Huayu, my cheat code is a bit strange.

Chapter 37 The Initial Story (Please read on, please recommend, please do everything!)

The sun shines down.

Gu Xiao stood in the crowd, her thoughts drifting away.

Just as my emotions were about to be completely overwhelmed, I suddenly felt an itch on my neck.

He turned his head to the side.

Little Jiu had somehow climbed onto his shoulder, tilting its head back, its bright black eyes gazing intently at the sky, its large tail swishing occasionally.

Gu Xiao followed its gaze.

A small flock of sparrows was circling above the canopy of a sycamore tree not far away.

Gu Xiao's lips twitched slightly as she rubbed the squirrel's head with her knuckles, signaling it to behave.

"Ha!"

Xiao Jiu waved its paws in dissatisfaction, feeling that someone had disturbed its hunting plans.

"Wait until you're a bit older," Gu Xiao said, offering a less-than-hearted reassurance. He figured the squirrel would probably still be a weakling when it grew up.

Xiao Jiu felt looked down upon, so she turned around angrily and turned her back to him.

"You two have a really good relationship."

Watching this scene, Gu Hui smiled and remarked, "Squirrels have an exceptional memory, but they aren't very sensitive to language. Yours is really smart."

"Extremely good memory." Gu Xiao pondered the sentence carefully, then casually asked, "How are the squirrel's eyesight?"

Gu Hui didn't understand why he would ask this, but he still carefully explained:

"Squirrels have dichromatic vision, so the colors they see are far less rich than those of humans. However, they have a field of vision of nearly 270° and an excellent ability to capture movement."

Gu Xiao's expression grew increasingly strange, as if these characteristics seemed familiar.

He tentatively asked, "Don't squirrels have night vision?"

Gu Hui nodded in agreement.

So that's what "spiritual vision" means. Gu Xiao turned her head to look at Xiao Jiu, her eyes becoming complicated.

For some reason, he now has the urge to keep an electric eel as a pet.

My inner chuunibyou is burning.

"What are you thinking about?" Gu Hui asked.

"I want genetic mutation, I want my flesh and blood to ascend to immortality, I want to stop eating beef." Gu Xiao suppressed the urge to complain and continued to confirm:
"What time did Xiaoli wake up yesterday?"

Gu Hui blinked, lamenting that he might really be getting old, as he couldn't keep up with the way young people talk these days.

He pondered for a moment before saying, "Judging from the delivery records, it was probably around ten o'clock."

Gu Xiao was shocked, as this time coincided closely with the time of her physical transformation yesterday.

It seems this is the trigger for the "three-no" cheat code to malfunction.

So what are the specific standards?
Favorability?
What is this? Gaining superpowers by flirting with animals?

Could he consider becoming a zoo director?
Gu Xiao felt that the world was becoming more and more surreal, and perhaps going to the hospital for a checkup was not a wise decision.

He shook his head, suppressing his distracting thoughts, and said to Gu Hui, "If there's nothing else, I'll head back now."

"Do you know why I came to work at the zoo?" Gu Hui suddenly asked.

……

……

These words came so suddenly that Gu Xiao was caught off guard and stood there stunned for a moment.

Gu Hui said to himself, "I've always been clumsy and awkward since I was a child. While the other kids in the alley were running around playing, I could only stay in the courtyard alone, staring at the clouds, because no one would come to me."

Gu Xiao listened quietly, without interrupting or urging anyone.

Gu Hui didn't care and continued, "Back then, I was just like you now, unsure whether to go out of the yard, and what I would do if I did. After all, the things they were playing seemed boring to me. Going out would only make me dirty, and I would get beaten when I came back. It wasn't worth it."

He remarked with emotion, "I thought I would stay in the yard forever until I met your mother. She took me to the zoo and said that the elephant enclosure was under construction and expansion, so there must be new elephants being born. She insisted that I go see them."

At this point, Gu Hui's gaze softened. "I agreed because there was no reason to refuse, and it seemed very interesting." Gu Xiao's expression was somewhat strange. "Is this your reason for choosing this profession?"

Gu Hui nodded slightly and said self-deprecatingly, "I've said it before, I'm a dull person. I don't have many ideas, nor do I have any ambitions."

He said, “Your mother likes elephants, so I went with her to see them; she said her dream was to raise elephants, so I applied to Beijing Agricultural University; she said she wanted to get married, so we got our marriage certificate.”

Gu Xiao's eyes were complicated as she sincerely said, "This is a very simple, but very beautiful story."

Gu Hui's gaze passed over Elephant Mountain, as if piercing through time.

"Later she fell ill, a very serious illness. During that final period, she was always in a lot of pain and couldn't sleep all night."

His voice was soft, as if filled with sadness and guilt. "I held her and told her about the zoo—how the new monkeys were mischievous, when the peacocks would display their plumage, and how much sugarcane the elephants ate that day."

"She can fall asleep while listening to it."

Gu Hui turned her head, her eyes filled with deep tenderness. "She said that when she listened to me tell these things, it felt like we were still visiting the zoo together."

Gu Xiao fell silent.

The wind swept through the treetops, carrying away a few withered leaves.

Gu Hui walked to the fence and pointed to an adult Asian elephant in the elephant mountain that was using its trunk to roll up dry grass and sprinkle it on its back.

The elephant was enormous, with faint scars on its skin, yet its movements were remarkably calm and docile.

"that's it."

Gu Hui's voice was calm, "The one your mother insisted on seeing back then was this one. Actually, it wasn't a newborn elephant; it was just transferred from a zoo in the south to treat a skin disease."

He paused, a nostalgic smile appearing on his lips: "It was only three years old back then, so thin it was like skin and bones, and now it's so big."

Gu Xiao stared blankly at the slowly moving giant beast, her Adam's apple bobbing slightly.

He pursed his lips, his voice trembling slightly involuntarily: "So... what is its name?"

Gu Hui turned to look at him, her gaze piercing through twenty years, as gentle as the morning light at this moment:

"Xiaoxiao."

He spoke softly, as if afraid of disturbing this long-treasured secret:
"Xiao as in Gu Xiao".

……

……

The entrance to Beijing Film Academy.

Gu Xiao stood there for a long time, gazing at the words "Beijing Film Academy" on the plaque, a multitude of emotions churning in her mind.

He took out his phone, scrolled through his contacts, found his target, and pressed the dial button.

Not long after, Huo Xuan's voice came from the other end of the phone:
"Hello? Gu Xiao? Why are you calling me at this hour?"

Gu Xiao's voice was clear and steady:
"Teacher Huo, I'd like to borrow the school's recording studio to finish the song."

There was a two-second silence on the other end of the phone before Huo Xuan's voice rang out again, her tone exceptionally serious:

"Don't you need to reconsider? You know, once the arrow is released, there's no turning back!"

Gu Xiao exhaled a breath of stale air, her tone carrying an unprecedented ease:

"no need."

"I have decided."

"I'll act it out."

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