Chapter 63: wrap-up, residual dream, confession on ice

In January, Finland, Ge Dong won the championship, Changsheng He and Xiaoyan Fang won the silver and Xiao Liang won the bronze.

As a token of appreciation to the audience, the top 10 point scorers will be invited to perform.

After the match, Sen Luo, a talkative Canadian player, came back to the lounge to harass Ge Dong as usual.

He smiled: "Winter, what are you going to perform at the show? I've already thought of a show!"

Ge Dong zipped up his jacket: "You're not paying homage to your idol, are you?"

Sen Luo slapped his hand: "Strip on ice! That's what I've always dreamed of!"

Ge Dong : "...... Your dream is so special."

Sen Luo lifted up his shirt: "Look at my abs, I've been working on them these days. Feel it!"

Ge Dong's face was unforgiving: "Oops."

Sen Luo put down his clothes and watched Ge Dong's expression, "Dong, you seem to be a lot livelier lately. ...... Could that rumor be true?"

Ge Dong was about to answer, when the door was pushed open from outside.

Changsheng He poked his head in from outside, glanced at Sen Luo: "What are you talking about?"

Sen Luo was about to show off his abs again when Ge Dong stood up and interrupted him: "Sen Luo said that the cream tart in Canada is delicious."

Changsheng He looked a little better this time: "...... Well. The coach is looking for you, let's go."

He turned around and was about to leave when he heard Sen Luo ask Ge Dong behind him, "Wow, is He jealous?"

Changsheng He, who had his back to the two men, gave a jolt, and the back of his neck turned red.

Ge Dong observed, "It seems to be."

Changsheng He did not expect Ge Dong also followed to demolish his own stage, endured even his shoulders shivered: "...... Ge Dong , go away."

Ge Dong : "Let's go, let's go."

Sen Luo watched the two of them walk away side by side, scratching his hair, the corners of his mouth couldn't help but curl.

It seems there is no need to ask if the rumors are true or false.

Ge Dong and Changsheng He walked towards the meeting point.

Ge Dong asked Changsheng He: "Can seniors eat sweet."

"I don't like to eat." After a while, Changsheng He's blushing less and talking more smoothly, "But it's okay to go with you."

Ge Dong pursed her lips and smiled softly.

Changsheng He : "What are you laughing at."

Ge Dong said, "Senpai."

Changsheng He : "...... No laughing."

Ge Dong stopped laughing and reached out to hook his little finger.

Changsheng He came to Ge Dong and did not forget to put on his gloves, but Ge Dong's action was like a direct hook to his heart through the gloves, tickling and numbing.

Five minutes later, Xiao Liang, Xiaoyan Fang, Ge Dong and Changsheng He gathered in a makeshift conference room.

The coach asked with a big smile, " Ge Dong, what do you think about the showcase?"

Before opening his mouth, the coach was ready to let Ge Dong try his hand, even if he wanted to try some difficult moves.

I didn't expect Ge Dong to say, "I want to try pairs skating."

Coach: "...... Have you ever practiced pairs skating?"

Ge Dong: "It's not like there's no precedent for a single skater to a pair skater before the showcase."

The coach looked at the other three, thought for a moment, and decided to give his beloved students a chance.

He focused on Xiao Liang and Xiaoyan Fang: "Which one of you wants to try it with Ge Dong?"

Xiao Liang and Xiaoyan Fang looked at each other, nodded slightly, and then took a step backwards in unison.

But they both soon realized how superfluous their actions were.

...... because Changsheng He took a step out.

Seeing this, the coach was confused for more than ten seconds.

Ge Dong looked at Changsheng He, but Changsheng He did not look at him, looking at the trees outside the window.

It was easy for the coach to find his tongue: "...... you two?"

Changsheng He answered smoothly: "It's not like there's no precedent for men's pairs skating in the showcase before."

Coach: "...... You guys talked about this a long time ago, right?"

Ge Dong, Changsheng He said in unison, "No."

Coach: "......"

