I really don't want to date a girl addicted to the internet!

The girl seemed to neither see nor hear him, her face expressionless as she swiped to open the game interface, found the teleport option, clicked confirm, and disappeared from the spot the next second.

The boy withdrew his hand, paused for a second, smacked his lips, and then also chose to teleport.

……

It was still the dilapidated teleportation platform standing on the wasteland, with dark green grass covered with thick leaves that resembled succulents as far as the eye could see.

A silver-haired girl in a greyish-white robe stood beneath the sky, gazing up at the stars of this world.

The boy came to her side and glanced at her delicate, thoughtful face.

"Cheng Fei, what's going on?" Shen Xi gazed at the sky, her brows furrowed slightly.

"How would I know? Maybe the sun ran out of power?" Cheng Fei shaded his eyes with his hand and looked around with her.

At this moment, the entire dual-body world was shrouded in a dim, twilight-like glow, with the high-hanging sun casting a hazy light that was so faint that it was easy to look directly at it.

"Without any obvious cloud cover, the sun's brightness is surprisingly low... How bright was the brightest sun Cheng Feiyu ever saw?" The cool-looking girl pondered.

"Last time was similar to the Sahara Desert, it was so hot it would be no exaggeration to say it was scorching hot." The boy thought for a moment, even though he had never been to any desert.

"In other words, the sun itself has changed..." Shen Xi continued to ponder.

"Oh, by the way, this is for Her Highness the Princess." Cheng Fei placed a bunch of bright red berries in front of the girl.

"What is this?" Shen Xi shifted her gaze, puzzled.

"You don't recognize it? Ember Fruit. It glows when you squeeze it. Although it's a local specialty, it's also highly regarded in Her Majesty the Queen's Corridor Species Collection." The boy said seriously.

"What I mean is, why give it to me?" The girl remained unmoved.

"Of course it's a gift for the little cutie, please don't ask any more questions and just accept it." The boy waved the berries in his hand.

The girl paused for a second, then took the item expressionlessly. After examining it for a moment, she put it into her small bag, her tone completely flat, "Thank you, I like it very much."

"So frank? You used to be so stubborn when I gave you morning glories." The boy raised an eyebrow.

"Talking nonsense, Cheng Feiyu is having non-existent memories again." The girl said, confirming the direction of Radiant Town, and walked straight ahead.

Cheng Fei caught up with him, cleared his throat, and said in a cold tone, "Forget about being touched. I really like these flowers, so I'll accept them."

After a pause, the boy sneered at the air again, "Next time, just pick one flower. It's too wasteful of the flower, and it would also waste my time waiting for you."

As soon as he finished speaking, Shen Xi frowned and looked at him with a puzzled expression.

"Teacher Shen, what's with that cute expression? Isn't that your original arrogant words? Have you lost your memory?" Cheng Fei put his hands in his pockets and leaned forward towards her.

The girl pinched the bridge of her nose, sighed, and continued walking forward without looking at him, her face cold.

"What does this mean?" the boy asked, peering into her field of vision.

“Cheng Feiyu, with your poor comprehension, listen carefully, I will only explain once.” The girl’s expression held a hint of pity for her misfortune. “What I said back then was based on our relationship at the time. Sending flowers casually when we weren’t familiar with each other and saying you hoped I would be moved was just frivolous sweet talk. Of course, I couldn’t pay attention to it. I’ve told you countless times not to put those one-sided and disgusting labels on me. You really are a brainless aquatic mammal, never able to interpret things correctly. Even if you have some memory, it’s meaningless.”

"I see. Teacher Shen really does have principles." The boy stroked his chin, nodded seriously, and then changed the subject, staring at her face, "So what is the basis for this relationship now?"

"..." The girl subtly turned her face away.

"Teacher Shen?" The boy peeked into her field of vision again.

"I've already said it, and I don't want to repeat myself a third time within 24 hours." The girl narrowed her eyes and turned her face away with displeasure.

