How to Easily Capture a Long Aotian [Quick Transmigration] 99

Chapter 99: My One and Only (Part 4)

It seemed that all of a sudden, the two people who had been talking about everything had started to become cold.

Yu Lin didn’t know the reason, but he was a person who was very sensitive to changes. He felt Chen Shizhou’s awkwardness, and after being stunned for a moment, he gradually reduced the time he spent talking.

Time passed day by day, and one day, he was walking on the road, and he was replying to the messages sent by others. He found that Chen Shizhou’s chat box had been moved to the bottom at some point, even though he had not deleted it.

After a long hesitation, he took a picture of the morning tree shade and sent it over, but perhaps the casual action was too inexplicable, and the other end never replied.

Yu Lin looked at the screen and silently closed the chat box.

They had drifted apart, until there was nothing left to say.

Not long after, something had happened to his family. His mother had taken him and had moved to another place, and she had changed her phone number, and her original WeChat and life had been abandoned.

He and Chen Shizhou were like a rope that was about to break, and after it had broken, there was no more contact.

***

The last world could move with the master’s thoughts, like a frame-by-frame movie, playing everything from that year. It had restored everything that had happened between Yu Lin and Chen Shizhou, and in the end, the world on the screen had been frozen in that year.

On the last scene, the trees of No. 1 High School were still lush, and the road was long and wide. With the bright blue sky and white clouds, it had extended into the distance.

The clouds in the sky had no foothold, and they could only drift around without a purpose, and in the end, they had dispersed, like Chen Shizhou’s unrequited love that had ended without a result.

Yu Lin was like a moviegoer, and he was watching all this in a void space. Until the end, his gaze had fallen on Chen Shizhou. He was a little stunned, and he had wanted to say something, but neither of them had spoken.

Yu Lin had not expected that they had known each other a long, long time ago, and they had planted a seed in each other’s hearts.

Even if this seed had not had a chance to grow, in the many years to come, they were no different from strangers, as if they were the most familiar strangers in the world.

He might have regretted losing a friend he could talk to, but he had never known that Chen Shizhou had liked him.

“Can you tell me what’s going on?” Yu Lin’s gaze shifted from the screen and fell on Chen Shizhou by his side. Chen Shizhou closed his eyes lightly, and he pressed his lips together, and his fingers were lightly pressing his forehead, as if he were enduring great pain.

His thoughts were very chaotic. It was originally a world created by him. With the master’s awakening, everything in the world had changed. Chen Shizhou had been triggered by an instruction, and he had been forced to wake up, and his nerves had been damaged, and his head was very painful.

“Are you okay?” Yu Lin looked at him with worry.

Although he had doubts about everything, he did not want anything to happen to Chen Shizhou.

Looking at Yu Lin’s worried gaze, Chen Shizhou was stunned for a moment, and his eyes gradually became quiet. He shook his head and explained softly, “Don’t worry. It’s nothing… it’s you… who participated in a project I developed in reality.”

He had returned to his original appearance, and his features were handsome, and his figure was straight, but he looked a little cold.

He pressed his lips together, and he tried to sort out his chaotic thoughts. The vast amount of information was making him very uncomfortable. He looked at Yu Lin, and his eyes were deep and dark, and he lowered his voice very lightly. “Don’t be afraid. I… I’ll explain it to you.”

Yu Lin looked at him quietly. “Okay.”

As Chen Shizhou had woken up, the appearance in the space had shattered, and it had become a huge, technological-looking control panel, which looked like the project that Chen Shizhou had mentioned.

On one of the control panels, many screens were displayed, and on them were the lives of the “taskers.”

Chen Shizhou’s gaze followed Yu Lin and fell on the control panel.

“At that time, I didn’t deliberately not reply to the message.” After a moment of silence, he suddenly said.

Yu Lin was looking at the control panel, and he was stunned for a moment when he heard this, and he turned his head to look at him. “What?”

Chen Shizhou looked at him, and his Adam’s apple bobbed slightly, and the knuckles hanging by his side tightened. “I…”

He pressed his lips together. “That message… I was in a closed training camp for those few months, and I could only touch my phone at night. My phone was broken, and I was out of touch during that period of time, and I couldn’t receive any messages… I’m very sorry for not replying to you.”

“It’s not an excuse.” This space had been affected by Yu Lin, and it had let him know some things he didn’t know. Chen Shizhou thought of the scene he had just seen, and his voice was hoarse. “I just don’t know if you were disappointed when you didn’t receive a reply at that time. I don’t want to make you unhappy because of me.”

In fact, even if his phone had not been broken, and even if he had replied to that message, and Yu Lin had seen it, their result at that time would not have been better.

That year was not like today. At that time, in that closed city, as a high school student who could not be independent, he could not protect Yu Lin at all.

He could not let Yu Lin be hurt by any rumors.

And… Yu Lin did not like him.

Chen Shizhou did not want his uncontrollable feelings to be revealed as the two of them continued, and to cause trouble for the Yu Lin of that time.

Yu Lin had not expected him to explain this first. He was stunned for a moment and nodded lightly. “En, I know.”

The fingers in his pocket paused for a moment, and he looked at Chen Shizhou’s dark eyes, and he said softly, “I know. It’s fine… I replied to you a little late that day, not because I felt… disgusted.”

He pressed his lips together and looked at Chen Shizhou seriously. “It’s because Douding was scared and was crying all the time. I didn’t have time. I wasn’t troubled by it.”

The changes in a young man were always sensitive and rapid. At that time, Yu Lin had felt Chen Shizhou’s coldness, but he had not known that it was because of this.

Too much time had passed, and now Yu Lin could not say for sure what his feelings for this friend of that year were. It must have been special. He was a person with a very strong sense of boundaries, and he would not particularly try to keep someone.

