hapter 52
At this moment, a large shout broke the silence, “Hurry, hurry! Over here!”
Ye Jia: “?”
The next second, the Combat Division team members who had withdrawn from the building earlier rushed over like a hungry tiger charging towards its food. He soon found himself surrounded by them.
Several pairs of shiny eyes stared at Ye Jia and babbled, “It’s great that great god hasn’t left yet!”
“I knew you would be able to take on any situation no matter how dangerous it is!”
“Great god, please give me your autograph!”
Ye Jia: “………”
Just as he was feeling a headache forming because of these fanboys of his, he suddenly heard a loud exclamation coming from the back, “Ace?!”
Ye Jia: “…….”
Fuck……
That was a familiar voice.
He took in a deep breath and slowly turned to look in the direction of that sound.
It was a petite young woman carrying a huge chainsaw that didn’t suit her size. Her brown eyes widened and her expression showed astonishment and joy. With flushed cheeks, she immediately rushed over, “Ahhhhh!! You’re here!!”
Wu Su finally caught up from behind. He panted heavily and complained, “Little ancestor, slow down!”
When he saw Ye Jia who was surrounded by these people, Wu Su was also taken aback, “Ace…….”
At this moment, Wei Yuechu shot through the crowd like a small cannonball.
Ye Jia who was startled by her hurriedly shrank back.
Wu Su who followed closely also dashed over.
He glanced nervously at Chen Qingye who was also standing nearby as if fearing that the other party would choose to take revenge at a time like this and whispered quietly, “D-did you receive my message?”
He indicated with his eyes and mouthed, “Red is here!”
At this moment, the Red he was referring to was still carefully taking in the small gu larva in his hand with teary eyes, completely immersed in his own world. He was completely oblivious of the changes around him.
“What? Red?” Wei Yuechu immediately stopped in her steps and asked loudly, “He’s also here?”
Upon hearing his name, Chen Qingye raised his head and looked over.
Two brightly coloured gu insects crawled out and carefully moved the mother gu larva into his sleeves to protect it.
He pushed up his glasses, stored away the emotions from earlier and replied stiffly, “Hello, that’s me.”
Wei Yuechu’s eyes narrowed slightly.
Holding a huge chainsaw in her hands, she sneered, “What? Are you here to seek revenge again?”
Chen Qingye slowly answered, “Yes, but……”
Before he was able to finish speaking, the chainsaw in Wei Yuechu’s hand began to roar. She continued with her sweet voice, but her words seemed to be laced with poison, “Isn’t it just a bug? You sure are relentless. Aren’t you embarrassed? To think that you would chase after him even outside the game. Do you need me to help you fix your head up a little so that you can return to your senses?”
Chen Qingye narrowed his eyes and slowly repeated, “Just a bug?”
His words were still calm and without emotion, but Wu Su could keenly sense a trace of danger in his words, “………”
This isn’t good.
Sure enough, the next second a centipede with numerous eyes on its body baring its teeth and brandishing its claws suddenly appeared. Its eyes stared coldly at the petite young woman before it.
The members of the Combat Division had already witnessed A’Chang’s strength earlier, so they no longer dared to ask for an autograph and quickly retreated to make way for the big bosses.
Wei Yuechu chuckled lightly, “Tenth in ranking? Let me see how great tenth place is.”
Chen Qingye touched A’Chang’s dark black shell and pushed up his glasses, “It just so happens that my baby is also hungry…….”
A’Chang hiss of warning and the young woman’s chainsaw’s roar mixed together. The smell of gunpower filled the air. A fierce battle was imminent.
Ye Jia pinched the bridge of his nose. He raised his voice and shouted, “Stop!”
A’Chang, Wei Yuechu and Chen Qingye, one insect and two humans all turned to look at the source of that sound at the same time.
Ye Jia slowly let out a breath, “You guys calm down…….”
Chen Qingye scratched his slightly messy hair and lowly answered, “Oh……….”
The next second, A’Chang’s figure turned small again. It swiftly returned into his sleeve.
Wei Yuechu was dumbfounded, “……….”
Wait a minute?
Why was Red so obedient?
She dumbfoundedly watched Chen Qingye slowly walk to Ye Jia’s side and solemnly push up his slightly slanted glasses, “Apologies……”
Wei Yuechu: “……..”
Huh?
What’s going on?
Wu Su who was standing to the side was also at a loss —- Are all you big bosses all so fickle?
Ye Jia was surprised as well. He didn’t expect Chen Qingye to be this cooperative.
Standing next to him, Chen Qingye proceeded to spread open his hand. Soon afterwards, the pitch-black A’Chang and several other colourful, strangely shaped gu insects crawled out from under his sleeves.
Ye Jia: “?”
