Free Web Novel“Hey! Hey! Lu Yibei, you damn it, did you fall asleep again!?”
"Huh?" Lu Yibei was stunned for a moment, picked up his phone, and roared at Su Mi on the other end of the line, "You're the one who fell asleep, Old Dad is listening!"
"If you're awake, hurry over! Let Hua City's top mid laner, sumaker, carry you!"
Lu Yibei rolled his eyes, "What if you can't carry me?"
"If I can't carry you, I'll treat you to milk tea!"
"You said that!"
"I said that!" Su Mi snatched Lu Yibei's words, "We're at the internet cafe on Cultural Road! Hurry and come!"
After speaking, without waiting for Lu Yibei to refuse, he quickly hung up the phone.
"Beep——!"
Lu Yibei, "..."
After hanging up the phone, sitting on the bed and looking at the bright sunshine outside the window, Lu Yibei pondered for a long time before he finally understood the current situation.
The special space had resumed operation, and the projections drawn from Hua City had reconstructed the entire city.
Although the Eclipse Society had snatched away a considerable number of Powers from the special space, which were used to construct the special space, causing some "residents" in the special space to disappear out of thin air as a result.
However, compared to the part that remained, the disappeared "residents" actually only accounted for a very small portion.
For Lu Yibei, the recent turmoil was extremely dangerous and almost cost him his life.
However, for the "residents" who reappeared with the city's reconstruction, that might have just been falling asleep and having a brief nightmare.
After the dream ended, the sun rose as usual, and the lingering shadow of the nightmare in their minds, bathed in the sunlight, quickly disappeared without leaving any trace in their memories.
"An internet cafe and a farewell dinner... should I still go?"
Lu Yibei mumbled, got out of bed, rubbed his messy hair, and walked towards the bathroom.
Although after completely taking control of this special space, he only needed to exert a little effort to completely erase all traces left by "Lu Yibei's projection" here.
Then, let this city, born relying on the projection of Hua City, continue to operate as if the person Lu Yibei had never appeared.
However, he always felt that if he left like that, something seemed to be missing.
People always need a sense of ritual to live, just like ordinary days need a ray of sunshine.
He wanted to say goodbye to this place properly, a goodbye with a sense of ritual, although he couldn't quite say what he was saying goodbye to...
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"Squeak——!"
Turning off the faucet, Lu Yibei supported himself on the edge of the sink with both hands and looked up at the face reflected in the mirror.
"Handsome, I didn't expect reshaping my body with Wang Yingying's flesh and blood to have this effect? Awesome, Wang Yingying!"
At this moment, his facial features in the mirror were still the same as before, but more refined and perfect. All the small imperfections that were originally there had disappeared, as if the beauty filter was turned up to the maximum.
Lu Yibei pinched his face, feeling the real touch from his fingertips, and the big stone hanging in his heart finally fell, and he let out a long sigh of relief.
"Phew, good thing, it's real..."
As he spoke, he tried to force a smile at the mirror, and then...
He saw a Sima face with trembling corners of the mouth rising, a forced smile that wasn't a smile.
It seemed that during the process of perfect body reshaping, his facial paralysis was also perfectly replicated.
Lu Yibei, "..."
Before parting with Chatterbox Girl, he seriously asked Chatterbox Girl a serious question, which was whether he could return to his original state after waking up.
However, the answer he received was only a casual sentence, "Go back and prepare a few more sets of girls' clothes? Some things may be difficult to accept at first, but once you accept them, it's just like that."
After hearing Chatterbox Girl's answer, Lu Yibei's face turned ashen on the spot, his body swayed a few times, and then, like a pigeon that had given up its dream, he leaned forward and fell from the rooftop.
Rouxun said: "The temperament of Z Country people is always fond of compromise and moderation."
Lu Yibei was also like this.
For example, if you say that good days are gone, and he has to live as a girl due to further urban legend transformation, he will definitely not accept it. But if you propose to return to the state before entering the special space, and even be a little more handsome than before, he will compromise and be willing to accept reality.
