Chapter 7 Bai Ye: Self-recommendation to get the signature!
Bai Ye, who was leaning against the alley and felt that he was idle anyway and did not want to go back to the basement for the time being, took out his mobile phone and started to browse the forum on the Garden of Eden software. What happened tonight was enough to shock the entire Night City. The marketing accounts and professional analysis anchors who first arrived at the forefront of Night City’s public opinion were a mixed bag. The official law enforcers of the Sun Bureau were as slow as ever in public relations and had not yet made a statement.
【shock! The mysterious thief Wonder appears. Was the theft of the Heart of Night man-made? 】
Bai Ye: ...We don't have to be tough without a title. Can the Heart of Night disappear out of thin air?
[The devil game reappears the demon-level demon! Detailed numerical calculation of single Calabi for Gem Hunter】
Bai Ye: It's said to be a detailed calculation, why is it filled with all sorts of messed up course links? You still have to pay for data that can be found on Eden? Are you crazy about money?
[DM system is crazy?] I actually did this to Boss Shuise last night———】
Bai Ye: ...This one is even more important.
The black-haired boy silently complained about the title of the online post and felt a lot more relaxed. He turned off his phone and stood up. The rain had stopped and the light from the street lamp shone obliquely on the corner of the alley, revealing the boy's crooked shadow.
At the moment before Bai Ye was about to step out of the alley, his body suddenly stopped in place. An inexplicable sense of disharmony and emptiness arose in his heart. Without any feeling of pain, he coughed twice and felt liquid flowing uncontrollably from the corners of his mouth.
Bai Ye wiped it gently with his fingertips. The light from the street lamp illuminated everything. He looked closely and found that it was red blood.
But the body did not feel any discomfort, nor did it feel weak from blood loss. Instead, the brain became clearer.
Bai Ye: ...No, this so-called price of stealing is a bit abstract. It doesn't hurt at all. Is it a pseudo-sickly attribute? It's quite humanistic.
The interface of t173 flashed in front of him, as if to say, "What? Are you not satisfied?"
How could Bai Ye dare to say that he was not satisfied? If the price of completing the Phantom Thief Show that was enough to leave a mark in the history of Night City was just to spit out some insignificant blood, then he would have made a 100% profit!
The black-haired boy silently wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth, picked up his phone calllessly, and entered the address of Fangkuai's home into the navigation software.
Before the navigation's intelligent AI could speak, Bai Ye only felt that the street lamp directly opposite him suddenly dimmed, as if it was blocked by someone.
"Classmate, are you okay——"
Bai Ye raised his head. The other person was against the light, and his face was hidden in the dark night, but the short brown hair under the brown beret, the obsidian eyes, and the curly clover-shaped hair were exceptionally clear.
Bai Ye took two steps back and adjusted the distance between himself and the person in front of him. The boy's face soon appeared in front of him. It was the face on the posters that covered his bedroom in his hometown in Wheatfield Town. He regarded the boy as his idol, a high school detective!
The tenth on the Devil Game OB-type player S list, the 16-year-old high school student detective You Yu——!
Bai Ye felt that his eyes had lost focus. The night sky and the ground were spinning rapidly. He seemed to have lost track of where he was. Otherwise, how could he see the squid thousands of miles away? No, that was not right. He was now in Night City, which was very far away from his hometown, Rye Town, and You Yu seemed to be studying in Night City.
It turns out that there are more opportunities in big cities. Even such a thing as an accidental self-promotion could happen to someone as unlucky as him.
Bai Ye thought in a trance.
"Moshi Moshi - are you okay?" You Yu touched his chin in confusion. The young man in front of him looked extremely pale and ugly, as if he had a sudden attack of illness, and there was blood at the corners of his mouth.
So he simply didn't hesitate any more, and while talking, he walked into the alley, supported Bai Ye's shoulders, and helped Bai Ye up.
You Yu was just taking his habitual night walk in the city. His original intention was to review a case caused by another label owner that he had just solved. He just happened to pass by and unexpectedly found that a student similar to him seemed to be in trouble.
The black-haired boy was fragile and pale. He seemed to be enduring some excessive pain. He bent his back uncomfortably. After a violent cough, You Yu saw the blood flowing from his fingers which were almost as cold as the night rain.
Bai Ye struggled to pull himself out of the excitement of seeing his idol. He waved his hands to indicate that he was fine. Just as he was about to speak, a fishy-sweet taste surged up his throat again and he started coughing violently.
You Yu looked a little frightened, and hurriedly patted his back to help him breathe, but his voice was exceptionally calm and methodical: "Can you still hold on? Do you have any medical history? Do you have any special medicine with you?"
"I'm fine."
Bai Ye let out a very light breath, shook his head, held onto the wall behind him, and broke free from You Yu's support.
Bai Ye paused, his eyes seemed to light up: "Compared to that, the strongest high school detective, the S-level excellent devil game player ranked tenth on the double list, classmate You Yu, can you sign an autograph for me?"
You Yu: “…Ah?”
You Yu: "But you're still vomiting blood! Is it okay?"
Bai Ye: "I'm just spitting blood - cough cough cough - your signature, this is my last wish, please be sure to -"
You Yu looked so panicked that he was about to turn into a squid on the spot. He took out the note paper where he usually wrote down clues from his pocket. His arms almost danced out an octopus-like afterimage. He quickly printed his name in a flamboyant handwriting and handed it to Bai Ye.
