As expected, Teng Pingmao took two steps and suddenly stopped.
He stared at the woman sitting on the edge of the bed, dumbfounded.
In an instant, he felt his mouth dry and his throat parched, as if the most terrifying nightmare deep in his heart had come true, yet it was also as if the most longed-for dream of his life had come true.
He couldn't help but raise his finger at Xia Chujian, stammering, "Hui... Hui Hui! Are you Hui Hui?!"
Xia Chujian didn't speak, just smiled and nodded slightly.
Her smile was exactly imitating the sunny smile of Tong Xiaohui in that photo.
At this time, Seven Lù was nervously debugging the electronic synthesized voice.
It had sneaked into the internal system of the orphanage from the orphanage's official website, found some videos of Tong Xiaohui during her lifetime, and was simulating and synthesizing Tong Xiaohui's voice.
Xia Chujian had the Shao Siming Black Silver Mecha's neck ring around her neck, which contained a voice system that allowed her to disguise Tong Xiaohui's voice.
Teng Pingmao thought he was dreaming.
He didn't dare to go forward, just greedily looked at Tong Xiaohui, as if he couldn't get enough of looking at her.
After a long while, he murmured to himself, "I know, I'm dreaming... I must be dreaming..."
"Hui Hui, I've dreamed of you so many times."
"Every time, I regret why I didn't stop you..."
"That mission, it wouldn't have been a loss if you didn't go, if I had stopped you..."
Xia Chujian quietly listened to Teng Pingmao's words, suddenly feeling a slight sting at her neck, this was Seven Lù reminding her that the voice debugging was complete, and she could speak.
Xia Chujian's eyes narrowed slightly, looking towards the direction of the door.
Until she saw streams of white mist spreading from the living room outside, gradually filling the entire bedroom.
The atmosphere in the room became even more dreamlike.
She breathed a sigh of relief.
With the atmosphere built up to this point, she finally spoke.
Xia Chujian revealed a resentful expression: "Brother A-Ping, why didn't you tell me what that planet was really like?"
Her voice was exactly the voice of Tong Xiaohui that Seven Lù had debugged using the electronic synthesized voice system.
However, although the tone was the same, the person speaking was different, and the speed and tone were different, so there was still a slight difference from the real voice of Tong Xiaohui.
If it weren't for the fact that it was too late, the night was too dark, and Teng Pingmao was too tired, he would have been able to hear it.
But precisely because these factors were combined, Teng Pingmao didn't hear it at all, instead, he was overjoyed and was about to pounce on the person on the bed.
Whoosh! Xia Chujian quickly got up and dodged.
Her movements were so fast that she didn't seem like a real person.
Teng Pingmao had also been tormented all night, and it was the most vulnerable time in the early morning, he didn't even see how the person on the bed disappeared.
He only felt that he blinked, and the person was gone...
Teng Pingmao rubbed his eyes, and looked at his bedside again, where was the shadow of the person in his heart? So he was really dreaming? Teng Pingmao slowly lowered his head, looking at the rolling white mist at his feet.
He was even more convinced that he was dreaming.
Therefore, Teng Pingmao, who was already dizzy from extreme sleep deprivation, was now even more confused.
His memory momentarily returned to his days as the king of the children in the orphanage when he was a child.
At that time, although he was an orphan, he got along well with his friends, and the nanny in the orphanage loved him very much.
He went to a public school in that small city, and had always been the first in all the high schools in the city.
He was also the darling of the teachers and the backbone of the students.
It can be said that although he was an orphan, his life before college was better than most people.
But when his memory returned to after college, it was full of the sadness of falling from the peak to the bottom.
As the top scorer in the National Higher Education Entrance Examination of Kanli Star and admitted to Beichen University, he gradually discovered that in this kind of school, good grades were completely useless.
Once in college, what mattered was no longer personal grades and qualities, but family background.
When those noble classmates spent lavishly, inviting all the students in the same department to the best clubs on Beichen Star for "happy hour".
When the descendants of those high-ranking officials and dignitaries casually obtained internships in the Cabinet or even the Royal Inner Guard.
He could only take his perfect transcript and take on some ordinary tutoring jobs.
He also wanted to intern at the Senate, the Cabinet, or even the Royal Family. He also wanted to be promoted by a benefactor after graduation and soar into the sky...
But he also knew that was impossible!
How could an ordinary person without family background have a path to the heavens? He had to desperately restrain himself to gain a place in front of those noble-born students.
In his memory, he didn't even recall much about his first love.
That first love was just someone he took the initiative to court to make himself seem less of a failure.
She wasn't really his type.
On the contrary, the joy of reuniting with his orphanage friend, Tong Xiaohui, after joining the army took precedence.
He couldn't help but recall every bit of time he spent with her.
That girl trusted him unconditionally and admired him wholeheartedly.
In her heart, he was an irreplaceable academic, good man, and hero!
She was so devoted to him, but he... let her down...
