How long does a memory last? How long can a memory image be kept in one's mind?

Chu Xuan didn't want to think about these questions now, especially when he was bathed in this starlight......

The natural environment of the Great Khing'an Mountains is much better than the military base where he was born, and the cleaner air brings a clearer sky, where you can better see the stars in the sky, and you will also put the memories in the depths of your mind.

'Chu Xuan, do you want to go and see the stars? ’‘…… Star? ’

"Yes, something that can only be seen outside the base, hehe, although you have the knowledge of the stars in your memory, but that kind of thing cannot be described with knowledge, you must see it with the naked eye to understand its beauty." Let's go, I'll take you to see the stars. ’

For the first time, the old man took himself out of the base, and then for the first time in his life, he saw the stars with his own eyes.

'Hehe, Chu Xuan, how did you feel when you came out of the base for the first time? ’‘…… It's dark. ’

"Haha, it's naturally very dark compared to the inside of the base, let's go, there's a grass around here, let's go there and lie down and watch the stars." ’

Star...... Isn't it just a celestial body hanging in the universe?

But what was the strange feeling of looking up at the starry sky for the first time under my father's leadership?

It was more surging than the impulse of knowledge, as if reaching out and grasping the starlight in his hand along with the mood at that time.

However, Chu Xuan knew that he couldn't do it, this artificially adjusted body didn't have that kind of function.

The whole body seems to be covered with a thick layer of human armor, there is no sense of touch, pain, smell, taste, the whole person can only distinguish everything in the world from seeing and hearing, no emotion, crying and laughing that he doesn't understand, but forcibly ordering himself to think about the appearance of crying and laughing, and can only keep thinking about what kind of action to perform, rather than spontaneous expression from the heart...... Chu Xuan is such an existence.

The boy looked at Dong Dong, who was being brought out of the base, and the child was looking at him with pure and foolish eyes, and he brought her here very abruptly, without even saying what he wanted her to do, but she still followed.

"Knock, lie here facing the sky, and tell me what you see?"

I wonder if the strange things that come out of others when they look up at the sky are the same as their own. ’

I was supposed to be emotionless, but what was the feeling? I want to know......

Xiao Maoyu thought that Chu Xuan was playing some interesting game with her again, and in line with the habitual thinking of 'listening to Brother Chu Xuan's words to eat sugar', Dong Dong did so very happily.

She lay on the piece designated by Chu Xuan, opened her eyes and looked up at the starry sky according to his words, and then replied.

"I saw the stars! And the sky! And then...... And then it's so dark around, and the stars are so bright! ”

Chu Xuan nodded, the concept of stars or something was still what he told her three days ago, but these were not the answers he wanted.

"Now, tell me how you felt when you saw these things? Tell me about it...... Thirty packets of sugar. ”

Thirty packets of sugar, which is already an astronomical amount for Dong Dong, is also all the sugar that Chu Xuan currently has.

"Psychological feelings...... Feel...... Hmm~ There is! Now I feel so sleepy! ”

Lying on the lawn and watching the wind and watching the stars, and still in the middle of a winter night, can indeed make people sleepy.

"This won't work! Keep answering until I'm satisfied...... I'll give you a candy first. ”

The first experiment failed, but Chu Xuan didn't care, he never thought that he could easily get the answer.

Chu Xuan firmly believes that all the truth is obtained after countless failures, because he had already expected Dongdong's situation in advance, so the sugar on Chu Xuan's body was replaced with coffee candy and brain-awakening candy, and if Dongdong didn't answer tonight, she wouldn't want to sleep.

“…… Brother Chu Xuan, did you throw anything in the sky? How anxious is Brother Chu Xuan today? ”

Normally, it is completely impossible for Dongdong to feel the emotional fluctuations from this teenager, but today...... The eagerness and irritability that welled up in this person's heart were so clear that he really wanted to lose something.

So, Dongdong was very clever and came to the conclusion that 'he had left something in the sky, so he had to help find it himself.' ’

"Anxious? What to throw in the sky? No, why didn't I lose it...... No one will leave anything in the sky. ”

After Chu Xuan heard Dong Dong's childish words, he felt that this child's common sense seemed to have to be reviewed, of course not now.

'Brother Chu Xuan must have lost something! And he lost it in the sky, but he was looking for something! ’

As everyone knows, Chu Xuan's appearance made Dongdong's guess even more firm, and at the same time made her energetic.

