60: Chapter 60 Xia Li

"Red Wolf, you lunatic!"

Bai Li cast a resentful glance at Lu Yuan, her eyes filled with the despair of having boarded a pirate ship.

Lu Yuan shrugged innocently.

"See, I told you to evacuate early, but you insisted on staying to watch the spectacle."

"Now look! You can't leave, can you!"

Seeing Bai Li's puffed-up expression, Lu Yuan's lips curled up.

"Calm down, big sister! You're already here, aren't you?!"

Lu Yuan comforted her heartlessly, then excitedly opened his weapon panel.

He wanted to see just how powerful the cheat provided by the Superbrain really was.

[Death Gods Explosive Flame Annihilation Cannon (Temporarily Modified Version)]

[Available Ammo for This Game: Soul Annihilation Shell x10]

[Ammo Characteristics: Concept-level miraculous effect on Abyss creatures, immense power, can cause irreversible soul trauma.]

Looking at this simple and brutal description.

Lu Yuan muttered to himself, wondering just how outrageous the power would be once this thing was fired.

Now he was just waiting for the Abyssal Lord to come over and take a shot!

He casually opened the system map to check the current situation.

The huge red dot representing the Abyssal Lord Leviathan was about two thousand kilometers away from them.

If it advanced at the speed of the Death Wave, which was 200 km/h.

It would take at least ten hours for the seawater to flood here and for Leviathan to appear.

He turned his head to look at Bai Li.

"Take advantage of these ten hours to rest properly, recharge your energy, and prepare for tomorrow's tough battle."

Bai Li nodded silently, having no objections to this arrangement.

The two found a relatively intact abandoned mechanical plaza in the core area to serve as their temporary camp for the night.

Bai Li skillfully lit a bonfire, set up an iron pot opened from a supply crate, and began to boil hot meat soup.

Before long, the rich aroma of meat drifted through the empty ruins.

The two sat around the bonfire, enjoying these last moments of tranquility before the great battle.

Bai Li fished two bottles of ice-cold beer out of her backpack and looked at Lu Yuan, who was resting on the tank tracks.

"Want one?"

Lu Yuan reached out his hand.

Bai Li tossed the beer over.

With a "pop," he caught it steadily. Lu Yuan pried open the cap with one hand and took a large gulp.

"Glug, glug..."

"Ah, refreshing!"

The cold liquid rolled down his throat, and Lu Yuan let out a comfortable sigh.

Bai Li took the other bottle of beer and sat down not far from him.

The flickering firelight illuminated her cold, stunning profile, shedding her usual icy demeanor and adding a rare touch of softness.

She tilted her snowy white neck to take a sip of wine, then suddenly turned her head.

"Let's introduce ourselves properly."

"Xia Li. Super C1 District, White Hunt Guild."

"Xia as in summer, Li as in leaving."

Lu Yuan was stunned for a moment, his hand holding the beer bottle pausing slightly.

Then he smiled and replied earnestly.

"Lu Yuan. C-72 District, Red Wolf Guild."

"Lu as in Lu Yuan, Yuan as in Lu Yuan."

"..."

Xia Li fell silent, just watching him quietly.

Lu Yuan felt a bit uneasy under her gaze and shrugged awkwardly.

"I thought your name was just Bai Li."

Xia Li rolled her eyes at him: "Who would be stupid enough to use their real name as a game ID?"

Lu Yuan nodded solemnly: "That's true."

The night wind blew, carrying a hint of the unique chill of the deep sea.

Xia Li hugged her knees, staring at the flickering flames, her eyes flashing in the light and shadow.

After a long silence, she suddenly spoke softly.

"Lu Yuan, thank you."

Lu Yuan tossed a piece of stewed meat into his mouth and glanced at her suspiciously: "Thank me for what? For forcing you onto this pirate ship?"

"Not that." Xia Li shook her head, a flash of complex emotion in her eyes.

"Thank you for saving me earlier."

"If you hadn't arrived in time, I would probably be dead by now..."

Hearing the rare vulnerability in her tone, Lu Yuan waved his hand and smiled indifferently.

"Don't think too much, I didn't save you for free."

"Didn't you pay the exorbitant medical fee of five hundred points?"

"This is called a fair trade, honest and reliable."

Watching Lu Yuan's money-grubbing appearance, attributing everything to profit.

Xia Li couldn't help but laugh out of anger.

Does this man understand anything about romance besides trading and points?

She raised her beer can in a huff, tilted her head back, and downed the remaining half of the beer in one go.

