Xia Libing stood still after walking out of the courtyard gate, and looked left and right, there were no people, no creatures, and no visions.

The phone vibrated again, and I received a prompt: "Take a few steps forward." ”

Xia Libing walked a few steps and stood directly on the edge of the road outside the door.

The terrain of Chongyun Village is not flat, they are located on a high place, and after coming out of the courtyard and standing on the other side of the road, they can see most of the villages below, and see that the village road that has just been repaired extends from a distance, and it is empty under the light of the bright street lamps on both sides.

Suddenly, the street lights in the village began to go out from the entrance of their place to the outside of the village, and swept away like a black wave.

Soon, the whole village was plunged into darkness again, and only the lights of each house were on.

However, these street lamps in Chongyun Village have just been built not long ago, and the villagers have long been accustomed to the situation of no street lights, and they are basically at home at this time, so they didn't pay much attention to it, and no one came out to check.

After most of the street lights in the village were extinguished, at the entrance of the village in the distance, a little white light slowly rose from the ground, and exploded after mid-air, making a very soft crackling sound, dotting the night sky with a little flash, forming a huge cartoon cat face pattern.

Then, one after another, points of light rose into the air and exploded.

The pattern is different every time it is exploded, but it is not the pattern of a cartoon cat, or the pattern of chicken legs, cakes, and even a round of coins, full of chubby girl style.

It's normal for the street lights to go out and no one notices the villagers, but the strange thing is that the fireworks array that filled the entire night sky one after another didn't attract people to go out to watch, and even the courtyard behind Xia Libing didn't have any movement.

Xia Libing had expected this situation, and from the time the first fireworks rose into the sky, she realized:

It's not a real firework, not even an illusion of a range of effects, it's Alice's image of her alone, because before the fireworks explode, Alice had already established a sensory connection through the pair of "love note" chopsticks she had left on the table, and the new wristband she wore on her wrist.

In other words, this fireworks show is an "illusion" that only she can see, and it is a special performance prepared for her by Alice.

The source of this fireworks show is actually Lao Xia's new wristband, which can carry a large number of "super-couplings" in addition to being able to carry a lot of "love objects" in itself.

And the mood of making this wristband is the cheerful mood that Xiang Kun transformed from the little chubby girl and watched the fireworks of the Lantern Festival in Star City.

Lao Xia himself does not have such emotions, so even if this "love note" is stimulated, it cannot be directly resonated and perceived.

Alice is transferred through the pair of "love infusion" chopsticks that Lao Xia can resonate with - in Chongyun Village, because of the existence of a large number of "super-connected objects" around, the influence range of "love infusion" can be greatly increased, and the entire village area is Alice's operating platform.

But after the transfer, Lao Xia can only see the emotional projection illusion of the wristband, but it can't make Lao Xia feel the emotion directly.

At the end of the fireworks show, Xia Libing turned his head and looked at Alice standing by the courtyard wall.

At this moment, in the entire Chongyun Village, the cameras that could capture the nearby area were all frozen, and the work was suspended.

Alice, who was dressed in a white princess dress, showed a bright and cheerful smile to Xia Libing and said, "Old Xia, happy birthday, thank you." ”

Alice's figure then disappeared, but the bright smile was reflected in Xia Libing's mind.

Alice, who existed as she was a child, had a smile she had never had when she was a child.

She knows that Alice's smile comes from the joyful emotion of the wristband in her hand, the real perception from the depths of her "heart", and the sincere expression of her emotions.

From scratch, Alice, who was born less than a year ago, already has a wealth of emotional perception and already has such a cheerful smile, so what about her?

Xia Libing understands the meaning of Alice's "thank you", one of the main reasons why Alice can integrate into the "super sensory item system" so quickly is that her "dream within a dream" ability, whether it is communication with the little chubby girl or the connection with the little apple, it must initially be opened by "dream within a dream", not to mention that if you want to appear in reality across the digital world, the core ability is "fantasy appears".

And she also knows what Alice's "birthday present" is for her.

Because she can't understand the "supersensory information" like Alice and Xiang Kun, the illusion of the fireworks show that is exclusive to her, and the bright smile that comes from the heart, is that Alice is showing her the emotions on the wristband little by little in a way that she can understand, helping her understand the steps and ways of affecting this emotion to a certain extent.

This gift is probably given by Alice and Xiang Kun after discussion, and the two of them do know what she wants.

