A Mysterious Person Appeared

The entrance to the zoo looked exactly as Xi Xiu remembered the Jingsu Alliance from when she had first seen it: countless flickering electronic screens that sometimes took the form of animals, sometimes humans, and sometimes other intelligent lifeforms.

Xi Xiu had been deeply impressed by this scene, because the creatures on the screens were virtually indistinguishable from the real thing.

It was very similar to what she had first seen in the Underground City, and it remained her earliest and deepest impression of Jingsu.

She watched the animals around her strike all kinds of adorable poses. They were acting cute.

Most were fluffy animals, the sort whose appearance could melt anyone's heart.

This setup was meant to improve customers' first impressions and make tourists entering the Virtual Network linger. After all, most creatures could hardly resist the adorable charm of fluffy animals.

Xi Xiu was no exception.

The Huyuantu she had once promised as gifts to W06 and the others had exactly this adorable appearance.

They were the sort that made people want to scoop them up and give them a good, hard petting in their arms, and their fur felt unbelievably soft.

She had no resistance to fluffy creatures. Whenever she saw one, she wanted to raise one herself.

Zoos all attracted customers in more or less the same way: they brought out their prized attractions without further ado.

Customers who liked fluffy animals could spot them immediately, buy tickets to see them, and even apply to raise a cub.

After raising it in the Virtual Network, they could even exchange it for a real-life counterpart.

At the entrance, Qing Zhixun paid a sum of virtual Star Coins. After a chime sounded, a mark appeared on both their wrists.

The mark remained valid for twenty-four hours, meaning they