So she died and became a soul, but she still came back to see him, right? Teng Pingmao sat on the edge of the bed, covering his face with his hands, tears streaming down from between his fingers.
He choked and said, "Hui Hui... Hui Hui... I miss you... I really miss you so much... I regret it... I really regret it..."
"If I had known, I would rather have died myself than let you go!"
Xia Chujian then changed to another Face Mask.
This time, it was when Tong Xiaohui's body was severely damaged by nuclear radiation.
Although it had not reached the point of no return, it had already had a great impact on her health.
Xia Chujian appeared by the bedroom window and said faintly, "The nuclear radiation on that planet is too serious... It hurts so much... It hurts so much..."
"Brother A-Ping, why did you treat me like this?"
"Brother A-Ping, why didn't you save me?"
Xia Chujian made her voice as ethereal and resentful as possible, just like the dubbing effects she saw in horror movies on the Star Network.
Teng Pingmao heard her voice, turned his head sharply, and looked in the direction of the window.
He stretched out a hand, as if wanting to touch her, but he didn't dare to approach.
His arm trembled, his face full of entanglement and pain.
His eyes were red: "Hui Hui, if I had known that place was Hell for ordinary people, I would have stopped you!"
"Hui Hui, I regret it..."
"I always wanted to borrow strength to gain fame and marry you after I succeeded."
"I never thought that one day, when I succeeded, you wouldn't be by my side!"
"Hui Hui, I miss you, I miss you every moment!"
"I even miss you so much that I treat that woman as your substitute!"
"But a substitute is just a substitute! It's not real!"
"She can never replace you!"
"Hui Hui, it's my fault, you don't have to forgive me, hit me, scold me! But don't abandon me!"
Xia Chujian felt a lump in her throat.
People are already dead, how can they want you?
Take you away with me?
She wished she could!
Unfortunately, the situation didn't allow it...
Xia Chujian grumbled inwardly, pursed her lips, controlled her temper, and followed Teng Pingmao's words, continuing in that ethereal and resentful tone: "Why would you let me go? Why didn't you stop me?"
"You are the most amazing Brother A-Ping in our orphanage!"
"You can get into the best university! You are a role model for all the orphans in our orphanage!"
"You're so amazing, how could you not stop me?"
"I listen to Brother A-Ping the most. If Brother A-Ping told me not to go, I definitely wouldn't have gone!"
Xia Chujian shook her head, the black hair on the Face Mask swaying with her, looking a bit eerie.
Teng Pingmao was now affected by the early morning drowsiness and the white mist in the room, and really thought he was dreaming.
And people who know they are dreaming are usually bolder than usual.
Many things that cannot be said when Clear-Minded can be said.
Especially those words that have accumulated in the bottom of my heart and have almost become a heart disease...
Teng Pingmao looked at the woman in front of him, slowly got up and walked over, kneeling on one leg not far in front of her.
He covered his face and cried out in pain, the words that had been hidden deep in his heart gushing out: "Hui Hui! Actually, I'm not that amazing!"
"In front of those high and mighty Nobles and Imperial Clan, we are just ants! Just ants!"
"The reason I don't let others know about our relationship is because I don't want... I don't want to burden you..."
"If you hadn't overheard our conversation that day, you wouldn't have been included in the list..."
"But you shouldn't have, you shouldn't have overheard our conversation and been discovered..."
"You know who that person is!"
"That person is Rong Zhongruo... He is from the Rong Family! No one would believe it if I said it!"
"It's just that kind of high and mighty person, with just one sentence, can make people like us disappear into thin air!"
"Hui Hui, we are orphans, we have no foundation!"
"I didn't dare to tell Rong Zhongruo that you were my girlfriend!"
"But I pleaded for you! Rong Zhongruo assured me that he would not make things difficult for you, as long as you go to perform the mission, prove your loyalty, and you can be promoted to First Lieutenant when you come back!"
"I thought this was an opportunity for you to get into the eyes of those people!"
"I didn't know it was a death mission! I really didn't know!"
As Teng Pingmao spoke, he kept slapping himself in the face.
It could be seen that he regretted it, but Xia Chujian felt that the intensity of his regret was not enough.
However, Xia Chujian now roughly understood.
This Teng Pingmao must have been overheard by Tong Xiao Hui when he was plotting this matter with Rong Zhongruo.
Then Tong Xiao Hui was accidentally discovered by Rong Zhongruo.
But the selfish and cowardly Teng Pingmao did not dare to reveal his relationship with Tong Xiao Hui, which led to Tong Xiao Hui being sent to the Senze Star Death Team to be silenced.
This also explains why Tong Xiao Hui knew so many inside details...
Thinking of this, Xia Chujian felt both grateful and admired for Tong Xiao Hui.
She cheered up and continued to ask faintly: "So Brother A-Ping really didn't know how dangerous this mission was?"
Teng Pingmao knelt in front of her, slowly let go of his hands, looked up at her, the regret in his eyes so strong that it could not be dissolved.
