"Change back, I look uncomfortable with you like this." Xiao Yuan said again.

"Come into the house."

Ning Lan said, after speaking, she turned around and walked into the house, in the process of walking, the old Long Zhong's body gradually straightened, and the gorgeous hair on her head began to turn black, and when she walked into the room and turned around again, the original old woman became a beautiful girl with bright eyes and bright teeth.

Xiao Yuan walked into the room, looked at it, and found that all the furnishings in it had not changed, and he felt even more emotional, and said to Ning Lan: "You have kept this place for forty-two years. ”

"I know your feelings for this place, and you trust me so much, it's my responsibility to keep this place as it is, waiting for you to come back." Ning Lan said.

Xiao Yuan sat down at the desk, picked up a book on the table, opened it at random, his eyes swept over, but his heart was not on the book.

"Responsibility." Xiao Yuan chewed these two words, remembered the words that Yi said just now, and said with some guilt, "As a man, the first quality is to be responsible, Ning Lan, I'm really sorry, I'm really an irresponsible person, in the past forty-two years, I have rarely thought of this place in my heart, and I even really want to forget about this place." ”

"No, didn't you come, I know you didn't come for a reason, after so long, I think you must be old, so, I also turned myself into an old woman, but I didn't expect that you are still young, and forty-two years have not changed your appearance." Ning Lan said.

"Ning Lan, the time of the outside world and the time here are out of sync, on the outside, only forty-two days have passed, these forty-two days, I spent forty-two years in another virtual world created by the base center system, I didn't come out until I died of old age, and I went through some things to come here after I came out." Xiao Yuan explained simply, although he was not sure if the real world was really only forty-two days later, at this time, there was another fierce gunfire outside, so he asked, "What is going on outside, what do you want to do?" ”

"Over the years, I have stuck here and don't ask about the world, but I am single-mindedly running her extreme dynasty, it turns out that she only has a few low-level intelligent programs designed by you, although she has ambitions, but she can't toss any wind, but in recent days, a lot of people have suddenly appeared in this world, and these ** parts have been incorporated into her army, with manpower, her ambition began to swell sharply, and she began to ignore me, claiming to build the entire Nanzhou City into the royal city of the Extreme Dynasty, I can ignore her if she wants to build the royal city, but when she wants to tear down this alley as well, I can't ignore it, because I don't want you to find a home when you come again. Ning Lan said.

"So you asked Yi Ye to gather some people and start to resist the extreme, and also restore all the places she demolished to their original appearance, right?" Xiao Yuan asked.

"So you heard it all outside." Ning Lan glanced at Xiao Yuan and said, "Yes, I have the responsibility to maintain the original appearance here, after so many years of training, I am getting smarter and smarter, and I am becoming more and more appealing, many people are willing to follow him, fortunately, there is him, otherwise it is impossible to fight too much on my own, now that you are here, I can finally breathe a sigh of relief, I have waited for you for forty-two years, and I am tired, I really want to sleep, sleep for a long time, and the responsibility of maintaining this city will be handed over to you." ”

After speaking, Ning Lan stretched her waist for a long time, curled up on the bed in the room, and soon fell asleep, and after falling asleep, her body gradually faded until she disappeared.

Looking at the place where Ning Lan disappeared, Xiao Yuan was a little dazed, his current task was to protect the city, because he was rebellious, he didn't want to complete this task, but Ning Lan had been waiting here for him for forty-two years.

"Responsibility!" Xiao Yuan said these two words again, Ning Lan regarded the preservation of the original appearance of this place as a responsibility, because of this responsibility, she waited for forty-two years, what a long period of time, Xiao Yuan also experienced forty-two years of wind, frost, rain and snow in another virtual world, and in that world, he had relatives to accompany him, lovers, and even children and grandchildren, even so, he still felt that it was a long time that he didn't want to look back, and here, Ning Lan didn't have everything he had in that world, How much tenacity it takes to survive these forty-two years, he didn't dare to imagine, although Ning Lan was just an intelligent program, but at this time, he had completely ignored this, and also ignored that these forty-two years were completely possible because of the time illusion that the central system could create for Ning Lan.

At this moment, there are only two words in his heart - responsibility.

"Since ancient times, countless people have been willing to endure pain and suffering for the sake of responsibility, willing to give up their lives, Ning Lan has taken guarding this place as her own responsibility, and is willing to endure more than 40 years of pain and suffering, so what is my responsibility?" Xiao Yuan thought of this question, and all kinds of thoughts came to his mind.

"Justify the hacker." Xiao Yuan thought of the most important goal he set for himself when he was just reborn, but he had experienced a lot of things for a long time, but he gradually forgot this life goal he had been, "If I can get out of the base, I must continue to work hard for this goal, not for fame, not for profit, only about responsibility, about faith!" ”

"Sister Sa, Yingying, giving you happiness is my responsibility as a man, if I can't do it, how can I stand calmly in the world." Xiao Yuan thought of Tang Sa and Xia Jiuying, and then thought of his mother who was getting old, and his father who still had no news.

…………

Xiao Yuan turned his gaze to the empty bed, where Ning Lan had just disappeared.

"Ning Lan, you have a good rest, I will guard the place you have guarded for forty-two years, this is my home, it should be protected by me, not for that hellish task, but for responsibility!" Xiao Yuan said softly, his mind was no longer a child, and the thinking about responsibility that Ning Lan brought him made him completely calm down, and the previous rebellious mentality disappeared.

Turning around and leaving the bedroom, Xiao Yuan left the courtyard after going downstairs, and came to the mouth of the alley, the people hiding in the fortifications were resisting the attack of Ji, and in the smoke of gunpowder, he found Yi who was commanding the battle.

"What about Mother?" Yi saw Xiao Yuan coming over and asked loudly.

"Rested." Xiao Yuan replied.

"Go back quickly, it's too dangerous here." Yi shouted loudly again.

Xiao Yuan naturally didn't listen to Yi's words and went back, and looked out inside the fortifications, but didn't see Ji, so he asked, "Where is Ji now?" ”

"What are you going to do?" Yi asked.

"Only by grasping the pole can we completely stop her army." Xiao Yuan replied.

"Are you crazy, how could you be caught!" Yi loudly denied Xiao Yuan's idea.

"I'm not crazy, don't forget that everything here is created by my brain system, and it's my responsibility to put an end to this." Xiao Yuan said.

"The best way to end it is if you're able to remove the pole from your brain system, can you?" Yi said.

"Wait, I'll try." Xiao Yuan said, after saying that, he wanted to exit the virtual world here according to the previous method, and then entered the development environment to find a way to delete the pole, but after trying a few times, he was prompted that he was in the task and could not exit.

"Damn mission!" Xiao Yuan scolded, temporarily gave up the idea of withdrawing from here, and asked again, "I'm locked in this world now and can't get out." ”

"There's a way to get you out, but it's risky!" Yi said.