Chapter 255: Seven times, touch, a little bit of spirit.

Lou Ying returned to the main god space, and locked himself up in his room for several days without saying a word. 089 and 023 knocked on the door a few times, but he didn't have the heart to receive them.

Intense self-loathing wrapped him up whole.

Chi Xiaochi is obviously his neighbor's brother, the boy he grew up with, the boy he held in his heart, and they did look forward to the future together, but that was just a generalized perception of the "future" for a teenager, and it did not contain any charming content.

How could one think such thoughts about him?

How can he like Chi Xiaochi?

In the midst of the chaos, Lou Ying could only work to paralyze herself.

He received his eighth host on the hoof, and was hurried into office.

Similar to his first host, the eighth host, Lv Fan, is a timid and reserved young man, with an ordinary appearance, not fond of talking, and a geek in the current world, who can't even speak very well.

Lou Ying poured all his energy into him and took him very seriously.

Because even if there is a spare moment, he can't help but use it to think of Chi Xiaochi.

In the past, Lou Ying had always taken her thoughts for granted.

Xiaochi was his little brother, and always so uneasy, his every move would naturally touch Lou Ying's heart, making him want to hug him, comfort him, keep him company, and kiss his hair.

It's not the same now. Nothing's the same. It's all changed.

Lou Ying began to run away.

During the breaks between missions, he no longer goes back to visit Xiaochi, but stays with the host the entire time.

Lv Fan apologetically stated, "Mr. Lou, you don't have to be with me all the time, you can go about your business."

Lou Ying lied: "There's nothing for me to do back there."

It had been a long time since he had gone back to visit his family, and it had been a long time since he had gone to 023 to inquire about news related to Chi Xiaochi.

Lou Ying believes that this kind of different feelings, like a frying pan on fire, as long as the lid of the pan to press the fire, isolate the oxygen, will soon slowly extinguished.

By then, everything will be back on track and his wayward feelings for Xiaochi will slowly become normalized.

However, this deliberate segregation turned out to have the exact opposite effect.

Lou Ying begins to have frequent dreams about his past with Chi Xiaochi, about going on picnics with the grown-up Xiaochi, and about cutting Xiaochi's hair with an empty flowerpot fastened to his head.

The happier you are in your dreams, the more frustrated you are when you wake up.

One day he had a dream that Xiaochi kissed him.

From that day on, he dared not dream.

While Lv Fan was sleeping, Lou Ying would always go back to the sparring ring in the main God's space alone and take down all 17 opponents simulated by the system.

Lou Ying gasped and collapsed in the center of the open field, holding a hand over his eyes and gritting his teeth darkly.

How ...... do you miss him so much.

Lou Ying has never solved such a difficult problem in his life, he does not know what to do to counteract his feelings, he can only be a woeful avoidance, retreat, and then lose his armor.

He collected everything related to Chi Xiaochi and never talked about him to anyone again.

023 was concerned about his condition and wanted to ask him what he had seen and what had happened during that visit back to the original world line to see his family.

But 089 pulled him back, "Don't ask."

023 wondered, "I just want to know what happened to him."

089 said, "How can he tell you when he doesn't have the answer himself."

Lou Ying carefully avoided everything about Chi Xiaochi, who would have thought that this avoidance would be so suddenly broken by the host, Lv Fan.

One night, Lv Fan asked him, "Mr. Lou, do you have a minute?"

Lou Ying treated every host with the same gentleness, "Yes. What's wrong?"

Lv Fan laments for a while before saying, "Nothing, just wanted to watch a movie with you."

At the mention of the word "movie," Lou Ying's heart was twisted, not too gently, and it ached terribly.

He puts out his movie library for Lv Fan to pick from.

Lv Fan flipped through two pages, may be unable to find a suitable target, but even by hand clicked into the "your most frequently played movies".

Lou Ying's heart skipped a beat, and it was too late to stop him.

Lv Fan pointed to Murder in the Cape at the top of the list and marveled, "215 times! Mr. Lou, is this movie that good?"

Lou Ying was speechless.

He couldn't even lie about the movie not being good, so he nodded, "Yeah, it's not bad."

Lv Fan excitedly said, "Let's watch this if you like it so much."

Lou Ying : "...... good."

Despite being plagued by such unforeseen emotions on a daily basis, Lou Ying never lost sight of his business.

Upon his investigation, Lv Fan's body is no exception to the rule of having conductor wires buried within his body that transport entropy values, sending out varying amounts of entropy every day.

Lou Ying recorded the daily fluctuation records in detail, and gradually discovered through comparison that the host in which world the most emotionally invested, the more into the task object, the more energy will be received.

