After an Infinite Flow Player Retires

“K-King…….! Yes, my apologies!!!”The fierce ghost returned to its senses and immediately escaped out of the room.The door slammed shut behind it using the force from its yin energy.Once again, only the two of them were left in the empty room.Ye Jia raised his eyes, his scarlet eyes sweeping over the man before him. His cold voice seemed to be suppressing something:“What are you waiting for?”Ji Xuan took a step back and innocently raised his hands, “When acting, you should always act it out fully, gege.”Ye Jia expressionlessly fixed his shirt and smoothed out the wrinkles.At this moment, a voice belonging to a fierce ghost sounded carefully through the door.“U-um…..M-mother asked me to relay a message to you…..”The two exchanged a look.Ye Jia retracted his gaze and walked towards the door but before he could take more than a few steps, Ji Xuan grabbed his arm:“Wait.”The man’s low voice sounded.Immediately afterwards, he raised his hand and his pale fingers fell onto the side of the young man’s equally cold neck. Small strands of yin energy instantly poured through the skin, entering the flesh. The wound there healed at a rate visible to the naked eye and very soon, it was completely gone. All that was left were a few dried bloodstains.Ye Jia raised his eyes and looked over at Ji Xuan.The other party smiled back, “It’s done.”Ye Jia’s dark gaze lingered on Ji Xuan for a moment before he turned and walked towards the door.He pulled open the door and looked down at the trembling fierce ghost behind the door from above. There was a trace of cruelty in his voice:“What is it?”The fierce ghost secretly looked up but when it saw the young man’s cold gaze, it immediately trembled and looked elsewhere, “M-m-mother asked me to inform you to go to the capital next……”The young man with scarlet eyes calmly raised his eyes and sneered:“Got it. You can scram now.”“……..Gege.”Suddenly, a low voice belonging to a man sounded behind the young man. There was a hint of dissatisfaction in his magnetic voice, “What? You’re leaving now?”The fierce ghost was startled. It subconsciously looked up.It then saw a pair of sturdy arms reach out from the darkness, wrapping around the young man’s slender waist.The tall Ghost King embraced Ye Jia from behind and lightly kissed the young man’s pale neck before raising his pair of dark red eyes to look coldly at the fierce ghost before them.His voice was flat and indifferent but with a hint of displeasure:“Could it be that…...Mother didn’t ask for me to come too?”The fierce ghost froze. Terrible pain suddenly overwhelmed it and it’s jelly-like body slowly slumped onto the ground whilst trembling terribly. It didn’t have the strength to escape. It could only squeeze out a few syllables with difficulty.“So…..rry……”“Hmm….” With Ji Xuan’s chest pressed against his back, Ye Jia could feel the yin energy running through the other person’s body. He revealed a thoughtful look:“Is that so?”The next second, the fierce ghost before them felt an even heavier force bearing down onto it. This time, it could no longer resist and was slammed straight into the ground. Such oppressiveness was one that couldn’t be resisted at all. It could only tremble fearfully, unable to let out a single scream.Ji Xuan lowered his eyes and bit the young man’s ear with his sharp teeth. There was a hint of a smile in his low voice:“Gege, you learn very quickly.”Ye Jia narrowed his scarlet eyes and answered calmly:“Of course.”Although it was his first time as a fierce ghost, it wasn’t his first time going against a fierce ghost.The incident earlier with Wei Yuechu was just an accident.Ji Xuan tightened his grip around his waist and buried his chin into the other person’s shoulder, “Unfortunately this time I will have to separate from gege.”Ye Jia ruthlessly broke free from the other party’s embrace. He bent down and asked indifferently:“What else did Mother say?”The fierce ghost wriggled its body with difficulty and stammered fearfully:“S-she said she prepared a gift for you.”Ye Jia’s eyes narrowed slightly.…..Gift?.At the Paranormal Investigation and Management Bureau headquarters in the capital.The ground suddenly began to shake and fine cracks snaked through the smooth marble floors, looking much like a giant spider web.“W-what’s going on?” The employees of the Bureau in the hall looked at each other in panic as the walls and tables shook to and fro and a piercing siren rang above their heads.