Chapter 76
Inside the auditorium, the lights seemed to be condensed from frost and snow, emitting a bone-chilling paleness that poured relentlessly across every inch of the space. The silvery-white walls stood impassively, their reflections reflected on the polished marble floor, making the empty space feel even more gloomy, like a vast ice cellar.
"Tsk, it's still so gloomy here. I don't know where my mother's intelligence has gone. She really fell for Ye Bai's little trick."
Worden muttered quietly.
When Woden entered the auditorium, he still had his usual royal demeanor, his posture was upright but he could not hide his inner impatience. Fortunately, he still gave face to the Chancellor's family and did not appear with anyone other than Ye Bai at this time.
——Although now he can’t find Ye Bai to be his companion.
His pure black suit, made of the finest interstellar material, had always made him look noble and elegant, but now, due to his haste, it had many wrinkles on it and the corners of the suit were hanging down casually.
His blond hair, which had always been neatly groomed and dazzling, was now disheveled, with a few strands of sweaty hair sticking to his forehead, making him look even more disheveled.
Only his eyes, burning with blazing and searing anger, scanned the surroundings menacingly.
When Warden received the news of Ye Bai's death from his mother, his first reaction was that his mother was deceived by Ye Bai. How could that guy die?
Even after hearing the news that Ye Bai committed suicide, Warden's reaction was to laugh and then said sarcastically.
"As long as I'm here in this world, that guy will never let himself die alone."
His Majesty did not explain too much about this, but just asked Woden to attend the funeral on time. Woden originally wanted to resist, but his mother's cold voice on the other end of the phone made him understand that he had to go this time, so Woden appeared here with an impatient look on his face.
"It's really weird that I had to come to this place." Warden muttered softly, his steps were weak and perfunctory, and his leather shoes collided with the ground, making a hollow sound.
But when his eyes accidentally fell on the coffin in the center of the auditorium and Ye Bai lying inside the coffin, he was struck by lightning and froze in place instantly. His originally distracted expression was completely washed away by shock.
"This...what is going on?" Warden raised his voice, his questioning full of disbelief and even a hint of imperceptible panic.
After getting closer and seeing Ye Bai's lifeless face, Warden seemed to finally react. His face instantly became as gloomy as ink, his brows were tightly locked together, forming a deep ravine, and anger was surging wildly in his eyes.
"Ye Bai, what are you up to?" Warden roared at the coffin, his voice like a bell, echoing in the silent auditorium. "Playing dead? You think such a childish trick can fool me? Don't waste your energy!"
His fist tightened unconsciously, his hard knuckles turned white due to the force, and blue veins bulged on the back of his hand. If it weren't for the cabin wall blocking it, the fist that was ready to strike would have hit him long ago.
The young man who was Ye Bai's brother was standing nearby, his eyes bloodshot and tears welling up in his eyes, but he was holding them back. Seeing what Warden was doing, he quickly stepped forward and stopped Warden's increasingly uncontrolled movements.
"——Woden! Do you have any humanity left? My brother is dead, how can you be so cold-blooded and say such nonsense!"
Like a dragon whose reverse scales were touched, Woden suddenly turned his head and glared at Ye Wangxing fiercely, with no concealment in his eyes of disgust.
"Stop pretending to be pathetic! I clearly saw him yesterday. He was perfectly fine. How could he be lying here overnight? He must have planned this deliberately to attract my attention. He's done this more than once, but I didn't expect him to be so crazy as to play with his own death!"
As Warden spoke, there was a hint of disdain on his face.
—The provoked young man almost punched Warden in the face.
Fortunately, they were stopped by the Chancellor of Finance and his wife, but their faces looked very ugly.
Just as the smell of gunpowder in the air grew thicker, the funeral process finally began.
The cold, emotionless intelligent voice announced, "The body transfer procedure is about to begin. All unauthorized personnel are requested to evacuate immediately."