Lou Ying is not one to jump to conclusions.

He would simply list down the problems and conditions he found, and after meticulous calculations, he would finally come to a relatively reliable and logical conclusion.

The evidence so far, at least, suggests that there is a serious violation of the Lord God's greed for entropy values.

Because in the contract between the system and the host, there was no mention in any of the stipulations that the matter of entropy value would be collected from the host.

After Lv Fan had completed his fourth mission, he asked for a half-month-long seaside vacation, and Lou Ying returned to his dormitory after a long time, and in the rare quiet, did a thorough generalization and organization of all the data he had obtained in these days.

In the process of organizing, he had the idea of filing a complaint with the direct supervisory authority.

Lou Ying feels there is a truth behind it that he has not been able to touch.

Lou Ying is a man of character who does what he says he's going to do.

He compared the available materials and began to prepare the first draft of the complaint.

Unexpectedly, halfway through the organization of the complaint materials, he felt a chill down his back.

...... That is an intense discomfort of being secretly spied on.

Lou Ying Suddenly turned back.

Behind him is a clean wall, with only a framed landscape watercolor he painted himself, of the abandoned railroad tracks where he and Chi Xiaochi used to walk together at sunset.

Was ...... it his illusion just now?

Lou Ying turned to face his data-laden record panel, his expression calm and his thoughts flying.

He remembered that the Lord God had signed a strict privacy ordinance with the system, and one of the clauses was that the Lord God had no right to pry into the system's personal privacy.

However, the Lord God has likewise planted lines of energy transmission within the host that are not permitted by the regulations.

This proves that ......

Lou Ying raised his hand and a pale blue stream of data coalesced at his fingertips.

He placed his fingers on top of the wall, letting the threads tangle and melt with the wall made of data, like placing a butterfly in a deep forest or letting water flow into the sea.

Gradually, the pale blue threads extended to every part of the room's walls, cocooning the room airtight.

As soon as anyone tried to spy on him again, it would be impossible not to touch these threads.

Once touched, the information is instantly fed back to Lou Ying.

Whether it's an illusion or not, it's always right to prevent the eventuality.

Lou Ying pulls back the stool, sits down and continues to be busy.

It was only at times like these that he could let go of Chi Xiaochi a little.

When the second round of sorting and reviewing was over, Lou Ying stretched his body a few times on the stool and thought about his next course of action.

He had to go back to Lv Fan's rest stop first to see how he was enjoying his beach vacation and make sure he was in good shape before he ......

...... And then, where can it go.

Lou Ying pressed her forehead in agony.

Once again, he was driven to the brink by this dilemma.

He could only give up thinking about it and went back into the rest stop.

It didn't occur to me that Lv Fan, who said he was going to go to the beach and drink coconuts, was sitting there in that pure white space with his knees in his lap, not looking very well.

Lou Ying softly inquired, "Lv Fan, what's wrong?"

Lv Fan asked an extremely abrupt question, "Mr. Lou, do you have a favorite person?"

Lou Ying's heart was poked without warning.

Without moving, he asked, "Why do you say that?"

Lv Fan said, "You're my system, and I wanted to know more about you, so I went and watched all the videos you've watched. --The videos you watched the most all had to do with someone named Chi Xiaochi."

Lou Ying inclined his head, "He's an actor, I just like watching his movies. It's just that I've been so busy lately that I haven't watched them again."

Lv Fan says, "But the play count is seven more."

"...... what?"

Lv Fan opens the light screen, goes to the movie library, selects "Your Most Played Movies", and finds "Murder on the Cape".

He pointed to the play count in the bottom right corner.

...... shows 223 plays.

Lv Fan whispers, "I watched it once that day and fell asleep. The other seven times, you watched it that night."

Lou Ying froze.

He remembered.

Before playing the movie that day, he quietly set it to loop mode.

Lv Fan was asleep, the movie was tuned to silent by him and replayed over and over again.

During this time of replay, Lou Ying's heart was unusually peaceful because he found an excuse to think and watch Chi Xiaochi with abandon.

...... But even he didn't expect it to be as many as 7 times.

"Xiaochi is my neighbor's brother." Pausing for a long moment, Lou Ying gritted his teeth, negatively, "I don t have that kind of feeling for him ......."

Lv Fan's tone was a bit strangely excited, "Really?"

Lou Ying stopped talking.

He remembered how his heart had felt as if it had bitten into a lemon that day when he had seen Chi Xiaochi and Song Zhihuai's intimacy, how he had thought and longed for Chi Xiaochi day and night all these days, and how he remembered all there was to know about Chi Xiaochi.

Lou Ying closed his eyes and smiled bitterly.

