Qinghe City, in the Chu family’s old house.

"Bai Yu, I want to stay in Qinghe City for a while, is that okay?"

Chu Zehuai sat on a bed in the room of the old house and turned to ask Bai Yu who was sitting next to him.

"Sure, you don't need to ask me about this, just make your own decision. You haven't seen your parents for so long, you must spend more time with them. I see that you two seem a little strange and distant, why not take this opportunity to improve your relationship."

Bai Yu thought about that meeting at the table and said.

"After all, more than a decade can change a person. What's more, the human brain itself will beautify past memories. It's normal for us to have unfamiliar impressions of each other."

Chu Zehuai lowered his long golden eyelashes and whispered.

"It's good to get familiar with each other again. You can accompany them these days. Anyway, we still have a long, long time to spend together, so there is no need to rush."

Bai Yu reached out and hugged the person next to him, resting his head on the other's shoulder, and his inky black hair rubbed the other's face.

"Okay, I'll try to communicate with them."

...

...

Chu Zehuai reached out and rubbed Bai Yu's short black hair, his eyes softened.

"I haven't seen you like this in a long time."

"My appearance as a mild-mannered and reliable member of the Qinghe City Investigation Bureau team?"

Bai Yu blinked and disguised his eyes again, then pressed the man to the ground, with a smile in his beautiful phoenix eyes.

"Captain, do you miss it? This feeling of being bullied by me."

"Bai Yu, stop making trouble. Be careful if someone comes in. Get off me first."

Chu Zehuai looked at the plants on his body helplessly.

"No, I will bully you in the workplace."

"That's not how you bully in the workplace."

The man and the plant played around in the room for quite a while. After coming back from dancing at the grave of the pigeon couple, Chu Zehuai dragged them away on the pretext that he wanted to have a good talk. After Bai Yu accompanied Grandpa Chu to fish and chat for a while, he felt that it was boring and decided to just wander around Qinghe City alone.

Just at this time, Ji Yue sent him a list.

[Yue Jihua: I released all the people I took away from Qinghe City. One of them seems to have some relationship with you. I took her away because I found the residual spiritual power of the system in her mind.]

[Rose: If you meet her, please tell me a message: 'Life is destined to be a lonely journey. I can't accompany you all the way, but I want to tell you that you are the girl I like the most.' If you don't meet her, forget it. ]

Bai Yu opened the list and found two familiar names on it.

One is Huang Rui, the classmate who was unlucky enough to be held hostage by a cannibalistic butcher and mutant pigs and had to steal experimental materials to survive. She was also the one whose memory was erased by the system and then taken away by Yue Jihua.

When she was mentioned, Bai Yu thought of the various videos he had seen in Chunfeng Teahouse, and the focused expression on Chu Zehuai's face when he was watching the videos.

That’s right, he almost forgot that Chu Zehuai liked this tune. What a negligence. He would use his own vines to make a whip when he returned.

The second one was Tang Lei, who had briefly shared a house with him and who said he was pursuing his muse but has not been heard from since.

His name was at the end of the list, with Rose writing behind it the comment 'dull personality, simple mind, but strong hands-on ability, and likes toys'.

"Since we are in Qinghe City, we might as well go and see them."

Bai Yu put away the list, and with the blessing of the world's original power, he easily found the locations of these two people in the vast crowd.

Ten minutes later, Qinghe City Center Park.

Huang Rui was sitting on a public bench in a daze when she felt a figure floating beside her. In the faint scent of roses, the other person sat down next to her.

"Do you remember me?"

Bai Yu leaned back in the chair, her beautiful eyes curved.

"Is it... you?"

Huang Rui came to her senses and took a long time to recognize that this person was her old classmate.

"It's me. I want to talk to you."

Bai Yu pulled up the chat history with Yue Jihua and repeated word for word what Yue Jihua wanted to say.

After hearing these words, Huang Rui, who was originally absent-minded, suddenly narrowed her eyes and turned her head to look at Bai Yu.

She originally thought that Bai Yu came here just to talk about their friendship as old classmates, but she didn't expect that he was actually in contact with her elder sister.

"Sister, how is she...she..."

Huang Rui suddenly became excited, but she didn't know what to say.

"I'm just a relayer. What happened between you and her has nothing to do with me."

Bai Yu spread his hands.

To be honest, he actually admires roses very much.

How did that woman manage to win over all the people who should have hated her?

Stockholm syndrome?

It didn't seem so, and he didn't see Yue Jihua abusing the people she brought back.

Hiss, maybe this group of people really have some hidden attributes that have been developed.

Bai Yu thought about it casually for a while and then stopped thinking about it. Anyway, he already had his little bird, and he didn't want to and would not put any others under his leaves.

Otherwise the birds will make a fuss.

For the sake of their former classmates, Bai Yu briefly chatted with the other party about his life and future plans. After finding that the other party had gradually returned to normal life, he stood up, said goodbye, and left Qinghe City Center Park.

Huang Rui was the only one left here, and she continued to sit on the bench in a daze.

"Sister, why did you abandon me..."

She murmured softly, lost in her own thoughts. She didn't know how much time had passed before a man and a woman walking a cat appeared in her sight.

Lin Mo and Su Zi were so bored that they ran back from their hometown and simply took Xiao Mi out for a walk.