'Brother Chu Xuan is a good person! It's going to be sad if you lose something! I'll be sure to get his lost stuff back! ’

In this way, Xiao Maoyu tried very hard to ask what she felt from the scenery in front of her, but every time she answered, Chu Xuan was not satisfied, and Colonel Chu's current behavior was the same as giving a student a short essay in the exam and then asking him to write his impressions.

For a carefree Mao Yu, the magnificent and brilliant stars in the sky do not bring her more feelings than a single candy.

"That's not a good answer, what else do you feel? Go on......"

Then Chu Xuan heard Dong Dong's next answer again, which was her truest feeling now.

“Zzzz……”

Her last answer was this slight snoring, Chu Xuan raised his head to look at the sky that had gradually brightened, the only stars he could see now were the morning star and the moon, and now the results of the experiment he had always wanted came out.

"The absence of results is a result in itself, and the feeling at that time did not actually exist? Or is there something wrong? ”

Chu Xuan silently picked up the girl who had fallen asleep on the grass, after a whole night of questioning and answering, she thought that she was tired, Dong Dong fell asleep very deeply, she was not woken up by Chu Xuan's movements at all, and at the same time said strange dream words.

"In the end...... Be...... And what? Brother Chu Xuan...... Something missing? Can't find ...... Yes? Whew~Whew~"

It seems that she still firmly believes that she has left something in the sky, and she will always believe something that she cannot understand.

"I didn't actually lose anything at all, and I'm the whole me...... You don't understand. ”

After Chu Xuan carried Dong Dong back to the base, she began to have a fever that day, and the situation was quite serious, you must know that she dragged her body and Chu Xuan outside for a whole night of cool breeze, no wonder she didn't get sick!

Chu Xuan's behavior of taking Dongdong out of the base was very hidden, so in the eyes of everyone, her illness came very suddenly, and Chu Xuan, who didn't want people to know his actions, used Dongdong's weak physique to prevaricate this matter.

Two days later, Chu Xuan received a call from his father, and he had already guessed the content of the call.

"Chu Xuan, I have already contacted the orphanage. In two days' time, let the kid leave with the convoy carrying supplies. ”

Sure enough, as I thought, this research base was originally a place where outsiders were not allowed to enter the interior, and it was already very special care for the people above to let this child come in for treatment and treatment, if it was an adult, it would definitely not be this kind of treatment.

"Yes, father...... I'll let her go. ”

After replying, Chu Xuan put down the phone, then turned around and walked to the custody room behind him, which was supposed to be his bedroom, because he was originally a product of artificial adjustment, in order to prevent some accidents, he slept in a well-equipped guardianship room, and this treatment may not end until his body matures.

Chu Xuan pushed the door in, and he suddenly found Dong Dong kneeling on the bed playing with the candy she had obtained so far.

Chu Xuan lifted his glasses and gently walked behind Dong Dong to take a closer look, and the focused little Mao Yu didn't notice him at all.

Dong Dong is posing a very strange floor plan with colorful candies, which is a large triangle posed with candies of mint candy and blueberry candy, and a large white chocolate candy is placed in the corner of the triangle pattern, and there are many other colors of candy around the blue triangle in the form of abstract human figures, they are holding their arms high around this triangle, as if they are very happy, or this is some strange ritual.

She looked at this picture, showed a very satisfied smile, and then planned to pose a second pattern, and then she found Chu Xuan.

"Ahh Is it Brother Chu Xuan? Good morning~ I'm pretty looking, isn't it? ”

The girl's face was still very bad when her condition had just improved, but now she was smiling and showing Chu Xuan her proud works, just like a child who wanted to be praised by her elders.

Chu Xuan didn't know how to evaluate Dongdong's abstract painting, did he want to let himself tell her, 'Actually, when I was two years old, I was able to put together a puzzle piece of about one meter at a time, and there was not a single mistake in between?' ’

"What's in this candy painting? Tell me about it. ”

Chu Xuan didn't really want to answer Dongdong's question, so he decisively changed the topic.

"This is a tower that can radiate beautiful pillars of light into the sky, and the pillars of light emitted are bright and high!"

Finding that Chu Xuan seemed to be very interested in his work, Dong Dong immediately happily introduced it.

"These are this Sister Fang! It's the president! Dong Dong first pointed to a blueberry candy-headed villain.

"This scoundrel! Bullied me before, but a good or bad guy! Then she pointed to a little figure with a strawberry candy head.

Each person on the picture had their own name, and Dongdong remembered all of them clearly, and she pointed to all of them.

