"If players only come back online in two or three days, how am I supposed to stage a grand return from the dead for them and ignite their suppressed emotions to the extreme?!"
Lily was exasperated.
The players who were looking for her were also exasperated after seeing the update announcement.
"[Holy crap, I just want to know if Lily is dead or not, and you hit me with an update now?!]"
"[Bastards, don't come out and be a cliffhanger dog at this moment! Even if you're updating, at least tell me Lily's ending first!]"
"[Does the official want to get flamed?]"
"[Is it possible, I mean, is there a possibility that the official suddenly shut down for maintenance not to expand the server, but to take this opportunity to fix the 'BUG' of Lily dying?]"
"[That actually seems possible.]"
No matter how anxious, how angry, or how unwilling to leave the players were, when the announced time arrived, they were forcibly logged off.
"They're dead, all dead. For Lily, for the Abandoned Cooling Plant, they…"
At dawn, beside the ruins piled with shapeshifter corpses, Shino sighed deeply with a heavy heart.
Even if Lily successfully lured the insectoid invasion away with bait, a fierce battle was still unavoidable to eliminate the shapeshifters that had already reached the Abandoned Cooling Plant.
Although all the shapeshifters were eliminated, the Outsiders also fell one after another. By the end of the battle, out of a hundred Outsiders, at most only four or five could still stand.
What a tragic battle this was!
Shino, who was accustomed to blood and fire, almost vomited upon seeing such a gruesome sight.
She wanted to go forward and comfort the surviving Outsiders, but she couldn't think of anything to say. In the end, she could only watch helplessly as the surviving Outsiders left with faltering steps, until they completely disappeared from her sight.
"Cheer up, don't let yourself get depressed," Yago consoled.
Shino nodded: "I understand, I'll recover in a few days… Wait, Yago, look over there!"
Over there?
Yago looked in the direction she indicated.
He saw a lone figure appearing in the morning mist.
One step, two steps, three steps… Finally, the figure passed through the mist and came closer.
This time, Yago saw clearly.
"Lily!"
Lily returned alive!
Yago's eyes widened, and for a moment, thousands of joys welled up in his heart. On this chilly morning, he finally encountered something good.
If those Outsiders who died in battle knew Lily was still alive, they would probably feel much more at ease in the underworld, right?
…
After meeting Yago and Shino, Lily shared her newly fabricated story with them.
The story was simple: after getting out of the car, she was attacked by a large number of shapeshifters. To better tie down these shapeshifters, she led them far away. She originally thought she was doomed, but unexpectedly, the shapeshifters turned around and left after chasing for a while. At that moment, she realized the operation was successful. She wanted to go back and find Patrick Star, but she got lost in the darkness. She wandered around all night and returned to the Abandoned Cooling Plant without any mishaps.
"So the situation now is that I survived, but they died?" Lily's face was expressionless.
Yago and Shino consoled her: "Yes."
"Sigh."
Lily sighed. She sat quietly by the ruins, as if waiting for someone. She sat for a long time, until the afternoon, before resignedly standing up and walking to a player's corpse that hadn't disappeared yet, gently kicking it with her shoe.
"Didn't you say you wouldn't die? Then what is this? Revive, revive and show me!"
Shino suspected that Lily had been so traumatized that her mind was affected: "Lily, the dead cannot be revived, you…"
Lily opened her mouth, wanting to say something, but in the end, she held back the words she was about to speak.
"They saved the Abandoned Cooling Plant. I want to build a monument for them."
Yago and Shino were moved: "I'll help you."
"Thank you."
Looking at the two energetic people, Lily couldn't help but secretly smile.
Building a monument for the players, this was the solution she came up with to deal with the players suddenly going offline!
Anyway, as long as the players knew she was still alive, the emotions that had been suppressed would definitely erupt. Since that was the case, why should she insist on appearing in front of the players?
In fact, Lily was quite grateful for this official move, because it further suppressed the players' emotions. Not only that, but this official move also directly maximized the hype around "Is Lily dead or alive?" Many trolls who originally didn't care about her fate were also attracted and started playing no-prize guessing games in the community.
When the game reopened, and players came online and saw the monument, what would they think?
Lily was very much looking forward to it.
Bring it on quickly, she couldn't wait!
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