When she saw the familiar box covered with black cloth, Qiao Yuan had a vague idea of ​​what was going on. She subconsciously wanted to refuse, but Fei had already lifted the black cloth covering the box, revealing the snowflake gem inside: "This is a gift I prepared for you."
Qiao Yuan: "This is too expensive, I don't need it..."
She is telling the truth.
The value of this gem is inestimable, and Qiao Yuan really doesn't dare to take it.
But Fei was unusually insistent on this point: “This was originally meant for you.”
"I'll just throw it away if you don't want it."
Qiao Yuan felt Fei's stubbornness in this regard.
Judging from Fei's expression, the other party really thought so.
After realizing this, Qiao Yuan had no choice but to accept the gems Fei gave him, thinking in his mind what kind of gift he should give as a return gift.
At the same time, Qiao Yuan also learned a lot of information from Fei, such as that Aning seemed to have given up leaving the dungeon, so she died with Andre. When the guards found the two, they had already died of sudden cardiac arrest.
However, Fei also knew that this was all a trick of the system. After all, Andre and Aning were in good health before and did not have any diseases.
This incident only caused a brief stir in the country of Beilan and was quickly suppressed by Fei, so it did not spread to the outside world.
When talking about this incident, there was no trace of sadness on Fei's face, he was just sighing in his heart about the power of the game.
After chatting for a while and teaching Fei how to use the domestic chat software and adding her own contact information, Fei reluctantly said goodbye to Qiao Yuan and prepared to set off back to the country of Belan. After all, there were official business waiting for her there.
Fei originally wanted to send Qiao Yuan back directly, but not to mention that where Qiao Yuan lived there was only a parking lot and no helipad, and Sister Jiang was waiting for her outside, so Qiao Yuan finally chose to refuse.
After getting off the helicopter with the box in his arms, Qiao Yuan saw Sheng Guiye.
The other party is still waiting here.
Sheng Guiye was looking down at his phone when he heard footsteps behind him. He turned his head subconsciously and his eyes met Qiao Yuan's.
Sheng Guiye quickly put away his phone, hesitated for a few seconds, and asked, "What did you talk about?"
"I'm just asking casually. If it's not convenient for you to tell me, just pretend you didn't hear it..."
Qiao Yuan had no secrets about the conversation with Fei just now, so he quickly said, "Fei wants me to go to Beilan to be her teacher..."
Hearing Qiao Yuan's words, Sheng Guiye was startled: "King Beilan's teachers are indeed treated very well."
"Do you agree?"
As he asked, he was thinking about what preparations he would need to make if Qiao Yuan came to Beilan. His company's headquarters was in China, and even if he had business dealings with Beilan before, it would take some time to move there. He would need to take a private plane to go there, and he would need to consider building a private helipad at the airport in Beilan's capital, so he asked his secretary to apply there first...
However, in just a few seconds, nearly half of the process had already appeared in Sheng Guiye's mind.
But the plan in his mind was quickly interrupted by Qiao Yuan's voice: "I didn't agree."
“Because I still want to be a star.”
After hearing what Qiao Yuan said, Sheng Guiye came to his senses and realized that Qiao Yuan did not agree to Fei's words.
Sheng Guiye: "As for Lu Zhi's biological father, I only found out that he was an ordinary man named Gu Wensu. He and Lu Lan had emotional problems, so they divorced after Lu Lan gave birth to their child, and then went abroad to do business. The hospital where Lu Lan gave birth was a private hospital, which later went through bankruptcy reorganization. Although some doctors and nurses are still there, the manual that recorded the information of mothers and children born at that time has been lost."
Lu Lan is Teacher Lu’s name.
Sheng Guiye's voice continued quickly: "Lu Lan has Lu Zhi under her name, but Gu Wensu didn't have a child registered at the time. I guess it's because he didn't register the child. I contacted the colleague who was with Gu Wensu at the time. Gu Wensu did have a child with him at that time, and the colleague took a photo of the two of them. But at that time, the country they were in was in a sudden war. Gu Wensu and the child disappeared in the smoke of war, and the colleague survived by chance."
Qiao Yuan quickly grasped the point: "So Gu Wensu is dead now? That child is very likely Lu Zhi's brother Yan Shen?"
