CHAPTER XVI

The sunshine in this city is so beautiful every day that you almost forget what it's like to be rainy. They sat by the window, letting the sun slanted in and shining on the coffee cups on the table. The white coffee cup has a faint lip print on the edge.

Aya gently wiped the lip print and looked up at Ke Qinghe, her skin seemed to have a layer of white fluff in the sun, shining brightly.

"So, you're not going to look for your wife?" She asked, her long eyelashes flickering.

"There is no information that could help me find her." Ke Qinghe took a sip of coffee, a little lost.

"And what are you going to do next?"

"I don't know what I can do." Ke Qinghe glanced out the window and couldn't help sighing, "Before I hibernated, I explained everything to the company, just to move out more funds to maintain this project." ”

"Then you didn't look for a job again?"

"Looking for a job?" Ke Qinghe laughed, "I'm dying, why are I going to torture myself?" ”

"Oh?" Aya looked at him in surprise.

"I had cancer, not many years." Ke Qingheyun replied lightly.

"So are you going to use your last time to enjoy life?" Aya asked him with a smile.

"Enjoy life?" Ke Qinghe raised his eyebrows, "I also hope I can." ”

He leaned back on the sofa and waved his big hand: "You look at the outside world, it is completely different from what I am familiar with, my friends have lost contact, and now the people I know can be counted on one hand, and the rest is only air and sunshine." ”

"Isn't that enough?" Aya leaned to the side and looked at him with a smile.

Ke Qinghe looked at the woman in front of him unexpectedly, it seemed that he had known each other for many years and felt intimate.

"Sunshine and air are luxuries, you have them, what is not satisfied?" Aya looked very good when she spoke, "Friend, you don't need too much, especially in this world where secrets are not secrets and people are not people, it is one in ten thousand good luck to meet." ”

"Huh." Ke Qinghe also smiled, "You mean, there are too many artificial intelligence now, and people are not honest, right?" ”

“Maybe。” Aya's right hand propped up her head, and her jet-black hair hung down naturally, "Tell me, why are you hibernating?" ”

"Why?" Ke Qinghe sighed, "If you want to live a little longer, let's look at the future." ”

"Haven't you already done it?"

"yes." Ke Qinghe lowered his head, "But I also lost a lot." ”

"What's lost?" Aya looked at him, "Wife? Child? ”

"That's right."

"No, it's time." Aya looked at him so seriously that Ke Qinghe was at a loss, not knowing why his heart suddenly beat faster.

"For twenty years, you could have been with her, even if it was the last time, at least you were together. But you chose to leave, so you can't see the changes in the world in the past 20 years, and you can't feel the warmth of the original family. ”

Ke Qinghe listened calmly, it was true.

He rubbed his forehead: "Originally, I also thought about giving up this experiment, but I thought she also participated in this experiment, I wanted to go to the time where she went and get her back, but I woke up early." ”

"Hmm...... Is it a kind of retribution? Aya was direct, but quickly burst out laughing.

"Forget it...... Ke Qinghe nodded, "In order to find her, I underwent an organ transplant, and everything was already well controlled, but as a result, because of the recurrence of the condition, I woke up at this time." ”

Aya put down her hand, put her hands on the table, leaned forward, and approached him slightly: "Have you ever thought that maybe your life has changed, and you are no longer the same you." ”

"What do you mean?" Ke Qinghe raised his eyes and looked at her.

"It's like when you got a transplant in the world before, you knew you were under control, but in the blink of an eye, twenty years later, you suddenly found that you had cancer again."

"That's right...... The doctor said it was transferred. ”

"Yes, but have you ever thought that this is just you from another world, and you already have cancer?"

“……”

Ke Qinghe suddenly dumbfounded, what does this mean? He looked at Aya in front of him, and it didn't look like he was joking with him.

Aya didn't stop her theory: "I think, even if you continue to sleep for ten years now, do you think that adding the last twenty years is the thirty years you expected to reach?" She glanced at the time on her watch, "Actually, no, no matter how you chase it, you can't catch up with the time, you will always arrive at a different time from her, even if it overlaps, it is completely two spaces." ”

"Two ...... The world? Ke Qinghe muttered.

"It's like when you first saw me, you thought I was your daughter because I was exactly the same person as the person in the photo, but in reality, I wasn't the person you were looking for." Aya shook her head, "I'm actually two strangers with you, you just came to my world through an experiment, but my world, you've never been there." ”

"So......" Ke Qinghe lowered his head and remembered another person, "So the doctor and nurse who entered the experiment at that time were all gone after I woke up...... Because I'm no longer in that space? ”

He looked up and looked at Aya in surprise.

"Quite possibly. No one knows what's behind the experiment. Aya clasped her hands, "Perhaps, you in that world are still dormant, just to reach the thirty years you want to go to." ”

Ke Qinghe suddenly felt that his mouth was dry, and he didn't know how he should digest this information. He picked up the glass of water on the table and drank it violently, the coldness running through his stomach.

