kvmb Chapter 250 Confrontation
Chapter 250 Confrontation
Chapter 250 Confrontation
The afterglow of the setting sun shone through the glass of the coffee shop, casting a warm yellow hue on the wooden tables and chairs.
Shen Tong arrived at the agreed-upon coffee shop early. She sat in a corner, her fingers unconsciously tapping lightly on the table, her eyes occasionally glancing towards the door.
A moment later, Xia Lan entered the coffee shop. Her eyes searched the shop and quickly found Shen Tong.
Xia Lan took a deep breath and walked towards Shen Tong.
She appeared calm on the surface, but she was actually quite nervous inside.
It's unclear what Shen Tong wants to say this time, but when choosing a meeting place, Xia Lan specifically suggested a coffee shop in a bustling area.
For safety reasons, Shen Tong couldn't just pull out a gun in the middle of the city on a whim, could he?
"I didn't expect you to agree to meet me." Shen Tong smiled as she looked at Xia Lan, who was sitting opposite her.
"Just say what you want to say..." Although Xia Lan agreed to meet, she also had her own selfish curiosity, but that didn't mean she wasn't wary of Shen Tong's unpredictable temper.
This person is the murderer who killed Lin Zhao.
"I know you're still angry about Lin Zhao, but she won't really die, don't you know that?" Shen Tong still looked indifferent.
The protagonist killed by the time traveler will continue to be the protagonist in other stories, so in a sense, it is true that they do not die.
“This is not a reason for you to get my forgiveness!” Xia Lan was clearly very dissatisfied with her attitude.
Shen Tong scoffed and shook her head: "You're really suited for the role of the female lead, aren't you? You're such a show-off..."
Xia Lan frowned: "What did you say?"
"It's nothing, she's the mother of the innocent white lotus, a standard feature of the female lead."
"You asked me out just to say this?" Xia Lan said coldly, standing up abruptly. "Then I'm sorry, I don't have time to waste on you."
"Are you angry? Is it really that serious?" Shen Tong waved her hand, leaned back, crossed her long legs, and adopted a lazy yet domineering sitting posture: "Sit down and let's have a good talk."
Shen Tong's low-frequency, mature female voice has a pleasant and authoritative quality, even more so than Lu He's voice.
For a moment, Xia Lan found herself unable to resist the urge to sit down.
She quickly regained her composure. Thank goodness, she almost fell for the allure of her beauty.
"What exactly do you want to talk to me about?" Xia Lan didn't sit down, but stood up and looked down at Shen Tong.
"I've decided to give up and stop competing with you..." Shen Tong suddenly changed her tough attitude, sighed, and softened her tone.
"what?"
"I'm withdrawing from this competition... I hope you and Lu He are doing well, and don't let her know that Shen Yutong ever existed in this world..." Shen Tong had a sincere and regretful expression, and seemed to be in great pain.
If Xia Lan were still the same naive and innocent girl she once was, or if she hadn't already experienced several story worlds, she would definitely have been fooled by Shen Tong's superb acting skills.
"You're not unwilling to fight, you're just afraid Lu He will find out that you, Shen Yutong, killed Lin Zhao, right?" Xia Lan saw through Shen Tong's little scheme in an instant.
Shen Tong's lips twitched slightly, a mixture of embarrassment at being exposed and barely concealed murderous intent.
Xia Lan is right, it is indeed a temporary measure. She was originally afraid that Xia Lan would tell Lu He that she was Shen Yutong.
Lu He, who was already disappointed in her, would only be more disappointed. For some reason, Shen Yutong felt afraid of this.
Her first regret was kidnapping Xia Lan that day and intending to shoot her, but accidentally killing Lin Zhao instead. This was the first time she regretted killing an NPC.
But it wasn't because of her guilt towards the NPCs; she was still selfish after all. She was only afraid of being exposed, and all she cared about was Lu He's opinion of her.
Shen Yutong has been traveling and struggling through different worlds for a very long time. She herself doesn't even remember the plot of spending hundreds or thousands of years in these comic book worlds. She has long since become obsessive and extreme.
The coffee cup in her hand was already crumpled and deformed, but she was still trying hard to suppress her emotions.
It was the anger of being offended by ants. How dare a mere NPC from a comic book world threaten me? Even if you are the protagonist with a halo, you can still be killed at will by a time traveler.
The ability to exchange items and survive in the comic book world like having a cheat code had long made Shen Yutong accustomed to placing herself in a god-like position and looking at those human-machine NPCs; she never regarded them as human beings.
Only after meeting Lu He... only after meeting this woman... everything changed.
In fact, Lu He never knew that in her original world, she was not the protagonist, but just a supporting character.
Back then, when Shen Yutong was on a mission in that world, the targets she fought against had nothing to do with Lu He; they were just in the same school.
At that time, the main characters were the school beauty and the school hunk, Shen Yutong was the villainous female supporting character, and Lu He was just an inconspicuous passerby in the class.
Even in the comics, he doesn't have his own name.
But this background character in the comic intruded into the plot, as if it had awakened a life force, and deeply attracted Shen Yutong.
Therefore, in Shen Yutong's mind, she was very different, unlike those human-machine NPCs.
But just when Shen Yutong thought they would never cross paths again after leaving that comic, they met again in the Fairy Spirit comic, and in such a terrible way.
The two separated when they hated each other, but met again in this campus comic. Moreover, the system gave her the opening content in advance, allowing her to understand Lu He and Xia Lan's identities and situations.
In Shen Yutong's eyes, this was the system helping her, making her wish come true, and she was the chosen one!
“As you said,” Shen Yutong spread her hands, adopting a self-deprecating attitude, “I can no longer let Lu He know that Shen Yutong killed Lin Zhao, so naturally I can no longer continue to compete, right?”
That makes sense. Xia Lan was half-convinced and half-doubtful. She quickly pondered Shen Yutong's intentions, as only a three-tenths of what she said was true.
“Even if I’m not willing to back down, but I’m afraid Lu He will find out that I killed Lin Zhao, haven’t I already lost?” Shen Yutong continued to guide Xia Lan, hoping to persuade her to help conceal her identity.
"I understand..." Xia Lan didn't give a clear answer, but coldly glanced at Shen Yutong's face: "If there's nothing else, I'll be leaving now." After saying that, she pushed open the door of the coffee shop without looking back.
With a "smack," Shen Yutong slammed the deformed cup of coffee onto the floor, spilling coffee everywhere.