Sheng Guiye: " It seems so, but all the things that colleague had at the time were destroyed in the war, so the photos taken of the two of them disappeared. And that was more than 20 years ago. The colleague only remembers Gu Wensu and has no impression of what the child looked like."
Qiao Yuan thanked him.
Although I was a little disappointed, I also knew that it was not easy for Sheng Guiye to investigate all this.
But it seems that the child that Gu Wensu was carrying at the time was Yan Shen.
Could it be that Gu Wensu died at that time, but Yan Shen didn't die?
But at that time, Yan Shen was at most a toddler. How did he grow up to be what he is now and even know who his parents are?
Too many questions flooded into Qiao Yuan's mind at once, but he did not ask Sheng Guiye out loud. After all, Sheng Guiye in front of him did not seem to know about this matter.
However, Sheng Guiye saw that Qiao Yuan still had doubts, and he also knew that there were many things that had not been clarified, so he said he would continue investigating.
After talking to Sheng Guiye, the two quickly parted ways.
Qiao Yuan found Sister Jiang who was waiting for her.
Sister Jiang was looking at her phone in the back seat of the car. When she got tired, she looked out the window and happened to see Qiao Yuan coming out with a box in his arms. She then asked everyone else to open the car door.
She was also watching the live broadcast outside at the time. After seeing the end of the party, she waited for Qiao Yuan to come out. However, other guests had entered the parking lot one after another, but there was no sign of Qiao Yuan.
Fortunately, she just received a text message. Although the number was unfamiliar, the content was obviously written by Qiao Yuan.
The other party said that Fei had something to tell him, so the two of them planned to chat in private for a while and would come out after a while, so Sister Jiang didn't need to worry.
After Qiao Yuan got in the car, Sister Jiang finally found an opportunity to resolve her doubts and asked what the relationship between Qiao Yuan and Fei was and when they met.
Sister Jiang: "I remember you have never been to Beilan before..."
As Qiao Yuan's agent, she was also aware of his travel plans. She had asked Qiao Yuan about this when they were chatting, and Qiao Yuan said that he had never traveled abroad before.
Qiao Yuan knew that this matter could not be hidden from Sister Jiang, but the matter related to the copy could not be mentioned in reality, so Qiao Yuan could only change another statement: "She and I met not long ago."
"She came to the country at that time, and we happened to meet and spent a few days together. But at that time, I didn't know that she was the princess of Beilan, so I didn't care about it, and I didn't mention it to you. But I didn't expect that she still remembered this matter..."
There seemed to be nothing wrong with Qiao Yuan's statement for the time being, so Sister Jiang finally chose to believe it.
Sister Jiang: "I felt that you didn't have many friends before, but I didn't expect that you not only have friends, but they all seem to be pretty powerful."
"But you and Fei have become a hot topic, and there are all kinds of speculations now. I think it would be better for you to explain it on Weibo..."
Qiao Yuan nodded.
Sister Jiang's tone was also very relieved. After all, it was hard to find a star like Qiao Yuan who was obedient, listened to her agent and didn't act up. Therefore, she would not interfere too much in his private relationships.
She knew that Joe was sensible.
Sister Jiang paused when she saw the box in Qiao Yuan's hand: "What is this?"
Qiao was willing to show it to her: "This is the fruit of our friendship."
Sister Jiang: “…”
After seeing that it was a snowflake gem, Jiang Jie couldn't help but fall into silence. Although she was no longer reckless, she couldn't help but think about what would happen if Feiduo was a friend of hers.
Only after returning to the hotel where he was staying did Qiao Yuan finally have time to look at his phone.
She was a little thirsty, so she wanted to drink some water while watching, but she found that there was no bottled mineral water in the room.
Having experienced the busyness of the room service staff in the previous copy, Qiao Yuan did not call the other party directly as he did before, but chose to deal with it with the wine beside him.
Qiao Yuan took a look at the trending searches, and just as Sister Jiang said, Fei’s words did put her on the trending searches.
At a glance, the top few hot searches are all related to her, and the current number one hot search is her and Fei's name. After clicking on this hot search, in addition to introducing Fei's identity, there is a replay of the previous live broadcast of the two.
