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

In the end, they still left.

They left with feelings of silence, or resentment, or grief.

Of course, they had noticed that bastard Hong Yu's one sentence "get together more often," which he had decided without a word, but now they couldn't.

"Big Brother, I'm going back to the Sui Regulator first," Wang said, organizing Hong Yu's belongings, his face calm.

"Mm," Chongyue, also filled with a sense of sorrow, didn't know how to comfort his younger siblings at this time and could only nod.

Master, I'm still not mature enough.

Thinking of this, he sighed helplessly.

You left just like that, and you're really good at ordering people around.

"Second Brother, I'll go with you," Nian came to Wang's side at this time, stopping him who was about to leave first.

"Ninth Sister, what are you following me for? I'm going back to handle work. After all, the Master has irresponsibly thrown the position of Prefect on me," Wang frowned slightly.

If I could have foreseen Hong Yu's impending actions at that time and stopped him... would everything have been different?

Wang shook his head, throwing the unrealistic thoughts out of his head, and at the same time looked at the sheepishly smiling Nian with confusion.

"It's just... I suddenly realized that I actually don't know the old fellow at all..." Nian's eyes were filled with a hint of loneliness.

"I've never been to the Sui Regulator before, so I suddenly want to go and see what the old fellow's workplace is like, to try to walk the path he once walked, to see the places he once went."

"...I thought that if I hid everything, I wouldn't cause him any trouble, but things still turned out this way," she lowered her head slightly, clutching the storybook left by Hong Yu in her hand. Her eye sockets gradually became moist as she spoke.

"I want... to go and see," she looked up, and tears also slid down.

"..." Wang was silent for a moment, and then said in his eternally calm tone, "Then just follow me yourself."

Nian wiped away her tears and followed Wang's footsteps.

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Xi still hid in her paintings.

It seemed that the world in the paintings was her only refuge.

She didn't want to accept it, and she couldn't accept it.

How could he die? He's clearly... clearly an omnipotent guy... how could it be possible? How could it be possible!!

The paintbrush in Xi's hand was clenched tightly by her. She once again tore up this painting of hers.

She was trying to make Hong Yu her "creation," to let Hong Yu live in her own world, but she failed.

That is ultimately a fake Yu, not Yu...

In a daze, the torn pieces of canvas turned into butterflies. The butterflies scattered with the wind to all parts of the world, dyeing the black and white future with color.

Xi was stunned. She remembered that this was Hong Yu once showing her the control of "Sui's" authority. She vaguely remembered that at that time he was still laughing and gloating, "Sui's authority can be ever-changing. You've regressed, Xi!"...

These memories... they're still here...

How ridiculous.

I painted "love" in my missing heart, and never once opened my mouth to him.

Xi, holding an oil-paper umbrella, walked alone in the burning rain in the painting. Then, the painting broke.

It seemed she had no place to go again.

She shed tears silently, like a down-and-out Cinderella from a fairy tale.

"Little crybaby, don't cry." That person's hand seemed to still be there to wipe away her tears, and would still gently stroke her head.

His voice seemed to still constantly ring in her ears, his figure would still tirelessly tidy up her painting table for her, and he would still continue to teach her how to check his new paintings...

He, doesn't like to see me cry.

The beauty holding the umbrella wiped the tears from her face, trying hard to force a smile, but the forced happiness made her exhausted.

I can't... hold it in at all...

The tears still couldn't stop flowing, but this time there was no longer that fantasy to wipe her tears for her.

That's right. He's dead.

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The sky over the Sui Regulator was deep red.

Drinking the wine she had been longing for, Ling felt no joy at all.

It doesn't taste good.

This was her most direct evaluation. It was clearly a fine wine that Hong Yu had treasured for a long time, but it couldn't make Ling feel the joy she had felt when drinking those jugs of cheap white wine before.

Maybe it's because the person who messed around with you is gone?

Memories drifted. It seemed to go back to when she was a child, holding his hand in the morning market of Yan, or sitting on his shoulders.

And all the things from when they traveled the mountains and waters of Yan together, or that quiet sneak-attack kiss, or that kiss that no one knew about.

"Old fellow, what were you thinking at that time? And what did you do for us silently?"

Ah... why am I talking to a photograph...

Ling looked at the few photos of him she had left in her hand. A single tear slid down, and she suddenly blurted out, "Liar."

You're not omnipotent at all... old fellow.

Ling suddenly clutched her forehead, recalling the last time she had seen Hong Yu.

At that time, his shoulder seemed to move, and his eyes were also flickering between light and dark...

Her stomach ached. She clutched her stomach, and an indescribable feeling of nausea swelled in her mind.

Ah... Ah!!

I clearly noticed something at that time!

Ah... the only correct answer, why did I only think of it now?

Could I have held you at that time...

She warmed the two bowls of wine as usual. One cup was empty, the other was getting cold.

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"Shu, did Lord Prefect come back with you? We've already prepared a celebration banquet for him! He's definitely the biggest hero of this harvest!"

"I'm sorry... the Master, he's gone," Shu said apologetically, looking at the residents of the Great Wild City who had come to ask about Hong Yu's whereabouts.

"Gone?" The few people were taken aback, and then it dawned on them, "Oh, oh oh, it's okay, it's okay. After all, Lord Prefect is busy with a thousand things. Sigh, it's just a pity about the celebration banquet we prepared. The biggest hero didn't come."

Looking at the simple and honest villagers, Shu didn't have the heart to tell them the news that Hong Yu had already passed away. After all, spoiling the atmosphere of the celebration banquet wouldn't be good.

However, she still decided not to attend the celebration banquet.

"I'm sorry, Uncle Zhang. I won't be attending the celebration banquet this time. I'm not feeling well," Shu said apologetically.

"It's okay, it's okay. Then Shu, you get some good rest!"

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The silent night, after the hustle and bustle of the celebration banquet, seemed particularly dead.

Shu stared blankly at the empty bed. In an instant, the expression that had been calm all along suddenly lost control, and tears couldn't stop flowing.

The Master is dead... he's dead...

So he wasn't an omnipotent person after all. So he would also die!

We relied on him, and selfishly thought he could do anything.

But, he wasn't omnipotent. He couldn't paint, he couldn't farm, he didn't like to drink, and he was particularly fond of tanghulu... he had so many things he wasn't good at. He was just a mortal, not a god!

The longing that penetrated deep into her bones, the lingering gaze into the distance.

All the traces he left behind made Shu so suffocated that she couldn't breathe.

At night, only the faint sobs in the room and the croaking of frogs and chirping of insects outside were left.

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