079 in Qi Jiu's body felt an unprecedented experience.

The nerve endings became abnormally sensitive, and even the moonlight flowing past me could be felt, and the damp wind could not take away the temperature of the skin, and the soft moonlight became warm, like a white flame everywhere.

The white flame burns, and all the senses are turned into a stream of heat in this burning, and finally pours into the deepest part of the chest.

"079, don't ask knowingly."

Qi Xue replied in 079's tone just now.

079 sighed softly, "I'd like to hear your answer too." ”

It wasn't until the wind stopped that Qi Yan slowly opened his eyes, and the gray-green eyes, which were always cold, finally changed their taste, like a bonfire burning in a frozen swamp in winter, and the green bonfire quickly burned to the entire forest.

The green flame was burning, but silently, quietly and warmly.

"Yes, that's the answer I'd like to hear the most." Qi Yan gently curled the corners of his lips and closed his eyes again in satisfaction.

The moonlight danced on his eyelids like tiny bubbles rising from a petri dish in his subconscious.

Qi Ji had the illusion that he was sinking in the moonlight, but some real emotion was rising with small bubbles, and was about to surface.

If death can stop the time of a living being, then Qi Jiu's time has been suspended on his eighteenth birthday.

In this longest day, he experienced death and returned to his "hometown", about to witness his birth.

Perhaps there is something more important -

079: "Will humans fall in love with themselves?" ”

Qi Jiu: "Well, humans call this narcissism. ”

079: "Really? It feels really good. ”

Qi Jiu: "What? ”

079: "Qi Jiu, I like you. ”

Qi Jiu's breathing was temporarily still, and for a moment, he forgot about his breathing.

Everything seems so absurd and bizarre, but it is very reasonable, and it just happens naturally, attracting each other, as if it should be so.

Half a day.

"Well, I see," Qi Jiu's voice was content and calm, "Me too." ”

The wind of the wilderness took away his voice, and the night was unprecedentedly calm.

Qi Zhen fell asleep on the roof of the abandoned research institute's building.

He had a long, long dream, in which he had been trapped like a spider's web by the same blood and fear, and he could not make any waves in his heart in the face of these things that could not make people calm.

He knew it was a journey, with only cycles of boredom and exhaustion on the way, and the road in front of him stretched to the end of the horizon, leading to a calm and boundless pathos.

The other party obviously didn't speak, only the surrounding weeds and wind whispered.

Qi Zhen heard something in the void, and he replied to the other party-

"079, you can stop, I'm waiting for you here."

*

Two days later, Rossetti's staff for the "Canned Rose Fish" arrived at the coordinates of the copy designated by 079, and the unemployed workers were so enthusiastic that they interviewed for jobs at the makeshift reception desk.

This researcher, who only cares about scientific careers, is indeed very unsociable, and after a day of acquaintance, he remembered to introduce himself to the investor Qi Jiu, and let the other party call himself Professor Damon.

"It's amazing, Mr. Qi, these employees you brought have helped me a lot!"

The young professor, who was originally unkempt, had a rare time repairing himself, and he had been preparing for a long time in order to meet the day when the institute reopened.

Qi Zhen: "I hope my help can help start the android research project as soon as possible." ”

Professor Damon: "This is inevitable, each of them will be competent for the next division of research projects, so that our research efficiency will be greatly improved." ”

Qi Yan smiled: "Thank you for your hard work, I'm looking forward to it." ”

"Is the initial data I provided qualified? Will there be an impact on the research project? Qi Yan asked again.

He has already invested the 079 humanoid data stolen from the main system into the android research and development project, and this data will become the first test product of the institute.

Professor Damon's eyes lit up instantly: "After my observations and calculations, the initial data is perfect, and it is no exaggeration to say that this is the most perfect combination I have ever seen." ”

"Can you tell me where you got your data from? Because it's so perfect..."

"Thanks for the compliment." Qi Yan politely interrupted the other party's inquiry.

Professor Damon was stunned, and soon realized that his question was too abrupt: "Sorry, I didn't mean to offend, just out of curiosity about the perfect thing..."

Qi Yan smiled: "Professor Damon, I am looking forward to your work. ”

Professor Damon was very efficient, and in the week after the recruitment was completed, everyone was fully engaged in the rebuilding of the institute.

The plan was progressing in an orderly manner, and half a month later, the "Don't Dream of Electronic Sheep" android project was officially launched, and the cold data gradually became a "living form" soaked in the laboratory.

In order to give the android a real life, Professor Damon decided to conceive the first test from the bionic embryo.

Because of this, in the subconscious dream, Qi Yan could feel the nutrient solution that enveloped him, and the self who was wearing a white research coat and walking towards the glass petri dish.

Of course, all the funds that need to be consumed behind the R&D plan are borne by 079.

Qi Yan also joked to the other party: "I don't know if you can take out the money you have in the canteen meal card in the copy of "Rose Fish", otherwise it will be too much of a loss, and the balance will not be eaten for eight lifetimes." ”

079 laughs: "It's like we only have eight lifetimes." ”

"But the food in Rossetti's copy tastes quite average, although the ingredients are very sufficient." Qi Ji said thoughtfully, "Hey, 079, how many survival coins do you have in your permission card?" ”

079: "I didn't count, but it was enough to feed us and the cats." ”

Their "conversation" took place on an ordinary afternoon, when the summer rain had receded and the whole wilderness was filled with the unique smell of autumn.

The wild weeds were dyed with autumn colors, as the institute became lively, and there were more paths for the workers to tread in the wilderness.