As soon as he finished speaking, the gravity device under the coffin made a dull humming sound and began to operate slowly, with slight vibrations spreading from the soles of his feet.
One form of funeral in the interstellar age is to send the coffin into the universe. During this process, the person in the coffin will be made into a gem by simple facilities, and finally float in the universe.
If you are lucky, your loved one might really turn into an asteroid.
When Woden heard the cold voice prompt of "Breakthrough", he went crazy instantly, and the disdainful expression on his face disappeared.
He rushed to the control panel like a wild horse, waving his hands wildly at the holographic panel in a panic and eager attempt to stop the established process. "Isn't this a big deal? Are you really going to send Ye Bai on a space safari just to attract my attention?"
Warden broke out in a cold sweat as he spoke.
However, the system permissions had long been locked, and a glaring red light was lit on the panel, rejecting his crazy actions time and time again, like a heartless spectator, watching his struggle coldly.
The attendants looked embarrassed. They gathered around and reached out to pull Warden away. "Your Highness, please calm down and do not interfere with the funeral process."
——After all, this is at someone else’s child’s funeral. What will happen to the royal family’s reputation if you suddenly go crazy?
But Woden suddenly exerted force and shook off the servants' hands with such force that one of the servants fell to the ground and got up in a mess.
He turned around and roared at Ye Wangxing, "Are you behind this? Ye Bai never played such a big game before. Did you play too hard with those four, and let Ye Bai learn that he was planning to use his death to attract my attention?"
The Chancellor's family of three suddenly shuddered all over, and what Walden didn't see was that Martha in the audience also trembled, but fortunately it didn't attract the attention of the people around her.
However, the three of them just trembled a little. The young man reacted instantly and his face showed disbelief. His red eyes made him look sad and desperate.
His finger trembled as he pointed at Worden, his voice choked with sobs.
"Wo! Deng! You are totally unreasonable! It's you who forced Ye Bai into this state. It's you who betrayed the promise you made to Ye Bai when you were little. He even wrote it down in his suicide note: it's all your fault, you bastard!"
As he spoke, Ye Wangxing threw a letter directly at Worden's face. The thick letter paper made Worden's face red, as if Ye Bai had slapped Worden in the face.
Warden took the suicide note in disbelief and opened it, but he froze after reading the beginning. He crumpled the letter into a ball, but it was as if someone stopped him from tearing it up or throwing it away.
Finally, he clutched the suicide note tightly, pointed at the Chancellor's family opposite, and opened and closed his mouth as if he wanted to say something, but in the end he didn't say it.
At this time, as the gravity device continued to increase its force, the coffin slowly left the ground and began to rise steadily, and the skylight of the church also opened.
Warden's eyes widened and he immediately turned around. His gaze seemed to want to burn a hole in the coffin. The anger on his face became more and more turbulent, and there was also a hint of imperceptible panic.
"Ye Bai! If you wake up right now, I'll pretend that what happened today never happened, and I won't bother with you about those trivial matters in the future!"
His voice became hoarse and cracked from the roar, but he was still strong, using the shell of anger to tightly wrap the quietly spreading anxiety in his heart.
But the coffin still did not stop, floating upwards indifferently and disdainfully, as if Ye Bai had finally made up his mind to leave him.
Warden's legs gradually lost their strength, but he held on with his innate stubbornness. As he was dragged out of the auditorium by his attendants, he continued to struggle, waving his hands wildly in the air, muttering, "This is impossible! He must be playing a trick on me..."
The whole person seemed to be in a frenzy, refusing to accept the reality before him.
In the end, Worden was forcibly dragged out of the auditorium, and the door slammed shut behind him with a heavy, dull thud, as if putting an end to this farce.
This also made the guests present breathe a sigh of relief - they really didn't expect that Prince Woden would suddenly go crazy to this extent.
Didn't he say that his relationship with Ye Bai wasn't very good? Why was he so sad about someone's death?
Could it be that he only realized how much he loved someone after that disgusting person died?
