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"So, what do you think they are? Those stars. ඏ♦  ♦♦"

Liva hesitated for a moment: "I've never told anyone this, but... I've always thought they were lighthouses."

"They can see every lighthouse. They want to communicate and chat with each other. But they're powerless, they're far apart, so they can't hear each other's calls."

Lin Fan felt a pang in his heart and his eyes welled up as he read this sentence: "Isn't Liva describing her own state of mind? She yearns to communicate with others, but has a congenital disease that prevents her from interacting normally. That's why she likes lighthouses... In her eyes, lighthouses share her loneliness."

Liva said softly: "All they can do... is try their best to shine. That's the only thing they can do."

"Let that light shine on other lighthouses, and on me."

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Even though the words were optimistic and the music was gentle, Lin Fan felt a stone lodged in his chest: "Try their best to shine?"

Johnny: "Why you?"

Liva: "Because one day, I'll become their friend."

Liva noticed Johnny's backpack: "What's in that bag?"

Johnny: "Oh, it's the prize I won from Whac-A-Mole. Have you played Whac-A-Mole before?"

"I've tried, but I'm too clumsy... What did you get?"

"I'm not really sure what it is..." Johnny opened his backpack, revealing a dark, duck-like toy, "It looks like a strange duck, kind of like a beaver..."

The plot unfolded one after another, giving no chance to breathe, the surging emotions accumulated to the highest point, erupting like a flood, easily collapsing Lin Fan's tear ducts.

He couldn't hold back anymore, feeling some kind of liquid blurring his eyes, his nose also stinging: "╥﹏╥ It's a platypus!"

The ugly platypus toy that constantly appeared in the game, the platypus toy that Liva always carried with her, finally had its origin revealed at this moment.

"Johnny?" Someone's call came from afar.

Johnny jumped up: "Mom's calling me! I have to go."

Liva hugged the platypus toy: "...This!"

Johnny perhaps didn't like the toy, perhaps noticed the hidden envy in Liva's tone when she said she was clumsy, perhaps he and Liva hit it off, and said generously: "Um... take it, it's yours."

Liva hugged the platypus toy, blinking her eyes, not knowing what she was thinking: "Mine?"

"I can definitely win another one. Not to brag, but I'm the best Whac-A-Mole player!"

Liva stared at Johnny: "Will you come back here next year?"

"Of course, what about you?"

"I will."

"Same time, same place?"

"Yeah."

Liva watched Johnny's receding figure, jumped off the log, holding the platypus tightly in her arms, the piano music gentle and soft: "What if you forget, or get lost?"

"Then we'll always meet on the moon, you dummy!" Johnny looked back at Liva, "Right on the bunny's belly!"

Tears streamed down Lin Fan's cheeks, he tore off a tissue, blew his nose, his eyes both touched and sad: "So going to the moon, that's what it meant... Soon after, Johnny took β-blockers, forgetting the painful memories, and forgetting the promise with Liva..."

"No. When the two doctors asked the old man about his motivation to go to the moon, Johnny's reply surfaced in his mind, 'I don't know why, I just... have to go.' Johnny actually still remembered the promise with Liva, right..."

So, what he wanted to go to wasn't the moon, but the place where he could meet you.

Lin Fan had unknowingly used three tissues, his nose twitching, sighing, "I never thought a macho man like me would shed tears playing this pixel-style little game..."

The two doctors also discussed it. Doctor Rosalene said: "Now, I think we know what to do to send him to the moon."

Doctor Watts: "Wait, you don't really want to do this, do you? You wouldn't, would you?"

Lin Fan was confused, vaguely feeling uneasy: "What is Doctor Rosalene going to do? What riddles are you playing?"

"It's our job, Watts..." Doctor Rosalene's body flickered, a sign that she was starting to teleport in the memory world, "It's the obligation our contract gives us."

Then, her body disappeared from this memory fragment.

"Damn..." Doctor Watts said, also starting to teleport, the center of the camera slowly moving from the position where the two doctors disappeared, to Liva, who was holding the platypus and quietly sitting watching the stars, seemingly with profound meaning.

Lin Fan was captivated by this sudden turn of events, his eyes fixed on the screen, he didn't want to think deeply about what was going to happen next, he just wanted the plot to tell him the answer quickly.

The memory jumped to the school cafeteria, next to Liva, sitting alone eating, with the platypus toy on the table. The noisy student clamor and the depressing electronic sounds mixed together, making Lin Fan feel his heart beating faster due to nervousness.

This time, only Doctor Watts could be controlled. As soon as he appeared, he looked around, although Doctor Rosalene wasn't here, he seemed to be able to perceive some kind of information residue through the instrument: "I knew you were here..."

Doctor Watts rushed out of the cafeteria, the eerie and cold piano music creating an atmosphere of unknown fear, he started running in the corridor.

At the corner, Doctor Watts caught up with Doctor Rosalene, light shining through the windows into the corridor, he stopped, standing in a patch of light, his tone seeming to suppress something: "Turn around."

Doctor Rosalene turned around, she was just shrouded in a shadow, unable to see the expression on her face: "Watts."

"I know what you're going to do."

"I know you know."

"I know you know I know..."

Lin Fan "噗" laughed, Doctor Watts was indeed a funny guy by nature, he could be funny in such a serious occasion, in such a tense and eerie bgm, the depressing atmosphere dissipated a lot, making his mood slightly relieved.

Doctor Rosalene interrupted his repetition: "Listen, our contract is to send him to the moon. And the way to make it a reality is... Johnny wants to do it."

Doctor Watts: "But if it means removing Liva, what's the point of all this?!"

The words "remove Liva" were italicized, seeming to hear Doctor Watts's excited roar.

Lin Fan was struck by lightning, his eyes widened, the thoughts he didn't want to think about were cruelly torn open in front of him, his mind starting to work quickly: "Johnny's real wish isn't to go to the moon, but to be with Liva, so the previous attempts to instill the wish didn't succeed.

The fundamental reason he wants to go to the moon is because Liva died! Only by removing Liva, preventing Johnny from seeing Liva, will he change his life trajectory. But, if Liva is gone, what's the point of him going to the moon?!"

Doctor Rosalene patiently persuaded: "We are contractually bound by law, especially..."

Doctor Watts waved his fists exaggeratedly: "*Expletive* contract! I didn't accept this job to make him even worse."

The two argued fiercely in the corridor, the piano music becoming more and more urgent, whether to let the old man go to the moon, or to let him spend his life peacefully with Liva?

After experiencing so many joys and sorrows of the old man's memories, Lin Fan naturally also inclined towards Doctor Watts, but there was no option in the game for him to choose.

Just then, in the memory space, the dangerous red light flashed again.

"The old man's life is running out, do something quickly..." Lin Fan felt powerless and nervous.