Ch14 - You win

Edited by Noks

[Ahhhhhhhhhhhhh Momo!]

[He’s here, he’s here, and he’s back with the sniper rifle!]

[Can happily nibble on a CP again!]

The moment Momo’s ID was seen, the barrage directly started boiling over, while Wen Xi’s heart skipped a beat—not because he was excited, but because he had been frightened.

He had pretty much already foreseen Blue Wolf’s death in battle.

However, Blue Wolf reacted quickly. The moment after he was knocked down, he threw out a smoke grenade and said, “Help shield me! Help shield me!”

Hearing his voice, Wen Xi immediately responded and stepped as fast as he could in front of him to shield him. He shielded him while pushing him behind a wall before helping him up.

With this smokescreen cover, Momo’s next two shots in a row both failed to be headshots. The first shot caught nothing but air, and the second shot hit Wen Xi’s armor.

There was no third shot.

[Once he hit Xixi, he stopped firing 0w0]

[Momo: Aiya, I accidentally hit my wife!]

[Abusing his wife at first feels like a refreshing case, but then into the crematorium after her he must chase~]

Wen Xi glanced at the barrage and was too lazy to comment.

After helping Blue Wolf up, he resolutely equipped his bow, switched to first-person perspective, and shot an arrow towards the big building that Momo was in!

“Shhh—” The slender arrow pierced through the smoke, drew a graceful arc in the air, and shattered through the window.

[System] You hit Momo with a bow.

It was a “hit”, not a “headshot”.

Everyone in the barrage said that Wen Xi was pulling his punches, that he [couldn’t bear to make a move against Momo], and the like. However Wen Xi was very clear on the fact that his arrow had been aimed at Momo’s head.

His hands had a good feel at the moment, so it couldn’t have been that his shot had deviated. There was only one possibility of why it hadn’t been a headshot, and that was that Momo had dodged it.

Wen Xi clearly felt that as he played more and more times with Momo, it was getting harder and harder for him to hit Momo.

But it was still hard for him to dodge Momo’s bullets.

It had to be said that Momo’s shooting method was very good, his reaction speed was very fast, and his strength was unfathomable.

Even Blue Wolf thought that he was difficult to handle. “WTF, a headshot from 500 meters away! What kind of immortal-like operation is this?!”

“You can’t do it?” Wen Xi reflexively asked this question.

As a skills-based anchor, obviously Blue Wolf couldn’t answer with a “can’t do it”, so his answer was, “Can do it, but the first shot being a headshot is too much ba! I wasn’t just standing there and not moving just now, I was running!”

It was true that it was much more difficult to predict the position of a moving target in advance and hit it than to hit a static target.

If someone else were to score a headshot with one shot, it may be considered as good luck, but after seeing Momo’s ferocious record of 29 kills in a match, Wen Xi was sure that Momo had taken that shot with absolute confidence just now, and his aim at Blue Wolf’s head did not have any element of luck involved.

“Momo is really good; I said it a long time ago.” Finally, Wen Xi summed up everything with such a sentence.

This sentence displayed his pure appreciation and praise for Momo, but in the eyes of the barrage….

[This proud tone of Xixi’s! awsl]

[Xi: My family’s Momo is the best!]

[You guys get together quickly ba! Begging you guys!]

Wen Xi: “…”

Forget it, he shouldn’t speak at all.

After Blue Wolf finished applying medicine, he quickly aimed his sniper rifle at the floor of the building where Momo had been shooting from, but didn’t see anyone there anymore. He quickly called out to Wen Xi, “Let’s go, let’s go, let’s go, we’ll go around and get over there!”

Obviously, even after having seen Momo’s power, he didn’t intend to admit defeat, and was rather keen on the idea of killing Momo.

Blue Wolf was always up to the challenge—a trait that Wen Xi really admired, but…

“Let’s not go there, let’s go to Area F ba?” Wen Xi tried to dissuade him. “His position there will be too difficult to hit, and there will be other enemies…”

“Are you scared?” Blue Wolf asked thoughtfully.

“En, I’m scared,” Wen Xi admitted decisively.

He probably didn’t expect Wen Xi to admit it so readily, so after a moment’s stupefaction, Blue Wolf couldn’t help laughing. “Shit! Have a little backbone, okay! We have two people, and he has one, scared, my ass!”

Yet as a result, once he said that, a large group of Wen Xi’s stream followers came to his stream to help him “understand”.

[How is God Xi scared right now ah, clearly he can’t bring himself to kill Momo!]

[Be careful, Blue Wolf, if you keep going forward like this, Xixi will take action against you!]

