Scientific Travel

Sleeping in the basement is not as comfortable as sleeping on the floor.

Deng Yin prefers to sleep in complete darkness, but the basement becomes pitch black without light, which is fine, but the biggest problem is that it's troublesome to relight the kerosene lamp.

Finding a kerosene lamp in complete darkness takes quite a bit of effort.

There is another person who shares the same habit as her—Feifei.

Both of them prefer to sleep in complete darkness; they cannot sleep if there is even a glimmer of light.

It seems the basement needs some improvement; we need to make something that can be controlled by a switch to emit light.

Deng Yinru thought to himself that he couldn't fall asleep until 2 a.m. because of the light.

"System, do you have a name?"

The system does not need to sleep; it only enters hibernation when its energy is insufficient.

"Yes, my name is 013."

It seems that the system names are all numbers, which is the same as their system.

Do you offer discounts in your system's in-game store? For example, after each natural disaster ends?

"No, so far only products that can be purchased once a month are available."

ten minutes later.

"System, should I call you 013 or System from now on?"

"Whatever, whatever you like."

Fifteen minutes later.

"System, if I don't want points, don't complete the mission, and just survive to the finale, will that count as completing the mission?"

This question immediately startled the system. Deng Yin couldn't have asked this casually; he must have planned it all along!

"Of course not! Every mission is designed to help you survive. If you don't complete the missions, you may survive until the end, but you'll only be able to return to your original home. You won't be able to obtain the space or planetary currency that were promised to you."

Twenty minutes later.

"system......"

The system interrupted Deng Yin: "Can't you sleep?"

"......Yes."

"I'll give you a sleeping pill. You'll fall asleep in five minutes after taking it."

It wasn't just five minutes; Deng Ying fell asleep just one minute after finishing his meal.

Wei Wujiang couldn't sleep that night either. The longer he spent with Deng Yin, the less he understood what Deng Yin was thinking.

At first, I thought Deng Yin was a reclusive master with great strength, and that I might want to gain some benefit from him, but I would never harm him.

Later, he thought Deng Yin liked him because of his face, but this idea was shattered as soon as it took shape. Although he knew nothing about relationships, he knew that making the injured person do the work was not a sign of love.

I don't know when it started, but my mind keeps unconsciously focusing on Deng Yin.

Ever since I learned a few days ago that she had saved not only me but also other people, I don't know why, but I've felt uneasy.

Today... no, yesterday, Deng Yin fed Gao Ruizhe like a puppy, and Gao Ruizhe was not ashamed but proud, so he let Deng Yin feed him a piece as well.

In the past, if anyone dared to feed him in this way, which was considered insulting, they would lose both their hands.

Now he's actually offering to accept it.

Is this... what liking someone means?

How could that be? Love is the most irrational thing in the world. Unless he's out of his mind, he can't possibly fall in love with someone else.

The storybooks say that when the male and female protagonists fall in love, something very romantic will happen. Perhaps one of them will be a hero who saves the damsel in distress, or perhaps one of them will fall in love at first sight and then try to win the other's heart.

Although Wei Wujiang had a story of rescuing a damsel in distress with Deng Yin, he was certain that he had not fallen in love with Deng Yin because of it.

Aside from this incident, Wei Wujiang couldn't think of anything else that would make him fall in love with Deng Yin.

Since there was no opportunity, he could not possibly fall in love with Deng Yin.

So what does his current behavior mean?

Wei Wujiang tossed and turned all night, unable to sleep. One moment he was thinking about whether his feelings for Deng Yin were love. But love requires the other person to do something truly moving; since Deng Yin hadn't done that, it couldn't be love. The next moment he was wondering, if this feeling wasn't love, then what was it?

Without the sun, and having not slept all night, Wei Wujiang had no way of using her biological clock to determine the time.

The sun hangs high in the sky outside, its rays dispelling the gloom.

Wei Wujiang suddenly sat up; he knew!

From beginning to end, he never liked Deng Yin; all his psychological activities were caused by Gao Ruizhe.

Although he didn't like Deng Yin, he developed a possessive desire for him because Deng Yin had saved him, and later Gao Ruizhe, whom Deng Yin had also saved, came along.

Possessiveness isn't exclusive to romantic relationships; it can exist in many kinds of relationships.

A life-saving grace is also a kind of emotion, and it is perfectly reasonable to feel possessiveness from it.

Wei Wujiang, who spent the whole night coming to a conclusion, didn't know that very few people could fall in love with someone because of something that deeply moved them, just like in the storybooks, and then have a passionate romance.

Most people's love is like water droplets, falling little by little into an empty bowl in their hearts. By the time they realize it, the bowl is already full.