The guests' faces showed disgust, and Martha showed her disgust directly on her face.
"Ye Bai, just be thankful that you faked your death and your parents didn't invite many guests. Otherwise, your story would have spread all over the Star Network in less than 10 minutes—it would have been extremely embarrassing."
Martha sent a message to Ye Bai on the computer with a ferocious look on her face.
Just thinking about the scene just now made her toes curl up in embarrassment. She was even just a guest. If she were the protagonist, she would have to jump out of the coffin after she died to tell others that she had nothing to do with that thing!
"But your brother's acting is pretty good. Just now, when Warden rushed over and threw himself on your coffin, I almost couldn't hold back my laughter, but your brother actually held it back and was so focused on helping you cover."
Martha said this in a message with some appreciation.
However, Ye Bai on the opposite side did not reply to her for a while. Martha rolled her eyes, thinking that Ye Bai was probably starting to indulge in that deep love again, so she chose to shift her gaze back to Ye Wangxing, and found that Ye Wangxing was still in pain.
"Is your belief so strong?"
Martha thought in shock. You know, the Chancellor of Finance and his wife were almost unable to hold it in. They were pinching their lips tightly, afraid that others would notice.
However, Martha was wrong in thinking this, because Ye Wangxing on the stage was not a good actor - but he had already laughed in the system space.
[——Hahahahahahaha help! I really can't hold it any longer. How on earth can he be so funny?]
Ye Wangxing was laughing so hard in the system space that he almost couldn't breathe. He rolled over and over to calm down a little. Yijiu stood by and watched Ye Wangxing rolling around like a happy puppy without laughing. He just stood by and guarded him silently to prevent Ye Wangxing from rolling to the ground.
——However, the lights in the system space are much brighter.
Ye Wangxing didn't notice this. After he recovered, he wiped the tears from his eyes. He looked at Yijiu with wet eyelashes and a big smile on his face.
Ye Wangxing really couldn't help it. After all, Warden's crazy action of rushing to Ye Bai's coffin, coupled with his wrinkled suit and unkempt facial features that looked even more sloppy, looked really funny.
Especially his lines, which make people laugh even more.
However, after the laughter subsided, Ye Wangxing regained his senses and said something to Warden sincerely.
【Serves you right! 】
Yijiu also nodded in agreement.
He still didn't understand the logic of Worden's character, but he had tried his best to shape Worden's character model according to the host's words.
But Worden's actions today made Yijiu understand one thing.
——Never use data to simulate the personalities of some strange people and guess what they will do next.
His character model is completely useless.
Yijiu thought about it and deleted Woden's data model. Then he asked his family which host was better at simulating human personalities.
[Host, what will Woden do next? Will he feel guilty towards Ye Bai because of what happened at the funeral, and then change his ways and live the good life that Ye Bai wants him to live?]
Hearing Yijiu's guess, Ye Wangxing shook his head and said, looking at Yijiu's eyes with a rare curiosity.
[No, no, no, absolutely not. He won't even look at Ye Bai's suicide note during this period.]
Ye Wangxing spoke based on his many years of experience as a melon eater and the experience of being personally taken to the mediation site by his father.
If this were to happen in real life, Warden would probably have burned Ye Bai's suicide note and started looking for a new person a few days later. After all, there are very few plots where people regret something after someone dies. Most people just feel that their troubles are finally over after someone dies.
Ye Wangxing sighed and said.
However, this is a fictional world, so Woden will probably live a normal life for a while, then experience self-degradation for a while. Finally, when he's having trouble adapting to his future life, he'll remember Ye Bai's kindness to him, and then he'll tremble and flip through Ye Bai's suicide note, kneeling in tears before Ye Bai's grave, confessing his mistake.
Ye Wangxing was already familiar with this routine. When he was hooked by those novels in the past, most of the endings were like this.
——Ye Wangxing felt as if her breast nodules were about to burst out of anger after seeing this.
[…Is this what humans are like?]
