Chapter 23: One by one, it was a long separation spanning fifteen years between them...

8 o'clock in the evening, Gu Yifeng's home

"How is it?" Gu Yifeng stood behind Gao Yiyuan, his eyes fixed on the computer screen.

The surveillance footage of the municipal transportation system flashed by frame by frame:

16:03 Armored vehicles drive out of the hospital

16:07 Disappeared on the highway ramp

after……

"Damn it." Gao Yiyuan scratched his head. "It seems these surveillance cameras have been tampered with. They've been replaced with looping footage. The technique is quite sophisticated..."

Suddenly remembering something, their eyes met in the reflection of the screen——

Guo Qingyu!

Gu Yifeng's phone screen lit up, and a message came from an unknown number:

30°52'15.6"N 117°13'42.8"E The one who came to pick you up

Ni Qianfan came closer: "Old Gu, could this be a trap?"

Gu Yifeng instinctively reached for his gun, but found nothing.

He frowned irritably.

"You take good care of your injuries, and leave this matter to me." Ni Qianfan grabbed the car keys and walked out the door.

"Wait, I'll go with you."

Gu Yifeng and Ni Qianfan's car rolled over the gravel road and stopped outside an abandoned electronic equipment factory in the suburbs.

Under the street light, a black car was parked there quietly.

Guo Qingyu leaned against the car body, playing with a black USB flash drive with his fingertips.

Gu Yifeng strode forward, his voice filled with anger: "Where are the people?"

Guo Qingyu lazily lifted his eyelids and tossed the USB drive to him: "I saved him, you will pay me back later."

Ni Qianfan took the USB drive from Gu Yifeng, inserted it into the portable terminal, and quickly browsed through it——

[Human Application Experiment Report] [Experimental Accident Report Summary] [Yunchuan City Secret Base Construction Plan] [Yunhu City Laboratory Expansion Plan]

Ni Qianfan's pupils constricted. This was really a hot potato.

"If anyone touches her again," Guo Qingyu pushed up his glasses, "you know what to do."

Gu Yifeng didn't say any more nonsense and walked straight to the back seat of the car.

He opened the car door and paused.

Wen Yi curled up quietly in the back seat, covered with Guo Qingyu's suit jacket, with only half of her pale face exposed.

Gu Yifeng turned his head stiffly and glared at Guo Qingyu.

The atmosphere was a little awkward.

Guo Qingyu waved his hand in disdain. "He's a weakling and has a bad habit of controlling his strength. He almost wiped us out. I had to carry him back in the end. It was such a hassle! Get him out of here!"

Ni Qianfan keenly noticed that Gu Yifeng's face was extremely ugly, and immediately tried to smooth things over: "I'll do it! Old Gu, your hand injury hasn't healed yet!"

The moonlight was like water, flowing through the half-closed curtains of the bedroom and falling on Wen Yi's pale face.

Gu Yifeng sat at the head of the bed, his fingertips brushing across Wen Yi's sleeping face, his eyes darkening.

That suit jacket and those disdainful concerns are like thorns in my heart.

In the dead of night, the pain he felt was far more unbearable than the wounds on his body.

He leaned over and supported her ear, his shadow completely covering her.

The first kiss landed on her brow, as light as a feather, yet carrying an irresistible weight.

Eyes, nose tip... and finally stop at the corner of the lips.

He rubbed her soft lips repeatedly, as if marking his territory with his breath.

His fingers lifted her collar, revealing her fair skin.

Gu Yifeng's eyes darkened and he lowered his head to kiss her.

Warm lips and tongue licked the collarbone, and stubble rubbed against the skin. Wen Yi hummed softly in her sleep, and unconsciously turned her head, revealing her fragile neckline.

The fine bites spread from the neck to the collarbone, leaving a series of crimson kiss marks, like red plum blossoms blooming in the snow.

Gu Yifeng ignored the restlessness surging in his body and fell asleep in her arms.

