Chapter 73 Chapter 73 Hell is ahead

"You still play Animal Crossing?" Li Hua asked. "I thought you only liked games where there was a river of blood."

Jason blushed: "What's wrong with family games? Don't look down on family games, you guy!"

Benjamin: "Family games are good, but I still want Berserk. This world has a lot in common with Minecraft, so why isn't Berserk here? I can't even find a Berserk meal replacement."

Li Hua: "Maybe it's because you don't have Jason's eyes for spotting substitute meals."

Jason was deeply moved, so he opened his arms and put Li Hua in a cross-lock. He was very considerate and only used force on his head instead of his throat, ensuring that Li Hua would only feel pain in his head but not suffocate:

"Not only do I have an eye for meal replacements, I also have hands for physical sleep aids. You have to get up early tomorrow, so why don't I help you get to bed early?"

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The next day at noon, despite having prepared himself mentally, Benjamin, having regained his human form, stepped out of the protective force field created by the [Shield]. He couldn't help but wrap his down jacket tightly around him and sneeze loudly: "I feel like I'm catching a cold."

Jason, wearing a winter version of a magical girl dress, crossed his arms and said, "Be content. At least you still have a temperature transition. Li Hua and I were airdropped directly into this snowy area by you. Even though we have the cold resistance buff, it's still refreshing."

Benjamin sneezed a few more times, quickly wiped away the tears from the corners of his eyes that were blown out by the cold wind, and turned sideways to try to reduce the cold wind on his eyes. "Goggles! I forgot my goggles. Where are they in my bag? I can hardly open my eyes, and I feel like my eyebrows are freezing!"

"Here," Li Hua shoved the goggles into Benjamin's hands and sighed in a salesman's tone as he put them on. "Ben, back home you'd probably call me 'Grandpa' to express your gratitude, but we're so close, I'll give you a discount. Just call me 'Dad.'"

Benjamin refused to buy it. He put on his goggles and said rather speechlessly, "Come on, you tricked us into calling you dad even when you helped pick up a package at the door. Don't 14 godchildren satisfy your overflowing fatherly love?"

"You don't understand. This is the unique culture of friendship among young people in my hometown," Li Hua said. "We're not only good fathers, we're also good brothers. We do things like bring you lunch, pick up packages, lend you homework, copy you things, and provide you with toilet paper. These are all ways you can gain a new son."

Benjamin: "I understand. It's your Asian custom. It's also mentioned in the plot of "Furious Sumo". I just don't want to call you dad. Of course, if you call me that, I don't mind having another son."

"You have so many biological sons and daughters, but you are still not satisfied. You are the one with exploding fatherly love, right?" Li Hua picked up a ball of snow from the ground and threw it over with a smile.

But the snowball scattered as soon as it was thrown and did not hit Benjamin at all.

"This Li Hua is such a loser!"

Benjamin grabbed a handful of snow and pulled over a watching ice ghost cub, letting it spray a puff of ice mist at the snowball. Then he threw the reinforced quick-made snowball steadily and accurately at Li Hua's leg. Laughter and the snowball exploded together.

"How can you recruit a kid as an outside player? That's cheating!"

"This is called a father and son working together to achieve great things, or a father and daughter... cough!" Benjamin hadn't finished his words when Li Hua swung his staff and threw a large cloud of snow all over him. "Why are you using an external prop?! Foul!"

Li Hua: "As someone who recruits foreign players, do you have the right to criticize me?"

Just when Li Hua and Benjamin were excited and ready to have a snowball fight, Jason with a strange expression stopped them.

"You two can fight later." Jason said, "Li Hua, so you usually just joke when people call you dad?"

"Right." Li Hua was very puzzled. "It's impossible that calling someone dad will automatically register them in their household registration. We all call them dad for fun. There are also other terms like foster father, brother, uncle, and uncle that are used to address close people who are not blood relatives...but the last two are usually not used for good friends, but for elders. I think you guys also use this method, right?"

Books like Uncle Tom and Aunt Mary, and "Uncle Tom's Cabin" were recommended books when Li Hua was in school.

"It would certainly be used in the latter situation you mentioned, but..." Jason held his forehead and sighed as the two looked at him in confusion. "Let me ask you again, Li Hua, do you have a custom where you have to call someone "Dad" after you've defeated them?"

Li Hua: "This isn't a custom. It's mostly used as a provocation or a declaration of victory. For example, if you win a game, you might say 'Call me daddy.' Of course, if they're close and both parties find it funny, it's considered a joke; otherwise, it's considered a provocation."

Jason covered his face in pain.

Many things suddenly became clear.

Benjamin: "What's wrong Jason, are you feeling unwell?"

"No, I'm just crushed by the weight of the truth."

Jason looked at Li Hua, his eyes filled with mixed emotions as he said, because he didn't need goggles to protect him due to the buff of the magical girl costume.

"Li Hua, that translation function in your head... Never mind, I don't understand how magic works. Anyway, don't you actually know what specific English sentences you said?"

"Yes, that's why it's called automatic translation." Li Hua nodded and asked, "Is there any problem?"

"It's a bit of a problem, but how big of a problem it is depends on your perception. You said you have a basic understanding of English, right?" Jason said, "Try to cancel the automatic translation and say the exact sentence you just said in English yourself, using your natural English level."

