Chapter 91: I feel bad, missing the first day of the National Day holiday! * …
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After experiencing the dream myself, I finally understood why Neil felt that the dream was another world.
This dream is so clear that every time I recall it, I feel uneasy, as if something big was happening when I wasn't seeing it, or it had already happened.
During the time when I quit the game, another person replaced me and became the God of Death. If I'm not mistaken, it should be Xia Ping'an.
"While you were locking me up, did something happen in "God's Blessing 2.0"?
I looked into Odysseus' eyes, and he slightly avoided my gaze.
"The God's Blessing 2.0 has been updated."
Hearing this, I suddenly felt a strange sense of heaviness and relief. It was like a prisoner who had been wandering around the trial all day and was finally sentenced to death. After all the speculations were confirmed, I was able to really put my mind at ease and think about what to do next.
Seeing that I didn't answer, Odysseus gave me a few instructions and left. In the next few days, he seemed very busy, and each time he just put down his things and left.
I smelled a faint scent of ink from him, it seemed that he was concentrating on writing his novel. However, Odysseus did not ignore my needs.
Every afternoon is a time to relax, and if the time wasn’t so bad, I would even think it looks pretty good.
Fearing that I would be bored, he specially brought in a piano. Odysseus's playing skills were quite good, and the notes swirled like waves, flowing quietly in my ears.
One day, I was listening to him singing when he suddenly fell to the ground with a pale face.
"What's wrong?"
Odysseus immediately stopped the performance and walked quickly to the bird cage. I was about to speak, but I only coughed a few times. I pressed my right hand on my abdomen, and sweat dripped all over.
"pain..."
"......"
Odysseus didn't hesitate, he opened the cage door and bent down to check on me. He put his hand on my lower abdomen, and after a few pressures he found nothing unusual. Just as he frowned slightly, I suddenly turned over and pressed him down: "Listen to me, I have something to tell you!"
A flash of surprise and relief flashed across my emerald eyes, and then turned cold and hard. Odysseus seemed to have expected this and didn't give me a chance to speak. A strong current surged from the place where we touched, and my expression twisted.
Damn, this guy is actually electrified!
I almost fell on him, but luckily I was strong-willed and managed to survive. Seeing that I was still standing, Odysseus increased the power. I was so weak from the shock that I started fighting him while cursing at him with gritted teeth.
It was a scuffle, but in fact there were only a few blows. Then the sore and weak electric current rushed up.
I groaned, realizing that this guy was extremely sinister, so I bit his face.
The body beneath me was completely tense. I didn't hold back at all, and the smell of rust flowed out from between my closed teeth. Odysseus tried to push me down, so I simply pressed on him, relying on my weight and remaining strength to resist.
We rolled in the cage like two snakes entangled in each other's arms, neither stopping until one of us was strangled to death.
We were panting, neither of us could do anything to the other. I didn't know how many times I bit him, and when I finally stopped, Odysseus was lying under me, his silver hair scattered on the soft silk, his face tense.
He licked the bite wound on the corner of his lip, staring at me with a gloomy gaze. It took me only two seconds to go from feeling guilty to feeling justified, and I climbed back without any guilt.
"I've already told you, can you please listen to me?"
The corners of Odysseus' mouth trembled unnaturally when he spoke, and it was obvious that he was in pain: "I stopped in the middle, and you bit my face."
"You were the one who locked me up first. I was only trying to save myself!"
There was no point in talking about these things now. After making sure that Odysseus would not attack again, I finally let him go. We both looked extremely embarrassed, but fortunately we finally reached an agreement and were willing to listen to what the other had to say.
I felt that every muscle in my body was aching, some were electrocuted, some were twisted by intense exercise: "I have something to tell you, Xia Pingan is doing something big, and you are being used. If you believe me, tell me everything you know. A lot of things must have happened outside during this period, right?"
Odysseus didn't answer me, so I continued, "I know you must have a lot of thoughts in your mind. You think you can't tell me, you can't drag me down, and you want to protect me. Thoughts like these are all bullshit."
"I can protect myself. I know what I want and what I should do better than any of you. I don't need anyone to make decisions for me. If you really care about me, you should tell me everything instead of hiding it from me and being nice to me. That kind of niceness is just self-satisfaction."
This is a truth I came to understand after going through a lot of things.
I used to wonder why Samuel betrayed me. But over the years, I came to understand that he probably didn't betray me, at least not completely. The kid wanted to help me, so much so that he was so obsessed that he wanted to gain power even by hurting me.
And this is exactly what I need.
