“…… There was only one light in the entire bedroom. Before Total Annihilation had time to examine it carefully, he was embraced from behind by Abyss. His soaked clothes were unable to block the warmth the other transmitted……”
“Outside the window, the rain pitter pattered. The bedroom seemed like a standalone, isolated little world. The two people relied on each other for warmth, all of their constantly suppressed emotions and agony releasing at this very moment……”
“Black hair scattered on a white pillow, the contrast was clear and distinctive. It was even possible to see wet water drops at the tail end of his hair……”
“…… A kiss landed softly. Total Annihilation turned his head slightly and said, don’t do this.”
Fang JingXing said with a laugh: “Seemed to have missed a filler sound?”
Jiang Chen paused for a second and said coldly: “En…don’t do this.”
He has played this before with his teammates and it wasn’t his first time reciting.
However, he was the team captain after all. His teammates weren’t so audacious, so normally, they’d only find some bitterly agonizing or cringing love scenes, not like a certain asshole, getting him to read this spectacle.
“His golden rimmed glasses have already been removed. It seemed as if he couldn’t see clearly, like there’s a layer of thick mist at the bottom of his eyes……”
“The magic inscription on Abyss’ forehead was red enough to drip blood, his eyes dark and bottomless, gaze locked on tightly on the person before him……”
“……He guided his hand downwards……”
Jiang Chen stared at the word, stuck.
Fang JingXing also saw this part and felt it was really too indecent.
But facing the person he liked, he felt his heart itch briefly and said: “And then?”
Jiang Chen looked up at him, murderous.
Fang JingXing couldn’t help, but laugh out loud. He finally stopped teasing the other: “Alright, let’s stop here.”
If the reciting continued, first it’d piss a certain someone off; second, he was afraid he wouldn’t be able to hold back.
Being alone with the person he liked, and then reading such raunchy material, he definitely felt frisky and restless. What if he accidentally exposed his secret, that’d be terrible.
Jiang Chen instantly deleted that pile of stuff and started the 3rd round with him.
Because he had been suppressing his anger, this round he played especially viciously and successfully killed Fang JingXing.
Fang JingXing stood up: “I pick truth.”
Jiang Chen thought briefly and felt like there was nothing to ask.
This league Adonis has been famous in the esports circle for 8 years. There’s a pile of information on him on the internet. Jiang Chen already glanced through them briefly and knew an approximate idea of everything. As such, he asked a normal question, which was also coveted by fans for a very long time: “Do you have someone you like?”
Fang JingXing looked at him: “Yes.”
Jiang Chen was surprised.
With Fang JingXing’s condition, he still remained single despite having someone he liked?
He asked: “You didn’t win them over yet?”
Fang JingXing reminded him: “That’s a second question.”
Jiang Chen suppressed his curiosity and continued to PK with him.
Unfortunately, he was missing a bit of HP in the end and lost this round. He automatically selected truth.
Fang JingXing said: “Do you have someone you like?”
Jiang Chen said: “No.”
Fang JingXing was extremely pleased.
No, meaning he had a chance.
Actually, it didn’t matter even if he did. 30 years have already passed. That person probably has already gotten married and had children, no longer within consideration.
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.
The two people started to play a 5th round.
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Jiang Chen said calmly: “Nope.”
Fang JingXing said: “Alright, then why don’t you go out and run naked, make a lap around the main city.”
“……” Jiang Chen said: “Can you be a bit less shameless?”
The main city was so big, he won’t even finish running by 9:30pm, so there’s no next round.
Fang JingXing said with a smile: “Considering the time and your personality, this is the most beneficial for me. Don’t deny it. If it were you instead, you’d definitely do the same.”
Jiang Chen remained unmoved: “Change it. This takes too long, it’s unreasonable.”
Fang JingXing considered briefly and took preventative measures: “Then you send a horn, saying I love Abyss; in a moment, no matter what he becomes, I will still love him unswervingly.”
Jiang Chen: “……”
Why the hell did he agree to play this with Fang JingXing?
Fang JingXing resisted the urge to pat his head and said with a smile: “This is no good either?”
Jiang Chen opened the chat box and inputted a few words, then stopped, feeling like he couldn’t continue writing.
Fang JingXing was very considerate: “I’ll switch to another one for you?”
Jiang Chen remained skeptical: “Change to what?”
Fang JingXing said: “You switch to your original voice and sing a song for me.”
