Chapter 79 Chapter 79 The abyss that will be attracted unconditionally.

Ye Xinghui never forgot Tao Ying.

As time went by, the memories of him and Tao Ying were ruminated on again and again, and kept replaying in his memory.

The advantage of becoming an electronic ghost is that the ghost's brain will not tamper with the memory, and the data stored in the computer will only be lost, not changed.

All memories will be preserved intact without any deviation.

And the disadvantages are the same as the advantages.

All the memories are so clear.

Ye Xinghui waited for Tao Ying for ten years.

There were many times when he was on the verge of despair and needed to discard some redundant data in order to keep his consciousness intact.

But he was unwilling to delete the data related to her.

Even a little bit.

Ye Xinghui raised his hand and gently touched the screen.

In the unreachable part of his soul, those black eyes still stared at him.

To him, that person was profound, irrepressible, and awakened his instincts.

The abyss that attracted him unconditionally.

Ye Xinghui fell into memories.

·

Via Medical Center, rooftop terrace.

The rusty iron door was locked with an iron rod, and a pile of cardboard boxes were piled up in a mess at the door.

The yellowed anti-slip floor tiles were too old, with the corners curling up, and were covered with a ten-meter-wide waterproof cloth.

On the tarpaulin, someone had set up a makeshift open-air cinema. It had a projector, a screen, speakers, and a classic movie theater setup—to say "classic" was a bit of an overstatement; it was actually pretty much tattered.

Except for some loyal fans, almost no one uses StarCraft to watch movies now.

The projected light illuminates a beam of dust, and the light and shadow shift.

The black and white film came to an end and the credits began to roll.

The young man hugged his knees with his hands, staring at the corner of the screen, as if he was thinking about the content of the movie, without coming back to his senses.

Tao Ying had little interest in movies. She sat aside, writing project documents in a haphazard manner.

Seeing that the movie was over, she stood up and prepared to pack up and go back to the dormitory. When she turned around, she saw Ye Xinghui in a daze.

Tao Ying waved her hand in front of him.

No response.

My eyes feel empty and I don’t know where my thoughts are going.

Tao Ying paused and knocked Ye Xinghui on the head with the videotape box.

"Xiao Ye, are you daydreaming again?"

Seeing Ye Xinghui covering his head and looking up at her with some pain, Tao Ying raised the corners of her mouth and put her hands on the railing happily.

Tao Ying enjoyed the night breeze and leaned close to Ye Xinghui's ear.

"It was you who asked for a videotape of 'The Sea, the Universe, and the Dust' for your birthday, and pitifully offered me all your belongings, so I agreed to buy it for you. But not only did I end up climbing over the wall in the middle of the night, but I was also pestered by a strange woman at the school gate—"

"I'm at a loss."

The more Tao Ying thought about it, the more she felt that this deal was not worth it, and she would have to get a little more for it to feel balanced.

She thought about it for a long time, and finally pinched Ye Xinghui's fair cheeks with both hands and rubbed them before he could react.

Ye Xinghui's cheeks soon turned red.

Tao Ying admired her masterpiece with satisfaction, then withdrew her hand with a sense of relief.

She continued, "You started to daydream halfway through the movie. How can you be worthy of my hard work?"

Ye Xinghui apologized honestly: "I'm sorry."

He rubbed his face in pain, but soon discovered his blind spot.

"How do you know I'm daydreaming if you don't look at me?"

If it were someone else, they would probably look away, turn away out of guilt, or get angry and embarrassed because someone had said something wrong.

But Tao Ying is neither.

She looked at Ye Xinghui with confidence.

"The movie is so boring and uninteresting. If I don't look at you, should I look at the stars in the sky?"

Tao Ying pointed at the sky.

"Today is Interstellar Environmental Protection Day. The skylight is only maintaining its most basic functions. There is no starry sky to view."

"Besides, stars are just glowing nuclear fusion reactors. What's so good about them?"

"You're still prettier."

Tao Ying added.

