The second return was hastily ended by LL9's return order. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 Info The next development was similar to what we had expected, as the leaders of the team, Ki 87, Duan 28, and Fa 01 were taken away by the first team as soon as they returned to the subgap, but not for punishment or trial, but to participate in a meeting that was said to be attended by the Van Xi Xing, the Puma Xing, and the Earthlings. As for the others, they were sent home without explanation.

The first team didn't condemn us for breaking the rules, and they didn't seem to care about what we were getting. They don't seem to want to bring it up again, but they don't restrict us from mentioning it to others. What puzzled me the most was the intention of LL9's shot. Since the exploration team was built for her, she must have been one of the people with the strongest intention to return to Earth in the inter-crestic space. Now that the clue has been discovered, there is no reason to destroy the clue again, not to mention that this cannon can't destroy anything at all - the underground cavern still exists, and we can still enter it. For the time being, I can only interpret her actions as a child's impromptu willfulness.

Soon, though, I didn't have time to think about the details. After returning to the sub-gap, my chip's inbox was crowded with messages from Xiao Ming Xiaohong, all of which were about Youbaiyuan without exception. There was also a notice from M6-2 that she informed me that the return may be suspended until the rules for return are reinstated. In other words, for a while after that, I will have plenty of time to devote myself to taking care of Youbaiyuan, which would have been a hassle to think about, but for some reason it was very pleasant for me.

After 'jumping' back to the Psitronic Office, as soon as I opened the door, I immediately understood why Xiao Ming Xiaohong was hysterical about my inbox: everything in the entire room was floating in the air, piled up into a large ring, and was spinning wildly in a clockwise direction, from the saucer, the sofa, the bed, the door, and even Xiao Ming Xiaohong herself. The room, which had been renovated into multiple rooms, has now been reintegrated into a large space. In this internal tornado, only Yu Baiyuan, with his eyes wide open and wearing a wide skirt of deep sea blue, lay motionless in the center of the room, as if floating on a horizontal plane. The data coming out of her body was constantly joining the swirling "army" and pushing the wind stronger and stronger.

I was a little worried that I would be caught in the storm when I entered the room, so I tentatively recited the name of Yu Baiyuan first. She turned her head faster than I had expected, and the flying things around her suddenly lost their support and fell to the ground.

Xiao Ming and Xiaohong couldn't wait to twist towards me almost as soon as they landed.

"Oh, you're finally here, but leave her alone, you really need to spend more time with her, and you'd better stay here all the time and not go anywhere. Because you know, it's hard to say whether she's safe or not, no, it's not just hard to say, it's just extremely dangerous. So we have to limit her movements, we can't get her out of here, I'm fed up! ”

"The return inspection is suspended, and I really won't be able to go anywhere in the short term."

"That's the best, that's the best." Xiao Ming Xiaohong didn't seem to know what was going on, and in its state just now, it really didn't have time to care about anything else.

"Aya......" Yubaiya was lying on the floor and held out a hand towards me, and I walked over to hold her hand and found that she was shaking violently. What's going on? ”

"Information overload, explosion, literal explosion. She couldn't control herself, she couldn't control anything, her body, her emotions, she had to go to Yuexia Spring Valley, but as soon as she heard that Xiao Ming Xiaohong was going to take her away, she went crazy. Really, obviously for her good, she needs treatment. ”

"What is Moonglow Spring Valley?"

"There are many uses for the Moonglow Spring Valley, oh, it's not something that can be explained in a few words."

"Then tell me what you're going to do with her."

"Take the excess data out of her body, now she has too much data in her body, and the interference ability is too strong, causing her not only to lose control of her body, but also to have a chaotic memory of herself, so we plan to put all the data out at once, leaving only the deepest memory, that is, her original memory."

"Is this brainwashing? How can you be sure that you won't wash away her own memories as well? ”

"Tsk!" Xiao Ming Xiaohong looked very dissatisfied with my statement, "This is not brainwashing, we can not only extract memories, but also selectively extract specified memories, so anyone who wants to forget can come here to erase them." ”

"Honestly, have you brainwashed the humans here?" As soon as I finished asking, it occurred to me that it was impossible for Xiao Ming Xiaohong to tell me the truth.

"Of course not. Human beings have a strong control over their own brains, so we can only extract the memories that humans themselves have voluntarily selected, and only those who have completely lost the ability to choose can passively extract memories. ”

I am skeptical of its explanation.

