After leaving the [White Scale Guild], Su Su found that a name that had not appeared in the friend list for several days lit up.

【Reversal & Revenant】, after disappearing for many days, is finally online.

Su Su immediately contacted the other party, and the two agreed to meet at a drink shop at a supply point.

"Why have you disappeared for so long?" Su Su took a sip from a strawberry milkshake and grinned like a shark: "I didn't even have a chance to thank you. This time, I was in big trouble because of the information you gave me."

Qi Hanyi smiled faintly: "I played this game just on impulse. I have a similar personality to you, so it's easy for me to help you. I'm also very happy for you to shine in your performance."

Su Su said, and generously marked a point over: "You have contributed one point to the bonus, and I will give you half."

Qi Hanyi didn't accept it, "No need. I'll be busy with other things in the future, so I might not play games as often. These points are useless."

Hearing that his good friend would not come to play games anymore, Su Su's smile fell: "Does that mean we won't see each other anymore?"

"...Probably." Qi Hanyi didn't expect Su Su to be so reluctant to give up his virtual identity, and didn't know how to comfort him for a moment.

He originally created this identity just to get in touch with Su Su, but when he saw that Su Su was on the right track in the competition, he planned to quietly erase the existence of this account. In addition, he was recently busy selecting mermaids for driver training, so he spent less and less time online.

"Then what should I do if I miss you in the future?" Su Su asked without thinking, and he was stunned for a moment after he said it.

He has never been a clingy person, and he makes friends casually. He doesn't see Yan Bai very often, but he doesn't miss her. He originally thought that he and [Nishuang & Wanghun] were just good friends online, but when he heard that they would no longer be online, he found that he couldn't bear to part with them. He even felt that the game was less interesting.

Looking back, the happiest time I've had since I started playing games was actually when I spent time with each other.

Su Su suddenly thought, if it wasn't someone he particularly cared about, why would he feel reluctant to part with him for no reason. Although this person doesn't talk much, his personality is very compatible with his own. He always feels that he is similar to Qi Hanyi in some ways, such as the voice and tone of his speech, and the way he thinks about problems. If there is any difference, it is probably that he is not good at driving a starship and his personality is relatively gentle.

Suddenly, he felt a warm touch on his head. Su Su looked up and saw someone gently touching his head through the shark doll costume.

The feeling was very familiar, and it reminded Su Su of Qi Hanyi.

Could someone be so similar even when they touch each other's heads? Su Su thought vaguely, and then he came up with a very bold guess: Is there a possibility that this account belongs to Qi Hanyi?

At first, Su Su thought that this was just an absurd association that he had because he couldn't bear to see the other person leave. After all, how could Qi Hanyi not be able to drive a starship, and the name of this account didn't seem like Qi Hanyi's style.

But after thinking about it carefully, I found more and more doubts. The time when he appeared coincided with the registration time for the preliminary round. He went online at night, which perfectly matched the time when Qi Hanyi was free every day. He seemed to have no other purpose every time he went online, just to play with me. Although he claimed that he could not drive a starship, when he drove it himself, he always knew what he wanted to do, and occasionally gave some driving suggestions, which were always to the point.

He never seemed to ask why he didn't look up information online, just like he knew he couldn't go online because he was a mermaid. After he entered the competition, everyone in the game was guessing his origins, but he didn't seem to be curious at all.

The more he thought about it, the more possible it seemed to Su Su. His heartbeat couldn't help but speed up. Would Qi Hanyi really hide her identity and enter the game to play with him just for him? When did he know that [White-scaled Shark] was his? Was it the time when he confessed that he was playing the game?

Yes, if he could be brought into the game by Yan Bai, and then connected to his player number through Yan Bai's guild, it should not be difficult for him to guess his identity.

No wonder Qi Hanyi never asked about his game account in real life, and never asked about his real identity in the game. Once he thought about it this way, everything made sense.

Su Su thought about it in his mind and was 70% sure about this guess. He decided to test the other party and deliberately said, "It's rare for me to make friends. I don't want to lose contact with you. How about we make an appointment and get to know each other offline?"

Qi Hanyi had never thought that he would make such a request: "I'm afraid it's too far away and a bit inconvenient."

Su Su refused, and his doubts were already 90% in his heart. He said, "Wait for me, I have something urgent to do." Then he went straight out of the nutrition cabin and logged off.

He hadn't fully transformed into a shark yet, just some scales were showing.

Su Su simply wiped his body clean, without bothering to clean up, simply put on his clothes, and ran towards the study.

When he entered, Qi Hanyi was sitting at the desk, holding a cup of water in his hand and turning on the terminal, looking like he was working. When he saw him, he looked a little surprised.

