Chapter 21: The Shackles (1)
Ryan let Vincent carry it, his eyes seemed to have just woken up from a trance, and he said in a low voice, "I, I'm sorry Jasmine......"
Vincent's lips twitched, and then he yelled, "Where the fuck did you go?" ”
“……”
Vincent felt the weight and weakness of his body in his hands, and his back molars bit and threw Ryan back.
Ryan only felt that his whole body seemed to fall apart, and he couldn't move for a while, and he took a few breaths before he said, "Thank you, help me, save the child." ”
Vincent lowered his eyes and said, "I said that your son is my son......"
"Vincent, I don't know how you did it, but I don't want to bother you......"
"What is involved or not, this is what Lao Tzu himself wants to do!"
“……”
Vincent stepped forward to help Ryan and said, "How did you become like this, can you go, you bracelet, you need to go to me." ”
"Why?"
"Let's talk about it."
Ryan propped himself up on the bed and tried to stand up. Jasmine said: "Your leg injury, I have used a strong repair gel, which can relieve pain and speed up healing, fortunately, it only hurt the muscles, not the major arteries." ”
Ryan felt that Jasmine's eyes were drooping when she was talking to him at this time, as if with a kind of raw energy, he didn't know why, he could only say, "Thank you." ”
The doorbell rang again, and Vincent went to open it.
I saw Mei Li rushing in in a hurry, "Ryan, where did you die?" "Followed by Yuxiang.
"Ah, why are you ......?" Mei Li covered her mouth with one hand and pointed at Ryan with the other, as if she had seen a ghost.
Ryan moved to the wall and awakened the digital mirror, which reflected his whole body, and for the first time in months, he saw himself clearly.
It was not his face, dark, rough, cracked, as if it had been weathered for decades, and his jaw was angular as if it had been slashed by an unknown blade. The air outside the cabin corroded his skin, he lost almost a third of his weight, his muscles cowered in large areas, and his limbs showed the shape of bone joints.
"Don't worry too much, it's just a ...... caused by severe malnutrition," Jasmine said.
Ryan stroked his face with his hand, and he knew that Jasmine was just comforting himself and everyone.
Ryan didn't say anything, turned around, and said to the three of them, "Why are you all here, do you know, now I'm ...... You shouldn't have any contact with me......"
"What a joke!" Mei Li shouted, "We don't have contact with you, we don't have contact with you, we don't look for you, we don't look for you, and we don't talk about your children...... This kid has reached this point, can we get rid of it? ”
"Mei Li, I ......"
Mei Li stepped forward and grabbed Ryan, "Don't think we'll take care of it, even if you die, we'll take care of it to the end!" ”
Seeing Ryan crumbling, Mei Li let go of his hand and said, "We have already prepared for you to die, who knows, you actually died again!" ”
Mei Li's voice trembled, her whole body trembled slightly, and Yu Xiang hugged her shoulder.
"Alright, alright! Don't die at every turn. Vincent said.
Ryan walked over and silently opened his arms to them. He gathered them together, their heads touching each other, just as they had done since they were children.
"Come, Jasmine." Vincent stretched out his arm and wrapped Jasmine in as well.
"Where the hell did you go?" Mei Li's voice was tinged with tears.
"Extravehicular cabin."
"What are you doing outside the cabin?"
“……”
"You mean!"
"Mei Li, it's okay." Vincent said.
Ryan asked Yuxiang, "If you want to check the secret information of the highest authority, what do you need?" ”
"You need to have someone with the highest privilege ID to check it yourself." Yu Xiang said.
"Need me? What if there is an ID key? ”
"You may be able to access some information, but you can't treat it as me, and the system will determine."
Ryan nodded, "Okay." ”
"What are you looking for?" Yuxiang asked.
"That's it, what are you looking for?" Mei Li said.
"Nothing, just asking." Ryan smiled.
The less they know, the better, and they'd better not know anything.
"Let's go," Vincent patted Ryan on the shoulder, "come to me first, we must restore your identity first." ”
Mei Li said: "Can he go like this? ”
Jasmine took two potions and said, "This is a powerful nutritional supplement, so if you feel exhausted, use one." ”
Vincent took it and said, "Don't worry, I have wine and meat, and I'll be alive after eating and drinking!" ”
Vincent's shop is still the same, but there seems to be more stuff.
Vincent walked over to the shelves full of clutter and said to Ryan, "Help." ”
The two pushed the shelves aside, and Ryan realized that behind the densely stacked shelves, there was a dark room. Maybe that's why this shelf is so full.
Vincent turned on the light in the dark. It's like a workshop, with a workbench filled with all sorts of instruments, tools, and displays on one side, and shelves stacked with stuff on the other.