To his heart, he gave that answer that has long been crying out, "...... False."

Lou Ying likes Chi Xiaochi.

It was many years after leaving him alone in the world that I realized how much I liked him.

Lv Fan pursed her lips and smiled away, "Aha, I knew it. Mr. Lou is so nice, he should have been named long ago."

Lou Ying said, "No."

Lv Fan : "What no?"

Lou Ying : "He has 11 million futures and possibilities. ...... But it will never be me."

With those words, Lou Ying's long-tightened heart finally sank.

All this time, he's been torn and evasive, but it's all because he refuses to admit that Chi Xiaochi is the one person who can never belong to him.

Chi Xiaochi has Lucas, Song Zhihuai and many more to come.

Lou Ying, at the time of his death, was his friend, his brother, and would have been forever fixed on this step, and it would have been impossible to advance even one step further.

"Ah ......" Lv Fan paused slightly for a moment, "In that case, does Mr. Lou still like him."

After accepting that initial answer, Lou Ying had the courage to answer all the questions.

He said to himself, "Yes, like."

Seeing Lv Fan fall silent again, Lou Ying then remembered the question she wanted to ask when she first saw him here, "Not going to the beach?"

"Not going. After half a day in the sun alone, I realized there wasn't much fun to be had." Lv Fan sniffles and laughs, "Come on, let's go to the next world."

They traveled through two worlds together again, and Lou Ying began to pay attention to messages related to Chi Xiaochi.

Chi Xiaochi's new movie is coming soon, and I heard it's a basketball related movie. In the movie, he has short hair, a fresh black sports hairband wrapped around his forehead, which makes his skin white and clean, holding an orange basketball in his arms, he is full of youth and health.

The cast was clearly pleased with his look, and ran publicity by having him appear with short hair throughout.

The host asked him, "How does it feel to have a short haircut?"

Chi Xiaochi thought for a moment and said, "It feels naked."

Lou Ying tuned in remotely to watch his propaganda session live and it was a crying shame to hear him spout such nonsense.

As expected, he attracted a lot of media criticism because of his "inappropriate words and actions", which not only brought a lot of heat for the movie in disguise, but also once again put himself in the limelight.

Lou Ying wanted to go back and spend some time with Chi Xiaochi, but Lv Fan said he wanted to get back to his original world quickly and didn't want to waste too much time on unnecessary breaks, so each time they rested for a day or two at the most, they had to rush off to the next world.

Lou Ying sees Lv Fan as a hope because he might be the first host who has a chance to go back to his original world, so he willingly accompanies Lv Fan in a row.

And because Lv Fan knows something about herself that no one else knows, Lou Ying is more willing to see him as a friend than a "hope".

In his opinion, so is Lv Fan.

He would even laughingly gossip about Lou Ying's past with Chi Xiaochi, and when he was cornered, Lou Ying would pick up one or two interesting things to tell Lv Fan.

Lou Ying's tongue is as sweet as her heart as she tells it.

Soon, they entered the seventh mission world of Lv Fan.

When she first opened her eyes, Lou Ying gave a puzzled "hmmm" in her mind.

The first thing that drifted into my nose was the aroma of strong coffee, followed by the slight rumble that accompanied the old copier as it brushed and spit paper out.

On the computer in front of him was a half-done PowerPoint for an advertising campaign, to his left were half-eaten pumpernickel cookies, and a small humidifier spat out a mist that quickly moistened one's sleep-dried lips with perfumed vapor.

What Lou Ying doesn't understand is that the aura of this world is just too common.

...... like a normal world.

Generally speaking, starting from the third to fourth world, the worldview of the mission world would be out of the original owner's familiar realm, the fifth and sixth worlds would be upgraded in terms of mission difficulty, with a small probability of A-ranked difficulty, and the seventh world's worldview would be further differentiated from that of the previous worlds.

In short, it won't be as normal as it is now.

In order to avoid the mistake triggered by his own subjective judgment, Lou Ying flew through the tasks of this world and found that it was actually the same ordinary-

The original owner is a hard-working advertising agency small white collar, parents love very much, although the family has little money, but he is in the honey pot soaked up, raised a happy little sweetheart character.

One day, his department parachuted a design director, age than the original owner is still younger than two or three months, I heard that is a certain female industry big brother's son, and Cambridge graduates, according to reason parachuted as a deputy manager are polite, but he somehow, just to this not too small department.

The Chief Superintendent's eyebrows strangely bore some resemblance to the original owner, so his coworkers joked that the two of them must have been brothers in their past lives.

The Superintendent didn't mind such little jokes without malice, and explained for him with great poise, occasionally joking and calling the original owner his brother.

