Off the Score, Acknowledgments, Cosmic Fireworks.

After dressing up, Chi Xiaochi went to visit the Omega in heat in the military prison.

He was sleeping soundly wrapped in a quilt, the fearful trepidation that had filled his face last night having been replaced by serenity, except for a bruise on the back of his neck, exposed on his side, which stood out.

Chi Xiaochi asked Yin Shaofei: "What happened to this wound?"

Yin Shaofei sweated, and turned his attention to Zhan Yanchao, who was guarding the entrance to the prison.

Zhan Yanchao, leaning on a major's sword decorated with mahogany wires, sits at the only entrance and exit of the steel cell, with the cell's large set of keys on the hilt, and his head leaning against the railing, dozing off with a thump.

Yin Shaofei: "If it wasn't for Deputy Mission, people wouldn't be able to get here in one piece. ......"

Yin Shaofei doesn't dare to think about last night's chaos.

Those Alpha soldiers were all in extreme madness, fortunately there is Zhan Yanchao all the way to open the way, the result is that the Omega saw a group of Alpha surging up, scared and screaming, kicking and punching in his own arms, Zhan Yanchao turned back to a hand knife chopped over the person, the world is only peace and quiet.

"Then what's the point of having you?" Chi Xiaochi gave him a look, "What's the difference between you and a rice cooker, besides the fact that they both gasp for air?"

Rice Cooker: "......"

Chi Xiaochi asked again, "Who brought that Omega into my tent?"

The rice cooker can't even breathe now.

Chi Xiaochi read the answer in his silence, "Just as well, it's close enough to get thirty stripes."

He turned around and walked out, Yin Shaofei, who was annoyed that he had kissed the horse's hoof with his own ass, was busy following him.

And the sound of his departing footsteps finally woke up Zhan Yanchao.

Seeing Ji Zuoshan's back, Zhan Yanchao creston jumped up, but hit his head on the brass lock right above his head, which made him spin around, hissed and sucked in two breaths, and then grabbed the key and jumped up, and ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding, and then rushed to the door.

Chi Xiaochi heard the ringing of the keys and turned back, just in time to collide with Zhan Yanchao.

Zhan Yanchao now realized that his dignified appearance, which had been boiled all night, really looked a bit lousy in front of the well-dressed General Ji, but Zhan Ershao was, after all, Zhan Ershao, and he wouldn't forget the original purpose of his chasing out.

"I didn't move him." Zhan Yanchao clarified for himself, "I have ...... that cleanliness fetish."

Chi Xiaochi just looked at him quietly.

Zhan Yanchao said, "I recognize one person, and that's the one."

To cover up the embarrassment and to avoid hearing a rejection, Zhan Yanchao continued without a thought, "Omega really is as fragile as tofu. ...... It's a good thing you didn't turn out like that."

He looked at Ji Zuoshan, who was already more than half a head taller than him, and muttered sweetly and painfully, "You're, like, just, just fine."

As we speak, Zhan Yanchao's remorse has risen by two more points.

It's not because of anything else, it's a true realization of all those mistakes and absurdities of his past.

But the teenager in front of him was no longer Xiao Ji, and the way he looked at Zhan Yanchao was the way General Ji looked at Vice Regiment Zhan, choosing to leave with only a slight nod of approval.

Zhan Yanchao's heart ached, but he could only hold a set of keys and quietly watch Ji Zuoshan leave.

He thought of a long time ago.

Once, when he was about thirteen or fourteen years old, Xiao Ji had taken about ten lashes from himself for some reason that he had completely forgotten.

At that time, the weather was sultry and humid, and Ji Zuoshan's wound became infected and he developed a high fever and lay in bed for three days and three nights. He stayed by his bedside, afraid that he would leave him, and vowed quietly that he would never hit him again.

Ji Zuoshan woke up too tired to talk to him.

He squeezed into Ji Zuoshan's quilt, hugged him, and didn't speak.

Ji Zuoshan whispered, "Hot."

He hugged him tighter.

Ji Zuoshan whiplash has always been fast, the body does not hurt, so let him hold.

Ji Zuoshan said, "Young master, my family vacation is coming up. How can I go back to see my younger siblings when I am so sick."

Zhan Yanchao just won't admit his fault: "You don't make me angry, how could I hit you."

Ji Zuoshan sighed helplessly.

Zhan Yanchao lay down in his arms and looked up at him, his dark eyes like two points of stars, "Will you be angry with me?"

Ji Zuoshan thought about it and objectively said, "I haven't gotten mad yet."

Zhan Yanchao was relentless: "Get angry and show me one."

Ji Zuoshan Crying and laughing: "I won't be angry. ...... Should only be disappointed."

Zhan Yanchao couldn't tell the difference between the two: "Doesn't it mean the same thing?"

Ji Zuoshan good-naturedly paraphrased, "Anger, and perhaps the possibility of reconciliation; disappointment, I will not be angry or furious, but will simply leave, never to return."

Zhan Yanchao, his mouth bulging, jumped up and said indignantly, "How dare you!"

