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Within a few breaths, Yun Yi, who hadn't been deeply immersed in the doll, was pulled out of the gentle embrace by the discomfort of lack of oxygen. She pulled her face out of the doll's small abdomen, her eyes watery, and the corners of her eyes still had red marks, whether from shame or pleasure, she couldn't tell.

"Calm down, they might not even like people of the same sex! And maybe they don't even like people at all, regardless of gender." Yun Yi warned, staring at the doll's eyes, which were the same color as his own.

That's right. You have to know that Hoshiguma is a chivalrous hero, a great hero who focuses on the affairs of the world and the common people. The people around her are more likely to be friends, companions, rivals, and fellow travelers. Lovers? I feel that's unlikely.

Even if Hoshiguma feels ashamed about it, the other person is an adult with a sense of shame. Not being able to love doesn't mean not being ashamed or not having desires.

Ultimately, Yun Yi doubted whether someone with a heart for the world could truly fall in love with an individual.

She didn't know the answer, but history, stories, and reality told her that it was possible.

However, the consequences are often complicated, and it's hard to tell whether it's love or just a matter of following social norms and getting married naturally with mutual respect.

Besides, she herself was attracted to Hoshiguma, but it was still just admiration; she didn't have the urge to spend her life with him.

On the contrary, both Shi Huaiya and Yun Yi, who had shared their innermost thoughts, clearly knew that they would accompany each other until the contract was dissolved or the end of time.

Thinking of this, Yun Yi's rapidly beating heart gradually returned to its original steady rhythm. That's right, she already has a potential boyfriend! What am I doing...?

Yun Yi belatedly realized that biting Lappland and Hoshiguma while having someone she was pursuing and even feeling a certain attraction to them was just too much of a scumbag. Was she some kind of born super scumbag?

I was completely blinded by how beautiful it was.

Yun Yi gave a helpless smile and pinched the face of the doll Yun Yi. "We can't do this anymore. We have to keep our distance, keep our distance, keep our distance, and keep our distance, except for getting points."

Simply put, it means restraining and eliminating feelings of attraction towards women other than Swire—well, can I really do that?

As soon as he made up his mind, Yun Yi felt lost and helpless.

Even though she was reminding herself of this and setting limits for herself, the images of Hoshiguma and Swire still lingered equally in her mind.

It's as if my subconscious is contemptuously mocking me: Give up, you loser, you're the kind of guy who can like two people at the same time.

But that's impossible—if you like someone, you can't like someone else.

If you can do that, it only means that your liking for someone isn't pure!

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Stack armor

In fact, the author believes that anyone is capable of falling in love with anyone, and anyone is capable of not loving anyone. It all depends on the individual's perspective, and no one can define it for them.

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(The following contains minor spoilers; you may skip it.)

The protagonist actually has similar thoughts, but she is somewhat arrogant due to her abilities and circumstances. You can find that many of her judgments reveal an arrogance that she herself is unaware of—she is subconsciously aware of it, but has not been able to completely eradicate it.

If nothing unexpected happens, the protagonist's subtle arrogance will only be weakened rather than eradicated until he meets TuTu, and each weakening will be due to substantial progress in his relationships with the various female leads.

Volume 2: Fireworks at Lungmen: Chapter 238 Hoshiguma: Calm Down / The puppet and Yun Yi do look very similar.

Yun Yi violently shook the doll, silently denouncing his lawless and reckless subconscious. Then, feeling agitated, he stood up abruptly.

Her slightly raised eyes caught a glimpse of the bustling auction scene projected on the screen—it seemed that after a warm-up, the commentary booth had been moved back to its original position, and the auction had officially begun.

On that glossy red display stand were even greasier, suffocatingly large, decorative bodies. Yun Yi, who was not an expert in this area, could not determine what kind of creature's flesh these were.

Perhaps even a knowledgeable person wouldn't be able to see it.

This large piece of meat, displayed on the stage for tens of thousands of people to look at and bid on, has been treated with an unknown process. From its appearance alone, it looks like fleshy blood coral.

Coral ornaments are generally known for their aesthetic appeal...

Yun Yi's face, which had been flushed with anger and shame, instantly lost its vibrant color, leaving only a pale white.

