Quadruple split.

Chapter 2257 Never Compromise

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[Crime Debate·Team Battle] Competition-specific map, mirror space S7127-1363

Northwest Continent, northern Lostland Principality, Golop Crater, edge of the Red Constellation temporary base

  Game time PM15:09

"Speaking of which, Miss Yege..."

After standing on tiptoe to watch the battle between Xinglong and Motan in the distance, Jiuchong wiped the cold sweat from his forehead with his hand, turned his head to look at the winged beautiful girl who was busy at the grill next to him, and asked curiously, "Aren't you worried?"

"worry about what?"

Ji Xiaoge blinked, and while placing the skewers of fresh meat on the grill, she carefully sprinkled spicy powder on the thin layer of charcoal underneath: "Will it be too spicy when grilled?"

"No... This is not the question I want to talk about..."

Jiu Chong glanced at the dozen or so skewers on the grill and shook his head, "I mean Brother Mo who is fighting with Xing Long."

The moment the other party said the word "mo", Ji Xiaoge shook her wings subconsciously, raised a slight arc at the corner of her mouth, and asked with a smile in an unconsciously rising voice: "What's wrong with Mo?"

"Although he may be exaggerating, he is indeed currently competing against the strongest professional player on the planet."

Kunou shrugged, and after a brief consideration, he asked rather obscurely, "Aren't you worried?"

Ji Xiaoge's eyes immediately lit up, and she asked cheerfully, "Do you think I should be the one most worried about him?"

"Uh……"

Kunou was a little dazed by the girl's sudden excitement, but after coming to his senses, he touched the tip of his nose and whispered, "I kind of think so."

"Hehe~"

Ji Xiaoge, who knew very well that Jiuchong's subtext was 'I think there might be something fishy about your relationship', pursed her lips and smiled, happily flapping her wings while brushing the flavoring sauce on the skewers, and even the feathers on her ears trembled with joy.

Kunou also laughed and said with a smile: "So you are still a little worried, right?"

Ji Xiaoge shook his head cheerfully and answered without hesitation: "No~"

Kunou: “…Huh?”

"I'm not worried about him."

Ji Xiaoge nodded vigorously in response to the other party's confused gaze, and said seriously, "Otherwise you wouldn't be so heartless as to grill skewers here."

Jiuchong, who had a good impression of Ji Xiaoge (although almost everyone had a good impression of her), scratched his hair, then raised his hand and snapped his fingers, but no sound came.

"What do you want, ladies?"

As a result, the gentleman still appeared behind the two of them at the first moment and bowed 90 degrees to Jiuchong and Ji Xiaoge in an exaggerated manner.

"To gather intelligence."

Jiuzhong, who was well aware that she was probably getting a close-up shot at this moment, stuck out her tongue playfully and acted cute to the countless people who were watching the live broadcast.

The gentleman immediately created a soundproof barrier with the two of them as the center, and handed a crystal clear silver coin to Ji Xiaoge: "If you want to close the soundproof barrier, just rub it twice. If the barrier disappears due to external force, this silver coin will turn gold. If there are people other than you two inside, it will turn copper."

"Thank you."

Ji Xiaoge took the silver coin and gave the gentleman a polite smile.

"It's my pleasure."

The gentleman bowed to the two of them again, then slowly walked out of the soundproof barrier and turned to look for Pioneer and Bloody.

Ji Xiaoge looked at Jiuchong with a somewhat subtle expression and asked, "You professional players...do you have such a clear concept of superiors and subordinates?"

"No!"

Jiuzhong immediately shook his head like a rattle, and said with a smile: "It's just that the gentleman likes to show off. He pretends to be pretentious every day. It's not annoying, but it always gives people a headache."

Ji Xiaoge chuckled and nodded, "I understand, I understand. Speaking of funny people, the people around me don't seem to be very worry-free either. Uh... although I'm not very worry-free either."

"Really? I'd like to happily play games with a friend like you, Yege, but unfortunately there won't be much chance until we get on track here."

Jiuzhong dropped his shoulders and said helplessly, "Although I now think that being able to support my family by playing games is a very cool and happy thing, I have to admit that a normal gaming experience is simply a luxury for us. Playing dungeons and going to battlefields together in a lively manner has long been out of my turn."

