Time passed quickly, and before long it was lunchtime. Someone came to knock on the laboratory door, saying that Xu Huo was invited to dine in the cafeteria.
Xu Huo had visited the laboratory's large cafeteria last time. There were plenty of staff and players eating there now, most of them dressed in clothes bearing the Platinum Eye insignia. He stood out more than anyone.
Bai Kou hadn't come for lunch. The staff member who had brought Xu Huo over got him a meal and said, "That laboratory is empty. You can use it after lunch, too, Mr. Xu."
"Thanks." Xu Huo sat down to eat. Perhaps because people from other districts were rarely seen in the laboratory, two female players sat beside him. As they chatted, they casually tried to find out where he was from. Of course, they only asked about him and didn't mention Bai Kou at all.
Xu Huo gave them a couple of brief, noncommittal answers, hurried through his meal, then went back to the laboratory.
Maybe there was something wrong with his attitude. Not long after he entered the laboratory, someone came knocking again. Three young men asked if he was finished using it. He'd been in there too long; even using an activation device usually didn't take that long, and he didn't even have a laboratory staff member accompanying him.
They were practically telling him outright to stop hogging the laboratory.
Xu Huo didn't care. He picked up his coat and prepared to leave.
"What's that supposed to mean?" One of them stepped in front of him. "You think you're better than us?"
"Who do you think you are? You think you can throw your weight around just because you know Miss Koukou? The laboratory isn't for a loser like you to waste