Chapter 104 Xia Bai 4
[I was at the back hill of the yard, and saw a young man covered in blood, barely able to stand, with several corpses following behind him.
He was about to fall, but he didn't let anyone touch the bodies behind him. When he fainted, he still held the hand of one of the corpses tightly.
Old Qian, you must understand me, and you must understand how I feel when seeing this scene, because you are also a corpse driver. When you were young, you traveled all over the country to drive corpses. You also lost this livelihood due to the times, but it is not just a livelihood.
Old Qian, do you still remember the original intention of our corpse driver? You traveled thousands of miles to send me back home. When I saw him, I seemed to see the corpse driver in his youth, and saw his original intention.
So, I brought him home when he fainted, and I also brought his bodies, which looked abnormal at first glance, home. I spent all my money and almost sold my retirement home just to cure him and treat him as my own grandson.
I didn't dare tell Lao Wang about this, he is a very orthodox person. Xiao Bai has too many unexplainable secrets, I am afraid of what Lao Wang will do to him in the end.
Xiaobai was like a corpse driver. When he fainted, he was still holding a cinnabar pen in his hand and drawing talismans unconsciously. He was carrying five corpses, as if they were the ones he was driving.
However, he is not an ordinary corpse driver. His corpses can move and protect him. It has been three or four months since I picked him up, and they have no signs of decay.
He must have some big secret, but I just want him to grow up safely and healthily. If one day he finds out the secret, he also wants to solve it, I hope you can help him.
You told him that the cinnabar pen was his, and he held it tightly in his hand. It must be something very important to him. He was drawing something in the air when he was lying on the bed. The two talismans I taught him to draw were drawn unconsciously when he was asleep. He drew a lot, but unfortunately I only learned how to copy two of them.
You tell him that the God of Happiness in the house was not the one I took in when I was young, but followed him. He must have brought it out from somewhere at the risk of his life. He was so nervous that several of his sleep talks were about corpses. As soon as he woke up, he looked at the corpses and could only sleep peacefully after seeing them.
You told him that the two words he muttered most often when he was in a coma were "game" and "go home". I learned from him that there should be a "Bai" in his name.
You told him and I didn't tell him because I wanted him to grow up normally.
If he doesn't ask, please keep it a secret for me. Keeping it a secret is to protect him.
I may never know this secret in my lifetime. In fact, I don’t want to know. I watched him get better little by little, and forgot about the experience that seemed like a nightmare. I felt at ease and happy. It is true that when people get old, they want a grandson. By the way, Lao Qian, when will you have a grandson?
If you don’t have a grandson, you can let Xiaobai take care of you when you die, haha.
Old Qian, I don’t know if we can meet again in this life. I hope you live longer. Maybe you can see Xiaobai’s secret for me, which may be as passionate and bizarre as when we were young.
I wish you good health and good luck.
Your old friend, Xia Jianchunliu]
Xia Bai didn't speak for a long time after reading the letter, and Ling Changye was the same.
In the past, he thought that Grandpa Xia was a powerful player who was not interested in fame, wealth or power, and lived a leisurely life in the village with his grandson. He envied his indifference and carefreeness. Now that he knows that he is not a player, he admires and is grateful to him even more.
A corpse driver abandoned by the times accepted the reality and prepared to enjoy his old age. He saw his original intention in a bizarre boy and regarded the boy as his grandson. As an ordinary person, at an old age when he should enjoy his old age peacefully, he protected the boy and helped him grow up normally and healthily.
I don’t know how he brought the unconscious Xia Bai home, and how he brought those corpses home.
All we know is that if he hadn't given Xia Bai a shelter, and if he hadn't spent all his money to take Xia Bai to seek medical treatment everywhere, Xia Bai might not have lived to this age.
Old Qian said, "When I saw the letter, I thought your life story must be very strange. Later, the game came and I was drawn into it. Only then did I realize that your life story might be more bizarre than I imagined at the time. Old Xia said that when you were in a coma, you mentioned the game. This game must be related to our current game, right?"
Ling Changye asked: "What do you think?"
Lao Qian first asked Xia Bai about his skills. Xia Bai did not hide anything from him and told him the details.
Lao Qian said, "You all know that soul skills are bound to the soul. Xia Bai has this skill no matter how many times he enters the game. The few dead bodies following him at the time should be the players he brought out of the game with the skill of corpse picker. The cinnabar pen was also a prop skill he obtained in that round of the game."
Ling Changye nodded. "The game Xia Bai mentioned at that time should be related to the game we are playing now. But he didn't have a mobile phone or a game app at that time. People who often play games know that there is a game beta test, and the game will be officially released after the beta test."
"Captain, are you saying that Xishen and I were captured by the game for internal testing?" Xia Bai asked.
