Chapter 33 Chapter 33 He who deceives the world and steals fame
“Yes, there are so many stars.”
A gentle voice sounded.
The contrasting words make the people who hear them feel more comfortable.
Wen Zhi looked at Jiang Shizao with a gentle gaze. Obviously, the person sitting next to him was already drunk.
If Jiang Shizao was still awake, he might have noticed something unusual about his neighbor.
Wen Zhi's eyeballs hardly moved, not even a blink.
No matter how you look at it, he doesn't look like a normal person.
At this moment, Jiang Shizao felt as if his whole body had become light and airy. He looked up at the night sky, as if he could reach out and grab a star above.
Thinking of this, he raised his hand and grabbed the air.
"Morning, you're drunk."
Wen Zhi's voice sounded again, still so gentle, making people feel very comfortable when listening to it...
Very comfortable.
Jiang Shizao really liked Wen Zhi's voice. It seemed that as soon as he opened his mouth, he had a magical power that made people feel relaxed and at ease.
So when Wen Zhi held his hand as he tried to grab the stars, he didn't resist at all.
He obediently followed the other person's movements and put it down because Wen Zhi said he was drunk.
But after getting drunk, Jiang Shizao not only relaxed, but also talked more.
"Brother, there's no more." Jiang Shizao looked at his empty wine glass, his eyes looking at Wen Zhi, bright and watery.
Wen Zhi took the cup from Jiang Shizao's hand, breathing slowly and slowly. "I'll make you a new one."
"Great, thank you brother." Jiang Shizao was a little happy.
After Wen Zhi stood up, he followed him to the bar.
Wen Zhi lowered his eyes and quickly mixed two more glasses of wine. He also went to the refrigerator to get some desserts, figuring that he should be a little hungry by now.
Jiang Shizao had been following Wen Zhi, his brain both relaxed and active under the influence of alcohol. "Brother, what do you usually do at night?"
Wen Zhi smiled and lowered his head, looking at the boy beside him, "Zao Zao wanted to ask, what do I do after get off work at the convenience store?"
Jiang Shizao nodded. Wen Zhi only slept during the day, and from the time he got off work at the convenience store until daytime... it felt like a very long time.
The two of them had returned to the rooftop by then.
Wen Zhi said, "I can write novels."
"Ah?" Jiang Shizao was stunned for a moment. The moment he looked at Wen Zhi, he was met with a pair of gentle eyes.
"Brother can write novels...this, this." Jiang Shizao's heart beat faster for some reason, perhaps because of his natural admiration for novelists, "What type of novels does brother write?" Jiang Shizao looked at Wen Zhi with light in his eyes.
"I write about the supernatural and suspense," Wen Zhi replied softly. The look Jiang Shizao gave him at that moment made his body tremble uncontrollably...
Sure enough, after he finished speaking, the boy's eyes became brighter, and there seemed to be stars in his eyes.
"Brother, where did you write it...can I see it?" After getting drunk, his brain was very active and jumping. Jiang Shizao seemed to have forgotten that he was in a book.
I thought I was in Jiangcheng.
"Want to see it soon?" Wen Zhi said in a gentle voice.
"Think about it."
Wen Zhi narrowed his eyes slightly. "I recently wrote a new book." He paused at this point, "But I've hit a bottleneck recently."
"Bottleneck...?" Jiang Shizao was confused. Although he didn't write novels, it was common for novelists to hit a bottleneck... right?
Speaking of novels, Jiang Shizao couldn't help but think of Abyss.
Even when I'm drunk, I'll subconsciously think of Abyss.
Will Abyss hit a bottleneck? Abyss's book publishing frequency has always been stable... and Abyss will be serialized on the platform, so Jiang Shizao can see updates almost every day of the year.
So... there shouldn't be any bottleneck in Abyss.
Jiang Shizao praised his own reasoning and mentally gave Abyss a triple thumbs-up.
Oh, right, Abyss is serializing a new book. Right... Huh? Did I end up in a book...?
Jiang Shizao was suddenly stunned.
He looked at the wine glass in his hand and felt that his head was not very clear... so he took another sip.
By the way, Wen Zhi just said that he had reached a bottleneck.
