Li Haojun wasn't quite sure if or how his relationship with Kesia should develop, but he couldn't deny it, not to her adoration or to his own affections. Amidst the wandering thoughts, curious about how the mainstream young people live nowadays? What kind of pursuits, values they have.

  On the plane to Boise, Li Haojun flipped through social media, looking at the daily lives of people nowadays, socializing, showing off, maybe it shouldn't be described this way, but when there is a basic social security, people will surely expand the diversity of their lives, food, planting, sports, music and so on.

  Perhaps social media has its own sample bias, and so I checked what the local university was doing, and although it was a local institution, so I shouldn't expect too much, but it was still a bit disappointing, rather than a university, it was more like an advanced vocational education school. All this makes Li Haojun thought of a word, class solidification, is there no upward channel for young people?

  Well, Li Haojun also checked his common open source information site, favoring the direction of theoretical physics, the knowledge is more detailed, with the theory and experiments of well-known universities. Then he inquired about the aspect of applied mathematics, and then returned to the aspect of chemical and biological engineering, and it seemed that there was no specially set up confinement for knowledge seekers. Obviously nowadays society is relaxed in terms of education, and personal development lies more in one's own exploration and endeavors, but obviously it is important to have an opportunity to join the industry, as in the case of Keshia.

  Would there be someone who didn't have to take this channel? Li Haojun thought of here, no doubt, in the past a lot of high-end private schools are now no trace, but careful people carefully search will still find some of the traces of the past. It seems that society is artificially and subconsciously divided into more bubbles, both large and small, but they do not intersect.

  The thought-filled journey seemed to go by quickly, and before I had time to look out the window, the plane had landed in the open space in front of the Eagle factory. It was the same familiar figure, white wide-sleeved short top, light blue jeans, only the long hair was gone, short hair on her cheeks, a black silk scarf tied around her pale neck.

  The plane soon arrived in the mountains northeast of Boise, but this time it wasn't the same hotel as with Lily, this time the airstrip was nestled in a valley that didn't seem too far from the last mountain range, at least in the air. Landing revealed nothing but airstrips in the valley, and it was necessary to walk east, hiking down the valley towards the main river valley, with an inn building on a gentle slope at the base of the mountains not too far away. But this seems to be not too far away, in the valley of the snow is simply difficult to walk. It was only then that Li Haojun remembered his negligence in formulating the departure route, setting the airplane to land at the runway, only to arrive and realize that the runway was still a long way from the facility building. This couldn't help but make Li Haojun think of Malaya again, if there was help from that smart little girl, would such a mistake still happen.

  The airplane took off and left after dropping off the two, the snow blown up by the rotor blades danced in the air with the turbulence, blowing on the face and burrowing into the collar. Li Haojun took out a big red scarf from his backpack and personally wrapped it around Kesia's neck, and also tied the ends of the scarf in a knot and tucked it into the V-neck of her chest, Li Haojun liked to see her sweet smile. For the time being, he put that moment of tenderness in his heart, and still had to find his way off the runway. Pulling Kesia's hand out of a short distance, see the ground there are all-terrain vehicles to and from the direction of the hotel track marks, just do not know whether the other side will come to pick up their own, but just at noon, there is still plenty of time to walk over the most is not more than half an hour.

  So he took Keyshia's hand, stepped on the snow that creaked under his feet, and walked toward the hotel building to the east. The wind mixed with the icy snow blowing down from the mountainside hit his face from time to time, Li Haojun looked at Kesia who was following behind him, she was smilingly following, and said

  “In the beginning of spring, the snow melts and turns into ice and snow debris again, does it hurt to scrape your face? Get behind me,”

  Kesia was very good, didn't say anything, followed him around and directly leaned her face on Li Haojun's back shoulder.

  This valley should be river alluvial, the surrounding mountain slopes are gentle, it should be in the winter when the river freezes over, the road leading to the hotel in front is a bit of a climb, walking in such an environment Li Haojun's mind highlights flashes back to a song, he himself doesn't know when he has heard it before, and so as he walks, he turns around and sings it to Kesia to amuse her, “You don't have to worry, you don't have to worry.

