Read After an Infinite Flow Player Retires Chapter 66

After an Infinite Flow Player Retires

Chapter 66

Ye Jia: “……..”

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While he was in a dumbfounded state, Ji Xuan had already used this chance to slip into the blankets.Ye Jia could feel the bed sink down and then it was followed by the other person’s icy cold body wrapping around him like a snake, holding him tightly in their embrace.Ji Xuan rubbed his chin against Ye Jia’s shoulder.Ye Jia’s entire body stiffened, “Let go……”Ji Xuan, “No…..”Ye Jia began to struggle, “Let go!”Ji Xuan tightened his grip, “No…….”Ye Jia: “……..”Are you an elementary school kid?!Ji Xuan said, “Gege, you can’t go back on your words.”Ye Jia closed his eyes and could only say reluctantly, “Just five minutes…..”Ji Xuan raised the corners of his lips, his scarlet eyes shining bright in the darkness. He wrapped his arms around the young man’s slender waist and pressed their bodies close together. It was so close, he could even feel the other person’s chest rising and falling when they breathed and hear the rhythmic beats under their ribs.Ye Jia leaned back, “Too close….”In the darkness, the tips of his ears were a little red. They were however concealed by the dark night.Ji Xuan raised his eyes, his eyes stopping for a moment on the other party’s pale ears. He silently licked the corners of his lips.Even so, he obediently relaxed his grip.Ye Jia breathed a sigh of relief.He mentally kept track of how much time had passed.Four minutes left.The man’s presence was so strong, it was almost impossible to ignore.F City is a little further south than M City. Although it is now the end of summer, it is still quite hot. Furthermore, its location inland makes it even hotter. Although Ye Jia wasn’t afraid of the heat, even he felt uncomfortable.Ji Xuan’s body wasn’t as cold as before and was instead more like cool jade that had been warmed up slightly with some human body temperature.Three minutes left.Ye Jia yawned.In Vision’s illusory world, he had always been in a vigilant state. Although only a few minutes had passed in the outside world, for him, it was several days.And over the past few days after leaving that world, Ye Jia also didn’t have much of a chance to close his eyes.He was used to this kind of situation where his mental and physical capacity are drained. After all, the duration of the instances in the game were never the same. Anyone who falls asleep would definitely end up dying so most veteran players would try to sleep as little as possible and remain awake in the instances at all times.Two minutes left.Ye Jia’s eyelids were becoming heavier. A strong feeling of drowsiness struck him, dragging him into the darkness.One minute…..left……In the darkness, Ji Xuan opened his eyes. His eyes fell on the young man whose breathing had gradually become steady and he smiled contently. His lips opened and closed silently:Goodnight, gege..The first rays of sunlight peeked through the half-closed curtains, softly falling onto the young man’s pale face.Ye Jia’s eyelashes trembled.He slowly opened his eyes. His pair of amber-coloured eyes appeared even clearer under the morning light but there was also a thin veil of drowsiness and confusion evident.At that moment, Ye Jia felt the existence of another person beside him.“Good morning….” The man’s low, husky voice sounded next to him.Ye Jia was startled. He instinctively jumped up from the bed and retreated to the window.In the blink of an eye, he had pulled away several metres.Ji Xuan blinked a few times and used his arm to prop himself up, causing the thin blanket to slide off his body.He was still wearing a simple shirt which had become wrinkled from a long night’s sleep, and the shirt was open, revealing his pale chest and accentuating his excellent figure.“Did you sleep well?”Ye Jia’s expression was dark. He gritted his teeth, “It wasn’t five minutes!”Ji Xuan nodded.He turned and looked at the clock on the wall, “It was seven hours and forty-four minutes.”“Hmm….” Ji Xuan raised his eyes to look at Ye Jia, his scarlet eyes seemingly glowing under the sunlight. He appeared to be seriously calculating something, “Then that means that I owe you seven hours and thirty-nine minutes.”He spread open his arms, “You can ask for it any time.”Ye Jia: “……”He raised his hand and massaged the bridge of his nose. He could feel the anger inside him rising.Ji Xuan blinked a few times.He reached out, grabbed the thin blanket Ye Jia had just thrown to one side, and slowly covered himself.In almost a blink of an eye, he had changed back to his younger appearance. He then slowly buried himself in the blanket, as if trying to escape the other person’s wrath.