Jiang Shizao looked at Wen Zhi and comforted him, "It's okay, brother. Everyone will have a bottleneck period..." Except Abyss...
Wen Zhi nodded slightly, a strange light flashing in his deep eyes, "I may need to find some inspiration."
"Find inspiration..." Jiang Shizao nodded again, agreeing very much.
He lowered his head and took a sip of the wine in his hand, then looked at Wen Zhi again, "Brother, how long have you been writing novels?"
Wen Zhi seemed to think for a moment, "Ten years."
"Wow." Hearing this answer, Jiang Shizao's eyes flickered again. Wen Zhi looked very young, and Jiang Shizao subconsciously said, "Brother, you started writing novels when you were very young..."
"Yes, I was about fourteen years old at that time. Something special happened. After that, I started writing novels." Wen Zhi touched his chin as he spoke, as if reminiscing.
"Something special..." Jiang Shizao was a little curious, but his honest instinct prevented him from asking further.
Then he sat up straight and obediently.
But Wen Zhi didn't seem to mind sharing it. The next second, Jiang Shi heard the other person's pleasant voice say, "About ten years ago, something happened where I live. A natural disaster... It was a major earthquake."
"Earthquake?" Something seemed to flash through Jiang Shizao's mind, but when he thought about it carefully, his brain seemed to be shrouded in layers of fog, gray and white, and he could not remember anything.
Finally, Jiang Shizao said, "There was an earthquake...Brother must be very scared." And Wen Zhi was only fourteen years old at the time.
So, brother started writing novels after the earthquake...?
"No, I wasn't scared by the earthquake."
Jiang Shizao was stunned for a moment.
Wen Zhiqian smiled and explained: "Special things mean..."
As if lost in memories, Wen Zhi's blue eyes became even gentler.
"The earthquake struck at 9:15 on Thursday morning. I was at school shortly after the second period started."
"The tremors took only a few tens of seconds from the time they appeared to become intense. After the initial confusion, the entire building was in chaos. Under the intense shaking caused by the earthquake, everyone started running out of the classrooms and the building."
Wen Zhi withdrew his gaze from Jiang Shizao and looked ahead.
Jiang Shizao was inexplicably nervous, "Brother, are you okay..." Damn it, he shouldn't have brought up this topic.
Wen Zhi didn't mind. He smiled softly and continued, "My classroom is on the second floor. The corridor outside the classroom leads to a platform space, which is connected to the stairs going up and down. There were a lot of people there at the time. Everyone seemed to have lost their minds, and in fear of the unknown, they squeezed towards the stairs..."
In fact, when the earthquake occurred, fourteen-year-old Wen Zhi was not at all panicked.
He was the last person to leave the classroom.
So when he arrived at the platform, he took in all the chaos and panic in the crowd, but he remained calm.
This part of the memory had no meaning to Wen Zhi at the time. The earthquake was just an ordinary disaster.
Where does it start to become special...
In that gray world, different colors appeared.
Everything started to become special when he heard the names "Shi Zao" and "Jiang Shi Zao".
…
"There's a fat guy." On the balcony, Wen Zhi suddenly changed his tone. When he mentioned this fat guy, his eyes narrowed. He sneered inwardly.
"Huh?" Jiang Shizao was stunned.
"The fat man was pulled all the way down by his friends. But they were squeezed apart on the landing connecting the stairs on the second floor. The fat man couldn't squeeze down. So he started shouting his friend's name frantically."
Tsk. Wen Zhi still remembered that fat guy's name was He Xianzuo. He was timid than a bug and he would get close to Zao Zao every day.
"I really feel sorry for his friend." Wen Zhi said, "It's already unfortunate for him to encounter a natural disaster, but he still has to carry a burden." He also has to be shouted at by the other party like a soul-calling ghost.
"..." Jiang Shizao had never expected such a development.
In fact, Wen Zhi was looking at the fat man as if he was watching a show.
Fourteen-year-old Wen Zhi leaned on the edge of the platform on the second floor of the teaching building, looking at a desperate fat man who was helplessly calling for help.
Time passes by every second.
In fact, it didn't take long.
