Chapter 369: The Price
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"There's only a blizzard outside, there's no supermarket, and you've never been out, where did you get the rice?" Lu Yang then asked Yiyi.
Yi Yi glanced at Lu Yang a little blankly, her expression seemed to be a little dazed, and after a while, Yi Ya slapped the table with her little hand and shouted, Yi Yi hurriedly fed Yi Ya sweet porridge again, as if she had forgotten Lu Yang's question to her just now.
Lu Yang stood up, walked to the kitchen, and looked around......
In the past few years, he has not entered the kitchen, even when Yiyi was pregnant and gave birth, because he was very worried about what abnormalities would be here, why would he conjure food out of thin air, so he didn't want this abnormality to be broken, which would affect his happy life with Yiyi and Yiya, so he kept refraining from coming here.
Today was the first time he had been in the kitchen in years.
The kitchen was cleaned up, which made Lu Yang easily think of Yiyi in the previous world, she always cleaned up the kitchen very clean.
The cooking oil by the stove was produced two months ago, and the bag of rice in the cabinet had a label on it, which was actually bought from the supermarket near the Jing'an community, and the date on the receipt next to it showed that it was bought three days ago.
In addition, there are some leeks soaked in the washing pot, and Yiyi believes that these green leafy vegetables have heavy pesticide residues, so they should be soaked in water, although experts say that soaking does not soak the pesticides.
There were still some potatoes and tomatoes on the stool at the foot of the wall, and Lu Yang also found a pot of bean sprouts that Yiyi was sending in the cupboard.
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"Yiyi, did you go to the supermarket to buy rice?" After breakfast, Lu Yang took the initiative to bring up this topic with Yiyi again.
"yes. YIYI TAUGHT YIYA TO PLAY WITH ANGRY BIRDS ON THE IPAD, AND CASUALLY REPLIED TO LU YANG.
"Yiyi, I haven't been out to do things, where do you get the money to buy rice?" Lu Yang then asked Yiyi a question.
Yiyi raised her head and glanced at Lu Yang, her eyes were a little dazed, and after a while, she lowered her head and played with her IPAD with Yiya, as if she hadn't heard Lu Yang's question.
"Yiyi, do you remember the cruel truth you told me?" Lu Yang reached out and snatched the iPad from Yiyi and Yiya's hands, and forcibly asked her.
A HINT OF HORROR FLASHED IN YIYI'S EYES, BUT IT WAS ONLY FLEETING, AND AFTER A MOMENT, HER EXPRESSION RETURNED TO NORMAL, AND SHE REACHED OVER TO TRY TO RETRIEVE HER IPAD FROM LU YANG'S HAND.
"YIYI, YOU KNOW THAT OUR LIFE IS NOT NORMAL NOW, RIGHT?" LU YANG TOOK YIYI'S IPAD AND NEVER LET GO, FORCING HER EYES.
"Yangyang, what's wrong with you?" Yiyi reached over and touched Lu Yang's cheek.
"Yiya is your sister, not your daughter! Look at her, she is three years old! She doesn't look like you or me, Yiyi! You must know something, don't be afraid, tell me, I naturally have a way to deal with it!" Lu Yang simply said all the words.
"Yangyang, are you crazy?" Yiyi looked at Lu Yang with a surprised expression.
Xiao Yiya couldn't play with Angry Birds, and when she heard Lu Yang speak so loudly, she seemed to be frightened, and she cried.
"Am I crazy?" Lu Yang smiled bitterly and hurriedly returned the IPAD to Xiao Yiya.
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Curiosity is like a seed, once planted, it will keep taking root and sprouting, and it will keep scratching people's hearts.
After Lu Yang found that his questioning of Yiyi did not have any serious consequences, he became more and more confused in his heart about what truth was hidden behind all this.
I get up in the middle of the night on weekdays, and what I see in the bathroom is still the frozen corpse, thinking that after so many years, that Lu Yang should be dead, but now he is still alive, all this seems to make some sense.
Although the biggest rule in the Trick Domain is that there are no rules, Lu Yang is still constantly pursuing reasonableness, wanting to find a reasonable answer and explanation for everything, even if there is no rule.
So, tonight, after Yiyi and Yiya fell asleep, Lu Yang got up and sat alone on the broken sofa, holding a beer stolen from the kitchen, drinking it, while quietly waiting for the sound of banging on the door. …,
He decided that tonight, when the bang sounded on the door, he would open it anyway and find out what was going on outside.
Looking at the time, it was getting closer and closer to the time when he hit the door every night, and Lu Yang's heart was inexplicably nervous.
The greatest fear and danger for human beings is the unknown.
Any danger that has been experienced can be found by following the rules that have been experienced before, and there will be no more fear.
Only the unknown danger is the most dangerous and the most frightening, because you don't know what will happen, so you don't know how to prevent it.
In case of...... What if after opening the door, they rush in some weird monsters that shouldn't let them in, hurting Yiyi and Iya?
