Chapter 20: What About My Body?
When Bai Xiaoyi woke up from the bed, he felt that he was sleepwalking, back to when he was a child, he was still a little boy, he looked innocent and weak, his body was light and fluttering, his heart had never been so comfortable, and there was still the fragrance of tea between his lips and teeth.
"Boy, you're not sleepwalking, good Tieguanyin, drink a glass for two hours." An old man with white hair and a long beard sat cross-legged at the table, brewing another pot of tea.
"What? Two hours? Bai Xiaoyi was taken aback, his eyes were wide open, his mouth was wide open, and the teacup in his hand was so frightened that he didn't hold it firmly and fell on the table, and it took several circles to stand firm.
"Your body will have to pay me at least a week." The old man took a sip of the teacup and handed Bai Xiaoyi a bronze mirror, "Take a look for yourself, I'm sure you'll like it." ”
"Your old man still looks quite kind, why is your heart so buttoned." Bai Xiaoyi looked at the old man from head to toe. The old man was dressed simply, his hair and beard were all white, but he was in good spirits, with a childish appearance, only his left hand had been modified into a mechanical arm, and nothing else had been modified. The configuration of the hut was very simple, a table, three chairs, a cupboard, a bed, and all kinds of trinkets hung on the wall, although simple, but not the slightest shabby.
Bai Xiaoyi took the bronze mirror, and ran outside through the window lattice, the hut should have been built on the mountainside, and there was a small stream flowing next to it, and the two sides of the stream were full of flowers and plants, and the trees were verdant and verdant.
"This little cabin is so beautiful, and there are still small cabins. Old man, have you applied for cosmic cultural heritage for this cabin? If not, you can apply for one, and I think it will definitely make the list. Bai Xiaoyi withdrew his gaze from the window and re-cast it on the bronze ancient mirror in his hand.
"Mom, who is this? Hell yes! Bai Xiaoyi yelled, "Is this a demon mirror?" The bronze mirror in his hand immediately fell to the ground, and the whole person almost fainted with fright.
"Oh, I've been in a daze for two days and two nights, and I've just woken up and fainted, and you always like to joke." Gong Han walked in from outside and began to complain.
Gong Han re-moved his mechanical left arm that he had just connected, and he moved very freely, squatting down and carrying the new version of Bai Xiaoyi to the bed.
The current Bai Xiaoyi is the appearance of a critically ill little boy, with a pale face, a thin physique, and a life span of seven days.
"Are you awake?" Bai Xiaoyi woke up again, it was already evening, and only Gong Han was sitting at the table drinking tea alone.
"Why don't you wake me up?" Bai Xiaoyi looked at his new body, feeling very uncomfortable, his excessively fair skin faintly revealed the meaning of lesions, and he was thin and weak, from the original more than 200 catties to the current appearance of a little boy of less than 65 catties, from the original greasy youth to a thin "monkey".
"You just got a new body, you shouldn't be stimulated too much, you need to rest well in the past two days, otherwise you will be delirious." Gong Han said unhurriedly, picked up the teacup and drank it all. If it weren't for seeing half a piece of tea floating in the teacup, Bai Xiaoyi would have thought that Gong Han was drinking.
Bai Xiaoyi's heartbeat accelerated more and more, his breathing was short, his nerves were tense, his muscles trembled, and his hair glands contracted. This feeling can only be found in the encyclopedia of the universe, Bai Xiaoyi still vaguely remembers that when he used to read e-books, the book defined "nervous" like this:
Tension is the strengthening of the body's mental and physical response to external events. good changes, such as getting married, having children; Bad things like divorce and unemployment, can make people nervous over time. The level of stress is often proportional to the size of life changes. Nervousness makes people sleep restlessly, unable to think and concentrate, headaches, palpitations, abdominal and back pain, fatigue. Ordinary tension is temporary. Sudden tension is a sense of fear.
Bai Xiaoyi vaguely remembered that before he became a reformer, he was deeply "nervous" because he saw his mother being put into a big box by everyone, then pushed into a small black room, and finally turned into "cornmeal" by his father with "magic". After becoming a transformed person, Bai Xiaoyi had no chance to experience this special feeling, his heart rate and blood flow rate were always a fixed value, and after a long time, the feeling called "nervousness" was forgotten.
But it's a bad feeling, it's better to forget it.
"I seem to have been shot when I rescued you at the arsenal yesterday......" Bai Xiaoyi twisted the skin on his face vigorously with his unmodified biological hand, still unable to determine if he was dreaming.
In fact, this practice is nothing more than the subconscious that human beings have retained in evolution. Since Bai Xiaoyi became a transformed person, he has rarely "taken the initiative" to dream, except for the last time when he inexplicably dreamed that he and his father were standing on the cliff, he has not "taken the initiative" to dream for seven years. Every dream is set by Bai Xiaoyi for himself before going to bed, hot-blooded, fantasy, and game monsters...... are all Bai Xiaoyi's favorite dreams.
"It's the day before yesterday, you were beaten into a sieve the day before yesterday, if we hadn't arrived earlier, you would have been having a candlelight dinner with Hades right now." Gong Han laughed as he spoke. There were only Gong Han and Bai Xiaoyi in the house, and the original old man was gone.
"Then I......... Is it Bai Xiaoyi? Bai Xiaoyi picked up the mirror next to him again, and saw that his appearance was that of a little boy, but he had all the memories of Bai Xiaoyi in his consciousness, and he still didn't understand whether he was really Bai Xiaoyi.