Others don't understand why he is so crazy these days.

How could they understand?

The relationship between him and Wen Yi was never their first meeting, but a reunion after a long separation.

No one knew that he had a star hidden in his heart that belonged only to him. It could not be observed by any astronomical telescope, but it shone brightly during his loneliest years.

They had snuggled together with their souls, staying together through countless nights and days, until the day the stars collapsed.

Then there is endless waiting.

Fifteen years.

More than five thousand days and nights.

Only in the years without her did I realize what long time meant.

Until the business card that spanned fifteen years returned to his hands——

He finally caught the star that fell back to the mortal world again.

Gu Yifeng slowly closed his eyes, and in a trance, he returned to the year when he was seventeen years old.

*

The sycamore leaves outside the window are falling, like faded letters opened by the wind.

In the study room, Gu Yifeng glanced at the test paper casually, picked up his pen and chose C.

He continued to talk quietly to the voice in his head:

"You don't belong to this world, do you?"

【yes. 】

He went on to look at the next question, which was an easy one, and lightly ticked B with the tip of his pen.

"Where exactly are you from? The past... or the future?"

【future. 】

"Can I see you in the future?"

【cannot. 】

The tip of his pen hovered over the test paper:

"Why? How many years are there between us?"

There was a long silence.

Gu Yifeng stopped writing and waited quietly.

Finally, the voice sounded again, with an almost gentle cruelty.

【forever】

forever?

His breathing paused slightly. Was it forever between them? Would they never meet again?

An indescribable sense of loss surged in Gu Yifeng's heart.

"So...are you a man or a woman?"

【female】

"May I have your name?"

【Yi】

"Which one?"

Gu Yifeng glanced at the math test paper, and the corners of his mouth rose unconsciously, "1 in 123?"

【……】

"Then I'll call you Yi Yi from now on?" His voice was smiling, like some kind of temptation.

The students in Class 10 of Senior 3 recently discovered a strange phenomenon.

Gu Yifeng, the cool and arrogant academic master in their class, always talks to himself and often smiles for no apparent reason.

Perhaps it was because he was hit too hard by the accidental death of his father a while ago, so everyone was tactful enough not to disturb him.

Gu Yifeng, who enjoys the quiet time, teases "Yi Yi" across dimensions every day.

"Yiyi, do you know how to do this?"

【Won't】

"Yiyi, help me see what Liu Junru scored in this month's exam? He scored one point higher than me last month."

[…493.]

"Depend on!"

"Yiyi, are you good at math or physics?"

[Neither…]

"So you're good at liberal arts? Okay, next time you take the classical Chinese test, you can answer for me."

【reject】

"Yi Yi," he suddenly lowered his voice, "You can see me, right? Will you peek at me while I change clothes?"

【Won't……】

Gu Yifeng actually heard a hint of embarrassment in the virtual voice.

He buried his face in his arms, his shoulders shaking slightly - so this is what it feels like to tease Yi Yi across time.

"What about taking a shower? What about going to the toilet?" He deliberately dragged out his tone.

The voice in my head is unbearable.

[Get lost! !] The voice suddenly rose in pitch, and he seemed to be able to imagine the girl opposite him blushing anxiously.

"Hahaha..." Gu Yifeng couldn't help but burst out laughing. This was the first time in three months since his father passed away that he laughed so hard that his eyes became hot.

Ever since meeting Yi Yi, Gu Yifeng has been looking for the scientific basis for their communication.

He speculated that Yi Yi could induce gravitational waves of a specific frequency in high-dimensional space and convert them into detectable sound waves in low-dimensional space.

Transmitting signals across dimensions must consume enormous amounts of energy. No wonder she could answer questions with just one word, and never two.

In this magical relationship, Gu Yifeng, who has always been aloof and taciturn, has become a chatterbox.

