Sword Among Us c1-1268

by Black Swordsman Online

  Xu Yao's words delivered multiple shocks to Happy's mind.

  "Why didn't you tell me?"

  "Didn't I?" Xu Yao sat down at the other end of the bed. "But that doesn't matter anymore. It has been more than a year since that accident. I destroyed the thing you cared about the most, and the person I care about the most has been destroyed by god. Now that you're awake, once you get better, we will have nothing to do between us anymore."

  When he heard Xu Yao's cold and stiff words, Happy suddenly understood a little of what was going on. Deep regret flashed in his eyes when he looked at the black and white photo again.

  "You sure did a wonderful thing there by destroying it."

  Xu Yao said nothing.

  "Did you help Blood Robes ruin my chance at the Sword Among Us Tournament at your own will?"

  "There's no point in talking about that now." Xu Yao stood up. "Hurry up and get better so that you can look for a job. World of Martial Arts is no longer suited for you—"

  "You threw my helmet away as well?" Happy looked around and found no traces of his helmet.

  Xu Xin did not answer.

  Vaguely, Happy seemed to hear Xu Yao's cry in despair.

  *****

  Whoosh!

  Light returned to his vision. Strength returned to his body.

  Happy could not instantly get used to the switch from a weak body to a strong physique. The medicinal scent that filled the entire room was gone. Instead, what he smelled was Xu Xin's sweet fragrance and his bright as well as clean bedroom.

  'What's going on?' Happy's body was stiff as he looked around. 'This is… Did I enter a coma again?

  'That's not right. I've never read about someone being able to load dreams like save files and helping the person return to the moment it ended.'

  However, after moving around time repeatedly, Happy's mental fortitude was already so strong that he doubted he could get any stronger than that.

  To quickly understand what was going on with his body, Happy quickly sent Xu Xin out of the bedroom once Xu Xin spoke to him.

  "I was the one who drew you back."

  A faint voice rose in his mind, and it was a voice Happy was incredibly familiar with.

  "My name is Chen Kaixin."

  After hesitating for a few seconds, Happy answered in a mocking tone, "What a coincidence, my name is also Chen Kaixin."

  "I'm the original owner of this body, and based on the fragmented memories you brought to me, you should be the me three years later. For some unknown reason, you showed up in me and obtained control over my body."

  The voice in his head was incredibly calm, and it was as if he was talking about how his clothes had been used by someone else for more than one year.

  Happy said nothing for a moment. He just slowly digested the shocking information brought by the voice in his head.

  "Are you saying that you're awake now."

  "No. I've been awake for a long time."

  "Then you…"

  Chen Kaixin spoke in his mind, "At that time, my mind was rather weak. It might be because I was just rejected, and that time, you came over with a very powerful d.e.s.i.r.e for revenge. That was why even when I wanted to seize my body back, I didn't know how to do so. Right now, you've achieved your goal in taking revenge over Class One Hall. Your obsession over them is slowly becoming weaker, and it's only then that I learned of the way to seize control over my body back."

  Happy's heart sank when his own voice rose in his mind.

  She suddenly had a strong sense of uneasiness in him.

  It was as if everything around him as well as everything that he had was about to leave him.

  Xu Xin, his friends, Silver Wolf, everything in the game, and everything outside the game. Everything was about to be completely unrelated to him.

  'Am I… about to return to that world filled with a medicinal scent?

  'Damn it, why didn't you chase me out sooner?!'

  An unfathomable rage rose in Happy's heart.

  He had been comatose in that world for more than a year.

  In his mind, Chen Kaixin seemed to have sensed Happy's thoughts and anger. After hesitating for a long while, he spoke again, "All of this was originally mine, and you took away my life and everything from me after you entered my body—"

  "I know that this damn world doesn't belong to me! So if you would please send me back?! And do it quickly!"

  Happy was already unable to help but worry about how the Xu Yao in the other world was doing.

  Over the past one year and a half, she took care of a comatose patient, and after those one year and a half, he finally recovered, but right then, this accursed Chen Kaixin just sporadically decided to boast about what he had in Happy's face.

  "I'm not boasting. I… I just don't know how to face all this…" The voice in his head explained hesitantly. "When Xu Xin hugged me, my mind was blank. I did not know how to comfort her… She seems to know that I'm not you."

  "You don't say!"

  "So to comfort her, I can only bring you over here."

  "That's it?!" Happy flew into a rage again. "You had me move over time and space just so that I can comfort the woman of your dreams?"

  Happy was gradually getting into character. "Now that you've finished using me, can you please send me back, young master? I don't want to see you at all right now."

  The voice in his head instantly fell silent.

  "What now?!"

  "I'm just thinking. I cannot communicate with a lot of people. Besides, I'll definitely slip up in front of Silver Wolf, Knife, and the others."

  Happy was rendered speechless for a moment before he said, "Are you seriously going to restrain me in your body and make me continue living life with you? Are you going to give up on your life and world?"

  "No, I'm just asking whether you can take some of your time out and help me so that I can slowly get used to everything? After all, my life is in a complete mess now thanks to you."

