Stepping out of the Jasmine Restaurant on Bluestone Street, this quaint street retains its original taste. Most of the people living in the apartments on both sides are some elderly people, some of whom do not fit into the high-tech life, and some refuse to touch the high-tech life.

So this protected street is forbidden to all high-tech entry. It is said that even the TV is a device from the past, and if it breaks, no one will fix it.

Stepping out of Bluestone Street, you will find towering buildings and elevated towers that wind between the towers. Vehicles shuttle on the ground, on the elevated road, and there is no traffic jam here.

"Where's your car?" Aya asked.

Ke Qinghe pointed to a sports car parked on the side of the road and said, "There." ”

"Huh." Aya laughed unexpectedly, "It's an antique." ”

After saying that, she walked over and stroked the frame: "Send me back?" ”

Ke Qinghe nodded and invited him to get in the car.

"I'm guessing you're driving yourself." Aya sat in the passenger seat and fastened her seatbelt, "It's been a long time since I've plugged my seatbelt. ”

"Well, you're all smart." Ke Qinghe finished speaking and started the car.

"You see, most of the cars on the road are driverless, which can better avoid the driver's subjective thoughts, so the road is much smoother." Aya said.

"It's because the driver is too quick-tempered."

"Huh." Aya laughed, "So, intelligence is not necessarily bad, as long as it is used reasonably, it can benefit mankind." ”

Ke Qinghe glanced at her: "You seem to know a lot." ”

"Of course." Aya continued, "I've grown up with these technologies, so I'm very familiar with them. ”

Ke Qinghe was silent for a while: "So, I can only drive by myself." ”

Aya snickered.

When the topic ended, the car fell silent.

Ke Qinghe drove the car, and the past with Shi Lan kept coming to his mind, and the road in front of him was like a portal to time and space, leading him into another world.

……

"Beep-beep-beep-beep-"

Ke Qinghe was awakened by the rhythmic sound and slowly opened his eyes. I was already lying in the ward, enjoying the comfortable temperature and the soft bed.

He moved his numb fingers, but his body didn't have the strength to move.

"Mr. Ke, are you awake?" An unfamiliar nurse stepped forward and leaned down to look at him.

"You are?" Ke Qinghe's voice was a little weak, and his pronunciation was a little strange, because he hadn't spoken for too long.

"I'm your bed nurse." The nurse took off her badge and put it in front of his eyes for him to look at.

Ke Qinghe squinted and glanced at it, and there were some blurry fonts, so he couldn't see it clearly. She's not the same nurse anymore anyway.

"Where am I?"

"You're at GL Hospital."

"Am I not supposed to be hibernating?" Ke Qinghe looked at the white ceiling and remembered the white egg.

"Hmm." The nurse replied, "There is something wrong with your body, so I took you out in advance." ”

"In advance?" Ke Qinghe still had some vague impressions in his mind, but he seemed to have experienced a long sleep and did not feel any changes in time.

"How long did I sleep?"

The nurse smiled and replied, "Twenty years." ”

"Twenty years?" Ke Qinghe suddenly sobered up, he had planned for thirty years, but he still hadn't arrived. He turned his head sideways, glanced at the tall buildings outside the window, and couldn't help but feel melancholy.

"Mr. Ke, do you need anything?" The nurse asked with concern, "Do I need to prepare some food for you?" ”

"No, I'm not hungry." Ke Qinghe continued to look out the window and replied.

"Then I'll go out first, you can press the button next to the bed if necessary, and I'll come over right away." After the nurse finished speaking, she felt like she had left the room.

Ke Qinghe also has some circular patches attached to his body, which seem to sense his body and send his body messages to a machine next to the bed.

He got up slowly, a little weak, but he could bear it. When my feet touched the ground, I felt the softness of the carpet that I hadn't felt for a long time, and even the weight of my feet supporting my body seemed to return.

Ke Qinghe moved his steps and staggered to the window with himself.

The world outside the window was completely different from the last time he saw it. High-rise buildings and spiraling elevated roads are intertwined, and Mercedes-Benz vehicles are speeding along the way. It's just that the lush green trees under my eyes look a little fake in the sun......

"Beep-beep-beep-"

The machine was still making rhythmic syllables, Ke Qinghe took off the patch, and the sound finally stopped, giving the room a sense of silence.

......Suddenly, a familiar voice came from his stomach, the sound and the feeling were familiar to him, he was hungry......

After sleeping for 20 years, my body will still be hungry.

There was a knock on the door, which then slowly opened, and the nurse appeared at the door, seemingly sensing the emptiness in his stomach and bringing him some food.

"Mr. Ke, you can eat something first, hypoglycemia will cause adverse reactions, which is not conducive to your current physical recovery."

Ke Qinghe watched her carry a bowl of green liquid on the table, and left a glass of water.

"What is this?"

"It's a fruit and vegetable shake that replenishes the vitamins and protein your body needs."

"What about this glass of water?"

"It's just regular water, it's for you to be hydrated."

The nurse's smile was gentle and kind, Ke Qinghe was just a little unaccustomed, and the first thing he saw when he woke up was a stranger.

He slowly sat down on the couch by the window, picked up the spoon and tasted the green thing. I really don't know if it's because I haven't eaten for too long, but when I put it in my mouth, I suddenly think it's quite delicious. He quickly finished the stuff and then took a few sips of water to clean his mouth.