"You were talking about extracting memories. Could it be that this memory can be stuffed back again? ”

"Of course not, Yuexia Spring Valley is a place that converts memories into matter, and it doesn't just erase them, so we can further analyze this memory."

"You can also read the memories that others threw there?"

"We have to record it at the moment when the memory is separated, so we can't read other people's records. But you humans seem to be able to read some fragments there, which is probably equivalent to being able to see fragmentary screenshots, Xiao Ming Xiaohong has heard of this statement, but Xiao Ming Xiaohong can't do it, it's a pity. ”

"Is that the only way now? Gotta take her? ”

"Yes, we can't control what this kind of information rampage will become. I hope you can assist Xiao Ming Xiaohong, no, you must assist, after all, this is your duty, well, just now, go now, while she doesn't have another seizure. ”

Xiao Ming Xiaohong conjured up two golden pin-like things out of nowhere, "This is my homemade moving pin." You Baiyuan doesn't have a chip in her body, so she can't move through the chip, but this moving pin can help her temporarily reach other places, which is equivalent to your human 'motorcycle', and the motorcycle must not be as fast as an airplane, you know. There is only one destination in Moonglow Spring Valley, and it is impossible to teleport to other places if you want to take her. Of course, the premise for her to go elsewhere is that you have to act at the same time, and she can't control the pin as a single person. ”

"Would you like to go?" I tried to ask her for her opinion.

She stared at my hand with her eyes down, and I couldn't read her answer.

"Nod if you want to go, shake your head if you don't want to go." I sat down next to her and said to her word for word.

She opened her mouth slightly, but she still couldn't make a sound, just held my hand tightly.

"I'll go along." I whispered to her.

She relieved herself and nodded. I clipped the gold pin to her dress and tried to lift her up. She seemed to have no strength on her feet for the time being, and she couldn't stand steadily.

"I'll carry you."

I crouched down with my back to her and motioned for her to reach over and wrap her arms around my neck. I couldn't feel the warmth from her pale hands, and her fingers tugged at my clothes like hooks to get hold of me, but it didn't hurt me. I adjusted her position and stood up with her on my back without much effort—she was so much lighter than I thought I wouldn't have been, and I wouldn't even be sure I was carrying her if it weren't for the touch on my back and the left hand she hooked around my neck.

It was only then, when I couldn't see her, and could barely feel her, that I realized that the Purma people were right to be worried and wary of her, and after all, maybe I was just a mortal bewitched by her appearance.

"Are you going with you?" I asked Xiao Ming Xiaohong.

"No, no, no, it's enough to have you here, Xiao Ming Xiaohong still chooses to analyze the data directly, well, yes, that's it. You just press this pin of yours, and the chip will tell you how to use it. ”

"Hey, if you're not there, who will extract the memories? If I go together, will my memories be taken away? ”

"Oh, as long as she goes in and touches the water, as for you, human beings must clearly hold the idea of which memory to extract in the past before the memory will be extracted, these Xiao Ming Xiaohong will be set up, don't worry about it! Okay, okay, without further ado, Xiao Ming Xiaohong went to do the data analysis and setting first, you must remember to come over, come over as soon as possible, and find Xiao Ming Xiaohong if you have any questions. ”

Xiao Ming Xiaohong seemed to be afraid that we would regret staying for a second longer, so she hurriedly teleported herself away.

"Then let's go too."

I pressed the pin on my body, and then held my calf steady.

[Do you want to move to the Moonglow Spring Valley?] 】

【Yes】

【Please put your hand on your pin to confirm your choice】

【Confirmed number of people: 2 people】

The moment I gave the order, it didn't seem like anything special had changed, but when I blinked, it was as if someone had swiped the background to the next screen the moment I closed my eyes, and the surrounding area had become a forest. This forest has very obvious traces of synthesis, except for a path that has been specially carved out in front of it, the trees on the left and right and behind the road are very closely arranged, and there is no possibility of taking another path.

Since Yu Baiyuan was still unsteady, I tried to pull her up and fly down the path, this was the first time Yu Baiyuan had left the room, she wrapped her hands tightly around my right hand, and whimpered as she flew. I could feel her nervousness, and I couldn't calm down with the ethereal, soft and light touch of Yu Baiyuan's body when she pressed against her.