“Quick! Contact the higher-ups!”But before the employee could finish speaking, there was a loud crack and the surrounding glass doors all exploded. Scarlet flesh poured in from all directions, devouring all existences in the hall in an instant.Miserable cries and screams echoed.These chunks of flesh moved as if they had consciousness of their own. They spread towards the upper floors of the building. Screams and cries sounded wherever they went.The Combat Division personnel stationed at the headquarters tried to launch a counterattack. Powerful weapons and abilities were directed at the flesh swarming in. The moment the squirming flesh was cut off, it instantly melted and more grew out from the place where it was cut. It seemed like a never ending cycle.“Retreat! Retreat!” A blood-stained and breathless Combat Division member shouted at his teammates behind him.The next second, he was swallowed up by the flesh.This was a completely one-sided massacre.It was an incredible display of power.Faced with such overwhelming force, humans almost had no way of fighting against it.It only took ten minutes. There was no life left in the building. The deadly silent corridors were a complete mess and the walls were covered in blood. Several walls had even collapsed from the force just now and the smell of blood in the air was so strong, it felt almost tangible.The elevator suddenly began to slowly descend.On the pitch-black electronic screen, the scarlet numbers were particularly prominent.-1, -2, -3, -4.The elevator stopped on the negative fifth floor.Immediately afterwards, the dark elevator trembled and alongside the harsh sound of metal screeching, the elevator door on the negative fifth floor was forcibly torn open from the inside. Sticky flesh immediately poured in. Broken elevator fragments were slowly absorbed by the flesh.A pair of pale feet stepped onto the scarlet flesh and walked forward unhurriedly.A string of bright red footprints were left on the icy ground, leading towards the end of the corridor.Behind the heavy metal gates was an empty corridor as well as thick metal bars.The old man who was parasitized by a ball of flesh and able to continue living in a half-dead state slowly raised his head. His turbid eyes looked towards the source of the loud noises. His mind had become slow from all these years of imprisonment and it took him a while to react. In his blurred and unstable vision, he saw a slender woman slowly walk towards him.He couldn’t see the other person’s face clearly, but he instinctively felt fearful.The flesh embedded into his body moved even more violently, the veins on the surface pulsating. As if it had smelt fresh blood, it showed eagerness to return to its mother’s body.The woman’s appearance gradually became clearer.The old man suddenly widened his eyes. His thin and withered chest rose and fell rapidly. A trembling voice was slowly squeezed out of his throat as tears filled his cloudy eyes:“Xiao Rou……...Xiao Rou…..”He raised the only hand that he could move. The fingers on his bark-like hand trembled. It was as if he was trying to touch the other person’s face through the metal bars. His voice was hoarse but with a hint of hope.“My…….daughter………”“Unfortunately, I’m not her.”The woman smiled as she lowered her head to reveal her refined face as well as her scarlet eyes that shone a cold and ruthless lustre in the darkness. She slowly appreciated the look in the other person’s eyes -------- His hope shattered, devoured by fear and despair, and finally, emptiness and lifelessness.She lightly laughed and said:“Long time no see.”.Ye Jia stepped into the hall that contained no trace of human life.The place was a complete mess. It was damaged so badly, one could hardly see its original appearance. Traces of destruction from yin energy could be seen littered throughout the place.Sticky flesh slowly moved about. One could faintly see human limbs and heads mixed inside.The young man walked ahead with a blank expression, turning a blind eye to the tragic situation around him. The blood and crushed flesh below his feet squelched.He arrived at the destroyed elevator, looked down for a few seconds and then jumped down.The corridor on the negative fifth floor was long and cold. Traces of damage and destruction were littered throughout and even part of the walls had been swallowed up, becoming a part of Mother. The blood vessels on the surface of the flesh protruded out and moved about as if it had a life of its own.Ye Jia continued down the corridor.In the distance, a woman’s gentle and affectionate voice sounded, “My child, come here.”As the distance closed, he saw the woman’s slender figure standing among the flesh. Her white dress and refined appearance made her look like she was the only normal existence in this terrible scene. She turned her head and her scarlet eyes stopped on Ye Jia, “Come here.”Ye Jia came over.He lowered his eyes and lightly looked around.The thick three-layer barrier had been completely destroyed, leaving only a large round opening. The prison looked as if it had been bombed open.The ashen-faced old man was lying on his back, the bloated part of his body no longer moving and pungent fluid slowly flowing out from him. His wrinkled face stared fixedly at the ceiling, the lustre in his eyes completely gone.The other human half of his body had become so distorted, it no longer looked human. The skin had split open, revealing the bones and blood vessels underneath.Mother laughed softly, “Do you like it?”She slowly walked over and wrapped her two pale arms around the young man’s shoulders. Her pair of scarlet eyes narrowed slightly and her voice was gentle:“From now on, we are your only family.”She stood on tiptoe slightly and dropped a kiss on the young man’s cheek, “But, your gifts are not just these.”