I loaded the dream game

Kiss, kiss! ?

Irena seemed to be startled when she heard this, and her body stiffened slightly. She secretly glanced at the boy opposite her, and felt her heartbeat speed up for no reason.

Is kissing necessary?

As for the highest point...it seems like it’s about to be reached, right?

How to do it……

The girl's mind was a little confused for a moment.

By the way, he and I will only be lovers for one day, so it doesn’t matter if we don’t kiss, right?

"But, that's probably just a marketing gimmick."

Xia Zhi said nonchalantly.

"That's right..."

Irena breathed a sigh of relief and quietly shifted her gaze away from the boy to look at the sky outside the window.

The sky was gradually getting darker. Although the stars were still invisible, the moon had already quietly risen in the sky. Lights were also beginning to light up in the distant city.

Today is almost over...

The girl thought silently in her heart.

Looking at the bright moon hanging in the sky and the gradually darkening night sky around her, Irena inexplicably recalled the scene she saw yesterday, and an idea came to her mind.

Is it also floating alone in the dark void like the planet beneath our feet?

That's true, lonely...

"Are you homesick?"

The boy's voice came from the side, interrupting Irena's thoughts and making her stunned for a moment.

Why do you say that suddenly?

"In our world, the moon is often used to represent home, symbolizing the longing of people far away for their hometown."

Looking at the girl's puzzled eyes, Xia Zhi explained to her briefly.

Is that right?

Irena blinked, turned her head to look at the bright moon in the sky, and fell silent, not knowing what she was thinking.

"So..." Xia Zhi stood up, extended his hand to the girl and asked, "Do you want to go up and take a look?"

"Huh?" Irena was stunned again, not quite understanding how his thoughts suddenly jumped here.

"How about just treating it as the last stop of today's date?" Xia Zhi replied.

"..."

Listening to the boy's words, Irena pursed her lips slightly.

Although she didn't want to go to that dark, empty, cold and deep place again, but... if it was Xia Zhi's invitation...

She took a deep breath, hummed softly, stretched out her hand, and gently placed it in the boy's hand...

.......

Chapter 587 The Girl Seems to Have Found the Answer

The sound of the wind whistled past her ears, but unlike last time, Irena did not feel the slightest bit of cold. Instead, she felt a warm feeling from the boy's hand holding hers.

She lowered her head and looked down. The world in her field of vision quickly became smaller. The original playground had long disappeared, and even the city had become a small black dot. The vast continent became clearly visible, and the horizon in the distance began to have a clear and obvious arc...

It’s much faster than last time.

Irena sighed in her heart.

Not long after, the sound of the wind disappeared. Having experienced it last time, Irena knew that they must have left the range of the atmosphere.

But for some reason, even though she still couldn't breathe, she didn't feel the uncomfortable feeling of suffocation like last time.

"Are you ready?"

Just as she was wondering, the boy's voice came clearly into her ears.

"We are going to start speeding up."

"Eh?" Irena was slightly stunned.

Wasn’t that the highest speed just now?

Before she could ask the question in her heart, she felt a force coming from her body, followed by a strong feeling of overweight sweeping over her body, pressing down the words in her heart along with her entire body...

……

This is Xia Zhi's second moon landing. Compared with the last time, we have more experience, so we did not fly over the moon again.

Since there were 297 more people on board, it should also be considered a manned lunar landing, right?

Xia Zhi thought about it and let go of the girl who was holding his collar tightly in his arms.

"Don't hold on, we're already here."

After hearing this, Irena finally opened her eyes and looked around.

Just as Xia Zhi said, they came to another "world".

Desolate, dead silent, the gray-white desert stretches into the distance, connecting with the black starry sky...

This was Irena’s first impression of the world before her.

She raised her head and looked far above her head. In her field of vision, a blue-yellow planet appeared, as if it had replaced the "moon" in her memory, embedded in the starry sky at night.

However, compared to the moon, this blue planet is obviously much larger.

"So fast..." Irena couldn't help but sigh.

Could it be that the distance from the ground to the moon is actually not very far?

"Based on the speed we initially flew out of the Earth, it would probably take us half a day to get here."

Xia Zhi's words answered the doubts in her heart.

“That’s why I increased the speed a bit later.”

Is that a little bit of speed?

After simply calculating the distance in her mind, Irena couldn't help but complain.

Then she lowered her head to look at the ground beneath her feet and asked curiously, "Is the moon also a planet like the earth?"

