Super Island Tycoon

Chapter 1263: Chapter 1262: Cleaning Up

Jiang Cheng looked at Zhao Shuai like this and couldn’t help finding it a bit funny. ”Yeah. Let’s go.”

Jiang Cheng looked at Zhang Tian’s still somewhat unhappy expression and spoke.

”How do we get in? Don’t tell me it’s the same way as just now again?” Jiang Cheng asked.

”Not exactly. This time you guys hold my hand. Remember, no matter what happens later, don’t open your eyes. Keep them shut the whole time, and don’t stop walking. Just follow me.” Zhang Tian finished speaking and began muttering something under his breath.

Watching what Zhang Tian was doing, Jiang Cheng more or less understood. He was trying to forcefully skip past the Illusion Realm stage.

It wasn’t long before Jiang Cheng felt that he was no longer in the desert. His steps felt light. His whole body had a slight floating sensation, but Jiang Cheng simply followed silently behind Zhang Tian, not paying attention to anything else.

”Jiang, I feel kind of—” Zhao Shuai whispered. ”Don’t talk.” Jiang Cheng cut him off. Without even looking, he knew doing this had to be consuming a lot of Divine Sense. There was no way they could let Zhang Tian get disturbed.

After a while, Jiang Cheng felt a gust of wind brushing past his ears.

There were also car horns blaring. Everything was chaotic, with people crying. Jiang Cheng had no idea what they’d run into now, but before long, everything around him went quiet, leaving only the sound of the wind rustling. Then came people whispering, ”Hey, did you see that kid of hers? Didn’t shed a single tear.” ”Yeah, my god, his own mom died and he’s still that calm.”

”Sigh, tell me about it. That woman really had it rough, found herself a man who abandoned her and her son, and now the son’s turned into a cold-blooded one.” ”Alright, stop, stop talking.” The feeling was so real it made Jiang Cheng feel like he was standing right in the middle of these people, but he vaguely sensed that they seemed to be talking about Zhang Tian.

Jiang Cheng suddenly felt Zhang Tian’s hand gripping his tighten, giving him a squeeze. Only then did Jiang Cheng realize Zhang Tian’s palm was slick with sweat. He could clearly feel Zhang Tian’s tension and unease.

Jiang Cheng just squeezed Zhang Tian’s hand back. Funeral music sounded again by his ears, but there were no sobs, nothing at all. Yet now Jiang Cheng could truly feel the grief and loneliness Zhang Tian had felt back then.

After a while, Jiang Cheng felt the wind grow stronger. All the sounds around him vanished, everything disappeared. It was empty all around, and then suddenly there was darkness—must be the feeling of Night falling. Jiang Cheng couldn’t see, but because of his system, his light sensitivity and other senses were sharper than most people’s. He even felt like there were streetlights, but now the wind around them suddenly stopped; what followed was a warm sensation, more like being indoors.

”Let’s send Young Master back first. Boss still has to work for a while.” A man’s voice sounded. As soon as Jiang Cheng heard ”Boss,” he figured this had to be Zhao Shuai’s father. Could it be that everyone’s Illusion Realm was being played out one by one? Jiang Cheng was a bit unsure.

”Sigh, this is really pitiful. And don’t just talk about him—I’m Boss’s personal bodyguard, and I’ve only seen Boss once this whole month. He’s really too busy,” another man said.

”Yeah, Young Master comes here at this hour every day to wait for Boss at the gate. He often falls asleep waiting here.” ”Young Master’s mother passed away early; it’s really so pitiful.”

After hearing this, Jiang Cheng felt Zhao Shuai beside him stir a little. It seemed like he wanted to pull his hand free. Jiang Cheng hurriedly tightened his grip on Zhao Shuai’s hand, not letting him move.

”I don’t want to apply for scientific research.” Jiang Cheng realized this had to be Zhao Shuai’s voice, but it sounded younger, and right now he seemed a bit angry as he spoke.

”Then what do you want to apply for?” Boss’s voice rang out. ”Don’t mess around with pointless stuff. It’s not like you’re dumb. The country is really short on research talent right now. It’s not like it has to be you, but don’t forget whose son you are! You have to set an example.”

”I don’t want to. I don’t want to be some example. So what if I’m your son? I just don’t want to, and this is my own schooling. What right do you have to force me?” Zhao Shuai’s tone carried anger.

”You call this me forcing you? I’m doing this for your own good!” Boss sounded like he stood up and paced a few steps.

”For my own good? Since I was little, when have you ever done anything for my own good? You’re always about work, busy, the country—you barely even show up a few times a year.”

”And now you want me to sacrifice my youth for this country, for some so-called example?” As Zhao Shuai went on, his voice choked up.

”You resent me that much?” Boss asked, his tone filled with deep helplessness.

”Yeah, I resent you. I don’t want to be your son at all!” By the end, Zhao Shuai could no longer control his emotions.

Smack! Jiang Cheng could tell that was the sound of a slap—must’ve been Boss hitting Zhao Shuai, he thought, since Zhao Shuai really had said some pretty harsh things just now.

For a moment the air seemed to congeal. A suffocating pressure filled the room. After a long time, ”Shuai, Dad was wrong, alright? I get it. I’ll apply, okay?” After saying that, Zhao Shuai left.

”I hit him just now! I really didn’t mean to, I, I—” Boss was still muttering to himself.

Jiang Cheng felt Zhao Shuai’s hand in his own growing colder and colder. Ever since just now, he’d felt like Zhao Shuai’s body was trembling.

Jiang Cheng hadn’t expected things between Zhao Shuai and his father to have gotten this bad back then.

Before he could recover from what had just happened, Jiang Cheng felt the scene around him shift again. This time it should be his turn, he thought. Suddenly someone bumped into him from the side. Jiang Cheng was jostled by the crowd but still didn’t open his eyes, keeping them tightly shut, not moving forward, slowly sensing everything happening around him.

”What do we do now? The doors are all locked, how are we supposed to get out?” ”How should I know? When she came to me, she just said she wanted me to teach them a quiet little lesson.”

”Then why’d you blow it up this big? What if they track it down, are you trying to die?” ”I didn’t know. It wasn’t me. I only hacked the computer connected to the display screen. I didn’t expect there’d be so many viruses.” ”How could you make a mistake like that? And something this big—how could you go through with it? I was just wondering about it earlier.” ”I think that woman is just using us as a knife.”

Jiang Cheng listened for a long time and still couldn’t figure out which incident in his life this was.

”Huh? Look, someone went up.” ”Him? You think he can handle it?” ”Who knows, never even seen him before, who is he?” ”Let’s see. I don’t think he can do it either.”

Right now Jiang Cheng only felt the people around him buzzing, a noisy crowd, nothing coming through clearly. It was constantly noisy. Everything felt unreal to him. Even though his curiosity was about to drown him, he still couldn’t open his eyes.

”What are we going to do? If this virus can’t be removed, we really won’t be able to get out, right?” ”I’m afraid it’s not just about getting out. We might get put into separate quarantine.” ”What, it’s that serious? Oh my god.” ”Yeah, it’s that scary, so someone has to remove this virus.”