After an Infinite Flow Player Retires

Wei Yuechu: “……..”Wait a minute. What’s going on?The two people ahead seemed to have noticed the situation on her end and both looked over.Meeting those two pairs of scarlet eyes, Wei Yuechu couldn’t help but stiffen. She instinctively started to tremble and there seemed to be a dull pain coming from her chest.With difficulty, she finally let out a single word:“You……”Ye Jia stood up and walked over. The cold air around him belonged to a fierce ghost and the oppressiveness he gave off was particularly strong and suffocating. From deep within her bones, her body cried out in terror, urging her to run.But her weakened body felt extremely heavy at this very moment, pinning Wei Yuechu to the ground, making her unable to move.Her pupils constricted slightly as she watched the other party bend down. Cold sweat poured down her back.Ye Jia asked:“How do you feel? Does it still hurt?”Wei Yuechu clenched her teeth and tried to control her trembling. As if there was a large stone pressing down onto her chest, she found it difficult to breathe.Ji Xuan placed his hand on Ye Jia’s shoulder and whispered helplessly:“Gege, you forgot again.”“Oh, right.” Ye Jia only now reacted. He widened his eyes slightly as if he remembered something and then took a step back.The next second, the oppressive feeling weighing onto Wei Yuechu was gone and she found that she could breathe more easily.She gasped for breath, feeling alive again.Ye Jia looked over at Ji Xuan and said with a frown:“Why didn’t you remind me earlier?”Ji Xuan, “…...You didn’t give me the chance to, gege.”Watching the two bickering, Wei Yuechu’s eyes turned a little wet. She sniffled and suddenly felt the urge to cry.Sure enough, it was all an act. This liar!Wahhhh she was so scared just now!!!The only human who was able to clear the game turning into a fierce ghost…..Just the sound of it was terrifying!Ye Jia rubbed the back of his head and smiled awkwardly at Wei Yuechu:“Sorry, I just turned into a fierce ghost and am still not quite used to it.”Wei Yuechu: “…….”She was shocked. She slowly repeated, “Wait a minute, y-you just turned into a ghost? What do you mean?”It couldn’t possibly….be what…...she’s thinking it means…..?Ye Jia narrowed his eyes and hooked up the corners of his lips:“Yes.”He stretched out his hand and cold yin energy gathered in his hands. That terrible feeling from earlier was back. The temperature around him instantly dropped, making the place feel like an ice cave.Wei Yuechu’s eyes trembled slightly.-----That’s right. That’s definitely….the real thing. A high-level fierce ghost.But the next second, the other party suddenly retracted his hand and that terrible and cold feeling was gone.Wei Yuechu’s mind was chaotic. She looked at Ji Xuan and then at Ye Jia and couldn’t help but ask:“But…...you…..wait a minute, what’s going on?”Ye Jia sat crossed legged down in front of her and sighed:“If we want to deceive Mother, using an illusion wouldn’t be enough.”He and Ji Xuan had returned from the capital together. Before they arrived at M City, they could already feel the terrible energy coming from there.At that moment, Ye Jia immediately understood-----The door had been opened.The ship had already sailed, it was too late to go back.Ye Jia stood in the deserted wasteland, looking up at the city shrouded in the smell of blood and yin energy in the distance. The depths of his eyes reflected the scarlet, blood-like sky.“…..She’s here.” Ji Xuan stepped forward and stopped next to Ye Jia. He similarly looked at the city ahead. His voice was low and calm, without the slightest emotional fluctuation.He turned to look at Ye Jia.Although Ji Xuan didn’t say anything, Ye Jia could understand what his look meant. It was as if he was silently asking -----What now?Ye Jia’s fingers curled up into a fist. His joints turned white from the force. He looked firmly ahead as screams, cries and calls for help from his dreams sounded again in his ears. His next words seemed to be squeezed out through his teeth:“Even if she has already come out, I want to push her back in.”Ji Xuan, “Even if there’s a chance of failing?”Ye Jia’s breathing was unsteady and his voice was suppressed but resolute, “…….Yes.”Everyone’s pain, everyone’s deaths, all their struggles and tears, they were all because of this monster---“Okay.”Ye Jia was a little surprised. He looked at the other person standing beside him, “…..You’re not going to stop me?”Ji Xuan hooked up his lips, “No.”He said, “I said it before. Fierce ghosts are creatures driven by desire and obsession.”The man with scarlet eyes narrowed his eyes slightly and his lips rose to form a relaxed and comfortable arc:“Being able to be buried with one’s own desires. This is an ending all fierce ghosts dream of.”Ye Jia was slightly stunned. He looked