Chapter 91 Even if you hate me, I still like you
[Congratulations to the players for successfully clearing the "Snowstorm Villa" dungeon. All players received 10,000 points and [Real World] fragment rewards. Three players received rain, snow, and sun attribute abilities. Please check the backpack letter yourself.]
"Oh my god? I haven't come across a fragment of the [real world] in a long time."
"I've been doing this dungeon for over a year, and I've only gotten one! It really pays off to persevere to the end!"
"Real fragment?" Sun Yuancheng scratched his head. "What is this? Can I trade it for some points?"
"Points can be accumulated at any time, but these fragments are rare." Someone responded from the side.
Sun Yuancheng continued to wonder: "The system reminds me that I need to collect seven pieces to summon the 'Dragon'. I only have one piece. I don't know when I can collect all of them. It's better to exchange them for points."
Liu Yuche laughed beside him: "The fragments are exclusive and cannot be traded. Save them well. When you have enough, you will have the opportunity to open up a new world."
"It's boring." Amid the excitement, only Sun Yuancheng drooped his head with a sleepy look on his face. "My life is pretty good now. I don't want to open blind boxes anymore."
Liu Yuche understood and changed the subject: "Actually, I'm curious about how you lead people to break the cycle. Did the system assign you a special task?"
"This..." Sun Yuancheng frowned and thought painfully, "To be honest, this is also my luck..."
"I don't believe this," Liu Yuche said with a smile, "Luck is a form of strength. You can't use this excuse to fool me."
Sun Yuancheng stared at Liu Yuche for a long while: "Actually, I also have something to ask you. Want to make a deal?"
She raised her eyebrows as a sign of agreement.
"To put it bluntly, I cheated," Sun Yuancheng said frankly. "The system reminded me that the key to breaking the game is to get you out of the area where the loop occurs, but once I step into that area, I will unconsciously fall into the loop. There is basically no solution."
"You should know that I have an NPC pseudo-human who looks exactly like him." He suddenly said.
Liu Yuche's breathing stopped for two seconds, and he thought: "So that's how it is."
"This high-level pseudo-human happened to be in the dungeon. You led him into the loop area. In order to get himself out of the loop, he naturally used the dungeon administrator's authority..."
"It's not a coincidence," Sun Yuancheng looked at her seriously, "someone trapped the fake person in the copy in advance."
Liu Yuche was slightly surprised: "I didn't expect this."
"You also know this person." Sun Yuancheng curled his lips.
Liu Yuche glanced at Zhang Xingzhi, who was sitting in the other corner, busy replying to messages from players. "It turns out that this game was already decided a long time ago. I was wondering why he was so low-key in this instance."
"What about you?" Sun Yuancheng said in a slightly cold tone, "Who are you?"
Reading people's expressions is Sun Yuancheng's basic survival skill. Although he is not quite clear about the specific relationship between Li Ziyue and Liu Yuche, he has also noticed that there is something wrong between them.
He naturally believed Li Ziyue, so the problem would only be on Liu Yuche's side.
"I didn't expect you to ask me this." She smiled slightly, "I am who I am. I don't mean anything else."
Liu Yuche had just held the thin cigarette between his fingertips when he suddenly paused, put the cigarette back, and replaced it with a piece of candy.
"Do you think Li Ziyue will kill people?"
Sun Yuancheng was stunned, then shook his head.
"He thought I was dead," Liu Yuche said expressionlessly as he chewed candy, "and that he was the one who killed me."
"I am not a fake person named 'Liu Yuche', nor am I an artificial intelligence machine. I have been alive and well from the beginning to the end. His memory has been tampered with by humans."
Sun Yuancheng remained silent.
"You also graduated from a 'school', so you should understand what I mean. The final selection of all 'schools' is the same - a duel between friends, and only those who survive to the end are allowed to leave the school."
"But this is another lie," she said in a cold tone, "If you really kill your friend in the end, only death will await you."
"For a long time I thought I had lost control and killed Li Ziyue, until a few years ago when I saw his name and photo appear at the top of the leaderboard during the dungeon settlement, I realized something was wrong."
"The theme of the last lesson is actually 'love'. If the selected player is really a killing machine with only ability but no kindness, he will not be willing to play dungeons to earn points for the people in his virtual world."
She narrowed her eyes slightly and smiled, as if recalling: "Li Ziyue's gun skills are actually very poor. Although he pointed the gun at me, his hands were shaking and he couldn't stop crying."
"In the past, when he was isolated by everyone, he always looked down on everyone and asked for a beating. I even said that he didn't know how to give in. When he was targeted, he would mock others. It would be strange if others didn't hate him."
"He always had injuries on his body from having to get through the scheduled tests at school, and his life was very difficult, but despite that, I never saw him cry."
"I was really scared at the time," Liu Yuche sighed slowly, "He didn't have any expression on his face, but his tears seemed to have drowned him completely, and he kept asking me to kill him in a trembling voice."
