"Before that, may I ask you a question?"

When Luo Lei told a lie that was not a lie, he initiated this crucial question to Marco.

"Please." Marco nodded slightly.

"Why does it have to be Mars? I want to know the truest reason. Luo Lei asked seriously and clearly.

The answer, however, was......

"I don't know, but I have to go."

Marco's eyes looked confused, but his tone sounded firm!

Luo Lei looked him straight into the eyes, hoping to see clues from them, but he didn't seem to have drawn any useful conclusions.

Then he bowed his head and said, "I see, Mr. Marco, then I will explain to you what we are going to do now, I hope you can understand." ”

After clearing his throat, Luo Lei walked up to Marco, squatted down to look at the dying legend, and said, "I already told you just now that we are all in a linear timeline generated based on your memory; Since the human memory model is closer to the present, the clearer it is, we can only take the method of reverse retrospective, from the present to the past step by step; In the process, we'll figure out why you want to go to Mars and help you make it happen. ”

Luo Lei deliberately made up some technical terms in this passage, as if trying to make Marco believe in his title and identity as a "doctor".

Sure enough, Marco shook his head and smiled, "Dr. Yuan, I don't quite understand what you mean. ”

"To put it simply, it is to travel back to your teenage years and guide you to achieve your wishes step by step." Luo Lei said in more popular language.

However, Marco didn't seem to care too much, and said, "As long as my wish can be achieved, even if it is in the virtual world, I will try my best to cooperate with you." ”

However, he paused and asked again, "What about my privacy......"

"Don't worry, please trust my professionalism! I will try to respect your privacy as much as possible, and I will not take offense or make it public! Luo Lei said solemnly.

"Alright then......"

Marco looked a little tired, shrugged his eyelids, and didn't seem to be in a very good state of mind.

"Shall we start then?"

"Yes, to be exact...... We've already started. ”

Luo Lei stood up: "Now, I need you to give me something." ”

"What's that?" Marco asked.

"Anything is fine, as long as it's important to you." Luo Lei didn't think much about it and blurted out.

......

In the real world at this moment, You Xiaobai and Ma Xingkong are watching Luo Lei's every move closely through the screen.

"It doesn't look like he's doing this for the first time!" Xiaobai pinched his chin and doubted.

Ma Xingkong nodded: "After all, he is Luo Lei, a genius in the field of the metaverse!" It was he who proposed that the people and things in the virtual world are 'entities' formed by human mental forces, and discovered the connection channel that can generate the virtual world in the real world - dimensional rifts! The metaverse gameplay of the level of linear timeline should be regarded as pediatric for him. ”

"Hmm." Xiaobai's voice was a little muffled.

In the current situation, this sentence is not a compliment at all.

After all, the world is almost ruined by this "great discovery"!

"But ......"

The horse was empty and stopped.

As Luo Lei's former subordinate, although there is a huge difference between the identities of the two in Lei Li Technology, they have also met after all, and Ma Xingkong also knows a rough idea of Luo Lei's character;

In my impression, Luo Lei is not a talkative and enthusiastic person; On the contrary, this once high-profile core figure of the company has always lived in seclusion, and his personality is not only a little cold, but even a little withdrawn and gloomy......

It's something that the whole company knows!

Can ...... now

When they met again, Ma Xingkong obviously felt that the other party was a little different from the Luo Lei he knew before!

"Could it be that after escaping death, his whole person has changed?"

However, he didn't continue to say this to Xiaobai, but just stuffed it in his heart and waited for the changes;

After all, here and now, there is no point in speculation!

After a brief conversation, the two continued to pay attention to the computer screen.

......

Here, after hearing Luo Lei's request, Marco fell into deep thought.

Seeing that he didn't seem to have a clue, Luo Lei added: "How do you say it...... Do you have any objects that connect your memories? This kind of object is called 'memory fragments', and I have to master some of your memory fragments before I can shuttle through your memories. ”

"Let me give you an example...... Luo Lei explained to him in detail: "For example, a few years ago, you bought a pair of shoes, and you climbed large and small peaks in these shoes, until the shoes were old and you put them in a corner; A few years later, you find the shoes again at home, and that's when memories of the shoes come back to you. This is called a memory fragment, and it is the key I use to unlock your path of memories. ”

Marco seemed to understand.

I saw him put his hand in the pocket of his clothes, then took out a mobile phone, unlocked it, and clicked on the photo, which was full of drawings about rockets.

Marco stared at the phone for a while, flipped through the drawings again, and then handed the phone to Luo Lei.

"These paintings were painted by my wife." He said to Luo Lei.

After taking the mobile phone, Luo Lei took a general look at it, and he found that although these paintings were all rockets, they were slightly surprised in terms of angle, structure and details, but the colors were very uniform, all of them were silver-gray.

However, after looking at it, he shook his head slightly, handed the phone back to Marco, and said, "The phone itself is not a memory fragment, do you have the physical existence of these pictures?" ”

Nodding, Marco said, "Yes, back then, my wife would scan every picture she painted, and it would be piled up all over the room." ”

"Where?" Luo Lei hurriedly asked.

"It's in the basement of the house." Marco looked at the house.

"Do you mind if I go down and have a look?" Luo Lei said.

Marco did not refuse, took out the key in his other pocket and handed it to him, "Feel free to do so, but I'm a little tired now, so I won't go down with you." ”

With that, he shifted his body slightly, and looked at the watchtower with half-squinted eyes, stunned.

"Okay, thanks."

Seeing this, Luo Lei didn't say much, took the key and walked to the room.

At this time, a horse-like voice came from his ears: "Brother Luo, the basement is on the leftmost door of the living room." ”

After knowing the direction, Luo Lei left the watchtower and returned to the house, opened the door directly into the living room, opened the door that Ma Xingkong said with the key, turned on the light casually, and walked down the stairs behind the door.

The basement lights are a little dim, but the brightness is just right to see;

When Luo Lei came down, he saw that the basement, which had almost no home furnishings, was full of picture frames one after another.

The walls are hung all over the walls, and the floor is full of ...... All kinds of rockets are painted in silver gray! They are exactly the same as the pictures in Marco's mobile phone, which made Luo Lei, who was in this space, feel a dense phobia!

Looking around, the paintings, while they were indeed beautiful, still made his scalp tingle.

However, at this time, a tablet-sized picture frame hanging in the middle of the opposite wall attracted Luo Lei's attention.

"Huh?"

Luo Lei stepped forward and took down the frame, which was clearly different from other rockets, with doubts in his eyes.

Because this painting ......

It's orange!

But before he could think about it, he felt another voice come out of his head.

However, this voice is not Ma Xingkong speaking, but the main control system of this linear timeline.

I just heard the system prompt: "Do you want to activate the memory fragment and make a timeline jump?" ”

Luo Lei knew that there was no need to think deeply about this suspicion now, so he stored this orange rocket painting in the box, and then said: "Activate!" ”

The white light in front of me lit up again......

A moment later, his consciousness passed through the dimensional rift again!

When he opened his eyes, he found himself in the living room of the room again.