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Arc 2: Luxury Cruise
Chapter 48

After returning to Austin’s side, Xu Ziyue no longer mucked around. He didn’t ask anything, would answer anything Austin asked and did anything he was asked to do.

Even his voice was soft and small, as if his vocal cords were damaged.

Austin asked Xu Ziyue to take him to the tenth floor. In the elevator, Austin asked: “Do you know what I’m thinking?”

Xu Ziyue kept his mouth shut and shook his head. He then remembered that he was standing behind Austin so he couldn’t see. Realising this, he answered with a small voice: “I don’t know.”

Regardless of whether Austin was angry or not, he knew what he had to do. He should naturally try and coax the person he likes even if he hadn’t really prepared anything, even if some things are better left unsaid and even if they’re lies and can possibly anger the other party even more.

Not to mention, if Austin was truly angry then that would mean that he really did like him……….

It was just that Austin’s outwardly gentle and warm expression made it hard for Xu Ziyue to read Austin’s thoughts.

“I’m thinking……..What would you do if a better-looking person appeared?”

Austin’s tone was very calm. Calm to the point that Xu Ziyue couldn’t tell what he was feeling. It was like he was just reading out a passage in a book.

For a moment, Xu Ziyue was taken aback. He then said: “You don’t have to worry about that. Since our relationship is confirmed I won’t….” Xu Ziyue paused. He leaned forward from behind and looked at Austin from the side: “Is our relationship confirmed?”

Before Austin could answer, Xu Ziyue answered his question himself: “You said it when we were at the duty-free shops before. We’re a couple!”

Austin had forgotten but he now remembered with Xu Ziyue’s reminder. And so, he nodded: “Yes.”

Xu Ziyue deliberately made an exaggerated gesture of patting his chest: “Then I’ll be loyal to you! Unless……..”

Austin raised an eyebrow: “Unless?”

The elevator door opened. Xu Ziyue pushed Austin out of the elevator.

“I don’t want to lie to you…….I’ll only tell you the truth. I like good-looking people. While interacting with others, I might lose control……..and steal a few more glances their way.” Xu Ziyue took a deep breath, “But I definitely wouldn’t betray you. But if we break up………”

Austin touched his lower lip. He then said: “Wrong way. Go to the playground.”

“Huh? Oh…..o-ok.” Austin had only said that he wanted to go to the tenth floor, so Xu Ziyue thought he wanted to go back to his room. He didn’t expect it to be the children’s playground.

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After Xu Ziyue changed direction, Austin finally spoke: “Have you and Sun Mo broken up?”

Xu Ziyue lowered his head in silence: “…………”

He knew that no matter what he said, he was in the wrong. Suddenly appearing in Sun Mo’s world and then suddenly disappearing, and even wanting him to fall for him……It was very unfair to Sun Mo.

It was the same for Austin.

Austin nodded. It was unknown what he was nodding at.

Xu Ziyue lowered his head and sighed. He lamented glumly: “I’m such a scum……” But Xu Ziyue quickly turned around and asked Austin: “But it sounds like you don’t intend on responding to my confession?”

Before he could get Austin’s response, Xu Ziyue went on to say, “If it’s like this, then I won’t be able to leave? Then I’ll need to stay with you here forever…….Say, will the game world be destroyed once the other players are gone?”

Austin said: “I don’t know but you can give it a try.”

“Sure enough.” Xu Ziyue nodded with certainty, “You really don’t plan on letting me go.” But Xu Ziyue then thought about it, “Not leaving isn’t that bad too. Who knows whether there are better looking people in the next world or if there’s a different type of beauty…..”

He felt that even if he looked at Austin’s face every day; he wouldn’t get sick of it!

Austin wordlessly smiled. The two headed for the children’s playground.

Before reaching the playground, Austin raised his chin and pointed it to the rest area nearby to indicate for Xu Ziyue to look in that direction.

“There……What’s going on there?” Xu Ziyue frowned and squinted his eyes, but it was still too far. In the end, he decided to go closer while pushing Austin’s wheelchair.

“Ah……It’s that man!” Xu Ziyue leaned over and whispered into Austin’s ear.

Among the people sitting in the rest area was the NPC who had delivered soup to Wu Wenshan earlier. The clothes worn by the NPC at this moment however were not the waiter uniform he wore in the morning but ordinary casual clothes. He was looking expressionlessly into the playground. Xu Ziyue followed his line of sight and saw the children inside.

The child the NPC was staring at was no stranger to Xu Ziyue.

It was the young girl Xu Ziyue had seen several times. She was the main cause of the death of the player Xu Ziyue encountered in the elevator but she was also the one who told Xu Ziyue that Wu Wenshan wanted to hurt him…….

She had told Xu Ziyue that she didn’t want to return to the playground…..At that time, Xu Ziyue could see anger and hatred directed at Wu Wenshan in her eyes but she couldn’t go against Austin’s order.

Then in that case……

Xu Ziyue muttered quietly: “Is this a so-called case of running to your parents to complain?”

