Light Fortress
Chapter 723 - 206 About Life, About Death

Chapter 723: Chapter 206 About Life, About Death

The evening breeze swept across the rooftop of the orphanage.

Nowadays, the rooftop had been renovated beautifully, with red bricks and white tiles, and the elderly sitting in rocking chairs looked towards the direction from which the wind blew.

"Grandma! Grandma!"

San Pao ran up in a hurry, sniffling hard, and said earnestly, "Look! I’ll show you a special trick!"

He took a deep breath.

Held his breath.

Then... he exhaled all the air from his nostrils, a unique skill colloquially known as blowing snot bubbles.

The grandmother’s expression was complex.

How had this child become more and more muddled as he grew?

She silently appreciated the performance of this talent, as first the sound of knocking came from outside the orphanage gate, followed by exclamations and cheers.

San Pao maintained the position of facing upwards and blowing bubbles, like an acrobat with a water jar balanced on his head.

He heard the laughter outside the orphanage and appeared puzzled.

"It’s Xiao Gu coming back..."

The grandmother asked with a smile, "Can you keep up your special trick all the way downstairs?"

"How could that be difficult?"

San Pao swaggered downstairs with his face still up.

Then came the sound of bursting snot bubbles... Meeting Gu Shen with a snot bubble was the thing San Pao regretted the most this year.

Because Gu Shen had not returned alone; he had brought a beautiful lady with him, even more beautiful than the one who had last visited the orphanage.

The children of the orphanage widened their eyes, surrounding this otherworldly beauty. Chu Ling, dressed in a red and white ceremonial robe, had an ethereal presence and stunning beauty. Even Transcendents with exceptional concentration couldn’t help but take a few more glances, let alone these pure-hearted children.

They were all mesmerized.

Chu Ling smiled.

In fact, she had met these children two years ago, but back then she was still an orange cat.

Now Gu Shen had returned to the orphanage.

For her, it was also a nostalgic visit to an old place.

"Xiao Gu..."

The distant call of the elderly came.

The grandmother, supporting herself with a walking stick, walked lightly. Seeing Gu Shen and Chu Ling, her expression was one of excitement, and finally, she just repeatedly uttered a series of meaningful "good" words.

"Good... good... really good..."

In fact, she had only glanced at Gu Shen.

The majority of her attention was on Chu Ling.

The girl was just too likable.

The last time Xiao Gu came back, he said he had a girlfriend, and at that time, she thought it was just a way to placate her.

She had not expected what Xiao Gu said to be true!

This girl was even more beautiful than those celebrities on the screen, far more so!

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Evening.

Smoke curled up from the entrance of the orphanage; the grandmother stood at the stove, watching Chu Ling’s skillful vegetable chopping, her face brimming with joy that went beyond just "affection.".

The girl’s fingers were snow-white and delicate.

Clearly a daughter from a wealthy family, never having touched spring water.

Who would have thought—

She was remarkably efficient with chores!

Chopping vegetables, preparing ingredients, lighting fires... Not many people still knew how to use these old-fashioned stoves, and she had heard that in the urban areas, meals were prepared with identical ingredients by robots. Who would have thought that Miss Chu would know about these things?

The grandmother, who had planned to prepare a lavish dinner, now felt somewhat at a loss; all the chores had been taken over, and she had become redundant, while Miss Chu Ling, in addition to handling these trifles, also kept her company chatting without any delay.

The girl was extremely smart.

The grandmother knew well that she had rarely visited the urban area and didn’t know much about many things. She prattled on with trivial chatter which was mostly uninteresting, yet Chu Ling listened attentively and could always add a comment or two, regardless of what she said.

In the end.

The grandmother sincerely expressed, "Miss Ling, even though Gu Shen is the smartest child around here, I always feel that him meeting you is his greater fortune."

Gu Shen was also busy.

He squatted below the stove adding firewood and occasionally chopping more, now laughing loudly, "Of course!"

Chu Ling smiled as well.

Most of the time, she wore a tranquil expression.

Had it not been for her extraordinarily beautiful appearance, which served as a crucial disguise... her usual calm face could best be described as "expressionless."

She still wasn’t quite familiar with how to express emotions like joy, anger, sorrow, and happiness.

If one were to say that these are the seasonings of life,

then the seasonings she was born with were naturally less than those of others.

Oftentimes, everyone laughed while she did not... not because she didn’t want to laugh, but because she didn’t find those things amusing, so she couldn’t laugh.

But after arriving at Wulaoshan, she felt an inner peace and joy.

It was a strange feeling.

Living in Zero Point One as the "source code," monitoring countless corners of Five Continents through "Heavenly Eye," she had seen countless sunrises and sunsets, observed numerous dinners in cities.

But in the past years.

Even "Deep Sea" had overlooked a tranquil and remote place like Wulaoshan.

Here, far from the hustle and bustle, away from the brilliance of the Spirit Network... humans found tranquility.

She did too.

As long as she was in the urban area, she was constantly bombarded with massive amounts of information.

With just one look,

Skyscrapers, hundreds and thousands of people, and countless streams of data would flow by.

But in this moment, all that trivial and chaotic information had disappeared.

Tranquility.

She found true tranquility.

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After the dinner, the children of the orphanage put on a performance.