"That's why I don't have a little bit of information about them, I'm here, I'll never find them?" Tears gleamed in his eyes.

"I don't want to hit you, but there's a good chance that's it." Aya nodded.

Ke Qinghe let out a long sigh, and tears slid down his face: "It's really a punishment for me...... Blame me for leaving, so I will never find her......"

Aya gently shook his hand, "Don't say that. Her eyes were full of tenderness, "Perhaps, in another world, they have already returned and are with you?" ”

Ke Qinghe looked at Aya's face in the sun, it felt like he had held Shi Lan's hand for the first time many years ago, gentle and straight to the bottom of his heart.

"Thank you for comforting me."

"Not a consolation, is it?" Aya withdrew her hand, "This is also my own understanding, this world has exceeded everyone's expectations, so, some brain holes have to guess." ”

"Huh." Ke Qinghe burst into tears and laughed, "So you're an artist." ”

"Don't dare to be." Aya smiled, the dimples on her face were wonderful.

……

After the coffee time, Ke Qinghe sent Aya back to the apartment.

Shuttling on the elevated highway along the way, Ke Qinghe's questions about this world have never stopped.

"You say, what kind of people live in this city and have accidents?"

"How?" Aya tilted her head and looked out the window, "There are many rumors, but no one can prove the truth. ”

"And what do you know?"

"Hmm...... Desolate, barbarous, and a bunch of savages. ”

"Barbarians?" Ke Qinghe glanced at her, but her eyes were always out of the car window.

"Hmm. That's what they call them. Aya chuckled, "It feels like it's pulling up the hierarchy of people all of a sudden." ”

"Why?" Ke Qinghe really didn't understand, "Aren't they all people?" ”

"Yes, they're all human, but there are always people who like to divide people into three, six, nine, and so on." Aya turned around and looked ahead, "Good people are always on top, and low people are getting humbled. ”

"I don't understand. And what about those on the margins? How can you tell the difference between people who don't have status? ”

"They should just give up such power, wander on the edge, and be at peace with what happens." Aya replied, "But they also paid a lot of money. ”

"Who made the rules?" Ke Qinghe's tone was obviously angry.

"The law." Aya replied, "Such rules do bind a lot of people, they can be self-disciplined, they can follow all the rules, and the world is indeed a lot cleaner." And those who are not able to keep everything, who are destructive and dangerous, are excluded. ”

Ke Qinghe took a deep breath: "Constraints themselves are a good thing, but isn't such constraints too inhuman?" ”

"Humanity?" Aya laughed, "So what? That's already the case. ”

Aya stroked her hair and sighed: "Those robots, co-exist with us, maintain our lives, we really don't need people with simple minds and developed limbs to repeat mechanized work, our superiority only comes from a little cleverness or, like you, rich people." ”

Aya looked at Ke Qinghe, who just looked at the car silently.

"I don't count." Ke Qinghe replied to her, "I only hope that this level will not be divided again." ”

"yes, I don't want to." Aya replied, "Otherwise, I might be the next group of people to be expelled." ”

Ke Qinghe constantly adjusted his breathing, he used to have no worries about food and clothing, but he didn't expect it to turn into more confusion about himself now.

"I don't want that."

"Nobody wants anybody." Aya replied, "The people who live here are restraining themselves and suppressing themselves, how many people are there on the road?" Hardly, they are all afraid of being demoted if something gets out of hand. ”

"So, you're not going out?"

"Yes. This is also the main reason. ”

Ke Qinghe shook his head and said helplessly: "No wonder you can't socialize, you only rely on your mobile phone." ”

"Well, and the speakeasy."

"Time machine?"

"Yes." Aya smiled, "They didn't allow the robots to enter, so they avoided great danger. Moreover, those who have robots are not of ordinary class, we are afraid of contact with them, we can't compare with them at all, we are afraid that if we make a mistake, we will go straight to the bottom. ”

Ke Qinghe didn't answer, and the palm of his hand holding the steering wheel had already begun to sweat.

"Please note that signs of fluctuation have been detected, please pull over and rest."

"What sound?" The voice on the radio startled Aya.

"Oh, it's a detection device, my physical condition is special, it will remind me."

"Are you okay then?" Aya looked at him, "Need me to help you drive?" ”

Ke Qinghe shook his head: "It's okay, I feel okay, and I'll be there soon." ”

"Can you really hold on?" Aya was skeptical.

"Hmm."

When the car finally stopped in front of the apartment, Aya still looked at Ke Qinghe worriedly: "Are you sure you don't need me to send you back?" ”

"No, you don't." Ke Qinghe laughed, "You didn't remind it later, it just meant for a moment, and now it's no problem." ”

"Okay." Aya saw that he was so sure, so she got out of the car, "Then when you get home, tell me." ”

"Okay."

Ke Qinghe watched Aya go back, his hand couldn't help but clench the steering wheel, feeling that his heartbeat was no longer his own.

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