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Chapter 296: Chapter 273: “The moonlight is good tonight.”_2

But it didn’t take long.

The Blue Star players once again continued their actions.

In fact.

Since the first announcement, when the racial duel station was announced, the Blue Star players had already anticipated the outcome.

But deep down, there was still a faint glimmer of hope because Chen Yi was there.

It was just the Snow Sea Project Team’s announcement that snuffed out that last bit of hope in their hearts.

Chen Yi wouldn’t die.

But 95% of the Blue Star players would be instantaneously killed; at that time, Blue Star would be forcefully exterminated, and even if Chen Yi were powerful, he’d have to die with them.

Yet even so, they had no intention of giving up.

Even if death was certain, shouldn’t they struggle a bit?

…

“Hey, my Xiaoqian.”

Li Yide, with a somewhat vacant expression, kept tying TNT Prop onto himself while glancing at the couch where Xiaoqian had left her half-eaten potato chips.

He still missed Xiaoqian a bit.

That female ghost.

It was just a pity that it seemed there was no chance to see her again.

After that, he unconsciously shook his Fox Tail and looked in the mirror at his own smile wrapped in bombs, “Ever seen a missile before?”

He was ready.

Using the high maneuverability of Fox Tail, he would rush into the enemy’s midst at the start of the battle, then activate the TNT Prop on him, and like a missile, inflict massive damage among the enemies!

He was afraid of dying.

But faced with certain death, he didn’t mind playing the hero, to give the enemy a little Fox Tail shock.

…

Over at Skywake.

All the members were expressionlessly organizing their Props, not a single one considered surrendering—or rather, everyone knew that the enemy would not accept any surrender.

This was a war where there were no prisoners, no surrender, no negotiation.

There were only two outcomes.

Either Logitech Star would be exterminated, or their Blue Star would be.

There was no third option.

“Scared?”

Zhou Ziqiang was sitting on the back of a chair, turning his head to his deputy leader Chu Ge and smiling, “Does it feel like you’ve just gotten used to being the deputy leader and now the end of the world is upon us?”

Chu Ge was sent by Chen Yi to act as the deputy leader of Skywake.

“Scared?”

Chu Ge shook his head indifferently, “It’s just death, who’s afraid of that? I’m just a bit worried about not having someone to take down with me before dying, that would truly be a regret.”

“I wonder how strong that Logitech Star really is.”

“It must be very strong. Didn’t you hear that even the Snow Sea Project Team came out? The tone of that announcement was practically writing our Blue Star’s obituary.”

…

“Dad, Mom.”

Han Yu’s eyes shimmered with tears as he knelt in front of a middle-aged couple, his voice was hoarse as he roared, “Your son is incompetent, I can’t take care of you in your old age.”

“What the hell are you talking about.”

The middle-aged man looked at his son kneeling on the ground with some disbelief, “I’ve lived over 20 years more than you. Why are you crying here? If anyone should feel cheated, it’s you. Look at your grandfather, he lived nearly forty years more than you, and he’s the one who really profited.”@@novelbin@@

“It’s just a shame.”

The middle-aged woman standing at the dining table, while tying a class-C Prop longsword to her arm to prevent it from falling off due to impact, looked at Han Yu with a heartache and reluctance.

“Before dying, I couldn’t even find you a daughter-in-law.”

“That Snow Sea Project Team isn’t any good either, coming out with their fake goodbyes. If it had not been for the Scholar Sea Project Team, our Blue Star would still be at peace now. We wouldn’t have been dragged into this high-level game.”

“It’s better to die. Living every day with constant fear is exhausting. When the time comes, don’t worry about us. Try to break out and kill as many as you can. They’re riding roughshod over us, we can’t let the other side be too comfortable. There should be a few who should accompany us in death.”

…

“I’ll give you a chance then.”

The girl, who was sitting silently on a park bench with her childhood friend, spoke up first.

“Huh?”

The boy was stunned, glancing incredulously at the side profile of the girl beside him.

“What, you’re not willing?”

“I… I am willing, but how did you know I liked you?”

“Only a fool wouldn’t know that. Do you know why I always stressed that we’re just friends?”

“Because you don’t like me?”

