Chapter 33: Unknown Cause of Death

The feeling after escaping from the game world is like waking up from a sleep paralysis.

The light in front of me was blocked by something.

Zhu Ci opened his eyes and felt a familiar breath. He suddenly widened his eyes, subconsciously punched forward and pushed.

"Hiss..." The person in front of him was caught off guard and was knocked back a few steps, bumping into the table and computer behind him.

After a series of chain reactions, the room was filled with clanging sounds and became a mess.

Shen Wu squinted his eyes, looking a little confused as he sat on the glass table in front of the sofa in the living room. His silver glasses were crooked.

Zhu Ci's punch just now was on his face. He gradually realized that he had returned to reality. The person in front of him had short hair and didn't look aggressive.

However...

"Shen Wu, my computer!"

Zhuci suddenly called out.

The reviews he had written previously and even his homework were all on the computer, which was on the table.

"Xiaoci, you..."

Shen Wu watched the young man hurriedly stand up and come over to rescue the computer.

But just now, the computer must have been knocked away.

Zhu Ci squatted on the ground and opened it carefully. The computer screen was black and there were water stains.

There was some water on the table, and now it seems that it was splashed on it just now.

He tried to turn it on.

The computer turned on, but the unsaved files may not be recoverable.

Congratulations: "..."

His mood is reflected in these six points.

Shen Wu came over and squatted beside him, explaining, "You suddenly fainted just now. I helped you to the sofa, and you woke up again."

Zhu Ci turned around and glanced at his face, his mood was extremely bad.

He picked up the computer and went back to his room.

"Lunch is ready."

"I don't want to eat anymore." The boy slammed the door shut.

Shen Wu: “…”

He casually took a tissue and wiped his glasses. His face was a little red from the beating, but he didn't care. The floor was a mess, and the aroma of food was still wafting in the room, but they had no appetite.

Shen Wu turned on his cell phone and planned to ask the housekeeper to come and clean the house.

He walked to the door of the room where the speech was to be given and knocked a few times.

I thought I would need to coax it a little more before it opened, but the door opened very quickly.

Zhu Ci changed his clothes and came out dragging a suitcase in his hand.

Shen Wu stared at his suitcase for a while, frowned, and suddenly realized the seriousness of the matter: "Xiaoci?"

Zhu Ci glanced at him briefly, then turned away and explained, "The school has a competition soon, and I have to go back to prepare."

"But this house is only a few hundred meters away from your school."

Zhu Ci remained calm and said, "We'll practice in the evening as well."

As he said this, he walked out dragging his suitcase.

When he passed by Shen Wu, he grabbed Zhu Ci's hand and asked, "What competition?"

"School eSports."

"I remember you refused before."

“I just agreed.”

"Esports competitions will be played from day to night?"

Zhu Ci took a deep breath and said, "I want to experience campus life. Is that not okay?"

"Congratulations." Shen Wu laughed angrily, "You just hit me suddenly, and now you are planning to run away from home?"

Zhu Ci deliberately avoided his gaze and said indifferently, "Oh, I'll transfer the medical expenses to you."

"Medical expenses, is that what I care about?" His voice was a little deep, as if he was suppressing his anger.

Zhu Ci didn't buy his nonsense at all: "Are you mean to me?"

Shen Wu: “…”

"That's not what I meant." He softened his voice, "But I won't allow you to run away from home."

Zhu Ci remained calm: "I'm not running away from home. You know, this place is only a few hundred meters away from the school."

Shen Wu: “…”

"Oh, by the way, if you have the ability, you can live in the school." Zhu Ci said, looking down at his hand holding his, "Can you let go now?"

Shen Wu pushed his glasses and said, "Let's finish our meal before we leave."

Zhu Ci glanced at the kitchen, then at Shen Wu, and knew that this was his bottom line now.

"OK."

At lunch, Zhu Ci lowered his head and took some food, eating a few more bites than before.

After eating, he immediately dragged his luggage to the door, then turned around and looked at the silent man sitting at the table.

"Remember to go to the hospital for the wound on your face."

After saying that, he turned around and closed the door.