He then heard Chen Qingye begin to enthusiastically introduce them to him, “This is A’Chang…..” (KKnotes: Chang = Long)
“This is A’Hua……” (KKnotes: Hua = Flower)
“This is A’Lu……..” (KKnotes: Lu = Green)
Ye Jia: “………”
This style of naming his insects was really impressive. Very straightforward and fresh. (KKnotes: The phrase that was often used in this novel to describe the gu insects was 花花绿绿 (hua hua lu lu) which means colourful/brightly coloured hence the joke here)
Wei Yuechu curled up her lips, turned off her chainsaw, and hurried over to Ye Jia.
The fight that was about to start was thus resolved just like that.
Wu Su couldn’t seem to process this scene.
He raised his eyes to look at the three figures standing not far away —- Red and Maid surrounded the young man. The tense atmosphere from a moment ago was completely gone, as if it was never there in the first place.
At that moment, Wu Su couldn’t help but be amazed.
Thousands of words condensed into one line:
Ace is amazing!
After listening to Chen Qingye’s introduction of his gu insects, Wei Yuechu rolled her eyes and coldly snorted, “Humph! Your naming skill is just too pathetic. A’Chang, A’Lu, A’Hua, what kind of names are those?”
Chen Qingye narrowed his eyes: “………”
A’Chang who was sitting on his thumb raised its head and hissed. It once again prepared to launch an attack.
Ye Jia immediately intervened and broke up the tense atmosphere, “I think you two should already know what the current situation is like now, yes?”
Chen Qingye and Wei Yuechu were both successfully distracted. They both turned to look at Ye Jia at the same time. Wei Yuechu tilted her head and asked, “Are you referring to the game crashing and the ghost doors opening?”
Chen Qingye calmly mocked, “Thank you for your reminder……”
Wei Yuechu glared at him, “You………!”
Ye Jia once again interrupted the two, “That’s right……”
The two glared at each other for a moment before bitterly looking away.
Chen Qingye asked after some thought, “I am actually very curious about why you sent out your signature — Based on what I know, this seems to be your first time doing this?”
“I also want to know this —- Especially since it won’t just attract friends, it would also attract enemies.” Wei Yuechu glanced at Chen Qingye.
Chen Qingye ignored her and just lowered his head and focused on calming the agitated A’Chang.
Wei Yuechu retracted her gaze. Her clear brown eyes stopped on the young man before her and she slowly asked, “So, for what reason did you take such a big risk to gather the players?”
This question went straight to the point.
Ye Jia hooked up his lips. His voice was gentle and calm, “Ever since the game crashed, humans have always been at a complete disadvantage. We have no idea who our opponent is, what their purpose is and what their next plans are. Don’t you feel aggrieved?”
The other two were left stunned. They both looked towards the person who asked them this question.
The young man’s voice was soft and it even contained a hint of a smile but that wasn’t enough to conceal the dangerous air in his words, “Don’t you want to fight back?”
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Ye Jia rubbed the bridge of his nose in exhaustion. He suddenly felt tired all over.
The things that had to be dealt with today were too complicated.
After all, once players were involved, things would inevitably become more complicated —- This was also the reason why he didn’t reveal himself to Maid before.
But with the Yin Pit incident, all the earlier reservations he had were thrown off the table.
Fortunately, the solution wasn’t bad.
Both Chen Qingye and Wei Yuechu were very interested in his proposal —- By getting them involved, he was able to successfully take the first step in his plan.
Ye Jia habitually activated his ghost domain.
As soon as he stepped into the hotel room, he was met with a loud scream.
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Standing before him was a tall and fat middle-aged man wrapped in a bath towel. He covered his chest and screamed, “AHHHHH!”
Ye Jia: “……….” Fuck.
“Sorry, my mistake.” He smiled awkwardly and then once again activated his ghost domain and left.
The middle-aged man stared at the empty space before him in confusion, “?”
Wait a minute. Did I see wrongly just now?
Standing on an empty street, Ye Jia slowly let out a sigh of relief.
The sleepiness from earlier was now completely gone and he finally remembered the deal he had made with Ji Xuan.
After the game crashed, there was no other way of obtaining the gu larva apart from getting it from Ji Xuan.
And so, in exchange for the mother gu larva, Ye Jia had agreed to stay at Ji Xuan’s place until his apartment was repaired.
Ye Jia could feel a headache forming again.
He dug out his phone and turned on the screen.
Two hours ago, Ji Xuan had sent him the address.
The small black hand leaned over from behind his shoulder and exclaimed, “Wow……”
Ye Jia, “Huh?”
The small black hand said enviously, “This place is a very expensive place in M City.”
Ye Jia: “…….”
No wonder he had no impression of it.
The small black hand sighed, “Haa, if I had this much money, I wonder how many skins I could buy…….”
It quickly stopped there and secretly glanced at Ye Jia.
Ye Jia didn’t pay the small black hand any attention. Looking at the address displayed on his phone screen, he lowly sighed.
—– Everyone clearly came out of the same game, but why was there such a big difference between them?
There was still no answer to this question that had been bothering him for a long time.
If it really wasn’t from robbing a bank, was Ji Xuan able to magically conjure up money?
He really wanted to know his secret to getting rich.