The Superintendent is a rather affable and elegant person, and his pursuit of the original owner is silent, unfolding step by step, capturing his heart a little, and then netting him into his arms.

The original owner was not gay before, at first faced with the director's pursuit, very overwhelmed and resisted for a period of time, and later, it is a slow fall, deep love.

Lou Ying had a bad feeling when he saw the resemblance between the two men.

As expected, the original owner and the director of the sweet and sweet relationship for two years, had already planned to go abroad to get married, but inadvertently in the director of the phone with someone else, learned the director is his own brother of the fact.

In the end, it's just the love-hate relationship of the parents' generation that has been avenged on the next generation.

The original owner's father was a backslider into the Superintendent's birth mother's family, but was growing tired and struggling to breathe under his wife's strength.

The duo's already not-so-strong love is worn out at the speed of light, and the original father soon falls in love with another mediocre woman, secretly dating for days until his lover becomes pregnant, the months getting bigger and bigger, and things can't be hidden any longer, and the wife realizes what kind of a man she's sleeping next to on her pillow.

The wife is too lazy to keep such a man around and after kicking him out of the house, she realizes that she has a child as well.

Because of her personal constitution, she did not abort the child, but gave birth to it and then sent it far away to be educated abroad.

This child is the current superintendent.

Because he looked so much like his father, his mother was always light on him.

He was equal to losing both parents at the same time and grew up as an orphan in a foreign country.

Years later, the superintendent from the mouth of bystanders to figure out his family had happened that little thing, back to investigate, only to find that the woman who stole his father's family is living in peace and happiness, the two children enjoy his never enjoyed, complete love, do not even know what it is sacrificed for.

He's crazy.

So he found a way to get his half-brother into the same madness as himself.

It ends with the original owner not being able to accept such a backstabbing relationship and being so painfully depressed that she ends up committing suicide.

Lou Ying can't ignore the unnaturalness of the world line itself while watching this unforgettable style episode with a vague brain ache.

--This type of world line, which should normally appear in the second or third mission, simply doesn't fit the basic characteristics that the seventh world line should have.

And, for some reason, Lou Ying had a strange, indefinable feeling suspended in his mind.

As Lv Fan read the world line, he sifted through the story again from beginning to end.

Rereading it, he still hadn't come up with a decent result, but the strange feeling hovering in his mind grew stronger.

Without waiting for him to sort out the threads from the mess, a document snapped to his heels.

Lou Ying looked up, and in front of him was the former director of the original owner, a middle-aged man with thinning hair.

He tapped the table, "Here's the final version of Lola's shooting program, it's been sent to the cameramen before, so send a couple more paper copies to studio three and tell them to keep them on standby."

Lv Fan Busy answered "hey", holding the documents out of the office, whispered request: "Mr. Lou, give me to download a company's guide map it."

Without his prompting, Lou Ying had already started to download it.

As he connected to the network, the strange feeling in his mind that had already been blurred became clear and strong once again.

When the documents were delivered to Studio 3, a bearded photographer was adjusting the machine, and his assistant took the documents and coldly sent Lv Fan away.

Because of Chi Xiaochi, Lou Ying has a minimum understanding of what goes on in the industry.

Here is about to shoot an indoor advertisement, the ground is covered with snow-white fluffy feathers, a hundred or so spotlights are pre-discharged with dazzling light and shadow, all the props are quite high-class in texture, and there is also a French version of the shooting program sent to us, so we can see that this advertisement at least has a considerable amount of sincerity in the advance preparations.

Emerging from the shed, Lv Fan nervously rubbed his chest, "They've got a big pie."

Lou Ying started working on a strategy plan for Lv Fan to be the scum attacker of this world, casually reassuring, "Normal. Doing their line of work ......"

As he spoke, one man and one system left shed three and entered the main building's office lobby through a side door.

When Lou Ying follows the host, she is used to checking out the surrounding situation for the host every time she enters a door.

His eyes turned halfway down the hall before his heart went numb at first and stopped beating for half an instant.

At first, Lou Ying thinks she misses Xiaochi so much that she sees visions of him.

But Lou Ying's imaginary Xiaochi doesn't tend to be surrounded by a head that always stays colorful, changing colors from season to season like a miracle warmer.

Lucas has grown his hair longer and dyed it a vibrant burgundy color.

Chi Xiaochi's hair is not yet long enough to grow, but the short hair above his ears adds a touch of competence, and his long, ink-blue cashmere coat covers only half of his thighs, with a clean line extending from his knees and calves.

