Just as Bai Lixin approached Pris Xingchen, the man suddenly leaned back, his body falling straight from the 100-meter-high rooftop.
Bai Lixin quickly reached out his hand, trying to grab Pris Xingchen.
However, he was a step too late and his outstretched hand only caught the sleeve of Pris Xingchen’s shirt.
The sleeve was pulled apart by gravity, and Bai Lixin clenched the half sleeve tightly, watching Pris Xingchen fall from the air.
Not long after Pris Xingchen fell, a blue light suddenly flashed under his body, and then he disappeared in front of Bai Lixin.
Bai Lixin retracted his arm, his eyes deep. His expressionless face showing no emotion, and he balled up the half sleeve in his hand.
At the moment Pris Xingchen fell, he saw the man’s arm.
In the same position on the upper arm as himself, there was also a small mosaic snake.
He also had the Trojan virus invading this world.
That was why he could freely enter and exit this virtual world.
He knew him and even knew his real name, so was the other party also a player?
But weren’t players supposed to have arrived in this world just six days ago? Pris Xingchen had appeared five years ago.
Who was this mysterious man?
Was he really a player?
Looking down from the 100-meter-high rooftop, everything seemed small, like a grain of sand in the vast ocean.
The crowd was smaller than ants, and the six to seven meter long ambulance was only as big as an ant.
Bai Lixin looked down from the rooftop and saw the ambulance start to move.
The crowd around gradually dispersed, and the robot investigators entered the building. It seemed they were going to investigate Mr. Kayla’s house after examining the scene.
Bai Lixin’s hand clenched Pris Xingchen’s shirt until it turned white, then he turned and walked back: [S419M, Sister System, can you investigate Pris Xingchen’s identity?]
The sound of electrical current rang out in his mind, then the apologetic voice of the escape system came over: [Sorry, Master Bai Lixin, I can’t find out.]
S419M: [Lord Host, I can’t find out either.]
Bai Lixin had expected this result long ago and wasn’t too disappointed.
He stuffed the sleeve into his coat pocket and took the elevator to the first floor.
After leaving the apartment, Bai Lixin asked S419M to request a leave for him.
He hailed a taxi and went to the hospital.
He quickly found Mr. Kayla in the hospital. He was squatting despondently against the wall outside the operating room.
Just an hour ago, he was the energetic Mr. Kayla, full of enthusiasm for life. In just one hour, he was like a candle burning out, exuding a sorrowful sense of death.
The operating room ahead still had the “in operation” light on. Bai Lixin silently squatted beside Mr. Kayla, silently offering him some support.
Mr. Kayla lifted his head from his arms and glanced at Bai Lixin, his eyes red as if stained with blood.
Tears wet his face, carrying away Mr. Kayla’s vitality and youth.
He seemed to have aged several years in an instant.
After glancing at Bai Lixin, Mr. Kayla buried his head in his arms again, turning into an lifeless sculpture once more.
They stayed like this for half an hour, until “in operation” light went out, and the door of the operating room was pushed open. Mr. Kayla suddenly stood up and rushed to the doctor in a panic.
His lips were trembling, his teeth clattering, and he struggled to speak.
He wanted to ask about Mrs. Kayla’s condition, but he was afraid to hear the result he didn’t want to hear, and he didn’t even have the courage to ask.
Seeing this, the doctor took off his mask, patted Mr. Kayla’s shoulder, and said, “Medical technology nowadays is almost perfect. As long as it’s not complete death, we can save people.”
Mr. Kayla’s eyes suddenly lit up again. He reached out hesitantly, his voice trembling, “You mean my wife, she’s still…”
The doctor sighed, “But the patient fell from the 30th floor. With the huge pressure and speed, her body couldn’t withstand this impact, she died the moment she fell. When the patient was brought here, all her organs including the brain were already shattered, and we knew her outcome the moment we saw her condition, but we still tried for an hour. I’m sorry, we did our best, but unfortunately, she can’t be resurrected. Please accept our condolences.”
In that moment, a huge sadness and helplessness suddenly surged into Mr. Kayla’s heart.
Several doctors pushed the mobile bed out. The person on the bed was already covered with a white cloth, everything was already settled.
Mr. Kayla was so distraught that he even forgot to cry.
He stared blankly at his beloved, stunned on the spot.
He couldn’t accept that his wife, who had hugged him goodbye just a while ago, now appeared in front of him in such a cold and broken manner.
He didn’t even dare to lift the white cloth and refused to admit that this was his wife.
As long as he didn’t admit it, would his wife always be there?
The doctor looked at Mr. Kayla’s desperate expression, “Sir, I think you may need psychological treatment, your condition doesn’t seem very good.”
However, Mr. Kayla just followed behind the stretcher in a daze, silently following them towards the morgue.
Bai Lixin didn’t say anything from beginning to end, just stayed by Mr. Kayla’s side.
