Chapter 755
Chapter 755
When Lin Yu came near the NGC-7000 nebula.
Lin Yu sensed a familiar breath.
Lin Yu looked around, there was nothing around.
At this moment, this seemingly deserted airspace must have been hidden by Ruan Mei.
"It's still the same." Lin Yu's mouth corners rose unconsciously.
The golden light collided with the purple halo of the nebula, and the space suddenly distorted like a torn curtain.
A spherical building surrounded by star rings slowly appeared. It was exactly the same as Ruan Mei’s laboratory. It was the mobile observatory that could freely travel through the universe.
Just as Lin Yu was about to approach, the outer protective shield of the observatory suddenly lit up, and countless light blades swept over in a fan shape.
He instinctively dodged sideways, and the blade of light flew past the corner of his clothes, plowing a burning furrow in the stardust behind him.
Then, a familiar female voice exploded from the communicator, "Unauthorized intruder, report your identity within three seconds, otherwise the annihilation procedure will be initiated."
Lin Yu smiled and activated the communication device, "So fierce, Liuying? I came here to redeem the 'Universe Limited Edition Hug Ticket'."
"Why don't you welcome me?"
There was a sharp electrical noise in the communicator, followed by the sound of something heavy falling to the ground.
Lin Yu was hanging outside the protective shield and could vaguely see the light and shadows shaking inside the observatory, as if someone had knocked over the experimental equipment.
The next second, the protective shield suddenly collapsed on a large scale, and a figure wrapped in light blue pajamas broke through the last layer of light film and rushed straight into his arms.
"Liar!" Liuying's voice was muffled in his shoulder, and the nasal accusation made Lin Yu's heart hot.
Her fingers clutching his coat trembled, "You said you would come back soon, but you made us wait for three years..." Before she finished speaking, her tears had already soaked the fabric on his chest.
"Mom, who is this man? Why are you hugging him?" a female voice came from the entrance.
Lin Yu looked up and saw a girl in a silver-gray lab coat leaning against the door frame, with a bracelet wrapped around her wrist and her eyes as cold as the frozen galaxy.
She tucked the tablet in her arms, and her face, which was only about eighteen or nineteen years old, showed a sense of alienation that was inconsistent with her age.
"Xueying? This is your father? Don't you recognize him?" Liuying turned around with tears still on her face and reached out to pull her daughter closer.
The girl frowned slightly and took a half step back to avoid Liuying's hand. Her voice was full of childish stubbornness that didn't match her appearance, "He's not my father!"
She bit her lip, her eyes slightly reddened, "He abandoned my mother for three years, he's not my father!"
Lin Yu looked at the girl in front of him who was both strange and familiar, and felt a pang of bitterness in his heart.
The soft and tender little baby in memory has now grown into a graceful young lady. Thanks to Ruan Mei's research, her abnormally growing body has been stabilized.
Beneath the 18-year-old appearance, there is still a young heart longing for father's love.
"Xueying..." Lin Yu said softly, "I'm sorry, it's Dad's fault." He took out an exquisite little box with a necklace inside. "I found this on my journey. I wanted to give it to you earlier."
Xueying turned her face away and stubbornly refused to look at him, but her slightly trembling shoulders still revealed her inner turmoil.
Liuying walked forward and gently put her arm around Xueying's shoulders. "Dad has been trying to come back to see us for the past three years. He encountered many dangers..."
"I don't care!" Xueying suddenly turned and ran away, her white skirt rising and falling, "Unless he can prove that he really cares about us!"
Lin Yu looked at Xueying's back as she ran away, and his hand holding the necklace tightened slightly.
Liuying sighed and gently held Lin Yu's hand, "Don't take it to heart. She didn't say it in the past three years, but she actually looked forward to your return every day."
"One time, Ruan Mei was debugging equipment. She thought it was you who sent the signal, so she stayed in front of the console for a whole night."
"I actually lied to Xueying about the signal, but I didn't expect her to actually stay there all night."
"What should I do..." Lin Yu's voice was hoarse and his throat was choked.
There was a sound of metal colliding in the distance. Xueying was tinkering with something alone in the workshop of the observatory. The holographic projection jumped on her fingertips, reflecting her tightly pursed lips.
"Give her some time." Ruan Mei appeared behind the two of them at some point, and the pen in her hand rustled on the floating recording board.
"Xueying has transformed all her emotions into research motivation. She just improved my cell stabilization device last month."
"But..maybe there are some things that only you can give."
Lin Yu nodded thoughtfully, his eyes falling on the models piled up in the corner of the workshop.
Those crude works made of collages of waste parts were obviously made by children.
He walked over slowly and picked up one of the crooked models, with teeth marks on the metal edge.
"Xueying made this a month after you disappeared." Liuying's voice came from behind, "At that time, she always said that she wanted to make the biggest star so that dad could see it anywhere in the universe."
Lin Yu felt a tightness in his chest and his eyes were hot.
He turned and walked towards the workshop.
Xueying heard the footsteps and continued to debug the device in her hand with her back to him. The sound of metal parts colliding became more and more rapid.
"Xueying..Actually I carry your photos with me every day."
He called up his portable terminal, and the screen showed Liuying holding the babbling Xueying, both of them smiling brightly at the camera.
Although in that dimension, Lin Yu's time only passed for a while, but to the outside world, it was a full three years, a thousand and ninety-five days of absence. "
But at this moment Lin Yu could only lie.
It's not really a lie.
When he has nothing to do, Lin Yu always takes out photos and looks at them.
Xueying's movements suddenly froze, and the parts in her hands fell to the ground with a clang.
She bit her lower lip, her voice trembling, "You...why do you still have this?"
"Because this is my most precious treasure." Lin Yu squatted down and half-knelt on the ground, "Xueying, Dad missed three years of your growth. Every day from now on, I want to make up for it."
The workshop fell into a long silence, with only the necklace in Xueying's hand swaying gently.
Xueying suddenly covered her eyes, her shoulders trembled violently, and her childish sobs finally broke through the disguise of being 18 years old.
"You big bad guy.. why did you come back just now.."
Lin Yu carefully held the trembling Xueying in his arms, her thin shoulders heaving violently as she sobbed.
The soft and sweet child in my memory has now grown so tall, with the unique temperament of a firefly, but he still can't hide his childish grievances.
He patted his daughter's back, just as he had done countless times in the past to lull her to sleep.
"I'm sorry, Dad is back late." Lin Yu choked up, "I will never leave you again."
He could feel the girl in his arms stiffen at first, and then her tense body gradually relax, but the hand holding his collar became tighter and tighter, as if she was afraid that he would disappear again.
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