at his own reflection in the other person’s scarlet eyes and, for a moment, he didn’t know how to respond.Suddenly, he felt the light around him dim slightly.Ye Jia looked up at the sky.Fierce ghosts in the form of dark clouds had gathered from all directions, covering the sky. Countless huge and grotesque faces moved about inside those dark clouds, their protruding eyes containing cruel enjoyment. They wailed and laughed as it charged towards M City to answer Mother’s call.Mother’s…...children…..Ye Jia seemed to have thought of something.After being surprised for a moment, he looked towards Ji Xuan who was standing before him and smiled:“Desires and obsessions, huh?”Apart from suppressed anger in the depths of his amber-coloured eyes, the rest of his eyes were clear. Just like back in the game instances, no matter how despairing and difficult the situation he was in and no matter how powerful the fierce ghost was, he was always able to calm down very quickly and find that tiny door to survival.Ye Jia said slowly, “The stronger the existence, the more imprisoned they are by their own desires.”He looked up at the dark clouds in the sky and mused:“Then what is Mother’s desire?”Ji Xuan, “Did you think of something?”Ye Jia pondered for a moment and turned to look at Ji Xuan. His amber-coloured eyes were like the sky that had been obscured by the mist, looking distant and calm:“Ji Xuan, now is the time to complete your original task.”.“…..In short, that was what happened.”Ye Jia spread open his hands and shrugged at the dumbfounded Wei Yuechu:“As of this moment, Mother has the upper hand. Not only is she terrifyingly strong, she also has an army made up of tens of thousands of ghosts. Humans simply do not have the ability to face her head-on, let alone face the consequences of confronting her. Therefore, I decided to approach this problem from another angle….”“…..Infiltrate in and turn into a ghost?” Wei Yuechu swallowed and asked with difficulty.Ye Jia, “Bingo!”Wei Yuechu: “……..”…..Suddenly had the urge to beat him up.Ye Jia sighed, “But everything happened too suddenly and we didn’t have the time to test it out. We could only take a gamble.”Wei Yuechu, “…..Test what?”Ye Jia, “Whether a human can still maintain their own consciousness after being turned into a fierce ghost.”Wei Yuechu, “And if it failed…..”Ye Jia shrugged, “Then everything earlier wouldn’t be an act.”Wei Yuechu: “…….”She slowly took a few deep breaths but was still unable to contain the anger that was churning inside her. She raised her hand and gave the young man before her a strong blow in the head, “Can you stop making people so anxious?!”Wei Yuechu roared, “What if your plan failed?! What will you do then?!”Ye Jia covered his head and silently stepped back to get outside of the other person’s range of attack.She continued angrily, “Besides, how could you be certain that Mother would fall for it? Does everyone behave the same after becoming a fierce ghost?!”Ye Jia took in a deep breath, “In fact…..”He briefly summed up the fact that the fierce ghost that had attacked them the other day was the transformed Vision and he also included a brief summary of the information he got from the Director.Wei Yuechu was shocked.She looked down at her hands, “Could it be…..”Ye Jia nodded and sighed, “Yes. All players who received a title in the game received a gift from Mother.”The reason why the players at the top of the leader board all had their own abilities, whether it was having inhuman strength, the ability to control insects or the ability to control fire, it was all because Mother was secretly cultivating them.They were all talents selected by Mother. The only difference was the degree of transformation.Ye Jia’s eyes lowered slightly as he continued slowly, “My ability is to consume and my scythe is my ‘ya’ (tooth/teeth).”He was already standing very close to the boundary between a human and a ghost. All he needed was a light push.“But Mother has always treated direct descendants preferentially.” Ji Xuan spoke up.Wei Yuechu was surprised, “What do you mean?”“For ordinary players, only a small part of Mother’s body is enough.” Ji Xuan said slowly, “But for a direct descendent, what is needed is a core piece of Mother’s body.”Ye Jia’s eyes changed slightly.From the beginning, he was designated with the direct descendant role.Perhaps it was because of his potential, or perhaps it was because….of his bloodline.But in any case, it gave them an advantage.The transformation of ordinary players was largely ‘creating a soldier who obeys to orders’, basically a killing machine like Vision at most. With the appearance of a fierce ghost, they retain a small part of their original consciousness, but it is very weak, giving them no room to break free from Mother’s control.But it was different for direct descendants.The power from the core parts of mother is very powerful and pure, enough to contaminate a human soul, transforming them into something non-human. After successful transformation, they would become a malice filled ghost who still have their own consciousness.But the process wasn’t simple.Therefore, Ye Jia needed to absorb enough yin energy. Only by doing this will it ensure that everything would progress smoothly.Wei Yuechu frowned, “So, you’re now…..a fierce ghost?”