Bai Jiwei sat on the roof.
After receiving the news, Jiang Jiaying climbed up wearing a thick down jacket, carrying a packed lunch bucket and a thermos cup of tea, braving the cold wind of the heavy snow in late December. He lifted the lid of the lunch bucket and placed it in front of his cheap captain: "Eat quickly, or it will get cold."
Bai Jiwei took the spoon and scooped up a dumpling.
Jiang Jiaying had just unscrewed the thermos, and the hot steam was instantly blown onto his face by the wind. He drank a sip of hot tea and asked vaguely, "Do you have to come here to think about life?"
Bai Jiwei ate very quickly, and even spoke while eating: "Calm down."
Jiang Jiaying: "You are calm, I am almost frozen to death."
Bai Jiwei didn't look at him, his eyes were fixed on the dark ground below: "I suddenly realized that everything I have been insisting on seems to be wrong."
“…”
This opening remark was so grand and high-sounding that Jiang Jiaying even forgot to chew the wolfberries.
Then I heard the other person continue: "It's like I always thought your dumplings were filled with meat, but you suddenly told me that you filled them with carrots."
“…”
“They look similar, but they are actually two completely different things.”
“…”
“I’m still a carnivore.”
“…”
Jiang Jiaying was silent for a long time before calling out, "Lao Bai."
"Um?"
"Did you have a hard life before?" Jiang Jiaying pondered for a moment, "You couldn't even eat meat. When you were extremely hungry, you could only gnaw on your own arms and drink their blood."
“…”
Bai Jiwei finally realized that he had found the wrong person to talk to. If they were to talk about this topic, Ling Zhao would probably have more in common with him than Jiang Jiaying. He didn't say anything else and ate his dumplings quietly.
Jiang Jiaying, however, was restless: "Did your benefactor reject you? The proposal of turning into zombies together?"
Bai Jiwei: "I guess he won't accept it."
"Then why are you here to calm down?" Jiang Jiaying said, "It's not like he can't stand how ruthless you are so he's standing up for me, right?"
Bai Jiwei paused: "You know."
"I've been in God's Domain for so long, I can still understand this basic logic." Jiang Jiaying took another sip of hot tea, "If being bitten by a zombie actually means we get a pass, then what's the point of our resistance? What's the point of throwing us in? You said that all humans will become zombies. He completed his mission and survived, but we can't."
"You want him to live, even if the price is that you will die, and I will die too."
Bai Jiwei didn't say anything.
Jiang Jiaying sighed quietly: "To be honest, I didn't expect you to be so extreme. We have been a team for such a long time. You just give up like that. Have you ever considered the psychological trauma I will suffer?"
Bai Jiwei still didn't say anything.
Jiang Jiaying: "If I didn't know I couldn't beat you, I would have smashed the rice bucket in your face the moment I figured it out."
Bai Jiwei: "Then come over here."
"Because I thought about it, if you are determined to exterminate everyone in the world in this game, I can't seem to stop you." Jiang Jiaying was quite calm, and there was no resentment towards the scumbag captain in his tone. "Does he really think you are just a benefactor?"
Bai Jiwei paused.
Benefactor? There must be more than one.
But what else could he do besides being grateful to his benefactor? He didn't know.
After all, before he and Shi Yu met in the Divine Realm, it had been more than 20 years since they last met. At that time, he was just born not long ago, and his physical hair had not yet grown out. Now that so many years have passed, he can't even remember what he said and did at that time.
But miraculously he remembered the entire process from birth to death.
When the other party just died, he spent a long time aimlessly. He was in the prison and couldn't find the exit. He didn't dare to run around, for fear of accidentally bumping into the demon who killed the other party and then losing his life. He could only stay in the corner where the other party died all day long, counting the number of hairs on his body to pass the time.
He had no idea how long he had been in the darkness. The pure blood of the gods he drank ensured that he would be able to survive without food or water. Later, when the divine power had finally circulated in his body and he changed from a long-haired cat into a human, he dared to try to run outside. However, he subconsciously dodged when he heard human voices, and he ran out of the temple in circles, crossed the Jiyu Bridge, passed Linghuangdang, and finally fell into Luguan Temple.
At that time, he actually didn't know what kind of shocking secret he had seen, but his living instinct made him choose to protect himself. He didn't dare to appear in front of other gods, and he didn't even dare to let other gods know of his existence. He only relied on eavesdropping and flipping through books to spy on the outside world, and bit by bit outlined its complete picture.
Later, he finally connected the main god with the haggard god in the sky prison. Now he was standing in the temple, enjoying great respect with a mask that could not be torn off, but the one who should have been spotless had already changed beyond recognition, and was a fraud and a name stealer.
