Chapter 103 Xia Bai 3
At around six o'clock that evening, Xia Bai and Ling Changye brought their families and Lin Xiang with them, preparing to return to Jiangqi City.
Originally, they should have gone back to class tonight, or tomorrow morning at the latest. It would be a waste not to take the special plane. When Lin Xiang heard this, he immediately came out with his suitcase.
Lin Xiang followed them onto the plane and sighed, "I used to think that when I have a girlfriend in the future, I would buy her a sports car and an RV, so that she can go anywhere comfortably and without being wronged. I thought I was a rich and outstanding boyfriend. Now I know that this is nothing. I need a plane. Having a plane is not a big deal. I need to be able to apply for a flight route at any time."
Xia Bai had a blank face, "This is what Erwa's assistant applied for, I hope you know."
Erwa came over with a coffee cup and poked his little head towards Lin Xiang.
Lin Xiang: "...I am not even as good as Erwa."
Erwa nodded.
Lin Xiang: “…”
He was depressed for only a second, then squatted down and pinched Erwa's face, "Of course I'm not as good as our little star, Erwa, I feel like you've become a lot more lively recently?"
Erwa hugged the coffee cup tightly and looked at Xia Bai. A small white flower bloomed on his head.
Ling Changye asked Erwa: "Can I use my skills now?"
Erwa nodded, raised his head, and said to Ling Changye generously: "Okay, use your skills to protect your family!"
Ling Changye smiled and said, "He looks like a well-educated child."
Another small white flower bloomed on Erwa’s head.
Lin Xiang: “…”
He felt like he was being fed another mouthful of dog food.
If you want to praise Xia Bai for his good teaching, just praise Xia Bai. There is no need to say anything about his good tutoring.
Several people had a very good dinner on the plane, and after dinner the plane was about to land.
Lin Xiang was very tactful and didn't act like a light bulb. As soon as he got off the plane, he said, "My driver is here to pick me up. My parents are waiting for me at home. I won't accompany you. I'm leaving first."
He had this awareness before boarding the plane, and contacted the family driver in advance. In the past, Ling Changye would pick him up at the airport and drop him off, but this time he even dropped him off at the doorstep, so how could he not show some tact?
With a wave of his hand, he left considerately and gracefully.
After he left, Xia Bai and Ling Changye did not waste any time. They immediately took a car back to Xia Bai's old house.
Grandpa may have spent all his life savings to build this courtyard. The courtyard was originally very nice, and later Song Lu asked someone to renovate it for him. This is Xia Bai's favorite house among all his houses.
There is a two-story building in a log style, and a large yard specially designed and maintained by a gardener. Even in winter, there are grasses and flowers growing everywhere, and the fragrance of plum blossoms is lingering.
After the two came back, they didn't rest much. They said hello to their grandfather downstairs and went directly to his room and study to find the cinnabar pen.
Erwa and sister Xuemu also joined in, and Xia Bai summoned three corpses to search together.
In fact, it was not that troublesome. They found it easily in a box in the study.
When Ling Changye suggested coming back to find the cinnabar pen, Xia Bai immediately agreed, but he thought he probably wouldn't be able to find it. What he saw was that the corpse-suppressing talisman his grandfather drew with this pen was effective and very easy to use in the game.
This is a game prop. Grandpa is a gamer.
When Grandpa died, the props would be taken away by the game. Unless he became a player before Grandpa died, he would have the skills of a corpse collector and signed a corpse contract with Grandpa, so that the pen could continue to stay with him.
But the pen is still there.
It had always been in their yard.
Xia Bai held the pen and murmured, "What's going on?"
Ling Changye said: "What is certain is that this prop does not belong to Grandpa."
"Grandpa taught you to draw talismans?" he asked.
Xia Bai: "I have been taught. I can draw."
Ling Changye: "Tomorrow two teams will go to two game maps. Use this pen to draw a few talismans now. I will have someone give the talismans to the teammates who will be playing the game tomorrow and let them try to see if they can still be used in the game."
Xia Bai nodded, took out the talisman paper and cinnabar, and immediately started drawing in the study.