  “You don't have to worry, cause baby,”

  “There ain't no mountain high enough,”

  “Ain't no valley low enough,”

  “Ain't no river wide enough,”

  “To keep me from getting to you babe,”

  It took a few moments of singing before he wondered if he was getting too carried away, and then looked at Kesia just grinning as she followed him.

  Sweet times always fly, and I don't know how long it took to reach the lobby of this inn, the same internal architectural structure, verifying Li Haojun's identity, entering identifying information for Kesia, and directly taking the elevator into the underground facility. It looks like this is a military-controlled facility, but previously this part was idle, and this re-activation required cleaning and debugging the equipment. Due to confidentiality reasons, Li Haojun didn't get any relevant information material before, this afternoon it was only a preliminary discussion to formulate a work plan.

  The end of the work time, the same restaurant corner of the candlelight dinner, only this time the opposite side of the Kesia, gossip Li Haojun asked about Malaya, Kesia's response was to ask with a smile.

  “What, you miss her?”

  “Oh, I'm just a little worried, she's so small, going to study alone,” Li Haojun didn't answer directly, and then asked.

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  “What did she go to study? How long will it take?”

  “It seems to take a while, maybe a few months? I don't know what she's going to study,” Cathia replied softly.

  “Are you in regular contact with her?”

  “Yes, don't worry, she's fine now,” Keyshia could see the concern within him,

  “Oh, good, good,” Li Haojun seemed to react somewhat mechanically, the whole person was offline, even a little girl like Kesia couldn't hide it from him.

  “Then you call her, now she should have time,” said Kesia handing over her own cell phone,

  “Oh, no need,” Li Haojun then realized that he might be a bit out of it, looking at how relaxed Kesia was, he was a bit relieved himself.

  “Although she is young, but with her contact process I also found that Malaya is a smart child, sometimes she even has a maturity that far exceeds her age, just that she is a bit elusive, do you know her?” Li Haojun asked while instructing again.

  “Eating is the main thing, speak slowly there is no rush,”

  “Well, to be honest even though they are sisters and still live together, I can't always figure out what she's thinking,” said Kesia as she chewed her food in a slightly thoughtful manner,

  “Do you and her usually talk?”

  “Yeah, well, sort of, talk a lot, but her mind seems to, seems to jump around and be very active, and I don't intentionally chase her train of thought,” said Kesia, smiling slightly,

  “So do you and she have the same interests, or usual entertainment?”

  “Not quite the same, although sometimes she does things I like with me, she reads fast so she reads all kinds of e-books, and then to not overload her eyes she does meditation.”

  “Hey, you said you can sense what I'm thinking, can you sense what she's thinking?”

  Keshia pouted and rolled her eyes in thought and said

  “Sometimes it seems like I can, sometimes I can't feel it,”

  “I'm curious what it feels like when you can feel what I'm thinking,”

  “I won't tell you,” Cathia smiled mischievously as she looked at Li Haojun before saying softly.

  “It's actually a feeling, the feeling of feeling you,”

  “Oh,” Li Haojun agreed while nodding slightly.

  The somewhat lazy candlelight dinner ended, and although there was no food, it was warm and cozy. Li Haojun accompanied Kesia up to the second floor room, still divided between the two opposite doors, still Kesia stuck to his side waiting for him to open the door and enter the room.

  “Aren't you afraid that I'll eat you?” Li Haojun asked her as he stood in front of the room door.

  “Not afraid, have you forgotten? You can't get away with anything you want,” Kesia said calmly.

  “Oh,” said Li Haojun, opening the door, letting her in, back to bring the door on, turning to face Keyshia, the two of them looked at each other for a moment.

  Four eyes look at each other for a moment, the two tightly embraced together, breathing in the breath of Kathy's hair, embracing her body, to comfort the heart of that thought. Together for a long time, Li Haojun in Cathia's ear whispered.

  “You know my situation, you never said what you want, I also do not know what I can give you,”

  Keyshia wrapped her arms around Li Haojun tightly, rocking as she whispered.

  “I don't want, I don't want anything, I want now,”

  The more innocent and pure Cathia is, the more Li Haojun is worried that he will fail or hurt this girl. Embracing each other for a good while, Kesia seemed to be somewhat satisfied, which gently let go of her hand, pulling Li Haojun's hand, sitting on the bedside in front of the window.