When the door is closed, the house feels empty.

Shen Wu stood up, frowned, walked to the door, and watched his back as he left without looking back.

Suddenly, the phone made a special notification sound. He looked down and saw that it was a transfer message from Zhu Ci.

The note on the speech was his name, which was his own request. He couldn't accept strange titles like "baby" or "baby".

Congratulatory speech: transfer 5740.

Congratulations: Take it and look at your face, and also look at your brain.

Congratulations: If it’s not enough, I’ll transfer more.

Shen Wu: “…”

I'm mad at you? Is that what you mean?

Shen Wu clicked on Zhu Ci's profile picture and changed a note for him: "A weird kid."

It is very descriptive and does not contain the words “宝” and “貝”, so people may like it when giving a blessing.

…

Zhu Ci chose to walk back to school. After he transferred money to Shen Wu on the way, his cell phone rang.

It was obviously Shen Wu.

Zhuci accepted the invitation without hesitation.

"What do you mean by transfer?"

"Literally."

"I'm mad at you?"

"You can't make me angry."

Shen Wu was silent for a moment, as if he was choosing words.

Congratulations: "Anything you want to say?"

"Come with me to the hospital."

Zhu Ci said, "I'm very busy and don't want to know what's wrong with you."

Shen Wu laughed a few times on the other end of the phone, but no one knew what he meant.

"Nothing else, I'm hanging up." Zhu Ci said and was about to hang up the phone.

"wait for me."

"No."

…

After arguing with others, I feel suddenly brighter.

Fortunately, Zhu Ci did not give up the school dormitory.

His major actually has nothing to do with games, he chose Chinese language, otherwise he wouldn't have been able to connect with Shen Wu.

He chose this major purely out of random choices. When he was selecting courses in high school, he had a mixed bag of arts and sciences. However, he had a good memory for speeches and was not worried about memorization. In addition, there were relatively few courses in this major at this university.

However, none of the competitions he participated in at school had anything to do with literature, which led to him getting to know many teachers from other majors in college, but not much contact with teachers from his own major. The same was true for his classmates.

Many teachers advised him to change his major, but Zhu Ci remained unmoved. He thought that since he was already here, he might as well make the best of it. Becoming a teacher after graduation was also a good choice.

Xiaxin University is very large, and when Ye Yanghui heard that Zhu Ci was going to live back on campus, he ran out to pick him up.

"Congratulations! Why are you back?"

Ye Yanghui was from the Sports College, and the e-sports competition was organized by the Sports College, so Zhu Ci contacted him. It was just a small competition, and the reason for participating was more of an excuse to live on campus.

"The rent is due." Zhu Ci said.

"Rent? Huh? Didn't I hear that you live with Teacher Shen? Teacher Shen is bankrupt?" Ye Yanghui joked.

Zhu Ci is now a junior in college. He met Shen Wu in his freshman year and they have been together for more than two years. Although he has never made it public, they are both very popular. Zhu Ci is good-looking and has won many awards, and Shen Wu is a famous writer. Many people know about his relationship with Shen Wu.

Zhu Ci said calmly: "We broke up."

"Break up, break up?" Ye Yanghui looked incredulous, "That's not right, I saw Teacher Shen coming to pick you up yesterday."

Zhu Ci glanced at him.

Ye Yanghuibi shut his mouth.

"Okay, let me tell you about the competition. With you here, we might be able to win the national championship this time."

Congratulations: "Oh."

Ye Yanghui knew that Zhuci was like this. Although he looked cold on the surface, he was actually very reliable. He sent Zhuci to the dormitory.

Originally, Zhushen was grouped together with people from the same major, but later, because he participated in a cross-major competition, he was reassigned to a single room in the dormitory of the Department of Mathematics and the Department of Computer Science.

The reason why Zhu Ci moved out was not only because of the shadow cast by the guy in the game who looked very similar to Shen Wu, but also for Shen Wu's own good.

He was worried that he would become suspicious and call the police to send Shen Wu in.

Zhu said his words so quickly that he could hardly notice how he entered the game, and he didn't know when the next game would start.

