Chapter 207 Actually, she's a traveling frog.
Pei Hening suddenly remembered the photo album she kept in her study, containing tens of thousands of photos, from her birth to the day before she went to the highway to survive.
She looked up at Chu Xuange, her lips moved, but she didn't speak.
Chu Xuange took her hand and asked, "What's wrong?"
Pei Hening leaned on his shoulder, gently stroking the bracelet on her wrist, remaining silent.
She felt guilty deep down. When Chu Xuange came to her house in the middle of the night and dragged her to participate in the beta test, she thought he was just joking to follow the trend and decided to sacrifice a day's sleep to play with him.
When Chu Xuange took out the bracelet later, she initially believed him to be mostly right, but then she automatically rationalized it, thinking he was performing magic to create a game-like atmosphere.
It is difficult for a person's ideas to exceed existing knowledge.
When she was finally pulled onto the highway to survive, she felt both regret and guilt.
She felt regret and guilt for not taking Chu Xuange's words seriously and for not sharing the news with her parents and her friends.
After she went to the highway to survive, she avoided thinking about these issues. Once she did, she would see that 'guilty' version of herself, a version of herself that, across the veil of time, gave her an all-knowing yet sorrowful smile.
Chu Xuange held her hand and felt it was a little cold. He guessed, "Are you thinking about those tens of thousands of photos in the study?"
Looking at Pei Hening's expression, he knew he had guessed correctly, and said gently, "Before I went to your house that day, I sent an email to your aunt and uncle, briefly explaining the situation. They should help you pack your things after they come out of the research institute."
Pei Hening was shocked and looked up to meet his gentle and tolerant dark eyes: "What?"
Chu Xuange repeated, "Before I went to your house that day, I sent an email to your aunt and uncle, explaining our situation."
Pei Yidan and Ning Yanlai both work in a closed research institute, but their research directions are different. One studies certain cutting-edge weapons and equipment, while the other studies certain chemical weapons.
The research institutes where the two worked maintained a high level of secrecy, and they didn't even have internal encrypted email addresses for family members. Pei Hening couldn't contact them directly, and the only legitimate way to contact them was to wait for them to contact her on their own initiative.
However, Pei Hening has a little habit: she likes to use their email addresses as a diary, sending all the interesting things or things she wants to tell them to their private email addresses.
They will read them one by one if conditions permit.
For a long time, Pei Hening felt that she was a traveling frog that the two of them had raised.
Following Pei Yidan and Ning Yanlai's usual practice, they would definitely check the emails Chu Xuange sent them.
Pei Hening didn't know whether to cry or laugh for a moment, but the guilt that had been lingering in her heart did lessen considerably.
Why didn't you tell me before?
Chu Xuange brushed the strands of hair stuck to her face back and apologized in a low voice, "It's my fault~ I didn't tell the baby~"
After sending emails to his aunt and uncle, he rushed to Pei Hening's house to drag her away for the closed beta test. Once in the game, all he could think about was improving his strength and being afraid that the tragedy of the previous round would repeat itself. For a moment, he really forgot about this matter.
It was definitely his fault; he made the baby worry for so long for no reason.
Pei Hening looked at the apology overflowing in his eyes, but he wasn't angry as she had imagined.
She sighed and admitted, "I'm not angry with you. I also bear some responsibility for this. I didn't believe what you said at the time; I was just spending time playing with you."
Seeing that she had calmed down, Chu Xuange pretended to be teary-eyed to cheer her up: "Baby is so good. Even if you don't believe me, you're still willing to play with me. I love you so much!"
Pei Hening was amused by his funny appearance: "What are you doing?"
Chu Xuange wiped away imaginary tears: "I'm moved."
Pei Hening nudged him: "Don't be so touched, I'm hungry, Gege."
"Okay, I'll get you something good to eat to soothe your wounded little heart."
He walked to the kitchen and took out the seafood that Pei Hening had bought from [Fairy Descending to Earth] from the refrigerator.
After briefly thinking about how to cook seafood, I started preparing the ingredients.
Pei Hening picked up the camera he had placed on the table and headed towards the kitchen. She raised the camera and aimed it at Chu Xuange's back, pressing the shutter just as he turned around. "Baby, do you want to eat ribbonfish?"
When Chu Xuange saw the camera in her hand, he raised his eyebrows and said, "Oh, baby, you took a picture of me without my consent."
Pei Hening shifted her gaze from the camera to Chu Xuange: "Can't I take pictures? If you can't take pictures, I'll delete them?"
Chu Xuange blurted out, "That won't do, you're the one who took those photos for me."
Pei Hening put down the camera: "I'll help."
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At 1:30 a.m., Chu Xuange returned to his car, braving the wind and frost.
He went straight into the bathroom, quickly took a hot shower, changed into his pajamas, dried his hair, walked to the bedside, lifted the covers, and sat down.
Pei Hening was fast asleep in bed when Chu Xuange pulled the blanket down over her face, exposing her nose.
His eyes were gentle as he said softly, "Don't you find it stuffy?"
Chu Xuange noticed the camera she had placed on the cabinet, reached out and picked it up to examine the photos she had taken that day.
In the photo, he is wearing a black turtleneck sweater under an orange knitted cardigan, holding a fish he just caught from [Fish Duo Duo], looking back at the person behind the camera with a smile in his eyes. You can sense his relaxation and happiness even through the thick screen.
He was a completely different person from the sinister demon who was being chased and hiding in a run-down alley in the city of sin, smoking a "Dream Cigarette," slumped in a corner, tending to his wounds while thinking about getting revenge and then going to be with his sweetheart.
Chu Xuange turned off the camera and happily cuddled the person as they slept.
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Fifty-five days of survival on the highway, February 22nd, 8675 in the highway calendar, day 15 of the Blizzard map.
Congratulations to player [滴比滴比] for obtaining the magic potion "Rapunzel Hair Growth Elixir"!
Pei Hening stuffed the potion she had passively acquired into her backpack, changed her clothes, and went out.
She washed up, went to get the snow shovel, and prepared to get out of the car.
"Baby, I've cleared the snow. Come and have breakfast."
Pei Hening glanced at the time; it was only 6:13. "Why are you up so early?"
Chu Xuange came out of the kitchen area carrying two bowls of freshly made seafood noodles: "It's not very early, I just finished making them myself."
He went to bed early last night and woke up early this morning, so he went to shovel the snow that had piled up outside.
The temperature on this map is getting lower and lower, and the snow is falling heavier and heavier, blocking the car doors every morning.
However, when actually driving on the road, the snow was not so thick that it was impossible to move.
During their meal, Pei Hening heard a very peculiar sound.
"Ding-dong—Ding-dong—"
Pei Hening put down her chopsticks and walked towards the car door: "It seems like someone is outside. I'll go open the door."
She opened the car door and saw a round-headed robot.