Unbelievable.
Watching Nuo Yi's series of operations, Chen Yu was amazed.
VPN purchase, bypassing censorship.
All in one go.
By selecting the desired kingdom on the VPN address, the chat area of the social page would automatically jump to the set region.
Messages scrolled at lightning speed.
After being in the underground cave for almost a year, Chen Yu truly saw the cave clearly and finally knew how many kingdoms there were.
"This cave is too vast." he muttered.
Gazing at the pages of various kingdoms on the VPN, Chen Yu sincerely exclaimed.
"It is indeed very large," Nuo Yi said with a smile. "Many people in the cave will never be able to leave their own kingdom in their lifetime. Perhaps only about thirty percent can travel across two to three kingdoms, and those who traverse all countries are estimated to be less than half a percent, with most of them being traveling merchants."
Chen Yu, sitting on the chair in the room, remained silent for a long time.
In such a vast cave,
It was already his limit to have met Su Zhan.
To encounter friends and relatives from outside the cave, who were once there, would be several, or even tens of thousands of times more difficult than finding a needle in a haystack.
"The cave."
Leaning against the wall, Chen Yu looked up and sighed.
Nuo Yi, with confusion in her eyes, didn't understand why Chen Yu was like this. The little demon, however, knew very well. She guessed that Chen Yu was undoubtedly thinking about the hopelessness of finding his family in the cave, which was why he sighed.
"Let him sit by himself for a while."
The little demon tugged at Nuo Yi's arm and walked out of the room.
For a moment,
Chen Yu was left alone in the room.
He didn't even know what he was thinking. He just quietly watched the scrolling messages on the chat page, his fingers continuously changing the VPN location, watching the unreadable content on the screen flash past his eyes. Memories of the time before the cave involuntarily surfaced in his mind.
"Why do Mom and Dad never come to see me?"
A small, naive child, looking up at the old woman standing beside him, whose eyes were always full of kindness.
"They are busy with very important matters," the old woman gently put her arm around the child's shoulder and pointed to a very bright star above their heads. "See that star? They are there, perhaps they are watching you now too. Wave to them."
"Hey!"
The young boy waved his hand and shouted towards the bright star in the distance.
"I will take good care of Grandma, don't worry."
"Grandma..." The black coffin was covered with white flowers. The eyes of the young man with heroic features flickered violently as he looked at the old woman lying peacefully in the coffin.
She was always so kind, even at this moment, her face was still smiling.
"Mom!"
A gust of cold wind blew. A man carrying something that looked like a space helmet, with a long scar on his face, rushed to the coffin with tear-filled eyes and knelt down.
Behind him, a beautiful woman with golden curly hair came to Chen Yu's side.
"You've grown so tall."
"Who are you?" The young man with stern features raised his head. The beautiful woman said nothing, just raised her hand to embrace his head, her forehead gently touching his. "You've worked hard all these years. Don't blame us. Everything we did was for you."
Although the young man had no impression of the beautiful woman in front of him.
Yet, the moment her forehead touched his, a familiar but vague figure seemed to appear in his mind. That figure was holding him when he was still a baby, her face full of brilliant and happy smiles, and beside her was a handsome and upright strong man.
"Look, these eyebrows are so much like mine."
"Clearly, they are more like me," the beautiful woman glared at the strong man fiercely and said softly, "What should we name him?"
"Ba Tian!"
The strong man raised his head proudly.
"How imposing."
"Please put away your vulgar words," the beautiful woman said with disdain. "Ba Tian? Why are you so uncultured? This is your son, after all. Can you put more effort into it?"
The strong man nervously touched his nose. Just then, a kind old woman walked in from outside the door.
"How about Chen Yu?"
"Chen Yu?" The strong man frowned, but the beautiful woman smiled and nodded. "My mother's choice is good. Yu means radiance, shining. The meaning is very good. I hope our son can illuminate others like the sun in the future. Little Chen Yu, you will be called Chen Yu from now on, okay?"
"Then his nickname must be Ba Tian."
"Can you get lost?"
The blurred images became clearer and clearer, and tears welled up in the handsome young man's eyes. He moved his lips and looked at the beautiful woman in front of him, opening his mouth slightly, but before he could utter that intimate address—
The man kneeling and crying before the coffin walked forward with a solemn expression.
Looking at the beautiful woman embracing Chen Yu, his gaze fell on Chen Yu again. He patted Chen Yu's shoulder with his rough hand.
"You must shoulder the future, understand?"
The handsome young man remained silent, but the beautiful woman embracing him glanced at the strong man's expression.
"What happened?"
"We just received news that those guys have moved again, and we have to hurry back," the strong man whispered. This whisper made the stiff young man suddenly look up and grab the strong man's arm. "You're leaving again? Grandma is gone, and you only came back to see her once before leaving?"
"I'm sorry."
The strong man's lips moved for a long time. He looked at the coffin behind him, at the kind old woman lying in it, and shook his head.
"You might as well not have come back."
The handsome young man, with tear-filled eyes, looked at the strong man in front of him, then broke free from the beautiful woman's embrace and shouted at them with wet eyes.
"Might as well have let me believe you were all dead!!!"
"Xiao Yu, we did this because..." The strong man seemed to want to explain, but Chen Yu, with tears in his eyes, shook his head, interrupted him, and pointed at himself. "It's for me, right?! What exactly did you do for me? When I was little, I didn't understand anything. Now that I'm in college, I can roughly grasp the progress of the scientific research field on Blue Star, even if I can't figure it out completely. How can you two go and conquer the universe and fight for me in the galaxies? Does that mean I'm a second-generation star, and I directly own the Milky Way?"
"Xiao Yu, things are not as you think."
The beautiful woman's lips moved as she whispered. Looking at these two familiar figures, the handsome young man felt they were becoming more and more estranged. He shook his head and kept retreating.
"You go and do your work. We haven't seen each other for more than ten years, and not seeing each other in the future is no big deal."
Instantly, the handsome young man's expression turned cold. He slowly walked to the coffin, looked at the old woman, turned his back to the two of them, and raised his hand.
"Su Zhan, see them out!"
No one moved in the mourning hall. The couple standing at the door remained silent for a long time.
"You may not understand now, but one day you will know everything. The same words apply: do not disappoint our expectations of you, nor your grandmother's expectations. You must shoulder the future."