Xia Libing turned around and walked back to the courtyard, paused slightly at the far door, and whispered "Thank you" to the position where Alice had just appeared. ”

In the next second, the phone vibrate, Xia Libing picked it up, and found that it was a panda's expression - Alice's reply was obviously deeply affected by her.

Walking through the courtyard and walking back to the living room, Xia Libing found that the living room was dim, and the lights seemed to be turned off.

She knew that it wasn't caused by a power outage or Alice, because the lights in the courtyard and on the second floor were still on, and she could already faintly hear Yang Zhen'er laughing.

Sure enough, as soon as she walked into the living room, the lights were turned back on, and someone on the left and right of the door exploded above her head with colorful flower tubes, and a bunch of sequins fluttered down.

In fact, she could easily dodge, but when she walked in, she changed her mind and didn't dodge, allowing many sequins to fall on her hair and shoulders.

"Lao Xia/Sister Bing/Old Sister/Libing/Xiao Xia!Happy Birthday!!"

A group of people used different names in unison to bless Lao Xia.

Just when Xia Libing was hesitating to show an imitation smile to adapt to the atmosphere, Xiang Kun and Tang Baona had already put out the cake with candles inserted, and then the light in the living room was turned off by Yang Zhen'er.

Then the candle on the cake is quickly lit, and everyone asks her to come over and make a wish.

Although he was not very accustomed to such a scene, Xia Libing still stood in front of the cake very cooperatively and pretended to make a wish.

But since it's all birthdays, since they've all made a wish, let's make a serious promise, "It's all here."

So Xia Libing learned from the appearance of other people he had seen before when they made wishes on their birthdays, closed his eyes, and muttered silently in his heart: Bless and bless, build the laboratory completely before the end of the year, figure out the cause of Xiang Kun's mutation, find a way to perceive emotions, figure out the deep influence of the "Super Sensory Item System", and figure out the situation of "Shenxing Technology" and other "mutant creatures......

"Old Xia?" Seeing Xia Libing standing motionless in front of the cake with his eyes half-squinted for almost a minute, Yang Zhen'er couldn't help but call: "You won't fall asleep, will you?"

As soon as the words fell, Lao Xia blew out all the candles with a "whew~".

Just when the candle was blown out and the light was not turned on, Xia Libing felt a strong wind hitting his face.

She instinctively wanted to raise her hand to block it, but immediately realized what was hitting her face, and a thought flashed through her mind, but she didn't block it, didn't dodge, squinted her eyes slightly, and let the thing slap on her face.

So, the moment the light in the living room was turned on, everyone saw Yang Zhen'er wrapped in a ball of cream on his hand, and slapped it on Lao Xia's face.

Even Yang Zhen'er herself was stunned for a moment, obviously she didn't expect that she would be able to succeed in a sneak attack.

But the next moment, a bigger ball of cream slapped her face, and Lao Xia shot back very naturally.

Seeing that the cousins were all creamy, especially Lao Xia, who had always had a light temperament, also became such a funny appearance, everyone laughed happily.

However, Xia Tianhuo, who had just opened his mouth and hadn't laughed twice, stopped laughing abruptly and turned into a scream of "whoa", because Lao Xia grabbed a ball of cream and pia it on his face, and most of it went into his mouth.

Next, Xiang Kun was also pia by Lao Xia, of course, he deliberately didn't hide.

Tang Baona realized that something was wrong, and hurriedly drilled behind Little Apple, but was pulled by Yang Zhen'er, a pig teammate next to her, and then Xiang Kun wiped her cheeks with a cake with a smile.

The others looked at the messy cake and knew that they couldn't eat it, so they simply took the opportunity to start a cream fight - in fact, no one could eat the cake after eating the sumptuous dinner just now.

Zicheng wanted to sneak attack Xiang Kun, but was slapped in the face by his girlfriend Chu Xiaoting.

Even the little apple moved to the cake in a dark way, smeared a hand of cream, and wiped it on Professor Li Yang's face.

"Wha......ha

"Hey, hey, don't wipe it with my clothes!" Tang Baona next to her wiped the cream on her face, and was happily pinching a ball of cream to attack Lao Xia, when she suddenly found that Yang Zhen'er was pulling the knitted sweater she was wearing inside, putting her face up, and was so frightened that she quickly reached out and pushed her face.

