Earlier.

It was past six o'clock in the evening of the Chinese New Year's Eve.

On a certain arterial road in Pengcheng City, a black GMC RV drove smoothly.

The interior of the RV has undergone a lot of remodeling, with only one seat left, and it is obviously custom-made, which is different from the original, and is much larger.

In the rest of the space, a variety of equipment is installed, and there are two screens side by side on the front partition, and there are many controllable buttons and joysticks under the screen.

In the space in the rear, there are more equipment, and miniature and small drones are placed in fixed positions.

The "person" who was sitting in the only seat with a golden luster like a spider web pattern and looking at some data through the screen was Mr. Liang.

After reading the data, Mr. Liang pressed the call button with the cab: "Lao Xie, after sending me to the place, I will give you a day off." ”

After hearing this ugly and hoarse voice, the driver was silent for a while before he spoke: "Mr. Liang, I don't have to take a holiday, I have a holiday...... I don't know what to do. ”

Mr. Liang said, "I can give you two more days off to visit your family." ”

The driver replied: "No need Mr. Liang, I am the way I am, they can't recognize it, since there is no way to recognize each other, there is no need to appear on the side, there is no point." Anyway, you can see them all the time through the surveillance video you arranged, just know that they are doing well. ”

Mr. Liang thought about it sideways, and then asked, "Old Xie, how long have you been following me?"

"Today, it's two thousand and ninety-three days. Lao Xie replied without any hesitation.

"It's been more than five years, you won't feel tired. Mr. Liang asked.

Lao Xie was silent for a while before he spoke: "You gave me a new life, if it weren't for you, I would probably still be paralyzed in bed, eating, drinking, and having to be served by others, like the living dead, dragging down my family in vain." You are the one who got me back on my feet and helped me take care of my family, and the only purpose of the rest of my life is to do things for you. ”

Mr. Liang released the call button, but directly opened a small window on the partition that connected to the cab, he leaned back on the wide and comfortable seat, and the sound like metal friction came directly through the small window: "Do you have any doubts, why am I like this, and what am I doing?"

This time, Lao Xie did not hesitate, and immediately replied: "I don't read much, I don't have much culture, and I don't understand too advanced truths, but so many doctors, graduate students, and even professors are helping you do things, I think what you do is naturally a big thing, since I don't understand, just do what you say." ”

Mr. Liang laughed silently, the corners of his mouth grinning to the base of his ear.

Not long after, the black RV drove into the underground parking lot of a building, and the car drove directly to the lowest level of a separate and enclosed parking lot, which belonged to Mr. Liang alone.

However, there is no one guarding the entrance of the parking lot on this floor, it is an automatic gate, after the camera in front of the gate scans the license plate, Lao Xie lowered the window, and let a scanner with a metal arm connected to it scan his face, and after a second, the scanner retracted, and the heavy gate rose at a uniform speed.

At first glance, the parking lot on the lowest level is much smaller than the upper floors, with a variety of modified vehicles, drones and other equipment, as well as a few staff members who are maintaining the drones. However, as can be seen from the structure next to it, there is also a large amount of enclosed space on this floor.

The RV stopped in front of the exclusive elevator, Lao Xie got out of the car, opened the door of the RV, and walked to the elevator with a box to wait.

Lao Xie is a middle-aged man with a large face and a wide body, and he can feel a fierce aura just by looking at his face covered with earthworm scars, but his walking posture looks like a strange sense of incongruity.

After a while, the elevator next to Lao Xie made a dripping sound, the elevator door opened, and very light footsteps sounded.

Lao Xia put the box in the elevator, then walked out and bowed slightly in front of the elevator door.

The elevator doors slowly closed and began to descend - it turned out that this was still not the lowest floor of the building.

From beginning to end, Lao Xie didn't see Mr. Liang get out of the car, but he knew very well that Mr. Liang had already gotten on the elevator - this elevator was only accessible to Mr. Liang.

And he also knows that in most cases, Mr. Liang is "invisible".

After the elevator went down, Lao Xie got in the car and tidied up, and then went to a room in the basement - this is one of his exclusive rooms, and when Mr. Liang came here before, he basically waited in this room.