Then he saw...
A man squeezed forward against the crowd.
Really, Wen Zhi was stunned for a moment when he saw the man rushing upstairs against the crowd.
Wen Zhi's gaze strangely stopped on that person.
Then he heard the fat man yelling, "It's early!!!" His face was covered with tears and snot.
Oh... Wen Zhi looked at the thin boy, saw him holding the fat man's hand, saw him unable to squeeze into the stairwell because of the burden... It seems that this is the "Jiang Shizao" that the fat man called out like a soul.
Really... I was called back.
What kind of idiot is this guy?
Wen Zhixiang.
…I could have run out of the building, right? This building was shaking so badly that it was hard to even stand.
It could collapse at any time.
How could anyone run back at this moment?
Wen Zhi's eyes were fixed on Jiang Shizao's face. Seeing his anxious expression, he realized that he clearly wanted to live, but he had to give up his chance of survival for others...
Like a fool.
It really lacks the realistic beating.
…
After that, Wen Zhi watched coldly as the idiot was stuck on the second-floor platform. The other party pulled the fat man, but in the end, neither of them could squeeze down.
Wen Zhi also looked downstairs at this time and saw that most of the students had already fled to the open space.
When he turned around again, he unexpectedly made eye contact with that idiot.
The fool seemed surprised and just looked at him with his eyes.
I guess it was because I was standing on the edge of the rooftop, which looked a bit awkward. But at this time, no one would care about others, let alone notice them.
Everyone was just thinking about escaping.
This is instinct and nature.
So when the idiot called him, Wen Zhi raised his eyebrows.
In the chaos, Wen Zhi heard the stranger yelling at him: "What are you doing - leave! The building is going to collapse -"
Oh... so this idiot knew that the building was going to collapse?
The fat guy next to the idiot was crying so hard that he could hardly breathe. There was nothing he could do; he couldn't squeeze in.
Wen Zhi sincerely felt that the combination of these two people was a bit hard to describe.
Besides, he hadn't actually thought about running away.
After the earthquake, when he walked out of the classroom and stood on the edge of the platform, there was a moment when Wen Zhi thought that if he was buried here, he would never have to return to that infinite space in the future.
Just like that, I was freed...
Not bad.
As soon as this thought came to my mind, someone grabbed my wrist.
"Hurry up, there are fewer people!" Jiang Shizao grabbed Wen Zhi and started running as fast as he could.
Wen Zhi was stunned for a second, seemingly not expecting this person to come and pull him. However, despite his surprise, he followed the other person and ran towards the stairs. After all, the person in front of him looked like he wanted to live, but...
Wen Zhi looked at the fat man who was held by Jiang Shizao's other hand.
"..." I felt a little uncomfortable. Could it be that in that idiot's mind, I needed rescue just as much as this fat guy did?
After the three of them ran to the first floor, they were indeed almost the last group of people to run out of the teaching building.
Not long after He Xianzuo lay sprawled on the open space, the teaching building collapsed due to the continuous shaking.
Screams came one after another, and the fat man He Xianzuo was so scared that he climbed up again. He pulled Jiang Shi and wanted to take a few more steps away from the teaching building.
Jiang Shizao also looked at the smoke and dust rising after the collapse with lingering fear, but as he moved away, he subconsciously pulled Wen Zhi's wrist.
"Let's go." Jiang Shizao said, "That was a close call."
“…” Wen Zhi was silent for a while.
He looked at the back of Jiang Shizao's head, not knowing what he was thinking.
…
On the apartment balcony.
Wen Zhi looked at the boy beside him and narrated softly, "After the earthquake, I was trapped on the second floor of the teaching building and couldn't get down. A classmate saw me, came over to me, and pulled me to run."
Wen Zhi had said this to Jiang Shi long ago. He omitted the part about He Xianzhao and said, "That classmate... he's so cute. Like light..."
Of course, Wen Zhi wouldn't admit it... Fourteen-year-old Wen Zhi once implied that Zao Zao was a fool. Of course, he didn't notice that describing someone as cute in this context seemed a bit wrong.
At this moment, Wen Zhi just squinted his eyes and thought: Fourteen-year-old Wen Zhi really deserves to die.