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Ye Jia: “What are you doing?”The young boy pulled the blanket up so that it was just under his eyes and softly replied, “Sleep….”Ye Jia almost laughed out in anger, “Aren’t you a ghost?”Ji Xuan yawned.“But…..” His eyelids sank down, as if he really was sleepy, “I have a fever….”----- That wasn’t a lie.Maintaining a conscious state during self-healing stage can be very energy consuming. Not sleeping for two days was already his limit.Ye Jia frowned, “Then why didn’t you sleep last night.”The young boy opened his eyes, his scarlet, blood-like eyes looking fixedly at the young man standing not far away. His mouth was still hidden under the blanket, so his voice was a little muffled, “Time spent together with gege is very precious. I can’t waste it.”Ye Jia was taken aback.After saying this, Ji Xuan slowly closed his eyes and seemed to really be resting.Ye Jia’s gaze stopped slightly at the small bulge on the bed.He knitted his brows and looked away.Ye Jia wasn’t very willing to believe that he had actually slept next to that person the entire night….And he didn’t even dream of his past in the game.It was as if…..he had become used to the other person’s presence, and no longer regarded him as an enemy.Ye Jia’s brows knitted together even more tightly.He went to the bathroom to wash up and change, and then proceeded to pick up the documents from the bedside table and leave the room.Before leaving, Ye Jia cast a final glance at the room behind him-----He must’ve been too tired recently.That must be it.Ye Jia took out the room card and turned to leave.The door behind him closed with a click.Ye Jia only now realised ----- He had forgotten to get Ji Xuan to return to M City.But if he’s only going to return to the room to sleep, it shouldn’t affect him too much. The room is also a standard room, at worst he could just sleep on a different bed tonight.As long as he didn’t take part in the mission this time, it’s fine.After Ye Jia reached this conclusion, he went downstairs and met with the other three in the lobby.“How is it? Have you found anything unusual?” Chen Qingye was similarly holding a thick stack of documents in his arms. He pushed up his glasses and asked this as his eyes inadvertently swept over to Ye Jia.“No….” Wei Yuechu shrugged, “There wasn’t anything unusual about those cases….Everything was too normal, nothing strange.”Ye Jia nodded, “Mine as well.”Blast coughed a few times unnaturally. His eyes wandered around and he didn’t speak.Wei Yuechu narrowed her eyes, “Blast, did you look through it?”“O-Of course I did!” Blast raised his voice.Everyone’s eyes fell on him. Under everyone’s scrutiny, Blast’s face slowly flushed red and his voice similarly grew smaller because of his guilty conscience, “But….it’s was really too boring, s-so I….”“So you what?” Chen Qingye asked.Blast’s voice was small, “Fell asleep…..”And so, while everyone else closed their eyes and rested as they travelled back to the Bureau in F City, only Blast was forced to go through the documents he wasn’t able to finish going through the night before while the pitch-black A’Chang laid sprawled out on the seat behind him, threatening him the moment it notices him slacking off.Blast wanted to cry without tears. He could only hastily go through the documents.------ Are you all demons?!Finally, everyone arrived at the Bureau in F City. Ye Jia and the other two went to find the people they needed to find leaving only Blast standing in the lobby to go through the documents. Blast: “……..”You guys are too cruel!The required information had already been found and the staff in charge gave it to them on an USB, “Everything you need is here.”Wei Yuechu blinked a few times and didn’t receive it, “Um….There aren’t paper versions?”She had been in the game the longest and was rather disconnected from modern society. She would much rather fight against a fierce ghost than deal with these high-tech gimmicks.The staff glanced at her like they were looking at a fool, “Do you know how many natural and accidental death cases there have been since that ghost rampage? Coupled with the autopsy reports and background checks, if we were to get you a paper version of all this information, even this room won’t be able to fit it.”Wei Yuechu, “…….”Chen Qingye reached out and received the USB drive, “Thank you….”The three of them turned and walked out.Wei Yuechu lowered her voice and asked, “Are there really that many?”Chen Qingye was surprisingly the one who knew the most about technology amongst them all. He nodded, “Yes….”Wei Yuechu was dumbfounded, “Then….then how long will it take for us to go through all of it?”Chen Qingye sighed, “I also don’t know…..”They may need to spend a long, long time going through it all.Wei Yuechu groaned, “We aren’t going to be staying in this kind of place for a long time, are we?”