"What exactly is your relationship? Can you repeat it again? There's an old saying that things shouldn't happen more than three times, so at least say it three times, right?" The boy walked around to her other side and peeked out, his hands clasped together.

"Shut up, I'm busy right now." The girl looked up at the sky, her stubborn lips tightly pressed together.

The boy stood on tiptoe, using his height advantage to continue peering into her field of vision. "So busy you don't even have time to say a word? Really?"

"I said I'm busy, and that means I'm busy." The girl frowned as she looked at the sky on the other side, even more annoyed.

"You could have finished speaking in the time it takes to say those few words, but you just won't. Isn't that being a tsundere?"

"Shut up!" The girl gritted her teeth, glared at him fiercely, and suddenly became a little annoyed.

"Don't be angry, if you really don't want to talk about it, that's fine." The boy raised his hands in surrender.

The girl took a deep breath, turned her face away, and gritted her teeth. "This hopeless Cheng Feiyu, I'll say it one last time. Remember this well. If you dare to bother me again, don't blame me for being impolite."

"Okay?" the boy asked, looking at her.

The girl paused for a second, then said to the town on the horizon, "Although your feelings are always cheap and your casual gifts have no value, they are still a token of your affection. At this point, I don't expect you to change anything. Given our increasingly entangled relationship, I will naturally accept your gifts and keep them in my heart. After all, I have already said that I don't want to be cold and heartless to you. If you understand, then correct your attitude and start anew. I won't have to beat and scold you every day anymore."

"I understand. Teacher Shen has been so tolerant of a scoundrel like me all this time. It must have been so kind of you." The boy lowered his head honestly.

"Good to know." The girl snorted coldly.

“However, Shen Xi, you’ve misunderstood something.” The boy said seriously.

"What?" The girl glanced at him.

"Although it's true that I gave you this gift casually, you're the only one who gets this treatment, so the idea that it's cheap is just your illusion. What you get so easily might be something that others dream of. With your intelligence, you should be able to understand that, right?" The boy said casually.

The girl's eyes flickered, and she raised her chin, her tone unchanged, "I'll believe half of what you're saying for now, and I'll check the rest myself. If it's true, of course I'll respond to you. But let me state in advance that even if it's true, I personally don't like this way of expressing feelings, even if it's sincere."

“Yes, Your Highness is not a shallow person like me. Although she is loyal and righteous, she is also a cautious person.” The boy nodded repeatedly.

"Good to know." The girl tossed her hair.

"But since you're already half-believing me, it seems my efforts haven't been in vain. In that case, could you at least give me a small response? That's not an unreasonable request, is it?" The young man looked at her calmly.

"How do you want me to respond?" The girl thought for a moment, then turned to meet his gaze, a hint of indescribable emotion appearing in her pure, dark eyes.

"How about you close your eyes and pretend you don't know so I can kiss you? If your mouth isn't okay, at least a kiss on the cheek is allowed. Actually, I've been wanting to suck on Teacher Shen's round cheeks for a while now. They're so soft and sweet, like rice cakes, and they smell so good." The boy didn't hesitate, and after a moment of serious contemplation, he continued, "Of course, it would be best if you could lean in and kiss me. If you like, you can kiss my neck or shoulder too, but I hope it lasts a while. Of course, if you feel too embarrassed, we can change it to..."

As he continued his incessant chatter, the emotions in the eyes of the aloof, silver-haired girl vanished, replaced by a hollow, chilling coldness. She slowly clenched her teeth, took a deep breath, and whispered, "Cheng Fei..."

"Teacher Shen, do you suddenly feel cold? Does that mean the sun is still moving away from us?" The boy suddenly hugged his arms and shivered, looking up at the sky in confusion.

"I was actually thinking about what to give you in return, and you're still like this. You're a hopeless rat, even when you give me a gift you have ulterior motives. Your brain is always filled with these filthy and vulgar fantasies... Die!!!" The girl said in a low voice, then suddenly raised her voice and cursed, kicking him with all her might.

