Lucia whispered in Li Chaoge's ear. She was surprised to hear their conversation. They worked together to get tickets to open the teleportation channel. Their performance on the commander's side was to spend money as a reward.

Although she didn't know much about live streaming, she knew what tipping meant, which was similar to a commander sending flowers and gifts to performers at a concert.

Compared to these constructs who went to fight on the front lines, the members of the Art Association were very wealthy.

"Yes, judging from the current situation, the live broadcast a few days ago has indeed been known to many unrelated people."

Li Chaoge glanced at the somewhat confused Lucia and smiled helplessly.

Lucia doesn't seem to be active in that game group much, so she's not very clear about what's going on with him.

In Punishing: Gray Raven, it seems that only Pura and Nanami are more likely to chat in the group. Compared to Lucia, who rarely chats, the white-haired Alpha, who has a subtle relationship with her, is more likely to tag him in the group chat and ask him about trivial matters in his life.

Alpha also acts very aloof, rarely talking to others. He often tags someone to ask a question, then disappears after receiving a reply, only to reappear and tag them again.

"oh......"

Lucia nodded, a little confused. She didn't really understand these things, but it seemed like the Commander had come out ahead?

"Those people are insulting you, Master, aren't they? I'll go and take them down!"

Meltlilith, who had been looking this way, noticed something else. Although Li Chaoge didn't think much of some of the comments, she felt that they were insults directed at her Master.

"Uh, Lilith, don't be impulsive. Those words weren't insults; they were just expressions of envy and jealousy. Hei hope, you too, don't overthink it."

Li Chaoge was taken aback and quickly stopped him.

Of all the people who have appeared so far, the one he's worried about is Meltlilith.

It wasn't just because of Meltlilith's volatile and nasty personality, but also because of her own abilities.

In the world of FGO, Meltlilith should be considered a cyber fairy. She is one of the Alteregos (other personalities) created by BB, the manipulator of imaginary space, in the computer world. Later, when her spirit origin was almost completely damaged and she was about to disappear, BB forcibly modified her spirit origin and summoned her to Chaldea to become a Heroic Spirit.

As a member of the Sakura Squad, Meltlilith is naturally very strong. She possesses the Poison Honey that can melt all things and the Iron Feet that can tear apart anything she touches. She is also an Alterego with a cold, ruthless, and sadistic personality.

Her Noble Phantasm, the 'Benzaiten Five-Stringed Biwa,' can sweetly melt away both body and spirit, completely dissolving the rationality and morality of the group and unifying it into a cohesive entity. This Noble Phantasm's power to trample and absorb such a completely muddied existence, encompassing body, mind, and society, is terrifyingly potent against civilization.

Although their strength was greatly reduced based on their performance in the battle just now, he was not sure if Meltlilith could use her Noble Phantasm. If she used a destructive ability with a wide range of effects, it would be fatal.

"Jealousy? That's not it... Okay, let's ignore them for now."

Meltlilith felt that being envied was not a good thing, but seeing that Li Chaoge didn't want her to deal with them, she shut up and said no more.

The Master seems completely unaware of her power; she'll investigate and see if she can find those [powers] online.

Although she now has a physical form, her true form is an extremely malicious AI, and cyberspace is her domain.

Seeing this, Hei hope, who was about to say something, also pursed her lips and remained silent for the time being.

She's not an unreasonable person; why would she want to kill someone over such a small offense?

However, she was still a little annoyed that she couldn't punish people who were criticizing the captain online.

How dare those people insult the captain, that idiot? When my older sister comes, she'll find them all and settle the score.

"We'll talk about this when we get back."

Seeing that Xi'er and the others seemed hesitant to speak, Li Chaoge reached out and patted their heads to comfort them.

Although he didn't see any comments about him, it's obvious that once his live stream video was exposed, he would be attacked by a lot of idle people.

Not to mention that the "second" circle is already niche and not very accepted, let alone the fact that he received so much money in tips, even people who don't know him at all will attack him verbally because of their resentment towards the rich.

However, the online harassment and doxxing didn't affect him much because he didn't have a large social circle. Apart from family, roommates, and teachers, he only kept in touch with a few of his former high school classmates.

It's fair to say that if his second wife comes at a rate of one per day, in a few days his number of second wives will exceed the number of people in his social circle.

At that time, he was busy dealing with the conflict between them and had no time to pay attention to the online attacks.

He doesn't make a living from online traffic, so no matter how much you criticize him, all you can do is point out that he has a lot of beautiful girls around him, making onlookers envious and jealous.

Instead of worrying about these things, he was more concerned about how to settle his ever-growing number of second wives and when the security department would come knocking on his door to offer them comfort.

