When Xia Liang finished his patrol and returned to the secret base, it was already getting dark.

She put away her heart gem at the door a little tired, changed into indoor shoes, walked into the living room, and then saw Lin Xiaolu lying on the sofa playing with her mobile phone at a glance.

"Don't you watch the TV when it's on?"

walked straight to the sofa and sat down against Lin Xiaolu. Xia Liang glanced around the scene in the living room and pointed to the TV that was still playing animation not far away: "Then I'll change it to something I like to watch?" ”

"Hmm." Lin Xiaolu stared straight at the screen and responded without raising her head.

Her cold response surprised Xia Liang, because if she had expressed her intention to grab the TV to Lin Xiaolu in the past, Lin Xiaolu would have strongly objected.

When two people watch TV together, they can always argue about what program to watch. Xia Liang likes to watch idol dramas, variety shows and news, while Lin Xiaolu only likes to watch animation and popular science programs.

But the rare is rare, and the opportunity to get something for nothing is rare. Since Lin Xiaolu didn't mind, Xia Liang was naturally not polite, picked up the remote control and changed the channel to a local TV station, and just watched the evening news,

A few minutes passed like this, although Xia Liang was watching the news, he was actually still curious about what Lin Xiaolu was doing. She didn't plan to ask, but her curiosity became more and more intense, but in the end, she couldn't hold it back, and put her head next to Lin Xiaolu's mobile phone:

"What are you doing?"

Lin Xiaolu glanced at her, and then put her eyes on the phone screen again: "Game." ”

"Games? What game? ”

When she said this, Xia Liang's interest was immediately aroused: "Are you suddenly enlightened?" How did you start playing the game? ”

"Games about magical girls." Lin Xiaolu didn't raise her head.

"Is it fun?"

"I don't know."

"I don't know if you're still so engrossed?"

“…… You're so annoying. ”

Lin Xiaolu finally looked at Xia Liang and tilted the screen in his hand: "Oh, it's such a game." ”

"I'll take a look at oh, this interface, turn-based combat? And these characters...... Gacha games? ”

Xia Liang looked at Lin Xiaolu with the eyes of a stranger: "Why did you start playing with this kind of thing?" ”

"It's just playing."

Lin Xiaolu turned the phone screen back and continued to tap on it with her thumb: "Anyway, if you're idle, you're just playing." ”

"Did you get anything good?"

“…… Just play around. Lin Xiaolu's face had a look of indifference that saw through everything.

"Is that so?"

Although it sounded like Lin Xiaolu was answering the question, Xia Liang had already understood the other party's meaning from this sentence: that is, he didn't draw any good things.

It's really not a happy thing to be able to draw good things in the card gacha game, so Xia Liang didn't say anything more, but she didn't leave, but continued to squat beside Lin Xiaolu and watch.

The two of them played and watched, and after going on like this for a while, Xia Liang finally realized what was generally pointing to the screen: "You, why have you been looking for someone else to borrow this character called Akeboso?" I don't think she's strong. ”

In the game "Magical Girl Squad", when new players encounter a level that they can't pass, they can apply to borrow "battle support characters" from other players to help them clear the level.

In the process of playing, Lin Xiaolu had to borrow a character codenamed "Akeboso", no matter how difficult the current level was, which made Xia Liang quite puzzled.

"Where is it not strong? Isn't that all the time going well? Lin Xiaolu turned her head a little dissatisfied.

"But she's not a damage character at all, she's obviously a support...... Do you like this character very much? ”

"Not really."

"Then why don't you find other players to borrow a different support role?"

"I guess how I play is my own thing, right?"

"Huh-"

dragged out his voice to question, Xia Liang continued to watch from the side, and after a while, he came back to his senses, pointed to the magical girl called "Akebosa" on the screen and said: "This pink color, and this code name called 'Akebosa', is this character ......?"

"You're thinking too much."

I don't know if it was Xia Liang who said it, Lin Xiaolu's expression began to become a little complicated: "It's just a mobile game." ”

"But Akebono is another name for cherry blossoms, right?" Xia Liang continued to ask.

“…… I don't know about this kind of thing. Lin Xiaolu said in a sullen voice.

She vetoed it very simply, and Xia Liang didn't want to say anything more. The silence between the two lasted for a while, until Lin Xiaolu finished the game level at hand.

Without saying a word, she clicked on the next level, searched for the "Request for Help" interface, found the character named Akeboso, and clicked on it.

[Today's remaining number of assists: 0]

Such a hint pops up in the game.

This made Lin Xiaolu's hand freeze there suddenly.

She looked at the screen in silence, and after a while, suddenly returned to the game's main menu interface, and then clicked into the gacha option without lingering long.