"Teacher Shen! You just said you wouldn't hit or scold me anymore?" The boy was shocked.

"Shut up! This disgusting Cheng Feiyu only deserves to be treated like this. Anyway, letting me curse you a few times and kick you a couple of times is the best response for someone like you whose brain is full of shady fantasies!" The girl was furious and launched another attack without any mercy.

"Teacher Shen, you've really made a mistake!"

As always, the two of them bickered and joked around, and headed towards Glowing Town.

The two then spent the rest of their time gathering intelligence from the local population.

This world lacks extraordinary matter like the Light Magic Particle, has low productivity, and its civilization is ignorant and backward. The two can only extract useful information from those ambiguous and dubious words.

During this time, the sun moved slowly across the sky, and apart from its dim brightness, there was nothing particularly remarkable about it.

"They call this a cold day, and there's also a warm day, and an even hotter one called a scorching day. What I experienced yesterday was a warm day," Cheng Fei reported to Shen Xi, sharing his findings.

The silver-haired, aloof girl stroked her chin thoughtfully, "Could it be that cold days and warm days correspond to two suns respectively, and scorching days mean that two suns appear simultaneously?"

"No, during the scorching day, there is still only one sun. A double sun in the sky is an even rarer situation, and the weather will be even hotter than during the scorching day." The boy shook his head.

"That means two suns correspond to three states... No, since the people of this world can't tell the difference, we have to make more precise observations ourselves." The girl frowned.

“I agree, so let’s go, Ms. Shen.” The boy took her small hand.

"What are you doing?" The girl glanced at his movements but did not resist.

"Let's do some basic observations." The boy glanced at the sun hanging directly in the sky, then pulled her along.

The two arrived at a small hill outside the town and found a bare sandy area. Cheng Fei leveled the ground, inserted a straight, thin wooden stick vertically in the center, and used rope and lime powder to draw a perfect circle, then marked the shadow of the stick.

"Where did these things come from?" Shen Xi asked suspiciously. She had checked when she was teleported to this world and found that all her belongings had been cleared out.

"Borrowed." The boy remained nonchalant, focusing on his work and minimizing errors.

The girl stared at him for a second, then scoffed, "So it was stolen."

"Sigh, don't put it so harshly. Anyway, it's just a small thing and it's not worth much. It's all for the sake of scientific research. The locals should be thanking us." The boy shook his head and sighed, looking at her. "Alright, Teacher Shen, put your clever little brain to work."

"What do you mean?" The girl glanced at his rudimentary observation device.

"From now on, remind me to mark it every six hundred seconds, or ten minutes." The boy said in a matter-of-fact tone.

"Why don't you count them yourself?" the girl asked, displeased.

"My mind isn't as sharp as Teacher Shen's, so I'm prone to making mistakes when counting. I'll have to ask you for help." The boy clasped his hands together.

The girl's eyelids twitched, and she took a deep breath, looking like she really wanted to refuse but was holding back. She turned her face away.

"Teacher Shen, are you counting?" the boy asked, looking at her cold little face.

"I've been counting ever since you made the mark." The girl's eyes narrowed slightly.

"As expected of my teacher, Ms. Shen. She may seem cold on the surface, but she is actually smart and kind." The boy breathed a sigh of relief.

When Cheng Fei counted to 1600 in his mind, Shen Xi reminded him that the time was up (he started counting from 1001, which is a more accurate way to count seconds; he just had to read the four numbers out in his mind at a slow and steady pace to get about one second).

For the next few hours, the two stayed on the hillside doing this, marking the position of the shadow every ten minutes, chatting intermittently (it wasn't difficult for them to chat while silently counting), leaving lines of varying lengths on the disc.

“Okay, with these we can calculate the changes in the sun’s azimuth and altitude angles, obtain the rotation duration of planets, their cardinal directions, latitude and seasonal changes, and even the tilt of their axial tilt.” Cheng Fei clapped his hands. “Let’s log off, Teacher Shen.”

