Jiawang Swimming Pool (10)
On the fourth day of the copy, the big screen updated today's schedule - synchronized swimming.
Because the players met the clearance requirements ahead of time, the screen also showed the current team medal ranking. The player team ranked second with five medals, just one behind the first place.
Xu Wei sat on the steps, squinting his eyes, feeling the sunlight reflected from above his head, and slowly scooping a small piece of cake with his hands, savoring the happiness brought by the high-sugar carbohydrates.
The setting of this dungeon was supposed to be for players to fight with game creatures for gold medals and do high-risk part-time jobs for food, but now all the problems have been solved by the two of them like they were using a bug, and now it's like going on vacation to the swimming pool.
He looked up and looked at the ranking on the big screen thoughtfully: "What do you mean by this?"
Lu Fanye took a sip of the fat otaku happy water and looked at the crowd in the swimming pool, but his eyes were not focused, and he let his vision wander: "Urging us to participate in the competition."
Xu Wei supported her cheek with one hand and stirred the low-quality milk tea in the cup with the other. The milk tea in the canteen was diluted with creamer and had a pure industrial smell. "I don't know if they will go."
When buying breakfast this morning, Brother Fan also talked to them about continuing the competition to win the gold medal. By then, they could take the props out of the copy and sell them, and exchange them for points to be divided equally among everyone.
Points are the universal currency of this game. After leaving the dungeon, players will live in a place called a "transit station". A series of expenses such as food and shelter required for life will be settled with points.
Of course, the two of them could not agree to it. Although the temptation of points was great, it would not be worth it if they had to risk their lives.
I’m afraid that I’ll have the life to get it but not the life to spend it.
"You still want an even split? I think 90% is about right," Xu Wei sneered, and then suddenly said happily, "Why do I feel more and more like a villain, the kind of villain who bullies the protagonist and makes the protagonist endure humiliation."
"Ah, cool."
Before the world fell into the vortex of infinite flow, Xu Wei was just an ordinary worker. No matter what happened, she could only swallow her anger because of her work and life. Over time, her first reaction to anything was to endure. This was also the reason why she repeatedly gave in to Brother Fan and others at the beginning.
But during the time he entered the dungeon, he first slowly adapted to this strange and weird place, and then relied on his own abilities to make others cautious and afraid to break up with him. This was a great encouragement to Xu Wei.
"Have you been like this before?"
The atmosphere today is exceptionally harmonious. Lu Fanye turned his head and the sunlight poured down on him. The halo passed through his eyes like sparks and carved a faint shadow under his high nose bridge.
Xu Wei was stunned for a moment, and after a long while, he asked incoherently: "What?"
Before, I just thought he was good-looking, but now that I take a closer look, he must be so handsome that he looks like he stepped out of an oil painting.
"Do you think you're a villain?"
Xu Wei thought he was asking why he had taken action last night, and was preparing a decent answer, but was asked an unexpected question: "Ah? No, I just suddenly thought of it."
"A small person like me probably can't be the protagonist. At best, I can be a minor supporting role. Compared to a supporting role, I would rather be a villain and live freely, carefree and happily."
Lu Fanye looked at her, puzzled: "Why not the protagonist?"
Xu Wei looked at him and said, "Why is that? If you were also full of ambition when you were young, and thought you were the protagonist of the world, and that you would accomplish something great one day, but after graduation you found that there were people like you everywhere, and that there were even too many people to squeeze into one place."
"In fact, you can't accomplish anything. You can only take one step at a time, keep your feet on the ground, and work for a salary. Then you will find that you don't even have the courage to get angry at those who bully you, because you still have to make a living."
"You look like a young master who is ignorant of the world, so you ask me why?"
"I understand." Lu Fanye turned his head, supported his hands on the steps, and also raised his head and squinted his eyes to feel the warmth of the sun.
Just when Xu Wei thought the topic was over, she heard him say softly:
"That's not the way I am."
"What?"
"I don't know much about the world." He paused, as if considering whether to continue. "My family relationship is quite complicated, and I have lived alone since I was a child."
“So, I understand what you mean by life.”
"But I still think that this world to me is just me and the small piece of me that I live in - the world that I see. So, I am the protagonist of life and the protagonist of this world."
After saying this, he looked up at the glass ceiling above his head: "You may feel a little selfish, but isn't life like that? If you can't live for yourself, then what's the point of living this life?"
Xu Wei was a little confused. He just felt that he talked too much today and went off topic: "I didn't quite understand."
