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Chapter 1069: He Can't Be the Only One to Suffer a Loss
After Chi Feichei finished sending the email and put away his mobile phone, Gin saw that nothing was going on. He looked at the oranges in the bag on the car hood and said, "Oranges grown in a greenhouse, although still out of season, should be much better than the ones you bought last time."
Chi Feichei picked up an orange, peeled off a segment, and put it in his mouth.
Looking at the orange peel's orange-yellow color, it should be ripe...
No, he was wrong.
The next moment, Chi Feichei ate that segment of orange without changing his face. He handed the rest to Gin, saying, "It's indeed sweet, you should try it."
Gin considered for a moment. Realizing that Chi Feichei had eaten it without hesitation before, and that Chi Feichei had no reason to poison him, he also peeled off a segment and tried a bit. Then, he fell into silence.
Understood. Raki wasn't trying to test his trust level, but this orange was so sour it was hard to swallow!
Heh heh... That bastard fruit shop boss.
Chi Feichei saw Gin eat it and looked away. He took another orange from the bag and wondered if Gin had bought lemons instead of oranges.
Gin maintained a calm face and handed the orange in his hand to Yingqu Yan Nan, saying, "It's rare to have such a sweet orange, Wayne Walkerly, you should try it too."
He couldn't suffer a loss alone!
Yingqu Yan Nan received the orange. Although he felt doubt in his heart, speculating whether sharing an orange was a new way of showing friendship, he still tried it. After chewing the first bite, he endured the expression that almost turned ferocious and nodded, saying, "It's really sweet, Vodka, you should try it too!"
He couldn't suffer a loss alone!
Vodka caught the orange.
Vodka peeled off a segment and put it in his mouth.
Vodka's face gradually distorted.
...
After the four of them experienced the baptism of the sour oranges, they each went home. Before leaving, they didn't forget to throw all the oranges into the trash can.
After Chi Feichei arrived home and finished washing up, he sent an email asking Feimo to send crows to patrol Ryokudai. Afterwards, he went to bed to sleep.
Without accident, he arrived at that gray and hazy Dream Space again.
This time, a white box appeared again. However, inside the box wasn't the Nameless he had imagined or other animals, but Joshua and a group of people.
After a preliminary experiment confirmed that this box had no difference from the other boxes, Chi Feichei didn't dare to try 'destroying the box'. Suddenly, he thought it would be good if Koizumi Akako were here; at least he'd have someone to discuss with.
Thinking like that, Koizumi Akako's figure actually appeared in front of him, gradually solidifying.
Koizumi Akako turned her head and looked at the gray and hazy space. With doubt, she looked at Chi Feichei and asked, "What is this...?"
"Don't know," Chi Feichei said, controlling the five boxes to surround Koizumi Akako. "I started having this dream five days ago. Every time, I'm in this space. The first time, a box with Feichi appeared. The second time was Feimo and the crows. This time, snakes were also added to Feichi's box. The third time was Tuanzi, Jubei, and other bears. The fourth time was Fei Li and marine life. The fifth time, which is tonight, what appeared was Joshua and a group of people. Grace is inside, they should be his sons and daughters. Until the time I wake up, I can't get out. Being alone is too boring, so I thought if you were here, we could still talk. That's how it is."
Koizumi Akako looked with vigilance at the large boxes floating around her and surrounding her one by one. "Then why are you using boxes to surround me? I don't know anything!"
The Evil Child of Nature couldn't be stuck in his growth, attempting to sacrifice a witch, could he?
"You hide, I'll try whether I can pull in other people." Chi Feichei finished explaining and stood in the original place, starting to think it would be good if Yingqu Yan Nan were here.
Summoning Yingqu Yan Nan failed.
Summoning his old dad failed.
Summoning his old mom failed.
Summoning Haibara Ai failed.
Summoning Kuroba Kaito failed.
Chi Feichei tried the people he knew one by one. When he tried Conan, Conan's figure appeared in front of him, gradually solidifying.
