Text Game: It All Began when a Cat-eared Girl Took Me In-Chapter 202 - 170: Liya Mother and Daughter Meeting and Bonus for the Task (4600)_1
Real world.
October 3rd.
It was already three o’clock in the afternoon.
At the Cat Cafe around the corner, Ai Xue had just made a cup of coffee and handed it to a newly arrived customer.
Her expression somewhat melancholic, she glanced at the WeChat messages on her phone.
Today, Luo Xi hadn’t come to work again, and this time he hadn’t asked for leave.
Had he encountered some troublesome matter?
These past few days, the shop had actually been very busy; after all, it was a holiday season, and Luo Xi had taken several days off in a row, putting a lot of pressure on the shop. Fortunately, she had hired several temporary workers, which had somewhat relieved the pressure.
Chen Momo, who was serving customers in the cat cafe, came over and said softly, trying to comfort her, "Xiao Xue, you’re still waiting for him, huh? I think you were scammed by him, but that’s not too bad, actually. Seven thousand yuan to see someone’s true colors—it’s better than being cheated in other ways."
"Momo, don’t talk nonsense."
Ai Xue shook her head and said, "I don’t believe senior is that kind of person. There must be something important."
"Something important?"
Chen Momo shrugged and said, "What kind of important thing keeps you so busy that you can’t even send a single WeChat message? And hasn’t he blocked you before for a long time? You know him only on the surface; you don’t know what his real private life is like. With his looks, I wouldn’t find it strange if he secretly had a dozen girlfriends."
"I still don’t think senior is that kind of playboy..." Ai Xue defended, but her tone had already dropped.
"Hmm... saying he has a dozen girlfriends may indeed be over the top," Chen Momo mused, resting her chin on her hand. "Indeed, if he were such a scumbag and had many fish in the sea, he wouldn’t have ignored a pretty and dumb girl who gave herself away like you. If it were me, you wouldn’t have been pure two years ago; I would have fully developed you by now."
"Could he really be gay or a loli-con? Either way, it feels pretty bad," she speculated.
Ai Xue’s face flushed red immediately, and she reached out to knock on Chen Momo’s head. "Momo, what are you talking about?! There are so many customers around!"
The two of them started to playfully fight behind the counter, attracting curious glances from many customers.
Ding! —
A notification sound came from Ai Xue’s phone, which was on the table.
She immediately left her best friend and stood up to check her phone.
Ai Xue had thought that Luo Xi had replied to her message.
"What’s this?"
However, it was just a notification from a game she had never heard of.
[Dear player, you have received the trial qualification for the daily text-based game ’Dawn’ (this is a tuning test prior to the second large-scale beta test, with a total of 10,000 spots). Would you like to download?]
Without giving it much thought, Ai Xue swiped away the game notification.
She wasn’t really into gaming, and even if she played, it was the kind of game that she could play with friends.
[Game download successful, ’Dawn’ is installing... Installation complete, we wish you a pleasant gaming experience]
Ai Xue: "?"
What kind of unscrupulous game company was this?
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Liya walked on the ice soil transformed from runes which had erased the traces of ice flowers and Hiss’s omens, her emotions still not settled.
The young man, he had actually succeeded.
A first-tier Variant had accomplished something that she, despite all her efforts over three years, had failed to achieve.
What exactly had he done?
It was incomprehensible.
Liya silently turned back, looking in the direction from which she came.
Had he died?
To sacrifice his life to save others who had no relation to him, even her, if her two daughters were not in Winter City, would she make that choice?
Liya asked herself.
In the end, she arrived at an answer.
She did not know.
But if she had no ties here, then she probably would not made such a choice.
Yet, the young man had done it.
And it seemed he did not hesitate or fear at all; the way he faced death was as calm as the flames that burned brightly on his body.
Liya recalled the last words the young man smiled and said to her.
To say hello to Wei’er and Aina for him?
Liya couldn’t help but give a bitter smile.
If those two girls knew that their friend had died, how sorrowful would they be?
Boom—
The ice valley trembled.
Both the ice cliffs and the ground were cracking.
This Rune Space that she had constructed was gradually self-destructing from inside out, which was different from the damage caused by Hiss trying to penetrate the space.
This was a change brought about by the replacement of the Divine Tree’s controller, causing a fundamental change in the Divine Tree’s internal strength, and now it was expelling them out.
It seemed Hiss had indeed died.
The runes flickered, and with a step, Liya returned to the ice fort, picked up the chubby man and his two companions who were crying and wailing, and condensed a large number of runes to envelop them.
After a moment of shaking, they moved through space, and when they appeared again, the grey-white sky, seen through the snowy branches of the Divine Tree, entered their vision.
The chubby man kneeled on the ground, stunned for a long time, his eyes wide open: "We’re out... we made it out?"
Whoosh—
As the cold wind blew, around the Winter Divine Tree, many human-shaped ice sculptures appeared.
After a long silence, looking at the ice sculptures, Liya nodded slightly.
"I’m sorry."
It was she who had brought them in, but she hadn’t brought them out alive.
Liya looked at the companions who had been with her for three years and said softly, "Uli, Charles... Ricker, let’s hope we see each other again."
