Chapter 130
Chapter 130
“This is great,” Yellow Hair said with a sigh.
Hope filled him once more.
Lin Junruo looked at Qi Shuping with a touch of envy as well.
Qi Shuping was still looking at Jian Fan. She said, “I’d like to speak with you alone.”
Jian Fan nodded.
Qi Shuping turned first, and Jian Fan followed. The two of them chose a room and vanished from where they stood.
Qin Nan had been keeping an eye on Jian Fan the entire time. Seeing the exchange between him and Qi Shuping, Qin Nan frowned. For some reason, he felt that neither Jian Fan nor Qi Shuping seemed particularly happy.
Wasn’t leaving the Realm of Death a good thing?
Qin Nan didn’t understand.
“It’s finally over.” Mu Xin stretched, then looked at Qin Nan. “I’m going back first. You should hurry back and get some rest too.”
The Deserted Island Survival world had been an assault on both body and mind.
Mu Xin didn’t just feel mentally drained; her body was exhausted too. She needed a proper sleep to recover.
Qin Nan withdrew his gaze and nodded at Mu Xin. “Mm. Get some rest.”
Lin Junruo quickly said goodbye to Qin Nan as well. “I’m going back to rest too.”
“Mm. See you,” Qin Nan replied.
Lin Junruo and Mu Xin soon left. Seeing that, Yellow Hair stretched, greeted Qin Nan, and left as well. As for Xia Zeqin, the moment they returned to the Realm of Death, he had already chosen a room and disappeared.
In the blink of an eye, most of the people were gone. Now, aside from Qin Nan himself, only Qin Weiyi and Lu Jing remained, still being sickeningly affectionate off to the side.
Qin Nan glanced over, curled his lip, then chose a room and left as well.
Whatever Qi Shuping wanted to say to Jian Fan, he could ask next time they met. Hopefully, it wasn’t bad news.
Jian Fan followed Qi Shuping into the room.
“Child, sit,” Qi Shuping said, gesturing to him.
Jian Fan nodded and chose a sofa to sit on. Qi Shuping took a seat across from him.
“Child, do you know why I called you here?” Qi Shuping asked.
Jian Fan paused slightly, then answered with some reservation, “I have a rough idea.”
Qi Shuping let out a soft laugh. “You’re very smart. The one the Realm of Death should be wary of isn’t me. It’s you.”
Jian Fan lifted his eyes and looked at Qi Shuping, the meaning in his gaze unclear.
Qi Shuping continued, “Or rather, the Realm of Death has been wary of you from the very beginning. The Realm of Death wants to stop me because my Points are about to reach ten thousand. But with you, it started guarding against you long ago, didn’t it?”
Jian Fan looked at Qi Shuping without speaking.
Qi Shuping didn’t need his answer. She went on by herself. “I once heard Old Gao mention his two students. The student he was most satisfied with was you. Although you’re a man of few words, your emotional intelligence isn’t low. As for his other student, Xia Zeqin, he has an extremely high IQ, but when it comes to emotional intelligence, he falls somewhat short. Old Gao’s assessment and what I’ve seen are worlds apart.”
Jian Fan hadn’t expected Qi Shuping to have been suspicious for a long time too.
“Child, don’t you have anything you want to say?” Qi Shuping asked him.
Jian Fan moved his lips with some difficulty. After a long while, he finally forced out a sentence. “At the beginning, it was him.”
“When did you notice something was wrong?” Qi Shuping asked.
Jian Fan hesitated, but in the end, he gave an answer. “The real Xia Zeqin would never want me dead. He would never hurt me.”
“You have that much faith in him?” Qi Shuping smiled, then continued, “In the Realm of Death, when it comes to survival, friendship isn’t worth mentioning. If your death could ensure his life, are you certain he wouldn’t betray you?”
Jian Fan shook his head with certainty.
Qi Shuping was slightly surprised to hear that. Then she sighed. “You’re a good child. So is he.”
Jian Fan said nothing.
Qi Shuping suddenly lifted her eyes and took in the surroundings they were in. Her tone was calm. “It’s been watching us from behind the scenes all along.”
Jian Fan didn’t so much as shift his gaze at that. Clearly, he had already suspected as much.
“It won’t let us leave the Realm of Death so easily,” Qi Shuping continued.
That was exactly what Jian Fan was worried about.
Save up ten thousand Points and leave the Realm of Death-that was what the Realm of Death had told them. But did that necessarily make it true? Jian Fan didn’t think it would be that simple. The Realm of Death was very likely still hiding another card up its sleeve.
“Child, I hope you can take everyone out of here,” Qi Shuping said to Jian Fan.
Jian Fan was speechless. It took him a long while before he found his voice again. “Professor Qi, I’m not as good as you think I am.”
He didn’t care about other people’s lives, especially not after going through so many worlds. He had always been emotionally detached to begin with, and after being betrayed and stabbed in the back by so many people, he truly couldn’t keep being a good person.
He wouldn’t be a bad person, but he didn’t want to be a good one either.
“You will,” Qi Shuping said with absolute certainty.
Jian Fan fell silent.
Qi Shuping reached out and touched the Silver Bracelet on her wrist.
Everyone thought that, now that she had saved up enough Points, what awaited her was a new life. But Qi Shuping felt that what lay before her was a dead end. She looked at Jian Fan, but in the end, she did not say those words out loud.
Jian Fan was already aware of it. There was no need for her to add to his fear. Besides, perhaps she was simply overthinking things.
“Professor Qi, when do you plan to leave?” Jian Fan asked.
Qi Shuping smiled. “I’ll probably sleep first, and then I’ll go.”
After returning to the Realm of Death, a button to leave the Realm of Death had appeared on her System panel.
She had not left immediately. Instead, she had come to find Jian Fan and say these things to him first. She wanted to sleep once more. She needed to rest as well.
Jian Fan nodded.
He stood. “I hope you have a safe journey, Professor Qi.”
Qi Shuping nodded. “I will.”
Silence settled between them, and an indescribable heaviness spread through the room.
Jian Fan did not know what to say. In the end, he bent at the waist and gave Qi Shuping a bow, then left her room.
Qi Shuping watched Jian Fan go. Then she lowered her head and looked at the Silver Bracelet on her wrist, murmuring, “Old man, do you think I’ll really get to see you?”
After saying that, Qi Shuping smiled to herself, her expression gentle.
After Jian Fan left Qi Shuping’s room, he returned to his own. By the time he came out again, it was the beginning of a new world.
When everyone left their rooms and gathered once more in that pure white space, only eight people remained.
Qi Shuping was nowhere to be found. No one knew exactly when she had left the Realm of Death.
Qin Nan walked up to Jian Fan and asked, “Professor Qi left?”
“Mm,” Jian Fan replied. Then he added, “Probably.”
“What did Professor Qi say to you at the end?” Qin Nan asked.
The corner of Jian Fan’s mouth twitched. He didn’t particularly want to bring it up, so he only answered flatly, “Nothing.”
Seeing that Jian Fan did not want to talk about it, Qin Nan did not press further.
At the same time, the bus to the new world appeared once again.