Every time I shuttle between Huangquan and reality, the tense pulling feeling becomes more and more intense.

It's like when the air pressure in an inflatable rocket reaches its limit.

With a "poof", the entire rocket will be ejected. Pull yourself back to reality from the yellow spring.

When Ding Xiaoyi returned to the hotel.

It was already noon outside.

"Jingle Bell ......"

The bell from the main station rang on the landline, and after Ding Xiaoyi pressed the speakerphone, it was no surprise that he was the customer service who urged him to check out as soon as possible.

After washing up in a hurry, Ding Xiaoyi changed into a spare set of clothes.

With a backpack on his back, after leaving the room, he found a random restaurant and simply ate a noodle.

At this time, a news item happened to be playing on the TV in the hotel.

[The latest news, after the unremitting efforts of the coalition detectives, a number of robbery suspects in the city have finally been arrested......]

On the television screen, the alleged suspect, wearing a black masked cloth, walked out of the car under the escort of several tall police detectives.

"Hey, finally caught! This scourge, you deserve to die!"

There are people eating in the restaurant, and they can't help but discuss it, after all, this incident happened in their hometown, and everyone has a feeling of being closely related.

No matter what the outside world is like, when it comes to one's hometown, everyone hopes that their hometown will always be peaceful and peaceful.

From beginning to end, Ding Xiaoyi just buried his head in eating noodles.

He didn't pay attention to the news reports, because he knew very well that the robber was dead.

When I met him, he was already a cold corpse, but he still had the consciousness of a living person.

After a hurried meal, Ding Xiaoyi carried a backpack and took a hovercar to Dongdajie.

According to the positioning of the information on the mobile phone, I came to No. 121 Yima Street. The big black and red iron gate is a bungalow house, and after ringing the doorbell, you can faintly hear the sound of people walking behind the door.

After waiting for about ten seconds, the black and red door was opened,

An old lady in a black linen dress opened the door through a crack, and it was impossible to see the specific age of the old man, but he should be eighty years up, and the muscles on his body had been relaxed, and he felt that the fall on his arm was like a layer of skin. 、

But she was full of energy, her face was ruddy, and she looked very charitable and kind, and when she was young, she would not be much worse in appearance.

"What's the matter with you?"

Ding Xiaoyi smiled and took out the message on his mobile phone:

"I called yesterday to rent a room."

The old lady thought for a while, as if she was recalling yesterday's events, and after glancing at Ding Xiaoyi's mobile phone, she remembered the agreement between the two today.

"Hello, young man, please come in."

The old lady raised a very kind smile on her face and opened the door to make way for Ding Xiaoyi to enter.

Although he is very old, Ding Xiaoyi can feel a high level of literacy from this old lady.

As soon as he entered the gate, a cool breeze hit his face, dissipating the hot sweat brought in by Ding Xiaoyi's body.

He swept his gaze, it was a two-story small building, retro building, wooden beams, a huge yard, two old trees planted on the left and right, under the shade of the huge trees, so that the shade can also feel a cool in the hot summer.

Under the shade of the trees, the tables and chairs carved from stone are very exquisitely arranged.

It gives people a feeling of antiquity like crossing over.

"Please be seated."

The old lady motioned for Ding Xiaoyi to sit down, and poured a cup of hot tea for Ding Xiaoyi.

"Okay, thank you, grandma, what do you call it?"

Taking the tea with both hands, Ding Xiaoyi asked softly.

When he called yesterday, he could hear that the other party was an old man, but he didn't expect to be so old.

Even with the current medical methods of the alliance and the research and development of various vaccines, most of the incurable diseases of mankind have been immunized.

But human lifespan has not really been extended.

Even because of the high load of work and pressure, few people can live to a high life.

"Just call me Mama Zhang." Mama Zhang said with a reserved smile.

"Then you can call me Xiao Yi." Ding Xiaoyi said and took out his identity card from his wallet and handed it over, so that Mama Zhang could confirm her identity information.

Maybe it's because he didn't have parents since he was a child, and it was the old man who brought him up, so that Ding Xiaoyi is still very kind to the elderly and is happy to deal with these old people.

Because these elderly people will always have their own stories in the long years of their lives.

Ding Xiaoyi's actions made Mama Zhang very satisfied

I have a lot of good feelings for the energetic and very polite young man in front of me.

