After an Infinite Flow Player Retires

Ye Jia was stunned. He looked up at Ji Xuan.The man before him had his head lowered and nose close enough to touch his.The other party’s breath was icy cold and it was mixed together with a faint smell of blood.Never lie?Ye Jia narrowed his eyes.He slowly opened his mouth and asked, “The direct descendant of the person who established the door, is it you?”The young man looked into the other person’s eyes seriously, his scarlet eyes carrying a look of assessment and inquiry.----Is that true?Ji Xuan’s eyes fell. His gaze lightly swept across the other person’s lips that were close at hand.The young man’s lips were slightly pursed and the corners of his lips were deliberately flattened to prevent his expression from giving away any information.He smiled:“Yes, it’s me.”Ji Xuan lowered his head and affectionately rubbed the tip of his nose against the other party’s nose. He whispered softly, “I will tell you everything.”“So, will there be a reward?.”.In the Bureau’s temporary underground shelter.Chen Qingye who had been deep in thought for a long time turned to look at Liu Zhaocheng and asked:“Were the bodies from the Ji residence that was burned down taken for autopsy?”Liu Zhaocheng was taken aback by this question, “Uh….”He rubbed his balding head and shook it:“I’m not too certain about that. After all, I hadn’t yet joined the Bureau at the time so naturally wouldn’t be paying much attention to those matters.”Chen Qingye asked, “Then after the fire, did anyone else in the family survive?”He added, “It’s okay if they’re only distantly related!”Liu Zhaocheng’s expression was blank, “Uh….well, I really don’t know.”Looks like he couldn’t get anymore information out from him.“Alright then.” Chen Qingye nodded, stood up and turned to leave, “Sorry for disturbing you.”Blast sighed and also followed after him. He lazily waved goodbye, “Then that’s that.”“But….” Liu Zhaocheng seemed to have suddenly remembered something. He said, “If you really want to know the answer to this question, you might need to go to the police station. There should probably be some records kept there. Although many years have passed, they should have it backed up somewhere on the system. But ever since the incident in M City, the ghosts and monsters all over the country have become more active and their first targets would be the Bureau and the police stations. It’s probably dangerous going there now.”“I see.” Chen Qingye nodded, “Thank you.”Blast and Chen Qingye left Liu Zhaocheng’s office.The two walked down the corridor one after another.Blast turned to look at Chen Qingye who was walking beside him, “Why did you ask that question just now?”“Did you…..also think that they died very strangely?”“It is indeed strange.” Chen Qingye pushed up his glasses and his lenses reflected a bright light in the corridor, hiding the look in his eyes underneath, “But….that wasn’t what I was feeling suspicious about.”“Then what is it?”Chen Qingye slowly explained, “For them to be burnt to such an extent, could it have been done not to hide the cause of death, but to hide the identity of the deceased?”“What do you mean?” Blast was taken aback.Chen Qingye said, “What I mean by that is, it may be possible that those charred bodies are not people from the Ji family.”“So you think they’re not actually dead?!”Chen Qingye shook his head, “That’s not it either.”Blast was confused, “Huh? Then what?”“If the cause of their deaths is the same as our guesses, then there shouldn’t be any bodies lying around.” Chen Qingye explained slowly, “When ghosts attack, they typically wouldn’t waste a victim's body.”They would basically all be eaten.But the number of bodies found in this fire happened to match up.Blast was momentarily stunned. He fell into thought for a few seconds and suddenly realised, “If someone set the building on fire as a cover up, it means that not all the members of that family died! Some may have survived!”Chen Qingye, “Correct.”He looked at Blast, “Is this enough information?”“Of course it’s not enough.” Blast narrowed his eyes as they lit up with excitement, “Are you thinking what I’m thinking?”Chen Qingye smiled, “Of course.”Since they’ve already started, they should continue until everything is dug up..Forty years ago at M City.The night was dark.There were no traces of light in the dark sky. The grey clouds floating in small clusters in the air mixed together with an ominous smell of blood. The horizon was stained a scarlet colour, signifying the occurrence of a deadly massacre.The earth was soft and damp, with scarlet blood seeping out with even the slightest of pressures. It was as if the entire place had been soaked in blood.Amidst the blood-stained soil, several dark and red interlacing lines could vaguely be made out.An