I really don't want to date a girl addicted to the internet!

"Alright, you wait."

The boy hung up the phone, took a deep breath, got up, quickly changed his clothes, and left the rented room.

The streets were deserted late at night. Cheng Fei jogged all the way to Shen Xi's apartment and found that it was pitch black all around.

A security guard hurried past, flashlight in hand.

"Uncle, is there a power outage here?" Cheng Fei asked quickly.

"Ah, yes, it seems the transformer exploded. The power company will send people to repair it immediately."

Cheng Fei stood downstairs at the apartment building and dialed the girl's number.

"You've arrived?" The girl's cool voice sounded a little more impatient than usual.

"Teacher Shen, the power's out. Do you expect me to climb the 36th floor in the middle of the night?"

There was a moment of silence on the other end.

"I'll remember to call you if the power goes out... You said it yourself." She said in a muffled voice.

Cheng Fei tried hard to recall, and was shocked to realize that he had actually said those words.

He wouldn't believe it if someone said this woman didn't have any extraordinary abilities related to memory.

"I'm afraid of you."

Cheng Fei hung up the phone, sighed, turned on his flashlight, and started climbing the stairs.

Climbing 36 floors in the middle of the night, he suspected he would have died here today if he hadn't been exercising regularly and improving his physical condition.

Cheng Fei didn't pay attention to how long he climbed, but it wasn't as tiring as he had imagined. He had to admit that he was much stronger than before.

Arriving at Shen Xi's door, the boy rang the doorbell, only to receive another phone call from the girl.

"The lock accepts a password... The password is 1306."

"June 13th? Teacher Shen, your password isn't very secure." Cheng Fei typed in the numbers. "But I won't say happy birthday, this is to make up for this year's."

"I've never heard of this method of tonification before..."

"Of course, I invented it especially for you."

The room was dark due to the power outage. Cheng Fei closed the door, changed his shoes, and groped his way inside.

"Teacher Shen, where are you?" he said into the phone.

"bedroom."

"I just walked in?"

"Ah."

Cheng Fei hung up the phone and pushed open the door.

In the pitch-black room, Shen Xi sat alone on the bed, curled up in a ball with the blanket, using her phone to light her way.

The tablet on the table was lit up, as if she had been using it not long ago.

Cheng Fei didn't know what expression to make. "Teacher Shen, don't tell me you called me over because you're afraid of the dark. If you like me, you can just say so directly. You don't have to beat around the bush like this."

Shen Xi pointed expressionlessly at the tablet on the table. Due to the angle of the light, the girl's expression had a terrifying quality, like a character from a horror movie.

"Teacher Shen, what happened?"

“Watch the tablet yourself, it’s the last few minutes.” She said in a strange tone.

Surprisingly, he wasn't scolded. Cheng Fei wasn't used to it, so he picked up the tablet as she instructed.

The tablet displayed a video file that was over a hundred hours long; it was obviously footage of gameplay recorded this week.

Cheng Fei finally managed to drag the progress bar to the last few minutes and started playing.

The game takes place at night, and initially nothing unusual happens, until a figure appears at the edge of the screen.

A white-haired girl with a youthful appearance, wearing a blue and white sailor uniform, is holding a white umbrella.

Cheng Fei frowned.

The girl with the white umbrella initially stood at the edge of the frame with her back to the camera, until at a certain moment, she opened the white umbrella and disappeared into thin air.

Then, with another bang, the girl with the white umbrella appeared right in front of him.

She closed her white umbrella, blinked curiously, and slowly moved closer to the camera, her small face gradually enlarging until it filled the entire field of vision.

One can imagine that in the corridor, the girl with the white umbrella was standing on tiptoe, her eyes meeting Shen Xi's game character.

Due to the distortion caused by the close-up lens, the girl with the white umbrella appears to have a huge and grotesque face.

The image suddenly blurred and shook, and the video abruptly ended.

The girl with the white umbrella wasn't scary at all; in fact, she was incredibly cute. However, a strange and unsettling feeling still crept into Cheng Fei's heart.

"As soon as she looked over... the power went out," Shen Xi said softly, sitting on the edge of the bed.

……

92. Two people sharing a room

In the early hours of the morning, the pitch-black room was deathly silent.

Cheng Fei glanced back at the closed door, walked to the window, and pulled back the white curtains to confirm that he could still see lights across the street, while only the surrounding buildings were eerily dark.

"Just one glance and the transformer exploded? That can't be right." Cheng Fei stroked his chin. "Could it be a coincidence?"

Shen Xi cast a cryptic glance at her, "Were you talking about her when you were eating?"

"The face is very similar, but the temperament and clothing are completely opposite." Cheng Fei shook his head. "If I had to say, the previous one was more like this dark version."