Ji Zuoshan did not say he dared, nor did he say he did not dare, but only looked at him, the corner of his mouth slightly hooked.

Ji Zuoshan's eyes are unusually gentle and tolerant for a child of his age.

...... Zhan Yanchao now understood the meaning of that look in his eyes.

But Zhan Yanchao finally lost Xiao Ji.

After Chi Xiaochi had taken a dozen steps, 061 looked at the blue bar of Remorse Value and reminded him, "Xiaochi, it's full."

Chi Xiaochi hmmm'd calmly.

061 said, "Aren't you going to do anything else with Zhan Yanchao?"

Chi Xiaochi said, "Choices are made by people. It's not like I didn't give Yang Baihua and Lou Sifan a chance." Chi Xiaochi doesn't have to have an itchy foot to kick someone off a cliff if they're willing to pull back.

Ji Zuoshan was a bit puzzled: "What does 'full' ...... mean?"

Chi Xiaochi signaled 061 to stop the intermediate time compression card that had been running, "Meaning, this body belongs to you alone at all times."

Ji Zuoshan was silent.

Chi Xiaochi then let him go in silence. But both he and 061 knew that children of that age could not bear to part with each other after all.

Sure enough, in the silence of the lunch hour, Ji Zuoshan took credit.

He said, "Tomorrow Luo Qian is coming."

Chi Xiaochi added on his behalf: "It's Miss Luo Qian, the new researcher at the Weapons Institute of the Ministry of the Army."

Ji Zuoshan: "Uh-huh. She looks beautiful in a women's military dress."

A few days ago, she used a messenger to send a picture of herself in her military uniform, with Wang Xiaoqing, also a member of the Weapons Institute, standing beside her, and the two flowers bloomed side by side in one place, making people look at them really hot.

Chi Xiaochi : "Don't look at her in a dress, she's bigger than me when she pulls it out."

Ji Zuoshan blushed, "Mr. Ji, don't talk about girls like that."

Chi Xiaochi said, "I'm talking about bigger than me, closer than you for sure."

Ji Zuoshan: "......"

Chi Xiaochi elegantly cuts off a piece of pan-fried veal with a knife and fork and puts it in her mouth.

Ji Zuoshan picks up where he left off, "Mr. Ji, meet her before you go."

Chi Xiaochi said, "No need. She's your friend."

Ji Zuoshan won't give up: "It's yours too."

Chi Xiaochi didn't keep refusing and said yes.

On the next day's public holiday, Luo Qian and Wang Xiaoqing arrived as promised.

Her hair had grown a little longer, and her short, ear-length hair made her look even more beautiful. She dragged Wang Xiaoqing on a tour of Ji Zuoshan's new single-player machine, then ran up to Blue and shook its hand, "Blue, how are you?"

Blue returned the handshake and said, gentlemanly, "Hello, Ms. Luo Qian."

To the side, Ji Zuoshan, who was in the body, opened his mouth again, "Mr. Ji, Luo Qian is very good, right?"

Chi Xiaochi nodded, and at the same time wondered if Ji Zuoshan was interested in Luo Qian.

Ji Zuoshan : "She'll be back next public holiday, you can leave then."

Chi Xiaochi didn't say anything.

After a moment, he let out a low chuckle, "When you put it that way, I thought you had a thing for me."

Ji Zuoshan has been with Chi Xiaochi long enough to know what Chi Xiaochi's laugh means.

"Mr. Chi, don't go." He almost panicked, "I-I can take two people in one body. You guys aren't leaving, okay."

The hardest times were the ones they spent with them, and Ji Zuoshan didn't want to end the contractual relationship anymore, he wanted to continue it, forever.

But Chi Xiaochi was adamant: "I have to go back to my old world."

Ji Zuoshan also knew he was imposing.

He dropped his eyelashes in defeat and said, "I'm sorry. Mr. Ikari, there must be someone in your world waiting for you to return."

Chi Xiaochi replied, "No."

Ji Zuoshan : "That ......"

Chi Xiaochi said, "But I'm going back."

While Ji Zuoshan was downcast, 061 smiled silently, as if remembering something happy.

In the middle of the night, Ji Zuoshan, who was forced to be dragged out by two girls to go shopping in the military service area, fell asleep early and couldn't be woken up no matter how hard he called.

Confirming that he was asleep, 061 asked Chi Xiaochi, "Why don't you tell him that if you don't disengage from this world, you will be asked to commit forced suicide to disengage?"

After returning to the main god space the last time and learning that a host had been driven to suicide, 061 had immediately informed Chi Xiaochi of the situation.

Chi Xiaochi, busy counting his warehouse inventory, sniffed and asked rhetorically, "Why would he want to know that?"

061 froze.

Chi Xiaochi said, "He just needs to know that he woke up after a long nightmare of making a good deal. Long from today, he'll be the hero of the planet, the god of war."

As for him, Chi Xiaochi was just a guest in that dream.

When he finished, he got up, put on his uniform, and said, "Let's go."

