As Lin Qiushi entered the room through bathroom door, he pinched himself on cheek first to confirm if it is real or a dream? indeed it hurts, so it is real. so the question is about the game is true or not? while thinking Lin Qiushi saw the paper in his hand which he got when he unlocked the iron door in the game. So now it's decided it was real. While looking at the paper in his hand he remembered the time when Baijie bid farewell with a shake hand, so she was real? all kind of these thoughts were circulating in his head and suddenly the door behind him opened, It was Wu Qi.
Wu Qi: "What happened? why are just standing there are you waiting for me?" he said with a smile, jokingly.
Lin Qiushi : "Ah..... Nothing," sat on the sofa and continued "Wu Qi, do you know about Spirealm game?" said plainly.
Wu Qi: "Spirealm? I heard about it from my girlfriend a month ago, saying like it was a game where you have to survive from supernatural things with your bravery and intelligence but in different world blah blah," said while rolling his eyes
Lin Qiushi: "What do you think about this game?"
Wu Qi: "I think it's just a publicly stunt this is a foreign country game and trying gain attention as much they could before the office game launch. "
Lin Qiushi: "Official game?"
Wu Qi: "Yesh only few illegal copies were released by someone and only small amount of people know about it and somehow my girlfriend got trapped in this nonsense."
Lin Qiushi: "How does she know about this game?"
Wu Qi: "Her collogues who were gossiping with her and now she wants to buy that rare and costly game and play, you know how bad she is at games she can't even play snake and ladder properly" said while scratching his back of his head.
Lin Qiushi: "Oh, okay, I'm want to sleep, it's already too late, good night. I won't eat dinner so you go ahead." and he was about to stand up and go to his room, but Wu Qi interrupted and said "you want to sleep at 06:35pm? are you that tired you want to skip the meal and want to sleep?" asked very confusingly.
Lin Qiushi: "What? 06:35?" and he turned to look at the watch that was hung on the wall, and it was actually 06:35. "Bro are you okay? please don't take that bastard Julian words to your heart." said Wu Qi. According to Wu Qi, right now Lin Qiushi suffering with mental pressure because of the stupid Manager of him and his work.
Lin Qiushi: "It's nothing, it's just I want to rest, I'm going to my bedroom." Qiushi don't want to make Wu Qi worry him about his uncertainty about the game and reality, and he saw his cat on table and tried to have it in his hands, for him it was like too many days after he saw him, so Qiushi wants to hug his Chestnut, but the cat immediately ran away from Qiushi, this made Qiushi feel even more low.
Wu Qi: "Today I'm not sure if I'm coming or not, I'm going out with my girlfriend so take care of yourself, for this only I came here to tell you, since your phone is not working, so charge your phone too" after that Wu Qi left and Lin Qiushi closed the door while looking at Chestnut he reached to his room.
Lin Qiushi on his bed staring at the ceiling and thinking about the time and he remembered that when he came to his room before entering his room it was around 06:10 and now he was at hall it was 06:35, so Lin Qiushi came to a conclusion after these time calculations that so If I have actually was in game it was around three days but in real it was around 25 minutes, no 15 minutes because I had a conversation with Wu Qi and it took some time for me to release things. Lin Qiushi head is getting heat with this real or virtual thing so he decided to leave it and try to sleep.
But after sometime reluctantly he couldn't stop thinking about the game, if the game is real than Ruan Baijie might be real right? what if she is real? would she think about me? while he was thinking about Ruan Baijie he smelled something so familiar scent in the air. what is this? why it is so familiar to me? is this how Ruan Baijie smell? the thought of releasing Baijie's scent made Lin Qiushi's heart on blaze, he wants to see her, want to know the name of this fragrance which is making him insane. While remembering her, he wiped his sweat on his neck, and want scrolled down, under his blanket, he touched his manhood which was already hard like iron and for the first time Lin Qiushi said something that he never imaged he would.
"I want to mix my pheromones with this scent." said faintly parting his lips. He opened his eyes wide, and sat on his bed released what he said just now 'mix my pheromones?'. He drank some water beside his bed head, but Lin Qiushi still wondering how the smell in the air is not yet faded, isn't it my imagination how can I still smell it? he was just trying to understand what is happing.
Lin Qiushi heard chestnut meowing sound from the chair which is infront of the bed and he now Chestnut sleeping timings, at this time it would sleep with him on his bed but since few days it was ignoring him sleeping the hall. He released there was actually someone else in the room aside him. He remembered Wu Qi might came back, and with half awaken eyes in the room full of darkness only the with moonlight he saw a figure sitting infront of him on chair while holding something thing in his hands.
He couldn't see the face properly but it was a figure of man, he said "You came? I thought you'll spend tonight with your lover." But there was no response, "What happened, why are you not talking ? something happened?" Lin Qiushi asked. It was only Qiushi talking alone, but no response from other side, now it's really something about to concern and Lin Qiushi getting tensed up.
Lin Qiushi: "Who are you?" asked loudly somehow gathered all his courage.
"Finally we met," the other person said and continued "Lin Qiushi." with a deep voice.
Lin Qiushi was panicking, and he immediately got up from bed and switched on the lights. And what he saw was something he could not express in his words. He saw a man who was sitting on the chair infornt of him, cross legged, Chestnut on his lap, black suit and white shirt, polished shoes, and dressed up flawlessly from top to toe, looking at his outfit he was looking like a celebrity with great fashion sense but the face! it 's making him to skip a beat of heart with pure beauty, the eyes and the curved pink lips, the nose bridge the pointed chin and the hair was neatly combed, and the way he sat on the chair looking like a demi god not less, everything about him was divine, it won't be wrong if someone wants to worship him.