Under Xia Liang's gaze, she used all the rewards for clearing the game level just now as gacha cards, and it was repeated again and again, and all kinds of characters were constantly drawn from the card pool.

However, until all the rewards are exhausted, among these drawn characters, there does not seem to be the "Akeboso" that Lin Xiaolu has been paying attention to.

Lin Xiaolu was silent again, her fingers holding the phone were slightly forced, as if she was enduring something. Eventually, she sat up abruptly and tossed her phone aside:

"It's boring, don't play! Watch TV! ”

She snatched the remote control from Xia Liang's hand, and before Xia Liang could react, she pressed the remote control and turned back to the channel where the animation was playing.

"What, I haven't finished reading the news yet, so tune back!" Xia Liang protested.

"You're not watching anyway." Lin Xiaolu is right.

"Obviously you didn't watch it first!"

"Now I'm going to watch it!"

"You're not playing games anymore?" Xia Liang raised his eyebrows.

"No more playing!" Lin Xiaolu was categorical.

"Isn't there still a character you want that you haven't gotten?"

"It's just virtual data, if you don't have it, you won't have it!" Lin Xiaolu stared at the TV and raised her chin slightly.

"However, I clearly saw that the interface of this card pool has the words [12 draws left to summon designated magical girls]."

Xia Liang picked up Lin Xiaolu's mobile phone from the sofa cushion on the side, and pointed to a line of small words on the screen: "Look." ”

Lin Xiaolu's originally determined expression suddenly wavered, she really wanted to put on a look of focusing on TV, but the constant glances to the side completely betrayed her. After realizing this, she finally gave up her disguise, stretched out her hand wordlessly, and took the mobile phone held by Xia Liang with some self-deprecation.

She looked at the top of the screen and found that there was indeed a line of words on the screen that Xia Liang said. She clicked on the list behind the line again, and soon found the "Akewoke" in it, and her eyes suddenly flashed again.

"12 more, 12 more......"

She began to think hard: "But how do you get enough of these 12 draws?" ”

She basically got the clearance rewards of the early game levels, and the difficulty of the subsequent levels is getting higher and higher, and she will definitely not be able to get involved if she can't use the "assistant role".

And for a gacha game, if you want to get gacha resources outside of the bonus part, there seems to be only one way.

"Wouldn't it be nice to recharge the money?" Xia Liang tilted his head.

"No, I know it's okay to recharge, but it seems ...... to spend money on this kind of thing"

Lin Xiaolu struggled a little and said, "Doesn't this seem like a plaything?" ”

"It's true that it's not uncommon to see news reports about the dangers of being addicted to games."

Xia Liang nodded again: "So what?" Why don't you stop playing? ”

"This ...... That ......"

Lin Xiaolu stared at the card drawing interface in the game and hesitated for a long time, unable to make up her mind, her rationality told her that she shouldn't spend money on it, but her emotion kept urging herself to order.

There was a fierce ideological struggle in her mind, her eyes staring at the screen became more and more empty, and a thin layer of cold sweat oozed from her forehead, pursed her mouth, and her dark eyes gradually swirled.

So, three minutes later.

Lin Xiaolu selects the payment option on the store interface.

After some careful calculations, she found that as long as she chose the 68 yuan option, she could meet her needs for 12 draws, so for the first time in her life, Lin Xiaolu chose to pay in the game.

She first repeatedly confirmed the option button on the mobile phone screen, read the payment instructions, and made sure that her current recharge could indeed meet the "first discount" regulations, before finally nodding, stretched out her hand, and pressed her finger on the fingerprint button.

Then, she heard an exclamation on the TV.

Subconsciously looked up to see what was happening in the animation, but found that it was just the protagonist on the TV who broke an object. Lin Xiaolu was disappointed, lowered her head again, and saw the words "payment completed" pop up on the screen.

Spending money in a game for the first time in her life, this behavior made Lin Xiaolu feel a little guilty in her heart, but in addition to the guilt, there was also a little undue excitement. With this complicated feeling, she returned to the card drawing interface, wanting to make up the remaining 12 draws and exchange them for the characters she wanted. But when I clicked on the card draw button, I suddenly noticed that there seemed to be something wrong with the number of card draws.

If she remembers correctly, the resources she bought with her money should be about 15 draws, but why, now she has 150 draws?

Looking at the numbers displayed on the mobile phone screen, Lin Xiaolu was a little stunned for a while.

"What's wrong?"

Xia Liang, who was on the side, noticed that Lin Xiaolu's face seemed to be a little wrong, so she came over again, and when she saw the numbers on the screen, she couldn't help but cover her mouth: "How much money did you charge?" ”

"It should be 68 yuan...... Right? ”

Lin Xiaolu said with some uncertainty, turned back to the store interface in the game, and looked at the previous recharge option, but found that the "first discount" logo of the 68 yuan option was still distinct. On the contrary, there is no "first discount" logo on the 648 yuan option, and the abrupt and empty button seems to indicate something.