“Something like that.”

“But the sea monster soup…….” Xu Ziyue thought about it. The people on board this ship could be separated into three groups; humans, ghosts and sea monsters.

The young girl was a ghost so her guardian should be the same and is someone who had died on the Westminster cruise ship.

From the games perspective, there are many different types of players and NPCs on the cruise ship; normal staff NPC, ghost staff NPC, parasitised staff NPC, normal tourist NPC, parasitised tourist NPC……..and players can be separated into two categories; those who are parasitised and those who aren’t.

But now, there was one more type. For now, Xu Ziyue only knew of one case – Wu Wenshan.

He had drunk the soup made from sea monsters, so it was different from being parasitised. The strange changes on his body was evidence of this.

He had grown fish scales that made him itchy to the point that he couldn’t feel pain.

But what Xu Ziyue was more curious about was…..

“Is the relationship between the sea monsters and the ghosts on this ship bad? But shouldn’t they both be your subordinates?” If they were friendly, why would they cook their comrade?

But there was another possibility.

Perhaps the ghosts had already started to blacken , and their ordinary three views had become warped.

“Sea monsters only care about food. They are not considered food to sea monsters.”

The “they” Austin referred to were the ghost NPCs like the young girl and her guardian.

If that was the case, then it explained why the two parties were able to coexist on the ship peacefully.

Xu Ziyue asked: “Then the ghosts won’t kill the sea monsters? Like the one that was turned into soup today……..?” And it was likely that it wasn’t Wu Wenshan’s first bowl, but he didn’t look like he had noticed.

So this meant that the guardian NPC would have likely killed more than one sea monster.

“There is no solidarity between the sea monsters, and they don’t work in groups. They only know to follow their leader who will lead them to food sources. Old sea monsters can be caught rather easily….” Austin then looked up, “Do you want to try?”

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“No, no, no, no. No need.” Xu Ziyue didn’t ask further fearing that Austin would suddenly want to implement that idea of his.

And so, Xu Ziyue suggested: “I’ve seen him, and I now understand. Should we go back?”

Austin glanced sideways at Xu Ziyue and finally nodded. He agreed with Xu Ziyue’s suggestion to return.

Xu Ziyue thought back to the tour guides words and felt that it was a trap. What ‘don’t anger the foreign tourists’? As long as you anger an NPC on this ship, you will die a horrible death.

After returning to the room, Xu Ziyue and Austin didn’t have much to do……. More precisely, Xu Ziyue didn’t have much to do. Austin just quietly sat on the side reading his book.

Xu Ziyue was bored.

With Austin ignoring him, Xu Ziyue threw away everything that had happened on the deck and in the elevator to the back of his mind. Since Austin didn’t appear to be angry, Xu Ziyue didn’t want to bring the topic up again.

As for Austin, because Xu Ziyue knew about his tail, he just calmly sat on his bed with only part of it covered by a blanket.

Xu Ziyue tentatively leaned on the end of Austin bed and would lightly poke the tip of Austin’s tail with his finger or gently stroke it. Austin didn’t even raise his head as he did these subtle actions.

After a while, Xu Ziyue went to lie on Austin’s waist and slowly nudged upwards until his head drilled in between Austin’s hands that were holding onto both sides of his book.

Austin lowered his eyes and lifted the book in his hands. His eyes still remained fixated on the text in the book.

Austin turned a page, “What are you doing?”

“Bored…….” Xu Ziyue rubbed his head against Austin’s chin, “Why don’t you read for me?”

Austin’s book was written in English. Xu Ziyue could occasionally recognise some words but understanding the sentences was impossible especially since there were many difficult words used.

Austin glanced at Xu Ziyue and closed his book, “This book isn’t suitable for you. We’ll get something different.”

Xu Ziyue looked at the cover…….He didn’t understand.

Xu Ziyue asked: “Are all the books in the library written in foreign languages?”

Austin placed his book down on the bedside table and said: “Some. There are books from every country.”

Then Zhang Zhang must be amazing. He really read all of them?

Xu Ziyue was in awe for a moment.

“Do you have a book suitable for me?”

“No.”

Xu Ziyue was confused: “Then……..”

“I’ll get them to send one over.”

While waiting for the book to be sent over, Xu Ziyue used the opportunity to climb onto the bed, nuzzle into Austin’s arms and wrap his arms around Austin’s waist….

Austin allowed Xu Ziyue to do as he pleased but he then noticed that Xu Ziyue kept on moving, kept on changing his position…….

Austin pressed Xu Ziyue down and asked: “What are you doing?”

Xu Ziyue was embarrassed, “Legs are not very comfortable……” Normal humans would have two legs. If he hooked his leg around Austin’s, he would be able to lie there comfortably.

But Austin’s was a fish tail………If Xu Ziyue wanted to lie down more comfortably, he could only clamp Austin’s entire fish tail with his legs.

But in that case……Xu Ziyue recalled Austin’s reaction when he touched him the other day.

He couldn’t bear it!

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