Chapter 253: Numbers, throbs, two-way crushes.

Lou Ying died at the age of 16.

He got the number 061 in the slag attack recovery system.

Lou Ying laughed at the irony of holding up his number.

But that little thing won't affect Lou Ying's mood for long.

Since then he has been busy through the years.

If he completes 200 missions, he'll be able to go back.

The first host he took was a rather handsome Xiao Qing, 24 years old, timid and weak in speech, his parents were divorced when he was young, grew up with his father, and suffered from the violence of his alcoholic father since he was a child, so that he was introverted and obedient to the point of being overly obedient.

Lou Ying took his picture and showed it to his new friend 089, with whom he had recently become close: "He looks a bit like my brother."

089 nodded solemnly, "I understand that sentiment. I also feel like a lot of people look like my son."

Lou Ying laughed off his nonsense, memorized all the information in the warehouse, helped him with everything she had, calculated the best options for him to redeem his cards, and amassed a full seven Time Compression cards for him in the third world alone.

According to the system, the host only needs to brush up the favorability of the target of the mission and commit suicide when it reaches a certain level.

While the host sleeps, Lou Ying has the right to fold himself back into the main God's space and do something of his own.

When he took his first host, he practiced boxing.

The red, hanging, pear-shaped ball vibrated endlessly in high frequency as he struck it, whipping a dizzying stagger through the air.

089 sat on the sidelines with his legs crossed playing a game, looked up at him in his busy schedule, and smacked his lips, "I mean, you're a Goss material, do you have to take yourself in the direction of Schwarzenegger."

Lou Ying finishes a set of exercises, stops, and lets out a breath.

He wore a black tank top for boxing, and the muscles in his arms were beautifully defined, with a sensuality rarely seen in young men as the sweat ran down his arms.

089 continued to persuade him: "I suggest you give up, ah. Your parents gave you this good innate resources ah, skin white beautiful plate beautiful smooth, really do not want to give me."

Lou Ying wiped the sweat off his neck and collarbone with a white towel, "Took a loss once, don't want a second."

089 was just about to respond when he suddenly tsked.

He shrugged off the game console in his hand that displayed a score of 18,237, touched his teardrop mole, and said to himself, "One eye is indeed inconvenient."

089 had just lent 023 one of his eyes back then, and was now working on maxing out 023's favorite old games one by one.

Lou Ying does a set of high kicks before picking up the boxing gloves.

The boxing gloves had his number, 061, and the date of the day he entered the system, 0723.

As he put on his gloves, he threw 089 the question he'd been hiding in his mind for so long, "Don't you think it's a little strange?"

089: "What?"

Lou Ying said, "Why must the host kill himself to escape when he has completed his mission?"

089 opened a new bureau and lazily said, "I'm an inside officer. I don't care about your field work. I'm busy."

Lou Ying looked to the game console in his hand and smiled helplessly.

089 has always been so rambunctious.

"I'd suggest ah ......," 089 butted in as he turned away, "and you stay out of it."

Lou Ying turns around in surprise and meets 089's eyes exactly.

089 gazed straight at him.

089's eyes, rather cynical on closer inspection, can give the illusion of deep pools if you stare at them long enough.

"I came in later than you, but I've lived longer than you." 089 said, "I have a feeling, leave it alone. Even if it's to go back and see your brother, leave it alone."

061 moved his fingers thoughtfully, the subtle squeeze of leather between them.

With the compression card, about a full year after the current world, Lou Ying accompanied his first host on ten successful missions.

However, the development of the situation is somewhat beyond Lou Ying's expectation.

"I don't want to go back and face my father." The youth who had experienced ten worlds was no longer as timid as he had been, and he said, "I've had enough."

Lou Ying, who was young at the time, was surprised: "But if you don't go back, the original you will ...... die."

"Just die, the old man has been looking forward to my death anyway." The youth tiredly rubbed his brow, "I think Ning Qing ...... is the only one in the world who is good to me. I told him before that no matter what happens, I will definitely go back. He is still waiting for me."