Ling Changye stood on the other side of the desk, quietly watching him draw the talisman. He drew very smoothly, without thinking, and drew a corpse-suppressing talisman without any hesitation, and then another corpse-controlling talisman.
It was so smooth as if it had been drawn thousands of times.
Ling Changye thought again of the portraits of his father and other characters in the family tree.
Xia Bai only studied painting for two months at most, and during these two months he also had to attend classes and play games. These two things, as well as the travel and preparation, took up most of his time, leaving him with very little time to study painting.
Being able to draw so well in such a short time, is it a genetic talent for drawing, or has he drawn many times before?
Xia Bai drew ten corpse-suppressing talismans and four corpse-controlling talismans and gave them to Ling Changye. In less than five minutes, someone came to pick them up.
After the talisman was taken away, Xia Bai asked, "Captain, shall we discuss the game time and the God of Happiness now?"
"After they confirm whether the corpse-suppressing talisman is effective, we will confirm the matter of the God of Joy and the game time." Ling Changye said, "Let's wait for the results first."
Xia Bai nodded. He knew that Ling Changye had always been like this. Unlike Lin Xiang, he was used to making inferences based on evidence and establishing a foundation before talking about other things.
He accepted it well and took Ling Changye's hand, "Captain, let's go stargazing together. The stars here are especially beautiful."
Backed by mountains and forests, the air in Minshi Village is very good and you can see many stars at night.
The floor lamps in the yard light up in clusters, shining on the branches and green leaves. It seems as if you can feel the breathing of the flowers and leaves. This small yard makes people feel peaceful.
It seemed like Ling Changye hadn't seen the stars for a long time. He didn't know that the starry sky was so beautiful.
Xia Bai held the hot milk tea and rubbed against Ling Changye until he was close to him. He looked up at the night sky and said, "Captain, I have heard that people go to the stars after they die and look at their relatives in the world. Do you think there are really dead people living in these stars?"
Ling Changye lowered his eyes, "Who are you referring to as the dead person?"
Xia Bai: "Grandpa, Dad, Mom, and the captain's dad."
Ling Changye asked: "Are mom and dad dead too?"
Xia Bai said: "Grandpa said they are dead. I have never seen them."
Ling Changye pointed in a direction in the courtyard, "Isn't Grandpa there? Mom and Dad may be not far away."
Xia Bai said "hmm" and started to slurp the milk tea. After drinking for a while, he said, "You are by my side."
Ling Changye's heart suddenly softened. He pulled at his coat and wrapped him in it. "You are with me too."
Xia Bai looked up and rubbed his chin with his head, feeling that the warmth late at night in winter would make people feel particularly happy and at ease.
He suddenly remembered the question they asked him at noon, "Captain, when did you start to like me?"
Ling Changye said: "It was probably love at first sight, and later I felt that we were a match made in heaven."
It was love at first sight, but he must have been in a very miserable state at that time, covered in blood and dirt. How could one still fall in love at first sight?
Xia Bai secretly laughed for a few seconds, then looked up and asked, "What's the point?"
Ling Changye: "In many places, for example, we don't like the destruction of corpses."
Xia Bai: “…”
He felt that if Ling Changye knew that he had fallen in love with his corpse first, he would definitely be unhappy. Just like Ling Changye's current answer, he was not so satisfied. This love was not so pure.
Ling Changye continued, "For example, if you like to sew corpses, if there are no more corpses in the future, you can use my physical skills."
Xia Bai: "Captain, you love me so much!"
Love is so pure!
He had been craving for his body for a long time.
Xia Bai: "Last time at the Orthopedic Hospital, I finally put you back together, but they took you away."
This grievance finally had the opportunity to be expressed.
Then, with great satisfaction, “No one will be able to take it away from me in the future, so I can fight for it at home.”
Ling Changye: “…”
Realizing that he had said too much and his expression of love was not pure enough, Xia Bai put down his milk tea and tilted his head to look at Ling Changye, "Captain, are we going to kiss?"
