The ceiling pattern of the Presidential Suite is actually a huge LCD screen, and each guest can freely choose the contents of it when they check in, as if they were choosing a computer desktop for themselves. What Han Le saw now was a huge landscape pattern, with an endless grassland inside, and the biggest center of gravity in his vision was a windmill—with the effect of the surrounding walls, Han Le even had the illusion that he was taking a nap on this grassland instead of in a hotel room.

A gentle knock sounded outside the door, and Su Pei's voice came: "Han Le, are you awake?" ”

Han Le didn't speak, Su Pei called him once half an hour ago, at that time he opened his eyes and didn't have the slightest desire to answer, now half an hour has passed, but he is still like this, he can't tell why, it's like his parents called him to go to school in the morning in high school, he just wanted to lie in bed for no reason.

But he was not 17-year-old Han Le after all, and after a few seconds, he replied somewhat reluctantly: "Just come." ”

The breakfast Su Pei chose today was very ordinary, an egg and bacon sandwich with double sugar and milk coffee, but it was very delicious, breaking Han Le's long-standing contempt for Western food. Han Le came out late, and when he was halfway through eating, Su Pei had already finished eating, took out a delicate small box from the side of the chair, put it on the table and opened it, inside was a row of thick cigars lying neatly, Su Pei picked out one and signaled to Han Le, Han Le shook his head - he can't smoke.

"Try it," Su Pei encouraged, "Actually, I haven't smoked either." ”

Han Le took it and put it aside, at this time Su Pei lit a special fire-starting stick, and gently roasted the cigar with a flame under the cigar in his impression, his action reminded Han Le of his "professional" posture when drinking red wine, and said sarcastically: "It's really not the first time for you to do this, have you learned these before...... It's used to deal with those who have money. ”

Su Pei didn't pay attention to Han Le, just concentrated on the work at hand, as if he was completing a sacred mission, after a while, he finally lit the cigar, let the fragrant smoke drift away for a while, closed his eyes and took a deep breath, about ten seconds apart, before slowly exhaling this breath, and then said, "You're right." ”

Han Le followed his example and lit the cigar, then hesitated to take a puff, and then the whole person coughed violently, and when he sat up straight, his choked tears were about to come out, and he frowned and said, "How can anyone like this thing...... How much does this one cost? ”

"It's not expensive, more than a thousand, it's cheaper than skydiving," Su Pei shook his head slightly, as if he was enjoying it, and seemed to be laughing at Han Le for not having this life, "Don't inhale it in your lungs...... Just hold it. ”

"How do you want to kill it?"

"If you don't smoke it, you'll destroy it," Su Pei paused, then stretched out his hand and said, "Give it to me." ”

Han Le thought that he was going to change the smoke, but he was wrong, Su Pei didn't have the heart to save him money now, after taking the cigar, Su Pei put it on the table and lit it, looked at the slowly rising smoke and sighed softly: "I never dreamed that one day I would be able to smoke a cigar and watch a ......"

Han Le didn't speak, just stuffed the remaining sandwiches into his stomach one by one, and after eating, he glanced at his phone: "We've lived here for more than half a month, aren't you tired of it?"

"I'm not like you, I won't let me live for the rest of my life," Su Pei said, "What, do you think you've enjoyed enough?" ”

Han Le didn't know, he wasn't sure, this was the same as when he suddenly chose to give up when he was most enthusiastic about skydiving a few days ago...... It seems that there is such a switch in his head, when this switch is on, everything is normal, the sky is very blue, the sun is warm, and he feels happy when he walks, but suddenly for a moment, there is no external reason, just because this switch is turned off, everything becomes different, and the original colorful world suddenly becomes black and white.

10 years ago, oh, strictly 45 years ago, Han Le thought that he would like to play computer games for the rest of his life, but after 10 years, he found that it was an illusion, more than 20 days ago, he thought that he would like hibernation, he would like the future world, but subjectively it was just a time to sleep, he found that it was still an illusion, half a month ago, the same illusion appeared again in extreme sports, this time he remained vigilant, careful temptation - and now, the temptation has a result.

Han Le used to think that people's hobbies and personalities are not easy to change, and even if they change, it will be a subtle and long process, but now he feels that all this is very wrong, what is like and what is not like - sometimes there is no strict and clear distinction between the two, Han Le prefers to believe that in fact, this is the result of the reaction of chemicals in the brain, this process is chaotic, and people's preferences are just an external manifestation of this chaotic process.

There is often a saying on the Internet that when God closes a door for people, he will definitely open a window...... This is naturally self-comforting, but Han Le has always felt that there are so many windows in the world, even if God is always there to close for you, the personal world will not fall into darkness. But now he is beginning to realize that it is not impossible for God to do this, and now he is almost in a situation where the original windows are closed one by one, but he does not have the courage to open the others.

