1

There are more than a dozen people sitting in the waiting area of the brain department, and everyone has to wait here for about 40 minutes from the time of registration. Although artificial intelligence diagnosis has been widely used in various departments of hospitals since the second half of the 21st century, and the emergence of a large number of online outpatient clinics has also solved the problem of many people's medical treatment. But even if AI diagnosis is free, many people are willing to spend a lot of money to register as an expert and exchange their life savings for their peace of mind. Especially after the stealth cabin swept the game market, the number of patients received by the brain department gradually increased, and the reception volume even returned to the level before the advent of artificial intelligence diagnosis.

In the background, Schumann's "Fantasia" suddenly appeared, which was the only piece that Yuan Qizhi could discern during all the time he waited. He had listened carefully to Schumann's "Scenes from Childhood" and, like ordinary people, never got tired of listening to this seventh piece. He was both familiar with and loved the melody of those four bars, and this light and melodious song seemed to tell the melody in his heart. It tells the beautiful dreams of childhood, and at the same time expresses the warmth, profoundness and sweetness of the ideal world.

Listening to it, Yuan Qizhi actually hummed the melody to himself, even though the background music had already jumped to the next tune. Perhaps because Schumann embodied people's pursuit and hope for life, love, and fantasy when composing this melody, and also expressed people's enthusiasm and love for the beautiful dreams that have passed away or will come, Yuan Qizhi actually recalled the years when he and Wang Xu developed "Separation and Integration" together.

The green silk is not white, the smile is still there, and even the pure mind can still be remembered at this moment, but the face is somewhat faded and blurred. Yuan Qizhi laughed to himself when he thought of this, and the urge to burst into tears in the same city came to his heart again.

"Are you really old?"

"Is Mr. Yuan Qizhi here?"

Skipped the electronic prompt sound, and it wasn't until the doctor came out to shout in person that Yuan Qizhi realized that he had been numbered. So he rubbed his nose, straightened his collar, and got up from his chair.

"I'm sorry." He hurried over with two steps.

When the pale turquoise walls of the back area were transformed into the white latex paint in the consultation room, for some reason, the sunlight in the hospital was never bright, even to the point of blinding. Yuan Qizhi sat in a sun-soaked chair with the side facing the window, while the expert, who was only half his age, sat in the shadows behind an off-white desk.

"Can you tell us about your condition?" The female expert, who looked to be only twenty-five or sixteen years old, spoke first.

Yuan Qizhi wondered if Yuan Xian would be as lifeless as her in four or five years. "I suddenly fainted in the sneak module last night, maybe four or five minutes have passed."

"How did you wake up?"

"It was a bit of a trance, and then a little nauseous, but it's much better now."

"Have you had a headache or any headache before?"

Yuan Qizhi thought for a while, "Sometimes I have a headache." ”

"Location."

Yuan Qizhi pondered it carefully, and used his fingers to draw half a circle from the two temporal bones and the forehead. "This area."

The doctor ate the whole lower lip in his mouth, and just before Yuan Qizhi noticed that the lipstick color on her upper and lower lips was slightly different, it seemed that this was her habitual action. Then she seemed to have made a decision and said, "Come on, let's make a film." As he spoke, he got up from his seat and took out a metal helmet that was larger than Yuan Qizhi's helmet from the side, which looked quite weighty.

"Put this on, and hold it steady."

Yuan Qizhi took the helmet, because it was a cylinder on all sides, and it couldn't tell the difference, so Yuan Qizhi buckled it directly on his head. When he buckled it, he realized that the rubber cushion at the bottom of the helmet was shaped, and he could just get stuck on his shoulder after adjusting it slightly.

"Are you ready?"

"Alright." Yuan Qizhi felt that his voice was all muffled in the helmet, and he couldn't nod his head even if he wanted to, but he still heard the sound of plugging in the power supply. After a few seconds, the doctor gave another "Okay" instruction and helped him remove the heavy object.

Yuan Qizhi watched the young expert sit in place, staring at the results transmitted to her screen, his expression began to be a little solemn, but soon returned to her lifeless face.

"Do you have any family members coming?"

"My girl is out."

"That's right." The young expert pulled his head out of the side of the huge screen and took off a pair of Sven's glasses, so that Yuan Qizhi, who was sitting opposite, could see that she was a person with feelings. "It's a bit complicated right now."

2

After all the examinations in the hospital, Xiyang has dyed the poplar-filled compound red. Yuan Qizhi walked out of the hospital gate, folded his examination report, and put it in his pants pocket. I felt that it was wrong, so I fumbled and took it out of my pocket, thinking that it would be better to put it in the inner pocket of my coat that I didn't use often but was very safe.

He hesitated to dial Yuan Xian's number.

"Hey, Dad, you're back from there?"

"Are you still with Zhong Li?"

"Yes, he won't be able to go back in a few days, so I'll always be with you. What's wrong with you? ”

"Ah, no, just ask you." Yuan Qizhi hurriedly said, and after speaking, he hesitated to think about whether to say something more.