As he said this, he suddenly reached out and wanted to touch Ye Xinghui's eyelashes.

Ye Xinghui's face froze, and then he dodged sideways very skillfully, whispering, "Don't touch me."

Tao Ying glanced at his slightly red earlobe, shrugged, and withdrew her hand.

She had no other intention in saying this, it was just like praising a beautiful flower on the roadside, she just said it casually without any emotion.

Oh, there is affection too, after all, it’s fun to tease him.

Ye Xinghui's skin is very thin, so thin that you can see the blue veins on the sides of his neck. Every time Tao Ying teases him, his skin turns red from his ears to the sides of his neck.

Tao Ying touched his chin.

How should I put it, teasing him gives him strong positive feedback.

Seeing that Tao Ying's smile was gradually becoming strange and it was obvious that she was planning something bad, Ye Xinghui helplessly raised his hands in surrender.

"I am a patient after all..."

"Oh?" Tao Ying looked puzzled. "Didn't you cry earlier and say, 'Don't treat me like a patient, just treat me like an ordinary person. I want to live like an ordinary person—'? I respect your opinion very much and listened to it, so I treated you like this."

They didn't treat him as a patient, nor as a human being.

Ye Xinghui said helplessly: "Do you dare to speak like this in front of Sister Lisa?"

Tao Ying crossed her arms and said, "Why wouldn't I dare?"

Ye Xinghui said firmly: "You dare not."

Tao Ying hesitated for a moment, said "tsk", and turned around.

Lisa is Tao Ying's guardian and the one who picked her up from the garbage dump when she was eight years old.

Tao Ying has never been afraid of anyone since she could remember, except when she was in front of Lisa.

Tao Ying sighed, "You don't understand. Although Sister Lisa appears to be a nice person on the surface, she's very scary when she's angry. She was often mean to me when I was a kid."

"Sister Lisa said it was because you often got into trouble when you were a kid."

"It's no use letting her know about those things."

Tao Ying half-closed her eyes, leaned against the rooftop, and enjoyed the night breeze leisurely.

"These are all things I think she should know."

That's amazing.

In the end, the movie that day ended with both of them being scolded by the head nurse.

"Can Ye Xinghui's body withstand the wind? Can you please let him off the hook?"

"Tao Ying, I've told you countless times not to secretly unlock the rooftop. Xiaoye's condition..." The head nurse glanced at Ye Xinghui, wanting to say something but stopping herself. "In any case, you are not allowed to take him out of the ward without permission. Do you hear me?"

Tao Ying smiled and promised that she would not do it again next time, then secretly hooked Ye Xinghui's finger behind her back and winked at him.

It was clearly written on his face, "I'll dare to do it again next time."

Ye Xinghui lowered his head to hide the smile on his lips.

Tao Ying has never been a rule-abiding person since she was a child, or rather, she has never been a rule-abiding person by nature.

But as time went by, she gradually concealed this fact.

Ye Xinghui has always believed this.

So when Tao Ying once again said the words he had recalled countless times, "Xiao Ye, are you daydreaming again?", Ye Xinghui's first reaction was suspicion.

Did she discover her identity?

Ye Xinghui tried hard to find evidence on Tao Ying's face to support this speculation.

But he didn't find it.

Tao Ying asked and then said nothing more. She tilted her head and knocked on the smart housekeeper's head, then started fiddling with its data disk.

It was as if he had said this accidentally.

Ye Xinghui took a deep breath, calmed his emotions, and immersed his mind in the electronic flow.

Yes, Tao Ying should have put the memories of the past behind her long ago.

Nothing special.

...He's the only one I remember.

The next moment, Ye Xinghui entered the mechanical body of the smart housekeeper and planned to carry out today's daily cleaning.

The smart housekeeper usually stays in the utility room or the living room. Ye Xinghui was wondering why he was in Tao Ying's room.

Tao Ying used his back to push the door shut, turned the handle, closed it, and locked it. The series of actions were smooth and fluid.

