For the rest of the afternoon, the girl walked aimlessly, more precisely, wandering, without direction and without determination.

It was getting dark, and finally it was time to make no more decisions.

At this time, the school has already ended, the teachers are gone, and I can only go home.

"School ......," the girl muttered to herself as she looked for her way home.

Ah, the man...... Is it called Li Mingyu? His face, once seen in school.

Shortly after she entered the school, a warning was broadcast in the school that some students were absent from class in fights. At the end of school that day, the classmates around her pointed to a boy not far away and whispered that it was him, and he was punished.

The girl followed the gaze of her classmates to the face of an indifferent boy. The boy has the same surname as her, named Li Mingyu.

Soon after, I heard that the boys were absent from school too much and dropped out of school automatically. At that time, he was already the highest student, but he did not even graduate.

I never saw him again, I didn't think of him again, but for some reason, when I saw him again, I could remember that face very quickly.

Maybe it's because of his look, his indifference. Others stayed away because of his indifference, but she felt a little close.

I guess my expression isn't much better. The girl thought to herself.

Circling around, she walked back to the street outside her father's house.

Night had come, and a large number of white-collar workers had come out of the office building.

The surrounding restaurants wafted the aroma of warm food.

The girl heard a rumbling sound in her stomach and realized that she was hungry and wanted to go home quickly and have a hot meal.

At this time, she saw the man again, Li Mingyu.

He was coming out of a surrounding building, wearing a black casual suit, still indifferent, but with a bit more mature and chic posture, which made his temperament stand out in the crowd.

The girl's eyes were once again focused on him, unable to take her eyes off.

Just follow his back, turn left, then turn right. The sky darkened again and again, but she seemed to have radar, and she could always quickly find him at the moment when she was about to lose him.

I don't know why, just step by step, wanting to see where he went, and if you look at it again, you can see it again.

She never thought that one day, she would follow behind someone and forget everything. Forgetting where he came from and where he was going, even the unbearable hunger was forgotten at this moment.

Finally, around the corner, he walked into a bar.

The girl followed him in.

The music was noisy in the bar, Li Mingyu found a conspicuous place to sit, and the girl habitually found a corner to sit.

The waiter would not ignore the girl's presence, took out a menu, and placed it in front of the girl, and the girl swept it slightly, all of which surprised her with their price. The waitress looked at the girl in her school uniform suspiciously, and was wondering whether to send her out, when she ordered the cheapest juice drink.

The waiter took back the menu and the crumpled money in her hand for the time being, and did not rush her.

The girl was still staring at Li Mingyu's position.

Soon, a new guest walked into the bar, a young woman.

The woman is well-dressed, with an orange top and a slightly exposed breast, a short black gauze skirt with a hem shaped like a lotus leaf to cover key parts. It could be a female white-collar worker working nearby, or it could be something else, and I couldn't tell the difference.

I saw her walking straight in the direction of Li Mingyu, and when he saw her coming, Li Mingyu smiled rarely.

The two sat facing each other, and soon there was food and wine on the table.

The girl looked at it for a while, and the juice in her mouth tasted more and more bland and tasteless.

Unexpectedly, after he was dropped out of school, after several years, he is now working so well and is very popular with women. Those classmates and teachers back then must have thought of it.

I can't tell what I feel in my heart, I seem to be happy for him, but I don't have any position to be happy for him. It felt like he was suddenly far away from him, even though the distance between them had never been close.

By this time she had felt much more sober, and she remembered where she had come from and where she was going back.

She was ready to get up and get out of here.

But I saw that the waiter just now walked towards her again, "Miss, this is your strawberry tiramisu, and ribeye steak......

Several items of food were laid out in front of her.

The girl looked at the waiter in wonder, and when the waiter saw her expression, she immediately understood her confusion, stretched out her finger and pointed in the direction of Li Mingyu, and said, "That gentleman gave it to you." ”

As she spoke, the girl turned her head suddenly, only to see that Li Mingyu and the lady opposite him had already finished eating, stretched out her hand to put on her coat, and prepared to leave the table. Didn't pay the slightest attention to her direction.