Before Conan could turn his head and look around, Chi Feichei threw a full-force punch.
In the space with no sound, Conan, who was leaning against a white box, was headshot. Blood and brain matter splattered.
Koizumi Akako, hiding behind the box: "!"
|д)
So brutal...
Quickly, Conan's body and the blood splattered onto the box faded and disappeared.
"I didn't intend to let him discover this."
Chi Feichei explained to Koizumi Akako.
"Th- That's how it is..."
Koizumi Akako hid.
|д)
So worried that this fellow, the Evil Child of Nature, would go crazy and give her a fist.
Chi Feichei saw Koizumi Akako like that, was silent for a bit, and asked, "He wouldn't have died, right?"
"No, he wouldn't," Koizumi Akako, still hiding behind the box, said weakly, "Here is just like a Dream Space. It looks relatively real, but you won't die, and you won't feel pain either."
Chi Feichei looked away and continued trying to summon other people.
Since it's just a Dream Space, where you won't die and won't feel pain, why is Hongzi still afraid like that? What's wrong with her?
...
Hyogo Prefecture.
On the car heading towards Osaka, Conan suddenly sat up with a pale face, breathing rapidly.
Mouri Ran, who was aside, asked with worry, "Conan, what's wrong?"
Otaki Goro, who was driving a group of people back to Osaka, said, "What's wrong?"
"Nothing," Mori Kogoro, who was sitting on the passenger seat, turned his head and took a glance. "The Glasses Kid had a nightmare, didn't he!"
"Did I... fall asleep?" Conan's mind was still a bit stunned, but he also gradually remembered.
Today, they followed Hattori and Kazuha to Hyogo Prefecture to look at the High School Baseball Championship Finals. Although a bomb was planted at the tournament venue, they still solved it. Afterwards, they went to the police station to make a statement, and by the way, waited for Officer Otaki to finish his work and take them to Osaka. They were preparing to stay at Hattori's house for one night before going back. When he was in the car, he seemingly fell asleep...
Hattori Heiji grinned, leaned forward, and reached out to rub Conan's hair. "Yeah, children are just children, they can fall asleep even when riding in a car!"
"Conan, did you have a nightmare?" Mouri Ran's face was full of worry. She reached out and touched Conan's forehead. "Just now you suddenly sat up, your face was so scary, moreover, your head was covered in cold sweat."
"I'm fine~"
Conan returned with an acting cute smile, and sighed in relief in his heart.
He indeed had a nightmare. He dreamed of Chi Feichei. Before he could realize, that guy punched him with a cold expression.
Although it didn't hurt in the dream, at the moment his line of sight in front of his eyes quickly turned from red to black, he seemingly could feel his own face bone quickly shattering.
It's possible this feeling was too clear, or it's possible Chi Feichei's face and fist in the dream were too real, he was really startled.
Really, why would he have such a weird dream? When he's out having fun, he shouldn't think about that guy...
...
The next night.
Chi Feichei entered the Dream Space again. This time, the added box contained Nameless and a group of cats.
Koizumi Akako was pulled in once again. She came in, walked a circle around the box, and sat down on the gray and hazy ground, sorting out her thoughts. "Looking at it like that, you are able to pull me and Conan into this Dream Space. But after you killed him in the dream last night, there's no method to pull him in again."
Chi Feichei tried to summon Conan, but Conan's figure didn't appear again. "He also can't be pulled in tonight."
"Then just don't care about him, anyway he can't help. Although I also might not be able to help much, but I can give you some ideas..." Koizumi Akako propped her chin with one hand and pondered. "Actually, it's not weird that Joshua appeared. Before, he also caused your eyes to undergo transformation. Moreover, the order they appeared in these few dreams is the order you became acquainted with them, right?"