[I have never seen such a third-wheeling wolf before!]

Blue Wolf:???

Seeing other such similar lines in the barrage made Blue Wolf’s mind fill with question marks—what were these people talking about? Why did their words make it sound like Momo and Wen Xi were in some kind of relationship that couldn’t be divulged?

What’s more, why couldn’t he tell at all?

With all this confusion, Blue Wolf immediately stopped, not only no longer moving forward, but even returning to his original position.

Wen Xi was puzzled by his movements. “What’s the matter?”

“What exactly is your relationship with that Momo?” Blue Wolf asked.

Wen Xi froze. He guessed that it was his own his stream followers who had gone to Blue Wolf’s livestream and stirred up trouble there. He didn’t quite know whether to laugh or cry. “I already said ah… a friend I met by chance. I only added him as a friend today.”

“Then why is everyone in the barrage messaging stuff like this?” Blue Wolf was completely baffled. “You’re deceiving me, you two must have done something that you want to hide!”

[Correct answer!]

[Blue Wolf, you’re stating the naked truth!]

Blue Wolf said, “See? All of the barrage says I’m right!”

Wen Xi: “…”

Wen Xi could now count as one of those who understood what “a hundred voices saying something beyond dispute” meant.

At this moment, whether he tried to explain it or not, it wouldn’t really matter.

If he did try to explain ba, the saying “over-explaining and digging yourself in deeper” would be apt for the situation.

If he didn’t try to explain ba, then another phrase would apply to the situation: “tacit admission”.

Wen Xi was left crying without tears—my situation is too hard!

But in the end, he still thought that trying to explain had to be better than not speaking and tacitly admitting to something. He tried hard to explain, “Ugh, don’t listen to the talk in the barrage. There’s nothing between me and Momo. All of it is being made up by the stream followers…”

[Please explain why Momo escorted you all the way to the finals?]

[Please explain why Momo didn’t shoot you just now?]

[Please explain why you didn’t headshot Momo just now?]

Wen Xi said, “….Enough, all of you! Do you guys believe that I will rush up to Momo right now and see if he will strike me dead?”

[Go ba, God Xi! I support you!]

[Quickly go find Momo! Go right now!]

[As long as you dare to go, I dare to smash deep water torpedos for you!]

Deep water torpedos!

Wen Xi’s eyes lit up.

Originally, he had just been feeling helpless as his explanations didn’t work and so had carelessly howled something. In reality, he didn’t at all want to go in front of Momo and seek death.

But for a deep water torpedo… he was willing!

However, being killed by Momo would basically mean losing the bet. It didn’t seem like a good deal to lose 10,000 yuan for 50 yuan?

Thinking about this, Wen Xi tentatively said, “One deep-water torpedo no longer moves me, do you guys want to consider smashing 100 or 200 of them?”

[System] Magic Xi is still Inhaling Male Gods Today smashed 100 deep water torpedos on you today! Accompanied by the message: “Stop rambling, just quickly go~”

Wen Xi: !!!

He had never imagined that just as soon as he finished stating such a condition, 100 deep water torpedoes would directly smash into his face. In addition, the person who had smashed them was Magic Xi—his supervisor, the general director of JJ Livestreams game channel!

Wen Xi was overwhelmed by this special favor, and he was tongue-tied even as he gave thanks. “Thank… thank you Magic Xi for the 100 deep water torpedoes… ”

“Magic Xi, holy shit…” When Blue Wolf heard this ID, he was also surprised. “Do you know who this person is? Holy shit, this really is awesome… ”

After receiving the money, naturally he had to do something.

Wen Xi took a deep breath, and bearing an attitude of facing death unflinchingly, said to Blue Wolf, “Wolf Ge, I’m going.”

Of course, Blue Wolf had to cooperate with this act. “Go ba! Don’t die. If you do die, drag Momo down with you!”

After saying that, he gave Wen Xi a frag grenade.

[!!!]

[Is this an act of dying for love?]

Wen Xi was also surprised when he took the frag grenade. Then he thought, if Momo really didn’t shoot him dead, and he sneakily used the frag grenade to blow up both of them, would that count as a draw?

……thought too much about it, it was impossible for Momo not to shoot him ba?

Wen Xi would admit that Momo paid a bit too much attention to him, which made it easy to misunderstand, but they had only known each other for two days after all. Momo should be more curious than appreciative of him.

In other words, rather than interacting with him, he wanted to kill him more…

Anyway, no matter what Wen Xi thought, he felt that Momo could not be completely indifferent to prey sent right to his door.