The speculations in the comments were indeed varied. In addition to normal encounters, some people speculated whether Qiao Yuan used a Gu. However, someone quickly refuted it, saying that the effect of Gu varies from person to person because of different physical conditions. Fei is a foreigner, so she thinks that Gu is useless and Qiao Yuan must have used a spell.
Qiao Yuan: “…”
Seeing that the comments were becoming more and more mysterious, Qiao Yuan decided to clarify.
She contacted Fei first, and after obtaining his consent, she posted the story about her encounter with Fei that she had fabricated from Sister Jiang on Weibo.
Because the popularity was still there, many comments appeared shortly after the post was sent. Her post was quickly forwarded by Sheng Guiye and the company, gaining a lot of popularity and quickly becoming the top trending post.
There were indeed no loopholes in what Qiao Yuan said, so many people in the comment section chose to believe it. Only a small number of comments suspected that Qiao Yuan was hyping it up, and they were quickly criticized back.
While the comments section was full of envy, some even wanted Qiao Yuan to open a class to teach them how to make such close friends.
Qiao Yuan sometimes wondered if it was because he had been with Teacher Lu for so long that he had developed a talent for being a teacher. Otherwise, why was he always involved with the teacher today?
She sighed: "Lu Zhi is obviously more suitable to be a teacher."
System: [Lu Zhi?]
【Why did you suddenly mention him? 】
Thinking about the fact that Qiao Yuan had just drunk, it was hard for the system not to suspect that she was drunk. After all, it had never seen Qiao Yuan drink before and did not know her alcohol tolerance.
In fact, because of the health preservation he had been doing before, and Sister Jiang did not allow her artists to attend banquets to drink, Qiao Yuan did not have many opportunities to drink, and his alcohol tolerance was indeed not that good.
Although she didn't knock the whole bottle down, after a few sips of wine, her consciousness was still a little confused for a moment.
Hearing what the system said, Qiao Yuan smiled and said, "Because he really likes to teach others. Of course, this is not a derogatory term. He really is imparting knowledge all the time."
"I think there were quite a few girls who liked him when we were in high school. One girl, in order to attract his attention, pretended to slip and dropped something in front of us when we were passing by, and asked him to pick it up and bring it up."
System: [He picked it up? ]
Qiao Yuan: "He picked it up, and then brought it up, and talked for several minutes about the dangers of dropping objects from high places, which made the girl forget what she wanted to say."
The system automatically brought in Yan Shen's face, and understood why Qiao Yuan felt that Yan Shen, who had the same face as Lu Zhi, was not Lu Zhi. After all, even if it was a system, it would be difficult to construct Yan Shen's words of persuasion to the girl about the dangers of throwing objects from high places.
System: [Sounds like a good and obedient student. ]
Qiao Yuan said as he walked towards the bed: "We are not good students. Before, we didn't want to go to the evening self-study class, so I pretended to be sick and he pretended to send me to the infirmary. Then we used the stolen school back door key to open the back door and slipped out. School rules do not allow skipping classes. If that's the case, we are not good students."
"As a result, Mr. Lu went to deliver us food on a whim that day and found that we were not in the classroom. Then he knew that we had pretended to be sick and skipped school, and confiscated our keys."
Her memory was already good, and the death of the other person in her memory made the memory even more profound.
system:【……】
It turns out that Qiao Yuan has been scheming since his student days.
It wanted to say something, but soon it heard the sound of clear and shallow breathing.
Qiao Yuan has fallen asleep.
Every time, the system was particularly impressed by Qiao Yuan's sleep quality, as if it had its own sleep switch that could be turned on and off manually. From now on, whenever Qiao Yuan went to bed, it would have to chat with him on time, otherwise it would not be able to catch up with Qiao Yuan's sleep speed.
Because they planned to stay in this city for one night and return with Sister Jiang and the others tomorrow morning, Qiao Yuan decided to go to bed early.
But the next morning, when she woke up, packed her luggage and was about to meet up with Sister Jiang, Qiao Yuan received a call.
The person on the other end of the phone was Luo Jingjing. Her voice was no longer as relaxed as when they met before. Although she tried hard to hide it, one could still hear the anxiety in her words: "Ms. Qiao, I'm sorry to call you suddenly. I have something about Song Yanchi that I want to know from you..."