Jiang Chen thought, he still had some compassion at least, and sang an old song for him.
With a smile, Fang JingXing watched him quietly.
His voice was cold and detached, his pitch was alright and not out of tune. Once he finished singing the song, Fang JingXing immediately cheered and applauded: “As expected of an Ace, so impressive in everything you do.”
Jiang Chen said: “Continue.”
Fang JingXing played the last round with him. There was only a hairsbreadth difference between the two of them again, but he lost this round.
Captain Jiang has always been the type amenable to coaxing, not coercion.
Originally, he wanted to make Fang JingXing send the horn, but after experiencing what just happened, he felt like he couldn’t be too unreasonable and said: “You can also sing a song.”
Fang JingXing said with a smile: “Okay.”
His gentle voice mixed with a whispering melody, sounded as if he were patiently telling a story.
Jiang Chen’s train of thoughts couldn’t help but float to the previous question. Even though Fang JingXing was a bit inhuman sometimes, he had upright values and a decent personality. Adding his devilish looks, how could he have trouble winning someone over?
He waited until the other finished singing to ask: “Why did the person you like reject you?”
Fang JingXing said: “I will tell you another time.”
Jiang Chen didn’t force him and logged off when it’s time.
[The Imprisoned Bird] trended for several days. The forums were filled with related posts.
Players were abused to death by the dungeon, a tormented mass of people starving for info. They really fucking wanted to know how the two Aces beat it.
The two Aces, who cleared the dungeon, ignored all outside matters and focused wholeheartedly on playing the game.
During the day, they played the Bounty Board. During the night, they played the PK arena. They even played dungeons less, living an extremely patterned schedule.
A week passed in the blink of an eye.
They advanced the two-man Bounty Board to level 8 and dominated these tasks ahead of others. On the same day, the official website finally released the Young Miss’ full information.
The previous information was very simple and crude, which said that there was a pampered and extravagant Young Miss in the desert. She captured all the travelers passing by and locked them into a carefully crafted cage.
The current, expanded info was that the previous Young Miss was very hospitable and cordial to guests. She had a gold canary that she loved, but later on, her gold canary was killed by a traveler, not even the body could be found. The traveler also disappeared without a trace.
The Young Miss couldn’t stand the shock and started to detain people afterwards. Simultaneously, because of previous traumas, she gradually developed a dark side in her heart. The dark side became harder and harder to control and built a garden cage, wanting to imprison all the people she took interest in, for her to dispatch as she pleased.
Players read through it swiftly and expressed their opinions one after another.
“There’s no body and the traveler disappeared. Why do I feel like this looks so suspicious?”
“En, take Yue Hui for example. To gain such favor from the Young Miss, could it be possible that an Untamed had transformed into that gold canary?”
“Oh damn, it’s possible. So it didn’t actually die, but rather someone purposely took it away?”
“Could this be a hidden story quest?”
“It’s hard to say, but look. The hidden dungeon was newly added, what if the dev team didn’t feel satisfied and linked it to a story quest?”
“Oh fuck, that makes sense!”
The post got longer and longer. By the end, people started discussing how to start this story quest.
Currently, the only clue was the gold canary. As such, from that day onward, the people of the 10 servers started looking for the bird collectively.
Jiang Chen didn’t participate in this. Instead, he continued to farm points in the Bounty Board and PK Arena unswervingly.
When he didn’t play the game, he took strolls and fed the ducklings, as well as observe #7’s recent developments.
On this morning, after he finished eating breakfast and wandered to #7’s sterile ward, he saw that #7 was actually able to sit up.
The person inside discovered him very quickly and waved at him with a grin.
Jiang Chen waved back at him. Seeing he was eating, Jiang Chen left.
Three days later when he saw the other again. #7 was already able to get out of the bed and walk.
Five more days passed. When he wandered over, he saw the hospital bed empty. Both hands on the ground, #7 was doing push-ups.
Jiang Chen: “……”
He couldn’t help but count. It wasn’t until he counted to 37 that the other finally finished. Who knew how many he had done in total.
#7 stood up and brushed aside his sweaty bangs. Turning around and seeing Jiang Chen, he waved with a smile.
With a stiff face, Jiang Chen raised a hand and waved back, then turned around and left.
This unique individual from the secret services really had a very good physique. According to this momentum, he’ll be out within the month.
Jiang Chen’s assumptions weren’t wrong. After a few more days passed, the cryofreeze team came to notify him, saying that they were going to give #7 a full body assessment in the morning. If there were no issues, he’d be transferred to a normal ward.
