A Race to (Be) The Top

"Who let you in?"

This kind of Ji Meng is unfamiliar, at least to Ling Xiaolu, since the first day they met, no matter whether Ji Meng was furious or ridiculed, he had never treated him with such a cold attitude.

Although Ling Xiaolu knew it well, this kind of Ji Meng was his usual attitude towards others.

However, he didn't know that Ji Meng began to regret the words as soon as he finished speaking. When he saw someone breaking into the house, he blurted out those words subconsciously.

But after Ling Xiaolu turned around and showed a helpless expression, he realized that he might have said something too much.

"Sorry, I didn't mean to..."

"Sorry, I shouldn't have come in without authorization..."

The two people spoke at the same time and stopped abruptly at the same time. It seemed that there was a volume switch in the air.

The frozen atmosphere instantly eased a lot.

There is a kind of force in the dark that prompts Ji Meng to walk into this room that he dare not face in the past few days.

Everything was furnished as before, and the room was full of that person's breath, but no one could find any traces of its existence.

Most of the photos on the wall are incomplete, just like a novice photographer with a very poor level, always unable to grasp the center of the composition when taking pictures.

"I was impulsive just now," Ji Meng apologized to Ling Xiaolu again, "This is my friend's room, but he is... not here anymore."

Ji Meng glanced over the exhibits one by one.

"He has the habit of collecting things. Everything here is his collection, although most of it has no practical value."

What Ji Meng wanted to explain was that he was not willing to let others in because the things here were very valuable.

But Ling Xiaolu really wanted to complain, why is it useless?Everything in it is his meticulously accumulated memories, okay?

"Really?" he said deliberately, "I think the statue is quite cute."

Ji Meng didn't know if that statue was cute, he just remembered that it was a sad story, which couldn't be called cute.

"This is the reward when I did the mission with him for the first time. I still remember that after he finished the mission, he angrily sent 99 blades to the planner."

An imperceptible smile rose from the corner of Ji Meng's mouth.

So what if it's a sad story?Because of the existence of someone, a sad story also has an ending that makes people smile involuntarily when recalled.

Ling Xiaolu cautiously asked tentatively, "Is that friend very important to you?"

On the surface, it seems that this is a question of concern for Ji Meng, but if you put in his own identity, you will find that this is actually a shameless question.

Ji Meng answered after a while: "Yes, he is very special to me."

"Then what kind of person is he?" Ling Xiaolu asked while the iron was hot, while getting ready to be praised.

Ji Meng hesitated: "He is mischievous and troublesome. No matter where he goes, he can make troubles and make no peace."

Ling Xiaolu: ...

Which one of these is a good word?Did Ji Meng misunderstand his character?

Why did it sound to him that Ling Xiaolu described by Ji Meng was a complete stranger? Would deleting the account even tamper with other people's memories?

He didn't know how many times he secretly rolled his eyes behind Ji Meng's back, but he heard the other party say——

"He was the first friend I met in this game and the most important person to me."

Ling Xiaolu didn't look back, but was moved by the sadness in Ji Meng's tone, he is such a person who has no position.

"It's a pity..." Ji Meng raised his head slightly, "He is so important to me, but I can't even remember what he looks like."

Ling Xiaolu: ...

He looked at Ji Meng's lonely back, and wanted to give him a hug from behind like that day.

"Don't be too sad, maybe your friend is in a place you don't know, maybe he is thinking of you too."

Ji Meng turned around and took a serious look at Ling Xiaolu. He looked more like the person who disappeared after putting on game equipment.He even wondered if he was thinking too much, and saw these two figures overlapped in a trance.

It was obviously a very routine comforting words, but once he said it, it became easy to accept, as if Luby himself was sending a message to him through Ling Xiaolu's mouth.

Seeing Ling Xiaolu slowly lift his index finger to his mouth, Ji Meng felt a "thump" in his heart, could it be——

"Shh-"

Ling Xiaolu did not disappear, but made a silent voice: "Did you hear anything?"