After calming Xi'er and the others down, Li Chaoge focused on the squadron meeting. However, it didn't actually take much time. After listening to Teacher Zhao speak for another ten minutes, he called out some names and then dismissed the team.

Because Li Chaoge and the others were sitting at the very back, he led them out the back door as soon as the meeting ended.

He had to run away quickly, otherwise he might have to face inquiries from his classmates.

He wasn't lying when he said in the gaming group that he was introverted and didn't have many friends. He wasn't reserved with his roommates because they lived in the same dorm, but he wasn't that close to his other classmates. At most, he had played games with them, but he didn't really know much else.

"Boss, your school seems pretty easy."

The group jogged out of the teaching building, and Exusiai, holding the back of her head, grinned.

She listened to what the teacher had to say and realized that he had been rambling on for more than ten minutes and had mainly talked about two issues. One was to hurry up and find a job or internship, because there might not be time to do an internship next semester when he was doing his graduation project. The other was that some departments had already started working on graduation projects, and those who hadn't started yet should find a good supervisor and choose a good research topic as soon as possible.

"That's because I'm graduating soon, and I still have a lot of classes. Let's go eat first, and then we'll take care of the housing situation after we finish eating."

Li Chaoge rolled his eyes at Exusiai and led the group toward the back gate of the school, where there were more restaurants and snacks, and the prices weren't too expensive.

Well, at least it's much cheaper than eating at the place where he works part-time.

Although prices near universities are not low, they are really cheap compared to prices in commercial areas.

None of them had any objections to Li Chaoge's decision, and they obediently followed him to eat.

Li Chaoge felt particularly happy now because they all cared about his feelings and opinions. He didn't have to rack his brains to figure out if they would get angry, and none of the couple conflicts that were talked about online had happened to him.

Although there are quite a few of them, just walking around the streets with them is enough to attract countless eyes.

The back gate snack street was bustling with people. Li Chaoge randomly picked a restaurant that looked good and led them inside.

The small restaurant didn't have any private rooms, but Silly and Lucia didn't complain. Li Chaoge helped them wipe the chairs with tissues, and then they sat down and ordered food.

Li Chaoge told them to each order one dish, but Meltlilith and Lucia said they didn't mind. In the end, he let Seele and Exusiai order together. They whispered among themselves and ordered six dishes and a soup.

"Cumin lamb, stir-fried river shrimp with chives, omelet with chives, stir-fried pork kidneys, cashew shrimp, stewed chicken with chestnuts, and oyster soup with Poria cocos and Polygonatum odoratum, that's a total of six dishes and one soup, right?"

The waiter took notes while giving Li Chaoge a strange look.

Uh... chives, pork kidneys, cashews, oysters...

Li Chaoge's gaze silently fell upon Xi'er, who was returning the menu to the waiter.

Does Exusiai understand this? Even if she doesn't, Seele does, right?

"Yes, that's right..."

Xi'er blushed and lowered her head, not daring to look at Li Chaoge.

She was doing it for the captain's own good. Although she wasn't very good at cooking these dishes, she had seen Mei-nee make them for the captain before, and these dishes were the kind of nourishing foods she remembered.

"What's wrong? Don't you like the food?"

Meltlilith frowned; she couldn't quite understand why these sly foxes and their Master were suddenly exchanging glances.

It's just ordering food, right? Is there something wrong with the food?

"Cough, it's alright, let's just go with this time."

Li Chaoge coughed lightly to cover his mouth, indicating to the waiter that this was the order.

"Okay, please wait a moment, guest."

The waiter glanced at Li Chaoge with a hint of admiration, then put away his notebook and went back to the kitchen.

Li Chaoge also noticed the waiter's gaze. He looked at Xi'er, who was blushing and dared not look at him, and secretly thought about how to make Xi'er pay tonight. How dare she doubt his abilities! It was really too much!

"Boss, give it your all tonight!"

Exusiai stood by, grinning and adding fuel to the fire.

"You'll see what's coming to you tonight."

Li Chaoge glared at Exusiai, the culprit who was ordering food with Seele.

Ah Neng is getting more and more mischievous. He just thought they were obedient, but it seems he needs to be punished properly!

"Boss, how many challenges would you like to take tonight?"

Exusiai wasn't worried about Li Chaoge's threat at all. She just blinked and glanced at the people around the table.

“…” Li Chaoge.

He may be resentful in his heart, but the reality is that things are a bit bad for him.

Needless to say, Seele and Exusiai were already defeated last night, and even if they came back again today, he might not be able to defeat Seele.

Not to mention that Lucia and Meltlilith might also be added today.

