Chapter 9：

Soon the weekend came, and Huo Ran happily bid farewell to his extremely tormenting working days.

Although he hated the social activities Huo Zhendong arranged for him, if he really had to choose between going to work and socializing... Forget it, he chose death.

When Huo Ran comes to the company every day, he not only has to face the untouchable flowers in the reception room, but also meets the assistant Jiang Nansheng whose face is full of secret love.

Yes, his male assistant likes him too.

Unlike Xia Xingxi, Jiang Nansheng didn't do anything excessive, and fulfilled his job duties very dutifully, but wrote "I like you, I will be elated if you look at me." "...that's all.

Huo Ran couldn't even say a word of rejection, because he didn't confess his love at all, so he couldn't change his assistant because of this.

He always felt that it was not wrong to really like someone.

On a business trip to Jinbei City next week, Huo Ran didn't want to bring this assistant who always blushes at him, but considering that Huo Zhendong assigned him tasks, and in such trivial matters as collecting information on exhibiting projects, arranging schedules and booking hotels , it will be more efficient if you have an assistant.

Therefore, Huo Ran is not willful, but just nonchalantly told Jiang Nansheng to wear a mask.

Hearing this, Jiang Nansheng's face immediately caught fire, and turned red in a blink of an eye, "Thank you Mr. Huo for your concern. I have pollen allergies, so I should wear a mask. I didn't expect Mr. Huo to even notice this."

Huo Ran: ...

Huo Ran felt that he should also wear a mask, otherwise he might not be able to maintain Mr. Huo's calm expression.

The troubles brought by Xia Xingxi came to an end, and the flower-sending madman can temporarily avoid it through business trips. Regarding Jiang Nansheng, Huo Ran hasn't figured out how to talk to Dr. Tao. For a while, there seems to be no relationship between him and Dr. Tao. topic.

How will Dr. Tao spend the weekend and two days off?

After holding back for a long time, even the friends who played with Huo Ran noticed his absence, and stopped to ask him if something happened.

Huo Ran blurted out: "What do you usually do on weekends?"

The friend seemed to see the living mentally retarded, and clapped the basketball in his hand vigorously, "Play!"

"..." Huo Ran palely explained, "No, I'm not asking you."

The friend took a sharp step back, looking into the air in front of him in horror.

Huo Ran struggled for a while, and apologized to his friend honestly, saying that he was out of shape today and stopped fighting.

For the first time, he really felt that it was a troublesome thing that PP could not be used on the antique button machine.

Losing his mind about playing basketball, Huo Ran decided to go home and read a book, and he hasn't calmed down to read for a long time.

...and turn on the computer by the way to see if anyone is looking for him.

Huo Ran got home and took a shower, and rushed to the study impatiently, his hair was wet and dripping.

There is no new news on the pp, and the chat history between him and Dr. Tao stays at yesterday's good night.

I don't know if Dr. Tao will sleep in on the weekend, and there is nothing to say today, so Huo Ran didn't send a good morning greeting.

It's almost evening now, Dr. Tao must be awake, what is he doing?

The newly addicted young man Huo Ran stared blankly at the computer screen for a while, unconsciously clicking on Dr. Tao's profile picture.

[I pat "Tao". ]

Huo Ran:!

Huo Ran was stunned on the spot, his expression was stiff and he was at a loss.

In less than half a minute, Dr. Tao responded.

["Tao" pats me. ]

The two lines of gray text "Pai Yi Pai" are connected together, which is an instant exchange beyond words. They have no dialogue, but they are looking at the chat interface at the same time.

Huo Ran's heart moved slightly, and he lowered his head unconsciously.

It was as if he had been slapped on the head.

[HR: I just got back from playing ball, sweating/Penguin jumping]

[HR: Is Doctor Tao playing outside? ]

[Tao: Read at home. ]

[Tao: But I don’t seem to be able to see it. ]

[Tao: Salted fish paralysis.jpg]

Staring at this exhausted salted fish expression, Huo Ran had a hard time linking this state with the self-disciplined Doctor Tao.

