“…… Woo...... Messed up...... I'm really ...... What a big idiot......"

Hearing that the childhood friend walking beside him kept muttering something similar as if he was obsessed, the ice shooter showed a very troublesome look.

"It's not news anymore, okay?"

If it was in the past, Xing Xingguo, who heard this sentence, would definitely be the first to blow up, and then start a so-called "argument" with the Ice Shooter again, where only the two of them felt that they were fighting each other but in the eyes of outsiders were just flirting, but this time, to the surprise of the Ice Shooter, Xing Guo did not fight back immediately.

The ice shooter, who felt a little strange, turned his head to look at Xingguo, and saw that his childhood sweetheart rarely looked bitter, and it seemed that he was really depressed because of something.

The Ice Archer smacked his mouth, his expression looked even more impatient, and he turned his face again, as if he didn't want to pay attention to such a "I need to care" look like Xingguo, but in the next second, he couldn't pretend anymore.

“…… So, what are you doing this time...... Finish? ”

Originally, the Ice Shooter wanted to say "What stupid thing did you do this time", but when he spoke, although his eyes did not look at the Star Fruit, the depressed look of the Star Fruit he had just seen flashed in his mind for a moment, and out of an emotion that even the Ice Shooter himself couldn't figure out, he subconsciously omitted the sarcastic word "stupid thing".

Xingguo didn't notice the complicated psychological changes in the Ice Shooter for a moment, she just sighed bitterly.

"It's the thing I told you before that I want to invite them to the offline meeting, I seem to have messed up."

"They rejected you?"

"It has nothing to do with that, after all, I asked, both of them are from S City, and they are too far away from us to come to the offline party. The main reason is that I seem to have said something wrong unintentionally, and as a result, the two of them suddenly got into trouble somehow...... It always felt like it was my fault. ”

The Ice Shooter turned his head slightly, and the corner of his eye glanced at the two girls walking behind them, he hadn't noticed it before, but now that Xing Xingguo said this, the Ice Shooter also faintly felt that Rococo and Chu Jiajia, who seemed to be walking together as usual, seemed to be a little wrong today.

“…… Okay, don't think too much, since it's a matter of two people, let them solve it themselves. ”

"That's what I said......"

Xingguo still can't let go.

"But I still feel a little guilty, if I hadn't brought up the topic of meeting in the first place...... It's not that you don't know how good the relationship between Coco and Jiajia usually is, but now...... Hmm, I'm going to have embarrassing cancer even when I look at it......"

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As Xing Xingguo said, the atmosphere between Rococo and Chu Jiajia today is really quite embarrassing.

In fact, to tell the truth, although I don't know what Chu Jiajia's reason is, but if I want to avoid meeting the other party in reality, Rococo actually has the same idea as Chu Jiajia. After all, she is not a human being who really lives on the real earth, and there is no way to meet Chu Jiajia in reality.

The attitude is unanimous, it stands to reason that there should not be any contradictions, but the bad thing is the attitude that Chu Jiajia wanted to cover up before.

It's one thing not to be able to meet, it's another not to want to meet. Judging from Chu Jiajia's previous performance, she was really resistant to meeting Rococo, but she didn't know why she didn't know why, but tried to fool the past in that somewhat clumsy way...... The result is that the fool fails, and the result is that the atmosphere becomes as awkward as it is now.

Luo Coco felt that she was really a little weird, obviously before Chu Jiajia made a statement, she was so worried that Chu Jiajia would ask for an invitation to meet her, but when Chu Jiajia didn't have this intention as she wanted and even resisted meeting, Luo Coco had a negative emotion in her heart that even she couldn't understand the reason...... Obviously, this is the best result for her who can't exist in reality, but why does she just feel a little depressed and lost in her heart and can't let go.

Because of such a little bit of negative emotion, Rococo suddenly felt that she didn't want to chat with Chu Jiajia as usual, and Chu Jiajia seemed to realize that her previous performance might bring some misunderstanding to Rococo, she wanted to speak with apology and guilt several times, but each time she seemed to be worried about something, after a bit of entanglement, the swordsman girl always finally swallowed the words that came to her mouth with a complicated expression.

In this way, the awkwardness of the atmosphere caused a rare silence between the two, and as the silence became longer and longer, the degree of embarrassment and difficulty in speaking deepened, and finally formed a vicious circle.