The small black hand secretly breathed a sigh of relief. It held onto Ye Jia’s collar and asked nervously, “Hey…..Speaking of which, now that you are going to live at King’s place……would you run into him often?”
Although Ye Jia had already warned Ji Xuan not to threaten it anymore….
But…….
The small black hand still couldn’t help but shudder when it recalled the moment that man glanced at it expressionlessly.
Ahhhhhh help!! It still wanted to hide as far as possible from him!!
Ye Jia stored away his phone and shook his head, “No, I have already confirmed it in advance.”
He still remembered Ji Xuan’s answer to this question —— “As a fierce ghost, I don’t need to rest.”
In his memory, the man’s eyes and lips contained pure kindness. He didn’t seem to be lying.
The small black hand, “………”
Why do I have a bad feeling?
Ye Jia activated his ghost domain again and then arrived at the address on his phone.
There were traces of this place being hidden by yin energy, making it almost impossible for one to enter using their ghost domain.
He took out a key and unlocked the door.
The spacious apartment was decorated very simply such that it had cleverly blended luxury with simplicity. Although the word ‘rich’ was evident just looking in from the door, it looked extremely comfortable to live in.
Ye Jia glanced around. For some reason, he felt that this place seemed like a more luxurious and upgraded version of the apartment he was living in.
His personal belongings had already been unpacked and left in various places. It made it seem as if he had lived here for a long time.
For a moment, an extremely realistic scene that had never happened before couldn’t help but appear briefly in Ye Jia’s mind.
—– Ji Xuan stood in front of him, declaring proudly, “See? Isn’t it better than staying in a hotel?”
Ye Jia: “………”
He raised his hand again and pinched the bridge of his nose.
Sure enough, he should get some rest.
This place was too big. Ye Jia didn’t bother going upstairs and just simply laid down on the sofa and closed his eyes to nap for ten or twenty minutes.
Hazy sleepiness soon drew him in. A familiar dream once again enveloped him.
Red and black slowly intermingled and a strange scene gradually formed. The monsters he had encountered in the game, the companions who had died, familiar faces, they all mixed and blended together into a both unfamiliar and familiar figure that circled around him again and again.
He silently held his weapon and indifferently watched on.
Those physiques were distorted and stretched, and small, fragmented whispers reached his ears from time to time. The blood-coloured world was then split open, leaving only endless coldness and darkness.
Ye Jia suddenly opened his eyes.
He firmly grabbed the hand that was reaching towards his cheek and then turned, flipped and suppressed — Like a sleeping beast who was suddenly startled awake, he instinctively bared his claws and fangs, a habit he had deeply burned into his bones. It was all done fluidly, as if it had been done millions of times, and he firmly suppressed the person under him.
His eyes were clear. Only cold killing intent shone in his eyes.
A frosty light glistened at the tip of his finger. The blade rested under the other party’s jaw.
The coffee table beside the sofa was completely smashed. A man with scarlet eyes laid amidst this mess; his vitals completely exposed to the person above him, his life and death hanging from a thread.
Ji Xuan didn’t resist.
He lazily spread open his arms, his hands resting on both sides as if surrendering. He turned a blind eye to the danger before him and even seemed to be smiling faintly.
Ye Jia seemed to have finally returned to his senses.
He narrowed his eyes coldly. The cold blade in his hand had slowly disappeared, but the muscles in his body were still tense, “What are you doing here?”
His voice was a little hoarse and somewhat cold and detached.
Ji Xuan blinked innocently. He spread open his left hand, allowing the thin blanket to slip from his fingers and fall onto the ground.
“Gege, you’ll catch a cold sleeping in the living room.”
Ye Jia stared fixatedly at him for a few seconds before slowly releasing his grip and getting up.
Ji Xuan remained lying on the ground. The gaze he used to look at the young man moving away from him seemed to show a trace of disappointment.
He asked, “Nightmare?”
Ye Jia looked away and didn’t answer.
He raised a hand and massaged his aching forehead, “I’ll pay for the coffee table.”
—– Just giving yourself to me will be enough.
But Ji Xuan naturally didn’t dare say that line in front of the other party.
He curled up the corners of his lips, “Okay….”
Ye Jia lowered his head and glanced at him with a frown, “Why are you here?”
Ji Xuan slowly sat up and dusted off his clothes.
He raised his eyes to look at Ye Jia innocently, “This is my home, why can’t I be here?”
Ye Jia, “Home?”
Ji Xuan nodded without a change to his expression, “Yes….”
“Didn’t you say that you didn’t need rest?” Ye Jia who couldn’t understand drew his brows together, “Why is this place considered your home?”
Ji Xuan curled up his lips, “Sometimes, I need some personal space.”
Ye Jia expressionlessly asked, “Don’t you have a lot of places under your name?”
Ji Xuan, “But I like this place the most.”
Ye Jia took in a deep breath. He suppressed his anger and said through gritted teeth, “Okay, then let me move to a place you don’t like.”
Ji Xuan looked at him and blinked a few times, “But wherever gege is is the place I like the most.”