Zhuci opened his phone and checked his to-do list.

There are many new games, and there are many things he needs to experience.

However, due to the bad experience he had in the previous game, he decided to reject them one by one.

As for the game icon that had sent him into before, he clicked on it and took a look.

The game content remains the same, but there is a forum and an area to add friends.

The friends behind the speech applied for 99+, so he didn't even have the desire to check on his acquaintances. He turned off his phone, tidied the room, and then lay down.

very tired.

Suddenly, a notification rang in the class group.

Zhuci opened it and took a look.

It has not been long since the new semester of his junior year started, and he has already taken a day off today, so it would be difficult for him to take a day off tomorrow.

The notification to the class group was sent by the study committee member.

Qiao Xinxin: @All members, everyone should be present for tomorrow’s writing class. The teacher will call on your names. Also, remember to bring last week’s homework. The teacher said that he will select a few people to check and analyze.

Then a private message popped up.

Qiao Xinxin: Dear classmate Zhuci, are you there?

I replied with a congratulatory message.

Qiao Xinxin: Although I know that Zhuci is very busy, he should still be in class tomorrow.

Zhuji often took leave because of other college projects and work, and I guess the teachers were used to it. But Zhuji's attendance rate remained above 60%, and he didn't know why Qiao Xinxin asked this.

Congratulations: Yes. Can I take a leave?

Qiao Xinxin: It’s okay. I heard that the e-sports competition is about to start, and the automated robot competition next door has also started. I was worried that you would be too busy to come, so I asked in advance.

Speech: It’s okay. It doesn’t take that much time.

Regarding the robot competition, a teacher he had worked with before asked him about it, but Zhuci declined. He is now participating in a Daiso project related to a game company. The senior student he is working with is very sincere and they have played games together before.

He lay back on the bed, tossed and turned, and finally opened Shen Wu's chat box.

Speech: Have you ever broken the law?

There was no response for a long time after this message was sent.

In the past, Shen Wu would usually reply to messages within seconds. Could it be that he was really angry today?

The speech didn't last too long, he closed his eyes and fell asleep.

So he missed the repeated input in the chat box, and finally a sentence popped out from the other side.

Shen Wu: Do you want to find a rope to tie you up at home?

…

Zhu Ci was half asleep and half awake when he suddenly thought of his homework. He had to hand in last week's 5,000-word homework for tomorrow's writing class. His computer was flooded and he forgot to check if the homework was still there.

So he woke up.

It was already evening and he had slept the entire afternoon.

As soon as he opened his phone, there were a bunch of messages, including messages from classmates inviting him to have dinner together, and also messages from Shen Wu.

Zhuci opened it and took a look.

The other party withdrew a message.

Shen Wu: No.

Zhu Ci has reservations about the truthfulness of this statement.

The most important thing right now is to save his job.

Zhu Ci turned on the computer and tried hard to find his file. Finally, he found it in the corner. Fortunately, he had saved it before and this computer was quite durable.

He clicked it and took a look. There was nothing wrong.

With a sigh of relief, Zhuci accepted the invitation of these classmates. Having more contact with normal people would help him stay in touch with the world.

Classmates' gatherings usually include Haidilao hotpot and barbecue. After hearing that he was coming, they told him the location.

At six o'clock, I went to a barbecue restaurant in the shopping mall opposite the school.

Zhu Ci went out with his cell phone. After opening the door, the lights in the corridor were on and the door of the dormitory opposite was closed.

The dormitory across the street was originally occupied by a senior student, but he probably won't be returning to school this semester.

…

The barbecue restaurant was getting hotter. Several male classmates saw the speech from a distance and waved to him happily.

Zhuci usually doesn't attend such gatherings. The food outside is high in oil and salt, and doesn't taste as good as what Shen Wu cooks.

"Hello, classmate Zhuci. Are you back to school today?" The speaker was a boy wearing a peaked cap.

Zhuci responded. This person is called Wang Hongyi, from the Department of Physics, likes to play games, and has some decent gaming skills.

"Hey, come to think of it, what's your current rank?" the other party asked.

