Xiao Xiao looked at her, lowered his eyes slightly, and said softly: "Sand, it's on my body."
"Eh, ah..."
Lin You responded stiffly, feeling the trajectory traced by her fingertips on her hot cheeks, following Xiao Xiao's gaze.
The uneven body temperature makes the touch more vivid, the soft skin is separated by fine gravel, and the action is more like rubbing than wiping.
The damp sea breeze intensified, and the clothes and loose hair were rolled up.
As if to avoid the oncoming wind, Xiao Xiao closed her eyes slightly, and she was very close, and Lin You could clearly see her snow-white eyelashes trembling slightly.
The red sun sinks to the west, and the dusk merges.
It was clearly time for the heat to dissipate, but Lin You felt as if she was in the midday sun, her exposed skin was hot, and even the wind was hot.
Xiao Xiao opened his eyes again. Her eyes were like the color of the surging sea, and under the sunset, they looked deeper than usual, and the clear pupil color was coated with a layer of magnificent color.
… the heart was beating too fast.
The well-manicured nails scratched slightly across the neck, and Lin You's throat moved slightly. From this movement, she felt an unusual sense of crisis, and subconsciously grasped her hand.
"...?" Xiao Xiao tilted her head and looked at her suspiciously.
... Lin You didn't know why she did this.
He clearly knew that Xiao Xiao would not hurt her, but just now he had the illusion that he was being targeted...
Lin You cleared her throat, and said as calmly as possible: "...it's okay, it's normal to get sand on the beach, look, you have it on your face too."
Although it seems that I accidentally put it on... Lin You thought guilty.
"Hmm... where?" Xiao Xiao turned her face away, and her eyes seemed to indicate that she should reciprocate.
"… here."
For some reason, Lin You's heart was pounding for this action. She wiped it randomly twice, and unconsciously put her hand very lightly: "Don't worry about it, just take a shower later... Ah, that shell over there."
She pretended to let Xiao Xiao go naturally, and continued to pick up shells.
"..."
Xiao Xiao looked at her figure, and touched his softly caressed face with his fingertips.
Lin You enthusiastically devoted herself to the business of picking shells, and finally picked up a large pile, enough to make ten wind chimes, before letting go of the beach that she looted, and piled sand with Xiao Xiao for a while.
She tried to build a simplified version of Xiaohong under Xiao Xiao's guidance, but due to the frequent troubles of recruiting money, she always unknowingly failed at the embryonic stage.
Lin You angrily buried the big cat with sand.
It took Zhaocai a long time to wrestle himself out of the sand, shaking his hair like bath water.
It used its claws to pull the bag hanging around its neck, the flying fish inside was swimming, and the golden scales reflected a ray of light.
Lin You, who was not disturbed by fluff, finally piled up the crude little red body.
She nodded with satisfaction: "Well, it means that Xiaohong's spirit has participated in family activities."
It's a pity that I can't take pictures now, otherwise, besides the seaside specialties, she can also take the group photo back to show Xiaohong.
Zhaocai, who got away, scratched the flower with a paw.
"Meow ouch!"
"..."
Forget it, Lin You, who finished stacking the finished product, didn't bother to care about it.
The sky gradually darkened, and a bright moon rose from the sea.
Xiao Xiao took Feiyu there for some unknown reason. After Lin You took a shower, she changed her clothes and sat on the top of the carriage, playing a simple card game with the two birds. Zhaocai was expelled from the player team because her claws couldn't catch the cards, so she could only be used as a backing for her.
The wind lamp from the giant tree was brought over and placed in the middle, emitting a soft light at night.
"I won!"
"Gah..."
Lin You put a note on Xiaoqing's body.
Because of species differences, no matter how hard you try, you can't read the opponent's expression. This time, the draw of the joker card is not about tactics at all, it's all about luck. Lin You obviously had good luck today, and won all the rounds after playing.
She shuffled the cards with a smile, and when she was about to make another hundred million, a layer of veil like smoke fell in front of her eyes.
"… Eh?"
It's the tail fin of a flying fish.
Flying fish swimming in the sky, under the silvery-white moonlight, their golden scales gleamed with brilliance.
Compared with the brilliance in the setting sun, it is a little more cold and mysterious, like a fantasy creature jumping out of a storybook.
A saddle-like vehicle was tied to its body, and a snow-colored long-haired forest elf rode on it, stretching out its hand to Lin You with curved eyes.
"Yuzu, do you want to come up?"
"..."
Don't - it's impossible!
Who can refuse such an invitation? Lin You was sitting at the back, hugging Xiao Xiao's waist tightly, she hadn't recovered from the unbelievable scene, her mood was rising like the arc of speeding across the sea.
"Where are you going—?"
Her voice was fragmented in the wind brought by the flight, but Xiao Xiao seemed to hear it.
"Well... I didn't think about it."
Lin You said, "Then do you want to fly all the way to the other side of the Pacific Ocean?"
Xiao Xiao answered seriously: "Yuzi, want to go?"
"You're kidding! Don't go!"
Xiao Xiao's brisk laughter came from the wind blowing past his ears.
The flying fish turned and descended sharply, touched the surface of the sea in Lin You's beating heartbeat, raised beautiful water splashes, then jumped over the reflected moon shadow, and slowly stopped in mid-air.
