"So when are our guests coming?" found that after waking up in the driver's seat of the taxi, Qi Yan had already guessed that the guests who would be picked up later were probably Nian Nian and Mrs. Xu back then.

079 replied thoughtfully, "Is that peddler of mung bean ice worse than the cake in your refrigerator?" ”

Qi Yan was stunned, and then smiled: "But last time you said that the cake tasted good." ”

As he spoke, he glanced again at the neighborhood behind the iron gate, and noticed that the young Mrs. Xu was turning out of the staircase, followed by a young girl wearing a hat and a mask, the girl was hiding with her head down, as if she didn't want people to see her now.

"Little nephew, it seems that mung bean ice can only be bought for you next time, our guests are here."

Not long after Qi Yan finished speaking, the young Mrs. Xu pulled the reluctant girl into the car: "Master, please take us to the Municipal Women's and Children's Hospital, thank you." ”

"No problem, please fasten your seatbelts." Qi Yan glanced at Mrs. Xu and the girl from the rearview mirror, the girl's eyes were red and swollen from crying, although she had tried her best to control her emotions after getting into the car, but the tears still couldn't stop falling down.

She grabbed the car seat with her pale hand, as if she was gaining strength through such an action, and then looked at Mrs. Xu with a pleading face: "Mom, can we not go to the hospital?" Don't take him away, please, I know what's at stake, I've also consulted a lot of information, and I've learned a lot of examples, so it's not a brain fever, I'll be responsible for him and myself, I really want to keep him, okay? ”

Mrs. Xu's lips were stretched into a straight line, and she was silent for a while before replying: "Niannian, I have already said what I should say, you are young now, and you don't know what this child means to you. ”

The girl's hands were very pale, but because she was too hard, her fingertips and joints were unusually pink, she covered her stomach tremblingly and curled up, begging: "Mom, I know what he means, and I also know what it means to be responsible, I will be twenty years old after my birthday, and I can legally earn money through my own labor, and I can be responsible for my own decisions, please..."

"Niannian, obedient, I am for your good, and for the good of our family," Mrs. Xu raised her voice slightly, took a deep breath and said, "Don't talk about these useless anymore, Dr. He from the Municipal Women's and Children's Hospital is my old classmate, no matter the technical character is very reliable, you can rest assured to take it off, and you will be grateful to me for making decisions for you in the future." ”

"Yes, you are for this family, in order to live in the evaluation of others and your own face! You didn't listen to what I said! I made this decision not for the sake of others, but for myself, and I knew what I wanted! The girl said hysterically.

Mrs. Xu frowned: "But I'm your mother, you have to do what I say!" ”

At this point, the girl stopped pleading with her mother, and in silence she wept, curled up helplessly in the back seat of the car, her hand pressed on the door handle, as if considering whether to make a final decision.

When he heard the conversation between Mrs. Xu and Nian Nian, Qi Yan had already thought of something he could change at this point in time.

——The quickest and most effective way to prevent evil spirits from entering this house and cut off the source of all misfortune is to make up for Niannian's biggest regret in the past 19 years, and change Mrs. Xu's insistence on letting her take out the child.

And the easiest way to convince Mrs. Xu is to let her know what she will experience in the next nineteen years if she follows the current plot line.

"Hey, little nephew, don't you know how to dream? I'm going to ask you for something later. Qi Ji asked 079 in his heart.

079 understood what he meant: "Do you want Mrs. Xu to see in her dreams the nightmare she will experience in the next nineteen years?" ”

"Yes, because of the nightmare of your arrival, that's what she said." Qi Zhen replied.

Letting Mrs. Xu retract her thoughts and let this child who has been fully considered born into the world will become the biggest turning point in this copy story.

"Since we are in a cooperative relationship, naturally there is no problem, but, Qi Jiu, I have one thing in mind."

079 suddenly smiled and said, "If Niannian's child was born in the copy, is this child the same age as you in reality?" ”

Chapter 234: The Data Thief (4)

After a short silence, Qi Yan smiled: "If it weren't for the memory of me being nurtured by laboratory utensils, I would almost think that this child was me." ”

"079, maybe I'm just like you, and I'm not a naturally conceived lifeform." Qi Ji said thoughtfully.

"Wrong," 079 corrected, "Qi Zhen, you're a living being, and I'm not. ”

"I'm just a string of data that exists in the Rulesbook, and it doesn't appear in the real world as you would say." 079 said in a calm voice.