But this expression is so cute, Huo Ran silently saved the picture again.

[HR: Me too, I've been very impetuous recently. ]

[HR: Doctor Tao, don’t force yourself to read books, you can go out for a walk. I read the posts on the forum yesterday. It turns out that there are so many interesting places in northern Shanxi. ]

[HR: Does Dr. Tao need Amway? ]

[Tao: You even know about Amway/Goutou]

Amway is a new word that Huo Ran learned from reading the post yesterday.

Take it out to learn and sell it now, and was noticed by Dr. Tao, Huo Ran blushed.

[Tao: Thank you~ I don’t need it for now, I don’t go out much. ]

[Tao: I am used to being paralyzed at home hahahaha. ]

Although Dr. Tao ended with hahahaha, for some reason, Huo Ran read a trace of loneliness from it.

Huo Ran immediately felt that this must be an illusion. How can such a gentle and warm-hearted person as Dr. Tao be lonely?

So he didn't think about it any more, and chatted with Dr. Tao for a few more words, until Dr. Tao said he was going to make dinner.

Huo Ran went to the kitchen to cook a bowl of noodles for himself, took the bowl back to the study, and involuntarily opened the game icon on the desktop, completely forgetting the rows of bookshelves behind him.

A while ago, Huo Ran's daily schedule has been very full, occupied by various boring business trips and social activities. After he solemnly protested to Huo Zhendong, it decreased, at least weekends can be his own.

So Huo Ran, who has finally experienced the feeling of being a social animal, doesn't want to work hard anymore on weekends. When he wants to go out, he invites his friends to play ball, eat and eat, and hides at home to play games when he doesn't want to go out.

Recently, there is a game that has become very popular. Friends who have never played games around Huo Ran are playing it. It is a simulation management sandbox game called "Happy Animal Island". It has been in stable operation for several years. Suddenly, because of an explosion The red scarf is out of the circle.

In "Happy Animal Island", players can choose an animal as their own image, and then build and manage their own small island. The game has a high degree of freedom.

Because some animals are limited by their shape, they cannot complete part of the game operations, so you can choose to live in groups in the game. Several players can jointly manage the island, as long as the island owner agrees after submitting an application.

The owner of that scarf is a very cute squirrel. He likes to store things in real life. He has built many warehouses on the island, stocking a lot of food and all kinds of gadgets.

One day, Squirrel Po suddenly found that some inconspicuous things were missing, but there was no visitor record on the island. He reported to the customer service, and the customer service said it was not a game bug.

Squirrel Po observed carefully, and found that his things would become less after he went offline and disappeared every day, so he reluctantly sold a lot of food, bought an invisibility cloak made by a master player, put it on, and squatted at the warehouse door, vowing to Catch this mysterious npc thief.

As a result, he saw a small black ant, which moved three grains of rice from his warehouse very skillfully, and snorted and snorted into the hole hidden in the cracks in the wood.

Squirrel Po looked at the nickname of the player above the head of the ant, and was dumbfounded. Some players chose to be an ant.

Only then did he remember that he had received a group living application from a player a long time ago. He had been looking forward to it for a while, but he hadn't seen that player appear, and the island hadn't built a new hut, so he thought the other party wasn't playing. up.

Unexpectedly, this mini player lives underground.

Squirrel Po is full of curiosity. He is too big to get down, so he can only send a message to the ant player in the islander list, asking what his house is like.

The ant player replied, first expressing his apology for stealing, and then showing him a screenshot of his hut.

A luxurious golden bed made of sawdust, a petal quilt made of dried flowers, a dining table with flat bottom screws, a large bathtub made of egg shells, a thick water pipe made of plastic straws...

The squirrel po was so cute that his face was bloodied, and then he sent out this scarf. He felt that Animal Island is full of incredible surprises, and each player can have his own unique way of playing.

