Chapter 77: Star picking, companionship, confidentiality system.

Fish are not difficult to catch. These fish rarely see people, fatten themselves up, and are so dumb that Chi Xiaochi pulls out a medium-sized one and turns to Blue and says, "Knife."

A short, sharp blade popped out of the weapon storage on its arm.

Chi Xiaochi took over, "And a longer one."

Blue did as he was told, drew a saber, held the blade in his hand and handed it to Chi Xiaochi.

Chi Xiaochi skillfully cut open the belly of the fish with a short knife, pulled out all the internal organs, scraped off the scales, and after washing his hands in the lake, he skewered the fish with a saber and set it on the fire.

In the last world, Chi Xiaochi bought back half of the contents of the warehouse, including some everyday items.

The fish is marinated in white wine for a few moments, then the fennel seeds are finely ground and mixed with salt, cumin and chili pepper, and applied to the surface of the fresh fish over the fire.

As the fish oil sizzled, Chi Xiaochi got up and went to a nearby grove to pick up a dozen chestnut-like nuts, and after checking with 061 that they were not poisonous, he cleaned them and threw them into the fire.

In a short while, a cracked ripe chestnut jumped out of the fire, revealing its brown and hot flesh.

Chi Xiaochi is enjoying this wordless time of gathering wood and cooking, and so is 061.

When he picked up the chestnuts, he finally opened his mouth, and his voice was not too high and not too low, afraid of waking up the tired Ji Zuoshan.

He said, "Mr. Six, it's been a long time since I've been alone with you."

061 laughs, and presses his voice like him, "Seems like it."

Chi Xiaochi glanced over, "Oh, forgot about Blue."

Blue was flipping the fish on the other side to keep it from searing, as if intrigued by the sudden appearance of the sauce.

Chi Xiaochi stared at the dancing fire and casually asked, "Mr. Six, I forgot, why did you forget too?"

061 coughed lightly, "Don't forget, I used to be human. It's normal to forget things."

Chi Xiaochi says, "I always thought Blue was too smart. Do you think it can hear us?"

061: "...... Do you want to say something to it?"

Chi Xiaochi thought hard, "Blue, I want to get sleepy with you."

061: "...... Can you say something serious."

Chi Xiaochi: "Very serious. I'm telling you, machines are more emotional than people. Take for example the one I used ......"

The next, before the fish was cooked, the good conversation turned into an erotica appreciation meeting.

061's ears were hot at the sound of it, "You."

Chi Xiaochi clapped, "Yes, that was Sun Lao's tone when he grabbed my bag on the set."

For some reason, 061 doesn't quite want to close the age gap with Chi Xiaochi, arguing, "I'm still young."

Chi Xiaochi asked him, "How many years have you been in the systems business?"

061 couldn't quite put his finger on it, "It's always been ten years or so."

"When did you have your accident?"

061 said, "Probably as a teenager." Don't remember exactly what.

Chi Xiaochi understands: "It's good to forget."

The fish is cooked. He tore open the slightly charred skin of the fish, and the white, creamy flesh of the fish was steaming, and he touched it with his hand before his fingers were blazed by the heat, and he hissed and sucked in his breath.

061 Immediately collecting all his fluttering thoughts, Blue maneuvered Blue took his hand and pulled him to the edge of the lake, dipping his reddened hand in the cool water.

Chi Xiaochi is suddenly a little uncomfortable being held by the wrist like this.

Blue, like Dong Feihong, reminds him of someone from his past, who didn't say much, but always took care of everything for him in a quiet way.

Chi Xiaochi thinks he's going to be sick in the head, looking at a machine and seeing what's going on.

He said, "The fish is going to be mushy."

Blue moderated, "...... There's no rush."

It's not that Chi Xiaochi didn't find it strange.

Except for the second world where he didn't meet anyone similar to Lou Ying, in the first, third and current worlds, he met Lou Ying, or someone who gave him the feeling of Lou Ying.

