68 Wish

◎She thought for a moment, and finally decided to tell the truth◎

The two small human figures were getting closer and closer, until finally, they came in front of Qi Qiuxue.

Qi Qiuxue stood up and took the firewood from the two people, and helped Li Yiqing pat the snow off his body. In Musoglu, which is cold all year round, it snows heavily at any time of the year. Even if you stand outside for a short while, a thick layer of snow will accumulate on your shoulders.

"Long time no see." After saying this, she glanced at Liu Ge beside her, "I didn't expect that we would meet again in the dungeon."

"It shows that the three of us are really destined to be together." Liu Ge raised her lips and smiled. After not seeing each other for a long time, she looked no different from before. Her smile was still bright, and her fangs were playful and cute.

"Come on, let's go warm up by the fire." It was too cold to stand here. Liu Ge subconsciously jumped twice to warm his body. He took Qi Qiuxue and Li Yiqing in each hand and walked towards the fire together.

The three of them quickly sat down around the fire. Including the three players, there were a total of thirteen people present, seven women and six men.

The captain in the lead was the female NPC who had just taken the firewood from Qi Qiuxue. Everyone called her Sister Yang. Sister Yang was a tall woman in her thirties with a long ponytail. She was warm and kind.

Seeing the other two team members turning back, Sister Yang quickly brought food and water to share with them: "You've worked hard, eat something quickly."

"Thank you." Liu Ge took the food and shared it with Qi Qiuxue and Li Yiqing. "Sister Yang, should we continue on?"

Sister Yang shook her head: "No, it's getting late now. If we continue on our journey, we might run into danger. Let's rest here tonight and set off again tomorrow morning."

Liu Ge nodded: "Okay."

Sister Yang smiled, chatted briefly with the three of them, and soon went to greet others.

After a short rest, everyone set up the tent together. As evening approached, the wind and snow became stronger. At first glance, it sounded like a monster crying loudly, which was weird and terrifying.

Qi Qiuxue, Li Yiqing and Liu Ge were assigned to the same tent. They spread out their sleeping bags and turned on the heating equipment that had been prepared in advance. The light from the simple lighting gradually filled the tent, giving people an inexplicable feeling of warmth.

"How have you been lately?" After avoiding the group of NPCs, they finally began a real conversation. Liu Ge looked at the two people in front of her, "Since we last parted, how many dungeons have you each completed?"

"Twice." Qi Qiuxue said.

"Yeah." Li Yiqing nodded in agreement, "Yes, twice."

"What a coincidence, you both passed twice." Liu Ge was a little surprised. "What's your background? Tell me about it."

Qi Qiuxue then said, "One is set in a campus, and the other is set in a hospital."

Li Yiqing continued to nod: "Yes, that's right."

Liu Ge: “……?”

She realized it later and said, "Are you both going through the same instance?"

After speaking, Li Yiqing nodded proudly: "Yes."

Liu Ge: "Never separated?"

Li Yiqing said as if it was a matter of course: "Yes."

Liu Ge was envious after hearing this: "How come you are so lucky to be with Axue forever? Did you sign the contract with the accompanying talisman?"

"Next time, take me with you." She was about to cry, but she couldn't. She said bitterly, "You don't know what kind of life I've been going through recently."

"Is the copy mission not going smoothly?" Qi Qiuxue asked.

"That's about right." Liu Ge sighed. "I've cleared three dungeons in total recently. One teammate had low IQ and was a complete hindrance. One was incredibly difficult and nearly killed me. And another was almost done, but suddenly a player turned on us and teamed up with the NPCs to kill us all."

"Luckily, he suffered the consequences of his actions in the end. He met his end before his plan could succeed. It was clearly an A-level dungeon, but he made it an S-level difficulty."

"But after finishing this dungeon, each of us received a good rating, and I even got a weapon."

"What is it?" Li Yiqing was very curious.

"Chain Blade." Liu Ge opened her backpack, took out the weapon and showed it to the two of them. As the name suggests, her weapon consists of two parts: a chain and a knife.

"I can switch the weapon's form freely, choosing between chains, short swords, and chain blades."

It sounds so awesome.

Qi Qiuxue praised sincerely: "What a good weapon."

"What about yours?" After not seeing each other for a long time, Liu Ge had endless things to say to the two of them. The three of them chatted until midnight before finally lying down to sleep.

Qi Qiuxue was lying in the innermost sleeping bag, Li Yiqing was in the middle, and Liu Ge was on the other side.

