It's only been less than May, it's already hot, the air seems to be boiling, and the skin that has just left the air conditioner comes into contact with one, and it feels hot and hot. Zhang Yuan felt like Sun Xing who was crossing the Flame Mountain, and under the urging of the scorching sun, he kept speeding up the alternation of his two legs. Occasionally, when passing by a few open shops, Zhang Yuan always unconsciously lingered to enjoy the coolness blowing from them.

"It's terrible to go out in this damn weather!" While crossing a long, treeless road, Zhang Yuan stomped his feet and complained, and took out his mobile phone again to confirm his location - and then looked at the barely visible gate of the community at the end of the field of vision, fortunately, it was almost there!

Entering the community felt much better, there were more than ten meters of tall trees on both sides of the road, and the thick shade created a quite comfortable environment for pedestrians, which also slowed down Zhang Yuan's pace slightly, and when he passed by several of them, Zhang Yuan looked at the labels on these trees - judging from the content of the labels, these trees seemed to be older than him.

Walking along the road, I soon saw a community park, where many old men and old ladies were chatting, and a group of children were playing shooting games in game suits, they were holding toy rifles in their hands, using the bodies of their ancestors as cover, shooting at each other, and the simulated screams of "ah" and "ah" when the game clothes were hit made these bear children laugh.

"You're Dead"

"If you're dead, you can't move"

"Playing Tricks"

"17, 17." Every time he passes by a building, Zhang Yuan will read the number again, and then carefully look at the building's building plate, but this is not easy to do - this is an old residential area, and the information of these buildings cannot be found on the mobile phone, and most of the building signs are also rusty, and the handwriting on them is even more mottled, and several of the buildings can't even see the sign, Zhang Yuan has to calculate the approximate location of his destination according to the naming order of the building.

"I guess this is it." Looking back at the location of Building 15, Zhang Yuan looked at the building in front of him and thought, the building sign of this building is empty, and there are a few electric cars parked in the parking lot downstairs.

The electronic communication system on the door was broken, Zhang Yuan pressed all the floors without responding, and finally he gently pushed the door and found that it had been pushed open - he couldn't help but smile bitterly, he should have thought of it a long time ago. The elevator is not much better, it is the oldest kind of box-box elevator, and it also has floor buttons in it, and it may make a little noise when it goes up - it sounds a little scary.

The door number of room 302 is the same fate as the number of 17 buildings, they have all disappeared, but fortunately, the doors of 301, 303, and 304 are all open, and he can still use the elimination method to find them. After determining that this was the destination of his trip, Zhang Yuan made a phone call first.

"Mr. Gu, I am Zhang Yuan, who contacted you the day before yesterday, and I am at your door now."

"Then you wait, I'm still in the park, so I'll come over ......"

During the few minutes of waiting, Zhang Yuan paced back and forth in the space from the elevator to the doors of several houses, and the walls of this small area were full of graffiti and graffiti paintings, and at a glance he knew that the children of these families had done it, with grimaces, Merry Christmas, and some old advertising posters, similar to what he had just seen in the elevator. At the opposite door of room 301, Zhang Yuan also saw many characters showing love, and the object of love was a person named Qiao Yiyu, but unfortunately he didn't post a photo to look at it. But the content is not technical, and the previous part is the same, such as "Qiao Yiyu, I will always be here for you" and "Love you until my life forever" and so on...... Perhaps because of the time, the handwriting is a little blurry, and there is a tendency to blend in with the mold on the wall.

The elevator door opened at this time, and a tall old man walked out, and when he saw him, he greeted: "Call me early, and I'll come with you by the way......"

As he spoke, the old man opened the door for him neatly, and confirmed, "You live alone, right?" ”

"Yes."

"Don't have a girlfriend?"

"Nope." Zhang Yuan was a little embarrassed.

"It's just coming to Shenhai." The old man guessed.

"Yes."

"It's not easy to find a house in Shenhai now," the old man began to chatter, "There are many people who have contacted me, and the price is higher than yours, but I just didn't agree, I just can't get used to it...... Holding the subsistence allowance and not going to work all day, many young people are now ......"

Zhang Yuan had heard enough of the old man's words on various occasions, but for the sake of the house, he still tried his best to adapt, and nodded from time to time to show that he was listening carefully.

"By the way, you mentioned before, you seem to be in the power industry?"

"No," Zhang Yuan explained, "our company develops batteries. "The power industry, Zhang Yuan thought.

The condition of the house is good, although it looks broken on the outside, but the decoration inside is good, and the electrical appliances are also complete, especially to Zhang Yuan's surprise, in the old man's study, he also saw a curved LCD wall that has just been launched not long ago, specially used to watch movies and play large games - it seems that this Gu Lao is also very good at enjoying life, but the hand mark (also known as the mouse) on the side looks a little funny, this abrupt feeling is like seeing a car steering wheel in the cockpit of an airplane.