But even so, since he had collected the 100 deep water torpedoes, Wen Xi was honor-bound and so proceeded without any hesitation to sneak over to the place where Momo was.

This match’s Area C was full of high-rise buildings. It wasn’t surprising to find enemies behind any of the windows.

However, in order to “finish the task” quickly, Wen Xi directly climbed over the boundary wall and openly and frankly ran onto the main avenue.

Unsurprisingly, he was targeted by some people every few steps.

[system] Sauber shot you with a sniper rifle.

[Momo killed Sauber with a headshot with a sniper rifle. The remaining number of survivors is 74.]

[System] Annila shot you with a sniper rifle.

[Momo killed Annila with a headshot with a sniper rifle. The remaining number of survivors is 73.]

——By the time Wen Xi ran into the building where Momo was located, the people who had shot and hurt him along the way had all died—all of them killed by Momo.

He raised his eyebrows. He didn’t really understand why Momo hadn’t shot him yet?

He was like a moving target when he was running on the road just now. Even if it had been him who had seen such a suicidal target, he wouldn’t have been able to resist making a move… but Momo could actually hold back.

Now even Wen Xi was wondering if Momo would really kill him.

As for Blue Wolf, he had already moved to another place by now, but he could still see the prompts of his teammate being injured and the kills prompts in the upper right corner of the screen.

He had originally thought that the stream followers were completely imagining and making things up all on their own. However, after seeing Momo kill all the people who shot and hurt Wen Xi…

Blue Wolf commented, “Tch, tch, this is strength to protect his wife ah, I’m jealous.”

Wen Xi: “…”

Blue Wolf said, “You two really are together ba. You guys are showing your love to the point that there are so many pink bubbles all over the screen, I can’t even watch anymore. Think, if you’re not together, how many people will you be letting down?”

[Hahaha, that’s right!]

[Yeah, how many people are you letting down!]

Blue Wolf continued, “How about it? What I said makes sense ba! Since you think I make sense, why don’t you guys smash gifts more quickly! Hey~ that’s more like it. Thank you “Your Account is Already Overdue” for the shallow water torpedo!”

Wen Xi: “…”

It turned out that anchors were a group of people who tossed their morals aside for the sake of gifts.

Just as Blue Wolf was giving thanks for the gifts he received, Wen Xi went upstairs.

Momo had originally been on the sixth floor, but at this point in time, Wen Xi didn’t know where he could have moved to.

However, he could be sure that Momo was the only living person in this building—because on the way up, Wen Xi had discovered many boxes, all of which were the “corpses” of the enemies killed by Momo.

Just like in the previous matches, as Wen Xi killed people himself, he also didn’t forget to count the number of kills that Momo had attained through the kills prompts that appeared on the upper right corner of the screen.

It had been less than 15 minutes since the start of the game, and Momo had already taken eight kills.

While Wen Xi only had two kills in his hands.

Wen Xi paid attention to the barrage on the right side of his screen as he walked through the building, and found that the scrolling speed of the barrage had become significantly slower. This indicated that the number of lines in the barrage had decreased a lot, but the number of viewers in his livestream was still increasing with an exaggerated speed.

Obviously, most of the stream followers watching his livestream in his stream right now were waiting for Momo with bated breaths.

In contrast, Wen Xi had already resigned himself and had thrown himself in recklessly—in any case, 100 deep water torpedoes were already in his hands, and winning this match was already not important to him.

He just felt a bit bad for Momo. After all, he didn’t end up treating this bet seriously.

But when he thought about how the stakes of the bet were so very inexplicable, he then felt relieved.

“It’s a rare chance, so let’s make a bet ba? Do you guys think Momo will kill me? I’m betting he will.” Wen Xi tried to interact with his stream followers to increase the lines in the barrage.

The effect was significant.

[Definitely won’t ah!]

[What are you thinking? How can Momo bear to hit you!]

[I bet he won’t!]

“You guys said it ah.” Wen Xi laughed as he got his way. “If Momo doesn’t hesitate to shoot me, then you guys lose. If you guys lose, you have to smash me gifts~”

Wasn’t this just a fancy way of asking for gifts ma, and he was willing to do that too!

[Then what if you lose the bet?]

emmm…… Good question.

Wen Xi thought about it. “Er, I’ll sing you guys a song?”

Anyway, it was impossible for him to send red envelopes. Even if they killed him, they shouldn’t think about it.

In response, the barrage responded:

[No need, just sing a song for Momo!]

[Yes! Sing to Momo!]

[Hahaha, there’s no problem in singing to Momo!]

