Chapter 300: The Universe, Promise, and Urushihara Ruri's Problem (asking for monthly tickets)
The Savior Society base, Paradise level.
Ji Minghuan sat alone in the maze corridor in a daze, while the other children were playing on other recreational facilities.
He looked up at Shang Xiaochi, who was swinging alone on the swing with her head down, walked over and silently sat on the swing next to her.
"Speaking of which, Xiao Chi-san," Ji Minghuan asked, "have you never heard what the World Tree said to you?"
"Traitor, don't bother with me..." Shang Xiaochi didn't even turn her head, frowning slightly. The teardrop mole at the corner of her eye made her look even colder.
"Woof woof woof." The sudden barking of a dog interrupted her words.
Shang Xiaochi was stunned.
She turned her head and stared at Ji Minghuan blankly, "What... are you doing?"
"I'm a puppy. I'm sorry, I shouldn't have betrayed you, Master Xiaochi, woof woof woof woof."
Shang Xiaochi blinked and avoided his gaze. "It's no use being a puppy. The scars of betrayal will never heal. Without bonds, there will be no harm..."
"Do you like Uchiha Sasuke very much?" Ji Minghuan suddenly asked.
"How do you know?" Shang Xiaochi was stunned.
"Because I watch anime too, I'm an anime expert." Ji Minghuan said seriously, "As far as I know, Uchiha Sasuke likes to say 'I want to cut off the ties' and 'Only by giving up the ties can I become stronger', but he is actually a tsundere. Later on, he kept asking the protagonist 'What am I to you'."
Shang Xiaochi blushed. She lowered her head and frowned. She felt uneasy when someone discovered that her quotes from a cartoon were from anime. It was like a literary boy who copied movie reviews from Douban to show off his taste, but was embarrassed when someone discovered the source.
"I don't like Uchiha Sasuke." She said with a pout.
"Okay then." Ji Minghuan said, "So, what about the question I asked you just now? Can you answer it for me?"
"What's the problem?"
"Has the World Tree ever spoken to you?"
"No." Shang Xiaochi shook his head and said softly, "I can only hear the sound of thorns growing occasionally. I wake up when I'm sleeping and feel like my body has turned into a plant."
"So that's how it is." Ji Minghuan nodded. "That's good. I just met a guy who was tortured badly by the consciousness of a mythical figure. He even suffered from schizophrenia."
"No one wants this." Shang Xiaochi was silent for a moment.
"Yeah, no one wants that."
"Have you ever wondered what it feels like to die?"
"Death?" Ji Minghuan shook his head. "I don't know. It's a bit too advanced for elementary school students."
"Didn't I tell you just now? Every time I sleep alone, I feel like my body is slowly turning into a plant, trapped in a dream and unable to wake up. It feels like being locked in a coffin... no matter how hard I struggle, I can't open it. My hands and feet curl up, and the oxygen inside disappears little by little; the coffin floats in the universe, and no one responds no matter how loudly I shout." Shang Xiaochi whispered. Her language organization ability is not perfect at her age, so her words are a little incoherent.
"Hmm..." Ji Minghuan thought for a moment, "It sounds so uncomfortable, I'm almost claustrophobic. Wait, you don't really have claustrophobia, and you're forcing yourself to stay here, right?"
"I don't know what that is." Shang Xiaochi shook his head. "I just wonder if one day I won't be able to wake up and will really turn into a plant."
"Well, it seems that the consciousness of the World Tree still has an influence on you. I take back my words."
"Traitor...can you stay with me?" Shang Xiaochi raised his head and glanced at him. "I don't want to dream alone, nor do I want to wake up alone in my dream."
“Woof woof woof woof!”
"What are you doing?" Shang Xiaochi was stunned.
"No, I didn't know what to say, so the dog barked a few times."
Shang Xiaochi frowned and lowered her face, looking at him angrily, not knowing what to say.
"Okay, I just think you're being quite straightforward right now. Is it true that even the most stubborn and tough-talking kid would be afraid of being alone?"
As he spoke, Ji Minghuan swung the swing.
He turned his head and looked at her seriously and quietly. "Although our mentor won't let us stay together, every time you dream that you are locked in a coffin and your body slowly turns into a plant, you can imagine that there is a puppy squatting on the coffin board, jumping around and barking. It is as lonely and scared as you are. It doesn't know where the coffin will float to in the universe, but it has been waiting for you to come out of it."
Shang Xiaochi was stunned.
"In fact, I often have strange dreams. I dream that I am being chased by someone, or that I am wrapped up in something and can't breathe. But every time there is a penguin monster holding a notebook outside and shouting to me, 'Come on!' So I don't feel lonely... As long as there are people in the world waiting for me, I won't feel lonely."
Ji Minghuan looked up as he spoke, and saw Firion watching Mario play "Fire Emblem". Both children looked very focused.
In another corner of the park, Sun Changkong and Kong Youling were sitting on a slide, sliding up and down.
