent, thinking the lesson had ended there, Zhou Zhou even bowed to thank them, his polite and sincere expression almost making the mercenaries pretending to monitor the prisoners cry.

Although this kid was very polite and a good person, could he please not bow to them? His Majesty was watching!

Alvia was just habitually looking at Zhou Zhou, and the reason he looked at them was only because Zhou Zhou was talking to them. But in the eyes of these mercenaries, Alvia’s gaze was akin to a predatory, deadly glare.

Help! Don’t look at them anymore.

This was Emperor Alvia, known as the Grim Reaper. It was said that His Majesty’s physical abilities and spiritual power had surpassed ordinary humans. For him to kill someone was just a matter of a glance.

Although Alvia’s age was much younger than most of the mercenaries, he had become famous in a single battle more than a decade ago, long since becoming a living legend.

Even now, though he appeared harmless and had a top-tier appearance, no one dared look at him directly.

After Zhou Zhou thanked the “seniors”, he was very happy. He had learned so many new things today, and they were all very practical. This knowledge could not only be used when interacting with a lover but also in instances, perhaps with even better effects.

Zhou Zhou’s joy was evident. Alvia withdrew his gaze from the mercenaries and couldn’t help glancing at Zhou Zhou again and again.

“Happy?”

Zhou Zhou nodded, “Mmhm!”

“Is it because we’re finally lovers?” Alvia was also very pleased. Although he appeared calm on the surface, he couldn’t wait to immediately issue an announcement throughout the empire, telling everyone that he had a sweetheart.

Originally, Zhou Zhou wanted to say it was because he had learned a lot of new knowledge. But when he spoke, he suddenly recalled the “seniors'” teachings.

“Mmhm!” Zhou Zhou nodded vigorously, his amber eyes looking sincere. At the same time, he grabbed Alvia’s hand and intertwined their fingers.

The peeking mercenaries: Well done!

Alvia forced down the upturned corners of his mouth, his mood soaring. Those azure eyes were fixed intently on Zhou Zhou. Who could have imagined that Zhou Zhou, who couldn’t even distinguish between friends and lovers not long ago, would suddenly get so enthusiastic, to the point where even the originally reserved Alvia found it a bit overwhelming.

What else did the seniors say?

Zhou Zhou pondered, then shook Alvia’s hand coquettishly and called out loudly, “Darling!”

The mercenaries: Excellent!

Alvia opened his mouth with difficulty, wanting to respond to Zhou Zhou. But he had never said such words before, nor expressed such an intimate term of endearment in front of others. For a moment, he couldn’t seem to get the words out.

The mercenaries: What’s going on? His Majesty’s expression is very grave. Could it be that he doesn’t like such enthusiasm?

Zhou Zhou also widened his eyes, gazing at Alvia as if waiting for his response.

Alvia took a deep breath, turned his head slightly, and responded awkwardly, “Dear.”

The peeking mercenaries: Huh? Why was there no sound?

Alvia expended the last of his spiritual power to block his voice, so only Zhou Zhou could hear him. The others only saw Alvia’s mouth move but couldn’t hear a single word.

Zhou Zhou was satisfied. It seemed the seniors’ experiences were all useful. Indeed, lovers needed physical contact and intimate terms of endearment. These should all be added to the instances.

The diligent Zhou Zhou gave Alvia another kiss.

The mercenaries: Although His Majesty’s performance was poor, this kid is just too impressive. With the experience they imparted, he has His Majesty completely besotted.

The prisoners watching from the side couldn’t help but exclaim in wonder. No wonder the icy Alvia was conquered, with such a passionately ardent lover, even an iceberg would melt into steam.

In the distance, Mo Zhu squinted her eyes to look into the crowd. She had heard Zhou Zhou’s overly loud “darling” and had guessed from the first time she saw them that these two were lovers.

Mo Lan: High spiritual power isn’t necessarily a good thing. She should take Mo Zhu a bit farther away.

Heya had woken up. When he first awoke, he still felt a bit embarrassed. After all, fainting in front of so many brothers really wasn’t good for his image.

