Chapter 86
While Pei Yuheng got out of bed to answer the phone by the window, Xie Xubai finally came to his senses and quickly scanned his surroundings.
Finally, he found the neatly folded trousers at the foot of the bed, grabbed them, and quickly put them on under the covers.
To prevent Xiao Xubai from tripping over his trousers that were dragging on the ground again, Pei Yuheng simply told him to take them off.
The spacious white coat was enough to cover the baby's entire body, just like a bathrobe.
But Xie Xubai knew nothing of this. All he knew was that when he woke up, he was lying in the same bed as Pei Yuheng, who had even taken off his pants.
Why did Uncle Pei take him back to the dormitory? Was it out of kindness? But why did he take off his pants? Was he worried that he wouldn't be comfortable sleeping?
No, no, no, that reason is too far-fetched, so what exactly happened last night?
If Xie Xubai were given another chance, he would never believe the man in the gold-rimmed glasses who said "everything is as usual".
After finishing his call, Pei Yuheng looked over and said, "I have to go back to the Fu family for something. You..."
Based on Pei Yuheng's personality, Xie Xubai thought he would say, "Do as you please."
In fact, Pei Yuheng did mouth that shape, but for some reason he paused for a moment and said calmly, "It's still early, you can sleep here for a while longer."
Last night, Xie Xubai fell asleep directly on the cold, hard chair. Pei Yuheng guessed that he must have been exhausted after a long day searching for Xie Yuchun.
If the Fu family hadn't made him go back immediately, he could have helped Xie Xubai find people today.
Not knowing how long he would be gone, Pei Yuheng, meeting Xie Xubai's questioning gaze, handed him his meal card and key, patiently instructing him, "Remember to eat when you're hungry. The food at the third canteen is fresher. This is a spare key."
You can't use money from the future in the past; you'll get arrested.
Pei Yuheng then took out a bank card: "This contains my scholarship and project compensation. I haven't checked it in a long time; it's about 600,000 yuan. The password is..."
Xie Xubai's eyebrows twitched wildly, and he interrupted repeatedly, "Wait a minute, did I do something last night?"
Because of his coercion and unclear origins, Pei Yuheng had always been wary and distant of him. His sudden warmness was definitely suspicious, not to mention that he would entrust his entire fortune to him. They must have a life-or-death relationship.
Something unexpected happened that was beyond his control, and he had to find out.
The worst-case scenario is that the player uses an item to possess his body, does something, and changes Pei Yuheng's attitude.
Pei Yuheng immediately realized that Xie Xubai had no memory of last night, and was stunned, not knowing how to explain.
Xiao Xubai has unconditional trust and affection for Pei Yuheng. She calls him "Dad" in a soft, sweet voice, and wishes she could stick to him all the time.
No matter what Pei Yuheng did, those pure and innocent dark eyes would always follow him, as if Pei Yuheng was his whole world.
But in Xie Xubai's fixed gaze, there was no longer any trace of dependence, only indifference and an eagerness to find the answer, and the distance between them had grown considerably.
The intense change in altitude instantly filled Pei Yuheng's chest with a bittersweet feeling.
The Fu family only gave him twenty minutes. He spoke briefly in a hoarse voice, "You turned into a child after you fell asleep yesterday. It must be a case of rejuvenation. You don't have the memories and thinking abilities of an adult. All your words and actions are consistent with the characteristics of a child. It's not a disguise."
Xie Xubai refused to accept anything, but Pei Yuheng expressionlessly forced the items into his hands.
Regardless of whether Xie Xubai is willing to acknowledge him or not, he is the child's father, and it is his duty to make up for the suffering Xie Xubai has endured and the lack of fatherly love he has received.
Xie Xubai wanted to ask more questions, but seeing Pei Yuheng rush into the bathroom, he stopped talking.
When Pei Yuheng finished washing up and came out, he saw a stranger suddenly appear next to Xie Xubai.
This person is the magician's teammate. In order to avoid being remembered by NPCs during secret operations and thus increasing the risk of the character going out of character, he used a disguise item.
Xie Xubai summoned him over temporarily and explained, "Let him take you back to the Fu family. It will only take ten minutes."
Pei Yuheng did not refuse Xie Xubai's kindness. It would take forty minutes to get to the Fu family's house by taxi from here, but the woman on the phone only gave him twenty minutes, which was blatant harassment or a preemptive warning.
"Will you come along?" Pei Yuheng asked.
Xie Xubai glanced at his tense lips without leaving a trace, and to comfort him, denied it, saying, "No, I still need to continue looking for people today."
Upon hearing this, Pei Yuheng visibly breathed a sigh of relief and turned to the player next to him, saying, "Thank you for your help."
The player quickly replied, "It's alright, it's no trouble at all."
Pei Yuheng was unaware that the players were staring at his stats and clicking their tongues in amazement.
In just one night, Pei Yuheng's various stats doubled. Even if he wasn't a Ghost King, he was still an ancestor you had to worship and befriend!
After they left, the magician appeared from the corner. He was about to sit on the bed with a nonchalant air when Xie Xubai stopped him without even looking up: "Stand."
Last night, the magician faced his second life-or-death crisis.
That damned man! The entire family he played wasn't even human! Dinner was a feast of raw meat—fingers, arms, legs, and even human heads. Some unlucky soul had their eyes gouged out and mixed into a cold dish, leaving two black holes constantly dripping blood and tears, staring intently at him.
