Editor: Decembery
Mu Feibai and the fans did not even let Qiu Yu touch the draw for the next game.
Perhaps metaphysics was on their side and the games afterwards were all much more leisurely. They drew games such as song relays, musical chairs, and catching fish with paper nets. Qiu Yu was unable to maintain his winning streak in the end.
They teamed up with two groups of netizens and played the best out of three games with each team. After a total of six games, this entertainment broadcast also came to an end. Save for the four fans completely traumatised by Qiu Yu’s driving, both the hosts and participants had quite a good time.
Mu Feibai checked the time and noticed that there was still some time left before they had to leave. He drew Qiu Yu to sit down alongside him in the break room and chatted with the fans watching their live.
Mu Feibai had often had these chatting sessions so their audience wasn’t as curious about him as they were about Qiu Yu. As such, the topics they talked about mostly revolved around Qiu Yu and Mu Feibai helped to relay some of the questions from the bullet screen.
Mu Feibai pretended he had a microphone in hand, “May I ask how god Qiu trained to be so strong? Everyone believed that Omegas can’t withstand the intensity required of being a professional player.”
Of course, Qiu Yu couldn’t reveal his secret of transmigration, so he casually answered, “Forcing myself past my limits.” He had undergone brutally harsh combat training ever since he was young, so this wasn’t a complete lie.
Mu Feibai glanced at the barrage and laughed, “They’re wondering who’s stronger in a 1v1, you or me.”
Qiu Yu answered seriously, “In the training arena in-game, he hasn’t beaten me for now. However, I haven’t fought him in reality yet.”
Mu Feibai raised an eyebrow and measured up Qiu Yu’s slim frame, “You want to fight me in reality?”
Qiu Yu wasn’t in the least scared, “We could try.”
Mu Feibai smiled, “Sure, let’s try after the summer season ends. Don’t make me responsible for any injuries ah!”
Immediately the barrage responded:
[Scum A!]
[Let go of little angel cupid!]
[Shock! God Mu expresses he is unwilling to take responsibility for god Qiu!]
Mu Feibai: ……
“Go, go, go away, stop stirring things up!” Mu Feibai pretended to get mad, “Ask proper questions, otherwise we’ll stop the live right here!”
The fans rushed to act obedient.
Mu Feibai’s eyes glinted when seeing one of the questions. Clearing his throat with a smile, he asked, “A question for god Qiu, what is your dream type of Alpha?”
Qiu Yu was stunned for a moment.
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His smile faded, “I don’t have one.”
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[Oh! What a shame, we can’t see god Mu’s expression from this perspective!]
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[Hahahaha god Mu is met with failure when using this opportunity for personal issues!]
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Qiu Yu thought with lowered lashes and answered, “Because I don’t want to just settle for the current status quo.”
“To want to change something, there will always be a need for determination and an understanding that something will be sacrificed in exchange. As for courage, that would depend on whether your unwillingness to settle outweighs your fear of the world.”
He then laughed quietly, “Anyhow, I could never settle for marriage and childbearing.”
Mu Feibai stared at that slight curve of Qiu Yu’s lips, entranced.
The barrage also fell silent for a while before it exploded in applause and firework effects among a series of “wuwuwuwuwu“ and moved-to-crying emojis.
“Ahem, alright, we’ll end today’s broadcast here. As for those netizens who won in the game earlier, message me your addresses and I’ll mail over your signed posters as soon as possible. Ok, see you guys next time!”
Mu Feibai cut off the broadcast and was just about to ask Qiu Yu to turn off his as well when he saw the other sitting frozen in spot, staring blankly.
“What happened?” Mu Feibai caught hold of Qiu Yu’s wrist worriedly, “Do you not feel well?”
Qiu Yu’s gaze slowly left the screen of his broadcast and fell onto Mu Feibai’s face.
