Wandering awakened at the end of that year, and after the emergency treatment was over, he was transferred to Munich, where he continued to recuperate.
After another four months, Qin Jiao, who was repeatedly hovering on the line of death, finally escaped danger and opened his eyes in the medical center within the system.
For this sudden change, the system issued an announcement to explain it as a serious bug, and then placed all candidates in the rest area, and the invigilator in the invigilation area, closed all examination rooms, and carried out the longest self-examination and adjustment in history.
After the restoration period of the main control center passed, the system reached out to the invigilator, all the original rankings were abolished, and all the serial numbers were messed up.
Chu Yue was removed from the title of invigilator and transferred to the most remote resting place. She was not surprised. After all, she and A discussed the fate of "rebellion" a long time ago. Other invigilators who are familiar with them will be far-tuned, and they will be relegated.
The system seems to be suffering from paranoia, moving around, and the most moving are the initial invigilators, because they are the people who are most familiar with it.
As a result, rumors continued in the proctoring area, and everyone was guessing what happened, what happened to Examiner A and Examiner Gin.
In view of the fact that the two are always incompatible with the outside world, in most people's guesses, it is always one person who does something, while the other person tries to stop it, and ultimately both loses. There are also a very small number of people who say that they may join forces at a critical moment.
Until the system successively removed the traces of examiner A, and set Qin Zhu's ranking as 001, all speculations finally came to an abrupt end.
Because there is no need to guess, this result can explain everything.
Before leaving the medical center, Qin research has become a thorn in the eyes of many initial invigilators.
Gao Qi, a former friend of examiner A, was a drunkard all day long and was confused. Once he drank too much and almost made a scene in the intensive care ward. He quickly mixed himself into the tail of the crane in the invigilator, number 1006.
Soon after, the system selected a group of candidates from the candidates to join the team of invigilators. A girl from the military academy opened her mouth and asked to go to the 001 group, but she was not able to do so. She was finally assigned to the ninth group, and entered the invigilator's upper area with a person's entrustment, number 021.
A month later, Qin Jiu was discharged from the hospital and became the new chief invigilator. The system selected the second batch of new examiners from the candidates, and the system fragment released by Qin Research was mixed in. He became one of 001's earliest subordinates, number 154.
A few months later, candidate Wen Yuan was selected as an invigilator by chance, and also became a subordinate of 001, number 922.
From that day on, no matter where the examiner 001 goes, there will always be these two figures by the side.
They followed Qin Qiu and dealt with the daily affairs that the examiner had to deal with, held meetings of innumerable sizes, read records and documents piled up on the screen, and walked through more than 200 examination rooms.
Then one day, at the moment when the examination room was randomly selected, 154 saw a familiar figure among the countless people waiting for the examination. He did not hesitate to set the invigilation target there—
That candidate is You Huo, the examiner A who was removed from the system.
The time in the system is messy.
Often, after ten days in the examination room, when I return to the rest area, the calendar has just turned a page. No. 1 resting place has turned to late autumn, and No. 2 may still be early spring. Only standing on the street in the invigilation area can you see the shadow of the passage of time, because here is the least affected by each examination room, and the sun and the moon are almost the same as reality.
The invigilators are used to this kind of confusion. Where people are, they will count the time according to where they are. They say that they will look at their mobile phones every minute, every day, every day. But when they say "year", it must be based on the timing of the proctoring area.
That night in the mountains, Qin Jiu held a violation notice and pushed open the door of the hunter's cabin in the snow.
The students in the room looked at him anxiously, except for one.
He saw that person at a glance, and under the light of the bright yellow fire, it was like a blizzard of snow.
At that moment, it had been three years since they were separated.
Three years, for You Huo, were countless long days and nights when he was blind, and then more than 700 days spent alone. For Qin Qiu, including those in the examination room and rest area, there were more than 2,000 days in total.
Two thousand three hundred and twelve days, they met in the cold wind and snow.
I thought it was a first meeting, but it was actually a reunion.
…
Memories came flooding in, and all of them squeezed into the chest cavity without a trace, and the heart was sore that it was too full or too heavy.
The fire in the core area was shut behind the door by 154, but the heat wave continued unabated. Maybe the temperature was too high, and the fire just now was too intense, stabbed people's eyes sour and hot.
You Huo lowered his head and took a few heavy breaths, clenching his hands down to his side into fists. The air poured into the lungs, but it did not lighten the heart. Satisfaction and pain co-exist, squeeze each other, have nowhere to place, and cannot be dissolved.