With his back to the starry sky, his eyes were brighter than the stars in the sky. I don’t know if it was because he was swallowing the milk tea, but his Adam’s apple moved up and down under his scattered cashmere scarf.
Ling Changye waited for several seconds before asking, "We just confirmed our relationship the day before yesterday, and we kissed today. Isn't that a bit too fast?"
Xia Bai: "We are all adults, how about a simple kiss?"
Ling Changye tugged at his scarf, and Xia Bai first felt a little shortness of breath, and then it became even more severe.
With the captain's careful, hands-on instruction, he finally learned how to breathe, but he was still suffering from a lack of oxygen.
He thought Ling Changye was too much of a gentleman, and it was not too early for him at all.
This kiss is not innocent at all.
Of course there was also something wrong with his sitting posture. He shouldn't have sat on Ling Changye like that.
Lin Xiang and Song Lu both think that Xia Bai is a good student. He is indeed a good student who is full of curiosity. With sufficient curiosity, he studies seriously over and over again, devoting himself wholeheartedly, and the starlight behind him has penetrated into his mind.
I didn't think about anything else that night.
The next day, when he started thinking, he found the answer to what he wanted to know.
The corpse-suppressing talisman he drew with a cinnabar pen was indeed effective, and a group of players who entered the game in the morning had confirmed it for him.
The player from the assault team called him and said, "Brother, this Corpse Suppression Talisman is so useful! How can I get more?"
Unfortunately, it was Ling Changye who answered the phone. He said gently, "Please wait, brother."
“…”
The phone was on speakerphone, so Xia Bai also heard it.
He took a moment to react. "So, the cinnabar pen is indeed a game prop, but it's not Grandpa's? It belongs to a player who is still alive?"
Ling Changye hummed.
Xia Bai asked him: "Captain, what do you think?"
Ling Changye: "I feel that grandpa is not a player. If he is really such a great player, it is unlikely that we can't find any trace of him being a player. When I knew you wanted to find grandpa's player information, I had someone conduct a carpet search, starting from every game."
"Every time you complete the game, you can see relevant photos in the player communication center, right?"
Xia Bai: "Yes."
Ling Changye: "The Tourism Administration does not prohibit players from taking photos. The Tourism Administration will also take photos for archiving. The Information Department and the Research Institute also have photos. The Information Department will also compile player information based on photos and other materials. We searched game by game, but we did not find an elderly player named Xia."
Xia Bai didn't expect that Ling Changye would do so much for him just because he said it casually. "Thank you, Captain."
"It is very possible that grandpa is not a player." Xia Bai said, "If grandpa is a player, it is not so easy for him to die in the real world. If he died because of the game, there are only two possibilities. One is that he died in the game and there is no trace of him in reality. The other is that he died in the game and his body was sent out by the game and first handled by the logistics department of the Game Administration. In this case, we will find clues that grandpa is a player and there is no way we can't find them."
Ling Changye said: "Yes, that's right."
Xia Bai thought of something else. "If Grandpa is really a player, even if he has only entered the game once, he should be very rich. He would leave more money for me. He loves me very much."
However, his grandfather only left him tuition and half a year's living expenses for eating only shredded potatoes.
At that time, grandpa didn't know that he could get a scholarship.
"But, if Grandpa is not a player, where did he get this item from? Whose is it?"
Ling Changye looked at him and said nothing.
Xia Bai also thought of a very bizarre answer.
It's really bizarre.
This game prop is his.
Even Ling Changye and Hua Haoming think this game item is very powerful. A corpse-suppressing talisman can make many teammates of the assault team shameless.
The props are still there, proving that the owner of the props is still alive. Who would give such powerful game props to others casually and not come back to take it back after the person dies?
Ever since entering the game, Xia Bai has been thinking about the fact that he has no memory before the age of twelve. Losing memory is a very story-like thing. Occasionally he would wonder, did he really lose his memory due to illness?
Now it seems that there may indeed be a story behind his amnesia.
Xia Bai said: "I'll call the director and ask him if he knows what happened. At least find out what happened when I was twelve years old."