“Oh?” Ye Jia raised a brow, “There are more?”Mother raised her hand and drew a circle before her, “You like this place, don’t you?”“Paranormal Investigation and Management Bureau…..” She chuckled and continued, “Since you chose this place as your foothold after leaving me, you should already be rather familiar with it?”Mother’s expression was very gentle, “From today, this will be yours.”Ye Jia repeated, “Mine?”Mother, “Yes.”She raised her hands and cupped the other party’s face with her cold hands, “You are one of my favourite sons. As a mother, I will naturally give you the best.”Mother smiled, “From now on, all the humans in this Bureau belong to you. Kill them, torture them, eat them or raise them, you can do whatever you want.”“This includes the area where the headquarters are located.” She added lightly, “…...The capital. It should be the most prosperous place. I will give you this place as your gift.”If Ye Jia was a completely transformed fierce ghost, this kind of gift would’ve been the most perfect gift.After the mind and body is contaminated by malice, former close friends and acquaintances become the perfect targets for them to unleash their cruel nature on. Tormenting former friends and family and watching their confusion, anger, fear and struggles, for a fierce ghost made up of malice, that was pure ecstasy.The capital was located at a prime location and it had a large population so it meant that there was an abundant amount of food there. It could be regarded as the best location in the country and would definitely become a resource many fierce ghosts would compete over. Giving it to Ye Jia was a very generous act.But……..Ye Jia knew very well that Mother didn’t fully trust him yet.It may seem like a gift but it was a test.The Bureau was given to him to test his loyalty and the capital was given to him to remove him from the main event, that is, the location of the door ---- M City.He lowered his eyes, his eyes falling onto the old man who had already passed away several hours ago and suddenly raised his lips to reveal a malicious smile:“Can I eat him?”Mother followed Ye Jia’s line of sight and looked over, “Oh? He doesn’t taste good though.”Ye Jia reached out to wrap his arms around Mother’s slender waist, “He’s my former blood relative after all, right?”“Of course.” Mother leaned against Ye Jia and smiled.“Wouldn’t it be perfect if a blood relative returns to the body of their relative?” Ye Jia’s smile deepened, his scarlet eyes flashing with a greedy light.“As long as you’re happy, my child.” Mother answered.Ye Jia turned to look at Mother beside him, “I like your gift very much, but……..”“Hm?”Ye Jia frowned slightly, “Ji Xuan is still in M City.”He said, “I haven’t settled our old accounts with him yet.”Mother frowned slowly, looking a little troubled:“I know he tricked and betrayed you, making you turn into what you are now, but at least the outcome was a good one, no? Let’s not take it too seriously, okay?”“It’s not because of that.” Ye Jia narrowed his scarlet eyes and said slowly, “I am currently very interested in him.”Mother was a little stunned.There was a smile on the young man’s lips, “Mother should know what he thinks of me, no? That’s why you sent him to complete that task.”Mother, “So, you’re….?The young man looked at Mother. As if he was an ordinary child acting spoilt to his mother, he said, “Isn’t this relationship very interesting? Destroy or be destroyed, eat or be eaten, I like it a lot.”Taking in Mother’s slightly stiff expression, Ye Jia was determined to continue this act.He took a deep breath, “I think…...I’m in love with him.”