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

Again... I've mixed up dreams, the future, the past, and reality...

While Hong Yu was looking for Xi, Ling on the other side also belatedly reacted.

The old fellow never stares at people directly with his own eyes... that was the future? Or something from the past...

In the future where the old fellow doesn't seal his emotions? Or the past?

Ling didn't know. She only knew it wasn't now.

Her dreams had become stranger and stranger recently, and sometimes very long, surprisingly long, sometimes even lasting for a whole ten years. She had a premonition that her dreams might become longer and longer.

Ling suddenly felt a little scared, afraid that one day she would get lost in her dreams and no longer be herself...

Afraid that one day she would forget everyone else. She was scared, especially of forgetting Yu. She absolutely didn't want to forget.

She would even dream of Yu's death...

Ling knew that her authority—Carefree, dreams could be prophetic, but she just didn't dare to believe it.

Just as Ling's thoughts were in chaos and the wine jug in her hand was gradually emptying, she heard Hong Yu's voice.

"Ling? Why are you drinking alone in this wilderness? It's time to go back," Hong Yu said, walking slowly and leisurely, as if nothing could ever trouble him.

"Yu, sometimes I really envy you..." Ling suddenly said a sentence that came out of nowhere, although she didn't know why she blurted it out as soon as she saw Hong Yu.

"Huh?" Hong Yu's footsteps froze for a second, then quickly resumed. He said in a teasing tone, "Did you dream of some future again? Come on, the future is all illusory. Just be yourself. Don't be all sentimental. That kind of behavior isn't very 'Ling' of you."

Hong Yu walked to Ling's side and sat down, then gestured for Ling to give him the wine gourd.

"Hey, when did my name become an adjective? By the way, weren't you here to call me back? Why are you asking me for wine now?" Ling laughed, but still obediently handed the wine gourd to Hong Yu. She smacked her lips a couple of times and then reminded him, "It's almost empty, drink sparingly."

Hong Yu chuckled lightly and drank from the wine gourd Ling had drunk from without any hesitation, gulping it down. After drinking, he coughed a couple of times and then slowly said, "It's not like we can't go buy more after we finish. Why bother caring so much?"

"Ah, I still don't drink often enough. A little cough... How about we go buy some tanghulu on the street later?" Hong Yu suggested to Ling on the side.

Ling, with a "that's enough" expression, took the empty gourd from Hong Yu and said helplessly, "Old fellow, you don't seem to have changed at all since I was a child..."

"Oh? Then what kind of person do you think I was when you were a child?" Hong Yu suddenly asked back.

"You... of course you were..." Ling was stunned for a moment. A huge amount of memory from her dreams constantly washed over her brain, making her unable to recall the bits and pieces of the past for a while.

For a moment, a wave of panic unconsciously began to occupy her brain.

"You..." Ling panicked. She was about to quickly brush Hong Yu off and then recall properly on her own, but her words were interrupted by Hong Yu's forceful attitude.

"Ling," Hong Yu directly reached out and wrapped his arm around Ling's soft waist, pulling her into his arms. "Ling, don't hide it from me anymore. Tell me... about 'Sui.' His influence on you is definitely not shallow, right?"

Ling was flustered by Hong Yu's sudden action for a moment. She just stammered and couldn't say a word. Her fair cheeks were gradually occupied by red, and her two restless hands silently wrapped around Hong Yu's waist under the influence of her subconscious.

"This, that... er..."

"It's okay, no hurry," Hong Yu's tone remained calm. "Let's start from the simple things. Just tell me what you dream about every day, how about that?"

While Hong Yu was speaking, he used his power on Ling, slightly sealing the restless consciousness of "Sui."

Ling only felt a cool sensation instantly spread from her heart to her whole body, and her memories gradually became clear.

After adjusting her state, she returned to her usual carefree and unrestrained appearance, as if the Ling who had been like a lovesick little deer just now was not herself.

"Well... since you've said so, old fellow..." Ling's arms around Hong Yu gradually tightened, and she also hugged him tightly. "It's not like I can't tell you..."

Often, after facing the risk of forgetting, people will begin to value others more than before.

"Ling, it's a little tight... can you..." Hong Yu suddenly noticed something was wrong.

"Just a little longer, I'm a little tired, old fellow," Ling buried her head in Hong Yu's chest, greedily breathing in the fresh scent from him.

Seeing this, Hong Yu didn't say much more, just let Ling hug him.

It's not like he'd lose a piece of flesh, right?

Not caring about his gradually weakening body, Hong Yu thought.

He would later teleport to different places repeatedly, trying his best not to let the other fragments discover his plan.

Although this kind of behavior had a great negative impact on his body, out of concern for whether the consciousness of "Sui" would affect the other fragments, Hong Yu still did this without hesitation.

Even if... this kind of behavior would make him die earlier...

But it doesn't matter anymore, right?

They have already grown up. All he needs to do is to pave the way for them in the final time he has left.

The silk that had loosened at some point this time did not cover Hong Yu's eyes, but floated away with the wind.

Ling looked up, and this time she clearly saw Hong Yu's gray-blue eyes.

They were full of a tenderness that he himself had not noticed.

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"The ancient texts record... that the first Prefect's abilities were actually ever-changing, and the types were in the hundreds. But most people, in their entire lives, could not achieve the mastery of even one of the Prefect's abilities," Leizi asked a certain chili-loving fragment who was living in seclusion in a Lungmen shop, "Miss Nian, I would like to ask you... what was the cause of the first Prefect's death?"

"Little girl, he died of illness, and of old age," Nian's expression gradually softened from its initial unfriendliness. To be honest, she was a little impressed by the courage of this young girl who had traveled thousands of miles from the capital of Yan to Lungmen, daring to come and ask the fragments about Hong Yu's cause of death.

"But, if the records in the ancient texts of the Sui Regulator are all true, then the first Prefect was undoubtedly a god-level existence. How could it be possible..."

"Stop," Nian reached out and used her paper fan to cover Leizi's mouth. She laughed at herself and then answered casually, "Yes, we also once thought he was an omnipotent god... unfortunately, he wasn't."

What's even more ridiculous is that we only realized this after he died.

"Alright, little girl, I don't want to talk about it anymore," Nian waved her hand to dismiss her guest. "I finally got a decade-long vacation from my second brother. I don't want to answer any more work-related questions."

"However..." Nian's tone changed. "If you're here to eat hot pot at my place, you're very welcome."

Leizi looked at the sign of Nian's hot pot restaurant, said thank you, and then turned to leave.

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