The former was talking about interesting things that happened at school. He became more and more excited, talking about everything from school to home, from his brother to his uncle and aunt. As he was talking, his eyes suddenly widened as if he had seen a ghost. The words he had prepared to say got stuck in his throat and he couldn't utter a word.

"Huang...Huang Rui? You're back?"

Lin Mo was in a trance, as if he had suddenly returned to the time long ago when he was desperately looking for the other person.

He was really concerned at the time. He looked for it day and night and mobilized all the connections around him to look for it, but he couldn't find even a piece of fabric.

He couldn't abandon all his work to go look for it, so he could only do his tasks while looking. With all the work piling up and no news coming in, the importance of this matter was pushed back again and again until it was pushed out of his mind.

"Yes, it's me. I'm back."

Huang Rui tucked the hair behind her ears, revealing a pair of beautiful eyes.

"I heard from my parents that you went to my house many times to get news about me. Thank you for your concern."

"You're welcome. This is my job."

Lin Mo scratched his head.

Huang Rui shifted her gaze to Su Zi again, her tone somewhat hesitant: "Su Zi? Is that you? Why did your face become like this?"

"It's me. My face was scalded with boiling water by my mother who favors boys over girls. I didn't expect to meet you here after we separated in childhood."

Su Zi was also a little surprised. She sat next to Huang Rui and explained to the stunned Lin Mo,

"We used to be close neighbors, but then the adults moved away and we separated."

After saying that, the two girls ignored the man next to them and started chatting.

"How have you been these years?"

"It's fine. How about you? What are your plans for the future?"

"I had a very bizarre but wonderful experience. I can see my true self clearly. I am afraid I will no longer live the life of an ordinary girl who gets married and has children like in the past. I plan to travel around the country, have sex... No, I plan to meet different men."

Huang Rui blinked and gave Su Zi a knowing look.

"Great! Because of the scar on my face and my childhood experiences, I don't plan to get married. I plan to travel around the country while I'm still young and take pictures of the scenery. Would you like to go with me?"

Su Zi took out her camera and shook it.

"OK."

The two girls were chatting animatedly. Lin Mo looked at them, then looked at himself and Xiao Mi who was so bored that she was picking her feet. Then he bent down and picked Xiao Mi up.

The man and the cat looked at each other, and understood the look in each other's eyes.

"Xiao Mi, do you think we are redundant now?"

"giao~"

**

After saying goodbye to Huang Rui, Bai Yu walked towards the location of Tang Lei that he sensed, and then successfully found a... ** store.

He took two steps back, looked at the pink fluorescent sign, and confirmed again and again that Tang Lei's location was here.

I seem to understand why there is a sentence in the comment about Rose: "She is very good at hands-on work and likes toys."

Bai Yu calmed himself down, pushed open the door and walked in. At first glance, he saw the dazzling array of goods on the shelves.

Men and women, front and back, inside and outside, everything is available.

"Welcome to—Hey, isn't this Xiaobai?"

Tang Lei was greeting customers as usual, but he saw a familiar figure, and his already enthusiastic face became even more enthusiastic.

"Come on, come on, sit down. I didn't expect to see you here. It's been almost a year since we last met. You look so different. I almost didn't recognize you."

Tang Lei invited Bai Yu to sit down and thoughtfully poured him a cup of tea.

"Almost. I didn't expect you would choose to open a store like this after you quit your lease."

Bai Yu recalled how he looked when he first came into this world, his eyebrows and eyes curved.

"But Brother Tang, you have changed a lot too. Your mental state is much better now than before."

Tang Lei now looks radiant and energetic, and looks much better than before when he was full of resentment because of work.

"It wasn't opened after I gave up my lease. I first went to Nanzhou to find my muse. The muse gave me a lot of help and inspiration. I also found what I really love in life. You see, a large part of it was developed and produced by myself."

Tang Lei carried out a super big box, inside the box were various props he had made.

"Look at this, it can be powered..."

"This can be opened after it is inserted..."

"And this, I spent a long time looking for a material that expands when it absorbs water."

.........

Tang Lei introduced them to Bai Yu one by one. The latter looked at the pile of props, remembered Chu Zehuai's medical bill and the website, and could not help but half-squinted his eyes.

This much should be enough to satisfy his little bird.

“Is there any heated one?”

"Yes, yes, this one has a temperature control function. It can not only increase the temperature, but also lower the temperature. I made it by hand."

Tang Lei had seen so many guests that he could tell what Bai Yu was thinking at a glance. He gave the latter a look that said, "We are both men, I understand you," and then he hooked his arm around the latter's neck.

"Xiao Bai, if you want it, I'll give it to you for free. You can pick whatever you want from this wall. After all, you and I have been living together for a while."

"How can this be so embarrassing? I'd better pay for it."

Bai Yu took the things he liked and put them in the shopping cart, then took out his mobile phone to pay.

"Thank you for your kindness, Brother Tang. If you have time, why don't you teach me how to make it?"

The temperature that ordinary people can accept would not satisfy Chu Zehuai.

He felt that he needed to make some transformation in private.

And some of the things he liked had wooden components that he wanted to replace when he got home.

"Okay, I was just worried that I had nothing to help you with, and now I'm free, come on, I'll teach you how to make the things in the store step by step."

"Well, thank you, Brother Tang."