Chapter 6: Six days after quitting the circle, the brain is normal, but the mental disorder is...
Jiang Jiamu dreamed of Qu Shen.
This was a little unbelievable to him. In the ten months since he lost contact with Qu Shen, Jiang Jiamu had never dreamed of him until today.
He and Qu Shen sat side by side in the internet cafe, their freshly finished bowls of a certain chef's braised beef noodles and an opened bottle of bubbling Coca-Cola beside them. Their eyes were fixed on the screen, and he couldn't wait to yell, "Hold on, hold on! Hurry up!"
Seeing this, Qu Shen flashed forward without hesitation with the hero in his hand, used a complete set of combo attacks, and then clicked on the basic attack, successfully taking the lives of the opposing bottom lane duo.
“Double Kill——”
A robotic female voice reached his ears. Jiang Jiamu pressed the recall button with one hand and wiped the non-existent tears from the corners of his eyes with the other hand. He was deeply moved. "That's great, this is how it feels. The best bottom lane combination in the world is the two of us! Unlike the various AD players I met before, who were not only bad at playing but also criticized others. They were almost autistic."
Qu Shen tilted his head to look at his friend beside him.
He and Jiang Jiamu met in-game. Jiang Jiamu was on the opposing team, and after his AD player died twice, he started cursing at the support in the public chat. Qu Shen couldn't stand it, so he spoke up for him. After the game ended, Jiang Jiamu sent him a friend request, and whenever they had free time, they'd always duo-queue to climb the rankings.
Qu Shen smiled and said, "I might not play games online very often in the future."
Jiang Jiamu paused holding the mouse, then turned to look at him in confusion: "Have you given up your internet addiction?"
Qu Shen nodded: "Well, work may be very busy in the future."
Jiang Jiamu thought it was normal when he thought about the fact that he had already graduated, but he still felt a little sad.
Without waiting for him to say anything, Qu Shen said, "Let's play games first. We'll play all night tonight."
Jiang Jiamu thought to himself that although he said he wanted to quit internet addiction, he was actually still an internet addict. Then he flashed again and hit the opposing AD, urging Qu Shen to come and take the dog head from the AD.
That night, Jiang Jiamu played games in his dreams for seven or eight hours. The next day, the sun was blazing overhead, and even the curtains couldn't block out the light that shone on his face. He finally woke up. Lying in bed, his shoulders ached, his body stiff, and the fatigue was obvious, as if he had actually sat in front of the computer and worked all night on Summoner's Rift.
but--
He tilted his head to look at the black screen of the computer, and silently pulled the quilt up to cover his slightly moist eyes.
He heard Qu Shen's farewell before he opened his eyes.
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Qu Shen hid in the shadows of the trees and glanced at the window on the tenth floor. When he turned back, his face had regained its relaxed expression. He curled his eyes at Sang Qiqi and said, "Let's go."
Sang Qiqi watched them play games all night, and now dark circles appeared under her eyes. She yawned and replied vaguely, "Then I'll take you to the underworld, treat you to a big meal first, and then arrange for your reincarnation."
"good."
After entering the Ghost Gate and setting foot on the Yellow Springs Road, Sang Qiqi first took Qu Shen to Fengdu.
Fengdu, also known as Ghost Town.
But it was completely different from the eerie and desolate place Qu Shen had imagined. Although Fengdu City was large and empty, it wasn't completely devoid of people... No, it wasn't completely devoid of ghosts. There were quite a few ghosts wandering the streets, some in groups of two or three, others hurried along with backpacks on their backs. Sang Qiqi took one look and pointed at the ghost with the backpack and said, "One of my kind."
Qu Shen: "Ah?"
Sang Qiqi: "A bunch of cattle and horses checking in."
Qu Shen: “…”
Sang Qiqi led Qu Shen around for a long time before finally stopping in front of a shabby-looking house. Qu Shen looked up and saw a sign that read "Lao Xu's Home Cooking" hanging directly above the house. However, the screws on the right side of the sign seemed to be loose, causing the entire sign to tilt and look like it was about to fall down, ready to pick a lucky person at any moment.
Sang Qiqi noticed the worry in his eyes and soothed him, "It's okay, it's just a broken sign, it won't kill anyone."
The owner of Old Xu's Home Cooking Restaurant was a ghost who had lived for over a hundred years. Sang Qiqi didn't know his name or past, so she just followed the other customers and called him Boss Xu. Boss Xu was a chubby, seemingly overweight man, with a clean towel slung over his shoulder. Upon seeing Sang Qiqi, he smiled so hard that his already small eyes narrowed into slits. "It's Qiqi, huh? Xiao Cui and the others came over for dinner the other day and said you were on a business trip to the human world?"
Sang Qiqi nodded, sat down at the table, and asked with her face in her hands, "Boss Xu, is there anything I can do for you?"
Boss Xu waved his hand: "No one is home anymore."
Then he placed the menu in front of the somewhat shy Qu Shen and said with a smile, "Young man, please order whatever you want. My ancestor was a royal chef, and the cooking skills passed down to my generation are not inferior at all. I guarantee that you will enjoy your meal."
Qu Shen quickly responded with an "OK" and lowered his head to look at the menu.
At first glance, the food looked no different from the dishes in the real world, but there were no prices on the back of the dishes. Qu Shen was a little worried for a moment and couldn't help but ask Sang Qiqi, "Will it be expensive?"
Sang Qiqi: "No, Boss Xu's place is very affordable. Those chain supermarkets on the right are run by unscrupulous people."
