How to Easily Capture a Long Aotian [Quick Transmigration] 11

Chapter 11: The Cannon Fodder Roommate of the Unlimited Flow Male Lead (Part 11)

The next morning, as the first rays of light pierced through the dawn, the sleeping players in the dormitory building woke up one after another to a sound resembling birdsong.

Yu Lin sat up, squinting slightly. His first reaction was to look up at the glass window on the balcony.

He was surprised to find that the light penetrating from outside the balcony had turned into warm sunlight, not the usual gray sky.

The internet cafe was underground, so normally no light would get in. But the dormitory was on the third floor, and now that light was coming in, it proved that the dormitory and the internet cafe were not one and the same.

He didn’t know what reason would connect them.

The commotion last night had been too great, so everyone actually woke up very early today.

Yu Lin walked to the balcony. Just as he finished washing up, he heard two light knocks on the door outside.

Donggua’s hushed voice came through. “Brother Lin Lin, are you awake?”

Then he added, “It’s Donggua. It’s fine if you’re not awake. I’ll come back later.”

Donggua was quite young in real life. After putting on makeup and entering, he was transformed into an adult body by the dungeon.

He was simple-minded and couldn’t help but reveal his personality when he talked. Yesterday, while researching, he had directly said things like the food at their middle school was terrible.

As a result, he was dragged to a deserted area by a livid Dongqing and beaten up before being released.

In a dangerous and unnatural world like the Main God game, the slightest carelessness meant death, and some people liked to push others out as shields.

If a middle school student with clear eyes was exposed, he would most likely be tricked into triggering traps.

Yu Lin agreed with Dongqing’s considerations. He walked out of the balcony and scanned the dormitory, finding that Su Huai was not there.

He pushed open the door and looked at the cheerful boy in front of him. He said softly, “Donggua, I’m already awake.”

When Donggua heard Yu Lin’s calm voice call his name, for some reason, he shivered.

He didn’t realize that this was the voice of his middle school homeroom teacher. He subconsciously stood up straight, his lively expression instantly tightening, becoming much more composed. “En.”

Then he remembered his sister’s words. He was the Great Emperor Donggua, twenty-seven years old, a cool-faced man who had passed three dungeons.

He had asked his sister what a cool-faced man was. His sister had said if he didn’t know, he should learn from 01. That old dog was very good at bluffing, and some beasts were afraid of that type.

Donggua leaned against the wall, his face tense, and said coldly, “Little brother Lin Lin, 01 asked me to come find you.”

“…”

The corner of Yu Lin’s mouth twitched slightly. He didn’t know what he was imagining. He said softly, “Donggua, you can just call me Lin Yu.”

Donggua: “…”

Donggua: “Okay.”

Donggua led Yu Lin forward and told him, “Something happened this morning. Aihao dragged Chen Jian back to the dormitory, but in the early morning, Chen Jian’s remaining corpse suddenly started to move with a crackling sound, trying to run away.”

“Chenguang came to ask for help, so 01 went over. He was worried about you, so he comes back to check on you every fifteen minutes. But just now, my sister said you were probably awake by now, so she asked me to come and get you first.”

After explaining, Donggua’s eyes became clear again. He said, “Brother Lin Lin, I never thought that Brother 01, who looks so aloof, is actually a caring person. It seems I still have a lot to learn.”

Yu Lin: “…”

Yu Lin didn’t know what he was imagining again, so he could only nod lightly. As they spoke, the two of them arrived at 3107, Aihao and Chenguang’s room.

Chen Jian’s corpse, with its skin and flesh separated and constantly bleeding, had rotted beyond recognition after a night, completely losing its shape.

It was constantly wriggling and struggling, tightly bound by a black rope.

Dense black locks hung from the rope, looking gloomy and sinister, but they were very strong, making it impossible for him to break free.

He was almost strangled into lumps of flesh, wriggling crazily, making a desperate attempt to escape, as if the impending event made him very afraid.

