The next day, the very first thing Su Xiaoqi did after waking up in the morning was greet Zhu Zhuqing with a "good morning." The two chatted for a while before starting their morning training.
Yesterday, during the "Cocoyasi Village" storyline mission, he had earned the highest score of 7,000 points, while the lowest was Hanamichi Sakuragi's 1,000 points. Su Xiaoqi also sent Zhu Zhuqing a 10,000-point red packet. He planned to wait until the two of them had saved up to 50,000 points and then do a 100-times draw all at once.
While jogging down the street, Su Xiaoqi suddenly had a thought—since crossing over into this deserted world, he hadn't visited any other cities.
Previously, he couldn't fly, but now things were different. So, Su Xiaoqi decided to spend half the day cultivating, and the other half flying to other cities to take a look around, while also collecting some of the things he needed.
That afternoon, while flying over a forest, Su Xiaoqi asked the other group members to see if they could send him something via the group's red packet function.
Everyone said they would try—except for Sakata Gintoki, whose thought process was as bizarre as ever.
> **\[Sakata Gintoki]: Don't tell me Zhuqing-chan can't satisfy you anymore, so you're so desperate you're starting to go after those cute little animals? Gin-san really misjudged you.**
> **\[Su Xiaoqi]: Get lost!!!**
Su Xiaoqi just couldn't figure it out—how could something he said turn into something completely different in Gin-san's mouth? Was there really no bottom line here?
After several rounds of attempts from the group members, all ended in failure. Everyone finally concluded that anything with life could not be sent via red packet—but various plant seeds could be.
But Su Xiaoqi didn't know how to farm, and didn't have the time either, so planting would have to wait until he was free in the future.
Meanwhile, far away in the Douluo Continent, Zhu Zhuqing felt something missing no matter what she did that day. No matter what Ning Rongrong said to her, she only replied perfunctorily with a few words.
By evening, alone in her room, she could no longer suppress her longing for Su Xiaoqi—she missed him.
Upon receiving Zhu Zhuqing's message, Su Xiaoqi packed up everything needed for tomorrow's trip to Star Dou Forest, took a few changes of clothes, and headed to Douluo Continent. He missed Zhu Zhuqing too.
However, when Su Xiaoqi appeared in Zhu Zhuqing's room and saw the scattered "corpses" of Kurumi Tokisaki figurines on the floor, his eye twitched. He had reason to suspect that Zhu Zhuqing had intentionally let him see this as a warning.
> "What? Feeling distressed? Want me to piece her back together for you?"
There was no way Su Xiaoqi dared say "no." He firmly declared that he was not familiar with Kurumi Tokisaki, let alone feel distressed for her.
He suddenly wondered—could it be that the Saiyan bloodline also contained a tradition of fearing one's wife? Kakarot was like this, Son Gohan was like this, and even Vegeta eventually became completely obedient to Bulma.
Zhu Zhuqing was very satisfied with Su Xiaoqi's answer, giving him a light kiss on the cheek. She was now carefully following the advice Nami had given her yesterday:
> "Zhuqing-chan, you must remember—don't spoil men too much, and don't let them get you too easily. Occasionally give them a taste of sweetness, and that way it'll last a long time."
Just then, Nami started frantically tagging Su Xiaoqi in the group chat.