"The rebellious dead soul?" Su Su asked without hesitation.

"Ahem!" Qi Hanyi gulped. Some names are fine when you just look at them on the Internet, but when you really read them out loud, even your hair feels embarrassed.

"It's you, right? I guessed it all, don't lie to me again." Su Su leaned over across the table and stared at Qi Hanyi.

"The name was randomly chosen by the system." Although it was irrelevant, Qi Hanyi still defended his own aesthetics. This was equivalent to implicitly acknowledging Su Su's guess.

"It's really you. Too far away? Inconvenient? How come you are so skilled at deceiving people?" Su Su grinned, "It's a pity that I was thinking about giving you a surprise when we meet after the finals. It turns out you knew it a long time ago."

He was complaining, but his mouth was almost stretched to his ears.

Qi Hanyi was a little confused looking at his silly expression. After he guessed the other party's identity, he didn't tell Su Su because he was worried that he would be unhappy.

"What are you laughing at?"

Su Su didn't know why he was happy, he was just happy.

"It turns out that the person who played games with me for a month was really you. No wonder I always felt that we got along so well." Su Su said whatever he thought: "I feel happy when I think that the person who accompanied me this month turned out to be you, and my favorite friend on the Internet and the person closest to me in real life turned out to be the same person. Now you can't say that we are too far away and it is inconvenient for us to meet, right?"

Get along with him? This was the first time Qi Hanyi heard someone say this. Growing up, people would only say that he was cold and difficult to approach. When he started working, his subordinates would only say that he was too strict. How could anyone think that they could get along with him?

Even when Su Su had expressed affection for him before, he just thought that the other party had some admiration for him because of his looks and identity. Because he was too ignorant about love, he confused this admiration with love.

Su Su propped his elbows on the table and held his face with one hand: "Tell me the truth, why did you create this account? Did you find that I have a unique bone structure and am a good material for learning starships? You didn't know it was me at that time, right?"

Qi Hanyi looked to the side and said, "If you knew, there would be no need to go through so much trouble."

"Yes!" Su Su insisted, "Otherwise, after you knew it was me, why didn't you reveal your identity and played with me for more than half a month?"

Why? Of course, it’s because we can’t spend time together without any scruples in real life, so we steal some time together online, wearing virtual identities.

Qi Hanyi did not answer Su Su's question that day, but distanced himself from him again, using the excuse that the side effects of Su Su's illness had subsided. He became increasingly busy with the training of mermaids, and sometimes he would work overtime late and sleep directly in the military headquarters. Su Su was trapped in the fish tank and could no longer find Qi Hanyi. He also lost his former partner in the game, and he was alone and felt a little depressed.

It’s not like he hasn’t tried to make new friends. Ever since he became famous, his mailbox has been filled with in-game friend requests.

But after a careful chat, it turns out that some of them are just spectators who want to know his identity, some are anchors who are trying to take advantage of his popularity and traffic, or some are players who simply want to learn skills from him.

Some of them have interesting personalities and get along well with Su Su, but they still feel a little different when they are with Qi Hanyi. Su Su will not miss them because he can't see them, nor will he be unhappy because of their alienation.

A bad mood is like a cold. Su Su felt like he was sick. Nothing he ate tasted good, and he was not as energetic as usual. Even when he was flying a starship, he would be distracted.

"Why do I feel unhappy when I can't see someone and want to be with them all the time?" Su Su asked many people in the game, and they all gave the same answer:

"Is there any need to ask? I just fell in love with you."

"Tell me, bro, which girl have you taken a fancy to? I'll give you some advice...A man, a man is fine too. It's a different era now, and homosexuality is not to be discriminated against."

"I have a crush on you. Have you confessed your feelings?"

"If you like someone, just chase them boldly."

After Su Su exited the game, he was still a little dazed. He stared blankly at the person sleeping not far away through the glass wall of the pool.

He undoubtedly liked Qi Hanyi, liked his appearance, admired his strength, and appreciated his style of doing things.

But these are not what those people say they like. The likes in those people's mouths are accompanied by desire, the primitive mating and reproduction desire between female sharks and male sharks.

He wanted to be close to Qi Hanyi, liked to stick close to him, liked his smell, voice, and body temperature, and liked the touch of their lips.

But more...

Su Su thought of the old Qi family house, Qi Hanyi's uncontrollable kiss, the pleasure that made people like and fear. He remembered him asking himself fiercely whether he wanted to continue.

I remember him explaining it to me the next day with some helplessness. He said, "You don't understand human love."

In the fish pond late at night, a shark rolled back and forth in the water, grinding its teeth restlessly and muttering angrily, "Who said I don't understand?"