"This is where Lao Tzu really works." Vincent smiled, sat down at the workbench, turned on a light overhead, and held out his hand, "Come on!" ”
Vincent opened one of the instruments he had in hand, the small light on which seemed to be emitting some kind of interference, and then he opened the lead cloth that Ryan had wrapped around his bracelet.
Ryan was amazed to see that Vincent just picked up a thin metal rod and swiped it on a spot on the bracelet, and the bracelet opened.
"Where did you get that?" Ryan picked up the thin metal rod.
"Don't move, this is a meal guy, and it cost a lot of money." Vincent took the metal rod back.
Ryan also once wondered if the bracelet could be opened. When he was a child, he had to adjust the size of the bracelet once a year, but at that time, they were sitting outside the window, putting their hands into a hole, adjusting it, and then taking it out, and he had never seen how it was done. He had been curious about it for a long time, so much so that he had fiddled with the bracelet countless times, but he never got the point.
Looking at Ryan's appearance, Vincent said, "Don't think about it, it's just an electromagnet, but only with this thing," he shook the metal rod in his hand, "can it be demagnetized, otherwise, even ten cows will not be able to pull it away." ”
Ryan looked at his wrist, he had never seen this part of his skin, it was a snow-white and delicate ring, after twenty-three years of covering, like a newborn, as if it was not a part of this body.
Ryan saw Vincent turn the bracelet over, revealing a small hole inside, he inserted the metal rod into the small hole and pressed it, the small light on the bracelet flashed, and then Vincent opened the screen in front of him and began to operate on it.
"You're ...... Importing data? ”
"Hehe, yes, during your absence, you need to cover this part with safe data."
"Where's the security data?"
"Heh, you don't understand this, if someone wants to buy data, someone will sell it."
Ryan seems to see a huge underground industrial chain.
"Why, Mr. Reporter, do you want to write about this?"
Ryan could hear the sarcasm.
"The bracelet records almost all of a person's privacy, including his body data, work and rest rules, and even the number of times he has sex, as well as his course of action, what he says, and the information he receives and processes every day, some people want to know, some people want to hide, and some people want to modify. Of course, this is not allowed, but it does not mean that everything that is not allowed does not exist. Vincent said.
Ryan said, "Then the time I'm away ......"
"You're this bracelet." Vincent opened the drawer next to him, and there was a bracelet inside, "I just need to make sure that the data on this bracelet is normal." ”
"How can this be guaranteed?"
"It's very simple, let a person with a similar physique to you, wear this bracelet, go from your home to your office every day at work, and from your office to your home during work hours, to ensure that your physical signs are basically normal and your location information is basically accurate."
“…… Where to find such a person? ”
Vincent smiled and pointed to his nose.
"You?"
"Actually, there are people in the Ark who specialize in this, but, for the sake of safety, I didn't look for anyone else."
"This ...... But if you look it up......"
"Ryan, you're like a grain of sand in the sand, as long as you look normal, who will check you if it's okay?"
"But as long as someone stands up and speaks...... Like what...... The people of the Ark Daily? ”
"The editor-in-chief of the Ark Daily has a good relationship with you, right?" Vincent said, "I went to him, and he agreed without saying anything, probably, to say that you are on long sick leave, after all, he doesn't want the people of the Ark Daily to disappear for no reason, and besides, you office workers have always been two points and one line, and they don't interact with each other, who cares about you if you have nothing to do?" In short, everything has been peaceful for the past few months. ”
“……”
It turned out that his disappearance from this world was just a trivial matter.
Ryan said, "Then my child...... How do you do that? ”
"It's very simple, replacing Jasmine's inspection records, of course, it takes a bit of work, but it's not impossible."
"But the doctor knows."
"Then you are underestimating the degree of people's dependence on computers, the computer says it is white, how dare he say it is black?"
“…… Vincent, I thank you very much, but is it dangerous to do this? ”
Vincent looked at it with a pair of calm eyes, "Everything that is not allowed will have risks, of course there are risks, and the risks are extremely high, but isn't this the money we earn?" ”
"Alright." Vincent said, "Now you can be yourself again, like a drop of water flowing silently into the sea." He picked up the bracelet and squeezed it around Ryan's wrist.
"Nope." Ryan blocks Vincent's hand.
"What?"
"I don't wear it anymore."
“…… What are you kidding! ”
"Vincent, I'm sorry, can I trouble you for a few more days?"
"Ryan, you ...... Let me tell you, how can you do without this, you can't move an inch! ”
"No, Vincent," Ryan stroked the wrist of the light seeker, "and that's what made me feel the freedom I had never felt before." ”