Originally, he had been thinking about how to gloss over his fainting, but found that no one was paying him any attention.

The brothers all had their necks craned, straining to look in a certain direction, their eyes shining and the smiles on their faces rather lecherous.

“Heh heh~ heh heh heh~”

Heya: …Did they get possessed?

With no one minding him, Heya struggled to sit up from the simple little bed. Following everyone’s line of sight, he discovered that Zhou Zhou was actually cupping Alvia’s face with both hands, then “dominantly” kissing His Majesty over and over again.

Like a little fish, one kiss after another.

And Alvia looked completely compliant, even considerately lowering his head to accommodate Zhou Zhou’s actions, his arms around Zhou Zhou’s waist as a flush slowly spread across his face.

The creaking little bed, no longer able to bear their weight, emitted groaning sounds. Heya slowly lay back down, eyes tightly shut. It seemed he really wasn’t awake yet.

Zhou Zhou seemed to find this a very fun game, giving Alvia a kiss every so often. It wasn’t that Alvia disliked it, but there were too many people around. Whenever he wanted to suggest that Zhou Zhou go somewhere more private, before he could open his mouth, he would be kissed again. For the first time, Alvia found himself struggling to resist Zhou Zhou’s charm.

When his depleted spiritual power finally surged out a little bit, he immediately used it to erect a white barrier around the two of them.

Now, no one could see them anymore.

Alas, how could they not see anymore! The spiritual power barrier obstructed these people’s view. The disappointment in the mercenaries’ and prisoners’ hearts was palpable, they had been watching with great excitement.

But the barrier was set by His Majesty, and no one had the guts or ability to shatter it. They could only obediently do their own tasks.

Speaking of which, their own spiritual power couldn’t even manifest physically, yet His Majesty could actually use his spiritual power to build himself a little white house, complete with a roof. He was truly too powerful.

The only downside was that this spiritual power was specifically obstructing them.

A mercenary disappointedly withdrew his gaze, turning to look at his leader, who still hadn’t woken up. He couldn’t help but sigh, “Boss, you really missed out. Of course, you had to fall ill at this time.”

The mercenary standing on the other side of Heya grinned, “No need to worry. I recorded the whole thing. The boss will definitely be able to see everything.”

As the words left his mouth, a large hand extended in front of him.

Before the mercenary could wipe the smile off his face, he saw “comatose” Heya lying on the small bed, glaring at him with eyes wide open and extending a hand towards him.

“Let me see.”

“Boss, you’re awake! You don’t know what just happened. Let me tell you, it was so thrilling.”

Heya took the video and the more he watched, the more silent he became. So it wasn’t a dream, these two really were together.

And why did Zhou Zhou look so at ease? Your Majesty, why did Your Majesty look shy?

No, this couldn’t be possible. His Majesty was the strongest person in the empire, how could he have such an expression? The video angle must be problematic!

Heya was questioning life itself. On the other side, surrounded by the spiritual power barrier, Zhou Zhou looked around and asked in confusion, “Why are we enclosed?”

“I’m not used to others looking at us like that.” Alvia hadn’t had a chance to speak before Zhou Zhou kissed him repeatedly. He had already heard the quiet cheers and whistles from the others.

“I want us to be alone for a bit. Do you want to be alone with me? Just the two of us.” Although he asked, Alvia didn’t budge from embracing Zhou Zhou’s waist.

“Of course I want to be with you, but…” Zhou Zhou trailed off, frowning. “I heard that when two people are alone, something might happen. Won’t something happen to us?”

Alvia: …Is he teasing me?

He didn’t really want to answer this question. But Zhou Zhou kept staring at him with an expression that said he wouldn’t give up until he got an answer. Alvia closed his eyes, then said, “No, you forgot you don’t have a physical body now.”

Oh right, no matter what happened, he wouldn’t get hurt.

“What about you?”

Alvia felt this was testing his willpower: “…I won’t have any problems either.”

“That’s good. Earlier they also said that when two people are alone, they might get carried away. But we didn’t even bring any weapons, so nothing will happen.” Zhou Zhou felt the seniors’ experiences didn’t really apply to them.