“…Nothing.” Qiu Yu said quietly under his breath, “Someone just sent a reward…”
That long bullet screen message still hovered at the top of the screen, all the netizens on his live broadcast could see it:
[God Qiu, thank you. I am also an Omega, and I’ve been thinking that it would be better to die than to continue to live my days like this. Thank goodness I encountered you at my lowest. Only then did I know that Omegas can also live as they wish, and can even surpass Alphas. There are still so many things that I haven’t done, so why must I expend all of myself on an unfaithful Alpha? If I’m not even afraid of death, then of course I wouldn’t be afraid of the malicious constructs in this world. Thank you, for saving me.]
Qiu Yu read it again and solemnly replied, “This is because of your own determination, so go ahead courageously and live as you wish… I also have to thank you for letting me see a side of things I have never thought about.”
When Qiu Yu also cut off his live, Mu Feibai couldn’t resist asking, “What was the message that accompanied that reward?”
Qiu Yu described it and suddenly smiled, “I have never thought about the impacts of public opinion. I always saw fans’ comments as merely some unimportant streams of data so I had never paid much mind to praises or scoldings… It was only then that I realised, although those people might be very distant from me, they are living their own lives…”
Those people will have their own joys and anger, love and hate. While he, on the other hand, stood at a place visible to everyone, setting an example and becoming a banner to rally under. He could save an Omega who had almost given up on life today and he could affect so many more in the tomorrows to come.
—No longer was he merely a wandering ghost. He could also leave an undoubtedly real and indelible mark in this world.
Qiu Yu tilted his face upwards and looked towards Mu Feibai who gazed down at him. “I suddenly feel as though… this world has become much more real.”
Mu Feibai didn’t completely understand Qiu Yu’s words.
However, what he could understand was the slight change in Qiu Yu’s expression—An invisible wall seemed to have melted in front of the person sitting before him. It was as though nothing changed, yet something was observably different from before.
An impulse arose in his heart. Mu Feibai didn’t suppress it and reached for Qiu Yu, hugging him tightly in his arms.
There were no pheromones in the virtual world, so he didn’t have to act carefully all the time to prevent hurting the other. If Qiu Yu wasn’t willing, he had sufficient strength to reject him, even knock him over and gift him a couple of punches.
In that case, it was fair.
Therefore, he could let loose.
However, surprisingly, he wasn’t pushed away.
Qiu Yu lightly huffed in laughter. He circled his arms around Mu Feibai’s waist and lightly patted him a couple of times on the back.
“I’m fine, don’t worry.” His tone sounded a little exasperated, “We should leave now, we still have a training game after dinner so we’ve got to hurry along.”
Mu Feibai: ……
Hurry along??
This guy is secretly an insulator, right?!
……
After last time’s entertainment live where Mu Feibai hugged Qiu Yu in-game, a new door seemed to have opened for Mu Feibai—every night if there was enough time after training games and all the other training programs, he would ask Qiu Yu to enter the private training room using a gaming helmet and help him with some problems he encountered during training.
Qiu Yu didn’t want to refuse a soldier who was willing to put in the effort, however, after a few days, he realised that there was nothing much he could guide Mu Feibai on.
“You know all the theory, but you always rely on instinct in competitions,” Qiu Yu said, “thank goodness your instincts are usually correct so there haven’t been any big mistakes. There won’t be many results just from me coaching you like this because soldiers like you need a lot of practical combat experience in order to fully understand new concepts…”
However, Mu Feibai continued to hang around him, “Then can you accompany me to train a little more?”
Qiu Yu replied, “In a gaming helmet? The haptic feedback is too dull, I can’t beat you with it.”
This child improved extremely quickly. Qiu Yu would practice a couple of rounds of melee combat with him every day when they practiced in the private training room. Qiu Yu never went easy on him, and the time Mu Feibai could last under his fists improved day by day to the point that they could fight back and forth when they came to blows.
Last night when he entered the virtual training room using a gaming helmet upon Mu Feibai’s invitation, he actually lost to the other. His waist was sat on and he was pressed to the ground, unable to turn over and retaliate.
