Qin Wanglan stared at her fixedly, then suddenly said, "Stop pretending. You can talk, can't you?"
Xia Chujian: "!!!"
Holy crap!
What was with this man?! Had he seen through her "persona" long ago?! Xia Chujian looked up, putting on a blankly adorable expression as she blinked at Qin Wanglan.
Qin Wanglan smiled faintly and murmured, "So alike... Really alike... That expression of yours is especially like Yi Xin's..."
"Whenever someone caught her lying back then, she'd make that expression like, 'I don't know anything, don't try to fool me.'"
"She was the youngest, yet also the smartest and most remarkable scientist..."
"She was the hope of our people, the pride of our nation, and the savior of all humanity!"
Xia Chujian's scalp tingled.
A scientist, the youngest, the pride and hope of the nation and its people—even of all humanity...
It sounded just like that Hua Yixin! Hua Yixin from the Underwater Laboratory! Xia Chujian was overcome with mixed emotions.
Had she accidentally pressed some unfathomable button of fate? Where would the torrent of time carry her this time? Xia Chujian steadied herself, narrowed her eyes slightly, and looked at Qin Wanglan questioningly.
She had no idea what Qin Wanglan's background was.
She truly had not expected this place to be connected in some way to an experience she had once had in a Game...
As for what sort of connection it was, or how deep that connection ran, she had no idea.
She gazed at Qin Wanglan, hesitating for a moment, unsure whether she should trust him.
But then Qin Wanglan said something that nearly scared the soul out of her.
"...Xiao Xin, do you know that Fried Dough Sticks don't exist in this Star Domain?"
"They exist in the Star Domain Yi Xin and I came from."