The Trial Game of Life – Chapter 150

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Chapter 150: No.1 On Both Lists

As Mr. Crow erupted into madness, the noise made Xiao Tong’s eardrums hurt. He conveniently threw the coffee cup across and asked him to shut up, only to receive an even more violent eruption.

“You stop him, quickly stop him!” Pulling on Xiao Tong’s epaulette, Mr. Crow urged. 

“This is indeed a dungeon in my zone, but it has already been cleared and the rewards have been settled. I can’t intervene.” With an icy cold look, Xiao Tong asked back: “Can you?”

Mr. Crow came to a halt at once. As he had rammed into a dead end, Mr. Crow felt both mad and angry, so angry that his feathers fell off one by one.

When Mr. Crow finally calmed down, Xiao Tong asked again: “Who is he? You said he tried to kill God. Does he have something to do with the [Nameless Dagger]?”

Mr. Crow snorted coldly: “Who else can they be beside those people? Even if they’re crushed to ashes, Mr. Crow will recognise them all the same! But he’s still here, still here!”

Xiao Tong understood clearly.

A hundred years might have passed, but Mr. Crow wasn’t eager to see the reemergence of the [Nameless Dagger]. It could be seen that time had already played down many things. The people of that team who tried to kill God might have already gone through the karma-serving process and moved on to their next reincarnation, but to his astonishment, there was still one here. With such a long sentence, he should be a key figure on the team, like the captain.

Lin Yandong found the person and woke him up, but it didn’t seem like Lin Yandong wanted to save him. It looked more as though Lin Yandong was trying to — loot something from him.

Lin Yandong was taking in more and more of that golden light from the crown of the man’s head, and the man’s skin was cracking inch by inch. From of the cracked lines, fine golden sand streamed out, and as time went on, the golden light turned brighter and brighter until it was completely absorbed by Lin Yandong. The man turned into a handful of golden sand and descended to the ground, returning to nothingness.

Heaving a sigh, Lin Yandong put both hands in front of his chest to form a praying gesture, his expression indescribably at peace.

What did he loot from that man? Was it his memories, or was it his skills?

Xiao Tong frowned, suddenly feeling that he had missed too many things in the ten years since he parted ways with Lin Yandong. He shouldn’t have deliberately avoided all the news about Lin Yandong, otherwise, he wouldn’t have been so blind.

At this juncture, Mr. Crow muttered a series of numbers in a low voice: “00109.”

Xiao Tong was a tad taken aback, and he immediately realised that this might be that person’s player number. 00109. This number meant he was here exceptionally early, but Xiao Tong had no idea what his real name is.

Mr. Crow rarely addressed players by name. His thought process was more in line with the system; he recognised the number before he recognised the player.

Speaking of player numbers, Xiao Tong suspected, no, he was sure that before using the A-Z system, Yong Ye City must’ve used an old-style number-only system. It must’ve disappeared with the changing times.

After all, Yong Ye City was a place without history.

Mr. Crow didn’t say anything else. Even The Warden of Zone G wouldn’t know the past, nor what 00109’s real name was.

Looking at Lin Yandong again, Xiao Tong tapped the armrest of the chair lightly with his fingers and said: “What does Mr. Crow think he wants to do?”

“No matter what he wants to do, the great and loyal Mr. Crow will never allow them to touch God anymore! Never ever!” Saying so, Mr. Crow vanished from the monitoring room.

Xiao Tong narrowed his eyes thoughtfully, trying to comprehend the word ‘loyal’.

At the same time, players in the game hall suddenly found that the lists at the center of the hall had changed.

“The Black List… the Black List has been updated!”

“The first place has changed!”

“Look at the first place!”

“Who is A28377? Who can squeeze Jin Cheng out?!”

“Oh my god!”

Everyone couldn’t remember for a moment. They gazed at each other’s baffled faces, each feeling this difficult to believe. At this point, a louder exclamation flew over everyone’s heads, hit the ceiling and bounced straight back into their ears.