The girl frowned, rested her chin on her knees, and fell silent, pursing her lips.

Cheng Fei observed her and asked, "Teacher Shen, were you startled just now?"

"No." The girl glared at him weakly.

"you are cute."

"Shut up." Even cursing doesn't feel as energetic as usual.

"It's true that it's a bit scary late at night; I probably wouldn't be able to sleep well either." Cheng Fei glanced at the distorted face on the tablet again and simply turned off the recording.

Shen Xi glanced at him expressionlessly.

Cheng Fei looked around. "Teacher Shen, if there's nothing else, I'll head back now. I'm sure you wouldn't like me staying at your house so late at night."

The girl raised her head and silently opened her mouth.

"Even if she is some kind of electronic ghost, she wouldn't jump out of the screen to harm you. Besides, she looks quite cute, so she probably doesn't mean any harm. I would be more worried if it were the one with the black umbrella."

"So let's talk about any problems tomorrow. I'm really tired right now." Cheng Fei yawned and opened the bedroom door.

"No..." The aloof girl on the bed moved her lips.

"Teacher Shen, did you just speak?" Cheng Fei turned around and stared at her suspiciously.

"Don't go." Shen Xi stared at him expressionlessly, her voice much firmer this time.

Cheng Fei was taken aback. "Staying overnight? That's not a good idea."

"That's an order," the girl said coldly.

"No, what if Lin Xuanqi is still sending people to monitor me, and she interrogates me later?" Cheng Fei shook his head repeatedly.

"I'll explain it to you." The girl bit her lip slightly.

"Damn it, are you saying that explaining this isn't adding fuel to the fire?"

"She will listen."

The boy and girl stared at each other for a long time.

"Whether she listens or not, I said I'd protect you, and I mean it." Cheng Fei closed the door. "Want me to hold you while you sleep? No problem."

"Don't come up either." Shen Xi frowned.

Cheng Fei scratched his head. "Teacher Shen, you can't expect me to stand guard for you, can you?"

"You can't come up there either." The girl turned her face away.

"We'll each sleep on one side, and I promise I won't cross the line, okay?"

"impossible."

"Well, there's nothing I can do. I'm leaving now. Goodnight." Cheng Fei turned around without hesitation.

As the door clicked shut and the footsteps faded into the distance, the aloof girl sitting on the bed gritted her teeth, picked up her phone, and scrolled through her contacts.

Her fingertips hovered on the screen for a long time without moving, as if frozen. After a long while, she took a deep breath and clicked hard.

The screen displays that a call is being made.

Just then, the door was suddenly opened with a click.

The boy left and then returned, in a flustered state.

The girl quickly canceled the call, looked up, and said coldly, "Why did you come back?"

Cheng Fei dramatically wiped his forehead. "Phew, the hallway is terrifyingly dark. This is the 36th floor! Teacher Shen, I'm too scared to go back. Can I sleep on a makeshift bed in your room? Luckily, you have underfloor heating."

"Scared? Looks like you're nothing but a coward." The girl's sneer was full of sarcasm.

"Teacher Shen, how could you say that to me? If you hadn't called me in the middle of the night, I would be sleeping so soundly now."

"You don't have to come if you don't want to."

"Yes, I love you too."

"what are you doing?"

Cheng Fei opened the girl's wardrobe, looking inside while talking on his phone. "Go ahead and use your blanket to make a makeshift bed on the floor, or I'll steal your clothes?"

The girl in her pajamas quickly jumped off the bed to stop him, saying, "Don't look around, the blanket is on top."

In no time, Cheng Fei had made a makeshift bed on the carpet. With two layers of blankets and the underfloor heating, it felt even more comfortable than his own place.

Cheng Fei took off his coat and lay down, staring at the dark ceiling.

"Teacher Shen."

"what?"

"If you're really scared, you can sneak into my bed later, and I'll act like nothing happened in the morning."

"As expected, their despicable nature will never change."

"This is only for you."

"Ha, do you think I'd still believe that now? I've said this to countless people."

“Teacher Shen, sometimes you shouldn’t care too much about the outside world. Don’t you see some girls nowadays who can suck on someone’s neck even when the relationship is unclear?”

"It's one case of shamelessness, but what are you trying to say?"

"Actually, I also want to find a chance to hug you now..."

"I'm warning you, I won't forgive you if you dare to climb up here in the middle of the night."

There was no response for a long time after the girl finished speaking.

"Did you hear that?" She stared at the ceiling, frowning.

Still no response.

The girl blinked in the darkness, reached for her phone beside her pillow, and shone it on the carpet.

The boy had closed his eyes and was breathing evenly.

The girl stared at him silently for a moment before returning to her original position.

……

At 6:30 in the morning, Cheng Fei opened his eyes automatically without needing an alarm clock.