Tao Ying was carrying a box of tools and looking down at him.

"Xiao Ye, you can't leave this room for the time being."

Tao Ying's voice was so close that Ye Xinghui's expression stiffened slightly.

He had a bad feeling.

Based on his understanding of Tao Ying, this person was definitely up to something bad.

Sure enough, the next moment, Tao Ying said with a smile on his face.

"You're staying with me until I fix you."

…

So in the next few days, the smart housekeeper Xiao Ye suffered inhumane torture——

Tao Ying finished taking a shower, her hair was wet, and she walked out of the bathroom wearing only a bathrobe.

"Xiaoye, help me blow dry my hair."

Ye Xinghui tried to break down the door and leave but failed miserably. Anyway, he had been facing the wall for two hours: "..."

I didn't dare open my eyes at all.

He said with difficulty: "Master, the intelligent butler cannot understand what you mean."

"Hmm? Really? I remember there was this function."

Tao Ying lifted her hair, pretending not to notice his embarrassment, and walked over leisurely to confirm.

The water on his hair dripped onto the smart housekeeper.

Ye Xinghui didn't dare to move.

"What are you doing facing the wall? I can't see your screen."

Tao Ying felt cold and coughed. She tightened the collar of her bathrobe, picked up a handful of wet hair, and talked to herself.

"If you don't blow dry it, you'll get a fever again."

After a period of struggle, Xiao Ye's eyes finally became "- -||". She could only close her eyes, turn her head left and right, and start blowing Tao Ying's hair.

"Xiaoye, you turned on the vacuum setting."

"Oh, sorry."

"Where are you blowing? That's my leg."

"sorry!"

·

A few days later, Tao Ying finally let Xiaoye out of the room.

Lin Biege came over touched and said, "Is it finally fixed? Can I finally eat at home?"

"Well, it's okay for now."

Tao Ying nodded.

The test is almost over.

Nan Gua tilted his head and looked at the intelligent butler: "Why does Xiao Ye look so relieved... How did you fix it?"

Tao Ying raised a finger: "Trade secret."

·

When Ye Xinghui returned to the underground, his face was full of fatigue.

Pomeranian was shocked when she saw his face, and was even more frightened when she saw the electricity bill.

"What have you done? Let me check the electricity bill analysis... the electricity bill is six million!" Pomeranian started yelling in the computer room.

After running two laps, it finally stopped panting.

According to the record analysis, he blushed a staggering eighty times.

Something is wrong. Something is very wrong.

Pomeranian asked curiously, "What have you been doing these days?"

"I've experienced some beyond-common-sense thinking..."

Ye Xinghui gave a brief explanation, and Pomeranian nodded, seemingly understanding.

"Did she find out who you are?"

"Maybe."

Ye Xinghui shook his head. He had been feeling dizzy these past few days and had no idea what he was doing.

I don’t know what Tao Ying wants to do.

Ye Xinghui murmured, "Xiaoying rarely trusts me. I feel like she's testing me."

Pomeranian wagged its tail: "It's not surprising. Ten years have passed and everything has changed. It's normal for her to not trust you."

When Tao Ying just came back to life, they sent a mechanical puppy to her to ensure her safety.

The mechanical puppy was dismembered in the desert.

Pomeranian couldn't help but shudder when he thought of the horrifying first-person perspective image he saw at that time.

"We won't end up like that puppy, right? Is it too late to run away now?" Pomeranian swallowed.

Ye Xinghui sighed.

"If you don't run, you might die more peacefully."

·

As the finals approached, Tao Ying went to Baishi Industrial to test drive Hengwo and make some preparations before the finals.

The machine body is well maintained, and it can be seen that Baishi Industry pays great attention to it.

At the end, Tao Ying and Bai Mo walked out of the hangar together. She looked at the almost completely black aircraft and casually mentioned the cooperation.

"How's the arrangement going?"

Bai Mo nodded: "Yes, everyone is here."

"They're waiting for you in the conference hall."