Chapter 281 – Inner World? Outer World? It’s Neither.
“Are you busy again?”
The woman lying on the bed was dissatisfied. For her, Zhou Xing Yuan was her financial backer, but she was also slowly investing her feelings into this relationship. She did not want to stay like this for her entire life as someone hidden on the side waiting for Zhou Xing Yuan to grace her with his presence. She wanted to obtain more. She wanted to become Madam Zhou and accompany Zhou Xing Yuan to high-class social settings.
For these women playing as the third party, they would either utilize their youth and appearance to obtain money and save up for old age or climb up with all their might to become the legal wife.
However, Zhou Xing Yuan did not care about woman’s thoughts. He only groaned, “Do not mind my business. I have already deposited this month’s living expenses in your card.”
After saying this, Zhou Xing Yuan went out the building and entered his car. He drove the weather-beaten car to the meeting place.
The woman could only grit her teeth secretly at this.
When Wei Xiao Bei and Zhou Xing Yuan sat down in the coffee shop, they each ordered coffee.
Zhou Xing Yuan was not interested in something like coffee. He would rather go to a tea house for a meeting. However, this conversation needed to be in a much more secretive space, so they chose this coffee shop. He decided on black coffee as black coffee had bitterness in it.
Wei Xiao Bei was someone who also drank tea, but he had never drank coffee before.
Towards an imported good like coffee, Wei Xiao Bie had a youthful curiousness about it. Seeing that Zhou Xing Yuan had ordered black coffee, he also ordered the same thing.
However, when the waiter brought the coffee over, Wei Xiao Bei frowned when he took a sip.
Compared to the fragrance and slight astringent taste of tea, black coffee was a lot more bitter with a bit of sourness.
Wei Xiao Bei could not bear the taste.
Seeing Wei Xiao Bei frown, Zhou Xing Yuan, who had drank coffee countless times for business reason, immediately suggested Wei Xiao Bei to add milk and sugar.
After this, the tension between them had softened.
“Do you still wish to go into the Dust World?”
The reason Wei Xiao Bei came to find Zhou Xing Yuan was to ascertain the other party’s state.
Not killing Zhou Xing Yuan did not mean that Wei Xiao Bei would allow him to move outside his control.
Wei Xiao Bei did not want matters that he could not grasp to happen and affect his low-key life in the real world.
For example, if Zhou Xing Yuan wanted to work alone in the Dust World, it was not impossible, but he could not spread information about it.
No matter what was said, it was easy to imagine how much of an impact this information would cause on society.
Naturally, some might just treat it as an urban legend or someone’s day dream, but this would still cause some unnecessary problems.
Additionally, Wei Xiao Bei needed to assess Zhou Xing Yuan’s impression of him. After all, Zhou Xing Yuan was now back in the real world. The power he could control was much more than what he could back in the Dust World, and he might have some inappropriate thoughts.
Naturally, Wei Xiao Bei’s plan of contacting Zhou Xing Yuan was to have an agent in the real world that could help him test out the deduction that he had about the real world’s influence on the Dust World.
This was more important beyond anything.
“Dust World?
Zhou Xing Yuan slightly blanked. In truth, he did not understand anything at all when he entered the Dust World this time.
He only knew that he had entered a strange and terrifying place with incomparably tattered buildings of Cui Hu City.
Whether it was entering or leaving, Zhou Xing Yuan felt as if he was dreaming.
When he heard Wei Xiao Bei’s words, he had become stunned.
“That’s right. The world that you entered is called the Dust World.”
Wei Xiao Bei spoke while monitoring his surroundings with his ears.
Although the place they sat at was separated by plants, he did not dare guarantee that there were not tapping devices in place or someone else might hear them.
He continued speaking since there was no one nearby nor sound of electricity flowing into a tapping device.
Whether it was the former or the latter, he had ample confidence that they could not escape his ears.
As a result, Zhou Xing Yuan came to an understanding after listening to Wei Xiao Bei’s explanation, “Does that meant that the world we entered was an inner world?”
Zhou Xing Yuan gave his own interpretation.
Hearing Zhou Xing Yuan speak, Wei Xiao Bei stared blankly and immediately smiled, “Saying it like that is not considered wrong.”
