Saving the overbearing CEO

Chapter 195: Third World: The CEO Terrifies Another Nerd

Wen Qinxi couldn't handle the heart-wrenching pain emanating from his chest spreading over his entire body. He was breaking down in sorrowful tears crying with his hazy eyes staring at his bloodstained fingers. This was the first time he had witnessed someone die let alone someone so important to him. He couldn't clearly see his fingers in the dark but he kept staring at them in disbelief.

The man was practically losing his mind suffocating in a sea of grief. He began to seek out some sort of relief. Yes, all he had to do was get out of the game and see Qie Ranzhe with his own two eyes. Just one look at his CEO and everything would be okay. This was the only way he could get rid of the pain and like a crazed manic he began to shout.

"Jolie let me out!....Let me out!" he yelled his eyes as red as ember from a dying flame with a tear stained face but the system didn't answer.

This was because something big was happening in the game room. Qie Ranzhe who has been lying still for almost four months had made sudden movements terrifying the living daylights out of Hei Bao who had been silently minding his own business.

He had been hard at work on his laptop debugging a code for a revised software for Flagship when he heard someone whispering. At first, he thought it was Xia Bai and so turned to look at him asking, "Did you say something?" but Xia Bai had wireless earbuds in his ears working on his computer with a stern expression looking like a serious scholar.

Hei Bao thought his ears were playing tricks on him so he cast the thought aside and carried on with his work but a second later he heard the sound again this time louder. "Zhao.....Xieshu," were the muffled words he heard.

Unwilling to disturb Xia Bai, he slowly approached the rooms with the gaming capsules in cautious steps. He was ninety percent sure it was nothing but still had to take a look. He opened the white washed room with Qie Ranzhe's still body lying in the gaming capsule. For a half a minute he stood at the door but there was no movement.

He began to laugh at himself for hearing things thinking, 'Haha, Bai-ge was right. I should lay off the energy drinks,' and turned to leave but just as he took one step, Qie Ranzhe spoke in a whisper with his index finger twitching.

"What the fuck," whispered Hei Bao moving a little closer in hesitant baby steps but he couldn't hear him clearly as the words spoken by Qie Ranzhe were barely audible.

Heart pounding fast he leaned down with his ear close to Qie Ranzhe lips as he whispered, "Boss, what did you say?"

To his surprise, Qie Ranzhe actually responded with a tear streaming down his ear, "Zh-zhao.....Xie, Xieshu," but Hei Bao couldn't understand a thing and moved away to get Xia Bai. Just as he turned on his heel darting towards the door, his arm was suddenly caught in a tight grip. Qie Ranzhe was surprisingly strong for a vegetable.

His arm was grasped so tight like it would break at any moment. Panicked, Hai Bao cried out, "Bai-ge, help!" trying to pry open Qie Ranzhe's fingers which were gripping even tighter.

Xia Bai rushed in as soon as he heard Hei Bao's anguished cries. He reached him in a flash only to see the CEO with his eyes shut clasping onto Hei Bao's arm that was already turning red. He calmly released each finger making sure to be careful so as not to hurt the both of them.

Once freed, Hei Bao wheezed in pain rubbing his sore arm. "Fuck!....How is he that strong? He had me in a fuckin death grip," complained Hei Bao glaring at the culprit who was innocently lying in the game capsule as though none of this had anything to do with him.

Xia Bai checked Hei Bao's arm while talking to his smart assistant through his earbuds, "Lili, call Machu," issuing a command and in a few rings Machu picked up with a lot of background noise like he was in a busy restaurant.

"Qie Ranzhe made some movement, he almost broke Bao Bao's arm and he's whispering Wen Qinxi's in gam-," he explained but he was off by the good doctor.

"Shit!.....Watch him, I am on my way!" followed by beeping sounds of a cut phone call. Machu was actually at a coffee shop talking to Qie Ranzhe's mother when he received the news. He would have preferred to go on his own but faced by this women's pitiful expression he had no choice but to drag her along.

In no less that six minutes they arrived in GameX game room with the doctor conducting extensive tests while trying to get Qie Ranzhe to speak some more but the CEO was back to his original state. Machu asked the two what happened when he saw Hei Bao's sorry figure with Xia Bai rubbing his arm.

Hei Bao recounted what happened with Qie Ranzhe's mother kneeling beside her son crying with mixed feelings. She was happy that there was some progress but she was also sad to see the only other person she cared about helplessly lying in bed.

While all this was happening Jolie was silently watching, it's not that it didn't want to speak it's just that something much more powerful than the system was suppressing the smart AI. It could only go back to Wen Qinxi and explain what was going on but it didn't expect to find Wen Qinxi in such a terrible state calling out to it in angst.

"Boss, I am here," said Jolie not sure whether it made the right decision by coming here. It was sure if it had a physical form it would have been strangled by its deranged creator.

"You are such a fuckin asshole! Now get me the fuck out of here!" yelled Wen Qinxi his expression especially taut like he would kill the system if it dared to disobey him.