"What movement?"

Both of them fell silent, and there was an intermittent "slapping" sound in the room, like water droplets hitting the paper.

"Your room is leaking."

Ji Meng had never heard of it: "How is it possible?"

Ling Xiaolu searched around, and finally found the source of the sound of water in the corner.

But seeing Lei Lulu curled up pitifully in a corner, holding its incomplete photo with both hands, Douda's tears dripped down on the surface of the photo.

Lei Lulu actually cried?That gluttonous and mischievous Leilulu actually shed tears for the friendship between him and Xiaolubi?

Ling Xiaolu couldn't hide the surprise on his face. If he hadn't witnessed the two little guys fighting in the yard with his own eyes, he would almost have believed that these two were close friends!

Ji Meng hurried over and picked up the weeping Lei Lulu from the corner.

"It must have missed his friend," Ji Meng explained, "Its best friend has also left."

Ling Xiaolu pursed his lips empathetically: "I can understand."

The little deer is so cute that people (pets) would be reluctant to part with it.

"Don't look at it as just a virtual pet. The staff who made it said that its IQ is about the same as that of a six-year-old child. A child must feel sad when he loses his playmate, right?"

Ji Meng stroked its back softly: "Don't cry, Xiaolubi will definitely come back." He lied to coax it like a child.

He didn't mention this name, but when he mentioned this name, Lei Lulu burst into tears, like a child's intuition told him that after a parent told a lie, it was not the truth.

Its sadness comes not only from the incident itself, but also from the deception of the parents.More importantly, when he realizes that it was a lie, it means that it will never happen again.

The electric current of fluorescent blue crackled around Lei Lulu, Ji Meng didn't turn off his pain perception, his arms were numb from the electricity, Lei Lulu took the opportunity to break free from him and slid down.

"Beware!"

Ji Meng had no choice but to remind him, but it was too late, Ling Xiaolu became the second victim, Lei Lulu's lightning swept across his head, leaving only a trace of bloody skin in his novice outfit, He almost gave his first life here.

"What happened to him?" Ling Xiaolu asked nervously.

"I don't know, he seems to be out of control, you first turn off the pain perception!"

Ji Meng didn't have time to think that, as a novice, Ling Xiaolu might not know where the pain perception function is at all. He tried to control or retract Leilulu, but it didn't work at all.

"Lei Lulu!" He could only shout, "Stop making trouble!"

Lei Lulu stared back at him angrily. Not only was he disobedient, but he released a bigger bolt of lightning. The lightning flashed alternately in the room, making people mistakenly think that this was the site of a terrifying scientific experiment.

"Do you have anything to eat?"

Ling Xiaolu reminded Ji Meng with a word, and he took out pink balls from his backpack.

"Come on, good boy, don't make a fuss and let me eat."

Lei Lulu, who usually loves pet meatballs the most, went beyond the two's expectations, and ignored the things in Ji Meng's hands, but the electric current around him became stronger.

"……not good."

"what happened?"

Ji Meng threw Ling Xiaolu to the corner and rescued him from the brink of death.The ball lightnings released by Lei Lulu exploded in the room one after another, shaking Ling Xiaolu's scalp numb.

"It seems to be out of control, let's get out of here first."

Ji Meng pulled Ling Xiaolu to rush out, at the same time, there was a loud bang, and Lei Lulu's suddenly enlarged body broke through the ceiling, knocking a big hole through the roof.

Leilulu released the complete body and destroyed wantonly. The display racks were knocked down and crushed, and all kinds of collections fell to the ground in disorder. The current used them as the medium to continuously refract and bounce, and every corner of the room was flooded with electric light. .

"Wait a minute!" Ling Xiaolu swept away something, and tried his best to break away from Ji Meng's hand.

