Chapter 1776
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Chapter 1776 He’s Going to Die
“Longbai, why do you look unwell?” Lin Qiye examined the tall youth before him and asked with confusion.
“Hmm… it’s nothing, maybe I’m just tired from staying up late playing games.” Youli Longbai smiled gently, “Come in, I’ll show you my collection.”
Lin Qiye stepped into the villa and began to look around, following Youli Longbai’s guidance.
This villa was specially prepared for Youli Longbai by Zuo Qing years ago. Considering that this child’s appearance was too striking, the kind of existence that would have people rushing to film videos if he walked down the street, if he lived in a densely populated area, it wouldn’t take long before talent scouts would come knocking on his door, causing quite a stir.
For this reason, Zuo Qing specifically prepared a villa for him in the suburbs, with an excellent environment, far from the dust of the city, where generally no one else would come.
Youli Longbai naturally liked it very much. When he was in the “human circle,” he had been imprisoned like a lab rat since childhood and had grown accustomed to solitude. For him, this environment made him very comfortable, especially since it had all kinds of games available on the market.
Four years ago, after Lin Qiye became the Commander-in-Chief of the Night Watchers, he visited Youli Longbai once. Later, as his affairs gradually became busy, he hadn’t come back since. Counting the time, it had been more than two years since he had seen this child.
“This wall has all my console game collections, those are the ones I’ve only completed once, and these are the ones I’ve completed twice or more…”
“These computers are loaded with competitive online games, but I find it boring to play with people online, so I’ve only played half of them. That area is the arcade hall, the arcade games you had people send me before, I’ve completed them all once, and some of them are quite good…”
“This is my figure collection area, all bought with my pocket money. Impressive, isn’t it?”
Youli Longbai, who was a head taller than Lin Qiye, was now excited like a child, pulling him around the villa for a complete tour.
Lin Qiye’s gaze swept across the room full of game cartridges, and he asked with a smile, “Living here alone, don’t you get bored?”
“When I’m not playing games, it is quite boring… but I can talk to my sister, and sometimes Uncle Guan comes to play with me and brings me to test his new programs and games… The games he makes are much more interesting than these!
A couple of days ago, I wanted to ask if you had time to come over, Brother Qiye, but Secretary Min said you were very busy lately… I thought you wouldn’t come.”
Youli Longbai blinked his eyes and tentatively asked, “Brother Qiye, you’re not in a hurry to leave, are you?”
“Not at all,” Lin Qiye smiled and sat down on the sofa in the basement.
“Today I’ll stay here with you, not going anywhere.”
Youli Longbai’s face was full of joy. He immediately, barefoot, took out a second game controller from under the TV cabinet and handed it to Lin Qiye, “Then can we play all night?”
“Of course,” Lin Qiye paused for a moment. “But haven’t you already been up for several nights? Can your body handle it?”
“I’m fine, I’m used to it.”
Lin Qiye took the controller and lay down on the sofa. After much deliberation over a handful of cartridges, Youli Longbai still chose the simplest one to insert into the console.
The projection screen changed, and the entire basement was enveloped in the light and shadows of the game. Each holding a controller, the two quickly entered a competitive state.
To be honest, Lin Qiye hadn’t relaxed and played games for a very long time, especially after becoming the Commander-in-Chief, even taking a vacation had become a luxury… Anyone else could take a vacation, but not him. No one had ever heard of a Commander-in-Chief who could abandon the entire Night Watchers to sunbathe on a beach.
They would certainly confront the Olympian gods, but not now. As a certain movie quote goes, he still needed to let the bullets fly a while longer.
Lin Qiye’s visit to Youli Longbai this time was firstly to see him, and secondly to briefly empty his mind. The heavy workload of these four years had left him somewhat breathless.
But as the “DEATH” sign kept appearing on the screen, Lin Qiye’s expression immediately became somewhat unpleasant.
Youli Longbai’s mouth twitched slightly, “Brother Qiye, I think this game might be too difficult… let me change to another one.”
“No need!” Lin Qiye changed from lying down to sitting up, and said seriously, “I was too careless just now, I’ll sit up to play.”
Two minutes later, the screen went black again.
Lin Qiye: …
“Brother Qiye…”
“I think my controller isn’t working properly, do you have another one I can switch to?”
“…”
The two spent the entire afternoon playing games in the basement far from the world, with no chess games or fog, just the simplest joy between men displayed vividly in competition.
Before they knew it, it was already late at night.
“Brother Qiye, are you hungry? Should I make something for you to eat?” Youli Longbai stood up and stretched his muscles.
“I’m not hungry, but you should definitely eat something,” Lin Qiye put down the controller.
Lin Qiye’s body was a primordial spirit embryo; he could go thousands of years without food or water with no problem. But Youli Longbai’s body was not in good condition, and he couldn’t go without food.
Youli Longbai made a sound of agreement and turned to walk toward the kitchen, but his figure suddenly staggered, and he collapsed to the ground.
“Longbai?!”
Lin Qiye’s pupils contracted, and his figure instantly flashed from the sofa to the stairway.
He lifted the fallen Youli Longbai, who was pale-faced and had already fallen unconscious.
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Beijing City,
Night Watchers Headquarters, Medical Department.
Lin Qiye sat on the cold bench, with pale light filling the corridor. He frowned at the tightly closed emergency room door, his expression somewhat anxious.
After Youli Longbai fainted, Lin Qiye immediately examined his body and found that his life force was continuously draining away… He promptly brought Youli Longbai from Huaihai to Beijing and immediately sent him to the headquarters’ medical department.
Here, besides the top medical facilities in Great Xia, there were also many logistics personnel with healing forbidden domains, making it the pinnacle of Night Watchers’ medical capabilities.
Creak—
The emergency room door opened, and Yue Jiulin, one of the seven high-level officials and the head of the logistics department, walked out wearing a white coat.
“How is he?” Lin Qiye stood up and asked.
Yue Jiulin opened his mouth, showing a difficult expression, and said, “Commander Lin… we’ve revived him, and his consciousness has returned to normal, but the problem with his body is not small…”
“Not small?”
“Mr. Youli is not an ordinary human, but a ‘man-made god’ experimental subject cultivated from [Pure Land]. Five years ago, although he was injected with a stabilizing agent, the side effects of overexerting his body still cannot be underestimated…”
Lin Qiye’s frown deepened, “Get to the point.”
“He… is dying of old age.”
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