So what if you can't tell? Based on the information we have, this seemingly beautiful ornament is undoubtedly made of human flesh.

They process and polish the corpses of their own kind, using them as objects of appreciation...

Yun Yi knew that she and the Terrans were not the same species and were likely reproductively isolated. To her, no Terran could be considered one of her kind, and she didn't need to feel any sense of kinship towards them, but…

She raised her hand to cover her lips, suppressing the nausea caused by both physical and emotional factors.

The people in the projection wouldn't stop their "win-win" transactions just because Yun Yi was an outsider; the bidding prices, which echoed throughout the venue, kept rising.

The background chatter gradually thinned out, until only the announcements from the electronic screens placed in front of the private rooms, seats, cubicles, and sofas by the organizers remained on the projector.

The prices that are now echoing in people's ears have become so high that even the wealthy are feeling the pinch and are unable to afford them.

Everyone held their breath, watching with all sorts of expressions, waiting for the final chapter of this "treasure" that the organizers had brought out as a great start.

As Yunyi perceived time passing slowly, the auction announcements decreased from a dozen to two, one coming from the top-floor VIP box and the other from the bottom-floor spectator seats.

The bidding continued unabated, with each bid sending gasps of surprise through the room.

The cold, impersonal announcements didn't reveal the attitudes of either side, but the rapid, close-knit intervals between the bids suggested that neither side had reached their limit and neither showed any inclination to back down.

The regular pricing calmed Yunyi down, who was disgusted by the situation. She closed her eyes and lost all interest in dwelling on relationship issues—thinking about feelings at this moment would be an insult to sacred emotions.

It doesn't matter anymore. No matter how bad I am, there will always be a way to resolve this. The most urgent thing is to take down this disgusting and nasty gang and its members as soon as possible!

Yun Yi, like a young man forced into a state of sagehood, was filled with anger but remained calm. With a heart full of trust, grievance, and expectation of being comforted, he waved his hand impatiently and teleported Hoshiguma to his front.

Immediately, right under Hoshiguma's nose, who was still feverish but remained calm, she reached out and hugged him through Hannya.

However, the Prajna was larger than normal and had an unusual triangular shape, making it extremely difficult for Yun Yi to hold her. He could only lightly touch Hoshiguma's warm waist through her clothes with his fingertips.

Yunyi pursed her lips in disappointment, then pitifully looked up at Hoshiguma, whose pupils were trembling as she stared at her.

Hoshiguma neither dodged nor helped.

She silently turned her head away from Yun Yi's aggrieved gaze. Her disheveled green hair slipped down, revealing a section of her earlobe that was red and transparent in the light. If you looked closely, you could also see that her originally fair neck was faintly flushed through the gaps in her hair.

Unaware that she had already revealed some of her feelings, Hoshiguma seemed to feel that it was wrong to ignore Yun Yi like this, and silently shifted her gaze back.

She forced her gaze to stay fixed on Yun Yi—the doll in his hand. "Ahem, this is the 'Soul Doll'? It certainly seems to have a deep connection with you. How can I also establish a connection with it?"

Seeing that her attempts to play the victim were ineffective, Yunyi composed herself. In fact, the moment she saw Hoshiguma, the nausea in her heart subsided considerably, and there was no need to trouble Hoshiguma to comfort her anymore.

But wouldn't it be better to be comforted? After all, who doesn't like to be stared at intently by someone who is good-looking?

Unfortunately, although Little Star Bear seemed to fall for it, he could tell that she was "deceiving" him and wasn't actually that sad, so he restrained himself.

Yun Yi sighed regretfully in his heart before picking up the question Hoshiguma had asked about how to bind the doll.

She lowered her eyes, her gaze sweeping over the doll lying in her arms. "Just a touch of our foreheads is enough."

"So simple." Hoshiguma exclaimed in surprise, but trustingly reached out and gently picked up the doll that looked 99 percent like Yun Yi in her eyes from Yun Yi's warm embrace, bypassing Hannya. Then she decisively touched it to her forehead.

A burst of light instantly shone from where Hoshiguma and the doll were touching, blossoming into a deep, dark green and blue mist that then merged into the pendant on the doll's chest.

Before Hoshiguma could react in any way, the doll flickered.

