"I placed the heavy burden that should have been mine on your shoulders, but... just let me be willful one more time."
Lily shook her head, speaking chuunibyou-like lines.
If you feel this burden is too heavy, then think of it simply: this isn't about saving anyone; just consider it purely for me, use the lure on those mutated insects!
Lily forced a smile and handed both the lure and the Psionic Restrainer to Patrick Star.
Then, she stopped the car, opened the door, and jumped out.
"Come on, you fearless insects, come on!"
In the dark night, Lily's shouts were exceptionally clear.
Patrick Star still couldn't speak; he only felt his eyes suddenly become a little blurry. Damn it, this was the first time he had been moved by an NPC in all the games he had played!
He had an impulse, which was to jump out of the car and face the ferocious mutated insects with Lily.
But he knew he couldn't; doing so would turn all of Lily's efforts into smoke, and with his strength, he couldn't save Lily anyway.
The only thing he could do was slide over to the driver's seat and start the pickup truck under the game's prompts.
Charge, for Lily, charge forward!
"I'll be back, I will definitely be back!"
Ahhh, whoever blocks me dies!
The shouts in his heart intertwined with the roar of the pickup truck, like a blasting symphony, breaking through the mutated insects' obstruction and also breaking through the boundaries between game and reality.
In the rearview mirror, Lily's figure grew smaller and smaller until it completely disappeared into the darkness, as if she had never existed.
"Hurry up, Pai Da, hurry up!"
"I won't be able to sleep tonight, ahhh, at a time like this, Lily is still apologizing to us, can't she be a little more selfish?"
"I'm crying my eyes out."
"She is the true hero!"
"Succeed, you must succeed, never let Sister Lily's hopes be in vain!"
Watching the ignited live stream barrage, Lily's heart relaxed halfway; seeing the mutated insects she had intercepted stop, and then all rush in the direction Patrick Star had just left, the other half of her heart also relaxed.
Next, as long as she waited patiently, the threat of the insect tide to the Abandoned Cooling Plant should be over. After all, the lure that Number Nine had thrown was actually in the center of the Abandoned Cooling Plant, and the reason it attracted so many mutated insects was entirely because many of them had heard the commotion and blindly followed.
Now that lures had been thrown in other places, most of the mutated insects would not go to the Abandoned Cooling Plant to join the fun.
Congratulations.
Thus, a world where everyone was happy, except for some players who were emotionally numb from the sad ending, was born!
Lily punched away a mutated insect attempting a sneak attack; at this point, there was no need to delay any longer, she turned and ran towards the Abandoned Cooling Plant.
About a few minutes after she left, a pickup truck roared through the night.
As soon as the car stopped, Patrick Star stumbled out.
"Sister Lily, Sister Lily, I'm back, where are you?"
He searched incessantly, but in this vast wilderness, there was no trace of Lily.
Did it just end like this?
His heart was full of sadness, the screen full of wails, and only by searching in the cracks could he find a few somewhat optimistic barrages.
"No corpse, no clothing residue, maybe Sister Lily is still alive?"
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