Death Game: Starting as a Trickster, Pretending to Be a God

At Lin Yu’s request, Sleepless Sky Huole ultimately showed mercy and spared these gang members from Gray Three Streets.

Of course, this ”sparing” was limited to giving them a chance to live, not executing them on the spot. Upon closer investigation, each of these gang members, mercenaries, and middlemen, with their tarnished records, had more or less violated numerous laws of Sleepless City, infringed upon various regulations of the Truth Corporation, and harmed the corporation’s interests.

Letting the small fry go was one thing, but the minor and major leaders inevitably had to spend some time squatting in the Public Security Bureau.

In the car on the way back, looking at Sleepless Sky Huole, who still seemed somewhat displeased, Lin Yu spoke up with a smile.

”I’m fine, aren’t I? Why the long face?”

At this moment, only Sleepless Sky Huole and Lin Yu were in the back seat. After Huole closed the partition, the driver naturally couldn’t see what was happening in the back, so she was no longer in that imposing, inscrutable, and unreadable state from before.

She directly snorted coldly, annoyance evident on her brow. ”Still talking? You became a wanted criminal by the Public Security Bureau in one night, and you were fighting those mercenaries in Gray Three Streets. Furbollo, could you have a little more awareness of your own status? A person of high status should not risk danger!”

”Today’s situation was far from dangerous for me,” Lin Yu said calmly. ”Didn’t I neither get caught nor get hurt by those guys?”

Hearing Lin Yu’s indifferent tone, Sleepless Sky Huole grew even more dissatisfied.

”Now everyone knows you are my confidant, you are Sleepless Sky Huoxing’s suitor, and you are the life-saving benefactor who rescued me at Wan Jin Tian Zuo... You’re no longer just an Otherworldly Visitor who has caught Mother’s eye. The two of us are now bound together—you don’t even need something to happen to you; simply getting into danger or a difficult situation is a slap in my face!”

Sleepless Sky Huole spoke, then reached out again as if to pinch Lin Yu’s neck. But as soon as her hand rested on his neck, she pursed her lips, frowned, and finally withdrew it.

She muttered softly, ”Didn’t you say it too? The two of us are bound together... So be more mindful of your own situation and safety. Don’t always cause trouble for me.”

”Even if you hadn’t come, I had a way to resolve it.”

Lin Yu said quietly.

”How would you resolve it? Were you going to have Sheng Lan Kui pull strings at the Public Security Bureau to cancel the warrant?” Sleepless Sky Huole said irritably. ”Or were you planning to attend Huoxing’s Coming-of-Age Ceremony as a wanted criminal?”

”And... although I realized after rushing to Gray Three Streets that you weren’t actually being surrounded and attacked, but rather fighting multiple opponents and winning, those guys confessed—you were taken away by someone from that Fairy Queen!”

Sleepless Sky Huole said coldly, ”That person is very sinister. From what I know, several families and the Three Major Corporations that have operated in Gray Three Streets for a long time have investigated her, but no one knows her true identity... And because she’s never really done anything excessively bad, everyone has simply let her reign as queen in Gray Three Streets.”

”If she really intended to harm you, even I would find it troublesome to deal with.”

Lin Yu curled his lip. ”So that’s why you arrested all the prominent figures in Gray Three Streets to vent your anger?”

Hearing Lin Yu’s question, Sleepless Sky Huole pursed her lips. ”It’s not really about venting anger. I’ve never had a good opportunity to get involved in the outer city’s fringe areas. It’s better to take advantage of this justified reason to purge these influential figures and gangs in Gray Three Streets. Once new vacancies appear, I can then install my own people, which will naturally be more convenient—that’s also why I simply brought Paris here.”

”What a cold-blooded yet sharp political animal. You’re becoming more and more like the head of a Peerage Nobility family,” Lin Yu praised Sleepless Sky Huole. ”Keep it up, Sleepless Sky Huole.”

Sleepless Sky Huole didn’t respond to Lin Yu’s praise, instead continuing to ask.

”Anyway, although you returned safely... the Fairy Queen didn’t harm you, did she?”

”I heard she wanted to talk to you. What did you talk about?”

Listening to Sleepless Sky Huole’s tone, Lin Yu spoke up. ”Sounds like you know quite a bit about this Fairy Queen?”

”Although this person only controls Gray Three Streets, she’s actually quite famous even in the highest circles of Sleepless City,” Sleepless Sky Huole said calmly. ”The reason is what I mentioned before... No one knows who she is.”

”Just being of unknown identity can make her so famous?”

Lin Yu asked curiously.

Sleepless Sky Huole sighed. ”Outsiders only know that she was investigated by several nobles and corporations and still didn’t expose herself. But this ’not exposing herself’ can come in many forms.”

”And hers is the most terrifying kind—it’s not that no one has ever gotten close to the ’truth,’ it’s just that without exception... those people have all disappeared.”

”I speculate they’re probably dead, but... there are no bodies, no traces, like a suddenly severed thread—at a certain moment, they appeared for the last time on some street in Sleepless City not covered by surveillance, and then... they were never seen again.”

Hearing Sleepless Sky Huole’s words, Lin Yu nodded in understanding.

He had a pretty good idea where those people’s bodies were, since he had probably just seen them.

Moreover, he also roughly understood how these people suddenly disappeared on the streets.

Because manhole covers eat people.

Sleepless Sky Huole changed the subject. ”So, I’m not asking you about the Fairy Queen’s identity... Although you are a famous ’Detective’ and might have found some clues... that person is too bizarre. I advise you not to get too involved with her.”

”The currently mainstream view is that she is probably some extremely high-ranking being that escaped from another ’otherworld.’”

Then, Sleepless Sky Huole added, ”I’m not talking about you players, but things from other worlds.”

Lin Yu nodded, then said, ”Actually, my conversation with her was quite pleasant, and I already know her true identity.”

Sleepless Sky Huole was very surprised.

”You know who she is?”

”She’s your sister.”

Lin Yu said calmly.

Sleepless Sky Huole immediately curled her lip. ”Nonsense. If you can’t tell, just say you can’t tell. So our great detective has also started talking nonsense to save face.”

”You don’t believe me?”

”The title ’Fairy Queen’ appeared six years ago,” Sleepless Sky Huole sighed. ”At that time, Huoxing was just a little girl... Are you saying that as a little girl, she single-handedly dominated the outer city without relying on any family support?”

”More importantly... ever since Sleepless Sky Huoxing got lost that time she went to the outer city, Mother has strictly restricted her from going out. She’s been confined to her own courtyard all year round. Forget leaving the Inner City; she rarely even leaves the Sleepless Night Family grounds, and when she does, she’s watched. How could she possibly frequently come and go from the Outer City?”

The car happened to be passing through the checkpoint between the inner and outer areas—even though the Sleepless Sky family’s car had a privileged lane, they could still see the heavily guarded, strictly inspected checkpoint with vehicles slowly queuing up.

Sleepless Sky Huole spoke again.

”It’s simply impossible!”