In fact, Chatterbox Girl was not trying to scare Lu Yibei. She really didn't know if Lu Yibei could return to his original state after reshaping his body using the flesh and blood of the Invasion Beast.
After all, she had never experienced such a thing. Theoretically speaking, it is almost impossible to repair the body to be exactly the same as before.
With a slight deviation, Lu Yibei's appearance could become the kind of mental pollution source that he looked like when he was "creating his face" himself.
Fortunately, there was Ms. Wang Meili's photo album.
Those photos recorded his entire life from childhood to adulthood, and even his urban legend transformation, in great detail, allowing him to re-experience the past of growing from a child to a teenager and finally becoming a urban legend, thereby perfectly reshaping his body.
It was like reading a backup.
However.
Although Lu Yibei knew clearly that his ability to recover was entirely due to Ms. Wang Meili, he deliberately avoided thinking about it.
He didn't think about it, didn't recall it, and didn't mention it.
"Forget ★ 𝐍𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 ★ it, I've survived a great disaster, so don't mind small details like facial paralysis!" Lu Yibei said to himself. freewebnøvel.com
"It's almost time to go find Su Mi and the others. I'm definitely drinking this milk tea today!"
After saying that, he changed his clothes and went out.
As he passed the third floor, he paused slightly and gently knocked on Nanling Yaohua's door.
He waited for a long time, but no one responded.
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A few hours later, a certain internet cafe on Cultural Road, Hua City.
Looking at the large word "FAILURE" on the screen, Lu Yibei took his hands off the keyboard, put down his headphones, and looked at Su Mi next to him with a blank expression.
Being stared at by Lu Yibei, Su Mi was stunned for a moment, scratched the back of his head, and smiled awkwardly, changing the subject, "Uh, I haven't been to your house in a long time. How is Ms. Wang Meili doing recently?"
Hearing Su Mi mention Ms. Wang Meili, Lu Yibei's eyes trembled slightly, and his heart felt like it was squeezed, skipping a beat, but it quickly returned to normal, and then he started rambling.
"Oh, this Mimi is just weak! Didn't you say you would carry me? It's hilarious, you can't even fly! No way, no way? Is there really a mid laner whose output is less than the support's in a single game!"
"And you said that our sumaker just purely wanted to give me a cup of milk tea? Wow, are you a Bodhisattva?! You like giving gifts so much?"
"I..." Listening to Lu Yibei's sarcastic remarks, Su Mi's chest heaved for a while, and he growled fiercely, "Shut up! Isn't it just milk tea? I'll buy you a cup."
"You think one cup can shut me up?"
"Then how many do you want?"
"A hundred cups?"
"Damn, at most fifty cups!" Su Mi growled.
"Deal!" Lu Yibei's eyes narrowed, and he turned to the classmates he was with, shouting at the top of his lungs, "Everyone, send me what milk tea you want in the class group. Young Master Su is paying for everything today!"
As his voice fell, the internet cafe erupted in cheers.
"Woohoo~!"
"Young Master Su is generous, Young Master Su!"
"..."
For a time, the internet cafe was filled with a joyful atmosphere.
However, human joys and sorrows are not connected; happiness belonged to them, but not to Su Mi, nor to Lu Yibei.
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While the classmates were cheering and jumping, Lu Yibei sat in his chair, staring at them blankly, not saying a word.
He knew all these people; they were his former high school classmates, or rather, their projections. Some of them even had a good relationship with him.
Lu Yibei once thought that as long as he didn't attend the farewell dinner, they wouldn't part ways.
However, ever since he had a car accident during his graduation trip, missed the graduation party, and then disappeared as if he had evaporated from the world, lying in the hospital for nearly a year, he lost contact and disappeared into the crowd.
Lu Yibei looked at them with no expression on his face. Then, as if he remembered something, his eyes also dimmed...
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Half an hour later.
Cultural Road, in front of the Red Sun Buffet Hot Pot restaurant, a group of teenagers holding milk tea, sucking on straws in unison, walked into the entrance one after another.
Aside from the group of over a dozen people who were playing together at the internet cafe, the other classmates who attended the graduation dinner had arrived early, and the hot pot restaurant was filled with singing and dancing.