elevation in the ground nearby grew larger, revealing a pale and stiff arm. It looked like the owner of it had been dead for a long time.A figure appeared from a distance. His figure was vaguely visible in the darkness and there seemed to be something in his hands.The surroundings were deadly silent. It was like a bottomless pit. Even if a stone was thrown down it, no sounds could be heard.He stood next to this bloody land and squatted down.With the gurgling sound of fluid flowing, the pungent smell of gasoline instantly spread.Immediately afterwards, the harsh sound of a lighter clicking rang in the silence.A small flame appeared, quickly spreading across the fluid on the ground. It devoured the surrounding dry grass like red snakes and very quickly climbed up the wooden building. The blood in the ground had mostly evaporated from the high temperature and the air was distorted from the high heat.Flames were roaring madly. Half the sky was reddened from the strong fire.The flames illuminated the man’s face and the scene before him was reflected in the depths of his eyes.Those amber coloured eyes weren’t pure black like the people from the Ji family but it contained the same look----Fanatical and crazed..Blast and Chen Qingye left the Bureau’s underground shelter.There was no one on the streets.Most of the shops had their doors and windows barricaded, making the scene very bleak.This place wasn’t far from M City. Although the sky could only be vaguely seen from here, there was still a heavy pressure in the air, as if there was something dark and thick surrounding them, making it difficult to breathe.But Blast and Chen Qingye didn’t feel it much.In the game, the concentration of yin energy in the air was even thicker than this. The real world was just changing into a world that they’re originally familiar with.The sky outside the police station was terrifyingly dark.The windows were pitch black and one could see vague shadows of monsters inside.This place had long been taken over by ghosts and it had now become their playground.Blast’s eyes burned with fighting intent. He spread open his palm and a ball of fire appeared, “Let’s see who kills more?”Chen Qingye calmly pushed up his glasses, “No.”“…..Huh?”Chen Qingye, “You’d better not take action.”“Huh?!!” Blast exclaimed angrily, “Why?”Chen Qingye glanced at him coldly, “You want to burn this entire building down?”Blast, “…….”The ball of fire in his hand weakened alongside the owner’s mood. Even his red hair didn’t appear as flamboyant as before.Chen Qingye lowered his hand.The dark shelled A’Chang appeared out from his sleeve and proceeded to grow bigger. In a blink of an eye, it became several feet tall.Although it wasn’t his first time seeing this, Blast couldn’t help but feel uncomfortable.He quietly took a step back and asked, “Hey…...isn’t it bigger than last time?”Chen Qingye looked up at the large A’Chang before him and his expression softened. He lightly patted the hard shell, “Yeah. Thanks to Xiao Xiao Bai, it has been growing faster than before.”“Good child, good child….” Chen Qingye petted A’Chang with a warm smile.“Who’s a good child?”A’Chang lowered its head and used it to nuzzle against Chen Qingye’s face. A course voice travelled out of its throat.“It’s you! You’re the good child!” Chen Qingye continued with a big smile.Blast on the sidelines, “………………”He shook off the goosebumps on him and expressionlessly turned and headed for the police station.Fucking hell, what a weirdo.With the two working together, they were soon able to clean up all the monsters in the police station.The building was in a pretty poor state. Although there were no problems with the power supply, the lights above them had short-circuited from the violent destruction, causing it to emit electric sparks. The ground and walls were also covered in dark and red bloodstains and fluids, making it like a horrific massacre had recently occurred there.Chen Qingye sat in front of one of the computers with the light from the computer screen illuminating his face. His fingers danced across the keyboard.Blast entered from outside.He stepped over the monster bodies piled up on the ground and went over to Chen Qingye, “Hey, are you done yet?”“The file was encrypted.” Chen Qingye looked up at Blast, “Have the surrounding monsters all been dealt with?”“Of course!” Blast proudly puffed up his chest.“Not a single one left?”“Of course,” Blast answered complacently, “Can’t you see who you’re talking to?”