In the early morning, the sunlight shines through the dusty screen window and spreads on the paint-mottled computer desk, forming patches of light and dark, and in the golden air, a little bit of granular dust swims, like countless dancing little angels......

"Hem~Xiaoguan...... Wake up...... Xiaoguan ......"

"Hmm... Don't make a fuss......" The young man lying on the computer desk shrugged his shoulders impatiently, shook off the hand on it, and muttered face down, "I'll sleep again, call me at eight o'clock." ”

The young man standing behind him wearing a pair of black square-framed glasses and holding a mop in his hand scolded with a smile: "Ben Nima sleeps, and if you sleep again, you will drink the northwest wind next month." If you really don't want to get up, go to sleep in my room, I have to clean up!"

After the man with glasses finished speaking, seeing that the young man on the computer desk still didn't move, he kicked the black stainless steel computer chair that had been turned out of the cushion sponge, "Hurry up, the boss will come and scold in a while." ”

It seemed that it was not very comfortable, the young man lying there changed his position, leaned sideways and pressed his head on his right arm, and then covered his head with his left hand, humming and chirping: "Who is your boss so tricky, let him ......"

The young man suddenly stopped halfway through his words,Slowly sit up straight,Holding his face with both hands and rubbing his sleepy eyes,What catches your eye is neither the 85-inch + LCD display in the KTV private room,Nor the 55-inch Hisense curved TV in his living room,But an antique-level19InchCRT flat screen monitor。

On the screen of the flat screen is a game login interface that was once popular all over the country - Bloody Legend. The male mage wearing a dark gray mage robe on it was bowing his head coolly, with one hand on his waist and the other hand playing with a small dark red fireball.

The young man rolled his dull eyeballs and focused his gaze on the old-fashioned double-row computer desk covered in smoke scars.

A plastic lighter with a blaster on it, half a hard-shell double happiness, and a smoky stainless steel ashtray containing a large half of the cigarette butt, and the cool breeze outside the window blew the soot everywhere, leaving only a small area where he was lying on his stomach that was still clean.

"This ...... Where is this?" the strange scene in front of him made the young man completely sober up, and he turned his head in a panic.

The first-floor lobby of an old-fashioned Internet café is a square layout with four rows of old-fashioned CRT computers on either side and in the middle, with two pass-only passages in between. At the end of the right-hand hand side is a yellowed wooden staircase, while on the left-hand side is a glass door that looks out onto the bustling road.

The familiar and unfamiliar environment made the young man's pupils appear a look of confusion, trying to remember.

Last night a friend invited him to the last madness before marriage: the bachelorette party.

Everything was planned, first a celebration of a hense at the hotel, and then a drink at the bar. This was supposed to be the end, but one of them proposed to sing, and then a phone call called four or five girls from the health school.

Everyone didn't leave as soon as they saw it, and they killed the prospective groom official and went to KTV.

In KTV, it was naturally another drink, drunk in the dark, the sun and the moon were dark, and it was impossible to tell whether it was a man or a woman.

Drinking, spitting, picking, touching, ...... below Tempus fugit?

I don't remember.

Oh, by the way, his name is Guan Qiu.

……

"Crunch—"

The sound of the computer chair rubbing against the concrete floor woke Guan Qiu up from his stunned state.

He leaned on the armrest of his chair and looked at him, and behind him was a man with glasses about twenty-four or five years old, with a thin face, dark circles, a pale face that had not been exposed to light for a long time, and greasy hair sticking to the door of his head, and he was now carrying an ashtray to the trash can at his feet.

Seeing the other party's appearance, Guan Qiu's pupils shrank, and he seemed to have seen this face somewhere in his memory. But that was a long, long time ago......

As if sensing Guan Qiu's gaze, the man with glasses looked up, grinned and asked, "It's half past seven now, you don't go to work yet?"

Guan Qiu didn't answer, and asked hesitantly, "...... you Is it Xiao Zhou?"

The man with glasses looked at him strangely, but did not answer, put the ashtray on the table, then took a towel out of the bucket and wrung it out, and said while wiping the table: "You go to work during the day and stay up all night at night, and sooner or later you will spoil your body." I advise you to take it easy. ”

Listening to the words of the man with glasses, Guan Qiu's mind was like a lightning bolt, and he thought of some impossible possibility.

He didn't know what the specific name of this man with glasses was, but he only knew that his surname was Zhou, and he was a network administrator who should have been called "Scarecrow" if he remembered correctly.

But it doesn't matter, the important thing is that he knew this Xiao Zhou around the end of 2002, and then in the middle of 2004, when the Internet café was transferred, he went to work in another Internet café in the city, and never saw each other again.

Compared with other passers-by in life, the reason why Guan Qiu remembers this Xiao Zhou so clearly is because all his passion for online games is wasted in this Internet café.

And this pipe network Xiao Zhou has always taken good care of him, when he is shy in his pocket, he will wait for the boss to leave in the evening and secretly help him open the machine with a network management card, will buy a pack of cheap cigarettes to smoke together, and occasionally give him a bucket when he eats instant noodles.

