Rick and Morty: My Grandfather is Rick?

After hanging up the call, Morty scratched his head and looked up at the sky with a somewhat blank expression.

What exactly is going on...?

I've been missing for three years?

What exactly did this book do?

Meanwhile, in the Mirror City, Grandpa stood on the edge of the city, gazing at the enormous halo that stretched for tens of thousands of light-years in the distance.

With a solemn expression, he immediately activated the AI ​​and instructed it to quickly compare all the artifacts in the universe that might be related to this halo.

The AI, having found the relevant information, calmly and deliberately read out the item's power, word by word: "This is the Judgment Bible for Lovers—The Ultimate Test."

When serious issues arise between two people in a relationship...

Upon hearing that this sacred text still existed, Grandpa rudely interrupted the AI, because he knew all of its capabilities, but it might not be used more than once every few decades, so he didn't recognize what it was at first glance.

Now, the AI ​​recognizes him as soon as his name is mentioned.

This holy book! It's the ultimate test for couples in a relationship!

As far as he knew, even before he traveled here, Morty had only ever had a crush on one person and had never been in a relationship.

How can someone with no dating experience possibly have a perfect relationship?

But what if he doesn't finish it, or finishes it poorly?

The sacred texts would then deem his love imperfect and sentence him to at least several hundred years of torment, causing him to lose his beloved again and again until he endures the torment or commits suicide in despair!

Chapter 288 Seizing the Last Tails of Youth

"You... why are you dressed like this..."

"What’s wrong with you..."

Upon first meeting her, seeing the frail girl in a hospital gown struggling to get out of the taxi, Morty's initial anticipation plummeted to its lowest point.

He felt as if he had made a name for himself in a wider world. The young man, who had achieved early success, returned to his hometown by chance and met the girl he had dreamed of all those years ago but dared not confess his feelings to.

But just as he was putting on his best, preparing to present a completely new image that would astound her and fill her with awe, he discovered that the beauty... seemed to be ill...

I haven't seen her in so long... and she's already sick... she looked so pale...

Even though within half a year, I had spent a romantic night with hundreds of people and seen the charming appearances of these extraordinary individuals, when I returned to the world where I had lived for more than twenty years and saw that inconspicuous little flower lying in the flowerbed, I felt a pang of sadness.

At this moment, he knew that he was no longer Morty, who was struggling desperately in the world of Remo, but Xu Dong, the ordinary young man who once harbored dreams, wanted three meals a day and four seasons, and was also somewhat greedy for a world for two.

The girl in front of me is by no means particularly beautiful; in fact, she could be described as rather ordinary. There are only a few moments when she is considered beautiful by ordinary people.

It is the most sincere love that I have buried deep in my heart.

A flicker of grief crossed Morty's eyes. He shook his head, trying to remind himself with reason that what he was seeing was not real.

No! This is fiction! This is a scene created by that book.

This isn't real, why are you so nervous?

Thinking of this, Morty regained some of his composure. He smiled and stepped forward, greeting the person in front of him in the way Xu Dong, rather than Morty himself, asked, "How many more years can you live?"

Jiang Yi, who had been repeatedly looking at the man in front of her, comparing him to the person in her memory, rolled her eyes immediately upon hearing these familiar and direct words.

It really was him...

Nothing has changed...

She still has that infuriatingly infuriating look.

"Don't worry about me, I'll live much longer than you've been missing."

Noticing Jiang Yi's almost bloodless face, Morty knew she was lying to him. He had been following his grandfather for so long, but perhaps he hadn't unlocked the medical skill tree.

But you have to spend every day with a wretched old man who gets seriously injured at the slightest provocation.

He still knows how to see some physical problems in people.

Well, there's no need to go into detail about these painful experiences. In short, Jiang Yi in front of me probably won't even live long enough to cover the time she's been missing for three years.

It will only last about two years at most...

"What disease?"

"cancer"

You seem to be in good spirits.

"I'm just putting on a brave face," Jiang Yi replied to Morty with a fairly natural smile. She had already walked from the roadside to the sidewalk, her back slightly hunched, and her thin legs were trembling slightly inside her wide pants.

These details did not escape Morty's notice.

After six months of dedicated practice, he has gained a thorough understanding of the subtle changes in various human movements.

He could see clearly that the other person was in pain somewhere in their body, where cancer cells were absorbing all the nutrients from the host, completely disregarding their own lives being so closely bound to the host.

This kind of brute, once outside the human body and without the protection of the immune system, can be killed by bacteria that have survived the harsh realities of any natural environment.

Morty just wanted to curse it with the most vicious words.