Ye Jia: “…….”
Shameless. Utterly shameless.
Just as Ye Jia was left speechless from his shamelessness, Ji Xuan got up and patted off the rest of the dust from his body, “Since you’re awake, you should go and wash your hands.”
Ye Jia, “?”
Ji Xuan lightly chuckled and then suddenly leaned over.
Ye Jia instinctively wanted to back away, but he forced himself to remain in place. He stared coldly at Ji Xuan who was getting closer.
The distance between the two gradually shortened. The man stared fixatedly at him with his dark red eyes for a moment before suddenly lowering his eyes and lightly picking off a piece of dust from his shoulder. His voice was low and deep, like a lover’s whisper, “Dinner is ready……”
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In the bathroom.
Water flowed into the white, marble sink as small droplets spattered out.
Ye Jia lowered his eyes and watched the water flow along his fingers.
He seemed to have lost his mind for a moment. By the time he returned to his senses, he had already entered the bathroom —- He was probably still half-asleep.
He picked up a handful of water and hurriedly washed his face.
A young man’s wet face was reflected in the mirror. Water droplets slipped down from his brows and his wet hair stuck to his forehead. A pair of amber eyes stared at his reflection in the mirror.
The coldness in his eyes that had yet dissipated as well as his exhaustion from earlier intermingled on his contrarily calm appearance.
—- It had been a long time since he left the game.
It took Ye Jia a long time to adapt to his current peaceful life and it took him an even longer time to stop himself from habitually counterattacking every time he was awakened.
Now that the ghosts and monsters as well as his acquaintances from the game had appeared in the real world, they had also brought along with it his nightmares and habits from the game.
The time it took to regain all that was much shorter than the time it took for him to change it.
—– No matter what, he had to have a proper chat with Ji Xuan.
He was not ready to maintain such a close relationship and distance with the other party.
Living together was absolutely impossible.
Ye Jia lowered his eyes and reached for the towel next to him. He briefly dried his face using it and then turned to leave the bathroom.
Unexpectedly, Ji Xuan was waiting for him outside.
Ye Jia noticed something off in his expression. He swallowed back the words that he had wanted to say earlier and asked, “What’s wrong?”
Ji Xuan hooked up his lips, “You should take a look……….”
He snapped his fingers.
The next second, Ye Jia found himself in the large warehouse from before. The numerous shelves that were originally filled with dolls were now pitifully empty.
Sitting in the middle of the warehouse was a small mountain of books. The white pages were almost blinding.
“Wahhhhhhhhhh——–” Puppet Master with the appearance of a seven- or eight-year-old child sat in the middle of this, wailing tearfully while holding his broken dolls, “I don’t want it do it anymore!”
He cried especially miserably with his hair dishevelled and his little pale face filled with despair. The dark eyebags under his eyes made it seem like he had been punched in each eye.
Even after seeing Ji Xuan and Ye Jia, Puppet Master continued to show no intentions to get up from the ground.
He wiped away his tears and wailed, “I-I hate maaaaths!”
Ye Jia almost let out a laugh.
He deliberately suppressed the corners of his lips that were slowly rising and then bent down and put on a gentle, big brotherly expression, “If you don’t want to do it, then you don’t have to do it.”
“R-really?” Puppet Master asked between his sobs.
Ye Jia smiled benevolently, “Of course. All you need to do is to answer a few of our questions.”
Puppet Master was a little hesitant, “B…but…….”
Ji Xuan spoke up nonchalantly, “Do you know why you were captured by us?”
Puppet Master was taken aback. Tears were still rolling down his face.
“Even if we managed to render your puppet skills useless, you shouldn’t be left in a state where you are unable to slip away using your ghost domain.” Ji Xuan narrowed his dark red eyes and a faint smile lingered on his lips, “Or did you really think that it was a gift from Mother?”
Puppet Master lowered his head.
A long time later, he looked back up, the sinister look returning to his eyes. He gritted his teeth, “W-what do you want to know?”
Although the ghost doors had opened, the fierce ghosts that had appeared in public had only been A-Level at most. Even the few S-Level ones that had appeared were not the backbones of the game — Fly King and Puppet Master were both relatively weak existences among them.
The real S-Level lords had not yet made their appearance.
They seemed to have disappeared, completely hidden from the public’s sight. Although not many humans seemed to have lost their lives because of them, but it was this very disappearance that made him all the more concerned.
Because of the bloodline restraints, Ji Xuan couldn’t reveal to him Mother’s plans.
However, based on the information they had gathered, those S-Level fierce ghosts, including Ji Xuan, Fly King and Puppet Master, they each had their own tasks.
—– Tasks that were directly assigned to them by Mother.
Ye Jia narrowed his eyes and slowly said, “I need to know where those S-Level lords are.”
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—– “Don’t you want to fight back?”
In the dark night, the eyes under the young man’s hood shone a cold light. The young woman and the bespectacled man slowly turned to look at each other. They both saw determination and resolve in each other’s eyes.