"This is my guess. Before the game was officially released worldwide, some people were captured for internal testing. The internal testing was different from the games we have now. At that time, you didn't have mobile game apps, and the games didn't take place in real places. You played a lot of games in the game space, and you might be the only one who completed all the games." Ling Changye said.
"During the internal test, you obtained the soul skill of the corpse collector and the cinnabar pen. After you complete the game and leave it, the game will be optimized and perfected, and a large-scale invasion will be launched. You cannot have any memory of the game, so all your memories before the age of twelve will be erased."
"A few years later, the perfect game is officially released, and you enter the game again and regain this soul skill."
Xia Bai recalled that when he finished his first game and was about to get the game reward, the game system paused inexplicably when scanning him. The pause might be related to this.
He asked: "Every time you enter the game, besides the very mechanical and cold unified system announcement, is there a very emotional voice welcoming you with your name?"
Ling Changye and Lao Qian both said, "No."
Xia Bai clenched his fist and said, "I have it, starting from the second game, at the beginning and the end."
Ling Changye: "It seems that you are indeed special in the game."
As they were talking, there was a knock on the door.
Old Qian said in dissatisfaction: "Who is this again? Are you going to let me retire in peace?"
Without letting Lao Qian get up, Ling Changye said, "I'll go take a look."
The person who came was Yang Yi.
Before boarding the plane, Xia Bai sent him the address of Lao Qian's place. He arrived here just over half an hour later than them and drove here by himself.
Ling Changye brought Yang Yi in.
Xia Bai said, "That's right. According to the agreement, you have to tell me the secret of the Holy Tour Guild and tell it to Lao Qian. He will know the truth and I won't have to worry about you lying to me."
Lao Qian: "...You really know how to take advantage of people."
Yang Yi was a man who kept his promises. For the sake of his scientific research, he had no hesitation in possibly betraying the Shengyou Guild and said right away: "Our president is a living dead man."
Xia Bai had heard this from Lao Qian before, but Lao Qian said that their president was dead and had been lying there. The reason why he was respected as the president by the Holy Game Guild was because they could sense things related to the game from him.
The most important thing that is perceived is that the game is something that humans cannot compete with. That is why many players in the Holy Tour Guild are so supportive of the game.
Yang Yi was more specific. "The vice president of the Shengyou Guild is a psychic. He is not psychic, but the deeper soul of a person. He sensed many things about the game from the president, and they were later confirmed to be correct. The dead president is like a prophet of the game and a saint of the Shengyou Guild."
Xia Bai looked at Lao Qian, who nodded helplessly and said, "The Psychic is very powerful. His skills are amazing. It seems that he can even communicate with the spirits of the dead. Of course, our president is not an ordinary dead person."
Ling Changye suddenly spoke up, "Your president is not an ordinary dead person, he is like Xia Bai's God of Joy."
Old Qian felt as if someone had suddenly grabbed his neck.
Yang Yi didn't understand, "What do you mean?"
Ling Changye didn't say anything. He had no power to decide whether to tell him or not.
Xia Bai asked: "Did you bring the instrument that detected something wrong with me?"
Yang Yi said: "Of course I brought it, it's in my car."
Xia Bai: "If you want, you can take it out and test it for me. I can cooperate with you."
Of course Yang Yi wanted to, and he immediately went to the car and brought in the equipment.
The instrument was further improved by Yang Yi and turned into a badminton racket-shaped detector with an LCD screen on the handle.
The detection is very simple. As long as Xia Bai sits there, he will be scanned twice from front to back and up to down. With a "beep", a number will appear on the LCD screen.
"This device must be reliable. From the Gaming Authority to the Holy Gaming Guild, I have tested it on 568 players in total, and not a single one had a problem."
Yang Yi pointed to the number displayed on the instrument and said, "You can simply understand this number as the game pollution value. It is related to the game energy we detected. The more times you enter the game, the higher the energy value. There must be something wrong with Xia Bai. This value can only be reached after playing the small game map for at least 200 times."
Ling Changye said: "Let me try."
Ling Changye's data is much lower than Xia Bai's.
Yang Yi said: "You should have downloaded 40 to 60 small game maps, because you have been to large games, so the range is not so accurate."
Ling Changye nodded, "Indeed."
Yang Yi was once the vice president of the research institute. It was not difficult for him to know in advance how many times Ling Changye had downloaded the game. Lao Qian also measured it and the range was still very accurate.
Xia Bai summoned his three corpses and said, "I'll try again."
Excluding the three corpses, Xia Bai's data was a little lower, only a little bit, less than one thousandth. His data could still cope with a minimum of two hundred games.
Yang Yi said: "Yes, his data is definitely problematic."
Xia Bai: "The instrument may indeed be fine. I should have been to many games."
Yang Yi: "What do you mean? Weren't you just drawn into the game not long ago?"