Qi Jiu: "That's hard to say, maybe the boundary between the real world and the "rule book" is not so clear, maybe as early as 19 years ago, the two have already influenced each other. ”

079 didn't speak, Qi Yan continued to say in a chatting tone: "My existence may be the result of the penetration of the two, isn't it?" ”

He smiled as he spoke, "So, 079, you're more than just a string of data. ”

079 also smiled: "That's right, after all, I already have a human body as a container." ”

"Tsk."

The car drove out of the narrow alley outside the community, Qi Yan left his hands free and handed over the steering wheel and accelerator to 079.

It was a strange feeling, he could feel the touch of his fingers gripping the steering wheel, and he could feel the wind blowing in through the window, but the car was controlled by another person, as if he were driving autopilot.

"I feel like driving a few more times, I can learn to drive with you, and I don't have to bother you in the future." Qi Ji joked that he was pleasantly surprised by such a novel experience.

079: "As far as I know, in your world, you have to get a driver's license to drive. ”

Qi Yan sighed again: "Yes, when I pass the third department, I will report to you as soon as possible." ”

It's amazing to talk to this guy who doesn't exist in the real world about the rules of the real world.

Seeing that the time was almost up, Qi Yan took out the crystal ornament that the witch had given him earlier from the inventory and dropped a few drops of the witch's concocted sleeping essential oil on the crystal green fluorite, and after placing the essential oil crystal diffuser stone, Qi Yan put the special herbal tablets under the base of his tongue to prevent himself from being affected by the sleeping essential oil.

The essential oil molecules immediately diffused in the air, and a unique smell mixed in the cedar base notes, Qi Yan rolled up the car window, and in the confined space, the fragrance became intense.

But the witch's power in concocting essential oils is that the fragrance that passes through her hands is strong but never annoying, and can even paralyze the human olfactory system, so that the sensory organs cannot send signals, so that they can better manipulate each other through smell.

Mrs. Xu moved her nose and suddenly asked Qi Jiu, "Master driver, what kind of fragrance agent is used in your car?" The taste is quite unique..."

Qi Zhen pretended to introduce enthusiastically: "My friend is an aromatherapist, she personally concocted the essential oil to give me, our driver is too tired to drive day and night, and the body consumption and strain are relatively large, so she specially prepared this essential oil, saying that it can relieve fatigue and relax the mood." ”

"If you think the smell is too strong, I can leave the windows open." Qi Yan also deliberately emphasized.

At this moment, Nian Nian, who was sitting in the back row, had stopped sobbing, her body that had been trembling was quiet, and she was leaning on the leather seat relaxedly, looking much calmer than before.

Mrs. Xu yawned, and the whole person calmed down instantly, and the resentment blocked in her heart dissipated unconsciously.

"No, no, it smells so pleasant..."Mrs. Xu completely relaxed, she leaned back to the seat with half-squinted eyes, "If it's convenient, can you give me a contact information?" I'm just too tight every day, and I want to buy some essential oils with your friends that can tone the body and soothe the mood..."

Qi Jiu: "No problem, I'll give you your contact information when I send you to your destination, you still need to be focused on driving." ”

Mrs. Xu: "Thank you." ”

After responding, Mrs. Xu and Nian Nian both fell asleep under the effect of essential oils, and only by letting Mrs. Xu fall asleep could it be convenient for her to dream.

"Good night and good dreams."

Through the rearview mirror, Qi Yan said lightly, and then said to 079 in his body: "Little nephew, I'll leave it to you next." ”

"Okay." 079 finds a parking space and parks the car on the side of the road, and then he invades Mrs. Xu's dream in his own way, and according to Qi Jiu's plan, Mrs. Xu, who falls asleep in the back seat of the taxi, will start a nightmare that will last for 19 years.

"Hey, little nephew?" Qi Yan screamed tentatively, but found that after the other party entered the dream state, there was no way to talk to him.

Qi Jiu, who had not received a response for the time being, had the illusion that the other party's soul had quietly left his body.

From time to time, there were pedestrians and small vendors walking by on the side of the road, they were in a hurry, and the sound of cars on the road was constant, but Qi Zhen suddenly felt very quiet, and the surrounding hustle and bustle could not hide the silence at the moment.

Noisy dead silence.