"Wait, wait, don't wipe Lao Xia first! Don't wipe it everyone, take a photo first, take a photo first!" After wiping the cream around her eyes on the hem of Nana's knitted sweater, Yang Zhener didn't go to the bathroom to clean up, and also prevented Xiang Kun from taking a wet towel to Lao Xia, and hurriedly ran to get his mobile phone, wanting to record Lao Xia's rare embarrassing moment, and also take a "tragic group photo" for everyone.

However, as soon as she got her mobile phone, she found that Lao Xia's mobile phone, which was also on the table, had a video request, and when she saw the name of the person who sent the video request, she immediately picked it up and connected it, and then handed it to Lao Xia: "Lao Xia, Lao Xia, it's my aunt!"

Yang Zhen'er's aunt is naturally Lao Xia's mother.

After the video camera stabilized, Xia Libing's mother on the other side was stunned for two seconds before she reacted, and the girl with a pile of cream on her face was her daughter.

"Xiaoice...... What are you...... With your cousin?" asked Xia Mu with some uncertainty, a daughter in this state, she really ...... Haven't seen it.

Yang Zhen'er took the initiative to put her head into the camera and greeted Xia's mother: "Hello aunt! We are celebrating my cousin's birthday! Nana and the big man Xia Tianhuo are also there!"

"Okay, thank you. Xia Mu said with a smile.

Then I saw Xia Libing take the towel handed by the person next to her, and wiped the cream on her face briefly, with a smile on her face that had not yet dissipated, Xia Mu couldn't help but be stunned.

It's not that she hasn't seen her daughter smile, in fact, after receiving treatment from Dr. Li when she was a child, her daughter began to take the initiative to try and imitate all kinds of smiles, but all along, her daughter's obviously imitated and disguised smiles seemed a little unaccustomed and awkward to her and her husband, but it was better to be natural and expressionless.

But now the smile that remains on my daughter's eyebrows, eyes, lips, and cheeks is obviously different, and it is a heartfelt and happy smile that can be clearly felt.

So, before Xia Libing could say a word, Xia Mu was already a little teary-eyed.

Seeing her mother's reaction, Xia Libing was also slightly stunned, and also realized her own reaction just now, she subconsciously turned her head to look at Xiang Kun who was holding a towel next to her, who smiled at her and nodded slightly.

Xia Libing immediately knew that when she was playing around just now, Xiang Kun's "emotional assimilation" played a role, and she also successfully felt the cheerful emotions.

This kind of emotion is similar to the happy mood when she and Xiang Kun watched various funny videos together, but it is slightly different, but even she, who has always been good at using data to summarize and summarize, cannot accurately describe the differences. Looking back on it now, it's like running in the heat and drinking a cold bottle of ice. It's like being hungry for several days, and finally getting a table of crispy pork knuckle to eat at all.

In fact, when she received Alice's "gift" from outside and returned to the living room, she had some vague plans. Obviously, although there was no prior greeting, Xiang Kun also accurately captured her intentions, and successfully completed the "emotional assimilation" very cooperatively.

Not only her, but everyone in the living room just now was actually affected, even Professor Li Yang was no exception, and the pile of cakes on Little Apple's face was his "masterpiece".

Of course, there is also a certain element of luck in being able to "assimilate emotions" successfully, after all, Xiang Kunde really feels happy, and only when he really produces this strong emotion can he produce "emotional assimilation".

Xiang Kun took a towel and asked everyone to go to the bathroom on the second and third floors in batches to clean up the cake.

At the same time, it is also to give Lao Xia and her mother a little space.

Xia Libing took his mobile phone to the yard, and talked to his mother opposite, as well as his father who had just come to sit with his mother, about tonight's birthday.

talked about which friends came to celebrate her birthday, what gifts her friends gave, and what she ate at night, although the speed of speech was still as slow as usual, and the tone and expression were also very flat, but Xia's mother and Xia's father noticed a difference.

Originally, the couple was still a little worried that their daughter would suddenly stop working in the hospital, and without the care of her third aunt, would they become more withdrawn if they ran to the countryside. But now it seems that after my daughter and the bald programmer who is said to cook deliciously, a very positive change has occurred.

After ending the video chat with his parents, Xia Libing did not go back to the house immediately, but continued to sit in the courtyard, squinting at the night sky.

After receiving Alice's "gift" and having a preliminary understanding of the emotional projection influence pattern injected into the wristband, Xiang Kun immediately received the same type of "emotional assimilation", which gave her a more complete experience and understanding of the mechanism of this emotion.

She wants to take advantage of this feeling and try her best to summarize the methodology or model that can be applied to herself.