But Xia Chujian didn't buy it.
She asked more and more urgently: "So Brother A-Ping really thinks that Rong Zhongruo doesn't know about my relationship with you?"
"Could it be that Brother A-Ping sacrificed me for his own benefit, in order to gain Rong Zhongruo's trust?"
Teng Pingmao suddenly looked up, staring at Xia Chujian as if he had seen a ghost.
He shook his head frantically, muttering, "No... you're not Hui Hui's sister... you are... Hui Hui! You must be Hui Hui!"
The woman's words made Teng Pingmao uncontrollably recall all the truth of that night.
It wasn't that he didn't know what kind of mission it was, but Rong Zhongruo patted him on the shoulder and whispered in his ear, "Pingmao, this mission can only be known to the two of us."
"Everyone else has to die."
"That female soldier must be added to the action team."
Teng Pingmao didn't hesitate at all and immediately said, "Yes, Major Rong."
At that time, Rong Zhongruo laughed and patted him on the shoulder, saying that he would be a true politician, and indicated that as long as the mission was completed, he could be promoted to Senior Colonel, then retire from the military and enter politics, with a bright future ahead.
So Teng Pingmao led the team to Senze Star and personally brought back the Longevity Flying Fish.
As for the two thousand Starry Sky Marines left on Senze Star, not even counted as combat losses, he thought he could let it go.
But as time passed, he found that he couldn't forget Tong Xiaohui.
He even went so far as to find a girlfriend who looked six or seven parts like Tong Xiaohui.
But a fake is a fake and will never become real.
He was ashamed by Xia Chujian's words.
Teng Pingmao had already been in great guilt and pain.
Now, being questioned by the woman he felt guilty for, pained by, but also deeply loved, it was like being skinned, exposing his ugly self in front of her.
Teng Pingmao closed his eyes, tears streaming down his face, and said, "Hui Hui, I'm sorry..."
"I thought I was heartless and could not care about anything in order to climb up."
"But I overestimated myself, I'm tired, I'm really tired..."
"Hui Hui, I regret it, I really regret it."
"If time could be turned back, I would definitely stop you!"
"I would help you cover up in front of those big shots, I would directly tell them that you are my girlfriend, one of us!"
Xia Chujian couldn't bear it at this time.
How could a woman as noble and upright as Tong Xiaohui collude with a selfish and self-serving person like Teng Pingmao! She interrupted Teng Pingmao's words and said coldly, "Who is one of you!"
"Do you know that our two thousand Starry Sky Marines all died tragically on Senze Star!"
"Do you know how we died?!"
"Do you know that they sent us there, in fact, for an exchange!"
"They got the Longevity Flying Fish, and left us to those Shang People to be used as breeding stock!"
"Do you know that all of us would rather die than surrender!"
"Do you know that none of us would sacrifice our comrades in arms in order to climb up!"
"Teng Pingmao! I, Tong Xiaohui, am giving you a dream vision today, just to break all ties with you!"
"Even if I am dead, I will never have any involvement with someone like you!"
"Did you think I really came to see you, to ask for help? - No, I am here to cut off my thoughts!"
"You are not worthy to be my, Tong Xiaohui's, boyfriend!"
"I, Tong Xiaohui, was blind to be with a bastard like you!"
"Bastard! Don't mention my name again in the future!"
"And don't do any of this substitute nonsense!"
"You disgust me!"
"A person like you should go to the eighteenth level of Hell!"
Xia Chujian had a burst of excited output, and she felt good saying it, but Teng Pingmao gradually came back to his senses.
The many slaps he had just given himself stimulated his brain with pain, and coupled with Xia Chujian's completely different speaking style from Tong Xiao Hui, Teng Pingmao finally understood.
This was not Tong Xiao Hui.
However, he did not get up, still kneeling on the ground, looking up at Xia Chujian.
Before, he had been caught up in his own delusions, thinking he was dreaming.
Now that he was Clear-Minded, he immediately noticed loopholes everywhere.
The biggest loophole was height.
Although Tong Xiao Hui was not short, she was only about 1.6 meters tall.
But the woman in front of him, who looked very much like Tong Xiao Hui, was at least 1.7 meters tall!
Maybe even taller...
A height difference of more than ten centimeters was still very obvious.
But Teng Pingmao did not expose the woman in front of him.
Instead, he looked at her even more nervously, and suddenly asked, "...You...you...are you Hui Hui's sister?"
He stared at Xia Chujian's face and said, "I heard Hui Hui say that she has a sister."
"Back then, after their parents died, she was only five years old when she was sent directly to the orphanage, but her sister had just been born and was not sent to the orphanage, but was adopted."
"Are you her sister?!"
"Have you seen your sister?!"
"Is your sister still alive?!"
Otherwise, how could he explain that this woman not only looked very much like Tong Xiao Hui, but even her voice was almost exactly the same! This is the second big chapter, including Moon Tickets for September 3600+.
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