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"Being able to eat a meal with a real body is really different from the feeling of Pinocchio."

"It's firefly," Liu Ying said softly.

Hearing her say that, the ignorant Su Chang asked curiously, "Pinocchio? What's that?"

Ji Yuan explained simply, "That's the territory of the God of Comedy. It's said that people there can live in dreams."

"Yes, over there I can move freely through dreams."

Liu Ying nodded earnestly.

Seeing this, Su Chang immediately assured Liu Ying, "Don't worry, with my brother here this time, you can do the same thing in the future."

"Yes, I believe Ji Yuan can do it."

Liu Ying nodded vigorously as well.

At the same time, her gaze fell on Ji Yuan, her eyes filled with anticipation.

Ji Yuan and Ruan Mei did not offer any guarantees, as they did not yet fully understand entropy loss syndrome and needed to conduct more experiments.

……

After dinner, it was evening. Gui Naifen had a performance to do the next day, so she left first.

Before leaving, she kindly told Liuying that once she recovered, she would definitely teach her how to perform acrobatics.

Firefly happily agreed.

After Gui Naifen left, everyone watched some entertainment programs for a while before preparing to go to sleep.

With the addition of Firefly, everyone's sleeping positions have changed again.

Ji Yuan did go to the master bedroom this time, but not to sleep. Instead, he and Ruan Mei were researching things and thinking about ways to treat entropy disorder. Huo Huo and Liu Ying went to sleep in the second bedroom, while Su Chang was going to sleep on the living room sofa.

Su Chang had no objection to sleeping on the sofa. However, she looked reluctant when she heard that Ji Yuan wanted to live in the master bedroom with Ruan Mei.

Su Chang pulled Ji Yuan aside and said in a warning tone, "Brother, you can't make a mistake."

"How can it be."

Ji Yuan guiltily rubbed Su Chang's head vigorously.

Aside from Tingyun, Huanlong, Ruan Mei, and Jingliu all gave him their first kisses. Not to mention the daily exploitation Ruan Mei inflicts on him every night.

"You little kid, go to sleep right now."

"I'm not a child anymore!"

Su Chang retorted to Ji Yuan.

Upon hearing her say that, Ji Yuan's expression instantly changed. He looked at Su Chang warily and said, "I'm warning you, don't give me the excuse of growing up to start dating early!"

"I would never date early! At worst, I'll just stay by your side for the rest of my life."

"It doesn't matter, I can afford to raise a silly little sister anyway."

"You are the idiot!"

Su Chang said with dissatisfaction, then ran towards the sofa, but as she turned around, the corners of her mouth involuntarily turned up.

She was actually quite happy with her brother's answer.

Ji Yuan was unaware of his sister's thoughts; he went straight upstairs to the master bedroom.

Nguyen Mai was already standing on the test bench.

Upon seeing Ji Yuan, her eyes lit up with anticipation.

Ruan Mei said to Ji Yuan, "You've come at the right time. Come and observe with me. I just extracted some firefly cells, which are currently dividing and proliferating. Through the division of these cells, I think we can roughly determine which level of entropy disorder her condition is involved in."

"Let me take a look."

Ji Yuan walked up and stood next to Ruan Mei, beginning to observe as well.

The two began to observe the firefly's cells.

In the Nguyen Mena culture medium, the firefly cells also began to undergo normal division and proliferation.

At first, Ji Yuan saw this as normal, but instead of being happy, his expression became even more somber.

"Ji Yuan, you've noticed it too, haven't you?"

Ruan Mei said to Ji Yuan.

"Yes, the cell differentiation of fireflies probably involves the most basic components of life. This is not in the molecular realm, but in a more subtle and detailed realm."

"That's right, fireflies' cell division is in a normal state. However, the intensity of each cell division gradually decreases, and eventually they simply disappear. And..."

As Nguyen Mai spoke, she took over another petri dish.

After observing for a moment, she shook her head and said, "This is another method I've thought of: trying to combine her cells with other cells. If we could achieve large-scale cell replacement and then allow the cells to regenerate, that might be a solution. But..."