In other words, Jiang Chen had one more morning to play.
Jiang Chen nodded and put on the glasses to enter the game. He saw Fang JingXing waiting for him as usual.
The vigorous, large-scale bird hunting campaign had lasted for half a month without result and fizzed out. All the players accepted their fate and resumed their previous routines.
Fang JingXing headed towards the Bounty Board with him and said: “I’m not logging in this afternoon and evening.”
Jiang Chen looked at him.
Fang JingXing said: “Today is my birthday. I have arrangements.”
Startled slightly, Jiang Chen said: “Happy birthday.”
Fang JingXing said with a smile: “Thank you.”
Jiang Chen said: “I can only play this morning. I won’t be able to come on anymore in the future.”
Fang JingXing was also stunned: “Didn’t you say you can play for two months?”
Jiang Chen said: “There was a change in the plan.”
It wasn’t appropriate for Fang JingXing to ask too much, so he held back the impulse to sigh: “Then when can you play in the future?”
Jiang Chen said: “Not sure.”
Fang JingXing felt helpless but to avoid exposing his secret, he said in concern: “Is your health okay?”
Jiang Chen said: “It’s fine.”
Neither of them were in the mood to play the game, as such, they started to wander around the map. Unconsciously, they wandered around for an entire morning.
By the time Jiang Chen needed to log off, even he felt a bit amazed. He wasn’t a depressed and downcasted person, so he had no idea why he had strolled and walked with Fang JingXing for so long without even realizing it.
Fang JingXing looked at him: “Need to go?”
Jiang Chen replied with an ‘en’.
Fang JingXing endured the bitter and reluctant feelings in his heart and stepped forth to hug the other briefly: “Take care of yourself. See you later.”
Jiang Chen said ‘en’ again, waved his hand and left the game.
He handed the game equipment to the cryofreeze team, then after eating, he went out to take a stroll. Standing in front of the duck nest, he stared at the ducklings. Aware that he would be spending the future days with them again, he started to interact with them to build a bond.
When Team Leader Qin passed by around noon, he heard Jiang Chen describe to the ducklings: “Dip the duck skin into white sugar or honey, cover the duck meat with noodle sauce, roll into pancakes, add green onions and diced cucumber strips……”
Team Leader Qin: “…….”
Speaking halfway, Jiang Chen caught sight of him and looked over.
Team Leader Qin said: “It’s getting late. Go take an afternoon nap.”
Jiang Chen said: “Play Mahjong in the afternoon? Still playing with money.”
Team Leader Qin said: “……We’ll see.”
Thinking about dragging #7 to play with them also in the afternoon, Jiang Chen went back to his room to take a nap.
This nap lasted all the way until 2pm. He got up and went to find the released #7, but didn’t see him. Guessing that he might have gone downstairs, Jiang Chen entered the elevator.
As soon as he left the building, he saw a car parked in the small courtyard. #7 got in the car. The door shut, and it left.
Team Leader Qin and the others were all inside the courtyard. Watching them leave, they turned collectively and met Jiang Chen’s gaze.
Jiang Chen looked at them.
They also looked at him.
The two parties stared at each other for several seconds. Jiang Chen said: “Didn’t you say we couldn’t leave?”
Team Leader Qin was actually also caught completely off guard and said: “They had documents.”
He added: “He will return later on. You can continue playing your game.”
Opportunity comes unexpectedly, there’s light at the end of the tunnel.
Jiang Chen stood, unmoving: “I have a friend celebrating his birthday today.”
Team Leader Qin looked at him, waiting for him to continue.
Jiang Chen said: “I want to buy a birthday present and have it delivered.”
Team Leader Qin said: “Fine.”
Jiang Chen said: “What do you think I should give?”
Team Leader Qin: “……”
How would I know?
Thank you for the chapter!🫶🫶
I wonder what the secret service is going to think of the “no internet and no phone” rule.
Lmaooo not Jiang Chen describing peking duck to the ducklings
What should he give? Himself 🤭
So tender…haha. He should get to go off campus also!
I thought Jiang Chen was going to stop playing for a while again, but look at this unexpected surprise!
Thank you for the chapter 😍
Thanks for the update 🤣❤️🤣❤️
What a twist, haha……… benefits of government employment, I guess.
Awww. Cute! I LOVE, LOVE this story! Thank you for the translation!
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