Xia Bai asked: "Can I trust you?"
Yang Yi: "I have spent my life studying and conquering games, and I have no other conflicts of interest."
Xia Bai thought about it, then told him what they had just discussed and handed him the letter from his grandfather.
Yang Yi was even more excited than them. He read the letter over and over again. While reading it, he looked at Xia Bai several times, "No wonder, no wonder! I knew there was nothing wrong with my equipment! I knew it!"
Xia Bai handed him a small bag and said, "It contains my dandruff hair and blood. If you can research more, it will be better."
Yang Yi accepted it, "Just now Ling Changye said that the president is the same as Xishen. Does that mean he was also brought out by Xia Bai, and was a player who died in the game beta?"
"I guess that's it." Ling Changye said, "When Xia Bai just came out of the game, he also had information about the game in his mind. It was only after he got sick and mysteriously lost his memory that he forgot everything about the game. Your president is a player who has experienced the internal test, and his soul still has in-depth game information, so the [Psychic] can get game information from him."
"He might be a player like the other players, who was brought out by Xia Bai using his skills. Or he might have made it out of the game alive like Xia Bai, but he was dying and no one saved him, so he died."
Several people looked at Lao Qian, who was most likely to know the truth.
At this point, Lao Qian had nothing to hide from them. "The president was indeed discovered by the Psychic at first. He only found that the body was not decayed at first. Later, he obtained the psychic skill in the game and tried to use the skill on the president's body. Only then did he feel the content of the game."
In this case, the president of the Holy Travel Guild was most likely the corpse of the player brought out by Xia Bai. It was just that Xia Bai was almost unable to hold on at that time, and he might not have been able to feel it if one of them was lost.
Xia Bai said: "I want to meet your president."
All the gods of joy in his home have disappeared, and only the one enshrined in the Holy Tour Guild remains.
Lao Qian said: "I don't have this authority, only the vice president has it, you go find the [psychic]."
Yang Yi: "Just go find You Yue. If you just mention it, how can he not take you to see him?"
"What's going on?" Old Qian sat up straight, "You Yue and Xia Bai are so close?"
Xia Bai had a blank face and was unwilling to speak.
They told him so much, and Yang Yi didn't mind telling them more, "The Psychic used his skills on You Yue, and what he saw in his soul was almost all Xia Bai."
“…”
Xia Bai is annoyed by the skill [Psychic]. Isn't this just a high-end version of Jing Yan's skill? Jing Yan can see people's inner thoughts. He can even see into people's souls.
"I just saved his life, and then had some corpse transactions with him." Xia Bai explained weakly.
Yang Yi: "No matter what the reason is, if you want to see the president, you can go through him. Didn't the God of Happiness in your home disappear because the game was approaching on a large scale? If the president is of the same nature as the God of Happiness, when the game is approaching on a large scale the headquarters of the Shengyou Guild, the president may also disappear. If you want to see it, do it as soon as possible."
Ling Changye said: "Xia Bai still has to go back to class, let's talk about it on the weekend."
“…”
It’s already this late and you’re still thinking about going to class.
Old Qian said, "Okay, okay, please leave now and don't disturb my retirement. Please, just let me spend my old age in peace. This is not our era anymore. You young people should do things like saving the world."
He looked at Xia Bai and said, "Give me the letter."
Xia Bai handed him his grandfather's letter, thinking he would keep it well.
Lao Qian took the letter, walked to the middle of the main hall door, took out a lighter, and burned the letter in front of them.
The flames first devoured a corner of the letter, and soon devoured the entire letter, turning it into a pile of ashes that fell at the door.
A gust of wind blew, and the dusty secret was gone with the wind.
Lao Qian squatted there for a long time without standing up. No one knew what he was thinking or doing.
"Old Xia, you have fulfilled your mission."
"I can finally breathe a sigh of relief."
The three of them didn't say anything. From the letter that had been read over and over again, it was clear that Lao Qian had been carrying this secret for the past few years, and it was not as easy as it seemed, especially in the past few years since the advent of games, when the whole world was studying games and looking for the source of games, but he kept this secret and didn't say a word.
Xia Bai said: "Grandpa Qian, thank you."
Old Qian waved his hands, "I just don't want to be scolded by your grandfather for being useless and unable to do such a thing. You don't know, he took advantage of his age and scolded me countless times. I've heard enough."
"I don't know if you can find your parents, Xiaobai. If you can, I will go down and meet Lao Xia to make him proud and ask him to thank me."
Xia Bai didn’t know either.
He just found out today that he is not his grandfather's biological grandson, and just found out that he had participated in the game's internal test. Even after knowing all this, his heart is not as calm as it appears. He is like a floating water grass. He has not yet begun to wonder whether he has any relatives in this world, and where he comes from.
Ling Changye said: "It's possible."
