After Lu Ce finished speaking, he noticed that Xie Antong across from him seed to be looking at him with a sowhat dazed expression, appearing lost in thought.
Xie Antong silently watched him and spoke:
"That mask is too ugly. Actually, you look much better like this."
Lu Ce: ?
Looking at her expression, he felt slightly speechless, sensing that sothing seed off about her.
With a casual flick of his hand, a tal ball appeared in his palm.
Ding!
A crisp tallic sound rang out as the tal ball transford from the Black Knight shot out like a bullet, whizzing past Xie Antong's ear.
"Hey, can't you just talk? Why are you flicking ?"
The Black Knight imdiately expressed dissatisfaction in mid-air.
At the sa ti, Xie Antong suddenly snapped out of her own world, as if she had just regained her senses.
"Ah, what were you saying just now?"
Lu Ce: ......
"About how you contacted today, claiming it was so internal benefit from Divine Punishnt."
"That's easily exposed, isn't it?"
Xie Antong looked at him, the corners of her mouth slightly upturned as she smiled faintly:
"How do you know that was a lie?"
Lu Ce was imdiately startled, looking at Xie Antong across from him with so surprise.
Xie Antong took a sip of the wine before her, her eyes slightly lowered.
"Everything I said was true. I've actually done all those things before."
As she spoke, she smiled slightly and raised her eyes to look at him.
In reality, she had laid many similar groundwork, preparing identities for offline etings that she had already established long ago...
Those excuses she had found for Lu Ce, she had never actually spoken them.
But now, Lu Ce could see them all through her eyes.
Feeling sowhat embarrassed for a mont, she actually proactively averted her gaze.
"Are you feeling a bit off right now?"
"Have you been relying on Pleasure's power continuously?"
Xie Antong nodded, not denying it, speaking quite frankly:
"Yes, I need to gradually adapt to the fusion. Why, is this state not good?"
"No, since you've already devoured it, you really should properly integrate it."
Lu Ce shook his head.
"It's just... you should still be more careful. Be careful not to lose yourself in that feeling. Why do you seem so... so..."
So bold!
"So bold, not exercising restraint, right?" Xie Antong finished his sentence for him.
"After all, with you here, shouldn't I take full advantage of having the world's strongest protector? If sothing really goes wrong, you'd be able to tell."
Lu Ce: ......
"As for being careful."
Bang!
Xie Antong heavily placed her wine glass on the table, looking straight into Lu Ce's eyes.
"How do you know to be careful?!"
"In the last ga, Gluttony's final state was truly out of control, wasn't it?"
Lu Ce had no response, because this was indeed the truth.
"I want to know, when you take risks, what's your backup plan? What insurance do you have?"
Perhaps it was because this version of Xie Antong influenced by Pleasure had such strong presence, or perhaps the warm-toned lighting in this sowhat dim room truly made people let down their guard.
Lu Ce also temporarily opened his heart.
"Unnecessary. If I fail, I die."
"Or completely lose myself, becoming a madman or a walking corpse. I don't care."
Seeing Xie Antong's slightly surprised expression across from him, Lu Ce slightly furrowed his brows, rembering the previous ga.
That bounty order that War had placed on him.
And that completely unknown entity Agony, the one who was said to be dead according to the gods, what exactly were his plans.
"You're not like . I have no choice, and I don't plan to choose anything else."
"Then I have no choice either." Xie Antong suddenly said.
When I decided to enter the sa ga as "Sin," I already had no choice.
The two fell into a brief silence, waiting for the waiter to serve the course al.
This al was eaten very slowly, with neither of them ntioning those life-and-death matters again, instead relaxing for once.
Like a pair of friends out on a date, they chatted calmly, and Xie Antong even asked about what Zhao Jiacheng had said in the afternoon.
Lu Ce roughly recounted it, focusing on one of the other's speculations - whether the ga's progression and difficulty increase were tied to the improvent of top players' situations.
"What!?"
Xie Antong was imdiately shocked. Even soone as well-inford as her had never heard such a thing before.
"Nonsense! What is he talking about? I've never heard of such a thing."
"No one knows how the ga will develop. How can it be attributed to specific individuals?"
As she spoke, Xie Antong glanced at Lu Ce from the corner of her eye, but seeing that he didn't seem to react to this matter, apparently not caring about it.
"I'll keep an eye out, try to look into information about this aspect."
Lu Ce nodded. He was just sharing information and didn't really care about these claims himself.
......
This dinner seed to pass very quickly, and soon it was ti to part.
"See you in the next ga."
Xie Antong said as they parted, but soon, both of them froze.
They hadn't tead up for gas in a long ti. The reason they had been in so many gas together was purely due to coincidences of unknown origin.
Whether these coincidences were truly "coincidences" was sothing both of them actually had doubts about.
"Then let's hope our connection can continue." Xie Antong, realizing her slip of the tongue, added with a laugh.
"Who knows, but that might not necessarily be good news for you."
On the way back, the Black Knight changed its vehicle cover, moving inconspicuously through the night.
"Honestly, how did you manage to say sothing so socially inept at the end?"
......
The night passed without incident. For Lu Ce, gas were most of his life, and sleeping in a different bed wasn't worth distracting his attention.
After organizing all the items in his backpack, he began waiting for the new ga.
But this ti, the ga start notification was sowhat different.
[Attention all players! The ga is about to begin.]
[Ti remaining until next ga start: 00:35:59.]
[Please choose whether to beco a "Spectator" or a "Player"!]
"Player."
After the familiar selection, that inquiry page didn't disappear. Instead, after flickering twice, it turned blood red!
In the ga, an unusual voice sounded, as if whispering in Lu Ce's ear.
[Abnormal Mode!]
[Hello, may I ask, is this player "Sin"?]
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