Ning Qing, the person the youth met in the fifth world, a deputy in the same lab as the original owner, extremely admiring of the original owner's talent, a gentle and generous man.

Speaking later, the youth has choked a little: "...... What am I doing back in my old world? I can even think of what I'll look like when I wake up: there's stinking urine mattress under me, my body is covered with bedsores, and the old man won't pay to take care of me. I'd be better off dead if I had to live like this."

Having said that, what else can Lou Ying say.

He returned to the system rather disinterested and was comforted by his seniors.

People say it's all like that in the beginning, just get used to it.

Lou Ying chose to take a week's vacation first.

089 asked, "What are you going to do with your vacation? You've taken up sparring and boxing, why don't you take up sumo again, flush."

Lou Ying said, "I want to go back to visit my family and see my friends."

For some reason, hearing him say that, 089 and the other systems present exchanged glances with each other.

089 said, "Success, go early and come back early. Dad will miss you."

If the system was going to a non-mission world line, they couldn't have their own bodies, couldn't use even the slightest bit of power, and could only have the most basic perception of the five senses, and their function was basically equivalent to that of a ghost, and it wasn't even a Lich ghost yet.

And after returning to her own world, Lou Ying finally understood why 089 and the others had that strange look on their faces when they heard that she wanted to visit her family.

Lou Ying, a former friend, split his sophomore year and went his own way on two floors.

It is the sprint year of senior high school, even in the summer vacation, they are still suffering in the classroom, buried in a mountain of books and volumes of the sea, pressured to lift their heads, shoulder to shoulder to run to that one-wood bridge.

Lou Ying became the shadow they left behind.

After being symbolically memorialized for three months, his desk was moved to the last row of the classroom, then thrown by the freshmen into the tool shed where the mops were kept, and finally into a warehouse full of waste.

After school, Lou Ying went back to the silo.

Chi Xiaochi is not at home. I don't know where he's gone.

In front of my sister-in-law's house, there are flaming red spring scrolls.

In the first line, the five virtues shine through the ages; in the second line, a dominant voice sings the world white; and in the horizontal line, welcome the son of Lin.

Lou Ying stayed in front of the door for a long time, pondering whether he should laugh or not, and eventually he did.

He used to think that death was the worst thing that could happen.

But he was wrong.

The scariest thing is finally realizing that anyone in this world can get by without you.

Lou Ying leaves the silo and suddenly doesn't know where he's going.

The school and the silo are the parts of his short 16-year life that he remembers most clearly, and removing them, he doesn't know where else he could go.

Under confusion, he decided where he was going.

Today is the day he died and he wants to visit his grave.

There was only one cemetery nearby, so it wasn't too hard to find the location.

Lou Ying saw a bicycle in front of the cemetery. A hand-carved license plate, L&C, hangs on the back of the bike.

His mind was open.

...... That's a bike he once had half assembled.

Lou Ying realizes what's going on and heads for the cemetery in a quick hurry.

He rounded a couple corners and braked hard.

...... Chi Xiaochi was a little taller than he remembered, and the little baby fat left on his cheeks had faded, so he was a full-fledged teenager.

He went around Lou Ying's tombstone and pulled out the weeds that had grown on it one by one.

Lou Ying noticed that the weeds he was pulling were much shorter than the ones around him, and had obviously come in for a round of cleanup not too long ago.

After a busy day, Chi Xiaochi sits down in front of the tombstone a bit disoriented.

He had lost so much water that his lips were a pale, cracked mess, and he dug around on his person, fumbling for a lighter and paper cigarettes, not quite skillfully taking one out, flicking it on and lighting it.

Lou Ying frowned.

...... How did he start smoking?

His transparent apparition walked up to Chi Xiaochi, crouched down on one knee, and tried to touch his head, but his fingers went right through his forehead.

Lou Ying crouched in front of him and burst out laughing helplessly.

Since Chi Xiaochi couldn't hear her anyway, Lou Ying simply opened her mouth, "Why are you so stupid. Even if you want to come, come when it's not so hot."