“You’re different from Lu Cun. You’re already very strong and there’s nothing much for me to teach you.” Qiu Yu recommended, “You’re better off finding Du Chen and Lin Jinxi and learning from each other, you’ll improve that way as well.”
Of course, Mu Feibai wouldn’t just let go of this opportunity, “But you’re still stronger than me so there will always be something more to learn from you. Coach has also told me to ask you for more advice, which proves that I still have many areas to improve.”
Qiu Yu lightly laughed and shook his head, “I can’t teach what you’re lacking.”
Mu Feibai was surprised, “What is there that even you can’t teach? Don’t look down on me, I learn quickly!”
Qiu Yu looked at him, head tilted with some teasing in his eyes, “I really am unable to teach it. In fact, I don’t want you to learn those things either…” It would be best if there weren’t any chances for the kids in this world to learn the survival reflexes borne from countless experiences of true fear on the brink of death.
Obviously, Mu Feibai didn’t really understand Qiu Yu’s true thoughts. Upon hearing that he wasn’t willing to teach, he immediately sulked, “Ah, you’d keep things even from me? I’m so hurt. Gege, my heart hurts ah!”
He used this as an opportunity to wrap an arm around Qiu Yu’s shoulder and lightly shook him, “Gege, teach me! Gege, teach me pleaseeee?”
Qiu Yu: ……
“Stand up properly for me,” Qiu Yu couldn’t stand it anymore and knocked the other over with a kick, “An almost-two metre-tall dude like you is really not suited to acting spoiled, if you keep acting so sticky and mushy… don’t think that I wouldn’t beat you up if you dare to call gege one more time.”
“Well yeah, come at me, beat me up,” Mu Feibai leaned towards Qiu Yu again with an impish grin on his face, not in the least scared. “Gege.”
Hence the two really got tangled up in a fight again.
Since they both knew this was the virtual world, neither held back in their attacks. Fists slammed into flesh and each kick was employed with deadly precision. In the end, Mu Feibai shattered into bits of light before he pieced together once more, thus ending the bout.
“Playing tricks huh?” Mu Feibai smirked, “You were suppressed by me but you actually chose to sneak attack!”
“You stayed your own hand, how does that count as a sneak attack?” Qiu Yu raised an eyebrow, “I never said that being suppressed automatically indicated a loss. If this habit of yours manifested on an actual battlefield, you’d more likely than not be ended by someone else. Remember, only the dead can’t be a threat to you.”
Mu Feibai blinked.
Then he burst into laughter, “Wait, Qiu ge, were you making a chunni joke with a straight face just then? This is a society governed by laws, what ‘only the dead can’t be a threat’, that’s kinda extreme! That really… was so cute just then!”
After speaking, Mu Feibai roughly rubbed Qiu Yu’s hair.
Qiu Yu was expressionless: this is why he couldn’t teach this type of person.
He had no way to make Mu Feibai understand the so-called “desperation to survive” without actually putting his life in danger.
tn: hope everyone is having a nice (or maybe a pleasantly eventful) week :)))))
If only the original Qiu Yu realized that he shouldn’t give up his life for an alpha.. 😭
“… never settle for marriage and childbearing.”
Y’all, I love him so much. I respect him, especially his decisions in his new life. I hope he’d only encounter happiness and spread more hope for others (esp. Omegas). Qiu Yu is such a King and a Queen at the same time!
Thank you so much for the update! <3
Thank you for the chapter 😍
thank you so fricking much for the update! <33
I’ve been enjoying this story so much, and it’s all thanks to you Nagisa ♡
Thanks for the update 🤣❤️🤣❤️🤣❤️
I really hope he gets to have his gland removed, even if he is already in a relationship.
I feel it would do him so much good, and help inspire other omegas to get rid of their glands too.
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As always, we got reminded of the harsh post apocalyptic reality. Thank yoi for the translation!
Thank you for the update ❤️💯