"Where are you going?!" Ji Meng grabbed in a panic, but failed to catch anyone, and watched Ling Xiaolu desperately throwing himself at Lei Lulu's feet.Ji Meng didn't even think about releasing his skills. His lightning ball and Lei Lulu's collided together. The two huge light balls confronted each other. Dust blows and rolls in the air.

Ji Meng pulled Ling Xiaolu out of Lei Lulu's feet at the last moment, and the two of them threw themselves into the yard, and the huge building collapsed behind them.

"Are you crazy!" Ji Meng grabbed Ling Xiaolu's shoulder and yelled loudly after landing, "What are you doing all of a sudden?"

Ling Xiaolu spread out his hands with lingering fear, revealing the statue of the guard that he risked his life to save.

"Didn't you say that this is a souvenir of your first mission and it is very important to you?"

Ji Meng was suddenly at a loss for words.

"Isn't this a game? It won't really die, but I'm not sure if it will be trampled."

Ji Meng took it silently with complicated mood: "Thank you."

Ling Xiaolu pointed to the back, indicating that this matter is not over yet.

"What about that?"

The complete Leilulu destroyed Ji Meng's house, and it seemed that it was not enough to vent its dissatisfaction. It jumped out of the ruins, looked left and right, and finally ran away in one direction.

"No, we can't let it go to places with many people to destroy it!"

Without hesitation, Ji Meng summoned the giant dragon, and skillfully grabbed Ling Xiaolu's waist and jumped onto the dragon's back, as if he had practiced this action hundreds of times.

The dragon flapped its wings and took off on the spot.

"We have to get it back!"

Lei Lulu has short legs, but he runs fast and disappears in the blink of an eye. Even the pet radar can't keep up.

Ji Meng had no choice but to control the flying dragon and chase it in the direction where it disappeared, while keeping an eye on the ground.

Ling Xiaolu was also looking around nervously, and when he looked up unexpectedly, he was startled.

"Your name has turned black!"

Needless to say, Ji Meng also found out, since just now his virtual panel began to frantically pop up killing information.It seemed that Leilulu had already started to kill and kill, and all its murderous energy was accumulated on Ji Meng, and it broke through the limit of black name in a short while.

"It's okay, this is easy to solve." Ji Meng has no time to use the potion, the most urgent thing is to stop Lei Lulu who is out of control and running away.

But there must be a reason for killing so many people in a short period of time.

Ling Xiaolu's eyes lit up: "Where is the most densely populated place around here?"

Ji Meng thought for a while, and his expression changed.

"There is a performance in Waking of Insects City tonight, and many people will come to see it."

This is a novel activity planned by Xinshan, inviting famous virtual idol groups to link up with the game and hold an exclusive concert in Waking of Insects City.

Not only the original players in the game, but fans of the girl group will also use the experience peripherals and go online to support their idols.These are all brand new trumpets, no wonder Lei Lulu has harvested so much murderous energy in a short time.

Ji Meng manipulated the giant dragon and flew to Jingzhe City at the speed of light. Before he arrived, he saw lightning and thunder in the sky above Jingzhe City from a distance.

"Lei Lulu!" Ji Meng found the culprit, the performance stage had been destroyed badly, "Come back to me!"

He used the command to accept favors, Lei Lulu desperately struggled to resist, the thunder came down one after another, and the Jingzhe City covered the sky and covered the sun, just like a true immortal cultivator crossing the catastrophe.

This concert was originally broadcast live on the whole server, and those who didn't show up at the scene were full of doubts and asked crazy questions in the barrage.

——Isn’t this my husband’s Leilulu?Why did they suddenly run out to massacre the city in the middle of the concert?

——Prince Ji is in the sky!Why don't you care about its yellow fat ball, my goddesses are all frightened!

——Could it be said that Lei Lulu is a black fan of the girl group?This is too unreal!