—– Of course we do.
hapter 52
At this moment, a large shout broke the silence, “Hurry, hurry! Over here!”
Ye Jia: “?”
The next second, the Combat Division team members who had withdrawn from the building earlier rushed over like a hungry tiger charging towards its food. He soon found himself surrounded by them.
Several pairs of shiny eyes stared at Ye Jia and babbled, “It’s great that great god hasn’t left yet!”
“I knew you would be able to take on any situation no matter how dangerous it is!”
“Great god, please give me your autograph!”
Ye Jia: “………”
Just as he was feeling a headache forming because of these fanboys of his, he suddenly heard a loud exclamation coming from the back, “Ace?!”
Ye Jia: “…….”
Fuck……
That was a familiar voice.
He took in a deep breath and slowly turned to look in the direction of that sound.
It was a petite young woman carrying a huge chainsaw that didn’t suit her size. Her brown eyes widened and her expression showed astonishment and joy. With flushed cheeks, she immediately rushed over, “Ahhhhh!! You’re here!!”
Wu Su finally caught up from behind. He panted heavily and complained, “Little ancestor, slow down!”
When he saw Ye Jia who was surrounded by these people, Wu Su was also taken aback, “Ace…….”
At this moment, Wei Yuechu shot through the crowd like a small cannonball.
Ye Jia who was startled by her hurriedly shrank back.
Wu Su who followed closely also dashed over.
He glanced nervously at Chen Qingye who was also standing nearby as if fearing that the other party would choose to take revenge at a time like this and whispered quietly, “D-did you receive my message?”
He indicated with his eyes and mouthed, “Red is here!”
At this moment, the Red he was referring to was still carefully taking in the small gu larva in his hand with teary eyes, completely immersed in his own world. He was completely oblivious of the changes around him.
“What? Red?” Wei Yuechu immediately stopped in her steps and asked loudly, “He’s also here?”
Upon hearing his name, Chen Qingye raised his head and looked over.
Two brightly coloured gu insects crawled out and carefully moved the mother gu larva into his sleeves to protect it.
He pushed up his glasses, stored away the emotions from earlier and replied stiffly, “Hello, that’s me.”
Wei Yuechu’s eyes narrowed slightly.
Holding a huge chainsaw in her hands, she sneered, “What? Are you here to seek revenge again?”
Chen Qingye slowly answered, “Yes, but……”
Before he was able to finish speaking, the chainsaw in Wei Yuechu’s hand began to roar. She continued with her sweet voice, but her words seemed to be laced with poison, “Isn’t it just a bug? You sure are relentless. Aren’t you embarrassed? To think that you would chase after him even outside the game. Do you need me to help you fix your head up a little so that you can return to your senses?”
Chen Qingye narrowed his eyes and slowly repeated, “Just a bug?”
His words were still calm and without emotion, but Wu Su could keenly sense a trace of danger in his words, “………”
This isn’t good.
Sure enough, the next second a centipede with numerous eyes on its body baring its teeth and brandishing its claws suddenly appeared. Its eyes stared coldly at the petite young woman before it.
The members of the Combat Division had already witnessed A’Chang’s strength earlier, so they no longer dared to ask for an autograph and quickly retreated to make way for the big bosses.
Wei Yuechu chuckled lightly, “Tenth in ranking? Let me see how great tenth place is.”
Chen Qingye touched A’Chang’s dark black shell and pushed up his glasses, “It just so happens that my baby is also hungry…….”
A’Chang hiss of warning and the young woman’s chainsaw’s roar mixed together. The smell of gunpower filled the air. A fierce battle was imminent.
Ye Jia pinched the bridge of his nose. He raised his voice and shouted, “Stop!”
A’Chang, Wei Yuechu and Chen Qingye, one insect and two humans all turned to look at the source of that sound at the same time.
Ye Jia slowly let out a breath, “You guys calm down…….”
Chen Qingye scratched his slightly messy hair and lowly answered, “Oh……….”
The next second, A’Chang’s figure turned small again. It swiftly returned into his sleeve.
Wei Yuechu was dumbfounded, “……….”
Wait a minute?
Why was Red so obedient?
She dumbfoundedly watched Chen Qingye slowly walk to Ye Jia’s side and solemnly push up his slightly slanted glasses, “Apologies……”
Wei Yuechu: “……..”
Huh?
What’s going on?
Wu Su who was standing to the side was also at a loss —- Are all you big bosses all so fickle?
Ye Jia was surprised as well. He didn’t expect Chen Qingye to be this cooperative.
Standing next to him, Chen Qingye proceeded to spread open his hand. Soon afterwards, the pitch-black A’Chang and several other colourful, strangely shaped gu insects crawled out from under his sleeves.
Ye Jia: “?”
