Trying to catch the moon's reflection in the water is futile; you're only catching an illusion.
However, the person sitting next to me was a real person.
So when Ji Zhaoming learned that Gu Yunzhou had chosen the afternoon, he felt relieved.
Ji Zhaoming pointed to a spot below and pulled Gu Yunzhou aside, asking, "Hey, is that Gu He?"
Gu He refused to get off the carousel, and no one knows how many times he rode it.
Ji Zhaoming glanced to the side and saw a familiar face holding two cotton candies. He ate one himself and gave the other to the cub next to him.
Every scene and object here can be viewed before your eyes.
The Ferris wheel was still rising, moving very slowly. When I leaned back in my chair, I could see several empty little rooms rising up little by little.
Ji Zhaoming's hand touched the person next to him.
He exclaimed in surprise, "Ah!"
Should they apologize?
It doesn't seem necessary.
Ji Zhaoming could only pretend to point to the sunlight outside: "Look, the sun is about to set."
The timing was perfect, right at the crossroads of afternoon and evening. The orange-red flames engulfed the sky, the light was faint, and the flames were not strong, like a campfire dinner in the forest captured by a camera, becoming an indelible memory.
Gu Yunzhou glanced at the sun, then at Ji Zhaoming, and said, "Hmm."
The sun set from the sky and fell into his embrace.
A question Gu Yunzhou had never considered: How long does it take for the Ferris wheel to go from the ground to the top of the sky?
It might be just a blink of an eye, or it might take a lifetime.
The two sat on one side, their fingertips touching. The room was so small that Ji Zhaoming couldn't leave. He could only move slightly and lean over the edge, looking at the scenery outside.
Sitting at the highest point, everything below appeared as tiny black dots.
Although Ji Zhaoming had experienced the feeling of riding a starship before, sitting in a Ferris wheel gave him a different feeling.
If sitting in a starship is like stepping into a fairytale dream that doesn't belong to you, then sitting in a Ferris wheel is like possessing the human world.
Perhaps because the sun had already set into Gu Yunzhou's embrace, when the Ferris wheel reached its highest point, the sun began to set, and the fiery clouds finally entered the silence of the night, with starlight twinkling.
In the distance, fireworks burst forth in dazzling brilliance.
Ji Zhaoming rarely saw fireworks before, but since coming to this world, he has seen them countless times.
I heard that couples were at the top of the Ferris wheel...
"I read in a book that if couples can ride to the top of a Ferris wheel," Gu Yunzhou, sitting next to me, suddenly spoke up, "they can stay together forever, right, Master?"
Ji Zhaoming nodded and said, "It seems there is such a rumor."
He waited for Gu Yunzhou to continue.
However, after waiting for a long time without any follow-up, he looked at Gu Yunzhou in surprise.
Gu Yunzhou said in a low voice, "It's a very romantic story."
Huh? Did he misunderstand Gu Yunzhou? Was Gu Yunzhou just making a simple remark?
Ji Zhaoming echoed, "Yes."
"..."
The atmosphere suddenly became awkward.
Ji Zhaoming's fingers curled into his palm, like a small animal arriving in an unfamiliar environment, sensing danger through its sixth sense, but unable to find it no matter how hard it tried, so it could only bury its head and wait nervously.
Gu Yunzhou spoke up, "Master."
Ji Zhaoming straightened his back: "Here!"
Gu Yunzhou was always calm and composed. Even though his previous words were so ambiguous, he never made any excessive moves. He seemed to know where Ji Zhaoming's bottom line was, so he always stood in the position closest to Ji Zhaoming's safe zone.
But now, he suddenly reached out, and the flesh covering his fingers receded little by little, revealing the cold-looking metal.
Finally, Gu Yunzhou's hand touched Ji Zhaoming's face.
The poor little animal finally realized that danger seemed to be approaching.
But the person who brought this danger was the one he trusted most, so the little animal tensed up but did not run away, trying to solve the problem with its eyes.
Gu Yunzhou only touched it lightly before quickly removing his fingers.
With his five fingers spread out in front of Ji Zhaoming's eyes, Gu Yunzhou asked in confusion, "Why is the king of the machine race a human?"
Gu Yunzhou used to scoff at this theory.
This line of code was added by the humans who designed the machine race, and they signed their names on it.
However, this line of code was later removed for some unknown reason, and only remained in historical versions.