The tide of the moonlight is slowly surging.
The silver moon hangs high above the sky, and under its light, the stars in the sky seem to become smaller.
Lin You slowly recovered her breath.
She leaned against Xiao Xiao's back, listening to the ensemble of her own heartbeat and Xiao Xiao's heartbeat, no one spoke, and in the vast world, it seemed that only the closest to each other existed clearly.
On the calm sea, a large fish back suddenly floated up. It was a whale. It sprayed out a jet of water and rolled up the waves leisurely. Under the quiet moonlight, its ethereal and distant cry echoed for a long time.
"... the smell."
Xiao Xiao spoke suddenly, she turned around slightly, and approached Lin You sideways.
"What?" Lin You asked.
"Shouldn't add Xiaohong's scent to the soap." Xiao Xiao's hair slipped from her shoulders and brushed on Lin You's arm, she looked a little annoyed, "You have got that smell on your body."
"..." Why did you mention this here, are you a small animal that recognizes people by smell
Lin You didn't know whether to laugh or cry, but she felt a little happy about her childish possessiveness: "You have it all on your body too? We have the same taste."
Xiao Xiao was stunned for a moment, she blinked twice, and suddenly laughed: "That's it... um, that's good."
So... what is it like
Lin You, who should have been tired after a day of playing, was still thinking about this question until she got back to rest in the carriage.
It is said that one of the three major illusions in life is that you think that the person you like also likes you. If this can be classified as a certain disease, Lin You thinks that she is probably terminally ill.
Sighing softly, she closed her eyes.
After that, they stayed at the seaside for more than half a month—mainly because Lin You thought about coming here, and boiled half a carload of sea salt before preparing to go back.
Xiao Xiao drove the car, passed the original university town area, and stopped at the gate of SW University.
"Aren't you going to watch it?" She asked Lin You, who was absent-minded in the passenger seat.
"Uh-huh… "
Lin You came back to her senses and hesitated for a moment: "Xiao Xiao, didn't you ask me about it before... Do you want to visit my school too? Ah, I don't seem to have told you? My school is in the next street. "
... didn't say it.
Xiao Xiao's eyes brightened: "Go."
That being said, it's really not that fancy.
Lin You and Xiao Xiao walked on the main road in the campus, and the surrounding facilities were dilapidated.
She pointed to the dilapidated building that seemed to have suffered serious damage, and introduced to Xiao Xiao: "Our cafeteria. Although the school is not as good as the one next door, the cafeteria is top-notch!"
"Hmm—" Xiao Xiao from the next door should agree.
There is a forest path next to the cafeteria, which is a shortcut to the girls' dormitory. Zhao Cai followed them and scared away a mutant spider that came out of the forest.
"In front is the dormitory. Don't look at how dilapidated it is now... It wasn't much better before."
"Did Yuzu live here before?"
"Hmm... wait," Lin You stopped her, "Don't go in, it must be full of dust, and it looks like this, what if the stairs collapse when you step on them."
"… Oh."
Xiao Xiao stopped regretfully.
They wandered around for a while, but there wasn't much to see. Lin You didn't plan to take a detour this time, and went directly to find a wall and climb over it. The other side was the back door of SW University.
Xiao Xiao then turned over: "It's so close."
Lin You smiled and said, "Maybe we met on the street before."
When she met Xiao Xiao for the first time, she had thought about this question, but her mood now is completely different from then.
Lin You didn't wander around aimlessly, but found the target and walked in that direction.
"Yuzi, have you been here before?"
"Well, I've been here a few times." Lin You said, "Because I'm curious, what are the top universities in China." Although she walked here at that time, she felt ashamed of being a scumbag in her heart.
... There is no need to tell Xiao Xiao about this.
Lin You said "ah": "I found it... It's a good thing there isn't much damage here."
Probably similar to the wall of honor, it is covered with photos on a blue background, and the outside is separated by glass, so it is still well preserved after so many years.
There is no need to look for it specially. Among a group of photos that conform to the public's impression of university professors' advanced age, there is one that is particularly different.
Even such a photo similar to the head portrait of an ID card can't reduce her delicate facial features and unique temperament.
"This is the feeling..."
In the photo, the young woman in a white coat has short hair that reaches her ears, her lips are slightly pursed, her eyes are cold, with unconscious arrogance, and a slight hint of impatience in her expression.
School of Biotechnology, Professor Yi Xiaoxiao.
The first impression... No, no matter how many times you look at it or how you look at it, you are the type who is not easy to get along with.
It's completely different from Xiao Xiao.
Lin You straightened up.
She knew very well that if she searched here or in the wreckage of the Shiwan base, she should be able to get more information. Perhaps some of the mysteries that have haunted her so far can be easily solved.
but…
Lin You turned to Xiao Xiao who was half a step behind.
Xiao Xiao was looking at this side, her slightly pursed lips were very similar to the person in the photo, but no matter how you look at her expression, there was only anxiety... and silent connivance towards her behavior.
"go home."
Xiao Xiao was startled: "...don't continue?"
"It's not necessary." Lin You smiled, "After reading it, I'm more sure. It's not someone else... My Xiao Xiao is just my Xiao Xiao."