Chapter 66 It was you! [VIP]
"Cough cough..."
Ziyu was awakened by a sticky liquid.
The smell of blood lingered in my nostrils.
Ziyu slowly opened her eyes, and what came into view was Qin Yuzhen's bloodless face.
And the body he was supporting above him—because of the collapse of the house, a steel bar used to support the wall broke and leaned down, passing straight through Qin Yuzhen's left arm, the break being two fists away from Ziyu's face.
Fresh blood dripped down the steel bars and landed squarely on Ziyu's face.
Qin Yuzhen held Ziyu tightly in his arms, his eyes were dark and his face was deathly pale. If it weren't for the slight rise and fall of his chest, he would have been no different from a dead man.
"...Qinyu Town?" Ziyu murmured.
Upon hearing this voice, Qin Yuzhen's previously lifeless eyes barely focused. Seeing that Ziyu had regained consciousness, his tense body finally relaxed for a moment, and he slowly breathed a sigh of relief.
"Very good……"
Because of excessive blood loss, Qin Yuzhen's voice was so faint that it could not be heard at all unless you listened carefully.
—Great, this time I'll stand in front of you.
—Great, you won't get hurt this time.
The scene before him was like a bucket of ice water being poured over his head, and Ziyu froze completely.
He was well protected by Qin Yuzhen, and although his body looked bad, he actually only had dust and some scratches and no other injuries.
Qin Yuzhen forced a smile: "Do you have any other injuries?"
"Don't speak!" Ziyu said sternly.
Qin Yuzhen shut up.
He quietly watched Ziyu. They had never expected that the NPCs would still target Ziyu. In the instant the explosion caused the already dangerous building to collapse completely, Qin Yuzhen's brain hadn't even reacted before his body suddenly shielded Ziyu with its own.
Ziyu was unaware of his specific situation, but Qinyu Town was.
His back was covered in blood and mangled; it was only by divine mercy that he had managed to hold on until now.
—May Heaven have mercy on us…
Heaven took pity on him so that he could remember his memories of his two previous lives, and Heaven took pity on him so that he could still look at his beloved in the last moment of his life.
He couldn't bear to miss any expression on Ziyu's face, for he might die in the next second.
His only fear now is that the rescue team will arrive too slowly, so that Ziyu will have to come with him.
"Will you start... the next playthrough?" Qin Yuzhen asked cautiously, struggling to stay awake.
"I already told you to shut up!" Ziyu's eyes stung with tears. He tried to suppress his trembling heart and said fiercely, "You need to conserve your strength for the rescue team!"
The police station is nearby, and the sound of the explosion and the building collapsing must have been quite loud. The officers should be on their way now.
Qin Yuzhen smiled and thought that perhaps Ziyu hadn't loved him that much before, but now Ziyu was very worried about him.
That's enough.
"Will you have a next cycle?" Qin Yuzhen asked, unwilling to give up.
Ziyu suppressed his sore throat and looked at Qin Yuzhen, who seemed determined to keep asking until he got an answer. He could only reply.
"That's not necessarily true."
Ziyu said, "My mission failed. The first time, due to a system error, I was forced to start a second playthrough. I didn't expect that the second playthrough would be full of bugs, which messed up my storyline."
Qin Yuzhen knew that his past self was hidden within this wretched bug.
“…I’m sorry,” Qin Yuzhen said, “I didn’t know…”
“You’re just an NPC, what can you possibly know? I won’t blame you.” Ziyu turned his head away, afraid that he would embarrass himself and shed tears when he saw Qin Yuzhen’s loving eyes again.
Ziyu suddenly didn't want to see the disappointment in Qin Yuzhen's eyes.
He said slowly, "Perhaps."
Qin Yuzhen blinked.
Ziyu said, "Perhaps there will be a next cycle."
"After all, I am the host and the player. The main system only brought me here to prove that you can be successfully conquered. How could they possibly let me die? What kind of game is it if you don't fail a few times?" Ziyu said all this in one breath.
What was originally just a lie he came up with to comfort Qin Yuzhen became the truth the moment it was spoken, and even Ziyu himself couldn't help but believe what he said.
His mission wasn't finished, how could he possibly die?
Ziyu said, "If the rescue team arrives too late, I'll start a new playthrough and continue our torturous romance. Then you'll kneel for a few days and I'll agree to be with you, so you don't need to worry about me."
Qin Yuzhen frowned upon hearing this, and said weakly but firmly, "Don't... forgive him."
Qin Yuzhen knew how stubborn he was in his first life: "He's not good to you, he's a fool, don't be with him."
At this critical moment of life and death, Qin Yuzhen's words almost made Ziyu burst out laughing.
How can anyone insult themselves like that?
Own……
Ziyu's eyes dimmed again.
He was still unsure of his own feelings, but he knew he wanted Qinyu Town to survive.
He wanted to keep Qinyu Town, which was now completely focused on itself, alive.
Qin Yuzhen seemed to realize that Ziyu's mood had suddenly become depressed.
"Perhaps, I will also... be reborn, cough cough!"
The smell of blood at the tip of his nose grew stronger. Qin Yuzhen's body, which had been holding on, finally gave way, and he was completely exhausted. Qin Yuzhen felt that the image of his lover in front of him was becoming blurry, and his eyes were getting heavier and heavier.
That's terrible.
He had just confessed his feelings to Ziyu.
"Qinyu Town! Qinyu Town!" Ziyu called out his name anxiously, "Don't sleep! Don't sleep!"