Yijiu analyzed Ye Wangxing's words and then expressed such doubts.
Didn’t Yiqi say that humans are one of the most emotionally rich species in the entire universe?
It's normal for people to have psychological problems during wartime, so it wouldn't be surprising to see soldiers and commanders doing all sorts of strange things during wartime. But the host's country is clearly quite peaceful, right?
"Some humans are like this. After all, other species have diversity, so naturally humans do too." Ye Wangxing sighed.
I do have a strong sense of empathy. According to my dad, I would cry when watching Tom and Jerry as a child. I never expected that I would grow up to be such a cheerful person.
As Ye Wangxing spoke, his mood became a little low. When Ye Wangxing said this, Yijiu had already discovered that the emotional alarm on his host had started to sound.
Yijiu's brain CPU immediately started running at high speed, analyzing his host, and finally determined that his host was probably missing home.
This made Yijiu a little tricky.
If it was something else, it would be easy to deal with. For example, if he was dissatisfied with Woden, he could get rid of Woden without anyone noticing and make him disappear from the world in a physical sense.
But if the host misses home...
Yijiu really didn't have any good solution. He wasn't a real smart refrigerator, and he knew that if he played the images of the host's parents, it would make the host cry, unless the real people came.
But this is really impossible.
Just when Yijiu was at a loss, and the emotion even spread to his limbs, causing Yijiu's system to get stuck, Ye Wangxing came back to his senses from his previous emotions.
[It's okay. I was feeling homesick a little bit earlier, but now I've come to my senses. There's no point in feeling sorry for myself. Let's finish the mission first. It'll be over in a month at most!]
The young man smiled again and said to Yijiu.
However, the two-meter-tall system on the opposite side did not directly avoid the topic, but spoke to the young man in his usual calm voice.
【Host, do you need a hug? 】
Ye Wangxing was stunned for a moment, not understanding why Yijiu said that. He was actually fine now.
But when he looked up at Yijiu's open arms, Ye Wangxing found that he didn't seem to be okay.
He was still a little sentimental.
But not much, no need for psychiatrist intervention.
The young man with black hair and black eyes walked over and gave Yijiu a hug as well.
——A hug is enough.
After Ye Wangxing had fully recharged himself on the 19th, he began to carry out the next task with full energy.
He did not let Yijiu appear at the banquet because Yijiu's current acting skills could not perform this kind of sadness mixed with shock. After arriving at the banquet, this shock would have to be mixed with the thoughtfulness of discovering the truth.
——In the end, he also has to act out the feeling of pretending after discovering the truth but not letting others see it, so that only people who know the truth can discover it.
Ye Wangxing felt confused just reading out the last sentence, so he decided not to make things difficult for Yijiu. After all, the incident happened suddenly and he was extremely sad, so it was normal to forget to invite them.
It just so happens that I will find out the truth later and talk to Ye Wangxing about the matter. This way, the plan will be more logical.
With this idea in mind, Ye Wangxing asked Admiral Otas to come to him that night.
Ye Wangxing directly arranged a quarrel on the rooftop, but in the end he cried and fell asleep in the arms of Admiral Otas because of his brother's death.
However, what made Ye Wangxing feel a little strange was that Yijiu clearly told him that Warden had come to the hotel, but he did not see him until he woke up the next morning.
Ye Wangxing, who had dressed himself up as if he had done nothing, followed Yijiu, who had been deep in thought on the rooftop all night, to the lobby in confusion, thinking that he would not run into Woden today like before.
However, Ye Wangxing saw Warden as soon as he arrived at the hotel lobby.
A drunk man with lipstick marks on his neck looked like Warden, who had just gotten out of bed.
Ye Wangxing looked at Warden and then at the charming male companion beside him.
Finally, he rolled up his sleeves silently.
——Hunting Time.jpg
"ah!"
That day, Worden's inhuman screams were heard in the hotel lobby.
"...Your Majesty didn't care about Woden being beaten?"