Lou Ying couldn't tell what the little leap in his heart was about.

Is it because he hasn't been forgotten? Or is it because the one who hasn't forgotten him is Chi Xiaochi?

Chi Xiaochi sits in front of Lou Ying, knowingly puffing away.

He called out, "Lou."

"I got into the first high school, school starts in the fall." Just opened a head, he realized that this kind of reporting tone is a bit silly, himself first laughed, "Brother, the last time I came to say, there is a junior high school girl sent me love letters, I asked you to do to come, now people have found spring. Because I'm going to take the exams away. Children of their age ah, always think that the school is considered a long-distance relationship."

"The pot of succulent you kept had worms, I bought some medicine from the plant store, and when I sprayed it, the worms died and so did the succulent. I wondered if what I bought was paraquat."

"Business is pretty good in the clothing store, I've pulled in almost a hundred repeat customers, all saying they came for me. I'm all pretty hot on that street, saying I'm the Little Prince of Lishui ...... There are still people called the Little Prince these days, ha."

In the midst of the chatter, a call came in on Chi Xiaochi's cell phone.

Lou Ying realizes that the cell phone is the same one he once intended to give Xiaochi for his fifteenth birthday, and feels relieved, but regrets that he has not been able to prepare the birthday gifts for the next few years.

"Hello. Boss lady." After answering the phone, Chi Xiaochi took the cigarette out of her mouth and smiled, "Well, I'm almost done with my business, so I'll be right there. ...... No, it's not a date, it's ......"

Chi Xiaochi turned his head to look at the tombstone, and the tenderness in his eyes made Lou Ying's heart palpitate slightly.

He smiled and rephrased, "Well, it's a date. ...... That's for sure, I'm pretty popular."

Chi Xiaochi stands up, pats the dirt on his body, and passes Lou Ying in front of him.

He faced Lou Ying's tombstone, waved his hand fondly, and left backwards while speaking, "Good, I'm going back, I remember ah, today's Tanabata Well, the night to be busy ......"

After hanging up the phone, Chi Xiaochi turned and ran towards the cemetery.

Lou Ying looked over to where he had been sitting and slowly sat back against it.

When he went back to the system, he aborted his vacation and took the second host's mission directly.

089 They murmured, what is this excitement?

Lou Ying thought, "If we don't go back early, his little crybaby is going to be anxious.

In Lou Ying's mind, Chi Xiaochi was a very emotional child who cried so much watching Les Miserables that he didn't want to keep him waiting too long.

There were many things he wanted Chi Xiaochi to say to him in person.

After one experience with a host, Lou Ying is much more comfortable.

When the host is in a period of rest between missions, he will take a leave of absence from the host and return to a worldline with Chi Xiaochi to keep him company for a few days, the frequency of which basically stays at once every one to two months.

He learns a lot of things like Chi Xiaochi went into modeling to earn money, like he got into his own school, and like he rented his room just to keep it there as it was.

Upon learning of all this, 089 hit the nail on the head, "Seriously, why does your brother look like he's undead."

Lou Ying was a little upset, "Don't talk about him like that."

On one occasion, Lou Ying was able to accompany Chi Xiaochi on her way back from school.

But Chi Xiaochi was walking along and drifted off, straight into the path of a car that jumped a yellow light.

Lou Ying a heart sank, forgetting all about the ban, immediately mobilizing the whole body's ability, but only enough to transform a moment of body shape, the teenager who only cared about the boredom of walking forward dragged back a hand.

For this rarely seen act of recklessness, Lou Ying was laid up in the system dormitory for three full days.

Facing 089 and 023 who came to visit him, Lou Ying was a bit angry: "How come he knows so little about taking care of himself."

023 looked at Lou Ying's bleak face and said without any good sense of humor, "You two are like each other."

On the anniversary of his third death, Lou Ying returned to the tombstone.

