Chapter 92: The Otherworldly Friend of the Manga World’s Number One Protagonist (Part 4)
The protagonist will have a little brother on his path to godhood.
The little brother was very unconvinced at first, and he was a little dog that would bite. But the little brother would never be able to beat the protagonist, and he would be mercilessly abused by the protagonist. Then he would become more and more courageous, and then he would submit to the protagonist’s personal charm.
The little brother might also have an awesome background.
This was the current situation.
Under the introduction of the white-haired man, Yu Lin understood that the white-haired man was called Yinshuang, and the gray-haired young man was called Yinyi. He was his sister’s son, and he had been separated from him since he was a child. He had grown up in the thirteenth street, where monsters were rampant and supplies were scarce, and his life had been very hard.
Therefore, Yinyi’s personality was arrogant, ruthless, and he was very vigilant. He was very hostile to Yinshuang, who claimed to be his uncle.
The two of them had been chasing each other, and they had come to Platinum City. Yinyi had challenged the arena floors, and Yinshuang had been secretly paying attention.
But Yinyi was wary of him, and he would often shake him off. As the number two master in this world, Yinshuang had felt guilty for Yinyi all along, so he had let him be.
He knew that Yinyi’s personality was ruthless. In this world where the weak were the prey of the strong, it was not wrong to kill, but besides self-preservation, there should always be a reason. Yinyi was still young and had not yet made a big mistake. He thought that with him by his side, there would be enough time to correct him.
In the original plot, Yinyi had become more and more courageous. After he had lost, because he was not convinced, he would often come to challenge Xu Zhouyan. And because he had been caught by Xu Zhouyan several times for his failed attempts at doing bad things, he had been taught a lesson, and in the end, he had been beaten into submission.
Now, he had not yet had this experience. When he had seen Yu Lin, he had had the idea of breaking the rules.
Xu Zhouyan looked very calm, but he had no intention of letting him go.
Yinshuang had not seen what had happened before. After he had heard what had happened, he had glanced at Yu Lin, who was by Xu Zhouyan’s side, with a pale face, and he had looked up, and then at the expressionless Xu Zhouyan. After a moment of silence, he knew that there was no room for maneuver in this matter.
He smiled, walked over and kicked Yinyi to his knees. After a crisp sound of a bone breaking, he took the initiative to raise his hand and cripple one of his arms, and he said to Xu Zhouyan with a smile, “I’ll apologize to the little kid. Can you spare this little bastard’s life?”
This little bastard is really asking for it. He’s messing with Xu Zhouyan. He’s not going to live anymore.
Yinyi was locked on one side, and in the face of the lesson, although his face was pale, he was also indifferent. When he had seen Yinshuang’s action, he was stunned for a moment, and he suddenly looked up, and he was angry. “What are you doing?! Do I need you to care?!”
Yinshuang looked at him coldly. “If I don’t care about you, who will?”
Yinyi gritted his teeth, turned his head away, and suddenly fell silent.
Yu Lin’s stamina was exhausted, and he coughed lightly, and he took a light breath by Xu Zhouyan’s side.
Xu Zhouyan looked at his pale face, and after a pause, his voice was placid as he looked at Yinshuang. “I didn’t plan on killing him.”
“I know.” Yinshuang smiled and blinked. “If it were me, I wouldn’t kill someone in front of my little kid. But in a special situation, a mistake is a mistake. I can’t bear to touch him, so I’ll apologize to you like this first. Is that okay?”
He was smiling, and his face was pale, and he lifted his eyelids to look at the furious Yinyi by his side.
The rule of this world was like this. They were in the wrong, and they couldn’t beat him, so they deserved to pay the price.
And he could feel that Xu Zhouyan was angry.
In this world, he only hoped that Xu Zhouyan would not be angry with Yinyi. He couldn’t stop him.
So the two young men with different personalities stood by their parents’ side, and they watched as the two parents argued.
Yinshuang said, “I know your rules. When Old Song invited you to build the hotel, you didn’t even want the management rights. You only set the rules for the hotel. I don’t want to violate your rules, but Xu Zhouyan, you’re also from the thirteenth district.”
He paused for a moment. “It’s not easy there. I’ll use the Tianqing ore to make a weapon for your little kid. Don’t hold a grudge against this little bastard, okay?”
Yinshuang could be considered to have known Xu Zhouyan since he was a child. He knew that this person looked cold and was indifferent to everything, but he would both save the lives of strangers and would kill people without mercy.