"My rent is paid once a month, if you feel uncomfortable, you can leave at any time," after Zhang Yuan expressed his willingness to stay, the old man said the ugly words in front, "If I think you are too troublesome, I will give you a month to move...... I won't sign the contract with you, just say it verbally, and if it doesn't work, you will say it. ”

"Okay." Zhang Yuan nodded.

"Well, here's the door key, here's the room...... You can usually use the screen in the study, close the door when you go to the toilet, hang up in the shower, and nothing else, oh, and, the garbage must not be the next day! ……”

After the old man left, Zhang Yuan probably tidied up his room, the luggage was still on the way, it was estimated that it would take a few more hours to arrive, Zhang Yuan originally wanted to take advantage of this time to play games, or check the information of the company that had just applied for a successful job, but just turned on the phone and gave up this practice - he forgot to ask the router password.

In fact, it's good to be bored occasionally, after walking around the room twice, Zhang Yuan thought, in the old man's study, he found a lot of very interesting things, a mobile phone like a brick decades ago, many physical chess games, paper books, and even some calligraphy brushes - Zhang Yuan remembered that he was also asked by his parents to practice when he was a child, but instead of writing on paper, he used an imitation brush to face the computer screen.

After taking two turns around the room, Zhang Yuan planned to go out and familiarize himself with the surrounding environment. The door still uses an old-fashioned mechanical key, and Zhang Yuan is still a little unaccustomed to using it, so he consciously practiced a few more times when he opened and closed the door. After making sure that he had mastered how to use it, Zhang Yuan turned around and found that the door to 301 was open, and a person about his age was staring at him, his eyes looked a little dull, and this abnormal look made him feel a little hairy in his heart. But I still said hello to him: "I just moved here." ”

The other party didn't answer, just looked at him in a daze, which made Zhang Yuan, who was waiting for the elevator, feel even more uncomfortable, and subconsciously looked forward to the elevator arriving soon.

At this time, the other party looked away from him, and turned back to the graffiti in the corridor he had seen just now, his curiosity seemed to be heavier than his own, not only looking, but also stretched out a hand to touch the wall slowly, at the same time, his face also showed a fascinated expression, Zhang Yuan secretly glanced at the stairs, anyway, it was only the third floor, he wondered if it was safer to go down the stairs.

"Ding." There was a sound in the elevator, and when it arrived, Zhang Yuan couldn't wait to walk in, and was about to press the close button, but the person was faster, he had just found where the close button was, and the other party had already walked in.

"I-also-is-live-this-in-the-is-this-in-the-is-in-the-is-I--I--I ”

"You—good," the other replied, then pointed at himself, "Han-Le." ”

"Hang Le." Zhang Yuan repeated it in the other party's tone.

"Han."

"Han Le." In between words, the elevator arrived, "Are you ready to go out?" Zhang Yuan was a little worried about whether the other party had intellectual problems, and said with concern.

"Yes," the other nodded, "whatever—look—look." ”

"Where's your family?" Zhang Yuan asked, "Are you with them?" ”

"Nobody."

"Are you home alone?"

The other shook his head.

Zhang Yuan hesitated: "Shall I send you home?" ”

"No—no." As he spoke, the man walked out of the door step by step, and like his voice, his steps stopped step by step, as if he had begun to walk for the first time.

Zhang Yuan was afraid that something would happen to him, so he followed him at a distance from him, this person walked very slowly, and stopped and stopped, and his vision was always wandering, it was easy to be attracted by the things around him, the game clothes on the child, the mobile phone in the hands of pedestrians, and the cars passing by...... Every time he saw one of these things, his attention would follow until it disappeared from his field of vision, and this behavior also deepened Zhang Yuan's judgment that this person must have some birth defect in his intelligence, and his family let him out of it for a while.

When passing by an old man, he asked the other party, "Uncle, do you know this person?" ”

The old man glanced at it and shook his head again: "I haven't seen it." ”

When I followed this person's footsteps to the park, I happened to meet Uncle Gu who I had just met, and I thought that this matter could finally be solved. But Uncle Gu turned his head and looked at this person who called himself Han Le seriously for a long time, and finally shook his head: "I've never seen this person." ”

"He lives in 301, and I see him coming out of it." Zhang Yuan said again.

"Maybe I just moved in," the old man said disapprovingly, and then emphasized, "301 has always been a vacant room...... Don't follow him all the time, just call the police. ”

Zhang Yuan smiled, but he didn't take the old man's suggestion, anyway, he was idle, so he just followed, this person named Han Le didn't seem to show any violence so far, all he had to do was to approach him, and finally persuade him to go home.

After waiting for his target to sit down on a bench in the park, he cautiously walked over and sat down on a rock not far away, greeting the man who was staring at a tree tag in a daze: "Han Le." ”

"Zhang-Yuan." He still remembered his own name, and he didn't seem stupid.

"What are you looking at?"

Han Le pointed to the tree that he was looking at just now, and then asked him in turn, "How old are you?" ”

"Twenty-eight, what about you?"