He then heard Chen Qingye begin to enthusiastically introduce them to him, “This is A’Chang…..” (KKnotes: Chang = Long)
“This is A’Hua……” (KKnotes: Hua = Flower)
“This is A’Lu……..” (KKnotes: Lu = Green)
Ye Jia: “………”
This style of naming his insects was really impressive. Very straightforward and fresh. (KKnotes: The phrase that was often used in this novel to describe the gu insects was 花花绿绿 (hua hua lu lu) which means colourful/brightly coloured hence the joke here)
Wei Yuechu curled up her lips, turned off her chainsaw, and hurried over to Ye Jia.
The fight that was about to start was thus resolved just like that.
Wu Su couldn’t seem to process this scene.
He raised his eyes to look at the three figures standing not far away —- Red and Maid surrounded the young man. The tense atmosphere from a moment ago was completely gone, as if it was never there in the first place.
At that moment, Wu Su couldn’t help but be amazed.
Thousands of words condensed into one line:
Ace is amazing!
After listening to Chen Qingye’s introduction of his gu insects, Wei Yuechu rolled her eyes and coldly snorted, “Humph! Your naming skill is just too pathetic. A’Chang, A’Lu, A’Hua, what kind of names are those?”
Chen Qingye narrowed his eyes: “………”
A’Chang who was sitting on his thumb raised its head and hissed. It once again prepared to launch an attack.
Ye Jia immediately intervened and broke up the tense atmosphere, “I think you two should already know what the current situation is like now, yes?”
Chen Qingye and Wei Yuechu were both successfully distracted. They both turned to look at Ye Jia at the same time. Wei Yuechu tilted her head and asked, “Are you referring to the game crashing and the ghost doors opening?”
Chen Qingye calmly mocked, “Thank you for your reminder……”
Wei Yuechu glared at him, “You………!”
Ye Jia once again interrupted the two, “That’s right……”
The two glared at each other for a moment before bitterly looking away.
Chen Qingye asked after some thought, “I am actually very curious about why you sent out your signature — Based on what I know, this seems to be your first time doing this?”
“I also want to know this —- Especially since it won’t just attract friends, it would also attract enemies.” Wei Yuechu glanced at Chen Qingye.
Chen Qingye ignored her and just lowered his head and focused on calming the agitated A’Chang.
Wei Yuechu retracted her gaze. Her clear brown eyes stopped on the young man before her and she slowly asked, “So, for what reason did you take such a big risk to gather the players?”
This question went straight to the point.
Ye Jia hooked up his lips. His voice was gentle and calm, “Ever since the game crashed, humans have always been at a complete disadvantage. We have no idea who our opponent is, what their purpose is and what their next plans are. Don’t you feel aggrieved?”
The other two were left stunned. They both looked towards the person who asked them this question.
The young man’s voice was soft and it even contained a hint of a smile but that wasn’t enough to conceal the dangerous air in his words, “Don’t you want to fight back?”
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Ye Jia rubbed the bridge of his nose in exhaustion. He suddenly felt tired all over.
The things that had to be dealt with today were too complicated.
After all, once players were involved, things would inevitably become more complicated —- This was also the reason why he didn’t reveal himself to Maid before.
But with the Yin Pit incident, all the earlier reservations he had were thrown off the table.
Fortunately, the solution wasn’t bad.
Both Chen Qingye and Wei Yuechu were very interested in his proposal —- By getting them involved, he was able to successfully take the first step in his plan.
Ye Jia habitually activated his ghost domain.
As soon as he stepped into the hotel room, he was met with a loud scream.
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Standing before him was a tall and fat middle-aged man wrapped in a bath towel. He covered his chest and screamed, “AHHHHH!”
Ye Jia: “……….” Fuck.
“Sorry, my mistake.” He smiled awkwardly and then once again activated his ghost domain and left.
The middle-aged man stared at the empty space before him in confusion, “?”
Wait a minute. Did I see wrongly just now?
Standing on an empty street, Ye Jia slowly let out a sigh of relief.
The sleepiness from earlier was now completely gone and he finally remembered the deal he had made with Ji Xuan.
After the game crashed, there was no other way of obtaining the gu larva apart from getting it from Ji Xuan.
And so, in exchange for the mother gu larva, Ye Jia had agreed to stay at Ji Xuan’s place until his apartment was repaired.
Ye Jia could feel a headache forming again.
He dug out his phone and turned on the screen.
Two hours ago, Ji Xuan had sent him the address.
The small black hand leaned over from behind his shoulder and exclaimed, “Wow……”
Ye Jia, “Huh?”
The small black hand said enviously, “This place is a very expensive place in M City.”
Ye Jia: “…….”
No wonder he had no impression of it.
The small black hand sighed, “Haa, if I had this much money, I wonder how many skins I could buy…….”
It quickly stopped there and secretly glanced at Ye Jia.
Ye Jia didn’t pay the small black hand any attention. Looking at the address displayed on his phone screen, he lowly sighed.
—– Everyone clearly came out of the same game, but why was there such a big difference between them?
There was still no answer to this question that had been bothering him for a long time.
If it really wasn’t from robbing a bank, was Ji Xuan able to magically conjure up money?
He really wanted to know his secret to getting rich.