The conspicuous wooden pendant, shimmering with a soft light, floated up without any wind.

Suddenly, the characters "Hoshiguma" appeared in mid-air, formed by ink-like liquid. The halo of the wooden pendant deepened and flowed, pulling the characters into the pendant.

Hoshiguma saw that her name was clearly engraved on the pendant. The way it hung around the neck of the doll that looked extremely similar to Yun Yi made it seem as if the real Yun Yi next to her had also been labeled with her name.

Hoshiguma was startled by her own rude thought. She unconsciously swallowed hard, her gaze instinctively drifting towards Yun Yi, who was looking at the doll, before quickly looking away as if she had been electrocuted, and returning her gaze to the doll in her palm.

She maintained her composure and said, "Is this... okay?"

"Well, that counts as a success. The only remaining issue is how to use the puppet." Yun Yi reached out and tapped the rounded back of the puppet's head peeking out from between Hoshiguma's fingers.

She briefly explained, "If you want to communicate, after you decide to communicate, silently say my name in your heart. A beam of light that only we can see will appear and connect you and me. After the connection is established, you can communicate with each other through words, text, pictures or videos."

Yun Yi withdrew his hand and tapped his lips. "In this way, we can obtain each other's information anytime, anywhere, avoiding the possibility of me or you making a wrong judgment due to excessive worry caused by not knowing your or my situation."

“It’s really convenient.” Hoshiguma took a deep breath to clear her mind, and nodded with a clear and serious look in her eyes. “Understood. I will keep in touch with you at all times during the mission.”

Volume 2: Fireworks at Dragon Gate: Chapter 239 Yun Yi: Hehehe, a large-scale mechanism, a traceless mechanism! It'll definitely be cool!

Keep communication open...

Upon hearing this, Yun Yi's thoughts skipped a beat as he thought of something, and he couldn't help but raise an eyebrow, "I'm a little curious, Little Xingxiong, if I connect to your doll while also connecting to Swire's doll, could you two communicate directly with each other?"

Hoshiguma's golden eyes flashed. "You know what, it might actually be possible!"

However, she was not quite sure how the puppet worked, so she could not accurately determine the outcome of this conjecture.

However, when faced with a promising hypothesis, people only need to do one thing—Hoshiguma shook his head, revealing an eager smile, “If we don’t know, let’s give it a try!”

Anyway, nothing bad will happen even if we do all this.

“That’s right, we’ll figure everything out after trying it.” Yun Yi patted Hun Dun’s head, annoyed that he had forgotten to put it into practice. “This thing really doesn’t work.”

Hoshiguma's gaze lingered between Yun Yi's loosely clenched fist and her head that had been slapped. Her smile gradually faded. Could the thing that little Yun Yi was talking about be her own brain?

"..." Hoshiguma, who had a feeling her guess might be the truth, was speechless. Had Kounoichi been talked about too much by the young lady and really thought she was an "idiot"? No way, that shouldn't be the case...

Hoshiguma coughed, letting go of her own confusion, and pulled Yun Yi's wandering attention back. "Ahem, now is a good opportunity for the experiment, little Yun Yi. When you contact me later, please also contact the young lady."

“Even if the result is that I can’t communicate with the young lady, we can still check on the progress on the young lady’s side.” Hoshiguma said, a smile returning to her eyes.

This way, they can adjust their pace of completing tasks according to the progress of the other side, so as to avoid any misunderstandings where they are too fast or too slow, which would make the negotiations between the young lady and Old Chen more difficult.

Dolls are really useful!

The communicator and terminal both came from the Guard Bureau and were completely unusable in the current situation. Hoshiguma once again praised the doll in her heart.

Visible only to her and Xiao Yunyi, it will not be lost, it is beautiful and can be self-cleaning, communication will always be connected and cannot be eavesdropped, intercepted or interfered with, and it can also be used as a single/group bomb that no one can catch - it is even a bomb that can be used indefinitely and is invisible!

Praise the doll.

Unbeknownst to Yun Yi, in the blink of an eye, Hoshiguma, a pragmatist at heart, had become a fan of the Soul Doll.

She listened to Hoshiguma's words and nodded, finding them reasonable, "Okay, I'll listen to you."