"Yiyi, the tomato scrambled eggs in the cafeteria today have sugar in them, and I don't like them. Do you like sweet or sour?"

【sweet】

"So, do you want coffee with sugar or milk?"

【Sugar only】

"Yiyi, this noodle soup is delicious. Let me eat it for you to see."

【Don’t eat noodles】

"Yiyi, do I look better in blue or black?"

【black】

"Okay, I'll wear black for you from now on."

"Yiyi, I shaved today. Do you think I look handsome?"

【……】

"38.6 degrees... Yiyi, I feel uncomfortable."

Go to the hospital

“…I’d rather die than go.”

【Go quickly】

"Then you're going to coax me?" The boy buried his face in the pillow and laughed, "Just act coquettishly and let me hear you?"

After a long silence

[Please...] [...Okay?]

The sound of "yi yi" is the lingering quantum entanglement in the morning light and the gentle gravitational echo at midnight.

It was the starlight that he quietly grasped during his lonely years.

"Yiyi, I'm planning to change my major and apply to the police academy. Do you support me?"

【good】

"Yiyi, I got into the police academy with the first place."

【Awesome】

"Yiyi, I'm going to play football with Dai Yiming from the Forensic Medicine Department. Help me get the ball into the goal. Be sure to aim carefully and don't score an own goal."

【rest assured】

"Yiyi, after I graduate next month, I will go to work at the Yunhu Criminal Investigation Detachment and inherit my father's police number."

You can do it

"Will you accompany me to punish evil and promote good?"

【meeting】

"One one, one one..." He kept repeating the name.

Each syllable is a star falling into the cracks of the universe, waiting for a response in the silent darkness.

The night before graduation, Gu Yifeng was lying on the bed reading a book when he suddenly spoke:

"Yiyi, I received a confession from my schoolmate today."

[…Not bad] The answer was a beat slower than usual.

"You won't be jealous, will you?"

【No】The sound is not as clear as before.

"Don't worry, I rejected her."

【oh……】

"Do you know why?"

【Mind me】

"Because I have someone I like."

【What's up……】

【???】

Gu Yifeng listened to his heart beating wildly:

"I said, I have someone I like." He repeated stubbornly.

【……oh】

"I've never seen her, nor heard her real voice." He suddenly laughed.

"She doesn't exist in my time and space, and we can never truly be together."

He heard a slight hum of air, as light as a tear falling in higher-dimensional space and time.

"But I still... like her, and I can't find a reason. Yiyi, is this considered love?"

Ren Yiyi answered with silence. He talked to himself, as if asking and answering his own questions.

"I think I will be with her forever in this way."

After a long time, a very light sigh came from my mind.

"Will you stay with me forever? Yi Yi."

Yi Yi's voice was intermittent.

[…As for me]

[The rest of my life...]

His heart skipped a beat—she was responding to his confession.

Gu Yifeng leaned against the head of the bed and called her softly:

"Yiyi, you can interfere with the local gravitational field and cause perturbations in real space, right?"

【Can】

His Adam's apple rolled, and his voice was tentative: "Then... can you 'touch' me?"

After a moment of silence, Yi Yi's voice rang out:

What do you want to do?

"Yes, I want to do it, with you."

【What】

【???】

My mind suddenly fell into a strange silence, with only the slightest noise of air flow remaining.

"Can I? Yiyi, I want you."

Just when he thought he was going to hear "rejection" again,

A subtle but real wave of energy suddenly brushed against his collarbone.

The air flow was slightly warm, as if someone was tracing his neckline with their fingertips.

Gu Yifeng's breathing stagnated and his muscles suddenly tensed.

"One by one——" His voice became tense.

The energy suddenly moved downward, slowly wandering along the lines of the abdominal muscles, lingering dangerously at the side of the waist, and slowly flowing downwards.

Gu Yifeng grabbed the bed sheet.

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Use "壹壹" instead of "一一" because it looks too much like a dash.