Chapter 7: Arguments, old friends, a wish.

A few days later, Chi Xiaochi started packing to move into Cheng Jian's other apartment.

He hired a moving company to remove his beloved piano from Yang Baihua's house, saying that it would not make Yang Baihua's parents suspicious.

The living room seemed so much emptier with the piano gone.

The legs of the piano were padded, but where they had been placed they still left white marks of a different color than the surrounding floor.

Chi Xiaochi receives a bucket of fresh water and hums as she scrubs the floor.

Yang Baihua is also busy cleaning up and getting ready to welcome mom and dad.

Cheng Yuan is humming the song that was played to him in the car that day, bobbing his head and being fastidious.

This pleasure falls in Yang Baihua's eyes, but it makes him a bit more annoyed.

When Cheng Yuan was a student at the academy, he was obsessed with avant-garde music that "instrumentalized the human voice", which was so cold and demanding of professionalism that the small band Cheng Yuan built never had more than five members in the past four years.

Yang Baihua once went to Cheng Yuan School to see them perform. The kids played tambourines and fiddles, and sang and danced in a small music room, with no lyrics, just improvising, picking up on each other's melodies and harmonizing with each other.

After the song, Cheng Yuan ran to Yang Baihua with his guitar in his hand.

Yang Baihua screwed a bottle of water to him, "Are you going to perform somewhere."

Cheng Yuan holds his water bottle, "Nope. We're just playing."

He took two gulps of water, "Like it?"

Yang Baihua smiled and asked him, "Are you happy?"

Cheng Yuan smiled revealing a row of small white teeth, "Happy."

Yang Baihua helped him gather his hair, "I like it when you're happy."

At that time, Cheng Yuan was still young, just a sophomore, and was raised in a honeypot, so what did he know? He only knew how to play, which was normal.

...... But why has he grown up by now.

Four years in college, he net focus on "play", and now there is no skill, but also count on the music of life, do you want to rely on "play" for life?

Chi Xiaochi didn't bother to guess Yang Baihua's complicated thoughts at the moment, and only hummed.

Yang Baihua put the shabu-shabu dunnage on the edge of the balcony to dry, wiped her hands dry, rubbed Chi Xiaochi's hair, and said in the helpless tone of a cajoled child, "Why do I feel quite happy that you're moving out?"

Chi Xiaochi was quite happy and even wanted to set off a 3 o'clock firework to celebrate.

After all, he didn't want to spend the extra 4 points per day to keep his modesty safe with Yang Baihua.

Chi Xiaochi said with a full mouth, "No, no. I haven't seen my friend for a long time, and this time we're staying at his house, so we'll both have something to talk about."

Yang Baihua frowned imperceptibly, "What friend?"

Chi Xiaochi said, "Hairy."

"What's the name of ......?"

Chi Xiaochi replied softly, "Lou Ying."

I don't know if it's just an illusion, but when mentioning the word "Lou Ying", Yang Baihua realized that "Cheng Yuan"'s eyes and tone of voice were so gentle that it was hard to tell, as if this name was a treasure hidden in his heart that was not easily shown to others. It was as if this name to him was a treasure hidden in the tip of his heart that he did not easily show to others, and he would only bring it out once in a while to bathe in the light and wipe it off.

Yang Baihua became alert, "How come I've never heard you mention this before?"

Chi Xiaochi dipped the rag in a bucket of water, poured it out and twisted it again, "He left the country a long time ago."

Yang Baihua then remembered that she hadn't asked an important question, "You only told me you found a place to live, you haven't told me where you live."

Chi Xiaochi signed up for the neighborhood and then began to enjoy watching Yang Baihua's face change.

--The monthly property fee is higher than Yang Baihua's salary.

The system says, "That's not Cheng Jian ......."

Chi Xiaochi says, "Shhh, don't talk, feel it with your heart."

SYSTEM: "...... experience what?"

Chi Xiaochi : "The thrill of hanging from a Kryptonite player."

System: "......"

Yang Baihua came back to his senses and asked, "How is that Lou Ying ...... other person?"

Chi Xiaochi replied, "It's great. He was my best friend when I was a kid."

Yang Baihua's thin lips pursed, "Xiao Cheng, how long has it been since you and he met?"

Without thinking, Chi Xiaochi replied, "More than 12 years."

