"I'm signing up!!"

"My grandma wants to sit in the center position!!"

"All students at the school for the deaf and mute are waiting for tickets online!!"

"The doctor said Mom won't live more than three months... but she really wants to go to a concert... please, just say it quietly..."

Xiaoman gently ruffled its fur: "Then let's do it. The world's largest accessible concert—Sound, for those who need it most."

Su Ting suddenly spoke up: "I have a suggestion. Let's set the concert on the same day that the voice spirit was sealed three hundred years ago. Let it be a new beginning."

Duoduo grinned mischievously: "Then we need to give it a catchy name, right?"

Everyone was silent for a moment.

Gazing softly at the starry sky, she whispered—

Let's call it... 'Hear the Sun'.

Everyone was stunned.

Immediately, Duoduo clapped her hands and exclaimed, "Awesome!! This name—must be recorded in history!"

The gray child laughed: "'Hear the Sun'? Fine! That day I'll make the signal tower shoot fireworks and turn the earth into a disco!"

Su Ting smiled: "I will gather all the gatekeepers and clear the way for that day. Anything that tries to interfere with the sound waves—eliminate them all."

Xiaoman looked at Xiaosheng, her eyes shining: "Then... what should we sing for the first song?"

He tilted his head slightly, thought for a moment, and then suddenly gave a sly smile.

[...Sing a song...'The story of Sister Xiaoman before she fell asleep'.]

"Huh?!" Xiaoman was stunned. "How do you know about me when I was little..."

"Because..." she whispered, "in your dreams... there's always someone singing."

There was silence.

A moment later, Duoduo suddenly shouted, "Wait! The live stream isn't off yet!! The whole internet heard it!!"

The barrage of comments exploded instantly—

"Ahhh, the official couple is locked in!!"

"Xiaoman, keep your voice down! Lock it!!!"

"I hereby announce that tonight is the first installment of the 'Hearing Day' pre-event hype!!"

"Keep it down! Please stream every day!! We want to hear you call us 'sister'!!"

Xiao Sheng simply lowered his head, gently squeezed Xiao Man's hand, and looked up at the starry sky that was finally no longer silent.

Then, it suddenly turned to the camera and blinked.

"...Sister, are we still going to do a live stream tomorrow?"

"...Sister, are we still going to do a live stream tomorrow?"

Xiaoman was taken aback, then burst out laughing. She reached out and pinched Xiaosheng's cheek, her fingertips touching warm skin, no longer the icy air that seemed like a mirage.

"Are you trying to take over the role?" She shook her head with a smile. "You're the one who wanted to broadcast it, why are you pretending to be innocent and asking your older sister?"

Duoduo slammed her hand on the control panel and laughed loudly, "Broadcast! You have to broadcast! A billion people around the world are watching you sleep today, and the backend servers have crashed from crying! The fans say they won't log off until you finish singing the story!"

The gray child had already jumped onto the railing of the broadcasting tower, spread his arms, and shouted like a conductor conducting a symphony: "Starting tomorrow, 'Hearing Day' countdown is 365 days! Every midnight, 'Whisper Live Room' will start singing on time! I'll decide the theme—Monday cures insomnia, Tuesday soothes anxiety, Wednesday cures emo, Thursday... oh right, Thursday will broadcast 'Sister Xiaoman's childhood private collection of songs'!"

"What right do you have to make those arrangements?" Xiaoman glared at him.

"I am the global signal coordinator!" Gray Boy puffed out his chest. "Besides, this is cultural export! Yesterday NASA sent a letter asking if we could engrave 'Hatsune Miku's song' on the Voyager Gold Record, and by the way... whisper, are you interested in broadcasting it to the Mars colony?"

Xiaoman was stunned: "Really?"

Duoduo pulled out an email, and the screen lit up—

NASA has officially requested that the first verse of Hatsune Miku's song be recorded for use in the broadcast system of deep space probes for the transmission of friendly signals across civilizations. P.S.: Our scientists unanimously agree that this is the first time humanity has sent a non-aggressive heartbeat into space.

Chapter 1461 The signal cannot be blocked

“…That will cost money,” Xiaoman suddenly said.

The entire room fell silent.

"Huh?" The gray child almost fell off the railing.

Xiaoman smiled slightly: "One song, and they'll build a Mars Wi-Fi base station. From now on, when we hold our concerts quietly, the signal won't be interrupted."

Duoduo burst out laughing: "Deal! I'll reply to the email right away—'RMB settlement, installment payment via Alipay is supported!'"

