Chapter 210: Dumplings, gifted eyes, Happy New Year.

Chi Xiaochi was too lazy to get up and stay in bed when she woke up.

It was nearly midnight yesterday when they finished their mission and returned to the space that was theirs for two.

Chi Xiaochi used Shi Tingyun's body to drink wine, and in the afternoon, he went to run a horse for an hour, and getting out of the body was an extremely laborious task, so as soon as he returned to the space, he was so sleepy that he fell asleep with his clothes on.

When he wakes up, he remembers his appointment with Lou Ying.

Then he decided decisively to sleep more.

When she heard the door being pushed, Chi Xiaochi immediately closed her eyes and pretended to be asleep.

Lou Ying, wearing Yu Fengmian's face, leans against the door in his housecoat.

The light thrown through the door softened his face.

He gazed for a long time at the large, silent group on the bed, smiled silently, knocked on the door, and said, "It's time to eat."

He returned to the living room, heard the faint sound of shuffling coming from the bedroom, stripped off his clothes, changed into the standard white coat and black pants, went to the closet and picked out another shirt, and waited at the door.

Chi Xiaochi, who had been milling around inside for a while, realized something was wrong and stuck his head out, "Where's the rice?"

Lou Ying put a thin scarf around his neck, "According to the festival calendar of the main god space, today is the New Year. I'll take you out to eat."

"Where to?"

"Go back to the main God's space."

Chi Xiaochi raised an eyebrow, "Where are your brain flowers."

Lou Ying replied, "No. I heard that he has been called to the headquarters for an inspection. I heard that there have been more security incidents within the system recently, and he was called to the headquarters to do an inspection. Probably going for three or four days."

Got it. No tigers in the mountains, monkeys having a party.

It took a while to parse Chi Xiaochi's body data.

About half an hour later, Chi Xiaochi's spiritual body was transformed by Lou Ying into transparent data, a tiny one, and put into his front pocket.

Lou Ying then woke up the transmission.

And then Lou Ying was stopped outside the screening device.

Lou Ying was not stopped because of his Yu Fengmian face.

Each system is an ID in its own right, and according to Lou Ying, there's another guy in their system who's male but loves to dress up as a flamboyant woman of all colors, and the trips go smoothly every time.

The 1209 in charge of the security check, a somewhat lukewarm IT guy, stops in front of Lou Ying and spreads his hands out, "61, take out what's in your front breast pocket."

Lou Ying raised a hand to her chest, "There's nothing there."

1209 Looking around, he revealed a difficult look and lowered his voice, ''61, usually forget it. What kind of relationship do you and I have, it's not a big deal to let you smuggle something in. But you're not unaware that since the boss's office was bombed, the items coming in and out have been checked especially closely. You have something external on you, the system has also filed the abnormal information, if I can't find the prohibited items, the boss will come back to check down ......"

"There really isn't." Lou Ying spread his hands, "If you don't believe me, check."

1209 sighed, "61, cooperate."

He pushed his hand into the front pocket of Lou Ying's shirt.

His finger had just disappeared into it when a ray of light shot up from Lou Ying's pocket and went straight to the dome, sending layers of ripples through the dome made of data.

A firework exploded in the sky, like a huge transparent blue jellyfish, a circle of bright images is the eye-catching corona, set in the outer layer, slowly swinging away, beautiful and breathtaking.

Many systems saw this scene and there were cheers that kept coming.

As 1209 froze, Lou Ying bowed his head and gave a gentle, gentlemanly bow, "Happy New Year for all your hard work."

Farther and farther away from the monitoring point, Lou Ying heard Chi Xiaochi's voice in his ear: "A fire in the morning, a police station in the afternoon."

Lou Ying raised his hand, touching the forehead of the transparent little man sitting on his right shoulder, "The dome is made of data, it won't catch fire easily."

Chi Xiaochi was poked and leaned back and looked into the sky, only to see that the hall was pure white, like a snowy ice field, countless employees dressed in white clothes and black pants came and went, but in mid-air there were countless light-blue light beams shuttling into a net, like a comet's tail.

Chi Xiaochi wonders, "What are these blue lights?"

Lou Ying says, "It's infomercials."

"Why is it blue?"

"It was 089 who suggested the design." Lou Ying smiled, "...... New Year's skin."

Chi Xiaochi has always heard of 089, but never met him, and thinks he must be a wonderful person.

After he had been led into a room by Lou Ying, regained his normal form, and met up with 089, he stared at his face for a good ten seconds before turning his head to Lou Ying, who was walking towards the kitchen with his sleeves rolled up, with a sense of realization.