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Her voice was so loud, several employees passing by heard her and turned to look at her.Ye Jia: “Keep your voice down…”Looking like a child who was caught doing something wrong, Wei Yuechu embarrassedly lowered her voice, “Sorry…..”Chen Qingyue turned and glanced at Wei Yuechu with surprise.At this moment, the three of them have finally arrived back at the hall.As soon as they appeared, Blast who was sitting in the hall immediately rushed over with bright eyes.Wei Yuechu was taken aback, “What are you in such a hurry for?!”Blast’s expression was extremely excited. He didn’t even take notice of Wei Yuechu’s rude attitude. “I have made a discovery!”Everyone became spirited.Chen Qingye took a step forward, his voice filled with excitement, “What is it? Did you find something in those documents?”“Haa, how could that be.” Blast scratched the back of his head and continued carelessly, “I couldn’t even get past two pages of that. Seeing that you guys weren’t back even after so long, I went and had a chat with the ladies at the front desk.”Everyone, “…….”Chen Qingye’s eyes narrowed slightly behind his glasses and A’Chang in his sleeve wriggled about as if it would attack any moment.Blast was so frightened; he almost took a step back.He hurriedly clarified, “Hey, hey! Wait a minute! Let me explain myself first!”Chen Qingye pressed down on A’Chang’s head and said slowly, “Go on……”Blast glanced at the other party’s sleeve fearfully and quietly created some distance between them before continuing, “Well…Didn’t I say that we had a short chat? They just happened to be discussing yesterday’s news. Just a few blocks away from here, an office worker unexpectedly got into an accident and died on his way back from work. Almost everyone was talking about it today.”Wei Yuechu frowned, “What was the accident?”Blast narrowed his eyes mysteriously, “That is the main point.”He said, “A truck carrying steel pipes just happened to be passing by at the time and the ropes binding them loosened at the intersection, causing one of them to fly out and pierce through that office worker’s eye.”Everyone was startled.This way of dying….Was really bizarre.The roads in the city were all speed limited. Regardless of whether those steel pipes had enough potential energy to fly that far, even if it did, for it to accurately hit the eye which was the weakest part of the human head, the probability of it happening was very small.If it really was an accident, then that person was really unlucky.Blast crossed his arms, feeling pleased, “Although the results of the investigations are not out yet, it seems that it will likely be concluded to be an accidental death. How about it? Isn’t it a very interesting case? If I wasn’t around, you guys wouldn’t have…”Before he could finish speaking, he was interrupted by Chen Qingye, “Apart from that office worker, were there any other casualties?”Blast, “I don’t know…..”Wei Yuechu then asked, “Has anyone from the Bureau been sent out to check for any abnormal energy fluctuations at the site?”Blast, “Didn’t ask…..”Chen Qingye pushed up his glasses, “What use do you have?”Blast: “…….”His entire body shrivelled up like an eggplant encountering frost.The other two turned around and went towards the office to ask for more details.Ye Jia paused for a moment and glanced at the shrivelled-up Blast. He mercifully delivered some praise, “Good job…”Blast’s eyes lit up and he suddenly became spirited again, as if he was a plant that had just been watered. He looked very moved, “You…”“Oh, right….” Ye Jia smiled, “Don’t forget to finish looking through your documents.”After he finished saying that, he turned and similarly went towards the office Chen Qingye and Wei Yuechu disappeared off to.Blast stood there foolishly, watching the young man’s slowly disappearing figure, “…..”I’m really stupid. Seriously.I almost forgot that he is the worst one out of them..Inside the office.The employee on duty happened to be Liang Yi.“Oh, you’re talking about that incident.” He lowered his head, and his fingers flew quickly across his keyboard, “Everyone was talking about this today. It’s quite unusual, isn’t it? The Bureau sent someone to check the place out this morning but found nothing. Alas, it looks like it was purely just bad luck….After all, sometimes God just wants people to die.”When he was done saying that, he had already pulled out the information he needed.Liang Yi turned the screen around so that the three of them could see.It was a recording from a surveillance camera installed at that intersection.It only took a few seconds for the tragedy to happen.A few seconds ago, the entire street was still bustling, peaceful and prosperous, and a few seconds later, a sudden change occurred, and steel pipes flew through the air, one puncturing the office worker in the eye. As a large pool of blood formed around him, everyone else around him were in panic.Chen Qingye repeatedly replayed the recording.