"Correct, although the transformation brought by Joshua was before Fei Li, but I indeed became acquainted with Fei Li earlier than Joshua. Feichi, Feimo, Tuanzi and Jubei, Fei Li, Joshua, Nameless..." Chi Feichei paused a bit, and said with a serious expression, "After the change brought by Nameless ended, it's this time. All creatures have appeared one after another."
Koizumi Akako vaguely understood. "In other words..."
Chi Feichei looked towards the floating boxes in the surrounding area. "A reincarnation has ended."
Koizumi Akako felt inexplicably tension in her heart. She raised her head and looked at the surroundings. "Will there be a transformation tonight?"
"It's not clear, but the first time my body underwent change was when Feichi was in hibernation. This time, it is when Feichi was shedding skin. Feichi is possibly the key to starting the transformation," Chi Feichei sat down beside her. "A snake's hibernation has always represented dormancy, while shedding skin represents rebirth. If put another way, it is death and life. So that's why I said 'reincarnation'. Of course, there's also the possibility that this time is started by Feichi, and the next reincarnation will be started by the next in order, which is Feimo. Moreover, Feimo can bring a 'group'. Snakes only appeared on Feichi's side starting from the night Feimo appeared."
The pattern that can be discovered currently is just like that. As for what is afterwards the 'reincarnation', no one is clear.
Silence.
After a moment, Koizumi Akako poked the floor with her hand. "Xiao Mei is a magical creation, so she wasn't counted, right?"
Chi Feichei: "Should be."
Silence.
After a while, Koizumi Akako spoke up again. "What have you been doing recently?"
Chi Feichei said truthfully, "Used disguise and went to Ryokudai to investigate some matters."
Silence.
Koizumi Akako made conversation again. "Has Kaito contacted you?"
"Not these two days..." Chi Feichei tilted his head to look at Koizumi Akako. "If you think it's boring, want to find something to do?"
Koizumi Akako's eyes lit up, and she nodded repeatedly. "Okay, okay."
Chi Feichei thought for a bit. "Then let's try to prove the Poincaré Conjecture. The Poincaré Conjecture was a conjecture first proposed by the French mathematician Poincaré. Currently, it seemingly hasn't been proven yet..."
Koizumi Akako: "..."
She had a kind of ominous premonition.
"In 1900, Poincaré once claimed that using the Homology Theory he developed based on Enrico Betti's work, one could determine whether a 3D manifold is a 3D sphere. But, in a thesis he published in 1904, he gave a counterexample..."
Chi Feichei patiently explained to Koizumi Akako.
In his previous life, in 2006, the mathematics community recognized that the Poincaré Conjecture was proven by the Russian mathematician Grigori Perelman. In this life, it hasn't been proven yet.
He is not professional in researching mathematics, and doesn't think he can compare with those big shots, but it can be used to pass the time.
"Wait," Koizumi Akako interrupted. "Don't say this, I don't understand."
"It's okay if you don't understand," Chi Feichei said. "I'll say it, and you see whether you can fall asleep. I've tried here, I can't sleep, I can't leave. If you fall asleep, maybe you can leave."
Koizumi Akako nodded. "Okay, then let's try."
"Then I'll continue," Chi Feichei continued saying. "In 1904, Poincaré's thesis gave a counterexample. It is now called the Poincaré Homology Sphere, and it has the same Homology Group as a 3D sphere..."
After an unknown amount of time, Koizumi Akako sat with both hands around her knees, her eyes wide open with a blank face.
Any affairs are all possible to disappear with time, but Mathematics won't... Mathematics won't, it just won't!
If she has sin, Fate could let heavenly thunder punish her, could use fire punishment to burn her to death, instead of sending the Evil Child of Nature to torture her...
Chi Feichei paused. "Can't sleep?"
Koizumi Akako nodded weakly. "Want to sleep, but can't sleep."
Chi Feichei thought for a bit. "Then let's not prove it for now. First, let's change to a high school math problem you can understand..."
It's better to share happiness than to enjoy it alone. Need to let Hongzi have a sense of participation, like that she won't be so boring.