Although Sang Qiqi said so, Qu Shen still only ordered a vegetable symbolically. Seeing this, Sang Qiqi waved her hand and added four meat dishes and a soup. She also bought Qu Shen the wine brewed by Boss Xu himself. The alcohol taste of this wine was not strong and it tasted no different from a grape-flavored drink.
Qu Shen hadn't eaten such delicious food for almost a year, and he originally wanted to be reserved, but when he put the tender chicken in his mouth, his mind lit up like a light bulb, and he immediately quickened his eating pace.
Halfway through her meal, Sang Qiqi glanced at her phone. It was a message from Captain Kong, saying they'd used the Fuping District Public Security Bureau's official account to release a police report about Qu Shen's sacrifice while saving others. Coincidentally, just after the post was published on Weibo and WeChat official accounts, someone else had submitted a video they'd saved from their WeChat Moments feed.
In the video, the middle-aged man was kneeling on the ground with a strange look of fear still on his face. He was crying and muttering to himself, apologizing all the time.
Netizen: Damn, I was initially confused when I saw this video, but now, combined with the Fuping District Public Security Bureau's Weibo post, it suddenly makes sense. This bastard is the parent of the drowning child. He concealed the fact that Qu Shen saved his child and then concealed his death! It's not an exaggeration to say he's ungrateful, right?
[Seeing him cry so miserably made me want to laugh. What kind of crocodile tears are these?]
How could someone be so selfish as to allow a life to be lost simply because they were afraid of taking responsibility? Perhaps the person could have been saved.
[Someone saved your son, and you threw him into the water?]
[Although, wasn't it Qu Shen himself who wanted to save the person? He should have considered the consequences when he jumped. Why is he blaming others now that he's dead?]
[Here we don't call animals humans. Yes, I'm talking about this Zheng Hongyi, and you, the stinking idiot upstairs.]
About half an hour later, when Sang Qiqi checked Weibo again, she found that many netizens from Fuping District had spontaneously gone to the bank of the Yujiang River and placed bouquets of beautiful flowers on the river bank. The greeting cards attached to the bouquets had different messages written on them, but they all had the same four words: Hero Qu Shen.
Sang Qiqi handed the phone to Qu Shen. Qu Shen said nothing, but buried his head deeper and deeper.
Boss Xu, who was passing by, couldn't help but tease him when he saw this: "My cooking skills are so good that people want to eat with their faces."
Qu Shen was amused again.
He blinked his moist eyes hard, nodded and praised: "Delicious."
After their last meal before reincarnation, Sang Qiqi hadn't forgotten her promise to treat Qu Shen to braised beef noodles. Although she kept calling the supermarket owner a black-hearted scoundrel, she still generously bought instant noodles and a Coke, bagging them and handing them to Qu Shen.
"We'll eat on the way," Sang Qiqi said, then thought of something. "You're going to be reincarnated soon, and you won't be able to collect the compensation that Captain Kong fought for you. What are your thoughts?"
Qu Shen thought for a moment and replied, "Please donate it to people in need for me."
"OK."
Standing there, watching Qu Shen walk into the First Hall, Sang Qiqi turned to return to the mortal realm when she heard a voice behind her. She turned around and saw Qu Shen, wearing the algae wig, waving at her with a bright smile on his face. "Sang Qiqi, thank you."
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Sending Qu Shen to a new life should have been a happy thing, but at this moment, Sang Qiqi had a frown on her face, looking worried.
She looked at the shadowy figure in front of her and decided to put up a fight. "Can't you be a little more flexible? I just sent a hero who sacrificed his life saving others to reincarnation. It's fine if you only give me five points, but why are you even deducting points?"
The shadowy figure flicked a finger, flipped open the record book, and replied expressionlessly, "Did you take Qu Shen with you to scare Zheng Hongyi?"
Sang Qiqi said confidently: "Yes."
Shadow: "He is in the hospital and has been diagnosed as mentally ill."
Sang Qiqi stomped her foot on the sofa, full of confidence: "So what? I see in the Book of Life and Death that he can still live for ten years. If he's mentally normal, he's alive, but if he's mentally ill, he's not alive? I'm deducting two points for mental illness. I don't accept it!"
Shadow: "You even kidnapped your colleagues."
Sang Qiqi: "What do you mean by kidnapping a colleague? It was clearly a colleague who committed suicide—"
Wait, it seems like one of the chickens isn't volunteering.
She held up a finger and said, "One point is fine, three is a bit much. Besides, I think it's having a lot of fun, and it's nibbling on Zheng Hongyi's butt a lot."
Sang Qiqi and the phantom stared at each other for a long time. Seeing that Sang Qiqi's eyes were getting more and more fierce and her resentment was getting heavier, and she could transform into an evil ghost in the next second, the latter finally relented: "I'll give you five points for the five-star review and the thank-you letter."
Sang Qiqi pointed at his record book, then pointed at her own eyes: "Add it now, add it right under my nose."
Shadow: “…”
Only after witnessing the other party adding five points after her name did Sang Qiqi breathe a sigh of relief.
She was in a good mood and decided to treat herself. She put on a mask and went to a nearby snack street under the cover of night. This snack street was near a school and was packed with college students. Sang Qiqi squeezed through the crowd and found a barbecue stall. Just as she lit up the barbecue, she heard the girl at the next table exclaim, "Holy crap! Qiao Tianyi's assistant killed someone and hid the body?!"
Sang Qiqi immediately looked up and shouted to the boss not far away: "Boss, another dozen beers to celebrate."
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