Arknights: It Was Game Over for Me a Bit Too Early

"Shuò... ah no, Chongyue, that kid, he's really famous all over the world now," Hong Yu said with some emotion, taking the letter Wang handed him.

"So Big Brother isn't coming back this year?" Ling naturally draped herself over Hong Yu's back, her head leaning forward slightly, trying to see what was written in the letter from Chongyue.

A faint fragrance filled Hong Yu's nostrils. It was all too familiar.

Pushing aside the hair that was blocking the words, Hong Yu read the letter again, then put it in a drawer and replied, "Mm, he's not coming back."

"He, ah, still has his own things to do. A hundred years... time really flies," he sighed.

"Ah... has it been a hundred years already?" Ling scratched her head, a little slow on the uptake, and laughed, "I don't really feel it..."

Hong Yu chuckled lightly and rubbed Ling's head, saying, "Of course. Because you, this girl, just know how to get drunk and live in a daze all day. Who knows what the world looks like in your eyes."

Ling pushed Hong Yu's hand away. Her appearance had become more and more beautiful over the past hundred years. With a faint blush on her face, she grumbled dissatisfaction, "I'm not a little girl anymore, old fellow!"

"Hahaha, you've even changed what you call me from 'Yu' to 'old fellow.' Still say you don't feel the passage of time? This name alone has quite a deep impact on me..."

"Hah, what do you know? The name 'old fellow' is my way of wishing you a long life. After all, I've never seen any mortal as old as you. So, when I call you 'old fellow,' it's a blessing from a giant beast!" Ling raised a finger and poked Hong Yu's still-youthful cheek.

"So... to help you live even longer, do you want to try calling me—Sister Ling?" Ling's expression gradually became mischievous, and she reached out her hand as if to pull off the silk that was always wrapped around Hong Yu's eyes.

In her memory... Hong Yu didn't seem to mind others looking at his eyes... right?

Ling suddenly became a little unsure if she had mixed up dreams and reality.

Hong Yu smiled and held Ling's finger, moving it away from his face. "Ling, I've discovered that you're really not taking me seriously anymore, are you? Do you want me to help you recall your childhood?"

Hearing this, Ling instantly behaved herself.

To be honest, when she heard from her big brother and second brother that she was flown into the sky as a dragon bubble by Hong Yu and almost got lost because of Nian, Ling had thought they were joking.

It wasn't until her big brother took out that kite with a nostalgic expression that Ling believed that the early Hong Yu could really do such things regardless of his image...

Although Hong Yu's image had never been very proper anyway...

Although being flown into the sky couldn't possibly have hurt Ling in any way, it was really too embarrassing...

Ling definitely didn't want to experience it again, so she walked away with a wry smile, muttering things like "Tch, not as easy to tease as before..."

"When was I ever easy to tease? Are you mixing up dreams and reality again..." Hong Yu thought helplessly.

He didn't know why Ling had been gradually unable to distinguish between dreams and reality recently. He had tried to show concern many times before, but Ling had always brushed it off with the excuse of being drunk.

And after many times, Hong Yu gradually stopped asking.

He had this attitude towards all the fragments. They all had their own lives. Asking too much would be annoying.

The house, once again empty, was quite deserted. For some reason, Hong Yu suddenly felt like sighing, "Everyone's busy, it's good to be busy..."

During these hundred years, besides Ling, who had always been very clingy, and Xi, who was more of a social recluse, all the other fragments had left this place for various reasons, just like Chongyue had.

Either they had embarked on the path of stabilizing their "self," or they simply wanted to go out and see the world.

Or, it was for the needs of Yan and their concern for the common people of the world.

Wang had gradually accepted the identity of the Prefect of the Sui Regulator. His official promotion was probably just a matter of a word from him.

Nian had gone to Shangshu at the request of the Yan Ministry of Works. But from the letters she wrote every three days, Hong Yu could see that she, who was born with a love for spicy food, was probably having a good time there.

As for Shu... as soon as she heard about the famine in the Great Wild City, she applied to Hong Yu and then rushed over without stopping. Shu rejected Hong Yu's offer of help, with the reason being "I don't want to cause any more trouble for the Master."