(End of Chapter)
After Chi Feichei finished sending the email and put away his mobile phone, Gin saw that nothing was going on. He looked at the oranges in the bag on the car hood and said, "Oranges grown in a greenhouse, although still out of season, should be much better than the ones you bought last time."
Chi Feichei picked up an orange, peeled off a segment, and put it in his mouth.
Looking at the orange peel's orange-yellow color, it should be ripe...
No, he was wrong.
The next moment, Chi Feichei ate that segment of orange without changing his face. He handed the rest to Gin, saying, "It's indeed sweet, you should try it."
Gin considered for a moment. Realizing that Chi Feichei had eaten it without hesitation before, and that Chi Feichei had no reason to poison him, he also peeled off a segment and tried a bit. Then, he fell into silence.
Understood. Raki wasn't trying to test his trust level, but this orange was so sour it was hard to swallow!
Heh heh... That bastard fruit shop boss.
Chi Feichei saw Gin eat it and looked away. He took another orange from the bag and wondered if Gin had bought lemons instead of oranges.
Gin maintained a calm face and handed the orange in his hand to Yingqu Yan Nan, saying, "It's rare to have such a sweet orange, Wayne Walkerly, you should try it too."
He couldn't suffer a loss alone!
Yingqu Yan Nan received the orange. Although he felt doubt in his heart, speculating whether sharing an orange was a new way of showing friendship, he still tried it. After chewing the first bite, he endured the expression that almost turned ferocious and nodded, saying, "It's really sweet, Vodka, you should try it too!"
He couldn't suffer a loss alone!
Vodka caught the orange.
Vodka peeled off a segment and put it in his mouth.
Vodka's face gradually distorted.
...
After the four of them experienced the baptism of the sour oranges, they each went home. Before leaving, they didn't forget to throw all the oranges into the trash can.
After Chi Feichei arrived home and finished washing up, he sent an email asking Feimo to send crows to patrol Ryokudai. Afterwards, he went to bed to sleep.
Without accident, he arrived at that gray and hazy Dream Space again.
This time, a white box appeared again. However, inside the box wasn't the Nameless he had imagined or other animals, but Joshua and a group of people.
After a preliminary experiment confirmed that this box had no difference from the other boxes, Chi Feichei didn't dare to try 'destroying the box'. Suddenly, he thought it would be good if Koizumi Akako were here; at least he'd have someone to discuss with.
Thinking like that, Koizumi Akako's figure actually appeared in front of him, gradually solidifying.
Koizumi Akako turned her head and looked at the gray and hazy space. With doubt, she looked at Chi Feichei and asked, "What is this...?"
"Don't know," Chi Feichei said, controlling the five boxes to surround Koizumi Akako. "I started having this dream five days ago. Every time, I'm in this space. The first time, a box with Feichi appeared. The second time was Feimo and the crows. This time, snakes were also added to Feichi's box. The third time was Tuanzi, Jubei, and other bears. The fourth time was Fei Li and marine life. The fifth time, which is tonight, what appeared was Joshua and a group of people. Grace is inside, they should be his sons and daughters. Until the time I wake up, I can't get out. Being alone is too boring, so I thought if you were here, we could still talk. That's how it is."
Koizumi Akako looked with vigilance at the large boxes floating around her and surrounding her one by one. "Then why are you using boxes to surround me? I don't know anything!"
The Evil Child of Nature couldn't be stuck in his growth, attempting to sacrifice a witch, could he?
"You hide, I'll try whether I can pull in other people." Chi Feichei finished explaining and stood in the original place, starting to think it would be good if Yingqu Yan Nan were here.
Summoning Yingqu Yan Nan failed.
Summoning his old dad failed.
Summoning his old mom failed.
Summoning Haibara Ai failed.
Summoning Kuroba Kaito failed.
Chi Feichei tried the people he knew one by one. When he tried Conan, Conan's figure appeared in front of him, gradually solidifying.
