Just as I don't trust Liyue, Liyue can't trust me. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 infoWe are like two businessmen who go to sea for the first time, they want to maximize their own profits, but they don't want to pay any price.

Liyue was obviously not worried about letting me stay in what might be his "studio", so she reluctantly took me to the room closest to the elevator. He knew very well that my stay here was a far greater threat to him than he was to me, who was heavily protected by bioarmor, but he couldn't express that thought.

Illuminated by the cold incandescent light of the hallway, the room behind the thick iron door was more like a cold room.

"There's a bed in here?"

"No, there are cryophorics."

Li Yue scanned the center of the door to unlock it, and as soon as the door rose, the cold air came in, and the cold incandescent light inside lit up and hit the "freezer cabin" shaped like a crystal coffin in the center of the room, making me feel like I had entered the operating room.

Compared with this freezer cabin, the sleeping cabin in the sub-chamber is much more humanistic and caring, after all, the inner cabin is made of cotton, soft and comfortable, and the one in front of me is completely the ice that people have drilled into, and the gap in the lid is always cold outside, so that the room is shrouded in a thin layer of ice mist. I walked around it, but I couldn't find a single place with a button. Ritsuki brought me here to stuff me in here and freeze me up for research? But if I don't go back for a long time, won't it increase the risk of exposure to his position?

"You want to lie down and try it?"

Liyue's sudden voice startled me, who was starting to be apprehensive.

"You don't want me to sleep here, do you?"

I asked tentatively, thinking mentally about how I could persuade him to dispel the idea. But he only pointed to the corner of the room where the light was not shining.

There, there is an improvised folding bed.

"You can sleep there tonight, but don't touch anything else."

Even though he said so, there wasn't anything I could touch, just a shabby wooden bedside table and a kerosene lamp next to the folding bed, and the whole corner looked like an old movie from the last century, but there was one thing that conflicted with the retro vibe - an object on the bed that looked like a tablet. As soon as I approached it, the lights on the screen lit up, revealing a photograph. Before I could take a closer look, Liyue had already reached out from behind me and pulled the tablet away.

"Is that picture a shocking secret?"

"No, it's just privacy."

"Ah~ a photo of my girlfriend? Or boyfriend's? ”

For those who have only seen for the second time, this question is somewhat unabashed. Maybe it's because Liyue looks too much like a woman as a man, and I don't have the unfamiliarity and defense against him when facing strange men, and I just retain the habit of unscrupulously not considering the feelings of the other party when facing a familiar man. He seemed a little dissatisfied, and most of the time the expression on this pretty face was tripled, which made me want to see what it would be like when he was really angry.

"Don't be so stingy, let's talk."

He tossed the tablet aside and sat down against the wall next to the folding bed, "You can sleep." ”

"You're planning to keep an eye on me all the time?"

He nodded dryly.

"You don't sleep?"

"I've slept long enough since humans cocooned."

It's okay to let me sleep alone in such a gloomy and strange room, and I can't feel at ease.

"Okay."

I obediently lay on the old folding bed and listened to it squeak. The bed is as uncomfortable to sleep on as it looks. When I closed my eyes, the scene of R5 and G17 dancing appeared in front of me again, strange, I wasn't thinking about it just now.

It's the last place I shouldn't be, but probably the only place I'm going to be right now.

Once I go back to the Asian gap, it means a lot of troubles, I will see R5 chasing G17 all over the world, I will think that I haven't found his father for him when I see Aya 17, and I will think that I and R5 have no possibility in the first place.

I don't want to go to the underground caverns anymore, so I will think of the three days I spent with R5, and I will think of the self who thinks that I can't have illusions, but subconsciously refuses to give up.

I didn't want to stay outside, because I would feel abandoned in the wasteland, and then I would think of my family and cry, just like when I first came to Achas.

As for this, it should have been a place where I needed to make a decision. Li Yue must not need such an inexplicable and unwilling person to come and mess with his life and increase the risk of exposure here. But I can't give him an answer, I don't want to be a saint or a wicked person because of a decision, I can't tell which side I should be on, and until I'm 100% sure, I want to avoid making a decision indefinitely - just like a man in the sub-chasm avoids returning to Earth indefinitely.

I turned to face Ritsuki, his face that had been tense had eased at the moment, and the whole person was looking at the tablet in a daze, not realizing that my eyes had been opened.

"There's someone you like in that picture, right?"

Ritsuki was startled by my voice, but he quickly regained his composure.

"You're thinking too much, I'm looking at the information."

"You don't use that kind of expression when you look at the information, it's the expression that only people who like it will have."

"Can it be seen?"

"Of course."

Although I answered categorically, I was not so sure in my heart.

I can tell that this expression is actually the last time I returned to Earth.

The first person who mentioned this statement to me was Cloud 09.

"I have a friend in the Arakma who is often bullied by a boy, but she never gets angry. I asked her why, and she told me because she could see 'like' in the way the boy looked at her. I took a deep breath and tried to suppress the sourness that welled up my nose, "She's a very gentle girl, but the last time I went back to the Gap, she wasn't there. ”

"Is it the brain-dead people you just mentioned?"

"The official statement is that the mentally damaged person has been placed in a centralized place for recuperation, and I also want to believe it."

"I really can't give you a definitive answer to this."

"I know, but I'm still grateful to you, because your argument makes me think that maybe she's just been cut off from the sub-gap, still alive in a cocoon. But what if that's not the case...... After staying in the sub-gap for a long time, it seems that the emotional system will slowly malfunction, and I don't know when to be sad or not. ”

"Anyway, I can't verify it, but I still think about the best possible ****."