Lu Yang suddenly hesitated again.
Even if Lu Yang thinks that his wife Yiyi is virtual, and this daughter Yiya is also very unreliable, but in the past few years of living with them, they have become relatives whose blood is thicker than water, even if they are not real, this kind of family affection soaked in the bone marrow is already a weight that Lu Yang cannot give up in his life.
But do you want to live like this forever?
What's so bad about living like this?
A few years ago, when he and Yiyi had just met here, Lu Yang would not hesitate not to choose not to open the door, lest Yiyi would disappear again.
However, in the past few years, the sound of banging on the door has appeared day after day, which has been challenging Lu Yang's nerves, taking root in his heart, and now it has almost grown into a strong tree, and it is almost impossible for Lu Yang to forcibly suppress it.
Moreover, Lu Yang felt that staying at home for the past five years had reached the limit of what he could bear, and if he continued to live like this, he would definitely go crazy.
Therefore, despite a lot of worries, Lu Yang still decided to open the door as soon as the sound of banging on the door appeared tonight.
When Lu Yang poured the last drop of beer from the beer can into his mouth, the sound of the bang outside the door rang out on time, just like it had been more than a thousand late nights before.
Lu Yang's body trembled involuntarily, he squeaked the empty can in his hand, got up from the broken sofa suddenly, rushed to the door and stretched out his hand to open the door.
……
Lu Yang has lived here for five years, and it has snowed outside for five years, but the door of the hut has not been flooded by the snow, which can only be said to be a miracle, or rather, this snow is not snow in the real world at all, so the thickness has never changed.
Outside the door, there was nothing but a blizzard.
Before Lu Yang opened the door, he thought that it was likely that there was nothing outside, but after looking carefully and being sure that there was indeed nothing outside, he was faintly disappointed in his heart.
Could it be that some monsters appeared outside, and even rushed in and hurt Yiyi and Yiya, so that he would be satisfied?
Lu Yang shook his head vigorously.
He knew that the deepest reason for his inner disappointment was that he had endured the limit in the five years he had been at home, so he was longing for some kind of change.
However, Lu Yang also knows that change will come at a price, and the price is likely to be to face the cruel truth.
Is the memory puppet really the cruel truth? In the past five years, Lu Yang has never doubted this issue.
Yiyi, who really lived with him, still did everything possible to show up after being erased by the Trick Domain, rescued him once outside the Qingyuan community, and stopped him from finding the truth in the ** bureau......
Where is that Yiyi now?
Although this Yiyi in Xueyuan's rented house is almost no different from that Yiyi, in the five years that he has lived with her, Lu Yang clearly feels that she is not a real human at all, and it is very likely that she is just a virtual character in Lu Yang's fantasy, just like those people who were fictional in Zhou Ling's mind in the Jinda Strange Domain.
These doubts always make Lu Yang very painful, the decadence and misanthropy after learning that he was probably just a memory puppet five years ago, although the pain has been almost healed in the past five years, but the seeds of truth continue to take root in his heart, making him sleepless.
He knew that he couldn't just give up, give up the search for the truth, unless, he died forever. …,
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Ever since Lu Yang opened the door that night when he banged on the door, the night had become extremely quiet, and nothing had slammed on the door in the middle of the night.
Yiyi was calm about it, as if she had never heard a bang on the door before.
However, little Yiya would sometimes ask her father curiously why there was no knocking on the door at night...... For the young her, this voice has accompanied her for three whole years and has become a part of her little spiritual world.
However, the disappearance of the sound of banging on the door was only one of the changes that took place in Lu Yang's life after opening the door in the middle of the night, and the most significant change in his life caused by opening the door was on the third day after he opened the door.
In fact, Lu Yang found some bad signs two days ago, but he never asked Yiyi, and Yiyi spoke on his own on the morning of the third day.
"There is almost no rice at home, and the vegetables are finished, if you can't buy anything back, Xiaoya will starve to death. On the morning of the third day, when Yiyi fed Yiya rice porridge, he brought it up to Lu Yang.
"No rice, why don't you go to the supermarket to buy it?" Lu Yang asked Yi Yi, Lu Yang was not very clear about the source of the food that had supported his family for five years, but he had heard Yi Yi say before that she bought these things from the supermarket.
"I ...... I ......" Yiyi's expression suddenly became a little dazed.
Lu Yang looked at Yiyi, whose expression became dazed, and couldn't help but feel a little sad in his heart.
This Yiyi, who behaves a lot of the time, is like a robot that has been entered into part of the memories of the previous Yiyi, and when she encounters a question that she can't answer, her expression becomes dazed, and then, after a while, she selectively ignores the question.
Very stylized.
It would be fine if she was just a machine, but she was a living person, a person who had lived with Lu Yang for five years.
Lu Yang knew that she was not a machine, there was flesh and blood in her body, and there were no chips or anything like that......
If modern technology is to be used to explain it, then she should be a clone that has transplanted some of Yiyi's memories.