“………..” Mother’s expression was blank for a moment.The young man frowned slightly and revealed a look of concern, “You won’t force us to separate, will you?”Mother stared at Ye Jia for several seconds before finally speaking:“Uh, as for this….why don’t we talk about this later?”She fell silent for a moment and then turned to walk out:“You can sort this place out. Come find me in M City when you’re done.”Following behind her, the flesh filling the room also moved away from the building little by little. Very soon, Mother’s presence disappeared and could no longer be felt.Ye Jia leaned back against the icy cold wall. He let out a slow sigh of relief.At least for now, he won’t be transferred out from M City.Although----------It was really embarrassing!Ye Jia raised his hands and covered his face.His body had clearly dropped in temperature after turning into a ghost but he could feel his face heat up.Was it because he wasn’t completely a ghost yet?After a long time, Ye Jia finally recovered and lowered his hands back down. His expression returned to his usual state of calmness and indifference.He turned and looked at the old man’s cold body.A complex look flashed across Ye Jia’s eyes.He knew why the director brought him over to this place that day.In fact, the director could’ve just directly told him the truth but he still chose to bring him here all because he wanted to let him and also let this old man who had been tortured by guilt finally see their only remaining relative.Ye Jia however wasn’t prepared to find out that the person who had indirectly killed his mother and made so many people lose their lives was someone related to him.So that day, he had interrupted the director’s attempt to continue the topic.But…..He had never thought that it would actually be his last chance.------Meeting and then parting.Ye Jia slowly walked over.In any case, the other party’s body couldn’t be left like this, especially after he told Mother that he would ‘eat’ the other party.Ye Jia raised his hand and drew across the air. A scarlet opening appeared under the old man’s distorted body and it fell through with the pull of gravity. Just as the body fell through, he suddenly saw under the old man’s fleshy mass, something protruding out. It looked just like…...the hard corners of a book.He immediately stopped his actions.The old man’s corpse laid quietly on the ground with half his body inside the ghost domain and the other half still outside. His wrinkled face looked up at the sky, as if he had fallen into eternal contemplation.Ye Jia picked up a piece of glass on the ground, bent down beside the body and used the tip of it to cut open the bloated skin.A small black notebook covered in blood and flesh remnants fell out. The cover and the pages inside looked like they had been specially treated and they were all densely filled with words that were still clearly decipherable even to this day. It looked like it had been hidden inside the other person’s body for a long, long time, the edges of the notebook almost becoming one with the flesh.Ye Jia’s heart trembled slightly.The other party was the one who had figured out how to open the door the first time…..After so many years in confinement, could he have possibly found a way to close the door completely?Could this be the key turning point they had been looking for all this time?.A’Mi’s mood has been very complicated recently.As a ghost, it should be very happy that the fierce ghosts have invaded the real world, but….A’Mi suddenly stopped at a street corner. It turned to look back at the deserted alley.Among the bricks and rubble laid several dead cats.A’Mi was heartbroken.Mother’s arrival had taken away most of the lives in this city and the remaining living creatures that had managed to barely escape would soon die from the high concentration of yin energy in the air.It silently sighed and forced itself to look away and continue down the street.As Ji Xuan’s follower, it was very aware of the tense relationship between Ji Xuan and Mother before the door was opened. It originally thought that as soon as Mother begins to take over the real world, it would be one of her first targets but unexpectedly, even after the door was opened and Mother came out, nothing happened to it.It heard some rumours spreading amongst the fierce ghosts.The reason why King was able to escape Mother’s punishment was because his previous resistance was just an act and he had in fact completed the task Mother had assigned to him ---- To transform Ace into a ghost and make him join their side.The moment it heard this, A’Mi grew vigilant.----Is King going to get entangled with that horrible Ace again?!The moment it thought of this, it felt even more heartbroken.What about A’Ye?!A nice ghost like A’Ye definitely wouldn’t be able to go against the abominable Ace. What if…….A’Mi didn’t dare think about it.At this moment, at the intersection behind it, a tall and slender figure belonging to a young man slowly appeared.After Ye Jia returned to M City, the first thing he did was to find Ji Xuan.But there was no sign of Ji Xuan in the place where the two separated so Ye Jia came to another place the other party often frequented.Standing on the street, Ye Jia happened to see a familiar ghost not far ahead.Isn’t that A’Mi?Maybe it would know where Ji Xuan is.Ye Jia shouted:“Hey!”