Chapter 818: Same Height

The light purple eyes slowly opened, the pupils still veiled by the watery mist of just waking.

She blinked, her vision gradually focusing from blur; first she saw the cold white face under Heimu's hat brim, then she saw Ying standing behind Heimu, whose gray‑purple eyes were filled with tension, that youthful face, completely different from memory, staring at her with an expression straining to stay calm yet with clearly reddened corners of the eyes.

Ge Lei Xiu tilted her head.

Her ice‑blue hair slipped from her shoulders with the motion, a few strands brushing the lingering sleep marks on her cheek.

"... Ying sister?"

Ying's whole body trembled.

In those gray‑purple eyes something flashed extremely quickly, then she abruptly crouched, hands bracing her knees, aligning her gaze with Ge Lei Xiu's.

Her voice was at least half a tone higher than usual, the usual calm in her tone shattered: "It's me! Ge Lei Xiu, it's me."

Ge Lei Xiu blinked.

She tilted her head left, then right.

Her light purple eyes moved slowly from Ying's face to Heimu's, paused, then spoke.

"Heimu aunt?"

The air fell silent for a moment.

Heimu's mouth corner twitched.

"Aunt."

"Alright."

She quickly recalled the spectacular scene at Weng Fa Luo Si where a thousand Ti Bao surrounded her, calling her "mother"; compared to that, the address "aunt" was already a downgrade.

She nodded expressionlessly: "Hmm."

Ge Lei Xiu sat in the cavity of the Big Yellow Duck, half her body still buried in white soft cloth.

A clear bewilderment floated in her gaze; her just‑woken mind clearly hadn't pieced the scene together yet.

Heimu extended a finger, lightly tapping the exact center of Ge Lei Xiu's forehead.

The moment the fingertip touched skin, a faint dark‑purple light pattern spread outward in a circle from the point.

The information synced, compressing the basic facts she needed into the most concise format, directly uploading into her Cognition module.

The current region, the abnormal state of Past World Paradise, Ying's appearance changes, and what they were doing.

Ge Lei Xiu was dazed for a moment; the watery mist in her light purple eyes gradually cleared, giving way to increasingly clear clarity.

"... So that's how it is," Ge Lei Xiu said softly.

Heimu withdrew the finger, stood, then stepped down from the duck.

And Ying stepped forward, extending a hand.

Ge Lei Xiu took Ying's hand, slowly rising from the Big Yellow Duck's cavity.

The white soft cloth slipped off her, piling at the bottom of the inflatable plastic base.

She straightened, then paused.

She lowered her head to look at herself.

Looking at her hand, the fingers were still slender, but the knuckles were longer than in memory.

Looking at her arm, the lines under the white off‑shoulder uniform were smooth and elongated, no longer the chubby curve of a child.

She raised her hand, brushed the top of her own head, then moved it level to Ying's crown for comparison.

She lowered her head again to glance at her legs; the white silk‑wrapped thighs were long and straight, the ankles in black short boots slender.

She looked at Ying again.

Ying was nervously staring at her with those gray‑purple eyes.

Ge Lei Xiu's eyelashes fluttered, her face a blank.

"... Eh? I'm as tall as Ying sister now."

She lowered her head, cupped the two noticeably fuller curves inside her chest collar—far fuller than memory—and pinched her waist, then lifted her head to look at Ying, stating in her naturally blunt, calm tone, "My body changed too. Many parts grew larger. My waist got slimmer."

Ying opened her mouth but no word came out.

It was clear she had prepared several replies, but each was vetoed by her Reason String before it could leave her mouth.

Finally she said, in an extremely nuanced tone, "... Yes."

Heimu shifted his gaze away from this "girl's sudden growth confusion," decided to give the two some private space, scanning the surrounding white cubes and the distant half‑sculpture of Ailixiya.

The environment was temporarily safe, no new threat signals emerged.

Ge Lei Xiu's condition was also confirmed: healthy, alert, with no signs of Corrosion.

She walked to the edge of a cube, glanced outward at the milky‑white tranquil sea, then turned back toward Ge Lei Xiu.

"Ge Lei Xiu, do you remember what happened before you fell asleep?"

Ge Lei Xiu tilted her head.

She was trying to recall.

In those light purple eyes reflected sky‑like blue‑white swaths, her lips slightly pursed.

Then she spoke, her pace very slow, as if carefully turning the pages of a picture book in her mind that could be scattered by a gust.

"I was painting in the studio. Kesi Mo ran in, looking very hurried."

"Kesi Mo was wearing pink clothes. Very pretty. Soft, looking soft. He didn't speak, grabbed my hand and ran. Then, then there was laughter. A loud kind, 'wu hahahaha', coming from somewhere unknown. The surroundings began to change. The walls turned green, the floor turned green, green light dots everywhere. Kesi Mo kept leading me to run. He ran very fast."

She lowered her head slightly, "Then he said, don't look back, just keep running. I asked what happened, he didn't say. He just gave me a glance."

Ge Lei Xiu's fingers unconsciously pinched the hem, her voice a bit softer, "That look was complicated. I can't quite describe it. Then he turned and ran toward another direction. That direction had many green light dots."

She paused.

Ying's eyebrows furrowed, her Fox Ears slightly pinched back.

"I kept running, kept running. The surroundings kept changing, sometimes a corridor, sometimes stairs, sometimes a room with many doors on the walls. Later it all became blurry. In the end I saw this duck."

Ge Lei Xiu pointed at the Big Yellow Duck under her feet, tone regaining that natural‑dumb Calm, "I feel a bit tired, so I'll just lie down and fall asleep."

Heimu quickly arranged and combined the information Ge Lei Xiu provided in his brain.

Kesi Mo is protecting Ge Lei Xiu.

Kesi Mo wears pink clothes, which is unreasonable, but in Past World Paradise, unreasonable things usually point to a common cause.

Wuhahaha— laughter, that description automatically popped a pink fairy lady's face into her mind.

Green specks, signs of Corrosion.

Kesi Mo rushed toward the direction where the green specks were most dense, sending Ge Lei Xiu to a safe area.

A typical Kesi Mo‑style action.

But the core issue of the whole matter hasn't been resolved yet.

She lowered her head and glanced at the Crystal Flower in the dark layer at her waist.

"Kesi Mo wearing pink clothes?"

Ying suddenly spoke, her tone carrying a subtle sense of dissonance, "Kesi Mo?"

"Hmm. Pink. Pretty. Soft, like a girl."