Every time they slid from the top of the slide to the bottom, the somersault cloud on the ground would automatically pick them up like a smart elevator, saving them the effort of climbing stairs. So they were either sliding up and down the slide or flying around on the somersault cloud, with the hems of their hospital gowns rising and falling.
"Traitor, have you ever seen the sea?" Shang Xiaochi was silent for a long time and suddenly asked.
"I haven't seen it." Ji Minghuan shook his head. "I have been living in an orphanage since I was a child. I have never stepped out of the house. I may have seen even less than you."
"Is that so?"
"But after we leave here, we can go see the sea together." Ji Minghuan said in a low voice.
"You betrayed me once, you are not allowed to betray me a second time." Shang Xiaochi said softly, "Take me to see the sea."
"Okay." Ji Minghuan nodded.
The two of them swung on the swing quietly for a while, looking down at the sand on the ground, and then the somersault cloud suddenly flew over, knocked them off the swing, and caught them amid screams, taking them to the top of the slide.
"What are you guys chatting about in secret?" Sun Changkong asked.
"That's right." Kong Youling said silently with his lips, and then raised the small notebook in his arms.
Shang Xiaochi looked up and saw a picture of a little fox and a little black cat swinging on a swing on the notebook. There was a teardrop mole at the corner of the black cat's eye.
"Why am I a cat?" Shang Xiaochi asked.
"Because... I'm hot and cold." Kong Youling covered his face with the notebook, not daring to look at Shang Xiaochi's expression.
Ji Minghuan leaned over and took a look at the contents of the notebook. "This is our penguin monster. He likes to turn others into strange animals. I am obviously a dog, not a fox."
"If Sister Xiaoling says you are a fox, then you are a fox. Don't be ungrateful." Sun Changkong glared at him fiercely, then looked at Shang Xiaochi, and both of them lowered their heads obediently.
At this moment, the instructor's voice suddenly came from the broadcasting equipment: "Kids, pack up and go back to rest."
Then, the elevator at the entrance opened with a ding dong, and the experimenters wearing white coats and disinfection masks walked out.
"Let's go." Ji Minghuan said as he slid down the slide.
He stood up, walked forward a few steps and turned back, only to find that Shang Xiaochi had been looking at him.
"Traitor, don't forget..." Shang Xiaochi put his hands behind his back and whispered as he passed by him, "Take me to see the sea in the future."
Ji Minghuan watched her walk away, but after a while, he said a few words to Kong Youling, then left the paradise and followed the experimenter back to the prison cell.
The lights dimmed, he lay down on the bed, and slowly closed his eyes.
Consciousness is synchronized to body No. 1.
At 12 noon on August 9th, US time, in a hotel in Manhattan, New York.
Gu Wenyu woke up from the bed, turned on the mobile phone on the bedside table, and sent a message to Gu Qinye.
[Black Pupa: By the way, is there any progress on the light-eating bees? One of my collaborators is very curious about this and he is urging me to do so.]
【Gu Qiye: The meeting will start soon. We will chat then.】
【Black Pupa: Okay.】
At the same time, in another corner of New York, in the parking lot at the bottom of the Empire State Building.
In a black Maybach, Gu Qinye was sitting in the passenger seat, looking down at his cell phone.
He closed the text message interface, put his phone in his pocket, and then opened the car door and got out. Today he changed into a black jacket and black trousers, and cut his shoulder-length hair much shorter, making him look neat and tidy.
Yuriel also opened the car door and got out of the driver's seat of the Maybach. She changed into a black suit today and her long white hair was tied into a ponytail behind her head.
The two walked towards the elevator side by side. Yuriel raised her hand and pressed "Tenth Floor Underground" on the control panel. The elevator door slowly closed, but at this moment, a hand suddenly reached in, and the elevator door that was about to close opened.
Gu Qiye looked up and saw Urushihara Liuli suddenly appear from the darkness like a magic trick. She was still wearing a black vest jacket and a pair of jeans.
At this moment, she was leaning against the elevator door frame, with the corners of her mouth curled up, and her head tilted to look at a corner of the parking lot.
Yuriel and Gu Qinye followed her gaze and saw a girl wearing a Gothic Lolita dress walking slowly towards them in the corner of the parking lot. It was the "Gothic Doll" Esther.
The black-haired, red-eyed girl in a Gothic skirt raised her hand to cover her mouth, yawned, and then slowly walked into the car.
"By the way, young man, let me ask you a question." Urushihara Ruri was the last one to enter the elevator and looked up at Gu Qinye.
"What's the problem?"
As Gu Qiye asked this question, the elevator door slowly closed.
"What is the relationship between you and the black pupa?" Urushihara Ruri curled the corners of her mouth and asked in a low voice.
Gu Qinye was slightly stunned for a moment, then raised his eyes and met Urushihara Ruri's gaze.
In the dim elevator, she stared at Gu Qiye, her eyes as clear as glass, as if she could see through people's hearts.
(End of this chapter)
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