How could Zao Zao be such an idiot...
"Oh—" Jiang Shizao opened his eyes wide at this moment. He understood! That classmate helped Wen Zhi during the earthquake, so this was a special thing for Wen Zhi.
"He's my inspiration."
"Yes." Wen Zhi replied - but not really. How could Zao Zao possibly be the source of inspiration...
Zao Zao is everything to him... Everything Zao Zao has should also be his.
Jiang Shizao nodded his head and said, "He must be very important to me."
Oh, and what happened to that fat classmate I mentioned earlier? The fat classmate's line suddenly went dead... Jiang Shizao was a little concerned, but he couldn't ask again. After all, it was a disaster, and many people didn't want to think about it.
"Very important." More important than his own life, Wen Zhi said gently, "Later, every time I hit a bottleneck, I would always think of him, and I would often see him..."
There are all kinds of Jiang Shizao, the lovely Jiang Shizao, the happy Jiang Shizao, the honest and upright Jiang Shizao, and the always... positive and hardworking Jiang Shizao.
"I'm always infected by him." Wen Zhi said.
Thinking of this person, it seems that life is not without hope.
"Looking forward to seeing him again."
So... I have to survive. Only by surviving can I see Jiang Shizao again.
"He also likes reading novels." Wen Zhi suddenly said. He wrote it for Jiang Shizao because he liked reading. And...
If the worst happens, it will definitely be easier to survive if you have read the novel early on.
…
"What happened next, brother? You two became good friends, right?"
"Later..." Wen Zhi leaned back, his gaze once again fixed on Jiang Shizao. The young man had already finished his third glass of wine, and Jiang Shizao's cheeks were slightly flushed, making him look quite drunk.
Jiang Shizao probably wouldn't remember anything he said now.
So……
Wen Zhi leaned forward and moved closer to the person next to him, "I don't want to be just friends with him..."
"What?" Jiang Shizao blinked in confusion, only to feel that Wen Zhi was suddenly very close to him.
"Zao Zao..." Wen Zhi's voice sounded in Jiang Shizao's ears.
A gentle voice, a voice that makes people feel very comfortable... Jiang Shizao's eyelids fluttered again and again, trying hard to keep himself awake, but in the end he fell on the other's shoulder and fell asleep.
Wen Zhi looked at the sleeping Jiang Shizao. After a few seconds, he stood up, picked him up, and walked into the room.
…
The east coast of Lingcheng.
The blue-eyed black cat's body shape changed after it left the South Bank.
It should be said that this thing has even undergone a species transformation.
The creature that entered the central area turned into a huge black wolf.
At first glance, it definitely wasn't cute. It would even scare the average person into running away. After all, there was a strange blue light flowing through the black wolf's fur; it didn't look like a good thing at all.
However, after its fur was stroked, this thing strolled around the central area in a good mood. When it returned to the east coast of Lingcheng, it looked at the two figures in front of it, and the black wolf's claws paused.
"What's the matter?" Black Wolf spoke and hissed at Wen Qianchuan and Wen Jiming who came uninvited.
Of course, this low growl expressed greater dissatisfaction with Wen Qianchuan.
Heilang glanced at Wen Qianchuan, what an annoying beast in human skin.
"I came to see if you need any help." Wen Jiming said, glancing at the black wolf's injured front paw.
Black Wolf said: "The 001 group has already exited the instance."
Wen Qianchuan said: "We know. But... he just appeared in another copy."
"Where?" Black Wolf asked impatiently. Even though he'd made it around the bend, he still felt a bit unhappy. If Zao Zao hadn't been returning to South Bank Station 14 that evening, he could have stayed with her forever. And Bell City's East Coast was an area Zao Zao could hardly visit.
At this moment, another voice sounded: "Lingcheng High School."
The person who spoke walked out of the darkness. It was Wen Helin, who had one arm in a sling.
Wen Helin said: "Among the players who entered Lingcheng High School, one person's identity was a fake clone created by 001. He entered Lingcheng through this identity."
The mechanism of Lingcheng did not recognize the intrusion of 001. If the other party had not appeared and briefly controlled Wen Helin, it would have been difficult for Wen Helin to discover that 001 had sneaked into Lingcheng.
