Chapter 363 Home is where you are

It was like a blow to the head.

All five senses lost their ability to perceive at this moment. I could not hear any sound, and there was only darkness in front of my eyes. I subconsciously held my breath, and only the blood in my body was surging.

Gu Nan felt dizzy and his mind was blank.

In an instant, Gu Nan thought a lot.

Junyi is still the same Junyi, old-fashioned and upright, not smooth-talking, and not able to act like a spoiled child. When there are a million ways to interpret a sentence, he will choose the most simple meaning, and when showing weakness, he always says it in an awkward way.

This was the second time Junyi asked her if he could take him with her.

However, this was the first time that Gu Nan seriously considered this issue.

Can she take Junyi away? Is Junyi really willing to go with her? After returning to her world, will Junyi be as confused as she is in this world?

Or, if Junyi, as the male protagonist, cannot go with her, what about Jiang Wanying?

Is Jiang Wanying willing to leave here and go with her?

The more Gu Nan thought about it, the faster his heart beat, and even his breathing became more hurried.

Until his stiff waist fell back onto the bed with a muffled sound.

Gu Nan came back to his senses, took a deep breath, supported himself on the bed and sat up, and said in a deep voice: "Let me think about it."

These questions must be asked to the system, because only the system can take her home and revive her.

"System?" Gu Nan shouted.

No response.

Gu Nan grabbed his hair anxiously.

The system is missing, the date of return home is uncertain, and new settings have emerged between the three male protagonists. No matter how you look at it, it seems like something strange is going on.

Can she really go back and be herself again?

Gu Nan suddenly felt deeply frightened by this.

"Gu Nan." Chun called.

Gu Nan lowered his head and did not respond to him.

"This puts you in a difficult position, doesn't it?" Junyi continued.

"Perhaps I should be happy that you actually thought about my request and felt distressed about it, instead of rejecting me outright without hesitation and leaving me no hope."

"You want to take me away, don't you?"

You want to take Junyi away, right?

Gu Nan asked himself.

If he can, why not? If he wants to, why not?

What if it's not possible? Is it more painful to get and then lose? Or is it more painful to never get it at all?

A broad and warm palm covered his hand, and the thick calluses rubbed against his skin. With the temperature contrast, Gu Nan realized that his hands were very cold.

Gu Nan wanted to move her stiff fingers, but Junyi held her hand tightly.

A soft sigh of satisfaction came from above, faintly hinting at a smile, yet the tone was very sad. "If you could hesitate for a moment for me, I would be satisfied."

Gu Nan's fingertips trembled slightly, his eyes became hot, and he almost shed tears.

Perhaps it was because the night magnified people's vulnerability, or perhaps it was because Chun Yi's words were full of deception. For a moment, Gu Nan wanted to tell him everything.

But she didn't, she just said sullenly, "I'm not sure if I can go home."

"Where is your home?" Junyi asked.

"A place so far away that you can't find it."

Chunyi can attack the system, but that doesn’t mean he can travel through the wormhole, ignore time and space, and find Gu Nan’s world in the vast universe.

In fact, the universe has more than one level, there is a second level, a third level... countless levels.

It's impossible to find Junyi.

"Then how are you going to get back?" Chunyi asked, "Or the old way of attracting thunder?"

Attracting thunder from the sky and being electrocuted to pieces? Gu Nan wanted to laugh, but when he thought of how Chunyi had witnessed her being struck to pieces by thunder from the sky, he couldn't laugh anymore.

"I'll wait for someone to pick me up."

Chunyi held Gu Nan's hand tightly, gently rubbing the back of her hand with her palm, warming her with her body temperature, "If that person doesn't come to pick you up, you can't go home?"

"yes."

With no initiative and no choice, Chunyi didn't know who that person was. Perhaps he was related to the power that saved Gu Nan's soul?

In the past, Junyi would have asked: Do I really have to leave? Can't I stay?

But now Chunyi couldn't ask, Gu Nan said he wanted to go home.

Who can miss home when traveling?

Just like during the more than two hundred years he spent searching for Gu Nan, he thought of her all the time, and his body and soul were tormented every moment.

He once wanted Gu Nan to taste his pain, but found that she was always in pain.

Junyi lowered his head and rubbed Gu Nan's palm against his cheek.

Tenderness, attachment, and silent comfort.

Gu Nan looked at Chunyi, who was rubbing against his palm like a kitten, and the anxiety in his heart seemed to have found an outlet. "I don't like this world."

This cyber world, where high technology is everywhere and social rules are gradually distorted, cannot accommodate a soul developed in the 21st century.

She was born in a peaceful era, where people didn't pick up lost items on the streets, doors were open at night, and the government was trustworthy. She had a gentle mother, a warm family, and a skill that could support herself. As long as she worked hard and kept learning, her future was full of hope.

But here, social stability is in doubt, order is at risk, high-level government officials are suspected of being infiltrated by special forces, and the survival of ordinary people will become very difficult.

She couldn't feel safe in this world.

The knowledge she possessed was far from enough to allow her to stay away from death and violence and live peacefully in this world.

She wants to go back, she must go back.

Her home, her roots, and the home of her soul are all in another world.

Junyi stopped rubbing his hands and looked out the window. Even from a long distance, he could see laser spots and holographic projections flying around in the air. They were colorful, strange and distorted, just like ghosts walking in the night.

"I don't like this world either." Junyi said softly.

In just over two hundred years, the world has changed beyond recognition.

The changes were too great and too fast, often making him feel fake and absurd.

In this era, it seems that except for those who stand at the top of the pyramid and control the development process, everyone else lives carelessly and hurriedly.

Coming and going, numbly burying one's flesh and blood in this huge steel forest.

Perhaps soon, stopping to bask in the sun will become a rare luxury?

Gu Nan followed Chunyi's gaze and saw holographic projections dancing wildly in the air, making an extremely loud noise. "What a strange world."

She found it absurd ten years ago, and it is even more absurd now.

Junyi turned around and said to Gu Nan seriously: "If you can take me away, then take me away."

Gu Nan: "This is your home, are you willing to leave it?"

Junyi lowered his head and rubbed Gu Nan's hands again, seeming to laugh, "I'm a monk, where can I have a home? What's more, the world has changed so much, almost everyone I knew is gone, only you."

Time has taken away his teachers and friends, and he is now alone except for his memories.

"Home is where you are."

He repeated again: "Take me away, Gu Nan."

Gu Nan: "What if I can't take you away?"

Junyi: "You've thought about it, tried it, and I have no regrets."