After exiting the game, the real time was already eight o'clock in the morning, and the sun was shining outside from the window.

"I played the game for at least 12 hours."

Bai Ye took off his helmet and sat up straight from the sofa, his body bones making a 'gurgling' sound that was unique after not moving for a long time.

He noticed that the communicator on the side was flashing with a breathing lamp, took it and looked at it, and found that Ding Ri had called him half an hour ago.

"Such an early morning...... Just come to me to play games? This guy isn't that diligent, is he? ”

Thinking so, Bai Ye dialed Ding Ri's phone.

The phone was quickly connected, and a virtual screen was drawn above the communicator, and Ding Ri's sleepy eyes appeared on the screen, looking like he had just woken up.

"I said, why didn't you answer my phone just now?"

Ding Ri let out a long yawn, looking tired from sleep deprivation.

"I was just in the game, and I didn't get a prompt."

"Isn't it, big brother, are you too diligent in getting up early in the morning? Or is the game played all night? ”

Ding Ri shouted in an exaggerated tone: "Are you so desperate for the bonus? ”

"What are you looking for me early in the morning?"

Bai Ye didn't bother to explain to him, and asked the point directly.

"Oh, it's not like I'm looking for you."

Ding Ri restrained his surprised expression, and his face showed a little confusion.

"It's my cousin, the one I met last time at the Science Museum."

“？”

Bai Ye frowned slightly when he heard this, and immediately recalled some abnormalities that the other party had shown when he first met Ding Ri's cousin - his cousin mentioned the name of 'Mu Jingbai' to him and asked him if he knew this person.

The cousin obviously knew something related to Bai Ye, and initially suspected that this content was very likely to be about Bai Ye's life experience.

"What's the matter with my cousin?"

"I don't know, she just asked me to contact you and ask you to go to this address around twelve o'clock today."

As Ding Ri spoke, he operated twice on his communicator and sent Bai Ye an address location.

……

A café located in a tourist attraction in the Shuguang District.

Bai Ye found this place according to the positioning given to him by Ding Ri.

He pushed the door and walked in, the café was small in size, the decoration belonged to the small and fresh kind, the room was filled with a faint aroma of coffee, there was an orange cat and a white cat playing on the cat rack by the door, and behind the bar counter opposite the door stood a young man with glasses, who smiled at Bai Ye with a welcoming smile.

Bai Ye glanced around the café, there were only three tables of customers, and at the table by the window—from that position, just enough to see the small street outside, there was a woman wearing a women's trench coat and sunglasses on the bridge of her nose.

Bai Ye walked in that direction, and the woman was looking at the small street outside the window, and she didn't react until Bai Ye walked in.

She took off her sunglasses, her expression was a little serious and cold, but her appearance was consistent with the cousin Ding Ri that Bai Ye had met in the Science and Technology Museum before.

"Your name is Bai Ye, please sit down."

The cousin looked at Bai Ye and looked at the position opposite her.

After Bai Ye sat down, she briefly introduced herself.

"My name is Ding Yi, you may not know me, but I saw you when you were only so old."

The cousin reached out and compared it to the size of a 'baby', and a rare smile appeared on the corner of her mouth, but then the smile was gently hidden by her, as if a pleasant memory was fleeting.

"I'm now working for Phantom Engine Virtual Reality Co., Ltd., the company that developed the Pale Dawn game you're currently playing."

Bai Ye already knew this, so Ding Yi didn't introduce it too much.

"Are you looking for me, do you want to talk to me about Mu Jingbai?"

Bai Ye leaned back, and put his hands on the coffee table with his fingers crossed.

"I'm sorry, I was a little out of shape at that time."

Ding Yi shook his head slightly, and a wry smile appeared on his face, "It's really you...... Looks too much like that person. ”

"Who is Mu Jingbai?" Bai Ye asked without thinking.

"If there's no misunderstanding, she's supposed to be your mother."

Ding Yi raised his head and stared at Bai Ye deeply.

"She is also my former mentor and boss, and one of the founders of Phantom Engine."

The moment he heard this answer, a certain emotional string in Bai Ye's mind was plucked in an instant, and an indescribable complex feeling appeared in his heart, but this feeling was so vague and distant.

"Oh...... Is it? Is she okay then? ”

Bai Ye hesitated for two seconds before speaking, and his voice became a little cold.

"She died, died when you were not yet two years old."

Ding Yi stretched out her hand to support her forehead, but quickly put down her hand again, she picked up a box of cigarettes on the table with some trembling, smoked one and put it in her mouth, and the top of the cigarette immediately spontaneously combusted with the inhalation of her lips. (Cigarettes in this era no longer need an open flame to ignite, just smoke directly)

The light white smoke rose, and she looked out the window again.

From entering the café to now, Bai Ye had a more excited reaction for the first time, and the ten fingers that he rested on the table suddenly tightened.

Although I have long thought about the condition of my relatives, do they still exist in the world? But imagining that the news of death, which is far less than hearing with one's own ears, will have a huge impact on people.

"What is the reason?"

Bai Ye stared at Ding Yi with both eyes, and his tone sounded a little unrestrictive.

Ding Yi sighed, shook his head and said, "I don't know, the case report given by the police says that he committed suicide and jumped from the 19th floor of Second Life Company......"

"Second Life Inc?"

Bai Ye's pupils contracted suddenly.

Sure enough......

It is very likely that the source of the matter has something to do with his heart.

"Yes."

Ding Yi snuffed out the cigarette butt in his hand and glanced at Bai Ye with a complicated look.

"As for why your mother committed suicide, perhaps only Dr. Zhou Yucheng, the current head of Second Life, knows that he was the only witness present at the time, but this part of the content was consciously covered up by the police, and even the surveillance records at that time were destroyed...... There are too many suspicious points and unknown reasons for this......"

Ding Yi seemed to be paying attention to Bai Ye's reaction when she said this, it seemed that Bai Ye's calm reaction made her feel that something was not right, she seemed to suddenly think of something, and then added: "That's right, you may not have memories of the past, after all, you were too young at that time, and you didn't even remember that Zhou Yucheng was your biological father." ”

……

This bombshell news finally made Bai Ye no longer calm.

At this moment, he didn't know whether to be happy or sad, in the more than twenty years of life he had remembered, he had fantasized more than once about his parents, and how he would hear from them one day in the future.

But what he didn't expect was that the situation he heard about his parents was so complicated and full of conspiracy.

"In the past few days, I have investigated the archives about you, and the teacher will send you to the orphanage before he has an accident, and he also changed your name, probably to make you avoid certain people and certain things."

Ding Yi sat upright on the chair, and finally began to talk about his purpose of looking for Bai Ye to come out.

"It is very likely that you are the cause of all this, and I want to remind you that I have invited you here...... Please protect yourself, especially if you do not have any form of contact with Second Life. ”

……

。 m.