The greeting asked: "Which game?"

"It's the one you promised Ye Yanghui to play in the match. The one with the highest popularity."

"I forgot. I haven't played it for a long time." Zhu Ci said. He played a lot of games and reached the top of almost every one of them, but his energy was limited and it was impossible for him to always maintain the first place.

Ye Yanghui said: "Normal, but I still believe in your skills, just practice more and you'll be fine. By the way, Zhuci, these are our teammates."

Zhu Ci nodded, but when he looked around, there were only four people including him, so there was one missing.

"Wu Yi has a bit of a weird personality. He's often missing and his elusiveness is comparable to yours." Ye Yanghui said.

Zhuci didn't ask any more questions.

"Let's take a look at the menu. We have ordered a few dishes."

Zhu Ci said: "Just order it."

The waiter started serving the food, and a plate of bright red beef was placed in front of Zhuci.

"Sir, this is something a customer asked me to give to you."

Zhu Ci took the note and looked around before reading it.

This is an action that goes against common sense, because most people, after receiving a message, will rush to read the message first and then look around, but Zhu Ci is not like that. He held up the note, did not read it, but looked around first.

Then he noticed the man looking at him from two tables in front of him.

When the man saw him looking at him, he did not restrain his gaze, but instead gave him an evil smile.

"You look so pretty when you cry..."

They were all boys who loved to join in the fun. Everyone gathered around. One of them read it out, but he stopped halfway and looked strange.

Zhu Ci looked down at the note, which said, "You look so pretty when you cry, are you interested in being kept by me?"

He frowned and looked at the man coldly.

"This...speech..."

Ye Yanghui glanced at him.

They knew Zhu Ci was good-looking, but he was usually very cold, he didn't laugh easily and he had never been seen crying, and his aura was not weak either. How come he met a pervert today?

Zhuci stood up.

"Zhu Ci, where are you going?"

The man seemed to be certain that Zhu Ci had no way of doing anything to him, and his expression was extremely arrogant.

It is indeed difficult to build a society ruled by law.

He took a deep breath, feeling a little regretful that this was not a game.

He can only remember the other person's appearance first, and if he can meet him in the game, he can settle the score in the game.

After sitting down again, the other students tried to change the topic, trying to put the matter behind them. Getting into a fight outside the university and ending up in police station could be very troublesome.

Ye Yanghui glanced at his mobile phone, sent a message to someone on the list, and then glanced at the congratulatory speech.

"It's okay, just eat your food and ignore this guy."

Zhu Ci's phone lit up; it was a message from Shen Wu.

Shen Wu: Are you eating out? Be careful, I'll pick you up.

Greetings: No thanks.

Shen Wu: Transfer 131452.0

Shen Wu: Are you still angry? Go buy a new computer.

Shen Wu: [Picture].jpg

Shen Wu: I went to see a doctor, and he said it was a case of love brain and it cannot be cured.

Congratulations: ...Is that so?

Greetings: How is your face? Is it feeling better?

Zhu Ci secretly curled up the corners of his mouth, and then pressed it back without leaving a trace. This love brain report was photoshopped quite realistically, and he still found it a little hard to imagine how Shen Wu could say such a thing to him.

Shen Wu: No, just give me a kiss.

…

After finishing their meal, they walked out of the mall.

Outside, several people saw Shen Wu surrounded by some people.

There are many students near the university town, many of whom read books and know Shen Wu, so it is normal to be surrounded by people asking for autographs.

Although Shen Wu signed his names one by one with a pen, his behavior and expression were cold and distant. Even though there was a funny plaster on his face, it did not ruin the overall beauty. He seemed to raise his head in response and saw the speech.

The other students said goodbye to Zhuci very tactfully, and then looked at the plaster on Shen Wu's face with strange expressions.

Congratulations: "..."

He hugged his chest and turned his head away.

Shen Wu had a slight smile on his face, shook his head to refuse others, and then walked towards the Zhuci.

Zhu Ci turned around and left.

Shen Wu caught up with him in two or three steps.

"Xiaoci, let's go."