Ge Dong gave the reason: "I know senpai well because we train together a lot, and senpai is very good at pair skating, so he will take me well."

Saying that, he inclined his head, "Senior, is it?"

Changsheng He : "...... hmm."

Coach: "......" Ugh.

He knows Ge Dong too well, at least he would never joke about skating.

Just let him try.

After a day of practice, Ge Dong and Changsheng He stepped onto the ice in full view of the crowd.

In the announced program, the men's pair was the most anticipated group, and there was a lot of speculation and buzz before the competition as to whether one of them would wear the women's Siteng Kao, and if so, whether it would be Ge Dong or Changsheng He.

When the two men slid out of the lane, the audience let out a unified cry of surprise.

Both of them are wearing men Siteng Kao, the same style, both are clear spirit tulle top and black pants.

Ge Dong's outfit was a full gauze smoky purple with flowing cuffs and starbursts of Australian diamonds, while Changsheng He's top was pure white with Austrian diamonds and a slightly lower neckline with a slight feather trim. The styles may seem different, but when they hold hands, you can see that the Australian diamonds are joined at the intersection of their left and right hands.

...... is like a connected river of stars.

The coach in the front row of the audience could only sigh.

...... is really ready to come.

While relaxing with Ge Dong on the sidelines, Changsheng He said, "You already knew we could be in the showcase."

The clothes he was wearing were taken directly from Ge Dong's suitcase yesterday.

Ge Dong said, "I can. I believe seniors can too."

Changsheng He : "When did you peek at my size."

Ge Dong and Changsheng He skated together to the center of the field and stood at attention.

Ge Dong whispered with him, "Held so many times, measured out."

With these words, Ge Dong gently took Changsheng He's left hand and opened his mouth to bite the tip of the ring finger of the thin glove and slowly took it off for him.

Just like he bites off his glove at the end of every game.

Warm moist heat came from the fingertips, causing Changsheng He's slender body to shiver slightly: "You ......"

The room was filled with an uproar.

Even the coach straightened up and looked at the two young men in the field.

...... Is this part of the program?

Changsheng He ears buzzing, blood flowing straight to his face: "You ......"

Ge Dong patiently took off one of his gloves and pulled off his own right glove, clasping it with his five fingers.

The two gloves were tossed by his hand to the spectators on the sidelines, causing a small scramble.

Changsheng He eyes chased the glove, but Ge Dong stuck to the forehead.

The airflow exhaled from Ge Dong's mouth sizzled: " Changsheng He , don't look at the gloves, look at me."

Changsheng He's eyes are vaguely hot, but he can't avoid it.

Amidst shouts of surprise and astonishment from the audience, Changsheng He looked at Ge Dong and whispered, "You're not--"

Ge Dong's ears were red and flushed: "I'm used to the feeling of shaking hands with seniors ......."

Changsheng He didn't know what to say, but instinctively clasped Ge Dong's hand and pressed it against his hot palm: "That's... that's good."

Ge Dong said, "Let's get started."

Changsheng He : "Yeah."

Ge Dong repeated the words, "I said, senpai, let's get started."

Changsheng He looked into Ge Dong's eyes, and his gaze seemed to hold two stars.

Ge Dong felt that a century had passed before he finally got a nod from the person in front of him: "Yes."

He smiled and reached out to the soundtrack artist, signaling that it was time to begin.

Instead of a love song, Ge Dong chose a song called "Superheroes".

This is chosen for myself and for Changsheng He.

The two teenagers stepped onto the ice hand in hand, and Ge Dong's water-like sleeves were flung, light as swallows.

After returning from Finland, Ge Dong and Changsheng He went to the neighborhood he used to visit every week.

He asked Changsheng He to wait downstairs while he walked down the steps to the fifth floor.

Further up the stairs, he is no longer greeted by the warmth of his home, but by a staircase leading to the top of the building.

Ge Dong walked to the top of the stairs and slowly sat down.

...... There was never a sixth floor in this old apartment building, just as there was never a young uncle for him.

