Yang Jinxia stared at Chen Xu's face until he felt a little uncomfortable and asked her, "Why are you looking at me like that?"

"nothing."

She smiled, a smile that came from the bottom of her heart. "I just think you are such a good person."

Chen Xu felt a little uncomfortable and said, "Hey, I feel like you are complimenting me, but this sentence always makes people feel weird."

"I mean it."

She held her chin with both hands and said, "I know that when people lose the constraints of law and morality and fall into trouble, they will become shameless and may do anything. I have always been very lucky that I met you. If it was another man, my end would definitely not be too good."

"It has nothing to do with whether you are a good person or not."

Chen Xu shook his head. Perhaps because he had been holding it in for too long, he was particularly talkative today. "Let me tell you a story."

"I have a cousin who is two years older than me. When I was in fourth or fifth grade, he was the person I envied the most."

"His mother loves him very much and gives him a lot of pocket money. He buys all kinds of delicious food and toys every day and often skips classes to go to Internet cafes to surf the Internet and play games. He lives a very carefree life. His mother never cares about him. Even when his father wants to care, she stops him. With his mother's support, he skips classes even more unscrupulously."

"At that time, whenever I had a holiday, I would follow him around to eat and play. One weekend night, he and I played outside until very late. It was almost midnight, and I wanted to go home, but he wouldn't let me. Suddenly, he suggested that we light a fire, and we lit up a bicycle repair shed on the roadside."

"The fire grew bigger and bigger. I was terrified and ran home. My family scolded me for coming home too late. I was so scared that I couldn't sleep that night."

"Later, I heard from others that fortunately the residents nearby discovered the fire early and put it out before it spread, thus preventing greater losses."

"This incident made me worried for several months. Afterwards, I secretly asked him why he did this. He said it was because he was bored. I couldn't understand it at the time. He had so much pocket money, he could buy whatever he wanted, skip classes whenever he wanted, and go to the Internet cafe whenever he wanted. This was simply a life like a god. How could he say he was bored?"

"After that incident, I was a little afraid of him, so I didn't play with him much."

"After a few years, he went to high school and lived a more carefree life. He and a few friends from society drove a small car every day and took girls for rides. His girlfriends changed one after another."

"It wasn't until the day after my high school entrance exam that I heard he was arrested. To be honest, I wasn't surprised at the time. If someone was fooling around like that, sooner or later something would happen to him. But I didn't expect what he did was so serious."

"He and a few other people raped a girl and stabbed her boyfriend. The man died on the spot."

"Later, for some reason, my dad came home and took me to the detention center to see him. My dad asked him why he did that. He felt really bad and said that he just wanted to have some fun but didn't expect things to get to this point."

Yang Jinxia listened quietly without interrupting.

Chen Xu finished speaking in one breath, smiled, and said, "Since then, whenever I feel particularly stressed, particularly tired, and want to give up, I will think of him, and then ask myself, even if you put aside everything, indulge yourself, and do whatever you want, will you be happy?"

"Not necessarily. Even if he wasn't caught in the end, I think his life would be pretty empty."

"Thinking this way, it seems that life is not so tiring anymore."

Chen Xu said all that and felt much better. Seeing that she hadn't moved her chopsticks, he said, "Eat quickly, or the noodles will get mushy."

"Yeah." Yang Jinxia picked up the chopsticks and said, "You eat too."

While eating, he looked at Chen Xu.

After Chen Xu settled down in this shelter, he was no longer as much of a homebody as before. Apart from spending two or three hours a day reading materials, he spent the rest of his time wandering around.

This place is much larger than the previous shelter, with a total of seven floors in a pyramid structure. The top floor has the smallest area, and the area occupied increases as you go down.

The top four floors are the living area, and the bottom three floors are the production area, with various factory workshops. The entire shelter is like a small kingdom and is almost self-sufficient.

However, most people have left with the rescue team. Except for the first floor, the six floors below have been abandoned.

After Chen Xu got permission from S01, he went through the floors one by one and found quite a few things.

When the people in the shelter left, they didn't have time to take a lot of things with them. There were a lot of things left in each room, mostly daily necessities. Occasionally, you could find some electronic products, which were probably left by the original owner accidentally.

After wandering around like this for a few days, he had basically confirmed that there should only be one robot, S01, left in the entire shelter. As for humans, they were nowhere to be seen. He always remembered that S01 said that a small number of people were still here.

So the question is, where did these people go?

He asked S01, and it replied that it was confidential and he did not have the authority to know.

So, in addition to searching for some useful items, he also wanted to find out where those people were.

He spent nearly a month touring the six lower floors, opening every room and looking inside, but still found nothing.

He was in a more luxurious room on the second floor, and got a personal terminal, like a palmtop computer, and he tried to log in, and it was successful. It should be connected to the host.

This terminal contained a complete map of the shelter, and he searched every room along this map.

Although the person was not found, several very useful things were brought back.

"Look what I found."

As soon as Chen Xu returned, he went to find Yang Jinxia excitedly.

"What?"

After a month of rest, Yang Jinxia had fully recovered and was planting a potted plant in the hall. Chen Xu went down to the bottom floor and finally found some soil, which he brought back to her, intending to use to grow some vegetables or something.

After a month, they had almost finished eating all the vegetables and meat they brought from G5232. The quality of their food had dropped to a lower level.

Chen Xu said happily, "Look, three small meat synthesis warehouses. From now on, we won't have to worry about having no meat to eat."

"That's great." Yang Jinxia was also very happy. Having meat to eat was indeed a good thing.

Chen Xu got back to business. "I just can't find the person. I've looked everywhere, but I can't find him."

Yang Jinxia nodded and said, "It seems that it can only be in one place."

(End of this chapter)