Chapter 612: Chapter 359: You Ruirui’s Visit, a Silent Farewell (Double-Length)

"Hurry up, or she’ll see the box of diapers in my brother’s room!" Su Zimai typed, shaking the phone screen in front of Gu Qiye.

But Gu Qiye just stood still, watching her back as she walked away. Then Su Zimai snatched the Divine Concealment Umbrella from Gu Qiye’s hand, and like a crab, she began to sidestep her way up the stairs.

Gu Qiye was momentarily stunned.

They had no choice; once out of the umbrella’s coverage, they would be discovered, so they had to reluctantly follow Su Zimai’s lead, stumbling along like a crab brigade, as they made their way to the second floor together.

Then, they looked towards the open room.

At that time, You Ruirui had already entered Gu Qiye’s room. She sat on the bed, staring at the old standing fan, and then reached out, turning on the fan’s control panel with a ’click’. 𝗳𝐫𝚎𝗲𝚠𝚎𝗯𝕟𝐨𝘃𝚎𝗹.𝗰𝗼𝗺

The fan blades began to slowly turn, breaking the silence with a buzzing sound.

She turned her head and suddenly saw Gu Qiye’s study materials. She picked them up and flipped through them, her ice-blue eyes gazing at his notes and doodles with a dazed look.

After a while, she set the materials aside and quietly sat on the bed, looking around the room.

Suddenly, You Ruirui reached out and grabbed the hand of a chubby blue hedgehog plush toy on the bed, shaking hands with it expressionlessly. Then she leaned sideways, gently resting against the toy, gazing at the yellowing certificates pasted on the wall with a blank expression.

The fan continued to turn leisurely, as a summer breeze lifted the sheer white curtain. A beam of sunlight filtered through the window, warming her face as she slowly closed her eyes, peacefully drifting off to sleep. From beginning to end, there was no expression on You Ruirui’s face.

"I think this person is beyond saving." Su Zimai stuffed the umbrella back into Gu Qiye’s hands, quickly typing on his phone.

"If I had known she liked it so much, I would have given her that toy." Gu Qiye paused for a moment, typing a response.

"Brother, I think you’re beyond saving too." Su Zimai wrinkled his nose, continuing to type. Every word seemed to squeeze out of the screen, eager to bite.

"Xiaomai, Qiye, let’s leave quickly while she’s still asleep. If the Rainbow Wings people really find us, it’ll be trouble..." Gu Zhuo Case wiped his stubble, took out his phone, and typed, showing it to the two of them.

Cezar was the most nervous of all. Seeing this message, he finally held his chest and sighed in relief, thinking that Mr. Ghost Clock was indeed the most rational.

Gu Qiye lowered his eyes, silently nodding.

He lowered the umbrella, glanced up from the shadows, and took one last look at You Ruirui’s sleeping face, quietly spacing out for a moment before slowly walking away.

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Meanwhile, in the remote back of an abandoned office building in China Li Jing.

"Weekend, weekend, weekend, overtime, overtime, overtime..." the hoarse whispers mixed with the sound of spitting, echoing inside the building.

At this point, the diamond-bodied Queen Giant leapt through the shattered window, crouching in a half-kneeling position inside the floor.

From the mess on the ground, she slowly lifted her gaze, her hollow eye sockets staring directly at the Working Demons in the office.

These two-headed giants in work uniforms wandered inside the office building, smelling the scent of humans, drooling as they shakily approached. Their bloated purple bodies seemed ready to burst from their clothes, with buttons threatening to pop off at any moment.

One head muttered "weekend" in delight, while the other head grumbled "overtime" in a gloomy manner.

"What’s going on? Why are Working Demons appearing so frequently in China? We’ve already run into them several times." Xia Pingzhou asked.

He had a vivid memory of his first encounter with a Working Demon in Tokyo, but here in Li Jing, they’d already met them more than once, and each time in staggering numbers.

"Perhaps it’s environmental; the kind of culture breeds the kind of demon." The Queen’s Statue’s fingertips burned with cold blue flames, forming lines of text in the air.

"Forget it, it doesn’t matter." Xia Pingzhou was expressionless. "This place is closer to the city center, which makes it easy for the Mutants Association people to get involved. Let’s proceed... deal with it in ten seconds and leave quickly."

The Queen’s Statue nodded, then instantly transformed into a sharp trajectory, shooting out like a whirlwind at the Working Demons in the office.

Almost in an instant, the heads of the Working Demons fell amidst the flashing blade, toxic blood spurted out from the neck stumps, splattering the entire office.

The Queen’s Statue’s body became a Nihilization, passing through the green-purple toxic sea like air, scooped up Xia Pingzhou, then vaulted over the window, plummeting straight towards the street below.

A bus approached head-on, with the deafening sound of its horn piercing eardrums, the summer sunlight too bright for Xia Pingzhou to open his eyes.

During these days, as Ji Minghuan busied himself with plotting Black Cocoon’s family revenge plan, he didn’t neglect the growth progress of his second unit "Xia Pingzhou".

After all, the other units could fish and slack off, but the second unit could not.

The core mechanism of the Chess Player is "Winter of the Wild Hunt", a system that boosts attributes through enemy kills—this system’s existence meant he could only act like a MMORPG player, logging in daily to grind obsessively, leveling up through relentless monster battles.

So for an entire week, besides dining and having tea with Ayase Origami, Xia Pingzhou spent his days hunting with the evolved Queen’s Statue.