Lin Qiushi was thinking all this and the man got up from the chair and coming close to Qiushi, but Qiushi moving backwards, man coming closer and Qiushi going back and Qiushi reached to wall, the man Infront of him stood with one hand distance and reached his hand out and said "I'm Ruan Nanzhu, nice to meet you again, Lin Qiushi." "Ruan?" Lin Qiushi heard the word Ruan, and suddenly he remembered a beautiful face yet so brave, but he came to his consciousness quickly and said "Meet again? did we met before? do I you know mister?"
Suddenly Ruan Nanzhu's phone rand, it was a message, he said "If you want to know about the Spirealm than follow me," with a pause " learn to control your pheromones." said coldly, and Ruan Nanzhu came out of the room and as well as the house without waiting for Lin Qiushi replay. Lin Qiushi was standing there for few minutes but later he brought his scarf and followed Ruan Nanzhu out of the house.
Lin Qiushi: "May I know where we are going?"
Nanzhu: "You'll learn very soon" said and turned his faced "start the car." said to a boy who was standing at the car and he also sat in the car. Lin Qiushi got into the car, nobody said anything, the way to their destiny was calm but tensed atleast for Qiushi.
...
They reached to a house which was big and the boy parked the car he and Nanzhu get off the car and Qiushi was simply following them till they reached to the hall, in the house. "Explain him everything before I return" Nanzhu said to the boy and went to first floor.
"Hi I'm Cheng Qianli" with a bright smile it was so genuine that Lin Qiushi also smiled and introduced himself. Qianli introduced three people over there with their names but no one was showing interest and left from there.
"Forgive them, you know this world of doors is kind weird when you meet someone and start to feel like close with them and suddenly you can't find them, which way more tragic and hurting right?" he saw at Qiushi. Qiushi was confused "Can you please explain me about the Spirealm?!"
Cheng Qianli explained every single thing about the game, the doors, the death and the reality the diseases and their cure timings and about the Obsidian organization.
"So who ever dies in the game will also die in real, in this world?" Lin Qiushi asked.
"Yes"
"Then how many doors you have passed?"
"5 till now waiting for the next door."
"And you don't feel afraid of death?" Lin Qiushi asked.
"If I didn't play I doubt if I would here right now and explaining you anything " said with a smile.
... Lin Qiushi said nothing but felt like, behind that smile there was lot of pain.
"So, Ruan Ge will come with in few more minutes till than you can wait in the first floor 1st room 2nd left" and Qianli left. Lin Qiushi walked out from there found his room in the first floor.
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Lin Qiushi just sat on the bed and trying to process what Qianli said, he didn't felt like he would lie to him. 'thud' there was a sudden loud sound from the opposite room, Lin Qiushi came out and saw no one and the door was half close, he hesitated but opened the door, he entered the room and saw Ruan Nanzhu sat on the chair and trying to cleaning his wounded hand. Lin Qiushi came and took his wounded hand and started dressing it.
"Would you like to introduce yourself?"
Ruan Nanzhu: "How far I remember I already introduced myself."
"I'm not talking about you name, I'm referring to, how do you know about me and where do I live, and why you said that 'meet you again'?"
"Because we already met." Nanzhu said without any expression on his face.
"We?" asked confusingly
"Yes"
"And why do I not remember this?"
"How can you forget me? we were together few hours ago, this not fair" he pouted.
It was something new to Lin Qiushi, he never talked to much with other men aside Wu Qi and now the man infront of him pouting which he found cute but said nothing,
"Sorry, might I forgot, but can you int me where we last met?"
"In the well, Lin lin ge" with a familiar smile said, even though for Lin Qiushi he never met Nanzhu but this smile was very familiar to him and the 'ge' mostly his female colleagues used to call him like that, and Ruan Baijie.
"Well? Do you know Ruan Baijie?" with hesitation Qiushi asked him.
"No one knows her better than me."
"Oh" said with very low tone like someone stole something very precious to him. In Lin Qiushi mind Since their surnames are same 'Ruan', Lin Qiushi thought both are beautiful they'll make pretty good pair. He is thinking Ruan Baijie and Ruan Nanzhu are couple, and this made him unknowingly utterly sad, he do not want to talk anymore. He finished with the dressing his wound and said "it's done I'm leaving."
"Where are you going?"
"To my room" said Lin Qiushi.
"Don't you want to talk about the world of games?"
"Qianli explained me." Lin Qiushi tone was dropping by every sentence.
"Than do you want to talk about Ruan Baijie?" asked very excitedly.
"No" For Lin Qiushi Ruan Baijie is someone else partner, and what he will by learning about others partner.
"Than we can talk about my pheromones" said Ruan Nanzhu.
"Pheromones? and why we supposed to talk your pheromones?" asked Lin Qiushi facing towards Ruan Nanzhu.
"We haven't finished talking about my pheromones smell because of that stupid Hong Ning" said making an annoying face.
"Hong Ning? how do you know about this?" Lin Qiushi wasn't shocked about Nanzhu knowing about Hong Ning, it could be possible that Baijie said about it but he was more shocked about pheromones smell? she won't talk about something like that with her partner.
"When you were in your room, did you recognized my pheromones?" asked Nanzhu eagerly waiting for the replay.
************** Characters Intrduced In The Chapter **************
Character : Ruan Nanzhu - S~Alpa - Male - 193CM tall, beautiful and Handsome.
Character : Cheng Qianli- Omega - Male- 169CM teenage boy.