Chapter 46: One Punch
“Brother!”
Sun Yuancheng helplessly hugged Li Ziyue's legs and cried and made a fuss, with sad tears falling down: "I thought you were dead, God, you are still alive, I am so happy, I just, I don't know what to say, I almost wanted to say 'If you don't know how to study hard when you are young, you will regret it when you are old'... No, what I want to say is that the young are sending off the old..."
He glanced at Li Ziyue's short dark hair and gloomy face.
"Haha, what I meant was that the young send off the young. Didn't expect that?" Sun Yuancheng smiled cleverly. "I made some flexible adaptations based on the actual situation..."
[One moment it was an essay on rural revitalization, the next moment it was 'The late emperor's business was not yet halfway done', and now it's time to read ancient poetry again. I finally understand that what I'm watching is not an infinite stream live broadcast, but a 100-day sprint for the Chinese language test for the college entrance examination.]
[Damn it, I was deceived. The knowledge got into my brain in a very cunning way.]
[Ahem, the ancient poem Sun used here is wrong. The correct one should be…Did you take notes? I’ll check them later.]
[God, please let me go! Why do I have to study here? Did you just finish the teacher qualification exam? This is too scary. This is a real horror live broadcast room]
"..." Li Ziyue kneaded his temples which were sore from Sun Yuancheng's quarrel, "What nonsense are you talking about? Hurry up and get up. If your snot gets on my legs, everyone will be attending your funeral later."
Sun Yuancheng knew when to stop and immediately stopped crying.
Then she sobbed softly, "What you said to me earlier really scared me. You said it so seriously that I thought it was your last words..."
"Indeed," Li Ziyue nodded seriously, "At that time I wasn't sure I could survive."
"Ah?" Sun Yuancheng was stunned.
"At that time, I was indeed talking to you as if it was the last time I saw you," Li Ziyue said calmly, "but fortunately I survived."
The situation that time was not special. Li Ziyue had already prepared for the possibility of his own or someone around him dying suddenly.
Say some nice words before parting so that the one who is still alive won't feel so regretful when thinking about it later.
He remembered what his seniors said to him before leaving six years ago?
"Hurry up and do your homework. By the time you finish, we'll have solved the mystery, and you'll be able to fight the final boss right after you come out."
And what did he reply?
"...Wait, I still have three more copies of "The Memorial to the Emperor on Leaving the Capital". I'll finish them soon."
That was the last conversation they had with him before they died.
Thinking about it always makes people...
Li Ziyue sighed and smiled at Sun Yuancheng: "Just kidding, are you taking it seriously? You will be in trouble if you trust others so much in the dungeon."
Only then did Sun Yuancheng feel relieved.
Sun Yuancheng suddenly remembered the vicious dog that was chasing him, and quickly rolled and crawled to hide behind Li Ziyue: "Brother... have you seen the dog? The dogs here are too scary. Only the gods can suppress these vicious dogs..."
Zhang Lian was twisting a black dog in his hand that had obviously been dead for some time, and blinked.
"Is this what you are talking about?"
Sun Yuancheng: "...Brother Lianlian...How can I live without you!"
She was about to cry and cling to Zhang Lian again, but Li Ziyue grabbed her collar from behind.
Li Ziyue looked at him with a little disdain: "It's only been a while since we last met, how come you've made yourself so embarrassed?"
Sun Yuancheng finally found a place to feel wronged, and immediately burst into tears: "Brother Yueyue...you don't know, when you were away, your brother Yuanyuan had a very hard time..."
"The zombies bit you silly."
Li Ziyue carefully examined his entire body and found no obvious injuries, so he issued a diagnosis and ignored Sun Yuancheng.
Sun Yuancheng was crying in the back, but the little guy in his heart was so happy that he jumped up.
Li Ziyue is like a stabilizing force. No matter how thrilling the copy is, as long as he is there, Sun Yuancheng will not feel much fear.
His nerves, which had been tense for too long, finally got the respite he longed for.
In fact, he was not uninjured.
His feet were bitten by a dog during the [Breathing Swing] session and were bleeding profusely. One of his toes was in so much pain that he had lost feeling in it, so it was probably broken.
Running all the way in pain consumed a lot of his energy. In addition, he had not eaten any food so far and only drank a few sips of water. He had already reached his physical limit.
He endured the emotional depression and physical fatigue.
Seeing Li Ziyue at this moment, he seemed to have finally found a rest area that allowed him to vent his emotions. He pretended to cry and poured out all the suppressed pain.
He really wanted to say that he felt uncomfortable here and in pain there, but when all the words came to his lips, it turned out to be just another irrelevant joke.
"Hey, bro."
Li Ziyue looked over and asked, "What's wrong?"
"After the last instance was over, I read a lot of infinite novels," Sun Yuancheng laughed. "You big players, do you have an indestructible stomach? Others will die after starving for seven days, but you can be full of energy after starving for a year or two. You may even pick up a treasure chest and become a god from then on, and you can live without food or water for the rest of your life."
"Yes, I also have the ability to make the entire copy explode with just a flick of my finger." Li Ziyue nodded with gritted teeth.
Sun Yuancheng raised his eyebrows very proudly, with a proud expression that said "everything is within my calculations".
Li Ziyue resisted the urge to beat up Sun Yuancheng: "Have you read the title of that infinite flow book? Isn't the title called "Iron Blood Special Forces Traveling Through Time: I Rely on Fantasy to Cultivate Immortality in the Infinite Flow Dungeon"? "
[Yo, Brother Li finally gave up his must-do questions and started reading online articles instead]
[You are an experienced user right away, worthy of being called Brother Li. Add to that the fact that a domineering dungeon boss falls in love with me and the elements are complete.]
