5. The Truth

That night, Xia Yuxi and Yimo got home from buying groceries at half past ten.

Yimo watched Xia Yuxi's back as she tied her hair into a ponytail, put on an apron over her pajamas, and bustled around the kitchen.

Though he hardly ever cooked and his skills stopped at instant noodles, he still felt a little bad about it and decided to go help.

"Yimo, the kitchen is my battlefield."

"Go play a game for a while. I'll call you when dinner's ready!"

But Xia Yuxi, holding a soup ladle and radiating the air of a devoted young wife, firmly shooed him out.

With no other choice, Yimo sighed and went to browse the web on his computer.

Stream?

He definitely wasn't going to stream.

After all, he'd posted that he was sick.

Although quite some time had passed in the Death Game, not much time had passed in the real world. He could slack off and take it easy for a few more days.

He started searching online for information about the Death Game,

but he couldn't find anything useful at all, as if the entire internet had been blocked from accessing it.

Yimo had guessed that might be the case.

After all, if everyone knew about the Death Game, wouldn't the world have descended into chaos by now?

Just then, Yimo found the phone number Pikachu had given him.

With Xia Yuxi there, he couldn't call it to check right now, so he looked up the number's location online instead.

It was the provincial capital, so he decided he would definitely go take a look sometime.

Also, before he left the previous Death Game, Ordinary Girl Village Chief had told him that Dieyu's real name was Lu Muer, and that he could look her up if he