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From the trajectory of that steel pipe, it didn’t look like there were any external influences.He looked over at Liang Yi, “Were there any other casualties from this accident?”Liang Yi, “Huh? Um….I don’t think so?”Ye Jia frowned, “Not even light injuries?”“Probably not…….” Liang Yi rubbed the back of his head, “I don’t think I have heard of anyone else getting injured at the scene.”Everyone exchanged a look.This was even stranger. Despite so many steel pipes falling from the truck, no one else was hurt and only that office worker was pierced through his head..In the hall…..Ye Jia said to Chen Qingye, “You go to the morgue. Bring along the new detection equipment and see if there is anything wrong with the body.”He then looked at Wei Yuechu, “You and Blast go to the address noted on the file. Investigate his place of residence.”Blast frowned, “Why do I have go with this witc….”Wei Yuechu narrowed her eyes and looked over at him dangerously.Ye Jia interrupted the other party, preventing him from finishing his words, “Then you want to act together with Chen Qingye?”Chen Qingye pushed up his glasses, “I have no objections….”Remembering the pets the other party raised, Blast’s face turned a little green, “Forget it….”Ye Jia, “In short, two of you must go to the victim’s place of residence. One will be in charge of communicating with the family to inquire about the situation and the other will need to check the place for any abnormalities.”Wei Yuechu asked, “What about you?”Ye Jia narrowed his eyes, “I’ll go to the scene where the incident happened to take a look.”“Remember to contact me if you find anything.”Ye Jia left first, leaving Chen Qingye, Wei Yuechu and Blast behind in the hall watching him go out.Chen Qingye looked thoughtfully at Wei Yuechu, “I rarely see listen to orders so obediently.”Wei Yuechu raised a brow, “I like to do what handsome guys tell me to do. Got a problem?”She narrowed her eyes and conversely looked up and down Chen Qingye, “But, in regard to acting obedient, you also aren’t normally like this.”“Of course…..” Chen Qingye’s expression didn’t undergo any changes, “Ye Jia has worked in the Bureau much longer than us and is basically our senior. He knows better than any of us what to do in this situation, so I am willing to listen to my senior’s orders.”The two of them looked at each other, each with different thoughts on their minds, and then turned and walked in the opposite direction from each other.Both of then snorted internally -----He/She doesn’t know anything.Blast watched the backs of the two leaving people with a blank expression and suddenly had a strange thought….Why did he feel that this scene before him had happened before?Wei Yuechu turned back and shouted angrily, “Hey! Are you coming or not?”Blast scratched his head and quickly ran over, “Wait for me!”.Ye Jia arrived at the site.Since it was a rather busy road, the traces from yesterday’s accident had already mostly been cleaned up but, despite this, there were much less traffic and people than usual.Ye Jia followed his memory and arrived at the exact spot where the accident happened.He turned and glanced at the surveillance camera not far away from him and then withdrew his gaze and looked at the open space before him.The blood traces had already been cleaned up, but there were still white marks on the ground left by the impact from the steel pipes.This is it.Ye Jia activated his ghost domain and took out the small black hand who was still immersed with playing with its phone.The small black hand struggled unhappily, “Hey, hey! What are you doing?”Ye Jia asked, “Are there anything that’s unusual here?”The small black hand protested, “You’re exploiting me! This is clearly exploitation!”Ye Jia, “Yes….”The small black hand, “……”Ye Jia, “You’re welcome to find a workers union.”The small black hand, “……”You’re ruthless…….It slipped out from Ye Jia’s grip and then moved towards the open space where the accident happened.The small black hand’s fingers shook, “Nothing unusual.”Ye Jia furrowed his brows, “You can’t feel any fluctuations in yin energy either?”The small black hand, “Yeah…….”Ye Jia’s brows furrowed even more deeply together.In fact, he also didn’t notice any yin energy fluctuations himself and that was why he got the small black hand who was more sensitive to the fluctuations to check for him. If it also couldn’t sense anything, it was very likely that there really aren’t any……