There are fewer hobbies one by one, people lack motivation, lack of motivation to do anything, there will always be a sense of emptiness and exhaustion, always feel powerless, and they are unwilling to sleep at night, not because of insomnia, but simply because they don't want to end the day like this...... Han Le didn't know if his sporadic thoughts were depression or hypocrisy that he was used to living comfortably, but of course he preferred to admit that it was the former.

"How many days do we have left?" Han Le looked at Su Pei who was swallowing clouds and spitting out fog, and the previous contempt for him disappeared - how comfortable it was to live like him, to be able to think about nothing and concentrate on enjoying himself, if he could do it, Han Le was even willing to give Su Pei all the money and exchange it with him for such a "normal" brain.

"Five or six days...... Qiao Yiyu said that with us, you can also stay for a while longer. ”

"How long do you want to stay?"

"I don't care...... It's only five or six days. ”

Five or six days, what a simple number, but why does Han Le think it's so long. But he still has to say, "What, you don't want to enjoy more?" ”

"Yes," Su Pei replied, "but I would like to see it in the future, maybe there will be more enjoyment and higher class at that time?" ”

You're so greedy...... Han Le commented on Su Pei in his heart, but he had to admit that this was also the idea he had before, but this idea has now become an illusion, and all Han Le has about the future is fear - if every day in the future is more boring than now, then what is the difference between living and dying.

……

In the past, when he was in college, Han Le had a set of methods to face long-term depression, in addition to deliberately looking for some stimulation before, going out for a casual walk, and distracting his mind is also a common means, although the weather is very hot now, Han Le's heart is full of resistance when he thinks of going out, but he still forces himself to do it - Han Le feels that his current self is like a robot, he knows that his mind, his body, and every part of his body are corroding with the passage of time, and he can't watch this process happen, Although he knew that going for a walk wouldn't solve the problem, it was better than staying the same.

The hotel has a car pick-up service, but Han Le didn't want to take a car, but found a bicycle, it was hotter outside than Han Le imagined, but just after riding out for a few minutes, the sweat came out and was sticky on his body, which made Han Le have the urge to go back, but when he thought of Su Pei's expression that he might face after going back, Han Le still dispelled this idea.

Even though this is 2048, there are still few things on the street that can catch Han Le's attention, and the general outline of the city is not out of memory, but it is more beautiful and novel in design, supermarkets, restaurants, ...... Maybe in another 500 years, the society he woke up to see was in the current state, Han Le comforted his loss.

In Han Le's view, the level of computer popularity in this era is almost the same as the bricks for building a house, and the number of computers owned by a family may be equivalent to the number of small Internet cafes in Han Le's junior high school days - under such a technical background, the Internet café can still hold on, I have to say that it is much beyond Han Le's expectations.

When he thought about it, Han Le habitually walked inside, and while walking, he habitually took out his wallet, ready to look for his ID card - but soon he found that it was not necessary, in this era, silver credit cards and ID cards are interrelated, and the shopkeeper just let him swipe the card and let him go.

The scale of the Internet café is very large, and as far as the eye can see, all you can see is a whole screen, but it is not arranged in a straight line like most Internet cafes that Han Le has seen, but in a small circle one by one, on the way to find his seat, Han Le looked at the content on the screen by the way, and several of them knew that they were games at a glance, and they were played on the Internet, and a few of them he thought were movies - but after looking carefully, he found that they were also games. Unlike the impression that everyone in an Internet café is staring at the screen, many people in this era are pointing at the screen quickly, just like the person who signs on the TV station.

When he sat down, Han Le was slightly surprised to find that the women sitting on both sides were about the same age, and he glanced at it secretly, it seemed to be good, and the one on the left was slightly younger, looking about the same age as Qiao Yiyu's surface, and was playing a game with an ancient background, and the character in the interface looked like an archer, and this female player had to pull the bow on the screen with her hand again and again - in Han Le's opinion, this degree of simulation was almost incredible. The one on the right is about the same age as Han Le, relatively quiet, Han Le looked at it a few times when he was looking for the boot button, it should be a movie - the two old men in the play are saying lines like this: "I want us to be born in the 80s......"

After looking for a long time, Han Le found that the computer here was not switched on - just take the credit card and swipe it, and the machine will automatically open, which is different from the personal computer at home, there is no boot interface yet, it is directly the use interface, and after looking up and down, Han Le probably understands a little - the current Internet café no longer seems to use the personal computer as the main body, but uses a large server for the entire Internet café to use together, and everyone who goes online is just a piece of one of the resources - in a sense, This approach is somewhat akin to the early days of computers, in that they had more computing resources than a single person's task, which would undoubtedly result in cost savings.