He was too strong, and he could decide the life and death of others with a single thought. No one knew what they would encounter in the future, and he did not want Yinyi and Xu Zhouyan to become enemies.
Xu Zhouyan was silent for a moment, and he looked at Yu Lin by his side. The high school student had a life-saving item on him, but he still did not have a decent weapon.
The Tianqing ore was a rare find. Xu Zhouyan nodded. “Okay.”
Yinshuang let out a sigh of relief, but he was still curious. He looked at the beautiful young man who was standing quietly by Xu Zhouyan’s side, and who was out of place with his own bastard. “Where did the little kid come from?”
Xu Zhouyan ignored him, and he tapped his wrist twice, and he sent him his own email address, and he said placidly, “Send it to me when you’re done.”
“Okay.”
After he had sent the uncle and nephew away, Xu Zhouyan and Yu Lin had returned to the 367th floor.
The 367th floor was infinitely close to the sky, and it seemed that even the stars in the sky were much brighter. In front of the floor-to-ceiling window, there was a thick, long-haired blanket. It would not be cold to sleep here.
After Yu Lin had finished his shower, he was wrapped in a blanket and was sitting by the window. This world also had a TV. He turned one on and found that it was a cartoon, so he began to watch.
Xu Zhouyan came in with a lunch box. The adventurous nature of a high school student, and Yu Lin blinked, and he looked up and asked him, “Xu Zhouyan, who was that person today?”
The high school student from a peaceful and beautiful world was also very interested in the love and hatred between the bigshots of the monster world.
“Yinshuang.” Xu Zhouyan said, and he put down the lunch box in his hand and sat down. He thought for a moment and explained, “We were in the thirteenth district together when we were children. We had cooperated for supplies. After he grew up, his bloodline awakened, and he went to the north, and he has not appeared again, but he is very strong.”
Yu Lin was a little curious. “Very strong?”
“En.” Xu Zhouyan thought for a moment, and he raised his hand and opened a terminal for him to see. On it was a row of black and gold names, arranged from top to bottom. The introduction was the esper leaderboard. The first place was Xu Zhouyan, and the second place was Yinshuang.
“What’s the thirteenth district?” Yu Lin craned his neck to look at the terminal, and his fluffy hair brushed against Xu Zhouyan’s arm.
“It’s a slum.” Xu Zhouyan said, and he turned his head to glance at Yu Lin, and he pressed his lips together, and he explained to the person by his side, “It’s the place that has been abandoned by everyone, where the monsters refresh the most, the resources are the most scarce, the law of the jungle is the strongest, and the most people die.”
“Then you…?” Yu Lin was stunned for a moment, and he looked up at him. “You lived there all your childhood?”
“En.” Xu Zhouyan looked at him. “I was born there.”
His tone was placid, and he didn’t think there was anything wrong with it. But his friend was from an overly beautiful world, so after he had finished listening, he had sat up straight, and his gentle eyes had looked at him, and after a pause, he had straightened up, and he had gently hugged him.
“Xu Zhouyan.” Yu Lin patted his back and asked him softly, “Were you scared when you were a child?”
Xu Zhouyan’s eyelids lifted slightly, and his chin rested on the side of Yu Lin’s shoulder. He felt the soft hair by his cheek, and his cheek was tickled by the soft hair.
He thought for a moment and replied, “It was okay. I wasn’t scared.”
“Is it because you were very strong since you were a child?”
“No.” Xu Zhouyan explained, “I was still young at that time, and I didn’t know what fear was. Everyone in the thirteenth district was like that. They were killing people every day, and I was no exception.”
After a pause, he said in a low voice, “I’ve killed a lot of people, so Yinshuang is afraid of me. He doesn’t want his nephew to become my enemy. What about you? Do you think it’s scary?”
Outside the floor-to-ceiling window was the dazzling and brilliant lights of Platinum City, and the color tone in the room was warm and yellow.
Xu Zhouyan sat on the blanket and casually looked at the prosperous buildings outside. His fingers were hanging on the ground, and his gaze was slightly lowered, and it fell on the person by his side.
He had not hidden his danger from Yu Lin, but he had also not particularly shown it.
Most of the people in this world were afraid of him, especially after they had heard that he was from the chaotic thirteenth district. His chaotic background had made the Esper Association also very wary of him.
