Zhou Ming returned to his bachelor apartment, where everything was still exactly the same as when he left.

Step on the familiar and slightly worn floor, look at the things in the room that have never changed, and listen to the hum of the fan from the computer that is always on.

His thoughts finally calmed down a little bit, and a subtle and indescribable feeling floated in his heart, Zhou Ming stepped over the little debris scattered on the floor, came to the closed window, and looked at the undulating white fog outside.

He stared at the fog for a long time, and then stretched out his hand and pushed the window, of course, the window did not move, and the flour on the windowsill and the few cans that were deliberately pushed and folded did not remain in their original state, as if they were silently conveying a lonely and silent atmosphere to himself.

For a long time he stood quietly in front of the window, as if he were looking at the thick fog, but he didn't think about anything in his head, and he didn't know how long it was, and then he suddenly blinked, like a stone sculpture that had awakened him, and turned his head to the side.

Next to the unpacked bed, the computer monitor on the desk is glowing slightly, the unconnected prompt box still pops up in the lower right corner from time to time, and the notebook that took notes when I left before is still thrown in the corner of the desk, which note has not been used by me for a long time

Turn.

Zhou Ming walked over, sat down at the desk and looked at the empty screen in a daze, then reached out and dragged the keyboard and mouse that he had pushed to the corner before, clicked on the browser, and typed a line of text in the search box

The browser certainly doesn't give any valid search page.

After pressing the enter key, the cursor on the screen flashes a few times, followed by an error page with a lost network connection and an unresponsive remote server.

This result was naturally expected, and Zhou Ming knew from the beginning that he had already used this computer in a brittle state to make various attempts to contact the outside world a long time ago, when the dense fog had just sealed the room.

He didn't expect that this time there would be something different on the screen than before, he just wanted to type out that sentence without asking Ren Keren, and he didn't expect any answer.

Listening to the monotonous fan buzzing in his ears, Zhou Ming exhaled, threw the keyboard and mouse back into the corner, then took the notebook, opened it to a blank page, leaned down and wrote on it seriously, causing the world outside the fog, the people in the room greeted you.

It would not be long before I arrived on the other side of the door to this place, a city-state on the frontier, and I went there to confirm something, but even if I didn't, I think I already knew the answer, for there were countless of the most unimaginable things happening in that strange world across the door, and my instincts there had always been very accurate.

Based on this, I don't expect a response beyond the fog, or someone knocking on my door or window through the fog, and I'm still not sure what's going on in the world, but maybe ...... It's not me who suffers the change, it's you in my quiet and cramped cabin.

Everything was the same as before, I had a bed, a sofa, a coffee table, a desk, a chair, my wardrobe next to the bed, and a big shelf, which was still mostly empty.

I haven't cleaned my room for a long time, there's very little dust here, and I know that most of the dust in human dwellings comes from skin debris and pollution from human life, and I don't spend most of my time here.

So most of the place here is actually still very clean...... But even if there was no dust, the room was a bit cluttered now, because I had been in a hurry when I returned to the room a few times before, and I hadn't packed up my things before leaving.

It's always messed up, it's not good...... If everything is as I think it is, I think I should keep this room clean and tidy.

Other than that...... Maybe I shouldn't have said that, maybe it doesn't make sense anymore, but I hope you're all right beyond the fog. Good bye...... Now I'm going to clean this room, Zhou Ming exhaled softly, threw the pen back into the pen holder, carefully read what he had just written, and then closed my notebook and put it in the corner of the desk.

Then he got up silently and began to do what he had planned in his notebook, cleaning and tidying up the room, starting with the slightly messy bed, playing with the quilts, pillows and sheets, then things on the table, things on the coffee table, then wardrobes, bookshelves, and clutter on the sofa and floor.

There wasn't much dust and no need to mop the floor, so he simply wiped everything off the surface of the furniture with a piece of paper and threw him in the garbage basket.

At the end of the last view, Zhou Ming came to the window, he silently looked at the things on the windowsill, and after standing for a long time, he reached out and put the tools that he had tried to use to open the window, including hammers and wrenches, into the toolbox on the side, and then put the stacked cans and kita sundries where they should be placed.

