"Then I always treated him as a mute, until one day...
We had to complete a task together, and during the process, he accidentally touched so tree ants, feeling very itchy and uncomfortable all over.
I told him a ho redy and solved his issue."
Bai Haoxue said, "So he talked to you because you helped him."
"NO... NO... NO..." Li Mingmo shook his head. "You’re imagining him too politely. Is he really that courteous? He only said one thing to : ’You’re really noisy.’
Bai Haoxue: "..."
"I helped him, cured him, so of course, I wanted so credit for it. I kept bragging about my rits, saying that his daily reading was useless and everything in books was deceptive. That led to his one comnt."
Ji Hanyu really loved reading; during those years at the base, reading was his biggest hobby.
"Actually, life at the base is half heaven, half Hell. Of course, that’s only for Ji Hanyu!"
"Why?" Bai Haoxue truly couldn’t understand; wasn’t such a place supposed to be pure Hell on earth?
Li Mingmo said, "Because as long as you complete the daily tasks, you can make demands and enjoy the treatnt of a seven-star hotel, even requesting beautiful won to accompany you is possible.
That base is beyond your imagination in size; anything outside, they have inside.
There were also teachers giving classes, imparting cultural knowledge, no different from schools outside.
However, there is hunting every day, there’s blood every day, either one’s own or others’, and of course, it could be the beasts’.
The base had herds of beasts, compelling people to fight with them daily was a routine scene.
But for Ji Hanyu, it was no big deal, just like his daily als, a common routine.
Because there, not just people feared him, even the beasts did.
Ji Hanyu could complete every task, so he could enjoy the highest treatnt at the base every day, he could make demands.
However, he had no demands. Just giving him a quiet, clean space was enough."
Li Mingmo spoke with great admiration, Ji Hanyu was the most eccentric person he’d ever seen.
"Can you imagine, one mont tearing into beasts, the next quietly reading in a room? Can you imagine, soone covered in blood one second, playing the piano like a prince the next? Can you imagine soone decisive in killing one second, the next sleeping peacefully on the bed, as serene and beautiful as an angel?
That’s Ji Hanyu for you; being with him every day, I’m experiencing such stark contrast."
Li Mingmo said, "In fact, Ji Hanyu didn’t want to leave the base at first. I was constantly urging him to escape with , but he had no response, no indifference.
Ji Hanyu had no dissatisfaction with life at the base, he was very accustod to living there. To others, it was Hell, a prison, but to him, it wasn’t.
He could survive anywhere; life was the sa wherever he was. He had fully adapted and could be said to have integrated into life there; he saw no need for change.
But he didn’t want to change, while I did. I thought about escaping every day; he’d been there since he was five, so he had no longing for life outside.
But I entered when I was thirteen. I wanted out, I longed for the vast world and freedom outside. I didn’t want to spend the rest of my life in a base, uncertain if I’d be killed by soone or consud by a beast soday."
Saying this, guilt and self-reproach filled Li Mingmo’s heart...
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