"...What are your thoughts now?" Levi turned to look at Qin Chu.
"I don't have any thoughts." Qin Chu's voice was calm as he quietly looked at the two photos. "Unlike the old man, they passed away a long time ago, and I don't remember much about them."
Levy glanced at Qin Chu again but didn't say anything.
I really don't have any thoughts on this; that wouldn't be my reaction. It seems that stubborn people aren't very honest in any aspect of life.
Qin Chu was indeed feeling a bit down.
Although I didn't have any particular thoughts, my mood still plummeted the moment I saw the photos of my biological parents.
There wasn't much information in the introduction. He glanced at the photo one last time before turning to leave.
Levy, however, seemed glued to the photograph.
"...What are you doing standing here?" Qin Chu tugged at him, but couldn't budge him.
Levi looked at General Qin Fei's photo: "Since she's your mother, then she should be my mother too, right?"
Qin Chu was puzzled and rejected the suggestion of recognizing her as a relative: "She shouldn't have a son as rebellious as you?"
“That’s true.” Levy nodded. “After all, it sounds pretty outrageous for an adopted son to fall in love with his biological son. How about switching to another family member?”
Qin Chu's forehead was starting to crease, as if he was hesitating whether to start beating people up in front of his parents' portraits.
Levy pulled him in front of him again, pressed his shoulders, and made him look at two photos on the wall.
"Look, General Qin Fei looks quite serious, but not that fierce. Lieutenant General Chu He is quite a gentle person. How come their union didn't balance things out, but instead produced someone as fierce as you?"
Qin Chu: "..."
He was initially a little impatient, and became even more irritable when his shoulders were forcibly pressed down.
But as Levy spoke, he looked up again at his parents' photos, examining them carefully and slowly.
Qin Chu had never seriously watched the video materials left by his parents.
As a child, he would occasionally wonder who his parents were, but these thoughts were quickly suppressed by the urgency of survival. Later, after getting used to living alone, he simply stopped thinking about it.
After being adopted, he learned about his biological parents for the first time and received information about them.
Qin Chu wouldn't touch these materials during the day, but at night he would secretly look at them in his bedroom with a nightlight on.
I didn't look at it carefully, but I flipped through it many times.
There wasn't much retained data. Qin Chu had opened each item multiple times, but he would often close it hastily after only reading the beginning, or he would rush past it by dragging the progress bar.
It was as if if he looked closely enough, he would have to accept a painful truth—he had permanently lost what he could have had.
He wouldn't look at the photos much, as if looking at them for even a second would overwhelm him with some uncontrollable emotion.
Later, Qin Chu grew into a fully grown man and became so powerful that he no longer had such fragile concerns, but he retained this habit.
Even now, he stands in front of these two photos, looking at them again and again.
A pair of hands rested on his shoulders, their weight giving him a sense of security.
Levi didn't speak again, only Qin Chu watched in silence.
After a long while, Qin Chu finally spoke in a low voice.
“He’s quite serious.” He looked at his mother’s photo, then at his father’s. “He’s quite gentle.”
Then he said to Levy, "Thank you."
Levi leaned down and chuckled in his ear, "You can watch it whenever you want, or if you're too scared, just ask me to watch it with you."
"...Who dares not?" Qin Chu turned to look at him.
"I don't dare." Levi chickened out quickly this time.
With business still unfinished, Qin Chu decided to leave after observing for a while.
He took a step, then suddenly stopped.
"What's wrong?" Levy asked.
Qin Chu slowly turned around, pointed to his mother's photo on the wall, and asked, "Why do you say it's a gender-swapped version of me?"
“Because I look like you,” Levy said.
Qin Chu: "...Say it again?"
Levy paused for two seconds, knew what he was asking, and chuckled to himself.
He reached out and brushed Qin Chu's hair back: "Black hair."
He quickly rubbed his knuckles against Qin Chu's eyelashes again: "His eyes are also very dark, and they're scary when he stares at people. Hmm... his eyelashes are very thick."
Qin Chu slapped his hand away, but he quickly dodged and tapped Qin Chu's back with his fingers: "There are a few scars."
Finally, he compared his height with Qin Chu's: "Hmm, he's quite tall, probably up to my nose."