“A28377! Lin Yandong!”

“He’s No. 1 on both lists!”

Everyone raised their heads in unison, and even those who had just stepped into the game hall looked at the large central screen in dismay. The first place on both the Red and Black Lists: Zone A, A28377.

This change was really shocking, because since Jin Cheng came to power, the first place on the Black List had never changed. Lin Yandong was a low-key man. Even when he occupied the No.1 spot on the Red List, players often forgot about him. But now, he had already pushed Jin Cheng out and went straight to the first spot on the Black List. What had he done?

The sounds of the ‘f**k’ came one after another, and it took a long time for the stunned players to discover the other changes on the list.

Tang Cuo jumped from 50th in the original Black List to 13th, and even broke into the Red List as a low-ranking player. Although he was at the very end of the Red List, it was still enough to shock people to the core — how long had he come to Yong Ye City?

The other changes were not too mind-blowing. After Chong Yanzhang’s name disappeared, another person from Zone A came up, while Extreme Luck Yu Yiyi rose to 13th on the Red List.

But everyone knew one thing for certain: Scarlet’s name was about to disappear from this list, and once that happened, every player from the 4th place and above on the Red List would automatically go up by one rank.

Before the changes in the game hall even rippled out, Leng Miao and Rong Yi, who had been waiting on the vast lawn outside the prison, finally grabbed the opportunity to visit the prison.

The door of the cell had been open to them, but what was most puzzling was that Warden Xiao Tong let them in without stirring any trouble at all.

The two glanced at each other in surprise, but this surprise alone wasn’t enough to stop them. Soon, they saw Lin Yandong, who had returned from the dungeon, turn up in the cell. Even though he had gotten out of the dungeon, his sentence hadn’t yet finished. As such, he was still sitting cross-legged in the cell, awaiting his release.

Seeing Lin Yandong’s haggard but peaceful appearance, Rong Yi couldn’t help creasing his eyebrows.

“Doesn’t Mr. Lin seem to have suffered a little?” He said.

“Since we’re all in jail, how can we not suffer a little bit?” Lin Yandong laughed contentedly, but Rong Yi couldn’t say anything else.

Leng Miao was very direct: “Is Yan Ye working with you?”

Lin Yandong simply admitted it: “Yes.”

Saying so, he asked them with a smile: “How did you know?”

Rong Yi said: “Yan Ye divined the position of the 2nd Movement, then she took the movement and hid away inside a dungeon.”

Hearing this, Lin Yandong finally revealed a hint of seriousness: “Yan Ye and I indeed had some old connection. I’ve always been in contact with her, or you can also say that she’s one of my spies. But I had no idea that she divined the position of the 2nd Movement. Scarlet turned up so unexpectedly that I didn’t have time to make any arrangements. Does she have anything to do with Scarlet?”

Rong Yi: “She isn’t. We also want to ask Mr. Lin, why did Yan Ye do this? If she’s your spy, why would she hide it from you?”

Lin Yandong remained silent for a long time, and Leng Miao got a little impatient. All of a sudden, Lin Yandong let out a wry laugh, saying: “She probably hates me. Since you know she took away the movement, you must’ve met her. I have a fair share of responsibility with her becoming like this.”

Rong Yi: “What responsibility?”

Lin Yandong shook his head: “This is a private matter between me and her. I can’t tell you.”

“Do you think you can convince us to believe you with just a few words?” Leng Miao was annoyed as he listened to their back-and-forths. At this moment, neither of them was a pleasant sight in his eyes. He said with a cold voice: “What about Yu Yiyi? How do you explain the fact that he got the clue about the phylactery from Yan Ye? Isn’t this also your arrangement?”

Yu Yiyi obtained the clue on the day the divination was given, which was a few days before Scarlet broke out of jail. Jin Cheng didn’t intend to tell them this information; it was only right before they came to see Lin Yandong that this was revealed.

