Demon Gatekeeper [Unlimited]

Dugu's time gradually became regular. He entered the space at seven o'clock in the morning, did morning training, drew manuscripts at home in the morning, entered the space for training in the afternoon, and watched Yu Yuan's live broadcast in the evening. He didn't dare to watch for too long. Training.Then go to bed around twelve o'clock.

This kind of life lasted for a month. Dugu finished the serialized manga, and then asked for a leave of absence from the editor, saying that he needed to rest for a period of time, maybe a few months, maybe half a year, or even longer.

In short, he is not short of money now, and still wants to devote more energy to training.

The accident happened on July [-]st. Because he didn't need to enter the game, Dugu spent the whole morning training in the space.At noon, Yu Yuan invited him to eat steak at a new restaurant nearby, but before the food was served, Dugu first received a call from an unfamiliar number, and it was a landline.

"Hello." Dugu answered the phone.

"Hello, is this Mr. Dugu? We are from the Winter City Special Affairs Bureau."

Dugu shook his hand.

The Bureau of Special Affairs, the full name of the Bureau of Special Affairs, is a department specially set up to investigate one-day incidents. Of course, despite their hard work, the investigation has made no progress. In the end, it almost became a department for cleaning up one-day incidents. Number, count the place where the incident occurred, the number of missing persons, contact their families, and apply for special missing persons certificates.If there is no family member, the property will be frozen and kept by a special department.

So when a person receives a call from the Special Affairs Bureau, it is very likely that his relative has disappeared due to a one-day incident.

Dugu's closest relatives are only his parents. He called his mother yesterday and promised her to go back to see her on August [-]th.Unexpectedly, instead of waiting until August [-]th, he waited for a call from the Special Affairs Bureau.

"Speak." Dugu was silent for a long time before finding his own voice.

"That's right, I'm sorry to inform you that yesterday when your parents were in the Xingwang Supermarket, unfortunately, a one-day incident occurred, and all 85 people in the supermarket disappeared. Please go to the Winter City Special Affairs Bureau as soon as possible to claim the items left by your parents .”

"...Okay, I see. I'm sorry to trouble you." Dugu's voice trembled slightly.

After the phone was hung up, Dugu's eyes were still a little straight, and his lips were bloodless.

"What's wrong?" Yu Yuan noticed that Dugu's expression was not so good since he picked up the phone.

Dugu pursed his lips: "I'll go back to Winterfell next week, about three days or so."

"Is... is there something wrong at home?" Yu Yuan quickly realized that today is number one, and his heart tightened, he guessed: "The number of the Special Affairs Bureau?"

Dugu pursed his lower lip: "Yes."

Dugu tried hard to suppress the panic and sadness in his heart.But sadness, the more he tried to suppress it, the more it churned.When he was first involved in the gatekeeper game, he had never been so scared as he was now.

Dugu's eyes gradually turned red. He looked at Yu Yuan and said in a hoarse voice, "Yuanyuan, I may... have no parents."

Hearing this, Yu Yuan felt his heart sore and painful, and a strange emotion surged up, making him a little at a loss.

He froze for a few seconds, then got up and changed from the opposite side of Dugu to the position on the same side as him.Holding Dugu clumsily, he put his head on his shoulder: "Don't hold back if you want to cry, I'm here."

Yu Yuan couldn't explain why he did this, he just didn't want to see Dugu's expression like that.

Dugu was still trying to hold back his emotions, not wanting to infect Yu Yuan with his emotions, but after being coaxed by the other party, he couldn't suppress the sadness in his heart anymore, tears poured out like bursting out of a bank.

Like a small animal, Dugu rested his head on Yuan's shoulder, his whole body trembling from crying, he seemed to feel a little ashamed, tried hard to suppress the crying, but a few uncontrollable whimpers accidentally leaked out from the gap.Warm tears soaked Yu Yuan's shirt.

Yu Yuan didn't speak, just hugged him quietly.Time is stretched very long at this moment.

"Tuk tuk." A waiter knocked on the door.

Only then did Dugu sniff his nose, struggled up from Yu Yuan's arms, wiped away his tears and said, "Sorry, I got your clothes wet."

Yu Yuan got up and walked to the door, opened a crack in the door, told the waiter that he would not eat here, and packed the food.

Dugu wiped away his tears with a tissue, and after crying, he felt a little better. He sniffed and apologized to Yu Yuan: "I can't have dinner with you today."

Yu Yuan said it didn't matter, and asked, "When does brother plan to go to Winterfell?"

Dugu: "Tomorrow, I will book the ticket later, the sooner the better."

Yu Yuan: "I'll accompany you back."

Dugu shook his head: "That's too much trouble for you, besides, you still want to live broadcast..."

