chapter 92
Chapter 92
Lu Li received a message from Bosi.
So he stood in the middle area between leaving the Instance and entering the Streamer Hall, waiting for Bosi to arrive.
Luo Jia Bai saw him stop walking. “What’s wrong, aren’t you coming?”
Lu Li said, “I’m waiting… for someone. I’ll rest for two days before starting the next Instance.”
“Two days!?” Luo Jia Bai hurriedly opened his Wristband. “But I can only rest for 24 hours at most! How can you rest for so long? If our rest times don’t match, we’ll have to go to different Instances!”
He turned to Mirella, “How long can you rest at most?”
“I haven’t taken a break yet.” Mirella was also checking her Wristband. “24 hours, that’s the maximum for Players.”
Lu Li pondered, “I’ll ask about it later.”
“Who are you going to ask? Are you going to help us get more vacation days?! Do you know the Developer? Wait, aren’t they all ghosts!”
Luo Jia Bai’s mood swung wildly. He looked at Lu Li and mentioned a name.
Sure enough, he got a reply from **.
Luo Jia Bai: …
Luo Jia Bai: “I don’t know what to say, so good luck to you.”
Lu Li opened his Wristband and found that his Points from double settlement had reached six or seven hundred thousand. Adding the salary Bosi gave him, his balance was now close to a million.
Lu Li sighed.
If his appetite were normal, he could have achieved cake freedom by now.
His Wristband vibrated, popping up a newly added feature.
[Streamer’s current Live Stream Room status and popularity assessed. Personal Homepage feature recommended.]
[Feature activation: 880,000 Points]
[Feature function: Audience can follow the Streamer. Once the Streamer enters a new Instance and starts streaming, all followers will immediately receive a notification. Click to follow and never get lost!]
[Feature gift: 1 Camera (can take 1 photo per Instance, which can be uploaded to the Personal Homepage for Audience to view, like, dislike, and comment)]
“That’s an ad.” Luo Jia Bai encouraged him to close it. “A useless feature with a useless gift. Just escaped a pyramid scheme and now another one! Don’t fall for it!”
“For Players who are already on the Heavenly Ranking, this feature might be useful. For us, who have few Instances and not many Points, redeeming it would leave us with almost no Points. In the next Instance, we might not even be able to exchange for the most basic Item!”
Lu Li responded with an “Oh,” then pointed at Luo Jia Bai’s always-lit screen. “What are you looking at? There are so many words.”
Luo Jia Bai turned the screen to him. “A featured post in the Forum. I’ll send it to you, it’s really useful!”
Lu Li saw the post title:
[Boss Ghosts tipping Spirit Money and gifts, and you still only say thank you? 101 high EQ replies every excellent Streamer must learn! Click to read!]
Lu Li read along for a while and found it difficult, unable to learn it.
The freshly settled Points in his Wristband felt heavy. He opened his Live Stream Room and checked the Bullet Comments:
[I really want to know what the Streamer is doing right now, urgent urgent urgent!]
[Tipped Spirit Money *6666, can’t see the Streamer’s face, I can’t eat or drink.]
[Fellow Ghosts, the portal is here: Luo Jia Bai’s Live Stream Room, Mirella’s Live Stream Room. You can now see the Streamer in these two Live Stream Rooms, Streamer is reading Bullet Comments.]
[Tipped Spirit Money *3000, I know the Streamer doesn’t have much balance, but I really want him to exchange for that Camera. When I can’t see the Streamer, at least I can spend the night with a photo.]
[Tipped Spirit Money *2000, if the Streamer takes it himself, it must be clearer than my screenshots, sob sob sob.]
Luo Jia Bai successfully persuaded Lu Li to turn back from the brink, and was now focused on reading the high EQ replies for Audience post, when suddenly a crisp electronic notification sounded.
[Congratulations, exchange successful!]
Stiffly turning his head, Luo Jia Bai saw Lu Li grinning foolishly, holding a Camera.
He felt like a father who failed to stop his child from spending on a ten-pull 648 gift pack in a game, and shouted in frustration,
“Eight hundred eighty thousand! You just spent it like that?!”
–
At the seaside, just past eight o’clock.
Lu Li saw Bosi, his eyes lit up. “You changed clothes!”
Bosi said, “Just grabbed something on the way out.”
“So cool! You have a great figure! Why do you also have a gray brooch?” Lu Li circled him with praise, carefully reaching out. “By the way, can I touch it?”
Bosi hadn’t figured out what he wanted to touch when Lu Li’s hand landed on his shoulder and back, and a soft voice of admiration came to his ear, “I thought there was padding inside, but your shoulders are really this broad. Is this the legendary muscle? I don’t have any, how do you train?”
Bosi felt that whatever was in Lu Li’s hand was hotter than Underworld Fire.
It burned him so much he didn’t dare look into Lu Li’s clear eyes.
“Born with it.” He took Lu Li’s hand away, and only then did his tense body relax. “The wedding is about to start.”
Lu Li pouted. “Alright.”
He took out the Invitation, tore off the Starfish on the back, and studied it in his hand for a long time.
The Starfish was clearly very small, about half a finger long.
But every time he brought it to his mouth, he still felt a nauseating urge to vomit.
After struggling for a while, he handed it to Bosi first. “You have to eat this, then you can go into the water.”
