Chapter 184. A hug
Zhou Jinru still didn't answer, his gaze was always on his transparent panel, from the beginning, the mountain skill was in a state of highlight, which meant that he had been resisting the abnormal state.
"Bright Moon Heart?"
He shouted, but didn't get any response, it seemed that Mingyue was not there.
"Zhou, answer my question."
In the face of Vasim's questioning, Zhou Jinru's expression was a little dazed, and he bowed slightly: "Doctor Vasim, why should I answer your question?" ”
"It's an order!"
Zhou Jinru raised his head and looked at Vasim across the desk with a strange look: "Doctor, you have overlooked a problem, I am not a member of the Jacobins, I do not accept your orders, have you always thought that I am your person?" ”
Yes, although so many things have happened along the way, Zhou Jinru has never been a member of the faction, he is an outsider, an outsider.
Regardless of the two years since he disappeared, or what he did after he returned, Adele's intention to see him as a partner and her own person was rejected.
"I'm very close to Adele, doctor, you don't know, but I'm not a member of the faction, you should know too, right?"
Zhou Jinru grabbed the long knife at his waist, he hadn't found the weapon he was carrying before, and he only touched it when he reached out to touch it.
"You're not even a member of the faction!"
Vasim shouted, his expression hideous, as if something terrible had happened, and his whole body quickly shrank, becoming thinner and thinner, and even directly turned into a piece of paper, gray in color, yellowed, and floating on the desk.
Zhou Jinru grabbed his hair, he just said a few words, and the other party was hit by dimensionality reduction, it seems that everything here is not real.
"Lighthouse."
A bright light erupted, tearing apart the image in front of him, and when he opened his eyes again, he sat in the back row of the auditorium, watching a theatrical performance.
The lights shone on the faces of the theatrical actors, and the excessively pale makeup made the actors look like the rumored blood-sucking Sakaz, who walked briskly across the stage, his mouth uttering a mournful cry, and the band that did not know where to hide played an extremely mournful tone.
"Ah, my dear, I will never see you again."
Zhou Jinru watched the performances on the stage with great interest, and the corner of his eyes swept lightly, he was the only one in the audience in the theater, which means that these performances were performed for him.
"Smack, smack, smack."
He reached out and clapped it three times as a sign of encouragement.
As if he didn't see it, the man in the middle of the stage stopped, raised his hands in the air, and sang in an exaggerated aria: "If I leave here today, I will never come back, my dear, I can only say goodbye to you here, so that this world can hear our love." ”
For a while, Zhou Jinru couldn't understand which one it was, so he had to sit on duty, anyway, the content of the singing was different from the fragments of various famous dramas in his memory.
After listening to it for a while, he dozed off and almost fell asleep on the sofa.
Zhou Jinru wiped his nose, stood up and walked to the back of the seat, an exit of the theater was located on the side and behind it, making it easy for the audience to enter and exit, but when he touched the back of the seat, he found that the front wall was sealed, there was no exit, and the same was true of the side wall.
It's an enclosed space.
"Actually, you're kind of anti-human, I mean, there's no restroom here?"
When Zhou Jinru said this, the actor who was still singing his lines on stage obviously paused, and the trembling thing was still to come.
"People can't be suffocated by urine, you don't give me the bathroom, you can't blame me."
As he spoke, Zhou Jinru's right hand pressed on the belt buckle on his waist, which had the meaning of discharging the flood on the spot.
The actor's expression on stage was distorted, trying to stop the impudent man, but he didn't know what to do.
"You ......"
As soon as he said a word, he saw that the man who was still untying his belt suddenly stepped on the audience seat, and the whole person pulled out an afterimage in the air, and the distance of dozens of meters came in an instant, and he flew and pressed the actor down on the stage.
"Do you know that you sing very badly, you can't sing and you learn other people's arias!"
"Do you know that your service is rotten, and the COS club when I was in college was better than you!"
"Still singing, singing your uncle, love and love, moaning without illness!"
Zhou Jinru raised his fist and smashed it on the actor's face impartially, and suddenly the actor's left half of his face collapsed, but he didn't give up, and smashed down with a second punch, smashing the right half of his face into a dent, and he was still angry, stood up, and used the soles of his leather shoes to stomp and crush on the pale face, until the face that made him angry turned into a dirty piece of paper.