Hearing this, Yang Baihua breathed a sigh of relief and said in a gentle voice, "12 years, so long ago, he must be different from before."

Chi Xiaochi shrugged, full of concern, "I suppose."

"People's hearts are in the wrong place. He invited you to stay at his house, do you know what he's playing at?"

Chi Xiaochi looked back with Cheng Yuan's bunny-like innocent eyes, seemingly not understanding what Yang Baihua was saying.

Some people are together all the time, and that heart remains unguessable.

Seeing that Cheng Yuan didn't take his roundabout advice to heart, Yang Baihua's mind was even more confused.

Although Cheng Yuan's character is calm and gentle, due to his family background, Cheng Yuan's circle of friends can never be on the same level as Yang Baihua.

Every time Cheng Yuan's friends show up, they are reminding Yang Baihua over and over again that Cheng Yuan and he are not from the same world.

Yang Baihua needs to bring him into his circle.

As a result, with his planning and persuasion, he has helped Cheng Yuan draw a line in the sand with many of the people in his original circle of friends that he didn't think were worth befriending.

But who'd have thought that there'd be another Lou Ying out there now?

The conversation made for a less than pleasant atmosphere between the two.

To be precise, it's just Yang Baihua's one-sided unpleasantness.

That night, he texted Cheng Yuan to inform him that the chief executive had temporarily called him to work overtime and that he would not come back to sleep at night.

Soon after, Cheng Yuan texted back, "Go for it." It was followed by three love hearts.

Yang Baihua: "......"

After replying to Yang Baihua's text message, Chi Xiaochi lay back on the soft queen-sized bed of her apartment and said to the system, "I wonder what his face would be if he came home and realized I had moved out."

Probably a good sense -20 expression, the system thought.

Chi Xiaochi stretched, "His parents are coming the day after tomorrow, I think. When they didn't come they wanted me to move out, and when they did they weren't happy about it, men are all big piggies."

The system admired Chi Xiaochi's calmness, but still couldn't help but remind him, "Mr. Chi, please pay attention to the progress of the mission."

These days, Chi Xiaochi had been testing the edge of Yang Baihua's favorability and passing the test, as for the only criterion for completing the mission, the remorse value was completely ignored by Chi Xiaochi.

Chi Xiaochi said back to the system, "Aren't you tired?"

System:"...... Hmm?"

Chi Xiaochi said, "Keep calling me Mr. Chi, it's been days, are we that unfamiliar."

The system didn't say anything.

He didn't used to be like that, all the hosts were pretty good with him.

This continued until he was reported by the eighth host.

Starting with the ninth host, he began to address the host as "Mr. X".

"If you don't know each other well, then you don't know each other well." Chi Xiaochi, on the contrary, quickly understood the system's concern from the silence, and generously said, "Less liaison, lest I go in the future, you will be so sad that you will cry out."

System: "......"

Chi Xiaochi : "Because you'll never find a good host like me who allows you to watch movies in my head in the middle of the night."

System: "............"

Chi Xiaochi said, "Remember not to publicize it next time."

The system says, "...... I'm sorry."

Chi Xiaochi said, "It's okay, I haven't seen that movie in a long time, so I'll watch it back with you."

While the system was guilty, it was still puzzled, "Mr. Chi, didn't you use a hypnosis card?"

These days, all the goodwill Chi Xiaochi swiped was used by him to exchange for hypnosis cards, first numbing Yang Baihua, then numbing himself, making the system feel that it had downgraded itself from a proper system to a seller of hoodwinks.

"I feel shallow." Chi Xiaochi said, "Besides, that hypnosis card isn't a dead pig card."

The system apologized again, "I'm sorry."

Chi Xiaochi asks, "Is my movie good."

System:"...... It's pretty."

Chi Xiaochi said, "That's good. You can download the movies I'm in here, and when I go back after my mission, you might even see me."

Hearing Chi Xiaochi say this, the system asked rhetorically, "Is your wish to go back to the original world?"

Chi Xiaochi raised an eyebrow, "Of course."

The system laughed darkly.

The "Scum Attack Recycling System" that System 061 worked for was just one of the many branches of the world system. All of these hosts on missions, without exception, had life-threatening accidents in their respective worlds, and their brainwaves that were about to dissipate were captured by the total system, and the survey system that extended the waves to various parallel worlds was able to extradite them.