Since "Feihong Dong" left the country, the memories of people around him have faded, first Changsheng He, then his parents.

Ge Dong is the only one who still remembers this person clearly.

When Xiaochi Chi was still in his body, he found it strange to see Feihong Dong for the first time.

He remembers very clearly that his father had no brothers.

But now, how he wished his father really had such a brother.

He went to the police station and even the fact that Feihong Dong saved them was erased. The case file says that a passing police officer solved Ge Dong's crisis.

...... life everywhere to know what like, should be like a flying Hong stepping on snow mud.

Everything about Feihong Dong is fading away, but the only thing that is not fading away is the cartoon that Feihong Dong promised to draw for him.

He fished the comic out of his book bag and casually turned a page.

" Ge Dong" just finished pressing his leg and was resting, unscrewing a bottle of mineral water.

Seemingly sensing someone's arrival, he passed a look over.

The eyes of Ge Dong in the cartoon and the real Ge Dong in reality meet exactly.

The look in that person's eyes is very similar to Ge Dong, three parts vigilant, three parts proud, like a small wildcat that does not give in.

The remaining four points, however, are the detachment and melancholy that call for pain in the heart.

Ge Dong closed the manga and thought, "How can that Xiaochi Chi guy act so much like himself?

A quarter of an hour later, Changsheng He, who was downstairs, couldn't wait any longer and came up himself.

Seeing Ge Dong sitting on the steps, Changsheng He asked, "Where is your friend."

Ge Dong replied, "Moved away."

Changsheng He said, "Is it a very good friend."

At this point, Changsheng He thought of Sifan Lou again and looked slightly moved.

Yesterday, he learned that Sifan Lou had submitted a request to quit the team, seemingly with the intention of going abroad for treatment.

Sifan Lou did not come to see him, and he did not go to see Sifan Lou, the former friends, just plainly scattered.

Ge Dong said, "They saved my life."

Hearing this, Changsheng He took a break from his emotions and looked at Ge Dong with slight surprise.

Ge Dong said, "But I didn't even get to say thank you to them."

...... If he could talk then, even if only one ......

Changsheng He sat down beside Ge Dong and without saying a word, took his hand on his knee.

He was wearing a baggy black sweatshirt with a QUEEN written on it.

And Ge Dong, wearing KING, raised his eyes to Changsheng He and his expression turned soft: "Senior, the hair is long."

Changsheng He touched his hair and said, "It's been a long time since I cut it."

Ge Dong said, "Let me tie a princess hair for you."

Changsheng He said, "Would you?"

Ge Dong : "Yes. Someone taught me."

Changsheng He then turned his back and let him toss and turn.

Ge Dong's fingers ran through Changsheng He's thick hair, and his heart gradually settled down.

Changsheng He turned his back on him and said, "Go visit my new home today."

More than half a year ago, Changsheng He used the bonus he had saved over the years to buy a house in full, and finished renovating it three months ago.

Ge Dong said, "Good."

Changsheng He voice was lowered: "...... bring your toothbrush with you."

Ge Dong smiles, "Okay."

The nightmare dissipated, and now what he held in his hands and embraced in his arms was the real thing.

Turn back the clock to a month and a half ago.

In the "between time", the data of Xiaochi Chi's third execution was already on the datapad in front of the god.

Host code：1198

Host Name: Xiaochi Chi

World difficulty level rating: B (normal level)

World completion: 100

Host status assessment: all functions are good and stable, ready for transmission.

Total entropy value obtained: 1370 (below average 4120)

This figure, although still far below the passing line and the entropy value of the original owner is still 0, is very pleasing compared to the previous one.

The Lord God observed several key points of Xiaochi Chi's entropy fluctuation and was in a rare pleasant mood.

There was a knock at the door, and immediately, 061 appeared in the "in-between".

061 said without condescension, "You're looking for me?"

The main god said, "Yes. To inform you in advance, in the next world, your host will enter a Class A world."

061 face changed slightly: "You ......"

