Chapter 2: If Time Could Be Turned Back

Exiting the game and taking off the helmet, Ling Chuan looked out the window, through the blinds, the wheel rope and the figure jumped by, thinking that through this Apocalypse Global League, the Chonghuang Advertising Department negotiated a new advertisement, and it was necessary to add holographic advertising devices, such things happened every year, so I didn't pay too much attention to it.

Finally, after looking around at the office environment where he had lived for ten years, Ling Chuan picked up the file bag by the desk and walked out of the office slowly.

Outside is the promenade, and in order not to be disturbed often, his office is separated from the area of the strategy department, so he doesn't need to go through the department members when he leaves.

At the elevator door, the floor display kept changing, Ling Chuan stopped for a moment, but when the elevator was about to reach the 30th floor, he abruptly chose to leave, and walked to the staircase that no one has chosen all year round, maybe it was a ghost, maybe it was just a whim, in short, he wanted to leave here today.

One floor, two floors, going around and around, when the floor indicates that it reaches the twentieth floor, an elegant back is standing there facing the windowsill bathed in neon light, with a faint smile on his flawless face, revealing a softness that others have never seen.

"Mo Ran?" Ling Chuan was a little surprised.

Mo Ran looked back and smiled, "Okay, I can recognize a back, say, don't you usually peek at me." ”

A moment of surprise was quickly relieved, ten years of getting along, somewhat subconscious tacit understanding, came to Mo Ran's side, leaning on the handrail by the wall, Ling Chuan asked, "Are you waiting for me?" ”

"Or else? Encounter love here? ”

Ling Chuan was helpless, "So sure I'll take the stairs?" ”

"Isn't it romantic to gamble?"

"What if you made a mistake?" Ling Chuan asked.

"Blocking your door, it's not that I don't know the address." Mo Ran did not hesitate.

Ling Chuan chuckled and looked up at the splendid world outside the window, "It's been ten years in a blink of an eye." ”

Mo Ran pulled the handrail and tiptoed playfully, "Yes, time flies so fast, now that I think about it, I still remember the scene when I applied for you at the beginning, and the sentence "If I have me, I will have the whole world" really thundered my old man, I don't know which live broadcast platform you are from." ”

Ling Chuan also remembered the scene at that time, and glanced at Mo Ran meaningfully, "In the end, I wasn't hired by you, why, did you like this at that time?" ”

Mo Ran smiled, "If I say that I fell in love with you at first sight, do you believe it?" ”

"Haha, I almost believed it."

"The straight man of steel really has no interest."

Ling Chuan smiled and said nothing, Mo Ran stopped talking, and after dozens of seconds, Mo Ran turned his head to look at Ling Chuan and said abruptly, "Do you really want to leave?" ”

With the help of the light outside the window, Ling Chuan's face was as calm as an ancient well, he nodded, and sighed, "You know me, I want to participate more than act as a bystander, I want to dream about it." ”

"But the question can't just look at one angle, you look at Tang Ling, Wen Yuan, Song Xing, Liu Lei, which one is not the king born from your hands, you are not a bystander from beginning to end, you are also participating, but in a different way."

"I'm tired."

Without an overly radical rebuttal, Ling Chuan crushed Mo Ran's rhetoric with only three words.

"You're tired, what about Tang Ling? What did she do? ”

"Little girl? She's already on her own. ”

"You know that's not what I'm talking about."

"You know my character, too. Mo Ran, wake up, look at this prosperous world, the future of holographic technology will only become more and more popular, all kinds of immersive industry will move forward at an unimaginable speed, now the older generation even buy groceries, shopping, square dancing will meet in the holographic world, when everything in the world is associated with immersive technology, what do you think I will become? ”

Without waiting for Mo Ran to speak, Ling Chuan replied self-deprecatingly, "An ancient person who lived in the [Last Century] might even have problems with his daily life, because I couldn't enter the holographic realm. ”

Mo Ran said firmly, "No, of course you can, haven't you been in Divine Revelation for the past ten years?" ”

Ling Chuan denied, "You underestimate FNC too much, do you know how many times I reconnected when I logged in to Divine Revelation today?" One hundred and sixty-three times, my brain wave abnormalities have been getting worse almost every year for the past ten years, yes, maybe next year, the year after that, I can still get into it, what about ten years from now, twenty years from now? Can you still get in? ”

"You also said that in ten or twenty years, holographic technology will develop unprecedentedly, how can you decide that you can't find a way to remove FNC?"