Animal Island became popular because of this, and Huo Sihan, who was quickly addicted to it, kept brainwashing Huo Ran in order to get the reward for inviting friends, coercing him and luring him to play.

Huo Ran, who doesn't play games often, was very reluctant at first, but after playing it, he really enjoyed it, and even became interested in the game industry because of this.

Huo Sihan is a koala in the game, Huo Ran thinks that the brother and sister should look alike, of course he is much stronger than his sister.

So...he chose to be a big brown bear.

The big brown bear walks slowly, but is strong enough to easily smash the wooden fence on Koala Island.

After Huo Ran went online, he took a wooden boat to his sister's island to do some harmless damage, left a few fruits as gifts, and happily patted his **** back home.

His small island will be sunny and sunny in the next few days. Huo Ran plans to take the opportunity to renovate the house. The brown bear moves slowly, so he needs to allow enough time.

The speed of this game and real time is one to one. Huo Ran stayed in the game until ten o'clock in the evening, when the island was completely dark, he went offline, and continued the next day.

It wasn't until Sunday night that Huo Ran, who devoted himself wholeheartedly, completed the difficult renovation work. Looking at the brand-new industrial-style cool house, Huo Ran took a few photos with satisfaction and posted them on the news feed.

[Dynamic] HR: It's a loss to the industry that I didn't become an architect/cute [Picture] [Picture] [Picture]

Soon, people liked and responded.

[Comment] Your father: Vomit! Shameless!

[Comments] Keep talking: Mr. Huo is really amazing.

[Comment] Lu Yan: Ah Ran, are you playing this too? ID number, I will add you.

[Comment] Contented Chang Le replied to your father: What's your name?

[Comment] HR replies to contentment and happiness: Dad, look at how arrogant she is

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The interaction under the pp feed can only be seen by mutual friends. Huo Ran likes this unique setting very much, so that even if he adds some unfamiliar people, he is not afraid of revealing his privacy.

His eyes were sore from looking at the computer for the past two days, Huo Ran glanced at the densely packed new comments, and was about to close the webpage when he suddenly froze.

[Comment] Tao: A skylight can be opened on the roof, it will look better.

Huo Ran wanted to reply to the comment, but after a pause, he opened the chat window directly.

[HR: Doctor Tao, do you also play Animal Island? ]

[HR: So the roof can be changed. ]

[Tao: I played a lot before, but I didn't expect it to be so popular now. ]

Immediately afterwards, Dr. Tao sent a few pictures.

Huo Ran opened it, and found that it was also a screenshot of the animal island hut, which was very similar to the style he had painstakingly decorated, but there was a big skylight on the roof, filled with stars at night, against the dark gray and rough hut, all of a sudden. Rustic romance.

[HR: Looks good! ]

[HR: Doctor Tao is amazing. ]

[Tao: I had nothing to do at that time, and I tried many styles. If you need reference, you can ask me. ]

[Tao: Little Bear Goes Around.gif]

Huo Ran, who was immersed in the halo of the master architect, looked at the pictures sent by Dr. Tao, and felt ashamed. He carefully studied the layout of the cabin and wanted to learn and absorb it.

Then he saw the half round brown figure reflected in the mirror, the spikes on his body glowed with silvery white light.

It turned out that Doctor Tao was a hedgehog.

Looking at the message sent by Doctor Tao again, Huo Ran belatedly thought that the trace of loneliness he read yesterday was not an illusion.

After being dazed for a while, Huo Ran sent a somewhat presumptuous message out of nowhere.

[HR: Is Doctor Tao always alone? ]

Dr. Tao did not deny it, and the tone of his reply was very relaxed.

[Tao: Has my social fear attribute been discovered so quickly? 0.0]

With an inexplicable impulse in his heart, Huo Ran continued to ask.

[HR: Is it because you feel that you have nothing to talk about with the people you know, so you can't become friends? ]

It took a long time this time before Dr. Tao sent a message.

[Tao: No. ]

[Tao: I just... have no sense of reality. ]