In the stories written on the player forum, there is always a situation where the protagonist falls into danger at a certain moment, and the other party crosses thousands of mountains and rivers to save him. But for me, I would rather nip the danger in the bud from the beginning, or have enough power to solve everything. I don't need to rely on anyone, because I am the strongest.
Samuel did not understand this. His love was unbridled and greedy, hoping to make the other person his own.
I don't blame him. In that era, no one would teach a child how to love properly. Just trying to survive was enough to make people do their best.
But it is even more impossible for me to forgive him.
If falling in love with someone is like creating a statue for him in your heart, then Samuel is the believer who sweeps the floor devoutly every day. No matter what the statue becomes, this belief is always fanatical and firm, even far beyond what the statue itself can give.
Love shouldn't be this kind of thing.
I've been objectified once, and I don't want to go through it again.
I said slowly, "When a person likes someone - well, don't look at me like that, I know you don't like me... why are you even angrier? You're really hard to please."
Odysseus looked at me with an expression that made him look like he would rush over and bite me at any moment, but his excellent character made him shut his mouth silently and just snorted.
I smiled, stared into his eyes and continued, "When a person likes someone, it is easy to regard the other person as their own property, and develop a desire to possess and protect. Whether it is friendship, family, or love. I can understand this feeling, but I don't need it. So, please treat me as an equal to you. We have the right to have an equal dialogue, okay?"
The young man looked at me silently. In silence, the air between us gradually became relaxed, like a blanket made soft and fluffy by the sun.
"You're right. I'm sorry, I shouldn't have done that to you. You have a right to know."
Odysseus' voice became steady, and he sat up, leaning his back against the cage rails and facing me.
"This matter has to go back a while..."
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It was an ordinary afternoon, and at least at that time, Odysseus did not realize that something earth-shattering would happen that day.
As usual, he went to the studio to practice his voice after waking up. Even after leaving the company, Odysseus still kept the habit of training, but he spent much less time on it than before.
The mechanical butler brought him a cup of iced Americano. Breakfast was very simple, a bacon and egg sandwich with a vegetable salad. A timeless classic combination.
Just as the silver-haired young man was having breakfast, the mechanical butler came to him again and spoke in a pleasant voice: "Master, there are guests visiting."
"guest?"
Odysseus was a little surprised. He quickly searched in his mind who would come to see him, and finally fixed his mind on a certain figure. A flash of understanding flashed in the depths of his emerald eyes. Calculating the time, the other party should indeed be back.
"I see. Take him to the reception room and wait for me."
The mechanical butler left obediently, and Odysseus quickened his breakfast. After finishing the last sip of iced Americano, he rinsed his mouth, got up and went to the reception room on the other side.
The young programmer had been waiting for him here for a long time. There was a cup of tea next to him, steam rising from it. When he saw his master finally show up, he raised his head and smiled.
"Hello again, Mr. Odysseus."
"Nice to meet you again, Mr. Xia Ping'an. What's the matter with you this time?"
The silver-haired young man sat on the sofa opposite him, looking at this familiar yet unfamiliar face calmly. It had only been a month since they last met, but he almost didn't recognize the other person.
Xia Ping'an had lost a lot of weight, which made his eyes look surprisingly large when they fell on his face.
There was a raging fire burning deep inside, as if it would turn the person watching it and this body into ashes in the next moment. If the other party was like this when they first met, Odysseus estimated that he would most likely reject the other party's request.
He looked too enthusiastic and too dangerous.
Xia Pingan completely ignored his observation and smiled, "I'm here to repay your previous help. It was really not easy to find what you wanted last time. Fortunately, I successfully completed it."
He placed a small bottle of brown potion on the table, only the size of a thumb. Odysseus used his eyes to signal him to explain, and the latter did not keep him in suspense and said straightforwardly: "This is a bottle of potion that can suppress magic power. The edge of this world and the other world is merging. If someone from that world runs here, he will not be able to survive for a long time without suppressing his magic power."
For a moment, Odysseus felt that either he or the other person was crazy.
Everything you say seems to make sense, but if you listen carefully they all seem to be wrong.
Xia Pingan seemed to see through his thoughts and shrugged: "You want to find a way to fight against magic. As long as you eliminate the opponent's magic power, there will naturally be no magic."
That's true, but he didn't want something that could restrain magic for these reasons. Odysseus pondered for a moment: "Where did you get this thing?"
"You don't need to worry about that. But I can tell you one thing, the opportunity to use this medicine will come soon."
"...?"
Under the confused gaze of the silver-haired young man, Xia Pingan supported himself on the table with both hands and leaned forward slightly.
He asked softly with a smile on his face.
"Mr. Odysseus, have you ever thought about..."
"Maybe you are not a human, but a game NPC?"
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