"This is really bad news." Wen Jiming narrowed his eyes, but... "What's wrong with your hand?"
"Can't you see?" Wen Helin sneered, "Injured." He glanced at Wen Jiming's leg. If this guy planned to keep pretending in front of Zao Zao, then it was just the same for both of us.
"I have a bad feeling." The black wolf changed its form at this time.
Under the eerie night sky of Bell City, a fifteen or sixteen-year-old boy stood before the blue-eyed black wolf. This was the soul that had split off from 001 when he was fifteen.
"001 is a problem, and that thing in the convenience store is also a problem." Wen Helin didn't forget that Zao Zao had taken another leave. And there was also the fire at Zao Zao's house.
"Yeah." Wen Qianchuan naturally hated the "Wen Zhi" in the convenience store. To be honest, Wen Qianchuan wanted to get rid of everyone present.
I'm sure the others have the same idea.
"Speaking of it." Wen Jiming touched his chin, "Although the thing in the convenience store is the most special soul fragment."
"But it actually took 001's experience and applied it directly to itself."
“If you think about the past early on, you’re likely to think of it as 001.”
001 is their unified name for the man outside Lingcheng.
The person who still walks in infinite space and the human world as a player.
For Jiang Shizao, 001 is both his favorite author Abyss and Wen Zhi from the human world.
As for the "Wen Zhi" in the convenience store, the "Wen Zhi" who has always lived in Lingcheng...
"This is truly a deception." Wen Jiming said, "We can't let it gain extra favor early in this way."
After all, it would be great if 001 and the convenience store's "Wen Zhi" could disappear together.
Just as he thought of this, Wen Jiming suddenly narrowed his eyes.
"What's wrong?" Wen Helin glanced at him.
Wen Jiming said: "It suddenly occurred to me that if 001 really disappeared, but the thing in the convenience store didn't disappear, then it must be Wen Zhi."
Oh, so that’s what the monster was planning.
…
In the master bedroom of the apartment.
The person lying on his side seemed to be sleeping very unsteadily.
His breathing was rapid, his cheeks were flushed, and even beads of sweat appeared on his forehead.
I don’t know what I dreamed about.
In the haze.
"Brother..." A soft cry escaped from her lips.
Jiang Shizao curled up unbearably.
Wen Qianchuan was holding him.
Jiang Shi knew that the person behind him was Wen Qianchuan, because he was helping him...
Jiang Shizao was a little shy, but he couldn't resist. He felt very comfortable...
Not only is it comfortable for me...
He felt that Wen Qianchuan should be comfortable too.
Damn...
It was right between his legs... Jiang Shi had felt it a long time ago, and he didn't hate it... but his face was getting hotter and hotter, his heartbeat was getting faster and faster, and one hand was clutching the bed sheet.
As for his other hand, his fingers were tightly clasped with Wen Qianchuan's.
The breathing of the two people became heavier, and Jiang Shizao felt that he was about to come -
"ah-- "
When his mind and body reached a certain extreme happiness, Jiang Shizao finally couldn't help it and turned his head to look at the person behind him.
Then he saw—
Wen Zhi.
The person behind him is Wen Zhi.
Not Wen Qianchuan.
That moment.
Extreme joy and great fear intertwined.
In an instant, Jiang Shizao woke up!
…
The person who woke up almost jumped up from the bed in the master bedroom - he sat up and breathed heavily.
For several tens of seconds after that, Jiang Shizao's mind was blank.
When he reacted, he gradually realized that he was sitting in Wen Zhi's bedroom. Alone.
The memories of last night gradually came back to him, but this awareness could not save Jiang Shizao's mood at the moment.
When he saw what was under the quilt.
The three words "It's over" were deeply engraved in his mind.
Jiang Shizao felt like crying.
I want to scold myself more:
——Jiang Shizao, you are really a pervert!
How could you have such a dream!!!
However, what made the person on the bed tremble and then tense up was that Jiang Shizao heard a voice coming from outside the door, a gentle voice:
"Morning, are you awake?"
It’s Wen Zhi.
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