With a "bang," the empty can was crushed and thrown aside.

Immediately after, she picked up a second can, pulled the tab without hesitation, and gulped it down.

Lu Yuan watched her drinking as if trying to drown her sorrows, his eye twitching, wanting to say a few words of advice.

However, he never expected that this usually aloof and decisive female war god would have such an incredibly low tolerance for alcohol.

As the second can of beer hit the bottom.

A seductive flush had already appeared on Xia Li's cheeks.

Even her cold eyes became watery and blurred.

Under the influence of alcohol, the emotions Xia Li had been suppressing began to surge.

She looked at the man in front of her, who was eating meat in big mouthfuls, and suddenly felt an inexplicable sense of frustration.

Think of her, Xia Li, the leader of the first district, the unattainable ice goddess in the hearts of countless male players.

Wasn't she treated like a star everywhere she went?

Yet in front of this man, her proud looks and figure seemed to have completely lost their appeal.

He either treated her as bait for fishing enforcement, or heartlessly threw her in the bedroom while he went to sleep on a broken folding bed.

The way he looked at her was always icy or filled with calculating greed!

Why?!

This strong sense of disparity was magnified countless times by the alcohol.

Xia Li suddenly moved her body, leaning towards Lu Yuan insistently.

A faint fragrance mixed with the scent of alcohol hit Lu Yuan's nose.

Xia Li tilted her head back slightly, her beautiful eyes, which seemed capable of stealing souls, were almost melting into water, staring intently at Lu Yuan's face.

"Look at me."

Xia Li's voice was soft, carrying a hint of coquettishness and unwillingness.

Lu Yuan's eye twitched wildly, and he subconsciously shifted his gaze aside, performing a tactical dodge.

"Ahem... You're drunk, go to sleep early."

"I'm not drunk! Look at me!"

Xia Li leaned in relentlessly, her breath like orchids.

She bit her rosy lips, a hint of stubbornness in her eyes.

"Lu Yuan, am I not pretty?"

Lu Yuan: "..."

Seeing Lu Yuan not speaking like a block of wood, and even avoiding her gaze.

Xia Li's temper finally flared up completely.

She suddenly snorted and reached out her fair, slender hand.

"Click."

Suddenly, she directly unbuttoned the top two buttons of her shirt!

A large expanse of snowy white skin and a deep, enticing cleavage were instantly exposed under the flickering bonfire light.

"Pfft—"

The mouthful of beer Lu Yuan had just drunk was sprayed out completely ungracefully.

He scrambled back half a step, his old face turning bright red.

"I'm telling you, big sister!"

"How much have you even drunk to get this drunk?!"

Xia Li didn't care about his frustration at all.

She looked at Lu Yuan's embarrassed appearance as he finally broke his composure, and suddenly laughed triumphantly.

Immediately after, her body tilted forward weakly, and she fell heavily into Lu Yuan's arms.

Hot breath hit Lu Yuan's neck.

A pair of jade arms wrapped tightly around his neck.

Her red lips parted slightly, and before she completely passed out, she whispered a blurry, seductive murmur into Lu Yuan's ear.

"Coward..."

Feeling the amazing sensation of soft jade and warm fragrance in his arms, even a steel-straight man like Lu Yuan couldn't help but skip a beat.

He sighed helplessly and shook his head.

Lu Yuan scooped up the unconscious beauty in his arms, strode back to the tank's dimensional bedroom, and gently placed her on the soft big bed.

He pulled over a quilt to cover her.

Just as he turned to leave.

A soft, burning hand suddenly reached out from under the quilt, grabbing his hem tightly.

Xia Li's eyes were tightly closed, her delicate eyebrows slightly furrowed, as if she had grabbed the only lifeline in a nightmare.

"Don't go..."

Her red lips moved slightly, emitting a soft, almost instinctive murmur.

Lu Yuan's body stiffened slightly.

He looked down at the stunning face on the bed, stripped of all cold disguises and left only with fragile helplessness, his breathing slowing down.

Red Wolf, who was always decisive and swift in action, paused for a second at this moment, as if by some strange fate.

However!

In this brief, one-second moment of lingering charm!

"Beep——!!!!"

"Alert! Highest-level disaster alert!"

The system panel suddenly popped up a blinding blood-red server-wide announcement, tearing through the quiet of the bedroom like a death god's scream!

[Ding! Detected that the current remaining number of players is less than 10%!]

[Abyssal Lord Leviathan's advance speed has significantly increased!]

[Expected to fully descend into the core area in one hour!]