"Isn't it flying too fast? Do you want to stop for a while? ”

She shook her head, her long silky hair glowing in the dim forest, ready to disappear at any moment. This seems to be a place with a limited time zone in the sub-gap, and it should be daytime when we come here, but it is already nighttime, and the air is slightly cool. Although I know that even the wind here is the result of the imitation of the Puma Star people, I have to admire that the Puma Star people can restore the taste that belongs to summer, the smell of green grass mixed with hot wind, so far away that it seems to belong to the taste of the previous life.

In my time, this summer should have just begun, and before I could feel it, I was brought to this absurd place where I don't know, and then I just couldn't help but live a ridiculous life. My summer was frozen in the moment I disappeared, but would I have a chance to go back and continue that summer? Will I have another summer? These questions make me feel bitter. I involuntarily stopped and took a few deep breaths in place.

"You...... Tired? Yu Baiyuan looked at me cautiously.

"It's fine."

"I ...... Be...... Troublesome? ”

"Of course not."

"I ...... Be...... Person? ”

I reflexively wanted to agree, but suddenly realized that I couldn't answer the question.

Yes, although I don't like to take care of people, and my daily life is anxious, but I have never felt that she is a problem, rather, such a stunning stunner has no reason to rely on herself, no one will feel troublesome, right? However, maybe this matter is a little different to me, I have never had a similar admiration for anyone of the opposite sex, and the only person who can barely be called a longing for it may be Sister Sesi, so it is difficult for me to understand the dedication and sacrifice made for love, so why did I become obsessed with it and decided to take care of her so abnormally? Maybe it's because she's so beautiful, so beautiful that I'm willing to take care of her as a work of art, as a pet to love - in other words, maybe I don't see her as a human being.

"I'll have the answer when I'm done sorting out my memories." I avoided her gaze and pulled her forward again.

Suddenly, I saw a burst of light and shadow in the forest in front of me, like a thin wisp of green smoke, slowly drifting in with a green fluorescence.

What is it? 】

The chip didn't pop up on the screen to answer the question that came to my mind, on the contrary, as I went deeper and deeper into the forest, the entire chip's networked communication function and search function seemed to be temporarily out of order.

Is there a problem of signal difference between sub-gaps? I couldn't help but smile wryly.

But maybe that's why Xiao Ming Xiaohong is relieved to let us come here.

The glow continued to weave through the woods, and was getting closer and closer to us. It occurred to me that this might be a firefly. It's just that this kind of creature that I've only seen in books since I was a child, even if it flies in front of my eyes, I can't tell if the real fireflies look like this.

The fireflies hovered a short distance ahead for a moment before flying away again. Yu Baiyuan's gaze was completely captivated by the fireflies, and her hand slipped down my arm. Before I could catch her, she staggered forward, becoming a cloud in the forest, frozen in and off for a second, drifting in front of her. She had only taken a few steps before her knees bent and almost fell to the ground, but she didn't care about that, and soon took another step, and every time she exchanged them, her body floated slightly into the air, and her long water-colored hair set off ripples in the air, and I suddenly had the illusion that maybe the next second she would turn into fireflies and fly away with them.

I followed behind and watched her running smoothly. Fireflies were always faster than her, and she couldn't reach them, no matter how much she reached them. At the same time, the woods in front of us gradually opened up as we walked. There was a lot of liquid flowing from nowhere under my feet, and it "crackled" when I stepped on it, and when the water gradually submerged the soles of my shoes, the whole picture of the Moonglow Spring Valley was like an ecstasy, and it slammed into my five features.

At the end of the forest is the base of a large sinkhole, and if you look up, only a small part of the edge of the hole is exposed, as if it had just been torn open, and it is impossible to see it all at once. In the center of the cave entrance there is a river of light falling from the sky, and even the diamond waterfall is not as bright as its sparkle. It brings together all the colors of the world, and the endless night sky gathers the stars together, gurgling into a pool of blue lake raised in the center of the bottom of the pit, and the surface of the lake is divided into several tributaries, like several glowing veins on the ground, flowing deeper into the earth. If the Milky Way were really a river, maybe that would be it.