After listening silently, Chu Xuan asked a key question.

"Where are you? Knock Knock...... There is no you in the villain of these candies. ”

"Is that so! Looks like I really forgot! Brother Chu Xuan is so powerful! ”

Dong Dong thought about it carefully, it seemed that this was the case, so she looked at Chu Xuan with great admiration, and then went to look through her sugar bag.

"Ah...... There is only one left. I can't put out the candy man. ”

She found that in the small bag where she had stored her sweets, there was now only one marshmallow left.

"If you don't have enough sugar, don't put it anymore. Otherwise, this non-human-shaped piece of candy has no meaning. ”

Chu Xuan put forward his own opinion, he didn't want to get involved in this childish game, but he still opened his mouth unconsciously.

"No! It's just just a marshmallow! That's me, too! It's a part of this painting! Very important! ”

Saying that, Dong Dong put this marshmallow seriously on the candy map, she went against Chu Xuan's will for the first time!

The will of the colonel has been disobeyed! The big school has no expression! The colonel picked up the marshmallow! The colonel ate the marshmallow knock!

"Huh? Ay? Huh? I can't eat it! Brother Chu Xuan! This marshmallow is a knock! So you can't eat it! ”

Facing Xiao Maoyu's tearful stopping, Chu Xuan repeated the chewing action indifferently.

This kind of marshmallow is a soft and sticky soft candy that can be flavored with various spices according to different tastes, but the color is not as bright as other candies, and the calories are low, so Chu Xuan has always been not interested in this food.

If hard candy is no different from a pebble in Chu Xuan's mouth, then the marshmallow is on the same level as an eraser in his mouth.

But now, Chu Xuan found that this marshmallow seemed to be able to bring him the feeling of 'eating' like apples and other bright foods—especially when he looked at Dongdong's unwilling aggrieved expression, this feeling was stronger and more real.

Should I use a happy face at this time? Or do you use some other expression? But the sour ...... in his eyes'

Suddenly, Chu Xuan stood up, he walked out of the custody room quickly, walked to the phone, and picked up the microphone.

"Father...... I'm Chu Xuan. ”

"Do you have something to do? As soon as I heard that it was your call, I ran straight out of the lab. ”

"Father, about that child...... Can I arrange her situation in the future? Rest assured, I won't break the rules. ”

“…… Why? Do you care about her? I have also learned about the specific situation, this child is of unknown origin, be careful of trouble. ”

"I don't really care, it's just that she just gave me a very interesting answer, so I want to put her in a place where I can see it for a while longer, so please rest assured. Father. ”

"Observe for a while? Chu Xuan! Are you doing any research? That kid is ...... Experiments? ”

The voice on the other end of the phone instantly became angry, the respected old man will never allow his beloved child to become a cold-blooded researcher with no moral bottom line, not even the slightest hint!

"Don't worry, father...... My experiments with that child did not involve dissection, mechanical experiments, and drug injections. ”

As he spoke, Chu Xuan looked at the person sitting on the bed in the custody room and kept repeating with teary eyes, 'Brother Chu Xuan is a villain, worse than the red villain, and ate Dong Dong. 'Or something stupid.

"Although it may have a small mental blow to her, if you give her a piece of candy, she will recover immediately."

Chu Xuan...... All right. I believe in you, my child. ”

The other end of the phone was silent for a moment, and then agreed to Chu Xuan's request.

"Just leave the coordination of this matter to me, those people in the security department will give me some face, Chu Xuan...... I know you don't like doing these things, but you have to have your own connections. ”

Although he knew that the old man was for his own good, for a person who had no goal of survival, it was completely meaningless to have connections or anything, but the smart Chu Xuan would not say this kind of thing directly to his father.

"I see. I'll take notice. ”

The best way to deal with this is to be perfunctory......

"That's right. What was that child's name? I never knew that. ”

The old man, of course, knew that his child was perfunctory, so he sighed and began to ask another thing.

"The 'Dong Dong' on the report should be a pseudonym, right?"

"No...... Father, her name is indeed Dongdong. ”

Chu Xuan replied.

"Because I gave her a name 'Chu Dong Dong'."

“…… What do you say? ”

When the old man heard this, he was obviously stunned, and then he listened to his son's reply.

"I learned the way you named me back then, and gave her a name."

Suddenly, Chu Xuan found that the other end of the phone fell into silence, so he screamed strangely.

"Father?"

Then, a roar came from the microphone that made Chu Xuan's ear buzz.

"It's just nonsense!!!"