He chuckled, which was not common on his usually expressionless face, but it was as if the first snow had melted, and his features, which looked like an oil painting, came alive: "It's just to make you more optimistic, live happily, and release yourself as much as possible within the scope of what you can do, so that life will have hope."
"Like last night?"
"Like last night."
Xu Wei also laughed and picked up her milk tea to clink glasses with him: "Cheers to living happily!"
Before the afternoon sun had even shone enough, an old lady came running over in a hurry: "Xiao Xu! Xiao Lu! Hurry up, something's happened!"
Xu Wei followed the aunt to the bathroom with the intention of watching a show. As soon as he entered, he saw Brother Fan comforting Lao Fang who was lying on the ground.
Lao Fang was breathing heavily, his eyes full of pain, one hand covering his bleeding abdomen, and the other hand tightly grasping Brother Fan's clothes.
Zhang Guang did not come.
Seeing Xu Wei coming, Lao Fang's cloudy eyes stared at her in an instant, tears about to flow out.
Brother Fan followed Lao Fang's gaze and looked at Xu Wei, saying sadly, "Lao Fang is dying."
Xu Wei didn't know what expression to make. What happened yesterday didn't affect her at all, but the death of her kind was still regrettable, so she restrained her expression and looked at Brother Fan.
so?
The person in front of him didn't respond, so Brother Fan couldn't put his prepared speech into practice. He could only sigh and say, "Lao Fang insisted on cleaning with me because of the fight you had yesterday. I was the one who did it before, and he had no experience, so he got tricked."
Xu Wei: “Oh.”
He is quite good at moral blackmail.
Lao Fang's eyes almost popped out of his head, his chest was shaking, he was breathing in more than out, and his hands were shaking as he tried to point at Xu Wei.
Brother Fan pressed his hand down and said in a gentle voice: "Look, we are also a team. Without him, what if there are any group competitions or group activities later..."
Xu Wei asked in confusion: "Didn't we win five gold medals? Why do we still need to participate?"
Brother Fan was choked, looked at Lao Fang, and said, "What if the award ceremony requires everyone to participate..."
Xu Wei saw that he had almost gotten away, so he didn't bother to beat around the bush with him: "Just tell me, do you want to save him?"
Brother Fan thought she was loose, and hurriedly said, "The boss has special bandages. As long as you participate in today's competition, I will give the bandages to Lao Fang for free!"
Xu Wei turned and left.
She really wanted to curse - are you treating others as fools if you don't get angry? But considering that these two probably wouldn't understand, it would be better to leave quickly to avoid bad luck.
"Points! He even uses points to exchange with you!" Brother Fan shouted behind him.
Xu Wei paused and asked, "How much?"
“Five points!”
Xu Wei left directly.
"Ten...fifteen points! That's all I can give you!" Lao Fang's hoarse voice sounded behind him.
"Fifteen points! The maximum points for clearing this dungeon are twenty points. The remaining five points are used to live in the transit station, which is already the most!" Brother Fan shouted anxiously.
"Let me think about it," Xu Wei turned around and looked at the two men with his arms crossed, "So how do you plan to make this deal? Aren't you afraid that I will go back on my word after giving you the bandages?"
"It will give you half of the bandage first, which can only stop the injury temporarily. The rest will be given to you after you finish participating." Brother Fan replied.
"Oh, I see. Why don't you wait a moment while I go ask someone?"
"I can't wait, Xiao Xu! This is a human life! You don't want to be responsible for a life in the future, do you?" Brother Fan frowned, trying to arouse her humanity with a condemning look.
"Then recite it."
Xu Wei rolled his eyes and walked away neatly.
After asking the ball-shaped man, a quarter of an hour had passed. Xu Wei looked at Old Fang, who was still tenaciously alive, and was a little puzzled: "Why are you still..."
Not dead?
Lao Fang no longer had the energy to glare at Xu Wei and looked at Brother Fan weakly.
Brother Fan helped him explain: "His items have healing effects. Xiao Xu, have you thought about it? Saving a life is better than building a seven-story pagoda!"
Xu Wei recalled that when he drew the novice gift package, Lao Fang did have an extra bottle of medicine in his hand.
"Then why didn't you think of giving me one when I was injured?" Xu Wei was surprised. "You didn't forget, did you?"
Brother Fan was embarrassed and speechless.
"I don't want to become a Buddha, I just want to earn some points." And by the way, to piss off some old pervert to death.
Brother Fan was overjoyed and said, "I'll go tell him right away!"
Xu Wei smiled warmly for the first time: "Okay."
By the time he brought the bandages to help Lao Fang stop the injury, Xu Wei was already gone.
