Translated by Dust Bunny
Edited by Crooked
Gu Xizhou was actually able to sleep soundly. Because the other five people didn’t believe him, they kept knocking on the door incessantly after dinner, but whoever was outside refused to pay attention to them. By nightfall the five people were huddled together trembling in fear.
“It’s six o’clock.” Lai Shenglei glanced at his phone and let out the breath he was holding. The numbers jumped. They’d made it through the first night and everyone was fine.
He couldn’t help but glance at Gu Xizhou. So the NPC wasn’t lying: there really were people who hadn’t arrived yet. Otherwise, last night wouldn’t have been so peaceful.
Seeing as they were being held captive by a gang of organ traffickers, breakfast was naturally not available. Lai Shenglei had been restless during dinner last night so he hadn’t eaten much. Plus, he didn’t sleep at all last night so he was starting to feel a little hungry.
Just as he was thinking about this, the tightly shut door suddenly opened and a young man was pushed in. The five people all noticed the black gun shining against his forehead.
After the young man was pushed in, the guard immediately shut the door. When the young man was pushed in he naturally looked around the room, taking in the seven people including Gu Xizhou. The instant he saw Gu Xizhou, he rushed over.
“How did you get like this? How were you injured?”
Because his voice was unfamiliar, Gu Xizhou opened his eyes from where he was lying on the ground. Seeing the other’s appearance, it wasn’t entirely unfamiliar. He remembered a college student who was locked in with them the second day. However the soul in the body now was not that person’s.
“Si Yaoxing.”
Gu Xizhou affirmed, just like the other person had recognized him at a glance.
“It’s me,” Si Yu said, looking at Gu Xizhou and nodding. Then he looked over at Tu Yao who was applying pressure to the wound and said, “Thank you, you can let go now.”
Tu Yao lowered her head and turned away from Si Yu, keeping her hand pressed firmly against Gu Xizhou’s waist. There were deep circles under her eyes. Gu Xizhou raised an eyebrow and asked, “Tu Yao, did you sleep at all last night?”
Tu Yao kept her head down and remained silent, obscuring her facial expression. But looking at her exhausted face and seeing the expression of the other five people, Gu Xizhou understood it clearly in his heart.
Tu Yao didn’t sleep last night and kept her hand on his wound. Gu Xizhou’s expression changed instantly and he took away her hand, speaking to her in a gentle voice. “My wound is no longer bleeding. There’s no need to keep pressure on it. Actually you… rest for a while, ba.”
Tu Yao bit her lip and resumed her original position. She grabbed the corner of Gu Xizhou’s clothes and shook her head to express her disapproval.
Gu Xizhou had no other option but to accept Tu Yao. Twenty years ago, this girl had also been persistent in applying pressure to his wound, and no matter what he said, she wouldn’t listen. Gu Xizhou thought for a moment before straining to sit up. Instantly there was a sharp stabbing pain in his waist, but he grit his teeth and bore it.
Si Yu gave Gu Xizhou a hand and glanced sideways at Tu Yao, their gazes intersecting in the air.
We’re sorry for MTLers or people who like using reading mode, but our translations keep getting stolen by aggregators so we’re going to bring back the copy protection. If you need to MTL please retype the gibberish parts.
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He was thinking about this when he suddenly froze.
Clang—
Gu Xizhou’s eyes widened as he heard the sound of the chain’s sliding.
Yesterday… It wasn’t there yesterday.
Gu Xizhou couldn’t help but look up at Si Yu. He only heard this sound after Si Yu arrived. It couldn’t be that Si Yu was like Ji Ji… N-no, he couldn’t be! He’d never heard that kind of sound on Si Yu’s body before!
“What are you looking at me like that for?” Si Yu asked in a low voice, lips curling as he pressed a fist to the corner of his mouth.
As he moved, Gu Xizhou heard the sound of chains sliding again. Gu Xizhou’s heart throbbed, his eyes fixed on Si Yu. Gu Xizhou was already pale due to the blood loss. “There’s a noise…”
“There’s a sound?” Si Yu raised an eyebrow. “What kind?”
Gu Xizhou nodded. “After you came in I heard you…”
Si Yu leaned over and chuckled softly in Gu Xizhou’s ear, “Hey, hey, hey, you didn’t think that sound came from me, did you?”
Gu Xizhou, “…”
Si Yu huffed a laugh. “You really did think that.”
Gu Xizhou didn’t deny it. He really did.
Si Yu, “It wasn’t me.”
Gu Xizhou looked at Si Yu suspiciously and said seriously, “But after you came in, I heard a sound. Don’t lie to me!”
Gu Xizhou and Si Yu’s conversation immediately piqued Lai Shenglei’s interest. He felt that now was definitely when these two NPCs would reveal some important information. They didn’t even know that he had already seen through them! Those two NPCs still want to pretend to be players?! Heng!
Si Yu shook his head helplessly and explained, “It’s really not me. I don’t have that kind of thing on me.”