Zhuci looked at him and asked: "Are we going the same way?"

"Okay, then I'll send it to the dormitory, okay?"

Zhu Ci didn't say anything. He glanced at Shen Wu's face. He really didn't control his strength when he hit her this morning. He didn't know how many days it would take for the pain to subside. Thinking about it now, he felt a little regretful.

This street actually has quite a lot of traffic.

After crossing the road, Zhu Ci suddenly stopped and turned to look in one direction.

It seemed like there was a blockage there, and the sound of sirens could be heard from far away.

Zhuci seemed to have some feelings and walked over there.

Shen Wu followed him.

This was a car accident. A car suddenly crashed into the roadside while turning, broke through the guardrail and hit the wall. Fortunately, there were no casualties on the sidewalk.

People around were talking about it.

The cause of the accident is still unclear.

Because it happened so suddenly, the police had no time to cordon off the scene. There were many people taking pictures around, so Zhu Ci approached the scene of the accident to see clearly what the person in the accident looked like.

Shen Wu stopped him and said, "Don't look at it. Aren't you afraid of these?"

"It's not that I'm afraid, I just hate it." Zhu Ci said.

Half of Shen Wu's face was illuminated by the car lights, and the other half was hidden in the darkness. He lowered his head to look at the boy in front of him and said like he was coaxing a child: "Go back, otherwise you will have nightmares at night."

Zhu Ci lowered his eyes, as if he was thinking, but he still moved a little closer to the scene of the car accident.

However, the front of the car did not penetrate the wall, so it was difficult to see the appearance of the person in the accident.

"Okay." The toast was abandoned.

…

On a huge electronic screen in the distance was a promotional poster for the movie. In the poster, a terrified man had his mouth sewn shut, and on the wall was a huge bloody exclamation mark.

He is silent.

Zhu Ci looked up.

It is the latest suspense film to be released, and the author of the original novel is right beside him, holding his hand.

"Shen Wu, you don't really want to live in the school, do you?"

Shen Wu smiled softly: "Do you want to share half of the bed with me?"

Zhu Ci looked at him and said, "Now that you're out, why don't you go watch a movie?"

Shen Wu also took a look at the billboard and said, "Don't you dislike these?"

"It's just that tonight is a good night to watch a suspense movie."

At the scene of the car accident, sirens were blaring and the smell of blood was everywhere, giving people a feeling of being out of place in time and space.

Zhuci invited him to watch a movie, so Shen Wu naturally had no way to refuse.

They walked into the nearest cinema.

then……

Shen Wu and Zhu Ci looked at each other outside because they couldn't buy tickets.

There are many movie releases, but they are almost all booked, so it is impossible for them to watch this movie on a whim.

Congratulations: "You are quite popular."

Shen Wu laughed: "My mistake."

Zhu Ci stared at the plaster on his face for a long time, and finally said reluctantly: "Forget it, go back, I'll give you half of the bed and put some medicine on you."

…

The beds in college are not very big, especially in a single dormitory.

Zhu Ci sat on the table beside the bed, picked up a book and started reading.

They were originally going to apply medicine, but both of them only remembered where to get the medicine in the dormitory after they returned.

Shen Wu's cell phone received several calls from his editor, probably because the deadline for submission was approaching.

The congratulatory speech was not strange, and it was not the first time for him to do so.

So now the situation is that they sit at one table, one types and the other studies.

Zhuci had a book about programming in his hand. After reading it for a while, he took out his cell phone.

Someone sent him a message on his mobile phone.

xy: I found out. This is what the person involved in the traffic accident looked like.

xy: [picture]

This is the face of the deceased captured under surveillance before the accident.

Zhu Ci identified the man and confirmed that it was the man who gave him the note in the barbecue restaurant.

Congratulations: Thank you.

xy: It doesn’t matter. Why do you ask this?

Speech: He harassed me.

xy: ...That's damn wrong.

…

Zhu Ci never expected that this guy would die like this. Is it a coincidence?

It couldn't have been Shen Wu who did it; he had sufficient proof of his alibi.

Or what if the other party just entered the game and suddenly died in the game?