Most importantly, this young man is not like other renters, either lazy and procrastinating, dragging his family, or being too impetuous and exaggerated.

"I'm old and in poor health, and I'll need to live in a nursing home for a long time in the future, and this is where I grew up and my only home."

When Mama Zhang said this, her wrinkled hands gently stroked the old tree beside her.

The cloudy eyes were a little hazy for a moment.

As if caught up in some kind of memory, at that time, under this big tree, there was always the sound of a few fur bear children playing and playing.

At that time, people did not live in towering buildings.

Every house is door to door, and neighbors on the same street as each other will visit each other and chat about family life.

It's the New Year's holidays, and those uncles and uncles who can't be named will always get drunk in the yard.

At that time, her brothers and sisters would drag her to watch until 12 o'clock at night, and under the midnight bell, they would see fireworks in the sky.

After a while, Mama Zhang realized that there were still guests by her side.

hurriedly came back to his senses, wiped away the tears he saw with his fingers, and apologized to Ding Xiaoyi: "I'm sorry, when people are old, they will always be in a daze unconsciously. ”

The old man was also often in a daze, and sometimes he sat in the courtyard for an afternoon.

So he understood the situation very well, and nodded sincerely: "It's okay, it may be that the memories left here are too precious." ”

Ding Xiaoyi's calmness and patience surprised Mama Zhang.

Even his grandchildren find it difficult to sit with him and chat and drink tea.

Young people, who are not active-minded and like new things.

Let their young people come and accompany their old things, and they can't talk to each other.

"The monthly rent here is 2,000 Union Dollars, but I can only charge you 1,000, the premise is that you have to take care of me here, I don't want to see the furniture in the room dust, and it's not like seeing cobwebs growing in the corners, if you want, we can sign a contract."

Ding Xiaoyi can see that this Mama Zhang is definitely not the one who is short of money.

Judging from the layout of this courtyard, this retro house, wooden beams, and courtyard, this courtyard is also worth a lot of money.

The reason why I rent it out is actually just to find a companion for the house, so that the house will not be desolate for a long time.

"You are such a generous elder, and I think I will take care of this house until you come home when you recover."

His accompaniment made Mama Zhang very satisfied, and her eyes turned lightly and said, "Then pay half a year's rent first." ”

6000 alliance coins, renting this two-story small building, a small courtyard, is simply cost-effective, don't want it.

Even those buildings are more than that.

Although the address is in the Old Town, it is not in the commercial center of S City.

But what's different about yourself? He is not a financial elite, nor is he a big boss.

Here is the snack street, turn left is the main road of S city Jiudu Road.

For their own otaku, it is simply the best choice.

When Mama Zhang entered the room to get the contract, Ding Xiaoyi took out the money in her backpack and took out 6,000 alliance coins and put it on the table.

When Mama Zhang came out, when she saw the cash on the table, she couldn't help but glance at Ding Xiaoyi meaningfully, and asked with a smile, "Xiaoyi, what kind of work do you do?" ”

Job!

The question of work, Ding Xiaoyi was stunned.

yes, what do you do?

Your family is bankrupt and you don't have a legal source of work? Always staying at home, but buying a large number of items, will always arouse some people's suspicions after a long time.

So he needed a job, a job that would explain his source of income.

However, work must not restrain him and affect him to go home to catch the sea, that is, there must be enough freedom.

Therefore, after deliberation, after excluding unsuitable occupations.

There are only a handful of occupations left, and there are only two that want to suit you.

The first is a network worker.

In the current era of developed networks, network workers have become normalized, and there will no longer be those exaggerated episodes in historical novels.

For example, send a certain online e-sports master to a terrible illegal school, and finally be tortured alive to become a fool.

From today's point of view, this kind of bridge is really exaggerated.

There are also those illegal schools recorded in the history books, which reveal ignorance and ignorance everywhere.

So a network worker would be a good identity cover-up.

But the problem is that this kind of worker is too easy to be investigated.

It only takes a little check on the mobile phone to find out the information of the worker, after all, it is the era of information disclosure, so the Internet is also unprecedentedly clean and harmonious, and some even scold people have to be considered again.

After all, the accounts on the Internet are all real-name system, and they must speak responsibly.

You can't do this job yourself.

So Ding Xiaoyi chose the second job that suited him, raised his head, showed a sunny smile on his face, and said to Mama Zhang in front of him: "I am an online store owner!." ”