“Yes.” Ye Jia nodded, “One who is not prepared to risk their child will not be able to capture the wolf.”Without some sacrifice, how would Mother fall for it?Ye Jia seemed to have suddenly remembered something, “Speaking of which, you will need to stay here a little longer.”Wei Yuechu, “But………”“No.” Ye Jia refused directly, “Humans now think you’re dead and are all regarding me as their enemy ----- Only by doing this would Mother truly believe that I have switched camps.”Wei Yuechu calmed down and nodded, “I understand.”After all, the first step to tricking the enemy is to trick your own people first.She sighed helplessly:“You really do like to lie to people.”Ye Jia, “…...I don’t!”Ji Xuan, “Actually……..”Ye Jia looked over, “You, shut up.”Ji Xuan obediently closed his mouth.“Hahahahahahaha,” Wei Yuechu couldn’t help but laugh out loud. “Alright then. Since it’s like this, then I’ll boldly slack off.”It’s just that those guys at the Bureau would probably be fooled again.Thinking this, Wei Yuechu couldn’t help but gloat.She didn’t expect that…..being the only one who knows the truth ------It’s the best!!“Speaking of which…..” Wei Yuechu suddenly remembered something and proceeded to look around her before asking, “Where am I now?”Wei Yuechu carefully examined the place.It looked like a dark warehouse. The space was very big and it was very dark in the surroundings, making it difficult for her to see the ends of this place. There were many neatly arranged shelves filled with strange dolls…..“Hi.” A lazy voice belonging to a child suddenly sounded behind Wei Yuechu.“Wahhhh!” Wei Yuechu was so startled, she almost flew up.She turned and looked over, only to see a small pile of books not far away. The books were all stacked on top of each other to form the shape of a castle. A child sat cross-legged in front of that stack of books, holding a palm-sized skeleton doll in his arms.He looked only about seven or eight years old. With a small and tender looking appearance, he looked particularly cute.A…..child?Could it be…..?Wei Yuechu looked over at Ye Jia in shock, “Is this your secret chi…..”“Hey, woman! Open your eyes and look properly!” That child shouted angrily, “Look again first and tell me who this great uncle is!”Ye Jia brought his fist to his lips and coughed lightly, “Cough, this is Puppet Master.”“Puppet Master???” Wei Yuechu’s eyes widened even further, “That…..S-Level fierce ghost?”Puppet Master proudly puffed up his chest, “Yes, that is I……..”“This little brat?” Wei Yuechu looked at the other party in disbelief, “Are you sure?”Puppet Master: “…….”He jumped up in anger, “I’ll kill you!!!!”Ye Jia expressionlessly picked up a doll from a shelf and threw it.Puppet Master was shocked. He immediately flew over to catch the doll before it could fall onto the ground and then looked over at Ye Jia accusingly, “Didn’t you say that you wouldn’t do it?”Ye Jia smiled, “Children should be polite.”Puppet Master, “You…….!”Seeing that Ye Jia was reaching towards another doll, Puppet Master hurriedly shut his mouth and sulkily sat back down.Ye Jia retracted his hand with a look of satisfaction.He pointed to Puppet Master who was sulking in the corner and introduced him to Wei Yuechu, “This is…..I guess our corrupted witness. If he leaves this place, Mother will probably kill him, so we’re keeping him here.”Wei Yuechu nodded thoughtfully, “Oh, I see.”She turned and gave Puppet Master a particularly bright smile, “Hi roommate.”Puppet Master looked gloomily back at her, “…....Tsk.”.After Wei Yuechu settled down, Ye Jia and Ji Xuan left the ghost domain.Once they’ve threatened the humans, they returned to M City, waiting for Mother’s next order.Right now, the entire M City was almost completely destroyed. From the huge gaps making up the door, chunky, scarlet flesh stuck out, slowly squirming around in the sunlight. Buildings were toppled over and there was no one out in the streets. This place had become completely taken over by ghosts, turning it into an actual ghost town.The places Ji Xuan selected to purchase weren’t within the range of Mother’s body. Very clearly, he had avoided all the places where the gaps in the ground belonging to the door would have appeared.Ye Jia looked out at the blood-coloured sky and his eyes darkened slightly.Although Mother now has a ‘vessel’, for some reason