His friend was from a warm world. If he was afraid of him, Xu Zhouyan didn’t know how to comfort him.
Yu Lin held him, smiled, and his eyes blinked lightly. Then he sat back down and shook his head. “No. Xu Zhouyan, we are friends.” he said with a smile.
His voice was soft and gentle, and his curved eyes seemed to contain the stars. The words “friends” in the manga world had a lot of weight. Even Xu Zhouyan, who was used to being alone, was stunned for a moment.
He pressed his lips together and looked at Yu Lin, and his black hair was hanging over his eyelids. A moment later, his Adam’s apple bobbed slightly, and he awkwardly nodded lightly. “En, we are friends.”
The manga world seemed to be like this. There were monsters, opponents, old acquaintances, and also friends.
Yu Lin and Xu Zhouyan were sitting together, and they were looking at the night view outside the window, and they were smiling. He felt that this world was very special, as if it could evoke some memories that he had long forgotten.
The temperature in the room was suitable, and a gentle, realistic wind was blowing.
Xu Zhouyan’s hair was blown by the wind. He was a special friend, not good with words, but very considerate. He nodded. “We are friends.”
He and Yu Lin were sitting side by side, and they were looking at the vast orange sunset outside the window.
Time passed by, and Yu Lin and Xu Zhouyan stayed at the Tourist Hotel.
Xu Zhouyan would train Yu Lin every week, and he had trained Yu Lin to be able to protect himself. Then, on a certain evening when the afterglow of the setting sun was everywhere, he had come in with a long saber and had said to Yu Lin, “We can go to the city in the sky.”
The colors of this world were distinct. The darkness of the misty forest, the fluorescent blue of the Blue Water Bay, the golden and brilliant Platinum City, and the light green, clear light that was emitted by the long saber in Xu Zhouyan’s hand.
Yu Lin looked at the blade that was reflecting a transparent light, and then at the sky outside the window and Platinum City, which were complementing each other, and he could not tell which was more orange. He did not speak.
They were about to set off for the city in the sky, so he knew that the day of departure was near, but he seemed to be a little reluctant to part with Xu Zhouyan.
If the legend of the city in the sky was real, he would go back to his own world through the teleportation array, and he would go to class every day, and he would live his own life day after day.
The manga had been destroyed by a strange bird. At that time, without a teleportation array, he would not be able to communicate with Xu Zhouyan.
This more than a month of being together day and night was like a dream.
Thinking of this, Yu Lin looked up at Xu Zhouyan, and he pressed his lips together, and he was inexplicably a little down.
He reached out and took the long saber, and he looked at it with his eyes lowered, and then he looked at the sky outside the window.
He was sitting cross-legged on the ground, and the fingers resting on the blanket were as white as jade and were long and slender, and they were slightly tightened.
Xu Zhouyan noticed that he was unhappy, and his expression was slightly dazed. He didn’t know the reason, and he half-knelt, and after a while, he asked in a low voice, “What do you want?”
Most of the things in this world, Xu Zhouyan could obtain by some method and give them to Yu Lin. Besides making Yu Lin himself feel happy, this was a problem that could not be solved with a formula.
But Xu Zhouyan hoped that Yu Lin would be happy.
Yu Lin shook his head, and he turned his head to look at him. His light-colored gaze was gentle and bright in the sunset. “Nothing.”
After a pause, he suddenly asked, “Xu Zhouyan, if I go home, will you still remember me?”
His question came unexpectedly, and it had a certain heart-stirring signal. Xu Zhouyan looked at him, and his eyes were deep and dark, and there was a very deep emotion in them. He said, “I will. I will always remember you.”
“Okay.” Yu Lin was silent for a while, and then he suddenly smiled, and he said, “I will also remember you.”
The doorbell rang. Xu Zhouyan had ordered dinner. The waiter had brought dinner, and also two bottles of new wine.
Usually, they were placed in the cabinet. Today, the two of them had taken them out and had had some. The transparent wine was in a glass. Yu Lin had drunk it, and his face had turned red.
He turned his head to look at Xu Zhouyan and asked him, “Will you really remember me?”
Xu Zhouyan still nodded. “I will.”
The night wind blew gently.
Unconsciously, Yu Lin had fallen asleep on Xu Zhouyan’s lap.
Xu Zhouyan looked down at him, and after a long while, his fingers gently rested on his hair and ruffled it.