The host god interrupted: "But I will give you an identity authority so that you have a real and valid identity in the next world and can assist the host to complete the task."

061 did not agree at first: "Why do you want to do this?"

I've always wanted to reform the criteria for selecting hosts, so that hosts with different personalities and abilities could be placed in their own way," the god said. And Xiaochi Chi's appearance has opened my eyes to this possibility. He should practice as high level worlds as possible to provide us with more experimental samples and data. Last time I conducted the experiment, I did not consider it thoroughly enough, now with you around to assist and protect, you should be able to rest assured."

061 thought, Xiaochi Chi is indeed different from any host.

061 asks, "Can I have an entity and still retain my abilities?"

The Lord God replied, "Yes."

061: "May I inform the host of my system identity?"

The Lord God said, "No."

061: "Why?"

The Lord God said, "If informed, do you guarantee that he will not rely on your presence? If he relies on you, the experimental data will lack a considerable basis."

061 stopped talking and thought about this plan proposed by the Lord God.

The Lord God added: "If you are willing to carry my plan forward, I will implant a secrecy program into your body. Once implanted, you will have no permission to reveal your true identity. And the condition I give you remains the same: 200 missions, you only need to perform 120 of them to get out of here."

061 came out of the "between moments" and breathed a long sigh of relief.

...... He promised the Lord God.

He dared to agree, one because Xiaochi Chi had accumulated enough cards, two because he believed he could protect Chi Xiao, and three because ......

Third, because of selfishness.

He remembered he had an appointment to attend.

Someone was waiting for himself, for a long, long time, and he didn't want to make him wait even longer.

Probably thinking about the person waiting for him, 061 suddenly misses Xiaochi Chi so much that he can't bear to miss it.

Back in his room, he paced a few times and read for a while. Finally, unable to bear the emotion, he got up and stood up, and transported himself back to that white space.

He followed the history and sent himself to the silo and found Xiaochi Chi.

Because it is not in the mission world, 061 loses almost all its abilities, retaining only the most basic sensory functions.

It was just at night, and Xiaochi Chi was lying in bed, already asleep.

061 had just entered his body when he saw Xiaochi Chi sitting up violently from the bed, stroking his face and looking around sharply.

Gradually, his still somewhat luminous eyes dimmed.

Then 061 heard him give a hoarse laugh.

The end of the eyes are curved and the corners of the mouth are curved, too charming to be true.

Xiaochi Chi just had a dream.

In his dream, Xiaochi Chi was watching Les Miserables, and when he saw the ending, he fell on the table and cried.

When Ying Lou came in from outside, she was shocked to see such a Xiaochi Chi.

He rubbed his back and asked, "What's wrong? What's wrong?"

Xiaochi Chi cried a little teary-eyed and looked at Ying Lou: "He's dead, Jean Valjean is dead ......"

Ying Lou took the person into his arms and rubbed his hair: "It's okay, it's okay. Don't cry anymore."

Xiaochi Chi choked and buried herself in Ying Lou's arms.

But when he lifted his eyes again, the embrace was gone, Ying Lou was gone, and even the tears were gone.

Xiaochi Chi remembers that she hasn't cried outside of the demands of her job for a long time.

The last time he cried was at that awful interview where he learned the true ending of Breck in Harry Potter.

After learning of Sirius's death, he took a fifteen-minute break and hid in the bathroom.

Ten minutes were to be used for make-up, so he gave himself five minutes to cry.

He pressed his head against the partition, tears streaming down his face, but repeated under his breath, reminding himself, "Five minutes. Five minutes."

And now, he can't cry, and he doesn't really want to cry.

After sitting dumbfounded for a while, he called out in his head, "Teacher Six, Teacher Six."

061's spirit lifted and immediately sent him back into space.

He didn't feel comfortable saying that he had just seen Xiaochi Chi secretly, but said, "How was your rest?"

Xiaochi Chi picked the corners of his lips carelessly, looking dangling, all things cannot be put on his mind: "It's quite good. Let's go, do the next task to go."