Yu Yuan interrupted him: "I can carry the live broadcast equipment with me, I don't worry about your state."

Seeing that Dugu was still hesitating, Yu Yuan softened his tone again, and looked at him closely: "Brother, let me go back with you?"

Dugu really couldn't resist Yu Yuan's tone, and besides, he actually wanted someone to accompany him, so he nodded: "Then I will trouble you."

Although Yu Yuan packed food for Dugu, but Dugu couldn't eat any more. He bought an early flight the next morning, but he didn't fall asleep all night. He packed his luggage and sat facing the window until dawn.

The next morning, Yu Yuan saw that Dugu's eyes were full of black and blue, and knew that he hadn't slept all night.He didn't say anything, just snatched the suitcase on Dugu's back: "Let's go."

"No, the box is not heavy, I can do it myself." Dugu was a little distracted, and Yu Yuan snatched the box before he realized it and chased after him.

"Brother sees that he's about to fall down when the wind blows, so don't argue with me." Yu Yuan stuffed the paper bag in his other hand to Dugu: "Although I know you don't have an appetite, I still have to eat some food." .Here is the porridge and sandwiches I made in the morning, and my brother can make do with it.”

The aroma of the food comes out of the bag along with the hot air, and enters the body with the breath, like a kind of silent comfort.

If in normal times, there was a male god cooking the meal himself, Dugu would definitely take fancy photos first, and then happily eat it all up, but now he just hugged the bag in his arms and said in a low voice: "Thank you. "

Thank you for preparing breakfast for me, and thank you for being willing to be with me at this time.Thank you for always being by my side in the most desperate times.

Their flight landed in Winterfell at noon.Although Dugu had no appetite, Yu Yuan dragged him to drink a bowl of hot porridge.Before going to work in the afternoon, Dugu waited early at the gate of the Special Affairs Bureau, and as soon as he got to work, he followed the signs to find the place to claim the items.

Items were found in an item locker outside the supermarket, including an umbrella and a lady's backpack.The backpack contained the mother's ID card and some small change.

The staff handed the items to Dugu and said, "We will do our best to find your family."

"Thank you." Dugu thanked him with a pale face, but he knew in his heart that no matter how hard they tried, they would never be able to find his family, because they were no longer in this world.

Dugu took his things and went back to his home in Winter City in a daze. The house still looked like it did when his parents left yesterday. There were uncollected clothes hanging out on the balcony and a few pots of flowers raised by his mother.The refrigerator is full of meat and vegetables, and there are unfinished fruits and leftovers on the dining table.

"Sit whatever you want, I'll clean it up." Dugu put away the clothes on the balcony and folded them one by one.Kitchen leftovers thrown away.The food in the kitchen was packaged and given to the neighbor's aunt, together with a few potted flowers on the balcony.Then I cleaned the room inside and out again.

During this process, Dugu has been very quiet, and his mood seems to be stable. He even keeps smiling when talking to his neighbors.

But when he wiped the coffee table and saw the framed photo of a family of three on it, his emotions suddenly collapsed.He hugged the photo frame tightly in his arms, curled up into a ball, he didn't cry, he couldn't cry anymore.

Yu Yuan stood by the window of the living room, looking at Dugu who was huddled together, but silently turned his eyes away, and didn't step forward to disturb him.There are some hurdles in life, you can only walk through them alone, and no one can help you.No matter how much sympathy and comfort, it is just watching the fire from the other side, and after all, it is impossible to empathize with it, let alone share it.

Dugu didn't keep Yu Yuan waiting for long.He was only vulnerable for a while, then continued to get up and tidy up the room.

After he cleaned up his room and his emotions, he stood up and said to Yuan, "Let's go."

"it is good."

Dugu doesn't want to live at home, there are too many memory traces in the house, he is afraid of being hurt by the scene.

Yu Yuan understood his thoughts, so he didn't ask further.

The two found a hotel, and Yu Yuan was worried that Dugu would sleep alone, so he opened a suite, one room for each person, the kind that shared the living room.

"I want to take a rest." Dugu returned to his room as soon as he entered the hotel

At seven o'clock in the evening, before Dugu came out of the house, Yu Yuan knocked on the door of his room: "Brother, it's time for dinner."

Dugu didn't respond.

Yu Yuan pushed open the door again, and saw him hugging his knees and huddled in the corner of the bed.

Dugu stared at his toes, and replied in a muffled voice: "I'm sorry, I can't eat it. You can eat it yourself."

Yu Yuan didn't answer yes or no, turned and left.

An hour passed.Yu Yuan knocked on the door again, but there was still no answer. Yu Yuan pushed the door open and came in. Dugu maintained the same posture as before, and his position did not change.