Logically, this is a line of code that doesn't need to be followed.
However, all the robots firmly believe that "the king of the machine race is human."
Even if it were easy to resist.
Ji Zhaoming had no way to answer this question, so he could only sit quietly in his chair.
The Ferris wheel began to descend from its highest point.
Gu Yunzhou touched Ji Zhaoming's hand again: "It's warm."
Ji Zhaoming smiled and said, "Because I'm a living person."
Yes, these are two completely different races. The machine race will not recognize another race as its king, even if that other race is very powerful.
Humans, however, are fragile and have a completely different aesthetic from that of machine races.
Gu Yunzhou suddenly had a question: Was the shadow he had dreamed about countless times really just a dream?
If it really was a dream, why was he so determined to find such a vague and ethereal shadow?
Night enveloped Gu Yunzhou, half his face in shadow, the other half exposed to the moonlight before Ji Zhaoming.
Gu Yunzhou thought that he must have seen Ji Zhaoming somewhere before.
A throbbing pain shot through his head, but he remained calm, trying to find some trace of memory within the pain.
"Gu Yunzhou..."
"Gu Yunzhou..."
Gu Yunzhou is different from both the machine race and the previous machine leaders.
"May I call you Gu Yunzhou?"
—The machine race has no names.
Gu He's name comes from Ji Zhaoming, but what about his name?
"Gu Yunzhou! Are you alright?" Seeing that Gu Yunzhou's forehead was covered in cold sweat and his face was pale, as if he was about to collapse at any moment, Ji Zhaoming hurriedly supported Gu Yunzhou's arm and asked with concern, "Are you feeling unwell somewhere?"
His hand was gripped tightly by another pair of hands, so tightly that Ji Zhaoming wanted to groan, but seeing Gu Yunzhou's expression, he swallowed it back.
Ji Zhaoming looked down; they were still halfway to landing. "Is there an emergency stop button here?"
“Ji…” Gu Yunzhou called out, “Ji Zhaoming.”
He wasn't calling for his master, but Ji Zhaoming was too worried to notice and could only keep saying, "I'm here."
A burgeoning desire finally sprouted from the soil deep within Gu Yunzhou's heart.
Gu Yunzhou sighed, "Ji Zhaoming."
As he spoke of this name, he felt like a traveler who had walked through the desert for thousands of nights and had finally found his own oasis.
Gu Yunzhou suddenly opened his eyes and shook his head. "I'm fine."
Ji Zhaoming was still worried: "How could nothing be wrong? Let's check it out quickly in a bit."
"No need." Gu Yunzhou released Ji Zhaoming's hand.
Ji Zhaoming's wrist was gripped so tightly that a red ring appeared on his skin.
Fortunately, Gu Yunzhou carried medicine with him. He applied the cooling medicine to Ji Zhaoming's wrist, and he recovered instantly.
Gu Yunzhou was about to leave when he suddenly looked at his hands.
He clearly had previously transformed his hand back into a robot-like form.
Now, the fingertips are made of human flesh and blood, a stark contrast to the cold machines that remain.
Gu Yunzhou instinctively put his hands behind his back, "You pinched them until they turned red."
Ji Zhaoming shook his wrist: "It's okay, look, it doesn't hurt at all."
Gu Yunzhou's long eyelashes obscured the expression in his eyes, his tone full of self-reproach: "I used too much force."
"How could that be?" Ji Zhaoming laughed. "It's just that my skin is fair, so it looks scary. Actually, it doesn't hurt at all."
"If it hurts," Gu Yunzhou said, "just say so."
He leaned down and kissed Ji Zhaoming's wrist.
Gu Yunzhou said, "Otherwise, if I were to do this to you again, I would feel... very sorry."
Just like in all stories, the knight knelt before the princess and offered her the most loyal kiss, signifying that from this day forward, he would give his life and be invincible for his king.
Only the knight himself knew what he was thinking at that moment.
I offer my life, and from this day forward I will be bound to those I serve.
Nothing can stop it anymore.
Gu Yunzhou straightened up and stood up first, saying, "Would Master like to get down?"
Ji Zhaoming then realized that the Ferris wheel had returned to the ground.
He nodded and, following Gu Yunzhou's pull, jumped down from the small box.
It lands lightly.
Ji Zhaoming asked, "Hmm, what else do you want to do? Hmm? Is there something on my face?"