Ji Xiaoge tilted her head and asked curiously, "What about break time?"

"Apart from the semi-commercial live broadcasts, in fact, most professional players don't play games during their free time. Well, maybe we have to put aside Xinglong."

Jiuzhong smiled and explained, "For example, I like to do some knitting in my free time. I crochet key chains, phone cases, scarves, socks, etc. for myself and my friends. As for games... once I start playing, I tend to think about things from the club's perspective. By the time I come to my senses, I've already finished organizing the report and working overtime for free."

It was the first time that Ji Xiaoge heard of such a thing. His eyes widened and he exclaimed, "So tragic?"

"It's okay actually. I'm quite happy about it."

Jiuzhong shook his head and shrugged, "But the boss has talked to me several times and reminded me again and again that I am not allowed to work overtime on my own initiative, so..."

She didn't say anything else, but just pouted her lips to show that she had no choice.

"I didn't know these gossips about professional players before."

Ji Xiaoge took out various bottles and jars from her bag and placed them next to the grill. She chuckled and said to Jiuchong, "But I won't reveal too much information about Tianzhu Mountain. It will give the teacher a headache."

Jiu Chong smiled casually, without hiding anything: "I understand. Even if I can only be friends with you, Sister Ye Ge, I am already satisfied. It's just..."

"It's just that you subconsciously think about it from the club's perspective, right?"

Ji Xiaoge interrupted Jiuchong with a smile and said happily: "This is what you just said... Oh! You changed the Sichuan pepper oil into sesame pepper oil! I'm really not good at multitasking... Mo also said that I'm a bit single-threaded." "Do you have Sichuan pepper oil and sesame pepper oil here?"

Jiuzhong stood on tiptoe with some curiosity to take a look at the grill, then belatedly covered her mouth: "Ah, should I not disturb you now?"

"It's okay, the preparations are almost done."

Ji Xiaoge shook her head and explained to Jiuchong, "It will take about three or four minutes for the Xinei carbon to adjust the temperature. I have nothing to do during this time. If you want to chat, you can join me. By the way, there are actually no Sichuan peppercorns or Sichuan peppercorns here, but the powder of the Paqiu vine branches and the ground black cattail flower stems have similar effects, so I will just use the names outside."

"Sister Yege, you have such a good personality."

Jiu Chong, who hangs out with violent people, unruly girls, and yoga fanatics every day, sighed from the bottom of his heart, then coughed lightly, covered his mouth and asked, "So you and Brother Mo are in a relationship?"

The winged beauty, who was very good at guessing things, suddenly brightened up and asked in surprise, "Is it particularly obvious?!"

"Cover your mouth. There are many people who can read lips..."

Jiu Chong immediately reminded him, then chuckled and said, "It's not very obvious, but I've watched the match between you and Miss Mu Xuejian many times. If you think about it carefully, the reason you're angry is probably Brother Mo, right? As for calling his game ID the inky black 'Mo', it's probably because you were jealous and made a deliberate mistake."

Ji Xiaoge covered her mouth obediently with her eyes wandering, muttering: "I'm not jealous... She's your real girlfriend, why should I be jealous of her? It's okay to have white hair, my wings are still white, so comfortable to use as a pillow, it's okay to be able to fight, I can also cook... Woo, although the food I cook is not delicious, but... but the food I cook is great for fighting..."

Kunou, who didn't understand the relationship between 'eating' and 'fighting' for a moment, said: "...What?"

The winged beautiful girl blushed and lowered her face: "...Nothing."

"cough."

Noticing that the other party didn't seem to want to continue talking about this matter, Jiu Chong coughed lightly and quickly changed the subject: "So, Sister Ye Ge, the reason why you are not worried about Brother Mo at all is because you won't really lose your role if you lose in the competition, and none of you three are trying to advance to the next round?"

"No."

Ji Xiaoge shook her head and answered simply and clearly: "It's because he doesn't want me to worry."

Jiu Chong was stunned again: "Huh?"

"Mo doesn't want me to worry."

Ji Xiaoge repeated what he had just said crisply, and said to Jiuchong in a serious tone: "So the only thing I can do for him, besides facilitating his 'competition' with Xinglong, is to try not to worry about him."