Bosi frowned. “It’s for eating?”
He pinched the slippery, sticky Starfish, still a bit skeptical, and held it up to Lu Li. “It looks like a decoration.”
“After eating it, you can breathe underwater, and even open your eyes…” Lu Li’s voice grew hesitant and lowered, “I-if you don’t believe me, I can eat it to show you.”
For some reason, when the black, clean leather glove pinched the corner of the Starfish and held it up in front of him, the urge to vomit that had been lingering in his throat suddenly eased a lot.
Lu Li instinctively reached out.
As Bosi stepped back, Lu Li grabbed his hand.
He brought the Starfish to his own mouth.
There was no fishy smell, it was soft and springy.
He chewed and swallowed.
Lu Li waited a moment, then let go of him in surprise, “I ate it!”
It seemed Bosi didn’t move for a long time, as if frozen. Lu Li patted Bosi’s shoulder, “I bit half of this one, I’ll get you another.”
Suddenly, Bosi stuffed the remaining half of the Starfish into Lu Li’s open mouth.
Lu Li looked at him in confusion: ?
Bosi, flustered and anxious, quickly pulled his hand back, “Don’t lick me!”
Then he grabbed another fresh Starfish and swallowed it whole.
Lu Li was shocked, “Ah, you don’t even chew?”
The Moon in the sky gradually rose to its zenith.
A shadow appeared behind Bosi, and Lu Li’s attention was immediately drawn.
It was Sean from another time and space.
He seemed unable to see Lu Li and Bosi, passing by them with the Sea Demon whose chest had been hollowed out in his arms, stumbling toward the shore.
Sean gently placed the Sea Demon in the water, then dug out his own Heart, trembling as he put it into the empty spot in the Sea Demon’s chest. Blood stained his clothes and palms.
With his last strength, he swam into the sea with the Sea Demon. When he returned, he was alone.
Having lost his Heart, every breath was a struggle.
Sean passed a unique little reef on the shore, knelt down, picked up a stone by the reef, and, with trembling hands, carved a few words.
Blood kept oozing from his chest, dripping onto the reef.
After Sean finished writing, the reef was stained red with blood.
Moonlight shone gently.
The reef became a boundary.
On the other side appeared a Sea Demon from another time and space.
The Sea Demon also used a stone to carve marks on the other side of the reef, glancing at the path Sean had walked.
Sean from one time and space was saying goodbye.
The Sea Demon from another time and space was just beginning to wait.
Under the increasingly bright Moonlight, countless timelines overlapped, finally merging into a single scene.
The sea shifted from deep black to tranquil blue. The once desolate beach was suddenly covered with White Velvet Flowers, and the reef vanished.
“The reef isn’t here now. We’ve put it in the Red Coral house. Thank you for helping me pass it on to him.”
Sean, dressed in a white suit, walked out of the Moonlight with the Sea Demon.
Sean held his hand.
“Welcome, Lu Li.”
He looked at Bosi, “I suppose this is… your family?”
–
The wedding officially began at nine o’clock.
Noises came from the seaside.
Waves rose on the sea, then a massive Fish Swarm leaped out.
Swimming in the Moonlight, the Fish Swarm became transparent. Each fish had a Pearl in its belly, and as they leapt from the water, the splashes looked like fireworks, each Pearl inside sparkling brightly.
Countless seagulls circled in the sky, and one carried a delicate White Flower bouquet in its beak, delivering it to Sean.
From the depths of the ocean, rings of glowing blue waves radiated outward.
Sean and the Sea Demon kissed under the Moonlight, then exchanged Hearts.
This time, no one stopped them.
Lu Li watched them.
Suddenly, his hand was wet.
“Is it raining again?”
He looked down, only to realize it was his own tears.
What was this feeling?
A bouquet of White Flowers was handed to him.
Sean gave the bouquet to the guest of the wedding, smiling as he said:
“You have witnessed our wedding.”
“I hope you will also find your own happiness.”
“Thank you.” Lu Li accepted the bouquet, repeating the words in his mind.
So this feeling was happiness.
Sean walked back to the Sea Demon, and Lu Li saw the sea behind him, so blue.
The sea breeze blew, and he spread his arms wide, the bouquet fluttering joyfully in the wind.
Lu Li said, “This is the first time I’ve seen the sea. Before this, I’d only heard about it, never imagined it would be so beautiful.”
The vast blue.
Like a dream.
He leaned toward Bosi, raised his Camera, “I want to take a picture. Do you want to be in it?”
Bosi said, “No.”
Lu Li was disappointed, “Alright, then can I take a picture of your shoulder? The suit you’re wearing today is really handsome. It would be a shame not to capture it.”
Bosi lowered his eyes, suddenly noticing Lu Li’s tears, pursed his lips and said, “Just a little.”
Lu Li raised his Camera, capturing the Moonlit seaside, the wedding, and themselves.
He sighed, “It’s truly enchanting.”
Happiness is truly enchanting.
—-
Love is not a crime.
Desire is what makes it so.
—-
Now, those in love hold each other’s hands tightly.
Witnessed by the immortal Moon, a wedding is held by the sea.
Hearts are exchanged as tokens of love.
From now on, my Heart beats only for you.
This is my eternal, unchanging vow to you.
This is the pure and passionate Siren’s Heart.