Wen Xi: “…”

Okay ba, he should have realized a long time ago that these people really couldn’t say three sentences without mentioning Momo…

Still sighing, he witnessed a person’s shadow flashing through the corridor, which gave Wen Xi quite a scare.

Before he could respond though, the figure noticed him and turned back to face him.

An Asian male character with short black hair, who could it be if not Momo?

As soon as he saw Momo, Wen Xi had already resigned himself to being shot to death, so he didn’t equip any of his weapons, not even the frag grenade that Blue Wolf had given him.

However, after a few seconds of holding his breath—nothing happened.

Momo, with an assault rifle in his hand, was facing Wen Xi. He aimed at him for a few seconds, then he resolutely put the gun away and punched the air twice in front of him.

Wen Xi: ???

…… No, Dage, if you don’t kill me, I’ll lose the bet ah!

Wen Xi, who was left stunned in utter surprise, suddenly heard Momo’s voice—he had turned on the voice chat channel for the nearby surrounding area. “What did you come to find me for?”

He had a slightly low and very magnetic voice, and no matter how many times you heard it, you couldn’t extricate yourself from it.

The barrage was completely screaming and squealing at this moment, but Wen Xi’s mind had become blank, and for a long while, he completely lost his ability to think.

What did he come to find Momo for?

How should he answer this question?

He couldn’t just say that he came here seeking death ba…

However, Wen Xi couldn’t think of any other answer even after a while had passed, so after a moment of silence, he asked, “Why haven’t you killed me?”

He really felt that this was strange, and it also just so happened to be the question that most stream followers wanted an answer to.

Momo’s answer this time actually wasn’t very ambiguous. “You rushed over here suicidally, and it didn’t seem like you came here to kill me, so I didn’t kill you.” After a pause, he guessed, “I thought it was because you had suddenly wanted to change the bet, but could it be that that’s not the case?”

“Er…” Wen Xi could only feel that his mind had been thrown into a jumbled mess.

Momo asked, “Do you still think the stakes aren’t equal?”

It was true that the stakes weren’t equal, but Wen Xi wasn’t very dissatisfied with that.

Momo said, “Then we’ll change it to whatever you want. We’ll go with what you say. But I must treat you to a meal.”

Wen Xi: “…”

After clearly hearing Momo’s words, Wen Xi only felt that his mind had been tossed into even more of a jumbled mess, and meanwhile, the barrage had directly gone crazy.

[AHHHHHHHH It’s true! The CP I nibble on is real!]

[I must treat you to a meal—these words are too Sue-ish ba!]

[They’re together, they’re together! Heaven will not tolerate it if you’re not together!]

Wen Xi hadn’t thought much about it at first, but after reading the barrage, he felt a bit dizzy.

He closed his eyes and organized his thoughts. After a moment of silence, he finally opened his mouth, “In fact, it’s like this… A stream follower egged me on to come find you to see if you would kill me. They already smashed me with gifts, so I couldn’t help but come… ”

In this way, he not only confessed everything, but also pushed the blame onto the stream followers.

After a moment of silence, Momo burst into laughter.

As Wen Xi listened to this low laugh, his entire body broke out in goosebumps. Not waiting for him to snap out of it, Momo spoke again, “How much did your stream follower smash at you?”

“Ah?” Not expecting him to ask such a question, Wen Xi froze for a moment before answering, “10,000 yuan.”

Momo asked, “So you’ll get 10,000?”

Wen Xi replied, “No… I’ll get 5000.”

Momo said, “Giving up 10,000 for 5000? Can you be a little more promising?”

Wen Xi replied, “The main point is that it had already been smashed… What’s more, I could earn this 5000 just by coming to see you. In order to earn your 10,000, I have to kill you. The difficulty level is very different, okay?”

Wen Xi explained this very seriously, but just after he finished explaining, he heard Momo laugh again.

Wen Xi asked, “…What are you laughing at?”

“Just, I’ve never met anyone cuter than you.” Momo said this sentence, and without waiting for Wen Xi to respond, he threw a grenade directly at his own feet.

[Momo was killed by a frag grenade, the remaining number of survivors is 69.]

Wen Xi: ???

This move was so sudden that Wen Xi was left standing stunned at the spot, and did not manage to return to his senses for a long time.

Until a few minutes later, when a person entered his stream.

[System] Momo has smashed 200 deep water torpedos on you! Accompanied by the message: “You win.”

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Juurensha: Well, looks like someone’s got a dinner/lunch date!

Noks: After Momo and Wen Xi get together, Momo should really treat all of God Xi’s stream followers. Without their aid (egging), these two might not have gone down that route at all!