You Huo and Qin Jiu's health was so good that they recovered surprisingly quickly. After the last bottle of drip was hung up, their physiological monitoring data showed no abnormality.
While admiring, the director brushed the top of his bare head with his fingers and said: "The process still has to go, and the full body examination arranged for you still has to be done. Who was that before, Gao Qi? He boasted that he was ten as soon as he got out of bed. It is not a problem to go off-road for kilometers, but what is the result? The next day, if you have a fever, you will have a fever, and you will continue to hang in the water.”
Gao Qi, who was far away in the army, sneezed three times in a row, not knowing that he had already been established as a model.
"The observation period is one week. For this week, you can still stay in the hospital with peace of mind. Our conditions are very good, the scenery is good, and the people are very supportive." The director said earnestly: "You are currently in the review period, of course, This is also a process issue, and it does not mean to deny the credit. We all know that the review period will be at least a few months. It does not mean that you can end the review immediately if you go a few days earlier, so I am here to maintain my health honestly. , All right?"
Before the two of them spoke, the director smiled and said, "Okay, that's it."
Confused: "… "
"Hey, so the data is useless, you need to rest for a while when you look at your face." The director added another sentence, and then put the pen back in his breast pocket, grabbed the thermos cup, turned his head, and ran away.
This middle-aged and elderly friend has never been so agile and vigorous.
You Huo sat on the head of the bed with a blank expression for a while. He didn't even have to turn his head, he could see Qin Qiu smiling all the time from the corner of his eye.
"What are you laughing at?" he asked angrily.
"It's nothing." Qin Jiu coughed and straightened his face, but he still couldn't hide his smile, "It's just that we suddenly found out that our big examiner is not good at such nagging middle-aged and elderly people. I feel like you are tucked under the quilt. I got a hammer, I wanted to swing it with one hand, and I had to press it with the other."
You Huo was silent for a moment, then pointed to the door with his chin and said, "Go away."
Qin Jiu smiled even deeper, leaned over to kiss him on the edge of the bed, and said, "My legs are numb, I'm sorry."
***
Although the director is naughty, he arranges the work efficiently. Not long after, the little nurse who was in charge of taking them for the examination came and led them to the inspection center in the next building.
It took nearly an hour before and after the inspection.
When You Huo came out, the elevator door on this floor happened to open, and a figure shouted "brother" and launched himself.
You don't need to look at your face to know it's Yu Wen.
Lao Yu shouted in the elevator, "Don't knock him back when he just woke up!"
So Yu Wen's launch trajectory forced a sharp turn and threw himself on the corridor chair.
He grabbed the chair and stopped himself, grinned at You Huo: "Brother, Brother Qin."
It was obviously winter, but he was sweating all over his forehead, like a steamed bun that was just out of the oven.
Youhuo gave a "hmm" and asked, "You guys came here?"
"Neither." Yu Wen slumped on the chair like a dead dog, gasping for two breaths to explain, "I just ran for a short distance, the hotel we stayed in is just one street away, about 700 meters, very close. Mainly I have to drag Lao Yu."
The days of surviving in the system were long and torturous, but the time to convert them into reality was very short. The old Yu father and son were only affected by a limited amount. They were discharged from the hospital within a week, and have been living nearby since then, waiting for You Huo and Qin Jiu to wake up.
"I just received a notice from the hospital that I can come to see you. I guess I'm awake." Lao Yu came over and wiped the sweat from his forehead with a tissue. He pointed to the inpatient building and said, "We were going straight over there. We happened to meet the little nurse downstairs. She said that you have come here for a medical examination. Are you waiting for it now, or is it already done?"
"It's done, wait for the report." You Huo said.
"Oh, quite fast." Lao Yu nodded.
He went around to the self-service machine to read the report number, then went around again, sat down on the nearest chair, and listened to Yu Wen's whirring complaint.
Yu Wen said: "Brother, do you know, we used to come every day, and we were stopped downstairs by the inpatient department every day."
"why?"
"Because the intensive care unit here doesn't allow visitors." Yu Wen raised his chin and began to blow, "Me, and Lao Yu, my grandfather and I are people who lived in the intensive care unit anyway, who would have thought that it would be easy to get out and hard to get in. ."
Lao Yu listened for a while, then interjected at the right time: "Don't listen to this bastard's blindness, the hospital's regulations are like this, and it's not intentional not to let you see. No, let us know immediately if you can visit."