“So will you tell me the truth now?”Blast visibly stiffened, “W-what?”Chen Qingye pushed up his glasses, “What did you actually see when you went to M City?”He pointed at the deadly silent surroundings, “Right now, all the surrounding obstacles have been cleared. There is almost no chance of anyone listening in.”Chen Qingye crossed his fingers together, “Can you talk now?”Blast scratched his head in frustration, “Arghhhh…….”After feeling conflicted for a long time, he finally reached a decision and took a deep breath, “You have probably already guessed most of it by now anyway so there’s no point in keeping it a secret….”Blast told him everything he saw at M City.He told him everything including the underground passages under M City, the human souls that were being swallowed up by that dark fluid and the task Ye Jia, Ji Xuan and Wei Yuechu had asked him to do.Chen Qingye rubbed his chin thoughtfully.A few minutes later, he looked back up, “No wonder Ace didn’t want you to tell anyone.”Blast, “Huh?”Chen Qingye, “He’s not only trying to hide it from Mother, he’s also hiding it from the people in the Bureau.”He turned on the computer and his fingers flew across the keyboard, “Let me cross check all the household registrations of the Ji family with the employees in the Bureau….”After a few minutes, Chen Qingye stopped typing, “Found it.”Blast leaned over and looked at the computer screen.Above the search results, it was showing that the number of matching information was….One.The expressions of the two turned solemn.Chen Qingye’s finger applied some pressure and the mouse clicked.A photo of a lively-looking middle-aged man appeared on the screen. He looked very normal, with a pair of light brown and black eyes that were slightly narrowed as he smiled at the screen.But Blast suddenly gasped.He raised his hand and pointed his trembling finger at the man’s name, “T-t-this…..Isn’t this the director of the Paranormal Investigation and Management Bureau?!”Chen Qingye slowly sighed.Sure enough.“H-how could that be?” Blast was dumbfounded. He was still unable to recover from the shocking revelation that the director was actually a distant relative of the Ji family.Chen Qingye tapped his finger against the table.“So that’s why the Bureau was so slow to respond at the beginning.”The former director who had been confined underneath the Bureau knew that the door would open in the future and he also knew very well the terrible conditions for malice to form.In that case, during all these years, he most definitely would have tried to send out warnings to the outside world.But even after various incidents happened, the Bureau continued to remain indifferent and even after the ghost rampage in M City occurred, exposing the existence of paranormal existences and the existence of the Bureau, they still chose to bury the truth about the existence of the game.After learning about this, he had found that it was strange but the answer he was given was that they didn’t want to cause panic among the citizens.Although that was understandable, Qi Shengze however was still in the Bureau at the time.Even if they thought it was just a crazy old man’s ramblings during those years of confinement, they should’ve started to take it seriously after all those events occurred but the Bureau still continued as usual and even tacitly allowed them to continue to exterminate souls without change….Something was very fishy.Chen Qingye looked over at Blast, “Do you remember what Brother Ye told you?”Blast, “Huh?”Chen Qingye, “The reason why his grandfather hid the notebook inside him and used an encryption that no one could understand except him is probably because he wanted to protect it from humans, not ghosts.”Blast nodded foolishly, “Yeah, that’s what Brother Ye told me.”Chen Qingye, “He has been imprisoned under the Bureau for all these years and he has interacted with very few people. The people he’s trying to protect it from are most likely those who can approach him at any time. I believe the director brought Ye Jia to meet his grandfather as soon as he recognised him because he wanted to try and use his grandson to dig out the whereabouts of the notebook from the old man’s mouth.”Blast instantly understood.He gritted his teeth, “Fuck, that old fox. I’m going to rip his skin off!”Chen Qingye stood up, “In that case, let’s go.”Blast was confused, “Huh?”Chen Qingye walked out, “Let’s go to the capital.”“Wait, wait, wait!” Blast still couldn’t keep up, “What for?”Chen Qingye looked over, “Didn’t you say that you’re going to rip off the director’s skin?”Blast seemed troubled, “But if we left, wouldn’t it disrupt Ace’s plans?”Chen Qingye, “It won’t.”Blast didn’t believe him, “Why would you think that?”Chen Qingye, “Then why did you think the director wanted to dig out that information from Qi Shengze?”He continued, “Of course, it’s because he has information that even the director doesn’t know. I believe the key to turning this situation around and closing that door is in that notebook.”Chen Qingye thought for a moment, “Of course, it would be even better if we could force the director to confess this himself.”Blast’s eyes lit up, “You’re right!”Flames appeared in the darkness and fighting intent rose from the depths of his eyes.Chen Qingye reached into his sleeve and stroked the excited A’Chang’s head. His eyes narrowed slightly behind his glasses.