He had once wanted to win back Chen Shizhou, and he had felt that Chen Shizhou was special.

But like…? Not really. At that time, he had not yet had this concept.

He looked at Chen Shizhou, and he pressed his lips together lightly, and he looked at the control panel on the side, which was exactly the same as the mission space. “It’s very similar to the mission space. I participated in your project… did you create all of this?”

Chen Shizhou nodded. “This is a game. I came up with the idea, and I created it with my colleagues.”

The two good friends who had talked about everything in their passionate youth, and who would even share which stall in the school cafeteria had better food, and whose views were consistent, and whose souls resonated.

In the small world, they were still intimate lovers. They had met, had known each other, and had fallen in love, and in the end, they had promised to be together for the rest of their lives. Their relationship was very good, and it had never changed.

At this moment, facing each other, who were both familiar and strange, for a moment, they did not know how to react, and they had to turn their gazes to other places.

“Can you tell me in detail?” After a long time, Yu Lin looked at the control panel and asked Chen Shizhou softly.

Chen Shizhou could no longer delay.

He nodded, walked over, and opened a hidden panel.

On the panel were the small worlds that the two of them had once experienced, and they were drawn on a map. The map was winding and had a large capacity. At the top was a line of words.

『World.』

A fluorescent blue light screen floated in mid-air, and it brought a visual shock.

Chen Shizhou looked at the screen and said, “The world we are in is a new series of games developed by my team. The name is ‘World.’ It has a high degree of freedom, a multi-dimensional space, and unlimited exploration.”

“Everyone can find their own story in it and play out different endings, as if they have experienced different lives. The game has not yet been released… at present, only the test qualification has been opened, and people from different fields have been invited to participate.”

Chen Shizhou’s voice was a little low. He looked at Yu Lin, and his dark eyes lifted slightly, and his gaze instantly became gentle again. He said, “You applied.”

Yu Lin blinked. “I applied?”

“En.” Chen Shizhou looked at him, and his gaze became gentle. “After you transferred schools, I looked for you, but there was no news. Later, I found out… that something had happened to your family. After you graduated, you chose a high-paying job, and in your spare time… you would serialize some manga.”

“Besides competing for a spot, creators from different fields can also apply for the internal test.”

“You applied. I saw your drawing and recognized you.”

Chen Shizhou was as succinct as ever.

He did not say that the office had been very busy that day, and different people had been constantly urging him. But he had been sitting in the sunset, and in the vast orange light of the city, he had not been able to concentrate on his thoughts at all, and his eyes had only been on the application in his hand.

He was like a survivor who had survived a disaster. The moment he had seen the sunlight, his eyes had almost become sore.

He had gotten Yu Lin’s news, so he had followed the clues, and he had tried every means to find out some of the things that had happened in these years, but he had not dared to disturb him. He could only, bit by bit, build up the progress, and complete the game as soon as possible, and wait for Yu Lin to enter.

Yu Lin had come to the company for the test, and after he had created his character and had chosen a mode, he had followed him as an NPC.

From beginning to end, he had not wanted to do anything. He had just wanted to see Yu Lin, to take a look at the person he liked, and what he looked like when he had grown up.

“So that’s how it is. Are there any other players in this world?” Yu Lin had understood what had happened, and after a moment of silence, he turned his head and asked Chen Shizhou.

“No.” Chen Shizhou shook his head. “It’s a single-player mode. There are only the two of us in this world.”

“En.” Yu Lin nodded, and after a moment of hesitation, he suddenly asked softly, “I remember… at the beginning of the game, I had originally completed a mission, and then I was squeezed in again by a grinder? Where is the grinder? Is this also a game setting?”

He asked Chen Shizhou with confusion, “Do you know him? I originally thought it was an important setting, but I don’t think I’ve ever seen him.”

“…”

Chen Shizhou was stunned for a moment and gently moved his gaze away. After a long while, he said, “I have.”

Yu Lin: “What?”

“Me.” Chen Shizhou looked at him and said softly, “I am that grinder. I… have tested too many worlds, and my default points are relatively high. After I entered the world, the system automatically generated a reason and assigned you this mission.”

“…”

Yu Lin hesitated for a moment and released the little jellyfish.

“Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa—Mommy, mommy!! You, you, you, you, you, you, you—how do you look so much like our 007 workaholic boss!!”

The little jellyfish looked at Chen Shizhou’s face in shock, and after a series of screams, a golden star suddenly appeared in front of its eyes, and it fainted.

Yu Lin: “…”

Chen Shizhou: “…”

Chen Shizhou pressed his lips together and tried to explain very palely, “These systems are controlled by the consciousness of the administrators. The members of our production team are sometimes… a little playful.”

“En.” A faint smile appeared in Yu Lin’s eyes.

Chen Shizhou looked at him, and his gaze gradually softened.

After Chen Shizhou had adjusted the data, a series of lights were emitted from the control panel, and a teleportation gate opened, ready to welcome the two of them back to the real world.

“Why?” Before he went back, Yu Lin hesitated for a moment, and he stood at the door, and he still asked. He looked at Chen Shizhou, and his voice was very soft.

The person in front of him had a cold and handsome face, and he was tall and slender. He was as taciturn as in his memory, but he was also a little gentle without a trace. For some reason, when Yu Lin looked at him, he also became a little nervous.

Chen Shizhou looked at him, and he pressed his lips together lightly. After a long time, the corners of his lips curled up slightly, and he said to him a sentence that had been hidden in his heart for a long time, “Because I like you.”

He said softly, “I’m very sorry. I originally didn’t want to disturb you, and I didn’t know that these things would happen in the test world.”

It’s just that I like you, I like you very much, and I’ve liked you for too long.