"When newly formed cells combine with the cells of the firefly, they will also be infected with a new entropy loss syndrome. They will also fall into the same situation as before. And the time it takes for the newly formed cells to become the same as the previous cells is less than 0.1 seconds."

The human body cannot continuously infuse new cells; even with so many new cells, a firefly's body could not sustain itself.

"What if we changed it to silicon-based or steel?"

Ji Yuan asked Ruan Mei.

Although people may become strange, at least they can survive.

“That won’t work either. I tried using other materials and combining them with cells, but I was still infected by the cells of entropy loss.” Ruan Mei shook her head as well: “Even using the power of abundance won’t work. Abundance allows your cells to divide and proliferate without limit, but if the existence of these cells disappears, then abundance will be completely useless.”

"so……"

Ji Yuan lowered his head and fell into deep thought.

How should I do it?

Ji Yuan sat on the bed in the corner of the room.

As he was thinking, he suddenly felt his whole body being embraced by Ruan Mei.

Ji Yuan looked at Ruan Mei.

Ruan Mei then rested her head on Ji Yuan's shoulder, her soft thighs draped directly over his. She had also taken off her shoes, revealing her beautiful, delicate feet to Ji Yuan.

Seeing Ji Yuan's gaze fall upon her, Ruan Mei smiled.

"When you're lost in thought, as your teacher, I naturally want to help you. Some people call it 'the time of wisdom,' isn't that right?"

Nguyen Mai began her movements.

Ji Yuan couldn't help but gasp.

Ruan Mei is undoubtedly very talented, and after several attempts, she has become much more skilled. As a scientist, her movements are incredibly gentle, with the precision of a scientist, and she grasps every minute detail perfectly, constantly pushing Ji Yuan's limits.

Fortunately, Ji Yuan was also exceptionally talented, otherwise he would have started thinking like a sage much earlier.

After more than an hour, looking at Ruan Mei who was washing her hands, she coughed and said, "Then, teacher, I can think now."

"it is good."

After cleaning her hands, Ruan Mei walked over to Ji Yuan and patted her thigh.

She smiled and said, "Come on, lie down here. Perhaps thinking with you will help my mind."

Ji Yuan obediently lay down on Ruan Mei's lap, and Ruan Mei then placed her hands on Ji Yuan's temples and began to gently massage them.

He was humming an unknown song.

Ji Yuan looked at her from bottom to top, and Ruan Mei explained to him, "This is a folk song from my hometown. I like to hum this kind of folk song when I'm thinking."

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"Ah."

Ji Yuan nodded, then closed his eyes and began to enter the learning space.

……

When Ji Yuan opened his eyes again, he saw the virtual Ruan Mei sitting opposite him with a chair in hand, her hands supporting her chin as she carefully observed him.

"It seems you're making a lot of progress. I feel my own existence much more strongly now. If nothing unexpected happens, I should be able to exist for a much longer period of time."

"Ah."

Ji Yuan nodded shyly.

The first time it was 2,000 hours, then the second time it was 200 hours, and from the third time onwards it was 100 hours each time.

At this moment, Ji Yuan remembered that the time flow rate in this learning space was one hundred times that of the outside world.

Therefore,

He works hard outside for an hour, and then it adds another hour?

As Ji Yuan was pondering, he felt heat rising in front of him.

He looked up and saw that the virtual Ruan Mei was holding a plate of freshly baked cakes.

"Come on, have a taste. Along with the increase in space here, there seem to be many new facilities. For example, stoves and some supplies. I'll give it a try."

"Can this still happen?"

Ji Yuan was somewhat surprised, but she still picked up the small cake and started eating it.

He pondered carefully, looking at the virtual Ruan Mei, a hint of hesitation on his face.

"Oh? What's wrong?"

The virtual Ruan Mei looked at him with a smile.

"The taste of this cake..."

It tasted pretty average.

Seeing Ji Yuan's expression, the virtual Ruan Mei smiled and said:

"The taste is just average, of course. It needs some catalyst."

She put a small piece of cake in her mouth and chewed it, then kissed Ji Yuan's lips again.

Instantly, a rich plum blossom aroma filled the cake, and its taste became incredibly sweet.

The virtual Ruan Mei gave all the cake in her mouth to Ji Yuan.