He felt a chill run down his spine from being stared at, but then his sister next to him said it wasn't fresh, dragged the maid over and started gnawing on her. In an instant, the entire hall was filled with the man's agonizing screams. As his mother was talking, her face suddenly split into eight bloody, mangled pieces, and her long, slippery, blood-red tongue shot out, instantly piercing through three people's heads, curling up, and devouring them whole.
Because he hadn't returned home all night and some scoundrel had informed on him that he was going to attack Pei Yuheng, the head of the Xu family, who was also Pei Yuheng's father, ordered the bodyguards to use family discipline on him directly.
That's a spiked club, as thick as a basin, made of steel! One hit and his brains would be scattered all over the room.
The key point is that his character is a bully who preys on the weak and fears the strong, and he is genuinely afraid of his father—his character setting forces him to neither dare to nor dare to hide.
Although the magician eventually recovered unharmed, he still felt seriously injured and heartbroken.
When Xie Xubai arrived, the other party was only worried that the blood and mud on his body would dirty Pei Yuheng's bed. There was no concern or care whatsoever. Instead, they blatantly took one of his teammates away.
Meeting the magician's resentful and accusatory gaze, Xie Xubai twitched his lips and asked, "Did your puppet see anything wrong with my body last night?"
The magician crossed his arms and snorted, "Guess?"
Xie Xubai said knowingly, "You can't see it."
The magician curled his lip, finding this person rather boring, as he could always see right through his thoughts.
He couldn't help but sigh inwardly, if Xie Xubai hadn't acted as if he were a detached and indifferent person, and not an enemy, it would have been truly chilling.
The magician said lazily, "I want to ask you what you did. Why can we only see a black mosaic when we look at you and Pei Yuheng?"
Moreover, it was a large-scale mosaic, three meters in length, width, and height, completely covering the person, making it impossible for him to judge what had happened from the spacing of the moving color blocks.
To the magician's even greater surprise, Xie Xubai completed the system's first setup task in just over a day.
After all, it was an S-level dungeon mission with very generous rewards. The magician and his teammates also received rewards, which greatly increased their trust in Xie Xubai in an instant.
Hearing this, Xie Xubai roughly understood the power of the gold-rimmed glasses: "Next, I plan to go to the Fu family. This instance will obviously be centered around Pei Yuheng, so I suggest you arrange for a puppet to go with me."
To refine Pei Yuheng's second character setting, he wasn't given a magician role quest, but he guessed that other players would receive this quest and could investigate, so he didn't refuse.
The magician couldn't help but wonder: "Since Pei Yuheng has already discovered that Fu Zong has turned into a monster, the Fu family is probably a den of dragons and tigers. Why is he not running away or hiding, but instead obediently going back?"
If the magician had a choice last night, he would never have gone back, even if it meant his life. He's inherently a coward, and the dungeon mechanics, designed to be incredibly frustrating, were made all bloody and chaotic.
Xie Xubai held up the bank card in his hand: "Because of this."
“Pei Yuheng’s scholarships and project fees add up to a considerable sum. He is financially capable of supporting himself to live independently away from the Fu family. Yet, he always endures and complies with whatever the Fu family orders him to do. This only shows that the Fu family holds something he cannot give up.”
"Something you can't let go of? Couldn't it be a weakness?"
“No,” Xie Xubai said firmly. “If Pei Yuheng has ever made a mistake, he would report it himself. It’s not up to the Fu family to coerce him with his mistakes.”
The magician stroked his chin, looking at him suspiciously: "You really have no connection with Pei Yuheng, yet you trust him so much? He's been incredibly good to you, even giving you his bank card. Is he planning to keep you as a mistress... oh!"
Xie Xubai stepped on the instep of the magician, watching him wail and cry out in pain, and pushed up his glasses expressionlessly: "This shows that we hit it off immediately, like father and son. If you're willing to call me 'Dad,' I can guarantee you a smooth run through this dungeon."
The magician was successfully led astray: "Pei Yu, you've gone too far! If anyone should be calling someone, it should be you calling me—no, no, no, calm down, stop stepping on me, ouch! That was a really hard kick."
Xie Xubai withdrew his foot.
Pei Yuheng said he turned into his childhood self last night, which makes sense, since he really looked forward to Pei Yuheng being his father when he was a child, and he wouldn't be shy about greeting him when they met.
Furthermore, his use of the alias "Pei Yu" likely led Pei Yuheng to mistakenly believe that he was his son.
Perhaps because he had been self-reliant for too long, Xie Xubai, who now maintains his composure with reason, cannot understand the longing he felt as a child, a longing that seemed to have been anticipated for generations.
It's not that he didn't want to be close to Pei Yuheng.
That was Uncle Pei, whom he trusted and liked the most besides his mother when he was a child. Seeing the bank card, which represented all of Pei Yuheng's assets, being stuffed into his hand, and being told to eat well, he couldn't help but feel touched.
But he knew perfectly well that his own hopes had to take a back seat than Pei Yuheng's safety.
If being a "son" can help Pei Yuheng better fulfill his role and avoid his predetermined tragic fate, Xie Xubai doesn't mind continuing to pretend, even if Pei Yuheng dislikes or scolds him afterward.
"Let's go." Xie Xubai looked through the keys and bank cards Pei Yuheng had given him, carefully put them back in his pocket, and said calmly, "Let's see what other evil spirits the Fu family has up their sleeves."
The magician, hearing the cold and sharp tone in his voice, as if he were about to sweep through the entire arena, felt a chill run down his spine and followed him.
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