If he had to describe his feelings at that time, it was probably like seeing corpses of hungry people piled up on the vast land, tall buildings destroyed by tsunami waves, dead leaves trembling and falling from branches in autumn, and carved jade full of cracks inside.
The most beautiful thing in the world was displayed before our eyes, and then was shattered to pieces.
But that god obviously shouldn't be like this. He was born to be high and mighty, not to be sick and broken.
He'd seen it once, and he couldn't bring himself to watch it happen a second time.
If you must ask him what he really desires, in fact, he just hopes that the other person can stand on the altar forever.
Jiang Jiaying tugged at his sleeve: "What are you staring at? The dumplings are getting cold."
Bai Jiwei lowered his head and shoveled another dumpling.
"Tell me what happened. Maybe I can give you some advice now."
Bai Jiwei was silent for a long time, and still couldn't tell the truth. It wasn't because of the live broadcast. Now that the cover of Shi Yu's identity had been exposed by Ling Zhao, there was no point in hiding it. It was just that considering that it would be too challenging to say "he is actually the Lord God" to the team members directly, and it would be troublesome to explain, so he chose to censor the story: "He was imprisoned for a period of time before."
Jiang Jiaying took a full ten seconds to digest this sentence: "...The closure you mentioned...shouldn't it be more than just closed, right?"
"I saw him by coincidence, and I always thought he had PTSD because of his experience during that time, and he always wanted to find the people who imprisoned him and beat them up." Bai Jiwei said concisely, "But now I find that he never seems to have thought about revenge."
Jiang Jiaying couldn't imagine the experience that could leave someone like Shi Yu with PTSD, and it was inconvenient to ask: "He doesn't want revenge, then what? Do you think that your thoughts and actions of fighting for him and wanting to avenge him before this are meaningless?"
White is silent.
"Whether he wants to or not is his business, and whether you want to or not is your business. You are both willing. As long as what you do does not affect him, why do you care whether he is willing or not? Isn't it enough for you to be happy?"
Jiang Jiaying propped up her chin and said, "Besides, there's no such thing as an algorithm for imprisonment. If you can beat up a criminal, it's a blessing from society. If you beat someone up, the public will only applaud you. So what else is there to not understand?"
"That's not what I'm talking about."
"What's the meaning?"
"I just don't understand," Bai Jiwei said softly, "Why doesn't he hate?"
If it was me who went through all that, what would I do? Would I become depressed? Would I give up my life? Would I take revenge on society? Would I go crazy and live a life worse than death?
He doesn't know either.
But he knew that it was absolutely impossible for him to be like Shi Yu and act as if the injuries had never happened from beginning to end.
"Why can't he hate?"
Jiang Jiaying thought blankly and said, "Maybe it's just that your benefactor has a good temper... Hmm."
"Shhh."
Jiang Jiaying's mouth was suddenly covered and she couldn't utter a single clear word. She could only shut up and ask him what was wrong with her eyes.
Bai Jiwei pointed downwards with his other hand.
Jiang Jiaying looked downstairs, but couldn't see anything clearly until the hand covering her mouth finally loosened: "Why did you suddenly do that?"
"Did you see that person downstairs just now?"
"who?"
"It's too far away, I'm not sure, but the face looks like Ling Zhao."
Jiang Jiaying was confused: "Brother, this is the 13th floor. I am lucky that I can see where the road is paved at night. How can you see the face of someone passing by downstairs? Besides, no one below can hear what you say on the top floor. Why are you trying to stop me?"
Bai Jiwei ignored it.
Normally, other players should be outside the safe zone to kill monsters at this point. It was a bit strange that Ling Zhao was back now, but he was also on strike and had no right to care about others... He immediately pushed the empty thermos aside and said, "That direction is to Shi Yu's room."
Jiang Jiaying was caught off guard by the thermos bucket and subconsciously tried to grab him: "No, Ling Zhao can find Shi Yu if he wants to, you..."
Bai Jiwei stood up, walked to the edge of the top floor, and jumped down!
Jiang Jiaying threw herself next to the cement platform, and could only see a dot below that was shrinking smaller and smaller. She was dumbfounded and murmured, "...Why is it like catching a mistress?"
※
Shi Yu came to the balcony and asked: "Why don't you go through the front door?"
Yu Zhiyi's shoes were still treading on the lingering snow: "Have you ever seen anyone go through the main entrance privately?"
Shi Yu: "What do you want to talk to me about?"
Yu Zhiyi slowly approached him and said, "I forgot to ask you before, what exactly are you going to do? Let all the humans in this world die?"
Shi Yu retreated from the balcony to the living room: "Wait."
Yu Zhiyi: "How do you say that?"
Shi Yu: "The infected are breeding Gu inside."