Before Conan could turn his head and look around, Chi Feichei threw a full-force punch.
In the space with no sound, Conan, who was leaning against a white box, was headshot. Blood and brain matter splattered.
Koizumi Akako, hiding behind the box: "!"
|д)
So brutal...
Quickly, Conan's body and the blood splattered onto the box faded and disappeared.
"I didn't intend to let him discover this."
Chi Feichei explained to Koizumi Akako.
"Th- That's how it is..."
Koizumi Akako hid.
|д)
So worried that this fellow, the Evil Child of Nature, would go crazy and give her a fist.
Chi Feichei saw Koizumi Akako like that, was silent for a bit, and asked, "He wouldn't have died, right?"
"No, he wouldn't," Koizumi Akako, still hiding behind the box, said weakly, "Here is just like a Dream Space. It looks relatively real, but you won't die, and you won't feel pain either."
Chi Feichei looked away and continued trying to summon other people.
Since it's just a Dream Space, where you won't die and won't feel pain, why is Hongzi still afraid like that? What's wrong with her?
...
Hyogo Prefecture.
On the car heading towards Osaka, Conan suddenly sat up with a pale face, breathing rapidly.
Mouri Ran, who was aside, asked with worry, "Conan, what's wrong?"
Otaki Goro, who was driving a group of people back to Osaka, said, "What's wrong?"
"Nothing," Mori Kogoro, who was sitting on the passenger seat, turned his head and took a glance. "The Glasses Kid had a nightmare, didn't he!"
"Did I... fall asleep?" Conan's mind was still a bit stunned, but he also gradually remembered.
Today, they followed Hattori and Kazuha to Hyogo Prefecture to look at the High School Baseball Championship Finals. Although a bomb was planted at the tournament venue, they still solved it. Afterwards, they went to the police station to make a statement, and by the way, waited for Officer Otaki to finish his work and take them to Osaka. They were preparing to stay at Hattori's house for one night before going back. When he was in the car, he seemingly fell asleep...
Hattori Heiji grinned, leaned forward, and reached out to rub Conan's hair. "Yeah, children are just children, they can fall asleep even when riding in a car!"
"Conan, did you have a nightmare?" Mouri Ran's face was full of worry. She reached out and touched Conan's forehead. "Just now you suddenly sat up, your face was so scary, moreover, your head was covered in cold sweat."
"I'm fine~"
Conan returned with an acting cute smile, and sighed in relief in his heart.
He indeed had a nightmare. He dreamed of Chi Feichei. Before he could realize, that guy punched him with a cold expression.
Although it didn't hurt in the dream, at the moment his line of sight in front of his eyes quickly turned from red to black, he seemingly could feel his own face bone quickly shattering.
It's possible this feeling was too clear, or it's possible Chi Feichei's face and fist in the dream were too real, he was really startled.
Really, why would he have such a weird dream? When he's out having fun, he shouldn't think about that guy...
...
The next night.
Chi Feichei entered the Dream Space again. This time, the added box contained Nameless and a group of cats.
Koizumi Akako was pulled in once again. She came in, walked a circle around the box, and sat down on the gray and hazy ground, sorting out her thoughts. "Looking at it like that, you are able to pull me and Conan into this Dream Space. But after you killed him in the dream last night, there's no method to pull him in again."
Chi Feichei tried to summon Conan, but Conan's figure didn't appear again. "He also can't be pulled in tonight."
"Then just don't care about him, anyway he can't help. Although I also might not be able to help much, but I can give you some ideas..." Koizumi Akako propped her chin with one hand and pondered. "Actually, it's not weird that Joshua appeared. Before, he also caused your eyes to undergo transformation. Moreover, the order they appeared in these few dreams is the order you became acquainted with them, right?"