"Ahxue, are you cold?" Li Yiqing rolled around in his sleeping bag like a caterpillar, trying to get closer to Qi Qiuxue. "I have some spare clothes in my bag. Do you want to wear a couple more?"

"No need." Qi Qiuxue shook her head, her whole body sunk into the sleeping bag, with only her eyes exposed.

Her eyes are round, very standard almond-shaped.

This type of eyes looks cute and well-behaved, and is a very pleasing type. However, perhaps because he had been with Qi Qiuxue for a long time, in the few seconds when he looked into her eyes, the first words that came to Li Yiqing's mind were not the most common words used to describe almond eyes.

But calm, mysterious and firm.

No one can understand Qi Qiuxue's true thoughts. She is a person of few words, but very smart and thoughtful. Some people need to use clothing, words and deeds to package themselves, making themselves look more mature and powerful, pretending to be someone who is not easy to mess with.

But Qi Qiuxue didn't need to do that. Even if she just stood there, saying nothing and doing nothing, she still appeared sacred and inviolable. No one could ignore her existence, even if the other person was a god.

"What are you looking at?" Qi Qiuxue interrupted her trance.

Li Yiqing finally came back to his senses: "Nothing."

"It's late, go to sleep, Axue." She poked her whole face out of the sleeping bag and smiled at Qi Qiuxue with a silly smile, "Call me if you need anything tonight."

"What about me?" Without waiting for Qi Qiuxue to respond, Liu Ge asked sarcastically.

"What?" Li Yiqing immediately changed his tone, putting on a look of disgust, "You're already such a grown-up, if you have something to deal with, just go and handle it yourself, why do you have to have someone accompany you?"

Liu Ge was speechless: "You are treating me differently. I want to complain! Ah Xue, I want to complain!"

"It's no use suing anyone." Li Yiqing spoke up, and the two of them started arguing again.

It feels like I'm still in the first copy, it's very noisy.

Qi Qiuxue raised her lips slightly and let them continue to quarrel without saying a word. Once upon a time, she was a person who liked quietness very much. When she first started working, in order to make it convenient for her to get to work, she rented an apartment close to the company. The transportation was convenient and it only took seven or eight minutes to ride a bike to reach the company.

But it was too noisy there. Every time Qi Qiuxue worked overtime until late at night and was exhausted and in urgent need of rest, there were still people singing, dancing, and playing in the community. Over time, she was almost mentally exhausted.

So later she decisively gave up the lease, preferring to spend more time on the road rather than live there anymore. Compared to the prosperous but noisy areas, she really preferred the more remote and quiet areas.

But now, her thoughts seem to have gradually changed.

It was still snowing heavily outside, the wind was howling, and the cold was biting, but at this moment the temperature in the sleeping bag was very warm, the light of the flashlight was shining softly, and the two companions beside me were chatting with each other.

It was indeed a bit noisy, but it also made people feel at ease. Qi Qiuxue closed her eyes and listened to the two people talking, and before she knew it, she felt sleepy.

It turned out that she didn't dislike the noisy and lively atmosphere, but she was concerned that among so much laughter and joy, there was not a trace of happiness for herself.

"Shh, stop talking, Ah Xue is asleep." Noticing Qi Qiuxue's breathing becoming heavier, Li Yiqing quickly stopped the quarrel and said, "Let's get some rest too."

"Yeah." Liu Ge nodded and agreed, but he never closed his eyes.

After a while, she spoke again and asked Li Yiqing beside her in a low voice: "Are you asleep?"

"Not yet, what's wrong?" Li Yiqing asked.

"I forgot to tell you, I've quit my previous guild," Liu Ge said. "Now I'm a free man all alone. If there's a suitable guild in the future, don't forget to introduce it to me."

Li Yiqing was puzzled: "Why did you quit suddenly?"

"Their philosophies don't align." Liu Ge rolled over in his sleeping bag, his back to Li Yiqing. "In playing game after game, they've long forgotten their original intentions."

"Remember the question I asked you before we escaped from the lake island?" Liu Ge said, "If you could survive and complete all the games, what wish would you make?"

Li Yiqing said "hmm": "I remember."

"I used to have the same wish as everyone else in the guild: to completely destroy the game and prevent it from dragging more innocent people into dungeons. But later, they all changed their wishes, and I was the only one who still persisted."

"Why would you make such a wish?" Li Yiqing asked.

"because……"

Liu Ge paused in response, as if he didn't want to recall the past, but after thinking for a moment, he decided to tell the truth.

"Because my lover once died in the game."

【Author’s words】

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