The furnishings in the room are very simple, only a bed, a table, a chair and a cabinet, but it looks very textured, the table can be lifted electrically, adjusted from multiple angles, and the chair is also ergonomic, because there are good exhaust facilities, and the air in the room is also good.

He sat in his chair, woke up the dormant computer, opened a piece of software on the desktop, and saw a nine-square grid page like a monitoring main control screen.

He clicked on one of the screens, which is a video of two teenagers playing XBOX with a TV, judging from the dialogue, it should be the brothers, and the indoor environment where they are can be seen, the decoration and electrical appliances are very high-end, and the living conditions should be very good.

Lao Xie watched the two teenagers play games, and then watched them being called to the dining table by a middle-aged woman to start eating, switching to another picture, and after changing the other angles, you can see that there are three old people sitting at the table, which are the children's grandfather and grandparents.

Looking at the big family eating reunion dinner and Chinese New Year's Eve dinner together, the corners of Lao Xie's mouth also unconsciously brought a smile, and the fierce aura on his face was suddenly dispersed a lot.

......

After taking the exclusive elevator to the lowest floor, the elevator door opened and Mr. Liang's figure was revealed.

Compared to the previous parking lot, this place is now more wide, the whole area is about the size of half a football field, the ceiling is covered with white light grilles that look like huge bricks, and when all the lights are turned on, all kinds of equipment are displayed in front of you, which looks very technological, like the base of superheroes in the movie.

But there is no one here except Mr. Liang, which makes people feel cold and lonely.

Mr. Liang carried the box, walked to the middle of the operating table and sat down, opened the box, took out the "scarred" rabbit wood carving inside, and placed it on the edge of the platform, like an ornament.

At the same time, several screens in the perimeter descended from the ceiling, on which were images from drones working in different parts of the country or surveillance footage from the inside of buildings.

The screen is the specific situation of the team that is still working, including Fang Pingfang's team who spent Chinese New Year's Eve in the villa near Wushushan, but the picture transmitted back is the drone above the villa, not the interior of the building.

However, by switching to the infrared thermal imaging mode, the position of the person near the window can be seen when they are active.

He could even turn on the microphones on the devices brought by the team members to listen directly to the sounds if he wanted to, but he didn't do that.

The surveillance screen on one of the screens suddenly disappeared and turned into a video request, which was his internal contact system, such as Fang Pingfang, Mi Qiao and other heads of the research team of the secret department of "Shenxing Technology", important R&D personnel, when they wanted to contact him, they all used this system, and they needed to have exclusive hardware equipment.

However, the person who applied for the video now was not any of his subordinates in the secret department, but the big boss of "Shenxing Technology" - Lu Chengan.

Mr. Liang hesitated, but still connected to the video.

Of course, just like when he communicated with Fang Pingfang and others, he could see the other party's picture, and the other party couldn't see him.

On the screen, an old man with blackened hair, properly combed, and a dignified face appeared, and he looked at the camera and frowned: "Ah Liang, turn on the video over there too." ”

Mr. Liang's ugly voice sounded: "No need, you should know what I am like now." ”

On the screen, the founder of "Shenxing Technology" was silent for a moment, and then said: "Ah Liang, tonight is Chinese New Year's Eve. ”

"I know. Mr. Liang said.

The two sides fell silent again.

Half a minute later, Lu Chengan sighed: "Ah Liang, come back and live together." ”

Mr. Liang's gaze moved up from Lu Cheng'an's video, and his eyelidless eyes looked at a screen with a black screen and no picture, which reflected his appearance at this time because of the light, and his voice became a little low, and it sounded even more ugly:

"It's too late to go back. ”

Lu Cheng'an's expression became a little complicated, and after a while, he said, "Occasionally...... Come back and see your mom together. ”

"I have a picture of her. Mr. Liang said.

"You know what I mean......"

"The ashes, like the photos, are just a sustenance item in memory of her, and there is not much difference. Mr. Liang's figure on the seat suddenly disappeared and entered an invisible state, although he did not turn on the camera facing him, Lu Chengan could not see him.

Lu Cheng'an frowned slightly and asked, "Ah Liang, aren't you still thinking about it...... You want to bring her back to life, right?"

