"79, what's going on?"

"When we go out this time, we only need to send you to the welfare home when you were a child, if you exchange all the survival coins, it will be too wasteful."

When asking, Qi Yan had already guessed what 079 was thinking, and just wanted to confirm it.

"Tsk, it's so clear, are you afraid that your new husband will forget to go home after he returns to reality?" Qi Zhen made a little joke.

079 thoughtfully: "This does need to be considered. ”

The two smiled in unison.

"Where did you transfer the rest of the Survival Coins?"

"Rosefish Factory's cafeteria meal card."

Qi Jiu: "... Sure enough, the wool came out of the sheep. ”

[The system has detected that you have checked your survival coins, please confirm whether to log out of the "Rules Guide"]

As 079 said, after pressing the [Return to Reality] button, the system will first exchange the Traveler's Survival Coin for health, and then make the final confirmation.

The system pops up a confirmation screen [Please make the final confirmation immediately: whether to leave the "Rules Book" Yes/No]

According to the previous plan with 079, they unlocked the function of exchanging survival coins for real-world survival time by applying to leave the scam of the "Rule Book", and once they got enough time to act, they did not operate when the system popped up to confirm the departure, so that the system was stuck in the last link, and then took the time that had been exchanged to leave through non-serious channels.

In this way, you can redeem the time, and you can also avoid the checks that you have to go through from the regular means and avoid the steps of the system to amnestically erase the traveler, killing two birds with one stone.

The sound of the system became more and more urgent, and finally turned into an alarm -

[Please check out the "Rules Book" immediately!] Please check out the "Rules Book" immediately! Please check immediately...]

Qi Jiu, who had already obtained the 168-hour survival limit, said apologetically: "I'm sorry, system teacher, I may be about to disappoint you." ”

"The next time we meet, please forgive me for being rude-"

The sound of the sirens became more and more distant, and finally it was completely engulfed by the surging undercurrent.

Countless tiny bubbles rise from the bottom of the water, making a gentle cracking sound, like a group of underwater creatures whispering in their ears, welcoming the little life that is about to be truly born in the real world, and welcoming the beginning of this cycle.

Through the slow sinking, Qi Zhen can clearly sense that the system is moving away.

Like all beings identified by the main system as contaminants, he continued to sink in the bloody vortex until he was completely expelled from the "Rules Book".

Qi Zhen hid in the safe house set up for him by 079, he did not feel the negative effects of the filthy mass on human flesh, it was safe, reliable, and gentle and calm.

In the sea of the Siren, there is a damp green as far as the eye can see.

When he was held up by the undercurrent, he recalled the feeling in the petri dish of the Replicant Research Institute, where the consciousness of life awakened in the solution, sprouted, and sprinkled like a dandelion on the vast earth.

Through an invisible layer of glass, he knew that someone was staring at him, a gaze that had been there since before he was born, gentle, attentive, and passionate.

He watched him be created in the lab, watched him grow in solution, and he was doing everything he could to protect him, send him safely to a fresh world, let him grow there, and then return to the place where they were created to find him.

He is 079, his bride.

The water is gradually receding, the sound of bubbles bursting is fading, and the sound of howling wind covers everything.

Qi Jiu's senses were waking up little by little, as if a person who had been asleep for too long had just woken up, and he needed to readjust himself to the real world.

- The plan went well, and he finally returned to the real world intact.

It's a cold winter afternoon, and vast expanses of snow are blowing in our faces, lead-gray clouds are low on the horizon, and rows of bald birch trees stretch their dead branches to the edge of the city.

Ruined buildings fill every corner of the city, chimneys work non-stop, and trains rush by, honking their horns towards the northern snow.

This is a familiar and unfamiliar city for Qi Zhen, and it is also the place where his memory begins.

The real-world coordinates connecting the pollutant discharge outlets of the "Rulebook" turned out to be the city where the former site of the welfare institute was located.

According to the time of the real world, Qi Yan was born on this day.

- Eighteen years ago, on February 22nd.

The little Qi Jiu in his arms seemed to feel the cold, and began to cry, Qi Jiu tried to shake and coax a few times, but the weather was too cold, even if he tried very hard to wrap it in a windbreaker, the baby in his arms did not stop crying.

Qi Ji found that he had changed back into the iconic black trench coat at some point.

"079, after you get to the real world, can your space still be used normally? It should be warmer to put the child inside, he is too cold. ”

Qi Yan proposed, but 079 in his body did not answer.

“079？ What's going on? ”

Qi Yan waited in silence for a few more moments, and he began to realize that something was wrong, so he carefully confirmed again: "Hey, 079? Are you still there? ”

"Are you still in my body?" His voice was soft and a little shaky.

The sense of uneasiness spread, and Qi Yan began to be afraid.

In case of... What if this question is never answered?

Chapter 251: Replicants (13)

"Really, how can anyone be absent from their honeymoon? What an unqualified bride..."Qi Ji complained as he rubbed the scar behind his ear with his ring finger uneasily.

The scar behind the ear was rubbed red by him, and Qi Zhen tried to dispel his anxiety in this way.

He was a little unfamiliar with the emotion of "unease", which humans have long taken for granted, and he understood it, because there were so many restless people in his life, who were anxious, restless, and even irritable.

But Qi Yan has never felt so deeply empathy.

Xiao Qi Jiu, who was held in his arms, seemed to realize something, stopped crying, and curled up quietly in Qi Jiu's arms at this moment.

As a result, the surroundings seem quieter.