Don't you know that your fate is closely intertwined with it?

Just like the relationship between Rick and Morty, they were tightly bound together from the beginning, and no one could escape from this vortex.

"What, it suddenly went silent?"

Jiang Yi's slightly weak voice interrupted Morty's thoughts, clearly revealing the suppressed pain beneath her voice. Morty stared at her blankly for several seconds.

Let's fall in love.

"what!"

Jiang Yi was completely taken aback by Morty's words. She was horrified. This man had disappeared for three years, and his return just happened to coincide with her being bored in her hospital bed when she casually dialed his number. By sheer coincidence...

Although the two had feelings for each other back then, if Xu Dong had been a little bolder, they might have been together before graduation.

But now three years have passed, and many things have changed.

Wanting to grasp the last vestiges of youth before it's gone...

The man before me seems to be living a healthy life, while I, with one foot already in the grave, will only be able to eke out a living in the remaining days of my life.

"No, I just want to know where you've been for the past three years since you disappeared."

"You should know that when the school learned of your disappearance, they immediately reported it to the police. Everyone searched for you for a long time but couldn't find you. Afterwards, an investigation revealed that you seemed to have never left that dormitory; you just vanished into thin air. Because of this, the school has completely sealed off that dormitory to this day."

"Since we're standing on the food street near the school, why don't we go in and take a look? I'm really curious about how you disappeared, and whether an afterlife truly exists."

Looking at the girl who directly rejected him, yet wanted to walk with him on campus and chat about the past, under the bright sunshine of this gradually warming spring, he felt a surge of emotion.

Morty did not persist.

Since she won't agree now, she'll agree eventually, so there's no need to rush.

So the two of them walked from the food street toward the main gate of the school.

An adult male and a woman in a hospital gown easily caught the attention of the security guard, who had been working there for over ten years.

He was sitting in the security booth drinking tea when he saw Morty's face and he was stunned, because what Morty did back then had caused quite a stir at the school!

In order to find all clues to his disappearance, the school invested a lot of manpower and resources, determined to find him alive or dead!

The reason for this is that he did not disappear off-campus, but rather vanished into thin air in his dormitory on campus.

"Xu...Xu Dong?"

"Um...the way you're looking at me so excitedly, I don't think it's anything good."

Jiang Yi, standing to the side, interjected without hesitation, "Nonsense! You've been missing for so long that every year, new students are reluctant to move into the building where you used to live. It's almost been abandoned or even demolished and rebuilt!"

Morty: "Is it my fault?"

Chapter 289 Do you actually like her?

Some people disappear for three, five, or even ten years, but they are considered to be returning as war gods, showing off and slapping faces along the way, a true return of the strong.

But when it's my turn...

In the office, I sat down and chatted for a full two hours with my former counselor and department leaders, confirming their identities.

The three-year disappearance case at the school has finally come to an end today.

"You want to go back and take a look? That won't do! You disappeared right there, and we can't let you go back. What if it triggers some supernatural phenomenon again? This time, several more people will be missing!"

When he was rejected, Xu Dong felt like slapping himself a few times.

Damn it, when I was explaining why I suddenly disappeared, why did I have to come up with this weird reason of supernatural phenomena?!

However, this seems to be the optimal solution to this problem.

Are you suggesting I tell them that I've traveled to Rick and Morty and become Morty, spending my days with a scheming, cunning old man who's been committing murder and arson all over the universe?

It turns out that the old man had mistaken his enemy all along. In order to find clues again, he had to return to the place where the incident happened and search for clues again. As a result, he was tricked by mystical luck and ended up bleeding money.

Of course not!

If I were to say that, these people would think I'm crazy and send me to a mental hospital!

So after the other party politely declined his request, Morty put an end to the matter from that year, and left the office with Jiang Yi.

Walking along the tree-lined paths on campus filled with the fragrance of flowers, I looked through the gaps in the trees at the vibrant faces in the distance, some smiling, some admiring, and some filled with the longing to step out of the campus.

Everything he knew so well gave him a feeling of being transported back three years.

"Shall we go get something to drink...?"

I want to go and see the dorm room where you went missing.

Interrupted, Morty looked at Jiang Yi in surprise, because these words did not seem like they would come from her mouth at all.

"What? Surprised? If you only had a few years to live, you might be even bolder than me, right?"

"But that seems to be the case. After all, you came back alive, and you have a new life to live. I can't drag you down with the things I want to do."

"Never mind, never mind..."

Just as Jiang Yi was about to give up, Morty suddenly grabbed her hand, turned around and stood in front of her, saying in an unwavering tone, "No, we'll go. It's something you want to do, so we'll do it."