The Master System would contract with the hosts to dispense the system and have them perform some sort of task.

After completing ten worlds, the hosts can present a wish, and the total system will automatically dissolve its contract with the hosts after completing this wish.

As for their real-world □□□, the system can only guarantee to maintain their minimum survival needs.

According to the system's private communication, all the hosts they have brought, when they first entered, almost all of them have the desire to "go home".

However, the flow of time in the mission world is the same as the flow of time in the host's reality.

It goes without saying what it means for a person to spend months or even years in bed as a walking corpse.

That alone was enough to make all the hosts that 061 brought through change their hearts in droves for the second half of the mission.

The 061's quest for efficiency is half about getting the hosts home as quickly as possible, but so far it hasn't succeeded even once.

- - They all coincidentally chose a particular mission world to stay in and let their original physical bodies die.

The reason why he urged Chi Xiaochi to act quickly was that he was afraid that he would be delayed in the mission world for too long and forget where he came from.

These days, 061 has read a lot of Chi Xiaochi's material, and in the movie, he also saw Chi Xiaochi's true nature.

His looks were a little more stunning than he had expected.

His eyes were pale, his face always had a weary undertone of lust fulfilled, a half-length of thick black hair simply tied behind his head, appearing to have a slender neck, a strong, lean body with slender bones but as much waist socket as muscle.

Even if he is playing a young man in a fishing village, he has a reserved air that is different from the others, and he has played the young man with a higher heart than the sky but with a tragic destiny to the fullest.

In contrast to his aristocratic looks, Chi Xiaochi came from a surprisingly mediocre background.

His father was a toothbrush factory worker, his mother was a female worker in a local food factory, and his parents were not on good terms with him as he inherited a small house in a silo. After entering the industry, he didn't have any good friends, and his romantic experience was zero, but he was very popular with a group of industry seniors and bigwigs in the circle, among which Sun Guangren, a scriptwriter bull, was especially popular.

Summarizing all the information and data, 061 believes that for Chi Xiaochi, his career is probably the most important and worthwhile thing in the original world for him to stay.

So, with a hint in his words, he prompted Chi Xiaochi to say, "You were quite successful in your old world, and it would be too bad if you didn't go back."

Unexpectedly, Chi Xiaochi said, "It's no shame."

"I'm going back. Because no one else is going to visit his grave but me."

System: "......"

He thought of the cemetery in Bei Mang, and the "Lou Ying" mentioned by Chi Xiaochi in front of Yang Baihua, and pondered.

"'Lou Ying,' a friend of yours?"

Chi Xiaochi didn't answer and reached for the nightstand.

There lay the sleeping pills he'd bought today.

He couldn't reach Yang Baihua this week to brush up too much goodwill, and he didn't want to make an effort to build with this just passing goodwill.

Now that the key event hadn't been triggered yet, there was no guarantee that there wouldn't be any unexpected turn of events if the goodwill fell too low, so he decided to save and use drugs instead of hypnosis cards like in the current world.

He knocked down a pill, thought about it, took another, and without righting the water, swallowed it straight down.

Swallow the pills before Chi Xiaochi answered the system's question, "It's my best friend."

...... exactly what he told Yang Baihua.

061 wanted to ask, does your inability to sleep have anything to do with him, but as the words were about to come out, he held back.

This was not something a system should worry about. Like he said, they were one person and one system, there was no need to climb too deep into the relationship, and in time they would always be separated.

The system decided to be a cold and emotionless system.

Better to push him to think more about the mission.

The medicine gradually began to take effect.

After listening to the system's urging, Chi Xiaochi tightened the quilt and yawned lazily, "...... want to break the situation, the upper strategy, the middle strategy and the lower strategy, there are a total of three ways."

061: "...... Hmm?"

Chi Xiaochi stretched one hand out and padded it behind her head, "Remember what I asked you to do when I first got here."

061 certainly remembered, but did not quite understand Chi Xiaochi's intention.

He asked 061 to play the world line from beginning to end three times, and in some places read it more than three times.

He asked to be immersed into the experience of Cheng Yuan's despair before his suicide, and asked 061 for several details.

He then fiddled with Cheng Yuan's cell phone for a long time.

Chi Xiaochi closed his eyes, "......9 points of regret value counts for his starting price. Take your time, there's no rush."