"You just have a piece of paper, you want to learn from other people's acting, a mouth, the original form is exposed."
"Lighthouse!"
The strong light broke out, the picture in front of him was shattered, Zhou Jinru just stood like this, still holding a long knife in his hand, when he opened his eyes again, he found that he was standing on the crowded street, everyone was wearing modern clothes, there was no difference, only him, still wearing the work clothes of the previous era, holding a sharp weapon.
"Brother, where did you come from?"
Some passers-by stopped and stared at Zhou Jinru curiously, looking at the clothes he was wearing, and even more curious about whether the long knife in his hand was real.
Before Zhou Jinru could speak, he saw a thin and tall middle-aged man come over, stretched out his hand to push away the passers-by in front of him, took out a pack of cigarettes from his pocket, took out one and dropped it on his mouth, and handed the rest of the whole pack to Zhou Jinru.
"Got one?"
Zhou Jinru just glanced at the cigarette brand and shook his head: "Daqianmen, I've seen it, but now I don't smoke, quit, my lover doesn't like the smell of smoke." ”
"Which of your lovers?"
"All lovers."
The middle-aged man's expression froze, and then he laughed and said, "Interesting, really interesting, let's sit down and talk?" ”
Zhou Jinru flipped his wrist, returned the long knife to the sheath, and said indifferently: "You always have to let me know where I come from." ”
"The surname of the contemptible people is Zhu, and they all call me Lao Zhu."
Lao Zhu sat on a wooden bench on the side of the road, his left hand in his coat pocket, and his right hand on the glasses on the bridge of his nose, which made him look more gentle.
"Mr. Zhou is no stranger to the current situation, he should have seen a similar situation, right?"
Zhou Jinru didn't speak, just stared at the middle-aged man next to him, the other party seemed to be unharmed, and at such a close distance, he could grab Lao Zhu as soon as he stretched out his hand.
It's right to say that he's seen a similar situation, the last time was when he fell into a deep memory, Mingyuexin grabbed him.
Lao Zhu turned his head and said to Zhou Jinru: "Now is the best life for us, but we all know that all stories have an ending, and nothing can last forever, Mr. Zhou, do you know where you are?" ”
Zhou Jinru shook his head, Ming Yuexin didn't tell him the truth, and he was a riddler like Kelsey.
"Mr. Zhou, I want to ask you this question, where do you think we are?"
Zhou Jinru said without thinking: "A virtual space. ”
"Yes, this is easy to think of, Mr. Zhou, but in my time, these things were unthinkable, at that time, humans didn't even go to the nearest satellite, I just fell asleep, and when I woke up, the low earth orbit habitation zone above my head had been established."
"How long did you sleep?"
Lao Zhu raised a finger: "No more, no less, a hundred years." ”
"Cryonics?"
"No, I should say that I have been dead for a whole hundred years."
Zhou Jinru was taken aback, in front of him was a person who had been dead for many years?!
Lao Zhu said with emotion: "In the hundred years since I died, the brood has been established and the largest network has been formed, and most of those who died in the disaster have been reborn in the network, just like me, everyone you can see here is the same as me, but we are all really alive, Mr. Zhang Taiyue promised us that once the artificial body technology matures, all the people stored in the cyberspace can be resurrected and return to the real world." ”
Zhou Jinru gradually frowned, what kind of place is he, the dead people are all reborn in the network, can they return to reality, is the Zhang Taiyue in Lao Zhu's mouth the same person as the one he knows?
Before that, he had a question to figure out first: "How did you know my surname was Zhou?" ”
"Your identity code, I saw your identity code, I only know your surname Zhou, but I don't know what your name is, I received a message, I am here to entertain you, and someone will pick you up later."
"My code?"
Lao Zhu was also confused: "Mr. Zhou, there may be a mistake in your code, I only see four digits, 0004, do you have an impression of your identity code?" ”
Zhou Jinru had no idea about this, he couldn't say anything, so he had to ask again: "You haven't told me yet, where are we?" ”
"We are in an indestructible memory of information, even if the planet is destroyed, torn apart, and falls into the stars, it cannot be destroyed, we are all protected, protected by one true God."
