There was a damp and fishy smell in the air at the tip of his nose. The brown-haired boy frowned, then opened his eyes dazedly.
All he saw was complete darkness.
"Why can't I see anything... am I dreaming?" He felt as if his brain was strangled by something and his reactions were surprisingly slow.
He moved his arms and legs and felt no pain, but the smell of blood lingered.
Just when he thought he was just talking to himself, a stranger's voice suddenly came from the darkness.
The voice said methodically, "If that makes you happy, then you are indeed dreaming."
Dreaming is not a happy thing, it is either a dream or not. Yiming thought, staring at the darkness for a while.
"Who are you!?" He sat up suddenly, but there was no window in the room, the door was closed, and there was no light, so he couldn't see the person who came from the source of the sound.
The young man who had just spoken paused and said, "So you don't even know me, but you want to drag me away."
"Li, just call me Li." As if finding it funny, the young man gave his name without waiting for Yiming to say anything.
This made Yiming's memory gradually come back.
He remembered that he had made bold statements to a young man who was a commodity like Tang, promising to take him out of Bronze.
"My name is Yiming." The brown-haired boy couldn't help showing a frustrated expression in the dark, "So we didn't run away in the end?"
The young man answered calmly, "Yes, I didn't run away."
Although in this situation, telling the truth made him feel like he was being slapped in the face.
In the silence, it was impossible for Yiming to pretend not to hear these words.
His ears gradually felt hot, he lowered his head and said sincerely, "I'm sorry! I thought I could get you out! I'm really sorry for disrupting your plan and causing you to get caught!"
Although the other party probably couldn't see his expression clearly.
"You can't escape even if you're anxious, little Corgi." The young man said slowly, his clear voice was particularly clear in the small room, "As for 'I'm sorry'? Who said it confidently at the time, and ended up being caught like this."
Yiming quickly covered his face, his ears reddened: "...It's me."
The little Corgi was severely attacked by his own self-confidence.
He couldn't help but review what he had done, and in the end he just pulled up the baby fat on his cheeks even harder.
After a while, he heard the young man say, "Just kidding."
Yiming: "..."
What a bad taste! What do you mean by teasing him! He is sincerely feeling guilty!
but...
He moved his nose slightly, sniffing the unignorable scent in the air, turned his head towards the source of the scent, and looked in the direction of the young man in the darkness.
"Will there be punishment if I get caught while escaping?" he suddenly asked.
"Well," the young man said after a while, "No."
"Besides, Qing Yuchen had already returned by then, and he couldn't escape no matter what. It's not your fault." The young man spoke slowly, in a very organized and convincing manner.
But there was no response. He simply got out of bed, walked over in the dark, and stopped in front of the sound.
The distance was too close so that he could barely see the other person's face, which was blurry. The young man seemed to be confused, wondering why he suddenly came over.
He stretched out his hand, wanting to help the young man up, but the next second the young man accurately grabbed his wrist.
The palm holding the wrist was sticky, and the thin hand could almost feel the bone hitting the wrist. The pungent smell of rust filled the air, and the face of the young man in the dark seemed to turn cold with this action.
I knew what it was almost instantly: it was blood.
Why is there blood out of nowhere? Whose body is it from?
Yiming knew he was fine and had no wounds, so the injury could only have been on the young man.
Recalling the quick glance he took last night, he felt that the young man was too thin at that time. At this moment, he even felt that the strength of the young man's hand that stopped him was very weak.
In the pitch-dark silence, even the voices sounded like whispers beside your ears.
In this silence, the only sound seemed to be the other person's trembling breathing.
What happened while he was asleep? Was he still intact because someone else had taken the punishment for him?
Why keep it a secret?
"You are indeed injured. It's because you were caught while running away, right?" Yiming's voice fell silent. "Don't comfort me. I know it's my fault."
Since he woke up, he used jokes to divert his attention and hide his injuries.
Yiming felt as if he was being taken care of, something that no one had done since his adoptive father disappeared.
Although he said harsh words, the young man never mentioned anything that would really make Yiming uncomfortable.
"I'm sorry." Yiming lowered his head, like a dog drenched in rain.
He remembered that his adoptive father was like this when he was a child. He hid everything from him, so that he knew nothing about his adoptive father and grew up without any worries.
Yiming sniffed and slowly put down his hand.
"You wouldn't believe me if I told you it wasn't true." The young man paused before letting go of my hand, as if he had given up hiding it. "So what do you want?"
"I will make up for my mistake!" Yiming raised his head with a firm look in his eyes.