  There is no light, there is no moonlight, there are only stars and rivers of stars, good thing the valley's snow and ice seems to focus the shimmering light of the canopy, through the window illuminating the silhouette of Kesia's youthful figure.

  Taking Li Haojun's hand, she sat on the edge of the bed, looked at the stars for a while, and turned back to Li Haojun, saying.

  “Look, which star is you and me?”

  Li Haojun stroked her hand, saw the night color illuminated her turn to the outline of the cheeks and hair, do not know how to answer her this romantic question, so he also put his head over, gazing at the stars, but there is no star is special, had to answer honestly, “I do not know ah.

  “I don't know, either.”

  “Castor,” said Cathia, softly.

  Li Haojun didn't interrupt her words, but just listened silently on one side, and Kesia went on to say while pointing her finger at the sky, “That's a binary star.

  “That's a binary star system, two of them rotating around each other, well, actually it's not two, it's more than one, but it's mainly two,” said Kesia, smiling.

  “Kind of like you yo, many stars revolving around you,”

  Li Haojun also do not know how to pick up her words, just while saying well, while gently caressing her hand, thinking then where to put Qin Wentian, after all, the main star is only two, but also not good to wash away this beautiful scenery, defeated Kesia's excitement, the only thing I saw was Kesia looking at her hand.

  Only to see Cathia look at the sky again, turned back and said.

  “Now that I'm by your side, it's you and me rotating around each other,”

  Li Haojun couldn't help but be surprised, could it be that this girl can really feel what I'm thinking? Since she's in front of me, it's better to focus on her... Just as he was thinking about his mind, Keyshia had already stood up, pulling Li Haojun around the room with both hands...

  It's not good to dampen her interest, Li Haojun had to cooperate, but in this dark small room, be careful of himself and Kathy to touch the furniture has taken up most of his attention, this sudden double star spinning really can not experience the feeling of happiness, anyway, she is happy on it.

  He was spinning up a storm when Keyshia stopped and

  “I'm going to take a shower,” said turned around and went to the bathroom, casually lit the bathroom light, a woman's mind is really hard to catch. Li Haojun's next step was to lower the curtains and lie on the bed to rest from the day's exhaustion. Recall the daytime to understand the situation of the facilities, the equipment is relatively old, the operating system is similar, but also very outdated, they still need to understand and familiarize themselves, the only thing that is not lacking is that there is a labor force here, tomorrow you can first arrange for them to be able to do the work.

  Do not want to work thoughts affect sleep, simply think for a while Li Haojun will shift his thoughts back to the immediate, bathroom dim light and clattering water sound, is really good lullaby.

  In a trance, in the hazy line of sight, a figure came to the front and whispered.

  “Ethan, I'm done, you can go take a shower,”

  Li Haojun was already fast asleep, so he had to take a deep breath to recover his spirit, pulling Keyshia's hand to sit on the edge of the bed first, and

  “I'm sorry Ethan, tomorrow I'll let you take a bath and go to bed first, you're very tired aren't you,” Cathia said a little guiltily.

  What a understanding girl, so gentle and considerate, why is it that fate has been unfair and left her without a family to grow up with, I must love and care for her. While thinking about this, picking up her hand propped up on the side of the bed, and gently kissing her fingers.

  “It's okay, today is like this, don't take it to heart,” said got up to the bathroom and simply rinsed, but already washed away the sleepiness just now, and then returned to the room, only a single bed.

  Back indoors, there is only a single bed, Kesia lies on her side on it, leaving a place for herself, but this really affects the quality of sleep, Li Haojun also thought of going to another room by himself to get a good night's sleep, but was afraid that she would be alone by herself, so he had to insist on himself for a little while, and then mention this request to her if he really can't.

  However, today, Keyshia was very good, seeing Li Haojun lying beside herself, she said.

  “I won't bother you today, you sleep well,” after saying that, she turned to face the wall and lay there on her side.

  Li Haojun in turn felt that this is too cold, so also lying on his side facing her, his left hand gently wrapped around her waist and crotch, his left leg stretched between her legs, skin to skin, and then snuggled his head against the back of her neck, and her even breathing, seemed to be a very good lullaby.

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