Until the body was brought to the autopsy table, Mr. Kayla still refused to leave.
At the moment when the body was transferred to the table, he may have suddenly realized the fact that his lover was really dead. He finally lifted the white cloth and slowly said goodbye to his wife who was no longer so delicate and beautiful.
“My dear.” Drops of hot tears slid from Mr. Kayla’s eyes, falling onto Mrs. Kayla’s hand, “I love you. My beloved, my goddess, at the moment you leave, my heart also stops beating.”
“When you were by my side, my life was full of colorful colors. But now I only see a gray and white.”
“We once said we would grow old together and spend the rest of our lives together. We planned a hundred things for life, but we’ve only done thirty so far. I thought we still had fifty or sixty years to complete the remaining seventy. I never thought one of us would suddenly leave, and in this way.”
Mr. Kayla passionately kissed the back of Mrs. Kayla’s hand that was slowly turning white.
“If I were selfish enough, I wish your soul could stay by my side even if you died.”
“But I can’t bear to see you suffer like this. If souls really exist, I hope your soul can be freed, I hope you can go to heaven.”
“If there is an afterlife, let’s meet again and embrace everything, okay?”
Tears flowed continuously, and by the end, Mr. Kayla was already choked up. He buried his head in Mrs. Kayla’s neck, crying to vent the grief of his lover’s departure.
Bai Lixin was somewhat moved.
While Mr. Kayla bid farewell, his eyes wandered over Mrs. Kayla’s body, and finally stopped at her ankle.
Her legs were broken, but the doctors had straightened them in the operating room. They were covered by the white cloth, and there were no signs of distortion.
Only Mrs. Kayla’s feet were exposed outside the white cloth, and her right ankle was slightly swollen and bruised, as if sprained.
Was it sprained in the struggle with the black figure?
An hour passed, and Mr. Kayla showed no sign of leaving.
The medical staff waiting around grew impatient and urged Mr. Kayla to leave quickly.
Although Mr. Kayla was reluctant, he could only leave helplessly.
After leaving the hospital, Mr. Kayla received a call from the police station.
At first, Bai Lixin didn’t know what the investigators had said to Mr. Kayla, until Mr. Kayla shouted angrily into the air.
“My wife couldn’t have committed suicide!”
“She’s always happy, how could she commit suicide?”
“She had psychological scars before… that was before! Not now! That incident happened over twenty years ago! Someone must have murdered my wife, she couldn’t have committed suicide!”
“I should go see a doctor? I’m not sick, I’m perfectly fine now!”
“Hello? Hello? Hello! Hello!”
Mr. Kayla stood by the flowerbed outside the hospital, his skin turning red with anger. He kicked the flowerbed next to him to vent his frustration.
“Damn it!”
“Bastards!”
“My wife couldn’t have committed suicide, impossible!”
“A bunch of idiots, a bunch of idiots!”
It wasn’t until Mr. Kayla’s emotions slightly stabilized that Bai Lixin finally spoke up, “What did the investigator say?”
Mr. Kayla sat slumped on the edge of the flowerbed, rubbing his face hard, “They said my wife committed suicide.”
“They went up to inspect the scene, saw the open window on the balcony and the stool underneath, and concluded that my wife stood on the stool and jumped off.”
“We were looking forward to going somewhere on vacation yesterday, how could she commit suicide?” Mr. Kayla rubbed his absentmindedly and murmured, “She couldn’t have committed suicide, it’s absolutely impossible for her to have committed suicide.”
“These idiot investigators, they actually said they’re going to close the case! Damn it! Bastards! Trash!”
Looking at Mr. Kayla’s distraught appearance, Bai Lixin still decided to tell him about his discovery, “Actually, I made a discovery, Mrs. Kayla might not have committed suicide.”
Mr. Kayla suddenly looked up at Bai Lixin, “What did you find?!”
Bai Lixin: “At the time, I looked up and saw a shadow in front of the window of your house. I rushed in, but he still got away.”
He chose to conceal the fact that Pris Xingchen was also at the scene, only mentioning the black figure he saw at the scene.
Mr. Kayla’s eyes widened. He clenched Bai Lixin’s arm as if he had gone mad and asked anxiously, “What kind of figure was it, did you see his appearance?!”
Bai Lixin: “The floor was too high so I couldn’t see the face clearly, just a vague black figure. When I went up, I had a brief encounter with him, I estimate him to be a 1.85 meters tall adult man.”
“Did your robot capture an image of that person? Did the investigators repair the image from the robot? Perhaps there’s a clue there?”
Mr. Kayla shook his head in disappointment, “No, the investigators said they repaired the image from the robot, but didn’t capture anything. It’s like it was poisoned and suddenly malfunctioned.”
Poisoned…
Could it be the Trojan virus on Pris Xingchen’s arm?
Was he also at the scene?