Xiaochi has grown much taller and has reached the same age as Lou Ying, who passed away. Because of her modeling career, she doesn't dress like a high school student anymore, and her slender body, wrapped in a white shirt and narrow-legged suit pants, already has an adult silhouette.

The teenager circled around the tombstone twice and childishly said, "Lou, I'm taller than you."

Lou Ying stood in front of him and made a serious comparison, trying to tell him that it wasn't really there.

The teenager, unaware of who is in front of him, earnestly recommends to Lou Ying the most recent snack he's had a bite of and been amazed by, and says in frustration that it's sadly too high in calories for him to eat.

The next day, this snack was added to the table in the Lou Ying System dormitory.

Sweet and creamy chocolate puffs that melt in your mouth.

When Lou Ying takes a bite, his heart feels as if it has been sprinkled with a fine layer of powdered sugar, itchy and sweet.

He's watched Chi Xiaochi excel all the way through, and he hopes he can do the same.

Unexpectedly, at the end of a two-month-long mission, Lou Ying returns to their world and learns that Chi Xiaochi has taken a break from school.

After learning the reason, Lou Ying lost sleep for the first time in her life.

He couldn't tell whether his heart was bitter or sweet, he felt that a dead man wasn't worth the gamble Chi Xiaochi had taken with his life, but he couldn't make Chi Xiaochi hear his voice even if he stood in front of him.

Lou Ying wondered, almost ashamed, what he could have done for Xiaochi.

The truth is, Chi Xiaochi doesn't seem to need to do anything for him himself at all.

Chi Xiaochi has its own path, and when it's chosen, it will continue unswervingly.

On the day his first movie was released, Lou Ying purposely determined the time, and in the evening, after the host had slept peacefully, he immediately rushed back to the main god space, sat in 023's office, and watched the entire movie from a distance.

Lou Ying looks at another him.

The long-haired teenager was full of unspeakable charm, but Lou Ying couldn't help but think that he'd be hot in the summer with his long hair.

Since then, Lou Ying has methodically gone about his work and his stargazing.

Anyone in the system knows that 061 is the brainchild of an actor named Chi Xiaochi.

Lou Ying knows all his movies, interviews, variety shows, advertisements and press conferences, including whether he is going to Melbourne to attend a film festival tomorrow and a charity gala in Hong Kong the day after tomorrow.

Chi Xiaochi's excellence gives Lou Ying the capital to proudly advertise to everyone he knows, "He's my neighbor's brother."

My sister-in-law and her husband moved to the city with his unknown sister, and some of their classmates went on to higher education and some to work, forgetting that there had been such a classmate as Lou Ying.

Lou Ying feels so lucky to still be entitled to this unique brother.

The only thing that made Lou Ying a bit unhappy was that 089 always made fun of his relationship with Xiaochi.

To Lou Ying, Xiaochi was the best kid he'd ever seen, bright, gentle, and deserving of the best, not a dead one.

Every time he thought of this, he would feel an unspeakable exasperation, an indescribable sense of annoyance pervading his heart, and thus every now and then he would overreact to 089's jokes, sinking his tone and correcting them over and over again without tiring of them, and reflecting on it afterward, he felt to himself that his reaction had been too much, which in turn had provoked 089 to take the jokes even more seriously.

It was at the age of 23 that things became a little different for Chi Xiaochi.

At that time, Lou Ying had just finished the tenth mission of the seventh host.

Like the first six hosts, the seventh host gave up his initial plan to return to the original world, chose a world he was most satisfied with, and then broke the contract with the main god and took the plunge.

Lou Ying has a gentle and affectionate nature and is extremely attentive whenever he takes on a host.

Therefore, he made a note of the details of each host.

The more Lou Ying looked at the seven studies, the more he realized something was wrong.

The ultimate goal of the Lord God should be to earn as much entropy as possible.

From the time he took the third host, he had intentionally detected the energy fluctuations in the body of the Raider's target, i.e. the Scum Attacker, when he started to develop a remorse value, and made a private record of it.