Qin Yuzhen tried very hard to see Ziyu clearly, but even the sound of Ziyu calling his name grew fainter and fainter.
Ziyu could only watch helplessly as Qinyu Town above slowly closed his eyes.
No...no.
Ziyu cried out in a panic, "Qinyu Town! Qinyu Town!"
"Don't sleep, don't sleep... I beg you..."
There was no response.
In that instant, an unprecedented and intense pain erupted in Ziyu's heart, completely overwhelming his mind.
Ziyu felt this pain in a daze, his brain making a sharp roar. This pain was far worse than any injury he had ever suffered before.
What kind of feeling is this...?
Why is it even more painful than when I witnessed Qin Yuzhen's death in the previous playthrough?
"The scumbag top actually died for the lowly bottom in the end." A familiar, gentle voice rang out above.
"No wonder you have the protagonist's halo. The explosion and the collapse didn't kill you, and they couldn't even bury you underground." The man's voice was full of regret. He looked at the two people buried under cement bricks not far away. The surface layer wasn't very thick. If the police came, they should be able to rescue them quickly.
Ziyu mustered her last bit of strength and tried to see the man speaking through the crack in the bricks.
In an instant, a strong hatred flashed in Ziyu's eyes.
—Tang Zuo.
It's you again! It's you again!
Tang Zuo seemed unaware that Ziyu had already seen him. He shrugged regretfully and sighed, "Actually, I didn't intend to kill you. After all, we've worked together for so many years, and I quite like you. Otherwise, I wouldn't have chosen to kill that scumbag in my past life. I originally thought that you would behave yourself in this life and not have any entanglements with that scumbag, wouldn't that be great? It would be so nice if I could take back his body and we could go back to the real world together sweetly!"
At this point, Tang Zuo's expression turned fierce: "But you still want to have contact with that scumbag! And you still want to have dealings with that bug Mingyu! How can you be so disobedient! I have no choice but to send those NPCs to kill you."
Tang Zuo sneered. If it weren't for the constraints of the code, which prevented him from killing Ziyu himself as one of the romanceable characters, he wouldn't have needed to go through all this trouble.
However, the collapse of the building and the child's electronic watch bomb do not mean that he personally killed Ziyu.
Tang Zuo chuckled: "You two can just die together. Once you're gone, that older policeman will naturally become the new protagonist—"
"When the time comes, as long as I kill him and inherit the protagonist's identity, I can forcibly awaken your body and replace you in real life."
Upon seeing the report from their subordinates, the police officers were stopped in their tracks by the group of crazed NPCs.
Tang Zuo laughed smugly.
He knew that even the most powerful protagonist couldn't completely defy the laws of nature. If those people had arrived a few steps later, no matter how strong Ziyu's protagonist aura was, he wouldn't have survived.
It was worth it for him to sneak around, ambush, and sabotage the plot in his previous life, forcing those damn system assistants and system maintenance assistants to temporarily abandon their duties of guarding the host in order to repair the world code.
This gives him the opportunity to exploit loopholes.
Tang Zuo strode back to where he came from with light steps; he needed to go back and make preparations.
How to kill the policeman who, after witnessing his beloved wife being "punished by God," committed premeditated murder to prevent his child from disappearing as well.
Similarly, he also needs to prepare for taking on the lead role.
Ziyu, hiding in the crack between the bricks, watched Tang Zuo's figure gradually disappear. He gritted his teeth, his eyes reddening, and bloodshot veins appeared on his eyeballs.
It's you...it's you! It's actually you!
Scumbag top, scumbag bottom!
The only person who knows the plot so well, besides Ziyu himself, is the system that accompanied him through the first playthrough.
No wonder the system mysteriously disappeared in the second playthrough, leaving only the little assistant with me; no wonder Tang Zuo, whom I met in the previous playthrough ahead of the main storyline, always seemed to be playing along with my plot; no wonder he kept coming up to me even though there was no plot involving him...
No wonder those NPCs came one after another trying to kill him.
All of this was premeditated.
But he only cared about hiding in his safe house, unwilling to leave or investigate, and even lingered in the beauty of the game, giving up on the way home.
This led to a series of mistakes, ultimately resulting in the death of Qinyu Town!
Tang Zuo—System—!
Ziyu clenched his fists, staring intently in the direction Tang Zuo had left.
I won't let you get away with this! I won't!
Let's see just how long his protagonist aura can last.
Come on, come on.
The system panel reappeared in front of him, and this time, the main system communication button was lit up.
[The system has detected that the host needs assistance. After investigation by the main system, the host's report has been confirmed to be true, and repairs are now underway.]
After Ziyu finished reading the last word of the main system email, he saw a stumbling figure slowly appear on the ruins, leading the search and rescue team.
"The script...the script hasn't gotten to this point yet!"
The boy mumbled something, while the search and rescue team behind him carried out the search and rescue operation in an orderly manner.
"Beep beep beep."
"Survivors have been detected here!" The rescue workers looked up in surprise, and a group of people rushed forward.
As the light flooded in, Ziyu's eyes were stung. He closed his eyes, and the familiar darkness reappeared, but this time, he touched the back of Qin Yuzhen's hand that was supporting him.
He was no longer afraid.
Search and rescue workers are carefully moving clods of earth to find the best rescue plan.
The boy who had been lured there heard a weak cry for help.
"Save him, save him first."
The boy's mind jolted. He looked down and, through the deep, dark cracks in the bricks, saw a pair of bright eyes.
Unlike the weak voice pleading, these eyes possessed an extraordinary determination.
Very beautiful eyes.
—If you survive this, I will love you forever.
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