  "You'll have to change your wording there a little, buddy, because when you said that I made your life a complete mess, I made you a famous person in the world and a billionaire, brought the woman of your dreams into your stupid place to serve you, and helped your friends to reach their current status. If you want to continue complaining, I'll be glad to entertain you."

  Chen Kaixin was rendered speechless once more in his mind.

  But this was normal, considering the fact that he was facing himself, who had a few years of experience ahead of him.

  Everyone else complained about their past selves, but no one had ever complained about their future selves.

  "Alright, let me put it this way. Aren't you afraid that I'll make a complete mess of the world you carefully created?"

  Happy was instantly rendered speechless. He then said, "Didn't you learn anything at all over the past one year and a half?"

  "I watched a lot, but I didn't get any hands-on experience with it. Take today as an example. I know what's going on, but once I regained control over my body, I still felt at a loss," the voice in his head answered feebly.

  When he heard this, Happy s.u.c.k.e.d in a sharp breath.

  After this brand new Chen Kaixin entered World of Martial Arts, he might end up wasting all the Fire Qilin Blood and Illusion Life and Death Pills he acc.u.mulated through blood, sweat, and tears on some amateur, like those in Wild Wolves.

  He might not even be able to raise his head in front of Silver Wolf.

  In fact, he might even let Class One Hall rise from the ashes and destroy Mu Clan.

  Even though Happy was already in a hurry to return to the other world, when he thought of all this, he could not help but instantly feel a chill down his spine.

  Chapter 919 - New World of Martial Arts

  Within a pristine white hospital room was Xu Yao, leaning against Happy's bed as quietly as a baby with her weak and frail body. Her fingers were wrapped tightly around Happy's arm, and there were still clear tears on her face, which was
scrunched up with a scowl.

  Happy had already opened his eyes for a while.

  Creak.

  A nurse came over for a ward round, and when she opened the door, she saw the comatose patient who was rumored to have been in coma for more than a year and suddenly woke up open his eyes. He was also staring at the girl leaning against his bed with a clear mind. The nurse's expression instantly became very interesting.

  "Doc—"

  The nurse was just about to open her mouth and shout, but the boy on the bed immediately placed a finger on his lips and hushed her. She forcefully swallowed her words.

  If a normal patient laid comatose for a prolonged period of time, their weakened bodies and eyes will not be able to deliver any sort of body language.

  But the female nurse was able to sense a great gentleness and a faint, awe-inspiring might that allowed no argument from the eyes of the boy named Chen Kaixin.

  It was difficult for her to imagine just how a patient with such a weak body will have such a gentle and awe-inspiring gaze. He was just like her hospital director…

  But he was also much younger and energetic than her hospital director.

  "Come here."

  The female nurse saw the boy on the bed nod at her slightly through great effort, and the meaning in his eyes was very clear.

  She pointed at herself before she approached on tip toes.

  Fortunately, the boy's eyes were rather gentle and harmless. Besides, his gaze on Xu Yao had been filled with tender affection and regret, otherwise, the nurse will definitely not be filled with so much compassion that she will be commanded by a patient whose mind was probably not even clear.

  "Based on what she said, is it true that I've been in coma for a long time?" Happy was a little unable to get used to his own voice. It was hoarse and a little grating to the ears.

  The nurse answered with an exaggerated and excited expression, "Yeah. You've been in coma for about one year and a half. At that time, the doctor said that you might not be able to wake up ever again. Look at the calendar."

  Then, the nurse seemed to know that time will be of a great shock to the patient. Her gaze landed on Xu Yao, who was still asleep and dreaming. "This girl has been visiting you and taking care of you for a few days every month to make sure that you're alright. I heard that she even kept this a secret from your parents and took care of you alone, claiming that she was trying to atone for her sins. But how could such a good girl do anything wrong? She even brought you to the hospital alone just now, and she was crying so miserably."

  The nurse sized up Happy and Xu Yao with a skeptical but compassionate gaze.

  Happy said nothing. His gaze became even gentler, and he forced himself to smile. "It has nothing to do with her. I was in a bad mood at that time, and I drank some wine before I fell. Now, since I woke up, could you help me get a doctor to check on me? Also, please get a blanket over her so that she can sleep peacefully for a little while longer."

  "Got it." The nurse was clearly a person who wore her heart on her sleeve. She made a gesture showing that she understood what Happy said before she turned around and ran out of the room with light footsteps.

  Once the female nurse left, Happy smoothed out his thoughts slightly.

  There were plenty of things in his life that might have been a misunderstanding.

  Aside from the various methods Blood Robes and Class One Hall used to seize the top eight spots on World of Martial Arts, Xu Yao might have been used by Blood Robes in her grief when her mother passed away and a piece of information that she did not receive in time. Thus, she did something she regretted.

  Even though Happy believed that he was the greatest victim in this whole misunderstanding.

  He lost everything out of the blue, along with one year and a half of time, as well as his health.

  The door to his room was soon pushed open tentatively. A few young nurses and a few elderly doctors in white coats moved in quietly.

  "The doctors are here."

  Those old doctors surrounded the bed to observe Happy's condition.

