When Fireworks of Romance entered her life-flashing-before-her-eyes state for the third time, Bai Zhi brought this brief meeting to an end.
The only reason he had come to the villa was to pick something up and test the effects of the fish he had caught. Now that everything had been settled, there was naturally no reason to stay any longer.
He had caught quite a few fish in that sea area. Added to the catches seized by Wan Ci from that yacht—the catches belonging to that military-uniformed little girl—he had an extremely diverse stockpile, with all kinds of fish.
Bai Zhi had no intention of keeping all of it for himself. Even if the members of his two guilds stuffed themselves with those catches, they probably would not finish them in decades. He might as well do them a favor.
"...I'm starting to regret it. Really."
Lying sprawled on the floor, Fireworks of Romance wore an expression of utter despair, as if she had seen through all worldly matters and found life devoid of meaning.
"If I'd known eating fish would be this painful, I should've thrown rock every time. If I'd thrown rock, then the one lying here right now shouldn't be me—it should be Wan Ci or Huan Yan. Then I wouldn't have had to go through my life flashing before my eyes over and over again, and I wouldn't need to..."
—Like some endlessly nagging old woman, the majestic one lay on the ground, her eyes vacant as she kept muttering to herself.
"Alright, stop chanting. Get up—I've got something good for you."
Squatting beside her, Bai Zhi found it rather amusing.
"Just eating a few fish can raise your Level so quickly. It's only your life flashing before your eyes. What's so scary about that?"
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