"Correct, although the transformation brought by Joshua was before Fei Li, but I indeed became acquainted with Fei Li earlier than Joshua. Feichi, Feimo, Tuanzi and Jubei, Fei Li, Joshua, Nameless..." Chi Feichei paused a bit, and said with a serious expression, "After the change brought by Nameless ended, it's this time. All creatures have appeared one after another."
Koizumi Akako vaguely understood. "In other words..."
Chi Feichei looked towards the floating boxes in the surrounding area. "A reincarnation has ended."
Koizumi Akako felt inexplicably tension in her heart. She raised her head and looked at the surroundings. "Will there be a transformation tonight?"
"It's not clear, but the first time my body underwent change was when Feichi was in hibernation. This time, it is when Feichi was shedding skin. Feichi is possibly the key to starting the transformation," Chi Feichei sat down beside her. "A snake's hibernation has always represented dormancy, while shedding skin represents rebirth. If put another way, it is death and life. So that's why I said 'reincarnation'. Of course, there's also the possibility that this time is started by Feichi, and the next reincarnation will be started by the next in order, which is Feimo. Moreover, Feimo can bring a 'group'. Snakes only appeared on Feichi's side starting from the night Feimo appeared."
The pattern that can be discovered currently is just like that. As for what is afterwards the 'reincarnation', no one is clear.
Silence.
After a moment, Koizumi Akako poked the floor with her hand. "Xiao Mei is a magical creation, so she wasn't counted, right?"
Chi Feichei: "Should be."
Silence.
After a while, Koizumi Akako spoke up again. "What have you been doing recently?"
Chi Feichei said truthfully, "Used disguise and went to Ryokudai to investigate some matters."
Silence.
Koizumi Akako made conversation again. "Has Kaito contacted you?"
"Not these two days..." Chi Feichei tilted his head to look at Koizumi Akako. "If you think it's boring, want to find something to do?"
Koizumi Akako's eyes lit up, and she nodded repeatedly. "Okay, okay."
Chi Feichei thought for a bit. "Then let's try to prove the Poincaré Conjecture. The Poincaré Conjecture was a conjecture first proposed by the French mathematician Poincaré. Currently, it seemingly hasn't been proven yet..."
Koizumi Akako: "..."
She had a kind of ominous premonition.
"In 1900, Poincaré once claimed that using the Homology Theory he developed based on Enrico Betti's work, one could determine whether a 3D manifold is a 3D sphere. But, in a thesis he published in 1904, he gave a counterexample..."
Chi Feichei patiently explained to Koizumi Akako.
In his previous life, in 2006, the mathematics community recognized that the Poincaré Conjecture was proven by the Russian mathematician Grigori Perelman. In this life, it hasn't been proven yet.
He is not professional in researching mathematics, and doesn't think he can compare with those big shots, but it can be used to pass the time.
"Wait," Koizumi Akako interrupted. "Don't say this, I don't understand."
"It's okay if you don't understand," Chi Feichei said. "I'll say it, and you see whether you can fall asleep. I've tried here, I can't sleep, I can't leave. If you fall asleep, maybe you can leave."
Koizumi Akako nodded. "Okay, then let's try."
"Then I'll continue," Chi Feichei continued saying. "In 1904, Poincaré's thesis gave a counterexample. It is now called the Poincaré Homology Sphere, and it has the same Homology Group as a 3D sphere..."
After an unknown amount of time, Koizumi Akako sat with both hands around her knees, her eyes wide open with a blank face.
Any affairs are all possible to disappear with time, but Mathematics won't... Mathematics won't, it just won't!
If she has sin, Fate could let heavenly thunder punish her, could use fire punishment to burn her to death, instead of sending the Evil Child of Nature to torture her...
Chi Feichei paused. "Can't sleep?"
Koizumi Akako nodded weakly. "Want to sleep, but can't sleep."
Chi Feichei thought for a bit. "Then let's not prove it for now. First, let's change to a high school math problem you can understand..."
It's better to share happiness than to enjoy it alone. Need to let Hongzi have a sense of participation, like that she won't be so boring.
(End of Chapter)