Yuan Xian also seemed to hear his hesitation, so he asked again: "If you want me to go back, you can say it." ”

"It's fine. Me, I'm just going to call and ask how you're doing. By the way, Gu Yu came to me a while ago to discuss the artificial intelligence human learning system. ”

"What did she say to you?"

"I can't say a word, I'm discussing how to sign the contract right now, and you can serve as a staff officer for me when you come back."

"It's okay, I will definitely support you whatever you choose." Although Yuan Xian said this, she also thought of what Zhong Li said before, maybe Yuan Qizhi needed her opinion at this time. "If you want me to see it, then I'll go back in the next two days."

"It's okay, play yours first. I have already cleaned up the battlefield of Xu Yang, Gu Yu came up with some ideas and won the decisive battle with Yingyue. Now that Jiujiang has been recovered, Jiangxia and they have also ceded it to us, and when you and Zhong Li come back, we should think about the next step. ”

"Oh." Yuan Xian just responded, and she didn't know if she didn't want to discuss the matter over there on the phone, or if she didn't want to hear Gu Yu.

"Okay, it's okay, you'll talk about it when you come back in two days." Yuan Qizhi hung up the phone, and in the end he didn't say what he wanted to say, and he didn't even have the courage to reveal the message.

He pulled open his clothes again, pulled the placket with one hand and groped out the examination report from his inner pocket with the other, and hurriedly flipped through the beginning to see the page in the corroboration column, but no matter how much he looked at it, the four black letters in the diagnosis column would not disappear because the sun set.

3

Yuan Qizhi returned home as usual and took out a convenient meal from the refrigerator that could be heated quickly. He never chooses the flavor of this convenient meal, just takes out a strip and adds hot water, and then puts it on the coffee table in the living room and eats it together. But today he can pick a bag from the middle, he usually thinks it's a good sauce fried chicken flavor, he thinks that the peas that he wants to add for some reason have a good taste after being soaked in boiling water.

Pouring boiling water, he took off his coat that smelled of the hospital's disinfectant water and took a shower in the three-square-meter bathroom.

"Fantasia." He usually puts on a little soft music in the shower, but today he can ask for this one to be played.

When the familiar four-bar music sounded again, Yuan Qizhi finally couldn't hold back the tears that had been hanging from the corners of his eyes all day, and the sound of the shower was just enough for him to cry silently. The scene of staying up late with everyone in the working group, Wang Xu's appearance with tears when he said the word "I do" in his wedding dress, the crying voice of Yuan Xian when he was born, the bright sunshine when he first entered "Separation and Combination", the majestic appearance of Yuan Xian in a red robe when he became a general, and the snow covering everything in the Hengjiang River some time ago...... Scene after scene passed before his eyes.

Sure enough, I have lived for a long time, and looking back is like a dream, I want to grab it casually, but I also want to go forward to find and relive, and I want to realize new dreams in the future. It turns out that after a sound, people can't escape these greedy desires.

I still want to see Yuan Xian put on a wedding dress, I also want to see "Divided" become an independent and complete world, and I also want to find someone who understands me to spend the rest of my life...... Yuan Qizhi felt that these thoughts were both sincere and ridiculous. The two-minute "Fantasia" ended, but his thoughts did not stop with the end of the song, leaving only the boundless emptiness and the constant sound of running water.

After coming out of the bathroom, the living room that was only a dozen square meters was already full of the smell of cooked sauce with some moisture, Yuan Qizhi opened the seal, stirred the sticky risotto with a plastic spoon, and took a bite, and the time to soak for a long time. Instead of sitting on the couch and opening the computer code as he usually does, he flipped out his calendar, ate the messy meal one by one, and thought about the current events one by one.

"It's September 28th now, Zhong Li should be able to go back on October 4th, and Xian Xian should come back around here. The launch time of the human nature system was originally scheduled for January 2 next year, but at the moment, I am afraid that this time may not be set, and I have to discuss with Gu Yu again, but let's wait for Xian Xian to come back.

"If you count the time inside, it should take a year between now and when the program goes live. Speaking of which, Xian Xian and Zhong Li are not too young, and they have known each other for seven years according to that side, so it should be a result. It's too late here, and I haven't seen Zhong Li's family yet, but maybe I can get things done this year. After the system is launched, it will be able to raise children over there, and as long as you hurry up, you may be able to do everything in March next year.

"At the moment, I can still hold on for half a year. As long as I finish what I am doing, I should be content. After that, I'll leave it to future generations, and according to the time over there, I'll be a hundred years old, and I should be content. ”

Thinking like this, an inexplicable feeling of nausea came from nowhere, although he had felt uncomfortable when eating this convenience food before, but he had never reacted like this. He ran to the toilet, leaned on the toilet and retched and wrote down nothing but vomited, only to feel his head swell. Standing in a small space, I stood against the waterproof wall covered with water droplets for a while, and the feeling of nausea naturally went down, and the headache like being doused with lead water hit my forehead again.

"I know, I know, don't need to remind me. I'm going to have to finish what I'm doing before that. ”