Because Su Huai was in this round of the dungeon, and the other players also had good personalities, it was a rare harmony.

At this time, after integrating the information, everyone already had a good understanding of the dungeon’s plot.

When Donggua went over, he saw his miserable attempt to escape, was stunned for a moment, and couldn’t help but complain, “You’re already dead like this and you still want to run? Are you that scared?”

Hearing this, Chenguang crossed his arms, shot a cold glance at the floor, and spat. “You’ve done so many wicked things, how can you not be afraid?”

“…”

It was time. Dongqing, with a calm expression, lifted the rope. The group went downstairs. When they arrived at the internet cafe, surprisingly, the internet cafe owner was already waiting.

He sat at a computer desk, his two eyes like black holes, without any spirit or expression, looking particularly gloomy and terrifying.

The glass door was pushed open. He turned his head to look over, but his gaze was very calm.

The lump of flesh in Dongqing’s hand jumped violently. In an instant, his eyes turned and stared fixedly at the suspended rotten flesh.

After staring for a while, he curled his lips and said coldly, “It’s you? You’ve really made me search for a long time.”

A few years ago, Chen Jian had always hidden in places he couldn’t enter. Later, he had hidden in the bodies of those outsiders, so he could never find him.

He had been waiting for him for too long.

The internet cafe owner, or rather, Chen Nianqiu twenty years later, stared fixedly at Chen Jian and slowly stood up.

He only had one leg, but his speed was very fast. In an instant, he hopped over, reaching out to touch Chen Jian from behind.

Su Huai turned sideways and blocked him. He paused, his face cold, and extended a finger, slowly pointing to the corner of the second-floor stairs.

Dongqing looked up, then reached out and threw Chen Jian on the ground, pulling out the rope.

The rotten flesh on the ground paused, then began to wriggle crazily outwards, and was grabbed by Chen Nianqiu.

A scalp-numbing sound of bones breaking came from the floor, accompanied by faint chewing and tragic screams.

The group did not linger, but quickly went upstairs to the place Chen Nianqiu had pointed to.

But they found that the place he had pointed to was empty, with only a whitewashed wall. There was nothing on the wall, not even a slogan.

Chenguang looked at the wall and stroked his chin. “What does this mean? A new riddle from the boss?”

As he spoke, a series of tragic screams came intermittently from downstairs. The sound was so tragic that it made one’s heart pound.

What was even more terrifying was that in the internet cafe, the crackling sound of flames gradually began to be heard around them. Standing by the stairs, they could already faintly feel the scorching heat.

It wasn’t even night yet, and the fire was about to start.

Aihao was silent for a moment, then suddenly said, “I don’t think so. He probably isn’t in the mood.”

“Then what does it mean?” Mu Guang looked around, his expression gradually becoming anxious. He suddenly turned his head to look downstairs. “Could he be tricking us?”

“No.” Aihao reached out to stop him, staring at the wall. “Don’t you feel that this place…” should have something more.

As he was thinking, at the very side, Yu Lin suddenly frowned, walked up, and lightly knocked on the wall.

A moment later, he turned to look at Su Huai, his gaze quiet, and lightly tapped the wall with his hand.

Su Huai looked at him, nodded, walked over, and suddenly lifted Ghost Slayer, slashing down.

In an instant, the pristine white wall collapsed with a boom, revealing the stench behind it.

Aihao: “…”

Aihao pushed up his glasses, thinking to himself that sooner or later, he would have to fight it out with you steamrollers.

Then he smelled the stench and quickly walked up to look at the new corpse behind.

After the wall collapsed, the scene behind it was completely exposed.

It was a restroom.

A restroom that should have been in an internet cafe.

Donggua suddenly realized. “That’s right! I was wondering why there were no restrooms on the second floor. So it was hidden here.”

The others frowned, having no time to answer him, and stared intently at the scene behind the wall.

Because it was built twenty years ago, this restroom looked very old, with rust and stains everywhere, and even dried bloodstains.