That's right, it was singing and dancing. Two classmates at the entrance seemed to have gotten drunk not long after starting to eat. They were hugging each other and twisting around like they were ballroom dancing.
In a corner of the private room, a guy who had suppressed his feelings for three years, emboldened by alcohol, awkwardly strummed a guitar, seizing the last opportunity to confess to a boy he liked. The boy stood there blankly, his face flushed, unsure if he was drunk or shy.
Bypassing the chaotic center, Lu Yibei and Su Mi's group found a corner table and sat down.
Su Mi lowered her head to look at the Double-boiled hot pot (half-spicy, half-clear broth hot pot) on the table, and her face instantly fell.
"What the heck? Are you serious? A Double-boiled hot pot? Xu Dazhi, did you order this?"
"I, I've been having that problem again recently..." a male classmate said weakly.
"No! Absolutely not!" Su Mi slapped the table and declared loudly, "A mildly spicy red broth is our absolute bottom line!"
Instead of helping the classmate named Xu, the other students egged on, "Exactly! Hold the line! Xu Dazhi, if you're scared of your butt hurting, go eat at another table!"
Lu Yibei looked at this scene and sighed inwardly.
So, this is what a so-called graduation dinner is like? It feels pretty good!
But can Xu Dazhi really eat? I remember, he had surgery for hemorrhoids three times during his senior year.
Just as he was secretly pondering, a small hand suddenly reached out from behind and gently patted his shoulder.
"Lu Yibei, where's Xiao Hua? Didn't she come with you?"
Lu Yibei was startled, turned his head to look at the girl who had appeared behind him without him noticing, paused for two or three seconds, and shook his head, "No, I went gaming with them today. I wasn't with Xiao Hua."
Hearing this, the girl frowned and mumbled, "That's strange. We clearly agreed to go shopping together this afternoon, but I didn't see her all day, and her phone is unreachable... Now, even you, her boyfriend, don't know where she went. It's really too strange."
"Never mind, it's okay, you keep eating!" The girl smiled at Lu Yibei, then turned and returned to her seat.
Watching the girl's retreating figure, Lu Yibei frowned slightly.
Xiao Hua... Although I don't know why that married Miss became my childhood sweetheart in the Special Space, based on my previous interactions with her, she should be a Psychic.
Speaking of which, her projection was very likely taken away by the Eclipse Society along with her Power.
In other words, she no longer exists in this city, right? Just like...
Thinking this, Lu Yibei shook his head, ruthlessly shaking off Ms. Wang Meili who was gradually appearing in his mind. He collected himself and focused on eating.
Tripe, duck intestine, tender beef... As the food cooked in the bubbling red oil broth, Lu Yibei silently kept stuffing food into his mouth. To eat the perfectly cooked deliciousness the moment it was ready, he even used his precognition ability.
He had originally decided to be invisible, bury his head in the food, finish this graduation dinner which was more symbolic than practical, and then quietly erase his traces, content to be a tool maintaining the operation of the Special Space.
However, an accident happened while he was eating.
A classmate at the same table accidentally knocked over a wine glass, and the drink in the glass spilled into the stove. As the flickering flames burned it, a foul smell immediately spread out.
Just as the other classmates smelled the unpleasant odor and backed away, Su Mi noticed that Lu Yibei seemed as if nothing had happened. He was staring intently at the hot pot, like his 'eating soul' had awakened, continuously sending the cooked tripe into his mouth.
Seeing this, he frowned slightly, walked over, and squatted beside Lu Yibei, patting his thigh, "Xiao Bei, don't you smell a strange odor?"
"A strange odor... No!" Lu Yibei looked at Su Mi blankly, then at the hot pot on the table, and frowned.
He noticed that blue smoke was rising from the stove beneath the hot pot due to the spilled drink, yet none of the smoke drifted towards him.
After two seconds of stunned (stunned silence), he seemed to suddenly realize something. He fumbled around on himself and then found the bracelet in his pocket that Ms. Wang Meili had left him, which could prevent smoke from drifting towards him when eating hot pot.