He closed his eyes for a while, looked up again, and saw Qin Jiu raised his head, the protruding Adam's apple slid twice between his neck, something deep wrapped around him, like an invisible fire that would soon burn over . Qin Qiu finally looked over, his eyes were red.
Suddenly someone screamed: "Brother, your hand!"
You Huo looked down and saw that the back of his right hand was blood red - the cleaning program that was repeated every 10 seconds started again, and the red light moved over. The back of his hand had just been touched, blood dripping, and at that moment, only Qin Qiu was in his eyes, and he couldn't feel the pain.
Another person's body temperature wrapped over.
"Go out first." Qin Qiu's voice was hoarse and whispered in his ear.
The next second, they stepped on the red tail and crashed into the third door.
The scene in the door is completely different from the main control center in memory. You Huo has not seen the familiar forest, nor the metal fortress with the word NA painted on it, nor the phantom of the city in the distance.
It looked like a semi-enclosed laboratory, with screens and simplified consoles on one side, and a cloud of fog on the other.
"After your incident, the main control center was cut, and the core ones are not here." 154 explained while driving a road leading directly to the rest area at the fastest speed.
Memory recovery is only a moment, but digestion takes a long time. During those few minutes, almost all those with altered memories were confused. Those with smaller changes can still recover, and those with big changes, such as 922, were dragged away by Yu Wen and Lao Yu throughout the process.
They were divided into three batches and finally converged at the third door.
There was also a circle of red in Chu Yue's eyes. She looked at Qin Qiu for a while, and then looked confused for a while, and asked softly, "Are you okay?"
They nodded.
Youhuo heard what he said, and Chu Yue let out a long sigh.
154 took the time to turn around while he was busy, looked at this side and asked something, and he answered.
He and Qin Qiu must have looked so calm that Lao Yu and Yu Wen came over to watch them worriedly for a while, and then moved away with confidence.
But in fact, what they said and did later, you have no idea what to do.
He could only feel a fire standing beside him, burning all the time. Probably the same for him himself.
They just restrained all their personal emotions in front of people and pressed them tightly. It might be too hard for others, but not for them, because long ago, they were doing it every day.
The road to the resting place soon opened, unexpectedly smooth.
154 frowned and mumbled repeatedly: "It's strange, there is no alarm program triggered, and there is no too complicated defense. It shouldn't be..."
Wu Li asked, "How difficult would it be under normal circumstances?"
"That's not what I said. After all, there are usually no people who dare to mess around here. It's not a normal situation. But..." 154 said: "I thought the system would at least open a few additional attack defense programs, but no ."
Along the way, 154 has been clearing traces at the fastest speed. It cannot be ruled out that he cleaned up too timely, and they were lucky enough, so the final qualitative trouble level of the system was not too high, so it didn't take much effort.
But... this possibility is really too small.
154 is more convinced that it was intentional and that it had other intentions.
But now they don't have so much time to think about this. Since they have come this far, it is too late to turn around, and it is not in line with their character. It is better to continue according to the plan.
They passed through the fog one after another, and in the process, 154 hung a heart. Fearing that halfway through, the system suddenly woke up to cut off the passage and spread them apart.
It didn't, they still went well.
Everyone came out of the thick fog and saw silver-gray high-rise buildings, metal towers, and large warehouse-style buildings with some simple row buildings in the middle. At first glance, they looked like school or army dormitories. The courtyard walls were hooped on the outside of those row buildings, and metal plaques were hung outside the walls, with black words engraved: Rest Center Hotel.
Yu Wen and the others came here for the first time. They opened their mouths for a long time before asking, "What number is this resting place? What are you doing?"
154 said: "Number 2, also known as the Armory."
"Did you let us do the equipment?"
"Equipment is one aspect, not just because of this." 154 explained: "It's also because this place is special."
When they were talking, You Huo raised his eyes and looked further away.
There, three high-rise silver-gray buildings sandwich a tower made of steel bars and metal skins, which is the most iconic building here. A long time ago, when You Huo was still Examiner A, he often saw the shadows of these buildings in the smoke.
But not here, but in the former main control center.
Every time I walked through the woods, through the metal mesh, and walked towards the metal fortress in the main control center, You Huo would glance at the sky, where there were shadows of tall buildings, often reminding people of a city shrouded in fog in the early morning.
That phantom is rest area No. 2.
The last time You Huo looked at it from a distance like this was three years ago. He was holding the partial self-destruction program button in his hand. The front was filled with gunpowder smoke, and the back was a large area of blood. He closed his eyes in the skylight, pressed the button, and the intense stinging pain burst into his eyes.