Li Hua asked No. 666 to temporarily disable the automatic translation, but he hadn't touched a book in a long time, especially an English book. When he was suddenly asked to translate English, he couldn't remember many English words. At this moment, he could only utter with blank eyes: "Um... say me father?"

Benjamin: “…”

Jason: “…”

Wow, the first word and even the first letter are wrong.

Benjamin: "No wonder I sometimes don't understand what you're saying. Now I know what the problem is. It's because you're speaking English using the logic of your native language."

Li Hua looked bewildered and uttered, "I can't understand."

The automatic translation was turned off and not turned on yet, so I couldn't understand what Benjamin was saying at all.

"No, I don't understand simply because you're a fool."

Jason had a complicated expression, but he still didn't tell Benjamin that he didn't understand simply because he and Li Hua had turned him on to pure mode, and some topics were not discussed in front of him.

So Benjamin doesn’t know now that he can’t even see his own reputation rating on some websites.

Jason: "Li Hua, open... Hey, why am I talking to you? You don't understand now. No. 666, please turn on the automatic translation."

Li Hua then returned to the chat window: "So what happened? Is it that what I said was not politically correct? Then what should I say, Y chromosome provider?"

If that's the case, then every time he goes out to beat someone up he has to shout "I'm your father".

It's meant to be used as an insult, and now he's already throwing in the towel and mocking people, why would he care if it's right or wrong? If he can, let those politically correct idiots confront him head-on. Who doesn't know how to stack buffs? We can even promise not to be the first to use Benjamin.

Jason: "You should have no problem saying that in your native language in your native environment. When you joked with Ben, at most he would think it was a regional cultural feature. After all, Ben is a clueless idiot. But the situation here is different. Do you know what it would sound like if you said it in English?"

Li Hua shook his head.

Benjamin looked at Jason strangely: "What's wrong?"

Seeing them like this, Jason just wanted to sigh. "Let me repeat what you just said to you, Li Hua, and you'll understand. Number 666, please don't translate the few sentences I repeat. Continue translating the rest. This is all for Li Hua's future image."

Although No. 666 didn't understand what Jason wanted to do, he agreed after hearing that it would be good for Li Hua.

"Listen carefully, Li Hua, what you said before has always been..."

After everything was ready, Jason took a deep breath, and his voice could reach Li Hua's ears even in the howling mountain wind.

“Call me daddy.”

At that moment, Jason's words were even colder and more piercing to Li Hua's ears than the snow-covered mountain breeze. However, he didn't stop, instead continuing to deliver a critical blow to Li Hua's precarious mind: "Even when you beat up those gangsters and tortured them earlier, you kept asking them to call you daddy."

"And then there's 'daddy ising', what were you going to say originally?"

Li Hua's face was ashen, and with the little sanity left in him, he used keywords to search for answers to Jason's questions: "Your father is here."

Before, Li Hua always thought that the "Magic Boy"'s reputation as a "sadistic and perverted" person was due to his "Big Guy Story Club", but now it seems that his constant use of the word "daddy" is the main reason!

You should know that in the English context, the word "daddy" not only refers to one's father in the biological and legal sense, but also has a special meaning. It is so special that it often appears in contexts that are not meant to be viewed by people under the age of eighteen.

So, if we put ourselves in the shoes of the person who was beaten up by Li Hua...

I want to see that you were at work that night doing some illegal transactions with your colleagues, and during the break you were discussing with your colleagues whether to go find girls or drink after get off work. How well-organized and well-organized your life is.

Suddenly, there was a loud noise in the sky, and a big guy wearing a cute pink skirt and carrying a pink bird-beaked staff appeared on the scene. He used the appearance of a magic girl, the fighting style and resistance of a berserker to beat you and all your colleagues to your knees.

That's not all. This magic boy will take you to a secluded place and beat you up. When you finally catch your breath and muster up the courage to ask "Who are you?", he will step on you, come closer with a wicked smile, and whisper in your ear:

"I am your daddy."

"What I wanted to say was 'I'm your father!'" Jason hadn't finished his story when Li Hua, realizing how his words had been perceived by others, interrupted him. "That was clearly a brilliant, applause-worthy, and intellectually sound retort!"

"But apparently the listeners didn't see it that way," Jason said. "I also always thought you were going to play a joke and ridicule on them with a mysterious meaning."

When he heard it for the first time, he was surprised that Li Hua, who looked quite shy, could actually make such sarcastic remarks to the enemy.

I didn't expect that all this was just a misunderstanding of color.

But Benjamin still didn't understand: "Isn't it just beating someone up and calling them daddy? What kind of magical meaning can it have?"

Li Hua: “…”

Jason: “…”

It's a wonderful meaning that you shouldn't know despite your age and the rating of your work.

Li Hua took a deep breath and closed his eyes in despair: "It's nothing, No. 666, go back and change the keywords, change... Forget it." He will never be able to be a father again.

"You don't look okay. What's going on? What are you two talking about?"

Benjamin frowned. He didn't like the feeling of being excluded. He had a hunch that something was wrong.

"What is it that I don't want to know?"

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