After "resurrecting" Li Mu in Qinglian Township, I remained unsettled for a long time, because Xiao Ye had yet to pass the second act of Qingliang Prefecture's mission.
That act was simply too difficult. I didn't know whether he could pass the test, and I was terribly worried. For those few days, I shut myself in my room, unwilling to come out... I lay in bed, my mind filled with images of Xiao Ye as a child, of him wearing his police uniform...
That day, Old Xu asked me whether I had lied to him.
I didn't deny it.
Yes, where this Star Gate in Qingliang Prefecture was concerned, I did have my own selfish reasons.
At first, my idea was simple: I wanted to get Xiao Ye out of prison.
He was still so young. He shouldn't have rotted and stunk in prison because of those two scumbags. He should have stood in the sunlight, living cheerfully and confidently.
To me, the mechanism by which Star Gates invited Players was unfathomable and extremely random, something human efforts could scarcely influence.
But I had worked for many Gate Eyes and had considerable experience in this area. I could vaguely sense that the Star Gates' invitation mechanism did follow a certain logic, and that certain connections existed.
I wanted to try to grasp those "connections" and use an extremely complicated plan to draw the New Year's Watchers' attention to Xiao Ye. As long as he became involved in an event involving mystical abilities, the organization would surely rescue him from prison.
Of course, a plan like that was extremely difficult. I needed to wait for the right opportunity and the right Star Gate.
At the time, I also wondered whether I should beg that profiteering chairman or that haughty Red-Robed Old