Then he wet a tissue and grabbed him with his left hand and pressed it against the windowsill, he stayed in this position for a full ten seconds, and finally took a deep breath and slowly wiped the window sill, the flour that had been used to confirm that someone had opened the window and entered the room was wiped clean in the moist paper, and now the room was clean and tidy.

Zhou Ming exhaled, calmly looked around the room, confirmed the fruits of his labor, and then picked up a bag of garbage that he had just picked up, the black plastic bag was not very heavy, because most of it was some waste paper and empty cans, but when he picked them up, he still felt that the bag had some weight.

He carried the bag of discarded things to the door of the bachelor's apartment, opened the door, and the black and churning fog was as high as ever, undulating in the doorway, and the thick fog seemed to hide all the secrets of this world, but it was too chaotic for reason to find out.

Standing in front of these surging black fogs, Zhou Ming hesitated for a moment, then raised his hand and threw the bag of garbage into the fog, and the moment the plastic bag was taken off, he had a strong urge to drag the bag back.

It's as if those waste paper and empty cans are the only treasures left in this world, and he is the only gambler left in this young world, trying to keep every gram of material in this room.

However, this impulse was finally suppressed by him, and he opened his hand and calmly watched as the bag fell to the other side of the door, disappearing into the churning mist in an instant

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He knew that those things would not reach the other side of the door, that only he could reach the world as Duncan, and that everything else would disappear into the swirling mist as he passed through the door.

Now that the things that should be discarded have completely disappeared into the world outside the room, Zhou Ming wiped his hands and took a step forward, ready to leave this place, on the other side of the door, Alice was still waiting for him to have dinner.

But just as he was about to step through the door, there was a faint sound that caught his attention, the sudden increase in the speed of a computer fan.

Zhou Ming stopped instantly, retracted his steps and looked in the direction where the sound came from, and on the computer screen that emitted a faint light, the interface that had previously displayed the interruption of the network connection and the unresponsive prompt of the remote server was flickering.

Then the prompts suddenly disappeared, and immediately after, the loading progress bar at the bottom of the page turned from red to green and began to slowly move forward.

Zhou Ming felt that his heart was beating as if it exploded at this moment, and the feeling of breathing permeated the waste, and the next second he slammed the door shut, and rushed to his desk in an instant.

The loading progress bar at the bottom of the browser interface is still moving forward, the faint green seems to be slow and firm, and the spreading fire is on that originally blank page, and the content that was loaded really appeared, it was a picture.

Zhou Chrome stared at the picture that was gradually emerging, the moon...... It seemed to be a direct view from a location in space, showing the moon floating in the darkness of the universe, its grayish-white exterior covered with craters forming furrows.

It seems that there are many strange and light and dark lines, even if he is not an expert in astronomy, Zhou Ming is extremely familiar with this classic image.

And he confirmed once again that the picture he had seen in Tiriambel's office was indeed the moon...... The details are exactly the same, and it is obvious that only one person who has seen the moon with his own eyes can depict a figure that can only be depicted by carefully tracing it at close range.

Zhou Ming slowly sat down on the chair, leaned back, and stared at the image of the moon that occupied almost the entire screen, and it took a long time for his gaze to move up to the line of text he had just typed into the search box.

Does the world beyond the fog still exist?

He was silent, and it took a long time before he suddenly woke up from the state of being like a stone sculpture, and quickly took the keyboard next to him, and typed new words into the search box, which was the answer!

This is who gave the answer!

After quickly typing out these II questions, Zhou Ming stared at the computer screen in front of him, but no one responded, and no new patterns or loading bars appeared on the screen, only the cursor was turning in place in a dull manner, like a silent and dull eye.

Aside from the muffled sound of a fan spinning in his mouth, the only sounds of his own breathing and heartbeat were left in his ears again.

Moments later, the image of the moon on the screen was refreshed due to a failed loading, the interface returned to pale, with only one line of text remaining, and the network connection was interrupted or the remote server was not responding.