Yu Zhiyi raised his eyebrows: "The infected are still being eradicated."
Shi Yu only asked back: "Do you think they can kill them all?"
Yu Zhiyi seemed to be thinking deeply: "Will we just sit back and enjoy the fruits of our labor after the zombies have finished breeding? But how can you guarantee that if the humans in this world continue to kill each other like this, the last remaining 'Zombie King' will devour enough of its own kind to evolve to the point where it is invulnerable to swords and guns?"
Shi Yu said nothing.
Yu Zhiyi said: "As far as I know, the strength of a single zombie out there is probably enough to lift a locomotive, but their physique is only so strong that an art knife can't penetrate them, and they can't rely on their bodies to resist hot weapons like bullets. What if they don't eat enough zombies and still can't compete with humans in the end?"
Shi Yu looked at him for a few seconds: "Your remaining teammate was infected?"
Yu Zhiyi suddenly tensed up.
Shi Yu: "Did you inject him with blood infected with the virus, or did you push him into the army of infected people?"
Yu Zhiyi: "Da Zhu is not good at ambush, and he doesn't like such bloody scenes. I asked him to join the monsters' camp earlier so that he doesn't have to hide from place to place in the future."
Shi Yu's tone was emotionless: "Is it because you don't have to hide anymore after becoming infected, or are you worried that the infected will be wiped out too quickly, and the last one left will not devour enough of its own kind to resist humans' thermal weapons?"
Yu Zhiyi sneered: "If he encounters other zombies, it is likely that he will eat those zombies instead of the zombies eating him. Anyway, as long as our mission is completed, he will return safely, right?"
Shi Yu looked at him for a few seconds and said "Oh".
Yu Zhiyi pressed on, “Is that it? Are you really planning to do nothing and just wait? Don’t you have anything to tell me?”
Shi Yu thought for a moment and said, "If you have a lot of free time, you can try to encourage the infected to kill each other."
"And hope that I'll be eaten by zombies accidentally in the process?"
"Won't the infected people attack you?"
Yu paused and said, "What?"
Shi Yu said calmly: "You ran all the way back to the safe zone before, but there were no infected people chasing you. Isn't it because they won't attack someone of your kind?"
Yu Zhiyi stared at him quietly, almost making people think he was mute.
Shi Yu waited for a while but he didn't speak: "If you don't have any other questions, can you please go back?"
"have."
"What?"
"I remember you told me before that you were infected at the beginning of the game, right?" Yu Zhiyi said in a very light voice, "So, the immunodeficiency virus should be flowing in your blood."
Shi Yu did not deny: "Huh?"
Yu Zhiyi suddenly smiled: "So those zombies won't attack me, but they will kill you."
"grown ups."
It’s Ling Zhao.
He had just climbed in from the balcony, and before he had time to see the unlocked glass door clearly, he saw the person inside through the glass. The curve of his chin instantly tensed to the extreme.
Yu Zhiyi didn't expect that someone would come at this time, and he had to climb up the balcony. The first thing he did was to recall the content of the conversation just now, to make sure that no one had come over a few minutes ago and that no one had revealed that they were infected. He then suddenly grabbed the other person's wrist with his lowered hand.
He didn't use any force, just maintained this action: "Don't say what you shouldn't say."
Hidden under the cuffs, a thin metal chain climbed up the opponent's fingertips like a snake and pierced into the skin cleanly and neatly.
He buried the chain silently, loosened his hand, and smiled again: "But you are so smart, you probably don't want others to know that you are now infected."
Yu Zhiyi threw down these words which were half a threat and half a threat, and without even looking at Ling Zhao, he went straight out of the balcony.
"grown ups."
Shi Yu finally turned her eyes to him: "What do you want to talk to me about?"
Ling Zhao suddenly forgot why he came to find him. His mind was filled with the ambiguous distance between him and another person when his back was turned to him. His hands hanging by his side were clenched until they were blue.
Shi Yu really couldn't guess the struggle in his mind. Seeing that the other party had no intention of speaking for a long time, he was about to order him to leave, but then another shadow jumped up from the balcony.
Bai Jiwei ran over, his breathing still not calmed down. He first glanced at Ling Zhao, and then called him: "Shishi, are you still awake?"
"...No." Shi Yu asked, "What do you want to talk to me about?"
Bai Jiwei paused, thinking of an excuse. The tense atmosphere around him was almost tangible, until it was broken by a drawn-out shout: "Old Bai!"
Jiang Jiaying finally followed his footsteps with great effort and climbed inside: "Why are you trying to butt in on someone's private gathering in the middle of the night? Shi Yu, why are you still awake so late?"
“…………”
Shi Yu: “No.”
He asked, "Why do you all like to climb the balcony so much?"
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