The girl was confused and anxious.

She was anxious to come forward and ask, did Li Mingyu really order food for her, and Li Mingyu saw her?

Seeing this, the waiter hurriedly asked, "Are you leaving?" Do I have to pack these foods? ”

The girl replied casually, "Pack up." ”

At this time, Li Mingyu had already put his arm around the back of the beautiful girl and walked towards the door of the bar.

Just as he was about to walk out of the door, the girl vaguely saw him looking in her direction, only glanced at him, and then turned his face away.

It's still that kind of indifferent look. At this time, the girl was also unsure, she wanted to chase out, she wanted to confirm again.

When she took the lunch box packed by the waiter and chased it out, she saw the man holding the woman next to her and getting into a black car. After the car drove off the road, the girl chased after it for a distance of 100 meters.

However, the car never stopped, and soon left her behind.

The girl realized what she had done. She stood in place, stunned for a long time, and walked back in the direction of home in a trance.

Seeing this, Shen Ran felt a little stunned in his heart.

Although he looks at other people's memories, when he looks at the world around him from the perspective of the person concerned and experiences her experience and life, he will inevitably substitute it into her mood and feelings.

If what is needed to sit in the consultation room and talk to the client is the ability to understand the empathy of the other party, then what Shen Ran is experiencing now is too strong empathy.

Outside the interrogation room, Xiaomei received a phone call, it was an unfamiliar number, and she had not saved it.

When I picked it up, it was Xu Guangyuan.

Xiaomei was a little surprised, and then remembered Lu Cheng's previous explanation.

He told Xiaomei that the content of the interrogation was kept secret and that the content of their conversation would only be known to police insiders. The institute also abides by this principle of secrecy, but they don't know what will happen when Shen Ran uses the instrument and performs his "special function".

He was not at ease, he wanted to disclose part of the information to the collaborator, that is, the research institute, but not everyone had the permission to get this part of the information, he only authorized the disclosure to the project leader, that is, Xu Guangyuan.

He needs someone to monitor it technically to ensure the safety of the instrument.

In this way, he is inside, working with Shen Ran, and Xu Guangyuan is outside, monitoring the data, so that he can be completely assured.

Xiaomei thought of this layer and knew that it should be Lu Cheng's arrangement that played a role.

I just didn't expect it to work so quickly.

"Hello, Professor Xu, is there anything wrong?"

"You're using the connector, I've detected the instrument activation here."

"Well, yes."

"Do you see that the people who use it on the spot are all in normal condition now?"

Xiaomei glanced at the perspective glass, she had been observing the dynamics inside just now: "It's normal, they seem to be asleep, it's been like this, about twenty minutes." ”

"No, there's something wrong with him." Xu Guangyuan's tone was a little anxious. "You may not be able to see it from the outside, Shen Ran, the main controller is him, his data is a little abnormal. His emotional experiences are consistent with those he is connected to, and some are beyond the normal range of mood swings. ”

"Huh?" Xiaomei didn't understand, in the clouds.

"Hey, to put it simply, he is a little too substituted for the role given to him in 'Dream', and his emotional ups and downs are relatively large."

"Could there be anything wrong with that?"

"It shouldn't be a big problem now, but if it's serious, he may forget his original identity, forget the mission goal, and even can't wake up."

"Ah......" As soon as Xu Guangyuan explained this, Xiaomei understood much more. It sounded like a serious problem, and she became nervous, "What should I do then?" ”

"That's an extreme situation, at present, it seems that it is quite stable, Lu Cheng is also there, and the problem should not be very big. Hey, I can only see their physical signs here, and I can't see what they're going through. I'll go over and see later. ”

Xu Guangyuan's permissions are limited, and with the limitations of current technology, the content they experience in the world of consciousness cannot be presented on the computer in the form of images.