"Hmm...... Actually, I didn't agree with her theory at first, because I couldn't see the 'liking' in the boy's eyes, but now it turns out that she was right, and that guy is now risking everything for her. ”

When I go back to the sleep pod tomorrow morning, if I don't get any news, that's the best news. I hope so.

"However, if you say so, I have indeed seen what you call 'emotions hidden in your eyes'."

"Where?"

"On you. On the day we first met, when you were separated from the Van Xi Xing, as for today, when you came, you were crying and sad, and you looked emotionally frustrated. ”

"Probably......"

"When you appeared dressed like this today, I was still thinking that it wouldn't be because of a quarrel and falling out of love, so I ran back to Earth in a hurry to relax."

"No matter how irrational I am, I can't do that kind of thing, let alone a broken love, it's just that my own conditions are not enough to completely lose my qualification to compete, and I have to face the inevitable failure in the end."

Yes, I didn't think about competing at all.

I didn't mention anything to R5 about the underground caverns, but chose to appear passively in his field of vision as a stranger in the sub-chasm.

It doesn't matter if R5 remembers me or not, or whether he will cherish our memories or not, even if he doesn't have G17, I'm afraid he won't have any thoughts about me when he sees my appearance. Not everything has to be taken seriously.

"What do you mean?" He shifted his seat, as if interested.

"Let me see the photos first, and I'll tell you."

"Why are you so obsessed with photos?"

"It's an important part of building trust between us."

"I'm not forcing you to trust me."

"But with my help, your mission will be much faster, right?"

"I'm not in a hurry to carry out the mission."

I couldn't answer for a moment.

He didn't say this to raise the bar, at least I haven't seen anyone laugh wryly and joke at the same time, such a helpless expression is exciting. It's like a punch to cotton.

"Do you want to die here alone?"

He obviously heard it, but just lowered his head and said nothing.

I realized that I might have said something inappropriate, so I decided to change the subject.

"When was the last time you saw someone?"

"I don't remember."

"How long have you been on this one?"

"I don't remember."

"You're not going to be angry, are you?"

"Nope."

I decided to change the subject.

"What do you get if you end up with all the tasks? Did Swenson give you any promises? ”

"Nope."

"What, are you really a robot? But as a robot, your feelings seem to be a little too rich. ”

"My most basic mission is to protect this place from being discovered and destroyed, nothing more."

Is the person in front of him an outright altruist? Something seems to be wrong, he doesn't seem to know where the "self" is, and he is not interested in it.

"Whether you're talking about Swenson, or the people in the Gap, everyone has their own purpose, but you don't seem to have a personal purpose based on your own self-interest? It's completely unbelievable. ”

I heard Liyue sigh heavily, "Okay, okay, since I can be regarded as witnessing the whole process of your falling out of love with the Van Xi Xingren, it would be better to make a little sacrifice for your cheap 'trust'." He stood up and handed me the tablet in his hand.

There were more people in the photo on the tablet than I had imagined. In the center of the photo stands an old man who is about to be bald, looking like a European, in front of the old man stands a row of children who look about a teenager, all of them are outstanding, tall and tall, all of them are standing with their backs straight, with serious expressions.

I recognized Ritsuki at a glance, he was standing on the very edge, he was the shortest of the boys, probably only taller than the old man in the middle, and his stunted body was much thinner than the standard model next to him, and with that girlish face, it was like a girl being lined up in the boys' line. Girls are more harmonious and unified, basically angel faces, bumpy devil figures, although these girls are different in race and appearance type, but each of them is beautiful and people can't help but look at it twice. The most beautiful one is the dark-haired girl standing in the center, her facial features are completely impeccable and perfect.

I pointed to the old man in the middle of the photo, "This is Swenson?" ”

Li Yue nodded next to me, his eyes still looking at this photo that he should have seen countless times, his eyes were soft, "This is a photo taken by coincidence one day, in fact, there is no reason, but now it has become one of the few things that can still be missed." ”

"In other words, you are also a 'son of God'?"

"No, I'm the defective candidate, the product of a failed experiment, and I got the opportunity to grow up with them by chance."

I seem to understand the origin of his arrogance and humility.

"Who's this girl in the middle?"

"Her name is Shengli. One of the first immigrants, I always thought she was the most perfect woman, but she failed to pass through the psionic passage. ”

I'm afraid this holy glass is the person he is obsessed with, but there is no sadness or melancholy on his face, but he is very calm, as if he has long been accustomed to accepting this.

"I really envy you, my girlfriend is so beautiful." I sighed from the bottom of my heart that if she was still alive, I would really like to see her in person.

"It's a shame that she's not my girlfriend. After looking at this photo, you should understand that I am not worthy of her. ”

Indeed, from the perspective of ordinary women, in the face of such a row of men, the odds of choosing Liyue are very small. For me, though, the "perfection" of the other men in the photo is templated to the point of being boring.

"So which one of the photos is with Seiri?"

"As far as I know, not."

"Then you can try it back then, after all, people's preferences are different...... But it's too late to tell. ”

"You just asked me what my personal purpose is," Liyue's gaze was very firm, "if you have to choose a purpose, I want to know why she failed." ”

Hopefully this isn't a story he made up to gain my trust, because I'm already starting to think that maybe I'll be able to talk to the Van Xi people about Liyue when I return to the Gap tomorrow.