The small black hand secretly breathed a sigh of relief. It held onto Ye Jia’s collar and asked nervously, “Hey…..Speaking of which, now that you are going to live at King’s place……would you run into him often?”
Although Ye Jia had already warned Ji Xuan not to threaten it anymore….
But…….
The small black hand still couldn’t help but shudder when it recalled the moment that man glanced at it expressionlessly.
Ahhhhhh help!! It still wanted to hide as far as possible from him!!
Ye Jia stored away his phone and shook his head, “No, I have already confirmed it in advance.”
He still remembered Ji Xuan’s answer to this question —— “As a fierce ghost, I don’t need to rest.”
In his memory, the man’s eyes and lips contained pure kindness. He didn’t seem to be lying.
The small black hand, “………”
Why do I have a bad feeling?
Ye Jia activated his ghost domain again and then arrived at the address on his phone.
There were traces of this place being hidden by yin energy, making it almost impossible for one to enter using their ghost domain.
He took out a key and unlocked the door.
The spacious apartment was decorated very simply such that it had cleverly blended luxury with simplicity. Although the word ‘rich’ was evident just looking in from the door, it looked extremely comfortable to live in.
Ye Jia glanced around. For some reason, he felt that this place seemed like a more luxurious and upgraded version of the apartment he was living in.
His personal belongings had already been unpacked and left in various places. It made it seem as if he had lived here for a long time.
For a moment, an extremely realistic scene that had never happened before couldn’t help but appear briefly in Ye Jia’s mind.
—– Ji Xuan stood in front of him, declaring proudly, “See? Isn’t it better than staying in a hotel?”
Ye Jia: “………”
He raised his hand again and pinched the bridge of his nose.
Sure enough, he should get some rest.
This place was too big. Ye Jia didn’t bother going upstairs and just simply laid down on the sofa and closed his eyes to nap for ten or twenty minutes.
Hazy sleepiness soon drew him in. A familiar dream once again enveloped him.
Red and black slowly intermingled and a strange scene gradually formed. The monsters he had encountered in the game, the companions who had died, familiar faces, they all mixed and blended together into a both unfamiliar and familiar figure that circled around him again and again.
He silently held his weapon and indifferently watched on.
Those physiques were distorted and stretched, and small, fragmented whispers reached his ears from time to time. The blood-coloured world was then split open, leaving only endless coldness and darkness.
Ye Jia suddenly opened his eyes.
He firmly grabbed the hand that was reaching towards his cheek and then turned, flipped and suppressed — Like a sleeping beast who was suddenly startled awake, he instinctively bared his claws and fangs, a habit he had deeply burned into his bones. It was all done fluidly, as if it had been done millions of times, and he firmly suppressed the person under him.
His eyes were clear. Only cold killing intent shone in his eyes.
A frosty light glistened at the tip of his finger. The blade rested under the other party’s jaw.
The coffee table beside the sofa was completely smashed. A man with scarlet eyes laid amidst this mess; his vitals completely exposed to the person above him, his life and death hanging from a thread.
Ji Xuan didn’t resist.
He lazily spread open his arms, his hands resting on both sides as if surrendering. He turned a blind eye to the danger before him and even seemed to be smiling faintly.
Ye Jia seemed to have finally returned to his senses.
He narrowed his eyes coldly. The cold blade in his hand had slowly disappeared, but the muscles in his body were still tense, “What are you doing here?”
His voice was a little hoarse and somewhat cold and detached.
Ji Xuan blinked innocently. He spread open his left hand, allowing the thin blanket to slip from his fingers and fall onto the ground.
“Gege, you’ll catch a cold sleeping in the living room.”
Ye Jia stared fixatedly at him for a few seconds before slowly releasing his grip and getting up.
Ji Xuan remained lying on the ground. The gaze he used to look at the young man moving away from him seemed to show a trace of disappointment.
He asked, “Nightmare?”
Ye Jia looked away and didn’t answer.
He raised a hand and massaged his aching forehead, “I’ll pay for the coffee table.”
—– Just giving yourself to me will be enough.
But Ji Xuan naturally didn’t dare say that line in front of the other party.
He curled up the corners of his lips, “Okay….”
Ye Jia lowered his head and glanced at him with a frown, “Why are you here?”
Ji Xuan slowly sat up and dusted off his clothes.
He raised his eyes to look at Ye Jia innocently, “This is my home, why can’t I be here?”
Ye Jia, “Home?”
Ji Xuan nodded without a change to his expression, “Yes….”
“Didn’t you say that you didn’t need rest?” Ye Jia who couldn’t understand drew his brows together, “Why is this place considered your home?”
Ji Xuan curled up his lips, “Sometimes, I need some personal space.”
Ye Jia expressionlessly asked, “Don’t you have a lot of places under your name?”
Ji Xuan, “But I like this place the most.”
Ye Jia took in a deep breath. He suppressed his anger and said through gritted teeth, “Okay, then let me move to a place you don’t like.”
Ji Xuan looked at him and blinked a few times, “But wherever gege is is the place I like the most.”
