85: Don't Laugh!
Arcade games were naturally very fun, and they could easily bring girls closer together.
Just like now, Lu Siyu, who had originally been somewhat reserved, was already being pulled by Leticia to hold toy guns and start shooting zombies together.
"Sister Little Lu, behind you, there's a monster behind you!" Leticia was quite skilled at this type of game. Not only could she easily handle the monsters on her side, she still had energy left to warn her teammate.
Lu Siyu, who basically had no gaming experience, couldn't keep up with the pace. She frantically turned her perspective around and saw a bloody, mangled face suddenly appear on the screen.
"Wah! What is that thing!" In her panic, this girl didn't forget to pull the trigger. Fortunately, this sneak-attacking monster was just the most ordinary small fry—it only took a few bullets before it softly collapsed to the ground.
Leticia was amused by Lu Siyu's reaction and laughed. She hadn't expected this seemingly reliable big sister to have such a cute side.
"Don't laugh! There are more zombies charging from the front!" Lu Siyu called out quietly with some embarrassment.
"Leave the front to me. I guarantee not a single one will slip through the net." Leticia giggled. "You can trust in my marksmanship skills."
"Even if you talk in that weird way, the monsters won't stop!"
"Don't worry, watch me."
While Leticia was leading Lu Siyu on a killing spree, Bai Ling and Xia Hongying were struggling with a claw machine.
Watching the doll in the soft claws drop once again, Bai Ling couldn't help but develop several black lines on her forehead.
"How many times have I tried?" She no longer knew how many times she had tried. She only knew that she had basically spent all her game tokens on this spot.
Xia Hongying, holding two dolls, said a number somewhat uncertainly. "Twenty times?"
"Why can the Guild Leader grab them so casually, but I can't grab even one after twenty tries?" Bai Ling's cheeks puffed up slightly, giving the impression that this girl was sulking.
"Probably luck?" Xia Hongying indicated she didn't know the reason either. It seemed like when she operated this machine, the claws were particularly strong, but when Bai Ling took over, the claws seemed exhausted.
The softness made one wonder if they could even crush a piece of tofu.
"Let me try once more." The Guild Leader walked to the front of the machine and inserted a game token.
Then she aimed the claw at the little cat doll that Bai Ling had tried for countless times and pressed the yellow button on the machine.
Then the Guild Leader knew she would definitely be able to grab the doll this time.
The momentum when the claw went down was completely different from when Bai Ling operated it.
Sure enough, a few seconds later, the claw steadily grabbed the little cat doll.
Watching this scene, Bai Ling fell silent.
"Um, Little Bai?" The Guild Leader took out the little cat doll and carefully stuffed it into Bai Ling's hands. "Your luck probably isn't very good."
Bai Ling looked at the black kitten in her hands, then glanced at Leticia who was playing happily with Lu Siyu not far away, and slowly began applying pressure with her hands.
The cute little cat was squeezed into various strange shapes, making the Guild Leader's mouth corners twitch involuntarily.
Why did it feel like Little Bai had great potential for turning dark?
"Doesn't Little Bai want to go play with Qianqian? I can see Siyu can't keep up with Qianqian's pace at all."
Bai Ling did want to go, but Leticia's attitude was quite obvious: you play your games, I play mine, we have no relationship whatsoever.
Wanting Leticia to play this kind of two-player game with her, Bai Ling felt it was impossible.
Couldn't she see that Leticia would rather pull along a girl she'd only known for an hour to play games than let her join?
"She hates me." A momentary loneliness appeared in Bai Ling's expression, making her entire person seem pitiable.
The Guild Leader patted Bai Ling's shoulder. Having personally seen Leticia and Bai Ling, she roughly understood that Leticia's previous words were probably not false.
Or rather, most of them weren't false.
Leticia's dislike for Bai Ling was written all over her face. She really looked like she planned to never have anything to do with Bai Ling until they died.
But within that attitude, there was also a hint of softness—it was a very wonderful feeling.
"Although Qianqian says with her mouth, face, and actions that she hates Little Bai, your relationship isn't actually that bad, right?"
"Because she likes pretty girls, her attitude toward me is changeable." Bai Ling borrowed Xue'er's evaluation of Leticia.
"Ah this, Qianqian isn't that shallow, right?"
"She's just that shallow. If it weren't for past events, she probably would have confessed to me the first time we met." Bai Ling began seriously spouting nonsense.
Although she knew this was unlikely, couldn't a person dream?
That night Bai Ling indeed hadn't slept well, but the feeling of Leticia nestled in her arms sleeping peacefully was deeply carved into Bai Ling's heart.
That soft, fluffy sensation—Bai Ling wanted to experience it every day.
"I feel like you're saying bad things about me." Leticia's voice rang in Bai Ling's ear. The girl looked up to find Leticia, with a face full of lingering satisfaction, standing in front of her.
On the other side, Lu Siyu looked completely burned out. This girl was leaning against the Guild Leader's shoulder, having already sat down on a nearby chair.
It seemed the two-player game just now had drained this inexperienced girl completely.
"No." Bai Ling looked away.
Guilty conscience, Leticia thought secretly, but she didn't really care whether Bai Ling had said bad things about her. She just wanted to come over and mock Bai Ling.
"The kitty is quite cute. How many tries did it take to get it?"
"Many tries." Bai Ling was a bit afraid to tell Leticia how many times she had tried—after all, it was a full twenty times.
And this thing wasn't even something she had grabbed herself—it was the Guild Leader who grabbed it in the end.
"Twenty times, right?" Leticia chuckled. Did she really think she didn't know what happened here? Her peripheral vision had been watching this spot the whole time.
"Am I very weak?" Bai Ling lowered her head, feeling her face getting somewhat hot.
Twenty times—so embarrassing.
"Um, actually it's okay." Looking at Bai Ling like this, the mockery she had originally planned to say somehow couldn't come out. Leticia was silent for a long while before dryly squeezing out a sentence.
"Eh?" Bai Ling looked up in surprise and saw Leticia's evasive gaze.
Miss Demon King was still as straightforward as ever.
"What are you looking at? Getting fooled out of so much money—tell me, aren't you an idiot!"
"Pfft."
"What are you laughing at! Don't laugh!"