"There are still some differences." Xia Zhi thought for a moment and replied, "In the definition of humans in this world, the moon is a satellite, while the earth is a planet."

"Is there any difference between the two?" Irena asked in confusion.

One of the hard and fast differences is that the mass of a planet must be large enough to clear out other celestial bodies around its orbit...but explaining it this way seems a bit too complicated.

After thinking for a moment, Xia Zhi changed his words: "From a certain perspective, it's actually the same... The moon is the satellite of the earth, and the earth is equivalent to the satellite of the sun. It's just that a long time ago, the moon accidentally got closer to the earth and was captured by the earth's gravity first."

"A scumbag who strikes first?" Irena tilted her head slightly.

"He has been loyal for billions of years." Xia Zhi complained.

"But... for billions of years we have been just hanging in the distance, without any real contact. Isn't it worse?" Irena continued, trying to take two steps forward, but the unique gravity made her unable to stabilize her body for a moment. Fortunately, Xia Zhi grabbed her wrist in time and she stood firm.

It would be even worse if it really happened, right?

Xia Zhi complained in his heart, and after helping the girl steady herself, he reminded her: "Be careful, the gravity here is much weaker than on Earth. It's easy to fall if you're not used to it."

"Eh... I thought they were all the same." Irene tried jumping twice lightly, and sure enough, she jumped up to a considerable height without much effort, which made her feel very novel for a moment.

"Because the weight is much smaller." Looking at the girl with a happy smile on her face, as if she was a child who had found a new toy, Xia Zhi felt that at this moment, she seemed to be no different from a child like Ailu Ke, both of them were very cute.

"At the same time, due to the difference in gravity, the moon is like being pulled by a rope, constantly rotating around the earth, which causes the moon to rise in the east and set in the west, and to wax and wane in the west as we see it on the ground."

It feels like a giant Ferris wheel.

Irena thought of something else.

It seems like a good place for a final date.

“It’s just a little desolate.”

Rather than saying it is desolate, it is better to say that there is no sign of life at all.

"In fact, the other side of the moon is quite lively. If you want, I can take you there to see it."

Xia Zhi made a suggestion.

Irena hesitated for a moment, but still shook her head to reject the suggestion. She rolled up her skirt to her knees and sat down next to the boy. She seemed to be tired from playing and was ready to take a rest.

Seeing that she didn't agree, Xia Zhi didn't force her and just sat down next to her.

The two of them just quietly looked at the blue planet in the distance, waiting for the sun to set over the edge of the horizon.

"So small..." Irena said softly.

The world seemed so huge, but now it seems that it is not even as big as my fist...

Silent, soundless, but not cold...

Irena gradually understood what Xia Zhi had said before, why some people like the Ferris wheel.

In the distance, the blue planet is rotating slowly. Everything that was familiar seems so small and far away. It seems that there is only oneself and the people around him in the whole world. It really gives people a slow, peaceful and stable sense of happiness.

We were clearly in the deep space far away from "home", but why did I not feel the slightest bit of loneliness and desolation this time?

Even when the boy suggested going to where there were more people, he refused.

Irena lowered her head, looked at the boy's hand on the ground, and pursed her lips.

"Summer Solstice..."

"Ok?"

"I think I found the answer." The girl said softly.

Xia Zhi was slightly stunned.

What answer did you find?

Before he could ask this question, he heard the girl continue:

“I don’t want it to end.”

If the Ferris wheel legend is true...

She gently held the boy's hand, raised her head, stared at him with her glassy eyes, and asked:

"Have we now reached the highest point of this 'Ferris Wheel'?"

……

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Chapter 588: Countdown to Resetting the Completed Copy

When the two returned home, it was already a long time later.

The sun had already set from the horizon, the sky was filled with stars, and the bright moon shed its brilliant light, illuminating the way home for the two figures who had just returned from it.

As soon as she returned home, Irena went back to her own room... Although she moved out of Xia Zhi's room, she did not return to Kato Megumi's house immediately.

According to her, she would have to start traveling again soon anyway, and it would be troublesome to move here and there, so she decided to stay here temporarily... But now it seems that she doesn't know how long this "soon" will take.

"Brother, welcome back~"

Xia Zhi greeted the boy who came back, then looked at Irena's back as she disappeared behind the stairs, and asked in confusion: "Sister Irena, aren't you going to have dinner?"

"We've already eaten outside." Xia Zhi replied and explained.

"Really?" Xia Zhi tilted her head, feeling a little troubled.

This way, there will be more dinner for dinner...