Han Le lowered his head, his eyes wandering in front of his heels, but finally shook his head.

At this time, a strange mobile phone ringtone suddenly sounded, Zhang Yuan knew that it was not his own, and the source of the sound should be Han Le, sure enough, Han Le reacted a little sluggishly, took the mobile phone out of his clothes pocket, stared at the interface for a long time, and then pressed it twice with some hesitation, and then talked to the person on the other side of the phone.

Judging from the voice, the person talking to him should be a woman, probably his family, and the person named Han Le on the phone almost didn't speak, just responded to the other party with words like um, okay.

After hanging up the phone, the other party glanced at Zhang Yuan with some confusion, as if asking why he was still here, Zhang Yuan was surprised by this kind of look - this kind of look didn't seem to come from the eyes of a low-intelligence person, but he still responded to this question: "Aren't you going home?" ”

Han Le shook his head.

"If you don't go home, your family will be in a hurry." Zhang Yuan said again.

Hearing this, a smile appeared on the corner of Han Le's mouth, and before Zhang Yuan understood what this smile meant, Han Le said, "I just want to be alone, stay for a while." ”

"It turns out that you are not ......" Zhang Yuan stared at Han Le, who suddenly became much more fluent in speech, and stopped in time when he realized that the last two words were not suitable to say, "I'm sorry, a misunderstanding." ”

"It's okay," Han Le shook his head, "Or let's talk, you don't hate me, if you speak slowly." ”

……

Han Le has been awake for 12 hours, and he still remembers that when he saw Qiao Yiyu, he stammered and asked her what was wrong, was there something wrong with hibernation, and then Qiao Yiyu told him that no, she just woke him up halfway, and it was now 2048, a full 35 years before he hibernated.

"Although you are very clever and have set the time of the electronic clock, I only need to open the window to know if what you say is true or false." Han Le still remembered that he was struggling to say these words at the time, and the appearance of opening the window, although he felt something strange on his body at that time, Han Le didn't believe that the 35 years in Qiao Yiyu's mouth were the truth at all, but just like the previous two times Qiao Yiyu hit him with facts. This time he opened the window and fell to the ground in horror by the fact that he saw it - there was no familiar street outside the window, and the direction facing the window was all obscured by a whole row of super high-rise buildings that obscured half of the sky, and the residential buildings were like ants crawling under the feet of giants in front of these architectural giants.

"That's the financial center of the country right now." After calming down, Qiao Yiyu slowly explained to him, "I started building it six years ago, and it has just been put into use for more than two years. ”

But at that time, Han Le's head was roaring, as if countless planes were taking off inside at the same time, and he couldn't hear what Qiao Yiyu was saying at all. After a while, he suddenly realized that something was wrong, and asked Qiao Yiyu eagerly: "Then you, how are you ...... Nothing has changed at all? ”

Qiao Yiyu did not answer this question directly, but said to him: "You haven't changed much. ”

Hearing this, Han Le quickly rushed into the bathroom, and all the switch positions in his memory disappeared, replaced by an auto-sensing light, but the familiar face in the mirror was still exactly the same, except for a slightly longer beard.

Han Le returned to his room, just like in the bathroom, except for a table and a wardrobe, most of the other facilities in the room had been changed, and it turned out that his computer was placed in a small locker at the bottom of the wardrobe, Han Le tried to open it, but he couldn't do it anymore - almost all the components on the motherboard were aging and not decent. The computer that Xie Yongqing left him was also there, and he hadn't even opened it a few times, but the result was the same.

"You should be careful, there is a slow recovery period for body functions after hibernation, and it is not suitable to do too strenuous exercise, and don't use your brain too much." Qiao Yiyu reminded him on the side.

The extremely irregular beating of his heart was already reminding him, but Han Le turned a deaf ear, and opened Qiao Yiyu's mobile phone like a demon, watching the news and checking history...... More than an hour later, Han Le, who had difficulty accepting the facts, sat in the living room and didn't say a word.

There are not many things that can be saved, including an invalid ID card, and a few bank cards that can still be used, Qiao Yiyu still has something to do in the afternoon, so he left Han Le a mobile phone and asked him to contact her if he has anything.

And then...... Han Le looked at the person in front of him, this peer who almost regarded himself as mentally handicapped, a young man named Zhang Yuan, he was born in 2020, the seventh year after his hibernation - but Han Le didn't feel this year at all, just like he was looking at 2048 on his phone now, he felt that it was a string of meaningless numbers, and the strong sense of unreality made Han Le feel unacceptable now - originally before hibernation, he thought that he would be very excited when he woke up.

The only thing that can make this sense of unreality fade is to keep reading the news, looking up what you know, the photos of many jade celebrities who are now aging, the obituaries of several classmates hanging in the QQ classmate group (oh my God, this software is still alive), the email address, those countless old letters, and the long list of numbers that made Han Le stunned in a bank card left by Qiao Yiyu.