He stooped down at that moment, and a moment later stood up straight again. He pursed his lips and opened his eyes in continuous pain. The sky is darkening, and the shadows of tall buildings in the distance have become blurred. He would soon be out of sight, but he knew there was someone waiting for him on the other side of the ruins. He needs to walk over well and take another look before the light is completely gone.
…
"Where's the special?" Yu Wen was still chatting.
"Specially here, you can connect to the main control center, as long as you have permission and know the way." 154 said.
"Really?!" Yu Wen was a little excited: "Then let's get some weapons now?"
154 said: "Not yet, you are all black households now, and the alarm will sound like a piece of music when you enter the arsenal. Find a place to stay first, and give me some time."
He led the crowd around the regular hotel, walked through two abandoned areas, walked to a row of dilapidated buildings and said, "This is the old hotel. It looks dilapidated, but it's actually okay inside. I can run the water and electricity for you."
"Hotel? How did it become like this?"
"Because when these two rebelled, they got a lot of weapons from here and brought them into the main control center. They took the road of the hotel." 154 pointed to Qin Jiu and You Huan and said, "When the system is angry, it will Scrap this place."
"Then can I still go to the main control center from here?"
"It's beautiful to think about." 154 said, "Of course we have to find the entrance again."
"Are you sure there is an entrance?" Yang Shu said, "If it were me, I wouldn't have to kill him."
"So you are not the system," 154 said. "The main control center must ensure that there is sufficient ordnance fire support. For the system, the risk of reopening an entrance is even smaller than before."
"Let's make do with one night here, I'll turn on the shield and wait for everyone."
Everyone went upstairs one after another, and 154 opened all the rooms, and the lights and the sound of rushing water appeared at the same time. Their tense nerves finally loosened, and the long-accumulated exhaustion swept over them.
922 was still at a loss, 154 couldn't stand it any longer and dragged him into a room.
The entire corridor suddenly became quiet, and all the "others" left, only You Huo and Qin Qiu.
The moment the eyes met, the fire burned instantly.
They have known each other for five years from the time when the examinee Qin Jiu took the documents and stared at examiner A, but in fact, these five years were nearly 4,000 days, which is equivalent to ten years in reality.
In the 4,000 days, they spent less than half of the time together in the system, less than 600 days of interaction, and only a handful of them were alone.
There is no one less lover than them.
They slammed into the door and tangled up on the table.
…
Qin Zhuo's long and narrow eyes were half-closed, falling into the shadow of the brow bone and the bridge of his nose, and he could still see the redness of the bottom of his eyes.
Damp sweat dripped down the clear muscle texture and fell on the other person.
Youyou grabbed the back of his neck, panted and arched his waist, his voice muffled in Qin Qiu's kiss again.
Qin Qiu kissed his slightly parted lips, the half-opened wet eyes, the Adam's apple on his neck, and said in a hoarse voice, "I did this four years ago, kissing these places... I actually forgot."
"My big examiner is so good, I actually forgot."
Forgot twice.
One of the times the other party remembered…
You Huo stretched his waistline, clearly feeling his presence, and under his action, there was a mist in his eyes.
He looked down at Qin Qiu while breathing heavily. The light-colored eyes are naturally cold, and at this time, there are two points of lust under this cold feeling.
"Compensate me," he said.
A long time ago, someone touched the corner of his eye and said: Are you still uncomfortable here? After leaving the system, I will accompany you to check your eyes.
Later, this person left for a period of time, and when he came back, he was the only one who remembered this sentence.
Later, when he left the system and was admitted to the hospital one day, the doctor blindfolded him, and even he himself forgot that sentence.
It was only after the long darkness had passed, that on the day when the gauze was removed, he stood by the window of the nursing home, watching the sky light from dazzling to peaceful, and suddenly felt that something was missing around him.
It was the end of the year, and he listened to the nurse chatting next to him saying that the Plaza de la Santa Maria was very lively, but other than that, the rest of the place was deserted, the shops were always closed, and the New Year was coming.
Outside the sanatorium was an empty street corner, and when he looked at it, it sometimes felt a little familiar.
The little nurse asked him why he was distracted, and he said nothing.
He just felt that he seemed to have seen such a quiet street somewhere, and it was clear that there was no one on the street before it was night. It should also be the beginning of a new year. It was snowing outside, and he strode to his residence, as if… he wanted to go back and meet someone.
…
Fortunately, after going around for so long, he still saw it.