Ling Changye stopped him, "Don't fight with the director, he has principles and positions that he has to uphold, fight with Lao Qian."
Xia Bai understood what he meant. The Game Management Bureau was a semi-official organization. If he really had a problem, Director Wang would probably be forced to "kill his relatives for the greater good" due to his position. But Lao Qian would not do that. He was in the Shengyou Guild, and the position of the Shengyou Guild was that they could do anything, but they had no position.
"Captain, if I..."
Ling Changye said: "Do you remember that I asked you if you wanted to save the world? When you said no, I breathed a sigh of relief. I breathed a sigh of relief because if you want to save the world, I have to accompany you to do it, and I myself don't really want to do this."
Xia Bai understood, felt relieved, and was no longer so confused.
He said to Ling Changye: "Captain, let's go find Lao Qian and contact Yang Yi at the same time."
The first time he went to the Tourism Administration Headquarters, Yang Yi called him to his studio, and the equipment detected that there was something wrong with him.
He still remembered that Yang Yi said that one of his statistics was particularly high, probably related to the game energy. Yang Yi said that his energy was higher than Erwa and Yang Mei who had played the game so many times, which was very abnormal.
He thought that it was because he was carrying the player's corpse that the energy was so high. Now it seems that Yang Yi's instrument is indeed reliable, and they may have misunderstood Yang Yi.
Xia Bai: "Maybe, we can work with him to find out the truth. He is indeed a person who only wants to study and conquer the game."
In the game of Dihao Apartment, Yang Yi said that he deserved the world. Ling Changye said: "Have you thought it through? If he finds out something, he might use you as a test subject regardless of the consequences."
Xia Bai nodded, "The captain won't let him do that."
Ling Changye: “…”
He called Yang Yi without complaint.
Yang Yi didn't answer the phone, probably he was busy with his research.
They set out first to look for Lao Qian.
Before boarding the plane, Ling Changye received a call from Yang Yi, and he handed the phone to Xia Bai.
Xia Bai got straight to the point. "I can give you blood and cooperate with your research, but you have to tell me the secrets of the Holy Travel Guild and the president. It would be best if I could meet the president."
Yang Yi answered directly, "I can tell you the secrets of the Shengyou Guild, but I don't have the power or ability to let you meet the president. You can find You Yue, he can help you."
Xia Bai: "...How do you know You Yue will help me?"
Yang Yi: "Everyone I sent to find your secret was dealt with by him. How do you think I knew it?"
Xia Bai stopped asking and told Yang Yi an address, but he didn't expect that Yang Yi would be defeated.
"I thought that I could mobilize the resources of the Holy Tour Guild to study you after I came to the Holy Tour Guild. I didn't expect that a vice president of the Holy Tour Guild treated you like a god. The most authoritative elder is also someone you have known for a long time. What is the difference between the Holy Tour Guild and yours? If I had known this... I might as well have stayed in the Tour Management Bureau!"
Xia Bai: “…”
Xia Bai: "Why don't you go back to the Tourism Administration?"
Yang Yi: "You can leave if you want to, and come back if you want to. Do you think this is such a joke?"
Xia Bai: "Yeah. After you left, the director was very sad."
Yang Yi: “…”
Yang Yi hung up the phone.
It's time for them to take off too.
Xia Bai didn't call Lao Qian because he was afraid that Lao Qian wouldn't tell him on the phone. Once his phone was turned off, there was nothing they could do. He didn't tell Lao Qian in advance and went straight to his house to block him.
When Lao Qian opened the door and saw that it was them, he subconsciously wanted to close the door. Xia Bai knew that he had made the right decision.
Old Qian looks guilty, he must know something.
Lao Qian opened the door halfway and said with a laugh, "I thought someone was pretending to be Xiao Bai to defraud the elderly. Today is Monday, shouldn't Xiao Bai be in school?"
Xia Bai once again had a dumb frown on his face, with an adorable look of disgust, "Which liar is so blind that he would scam the elderly and bring it to the elders of the Holy Travel Guild?"