The firefly was nowhere to be found at the moment, and Yu Baiyuan curiously tiptoed towards the river of light, as if just now, she had learned how to walk freely. Every time she took a step, a ripple splashed under her feet, and the data on her body slowly poured into these ripples like fine sand. As she stepped into the mirror-like lake, the fragments of the pillar of light splashed into her water-colored hair, merging with the data that bubbled around her, and falling in countless flashes of light. These fragments seem to be the memories that Xiao Ming Xiaohong said, they are like pocket-sized negatives, and only vague outlines can be seen. Yu Baiyuan turned around, and slowly floated into the air in the mist, and a large amount of data poured from her body into the river like a torrential rain, dazzling. If the data on Youbaiyuan's body is some fine magnets, what the huge magnet composed of Guanghe does is to suck these data into its body with force. I froze in place, recalling the chaotic feeling I had when I saw Yu Baiyuan in the psychic passage, almost overwhelmed by the scene before me.

Do you remember? I've seen you in the Psionic Passage.

For a moment, I wanted to bring it up again, but in the end, I gave up. The whole valley was silent except for the sound of the water and the rubbing of the trees. I suddenly realized the source of the unspeakable emotions that had been haunting my heart since just now, this was the first time I had been alone with Yu Baiyuan in the real sense, and I felt that it was a dangerous thing, but not the danger in the usual sense. I've been deliberately avoiding looking at Yu Baiyuan's eyes, for I fear that they are the eyes of Medusa and will make me lose my mind.

I was a little drowsy, wandered to the mirror, found a random stone and sat down, and watched the river of light flow past my legs. The view here is really good, even if you only stay for a while, your body seems to be lighter. It is said that it is the Yuexia Spring Valley, but you can't see the moon when you look up here, and you always feel that something is missing.

The "baptism" seemed to have finally come to an end, and she fell to the ground, walked behind me, and sat down with her back to me. Although her back didn't collide directly with me, I could feel her temperature and water-soaked moisture in the air between my bodies, and I leaned back a little to touch her hair, and she pressed her head against me slightly, and we slowly pressed together, leaning on each other, looking at the scenery directly opposite each other.

I felt my heart beating wildly, the silence around me making my chest ripple, and I tried to break it to calm myself down.

"This place was completely different from what I thought, I thought it would be a laboratory or something."

"Isn't it beautiful here?" I had never found her voice so thin and transparent before.

"yes, don't you think?"

"I don't know what is beautiful and what is not."

I was secretly taken aback, Yu Baiyuan rarely said such a complete sentence, perhaps because memory extraction had already taken effect.

"Why?"

I tried to ask her if she could come up with more complex sentences.

"Being 'there' for too long, everything is frozen for me. Instantaneous and eternal, there is no difference to me, all eternity is instantaneous, and all instantaneous is eternal. Every temporary moment is also an infinitely extended stillness. In 'there', everything is meaningless, beauty and ugliness, good and evil, love and hate, so I can't understand these things...... I'm really not human? ”

"Only human beings care about whether they are human or not all day long, and it is not interesting to be human, so why should you be human?" She has always been a collection of art by me, but she has begun to be able to think for herself and talk to me, and at this moment, I may be more uncomfortable with the changes that are taking place in her than her.

"But ......"

"Take your time, you see, you couldn't finish your words before, and you couldn't walk the road, haven't you made a lot of progress now? It seems that this place is still somewhat useful. ”

"The impact of the previous explosion disrupted all the information I was arranging, and here it helped me sort through the data and suck out some of the 'things' that didn't belong to me, but I could feel that there was still a lot left in my body."

"Then come a few more times, of course, if you don't want to come, we won't come."

"I'm willing to come. There are many memories here, and I want to see them. Look at them more, maybe I can get human emotions, and I can become human. ”

"Why do you want to be so human?"

"I want to stay here, I want to be with Aya all the time, and if I don't have people, I'll be taken somewhere else."

Even though I knew she didn't mean that, the first half of the sentence still made my heart jump a little.

"You just haven't recovered yet, so you have such thoughts, and when you recover, you won't think like this, so you really don't have to rely on me too much."

"Why?" She turned around and grabbed me by the shoulder, but I didn't look back.