He remembered that 061 had said in the first world that as the mission world continued, the world line Chi Xiaochi was going to would gradually lose its overlap with the original world line, and the harder it would be to come across the living Lou Ying again.

...... So, how is it that one can accurately make contact with "Lou Ying" in that world in multiple worlds?

As he thought about it, Chi Xiaochi had a vague answer in mind.

Making sure there were no blisters on his hands, he sat back down by the fire, slicing the freshly sizzling fish meat with a small, cleaned knife as he did so:

"Teacher Six, those two hosts you've taken before, did they not go back to their original worlds?"

At the mention of these two, 061 sighed slightly, "Hmm."

"All because of what?"

061 said, "Host number nine is a middle school teacher. He chose to stay in a world where the original host was a college teacher because he fell in love with his student while on a mission."

061 added, "Host number ten is an ordinary minor civil servant. He chose to stay in an ancient world where the original host was the emperor. The ...... reason shouldn't need to be said."

Chi Xiaochi raised her eyebrows.

Sure enough, as he thought, it was the people or personnel relationships in these particular worlds that gave the original owner a sense of attachment.

...... Then it's not hard to explain Lou's appearance.

Chi Xiaochi asked him, "Did you visit them after all the missions?"

061 shook his head, "Once we unbind from the host, we won't be able to sense the host's exact location."

Actually, the tenth host is still pretty easy to find, it's just that since unbinding from him, 061 ran into Chi Xiaochi, and once bound, they never separated.

Just those two days apart had scratched him to death.

But 061 soon noticed Chi Xiaochi looking up at the sky and letting out a long, calm breath.

Whenever Chi Xiaochi showed this expression, 061 s heart sank uncontrollably.

He had this look on his face when he analyzed the possibility of the original owner living inside the body, and when he argued about the mind of the main god in choosing the target of the raid.

Slightly disturbed, he inquired, "What's wrong?"

Chi Xiaochi did think of something disturbing.

Question 1: The hosts left the world by committing suicide, so if they killed the original host's □□□, whose body and identity will they use when they go back to the world they want to go to?

Question two, if what they killed was the soul of the original owner and the □□□ is still there, how are junior high school teachers going to serve as university teachers when they go back? How are ordinary civil servants going to be good emperors?

But he said, "It's nothing."

He liked the vibe of the evening.

For tonight only, he didn't want to disturb the rare peace with anything else.

He looked up at the sky and propped his hands behind him, "Look, there are stars."

It wasn't a bad night at all, the smell of a melting campfire and roasting chestnuts sweetened the night, and Chi Xiaochi ate the fish over the leftover white wine while chatting with 061 about the many things that had happened to her on the crew while Blue went off on a patrol of the woods to keep any wildlife from harming her hosts.

Talking more and more, Chi Xiaochi and drank a little wine, wine and heat at the time so frankly his heart: "You know, six teachers, a few times, I thought you were Dong Feihong ...... thought you were Lou brother. I'm not sure if you're going to be able to do that.

061, still reeling from the last joke, nearly choked on his windpipe at that.

Chi Xiaochi said, "That ...... was the time Lou Sifan got someone to beat up Dong Ge, and He Zhangsheng and I were going to rush back, and you kept stopping me, but when we did rush back, Uncle Junior rushed over. What a coincidence."

"He also found me quickly when I was eating a cream tart in Canada, as if he knew where I was at all times."

"When Dong Ge was still alive, he had absolutely no memories of his little uncle, and then we ended up here and he showed up."

061 listened in a cold sweat.

Chi Xiaochi's eyes, slightly watery from the wine, blinked, "Dong Feihong is that you, Mr. Six?"

Before 061 could think of a clear answer, he heard his own voice reply with a categorical, "No."

He was slightly stunned for a moment, then he realized.

...... is the shielding function of the confidentiality system.

It was a clause in his contract with the Lord God that he could not reveal his false identity to Chi Xiaochi.