“In that case, let’s go.”.Sheets of papers laid scattered across the floor. The pages filled with words were not very clear in the darkness.The room was deadly silent.Ye Jia lowered his eyes slightly, his long eyelashes covering the look in his eyes. Half of his pale face was hidden in the darkness. His expression was calm with little emotional changes.After hearing such a bizarre and twisted story, it would be untrue to say that he wasn’t moved.But….what kind of moved was it?Ye Jia found it hard for him to put it into words.Icy cold fingers belonging to a man wrapped around his wrist. Ji Xuan intimately rested his chin onto Ye Jia’s shoulder and asked coquettishly, “So, where’s my reward?”Ye Jia was pulled back from his thoughts by the other party.He turned to look at Ji Xuan and suddenly asked, “How did it feel to eat your own blood related relatives?”Ji Xuan tilted his head in contemplation, “Very good.”Very...satisfying.And exciting.He smiled lightly and raised his scarlet eyes. As his gaze travelled across the other party’s clean side profile, his voice was hoarse: “When I was killed by gege, it was the same feeling.”Holding Ye Jia’s hand, he brought the other person’s hand over to his chest.He narrowed his eyes slightly as he recalled it.“Your teeth embedding into my flesh, tearing open my chest. My blood and flesh being consumed.”Ji Xuan’s voice was very calm but it contained obvious thirst and desire.“I was eaten by you and since then, I have become a part of you, our blood and flesh intertwined, our bones embracing each other. Forever, we will never be separated….”He chuckled lowly and his voice trembled in excitement.The young man’s pale fingers resting on his chest twitched slightly.Ji Xuan sighed and dropped a kiss on the other party’s shoulder, “Unfortunately, you didn’t eat me completely.”Ye Jia’s voice was restrained and steady, “Is that so?”“Yes.” Ji Xuan smiled sweetly, “So the rest of me have come to find you.”Ye Jia looked up at the other party:“What about now? Do you still want to be eaten by me or want to eat me?”Ji Xuan narrowed his eyes as his scarlet tongue stretched out and lightly licked his lips. Madness and obsession leaked out from his eyes and the desire to kill and love was thick. He looked like a beast stuck between two decisions.“Of course.”Sharp killing intent flashed across his eyes, “This desire of mine has never stopped.”Ji Xuan leaned down and kissed the young man’s fingers.He raised his eyes. His expression had become slightly distorted from restraint, much like a beast doing its best to restrain its natural instincts and avoid baring its fangs. His chest that no longer breathed trembled and his voice was unstable:“But…..”Ye Jia didn’t pull out his hand. He looked down at the other party and repeated, “But?”Ji Xuan forcefully closed his eyes.His voice was strained, like it was squeezed out from his throat, and it was also very hoarse:“….Not enough.”The young man’s pupils constricted.Ji Xuan once again leaned against him, wrapped his arms around the other person’s waist and buried his face into their shoulder.Darkness enveloped them, much like the dark school building back then.He still seemed to be able to see those amber eyes that seemed like they could glow in the dark. He instinctively found it uncomfortable, like someone who had been in the dark for too long and had become afraid of the sun.…...So hungry….That hunger grew day by day, squirming and burning under his skin all the time. It silently urged and tempted him.He thought that just eating or being eaten was enough.But….it wasn’t enough.Ji Xuan’s grip tightened.Not enough.Just eating….wasn’t enough.The young man inadvertently smiling, the happiness flashing across his eyes when given a cup of milk tea, the look of astonishment when he was kissed in public.He was too greedy. He wanted it all.Ji Xuan raised his eyes, the pupils in his scarlet eyes narrowing into a slit. He enunciated each word clearly and, as if he was abusing himself, he forcibly stripped himself of his instincts and revealed his blood-drenched, naked self. His smile was slightly distorted:“I’m not reluctant to do that.”Ye Jia narrowed his eyes.A long time later, he raised his hand and pinched the other man’s chin with his cold fingers.Ji Xuan was stunned.Ye Jia held his chin and forced the other party to raise their head.The young man’s scarlet eyes flashed a cruel and arrogant light. He then lowered his head and dropped a cold kiss onto the man’s lips:“A reward.”