And under the half-cracked wall of the restroom, by the foul-smelling pool, lay a skeleton in a twisted posture.

The skeleton was very thin, just skin and bones, and its entire body was bent in an unnaturally twisted posture.

Upon closer inspection, almost every inch of its bones had been shattered, and it had no skull and was missing a leg.

The players were all stunned. They had also been through a few dungeons, but such a tragic scene was rare.

As they were looking, a huge fire suddenly broke out in the bizarre internet cafe. But this fire did not burn them.

Instead, it seemed to have brought them back twenty years, to see Chen Nianqiu’s life.

Chen Nianqiu and his mother lived in a hellish world. After their failed escape, his mother was beaten by Chen Jian until she lost her mind and was then locked up like a dog.

Chen Jian didn’t give her food, so Chen Nianqiu had to go out to work and secretly feed her. He did a little of everything, at a breakfast shop, a construction site, or in a trash can.

But he was only fourteen, and as thin as a rail. There was very little he could do.

Until one day, he saw a classmate playing a game and talking about the price of a certain piece of equipment.

The price was not low. To the Chen Nianqiu of that time, it was a huge sum. So he hesitated, and with the last bit of money he had, he walked into an internet cafe.

Chen Nianqiu was surprisingly talented at games. He found that he really liked this magical world.

This world was also very good to him. He was no longer hungry all the time, and he could even support his mother by power-leveling, playing for others, and buying and selling equipment.

But others did not like him.

Because he was always dirty, not a good student, and always skipped class to play games.

But he didn’t dare to really leave school, because only when he was at school would Chen Jian not dare to stop him from going out, nor dare to beat him to death directly.

At that time, Chen Nianqiu was at his wit’s end and had asked many people for help: his teacher, the police officer on duty by the road, and the small foreman at the construction site where Chen Jian worked.

But under Chen Jian’s glib tongue, the teacher thought he was a bad kid who was full of lies, liked to skip class to play games, and couldn’t be corrected even with beatings.

The police helplessly told him that they were a married couple, and his father had an obligation to support his incapacitated mother. And the small foreman at the construction site directly drove him away…

Chen Nianqiu was very lost. When Chen Jian found out that he had dared to go out and report him, he caught him and beat him up again, knocking out a few of his teeth, and then beat his speechless mother in front of him.

But he didn’t know who else to ask for help.

He was too young, only fourteen, and his grades were not good. The only thing he could do well was play games.

But what was the use of being good at games? Everyone thought he was a bad kid who wasn’t doing proper work.

He got a good ranking in an internet cafe competition and even won prize money. He remembered it clearly, it was one thousand yuan.

That was a lot of money. The way the audience looked at him was a little different. They all praised him, saying he was really talented.

After the competition, a manager even found him and asked him if he was willing to form a gaming team and play games professionally.

Chen Nianqiu’s eyes lit up. With a black eye, he asked naively, “Can I?”

He felt a glimmer of hope and wanted to ask for help again.

But when the manager heard about his terrible family situation, his expression changed, and he quickly waved his hand and left.

At that time, being good at games was, after all, a very niche hobby with limited returns.

He couldn’t escape, and he couldn’t save him.

So Chen Nianqiu took his one-thousand-yuan prize money and returned home disappointed.

He bought food and wanted to secretly climb over the wall to get in, but was met with a punch.

Chen Jian beat him half to death, grabbing his hair. “Little bastard, where have you been? Where’s the money? If you don’t bring back the money, believe it or not, I’ll beat that bitch to death.”

Chen Nianqiu’s money was stolen again. He had no choice but to continue skipping class and work even harder to play for others.

The teacher said angrily that students should act like students, and if he skipped class again, he would be punished. Chen Nianqiu looked at his increasingly low test scores and remained silent.

He was a bad kid with poor grades who only knew how to skip class and play games. The teacher wouldn’t believe him.

One day, he was cornered in the internet cafe by Chen Jian, who had lost money gambling and was being mocked for raising someone else’s son.