"He said that there was no point in him living, and that he should have died long ago," Liu Yuche sighed slowly, "Can you imagine? Before this, he was the person who wanted to live the most that I had ever met. When he had free time, he would chat with me about what it was like outside the school and what he would do after he got out. He said that what he wanted most was to do what he wanted to do quietly, and he didn't want to be suddenly asked to get up at three in the morning, nor did he want to make friends with others for the purpose of survival."
"After thinking about it for a long time, he finally put the gun in my hand and asked me to kill him."
Sun Yuancheng's eyebrows drooped, and he paused for a few seconds, wanting to say something but stopped.
"What about you?" Liu Yuche looked at him. "Who are you? You weren't like this before, were you? Is this another disguise of yours or..."
"I like this," Sun Yuancheng yawned, "My life was too tiring before, with all the calculations. Now it's fun to cling to Brother Li and act like a heartless fool to liven up the atmosphere."
"Besides, brother," Sun Yuancheng smiled, "he also needs someone to rely on him, doesn't he?"
Liu Yuche patted him and said, "You passed the test."
"What?"
Sun Yuancheng was really stunned.
"Why would I talk to you so much if I have no purpose?" Liu Yuche was relieved. "You are not a bad person. Now I can let you stay with Li Ziyue without any worries. Besides, I may team up with you in the future."
“Hey,” Sun Yuancheng looked at Liu Yuche, then at Zhang Xingzhi on the other side, and cried bitterly, “You infinite flow players are really filthy... I want to complain to my brother.”
"Li Ziyue is not a good person either..."
"I don't care," Sun Yuancheng said angrily, "I will cry first when the time comes. The one who cries first is right. Brother will definitely feel sorry for me."
"He'll beat you."
"Impossible, I'm so smart, kind, and quick-witted..."
"Ah!" Sun Yuancheng covered his head and turned around with difficulty, and saw Li Ziyue standing behind him with a fake smile.
"Cry," Li Ziyue raised an eyebrow and looked at him, "You cry first."
As soon as Sun Yuancheng approached Li Ziyue, he was grabbed by Zhang Lian and thrown into a corner.
Li Ziyue coughed twice uncomfortably, and said to Liu Yuche awkwardly: "...The system has sent the friend request, please agree to it."
After returning to the virtual world, Liu Guan suddenly realized: "Is he reconciling with you?"
Before Liu Yuche could reply, he heard Duan Jiayi joking, "Liu Guan, you looked so stupid just now. Were you thinking about this? It took you so long to figure it out? You are really stupid. You have lowered the level of our team. Boss, I strongly suggest that Liu Guan be kicked out of the virtual world."
"What's it got to do with you?" Liu Guan responded viciously.
Liu Yuche held his forehead with his hand.
She also has two bickering idiots on her side. In comparison, Li Ziyue's side is relatively free.
…
After finishing the copy, Li Ziyue didn't take a moment to rest. He returned to the dormitory and started to finish his homework.
Zhang Lian sat beside him obediently like a study companion, and the two of them tacitly did not speak.
When it got dark outside the window, Zhang Lian got up and turned on the light in the room. After hesitating for a long time, he wrote a small note and quietly slipped it to Li Ziyue.
"Brother, pay attention to me."
Li Ziyue looked at the note for half a second, then stopped writing, looked up, and talked about something else.
"What's your relationship with Zhang Xingzhi?"
Zhang Lian blinked his eyes: "Strictly speaking, he is my distant relative."
He added seriously, "I don't like him."
"I'm not asking you that," Li Ziyue rubbed his solar plexus, "I think Zhang's behavior is very strange."
Zhang Lian tilted his head.
"He's very contradictory," Li Ziyue pondered, "He clearly showed that he wanted to kill you and me, but he also clearly let me off the hook on this matter. He had many ways to kill me, but he used a trick that was full of loopholes."
"If you just want to get information about the Advanced Pseudo-Human Copy from me, there is no need to do this."
"What on earth does he want to do?"
Zhang Lian tilted his head in a different direction.
Li Ziyue thought about it for a moment but came to no conclusion, so he turned his attention back to the test paper.
Zhang Lian gently pulled the corner of his clothes: "Brother."
Li Ziyue didn't react.
Zhang Lian pursed his lips and pulled it carefully again.
Li Ziyue still didn't respond.
"Brother, do you hate me?"
His voice got lower.
Li Ziyue then raised his head and looked at Zhang Lian seriously.
"That's what I wanted to ask you, do you hate me, Zhang Lian?"
"I didn't spend much time with you at that time, but I could still guess a little bit about why you chose to leave, but you—"
Zhang Lian's words were stuck in his throat.
His lips were hot, and the man's breath seemed to be entangled with his. His heartbeat became so clear in an instant, and heat rose from the deepest part of his body.
He could clearly see Zhang Lian's closed eyes and his still trembling eyelashes.
Someone grabbed the back of his head. Zhang Lian was much stronger than the average person, so he couldn't move.
"Li Ziyue."
The person in front of him spoke in a hoarse voice and gently bit his lower lip.
"I like you."
"Even if you hate me, I still like you."
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