Ling Chuan smiled bitterly, "Actually, you understand, it's not that no one has discussed FNC syndrome before, but the fact is that only 1,000 people in the world's 10 billion people have a chance to be born with this disease, and this disease will not harm the human body except for affecting the association between brain waves and virtual simulation technology. ”

Mo Ran's speech was sluggish, especially the despair and resignation hidden behind the wry smile, which made her feel deep regret, in front of people, she was the owner of the Chonghuang Club, enjoying the honor of a queen, and she could decide countless matters between scolding, but in front of Ling Chuan, she was an incompetent weakling, and she couldn't do anything except get help from Ling Chuan.

"And what are you going to do in the future?" At this point, it would be selfish to keep it.

Ling Chuan said, "Find an ancient sandbox game, dig pits and fill the soil, look at the scenery and vegetables, and be a free otaku, anyway, the money I earned from you in the past ten years is enough for me to squander a few lifetimes, it's really not good, you support me." ”

"You ......"

Mo Ran's cheeks were crimson, and he glared at Ling Chuan angrily, seeing that Ling Chuan's expression was flat, the throbbing in his heart was slowly hidden.

The two fell into silence again, one minute, ten minutes, thirty minutes, when the sound of wheels rolling came from the window again, Mo Ran let out a long sigh, "You won." ”

Ling Chuan said with a smile, "You should have surrendered a long time ago, don't forget that you are facing the undefeated myth behind the scenes of Emperor Chong." ”

Mo Ran rolled his eyes, "Narcissist." ”

As she spoke, she glanced at Ling Chuan's arm, it was the brown document bag, in this era of dazzling information carriers, paper was already an antique, but in the face of this thing, she didn't have the slightest idea of laughing.

"Artemis?"

Ling Chuan also looked at the document bag and said with a smile, "Well, the second biggest regret in life." ”

Mo Ran said, "Who would have thought that there would be this kind of easter egg hidden in "Divine Apocalypse", the blade of the gods, the ultimate artifact, if you could know its existence at the beginning of the game, it would be easy to rank at the top of the divine apocalypse." ”

"It's that simple." Ling Chuan gently stroked the document bag, "The ultimate artifact is just a piece of equipment after all, if you want to play its role, you have to look at the person." It's just that if it's just a piece of equipment, there's no need to hide it so deeply, and even the grade hasn't been announced, the secret behind this is really concerning, but unfortunately, the opportunity to build it has been lost, and the possibility of in-depth research has been cut off, and it can only become an eternal regret. ”

"You, just listening to the current rhetoric, you really can't tell that you are a preparatory otaku who wants to 'retire early'."

"Don't be a person, I should go, ink monster."

"I'll send you."

"Pretentious."

"Cut...... In addition to family relatives in this world, you are the first man in the world who made me wait for an hour and offered to see me off, you should feel honored to dare to say that I am hypocritical. ”

"Yes, Your Majesty, Ling Chuan is honored."

"That's pretty much it."

With each other's verbal injuries and jokes, the two walked downstairs side by side.

……

In the hall, in front of the club, Mo Ran regained his usual cold majesty and instructed, "If you have something to contact often, my mobile phone has not been turned off for you, and it is not in the service area." ”

"You are the same, I can still enter "Divine Revelation" now, and I can occasionally open a small stove for you."

"Really? That's a big help. ”

"It's okay, just give the money."

"You guy."

Shaking his head without temper, Mo Ran stretched out his hand and said gently, "Ling Chuan, I have worked hard all these years. ”

Ling Chuan didn't take it seriously, stretched out his hand to hold the soft wattle, and said with satisfaction, "It's not the contrary, I have lived a very fulfilling life, except for the last regret." ”

"What is it?"

"Actually, I meant it just now."

"What did you just say?"

"You raise ......"

If time could be turned back, if he didn't open his mouth to lead to dialogue, or if he didn't hesitate to express his intentions from the beginning, would the ending be rewritten?

"————!!! Sonor"

An astonishing cracking sound sounded from high in the sky, followed by a scraping and screaming that pierced the eardrums, passers-by panicked, and screams and exclamations arose, Mo Ran Lingchuan looked up at the sky at the same time, and a huge black weight came into view.

"Ling Chuan!"

Mo Ran was so frightened that he raised his hand to push Ling Chuan, but at the moment he made a move, a strong force suddenly spread through her shoulder and spread throughout her body.

Her eyes gradually filled with fear, and Ling Chuan's figure became farther and farther away in her eyes, and finally disappeared into the deafening roar with a bitter sigh......

"Lingchuan !!"