Even if Lu Yang knew that she was not the real Yiyi, the past five years were enough for him to become unable to let go of his feelings for her, even if she was just a modified machine or a clone of transplanted memories.
Today, Yiyi didn't seem to selectively ignore the question just now after a moment of confusion, her expression still looked very melancholy, and she looked at Xiao Yiya who was feeding rice porridge with a spoon very worriedly.
Lu Yang got up and walked to the kitchen, searched around, and found that there were less than two catties of rice left in the rice bag, only half a catty of beans left in the soybean bag, the plastic pot of cooking oil was basically bottomed out, and only half of the spoiled potatoes and a wilted tomato were left on the ground, and all other food was basically consumed in the past two days.
In other words, since the sound of banging on the door that night, Lu Yang reached out and opened the door, and the Trick Domain stopped supplying food to his family.
Sure enough, change comes at a price.
Without food, it will be a serious problem in this snowy field.
It's a matter of life and death.
However, this seems to be exactly the change that Lu Yang had hoped for.
Because he had to look for food, and looking for food meant that he had to leave his rented house and go out and explore the snowfields. And until then, he had never been able to make up his mind.
Regardless of whether the trial of the High Counsellor is over or not, and whether his body is dead or not, he must go out, and he is forced to do so, because if he does not go out again, his family will starve to death here.
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Hearing that Lu Yang was going out to look for food, Xiao Yiya seemed very happy, and even wanted to go with Lu Yang to see the outside world. Of course, he was rejected by Lu Yang.
Yiyi looked terrified and worried, not knowing what she thought the outside world was like, but judging by her reaction, it was likely that she had never actually been out of the rented house.
Those so-called supermarket shopping and other plots are likely to be just memories imposed on her by the Trick Domain, and Lu Yang has long been surprised by the fact that the Trick Domain erases or changes the memory.
Before Lu Yang went out, Yi Yi asked him to come back before dark, and stuffed the half catty of soybeans into his pocket, saying that if he was hungry outside, he could use this to satisfy his hunger, Lu Yang resolutely refused to take it, and rushed out of the door of the rented house directly. …,
When Lu Yang walked out of the room, he looked back and saw that the place where the rented house was located had become a hut of less than ten square meters, which was exactly the same as when he accidentally bumped into this hut.
The door of the hut was closed, although Lu Yang didn't close the door when he rushed out just now, and Yiyi and Yiya were standing by the door......
Lu Yang had an inexplicable fear in his heart, he turned around and walked to the window of the hut, and looked carefully into the hut, but it was very dark inside, and there was no light, so he couldn't see anything clearly.
I don't know if Yiyi and Yiya are standing by the window of the rented house, and I don't know if they can see him outside from the inside.
Lu Yang forcibly pressed the urge to turn around and go back to open the door of the rented house to see if Yiyi's mother and daughter were still in the hut, turned around and walked towards the snowfield.
After walking a few steps, Lu Yang turned around, and when he saw that the hut was still there, his heart was a little relieved, and after he walked a little farther, he turned back again, convinced that the hut was still there and had not disappeared suddenly.
I don't know why, Lu Yang's heart hurts at the moment.
Heartache is because of concern.
Yiyi and Yiya in the hut became the most important concern in his life, like a rope that tied his feet, his eyes, and his heart.
If he didn't have them in his heart, he would go wherever he went, even if he froze to death in the snowfield.
However, he didn't dare to let himself die casually.
Because, he knew, if he died, he couldn't bring back food for Yiyi's mother and daughter, and they would starve to death in the rented house.
Even if they are just NPCs created by the Trick Domain, they are already very important in Lu Yang's heart, and five years is enough time to leave a lifelong memory in a person's life.
Lu Yang used the small shovel he brought with him to build a half-meter-high snowman in the snow as a signpost for him to identify and go home, otherwise, in this vast snowfield, it is easy to get lost, and once lost, the consequences will be unimaginable.
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A blizzard.
Lu Yang had never been so desperate as he was now.
He even began to suspect that there was no end to this snowfield, and that the whole world was now made up of an endless snowfield.
No matter where you go, there can be no change.
On the snowy field, there is no other person or creature at all.
In such a case, where to find food?
Because of the snowman road signs all the way, and the snow on the road is very deep, Lu Yang's travel speed is very slow, seeing that the sky is slowly getting dark, but still nothing, Lu Yang, who is cold and hungry, begins to think about whether to return the same way.
Go home.
That warm home.
There, there was his wife and daughter.
Now Lu Yang has some regrets in his heart.
Regretting that he shouldn't always want to explore the truth, he opened the door in the middle of the night, causing the Strange Domain to no longer give him ~whole~ family food......
It is not a pity that he froze to death in the snowfield, but Yiyi and Yiya should not be starved to death at home.
Now if he goes back, the food at home is no longer enough to last two days, if he doesn't go back, Yiyi and Yiya may be able to last longer, once he goes back, plus his mouth, that little bit of poor food is not enough to eat. (To be continued)