Lao Qian and Xia Bai looked at him at the same time.
"I'm sorry for not telling you in advance." Ling Changye said to Xia Bai, "I wanted to tell you after this matter was confirmed."
He was afraid of being disappointed, so he decided not to let Xia Bai know.
Now it seemed the time had come to tell him.
"I saw a child on the information system a few days ago." Ling Changye handed the photo on his phone to Xia Bai to see, "Does he look like you when you were a child?"
Lao Qian stood up in a hurry and nearly fell down. He held onto Xia Bai's arm and saw the person in the photo. "It must be Xia Bai! Even the facial expressions are the same!"
He grabbed Ling Changye's arm again and asked him, "Where did this come from?"
Ling Changye said: "In the record of a missing child case, the boy's father reported the case. Jiang Qingfeng is the boy's father, a well-known painter. Jiang Yitong is the boy's mother, and she had business dealings with our family two years ago. Both of them are alive and well, and they don't have any other children."
"Also," Ling Changye added, "they are still using the same phone number they left when they reported the case. It hasn't changed in all these years. They may still be waiting."
"What are you waiting for? Go! Go find them and confirm whether they are Xiaobai's parents." This was the first time that Lao Qian was so excited.
Yang Yi seemed even more anxious. "This is your private matter. I will not get involved. I will go back to do my research and record it first."
After saying this, without waiting for their reaction, he picked up his instrument and left without looking back.
Ling Changye paused for two seconds and agreed with Lao Qian, "Then let's go back and prepare now."
Lao Qian added Ling Changye's contact information and sent them out. Just like when they came, he hoped they would leave quickly, but his attitude was different.
Watching them get on the car, he stood at the door with his hands clasped together, praying for something.
A passing lady approached enthusiastically with a basket of vegetables on her shoulder, "Old Qian, it turns out you weren't lying. You really have rich relatives in the city. I knew the car wasn't cheap when I saw it!"
Old Qian smiled cheerfully, and you could tell he looked happy and relaxed.
"Is your relative very capable?" the old lady asked, "Can you ask them to help you and my father get back the money that the health supplement seller cheated us out of?"
Lao Qian: "…Isn't it just 6,000 yuan? What's so good about it?"
The old lady said, "Pah!" "Why are you pretending? If you are so generous and rich, why would you bother to talk to me about the few cents when you bought eggs?"
“……”In the car that had already driven away, it was quiet.
Neither Xia Bai nor Ling Changye spoke. After two minutes, Xia Bai hugged Ling Changye's arm, rested his head on his shoulder, and still didn't speak.
Ling Changye rubbed his head and said, "Let's not download the game this Saturday. Let's postpone it to next week. I'll accompany you to see them, okay?"
Unlike what Lao Qian thought, he did not let Xia Bai go immediately. Instead, he wanted to give him some time to slow down. A young boy who had been without parents since he could remember might not be able to see his parents so soon.
Xia Bai said, "Thank you, Captain."
Ling Changye did a lot of things for him silently. "I haven't even asked you yet. After confirming that dad is dead, do you feel very sad?"
There was still a little hope before, but now death is a fact and even the body cannot be found.
"I actually accepted my father's death the year after he disappeared. What I have been doing in the past few years is to find the truth about his disappearance and death, and I have been misunderstood." Ling Changye said: "I have accepted it for so many years, there is nothing I can't accept now, and now that I have found the truth about his disappearance and death, I can finally let it go."
"I should thank you. Thank you for working so hard to bring dad home. Thank you for taking care of his body for so many years."
Grandpa Xia wrote in the letter that Xia Bai was covered in blood and when he fainted he still held tightly onto the hand of a dead body.
All the other players died, and he might be the only one who finished the game alive. No one knows what he went through, and he was only a twelve-year-old boy at that time.
"If there is any regret," Ling Changye said, "it's why I didn't meet you earlier."
If he had known Xia Bai earlier, he might have gone to Xia Bai's yard. Under the ground where he stood was the father he had been looking for all these years. If he was more familiar with Xia Bai and could gain Xia Bai's full trust, he might have been able to meet his father.
Xia Bai was also thinking the same thing, if only he had met the captain earlier.
"Captain, our fate was destined so long ago."
When the captain was looking for his father in the human world, he might have been playing the game with the captain's father, probably a long, long time ago, about seven or eight years ago.
Perhaps, at that time, the captain's father also talked to him about the captain, telling him that he must complete the game and go back to see his son.
What a pity, he forgot everything.
"Yes, my father has seen you a long time ago. He likes to tell others about me, so he should have told you about me." Ling Changye said: "Also, you also wrote my father into the family tree and treated him as your father. We had the same father at different times."
Ling Changye held his hand and said, "I have found my father. Next, I will accompany you to find your father. We will find him."
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