"I seem to be in the arsenal yesterday......" Bai Xiaoyi rubbed his eyes, trying to remember everything in the past.
"It was the day before yesterday!" Gong Han once again corrected Bai Xiaoyi's mistakes.
Bai Xiaoyi got up from the bed, sat on the edge of the bed, and knocked his head a few times with his hand, unable to remember for a while.
"You kid had too much fun the day before yesterday, I don't know if I can take it when I see it, it's not enough to blow up King Qin's arsenal, and you actually knocked down all the patrol aircraft of the crew and combat police, I can't see it, you kid has a kind." Gong Han talked about the breakthrough of the arsenal the day before yesterday with great interest, "I was a hero at a critical time, and I had a fight back then." ”
"King Qin's munitions factory was blown up by you, and the crew police who arrived later beat you all over the body, and they were all large-caliber wounds. Longzai and I returned along the road, risking our lives to bring back your body, but luckily there was still a breath of air. Gong Han lit a cigarette and continued, "But your body is completely rotten, and we have replaced you with a new body." ”
"I assaulted the police?" Bai Xiaoyi trembled, "I've become a wanted criminal?" Bai Xiaoyi covered his painful expression with his hands, unable to accept this fact.
"The body you're occupying now is a boy who just died." Gong Han ignored Bai Xiaoyi's pain, took a puff of cigarette and continued, "This boy is infected with the JSzz virus, there is no cure, according to the speed of the spread of the virus, he can live another week." But last Friday, he took a bottle of sleeping pills and ended his journey to the world. Xiao Yi, you are very lucky. ”
Gong Han took another puff of his cigarette and flicked the cigarette butt between his fingers, "We found the boy, injected him with Hlxs serum, turned him into a new clone and life-sustaining body, and then transferred your consciousness to this body. So now you are Bai Xiaoyi who occupies other people's bodies. ”
"How many years can I live?" Bai Xiaoyi suddenly had a feeling of rebirth, phoenix nirvana.
"Seven days. But you've been in a coma for two and a half days, and you have 4.5 days left on your life limit. We weren't able to get rid of the JSzz virus, so it's still spreading in your body. Gong Han poured a cup of freshly brewed tea for Bai Xiaoyi, and then said: "But this disease is not painful, but when the time comes, he dies of a violent illness." So you're going to die an easy death. ”
Gong Han grinned and pinched the injured place the day before yesterday with his hand.
"Do you still have a conscience, but I became like this because I saved you." Bai Xiaoyi said in a childish voice.
"I only have an electronic heart pump." Gong Han laughed again.
Whenever Gong Han deliberately teased Bai Xiaoyi, he could see from Bai Xiaoyi's body that he had just arrived in the slums.
"Okay, Gong Han, don't tease him, and talk about me." The old man with long hair and white beard came in with a bowl of red date porridge.
"My name is Old Man Xiaoyao, and I have lived in seclusion here for more than 40 years, and my name and surname have long been forgotten." As he spoke, the old man had already brought the porridge to Bai Xiaoyi's bedside.
"Hey......" Bai Xiaoyi scooped up a spoonful of porridge, then sighed and put it down, his eyes were gloomy, and his head drooped.
"If there is a difficulty, you go to Xiaolong, he will have a way." The old man sat at the table, started to smoke the hookah, and when he looked up, he glanced at Bai Xiaoyi with his spare eyes, "It's a big deal, let him find a life-sustaining clone at random, or directly replace you with a robot."
"I don't know him well." Bai Xiaoyi pursed his lips, feeling embarrassed to ask for help from a robot.
"Aren't you friends? You beg him, and he can give you decades of time at will. The carefree old man stroked his beard, "A good man doesn't eat the loss in front of him." ”
Bai Xiaoyi felt that his cheeks were flushed, and he felt hot.
"Hehe, it's still so dead to have to suffer face." Gong Han next to him remembered when he first came to the slum.
"Heh, it's hard to be dead when you're dying." Outside the house, a "tall, thin" robot walked in.
"Dragon Boy."
"Little Dragon."
Two seconds later, Bai Xiaoyi hesitantly shouted in a childish voice, "Brother Long? ”
"That's right, he is Caron, the second personality of Caron, that is, the doppelganger of consciousness." The old man sat down at the table and took a sip of his teacup.
Bai Xiaoyi looked at the tall and thin robot in front of him, feeling indescribably weird.
"This is a rational personality." Gong Han looked at Karon and said playfully, and glanced at Bai Xiaoyi with his afterglow, "Heh, you don't believe it?" You can start a video with another caron. ”
"No, I do." Bai Xiaoyi looked at himself, and then at the tall and thin robot Karon, and couldn't help but wonder, do the two bodies behind the consciousness clone still belong to the same person?
"Belong!" The tall and lanky Caron spoke, his tone obviously not as cold and tough as the other, "I wanted to help you, but it seems that you don't need my help." ”
"Help me? Actually, you set up the game from the beginning and waited for me to jump into the trap. You've wanted to kill me from the beginning! Bai Xiaoyi jumped out of bed, pointed at Caron and said, it was like his son teaching Lao Tzu a lesson.
"That's right, I set the trap, but the choice is yours, and I didn't force you." Karon's tone began to grow cold.
"Young people calm down." The carefree old man comforted Bai Xiaoyi, recalling the people who had been killed by Caron over the years, they really deserved to die.
Caron didn't have the intention of saving him, but Bai Xiaoyi made the right choice between life and death.
"Where's the other caron?" Bai Xiaoyi turned his head and asked the tall and thin robot.