As a construct, Lucia wasn't entirely sure if she had a reproductive system, but Meltlilith should be fine, four against one...

Before the game even started, he already had a feeling he was going to lose tonight.

"Hey, keep it up, boss!"

When Exusiai saw that Li Chaoge's expression had frozen, she chuckled and whispered in Seele's ear.

Hearing Exusiai's sly laughter, Li Chaoge's face darkened even more.

Remule is nothing. Just wait and see. When he gets stronger, the first person he'll take on is this bear angel!

Lucia and Melt Lilith stared at them blankly. Neither of them understood what Li Chaoge and Exusiai Seele were saying in code. Black Seele could understand it, but she didn't want to say anything at the moment. She just cursed Exusiai in her heart.

What is this Exusiai thinking? Doesn't she care at all that other people are competing with her for the captain position?

She found it hard to understand why anyone would go to such lengths to come over and watch the captain get along with the others.

Although she and Seele are now ahead of the others, and as long as they play steadily, they will be invincible, she is still very unhappy with Exusiai, who has no sense of vigilance at all.

How many talented people are coming now? There will be many more coming in the future!

If we don't get the captain back on track soon, will we be able to control him later?

The atmosphere at the table was slightly awkward, but Li Chaoge's awkwardness didn't last long. The waiters brought the dishes one by one, and Li Chaoge invited the group to eat and chat quietly.

While dining culture has many bad habits, it must be admitted that it does play a very good role in promoting relationships.

When people eat and chat together, it's easy for them to become close friends.

Although Meltlilith and Blackie still couldn't stand each other, they could talk to the others quite amicably.

To be precise, the kind and timid Seele, the energetic and lively Exusiai, and the naturally naive Lucia—these three people with no apparent conflicts—wouldn't cause any problems if they were together.

The group ate and chatted for half an hour before finishing. Li Chaoge then called the waiter to settle the bill and left with them.

The meal cost a little over 300 yuan for six people. Six dishes and a soup is quite affordable, considering the restaurant offers generous portions and the food is pretty good.

After finishing his meal, Li Chaoge began researching where to rent a house.

It's a bit hard to find a house suitable for six people. Considering that there might be more people coming tomorrow and the day after, he would have to buy a bigger one. It's a pity he's not rich enough, otherwise he would have bought a large villa or a super-large apartment.

He wasn't sure if people would come every day from now on, but there would definitely be dozens, and it would be a hassle to settle dozens of people.

Considering the price and the issues of traveling to and from school, Li Chaoge first took Lucia and Xier back to their rented apartment and found a real estate agent in the vicinity of his previous rental to check out nearby properties.

Although agents may take a cut or charge a commission, they provide consulting services, which is only fair.

"Sir, how about this detached villa? It's four stories, 500 square meters, with seven rooms and supporting entertainment facilities, which should be more than enough to meet your needs. If you rent it now, you can get a 2% discount."

The agent handed Li Chaoge and his group a brochure and introduced it with a broad smile.

"villa....."

Li Chaoge was about to say that they didn't want a villa, but when he saw this amazing detached villa, he hesitated again.

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Chapter 31. Sleeping Together Tonight

Li Chaoge looked at the villa that the agent was introducing. Actually, the villa wasn't specifically for living in, because it was equipped with many entertainment facilities: American billiards, karaoke, a Little Tyrant game console, arcade games, a deluxe ping-pong table, an automatic mahjong table, a cute claw machine, foosball, and even a small garden for barbecues.

The rental villa, which resembles a party venue, was pretty good considering the opening discounts and free ingredients and drinks offered by the agent. Based on his current savings, he could barely cover expenses for about ten days, and he could withdraw his livestream earnings at the beginning of next month, so he wouldn't have to worry about making ends meet for a while.

With more people coming, it will be easier for him to decide how to choose a new house.

Unfortunately, checking into this villa requires an ID card, and Seele and her friends happen to be unregistered.

Li Chaoge looked at the detached villa again, then looked at the real estate agent with some regret.

“This villa doesn’t quite meet my requirements. Are there any other options? Fewer entertainment facilities are fine, as we mainly need it for short-term stays. Also, my ID is at home, so I’ll have to go back to get it if I need to provide it.”

"Don't worry about your ID. If you're sure you want to sign a short-term rental agreement, you can try staying one night after paying the deposit. I'll go find a suitable place for you, Mr. Li, please wait a moment."

The agent understood Li Chaoge's implication of emphasizing personal details, nodded knowingly, and turned to leave to find a suitable property.

It's really hard to find a house with seven or eight rooms except for villas; normal residences are rarely built like this.

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