After listening to Luo Jingjing's words, Qiao Yuan finally understood the whole story.
It turned out that Song Yanchi said he was sick yesterday and wanted to rest in the hotel room. After attending the party, Song Ying and Luo Jingjing returned to the hotel where they were staying temporarily and wanted to visit Song Yanchi in the next room. However, after knocking on the door, there was no response from Song Yanchi.
Song Ying and Luo Jingjing just thought that Song Yanchi was sleeping too soundly. After all, he always had a reversed schedule and often blocked out all external sounds when he slept. They were used to it. After asking the hotel staff and confirming that Song Yanchi had not left the room before, the two of them were a little tired and went back to their rooms to rest.
What they didn't expect was that Song Yanchi didn't leave the room until the next morning, and there was no response even when they knocked on the door.
After realizing something was wrong, Song Ying and Luo Jingjing, with the help of the hotel staff, opened the door of the room with the help of the spare room card.
Song Yanchi was still lying on the bed with his eyes closed, as if he was still asleep, but no matter how Song Ying and Luo Jingjing called Song Yanchi's name, he did not respond.
Song Ying and Luo Jingjing rushed Song Yanchi to the hospital. Strangely, after the doctor's examination, his physiological functions were normal, but he was in a coma. The two transferred Song Yanchi to another private hospital, but the doctor in this hospital also came to the same conclusion as the previous doctor.
They don’t see any problem.
Moreover, as time passed, the rise and fall of Song Yanchi's chest became weaker and weaker, and his cheeks became pale, leaving no doubt that he would die in the next second.
Because the hospital couldn't find out the cause, Song Ying and Luo Jingjing could only start from what happened before Song Yanchi fell into a coma. Thinking of how Song Yanchi had been holding his phone before he said he was sick, they asked him a question, and Song Yanchi said he was sending a message to Qiao Yuan.
With the attitude of trying everything possible, Luo Jingjing could only ask Song Yanchi's agent for Qiao Yuan's phone number that she had found out before and called Qiao Yuan.
After hearing Luo Jingjing's words, Qiao Yuan's first reaction was that Song Yanchi was still in the copy and had not left the copy, so he did not wake up.
Just hearing Luo Jingjing say that Song Yanchi's breathing and heartbeat were gradually weakening, she also realized the problem. After all, according to Fei, Andre and Aning were declared dead at the time because of acute heart disease. Could it be that Song Yanchi encountered danger in the copy?
After comforting Luo Jingjing and telling her not to worry, Qiao Yuan quickly let the system open the live broadcast room.
Qiao Yuan originally wanted to check out what was going on in Song Yanchi’s live broadcast room, but he found that he couldn’t find Song Yanchi’s live broadcast room.
There are only two possibilities:
One is that Song Yanchi is dead, and the other is that there is a problem with the game.
Qiao Yuan sent a message to the newly added Luo Jingjing, asking her about Song Yanchi's condition. After learning that Song Yanchi still had a heartbeat, she ruled out the first possibility and knew that the only possibility left was the second one -
There's something wrong with the game.
Qiao Yuan asked the system, but found that there was no response from the other party, so he had to open the forum again.
After logging in today, she found that the atmosphere of the forum was very strange.
Because the forum was full of speculation about her relationship with Yan Shen in the past few days, and there was no particularly useful information, and she was busy attending the party, Qiao Yuan had not opened the forum or the live broadcast for a while.
Before this, the forum was basically about discussing dungeons or players and sharing information, but this time the forum was filled with messages like "What's going on", "Mission upgrade", "Am I the only one who can't contact the system now", etc. The question marks and exclamation marks revealed the nervousness of the poster.
Qiao Yuan clicked on a few posts at random and finally understood the whole story.
The copies in the game are divided into copies with ghosts and copies without ghosts.
There is a clear distinction between the two. It is common knowledge among players that in a copy where there are no ghosts, there will be no ghosts from the beginning to the end.
Until yesterday, when a group of players were experiencing a dungeon without ghosts, the mission suddenly changed, and they were prompted that there were ghosts in the dungeon.