...... He brought himself here, and probably told himself that he had been following him since Dong Ge that world.

089 is sitting at a table, holding up an apple in his right hand and playing chess with a tablet in his left.

Seeing his visitor, he leapt off the table with ease and grabbed a piece of paper to wipe his hands, a smile in his eyes, "Yo, here we go."

Chi Xiaochi looked him in the eye and greeted him, "089."

089 flew a full flirtatious glance towards Lou Ying's back, "You can call me by my name if you're not used to calling me by my number. My name is Ji Feihong."

Hearing the name, Chi Xiaochi couldn't help but include a smile, "...... hmmm."

089 Put down the tablet, on it was a Go game against the computer, seventy-eight in a row.

He zeroed out the record and casually tossed the tablet onto the couch, "Have a seat."

023 poked his head out of the kitchen, said hello to Chi Xiaochi, and whirled to 089, "Serve the vinegar."

Chi Xiaochi has played cards with both 089 and 023, but this is the first time he has officially faced off.

023 was a senior albino, with snow-white hair, skin, eyebrows, and eyelashes, and deep, narrow, almost European in shape, with pale coloring, and an odd pale blue iris.

Chi Xiaochi did not show any surprise at his appearance, which was not quite the same as that of a normal person, and raised his hand in greeting.

089 soon returned with the vinegar, "Did 61 tell you about 23?"

"No." Chi Xiaochi replied with a natural attitude, "White eyelashes, quite handsome."

089 looked at him and smiled quite gratefully.

Before they arrived, 023 had already made many dumplings with pork and caper filling, and when Lou Ying came to help, her efficiency was obviously accelerated. Lou Ying made fifty Spanish mackerel dumplings, fifty crab roe dumplings, fifty cucumber and shrimp dumplings, and chose two of the many white, fat, noodle-scented dumplings and wrapped them with two peanuts to isolate them from detection.

While waiting for the dumplings to cook, 089 and Chi Xiaochi chatted.

089 nudged toward the kitchen, "I'm from the same world line as him, and 61, and you. And came in around the same time, so we became friends as soon as we came in."

"You and 61 are from the north, I'm from the south, and 23 he's from abroad, a quarter Eastern European. He had it from the womb, with 0.1 vision in his eyes, struggled to see that E at the top of his vision chart, and couldn't see the sun, couldn't get a tan. The family soon had a second child. Maybe the second child was healthy and active in their opinion, but how I look at it, 23 is a little better. He was never afraid of his fate, not inferior, not timid, always thinking that he would grow up to develop his own game."

If it weren't for a congenital heart condition, he wouldn't have gone so early, having just submitted his first game design and died without a word in his room.

For 023, who had grown up in a small, closed circle, death meant nothing more than going from one room to another.

What's more, in this new room, he can play games.

089 was born with a protective elder mentality, and thus paid extra attention to 023 when he met him.

Then he realized that it was completely unnecessary.

"The ancient Indians have a very romantic saying that albinos are children from the moon." 089 looked at 023's busy back, there was a smile in his voice and a light in his eyes, the kind of admiration and adoration that screams out, "You say, the so-called genetic mistake, how could it miss out on such a good one."

Come here, peel the garlic."

089 snapped out of his lover's eyes that could come out of the West, bent his eyes, and responded, "Got it."

As 089 peels garlic, Chi Xiaochi stares at him and asks, "So, your boss gave him good eyes?"

089 paused, glanced up at Chi Xiaochi, and laughed, "No way. Our boss is very stingy, because 23's eyes are bad, that's why he asked 23 to guard the light brain that requires the least amount of eyes."

Chi Xiaochi looked over at 023 and estimated the distance from the counter when he was chopping the vegetables, it didn't look like he had bad eyesight, and judging by the way he just looked, it didn't look like he was wearing contact lenses either.

He looked at 089 again.

His eyes were beautiful, but the one that bore the mole of tears looked really odd.

...... After Chi Xiaochi entered the door from Chi Xiaochi, he observed several times, 089 that eye did not turn, and the pupil is surrounded by a layer of light blue aperture, look carefully, you can see the traces of data flow.

This trace is the same as what is spinning in Fang Cai's right eye as he probes his head 023.

......089 gifted 023 one of his eyes.

089 put the garlic cloves into a clean bowl and asked 023, "How many to peel?"

023 responded from a distance, "Just you eat. Peel as much as you like."

089 Peeled one, soaked it in vinegar, and looked up to Chi Xiaochi Koppel: "Garlic has a hundred benefits, only the eyes are harmful."