Qi Jiu, who didn't wait for the newlywed bride to respond, stood in the falling snow, his face flashed a little dazed, he delusionally felt that he had lost his hearing, all the sounds around him disappeared at once, but the snow falling silently was quiet and noisy.

The noise of silence swept over him, and the buzzing in his head distracted him a little.

Even his fingertips lost sensation, not knowing if he was standing in the snow and ice, or if the premonition that 079 had disappeared from his body made him tingle with fear.

This is the first time that Qi Yan has truly experienced fear, and this kind of taste is not pleasant, he muttered in a low voice: "Really, the first time I actually gave it to this guy." ”

As long as you turn your anxiety into complaining, the surroundings will not be so quiet.

"Huh? What first? Also, is his new wife 'this guy'? ”

079's voice suddenly rang out in his body, as he had done in the past year in the Rules Book, and the tenant who had lived with him in the same body answered his question.

Qi Yan was stunned for a moment, he even forgot to breathe when he got the other party's response, and after a short loss of voice, Qi Yan suddenly laughed.

The time that had been pressed the pause button began to flow again, and the surroundings became lively again, and the ice and snow melted suddenly.

079: "What are you laughing at?" ”

The tense nerves in Qi Yan's whole body gradually relaxed: "079, not only are you late, but you also have a lot of problems. ”

079 sighed: "Are you impatient with your wife on the first day of marriage?" ”

Qi Yan also sighed: "What about you?" Playing disappear on the first day of marriage? ”

Both of them laughed, and it was clear that 079 had only disappeared for a few minutes, but there was a feeling of reunion between them after a long absence.

Qi Jiu: "079, what happened in the few minutes when you disappeared just now?" ”

079: "I don't want to admit it, but leaving the Rulebook through the main system's pollutant release port would have had a big impact on my existence, so I fell asleep for a while. ”

"In the past, this kind of influence couldn't really hurt me, but because the existence of the bug has greatly weakened my energy, I have become so weak." 079 said helplessly.

Qi Zhen knew that the reason why he was able to leave the blood pool vortex unscathed was precisely because of the protection of him by the "Kraken's Safe Domain", but the safe house itself relied on 079 to support it, and all the damage caused by pollutants fell on 079.

"However, Qi Jiu, I think you can also understand that we have to do this now, because your body is our common container, and without your body as a container, I will decay faster," 079 said in a calm voice, as if it wasn't a big deal, "You can interpret my temporary disappearance as a bad signal, or that I'm asleep, and this situation will appear in the future, I can't guarantee that I will be awake all the time, but I won't give you a chain at a critical time, Qi Jiu, you can rest assured." ”

Of course, Qi Ji knows very well that they only have this one choice at the moment, if they don't bring Xiao Qi Ji back to the real world from the "Rule Illustrated Book", then the cycle will not be able to start, and Qi Ji will disappear from his own timeline.

Qi Jiu: "Yes, I know. ”

After a brief pause, he lowered his voice and asked, "So... Will you disappear? ”

079 didn't intend to hide the truth from Qi Ji: "If the bug continues to be unsolvable, it will, not only me, but the entire "Rule Guide" will collapse, just as you predicted before." ”

The answer was not unexpected, but the moment he heard it, Qi Yan still subconsciously took a deep breath, and he seemed to be trying his best to digest his emotions.

"079, thank you for not lying to me." Qi asked.

079: "You'll see if you lie to you, won't you?" ”

"That's true," Qi Zhen smiled, "how much time do you have left?" ”

079 thought for a moment and said truthfully, "It's enough for us to spend our honeymoon in the real world, and enough for us to go through the test of a pollutant release port again." ”

Qi Yan nodded: "Okay, I understand." ”

The way in which partners find various reasons to hide and claim to be good for each other does not apply to them, they are both partners and partners with the deepest bonds, and honesty is also part of the responsibility for their partners, after all, the other person has the right to know as a partner.

Spread out all kinds of problems and troubles with each other, and then communicate together to find the best solution, which is a mode of getting along that both people recognize.

"Oops, I suddenly thought of something..."Qi Jiu was rarely embarrassed, and his steps froze.

079: "What?" Remember, the survival coins in the "Rules Illustrated" are not common in the real world, right? ”

"Yes, I had some change with me before I entered the "Rules Illustrated Book", but the money was in my pocket at that time, and I left that dress at home in the Dying City..."

Just as the Survival Coin is the only currency in circulation in the "Rules Illustrated Book", in the real world, it is difficult to move an inch without money.

079 suddenly smiled: "Qi Jiu, you touch the inner pocket on the right side of the windbreaker." ”

Qi Yan already had a hunch, he touched his pocket as he said, and sure enough, a thick stack of money appeared in the inner pocket of the windbreaker.

Qi Yan smiled: "When did you put it in?" ”

079: "When you give me access to your body." ”

Qi Jiu: "Where did you get the money?" ”

079: "There are so many travelers coming in from the real world every day, 99.99% of them can't return to the real world alive, and the money they bring in naturally becomes garbage, which I used to dispose of, so..."

"Good guy, it turns out that you have inherited a hundred inheritances," Qi Yan said with a smile as he carried a thick stack of money, "It seems that I am married to a rich wife." ”

With this stack of money, everything is much easier.

The little Qi Yan in his arms was frozen again, and Qi Yan first went to a baby product store to buy thick clothes, and after wrapping the baby, he chose a nearby hotel that looked very good for warmth, hygiene and sound insulation.