It listened quietly, its eyes sparkling like starlight. It looked down at its real hand, then suddenly raised it and gently tapped the jade pendant on its chest.

"Di."

With a soft sound, the jade tablet suddenly projected a semi-transparent light screen, revealing a dense array of names—

[List of Listeners - Those Who Resonated: 1,032,765,889]

"This is...?" Su Ting leaned closer.

Everyone touched by the song... will remain here. (Whispered softly,) Like... the imprint of a heartbeat.

On the light screen, names kept flashing and being added. Small dots of light appeared next to some names, as if waving; family tags lit up, indicating "Three Generations Listening Together"; there was even a string of names together, labeled "Prison 203 Ward Group Song Request: Want to Hear Mom Sing a Nursery Rhyme".

“Even the prison…” Duoduo’s voice softened.

Nodding softly: [Sound...shouldn't be surrounded by walls.]

Su Ting remained silent for a moment, then suddenly removed the blood-patterned protective gear from his left arm and threw it to the ground. Crimson runes spread across the ground, completely merging with the engravings on the base of the broadcast tower.

“From today onwards, the Gatekeepers organization is disbanded.” He looked up, his gaze resolute. “All members will be transferred to the ‘Sound Project.’ The first task is to build signal towers in every special education school, every remote mountain village, and every intensive care unit.”

The gray child whistled: "Hey, the big villain has switched to doing charity?"

“I’m not the villain,” Su Ting said calmly. “I just… kept mishearing the voice.”

Xiaoman looked at him and suddenly laughed: "So what did you hear now?"

Su Ting closed his eyes, and after a moment said softly, "...A woman is singing. Hoarse, off-key, but...it's warm." He paused, "It's my mother. She died in a car accident when I was five, and I forgot her voice. But now...I remember."

The air was quiet for a moment.

Silently raising her hand, the jade tablet's light screen rotated slightly, finding a name—[Su Ting | Resonance Fragrance: Mother humming "Night Fragrance"].

It taps gently.

A faint yet gentle melody flowed out slowly.

Su Ting suddenly opened his eyes and froze on the spot.

"...Mom?" His voice trembled.

Xiaoman took a small step back without saying a word.

The moment the song stopped, Su Ting lowered his head, and a tear fell onto the runes on the ground, stirring up a circle of faint light.

Gray Child coughed twice, trying to break the atmosphere: "Ahem, the touching story live stream is over! Now it's time for 'whispering fan benefits'! Whoever spams 'want to hear Xiaoman tell a story' more than 10,000 times in the chat, we'll release an audio recording!"

"Where did you get this recording?!" Xiaoman asked warily.

"Hehe, I secretly recorded a video of you while you were asleep last night." Gray Boy grinned mischievously. "I've even thought of a title—'Sister Xiaoman's Sleep Talk Revealed: It Turns Out You Had a Crush on Your Math Teacher When You Were Little!'"

"You still dare to broadcast?!" Xiaoman pretended to pounce.

Xiao Sheng suddenly looked up and gazed at the sky.

Its pupils contracted slightly, as if it had seen something that others couldn't.

"Wait," it whispered. "Someone...is responding to us."

"Who?" Duoduo immediately pulled up the signal monitoring.

Chapter 1462 Access to the Decoding System

Everything was normal across global frequency bands, but suddenly an unfamiliar signal appeared on the jade tablet's light screen—

It wasn't audio, nor text, but a series of extremely regular pulsed light spots, like... a certain rhythm.

“This is…” Su Ting frowned.

"It's... rhythm." She whispered, closing her eyes as if listening, "It's slow, it's far away... but from somewhere... it keeps repeating the same beat."

The gray child quickly connected to the decoding system, and a few seconds later, suddenly looked up: "This signal... comes from the Kuiper Belt! And... it's imitating the first melody of 'Hatsune Miku'!"

"Aliens?" Duoduo's eyes widened.

“Not necessarily.” Xiaoman stared at the light screen. “It could also be… some human probe that has been playing a soft song on repeat without anyone knowing.”

Su Ting said in a low voice, "Three hundred years ago, when the Source of Sound was sealed, a probe called 'Ark' quietly derailed, carrying a piece of original sound wave code into deep space. The gatekeeper at the time thought it was destroyed... but perhaps..."

"It's still flying," she added softly. "And...it's learned to sing."

There was silence.

Duoduo suddenly laughed: "So...we not only sent the song to Earth, but also to...time?"

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