For the first time, Ji Meng experienced the embarrassment that even the baby couldn't control, so he could only put his fingers together and make a gesture similar to a triangle, and the palms of his hands began to shine.

"What are you doing?" Ling Xiaolu asked.

"It's out of control, I can only reseal it."

seal?Isn't that turning the pet into something like a stone, although it can be unsealed, but...

"Does the seal have any effect on the baby?"

"Yes..." Ji Meng is also struggling in his heart. Although the growth value loss of a pet that has been sealed and unsealed is negligible, the loyalty will be completely cleared, just like a newly captured wild pet that needs to be cultivated from scratch. emotion.

"But there's no other way now that this can be done."

"Wait a minute!" Ling Xiaolu stopped him, "Since it feels sad when its friends leave, it means that it has the same emotions as humans. You also said that it has the same IQ as a six-year-old child. How do you know, Are these emotions still there after being sealed?"

"If the emotion is still there, but the five senses are deprived, you can't see, hear, or move, and you are trapped in a stone, what is it like?"

Ji Meng is actually even more contradictory. Pets are by no means cold data for him, but the "companion" he longed for since he was a child and drawn on paper.His affection for pets is far beyond that of everyone in the game.

"Let me figure out a way!" Ling Xiaolu shouted behind him.

"What can you do?" Ji Meng didn't think he could do it, but subconsciously expected him to do it.

"You send me down, I want to say a few words to it!"

There are ghosts all over the place below, and many newly created trumpets like Ling Xiaolu are at a loss. Come to listen to a concert by yourself, how did you become cannon fodder for the celestial being?

Ji Meng couldn't bear it again.

"Trust me!" Ling Xiaolu urged, he was not confident, he just assured that he would not really "die" under Leilulu's lightning.

The flying dragon passed over Lei Lulu's head, and Ling Xiaolu landed lightly on the roof closest to Lei Lulu.

Many people noticed him in the live broadcast.

--who's that person?

——It looks like a newcomer, but did he just jump off Prince Ji's mount?

--I do not believe!My husband's dragon back is only allowed to sit on that one person!

——Shortly after the concubine's account was "deleted", Prince Ji married another new love?

Of course, Ling Xiaolu didn't know that he had only created an account for an hour, and he became the focus of the whole server again. The thunder and lightning were too loud, and he tried his best to send the sound to Lei Lulu's ears.

"Lei Lulu! Look at me!"

When Lei Lulu heard this voice, his frantic movements stopped for a moment, his expression confused.

"Lei Lulu, listen to me!" Ling Xiaolu was forced to roar with the loudest voice, "I know that your good friend left, it made you very sad!

"But if your friend leaves you, it doesn't mean it has left this world too! Maybe it's just watching you silently in a place you don't know!"

The thunder was a little quieter, and Ling Xiaolu was finally able to breathe a sigh of relief.

"Even if you can't remember what it looks like, you still remember its name, the memories you had with it, and the feelings you had when you got along...No one can take these away, and no one can delete them. Lose!

"Your friends must also hope that you can keep the good part of the memory. If it has changed you positively, then go on with these changes better, instead of closing yourself off or even implicating others!"

Lei Lulu lowered his head with some guilt, looking at the countless ghosts and tombstones under his feet, showing an embarrassed expression, like a troublemaker who has been reprimanded by his parents and knows that he has done something wrong.

Ji Meng was also in a trance on the dragon's back for a while, Ling Xiaolu's words seemed to be spoken to Lei Lulu, but also seemed to be spoken to himself.

Ling Xiaolu stretched out a hand to Lei Lulu: "And I believe that your friend will definitely come back."

Leilulu was silent for a long time, and the thunder and lightning finally disappeared.Its body became smaller and smaller under the eyes of everyone, so small that it could throw itself into Ling Xiaolu's arms with tears in its eyes.

Ling Xiaolu caught it with one hand, stuck it to its ear, and said softly in a voice that no one could hear: "Look, I'm coming back right now?"