Lao Qian coughed and said, "To be honest, I was defrauded of 6,000 yuan a few days ago."
“…”
Old Qian seemed very happy to let them in. He led them into the house and muttered as he walked, "Oh, if others knew that the captain and members of the assault team came to the home of an old player of the Holy Tour Guild, I don't know what would be spread. But if we just drink a cup of tea and leave, it shouldn't be a big deal."
After saying that, he turned around and got another cute emoticon pack from Xia Bai.
Old Qian: “…”
Lao Qian's yard looks like an ordinary rural yard, very simple. After passing through a cabbage field, you will reach the main hall.
After entering the house, Xia Bai said directly: "Old Qian, I know everything. Don't hide it from me. Tell me my identity."
Old Qian sat in a rocking chair, holding his hot water bottle, and glanced at him without looking up, "What do you know?"
Ling Changye spoke before Xia Bai: "We know that Xia Bai may not be Grandpa Xia's biological grandson. We have some clues about Xia Bai's life experience. At the same time, we realize that Xia Bai may have a deep connection with the game, so we came to disturb him and want to learn more about his life experience."
Xia Bai didn't know why Ling Changye said that, saying that he was not his grandfather's biological grandson.
But he was now in the same group with Ling Changye, so he nodded in cooperation, "Yeah!"
An orange cat basking in the sun walked leisurely towards the door of the main room. Lao Qian replaced the hot water bottle with the cat and gave his warm embrace to the old cat, without any intention of answering their questions.
After almost a minute, he asked, "For example? What did you find out?"
Ling Changye said: "We found out that my father who disappeared seven or eight years ago was one of the gods of happiness mentioned by Grandpa Xia in Xia Bai's family."
"We also found out that my father should have followed Xia Bai in the beginning, not Grandpa Xia. Grandpa Xia should not be a player, so the item in his hand might belong to Xia Bai."
When the orange cat got bored of staying in Lao Xia's arms and jumped away, Lao Qian sighed, walked into the inner room, and took out a letter that looked very old.
"This is the letter your grandfather gave me when I went to visit you when you were seriously ill and hospitalized." Old Qian said, "Old Xia said that if you want to find out your life experience in the future, he should show you this letter."
"I originally thought that this letter would be buried with me. Alas, I..."
Before Lao Qian could sigh again, Xia Bai had already reached out and took the letter, opening it without any hesitation.
This is indeed a very old letter, and it can be seen that it has been read many times. There are many soft and tiny creases on the letter paper.
As soon as he opened it, Xia Bai saw the familiar handwriting of his grandfather. He boasted all day long, but his handwriting was very scholarly.
【Old Money:
By the time you see this letter, you should have already gotten on the train and Xiaobai will have basically recovered.
Thank you for coming to see Xiaobai and giving us so much money. I know you must have spent all your savings, and Xiaobai's life was partially saved by you.
You must know that Xiaobai is not my biological grandson. I have never been married in my life, I don't have any children, and it is impossible for me to have a grandson. You must be wondering why I am so attentive to this grandson who is not my biological child, and why I spend all my money on him.
Because he is not my grandson born of my blood, but my life, I believe he is my only grandson in this life. Through his illness, I am more determined to raise him well.
Xiaobai is very obedient and never doubts what I say. I told him that his parents died when he was very young, and he believes it now because he has no memory of the past.
But, he is very smart. Maybe one day he will doubt and want to find out about his life experience. But by that day, I may no longer be here.
Because of his special background, I have thought about it and can only tell you this. You are nearly ten years younger than me, and you will definitely live longer than me. If there really comes a day like that, you can show this letter to him, but please don't show it to anyone else. I beg you.
I picked up Xia Bai, and the process of picking him up was a bit magical.
I saved some money, selected a piece of land in Minshi Village, and built this house. I planned to live there in my old age. I planned to grow old and die in this yard, and be buried in this yard after my death. I would have a place to live before and after my death, and an arrangement for my old age and after my death.
It was when I was preparing for this plan and arrangement that I saw Xia Bai, in a way that was destined and I could not refuse. 】
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