"Then I'll go back first." Wei Shishi turned around and wanted to leave.

"Stop right there!" Xu Ying reached out and grabbed Wei Shishi's arm, saying angrily, "What's wrong with you? Why are you so hostile to me? Explain it to me!"

"...Don't you know what you did more than fifty years ago?" Wei Shishi waved her hand vigorously, shook off Xu Ying's hand, then turned and left.

"What did I do? I did..." Xu Ying was stunned. "What did I do? Wait, you..."

By the time she reacted, Wei Shishi had disappeared.

"What the hell…"

"...You didn't cheat on her grandfather, did you?" Li Wenxi chuckled, nudging Xu Ying's waist with his elbow. "I have a feeling she's upset because of what her grandfather said. You didn't do anything to abandon her, did you?"

"What?" Xu Ying cried out in injustice, "I, I, I, that guy Wei Bo and I are just normal friends!"

"Then why is she so unhappy with you? Everything she knows about you must have been heard from her grandfather, right?" Li Wenxi looked in the direction where Wei Shishi was leaving.

"What the hell is going on here! Not to mention that this is simply impossible, even if it were true, does her grandfather's feelings and experiences require her to stand up for him?"

Xu Ying couldn't sit still any longer. "No, I have to go ask that old man! What bad things did he say about me to his granddaughter? He's not really saying anything nonsense, is he?"

"Hey, hey!" Li Wenxi quickly grabbed her. "Is the old man still busy? He seemed very serious when he left. It's better not to disturb him for now. Could those giant beasts be attacking again?"

"...Humph, that shouldn't be the case. If it were, wouldn't he have told us?" Xu Ying didn't rush over. She curled her lips and said, "I feel like the three families must have gathered together to discuss something important. It might be related to me, so they didn't tell me, right?"

"Is that so..." Li Wenxi rubbed his eyes slightly. "Then let's go back. I'm a little sleepy, and it's getting late... Wow! It's almost twelve o'clock!"

She looked at her watch and exclaimed, "How late! It's almost the next day!"

"Alas, this is the bad thing about this place." Xu Ying looked up at the sky. Two or three thousand meters above, the crystal stones were still emitting light. "Day and night are the same. There are no four seasons. Living here, it always feels like time has stopped."

"Ah...what's the daily routine of the people here?" Li Wenxi looked towards the living area.

On the street over there, there were originally a lot of pedestrians and vehicles, but now there are much fewer.

Although it was not dark yet, everyone seemed to have rested.

"Because everyone's schedule is pretty much the same as on Earth. After all, the hours for study and work are still the same."

Xu Ying explained, "With fixed work and school hours from 9am to 6pm and 8am to 5pm, everyone's schedule is pretty much the same as on Earth. Of course, there are always people who stay up late. But, it doesn't really count as 'staying up late' here, does it? After all, there's no night at all."

"Is that so? This is truly a magical world..." Li Wenxi felt that he still didn't know this place well enough, and had an urge to walk around.

She took out the blue-level oranges she had brought from her backpack and began to peel them. "That's perfect. There aren't many people around right now, so we won't attract too much attention. Let's go around!"

"Ah, isn't that the Orange (Blue) artifact for staying up late?" Xu Ying's eyes lit up, "You brought such a good thing down with you."

[Honestly, I've been using the Huanyuan app lately to read and keep up with updates. It allows for easy switching between sources and offers a variety of reading voices. It's available for both Android and Apple devices.]

"You must have used this before, right?" Li Wenxi took out another one and handed it to Xu Ying.

"I miss it so much!" Xu Ying took the orange in her hand, turned it over and over, and sighed, "There are many orange trees like this in our team's science and technology park. Back then, we wanted to break it into two pieces every minute. This thing is simply a magical tool, but..."

"But what?" Li Wenxi put the orange into his mouth and asked unclearly.

"But... it's better for you to eat less of this stuff right now. Although it can keep the brain awake and free of sleep, it relies on overdrawing the lifespan of brain cells." Xu Ying also began to peel the orange in her hand, saying, "If you eat too much, you will get Alzheimer's disease early!"

"Huh?" Li Wenxi had just swallowed the orange slice in his mouth. When he heard her say that, his hand holding the orange slice, which was about to be put into his mouth, stopped.

She looked down at the orange slices in her hand, then looked up at Xu Ying, blinking. She was in a dilemma whether to eat or not. She said in surprise, "There's... there's such a side effect!"

"Yes, otherwise if I keep eating this orange, won't I never need to sleep? There is no such good thing. Everything has a price." Xu Ying said, throwing away the orange peel.

"But..." Li Wenxi swallowed, "I think I've eaten quite a bit before... I don't know how to..."

"It won't cause any problems so soon," Xu Ying explained. "If ordinary people eat too much, they might develop Alzheimer's disease in their forties or fifties. For people like us with long lifespans, it wouldn't matter, but you still have normal genes, right? It's best to rely on your own body to recover."

She threw a petal into her mouth, chewing it with a nostalgic expression, and said, "Hmm...eat less, eat less, sister-in-law. I don't want you to become stupid when I return you to my brother."

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