“I don’t know.” Lin Yandong shook his head, his face not showing any hint that he was angry from being a target of suspicion. It was as though he was a completely quiet black stone whose surface carried a luster that was as radiant as jade’s.

Rong Yi had a feeling that compared to before, Lin Yandong had become even more difficult to see through. There was a silent power resting in those eyes that wouldn’t move even if strong winds blew and heavy rains crashed. His heart was as still as a rock.

Leng Miao let out s soft ‘tsk’, seemingly rather unhappy.

Rong Yi knew that they actually had nothing to refute, and Lin Yandong’s response was so delicate that he wouldn’t take the bait easily. Perhaps he didn’t believe that the 2nd Movement was with Yan Ye, or perhaps he inferred from the conversation that Yan Ye hadn’t revealed too much information, so he had nothing to fear.

Not to mention, Yan Ye was now hiding in the dungeon and no one knew when she would come out. Even if she did, they might not encounter her again. In a way, it could be said that there was no evidence at all.

Rong Yi finally asked him: “Do you know if Yan Ye is hiding inside a hidden dungeon?” 

Lin Yandong: “Maybe you can go back and ask Jin Cheng and Tang Cuo about this. Just tell them, they’ll understand.”

This was an unexpected answer. Rong Yi pondered for a moment and tugged at Leng Miao, whose face had turned scarily dark, and simply bid their goodbye. Since they couldn’t get anything from him, they might as well avoid too much talking, otherwise, the tactic might backfire on them.

But Lin Yandong called out to them: “In any case, Miao Qi doesn’t know about this. That child has a pure heart and only wants to protect me. Please don’t make it difficult for him.”

Rong Yi turned around to see Lin Yandong nodding at him. His eyes were gentle, revealing not even a hint of lying.

For some reason, when he faced this side of Lin Yandong, Rong Yi suddenly felt a vague sense of familiarity. The feeling was so overwhelming that as he was almost leaving the prison, he couldn’t help but turn his head to look in the direction of the cell.

But clearly, Lin Yandong was still the same Lin Yandong, and they never had much interaction before.

What’s going on here?

After walking a few steps, Leng Miao looked back at Rong Yi. He didn’t say anything, but his face turned even darker — Tsk, who wants to be friends with you?

When the two figures finally vanished outside the prison, Xiao Tong appeared in the dark shadows inside the cell. Leaning against the wall with his arms folded, he looked at Lin Yandong in complete silence.

He didn’t speak a word, so eventually, Lin Yandong broke the silence: “You must have a lot to ask me.”

Xiao Tong: “Don’t be so sentimental.”

Lin Yandong smiled: “Ask away. If it’s a question I can answer, I’ll tell you everything.”

Xiao Tong glanced at him: “Do you yourself believe what you’re saying?”

Lin Yandong: “Maybe I just want to talk to you.” 

Saying so, Lin Yandong took off the prayer bead bracelet on his wrist and gazed at the engraving on it, his eyes exuding a tinge of nostalgia: “Only when I saw you again did I realise how much time had really passed. Only you know about my past. In the ten years that we didn’t see each other, no one else talked to me about the past. “

Xiao Tong wanted to sneer at him, but as the words came to his lips, Lin Yandong’s mentions of ‘past’ and ‘time’ truly evoked many distant memories. Like the red silk threads on the stage of the old days that were always entangled with each other, the emotions surging in his heart were giving him a mesmerising yet extremely suffocating feeling.

“Shouldn’t you try to forget about the past?” Xiao Tong finally said.

For Lin Yandong, those memories contained in a colourful glass might be full of nostalgia, but they were also disgraceful and humiliating, to the point that he wanted to erase them all. It didn’t really matter who was denying who.

The moon had two sides. If there was light, there must also be darkness.

The important thing was that at this moment, Xiao Tong’s itchy hand was touching the warden stick he carried at his waist. Pressing down the excessive emotion in his eyes, he asked: “What did you really want to achieve when you entered that dungeon?”