“And and, they said that at first, two people should add some… Al, what’s wrong with you?” Zhou Zhou suddenly widened his eyes, staring at Alvia in surprise.

Alvia covered his nose with one hand, looking at Zhou Zhou with a helpless gaze: “Please don’t continue this topic anymore, I beg you.”

“Oh, then I won’t mention it anymore. Are you okay? You’re bleeding!”

“It’s nothing, I just used too much spiritual power today. I’ll be fine after resting for a bit.”

Alvia was still having an eventful day, while in a certain part of the universe, a mech entered a spacecraft hidden on the far side of a planet.

Xia Yan withdrew his mech and looked at the subordinates waiting by the side: “What’s the situation?”

“Alan has been captured.”

“Hmph, an expected outcome.” Xia Yan let out a cold laugh. He had guessed long ago that with Alan being such an idiot, there was no way he could kill Alvia. It was just a waste of time.

“We weren’t discovered, right?”

“No, those mercenaries all went after Alan. We’ve already scanned the area and there are no pursuers.”

Xia Yan knew this operation would be dangerous, so he had prepared an escape route behind Alan’s back. As expected, when Alan was fleeing, he didn’t bother bringing Xia Yan along, conveniently using him as bait to facilitate his own escape.

“Set the course, proceed as planned.” Xia Yan’s gaze was distant as he considered who the next collaborator should be.

Suddenly, the spacecraft shook violently, the lights flickering on and off as a piercing alarm blared throughout the entire ship.

Xia Yan steadied himself by holding onto the wall in time: “What’s going on?”

“We’re under attack!”

How was that possible? Did those mercenaries find this place? No, their methods couldn’t have discovered this location so quickly. Xia Yan staggered toward the ship’s control center amidst the shaking.

As soon as he entered the control center, all the operating panels began flashing simultaneously. Before long, the panels originally displaying ship data were replaced by the same man’s face.

“Good morning.”

A head of golden semi-long hair cascaded down his back, his face still covered in numerous small injuries. Ryan’s smirk was as punchable as ever.

“Where is the Sharp Family Head off to? Long time no see, why not come back and chat with me?”

Xia Yan didn’t speak, his fingers gripping the wall tightly. The Family Head was supposed to be his father, but now in the family there were only himself and some of his peers left. Being addressed this way was an insult to him.

How could he have forgotten that the guards were still alive?

At this moment, Ryan was also seething inside. Their starship had been blown to pieces during a joint inspection with His Majesty, and they had only survived thanks to His Majesty’s protection. He deeply loathed the culprit behind this catastrophe.

Zeus said His Majesty was in a coma, and they needed to hurry to His Majesty’s side.

Xia Yan was just a bonus. It was Zeus who detected a hidden spacecraft not far from their ship. According to Zeus’s original capabilities, it should have been undetectable. But he had recently upgraded himself, allowing him to detect this spacecraft.

To ensure His Majesty’s safety, Ryan had to eliminate these minor threats first before going to His Majesty’s side.

These noble families seemed to be hiding quite a lot. Even Zeus had almost missed them. Originally, Ryan had planned to blast them to smithereens, to let them taste that feeling. But for now, he still needed Xia Yan, from whom he should be able to dig up a lot of information.

“Hurry up! Zhou Zhou and the others are in danger now!” Zeus, standing beside Ryan, was stamping his feet anxiously. He had briefly met Zhou Zhou earlier but hadn’t been in contact since. Who knew if they had encountered any dangers!

Prompted by Zeus, Ryan didn’t bother wasting more words with Xia Yan. The spacecraft was locked onto by Zeus, with only a few people aboard. Xia Yan had no way to escape.

Xia Yan flashed through several plans in his mind, but with Zeus present, none of them would succeed. The pallor on his face made him look even more haggard in an instant. It seemed there really was no escape this time.

Soon, these people were apprehended. Ryan and Zeus hurried toward the planet where the Mo tribe resided.

Zeus, eyes brimming with tears: Zhou Zhou! I’m coming to rescue you!