After comparing the two, he became even more puzzled:

These entropy values, when compared to the massive entropy values that the Lord God had spent regressing the timeline, not to mention the interest, could not even recover the principal invested.

If it's an obligation to do good, then why not just help people directly, why create the Raider goal of a scum attacker's remorse value?

Lou Ying has never been able to figure this out.

It wasn't until he was leading the seventh host on a certain mission, probing the condition of the host's body, and accidentally found an energy conduction line exactly like the one he used when receiving the slag attack remorse value in the extremely large data wave stream.

Lou Ying picked up the observation report and looked at the line markers on it with a grave expression.

...... Why would the main god bury something like this inside the host?

Gathering his doubts, Lou Ying turned back to the main god space.

In the hall, 089 was chatting with the other systems about something, and when he saw him return, he greeted him with, "61, congratulations, you're going to have a sister-in-law."

Lou Ying, incredulous, shook his head and laughed, "What are you talking about?"

089 took a light screen and waved it in front of his eyes.

It shows young movie star Chi Xiaochi traveling with a certain big flower, meeting at a hotel, rumored to be in love and about to get married.

Lou Ying's face stiffened slightly, "These are tabloid news and cannot be trusted."

089 said, "This is what your brother recognized himself."

Lou Ying has also checked out Chi Xiaochi's alleged reply on his own light screen.

The duo had previously been rumored by the media to be lovers because they went into the same hotel back and forth, and after this story broke, Chi Xiaochi herself responded under the marketing number: "Yes, intend to flash-marriage, next March, three years hold two, do not bother."

Lou Ying laughed, "Isn't that a joke."

That being said, his heart sank as soon as it tightened.

089 said, "Quite a pretty one woman, maybe."

Lou Ying pressed his light screen, "Don't spread it around. How many rumors has Xiaochi been in since his debut, and which one is true?"

089: "It's guaranteed to be this one. A man and a woman are made for each other."

Lou Ying, helpless, steps away, "Well, don't be childish. I have work, that's all."

Half an hour later, Lou Ying's phantom stood underneath Nebula Entertainment's company.

Just checking out all her information wasn't enough, Lou Ying thought, he had to come and see for himself what kind of girl she was and if she was really right for Xiaochi.

Who would have thought that he had just entered the headquarters of Nebula Entertainment, where the actress was based, when he accidentally bumped into the person he was thinking of.

Chi Xiaochi sits on a couch in the lobby of the company, wearing a gray mask and signing workbooks for company employees who sneak up on him.

Even without seeing his entire face, just the perfect jawline outlined under his mask and the long legs stretching out from the edges of his long trench coat were enough to wrestle the heart.

Chi Xiaochi sat next to a similar to his young, but the body of the small man, looks and 089 similar, the same playful type, but also because of the good face, his head of dark blue small curly hair looks less pompous.

Lou Ying thought that this would be Xiaochi's new manager, Lucas.

"Mr. Chi." Between his distant observations, a secretary in professional attire came up quickly and respectfully said, "Mr. Song has already arrived at the parking lot and will be in his office soon. Please follow me."

Chi Xiaochi gave a "hmmm" and was led by her secretary to the elevator entrance on the first floor.

The elevator door that leads directly to the president's office opened in response, and when the secretary saw the person inside, she was slightly stunned and hurriedly explained, "Mr. Song ...... Mr. Chi must have said he wanted to wait in the lobby, and there's nothing we can do about it ...... "

Compared to the secretary's euphemism, Chi Xiaochi himself is much more direct: "Song Zhihuai, why does your office still smell the same, didn't I tell you to change the perfume last time?"

The young manager, Song Zhihuai, frowned, smoothed out his gold-rimmed eyeglasses and made a gesture to Chi Xiaochi to get into the elevator.

Chi Xiaochi joked with him politely, "No, I don't dare to steal from you, you go first."

Without further ado, Song Zhihuai took one step out of the elevator, tackled Chi Xiaochi's wrist, and cleanly ripped him into the elevator.

Lou Ying grimaced and took a step to follow.