Chapter 110: Transmigrated as a Fraudulent Male Streamer (34)
When Cen Yu opened his eyes once more, he found himself lying in a hospital room.
Just as he was about to speak, he spotted He Yongning to his left.
He Yongning, wrapped in a cast: “…”
Cen Yu: “…” Never mind, let’s check the neighbor.
After a moment’s thought, he shifted his gaze to his right, discovering Jiang Tuan, whose leg was encased in a cast.
Cen Yu: “…”
Are we all lying in the hospital together??
Mulling it over, he threw a glance at his own elevated foot, staring at the cast on it in total silence.
“…You’re awake,” He Yongning broke the silence.
“Mm,” Cen Yu replied softly. Turning his head to look at He Yongning, whose expression was unreadable, he asked, “How much do you remember?”
“A lot,” He Yongning pointed to his own head. “I even have a few extra, strange memories.”
Noticing that Jiang Tuan beside them was still asleep, Cen Yu simply propped his upper body up with both hands, shifting slightly before crooking a finger at He Yongning. “Let’s hear them.”
“I currently have two sets of memories,” He Yongning said after a moment’s thought.
He also shifted his body slightly, drawing a bit closer to Cen Yu’s side. As brothers in misfortune with broken limbs, the gap between their beds—barely half a meter wide—felt as unreachable as the Milky Way separating the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl.
He Yongning cast a somewhat displeased glance at his right hand, which was in a cast. In the end, he used his left hand to prop his body up slightly, drawing as close to the edge of the bed as possible before saying to Cen Yu:
“The first memory is… during my senior year when I went out to participate in the competition, a mudslide hit Meiman High School. Everyone, including the security guard and the teachers, perished.” He looked at Cen Yu. “The only survivors were me and Pei Hengyun.”
He paused for a second. “Though I know that person was actually you.”
“Mm.” Cen Yu wasn’t surprised by this memory.
He was merely curious: unlike himself, who had been completely devoid of memories and had to follow a puzzle-solving route, He Yongning should have known right away in the first timeline that all his classmates had passed away. So why would he come back to attend a class reunion?
And so he asked him point-blank.
He Yongning looked at him. “If it were you…”
“And ten years later, you received a letter sent by a classmate who had died long ago, inviting you to come back during summer break to attend a class reunion, what would you think?”
“A prank? Or that I should go take a look?”
“…Then I’d definitely go back to stream it,” Cen Yu blurted out instinctively.
“Mm, I thought so too,” He Yongning said. Exchanging a glance with Cen Yu, he stared at the unreacting Cen Yu. “Is that joke not funny?”
“Heh.” Cen Yu looked at He Yongning. “Not funny.”
He Yongning frowned, appearing slightly vexed, but continued anyway, “…I assumed it was a prank.”
“Everyone knew what happened at Meiman High School that year.”
“In all the years that followed, I never returned to my hometown either.” He looked toward Cen Yu. “…Though I donated a sum of money to build a new teaching building near the original site.”
No wonder He Yongning had funded the construction of a new teaching building even though Meiman High School was long gone.
Cen Yu pondered for a moment, finally understanding why the story had begun with Pei Hengyun bringing Cen Yu back to their hometown to attend the class reunion.
In that timeline, Cen Yu and He Yongning were the ones who hadn’t been killed, which violated the premise of everyone dropping dead.
Meanwhile, in that empty classroom during the winter break of his senior year, Cen Yu had made a wish to Yu Sheng, pulling a small trick so that Pei Hengyun could continue playing with them.
Yu Sheng agreed, but informed him that Pei Hengyun’s presence would slowly replace his own.
Because his identity was replaced, the person who answered the phone call for the class reunion became Pei Hengyun.
…At this thought, Cen Yu pulled out his phone and searched for news, sure enough finding articles mentioning that another mudslide had suddenly erupted near the XX township where a mudslide had previously occurred.
However, because rescue operations were prompt this time, it was a close call without real danger, and everyone had only suffered minor injuries.
Cen Yu then checked the messages he had sent out, finding that his chat box with Little Le was still stuck at the time they went to explore the villa—sure enough, after driving into that township, they had already entered the realm of the story.
When he had received those messages from Little Le earlier, he had felt it was a bit strange.
He had merely suspected he was mistaken, assuming Little Le was exceptionally well-informed to be able to investigate the entire truth in a flash.
Looking at it now, those replies had clearly been sent by Yu Sheng himself.
Now that the story was drawing to a close, Cen Yu was finally able to read through the complete plot of the novel—
Just as he had surmised, the entire story was very easy to understand if framed like a game with three layers: the “Real World,” the “Surface World,” and the “Underworld.”
The Real World was where Cen Yu worked as a streamer and Pei Hengyun as an art teacher.
The Surface World began when they returned to their hometown to attend the class reunion.
The Underworld was Meiman High School itself.
If they failed to leave Meiman High School before that moment from ten years ago arrived, the rescue team would be unable to save them either.
The moment they returned to attend the class reunion, the mudslide had already occurred. Only by resolving the events at Meiman High School and leaving before 4:00 PM struck in the guard post could they possibly be found by the rescue team.
And for anyone wishing to alter the past and save everyone, they had to seek out Yu Sheng to make a wish and stop Fan Jie at every crucial node. Only then could they bring about a change in the real world, preventing that disaster from ten years ago from ever happening.
As for the ending of this novel, it didn’t even specify who it was that Pei Hengyun ultimately carried away…
Cen Yu frowned, feeling that this novel was somewhat bizarre. Given that Pei Hengyun was a classmate who had died during his sophomore year of high school, why would the story choose him to save everyone?
He swiped frantically all the way to the very end of the novel.
Where he finally spotted an author’s note—
[This text is a fanfiction of “Class Reunion: Meiman High School”!! AAAAAGH is there any fellow fan shipping this CP with me!!]
“…” Cen Yu stared intently at the tiny print at the end of the novel.
He nearly suspected his eyes were playing tricks on him.
“SYSTEM???” He began screaming frantically for the fat cat in his mind.
The fat cat materialized dejectedly, looking as if it knew it was in the wrong. “Meow, I didn’t expect the main System to prepare a text that turned out to be a fanfiction either, meow~”
“…” Cen Yu crooked a finger at the fat cat. “I think you want to test whether your head is harder or my hammer is!”
He threatened the fat cat inside his mind, demanding the System pull up the original game for him this instant!!
A few seconds later, a game interface materialized inside his mind—
[You are a lying, fraud-prone, no-name streamer…]
Cen Yu: “…”
Those four words before ‘streamer’ were completely unnecessary!