Bai Ye took it and looked at it. He felt like he didn't want to vomit blood anymore. He felt strong and everything he ate tasted delicious - it was also a rare TO signature.
The brown-haired boy pressed his beret and asked sincerely: "This is your wish, so if I help you realize it, will you get better?"
Bai Ye quickly and carefully folded the signature and put it in the deepest part of his pocket. He looked up and was about to say thank you and look at his idol a few more times, but he found that the other party was already holding up the hat on his head and standing quietly on the top of the wall of the alley.
More like a thief than him.
Bai Ye complained silently in his heart.
"Well, if you don't answer, I'll just take it as it is. Since you're my fan, you must know my skills. Don't worry, your lucky star will favor you!"
The brown-haired detective grinned and snapped his fingers. His smile was completely different from Mizuki's polite smile and the deliberate madness that Byakuya pretended to be when he was disguised as the Phantom Thief Wonder. It was a very sincere smile that made people unconsciously let down their guard.
A real sunny and cheerful big boy.
Bai Ye thought of the most common comments about You Yu in the barrage on Eden Garden.
"I also need to go to the building to check out the scene left by the Phantom Thief Wonder. You've heard about it, right? The Night Heart theft case tonight. Hey, law enforcers, it turns out that after I left, they couldn't even catch a single thief."
Bai Ye: ...Confirmed, you are a genuine idol, but you still like to pretend.
You Yu waved to the fans she met by chance with great fandom: "See you again if we are lucky enough!"
A golden clover plant slide specimen was thrown from the top of the wall by the detective. Bai Ye caught the specimen in a daze. A golden clover halo instantly appeared around him, flashed for a moment, and then disappeared lightly.
[Lucky Clover], this is the soul label of the famous high school detective Youyu. The detective who has defeated countless demons, solved countless cases, and saved countless people directly or indirectly does not have the highly lethal label skills of others on the Rising Star List. In contrast, his skills can even be called harmless.
[You have super good luck with the highest priority, and you can share your good luck with others through language recognition. 】
But it is precisely this skill, which seems a bit useless and a bit like the protagonist of a funny comic, that makes Youyu the most popular protagonist in the game "Wicked City", because Youyu saved many people in the game with this power.
It is normal for Youyu to be liked by others.
Bai Ye thought to himself, he looked at You Yu jumping away, he sighed, lowered his head and clenched his hands.
Even though today was terrible and the shameless game option simulator almost made him stay in the Neon Light Building by the law enforcers, it didn't seem so bad now. At least he finally got his first squid autograph with satisfaction.
The rain had stopped. Bai Ye stood up straight, humming the fairy-tale-like and cheerful melody from the new album of the recently popular Manchester singer "Alice". He walked on the puddles that reflected the neon colors and walked towards the place that Fangkuai had prepared for him, which could be called "home".
On the other side, at the top of the Neon Light Building.
"We can't find any trace of that guy Wonder. This is really a terrible situation."
Red Heart held her forehead with a headache. She leaned against the railing of the observation deck. Although she looked alive, she had been gone for a while.
The law enforcement officers tried various methods but were unable to find out how the Phantom Thief Wonder disappeared in mid-air. It was as if he really turned into those flying white doves out of thin air during the fall.
She looked to the side, still staring blankly at the water color of the city lights below, and knocked on the railing, trying to call the other person back to consciousness.
"When will your detective classmates arrive?"
"Here I come, Sister Redheart! Don't be anxious!"
As soon as Hongxin finished speaking, a brown-haired boy wearing a beret jumped over from outside the railing of the observation deck.
Shuise: "...Don't tell me you climbed from the first floor to the top of the building with your bare hands."
You Yu stuck out her tongue in embarrassment: "How is that possible? Shuise, don't worry too much. I just thought it was too troublesome to find a fire escape ladder, so I just climbed out of the top floor window and climbed to the observation deck!"
Shuise: "...This doesn't sound that good, does it?!"
However, Youyu's straightforward personality will not change no matter how many times he is told. Shuise knew that if the conversation continued like this, the topic would deviate to something that had nothing to do with Wonder, so he had to give up struggling, pressed the shoulder of the president of his own detective agency, and forced himself to get to the point.
You Yu's giggling expression quickly turned into a serious expression when he was working. The golden and green label particles in the shape of clover kept circling around him. He knelt on one knee, closed his eyes, and lightly touched the translucent glass floor of the observation deck with his fingertips, as if he was lost in some kind of contemplation.
The additional effect of the soul tag [Lucky Clover] is that because of being too lucky, Youyu can even peek into and capture the thread of fate that ordinary people cannot feel at all, and get hints from fate, so as to perfectly use all the information in the surrounding environment as clues and reflect it truthfully in the mind of the tag user.
You Yu's detection was very quick. The moment the clover disappeared, Red Heart and Water Color cast hopeful glances at the brown-haired boy.
"Oh!" You Yu clapped his hands as if he had suddenly realized something. He gave the two people hope and then brought them despair. He spread his hands and said, "Hiss... This Mr. Phantom Thief is very careful. He didn't even leave any clues."
Mizuki seemed to be thinking: "That may not be the case, dear president. Maybe your super high school level luck that makes your opponent's gun jam every time he raises it to aim at you has made you meet the Phantom Thief Wonder on your way here?"
You Yu laughed dryly: "You really flatter me. No matter how powerful Clover is, it can't be this powerful."
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