Chen looked at the red-haired figure standing outside the door, sighed softly, and stepped into the door.

"You are indeed here."

Outside the door is a green lawn, with countless flowers of various kinds growing neatly, arranged into a colorful and complex rainbow.

In the middle of the flowers, on the pebbly path, the owner of long-haired red hair was holding a long-handled scissors in his hand, carefully building branches and leaves.

Hearing the door, she raised her head, put down her scissors, and walked towards Chen slowly.

"Yes, I'm here." Men Zaichen disappeared behind him.

"I guessed that you will come one day." The red-haired woman walked to Chen and looked him up and down: "I haven't seen you again for so many years, but you haven't changed at all."

"Hasn't you changed?" Chen turned his gaze and stopped looking at the red-haired girl.

"Are you sure?" the red-haired girl sighed and shook her head: "What you see is me, not her. Maybe my body, who doesn't know where, is now so old. Even this red hair is already gray."

"Stop kidding." Chen shook his head gently: "How could you get older?"

"Everyone will die, let alone old people." The red-haired woman stretched out her hand and pressed her in front of her. A small square table with logs appeared, and two chairs placed opposite each other.

On the small square table, there was a full set of tea sets, tea milk, and sugar cubes.

"Since I haven't seen you for so long, I'd better sit down and have a cup of tea first. Let's talk about the past." The red-haired woman had already sat down first, picked up the tea with a small silver spoon, and evenly sprinkled it into the two cups.

"Sorry, I don't have time to chat." Chen did not sit down, but frowned and looked up and down at the red-haired woman: "And... Chengcheng, why did you become like this?"

"Where?" Chengcheng stretched out her hand and tweaked her long red hair in her ear, glanced at Chen, and there were many charms in the corners of her eyebrows: "Didn't you just say that I haven't changed at all?"

Chen shook his head: "The face has not changed, but the person has changed. How could you talk to me with such a hot temper in the past?"

"Oh? Could it be that you like me to be so fierce to you?" Chengcheng poured hot water into the teacup, poured it half a cup, picked up the milk jug and poured it over, put two sugar cubes each, and stir it gently with a small teaspoon: "Your taste has changed."

"I don't know what kind of personality program she set for you, but I'm sure that if I saw the real Chengcheng, she would never be like your current attitude." Chen still didn't sit down, his eyes always wandering outside the Chengcheng's direction: "Put the key, I don't have that much time to play with a shadow."

"Play?" Chengcheng picked up the teacup and took a sip: "Why don't you look at me? Do you hate me so much? Do you no longer like me?"

"It's not a pity, nor a liking." Chen's tone was still light: "For a shadow, I don't have any need to pour my emotions into it, right? I'll say it again and let me go. Otherwise..."

"Other...? What else will you do?" Chengcheng smiled pursed and said, "Kill me?"

"Do you think I can't?" Chen's face turned around, and his eyes were full of chills: "Just just a shadow, is it difficult to kill you?"

"You can try it." Chengcheng stretched out a finger and circled a strand of long hair several times.

"Okay." Chen spit out a word simply and neatly. His figure had disappeared from the spot and appeared in front of Chengcheng in an instant. The index finger of his right hand had already touched the center of Chengcheng's eyebrows.

A golden light flashed, and the orange began to fall apart from the middle of her eyebrows while smiling, and quickly dissipated into pieces.

However, before Chen took back his right arm, the already disappeared Chengcheng reappeared on the chair with a flash of light.

"It seems... it's not that easy, right?" Chengcheng also stretched out a index finger and gently stroked Chen's finger.

Her fingers slid across Chen's fingertips, and the trimmed nails gently rubbed across Chen's back of his hand, extending little by little towards his arm.

Chen's expression still did not change, and he didn't even take his fingers back, but his face turned pale.

"Why do you look so unhappy?" Chengcheng sighed softly: "Do you really want to kill me so much?"

She opened her cherry lips slightly, stretched out her pink tongue tip, gently licked Chen's fingertips, and then took it into her mouth.

A warm and humid wave wrapped Chen's fingers all over.

Then

The golden light reappeared, and Chengcheng's body was shaken away again.

But less than a second, Chengcheng reappeared on the chair.

"It's useless, Chen." Chengcheng smiled and shook her head: "No matter how strong you are, you can't kill me in this space, and it's even more impossible to get the key by force."

"What should I do?" Chen felt a little strange.

The orange in front of me... something is wrong!

After a long time, when the two broke up, Chengcheng clearly wanted to kill him quickly.

But the girl in front of her clearly has no hostility towards her.

Even if there is nothing.

Chen didn't believe that when Chengcheng looked at him, the murderous intent that was about to overflow in her eyes could be hidden so well and so deep, without any trace.

"If you don't drink it, the tea will be cold." Chengcheng leaned on the back of the chair, put his elbow on the table, held his chin, and looked at Chen with his head raised.

Chen was silent for a moment and sat down next to Chengcheng.

When they set up this core insurance mechanism, they did not reveal the content of the level to each other, but Chen and Chengcheng told each other how they should pass their level.

