(Foreword)

Cold ice can't break the water, and dead wood can meet spring again.

(Text)

Everyone began to talk about the usual trivial matters and a year's hard work, and Cui Li and I already felt a little full after a binge meal and put down our chopsticks.

"Cheng Yin, this dish is really delicious, I have never eaten such a delicious dish." Cui Li exclaimed.

"It's just that you're hungry, but you usually eat a lot, and I guess you joined the physics football team just to get the year-round meal card after winning the school sports meeting, right?" I quipped.

"You can think of this, it's really like this, year-round meal card! You're not impressed? Cui Li asked rhetorically.

"Thanks, I'm not interested." After I finished speaking, I remembered that since I was also a substitute to participate in the school football game, I also got a year-round meal card...

Most of the townspeople had eaten enough and started chatting, and the children left their seats early to play around. A calm town is as simple as that. If it weren't for the fact that I didn't want to solve the strange array as soon as possible, I would have liked to live in a town like this for a little longer.

"Cheng Yin, why don't you speak?" Cui Li took the chopsticks and shook them in front of me.

"Ahh Nothing, just a little distracted. I replied.

Chopsticks... I looked at the chopsticks in Cui Li's hand and suddenly realized something. If we can indeed eat the dishes on the table, then this pair of chopsticks must not be a holographic projection image, I picked up the chopsticks that I just put down, and sure enough, this texture is real, it can indeed be felt, if my guess is correct, I roughly know the principle of this virtual world. First of all, when we entered our different light houses, it was indeed empty, and then we entered the strange array, the surrounding scenery is a virtual holographic projection, the trees on the side of the road, the blades in the hands, the walls and pavilions are all like this, but just when I understand that this world is virtual, but I drank herbal tea in the tea stall, which has to make me wonder, what kind of world are we in, until now I understand that we are in the virtual world, this is an indisputable fact. But just like the chair we sit on, the dishes in front of us, and even the chopsticks in our hands are real, all of this should be related to the structure of the light house we are in, the ground we are stepping on is constantly changing according to our movements, and the tables and chairs in front of us must rise from the floor.

I remember that this principle was used in European castles in the past, and when the nobles were dining, they were often disturbed by the servants who delivered the food, so the craftsmen made a large machine with elaborate design, using gears and ties, etc., and there was a huge machine under the dining room, which was connected to the kitchen. There is a button next to the plate on the dining room table, just when the nobles eat, they only need to press the button next to the plate, and the kitchen bell will remember, the chef will know what position should be placed on the prepared dishes according to different bells, and then turn on the mechanism, the dishes will be automatically transmitted to the restaurant, and the dishes will slowly rise from the position of the plate next to the button just now, and when the nobles finish their meal, they only need to press the button next to the plate, and the chef will start the mechanism again, and the empty plate will automatically return to the kitchen.

I think the scene in front of us should be roughly the same, and I stood up.

"Cheng Yin, what's wrong with you?" Cui Li asked inexplicably.

I didn't answer, just walked to the table farther away, picked up a pair of chopsticks from the table, and walked back to the seat, Cui Li still looked at my inexplicable behavior in surprise, I took the chopsticks to pick up the vegetables on the plate, but something strange happened, the dishes that could have been easily picked up can't be clamped now.

"What's going on? Didn't we still have something to eat just now? Cui Li stared at the chopsticks in my hand with wide eyes. Could it be that the dishes have disappeared? ”

"This plate of vegetables is not gone, but the chopsticks in my hand are not real." When I picked up the chopsticks, I realized that the chopsticks didn't really exist, and I didn't feel anything in my hands, as if I was holding air. Obviously, only what is in front of us is real.

Cui Li nodded as if he didn't understand.

The stars of the night shone on us, the feast was almost over, the old man had already retired from the table, and the people at the table had also left to rest, and in the blink of an eye, there were only a few loose people left at the long wooden table.

Cui Li and I were about to get up and leave, when the old man next to him also stood up and said, "Two, if it's dark today, why don't you spend the night in the old man's mansion?"

"Old man, how dare you disturb your mansion, let's leave quickly." I refused.

"Old man, there are only a pair of children in the house, how can you bother, isn't it that the young man can't look down on the old man's mansion?" Obviously, the old man said this on purpose.

"Okay, that's disrespectful, just bother." I really can't say that the old man is so good, but since the old man is so good, we can only accept it gladly.

"Very good!! Very good!! The two came with the old man, and the old man's mansion was not far in front. The old man looked very happy.

Cui Li and I came to his mansion under the leadership of the old man, this look still made us startled, I didn't expect this old man to dress ordinarily, but this mansion is not ordinary luxury, the door of the mansion is very wide, the old man approached the door, knocked lightly on it a few times, the door suddenly opened, from inside suddenly appeared a doorman, pushed the door open a gap, a look did not wake up, arrogantly said: "Who is visiting?" The lord and son are not at home, so please be early tomorrow. "I was about to close the door.

"You doorman, you are used to being casual on weekdays, and you don't open the door quickly when you see the old man!" The old man stepped forward and shouted, as if to wake up the doorman, he rubbed his eyes, looked at them fixedly, and hurriedly opened the door of the mansion.

"Sir, you're back." The doorman saw the old man's arrogance just now, and suddenly put it away.

Master? It seems that this old man is by no means an ordinary person, it must not be simple to have such a mansion in such an ordinary town, he must be a high-ranking official, or a businessman. In short, it is not simple, and the mansion you live in must be extraordinary.

"Cheng Yin, do we really want to go in?" Cui Li asked hesitantly.

"If it comes, it will be safe, so we might as well see if there is any mystery in this." looked at the huge mansion and said.

(End of chapter)