"Why did you log off?" Shen Xi asked, puzzled.

"Didn't understand? We've finished collecting data for today. We'll come back here to record more next time, and then analyze the truth of this world using this real data." The boy paused. "Also, you might have been so engrossed in playing that you didn't notice, it's almost noon on Earth too. We should go eat."

During the first half of his speech, the girl appeared to be seriously thinking, but when she heard the second half, she suddenly realized what he meant, and then her eyes narrowed as she kicked him without hesitation.

"Teacher Shen! What did I do now?" the boy cried out, sounding wronged.

"As expected, Cheng Feiyu is always lazy and good-for-nothing!" the girl cursed, expressing her anger at his lack of ambition.

……

Regardless, the two of them logged off.

During lunchtime, the Corridor Research Department expressed curiosity about the actions of the Minister and Deputy Minister, so Cheng Fei used two fish balls in the soup pot to give an explanation, "...In short, the behavior of the binary world is very strange. A normal binary system would not change so drastically in a short period of time. I suspect that there are other massive celestial bodies in this star system, possibly the binary star itself, which caused the entire system to undergo chaotic three-body motion. Of course, this is just a suspicion."

"I don't understand." Zhou Han blinked her round eyes and clapped her hands without hesitation.

"Why clap if you don't understand?" Ye Shuang asked, puzzled.

"Because I think it's amazing." The petite girl said matter-of-factly.

817. So the girl played for the boy.

In the afternoon, the group from the Corridor Research Department left the hotel to go for a walk on the pedestrian street in the resort area.

During the summer vacation, coupled with the cool and pleasant temperature, a large number of families gathered here, immersing the place in a leisurely atmosphere completely different from the world below the mountain.

"Miss Nagasaki, this is for you!" Miriam bought a bunch of candied hawthorns and handed them to Asuna Nagasaki first.

"Thank you, Miriam, but it's too sweet. I'm on a diet, so I won't eat it." The sweet girl with her hands behind her back gave an apologetic smile, radiating a gentle and healing aura as powerful as the sun, enough to turn any passing child into a sunflower.

Miss Nagasaki is so cute, waaaaah...

Miriam wept silently, then took another one and handed it to the other person, "Miss Ye Shuang!"

"I'm also on a diet, so I won't take it." The girl with pigtails spoke slowly, tilting her head and smiling slightly. The well-behaved girl, exuding the temperament of a well-bred young lady, became a second sun, capturing the attention of passing children.

Miss Ye Shuang is so cute, waaaaah...

Miriam continued to cry, then took another one and handed it to the other person, saying, "This is for Miss Zhou Han!"

"Ruan Jingyi and I will just have one each." The petite girl, arm in arm with her best friend, deftly accepted the drink.

"Thank you, senior. I'll eat all the ones they don't want." Cheng Fei approached from the side and unceremoniously snatched all the remaining candied hawthorns.

The boy casually brought one of the sticks to his mouth, but just as he was about to bite into it, he suddenly shivered. He then respectfully handed it to the person beside him, saying, "Please have it, Teacher Shen."

The aloof girl, who had been squinting at him, turned her face away and said coldly, "I'm on a diet."

"Teacher Shen, you're on a diet too? If you lose any more weight, you'll disappear." The boy was shocked, his gaze sweeping over her slender, long legs beneath her skirt.

Although the other girls were equally stunning, each a beautiful sight on the roadside, she was undoubtedly the slimmest, exuding an air of frailty.

"Some people were even commenting on my chubby face," Shen Xi sneered.

"Talking nonsense, Teacher Shen is having non-existent memories again." Cheng Fei shook his head and sighed.

"What did you say?" The girl's eyes narrowed.

"What I mean is, Ms. Shen, please don't belittle yourself. I clearly said your face is round." The boy's gaze fell on her beautiful face, which could be described as stunning and also had a certain cuteness.

"Cheng Feiyu is still trying to argue. Isn't round the same as fat?" Shen Xi glared at him, displeased.