This incident immediately sparked a discussion among everyone. After all, if the game had deliberately tricked them, they could have simply not warned them that something was wrong from the beginning to the end, or they could have warned them from the beginning, but the other party chose to do it in the middle of the mission. And most importantly, the live broadcast was suddenly interrupted not long after the mission was upgraded.
The reason why Qiao Yuan chose to continue reading this post was very simple. Song Yanchi's name was among that group of players.
It seems that the other party happened to encounter a task upgrade and was trapped in the copy.
But the mission would suddenly upgrade, and there would be ghosts instead of ghosts?
If this is the case, it will be impossible for players to defend themselves...
Qiao Yuan realized the problem.
And most importantly, according to what the system said before, as long as they don’t die in the copy, they will not affect the real world. But now Song Yanchi should not have died in the copy, but he has already shown weak breathing.
Unfortunately, the system has been silent. Looking at the comments on the post, she is not the only one who cannot contact her system:
——It is true what you said. It seems that since this morning, I have not been able to contact the system, but I can open the live broadcast and forum freely.
——Me too. I thought I was the only one who felt this way, and I was worried that the system didn’t want to pay attention to me. Now that I see everyone is like this, I feel relieved.
——What did you do to the system that made it ignore you?
——Has the system finally untied us? We don't have to enter the dungeon anymore? !
——Damn, it feels like I've retired suddenly. Does happiness come so suddenly? Who lives in District XX? Do you want to come out and have a drink to celebrate?
——Really? Then I have to believe it. I used to be scared every day because of entering the dungeon, but now I don’t have to be afraid of this anymore, haha
——But what about those who are still in the copy?
——? What else can I do? Either I contact the system and leave the dungeon after completing the mission, or I just accept my bad luck and die. Anyway, I don’t want to enter this crappy game anymore.
——Why do I have a bad feeling in my heart? I feel that the disappearance of the system is not a good thing.
——Yeah, haven’t you ever thought about why, even though the system can’t be connected, we can still discuss in the forum now, which means the game is not over at all
——?! So what is going on now…
——I am still thinking about the sudden upgrade of the world quest. I have an idea. The reason why the copy suddenly prompted that there was a ghost is that the ghost appeared suddenly.
——? What do you mean, someone died and turned into a ghost? But in a copy without ghosts, even if someone died, they would not turn into a ghost.
——Is there a third type of dungeon? Suddenly it turns into a ghost
——It’s terrible
…
However, Qiao Yuan had already understood what that person meant.
The other party suspected that a ghost had entered the dungeon, so the game gave the player an urgent reminder, which means that the game probably did not expect that a ghost would suddenly enter the dungeon.
Is it because the game’s control over copies has weakened?
still……
A lot of thoughts flashed through Qiao Yuan's mind. Although she hoped that the game would take the system away from her and give her back a normal life, Qiao Yuan had experienced the sudden loss of connection with the system before and knew that this was not a good thing.
I just don't know how bad things will get this time.
She was not the only one who thought of this. Someone in the comments shared the same idea as her, and also mentioned another very important thing -
Someone had previously discovered that the dungeon worlds they had passed through were actually other real worlds, just not in the same dimension as them. However, this speculation had nothing to do with whether they could clear the dungeon, and secondly, everyone was only interested in getting out of the game and had no time to discuss it, so it quickly sank.
Now it has been republished and moved to this thread for discussion:
——I have a terrifying conjecture. If those copy worlds are real, it means that those worlds with ghosts may not have ghosts from the beginning, but some changes occurred later that led to the ghosts.
——Yeah, now that you mention it, I remember that the evil god was the same before. Because he descended into that world, that world had problems.
——So the copy that Song Yanchi and the others were in was because a ghost entered that world and interfered in the middle of the copy, so the game suddenly gave a reminder?
——Yes, it is considerate in this regard, and can be added to the example of the post about how it is difficult to be a human being in the game
——I remember some apocalyptic copies were normal at the beginning, until something unusual happened and the whole world changed.
——Wait, if that's the case, will there be problems in our world as well?
——That's impossible. Nothing happened.
——Yes, don’t worry about that. It’s better to worry about if we haven’t left the game and have to continue entering the dungeon later.
…
The content of other posts is mostly speculation about what is going on.
Qiao Yuan also began to feel uneasy.