Sun Yuancheng held his head in surrender: "It's just a joke, it's just a joke."
He fished out the steamed bun he got in the [Breathing Swing] session from his backpack, then opened his remaining water resources and transferred 5L each to Zhang Lian and Li Ziyue's backpacks.
"Note: Given voluntarily."
Li Ziyue frowned: "You..."
Sun Yuancheng snorted twice: "You two poor bastards, I am a very lucky rich man. After dividing it between you two, I still have the most water left, humph."
"The main thing is that steamed buns are hard to swallow without water. I'm afraid you two will choke to death," Sun Yuancheng was about to hug Li Ziyue and cry again, "Brother, if you die, I want to die with you."
Li Ziyue returned four of the five steamed buns handed to him by Sun Yuancheng, and broke the remaining one into two pieces, one large and one small. He handed the big one to Zhang Lian.
If the water given voluntarily could not be returned, Li Ziyue would have wanted to return the water as well.
No one knows what will happen in the future. If Sun Yuancheng dies from lack of water, Li Ziyue will never forgive himself for the rest of his life.
Sun Yuancheng's tears fell like beads from a broken string. He couldn't persuade Li Ziyue, so he could only quietly transfer three more steamed buns to Zhang Lian in case of emergency.
"Keep some water in your body," Li Ziyue chewed a steamed bun and looked at Sun Yuancheng's crying face. He chuckled with his fangs showing, "Or you can just stand here and cry. Maybe you can cry a Yellow River for this village."
Sun Yuancheng pouted in grievance, squeezed his eyes and held back his tears.
After a long while, I heard Li Ziyue mumble, "Thank you."
He placed his warm palm on Sun Yuancheng's head, and his voice was like the warm spring breeze in March: "It must have been very hard to get these."
Sun Yuancheng felt a lump in his throat.
"You have grown up," Li Ziyue raised his eyebrows and smiled at him, "so don't blame yourself anymore."
He was talking about the previous things.
Sun Yuancheng hung his head, hiding his eyes in shadow, and his rapid breathing caused by emotional excitement made his body tremble slightly.
Tears flowed silently down her face.
Li Ziyue was stunned for half a second.
He didn't think that these words would really make Sun Yuancheng cry. His original intention was just to encourage him and he didn't want to make him cry.
Just when I was worrying about what to do, Zhang Lian, who had been standing aside silently, turned his head.
He bent down to look at Sun Yuancheng's red eyes, which he didn't want others to see, and asked sincerely and simply, "Are you really crying?"
Sun Yuancheng raised his head with a "wow" and complained to Li Ziyue: "Brother, look at him."
Li Ziyue: “…”
He punched both men equally.
Li Ziyue felt embarrassed after what he had said before, and the tips of his fair ears, hidden under his soft black hair, turned slightly red.
He tried to cover it up by attributing it to the hot weather.
Zhang Lian, who had just been beaten up, had forgotten the pain and his wound had healed. He stood by in a daze, watching Li Ziyue's ears gradually turn red.
I want to touch you. I want to kiss you.
The three of them walked slowly to the vicinity of the school. Li Ziyue walked towards the backyard without hesitation. Sun Yuancheng followed closely behind him, speaking in a trembling voice: "Brother, you also received the task, right?"
Li Ziyue knew that he was talking about the [Judge's Sword], so he said "hmm".
Sun Yuancheng swallowed his saliva and said, "To be honest, I found the child."
Li Ziyue stopped and scanned the places where the child's body was buried. He seemed to be muttering something. It took him a few seconds to react to what Sun Yuancheng said.
"What?"
"It's just in front. I can take you there later." Sun Yuancheng was still hesitant at first, but thinking that Li Ziyue and Zhang Lian were there, nothing serious should happen, so he told him directly.
Li Ziyue nodded, but asked Sun Yuancheng another question.
"How many players died from hanging last night?"
"Five."
"That's right." Li Ziyue touched the raised mud block, "There are five new corpse pits here."
"Hiss——" Sun Yuancheng was a little confused.
"Wait a minute, let me get this straight. The old woman asked us to kill the brides, saying that this would free them... Five players were hanged, which means five brides died, and there are five more corpse pits here... Are these bones from the players?! The villagers here are pretty kind, they even helped us bury the bodies."
Li Ziyue couldn't help but tap Sun Yuancheng on the forehead. He picked up a tiny hand bone and asked, "Have you ever seen a player with such a small hand?"
Sun Yuancheng howled: "Oh my god, human bones... I'm going to faint from fear, I'm going to faint."
"Bury you in if you faint."
"I'm suddenly well again. Doctor, you are a miracle worker."
"The brides are children," Li Ziyue sighed, "The dead brides have not been truly liberated, but are trapped here. Their corpses will emerge from the ground at night to resist the zombies."
"You know, zombies are beneficial to the players, so if the bride dies, the real beneficiaries are actually the villagers. In other words, that old woman is talking nonsense. The more brides we kill, the safer they will be."
"Let's go," Li Ziyue stood up and patted the dust off his hands, "Take me to where the child is."
Sun Yuancheng followed beside him and spoke after hesitating for a while: "Someone will come from that place soon. I just heard them say that they will kill those children when the first bell rings at night. If we want to save them, we have to take advantage of this time..."
The air was becoming increasingly humid, the sun had already half hidden behind the top of the mountain, several layers of dark clouds had already reached above their heads, and before they could hear the deafening thunder, they could see several blinding flashes of lightning flashing through the clouds.
A rainstorm is coming.
Tonight and last night, is it a repetition or a reversal.
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