Pretending To Be A Boss-Chapter 366 - 45: Song Que’s Last 7 Days_4

Lingyi said with surprise and joy:

"It’s Xi Yu!"

Her voice was loud, and after the people around heard it, their gazes also fell on the threads of light that started to appear and multiply.

"It’s Xi Yu!"

"Xi Yu!"

More and more such voices echoed through the deep chasm of empty space.

Song Que looked up at the darkness above, where beams of light were piercing through, each as fine as a thread, like strands of rain.

"What is Xi Yu?" Song Que asked.

Lingyi, brimming with happiness, leaned out dangerously over the edge of the stone pathway, seemingly having forgotten the risk as she strived to get closer to the light.

"This is the darkest place in the entire world, but even here, the sunlight hasn’t abandoned us. When the sun aligns directly above the pit, there will be about a quarter of an hour when the sunlight penetrates layers of darkness to reach us. Although by the time it gets here, it’s so thin, just like the finest threads of rain. We call this scene Xi Yu."

Song Que was stunned by Lingyi’s explanation. How deep must the pit be for sunlight to weaken to mere threads, like rain? Yet despite this, looking around, every person on the stone pathway was reaching out, trying to touch the sunlight without a thought for the water below.

This sight profoundly moved Song Que, and it was only then that he realized some of these people hadn’t seen the sun in thirty years.

These thread-like beams of light were like the last sliver of hope in the hearts of these people—delicate, yet existing.

Although the scene was so gloomy, although it was just a slight, lingering presence of sunlight, the people yearned to be close to it.

A ray of light fell upon Lingyi’s forehead.

Song Que watched Lingyi’s contented smile and felt a twinge of sadness.

What kind of dark and twisted lives were they living...?

Yet, although they were living in the darkest, filthiest corners, their souls seemed to be cleansed by Xi Yu.

Lingyi, who had once regarded the gifted with hostility, now smiled at Song Que with a show-offish grin, reminiscent of a little girl who had just gotten the latest doll and wanted to show it off to a good friend.

This moment’s Lingyi, with a ray of sunlight on her ashen face, possessed a beauty that went straight to the soul, indescribable even by Song Que, who had seen many girls.

But Xi Yu was brief.

As the sun slowly changed its position, Song Que watched the thread of sunlight travel to Lingyi’s nose, then gradually thin out until it vanished, leaving tears in her eyes.

She looked blankly at the sky and said:

"One day, I will take them all out of here."

Song Que said nothing.

The possibility was too slim, even for the gifted to climb out of such a deep pit along the sheer cliffs.

For non-gifted people to achieve this was an even more illusory goal.

"I will help you, even though I only have seven days to live."

Lingyi was stunned, her expression softening:

"Here, you’ll have to show off the abilities of a gifted one, otherwise... they probably won’t like you much. Oh, by the way, my name is Lingyi."

Song Que was taken aback.

The only person he could possibly meet in the pit, who also fit the age and gender profile, name being Lingyi, could only be Wu’s daughter.

"What’s wrong? You look like you know me."

"No, the name is very pleasing. I am Song Que."

Song Que did not share his background with Lingyi. After seeing what it was like here, he suddenly lost any desire to help reunite a broken family.

No matter how much Wu suffered, she had made her choice.

And Lu Chao’an felt no remorse at all.

They had no idea what their daughter was enduring in this dark place.

"Song Que? I seem to have heard that somewhere, like it’s a very famous name."

"My time is limited, I will do my best to help you all repair the stone pathway."

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"You are quite clever."

Lingyi was surprised that Song Que could so quickly understand what they were doing.

Song Que said:

"If possible, can you tell me about some of the things that have happened here?"

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"What do you want to hear? Most things that happen here are unfortunate."

"That’s alright, just consider it a request from a man who is about to die. In return, I will spare no effort to help everyone get through the next downpour."

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Song Que’s arrival, indeed as Lingyi had thought, brought about hostility from everyone after his identity as a gifted was revealed.

On the first day, Song Que had wanted to go to the very top of the stone pathway to extend it as much as possible, but unfortunately, the crowd did not cooperate with him.

But by the first night, when people discovered that many new caves had appeared on the cliff’s face, big enough to serve as shelters from the rain, they began to marvel at Song Que’s capabilities.

His endurance and strength seemed limitless, the miner’s pick in his hand resembling heavy machinery tearing through rock layers. Song Que, by his own efforts, had chiseled many cavities in the cliff large enough for people to rest in.

Under Lingyi’s command, people finally accepted that Song Que should lead the strongest young men to dig the stone pathway.

By the second night, with Song Que’s help, the work that normally took a week was completed in just one day.

By the third day, most of those who had loathed Song Que were starting to warm up to him.