Ye Jia: “…….”
Shameless. Utterly shameless.
Just as Ye Jia was left speechless from his shamelessness, Ji Xuan got up and patted off the rest of the dust from his body, “Since you’re awake, you should go and wash your hands.”
Ye Jia, “?”
Ji Xuan lightly chuckled and then suddenly leaned over.
Ye Jia instinctively wanted to back away, but he forced himself to remain in place. He stared coldly at Ji Xuan who was getting closer.
The distance between the two gradually shortened. The man stared fixatedly at him with his dark red eyes for a moment before suddenly lowering his eyes and lightly picking off a piece of dust from his shoulder. His voice was low and deep, like a lover’s whisper, “Dinner is ready……”
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In the bathroom.
Water flowed into the white, marble sink as small droplets spattered out.
Ye Jia lowered his eyes and watched the water flow along his fingers.
He seemed to have lost his mind for a moment. By the time he returned to his senses, he had already entered the bathroom —- He was probably still half-asleep.
He picked up a handful of water and hurriedly washed his face.
A young man’s wet face was reflected in the mirror. Water droplets slipped down from his brows and his wet hair stuck to his forehead. A pair of amber eyes stared at his reflection in the mirror.
The coldness in his eyes that had yet dissipated as well as his exhaustion from earlier intermingled on his contrarily calm appearance.
—- It had been a long time since he left the game.
It took Ye Jia a long time to adapt to his current peaceful life and it took him an even longer time to stop himself from habitually counterattacking every time he was awakened.
Now that the ghosts and monsters as well as his acquaintances from the game had appeared in the real world, they had also brought along with it his nightmares and habits from the game.
The time it took to regain all that was much shorter than the time it took for him to change it.
—– No matter what, he had to have a proper chat with Ji Xuan.
He was not ready to maintain such a close relationship and distance with the other party.
Living together was absolutely impossible.
Ye Jia lowered his eyes and reached for the towel next to him. He briefly dried his face using it and then turned to leave the bathroom.
Unexpectedly, Ji Xuan was waiting for him outside.
Ye Jia noticed something off in his expression. He swallowed back the words that he had wanted to say earlier and asked, “What’s wrong?”
Ji Xuan hooked up his lips, “You should take a look……….”
He snapped his fingers.
The next second, Ye Jia found himself in the large warehouse from before. The numerous shelves that were originally filled with dolls were now pitifully empty.
Sitting in the middle of the warehouse was a small mountain of books. The white pages were almost blinding.
“Wahhhhhhhhhh——–” Puppet Master with the appearance of a seven- or eight-year-old child sat in the middle of this, wailing tearfully while holding his broken dolls, “I don’t want it do it anymore!”
He cried especially miserably with his hair dishevelled and his little pale face filled with despair. The dark eyebags under his eyes made it seem like he had been punched in each eye.
Even after seeing Ji Xuan and Ye Jia, Puppet Master continued to show no intentions to get up from the ground.
He wiped away his tears and wailed, “I-I hate maaaaths!”
Ye Jia almost let out a laugh.
He deliberately suppressed the corners of his lips that were slowly rising and then bent down and put on a gentle, big brotherly expression, “If you don’t want to do it, then you don’t have to do it.”
“R-really?” Puppet Master asked between his sobs.
Ye Jia smiled benevolently, “Of course. All you need to do is to answer a few of our questions.”
Puppet Master was a little hesitant, “B…but…….”
Ji Xuan spoke up nonchalantly, “Do you know why you were captured by us?”
Puppet Master was taken aback. Tears were still rolling down his face.
“Even if we managed to render your puppet skills useless, you shouldn’t be left in a state where you are unable to slip away using your ghost domain.” Ji Xuan narrowed his dark red eyes and a faint smile lingered on his lips, “Or did you really think that it was a gift from Mother?”
Puppet Master lowered his head.
A long time later, he looked back up, the sinister look returning to his eyes. He gritted his teeth, “W-what do you want to know?”
Although the ghost doors had opened, the fierce ghosts that had appeared in public had only been A-Level at most. Even the few S-Level ones that had appeared were not the backbones of the game — Fly King and Puppet Master were both relatively weak existences among them.
The real S-Level lords had not yet made their appearance.
They seemed to have disappeared, completely hidden from the public’s sight. Although not many humans seemed to have lost their lives because of them, but it was this very disappearance that made him all the more concerned.
Because of the bloodline restraints, Ji Xuan couldn’t reveal to him Mother’s plans.
However, based on the information they had gathered, those S-Level fierce ghosts, including Ji Xuan, Fly King and Puppet Master, they each had their own tasks.
—– Tasks that were directly assigned to them by Mother.
Ye Jia narrowed his eyes and slowly said, “I need to know where those S-Level lords are.”
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—– “Don’t you want to fight back?”
In the dark night, the eyes under the young man’s hood shone a cold light. The young woman and the bespectacled man slowly turned to look at each other. They both saw determination and resolve in each other’s eyes.
—– Of course we do.