Gu Xizhou stared at him for a moment as if trying to decide whether or not he was lying to him, but there weren’t many emotions on Si Yu’s face, only a faint smile.
Seeing that there was still something Gu Xizhou wanted to say, Si Yu pressed a finger to Gu Xizhou’s lips, causing Lai Shenglei who was watching them to break out all over in goosebumps!
Oh no, ah! There were still gays in this world.
Si Yu lowered his voice and said, “It’s really not me, but I can roughly guess where the sound is coming from.”
Gu Xizhou looked into Si Yu’s eyes and leaned weakly against his shoulder. He pinched his left hand with his right and asked, “Who do you think it’s attached to?”
In the dimly lit room a man’s husky voice said, “The woman on your left.”
Gu Xizhou, “But she was here yesterday.”
Si Yu thought for a moment and said, “She didn’t move yesterday. Just now when you heard the sound, she moved.”
Gu Xizhou was silent as he watched Si Yu intently. “Then take a couple steps and I’ll listen.”
Si Yu flashed him a smile and got up. He walked around the dim room three times, looking sidelong at Gu Xizhou.
“Do you want me to keep walking?”
Gu Xizhou shook his head. When Si Yu walked there really was no sound. Si Yu sat down next to Gu Xizhou, resting his hands on his knees. Unprompted, Si Yu suddenly asked Gu Xizhou, “If that sound really was on my body, what would you do?”
Gu Xizhou hesitated for a moment before lowering his voice, “Maybe I’ll decide to stay here forever.”
Lai Shenglei still pricked up his ears to listen to Gu Xizhou and Si Yu, breaking out in wave after wave of goosebumps. He was a straight man after all, and when he heard their ambiguous words, he immediately felt embarrassed.
But he ignored his embarrassment and pondered the meaning of the two NPCs’ conversation.
Sound?
He didn’t hear anything, ah!
Gu Xizhou didn’t come right out and say it, but Si Yu understood what he meant. His mouth curved upwards and he was clearly very happy. He reached out to rub Gu Xizhou’s head before dropping a kiss on the corner of Gu Xizhou’s mouth saying, “I’m glad.”
Gu Xizhou pushed him aside and told him not to distract him.
After making sure that the sound wasn’t coming from Si Yu, Gu Xizhou tested it out and confirmed that the door was on Tu Yao. Tu Yao was the ghost of this world.
So what was Tu Yao’s wish?
Since the timeline didn’t start in the hallway, Tu Yao’s wish shouldn’t have anything to do with her grandma.
Gu Xizhou took in Tu Yao who was clinging to his clothes. Tu Yao’s wish should be to leave here. Twenty years ago, Tu Yao’s heart was removed by this vicious gang, and Gu Xizhou could still remember it clearly.
Fulfilling Tu Yao’s wish to escape should be simple. Tomorrow when Fang Zhi arrived, they would have a chance to escape.
Because—there was a successful match for Ji Hong’s cornea, so if Ji Hong fell ill, these people would definitely open the door. For the sake of money, they wouldn’t let him get sick.
But this time, he wouldn’t let them take Ji Hong’s cornea. Ji Hong… that’s right, ah. Ji Hong won’t die!
Gu Xizhou suddenly thought of something. He’d learned in Ji Ji’s world that the events of the past could be changed. If everyone here successfully escaped through the door it would mean that no one from that incident would die!
The body he was in was currently his own. If he leaves here that would mean that he never died and his soul would be back in the right body. He wouldn’t be dead… then Gu Ji Ji should be resurrected!
As long as he can leave this world smoothly!
He will be resurrected, and Ji Ji should also be resurrected!
Gu Xizhou wasn’t sure how it would make sense in the real world, but based on his experience with Gu Qing and Zhou Xinyue, they were resurrected directly.
Gu Xizhou had another theory about the resurrection.
After Gu Qing and Zhou Xinyue’s resurrection, Gu Xizhou had investigated carefully.
The only thing that changed after their resurrection was the case back then. But in the next decade or so these two people had been pulled into an independent line that had nothing to do with the others. This prevented the history inbetween from changing. They were more like transparent people!
As far as Gu Xizhou was aware, after the case of the children from outside the city Gu Qing’s career was diluted and he didn’t handle anymore major cases. It should be noted that at the time Gu Qing was a very powerful criminal police officer. Gu Xizhou thought that this should be ‘it’s way of handling it.
So if all nine of them were resurrected, ‘it’ should handle it in the same way with the following decades being diluted. No one really knew if their memories were true or false, but everyone knew that they existed.
Gu Xizhou became increasingly suspicious that his memories were all made up by ‘it’. But Gu Xizhou couldn’t help complaining in his heart, those memories were too real.
Once he leaves this ghost world, he will come back to life and so will Ji Ji!
At the thought of that, Gu Xizhou couldn’t help but feel better.
Thanks for the chapter! Omg, i can’t wait find out what’s gonna happen next! 🤩
… I don’t believe it’s that easy…
+1
What about Si Yu and their relationship?