But no one can see his eyes in this darkness, but he will definitely do it.
After all, he couldn't let himself ignore the mistakes he had made with a clear conscience.
The young man paused, and as if to confirm it for the last time, he said, "Are you serious?"
"Seriously!" Yiming said firmly.
In the darkness that he couldn't see, the 'injured' black-haired young man slowly raised the corners of his mouth.
Li·Not injured at all·The blood belongs to someone else·Li: "Is that so..."
How should I put it? Her conscience doesn't hurt.
...
[Update target detected to have been reached.]
[Opening a channel for you...]
[Welcome back to reality.]
...
At exactly twelve o'clock, Li Li returned from the comic world.
Li Li was a little surprised by the sudden return. She thought she would really have to stay for a full day each time.
"Don't they say that one day in reality and one day in the comic world, and you can go back and forth like this?" She asked directly when she had doubts.
[You may need to travel through it once a day, but it is not necessary.]
[You can leave early if you are satisfied with the update content.]
"What if the comic's update spans several months or years?" Li Li asked, "For example, Yiming comes out of the mountain again after three months of training, and Yiming climbs out after falling off a cliff three years later."
In this case, the time span between two updates for the comic world is too long, and it is impossible to complete it in three days.
The system immediately replied: [It will be on hiatus.]
Li Li: ...
Are you going to play mahjong too?
But for Li Li, this rule is better. Who wouldn't want to rest for two more days? Even she needs to adjust herself and seize the time to enrich herself.
"So is the remaining usable time in the mall calculated based on the two-dimensional time or the real time?" Li Li was more concerned about her trump card of pretending to be a big shot.
[Real time.]
Li Li feels that this aspect is a bit inhumane.
She tried to argue with the system and change real time to comic time. After all, according to the system, she didn't have to go to the comic world in real time for the next two days, and she couldn't use the real world, so she was wasting two days of mall usage rights.
However, no oil or salt can enter the system, so there is no possibility of loosening.
After trying in vain, Li Li had no choice but to give up.
...
In the next two days, in addition to completing her school tasks, she also prepared a lot of extracurricular courses, such as parkour and Sanda.
After the last time she crossed over, she had 182 popularity points left, and after deducting the survival points, she only had 82. Li Li found that the popularity points increased the fastest during the first period of time, and if there were no topics later, the popularity points would increase more slowly.
On the first afternoon after her return, when the professional course just ended, her popularity value barely rose to 101, which allowed her to survive until six in the morning after the update.
She travels through time at midnight every day, and her survival value is calculated at six o'clock. If her survival value is not enough one day, she will probably die suddenly at six o'clock.
Soon time passed in the rich life, and it was the night when the comics were updated.
[The current popularity value is 92. If it is less than 100 before 6 o'clock, the transaction will be terminated.]
Li Li was not that nervous. No matter what, she would definitely be in this update.
She drew the curtains, lay on the bed and memorized some words before clicking on the update.
What caught her eye was the colorful title page, but she was stunned at first glance.
This time, almost all the characters from the Jiaohuang chapter appeared on the cover page.
Yiming, who was wearing a yellow hoodie and jeans, was at the front, holding the thin Tang tightly. Behind him appeared his boss, who was looking at him with a smile. At the same level as the boss was Qingyuchen, who was wearing a light green robe and jacket. These two people were on the left and right, and it was unknown what the meaning was.
Li Li also saw herself.
In front of Qingyuchen and behind Tang.
The black-haired young man in a black windbreaker had his back to the camera, the windbreaker fell to his calves, the overlong belt fluttered slightly, outlining his slender waist. He turned his head to the side, revealing a pair of deep black pupils, and looked past Tang, looking at Yiming in front of him with no sadness or joy.
On the tops of everyone's heads, there were sharp triangles at the edges, like broken mirrors. A young man wearing sunglasses was smiling in the scattered cracks.
It was a smile that was malicious, but seemed to be filled with pleasure.
'He' looked at everyone, as if he saw everything.
But Li Li stared at the smiling face and slowly tilted her head.
Doesn't this look a bit like the one she wore when she first debuted?
Li Li originally thought that she only had one identity, so when she pretended to be weak in front of Yi Ming, she did not let go of her dignity as a "fake boss". She used words and props to trick him into thinking that she was injured, but she was too strong to say it out loud.
She is calculating very loudly, but the title page shows both the boss identity and the commodity identity. Does this mean that these two identities can be calculated separately?
Li Li's head buzzed and an idea emerged in her mind.
So can she earn two popularity points at the same time?