“No, it’s because I’m not clean. Remember when you asked how I got that 200,000 when my father was seriously ill? A middle-aged man approached me and asked me to be his business travel companion, seven days for 200,000.”

“…”

The boy’s body, which had been somewhat clueless, suddenly stiffened on the spot, and after a long while, his lips trembled slightly as he asked, “Did you give it to him?”

“Heh.”

The girl, bracing herself with her hands on the chair, couldn’t help but shake her head and chuckle, “200,000 in seven days, huh? Do you think I wouldn’t have given it to him?”

“How many times?”

“Numerous times, I’ve lost count. That old man brought six clients in total.”

“Seven days, I accompanied them the whole time.”

“You…”

The boy couldn’t quite accept this, his lips turning pale and trembling, “You lost it to six clients in seven days?”

“Including that old man, it makes seven.”

“Don’t bother thinking about it. Everything you know, I gave. North, South, East, West—there wasn’t a hole I hadn’t given to. Those people knew exactly how to extract maximum value from 200,000. For a long time after returning, I didn’t suffer from constipation.”

After a moment of silence, the girl braced herself on the back of the chair, looked deep into the pitch-black park, and started swinging her legs, “Before that incident, I actually did consider being with you, getting married and settling down.”

“But suddenly my father fell seriously ill and needed 200,000. As his daughter, I couldn’t just watch my father die in front of me.”

“After I came back, I gradually distanced myself from you.”

“I wanted you to find a good home. I just didn’t expect you to like me for so long.”

“Will you hate me for telling you these things?”

“I could have stayed the pure childhood friend in your heart, but I thought continuing the lie till I die would be too beastly.”

“…”

After a long silence, the boy stiffly reached out his hand and gently placed it on the girl’s hand, gazing into the depths of the park and murmured.

“I don’t hate you. I only hate that I couldn’t help you at that time.”

“That sounds so much like a lovestruck fool. Don’t ever talk like that again.”

“Is there a future for ‘again’?”

“Right, I’m supposed to die at noon tomorrow.”

Without a sound, the girl gripped the boy’s hand tightly, rested her head on his shoulder, and sitting on the park bench, she shook her feet hanging in the air and suddenly laughed.

“You really don’t want one last time? You won’t have another chance.”

“If I never gave you even once before dying, I would actually feel quite regretful.”

“This world is so screwed up. It’s good to die. Whether the main game comes or not, this world hasn’t been kind to me. I’ve been wanting to leave for so long. I’m so tired.”

“You could be a bit rougher with me, not love me so gently. Actually, a big reason I always wanted to get away from you is because you loved me too much, were too good to me, which put a lot of pressure on me because I knew I couldn’t bear such immense love.”

“You could really just treat me like a worthless…”

Before she could finish,

The boy kissed her, his arms wrapping tight around her waist, their parched lips colliding in the night.

Like the last kiss before the end of the world.

…

Chen Yi remained silent from beginning to end, sitting quietly on the beach chair until the time reached 23:59.

He activated his A-level prop, “Galaxy Traction.”

This prop would decide the night sky based on his fortune for the next day.

The better the fortune, the more stars there would be, a sky full of stars.

The worse the fortune, the fewer the stars.

The prop activated quickly.

The scattered stars in the night sky all disappeared without a trace after 00:00.

The vast sky was completely devoid of stars.

A clean pitch black, as if the darkness swallowed all sounds.

A look of fear flashed in Jiaye’s eyes as she clung tightly to Chen Yi’s waist, as if in the next second he would disappear from her world forever.

While Tuberculosis Rabbit, Sword Without End, and the others looked up at the night sky above with grim faces, remaining silent.

Not a single star meant Chen Yi’s fortune for tomorrow would be extremely poor.

It was the kind of poor that was at its utmost extreme.

From a certain perspective, it could represent death.

No, it’s not quite right to say it could represent death. To be accurate, it already meant death.

The fortune was so poor that there wasn’t a single star.

“…”

Chen Yi looked up at the sky, and after a long silence, he lit a cigarette to his lips, stretched lazily, laid back on the beach chair, and suddenly laughed.

“Have you noticed that without the stars, the moon seems brighter?”

“The moonlight is nice tonight.”

…

ps: Misspellings will be corrected after publishing.

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