Looking at his mobile phone screen, Lin Xiaolu once again fell into a long silence.

She seemed to have clicked the wrong button.

"Where did you get all that money?"

Xia Liang couldn't help asking, "Did your father give you pocket money?" ”

"No...... How can I say it......"

Lin Xiaolu gradually recovered from her stunned state, and said: "If I remember correctly, this seems to have been given to me by Delphinium a few days ago." ”

"What for?"

"Let me buy a teaching aid...... She said she didn't have time to buy it, so she gave me the name of the book and asked me to buy it myself, and she paid for it. ”

Lin Xiaolu's voice became smaller and quieter: "I haven't had time to buy it in the past few days." ”

"Buying teaching aids?"

Xia Liang was a little puzzled: "Why haven't I heard about this?" ”

"You were gagging, weren't you? But Delphinium must have transferred this part of the money to you. ”

Lin Xiaolu was a little strange: "Didn't you notice that there was an extra amount of money in your personal account?" ”

"The extra money on the personal account ......"

Xia Liang nodded his lower lip with a thoughtful look on his face. After a while, as if he suddenly remembered something, he clasped his palms suddenly: "Ah, I said why do I feel like I have spent more money recently, but the balance is not less at all!" ”

"You spent it too?"

"Probably?"

Xia Liang smiled dryly: "I just went to do my hair a few days ago, and when I think about it, it should be ...... at that time Did you use up the money given by the juniors? ”

The more she spoke, the more bottomless she became, but in the end, she was silent with Lin Xiaolu.

For a moment, all that was left of the living room was the sound of animation on the TV.

However, the house leak happened to rain overnight, and when the two of them didn't know what to do for a while, the sound of the door closing came from the entrance not far away. The two of them hurriedly trotted behind the wall of the living room, secretly stretched out their heads to look at the entrance, and saw Delphinium walking in from the door with Bai Jingxuan.

Delphinium walked in front, Bai Jingxuan followed, the two of them talked about something all the way to the living room, Delphinium looked at it, and saw Lin Xiaolu and Xia Liang sitting upright on the sofa, as if they were watching TV seriously.

This scene seems to be fine, but the delfinch always feels as if something is wrong: usually these two people are lying or leaning, completely lazy, why did they suddenly become so well-behaved today?

"I'm back."

Without thinking about it, she waved her hand at the girls in the living room: "How is the patrol today?" ”

"Nothing!"

As Delphinium spoke, the ponytail behind Lin Xiaolu's head jumped suddenly, and she stammered: "Everything, everything is normal, there are no residual beasts, and there are no dangerous incidents!" ”

"That's fine, no problem. And the voice can not be shouted so loudly. ”

Delphinium nodded expressionlessly, and turned her gaze to Xia Liang: "What about Xiaojin, is there any situation?" ”

"Oh, no, no." Xia Liang also looked away inexplicably, "Let me report to you, the last time a remnant beast appeared in the Sunset District was last week, and this week has been very calm." ”

"Why use honorifics?"

The strange behavior of the two made Delphinium more and more confused, but she couldn't think of anything that could happen, so she didn't ask: "Okay, it's hard work, then I'll go to the kitchen to prepare dinner first, and you can continue to rest." ”

The two girls in the living room can only dull the answer "yes". Bai Jingxuan shouted "I'll help" and ran to the kitchen with Delphinch.

After the delphinium left, the two people in the living room, you look at me, I look at you, they seem to have something to say, but none of them speak first. It wasn't until Lin Xiaolu had been brewing for a long time and finally decided to say something that Delphia suddenly came out of the kitchen again.

- "Oh, by the way, tonight is a cram day, you should remember, right?" ”

She put sleeves on her hands and admonished, "I should have asked you to prepare the teaching aids last time, if you have time, you can preview them first." ”

"The final exam of the second grade is also coming soon, and your recent grades are actually not too stable, so I marked the range for you before, so you should look at these ranges first."

"It's okay if you don't want to prepare, but I'll probably ask a little more questions to make sure you can master the ...... Well? What's wrong? Why do you look so bad? Too tired? And what are you doing when you suddenly stand up? Why so close? ”

- "I'm sorry! Delphinium! ”

"I'm sorry! Little seniors! ”

Delphinium didn't think much about it originally, but before she finished speaking, she saw Lin Xiaolu and Xia Liang suddenly get up from the sofa and trot in front of her. Then they all lowered their heads and said the above words in unison.

Looking at her daughter who looked like she was admitting her mistake in front of her, Delphinium couldn't react for a while. She blinked, and after a while, she spoke a little dazedly:

“…… Ha? ”

(End of chapter)