Bai Lixin pursed his lips, his eyes solemn, “Should we tell the investigators about this clue?”
Mr. Kayla nodded in despair, “Yes, I’ll call them now.”
He was like a wound-up toy now, only acting when someone winds him up.
Mr. Kayla dialed the investigator’s phone in a daze, and informed them of the mysterious black figure.
Bai Lixin waited quietly on the side, watching Mr. Kayla recount the clue bit by bit.
It should be faster if the investigator came forward and mobilized all the surveillance than him to find the mysterious black figure himself.
As long as they could find that person, he would know why Mrs. Kayla was murdered, perhaps he could also find out about Pris Xingchen’s origins through that shadow.
Mr. Kayla had only said half of it when his voice stopped, his expression starting to look somewhat ugly.
A few seconds later, Mr. Kayla’s neck turned red again, his facial features twisting as he began to curse angrily once more.
“Lies? How could I be lying?! Everything I said is true! I have witnesses!”
“Why don’t you believe me! Hurry up and investigate, there really was a man in black, he killed my wife, hurry up and find him, bring the villain to justice, avenge my wife!”
“Hey! You can’t just close the case like this, you’re being too perfunctory!”
“Vacation? Go to hell with your vacation! Someone has died now, someone has been murdered! Jow can you still go on vacation when a human life has been lost?!”
“Hey, hey, hey!!! Hey!!!!”
Mr. Kayla once again vented his anger on the flowerbed.
When his anger subsided, he took the initiative to speak up this time, “They don’t believe me, they said I’m disrupting the investigation process and fabricating evidence. They said it was impossible for such a person to exist and even said I’m causing a disturbance. It’s outrageous, do you know what they said in the end? They actually said they had planned to start their vacation tomorrow, so they closed the case today to not affect their vacation tomorrow.”
“Damn it! That’s a human life, how can they be so perfunctory?”
“The person I care about the most is treated so casually after her death and there is nothing I can do about it.”
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In the live broadcast room.
[Ah, this is so poisonous. What’s wrong with the officials in this virtual world, they’re so negligent.]
[I’m glad I was born in the present, born in Huaxia. Compared to these future people, I’m so fortunate, thank you to the official dad who works 24/7 without a break.]
[Because we’re used to it, we don’t care. But once it’s lost, we realize its importance. We feel so safe in reality because ultimately, someone is carrying the burden for us.]
[I feel so sorry for Mr. Kayla, his dearest lover died, the person suspected of being the murderer is still at large, but even after providing clues to the investigators, they just turn a blind eye and closed the case. Is this really a highly civilized future? Isn’t this just a doomsday script?]
[Feeling empathetic, it’s too much.]
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Bai Lixin accompanied Mr. Kayla from dawn to dusk. After nightfall, he bought a burger for Mr. Kayla from a roadside fast food restaurant, but Mr. Kayla wasn’t hungry. He just took a bite and couldn’t eat anymore.
It wasn’t until the stars hung high above their heads that Bai Lixin took Mr. Kayla back to the apartment complex.
Mr. Kayla refused to go back to his home, and Bai Kayla had no choice but to take Mr. Kayla back to his own home.
There were some beers left in the fridge at home. After Bai Lixin took them out, Mr. Kayla drank them one after another, trying to get drunk.
However, Mr. Kayla seemed to have a good tolerance for alcohol. The beers in the fridge were all gone, but Mr. Kayla showed no signs of getting drunk. Instead, he became even more sober.
After a day of anger and sorrow, Mr. Kayla was now surprisingly calm.
He stared at the coffee table in front of him with a dark face, his light brown eyes filled with gloom.
Bai Lixin got up to tidy up the table, but Mr. Kayla suddenly grabbed his wrist.
“Mr. Xin.” Mr. Kayla’s voice was hoarse and somewhat frightening, “Now only you can help me.”
“The investigators don’t believe me, they refuse to investigate the true cause of my wife’s death, and even want to hastily close the case.”
“I’ve lost trust in the investigators. Even if they suddenly say they want to investigate, I don’t trust their ability to handle things.”
“I want to find the murderer who killed my wife myself. You’re the only one who saw the murderer. Now only you can help me.”
“Mr. Xin, considering how friendly my wife was to you, you wouldn’t want her to die without justice, right? Please, help me.”
Bai Lixin looked at the man whose eyes were starting to turn red again, and nodded firmly, “Okay, I’ll help you find the murderer.”
In fact, even if Mr. Kayla hadn’t made this request to him, he had planned to investigate the black figure privately.
The investigators couldn’t help, they could only rely on themselves now.
And the only clue left at the scene was that robot.
Now he could only hope that the robot had actually captured something useful, but couldn’t display the true data due to the Trojan virus.
Thinking of this, Bai Lixin’s mind once again conjured up Pris Xingchen’s falling figure.
‘I hope the robot captured something useful.’