He wore a pair of sunglasses that were big enough to cover half of his face. Probably because he had spent a bit too much time outdoors in winter, the lower half of his face was flushed with the pallor of freezing out, and the only thing that showed a touch of red was his lips that had returned to blood.

However, clearly dressed in such a gallant manner, the man was holding a cup of steaming pearl milk tea and slurping it, childlike as ever.

Lou Ying's heartbeat slowly accelerated, eventually reaching a drum-like frequency.

He finally realized where that vague sense of weirdness had just come from.

The problem isn't the plot of the world line at all, it's the world line itself.

--This is World Line 707.

-707 world line, the world he lived in, the world Chi Xiaochi existed in.

...... What kind of luck would allow him to be randomly transported into this place?

Before Lou Ying could figure this out, Chi Xiaochi and Lucas were already walking in their direction, one after the other.

Lucas looked down to check the itinerary on his memo, while Chi Xiaochi focused on the pearls in his cup of milk tea and didn't intend to keep his eyes on the small employee who was looking at him steadily.

The direction they were going ...... was exactly the third shed.

Lv Fan also recognized who this oncoming person is, horrified to stand still, whispered, "...... Mr. Lou?"

Lou Ying's chest was too tingly to speak.

It wasn't until she saw Chi Xiaochi with her own eyes that Lou Ying realized how much she missed him.

Trying to hold him.

Wanted to kiss his ear.

Trying to say what I like about him, even if saying it means losing it.

All this he used to be able to only think about.

But now, he has the power to make it happen.

Although there was a ban within the system that didn't allow the system to have entities in the mission world, it was impossible for the main god to keep an eye on them all the time.

As long as the host's consent is sought and the energy is not used, it is a complete matter of turning out a body and moving freely with one eye open.

Chi Xiaochi gets closer and closer, and Lou Ying's sanity is gradually consumed by the longing of months of absence.

When she was about to pass by Chi Xiaochi, Lou Ying had ghostly driven the original owner's hand and gently rested it on Chi Xiaochi's arm that was holding the milk tea.

...... is almost ten years old.

Lou Ying, who has spent the last ten years of his life passing by Xiaochi countless times, has finally met him in real life.

Even then, he only dared to touch his little arm with restraint.

Chi Xiaochi's reaction was several times more dramatic than he expected.

He dryly smacked away the hand Lou Ying had put up with a snap that was as loud as it could be.

Lou Ying was dumbfounded.

Chi Xiaochi, on the other hand, frowned and took two steps back, looking at the stranger with a hundred thousand degrees of wariness and hostility.

These days by Chi Xiaochi's negative news tossed and froze, Lucas has been cultivated by the conditioned reflex, immediately put down the phone, shaking spirit to jump out to fight for Chi Xiaochi: "Sorry, sorry, he did not have a good night's rest last night, and also have to get up, you do not have to get along with him. I'm sorry, I'm sorry.

Lucas held Chi Xiaochi down and whispered fiercely, "Say you're sorry."

Chi Xiaochi lowered her head in a sort of apology.

With seven worlds of accumulated experience, Lv Fan's on-the-spot reflexes weren't weak, "Excuse me excuse me, you're that ...... that Chi Xiaochi, Mr. Chi, right? I, I heard you'd be here, and I just wanted an autograph."

Lucas was afraid of Chi Xiaochi's behavior and almost forced him to sign Lv Fan's autograph.

When the little employee who had come to ask for an autograph had gone, Lucas slapped Chi Xiaochi's back in anger: "My living ancestors! Don't make trouble for me! If you're caught on camera, you'll be a real asshole and you won't be able to talk about it with ten mouths! I've been busy enough lately, can you stop adding more work to my schedule?"

Chi Xiaochi frowns, "I don't like people just touching me."

Lucas then remembered, and let out an ouch, "I forgot, I forgot. Stomach's not bad, is it?"

Chi Xiaochi froze as she bit into her straw, "Not bad."

After a brief intersection, the duo went in completely opposite directions.

Chi Xiaochi, however, seemed to have something on his mind, touching his arm that had just been touched by that hand, and then moving his hand to his chest position, exerting pressure for a bit, with a bit of confusion showing between his eyebrows.

He stopped in his tracks and looked back at the young man who had walked diagonally down the hall and was about to ascend the stairs.

Lou Ying in Lv Fan's body stares back at Chi Xiaochi in silence, delicately tracing his brow with her eyesight.

But Lv Fan is walking away without looking back.

Seeing that the man had no intention of turning back, Chi Xiaochi herself realized how ridiculous the thought she had just had was.

He tugged at the corner of his lips once, tossed his empty milk tea cup into the trash can, and spun around to stride in the direction of shed number three.