After a moment, he suddenly remembered something and asked, "What's wrong with my body?" Must come out early? ”

"Oh." The nurse replied as she cleaned up, "We found that you were dormant, had several convulsions, and the cancer cells spread again. ”

"Spread?" Ke Qinghe confirmed if he had heard it wrong, "Haven't I already transplanted it?" ”

"Yes." She replied, "It should be that before the transplant, the cancer cells have already begun to metastasize, and with the time of retirement, it slowly shows up again." ”

Ke Qinghe was a little reluctant to believe it, but he didn't feel any other discomfort except for some fatigue: "What about Luo Xin?" That Dr. Luo? ”

The nurse looked at him: "Doctor Luo is no longer here." ”

"Huh?" Ke Qinghe was a little surprised, "Then who is in charge of me now?" ”

"It's Dr. Chen."

"What does he do?"

"Your attending doctor. Your current body will need further testing and treatment. ”

Ke Qinghe suddenly felt a little thirsty, drank all the water in the water cup, and said to her, "I want to see him." ”

……

Ke Qinghe's meeting with Dr. Chen was not pleasant, and how could he be happy to learn that the life he picked up would still be offline at any time. What's more, he doesn't know everything about Shi Lan now.

"Can you give me Luo Xin's contact information?" Ke Qinghe asked, "I have a lot of things to ask him." ”

"I'm sorry, Mr. Ke, he's already out of our hospital."

"I know. I just wanted to reach out to him. ”

"Actually, a lot of our information is confidential." Dr. Chan sighed, "Except for account contact, all information is no longer shared. ”

"What do you mean?" Ke Qinghe asked.

"That is, just like now, I am face to face with you, I know who you are, and you know who I am, but without your permission, I can't get more information about you, which is a kind of privacy protection."

"You're saying that if Luo Xin doesn't say it, none of you will know how to contact him?" Ke Qinghe asked in surprise.

"That's right."

Ke Qinghe was not only surprised, but also felt a little inexplicable: "Why? So how do you communicate? What should I do if something happens? In case of an accident, how can you contact them? ”

Dr. Chen took out his mobile phone: "We use information to contact, but also try not to disturb everyone's private time. ”

"What about emergencies?"

"We have bots that will take care of it first."

Ke Qinghe patted his head: "What about doing something bad?" How do you find the police? ”

"All real information is uploaded, and it is managed in a unified and closed manner." Dr. Chan continued, "This protects everyone's privacy as much as possible, but if something bad happens, it's like a switch that will immediately touch the alarm. ”

Ke Qinghe was stunned, what era is this? I traveled through twenty years at once, and I felt an era that I was completely unfamiliar with.

"So what am I in the hospital now?"

"Sick people." Dr. Chan smiled, "We still have a duty to heal you." ”

"How is that possible?" Ke Qinghe sneered, "I thought it would be good to transplant it at the beginning, but I didn't expect that I still didn't defeat the god of death." ”

"Nope." "Now that we are 20 years later, we need to have enough faith. ”

Ke Qinghe looked at him, although the smile on the young doctor's face was very comforting, he always remembered the person who was smiling and seemed gentle.

"Mr. Ke, you need to return to your normal routine as soon as possible, so that we can treat you."

"Oh......" Ke Qinghe replied casually, and suddenly remembered something, "Where's my phone?" Can it still be used? ”

"Yes." Dr. Chan replied, "I'll have the nurse send it to you later, update it online, and you'll be fine." ”

"Okay."

Soon after Dr. Chen left, the nurse came to the ward with her mobile phone and returned it to Ke Qinghe.

Smeared on this cold little thing again, Ke Qinghe was a little excited, after so many years, are the contacts in the phone still there?

He hurriedly turned on the phone, only to find that there was no network signal. After some searching, there was only one C-end network for him to choose from.

"The hospital's network?" He asked.

"It's not." The nurse replied, "It's Choose's network, it's fully covered, and everybody uses their network." ”

"Full coverage?" Ke Qinghe was a little surprised.

"Yes, there's only one network." The nurse answered and instructed him through the web link.

Ke Qinghe swallowed his saliva: "Does everything rely on this one network?" Not afraid of hackers? Not afraid of invading privacy? ”

"Hee-hee." The nurse lowered her head and smiled, "No, it's the safest thing to entrust everyone's information to the same network management." ”

"Really?" Ke Qinghe expressed doubts, but he didn't say much, silently opened the address book in his hand, and suddenly found that all the mobile phone numbers had disappeared.

"What's going on?" He asked.

"The number was canceled a long time ago because no one called, we were all in contact through messaging apps, both voice and video."

"I know." Ke Qinghe hurriedly opened the communication software, and all the avatars were gray, "Then what's the problem?" ”

"Oh!" The nurse smiled and said, "You haven't used it for too long, it's automatically locked, and you have to apply for it and hand in all your real personal information before you can continue to use it." ”

"So troublesome?"

"Yes, wouldn't it be more reassuring for you to use it?"

Ke Qinghe looked at her smile, although it was sweet, but he still felt a little twisted: "Then what should I do?" ”

The nurse leaned over and asked, "Mr. Ke allows me to use my mobile phone, can I help you do it?" ”

"Huh?" Ke Qinghe was stunned for a moment, but quickly handed her the phone, "Okay, help me reset it." ”

The nurse always had a smile on her face, and then took the mobile phone and instructed Ke Qinghe to remember these steps while operating, and let him confirm each step, especially careful.

Ke Qinghe only took a cursory look at how to operate, and by the way, he entered fingerprints, face, and iris. Originally, he thought that his mobile phone was just a communication tool, but he didn't expect that after the update, there were many more functions at once, and the development of technology was so fast that he couldn't believe it.

He stretched his waist and accidentally noticed the slender and white neck, white as jade in the sun, flawless......