"You can't be resurrected from the dead, I know. Even if a person is recreated through genetic cloning technology, she is no longer her. Mr. Liang paused slightly, and then said, "I just want to control my own destiny." ”

Lu Cheng'an sighed, and after a long time, asked, "Ah Liang...... Are you still my son?"

After waiting for a long time without answering, Lu Chengan finally ended the communication in disappointment.

Mr. Liang's figure slowly appeared on the seat, and all the screens disappeared at the same time, and the screens rose and retracted into the ceiling.

Then he looked into the empty center of the room, where the naked-eye 3D holographic projection created by the old video footage was revealed.

It was a video taken by a young couple on the birthday of their son, and the little boy in it looked lively and cute, although the young couple was not very handsome and beautiful, but they looked quite temperamental, and they were very affectionate, and they were teasing their son lovingly.

Looking at these pictures, Mr. Liang's ugly, metallic particle-like voice sounded:

"I will always be your son. ”

......

Star City, Liu Shiling's home.

After accompanying her daughter to eat the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner with only mother and daughter, Shiling's mother couldn't help wiping her tears while washing the dishes, and then kept telling herself in her heart that she couldn't cry.

She quarreled with Shiling's father on the phone again today, she felt that now the family of three would just stay together, their house had been sold before, and they could buy a house in Star City. Compared with the previous city, the housing prices in Star City are more reasonable.

And as long as she has a house, everything else is easy to do, and when Liu Shiling goes to elementary school, she can also start to go out to work and make money together.

But Shiling's father still has some nostalgia for his previous company, and wants to "fight" a little more, and wants to continue his previous career, so that he can't come back to live with the family of three in Chinese New Year's Eve.

Because of this, they have quarreled more than once, and once even scared their daughter into "running away from home".

Fortunately, now my daughter is much more sensible, and she asked once in the evening, "Daddy won't come back", and after she didn't answer, she didn't ask this question again.

After washing the dishes and cleaning up the kitchen, Shiling's mother was stunned when she returned to the living room, because she saw a small bench in the middle of the living room, and there was a can of melon seeds and a bottle of Coke on the side of the bench, and her daughter was lying on the edge of the shoe cabinet.

"Liu Shiling, what are you doing lying on the ground?" Shiling's mother hurriedly asked.

Liu Shiling pointed to the small bench in the middle of the living room: "Mom, that's your place, the seat for the slight criticism! Before the Spring Festival Gala starts, I want to give you a show, you can sit down! Eat melon seeds and drink Coke!"

Shiling's mother sat down on the small bench where her daughter usually sits, because the bench was too low, and she almost fell when she sat down, so she quickly supported the ground with her hands to maintain her balance.

"Is Mom seated, I'm going to start!" Liu Shiling asked loudly as she got behind the shoe cabinet.

"Okay, okay, what are you going to perform?" asked Shiling's mother, confused.

"I'm going to perform magic...... Well...... Magic Paper Man War!Mom, you're the first to see it!" Liu Shiling said with a bit of pride and pride.

Shiling's mother smiled, her heart was a little warm, she knew that this was her daughter who knew that she was in a bad mood and deliberately wanted to please her.

No matter how well her daughter performs, she is very happy if she has this heart.

"I'm here I go!"

Liu Shiling said, took a paper crane in her chubby little hand and put it on the shoe cabinet, then let go of her hand and said in a "serious" tone:

"A long, long time ago, there was a cute, beautiful crane, her name is Wang Zai, and she lives happily in the Happy Valley!"

The paper crane looked a little different from the ordinary paper crane folding, it looked fatter, and one joint of the two wings was placed on the shoe cabinet to help make support.

With Liu Shiling's explanation, the paper crane on the shoe cabinet actually began to move its two wings left and right, and slowly moved on the shoe cabinet.

"Hey?!Oops......" Shiling's mother was shocked and subconsciously wanted to stand up, but because the bench was too short, she didn't stand up with all her strength, and she almost fell down.

"Mom, I'm performing, you have to sit down and watch it!" Liu Shiling's somewhat dissatisfied voice sounded behind the shoe cabinet.

"Okay, I'll take a good look. Shiling's mother had no choice but to sit down again, and then stared at the fat paper crane on the shoe cabinet with wide eyes, and her mentality had changed from tolerance to curiosity for her daughter.