Chi Xiaochi thought for a moment, shallowly raised the corners of his mouth, and did not ask him if he had to take good care of his eyes for 023.

089 is too smart a guy to talk to, and picking things apart is counterproductive and not fun.

The warm aroma of cooked dumplings came from the kitchen, and plates of dumplings were passed to the table. Lou Ying was still banging away in the kitchen.

089, who was in charge of the plating, said, "It was my idea to call you here."

Chi Xiaochi sets the dishes in a row, "Huh?"

089 said, "I just need to shake another 500 and I'll be done."

Chi Xiaochi's fingers stopped and a chopstick rolled off the table.

089 looked at him in slight surprise.

Chi Xiaochi looked as normal, picked up her chopsticks and put them back down, "Ah, so how long will it take approximately?"

089 said, "Three months if it's fast. If it's slow, about half a year. I won't be able to accompany 23 and 61 for the next year, and I don't know what you and 61 are planning to do in the future, whether we'll see each other again, so I thought I'd get together in advance. We're supernumeraries and can't go out without a report, so we'll have to ask 61 to bring you in."

089 added, "Full stop, 23 has two more years before the end of the mission, and I have two more years to prepare."

Chi Xiaochi asked, "Preparation for what?"

089 came close to Chi Xiaochi and whispered, "Don't tell him. When we return to the present world, I'm going to build a villa underground and give it to 23 so he can do what he wants in it."

023 couldn't see the sun, so 089 was willing to fight down a cottage and make a cozy mole's nest to feed 023.

After hearing his wish, Chi Xiaochi said, "You don't want to stay with him for two more years? Stay here and work for nothing, and that stingy brain of yours will agree, right?"

089 waved a hand, "I know exactly what our boss is like. If you work for him for a day, you suffer for a day. Besides, he doesn't hire short-term workers. It's better to stay away from him as soon as possible."

Chi Xiaochi lowered her eyes, "Well, that's good."

089 gave another reason why he longed to be human, "And yeah, AIs don't have an intimacy mode with each other. Any transgressive moves below the neck are forbidden in main god space."

Chi Xiaochi reaches out with a thought and taps 089 on the shoulder in a gesture of understanding.

089 also slaps back two strikes with a smile.

Ten minutes later, three systems and one person were sitting around the table.

089 raises his glass, gives the table a tap with the bottom of the glass, and says, "Happy New Year."

The other three cups were raised at the same time and clinked together.

Once the chopsticks were in motion, Chi Xiaochi and 023 were served dumplings wrapped in peanuts, a symbol of good luck.

Peanuts are coded to prevent detection.

...... Lou Ying made an unobtrusive mark on the surface of his own peanut dumpling and hands it to Chi Xiaochi.

089, on the other hand, snuck a peanut nut into each of 023's plates of dumplings, and then got hit in the head with chopsticks by 023, who thought he'd gotten lucky.

Seemingly spurred on by Lou Ying's fireworks hit, the systems wrote fireworks codes in twos and threes to set them off outside.

The sound of fireworks outside never ceased until nightfall.

As Chi Xiaochi had expected, Lou Ying had let him rest on a single bed in his dormitory in the main God's space.

Lou Ying has always been very good at restraining her desires.

He just wanted to let Chi Xiaochi know that he was not the brother-next-door that he thought he was, but he didn't want Chi Xiaochi to have to carry around that "date" joke and compromise the quality of his rest.

Lou Ying tucked Chi Xiaochi's comforter up a bit and was going to hit the floor.

But just as he was about to get up, the corner of his shirt was pinched by Chi Xiaochi.

Chi Xiaochi said, "Come along."

Lou Ying's heart skipped a few beats, "You're not going to have a hard time?"

Chi Xiaochi blurted out, "The bed is big."

The bed was not big at all, and the two men had to sleep on their sides to lie down, Chi Xiaochi on the inside and Lou Ying on the outside.

They were back to back, silent for a long time before Chi Xiaochi suddenly spoke, "Lou."

Because of the confidentiality system, Lou Ying was unable to respond to his call, but had to listen in silence.

Chi Xiaochi said, "Let's go on a mission tomorrow."

Lou Ying was a little surprised, "Not two more days off?"

Chi Xiaochi thinks a lot.

He thought about what 089 had said to him today, about 089 s expectations for that underground villa, about the 009 he had seen today who had come to beg for dumplings, and about the secrets Ji Zuoshan had once investigated that only he knew.

But the words came out as a simple, "I want to end our mission quickly."