Such embarrassment is naturally not only Xingguo, who thinks he is the "initiator", but soon everyone else in the team also saw it, because after this period of time, everyone is already very good friends, and Xingxing Guo and others are not trying to help the two of them regain the communication atmosphere through teamwork, but I don't know why, today's Rococo and Chu Jiajia don't seem to call at all, let alone ordinary interactive chats, which is the necessary communication when fighting monsters and doing tasks, Both seemed to be deliberately avoiding each other.

Of course, when necessary, the two of them don't really talk to each other at all, but the kind of conversation that is so stiff that it seems like an ordinary player squad leader explaining tasks to the team members will only make people feel that the situation seems to have gotten worse - obviously the relationship between the two girls is so good that it even makes them feel a little ambiguous. But now the two of them seem to be strangers, so that everyone doesn't know whether to have a heartache or a headache.

In the end, until the first mission that their team took was completed and they returned to the city to hand in the mission, the awkward atmosphere between the two of them continued.

"That's it! After completing this task, the materials for the transformation and upgrading of our small boat have also been collected, and then as long as we get rid of the master on the dock side and complete the transformation, we can officially enter the storm inland sea, right, coco? ”

Although the supply of ships along the coast of the Inland Sea has been opened to players in large quantities due to the arrival of the Inland Sea Exploration Story, due to the special bad weather environment of the Storm Inland Sea and the various sea battles that are likely to be faced there, generally speaking, players who want to sail and adventure in the Storm Inland Sea without some hull upgrades with the ships they first bought will basically suffer a lot. Rococo, who knew this well through the game materials of his previous life, naturally did not immediately rush to sea with his friends like other players after helping the team get the ship, but had been running missions inside and outside Nopra County during this time to prepare for upgrading the ship.

Now, having completed another task, they have saved up enough materials to upgrade the boat, and they can finally be put on the agenda to start exploring the inland sea in line with the main plot direction. But in fact, Xingxingguo, who spoke, was so happy, but it wasn't because of this, she just wanted to try her best to stir up the atmosphere around Luo Coco and Chu Jiajia that had completely cooled down, even if it was just one person.

But alas, Xingguo failed again.

“…… Not yet, there are a lot of large and small storms in the inland sea, and in addition to renovating the ship, we also need to recruit an experienced pilot sailor NPC...... I've inquired with the Nopra Chamber of Commerce Alliance before, and there is a suitable candidate, but I guess we may have to do a mission to recruit that NPC. ”

If it weren't for the fact that the frequency of the subject in the sentence was quite high, and Rococo's cold tone that didn't fluctuate at all even made everyone think that this was the background prompt of the task of the system's voice, Xingguo smiled wryly at her companions who looked at her sympathetically, and then continued to speak as lively as possible.

"Ah, that's okay, anyway, we asked the master before, it takes time to transform the ship, we can just let the ship accept the transformation first, and then we will do the related tasks of the pilot sailor NPC, so if it goes well, maybe we can set sail tomorrow~"

“…… I'm sorry...... Sister Guoguo......"

This time, Rococo didn't answer immediately, but Chu Jiajia spoke a little unexpectedly.

Compared with Rococo, who had a depressed and mixed expression, Chu Jiajia didn't look much different from usual, except for being exceptionally silent, only a subtle observation would reveal that between the eyebrows and eyes of the swordsman girl, there was a faint sad emotion.

"Tomorrow...... I may not be able to go online...... Well, you don't have to worry about me, let's go to sea and do an exploration mission first. ”

Xingguo was stunned for a moment, obviously she didn't expect it to be so coincidental that Chu Jiajia wouldn't be able to go online tomorrow, but she suddenly realized that this seemed to be an opportunity for Rococo and Chu Jiajia to start communicating with each other again?

"Ah, uh, no, it's okay, Jiajia, we're not in a hurry, we can wait for you for a day...... Right, right, cocoa? ”

Xing Xingguo looked at Rococo expectantly, obviously hoping that Roco might take the opportunity to say something to comfort Chu Jiajia, so that as soon as the atmosphere eased, the previous embarrassing scene naturally had a breakthrough point. However, it is a pity that Rococo's reaction was a little flat, and even said something unexpected.

“…… Sister Guoguo, I also want to say sorry...... I'm afraid I won't be able to go online tomorrow. ”