Ch 92: TGCIR

The loading page of the game this time kept showing side notes.

This was different from before.

Curiously, Shen Cheng leaned in to take a look and found that it said:

“Game qualifications distribution in progress”

“Screening game qualifications”

“Confirmation of game qualifications”

“Communication in progress”

“Further mission confirmation in progress”

“Affection system construction in progress”

“Affection points confirmation in progress”

“Character affection system settlement in progress”

Every few minutes, it refreshed and jumped. The progress bar slowly moved forward, one step at a time. But it got stuck on “Affection points confirmation in progress.”

“Damn game. Is this a joke?” Shen Cheng glared at the page, hoping to stare it into being more sensible. “Come on, progress bar, you’re already a mature and sensible one. You should know to move forward.”

She stared at the page, her eyes red from exhaustion. Motionless like a statue, she kept staring until after 1 o’clock in the morning. Unable to hold on any longer, she closed her eyes and fell asleep on the table, feeling fuzzy.

Shen Cheng found herself floating in mid-air.

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She saw in another pink, dreamily decorated room, a pretty girl playing with her phone.

Curiously, she floated over to take a look and found that the girl happened to be playing the scene where “save the cub” began.

She scooped up some sand and saw Li Weilan struggling inside. For some reason, she suddenly giggled and threw her phone away, sneering maliciously, “Such a weak protagonist, probably just an R card. I don’t want that, I want to draw SSR.”

Watching the yellow sand slowly bury him as he struggled desperately in the sand pile, Li Weilan gradually weakened.

In the end, Li Weilan closed his eyes.

“Ah! Ah! Ah! Ah!” Shen Cheng let out a hysterical scream in the air, but the girl poked at the game screen at this moment, pouted and giggled, “I want to play with the strongest protagonist. This weakling doesn’t deserve me.”

“Why would you do that? He’s a living person!” Shen Cheng screamed wildly in mid-air, kicking and hitting in front of her, but she was just a bystander. Though furious to the extreme, she posed no threat to her.

The screen changed again.

This time, it showed a small room that reminded her of her old rented apartment, and a fragile-looking girl holding a phone playing a game.

Although Shen Cheng had a premonition, she still floated over to take a look.

Even though the scene was different, this time it showed the scenario of mutated wolves slowly gathering around Li Weilan.

“Buy a protective shield! Ah!” Shen Cheng shouted hoarsely, but the girl, trembling all over as she watched the incredibly realistic mutated wolves on the screen, didn’t do anything at all. With a slap, she put down her phone, and soon the sound of wolves biting and tearing came from the phone.

“Coward,” Shen Cheng looked at the incredibly realistic scene and splattered blood compared to her game, covering her face in agony.

She didn’t want to watch anymore.

She already knew what this game was trying to tell her.

She didn’t even want to know if all this death and suffering was real or just a dream.

She hoped it was just a dream. She hoped none of it was real, and she hoped she didn’t know anything.

Shen Cheng trembled with anger, and just then, she suddenly felt a huge suction force coming from above her head, pulling her head up with a “whoosh”. Her head throbbed as if being lifted up, and the next second, she opened her eyes abruptly.

On her phone, the screen had suddenly completed the progress bar.

Shen Cheng saw that she had logged into the game.

Welcome back to the Last Survivor.

Congratulations to the player for completing the preliminary task.

Congratulations to the player for completing the zombie siege stage task.

The game has undergone soul binding.

Soul binding successful.

Shen Cheng stared at the row of words, and her worst guess came true.

Other players really existed besides her.

Everything she just saw wasn’t her hallucination, it was all real.

Shen Cheng immediately noticed that there had been a huge change in the base. The entire base had expanded significantly, the number of people had increased, and even their equipment seemed more complete than before. During the time she couldn’t access the game, Li Weilan, another controller of the base who had building permissions but lacked the ability to recharge, had pushed the progress bar of the base’s construction forward by himself.

Shen Cheng didn’t have time to carefully examine the extent of the changes in the base. What she was most concerned about was whether cub was still in the research institute she had seen.

Cub?

She quickly searched the base but didn’t see him. Shen Cheng slapped her forehead, realizing she was being foolish. It had been so long since she played this game that she hardly remembered how to operate it, let alone find someone.

She clicked on the main character page and only then did she realize that cub was sitting alone by the pond in the deepest part of the base. He silently leaned against a pillar by the pond, quietly gazing at the pitch-black water surface.

Octopus Quan Quan’s territory had expanded again.

Its own size had also increased; it had become much fatter for some reason. Occasionally, it would raise one of its tentacles above the water’s surface, gently brushing against cub’s feet, looking very relaxed.

However, cub’s expression was cold and numb. He stared quietly at the water’s surface. For some reason, Shen Cheng felt like she could see the words “lifeless” written all over his Q-version soft face.

He’s not in the research institute.

Shen Cheng felt a wave of joy. She didn’t know what had happened yesterday. She couldn’t even be sure whether she had truly crossed over or not. If it was a false crossing, she could still search for the payment screen for buying the knife. But if it was a true crossing, the current plot was obviously different from before.