After reading the message on the forum, Qiao Yuan sent a message to Sister Jiang, preparing to let Sister Jiang go back first. After all, she had to go to the company for a meeting. She stayed and prepared to go to the hospital to visit Song Yanchi and see what was going on.
Because there was no notice scheduled for after returning, Sister Jiang quickly agreed and kept one of the cars.
After talking to Sister Jiang, Qiao Yuan went downstairs and drove towards the hospital.
Because she had been driving, Qiao Yuan only found out after she arrived at the hospital that Luo Jingjing had sent her a message, saying that Song Yanchi had woken up.
At this time, Qiao Yuan had already arrived at the hospital entrance. Although he was relieved to know that Song Yanchi had woken up, Qiao Yuan still decided to go upstairs to take a look.
The ward where Song Yanchi was located was on the top floor of the private hospital. Because the news of his coma had not yet spread, and because they were all focused on Song Yanchi, Song Ying and Luo Jingjing had no mood to send bodyguards to guard the top floor, so Qiao Yuan went up unimpeded.
She had already learned the room number of Song Yanchi from Luo Jingjing in advance, so she walked straight over.
The door of the ward was closed, and the good sound insulation blocked the sound inside, so Qiao Yuan knocked on the door first.
After a while, the door was opened.
Song Ying stood at the door, his still handsome face now showing a haggard look, but after seeing Qiao Yuan, he still greeted her: "Miss Qiao, are you here to see Song Yanchi?"
Qiao Yuan: "Yes, I heard from my aunt that he has woken up."
Song Ying frowned: "Yes, it's strange, there was no problem found before, but he didn't wake up until just now."
"The doctor just came and checked his body. His breathing and heartbeat have returned to normal."
As he explained, he moved aside to allow Qiao Yuan to enter the ward, and then took her deeper into the ward.
Song Yanchi was admitted to the VIP ward of a private hospital, so the ward was luxuriously decorated, about the same size as a four-bedroom, one-living-room apartment, and even had a study room.
The door of one of the rooms was closed, and Qiao Yuan guessed that it was Song Yanchi's ward.
And her guess was correct.
Song Ying walked straight to the door and pushed it open.
Song Yanchi was lying on the hospital bed with an injection in his arm. Judging from the infusion bag beside him, he seemed to be receiving glucose.
He had already changed into a hospital gown, and perhaps because he felt the room was too hot, he unbuttoned several buttons of his gown, revealing his muscular chest.
Song Yanchi's hair was a little messy because he had just stood up after lying down for too long. A few strands of hair even fell directly in front of his eyes. He frowned slightly and said in a hoarse voice, "Mom, I'm really fine..."
Luo Jingjing was sitting on the bed, her eyes were red, and she looked like she had been crying. But Qiao Yuan could understand, after all, when Luo Jingjing called her, she heard the trembling in her voice.
Luo Jingjing and Song Ying really loved Song Yanchi very much, especially because when Song Yanchi was born and was about to become an adult, they were still busy in the entertainment industry and were rarely together with each other. In some ways, they felt that they owed Song Yanchi a lot.
The sound of Song Ying pushing the door open instantly attracted the attention of the two people in the room. Song Yanchi and Luo Jingjing looked up at the same time and saw the person standing next to Song Ying.
"Sister!" Song Yanchi's eyes suddenly lit up like ignited sparks, like a large dog that saw its owner and subconsciously wanted to pounce on her.
But Luo Jingjing quickly reminded: "You are still on an IV drip!"
Song Yanchi then lay back on the bed listlessly and turned to look at Luo Jingjing: "Mom, can you and Dad go out for a while? I have something to tell my sister."
Song Yanchi just woke up, Luo Jingjing didn't want to provoke him, she turned to look at Qiao Yuan, and soon agreed after finding that the local government also agreed. After saying "thank you for your trouble" to Qiao Yuan, she and Song Ying left the room, leaving the space to Qiao Yuan and Song Yanchi.
Although he couldn't get out of bed because he was still on IV drip, Song Yanchi's sparkling eyes showed that he was very happy about Qiao Yuan's arrival: "Sister, why are you here?"
Qiao Yuan: "I just heard from Aunt Luo that you suddenly fell into a coma..."
Hearing Qiao Yuan's words, Song Yanchi's expression suddenly became serious.