Chen Jian was furious. He grabbed him by the neck, dragged him to the restroom, took the money from his pocket, and beat him until he couldn’t even crawl.

Chen Nianqiu stared at him fixedly, but his struggle and resentment seemed to please him.

He looked down and suddenly said, “Little bastard, I don’t think you’re of any use. How about this, I’ll let the bitch at home go out and earn money too?”

Chen Nianqiu’s eyes widened, his body trembling. He rushed forward and fought with Chen Jian like a madman, but Chen Jian broke every bone in his body, and he finally died tragically in the internet cafe restroom.

When the effects of the alcohol wore off, Chen Jian realized he had killed someone and was terrified. He decided to go all the way and set fire to the internet cafe.

Because he was worried about being retaliated against by Chen Nianqiu after his death, he even cut off one of Chen Nianqiu’s legs and, after getting advice from an expert, secretly buried it in a student dormitory with strong yang energy to suppress it.

The fire in that internet cafe would never be extinguished. Day after day, year after year, one of Chen Nianqiu’s legs was suppressed under the dormitory building, and he could never find it.

This was the last safety hazard.

“…”

Twenty years ago, Chen Nianqiu had died in the internet cafe. That fire had killed many people. They began to live in a daze, trapped here.

Only Chen Nianqiu remembered everything. He grew up little by little, day after day, year after year, repeating the scene before his death.

The flames crackled and burst. Twenty years passed in an instant. Chen Jian’s tragic screams came from downstairs.

The fire in the internet cafe spread even more, reflecting the ever-changing expressions of those present.

The moment the screams died out, the Main God panel popped up, announcing that the mission in this world was completed and the rewards would be settled individually.

But no one moved.

A complicated feeling filled their hearts.

Chenguang stood in the sea of fire, held it in for a while, but couldn’t hold it in any longer, and spat fiercely. “I’ve seen a lot of fucking ghosts, but this is the first time I’ve seen a beast.”

“.” Donggua had a look of intolerance on his face. He carefully looked at the cold panel in front of him, which prompted him to log out of the game, and gently tapped “confirm.”

Everyone was very quiet. Before the countdown to leave ended, Donggua tilted his head and suddenly found that Yu Lin, who had been very quiet, was in a daze.

His eyelashes were slightly lowered, and he was looking in a certain direction in the fire.

Donggua followed his line of sight and found that next to Chen Nianqiu’s skeleton, there was a rusty iron medal.

Donggua recalled for a moment. He had an impression of this medal. He had seen it in a news photo. It was the prize for Chen Nianqiu’s first internet cafe competition.

Donggua looked at the medal, feeling a little bad. He leaned over and asked in a small voice, “Brother Lin Lin, what are you thinking about?”

“What?” Yu Lin turned to look at him, his features quiet, as if he had just come back to his senses.

Donggua looked at him and asked again.

Yu Lin listened, pressed his lips together slightly, was silent for a moment, and then said softly, “Nothing. I was just thinking, it would be great if he lived in our time.”

Donggua was a little lost. “Huh?”

Yu Lin looked at him and said softly, “His talent would have been enough for him to stand out at the age of fourteen. A team would have found him and helped him. The problems he faced would have been solved quickly.”

Twenty years later, the esports industry had matured. It was a legitimate profession. Although it was hard work, it also came with countless glories.

At that time, when Chen Nianqiu’s talent was discovered, everyone would have scouted him, valued him, praised him, encouraged him, and also helped him.

How wonderful that would have been for Chen Nianqiu.

A faint crackling sound suddenly came from the flames.

Su Huai stood by, his expression placid, originally motionless. But as he listened, he suddenly couldn’t help but turn his head slightly to look at Yu Lin’s eyes.

Yu Lin’s eyelashes lifted slightly, and a pair of amber eyes looked over. “What’s wrong?”

Su Huai shook his head, reached out and took his hand, his fingers tightening as he said in a low voice, “En.”