> **\[Nami]: @Su Xiaoqi, get out here.**
> **\[Lu Linglong]: What happened now?**
> **\[Kurumi Tokisaki]: Could it be that Mr. Su Xiaoqi did something bad to Miss Nami?**
> **\[Zhu Zhuqing]: You woman, shut up.**
> **\[Sakata Gintoki]: Nani! @Su Xiaoqi, you bastard, what did you do to my Nami-chan?**
> **\[Su Xiaoqi]: What's all the noise? Can't you behave?**
> **\[Nami]: And you still have the nerve to ask me? Hah—you know exactly what you did to me yesterday.**
> **\[Sakata Gintoki]: Unforgivable! You actually did something to Nami-chan? Why didn't you call Gin-san? No wait—what exactly did you do to her?**
> **\[Nami]: @Sakata Gintoki, you shut up too. This also has something to do with you.**
> **\[Sakata Gintoki]: Nami-chan, you can't wrongly accuse Gin-san. Yesterday, Gin-san did absolutely nothing. Even when I was sleeping, I was honestly thinking about Linglong-chan.**
> **\[Lu Linglong]: Thank you very much, but please don't think about me when you're sleeping.**
> **\[Kaito Kuroba]: So what exactly happened?**
> **\[Su Xiaoqi]: *Shrugs.jpg***
> **\[Nami]: Keep pretending. Yesterday you were the only one who went to the Marines, and now White-Hair and I are both wanted by them. If you didn't do this, then who did?**
> **\[Sakata Gintoki]: ???**
> **\[Lu Linglong]: Wait, wait—even if you two are wanted, the Marines would still need evidence.**
> **\[Nami]: That's a question for this bastard.**
> **\[Su Xiaoqi]: Oh, so you're talking about that. I just told the Marines a little story—I didn't expect them to believe it. But isn't this a good thing? Now the Marines won't suspect your Cocoyasi Village of having anything to do with Mouse's death.**
Yesterday, when Su Xiaoqi disguised himself as a bounty hunter to collect a bounty, he also told the Marines that their Captain Nezumi had been attacked by a pirate crew called the "Yorozuya Pirates."
He then roughly sketched portraits of Nami and Sakata Gintoki and handed them over to the Marines.
Initially, the 16th Branch of the Marines didn't take him seriously. But when they completely lost contact with Captain Nezumi, they started to pay attention and dug out the portraits.
However, since they had no names or other information, and no solid proof linking the two to Nezumi's disappearance, the 16th Branch only considered them "suspected culprits." They spread the portraits within East Blue's Marine bases but did not issue an official bounty.
Unfortunately, Nami happened to run into a Marine warship today while sailing with Luffy. The Marines, seeing her resemblance to the portrait, tried to arrest her for questioning.
That was how Nami found out about this, and she immediately suspected Su Xiaoqi. She was sure it was his doing.
> **\[Lu Linglong]: Well, when you put it that way, it kind of makes sense.**
> **\[Sakata Gintoki]: @Su Xiaoqi, Gin-san can only say—you did a beautiful job! Now Nami-chan and I are bound together for life!**
> **\[Su Xiaoqi]: I just did a good deed without leaving my name, yet I'm being falsely accused. Sigh, being a good person is hard.**
> **\[Nami]: I don't believe a word! If you were going to make something up, why drag me and White-Hair into it? And most importantly—why did you draw me so ugly?!**
> **\[Su Xiaoqi]: Nami, although you haven't been officially wanted yet, you're still ahead of Luffy now. At midnight, you'll get another deposit of points.**
> **\[Nami]: Even if you say that, I won't forgive you. Just you wait.**
> **\[Kaito Kuroba]: @Su Xiaoqi, the thing you wanted is ready. I'll send it now.**
> **\[Su Xiaoqi]: Thanks. Oh, and there's a question I want to ask you on behalf of many netizens.**
> **\[Kaito Kuroba]: Go ahead.**
> **\[Su Xiaoqi]: Are you and Shinichi Kudo half-brothers on your father's side or your mother's side?**
> **\[Kaito Kuroba]: I'm me, he's him. We have no blood relation at all—we just happen to look alike, damn it!**
"Hahaha!"
Su Xiaoqi laughed so hard his stomach hurt at Kaito Kuroba's flustered reaction.
Zhu Zhuqing rolled her eyes and said, "I'm going to sleep. You can keep playing by yourself."
Hearing this, Su Xiaoqi immediately perked up and caught up to her. "I think it's getting late too. Let's sleep together."
Zhu Zhuqing gently pushed him outside the door, smiled, and said, "You're sleeping out here. Good night."
Su Xiaoqi stared at the door, now locked from inside, on the verge of tears. Why? Back when they weren't even a couple, she would at least leave the door slightly ajar. Now that they were together, she was guarding against him even more.
Was this some kind of special gameplay unique to the Douluo Continent world?