"Fortunately, the bracelet can be traded for points in the dungeon, otherwise I'd be really worried that they would default on their debts after the game is over." Xu Weitong talked to Lao Fang about the road that Fan Ye didn't go.
"Do you have a solution?"
Xu Wei smiled sinisterly: "Of course."
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In the evening, the convenience store opened again.
Xu Wei was waiting in front of the glass door early, smiling gently and kindly at the man with swollen eyes who had just opened the glass door.
The one with swollen eyes also laughed, even more than her: "Buy more, so that we can go on the road after we finish eating."
"Yeah," Xu Wei didn't refute it. He took out a stack of money from his pocket and counted it in front of everyone. "Ten yuan, one, two, three... a total of ten, two fifty, a total of two hundred."
Then, as the other party's face became increasingly gloomy, he took out two fifty-dollar bills from his other pocket and said with a smile, "Three hundred in total. I want to buy bandages. You won't refuse to sell them to me, right?"
Seeing Xu Wei take out so much money, Brother Fan and others were quite shocked, and Lao Fang even sat down on the ground.
In the afternoon, he was fatally injured while working part-time in the bathroom. He thought there was no hope for him, but the boss in green suddenly appeared and asked them if they wanted to spend three hundred to buy a life-saving bandage. When he knelt on the ground and begged the boss to help him, the latter revealed his plan to lure Xu Wei into the competition.
In order to save his life, Lao Fang had to agree. For some reason, he did not tell her that the bandages were for sale, for fear that she could really afford so much money - even if the chance of this happening was very small, he had to be on guard.
Because, as long as she agrees to compete——
She could die.
Xu Wei didn't care what other people thought and continued to wait for the swollen eyelids to move with a smile.
Finally, the bandage was handed to her by the stiff-moving frog man.
"Okay," the latter was obviously in a good mood, and hopped over to the old man with the bandage in his hand, "How about, Brother Fan will pay for you?"
Lao Fang was also very stiff. He uttered twice, looked at his swollen eyelids, then looked at Brother Fan, and stopped moving.
"No, then go find it." Xu Wei put the bandage in his arms and prepared to leave.
Lao Fang grabbed her. As long as Xu Wei didn't participate in the competition, he wouldn't be able to get the bandage from the swollen eye. The most urgent thing was to survive. Although it hurt, he still gritted his teeth and said, "Lao Fan, pay for me first. I'll pay you back after I finish the dungeon."
Brother Fan on the side uttered twice, as if he didn't understand what was going on.
Seeing Brother Fan like this, Lao Fang knew what he meant and immediately looked at him with tears in his eyes: "Lao Fan!! We have known each other for decades, I am your brother!!"
Brother Fan was being roasted on the fire, his face was as if a palette had been overturned, he raised his bracelet and walked towards Xu Wei: "I know, I know! Don't be angry, you are my brother, how could I not give it to you? I just didn't understand, you guys are giving money and wanting to compete..."
He turned around and smiled at Xu Wei again: "Xiao Xu, you see, uncle has helped you a lot before. Otherwise, if you meet an irresponsible veteran, he will not introduce you here and there at all. Look..."
Xu Wei pursed his lips and nodded, as if he had heard it: "Uncle is right, then for Uncle Fan's sake, I'll give you a friendship price of thirteen points. How about that? Isn't that good enough?"
Brother Fan wanted to say something else, but Xu Wei raised his hand to signal "stop" and said with a smile, "If it really doesn't work, I can only cut up or burn the useless things that I bought with such a huge amount of money."
Lao Fang's tears were already falling: "Lao Fan!!"
Brother Fan could only answer “OK, OK” while transferring the points to Xu Wei through the bracelet.
Xu Wei then cut the bandage in his hand into two pieces, split it into two even halves, and handed it over.
Brother Fan lost his temper and asked, "What do you mean?"
Xu Wei opened his eyes and asked in confusion: "Hasn't half of it been given to me? I used it all on myself."
"Or do you only want half? Then I'll give you six points back." After saying that, he took back the bandage and pretended to return the points.
"Forget it, Lao Fan," Lao Fang was already tired, he stretched out his hand to take the bandage, then turned his eyes to stare at Xu Wei, and said coldly, "There will be another chance in the future."
Xu Wei raised her eyebrows and left after buying dinner, regardless of how he looked at her.
As for the game tonight with Swollen Eyes as the referee?
What's so interesting about seeing a group of strange creatures paddling in the water? It would be better to chat with Lu Fanye, who is more talkative.
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