Qin Chu closed his eyes and cursed inwardly.
This is completely exposed.
He was a little annoyed, raising an eyebrow at Levi: "Oh, you know my name and what I look like, so what about you?"
Levi was taken aback for a moment, then laughed. He pointed to himself and said, "As you are now, with both a name and an appearance, are you satisfied?"
After saying that, he stroked his chin again and turned to look at the photos of Qin Chu's parents on the wall: "Hmm... don't you think this looks like a blind date, or even a blind date with all the family members present?"
Author's Note:
That's still not bold enough. Why not just say it was a wedding scene?
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You guys are actually interested in my drafts?! Actually, I'm interested in my drafts too, ORZ
Chapter 102, Fifth Story (21)
His interruption made Qin Chu want to laugh again: "What blind date?"
He turned to look at the photo on the wall, but strangely his train of thought was swayed, and he felt that it really did look somewhat similar.
“That’s true, how can only one side’s parents be present at a blind date?” Levi nodded. “But I don’t have parents. Why don’t you go through the trouble of being both my blind date’s and my parents?”
"...What nonsense is this?"
With two photos on the wall in front of him, Levy's words made Qin Chu feel subtly uncomfortable.
After all, Levy has another identity.
If Qin Rui had asked him to play with guns and kept bringing up blind dates in the last world... he would have buried the kid alive.
Pulling Levi away, Qin Chu searched for a while longer and then saw a photo of his adoptive father.
The description below the photo was very detailed, including rank, biography, and battle record, much more detailed than what he had found on his personal computer. Since photography was prohibited in the Hall of Fame, Qin Chu had Noah scan all the information.
After the scan was completed, Qin Chu looked up at the photos on the wall again.
Even though he had already been shocked once, Qin Chu was still deeply moved when he looked at the enlarged portrait up close again.
After looking at it for a while, Qin Chu said to Levi, "I sorted through his belongings. I've seen all the video materials. I'm sure this isn't a photo of him in real life."
"That's why you were so surprised?" Levy asked.
“Yes.” Qin Chu nodded. “At first, I even thought that after he died in reality, he came back to life in this world.”
Levy looked at him.
Learning that a deceased loved one might still be alive is an extraordinary shock for any normal person.
Sometimes this can even confuse people's minds, making it difficult for them to distinguish whether they are in a virtual or real place.
But Qin Chu obviously doesn't need to worry.
He took one last look at the photo and then looked away.
The Hall of Fame has limited opening hours, and soon Qin Chu and Levy followed the crowd out again.
After leaving the Hall of Fame, the two returned to the main street lined with stalls.
Qin Chu looked up and observed the buildings inside the military academy.
"What's wrong? Is there a problem?" Levi asked.
"Hmm." Qin Chu nodded, leaned closer, and asked, "Where is the military academy's archives?"
Levy gestured with his chin, indicating: "From this angle, the building at the very back."
"How's the defense?" Qin Chu asked next.
Levi sighed and flicked his finger at the nameplate on his chest: "I'm just a freshman, and I spend most of my time at the base. I really can't answer this question."
Qin Chu clicked his tongue and glanced down at the time.
“If you want to go, now is not a good time. The more relaxed things are outside during the anniversary celebrations, the stricter the checks are inside. It’s easiest to get in right after the anniversary celebrations, when the shifts change,” Levy said.
Qin Chu thought so too, but...
"When does the school anniversary celebration end?" he asked.
"There will be a final cultural performance after 9 p.m.," Levy said.
Qin Chu was silent for a moment, then nodded: "Okay."
The two strolled around for a while longer, when Qin Chu suddenly turned to ask, "Aren't you going to ask me what we're going to do?"
Levy laughed: "Is it necessary? It's not like I can just leave you to go by yourself after asking."
Qin Chu looked at him for two seconds, her feelings peculiar.
That's really interesting.
They are clearly rivals, but now they have to cooperate on something, and Levy is even helping him out.
After thinking for a moment, Qin Chu still told him, "There's a problem with my parents' information. Here, their cause of death is 'sacrifice'."
"Isn't it the real world?" Levy frowned.
"No." Qin Chu looked at the sky. "In the real world, they died because they disobeyed military orders, causing the mission to fail."