Whatever, those things don’t matter. Maybe it’s just a scam by the crappy game to cheat her money.

Or maybe the crappy phone went crazy after getting wet.

Who knows what this broken game is thinking, it just disappeared out of nowhere.

Shen Cheng called out to him, “Lan Lan.”

Li Weilan suddenly raised his head. His fingers trembled slightly, and his eyes almost instantly surged with turbulent emotions.

But soon, all emotions subsided, and he closed his eyes again, redirecting his gaze back to the water’s surface.

Huh?

Shen Cheng was confused for a moment. What’s wrong with cub, ignoring me like this?

For her, although she couldn’t access the game for some time, her memories of cub remained on the cub who gently said to her, “I like you.” Now, suddenly he was as cold as ice, showing no reaction at all. Shen Cheng really didn’t understand why.

Could it be that he is angry?

But it’s not her fault that she couldn’t access the game.

Or maybe cub thinks she was scared by his confession and ran offline directly?

If that’s the case, Shen Cheng’s heart was uneasy. She tentatively reached out to hook cub’s hand, not daring to do any of the usual poking his face or touching his head gestures, fearing that it might provoke him into getting angry.

Until she actually hooked his hand, cub suddenly trembled all over, looking down at his own fingers in disbelief.

His hand had moved slightly as she gently hooked it.

Li Weilan’s gaze, at this moment, shifted from numb coldness to trembling.

He suddenly shouted into the void, “Is it you, Shen Cheng? Is it you?”

Then, as if remembering something, he frowned and said, “If it’s you, move my hair.”

Shen Cheng reached out and gently rubbed his head.

Li Weilan trembled uncontrollably. The silence that had settled in his heart was suddenly broken, as if his heart, which had been silent, was infused with blood once again.

If this was a dream, if it was just another dream, he would rather never wake up.

If her disappearance was a punishment for his delusions, he would rather never mention it again, as long as she could come and see him every day.

However, before he could voice these thoughts, he heard her hesitant and soft question, “Lanlan, I seemed to have dreamed of you being locked up in a research institute. Was it a dream?”

Shen Cheng was still a little worried after all.

Even if it was just a dream, the feeling at that time was too real.

It made her feel uneasy, unable to calm down.

“The research institute?” Li Weilan trembled all over, then as if suddenly realizing something, he furrowed his brows. “What kind of place was this ‘research institute’ you mentioned?”

Seeing his reaction, could it be true after all?

Shen Cheng nervously described the scene, emphasizing the room she saw and his appearance. Then, she added, “It was said to be a qualification for crossing. I thought I could come directly to see you. I was afraid it wasn’t safe here, so I brought a knife just in case. Then, I left the little military knife behind.”

Before she could finish speaking, Li Weilan’s gaze grew heavy.

His voice turned hoarse. “So, it was you back then.”

He had been wondering why a little military knife suddenly appeared in the heavily guarded research institute.

Was it because of a kind-hearted guard who, seeing his plight, silently left it there?

For this, he even held back when breaking out, just because of that glimmer of hope. It was this small glimmer of hope that prevented him from completely despairing of this world.

But it turned out there was never any kindness.

Throughout his life, all the kindness he received came only from her.

From beginning to end, only her.

Suddenly, Li Weilan thought of something and nervously asked her, “Cheng Cheng, how long has it been on your end?”

He hesitated for a moment, originally wanting to ask about the matter of the zombies on her side, but after some thought, he swallowed his words. Since she still had time to play the game, she must have been able to control it and her world hadn’t turned into a wasteland like their side. So, he swallowed what he originally wanted to say and asked instead, “Is everything okay?”

As soon as he spoke, Shen Cheng immediately forgot about being upset that he had ignored her earlier. She happily replied, “I’m fine, just…” She took a sip of water and hesitated before saying, “I miss you a lot.”

Li Weilan froze.

Shen Cheng saw waves of emotion in his eyes.

The coldness above his head seemed to melt away in an instant, as if the previous icy distance was all just a misunderstanding.

His eyes sparkled with laughter, as if there were stars twinkling softly. “What a coincidence, I miss you too.”

He didn’t even mention that since her disappearance, his heart had fallen into an indefinite despair.

Because he had already heard that she didn’t want to avoid him.

This was good.

This was already a thousand times better than what he had imagined before.

“I’m sorry,” he heard her soft apology, “my phone got wet, and I couldn’t open the game no matter what. I was so worried that I wanted to cry, but when I asked around, they all thought I was crazy. Some even suggested that I go to a mental hospital, suspecting that I had delusions. I didn’t dare to tell anyone.”

As Shen Cheng spoke, she became more and more sad, unable to recall how she had managed to get through that period of time. “I was even afraid, afraid that I might never see you again.”

“How could that be,” Li Weilan interrupted her at this moment. “I’ve always been here … waiting for you.”

He looked at her earnestly and said, “Just waiting for you, and you alone.”

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Thingyan: what’s with this soul binding? Can they be together now? Ahhhhhhhhh