"I bought beef noodles. I heard that it is a famous delicacy in Winter City. This business is very popular. I waited in line for a long time before I bought it. Brother, at least eat some, huh?"

"You...don't broadcast live?" Dugu looked at the time hesitantly, and realized that it was already eight o'clock in the evening.

"I asked for leave." Yu Yuan said lightly.

Dugu was stunned for a moment, and after following the other party's live broadcast for two years, Dugu naturally knew that Yu Yuan was very dedicated to his work, and he might occasionally download the broadcast early in the past two years, but the live broadcast never stopped for a single day.

"You don't need to do this." Dugu felt a little sorry.

Yu Yuan didn't answer this topic, instead, he walked to Dugu's bed and sat down beside him: "My brother is so depressed. If you don't eat or sleep, your body will collapse soon."

"I know." Dugu's voice was muffled: "Give me some more time."

Yu Yuan sighed: "Brother, talk to me, you can say anything, and you will feel better after talking."

Dugu didn't answer, just holding his knees in a daze.

The two sat in silence for a long time, so long that Yu Yuan thought that Dugu would not be able to speak tonight.Dugu opened his mouth quietly.

"My... my father and my mother loved me very much since I was a child. Although my family was not rich, they bought me whatever I wanted since I was a child, and they all supported me. I am the kind of spoiled grown up child.

"I was good at school, but I didn't like reading. I had to go to the Academy of Fine Arts and learn painting. My relatives and friends said I was crazy, but they supported me. They said that as long as I like it, as long as I am happy, it is fine."

"In fact, I am not particularly talented in drawing. In the two years since I started drawing manga, there was no splash at all. I was so depressed that they kept encouraging me."

"The past two years have finally improved. I am self-willed and like Xiacheng, so I moved here. When I moved out from home, my mother was very reluctant to part with me and kept telling me to go home to see them when I had time. I used to I agreed, and I will go back after the Mid-Autumn Festival...Why didn't they wait for me."

Dugu adjusted his mood in silence for a while.

Yu Yuan didn't urge or disturb, just being a quiet listener beside him.

Dugu: "I regret it very much. I was thinking that if I hadn't moved out, would it not be the same today? At least I would accompany them when they went to the supermarket. The gatekeeper selection game is so cruel, when I think of them I couldn't forgive myself for what I had to go through."

"I don't blame you." Yu Yuan finally said, "I don't think your parents will want to enter the game with you. They love you so much, and they must hope that you will live in health and safety. Besides, every game is full of Occasionally, even if you are present, you may not be able to restore anything, and you may even get involved with yourself. And missing is just missing, not necessarily a farewell."

"What do you mean?" The last sentence caused Dugu to raise his head, the question was very light, but his eyes were serious, like a drowning person grasping the last straw, cautiously, for fear that this straw would also break .

Yu Yuan looked at the brightly lit street outside the window: "It's just my personal guess. If you win the gatekeeper game, players who pass the level can return to reality safely. Death in the training ground is not a real death. Explanation Players who die in the game have a chance to be resurrected. According to this logic, I think, is it possible that if the final level can be cleared, all the players who disappeared in the game can come back?"

"Is it possible?" Dugu's eyes flickered with hope, and he couldn't believe it: "But the resurrection of the gatekeeper selection is restored to the time when the game started. It's been so long now, isn't it? Didn’t the players who died in the game also suffer from skeleton disease in reality?”

Yu Yuan: "The selection of gatekeepers happened in reality, and it went back to the time before the game started. If the whole game is regarded as the selection of all human beings, what about the selection of Huaxia stars?"

Dugu's eyes lit up: "You mean, as long as we succeed, we will probably go back to the time when the first game started, no one died, no one disappeared, and everything returned to the original state?"

Yu Yuan looked at Dugu's watery, animal-like eyes, couldn't help reaching out and rubbing his hair, and said in a gentle tone that he had never had before: "It's just a possibility, but it's worth our efforts, isn't it?" ?”

Dugu's eyes lit up with a fighting spirit: "We will definitely win! I want to bring them back."

Even if there is only a one in ten thousand possibility, it is worth a try, after all, they have no choice.

Yu Yuan served the beef noodles to Dugu: "Then brother should eat well."

Dugu: "Yes."

Dugu started to eat the noodles with big mouthfuls.

Yu Yuan breathed a sigh of relief.He knew that Dugu didn't completely pin his hopes on bringing his parents back from another world.He just needs a hope and a goal to divert his attention too much now.Let him turn the sadness in his heart into motivation and try to cheer up.Even if Dugu fails to get the expected result in the end, the sadness will fade with time.

The author has something to say: just abuse this chapter, Dugu will cheer up!Put the lid on the pot and run away.