Just as he stepped out of the military tent, the limping Yin Shaofei greeted him, "General Ji, where are you going?"

Chi Xiaochi said, "Go look at the stars."

Yin Shaofei followed a few steps, and then he heard Chi Xiaochi say, "What are you following me for? Beware of the insects sneaking in."

Yin Shaofei laughs, "Our military satellites are operating 24 hours a day."

Chi Xiaochi asked, "Satellites are limited in who they can monitor, after all. What if it's an invasion of earthworms?"

Yin Shaofei : "General Ji, have you forgotten? The earthbound bug is a class E bug, only good at digging holes, not much offensive power, it's unlikely to be able to cross the air layer and land on the ground alive, even an ordinary Beta citizen can be killed with their bare hands. ......"

Chi Xiaochi listened patiently to what he had to say before asking, "What if it's a small batch of earthbound bugs wrapping their bodies around the iron beetles, interfering with the satellite's judgment, and carrying out a direct invasion of the main rear?"

In a previous life, the planet's tight security was breached in a moment of laxity.

And that's how Ji Zuoshan died.

Such a presumption called Yin Shaofei cold sweat: "...... General Ji?"

Chi Xiaochi waved a hand, "Write a report and give it to the Ministry of War, requesting that the plan to police the earthbound insects be included in the wartime policing program."

Yin Shaofei answered yes and immediately walked away.

Chi Xiaochi then stepped onto the stargazer and sat cross-legged.

Before his eyes, a patchwork of stars, some only a few light-years away, but some with light that had traveled thousands of miles from a star billions of years old, whose home planet might even have ceased to exist, silently obliterated in a corner of the universe, by the time Chi Xiaochi saw it.

Chi Xiaochi asked, "Mr. Six, where is the star you sent me?"

061 said, "Southeast."

As Chi Xiaochi searched for the gravelly star in the long river of stars, a pair of steel arms encircled him from behind, "Master."

Look at the locator on your wrist, Chi Xiaochi. It's not hard to imagine how it found itself.

Blue was the first mech Chi Xiaochi had ever driven, and having shared his senses with it, Chi Xiaochi felt a trace of a different kind of nostalgia when he was nestled in its arms at the moment.

He thought that was too weird and simply asked it a question he already knew the answer to, "How did you find it?"

Blue reaches out, gently takes Chi Xiaochi's locator-worn wrist, lifts it up, and points a finger at Chi Xiaochi's heart.

It whispered, "I listened for my master's heartbeat and found it all the way here."

Chi Xiaochi : "......" It's still fucking mecha.

Blue circled him and continued, "No matter where the master is in the universe, as long as your heart is still beating, I can find you."

Chi Xiaochi Inexplicably, he felt that the words were said in such a way as to make his ears hot.

He leaned back into its arms and said to it, "...... You'll have to watch the stars with Xiao Ji from now on, too."

Blue seemed unintelligible and cocked his head, "Master?"

Chi Xiaochi takes in that last view of the starry sky before closing his eyes.

It's a shame you can't see such great starlight anywhere else anymore.

He said to 061, "Let's go."

061 made his move, pulling Chi Xiaochi's consciousness away from him, and after confirming that the spiritual energy no longer existed in this body, he was ready to leave together, but who would have thought that at that moment, he heard Ji Zuoshan's voice: "Teacher Six, Mr. Chi has left?"

He sounded wide awake, and seemed to have been awake for a long time, or never slept.

061 hmmm, "I'm leaving too. Sorry I didn't get to say hello before I left."

Ji Zuoshan smiled gently, his eyes still closed, as if unwilling to open them to face the morning when only one person wakes up.

He said, "Mr. Six, my mental powers can parse a certain level of data, and I know Blue is you."

061 smiled without saying anything.

He could also feel Ji Zuoshan's spiritual energy testing Blue. It seems that Chi Xiaochi is not the only one who suspects that Blue is too intelligent.

Ji Zuoshan didn't pursue the matter any further, "Will I see you again."

061 said, "Maybe it can."

Ji Zuoshan Now that's some relief, "Please give this image to Mr. Chi. Okay."

In the next instant, 061 sensed the addition of a video feed to his database.

He asked, "What is it?"

"Mr. Ji is very nice person." Ji Zuoshan said, "This is ...... my gift to him."

When 061 returned to the snowy white rectangle, Chi Xiaochi, who had been waiting for him for a long time, was already playing his card game.

061 Now when he sees Chi Xiaochi, he can't hide the tenderness in his voice: "I'm home."

Chi Xiaochi hmmm'd, "Welcome home."

061 said, "Xiao Ji knows you're gone."

Chi Xiaochi's hand tapping the screen gave a slight lurch, "Uh-huh. ...... And then what."

061 puts Ji Zuoshan's gift parallel to the display in front of Chi Xiaochi.

It was debris thrown out by the explosion of a protostar, images from a constellation of molecular clouds, searing inanimate stars blooming silently in the darkness of cosmic space, with wind and splendor streaming through the sky.

"He set off a cosmic firework for you." 061 to silent Chi Xiaochi, "He said, thank you."