the flesh on the ground was still around and squirming about.Fortunately, Mother’s consciousness was in that ‘vessel’ so these extended parts of her didn’t have any senses such as sight, hearing or intelligence or there wouldn’t be any safe places left in this entire city.And…...as for the one month period.Why did she give the humans a month?Based on Mother’s current strength, she could easily destroy mankind without exerting much effort. What use was there to let the humans struggle for a month?Did it have something to do with these extensions of her that are still wriggling about throughout the city?Perhaps…..Mother hasn’t fully come out to the real world yet? Was she still missing something?Ye Jia fell into thought.Suddenly, Ji Xuan’s voice sounded from behind, “I can sense that Mother has left M City.”Ye Jia was surprised, “What?”He asked, “Can you tell where she’s going?”Ji Xuan shook his head, “No.”“But the good news is that M City is now no longer under her watch.” He lowered his scarlet eyes to look at the young man before him and slowly stepped closer, “Let me check your wound.”-----There was only one opportunity to implant the ball of flesh with no room for error. They had made a bet on that small possibility.Fortunately, they won the bet.But that didn’t mean that everything would be fine in the future.No one has ever done something like this, so everything is unknown. Ye Jia will need to closely monitor his condition from now on to ensure that he doesn’t continue to mutate.Ye Jia nodded, “Okay.”It wasn’t until Ji Xuan’s hands fell onto his waist that he suddenly felt that something wasn’t right, “….Wai…..”The man’s cold and slender fingers slid along the defined lines on the young man’s smooth waist and proceeded to push his shirt up, revealing his pale and slender waist.Ji Xuan paused slightly and glanced at him, “You want to do it yourself?”Ye Jia, “………”Those words somehow made him feel a little uncomfortable.He took a deep breath, “…...Forget it. Just do it quickly.”Ji Xuan’s lips raised imperceptibly and he proceeded to push the young man’s shirt further up to his ribs.The young man’s skin was cold and pale, glowing a porcelain lustre under the blood-red light outside the window.He was slender but after removing his shirt, one could see that all the lines on his body were smooth and firm, much like a delicately carved sculpture showcasing both strength and beauty. Although the wound in the centre of the young man’s chest had already healed up, the irregular borders of the scar was particularly prominent against his pale skin and there were even residual bloodstains around the wound, making the young man look like a fragile beauty.Ji Xuan’s Adam’s apple bobbed slightly.He raised his hand and pressed his hand lightly onto Ye Jia’s chest.The chest under his palm no longer rose and fell and the heart in the chest no longer moved. All that was left was cold silence.Ji Xuan closed his eyes and slowly took it in.The scarlet flesh that was placed in the depths of the other party’s chest seemed to be beating slowly but there was a thick layer of ghost energy enveloped around it, sealing it up, leaving a few small gaps to allow blood vessels growing from the flesh to take root in the young man’s chest cavity. The two forces pushed and pulled but were strangely able to maintain an almost stable balance with each other.Ji Xuan opened his eyes, “There should be no problems for the time being.”Ye Jia, “How long can it last?”Ji Xuan, “It is hard to say but if we strengthen the barrier from time to time, it should be able to last a little longer.”Ye Jia nodded thoughtfully.----It didn’t need to last too long. It’s fine as long as it lasts past the next month.Suddenly, his eyes widened as if he just realised something. He looked at the calm and almost sanctimonious man before him.“Also……” Ye Jia gritted his teeth, “Shouldn’t you be removing your hand now?”And…..why are you still groping around?The door behind them was suddenly blown open and a fierce ghost with four or five faces on its head wobbled in. The eyes on those faces looked towards the end of the room.It was dumbfounded.Not far ahead, a tall man had a dishevelled young man pressed against the wall. From its location, it could faintly see the other party’s pale skin and slender waist and their closely connected bodies. The young man’s dark red eyes narrowed slightly as he looked at the fierce ghost past the taller man’s shoulder with eyes filled with killing intent.The next second, Ji Xuan suddenly raised his hand to wrap around the young man’s waist, pulling him even closer.He turned his head slightly, his scarlet eyes still icy cold. Oppressiveness belonging to a high-level fierce ghost immediately poured out, hitting the fierce ghost head on. His voice was low and carried impatience:“Get out.”