These adjectives seemed very unfamiliar to Zhou Jinru's ears, he knew what they meant, but he had never heard of them in the world of Terra, the real world had just entered capitalization, and even the footsteps of the industrial age were trembling, let alone rocket launchers.
In other words, in Lao Zhu's time, human beings could send artificial satellites into space, and they also had a certain concept of cosmic knowledge.
"True God?"
"We were willing to call him the true God, but he didn't want to be a god, so after he became the true God, we all forgot his name, and Mr. Zhang Taiyue told us that if we raised our heads and looked at the sky, we could see the true God."
Zhou Jinru was about to say something more, but a ripple appeared in front of him, like a stone falling on the calm water, rippling in layers of water.
"Mr. Zhou, it's been a pleasure chatting with you, goodbye."
Lao Zhu stood up, walked towards the crowd of people coming and going, blended into it, and quickly disappeared.
Zhou Jinru didn't have time to ask more, and in the ripples, a figure squeezed out, and he hurriedly stepped forward to hug him.
It was a body with a warm body temperature, soft and petite, her black hair was messy, and her forehead was stained with sweat, and her clothes were in tatters, as if she had escaped from some disaster scene.
"It's so embarrassing, I'm letting you see me in such an embarrassment again."
The girl said in annoyance.
She wanted to stand up, but her body was weak and she fell into Zhou Jinru's arms again.
Zhou Jinru hugged her and asked rhetorically, "When was the last time?" ”
"A long, long time ago."
"The dinosaurs aren't extinct yet?"
The girl burst out laughing: "Be serious, I just had a fight with that slut, I haven't fought before, next time I'm going to get the field back." ”
"Maybe there aren't enough threads in the subsystem?"
She had a pair of wonderful eyes and gently brushed Zhou Jinru's face: "Don't be tempted, when you remember who I am, I'll tell you." ”
Zhou Jinru neither nodded nor shook his head, did not respond, and instead asked, "Do you have the strength now?" ”
"No, I'd like to lie down a little longer."
"Unfortunately, it doesn't work."
A phantom shadow with red and blue light condensed, emitting an inaudible electronic synthesis sound: "It turns out that you have been hiding here, and I have caught you!" ”
"Slut!"
Mingyue shouted in her heart.
Zhou Jinru clenched the handle of the knife: "I'll help you beat it." ”
"Okay."
As soon as he took a step, he saw that the road ahead was split, not on the physical level, but on the opening of one by one, from the picture to the most basic pixels.
"Don't go over!"
Mingyue hurriedly stopped Zhou Jinru from moving forward: "If you move forward, you will be torn apart." ”
She said in a deep voice: "If you don't master the bridge, you can't cross these obstacles, I have fewer threads, otherwise I won't lose to this slut!" ”
Zhou Jinru heard the word "bridge" more than once, and every time Mingyuexin opened the "bridge", it was for him to travel through memory.
"You go back, although I can't beat it, it's okay to cause some trouble for it, get stronger, and you can help me next time."
Mingyuexin's words made Zhou Jinru's heart ache, he wanted to say something, but he didn't know where to start.
"It's okay, I've seen you, nothing can separate us."
She pushed gently, and Zhou Jinru fell backwards, and he didn't even have time to grab her hand, he didn't seem to be able to catch her all the time.
The whole person fell into the water, submerged in the vast amount of water, unable to breathe, unable to call for help, and unable to make any sound.
"Ahh
He opened his eyes suddenly, sweating profusely, looking at his hands, and then fell on the covers, gasping for breath.
"Are you having nightmares?"
A cold voice came.
The white-haired Draco was lying on the edge of the bed, looking curiously.
Zhou Jinru's breathing gradually calmed down, and he shook his head and said, "A very ordinary dream." ”
"But why are you crying?"
Draco reached out and touched the corner of the man's eye with his slender fingers, a tear that had not yet slid down his cheek.
Zhou Jinru also touched his face, did he really cry, how could he cry, what could make him cry.
No way.
There was no way he could have cried.
"Need a hug?"
Draco said seriously: "My sister said that as long as you hug, you won't feel bad and cry. ”