"It's boring to be human. Maybe you're a much more powerful species than humans, for example, you can destroy a planet with your fingers, or something like that, and that's the kind of high-level creature that you often find in comics, but to be honest, I wouldn't be surprised if your original identity is strange, and I've been able to face these things very calmly since I came here. Suppose you are not a human, but a higher level creature than humans, then humans are nothing more than ants or something to you, would people want to be ants? No, how monotonous the daily life of ants is. So joy, anger, sorrow, and happiness will not be of value to you at that time, because you will have more important things to do, there will be other things that make you feel happy, anyway, you will never want to become a human being, and you may regret that you have lived with people. Then you won't even remember me, and you won't remember here, just like you don't remember when you're born. Human beings always like to lust and envy other creatures to envy human beings, what fairies want to go down to earth to become mortals, immortals are nostalgic for the world and so on, this is simply impossible, how can a high-level creature that mixes well envy a low-level creature? Those humans who live miserably all day long do envy cats, dogs, and other animals, but in the final analysis, it is also because they are not good at mixing. ”

"Aya...... Don't want to be human? ”

"I don't like it or not, I didn't have a choice, when I was reincarnated, no one had a list for me to check what I wanted to be reincarnated, maybe there was such a choice but I don't remember, maybe there was no such thing as reincarnation at all. Well, from a scientific point of view, it's true that there is no such thing as reincarnation. If I were given a choice, I would choose not to be reincarnated, I couldn't find the value and meaning of this matter, and the moment I was born, I decided that one day I would die, and no matter how hard I worked, I would still die one day. It doesn't matter if I live well, or if I don't live well, it won't have any impact on the earth, even if it has an impact, in the end I still have to die anyway, people have a limit, it's not that if you challenge beyond that limit, you're not a human being, you're still human, and if you exceed the limit, you still have to die. Most humans are actors, they get the script as soon as they are born, and then go through their lives according to the script, study, graduate, get married, have children, and then go to the coffin. Some people in the middle may struggle for a while, do something that ordinary people can't do, may succeed, may fail, but whether it is success or failure, in the end they are still human, and when they realize this, they give up and honestly follow the script. So it's good to have the opportunity not to be a human being, it's much freer. ”

"If you don't be a human being, won't you have troubles?"

"There may be, but it's none of my business, since I'm a human, I can't worry about other creatures. In fact, I'm not a person with troubles, people who really have troubles don't have the leisure to entangle the pain of life, life is difficult, I just can't find meaning. Living is a passive act, if I don't die, then I will live, but I am just living according to the script, and the biggest problem is that I am not very committed to the script. Most of the people I know, being able to catch up with a girl is enough to make them invest in the script, and being able to play a game and see an animation makes me feel that life is full of beauty, but I am not interested in these things, so I don't feel the joy of living, but there is no joy in death, so I give up my choice and just keep living. ”

"Then why are you looking for your own father?"

"yes, if I don't do anything, I'll be gone. But that's not going to work, was I born to meet a bunch of strange aliens during the summer vacation when I was seventeen, and they told me 'I'm sorry your mom didn't give birth to you' and I disappeared? I absolutely cannot accept this kind of absurdity. ”

"Aya's words today are a little complicated...... I don't really understand. A pair of thin, soft hands behind her gently wrapped around me, and data slipped out of her fingertips, like boiling water vapor. I don't know what will happen after that, but I don't want to go anywhere else right now, and Aya wants me to go somewhere else? ”

"You don't know what you're talking about." I broke free of her and stood up, deliberately avoiding the way she looked at me, "We should go back." ”

"Hmm...... Well. She trembled and staggered after her, the color of her data much lighter, like a layer of steam around her.

There was no word all the way, and the journey from the Moonglow Spring Valley to the entrance seemed much longer than it had been, and I wanted to pretend that nothing had happened, but I was very irritable in my heart. I knew that we had only been in contact for a few days, and whether she was human or not, the memories would be insignificant when she had fully recovered. The faster she recovered, the farther away she was from me. Therefore, for me, the shallower the emotional investment when I get along with her, the better, before, I could have no scruples, but now the more she behaves like a person, the more I don't know how to deal with it.

Finally, we reached the end of the forest.

"Pull me tight, ready to teleport."

I stiffened and waited for her to reach over, but she hesitated for a long time before finally grabbing the corner of my coat carefully.

"This teleportation will fail."

I looked back helplessly, and then realized that I had made a wrong decision—I was meeting her black eyes, which were so magical that I couldn't move.

"Can I still touch you?" She timidly retracted her hand, and it was hard to imagine that she had followed me in silence all the way crying.

"Idiot."

I pulled her into my arms and let the cool liquid from her face soak through my chest. It wasn't the first time I've hugged her, but I understood the different meanings of this hug.

You'll regret it.

I said to myself.

However, I didn't want to let go at all.