Wei Xiao Bei knew that the term inner world was the setting for movies, games, and novels.
In these forms of media, the world was separated into two sides: an inner world and an outer world.
The outer world in these media was referring to something the surface of the world. In normal situations, monsters would appear and attack people in the real world, while these monsters’ shape and attack were reflective of the dark side of humanity.
As for inner world, it was a strange side of the world that was different from reality.
It was said that majority of the place was covered in darkness. The walls were moldy, and bloodstains can be found anywhere. It was a world with ruined buildings and wire netting.
From this, it could be said that the Dust World was similar.
Additionally, monsters in the inner world were stronger than the outer world. Moreover, the strangest part was that this world was the negative reflection of the humanity.
However, as someone who had been in the Dust World for a long time, he knew that it was not so simple. The Dust World was a physical world that inclined towards human fantasy and thoughts. It was not something that reflected the negative side of humanity.
Wei Xiao Bei even felt that the Dust World was one level higher than the so-called inner world.
However, Zhou Xing Yuan was not completely wrong in saying this. After all, the Dust World was something similar to the concept of both the inner world and outer world.
What actually stunned Wei Xiao Bei was that Zhou Xing Yuan actually knew such a modern term like inner world.
For successful 40-year-old people like Zhou Xing Yuan, Wei Xiao Bei had imagined them sitting in a luxurious office while drinking coffee and conversing with a beautiful secretary. He imagined that they would go to drinking parties and scheme things and not watch movies and play games.
Seeing Wei Xiao Bei’s surprised expression, Zhou Xing Yuan embarrassedly said, “My son loves games. I learned it when playing with him.”
A father that played games with their children was a good father. Naturally, Wei Xiao Bei did not want to understand things like these.
“You have now understood a bit about the Dust World. Tell me what you plan to do next.”
He was unwilling to stay in this coffee shop any longer. For him, every minute and every second in the real world should be spent on learning, not sitting down and chatting.
Thus, he became a bit more direct now as if he was the leader trying to understand the employee’s work situation.
However, Zhou Xing Yuan was not displeased. After experiencing the Dust World, he understood what the power of the youth in front of him meant.
An absolute expert!
It could be said like this. Cui Hu City was one of the bigger cities in the southwestern region. There were many people going in and out, and Zhou Xing Yuan had seen many kinds of people before.
No matter what was said, a Guo Shu Expert or a wrestling expert could not live without food.
Zhou Xing Yuan’s security company was something that could provide a livelihood for these experts.
Just now, the amount of expert in Da Hao Security Company was not less than seven.
Zhou Xing Yuan had also seen many experts before.
These experts were capable of destroying walls, disguises, killing, etc.
In short, if these experts wanted to do bad things, it was a lot easier compared to normal people.
An old ten floor building could not block these experts at all. If they were flushed down a drain pipe, they would be able to easily climb up again.
Even if there were more than 10 security guards surrounding them, it would be hard for them to restrain an expert. On the contrary, they would be the ones beaten to the ground.
What?
Guns?
If experts were to pull out guns, their speed would be a lot faster than a normal person.
If they did not have this much capability, how could they dare call themselves experts.
In Zhou Xing Yuan’s eyes, the experts that he originally admired were simply trash in front of Wei Xiao Bei.
They were simply on different levels.
In short, if those experts were to gang up on him, Zhou Xing Yuan would be worried, but he would never surrender.
If Wei Xiao Bei was the one ganging up on him, then he would not have an errant heart at all.
This was the reality of things.
“Plan?” Zhou Xing Yuan slightly hesitated. If he had the choice, he planned to never entered the damned Dust World ever again. However, he was thinking that Wei Xiao Bei was indicating that he should go to the Dust World to strengthen himself, and his luck had dropped to the ground.
I am not this unlucky right?
After hesitating, Zhou Xing Yuan did not think too much and said his plans.
He was staking it all. If Wei Xiao Bei had any dissatisfactions, then he was prepared to endure it. He simply did not want to enter the Dust World anymore. He would rather have a bad life than a good death.
He was willing to throw away everything as long as he did not have to go back into the Dust World anymore.
Wasting his life away in the Dust World was something that he did not want.