  Based on his blood pressure, skin color, breathing, heart beat, pupil dilation, and after they examined him from top to bottom, they were surprised and amazed.

  "Who said that the current youngsters cannot create miracles?"

  "She managed to take care of her comatose boyfriend for one year and a half until she woke up. This alone is a miracle."

  The elderly doctors were extremely excited and worked up. They were grinning so much that it was as if they were celebrating the new year.

  Happy knew his condition very well, and he asked softly, "Doctors, how long will it take before I can recover?"

  "Hmm… Honestly, your girlfriend has been taking care of you well. Based on your current situation, within a month, you should be able to walk normally on the ground, and around two to three months later, you will be able to recover to your normal state."

  The elderly doctor who answered Happy had clearly heard from the female nurse from before, and when he spoke to Happy, he was very careful with the volume of his voice, because he was afraid of waking up Xu Yao from her sleep. His attitude toward Happy was also pretty good. "Take good care of yourself, son. Don't be too obsessed with other things. Your body and your lover are the most important things to you."

  "I know. Thank you, doctor."

  A group of female nurses stood at the entrance with the nurse from before, and they were gesturing at Happy and Xu Yao.

  "It's true. I didn't think he was anything when he was comatose, but now that I look at him, he does give off the feeling of the frog prince."

  "Hush. Be quiet."

  "Now that the prince is awake, he can live happily after with the princess. Hehe…"

  The girls chatted with each other for a while before they were soon chased out of the room by the doctors. The female nurse who was the one in charge of taking care of Happy since the beginning was the only person left.

  The nurse walked to Happy's bed in slight embarrassment. "Apologies. They insisted on coming."

  The nurse apologized for bringing that group of nosy ladies.

  Happy smiled slightly, even though it was difficult for him to do so. "It's fine, at least you didn't bother her. By the way, have you played World of Martial Arts before?"

  The nurse's eyes lit up. "Of course. My boyfriend dragged me into it. We're known as Sun and Moon Divine Sword Wielding Couple in game. Well? Sounds awesome, right?'

  "Hah. That's great. Can you tell about what's going on in the game right now, such as the strongest sect in the Chinese server right now, the strongest player, and other things that you might know."

  "Oh, by the way, let me give you this." When the nurse saw that Happy wanted to talk about World of Martial Arts right when he woke up, she seemed to remember something, and she turned around to bring out a box from the cupboard beside him.

  "What is it?"

  "Your girlfriend brought this over. She said that if you woke up, she wanted to show you this, and you might not fall into a coma again."

  While the nurse spoke, she unwrapped the packaging inside, and in it was a VR Helmet that seemed to be quite old.

  Happy's eyes lit up.

  This was the VR Helmet he had used for three years. He originally thought that Xu Yao already threw it away, and he did not expect that she actually kept it.

  Xu Yao had even brought it to the hospital. She might be hoping that if he saw the helmet when he woke up, he might not faint again.

  Naturally, she did not know that he had suddenly fainted because of the other Chen Kaixin.

  "It's so old… It's a first gen helmet, huh?" The nurse held the helmet.

  Happy was puzzled. "First get? What do you mean by that?"

  "You wouldn't know about it, huh? A year ago, World of Martial Arts updated some of their content, and they also changed these VR Helmets. They look much more exquisite and beautiful now, and they have a lot of functions. They're much prettier tha
n the old models."

  "What new functions do they have?" Happy asked.

  "Hmm… A lot. Such as for those who return to the game after a long period of absence, events such as Legend of Emperors, Weapons of the Gods… and the emergence of even more powerful players."

  The nurse revealed a lot of information in one go like a machinegun. "The update for those who return to the game after a long period of absence is targeted for the players who suffered a death penalty that is too great and for those who deleted their account. For example, after a month, they can obtain their original stats when they return to the game, and those who suffered too great a penalty of death and were imprisoned can be released earlier, but they will appear in the land for exiles.

  "Those who deleted their character can actually return to the game with their original character. The official developers have saved your data in the game, and everything is stored in their databank. When you return to the game, you'll be like a hermit who has decided to live in seclusion in the world of martial artists."

  When he heard this, Happy's eyes lit up.

  Then, he looked at the nurse when he thought of something. "You know about me?"

  The nurse nodded honestly. "Every time I come here, Xu Yao will always be alone. I'd talk to her a little, and then, she told me certain things about you. She doesn't seem to want to talk about herself, but when she talked about you, she'll seem so lively. She mentioned how strong you were in the game and said that you might have gotten into the top eight in the Sword Among Us Tournament at Mount Hua, but every time she finished speaking, she will cry silently."

  "Are you saying that she has always been here alone over the past months?"

  "Yeah. Even though there are many doctors and patients' families in the hospital who like her, since she's with you, everyone respected her and took care of her. No one bothered her."

  The nurse seemed to be trying to explain things for Xu Yao.

  But Happy sank into deep thought.

  'Blood Robes… That guy must have either left after he finished using Xu Yao, or their relationship completely soured because of what happened to me. Oh well, I'll ignore this for the time being.'