Lu Yibei was silent for a moment, then suddenly stood up, said to Su Mi, "I'm going to the restroom," and quickly left the private room.
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In the evening, the street lights began to turn on.
Jiang Li walked on the streets of Cultural Road. The treetops of the street trees swayed in the wind, occasionally letting a few half-green, half-yellow leaves flutter down.
She walked and stopped along the way, searching, constantly looking down at the compass she had just bought in her hand, then looking around, gradually getting closer to Lu Yibei.
Then...
At a bustling intersection, her gaze penetrated the passing crowd, and beneath the sign that read "Red Sun Buffet Hot Pot," she saw a familiar figure, feeling a sense of "suddenly turning around, only to find that person in the dimly lit place."
The young man was sitting on a stone pier by the road, holding something in his hands, looking down intently, his figure lonely and desolate, like a small beast separated from its pack.
Jiang Li opened her mouth, instinctively wanting to call out Lu Yibei's name, but the second before the words left her lips, she closed them again and, taking advantage of the green light, walked forward quickly.
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Street side.
Lu Yibei stared blankly at the bracelet, his mind a blank.
He had originally thought that his inexplicable obsession with a "farewell" was just a sudden wave of sentimentality.
However, the moment he pulled the bracelet out of his pocket, he suddenly understood. He didn't want to say goodbye to these classmates, nor did he want to say goodbye to Nanling Yaohua, or this Special Space. He just wanted to say goodbye to Ms. Wang Meili.
Although he had been avoiding it, pretending not to be sad at all by gaming with classmates and attending the graduation dinner, it was ultimately just avoidance, self-deception...
Just like he couldn't face Old Dad's departure back then, now he couldn't face Ms. Wang Meili's departure.
Damn it, if only she were a mother who only gave birth and didn't raise me, completely irresponsible...
Lu Yibei thought fiercely, then sighed softly, gripping the bracelet in his hand.
Just then, a voice sounded beside him without warning.
"It looks like the hot pot here isn't very good. This customer is almost crying."
Seeing the round-toed leather shoes suddenly enter his line of sight, Lu Yibei was startled. His gaze moved up, past the simple white dress, and he saw a familiar face.
The light from the street lamp shone on the girl's very soft facial contours, casting a faint golden glow into her slightly cold eyes.
The lamplight made the girl's facial features very soft, and the light in her eyes was diffused into a charming gold.
"..." Lu Yibei hesitated, then looked at the hot pot restaurant sign behind him, and tried to look happy, "Actually, this hot pot tastes quite good. The hot pot base is well-made and fragrant, the buffet dishes are good quality and affordable, and the best part is the drinks are free."
"Oh." Jiang Li responded flatly, tilting her head and asking, "So, are you working part-time here? Were you bullied by the boss while working, and that's why you want to cry?"
"Of course not, it's good enough if I don't bully the boss."
"..." Jiang Li glanced at the small sign hanging at the entrance of the hot pot restaurant that read, "Class Three, Grade Two Teacher Appreciation Dinner," and nodded thoughtfully, "Oh, I see. You were reliving the feeling of youth and couldn't help but feel nostalgic and melancholic."
"Where would people like us have any youth!" Lu Yibei said mockingly, then quietly lowered his head, not daring to look into Jiang Li's eyes that seemed to see through people's hearts.
However, Jiang Li still caught the moment he lowered his head, and the emotions he was desperately trying to suppress in his eyes.
She walked forward, gently hugged Lu Yibei's head, and said softly, "Why is that? If you're willing, can you tell me?"
Feeling the faint body heat from the soft arms, Lu Yibei's body stiffened for a moment. The next moment, tears uncontrollably welled up in his eyes.
He could have suppressed everything in his heart, if Jiang Li hadn't appeared...
"Leader... I don't have a mother anymore! I don't have any family left! Not anymore!"
"..." Jiang Li was startled, remained silent for a long time, then slowly lowered her head, resting her forehead against Lu Yibei's head, and said softly, "It's okay, I'm here..."