Kunou blinked, not understanding what the other party said at all. After finally coming to his senses, he shook his head and said honestly, "I don't understand."

"He always likes to think a lot, always subconsciously considering everyone around him, but he puts his own priorities very far down the list, often forcing himself to the point of being breathless, but he has no self-awareness at all."

Ji Xiaoge shook her wings, and while playing with her black hair hanging on her shoulders, she complained with a tone of pride and a hint of helplessness: "He has been cleaning up the mess for the people around him, protecting everything within his sight, as if he is the only one in the world who doesn't need to be taken care of. It's very handsome...but I would rather he wasn't that handsome."

Jiuzhong smiled slightly and teased: "I knew that the boy who is worthy of you, Yege, must be perfect~"

"Perfect?"

However, Ji Xiaoge repeated the sentence with a subtle expression, then turned to look at the figure who was fighting with the world's number one player in the gaming circle at a high frequency, and murmured, "I don't think so. His personality is obviously so bad that it is hopeless."

Jiu Chong, who had been stunned for who knows how many times, was stunned again: "Didn't you just say..."

"My father doted on me and my sister, and he loved my mother very much. I knew from the time I was old enough to understand that he could do anything for us, even though he was never a perfect person."

Ji Xiaoge looked at the figure in the distance. Although it was not very clear, she could completely restore every detail of him with her imagination. The figure who broke into her heart without saying hello, her eyes sparkled and she said, "My sister dotes on me too. She always protects me silently, but she is not a good girl in the eyes of ordinary people. She may even make people feel a little eccentric. Mom is the same. She loves us very much, but she can easily mess things up."

Jiuzhong had already realized that the other party was not talking to him, but was unconsciously venting some emotions. He nodded gently and smiled as Ji Xiaoge said, "What an enviable family."

"But whether it's my father, mother, sister, me... or other people I know, everyone has times when they want to please themselves. It's better to say that most of the people I know live for themselves."

Ji Xiaoge covered half of her face, trying to make her eyes, which could be observed by someone, appear bright and peaceful. Her voice, which only she and Jiuchong could hear, trembled slightly: "I like cooking, even though my cooking is not delicious; my sister likes small animals, even though most of them are afraid of her; my father likes to play tricks on his friends, and my mother likes to take walks alone with my father in the evening."

Jiuzhong, who had realized what the other party wanted to say but found it difficult to understand rationally, nodded slightly and said seriously, "This is normal. In fact, I think even if you care about each other, it is also for your own sake. For example, your father dotes on you, it must be because if you are happy, he will be happy too."

"Yeah, I think this is normal."

Watching Mo Tan fall to the ground after Xinglong slapped him in the chest, Ji Xiaoge's body tilted, and then he stomped his feet to resolve the "weak legs". Even though Mo Tan couldn't see him at all from his angle, he still showed an optimistic and heartless look, and continued in a trembling voice: "But Mo is not like this. He... doesn't seem to live for himself even for a minute. Although he will be happy for everyone around him from the bottom of his heart, and although his warmth can care for everyone, he will only ignore himself."

Jiuchong thought about it seriously and asked, "Maybe, Brother Mo is the kind of good person who will be happy when others are happy?"

“For a long time, I thought so too.”

Ji Xiaoge, whose eyesight was amazing because of her race, clenched her hands and looked at her online lover from afar, whose body was filled with crazy blood. Her eyes were coated with an ominous purple-red color after losing their light. She whispered, "It was not until I stood closest to him, until I could rely on him and act like a spoiled child, that I noticed that behind the care that I took for granted in the past, the warmth that made me feel at ease and didn't want to leave, was the exhaustion and anger that almost drove me crazy whenever I thought about it."

"Tired? Angry?"

"Well, anger at himself, and exhaustion with everything, but he hides it so well that he doesn't even know it."

"I'm sorry, I don't quite understand..."

"Actually, I don't really understand it either. After all, I've never been a smart, intellectual, and thoughtful girl like you. But I'm the only one who must understand it. I can't not understand it!"

“I can understand this sentence.”

"Right~ I'm his girlfriend! It's okay to be a little dumb, a little silly, and a little willful, but it's absolutely not okay for me not to try my best to understand and sympathize with his hard work!"

"is it not OK?"

"No! I won't compromise on this one thing!"

Chapter 2248: The End