Of course, when he pays his salary, he will naturally reciprocate.

Now the question is, how could this Xiao Zhou be here? And according to the time calculation, the other party is now in his forties, how can he be so young?

With great surprise and puzzlement, Guan Qiu slowly turned his head to look at the time prompt in the lower right corner of the computer monitor: 7:31, 2003-08-22.

Guan Qiu's head was like being struck by lightning, and it exploded with a "buzz", staring at the time monitor with wide eyes, and he couldn't say a word for a long time.

Xiao Zhou, the network administrator in the back, saw that he didn't say a word for a long time, and he didn't get off the plane, and shouted: "Hey, Xiaoguan, you really don't go to work? I heard you say that you have been late twice this month, and if you want to be absent from work again today, your salary will be completely deducted." ”

“……”

"Xiaoguan...... Xiao Guan ...... "Seeing Guan Qiu sitting motionless, Xiao Zhou, the network administrator, came over and pushed him.

Guan Qiu, who finally came back to his senses, looked at him with a strange gaze and asked, "Ah...... What's wrong?"

"I said you're not going to work yet?"

Guan Qiu didn't answer, but asked rhetorically: "It's really ...... today August 22, 2003?"

"Ah, what's wrong?"

Guan Qiu still didn't answer, and asked again, "Where is the toilet?"

Xiao Zhou, the network administrator, who was still teasing, saw Guan Qiu's strange expression, and the words he asked, the smile on his face slowly disappeared, and he said uneasily: "The toilet is upstairs." If not, you can go to my room and sleep for a while, and when your colleague comes, I will ask him to help you go to the factory to ask for leave. ”

In order to have time to level up, he specially applied to the boss for the night shift, so that he could concentrate on playing games in the second half of the night, so he knew that Guan Qiu had been working all night for a month.

But he can catch up on sleep during the day, while Guan Qiu has to go to work during the day, and many times he just finds a place in the factory to secretly squint for a while, or sleeps from exhaustion like last night.

Because of this, Xiao Zhou, the network administrator, thought that Guan Qiu had stayed up late for a long time and was in a trance!

It's a pity that the network information is not developed at this time, otherwise he should have known that there is a word that makes all the immortal cultivators tremble-sudden death!

Guan Qiu stood up with a chair, smiled and said, "I'm fine." As he spoke, he raised his leg and walked towards the stairs at the end of the passage.

Xiao Zhou, the network administrator, shouted in the back: "Why don't I give you the key to sleep in my room for a while?"

Guan Qiu didn't answer, raised his hand and swung it behind him, and walked up the stairs quickly.

The upstairs space is a little larger than the downstairs, and the layout is different, but because the utility room, accessories lounge and bathroom take up some space, the actual computer is less than half of the downstairs.

There was still more than an hour before the night was over, and there were not many guests upstairs, and most of them were women. This is because the computer with a slightly higher configuration downstairs is only for playing games, chatting QQ, listening to songs and watching movies can only go upstairs, and movies are only allowed to be downloaded from Internet cafes.

If you want to watch a web movie, I'm sorry, I won't let you watch it, because it will be trawling.

According to the direction in his memory, he came to the toilet for men and women, knocked on the door, and made sure that there was no one inside, Guan Qiu pushed the door and walked in, and locked the door with his hand.

By this time, it was already bright outside, so even though the toilet window was facing the shade, it was still bright inside.

It's just that the taste is not very good, and I don't know which guy is so immoral, just don't flush it after going to the toilet, and the orange urine splashes everywhere in and out of the urinal.

"God bless him...... Every gamble you will lose!"

Guan Qiu crooked his mouth and flushed the urinal, turned around and came to the sink, and looked at the glass mirror with a missing corner, inside was a childish face, feminine Danfeng eyes, a firm nose bridge, thin and just right lips, and a small appearance that looked very handsome.

It's a pity that due to staying up late for a long time, his face is pale, his eyes are dark, his eyes are big, his skin is rough, there are many blackheads on his nose, his lips are dry and cracked, and his slightly fat overalls look loose and loose on his body, and his image is really miserable.

Reaching out to wipe the dust off the mirror, Guan Qiu leaned closer and looked at himself carefully.

A three-inch-long scar at the corner of the eyebrow is missing, which was scratched by a beer bottle during a fight with a crowd in 05;

A raised flesh cocoon on the left side of the mandible, which was stabbed by a small piece of tape when he opened the film in 07.

I touched the top of my left ear with my hand, and an eight-centimeter-long centipede scar was gone, which was cut from behind with a machete in a bar in 09, and the ear was missing by a centimeter.

I opened my mouth and looked at it, and the zirconia all-porcelain front tooth had disappeared, replaced by a snow-white and neat original shell tooth.

Then he took off his clothes again, looked up and down, left and right, and looked carefully back and forth, and all the marks on his body that had been left by his youth and frivolity disappeared.

Looking at the carcass full of youth in the mirror, Guan Qiu grinned silently.

"It's good to be young!"