Han Le's four years of college were almost spent in Internet cafes, but now it's like the first time he came, he has a feeling of not knowing what to do, and the computer's operation interface is not like home, Qiao Yiyu specially prepared the kind of "retro" panel for him, the operation interface he saw was three-dimensional, and he needed to use two hands to operate in the air - the whole operation process is somewhat similar to the upgraded version of a touchscreen mobile phone, but it is more flexible and redundant, and it is difficult for people like Han Le to master without operating experience.

But it's still okay to learn little by little and use it slowly, but after using it for a while, Han Le felt some of the sequelae of this operation - his two arms were a little sore, and his head was a little dizzy, because the sense of space required by the three-dimensional interface was really strong. This made him subconsciously remember that when he was in high school, his parents watched him play CS, and they said that the screen turned like this, and they didn't faint people to death - with a blink of an eye, it was his turn to faint.

What impresses Han Le the most is that the intelligence of this operating system is very high, no matter what time it is, as long as you write a few keywords on the screen, you can switch to another program at any time, such as you can enter text at any time when watching a movie, and then jump to a web page, you can also instantly switch to a specific clip of a movie when playing a game, the most amazing thing is that there is almost no sign of pause in this process, which is the so-called card.

According to the information searched on the Internet, Han Le found a nostalgic movie that reflects the life of people in the 10s, it is said that this movie is very famous, the movie is of course a time to look at history and the past from the perspective of people in this time, the protagonist is a post-10, he looks at the life of this era from the perspective of a child, at home, watching them play games on the computer all day long, for a device in the game, in order to fight with each other for Internet speed, at school, the protagonist's classmates took out their mobile phones and even computers as soon as they arrived at class...... When you reach adulthood, all the colleagues in the company are like this, even the girlfriend he likes, the first thing you say after meeting is what game you are playing, and in the end the protagonist has to compromise and become a member of this lifestyle.

The film is nearly two hours long, and the director uses the mouth of the protagonist to make a monologue at the end of the film: "I always thought I lived on Earth, and now I know that I actually live in a computer, and although I don't like it, I have no choice." My best friends, my lovers, my loved ones, they all chose this place, and even my work is aimed at moving real things into virtual ......"

In fact, similar arguments have not been mentioned many in the era of Han Le, what kind of game opportunities are addictive, and the Internet is addictive, but these views have been scoffed at...... What is shown in the film is only a kind of confusion and thinking, and there is no strong opposition. Of course, Han Le also thought the same way in the past, thinking that this was social progress, but this movie made Han Le see the consequences of this progress - that is, the last most impressive long shot in the film, the camera passed through the protagonist's room, blurring the entire building, and only let everyone who lived inside, computers, and network cables appear, in such a specific lens language, everyone seems to have become a prey in this network network, trapped in the net and unable to move, And most people's labor is dedicated to strengthening this net.

Han Le doesn't particularly care about the social phenomena mentioned in the film, because he is simply a passerby, and it doesn't make sense to care about it, he just thinks that the movie is good, which is the most important thing for him now, so after watching one, Han Le can't wait to find a second one - for him, there is nothing more meaningful than finding something that he can devote himself to.

Movies are not only a kind of enjoyment, but most importantly, in the process of enjoying them, Han Le is also equivalent to indirectly contacting the history that has not been experienced in the past few decades. As the old saying goes, reading thousands of books and traveling thousands of miles, this no longer works in the information age, because no matter how much you go, you may not be able to get information as emotionally as watching a movie.

In the enjoyment, time flies, I don't know when, the two women next to Han Le have already changed, and when I go to the window to look outside, it is already bright - whether it is in the sky or on the ground, unconsciously, it is already the second half of the night. Han Le was thinking about whether to go back to the hotel to see, when the mobile phone happened to vibrate in his pocket, he picked it up and looked at it, and subconsciously smiled, it was Qiao Yiyu.

"Han Le, where are you now?" The voice on the other end of the phone sounded a little anxious.

Han Le was a little nervous by this tone, he thought it was hibernation: "I'm in an Internet café, what's wrong, find me something?" ”

"It's nothing," Qiao Yiyu said this, but Han Le could clearly hear her gasp, "Do you want me to pick you up?" ”

"No, this Internet café is next to the hotel, I'll walk a few steps away, why are you so nervous, you're afraid that I'll run away with money."

Qiao Yiyu didn't have the heart to joke with him: "Han Le, you are waiting for me there, I'll pick you up...... Don't do anything stupid. ”

Don't do stupid things? What do you mean? Han Le, who put down the phone, was a little inexplicable.