Heh, silly girl. You're the one who has caused me the least trouble of all.

Hong Yu's memories ended. He got up, preparing to go out for a walk or make breakfast. After the youngest twelve had also left, the task of cooking naturally fell to Hong Yu, who had some basic skills.

There was no way around it. He couldn't expect anything from Ling, the drunkard. As for Xi...

He didn't want to eat food painted from ink again...

Those paintings might be delicacies in the eyes of ordinary people, but when Hong Yu ate them, he could only taste ink. This matter had also made Xi sad for a long time...

Xi: The old fellow dislikes me. He won't even eat the dishes I "made"... (Drawing circles in a corner with a paintbrush)

Hong Yu supported his forehead in helplessness. He suddenly realized that he had become very fond of reminiscing about the past after getting old.

Seeing that Xi had not yet come out, Hong Yu walked directly to Xi's room and knocked on the door, preparing to wake her up.

Knock, knock, knock.

"Xi, time to wake up."

Knock, knock, knock.

"..."

Still sleeping?

Hong Yu thought, and then directly opened the door.

"Yu..." a weak voice came from the bundle of blankets on the bed. Xi slowly poked her small head out, her pretty face pale. "I'm scared..."

At this time, Xi's fingers were tightly clutching the bedsheets, her knuckles turning slightly white. Her moist eyes could no longer hold back the tears, which flowed down one by one.

Seeing Hong Yu walk in, almost at the instant she finished speaking, Xi threw herself into Hong Yu's arms, causing him to be knocked to the ground.

"Xi, what are you doing..." Hong Yu was taken aback by Xi's pounce. With the warm, soft jade in his arms, he was about to say something but fell silent as he looked at Xi, who was trying hard to hold back her tears in his arms.

"It's okay, it's okay. Don't be afraid, don't be afraid." Stroking Xi's trembling, delicate body, Hong Yu constantly comforted this little cat who seemed to have been frightened by a lion.

After a while, when Xi had calmed down, Hong Yu wiped her red, swollen eyes and asked gently, "What did you dream about? What scared you so much that you cried?"

To be honest, Hong Yu knew that Xi was timid, but he didn't know that she was so timid that she would be scared to tears by a dream.

At this time, Xi had barely managed to control her emotions. She said in a hoarse voice, "Yu... is 'Sui'... still alive..."

"I... I dreamed of Him... we... were all dead..."

Hearing this, Hong Yu's eyes widened instantly.

He seemed to have forgotten one thing. When he defeated "Sui" back then, It really hadn't died...

Which means...

Damn it, has the consciousness of "Sui" already shown signs of revival?

But... according to his memory... It shouldn't have shown signs of awakening until thousands of years later, right? Although he did plan to completely resolve the "Sui" incident before he died, but... this is too early! Could it be the butterfly effect brought about by his time travel?

And thinking about Ling's recent frequent zoning out, and occasionally being unable to distinguish between dreams and reality...

Sui...

Are you angry that you were defeated by a mortal?

To start contending for authority thousands of years early... you really are...

Hong Yu, holding Xi, had a serious expression on his face, but the next second it returned to its original state.

"Xi, that was just a dream. If you can still dream of 'Sui' tonight..."

"Yu." Hong Yu's words were interrupted by Xi. She looked up at Hong Yu's face, her moist eyes like those of a fawn, and her cherry lips parted slightly. "Can I sleep with you? When I'm with you, I feel very safe, Yu..."

"..."

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...Sui family's idle chat...

"The Master's sleeping posture... is a bit poor..." Xi's face turned red for some reason. She scratched her slightly flushed cheek and said, "He seems to be unable to fall asleep unless he's hugging something..."

What she didn't know was that as she said this, besides the slightly dazed Chongyue and Wang who were just there for the gossip, the faces of the other sisters like Ling, Shu, and Nian turned as black as the bottom of a pot.

"Xi-gua... how do you know?" Nian asked with ill intent.

Xi turned her head away with a red face and didn't speak, not even noticing that Nian had called her by her nickname.

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