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Could it be possible that that office worker’s death was really just an accident?The small black hand stopped on Ye Jia’s shoulder and habitually held onto his collar, “What happened here?”Ye Jia was startled, “You can’t sense it?”The small black hand was even more confused, “What?”Ye Jia’s expression turned solemn.Places where unnatural deaths have occurred would more or less be a little contaminated.Regardless of whether the office worker’s death was an accident, this was the place where he had died and, more importantly, it was an incident that had only happened yesterday, so there should inevitably be some lingering grievances left by the deceased or even a wandering spirit ---- But, as a fierce ghost, the small black hand didn’t even realise that a human life was lost here recently.It was too clean.Something wasn’t right.At this moment, Ye Jia’s phone buzzed.Chen Qingye had sent him two photos.The first photo was a photo of the detector. The reading on it was close to 0.For a corpse that was rather new, this reading was too low and rather abnormal.The background of the photo clearly showed the metal bed in the morgue on which the corpse’s lifeless and grey arm sat. It could be seen that there were two wounds.One horizontal and one vertical. They diagonally crossed each other.It looked like it was cut with a knife.“This is the only other wound on the body.” Chen Qingye sent an explanation, “Brother Ye, do you recognise it?”Ye Jia narrowed his eyes slightly.That wound looked like two random scratches, but for some reason, that pattern gave him a strange sense of familiarity.Ye Jia was stunned.He spread open his palm. There was a shallow scar at the base of his palm near his wrist.Vertical and horizontal, diagonally crossing into each other.Two very faint lines that was almost hard to see unless you looked carefully.After leaving the game, all the wounds on Ye Jia’s body had healed and all the scars he had acquired had also disappeared. Only this one on his wrist remained.Ye Jia couldn’t remember how it came about.He even wondered if he had it before he was dragged into the game.But since it was quite hard to notice, Ye Jia didn’t pay much attention to that scar on his wrist.After Chen Qingye finished reporting his part of the investigation, Blast and Wei Yuechu also reported that they found nothing on their end.They decided to return to the hotel first to carefully investigate the clues they have and go through the documents they have received from the Bureau to see if they could find anything else.Ye Jia didn’t tell them what he found himself.He returned to his hotel room.Ji Xuan was lying on one of the beds with a thin blanket covering him, looking very small.Ye Jia retracted his gaze and began to read the documents in his hand.The sound of paper rustling sounded occasionally in the quiet hotel room. The sunlight entering the room through the window gradually dimmed.Ye Jia’s gaze was on the documents in front of him but, for a long time, he didn’t move.He seemed to be lost in thought.In that distracted state, Ye Jia subconsciously turned his wrist around, his gaze falling onto the two very faint scars on his wrist. His amber-coloured eyes that were hidden under his long eyelashes shone a thoughtful light.At this moment, soft rustling could be heard coming from the bed beside him.Ye Jia turned and looked over.Ji Xuan had opened his eyes at some unknown point in time, his scarlet eyes glowing a strange light under the dim sunlight. He was looking at Ye Jia who sat not far away from him.“Good evening…” His voice was a little hoarse, “Gege, what are you looking at?”Ye Jia turned his wrist back as he pursed his lips, “Nothing….”Ji Xuan got up from the other bed, the thin blanket covering him slipping off his body. His black hair was a little messy with strands of hair sticking out in all directions. It looked a little funny.He walked barefoot over to Ye Jia’s side.The young boy stretched out his cold and slender hand, and gently grabbed Ye Jia’s wrist. He turned it around to reveal the two shallow scars on it, “It still hurts?”Ye Jia who was about to withdraw his hand paused.His eyes widened slightly as he stared at Ji Xuan before him, his mind blank for a moment.The meaning of those words…..Ji Xuan knew how this scar came about?!But before he could ask about it, the young boy before him suddenly lowered his head and kissed the thin skin on his wrist.His cold and soft lips gently rubbed against the surface of his wrist, like a delicate feather lightly sweeping across. It gave Ye Jia a faint numb and tingling sensation.Ji Xuan raised his head, his scarlet eyes narrowing slightly as he smiled, “This way it won’t hurt anymore.”

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