Chapter 1265: Chapter 64 Yu Xi’s Letter_3

The sunset falls.

The warm orange light shines on the two former presidents of Rhein University, as if draping them with a floating dress, dancing with the evening breeze.

Gao Yang grins, snuffs out the cigarette butt, lifts the hafnium alloy trash can VV’s lid, and tosses the cigarette butt inside.

Then he exhales a cloud of white smoke and softly says:

“Do you miss them?”

“Of course I do.”

Lin Xian stands motionless:

“Initially, during the first few days after waking up from the hibernation pod, I barely thought of them because… in my subconscious mind, I had just left their side yesterday, so there was no real sense of separation.”

“But now it’s different; as the days pass, this sense of separation grows more tangible.”

He purses his lips and recites the story discussed with VV in front of the statue at Sky City in the Third Dreamland:

“Lives do not meet, like stars moving apart; tonight what night is it, sharing this candle light.”

Lives do not meet.

This is the greatest distance.

Farther than the universe, farther than time, farther than everything.

“Actually… there’s one more thing I never voiced.”

Lin Xian raises his head, looking at the statue of Lin Yuxi.

The young Yu Xi holds her mother’s hand, likewise gazing resolutely into the distance.

Several times he hesitated.

Lin Xian finally speaks:

“[Does Yu Xi… still not forgive me, does she hate me?]”

Gao Yang is startled:

“Why do you say that?”

“I think you’re wrong, Lin Xian. If Yu Xi truly hated you, why would she take the role of Rhein University’s president? It’s obvious she’s doing it for you.”

“Rhein University was established by Zhao Yingjun, but it was truly expanded by Yu Xi. She clearly understands what this university means for the future and how much support it can give you.”

“She must deeply understand you, knowing her father is a hero, who had to go to the future to save the world, thus she dedicates her life to managing the university and laying foundations for our future plans.”

Lin Xian shakes his head:

“That’s not how it goes, Gao Yang. When Zhao Yingjun and I made this decision back then, we did it from an adult perspective, without considering a child’s feelings.”

“Brother Wang once told me a child’s inner world is very simple. In their eyes, the world and what they own are just a tiny bit… precisely because of that tiny bit, every little bit is precious to them.”

“I certainly understand Yu Xi’s feelings, and whatever hate she has for me is justified, even though I truly became a hero who saved the world, the humanity, the future, as Zhao Yingjun said; but I will never be a qualified father.”

Gao Yang pats Lin Xian’s shoulder:

“If you think this way, during China’s wartime, all fathers who went to the front line weren’t qualified fathers, can you say that?”

“Yu Xi will definitely understand you, trust me. It’s the responsibility of every man to save the country when disaster strikes; if everyone quits, claiming to give up the world for their daughters, who will take charge? Who will step up during real war?”

“Back when our country faced difficulties, those heroes who hid in the desert to research nuclear weapons, which one didn’t leave their wives and children? Which one wasn’t gone without a trace for two or three decades, with life or death unknown? Without their sacrifices, how could we have the life we live now?”

Lin Xian doesn’t speak, just smiles lightly:

“I understand what you’re saying, today is just me venting to you a little.”

“The reason I think this is because Yu Xi hasn’t left anything for me… think about it, Yingjun left me a letter, which makes me feel comforted.”

“But Yu Xi didn’t leave anything for me, not even a letter, not even a word… I have no idea what she’s thinking or what she wants to say to me.”

“[But the fact is, Yu Xi didn’t leave me any letter.]”

Gao Yang scratches his head.

Spreads his hands:

“Ah, well this… I don’t know the reason for that. After all, I woke up just a month before you, and previously I didn’t know Zhao Yingjun left you a letter, this trash can only asks for your password when it sees you.”

“Right, if you want to know whether Yu Xi left anything for you, don’t ask me, ask anyone else, you should ask it–”

With that, Gao Yang raises his right hand, extends his index finger, and points at the hafnium alloy trash can VV:

“It stayed by Zhao Yingjun and Yu Xi’s side for 200 years, surely it knows whether Yu Xi wrote you a letter!”

Then.

Lin Xian and Gao Yang both turn their heads to look at the nearby, silent hafnium alloy trash can VV.

Hmm?

Who would think!

This time VV’s reaction is extremely strange.

It doesn’t shout ‘trash trash,’ nor does it continue to stay frozen.

Instead…

It trembles, stutters, turns around slowly, and tries to sneak away furtively.

“Damn!”

Gao Yang shouts:

“This thing is guilty! It surely knows something’s up! Catch it quick!”

Gao Yang leaps up, smacks the hafnium alloy trash can.

Thud!

With a dull sound, Gao Yang rolls on the ground clutching his wrist:

“Ow ow ow ow! I think I broke my wrist! Whose idea was it to make a trash can out of hafnium alloy?”

Lin Xian quickly stands up.

He’s noticed VV’s abnormality too!

This response is too unusual!

With the previous VV, it would certainly rely on its indestructible hafnium alloy body, charge at him and then furiously call him trash.

But now, this guilty sneaking away behavior…