Gained a Surface Girlfriend

Chen Xi stood at the door, peering into the courtyard, "How can you till the land all by yourself, and be so happy doing it? Is farming that interesting?"

"It's alright, farming makes me happy," Xu Zhi said.

"Always so glib, does it make you happy to be cheeky?" Chen Xi glanced at Xu Zhi, and was instantly stunned again.

"How can you be..."

She stared blankly at Xu Zhi, as if her whole being was shocked.

Xu Zhi immediately felt uneasy. Could it be that she discovered that he had photoshopped his appearance again? He had clearly changed it back to how he looked before.

"What's wrong?" Xu Zhi asked, trying to remain calm.

"I just feel like your aura has changed, you've become so refined... Did you really cheat? I've got solid evidence," Chen Xi said, her eyes wide.

Although Xu Zhi had reverted his appearance, the aura of transcendence he had gained after experiencing three mass extinctions and three world-ending events was hard to change. Xu Zhi simply touched her forehead and said, "Are you sick? Are you hallucinating? What nonsense are you talking about?"

Chen Xi was taken aback. Was it really a hallucination? She was forcefully misled, and could only change the subject. "By the way, aren't you bored in the courtyard all the time? Do you want to go out shopping with me sometimes, or go on dates?"

Xu Zhi looked at her, stunned. "Hey, a date? Are you serious?"

"Of course," Chen Xi hesitated for a moment, then raised her neck high, not being coy at all. "What about your previous girlfriend? The pretty one!"

Xu Zhi said, "We broke up. She was a colleague at work, but she got sick and resigned, so I broke up with her."

"So you got a terminal illness at the peak of your career, lost your job, and your girlfriend left you, so you can only return to the countryside to live out your remaining days in solitude. How pitiful," Chen Xi said. "I can be your girlfriend and keep you company before you die."

"Pity me?" Xu Zhi's eyes widened.

He had felt sorry for himself before.

His days were numbered, the world was gray, and he had indeed fallen from the peak of his career to the bottom.

But now life was full of hope. After all, with terminal Stomach Cancer, he could at least live for a few more months, which was equivalent to several thousand years in the sandbox world. In those long thousands of years, he didn't believe he couldn't evolve a way to survive! "I pity you, it's kind of fulfilling my childhood wish..."

Chen Xi must have hesitated for a long time, and now she made no attempt to hide it. "I've thought about it! I'll be with you before you die, it'll fulfill my wish, and it'll also keep you from being so lonely, and give you some warmth."

"I've been a volunteer at the hospital, and I'm very good at taking care of terminally ill patients," she said, counting on her fingers. "I can cook for you, take you shopping, chat with you, and make you happy before you die."

Let me be happy before I die? Xu Zhi was speechless, then looked at her with a smile that was not a smile. "Are you serious? Are you going to fulfill the duties of a girlfriend?"

Chen Xi shuddered, quickly took a few steps back, covered her clothes, and looked extremely wary. "What are you thinking? This is just a pure relationship. You're about to die, do you still want to ruin my innocence?"

Xu Zhi: "..."

So she had ulterior motives for sending me food for so long and looking around everywhere. In this day and age, girls were boldly pursuing boys.

Chen Xi quickly added, "People always talk about 'Surface Brothers', so let's be 'Surface Lovers'. Let's have a beautiful romance. If you don't say anything, I'll take it as you agreeing."

"Okay," Xu Zhi said straightforwardly.

He didn't have too much affection for this little girl. He guessed it was because he felt too familiar with her, and didn't have that heart-fluttering feeling. However, he acted very calmly.

"Then in a few days, we're having a high school reunion for the summer vacation. You come with me."

Chen Xi counted on her fingers and smiled. "You're so good-looking, people can't help but take a second look. And now your aura is even better, girls can't bear to take their eyes off you for a moment... If I bring you there, I'll definitely be the center of attention. Everyone's eyes will be on you, and my girlfriends will be so jealous of me."

Xu Zhi: "???"

So that's what she was after. Finding someone to show off was the main thing.

"Let's go! Accompany me shopping for clothes. For the class reunion, we both need decent, expensive new clothes to show off and make them jealous to death!" Chen Xi winked at Xu Zhi and patted him on the shoulder in a carefree manner. "Anyway, you've been farming all this time, you probably have a lot of money. You're going to die anyway, it's useless for you to keep the money, might as well spend it together."

Look at what she was saying!

He had confirmed it with his eyes, he had fallen into a trap.

This girl came to him because she needed money to buy clothes and needed a boyfriend to show off.

Xu Zhi accompanied Chen Xi back to the city on his electric scooter.

They were frugal and shopped for half the street, buying her a beautiful outfit for three hundred yuan. Under her guidance, he also bought himself an outfit for over three hundred yuan. Then, exhausted, they rode their electric scooter back to the countryside.

"I've gained a 'Surface Girlfriend' for nothing."

Xu Zhi felt dazed, then chuckled to himself. "It's like having an extra little nanny. This girl has a short attention span, but she can enthusiastically prepare meals for me every day, and I don't have to go to the county to eat so often during the day."

After all, with Stomach Cancer, he had to pay attention to his diet. The food outside was too dirty and not nutritious.

He didn't really care about these things. He returned to the sandbox in the yard and studied the Evil Eye creature from before. Although he had stomped it to death and driven it out, the creature's species was still in the sandbox.

Now it was on the verge of extinction.

After all, it would be strange if it wasn't extinct! Two-thirds of its body was eyeballs. When a creature's entire body's nutrition was supplied to its eyeballs, just to see more clearly, wasting most of its body's energy, then it was destined to be eliminated by nature.

"Does it have the potential to become a transcendent species?" Xu Zhi asked.

The Mother Nest of the Zerg replied, "Yes. According to analysis, this creature has a simple, manic, and evil mind, but due to its huge eyeballs, its mental strength is also surprisingly strong."

If he didn't care about it, then this clumsy, deformed species would definitely go extinct.

However, it might be like the Insect Ape, just too weak in the early stages. If it didn't go extinct, this "Big Eye Monster" species' deformed system might become powerful as it developed.

Should he put it in the large sandbox to try it out? Xu Zhi thought about it and decided to introduce this species into the large sandbox.

He planned to open up a swamp in the hundred-acre large sandbox. After all, the environment of the large sandbox was too monotonous, with no swamps or deserts.

Adding ten square meters of swamp area.

For ants, this was already equivalent to a huge swamp area the size of a mountain range.

"As for how the terrain appeared? After the Great Flood, seawater accumulated, creating a swampy, muddy area. It can be considered a normal swamp terrain. First, there's the muddy terrain: viscous, muddy, and fertile. As for fertile, I need to find some fertilizer!"

Xu Zhi's first reaction was farm manure.

In the countryside, many people use their own feces for fertilization, which is natural and pollution-free.

But he felt a little disgusted. Just imagine, when the Insect Apes, and even various other races, explored this black swampy mud, they would actually be in a septic tank, wading and swimming. Just thinking about the scene was too beautiful!

He decided to forgo human feces. So, he went to the countryside and asked Li Shen from Chen Xi's family next door for some rural fertilizer, chicken and cow manure, saying that his farmland needed fertilization.

After bringing it back, he took a large shovel and began to transform the ten-square-meter area.