Chapter 069: We Won’t Be Separated For Long
The comments in Lin Xi’s live broadcast room were all filled with “???”
[No, even if you can't tell the truth from the false, with so many people in the world, there will always be smart people who can analyze and extract useful information.]
[That's right! You don't really just want to feed your wife, do you?]
[But what Lin Xi said also makes sense. Now that we don’t know whether it is true or not, it may not be a good idea for everyone to rashly obtain information. ]
Lin Xi has done enough for us. She's the one making the decisions within the dungeon, and the audience outside can just watch.
[You sound so easy, but what if the next dungeon host is completely wiped out, and someone related to you is picked?!]
[It would definitely be good to get information about the live broadcast room earlier! ]
In fact, Lin Xi really didn't intend to get useful information from Mahjong Ghost. If everyone could talk properly when they sat down at the beginning, maybe Lin Xi would give Mahjong Ghost a chance, but it had already attacked him and his wife, so why keep it? Lin Xi didn't believe that Mahjong Ghost would be so kind, and would not necessarily tell him useful information even at the critical moment of life and death, because Mahjong Ghost also knew: once he told Lin Xi the news, he would be useless and would still be eaten by Shen Sang Ning.
Since we are going to die anyway, why should we send information to Lin Xi?
But the most important thing is that his wife is hungry, and Shen Sang Ning has been craving for food for a long time. After swallowing the 150,000 yuan, Shen Sang Ning's condition was obviously much better, and his childish movements were less than before. He even made some very oppressive and dominant movements, such as putting his palm on his shoulder just now.
If it were the previous Shen Sang Ning, she might have put her arms around his neck instead of actively making such an oppressive, urging gesture. This meant that Shen Sang Ning had regained some of her memories... This incident gave Lin Xi more motivation to find more food for his wife.
The Mahjong ghost is so powerful, he can definitely make my wife fuller.
Just as Lin Xi had guessed, the promise to provide Lin Xi with information was merely a delaying tactic. After realizing that Lin Xi was completely unmoved, he began to curse. As soon as his curse came out, it was silenced by Shen Sang Ning, and then it was crushed into small black balls. The mahjong table unfolded, and all the original mahjong tiles turned into small black balls.
Although they looked smaller than normal black balls, there were so many of them. Shen Sangning smiled happily, like a little girl who had just gotten a snack. With a wave of her hand, the small black balls flew up and landed in Shen Sangning's arms, filling them up. Shen Sangning freed one hand, grabbed the small black balls, and put them into her mouth.
It feels like eating a large-sized Maltesers, a whole bunch of them.
Lin Xi had a lot to say to Shen Sang Ning, but now wasn't the right place to talk. Carrying such a large pile of black balls around wasn't an option either. The three colleagues looked at the black balls with greedy eyes, perhaps because they were really delicious. So Lin Xi could only stay seated until Shen Sang Ning finished her marshmallows before leading her back to the room.
It was now 2:32. It wasn't long before Lin Xi returned to the real world. Lin Xi didn't want to close her eyes at all, just looking at her. At this moment, all the questions she had wanted to ask Chen Sang Ning in her mind were silenced. What was the point of wasting time asking those questions? She might as well just hug her wife.
Lin Xi held Shen Sang Ning in his arms. After an unknown amount of time, Shen Sang Ning suddenly asked Lin Xi, “Wife, are you leaving?”
Lin Xi was a little surprised, but she also realized that Shen Sangning's mind had really recovered a lot, otherwise she wouldn't have asked this question. However, the question she asked made it difficult for Lin Xi to answer. She hadn't thought about how to tell Shen Sangning that she was leaving, and she didn't expect Shen Sangning to ask about it in advance.
Although she hadn't figured out how to say this, since Shen Sangning had asked, Lin Xi couldn't possibly deny it. After a moment's silence, Lin Xi nodded: "Yes, Ningning. I might have to leave for a while?"
"How long will you be gone?"
"I don't know either." Lin Xi hugged Chen Sang Ning's waist, her hands tightening a little. After she finished speaking, she quickly added, "It won't be long. Well, no, first I'll rest for seven days, then the fourth round of anchors will be completed. Then, I'll rest for another seven days, and then I'll see you again."
As she spoke, her confidence waned. If the fourth instance was also as long as this one, lasting a month, then she wouldn't be able to see Shen Sangning for a long time. Such a long time would be like torture for Lin Xi.
Although her speech had recovered well, arithmetic was difficult for Shen Sangning. She raised her hand that was resting on Lin Xi's back and counted on her fingers one by one: "That's... one month?"
Lin Xi didn't know how Chen Sangning had calculated that, but she fell silent. Perhaps Shen Sangning was right, perhaps it was just a month. Lin Xi said nothing, simply hugging Chen Sangning, wishing their separation would slow down. But time is always unpredictable. When you wish it would speed up, days feel like years, and counting seconds makes it difficult to notice the passage of time. When you wish it would slow down, it passes by like a fleeting moment. In the blink of an eye, the sky outside is already turning white.