But he didn't realize that the Lord God had included the identity of "Dong Feihong" in the category of secrecy.

Chi Xiaochi paused, "...... isn't it."

He muttered softly, "...... How nice it would be."

061 knew that he should digress at this point, but he couldn't help but press on, "Then why do you think Dong Feihong is Lou Ying?"

Chi Xiaochi, a little dazed from the wine, leaned against a nearby tree and muttered, "...... intuition."

061 Crying and laughing.

What kind of reason is that.

He asked, "Then why didn't you say something when you realized something was wrong?"

He remembered that Chi Xiaochi was not the kind of person who kept everything to himself.

"I've ...... been scammed once before just two and a half years before I got hit by a chandelier." Chi Xiaochi made a "shh" gesture, her voice soft with alcohol, "...... It was a bad one."

061 knew that he was drinking to his head, and his voice changed to a soft child-coaxing tone, "You're so smart, who could cheat you?"

"It's a Wang Ba egg." Chi Xiaochi said qualitatively.

061 asked, "Did he rip you off?"

Chi Xiaochi stretched her tone, "He cheated on me emotionally - I didn't tell anyone about it, I was too ashamed."

061 good-naturedly, "And you got me kinda interested. What did he lie to you about?"

Chi Xiaochi rested her head against a tree and whispered, "There was a guy who pretended to be my fan on the internet, he started to private message me every day, and then he told me he was Lou Ying and asked me to come out to meet him. I waited for a long time at the agreed place, ah, until three o'clock in the morning, until that restaurant was closed, and he didn't come."

061 was a little distressed, "You believe all that."

"...... Being fooled once is enough." Chi Xiaochi whispered, "I won't lie to myself again."

Chi Xiaochi drank good wine redeemed from the storehouse, which came and went quickly, and he gradually sobered up while Blue wiped his face with a soft cloth dipped in clean lake water.

He asked, "What time is it?"

Blue replied, "It's ten o'clock at night."

Chi Xiaochi didn't sound too crestfallen, stretching out and being comfortably helped up by Blue, "I didn't realize I was going to be out on the first day."

Each day, before 2400, they had to scavenge the requested items and place them in the nearest one of the monitoring points, so that they could obtain a new transmitter from the monitors and receive a new mission for the next day.

If you don't collect all the items, or don't turn them in to the monitoring point in time, that means you're out.

It was now twenty-two o'clock and about fifteen kilometers from the nearest one of the monitoring points, and unless he could find a piece of Naman metal within the hour, it would be impossible for him to complete the day's mission.

Knowing that he had basically sealed the deal, Chi Xiaochi was at peace with himself: "God didn't favor me, I couldn't help it."

Instead of riding Blue, he walked out of the woods side by side with Blue.

And to the open space, the starry sky is more and more vast, surging and flowing, like a waterfall.

Chi Xiaochi can't take his eyes off the scenery.

061 asked him, "Do you like the stars so much?"

Chi Xiaochi hadn't seen such a radiant sea of galactic light in a long time and took a deep breath, "Hmm."

061 said, "Want one, I'll pick one off for you."

Chi Xiaochi was amused, "Stop it, Mr. Six."

061 says, "The teacher will do his best to fulfill the student's request."

Hearing the solemnity in 061's tone, Chi Xiaochi's heart thumped for no reason.

061 said mildly, "Sorry, I've been parsing it since the break earlier, it's really taking a while."

Chi Xiaochi : "What does ...... mean?"

"The ability of our system is to shift objects in parallel and change their material form while ensuring conservation and equivalence. Like in the first world, I can parse cups and tea into data ......"

Saying that, 061 also looked to the sky, "According to the information, the closest asteroid to this place is rich in Naman metal. In roughly fifteen minutes, a piece of its stardust containing Naman metal will fall on the desert roughly three kilometers away from here."

...... This is something Lou Ying can't do, but he can.

Thinking so, 061's voice contained a smile, "...... This is my star for you, thank you for your company tonight."