In that world where consciousness is connected, the girl's story continues.

The girl didn't catch up with the car.

This made her sober up a lot.

What are you chasing? She asked herself. yes, we need to hurry home.

Slowly, swaying, the girl took the last bus back to her mother's residence, which is her current home.

The mother had fallen asleep, as if she had been drinking, and did not notice that she had returned unusually late today.

She thought about it, and took out most of the money she had asked for from her father today and put it on the table.

Every month, as usual, she had to go to her father to ask for money, eight hundred yuan, not much, this amount was to be given to her mother, and there were two hundred left, and the girl held it in her hand and had no idea.

The tuition fee is not high, but this is not enough.

Unless she asks her mother for more, she can imagine what kind of reaction she will get if she reaches out to her mother to ask for money.

Besides, she didn't want to see her mother get close to the strange man again.

Mom will accept that man, most likely because of money.

He didn't really treat his mother, she could tell.

Worried about this, the girl gradually fell asleep.

The next day, when the girl got up, her mother was in the kitchen making her breakfast.

Usually, she rarely gets up so early.

When I saw my daughter coming over, I happily told her that the money had been collected, but fortunately she begged for the money in time, otherwise it would be too late to pay the rent this month.

Seeing that her mother was happy, the girl also pulled the corners of her mouth and smiled at her.

"You eat early, eat and go to school."

The girl nodded yes.

She didn't know if her mother had forgotten that this was the beginning of a new semester and that she had to pay the tuition, and she still had to wait for her to open her mouth before she took the initiative to discuss with her......

She didn't say anything about it after all.

Walking on the way to school, she fell into that dazed wandering state again. I didn't go to school yesterday, I don't know if the teacher called home, if he did, whether he was looking for his father or his mother, anyway, neither of them came to tell him about it.

She didn't know if she was going to school today, and before she knew it, she had become aimless and idle.

As she walked, she came back to the neighborhood she had walked in the same way as she had walked yesterday.

But she didn't come to her father.

Instead, he walked to the door of an office building and watched from afar.

There was no purpose, just watched, tired of seeing, and sat on a row of stone piers at the door.

She was going to watch for another hour and then go back.

But before an hour arrived, a person came out of the building.

It's the man named Li Mingyu.

When she saw him, the girl realized why she was sitting here.

After understanding it, she didn't dare to let Li Mingyu see her, she couldn't say why, she just didn't dare. She stood up and wanted to leave.

As soon as he got up, a shadow fell over his head.

Someone stood in front of her.

When I looked up, I saw the face. Li Mingyu put his hands in his pockets and stood not far away looking at her.

Her heart was beating so fast that it was the first time she made eye contact with his.

He looked at her coldly, just like yesterday.

After looking at it for a moment, he spoke, "It's the same as yesterday." Did you run away from home? ”

Hearing Li Mingyu's voice, the girl suddenly realized that he was talking to herself.

She shook her head and nodded, not knowing how to describe her state.

He took out his phone, looked at the time, and said, "Go eat." ”

After speaking, he raised his feet and walked forward, took two steps, turned his head to see, the girl was standing next to the stone pier, and said coldly: "I invite you to dinner, are you coming?" ”

The girl trotted over to him and followed him all the way forward.

Instead of going to last night's bar, I found a nearby restaurant. The two found a place to sit facing each other, and Li Mingyu looked at the order and ordered a few home-cooked dishes.

The girl kept her head down, not daring to look at him.

During the banquet, the two remained silent, and those who didn't know probably thought that it was two strangers sharing a table to eat.

"What's your name?" Li Mingyu raised his head, stared at the girl and asked.

The girl didn't know why, when she saw Li Mingyu hugging the beautiful woman last night, the smile on his face was courteous and funny, but when facing her at this time, he was expressionless.

Probably because I'm not a pretty woman, the girl thought.

"My name is Li Lizi."