Yu Wen was not annoyed by the tragic demolition, but instead laughed: "Hey, I'm not really complaining, isn't this an exaggerated performance, to relieve my brother's boredom."
When he said the second half of the sentence, his tone sank. He supported a carefree Erlang leg and stretched his waist backwards. And when he sat upright again and stopped talking so exaggeratedly, his entire body showed the temperament of a young man.
Lao Yu suddenly realized that this bastard was really an adult.
Youyou asked them: "When will you return to Harbin?"
Yu Wen said, "What are you talking about, brother? You are still in the hospital here, so why should we go back?"
"No one is looking for you?"
"Yes, a few high school buddies invited me to a party, and my roommate asked me when I would return to school." Yu Wen said, "Fortunately, my emergency contact number is the mobile phone number of my high school buddy. He probably thought I was skipping class. Slip out to play, help me block."
Lao Yu sat up straight and glared angrily.
Yu Wen covered his face with his elbow and said, "No, I can explain it later."
"It's not... You were drunk for three days and didn't know the east, west, north and south. I'll leave your phone number. If there's anything I'll call you back later, it may not be of much use."
If it was before, Yu Wen said this kind of thing righteously, how can he say it with heart. Now it's vague, the second half seems to be swallowed in the throat, and it's over soon.
Lao Yu opened his mouth, his expression embarrassed and guilty.
Yu Wen scratched his ears and cheeks for a while, and said, "Hey, that's not what I meant either. I meant that before, but it's gone now."
Lao Yu sighed and was about to open his mouth.
Yu Wen interrupted: "Stop, I'm most afraid of this sensational part. Anyway, don't drink it in the future. You will suffer a lot if you drink it. I'll change the contact number back when I go back to school. Is that okay?"
"Okay." Lao Yu nodded.
"You set up a document." Yu Wen pretended to be going to look through his backpack.
"Fuck you." Lao Yu slapped him on the back with no force.
Yu Wen threw away Baole.
He said to Youyou: "Fortunately, it didn't take a few days. Our Laoyu family doesn't have the kind of relatives who have to meet every three days. Several drinking friends have come to Laoyu and thought we would send you by the way. to Beijing."
Lao Yu nodded and said, "The follow-up explanation is handled by someone anyway, and we don't need to worry about it."
They chatted a few more words, and Yu Wen's cell phone suddenly dinged.
Confused by the habit of no one looking at people's mobile phones, he turned his head to talk to Qin Qiu, and just after saying a few words, he heard Yu Wen exclaim in a low voice.
You Huo and Qin Qiu raised their eyebrows and looked over at the same time, only to see Yu Wen holding the phone and sighing for a long time, as if his energy had been sucked up by the monster.
"What's wrong?" they asked.
Yu Wen took the initiative to show them the screen of his mobile phone.
You Huo glanced at it, it was a chat interface, and there were four lines on the interface:
You have become friends with "You Have the Ability to Flip Books"
You have the ability to turn the book: are you
Yu Wen: Xueba, I am Yu Wen.
You have the ability to turn the book: ... Who is Yu Wen
Chat is over.
Qin Qiu looked a little funny and asked him, "Are you searching for that primary school bully?"
Yu Wen raised his finger and said, "Brother Qin, wait, I'll show you."
He flipped through the phone, found a photo, enlarged it for You Huo and Qin Qiu, it was a string of characters mixed with English and numbers.
"This is the account that Di Li left for me. He said that he can be added when he comes out, and he will be taken care of in the future." Yu Wen poked his finger at the screen and said, "I counted it. This number has 22 digits, and it's still numbers and English. Mix it up. But look, is this the number zero or the letter o? Is this the number 5 or the letter s? Is this the number 6 or the b
Youhuo looked at the string of dog-crawling characters, and finally couldn't help asking: "Written by hand?"
Yu Wen: "Ang."
When he was done, he laughed angrily.
"Hey, Xueba! How dare you believe that Xueba's words are so ugly?" Yu Wen looked tired: "I'm trying all kinds of possibilities, this is the six times that I have added the wrong person, I will try to successfully add it before I die. Come to him."
Youyou glanced at him.
Yu Wen received the meaning of his brother and laughed at himself: "Is it quite mentally retarded?"
Youhuo gave an "um" and said, "You took out your phone at the time, why didn't you let him type?"
Yu Wen: "… "
Yu Wen: "..."
The fool suddenly lost his vitality, collapsed on the chair, and uttered a sentence for a long time: "It's stupid, he and I are both."
Just when he was quite dead, the phone dinged again.