But now, this level is no longer what Chengcheng once told Chen. As Chen's own shadow said before, Chengcheng has come here and modified the level settings.

And it seems that it was modified specifically for itself.

Since the key cannot be obtained by force, we can only try to negotiate.

Adam blinked, and a hint of curiosity flashed across his face, but instead of speaking, he sat cross-legged on the grass and closed his eyes.

"You are not a simple shadow, are you?" Chen picked up the teacup and took a sip.

"Yes. It's different from what you set for yourself." Chengcheng nodded and smiled, and suddenly there was a plate of small cookies on the table: "Do you want to eat it?"

Chen picked up a piece of cookie and put it in his mouth, chewing it slowly, but he had no intention of distinguishing what the taste in his mouth was.

"To be precise, I am her other half." Chengcheng also picked up a piece of cookie and gently bite it with her teeth: "A certain emotion separated from her personality."

Chen nodded silently.

"Do you know what that is, right?" Chengcheng looked at Chen's eyes with water flowing.

"Feel sorry."

"There is no need to say sorry to me." Chengcheng shook his head gently: "It's not me who wants this apology, it's her. The Chengcheng who only hates you. What I want... is not this."

"What is it?" Chen suddenly looked up and looked at Chengcheng.

"It's an explanation." Chengcheng sighed: "I think you don't know exactly what happened to us, right?"

Chen nodded slowly.

"We were... in pain. No, to be precise, there was only 'me' at that time, and there was no 'we'." Chengcheng said quietly, his eyes moved away from Chen and looked at the sky: "You left me without giving any explanation and told me that we would be strangers to each other in the future.

I have cried, begged, and angry, but you have never changed anything and have never told me the reason.

In my heart, two thoughts are constantly fighting each other. One thinks that you are not not loving me, but just having to leave for some reason and cannot tell me the reason. The other thinks that you are just a selfish scumbag who is unwilling and fortunate, and everything you have said and done is just a joke.

These two thoughts continued to expand, and finally one day they could no longer exist in one body at the same time.

So, I made a decision.

I got back here and split myself into two. No…”

Chengcheng suddenly smiled: "It should be said that she came back here and completely drove out the idea that she still loved you in her heart, and sealed it forever behind this door, and she will never see the light of day again. The only thing that stayed was hatred for you. I think you should have seen her, right?"

"Yes." Chen's voice was very soft: "She has only hatred for me now."

"A person who only hates is left will not care about explanation." Chengcheng sighed: "But I... have been alone here for so long, but I still haven't figured out why you suddenly left me at that time. I want your explanation."

"Is this the condition for handing over the key?" Chen raised his head and looked at Chengcheng.

"Yes." Chengcheng nodded: "This is your only way."

"Sorry." Chen shook his head without any hesitation.

"Then... aren't you going in? Since I'm back here, I think... it should be very important for you to return to the Palace of Eternal Life." Chengcheng widened her eyes in surprise: "You have verified that you cannot seize the key by force. The only possibility is to let me hand it over."

"Because of a promise. I promised that I would never tell you the truth about this." Chen smiled bitterly: "If I could say it, I would not have waited until today."

"What are you going to do?" Chengcheng frowned: "After she left me, she changed the rules of this space to the inability to use any force. Although I... did not receive any power when I was separated. But I don't need to make any attack on you, and you can't hurt me at all."

Chen continued to remain silent.

"You plan to... just keep a stalemate?" Chengcheng laughed: "But for me, this seems good. At least I see you again and can continue to get along with you like this. Although I am no longer a lover."

"Although the placement of this space is you, not me, but Thirty-Three Days were established together." Chen shook his head slowly: "We are all very clear that the most basic rules cannot be changed by anyone alone. I don't believe that you can completely invalidate the power here."

"You can continue to try until you give up." Chengcheng stood up, walked to the opposite side of Chen, and reached out and pressed his hand on Chen's hand: "Just like before."

Chen shook his head, but did not take action, but turned his head to look at Adam: "Do you know... who this child is?"

"It's not your son, right?" Chengcheng glanced at Adam.

"How is that possible?" Chen shook his head: "He is... another mini version of the administrator."

"What does it mean?" Chengcheng was puzzled.

"I don't know how long you've been here, but... after we left, there have been a lot of changes here, and you... stayed in this space, I'm afraid you won't know what's happening outside.

The residents who now occupy this place call it Zero City. They are very smart and realize that they are just temporary tenants and have no way to control Zero City. The main controller will issue tasks to them according to the established procedures and provide some benefits, but that's all.

And what they want is to master more.

So, they cut a small corner from the main control screen and conducted research.

Although they did not fully fulfill their wish, they at least did something about it. They used the main control screen in that corner to copy... a new administrator.

I don't know how they did this. Although the replicated administrator is far inferior to the original version we had when we opened the thirty-three days ago, at least they also gained some permissions.

Not much, but enough.

For example, guide me into the core area, and... check out some information about the core area."

Chengcheng's complexion changed a little.

And at the same time, Adam opened his eyes.
Chapter completed!