Qi Yan leaned back in the seat and sighed very softly, he turned his gaze to the rearview mirror, and said to himself as if passing the time: "What, it seems that evil spirits are not omnipotent, such as not being able to drive while dreaming." ”

Qi Yan lowered the concentration of the essential oil of the diffuser stone slightly, and then simply sat in the driver's seat and closed his eyes to recuperate.

But now he doesn't seem to want to rest very much, and all kinds of strange thoughts come to his mind.

On this summer afternoon, Mrs. Xu had a nightmare about the next nineteen years in the back seat of a stranger's taxi. Is she also in her dreams at the moment?

What is a dream? What is the reality? Is the line between dream and reality really so clear?

What is the difference between the rules illustrated book and the real world? Could it be that this group of players was originally the aborigines of the city, in order to escape the reality of the collapse of order in the city, and then collectively had a dream about the real world, in which they were real-world players from afar......

The rambling imagination is mad, and Qi Ji decides to open his eyes and stop thinking.

Just then, another vendor selling mung bean ice walked past the taxi, and his enthusiastic shouting pulled Qi Yan back from his chaotic fantasies.

Qi Yan rolled the window: "Please bring me a popsicle, thank you." ”

The vendor quickly took out a mung bean popsicle from the foam box: "Okay, it's a total of one coin, thank you for your patronage." ”

When he heard that the vendors used survival coins as the price unit, Qi Yan instantly sobered up.

Perhaps this is the difference between the real world and the Rules Book, where the traveler's life is the only currency in circulation.

Qi Yan leaned back on the leather seat, the figure of the popsicle vendor carrying the foam box went away, and the cries of mung bean ice were gradually inaudible.

He wanted to wait for the 079 guy to come back and eat ice together, but the weather seemed to be too hot, and after a while, the mung bean ice in Qi Jiu's hand began to melt, and the sweet syrup dripped down the wooden stick, sticking to his hand.

Don't wait.

Qi Zhen thought, wait any longer, the mung bean ice has melted.

Qi Ji simply ate this mung bean ice by himself, although the popsicle has been half melted, and the taste is not as good as just taken out of the freezer, but the popsicle is still a nostalgic taste in summer when he was a child.

For some reason, Qi Zhen remembers that winter is mostly in the past, and summer is always short and hurried, perhaps because the welfare home that adopted him is located in a northern city, and the most important moments of his life occur in winter.

Such as his birth and death.

After eating the popsicle, he waited for almost an hour before 079 came back from Mrs. Xu's dream: "It's been a long time, right?" ”

"It's a shame you missed the mung bean ice." Qi Yan said with a smile.

079: "Will you buy another one later?" ”

Qi Jiu: "It's going to make a stomach." ”

"Tummy? I haven't experienced it. 079 suddenly became a little curious.

Qi Yan immediately stopped: "Don't be curious about this kind of thing, believe me, I can't agree if you don't believe it." ”

079 had a slight regret in his tone: "Okay. ”

Qi Yan suddenly laughed.

"What's wrong?" 079 asked him.

Qi Yan shook his head: "It's nothing, it just feels like it's very everyday now, and experiencing daily life with a high-ranking guy like you is absurd, isn't it?" ”

079 also smiled: "Perhaps, more absurd things are yet to come." ”

Mrs. Xu finally opened her eyes from the back seat of the car, and she looked out the car window in a trance, waking up from a long, lonely nightmare, and the hustle and bustle of the summer afternoon in front of her seemed like a world away.

Through the glass of the car window, Mrs. Xu saw her young self, and the glass reflected her nineteen years ago, and at this moment it is also the reality after waking up.

Sitting beside her was her living daughter, Niannian.

After a dream of nineteen years, Mrs. Xu's eyes suddenly tided, returning to the beginning of the story from the end of the tragedy, although her face was young, but her eyes were much more vicissitudes than when she first got into the car.

Mrs. Xu suddenly turned sideways and hugged her sleeping thoughts, and her tears couldn't stop popping out: "I'm back... It's back..."

Nian Nian, who was held in her arms, was a little at a loss, and she rubbed her eyes in confusion: "Mom, what's wrong?" ”

"Did something happen?" Seeing that Mrs. Xu couldn't stand the tears, she felt inexplicable at the same time, and at the same time, she was a little panicked.

Mrs. Xu did not answer her question immediately, but turned to the driver's seat of the taxi, and her voice was hoarse with anxiety: "Master, have we arrived at the hospital?" Is it there?! ”

She seemed to remember that she was on her way to the maternity and children's hospital with her daughter.