Volume 10: Pride and Prejudice in the City-State Chapter 10 Changes
(Something really disgusting happened today, I’ll make up for the rest tonight.)
“…It’s you, still doing a live broadcast?”
Li Lin raised his eyebrows at the person who came.
The person who came was the female anchor who had met Li Lin several times.
Different from the youthfulness in the celestial city and the craziness in the small town, the woman riding a pony now is more like a simple tourist than a host.
Wearing a cowboy hat, a heavy shirt, and several cloth bags and magic compression bags on his back, he looked like a dusty person. There was nothing special on his face that made him look young, beautiful, and eye-catching. His figure seemed different from the illusory perfection that was customized at the beginning, but he had gained weight and lost his shape. There was no trace of makeup on his face, and he looked unusually simple.
How to say it, she looked like she had let go of a lot but hadn't changed much. Her hair was also roughly braided and tied behind her head. She swayed back and forth like an old driver, skillfully controlling the pony under her crotch, and fell into an inexplicable thought about Li Lin's words. Maybe she really had passed a lot of time, or maybe she was just pretending. She rode the horse and followed behind, lowered her head and thought for a while, then looked at Li Lin lying on the carriage and seemed to care nothing about anything, and carefully compared it with the figure in her memory.
But compared to the cold-blooded character in the town at the beginning, the figure lying in the straw cart with a depressed look on his face and holding straw in his mouth is a little too lifelike. It's like a simple person who is sulking there.
The already not-so-beautiful face blinked as it looked at Li Lin's face, and finally revealed an expression of realization.
"Oh, it really is you."
She smiled and said calmly:
"Well, I won't be a streamer anymore. I won't die anyway, and it's nice not to have to make excuses for others... But why are you here? Aren't you the number one player? A celebrity like you should be surrounded by a group of talented people, and come here to experience life?"
"What's the point of experiencing life? Topics like the number one player are just hype by the official. Don't you know this even though you've been a streamer?"
Li Lin, lying on the straw pile, waved his hands sullenly at the curious former female anchor.
"I'm tired. Just relaxing."
“I see…”
The former female anchor didn't ask anything else. She just rode her pony beside the straw cart, as if she was just a passerby.
"It's actually very easy to get tired playing Les Miserables. I always feel that if I get too deeply involved, it will blur the gap between reality and reality. However, if I don't think about it, I won't be able to understand the connotation. Over time, I will become tired. Is it the same for you?"
"I'm not tired because of the game, but because of the players."
Li Lin held a straw in his mouth, looked at the blue sky and said:
"It's even worse than your previous appearance. At least you were just after money before, which is completely understandable. I met a bunch of psychopaths. They are the kind of scum who slander and humiliate you in particularly disgusting ways, and when they get beaten up, they will say, 'Why did you hit me? I was just joking.' They laugh and don't care about anything just because it's just a game, and then they trample your favorite and precious things into pieces, and even insult your personality just for fun. They are just such garbage."
However, compared to those so-called entertainment players who simply entertain others and disgust others for fun, and claim that they have no malicious intentions, Li Lin feels that this female anchor who just wants to make money is still within the scope of communication. At least his words can be responded to, unlike those crazy people who talk to themselves for entertainment.
But, how should I put it? Just like the players' performance at the beginning was beyond Li Lin's expectations, the reaction of this former female anchor was also beyond Li Lin's expectations. This seemingly simple woman frowned, showing a thoughtful expression, and whispered:
"Hmm? That's really weird. I remember that Mr. Li Lin had a similar attitude when he was in the Tianqiu City at the beginning. He just leveled up and completed tasks. He didn't want to care about anything else. He didn't intend to communicate about other things. He was the kind of person who focused on his own business and didn't care about disgusting others? Blood sacrifice and so on. I also said that I wanted to complete the task but was ignored, right? And it was a particularly malicious ridicule. Mr. Li Lin, have you ever considered it from my perspective?"
“…”
No, there's no way to refute that.
Women's grudges usually last from the beginning to the end of their lives.
Li Lin didn't know why this wise saying suddenly came to his mind.
"Ahem, people, people always change. With so many things happening, even if you raise a dog, you should develop feelings for it. Not to mention playing a game."
"Really? Really? If I were still a broadcaster, I would definitely be happy to record it."
"If you weren't a host, I wouldn't be saying these things to you."
"That's a shame."
What a lost opportunity to become famous.
The former female anchor shrugged with a smile, but she didn't feel any real regret.
This seemingly nonchalant attitude made Li Lin raise his eyebrows in surprise, making him feel that this female anchor seemed to have really changed a lot.
"…Then what's wrong with you?"
"Me? I just have a normal ending like a defeated villain."
The former anchorwoman shrugged.
"I was warned because the live broadcast was too bloody and the behavior was ugly, and then I went crazy trying to redeem myself but ended up showing more and more ugliness. In the end, I cursed like a madman and cursed for several hours in the live broadcast room. I was almost forced to correct my mental pollution... But to be honest, it's been two months, right? I felt like the whole world was falling down in the first week after being banned, but the world kept turning around after a week without live broadcasts."
"I didn't starve to death, my family didn't look down on me or slander me, my friends were all comforting me, and the popularity on the Internet was gone in just half a month, as if my previous persistence was all a bubble. I worked so hard and pursued so much just for this bubble."
"So, I am just a simple travel player now. Taking photos while traveling and experiencing things that I can't experience in real life are very interesting. Do you need photos? I have taken quite a few good ones."
"Well... I happen to have some here too, let's check on each other."
The two people who once fought each other were walking slowly on the street, constantly flipping through photos, as if there had never been any conflict between them.