Qi Jiu and 079 walked on the path of the wilderness, and in the low forest not far away, a berry that ripened in autumn grew, and the thorny vines were dotted with blood-red fruits, and the berries had a unique and natural fishy sweetness, tasting like untreated blood brew.

In autumn, ripe berries spread like a red tide across the withered wilderness, and people don't like their strange taste of being as sweet as blood, but Qi Jiu, who has a hidden blood lineage, likes to use berries to satisfy his cravings.

Just after 079 finished saying "enough to feed us and the cat", a milky "meow~" suddenly came from the depths of the withered yellow grass.

"Meow~"

Qi Yan immediately stopped his progress and turned around in the direction where the sound came from, he took a light step and stepped on the dry grass carefully, trying not to alarm the little thing that made the sound.

"Meow Meow~"

The voice got closer and closer, and Qi Zhen tentatively shouted: "Little Ash? ”

After all, 079 mentioned before that there is only one cat in the "Rules Illustrated Book".

He suddenly had a strange premonition that this wilderness with an abandoned research institute as the starting point of the cycle was likely not only the place where Qi Yan was born, but also the place where they met and adopted Ash.

Obviously, 079 and Qi Zhen thought of one thing: "I said that Xiao Ash is an existence as old as me, and that is the result of data testing, but since I really met it and officially adopted it, based on the original timeline, it was exactly eighteen years, before I entered the Rose Fish Copy, Xiao Ash suddenly touched me in the Dying City, and he looked like he had to be coquettish and sticky, maybe..."

"Perhaps... The little gray cat is not just your cat, from the very beginning, it was the cat we adopted together! Qi Yan said suddenly.

At this moment, there was a squirming sound from the depths of the grass, and a little milk cat came out of the dry grass.

"Meow meow!" The little milk cat showed its small sharp teeth, pinching its throat and barking at Qi Jiu.

Qi Yan tried to reach out to the little milk cat, and the little milk cat immediately couldn't wait to rub it up, making a "purr" sound of satisfaction.

Qi Yan smiled: "Are you hungry?" ”

"Meow!" The little gray cat's eyes immediately widened, staring at Qi Yan greedily, and a tail with a small hook flicked around expectantly.

079 sighed softly: "It's obviously set up as old as me, but I still have to deliberately grow into a little milk cat to make people laugh." ”

Qi Yan exchanged a small dried fish from the system, watched the little milk cat bury his head in the pit and eat it repeatedly, and smiled: "What does it matter?" After all, no one can say no to a kitten. ”

The dry wind in the autumn field blew, and Qi Ji simply sat on the dry grass, patiently watching the little ash that had not yet grown cheeks eat the small dried fish in the jar little by little.

"I see, 079, it seems that we have found the answer," Qi Zhen folded a piece of dry grass around his fingers, "It's not that even Little Ash can't tell us apart, but for it, we are both its parents, because we adopted it together." ”

Nineteen years ago this autumn, they found a little gray cat in the wilderness in front of the institute that had just woken up from its slumber, and it came out to forage for food as a little milk cat, and met Qi Yan and 079, who were collecting berries in the wilderness.

The little gray cat smelled the familiar "cat smell" on Qi Yan's windbreaker, so he let down his vigilance and came over to beg for food.

This was the real beginning of "cat ownership".

Qi Zhen speculated that after they went back and forth to reality in order to solve the bug, the little gray cat who had no one to take care of naturally found 079 who was still on vacation in the city on this timeline, so there was what 079 said about being "touched by the cat".

"That's great, it turns out that Ash was my cat from the beginning."

Qi Yan rubbed Xiao Ash's head affectionately and hugged it, "Let's go, Xiao Xiao Ash, there will be enough canned food in the future." ”

Chapter 242: Replicants (4)

"Meow meow!" Little Gray, who looks like a milk cat, happily erects her tail, and the tip of her tail is shaking back and forth.

"You can't be too fat, though!" I have seen the fat little gray, and now I feel very delicate when I look at the milk cat Xiaogray, Qi Zhen knocked on the kitten's head and admonished.

In this way, in this late autumn approaching afternoon, Qi Research and 079 will be the little gray belt research institute in their infancy.

Qi Yan made cat rice for the little gray cat every day, and while watching the little gray cat eat and scream, he sighed with some emotion: "I didn't expect you to eat the cat meal I made when you were so young, and I don't know if you still remember the taste you eat now when I cook it for you again in 19 years." ”

"Meow~" Xiao Ash rubbed Qi Yan's palm coquettishly, expressing his satisfaction with the current food and life.

Qi Zhen didn't know what Xiao Ash was thinking, probably the little cat didn't need to think about too complicated things, it was enough to have delicious food, only human beings who were distressed by themselves cared about the passage of time and the change of seasons.

But Qi Yan still couldn't help but ask the cat who was immersed in eating: "Little Ash, do you know that there are two people living in my body?" ”

Xiao Ash narrowed his eyes slightly: "Meow." ”

As one of the oldest data settings in the main system, there's really nothing to hide from Ash, even though it's a cat that eats and sleeps.

Qi Yan gently scratched its chin: "When we go to another world to do a mission, do you remember to go to him, someone who looks exactly like me, his code name is 079, that is, another guy in my body, you know?" ”

The little gray cat's eyes widened suddenly, and it stared at Qi Yan for a moment, and then meowed twice in frustration, indicating that it understood.

Even its tail that had been raised high hung down, and it seemed to have a premonition of something.

079, who saw all this with Qi Zhen's eyes, sighed: "... At this time, Ash seems to like you more. ”

Qi Yan picked up the cat and squinted his eyes comfortably: "Don't be sad, that guy is very rich and can eat cans every day." ”