Lin Xi had never hated the daytime and dawn so much, as it meant that the time for her and Shen Sang Ning to part was approaching.
Originally, Lin Xi couldn't utter a word as she hugged Chen Sangning, but now it seemed as if she had a million words to say. She kept saying that she would definitely miss Chen Sangning, and told her not to worry, because they would meet again eventually. In the end, Lin Xi's voice was filled with tears.
It was quite embarrassing, actually. Lin Xi wasn't the type to cry easily, and with her big eyes livestreamed for so many people around the world to watch, she had to suppress the soreness in her nose and the tears in her eyes. She actually hugged Chen Sangning, sobbing, and said she didn't want to leave. Chen Sangning held Lin Xi's hand, firmly intertwining their fingers, silently expressing her unwillingness to part with Lin Xi.
But time is cruel. When the clock struck eight, Lin Xi fell into a coma. When she opened her eyes again, she was back in darkness. Before her was the same blue-glowing screen, with the words "Congratulations on completing the game" still playing.
Nothing special happened, almost exactly the same as the first time. The text on the screen changed, indicating that she had completed the "Survival is Work" dungeon and would return to the real world to rest. Then the darkness in front of Lin Xi receded, and she returned to the room she had entered before entering the world of Rule Ghost Stories.
"Lin Xi, can you hear me? I'm Cai Hua."
Cai Hua's voice echoed from the sealed room. Lin Xi turned around and saw the camera. She nodded at it. Soon after, the door to the room opened, and Cai Hua walked in with Li Lana. She gave Lin Xi a hug and said, "Welcome back to the real world."
Cai Hua observed Lin Xi's expression as she spoke. Her face was clearly fatigued, with a hint of pain. Cai Hua understood that she wasn't feeling joy over her successful clearance, but rather pain over her separation from Shen Sang Ning. Lin Xi struggled to muster the energy to respond to her congratulations, only nodding once more.
"I think you are very tired. Go back to your room and rest for a while. When you have a good sleep, we will review this instance."
Lin Xi replied "OK", and Li Lana took the lead and took her back to her room, and then Lin Xi lay on the bed, ready to sleep.
The room the base had prepared for her was actually quite nice. It was a single room with a separate bathroom and shower. The bed wasn't a one-bed-under-a-desk design, but a standard 1.5-meter-tall wooden bed, the same size as the one in the rented apartment. Lin Xi lay on the bed, with Shen Sangning's favorite doll beside her. She held it in her arms, eyes wide open, unable to sleep.
It wasn't that Lin Xi wasn't sleepy. In fact, her eyelids felt so heavy she could close them immediately, but without Shen Sang Ning by her side, she found it difficult to fall asleep. It was twelve o'clock when Lin Xi returned to the real world. The room was now pitch black, and she remained in the endless darkness, her eyes wide open.
In a trance, she saw the figure of Shen Sangning. She knew that Shen Sangning didn't exist in the real world, so it was just her imagination. She sighed and forced herself to close her eyes. After closing her eyes, her longing flooded over her. She didn't know how much time had passed, but she fell asleep out of exhaustion.
She was thinking in her dreams: What is Shen Sangning's situation now?
Before the "Survival is Work" instance began, and even at the very beginning, when she first met Chen Sangning, she actually had the opportunity to ask this question: "How did you get by when I was away?" But Lin Xi was a timid person, she didn't dare to ask. She was afraid to hear Chen Sangning trapped in a small dark room, constantly counting the hours they had been apart.
Whenever Lin Xi thought of this situation, his heart would ache uncontrollably.
In fact, Shen Sangning's situation was not that bad, but it was not much better either. Lin Xi did not know that after she returned to the real world, Shen Sangning returned to their home. She took the bus back by herself. Although Shen Sangning swallowed all the banknotes, some of the undigested banknotes were still there.
You can spit it out.
Besides, even if she didn't pay, the bus wouldn't dare say anything. Shen Sangning had recovered quite a bit now, at least reaching the level of a junior high school student, so she could follow the route Lin Xi had taken her. The bus took her to the community gate, and after getting off, she walked into the community and returned to her home.
At the door, she spotted her neighbor from 404 next door. As soon as they saw her, they rushed back to their homes like mice seeing a cat. Shen Sangning, however, showed no interest in either of them. She simply opened the door, entered, and slumped down on the sofa. Her rule was "Shen Sangning loves Lin Xi," and she was a strange person who acted according to the rules.
But Lin Xi is not here, so is there any need for her to take any action?
Shen Sangning fell on the sofa and curled up. She counted on her fingers, wondering how long a month was.
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