Before the words were finished, a sudden, loud hammering sound came from the projection screen, echoing throughout the venue. The lonely, crisp sound reverberated for a few rounds, bringing with it a sense of desolation that seeped into one's heart.

Hoshiguma and Yunyi looked at the projection together.

Most eye-catching of all, the huge and bizarre flesh and coral ornament is now adorned with a black and gold plaque that reads "VIP Chen".

It was then covered by a brocade-covered dome, and with a dull hum of machinery, the covered ornaments on the display stand quickly sank down.

Before Fydia could finish congratulating the buyer, it disappeared from everyone's sight, and the mahogany display stand returned to its original state.

The surface of the booth was so shiny it could reflect a person's image. Even when Yunyi zoomed in on the projection, he couldn't see any trace of a hidden mechanism.

Yun Yi's eyes narrowed, and her golden-red eyes became bright. In her previous life, as an ordinary person who had not seen much of the world, she had only seen such seamless mechanisms on small toys. She had never heard of such a large seamless mechanism before—except for fictional works.

"Do you want... Hoshiguma, a flawless giant like that? Is it in Terrado?" Yun Yi turned to look at Hoshiguma with great interest.

As for the ornament that gave her some psychological trauma earlier? Sigh, Hoshiguma, a perfectly normal person, is right beside her!

The darkness of others is irrelevant; at least her familiar friends are normal, so the world isn't so strangely alien that it makes her feel incredibly lonely and disgusted.

Compared to these useless sentiments, Yun Yi was more interested in the big things that he could touch, see, and play with.

Hoshiguma looked at the mahogany display stand that was specially enlarged in the projection and immediately understood what Yunyi was talking about.

She touched her chin. "You like large, seamless mechanisms?" She noted it down.

Hoshiguma then recalled the relevant information in her mind and turned to explain to Yun Yi, "If it's a seamless mechanism of the same level, there are many on this land, and even more complex seamless mechanisms are available. However, for small to medium-sized mechanisms of this size... the organizations that can probably make more complex ones probably won't sell them to us unconditionally."

"This is only small to medium-sized?" Yun Yi was visibly more excited. In her eyes, a mahogany display stand that could hold huge ornaments was already quite large. She didn't expect it to be considered small to medium-sized by the locals. "Then wouldn't a large one be as big as this venue?"

“Hmm…theoretically, they’re about the same.” Hoshiguma frowned, pulling out her hazy memories. “Actually, there’s no universally accepted size classification for mechanisms. I can only give you a personal reference.”

Yun Yi tilted his head in confusion, "Then what you just said about small and medium-sized?"

“This classification only applies to this type of booth,” Hoshiguma patiently explained. “The size classification standard for government agencies generally depends on their purpose, so there is no unified standard in theory. For example, the largest size of a seal and the smallest size of an office building are not comparable at all.”

"So complicated..." Listening to Hoshiguma's gentle and pleasant voice, Yun Yi felt a little dizzy and wanted to sleep.

She shook her head to clear her mind. "In short, to sum it up, mechanisms can't be defined as a whole, they can only be classified by size within the same category, right? So, is there a mechanism that claims to be the largest of all mechanisms? If so, how big is it? By the way, how big can a seamless mechanism be?"

A series of "tutututut" sounds about various "mechanisms" can easily confuse people.

Fortunately, Hoshiguma is the kind of person who listens attentively and is quick-witted, so she understood Yunyi's meaning without any difficulty.

She pondered for a moment and shook her head. "The largest facility I know of can accommodate more than 6000 people with high requirements to live and work, but it should not be the largest facility on this land. The largest facility I have ever seen is a basement that can accommodate about 120 people, but as you know, it should not be the largest facility on this land either."

"Hmm, is that so? That's not bad either, they're both much bigger than this booth," Yun Yi's eyes lit up. "Could we build a similar mechanism on the Ursus base? A colossal one above ground and an exquisite one underground, that sounds really interesting!"

“If we wait until everything is settled,” Hoshiguma subconsciously reached out and touched Yun Yi’s shiny white head.

The smooth, cool touch made her lips curl into a smile. Hoshiguma, maintaining her good mood, mimicked Yun Yi and said, "Whatever you say."