I can't explain why.
He Jiong felt that the girl had a special quality that made him feel very comfortable around her.
It might be a kindness that shows consideration for others even when one is blind.
It could also be an optimistic attitude towards life despite physical disability.
It's also possible that their shared contentment with each other made him feel relaxed and at ease chatting with the girl.
During the first few visits, He Jiong was just an ordinary errand boy who freeloaded at the Academy.
At most, he'd be considered a "big shot" with a 300-level rank.
When he appeared in Xu Wa's hospital room, his relatives and friends were puzzled but dared not offend him easily.
So no one chased him away.
However, the scene was extremely awkward and unnatural.
Since He Jiong and Xu Wa were not exactly friends, his visit seemed particularly abrupt.
The kind girl seemed to sense his embarrassment and would tease him about it each time, almost as if it were a joke.
At first, they talked about how he rejected Nana because he was ugly, but later they talked about all sorts of embarrassing things that happened when he pursued Du Keke.
The two went from strangers to acquaintances.
From acquaintance to friendship, they talked like friends about their views on life, such as "aesthetics".
During the conversation, someone accidentally said, "You're prettier than her," which made the atmosphere a little awkward.
To ease the awkward atmosphere.
The two agreed that once the girl regained her sight, they would eat at a certain restaurant serving delicious pickled fish together, and also go on various adventures such as escape rooms, haunted houses, wilderness survival, mountain climbing, and skydiving.
This was originally a line Xu Wa used to comfort He Jiong.
It gradually turned into He Jiong's lines of comforting Xu Wa.
After this happened many times, Xu Wa got used to it and stopped taking it seriously.
She has given up on the idea of regaining her sight.
Begin learning Braille and how to use tools such as white canes.
Her family would occasionally ask her what was going on with the guy who often came over with several bottles of free milk, and whether he was pursuing her.
Xu Wa would always laugh and make fun of herself.
"Whose son is so foolish as to fall for a blind man?"
Fearing to upset her, everyone kept quiet about the matter.
Just consider the other person a close friend who is short of money.
But the frequency of his He Jiong is increasing.
The gifts he carried became increasingly expensive.
Xu Wa's relatives and friends became uneasy.
They all pressed her for details, asking who she was and why they were starting to send advanced quantum computers specifically for the blind here.
The key is that you can't get this thing for less than a million!
Are they still just ordinary friends?
Is he still that poor, stingy kid who always brought free milk to visit?
result.
When asked by relatives and friends, Xu Wa remained calm and composed.
It seemed as if nothing had changed.
What's particularly strange is that not only did Xu Wa remain unchanged, but even He Jiong underwent the most significant change, did not change either.
He still went to Xu Wa's ward whenever he had free time.
They don't deliberately mention their current status or income.
At most, he'd boast a few times that more people are asking him for favors now, and he's busy as a dog every week.
Xu Wa would then jokingly tease him, saying that it must be very hard for a busy man like him to find time to chat with the blind girl.
He seemed unaware that she had once been normal but was now blind.
She seemed unaware that he had once been poor but was now wealthy.
Neither of them cared about the past or the future.
They are all content with their simple lives.
He would steal fruit from the blind girl's bedside.
She would not hesitate to ask him to teach her how to use the optical computer for the blind.
After listening to him study the instruction manual for ages, he finally tore it to shreds in frustration, declaring it was some kind of rubbish that no human could learn. He exclaimed, "Who invented this crap? Even sighted people can't learn it, how can blind people?"
She laughed heartily.
He told her that he had performed well and had been promoted to chief lackey.
She told him that she had made rapid progress in learning Braille recently and had already memorized several pages.
He told her that he was very lucky to start independently managing large projects.
She told him that the sauerkraut fish at that restaurant wasn't as good as hers, but it was the closest to her own cooking style.
He said she was bragging.
She also said he was bragging.
The two almost came to blows.
Relatives quietly wiped away tears outside the ward.
Sometime later...
Xu Wa's condition has stabilized, and she can be discharged from the hospital to recuperate at home.
She was discharged from the hospital in a wheelchair or with a cane, accompanied by her family.
He Jiong didn't come that day.
He went into the tower.
one person.
It's not about leading people into the Insect Chamber, nor is it about leading people into Four Squares Formation.
Instead, he tried to climb 300 floors on his own.
Except for the integer layers that require matching with random teams, he entered all the other random layers alone.
He was testing whether he had the ability to solo the 300th floor.
Unfortunately, the first experiment went awry; they encountered Toxic Gas Chamber on the 69th floor.
He was already a top-tier expert, and a master of both Mechanism Art and poison-making; passing this test should have been easy for him.
But for some reason, he kept testing the speed at which he could disassemble the mechanism.
It doesn't even meet the 6-minute requirement for climbers who far exceed the average Tower Climber.
They stayed in the Toxic Gas Chamber, which was already filled with poison gas, and repeatedly disassembled and reassembled it.
There are many Toxic Gas Chamber simulators available on the market, but in his opinion, none of them are detailed or complete enough.
He bought all the blueprints for the mechanisms he could find on the market and tested them one by one, but found that it still couldn't match Wang Wen's speed in clearing the Toxic Gas Chamber.
In the end, there was no way to resolve it.
He Jiong took advantage of a chance to copy [ Same-Floor Teleportation ] to meet Wang Wen and ask if there was a faster way to pass through the Toxic Gas Chamber.
Wang Wen's friends all laughed.
At that time, he was not yet one of "our own people," but merely a "guide to the Insect Chamber."
Therefore, they were unaware that the Intelligence Department of the former First Consortium, now a member of the Universal Love family, already had a new, expedited process.
After asking the question.
Chen Hansheng said he could pay for it.
Alternatively, a designated Insect Chamber could be used instead.
Wang Wen treated He Jiong Jiong's team formation in a "hands-off" manner, not caring how much he charged for selling positions, as long as it didn't interfere with her own Bug-Hunting Squad's normal entry and exit.
He Jiong is very self-aware of his sycophantic nature.
The collected "entrance fees" were always handed over to Wang Wen in full.
Then Wang Wen forwarded it to him.
Even though Wang Wen repeatedly told him not to hand it over to him, he still did it enthusiastically, and didn't change even after being scolded.
The "entrance fee" is usually 10% of the income of those who enter the Insect Chamber to kill insects.
There are more and less.
Later on, some pest control workers, in order to "cut in line," could raise the ratio to 50% or even 90%.
He Jiong, he still handed over the money in full.
For Wang Wen, the number of these outside pest control workers was very small, often so small as to be negligible.
Therefore, sometimes the money that He Jiong handed over would "not come back".
He didn't care, and he certainly wouldn't specifically remind him.
As he always said, he was content with what he had. In the end, the Academy would provide food and lodging, so it didn't matter whether he had money or not.
If you have money, buy Xu Wa some good food.
If you don't have money, just take two free bottles of milk with you.
Anyway, he never looked down on that silly girl and seemed to enjoy drinking with her.
After receiving the new steps, he practiced them several times in the Academy's simulation training room and was surprised to find that with his skills, he could clear the 69th floor in just two or three minutes using this new solution.
This was a number he was satisfied with.
Overjoyed.
Let's try to sprint again in the new week.
This time, they were "unlucky" and didn't encounter the Toxic Gas Chamber; the 69th Floor was just an ordinary machine room.
So he continued upwards.
Those random teams that played on multiple floors discovered a formidable player that week, who had soloed from floor 10 all the way up to over 200 floors. He carried a supply backpack on his chest and always had a humanoid cloth bag on his back, as if it were some kind of terrifying and powerful item.
He never took it off, yet I never saw him use it.