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

The Great Wild City.

Knock, knock, knock.

In the early morning, Shu, who was washing up and preparing to go solve the famine today, heard a knock on the door. She walked slowly to open the door, and after seeing who was outside, she was a little shocked.

"Master?" Shu, with a toothbrush still in her mouth, asked with a muffled voice, "Why are you here?"

Hong Yu outside the door had a calm expression. He smiled, "Can't I come to see you if there's nothing wrong? But... shouldn't you tidy yourself up a bit first?"

Hong Yu pointed to Shu's face, meaning her complexion was not good.

But what Shu thought of was that she really seemed... to have come to the door very sloppily!

Her face wasn't washed, her teeth weren't finished brushing, and the dark circles on her face from being exhausted by the famine problem in recent days were becoming more and more obvious...

"Wait, wait, wait... wait a minute! Sorry!" Shu almost instantly closed the door, and the gust of wind it created even blew Hong Yu's hair.

Hong Yu stood blankly in front of Shu's door, but after a moment, Shu came back and opened the door.

Looking at Shu, who was quite guilty that she still couldn't change the fact that her complexion was poor even after washing up, Hong Yu sighed with some heartache, "Which little girl was it who said 'I don't want to make the Master worry' before?"

"I'm not a little girl anymore... Master..." Shu averted her gaze, a little guilty.

"One after another, you all emphasize this point... Hah, I also know, I've become an old thing..." Hong Yu deliberately sighed with emotion.

But Shu didn't really take the bait. She just asked, "So the Master came to find me for no reason... aren't you worried about little Xi and Sister Ling anymore?"

"They're probably much more mature than you..." Hong Yu sighed.

At least they wouldn't think of sealing a demon on their own.

Isn't that just messing around?

Hong Yu thought helplessly.

But looking at Shu, who was stunned after hearing his words, he couldn't help but feel secretly lucky: Shu hadn't yet tried to use her own consciousness to seal the demon.

He had just used his ability to check Shu's spirit. No change.

Thank goodness... she hasn't tried to bear the demon's evil thoughts with her own consciousness yet...

There's still time for everything.

Hong Yu was worried. Since his arrival had changed the time of "Sui's" awakening, then other times might no longer be the timeline he was familiar with.

But fortunately, at least Shu's side hadn't reached a worse time yet.

He was lucky.

Shu, on the other hand, was a little surprised. Could it be that in the less than ten years she had been out, little Xi and Sister Ling had super-evolved?!

The stay-at-home and the drunkard became... the home-squatter and the drunkard?

Not to mention Nian, who had finally gotten a government job, but just talking about Ling and Xi...

Okay, forgive Shu for not being able to imagine Xi and Ling becoming serious and not needing to be worried about. After all, when she was still the young Shu-mama, Ling, Nian, and Xi were her main objects of concern.

"What, you don't welcome me? Still standing here blocking the door and not letting me in?" Hong Yu smiled at the stunned Shu, and then said with a fake sigh, "Sigh... sure enough, when they get old, children will more or less become rebellious..."

"Alright, alright, alright! Master, just stop acting. You clearly still look so young..." looking at Hong Yu's feigned sadness, Shu couldn't help but sigh. Then she gestured with her hand, "Come in and sit."

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...

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"Shennong... huh?"

Hong Yu pinched his chin and looked at Shu, who had a serious face with a hint of (a child who chose to run away from home for their dream and was then caught by their parents) embarrassment, and said slowly, "So, this is the absurd reason you traveled thousands of miles to the Great Wild City... just to inherit the last wish of a pen pal?"

"Master... this isn't some absurd reason..." Shu was about to say something, but was interrupted by Hong Yu.

"Of course it's absurd, Shu," Hong Yu sighed. "You absolutely didn't have to, Shu."

"But..." Shu was stunned and wanted to refute something again, but was still interrupted by Hong Yu.

"Listen to me first. First of all, I support you. I support all of you. This is my most fundamental principle."

"You came to the Great Wild City to inherit the last wish of 'Shennong.' To serve the common people of this world... you want to say 'isn't this good?'"

"But you seem to have put too much on your own shoulders, haven't you?"

"But what about yourself? Are you just forcing yourself based on a so-called last wish? You can persist for a hundred years, you can persist for a thousand years, but can you persist for ten thousand years?"

"Suppose, ten thousand years later, you finally get tired. You get tired of this burden. But do you really have the ability to let it go? Won't you be unable to sleep at night because you let go of this burden and caused the famine to reappear?"

Shu suddenly felt a little guilty. In her impression, Hong Yu had never spoken to anyone with such a serious tone... except for herself now...

"Master, what you're saying is too... a thousand years later, humans definitely won't experience famine again, right? At that time, I can just..."

"Shu, stop lying to me. You already know the root cause of the famine in this land, don't you?"

"..."

"Demons, right?"

"..." Shu was silent again for a while. The expression on her face gradually changed from surprise to calmness.

Right, how could I hide what I'm doing from the Master? After all, he is that omnipotent Master...

"Master... you know everything? About the demons polluting the land?" Hong Yu's one sentence shattered all the drafts Shu had prepared to deal with him. She could only ask tentatively.

"Heh, I knew it," Hong Yu smiled, but Shu could only feel the feeling of a naughty child caught by their parents, breaking out in a cold sweat from Hong Yu's smile.

"I guess if you really can't solve the problem of demonic pollution, you're going to go up there yourself and seal it with your own consciousness, right?"

"..." Shu was silent again.

Seeing this, Hong Yu shook his head and walked in front of Shu.

In a hundred years, this young girl had really grown up a lot, from only reaching his waist at the beginning to now only being a head shorter than him.

"Promise me, okay? Shu, don't make things difficult for yourself," Hong Yu pulled this girl who was in a dilemma into his arms.

"But... the people of the Great Wild City are still facing famine..." Shu's tone was difficult. At this time, her mind was in a mess and she subconsciously relied on Hong Yu.

"Leave it to me. I'll take care of it," Hong Yu promised in one go. Although it seemed that "Sui's" consciousness had not had much influence on Shu yet, looking at Shu's haggard face, even Hong Yu felt a little heartache.

Is my heart aching? Because I can't bear to see Shu's exhaustion and self-sacrificing behavior?

"As for now, get some good rest," Hong Yu's tone was gentle. He seemed to have another emotional fluctuation that he himself had not noticed.

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Full ears of wheat slipped from Shu's hands. The light of the rising sun shone on her beautiful face. Drops of sweat slid down her cheeks and dripped onto the fields below.

"They're all ripe," Shu said with some emotion. "The seeds left by the Master, after thousands of years of development, can already solve the famine in almost all regions of Yan..."

In a daze, she seemed to see a familiar figure sitting in front of the door cooling off under the rising sun. He waved to her.

"Master?" Shu was stunned, but the next second that figure disappeared.

"An illusion... is it?" Shu rubbed her eyes and smiled wistfully.

What am I thinking... the Master has already... passed away...

She took a deep breath and continued with her work for the day.

Master...

This golden age is as you wished.

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