Martha said in surprise.
"Your Majesty, didn't you even give a verbal warning this time? At least you gave a verbal warning to the Chancellor's family before."
Elina sat on the sofa with a look of satisfaction on her face as she said, "Who told this guy to go straight to a hotel room with a sex partner on the night of the funeral? He happened to be caught by the eldest son of the Ye family who had been crying all night. If Admiral Otas hadn't had some common sense and knew that this guy was still the crown prince and couldn't be killed, Ye Wangxing might have pulled out Admiral Otas's pistol and shot Warden in the face."
"No wonder she went to get a room with her sex partner on the night of her fiancé's funeral. It's not unfair for her to be beaten by his family. Anyway, there's no one around to mediate."
Martha said this deliberately to the third person sitting nearby.
"Are you right, Ye Bai?"
Ye Bai looked at his brother, friends and the news coming from the Internet with a complicated expression.
Ye Bai had planned that the funeral did not attract much attention in order to minimize the impact of his fake death.
But what he didn't expect was that Warden couldn't help but check into a hotel with someone on the night of his funeral.
When Ye Bai saw Warden's drunken appearance, he even did not forget to tease his temporary sex buddy before leaving.
“Crash—”
Ye Bai heard the voice in his heart shattering the filter he had for Woden.
However, what Ye Bai did not expect was that in the following month, Warden seemed to have passed all the tests, shattering the filters in Ye Bai's mind layer by layer.
Sometimes he was arrogant but lacked the ability to achieve his goals, and sometimes he spoke ill of the common people. Later, he even almost committed a crime, but was stopped by the servants sent by the palace to Woden.
…but this was also the straw that broke the camel’s back.
"I've decided to break off my engagement with Woden."
Ye Bai stood in the living room and spoke solemnly to Elena and Martha.
Elina and Martha didn't react at first and sneered. They were just about to ask what had happened that shattered Ye Bai's filter on Woden this time.
But when their brains finally reacted, the sarcasm on their faces suddenly turned into shock, and Elina even sprayed the coffee she had just poured.
Elina wiped the corner of her mouth in a rare and awkward manner, and looked up in disbelief.
"——The water in your brain has finally come out?!"
Ye Bai said somewhat embarrassedly.
"Yes, I also realized that Warden and I are really not suitable, so I decided to go to him and explain the matter to him in person. I apologized to him and I will break up with him completely at the same time as I played a trick on him."
Elina looked at Ye Bai with suspicion, but since Ye Bai rarely expressed his intention to draw a clear line with Warden, she would not waste this good opportunity.
Half an hour later.
"I've already spoken to my aunt, and she's given me the password to the Waldens. Now, while you're still lucid, go talk to him right now. Martha and I will be waiting at the door. If you don't say goodbye, you're not going to leave today! Do you understand?"
Elina was still wearing the coffee-stained dress, and it looked like she hadn't had time to change, while Martha nodded seriously.
They didn't notice that in the manor next to them, a head with black hair and a head with golden hair were peeking out from the wall.
Ye Bai looked at his two friends, feeling a bit amused and helpless, but he still took a deep breath and walked in.
Elena and Martha also followed him into the hall, where they were waiting for Ye Bai to come out after breaking up.
However……
"Ahhhh there's a ghost!"
In the audio-visual room upstairs, Worden's screams echoed through the sky.
"Woden! I'm alive, don't run forward or you might fall!"
Ye Bai's voice followed closely.
Unfortunately, Woden never listened to him, and this time was no exception, so...
Warden had just run to the hall when the spiral staircase he used to pretend to have at home tripped him. Without hesitation, he chose to quickly go down the spiral staircase, but his bare feet, which were not even wearing shoes, tripped on the carpet and he fell straight forward.
“——Ahhhhhh!” x3
A minute later, the palace.
The emperor looked at the light energy in his hand in disbelief and asked his niece on the other end of the phone again.
"What did you say? Worden is dead?"
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