Yu Wen rolled his eyes and sat up, muttering, "Ding, ding, ding..."
As soon as he finished speaking, he stared at the phone and called out "Fuck."
"What's wrong?" Qin Qiu asked.
Yu Wenyi jumped up and shouted, "He lied to me!!!"
He turned the phone over and saw two more sentences on the chat interface.
You have the ability to turn the book: forget it, stop playing, lest you block me.
You have the ability to turn the book: what about people
Yu Wen tapped heavily: Hello, you and this user are not friends, goodbye.
He typed to the window, leaned against the railing and started a mutual loss battle with the person on the other side of the screen.
As soon as Huobao's son left, Lao Yu took over the conversation and chatted with You Huo and Qin Qiu.
He is still not good at chatting with his nephew, the content is bland and simple, and it is not interesting, it is nothing more than some unnecessary household gossip.
But it doesn't matter, the word "homely" is enough.
***
Lao Yu and his son stayed in the hospital for two hours until the end of the visit time. After that, You Huo met another acquaintance - Wu Cheng, his former attending doctor and one of the participants in the entire system project.
It was a thin and steady-looking middle-aged man whose hair had turned silver-gray prematurely, and he looked one round older than his actual age.
In Wandering's impression, Dr. Wu is actually a bit rigid. The young doctors were a little afraid of him, the nurses were also a little afraid of him, and even Yang Shu said that he was quite afraid of this mentor.
But when he saw You Huo this time, he showed a gentle and apologetic smile.
He said: "Originally, I wanted Wu Li to come together. With her as a buffer, it may be easier for me to speak. But firstly, she and Xiaoyang are still recuperating, and secondly, as an unqualified elder , should have some courage to take on mistakes."
In fact, after Qin Jiu and You Huo woke up, they communicated with the troops and knew almost everything inside and outside the system—
As they deduced, the original project team leader of the system was Duden Liu, who had cooperated with the military many times when he was young, and participated in the design of countless things. As soon as it came out, it was handed over to Duden Liu, which was almost a matter of course.
But everyone forgets that Duden Liu is old.
Some people will think about things that they would not think about when they are young, such as life and death. Sometimes these thoughts make people look forward and backward, always wanting to leave something behind, or to prolong life, or to prove that they existed.
Duden Liu is one such person.
Therefore, his concept was biased from the very beginning. He was not designing a fine training screening system, but was constructing a world, a world that would allow him to continue to exist, but this world also had the function of screening and training at the same time. .
The difference between the two sounds big, but it's actually very subtle.
Except for the leaders of the project team, almost all of them are young people. Most of them can't understand Duden Liu's hidden thoughts. After all, their lives are still very long and very long.
But there are a few exceptions, wandering mother is one of them. She is in poor health, like a candle in the wind that can go out at any time, so even if she is young, she can empathize with Duden Liu.
These exceptional researchers became supporters of Duden Liu's hidden idea, sharing the secret and keeping it together. Each of them left their own "shadows" in the system, and these "shadows" became the later "S group".
When all these people pass away, the system already has a framework and flesh and blood, and the work after that is to adjust and improve.
Wu Cheng's initial contact with this project can be traced back to a long time ago. As an expert consultant in medicine, he will help solve related problems, but he does not intervene in the design.
His real involvement was actually in the past few years. After the system got out of control, he stepped in with the support of the military and was one of the main personnel responsible for the aftermath.
Because when it comes to solving the system, outsiders can hardly get involved. All external interference may cause the system to fall into self-closure, completely cut off the connection with reality, and become an independent space under an independent dimension. In that case, the people inside will never be able to come out again.
Therefore, there will be death squads, and there will be those who take the initiative to enter the system with tasks.
Wu Cheng has many things to do every day, but in the final analysis, there are only three things—
protect innocent victims;
Keep the soldiers who entered the system because of the mission;
Save the researcher.
They have a whole system that can track patients admitted to any hospital, and can also provide help and treatment remotely.
Through this, they found almost everyone who could possibly be pulled into the system.
Those who die in the system, the reality is very bad, almost brain dead. And Wu Cheng's task is to keep them alive, even if there is only the slightest hope.
According to the director of the intensive care unit, the worst part is in this hospital, sleeping in a specially designed ward, and Wu Cheng comes over every once in a while.
But they have so far shown no signs of sobering up.
Youhuo thought about the scene of meeting Dr. Wu again, but he didn't expect the other party to apologize to him.
Wu Cheng said: "I'm ashamed. When I was giving you treatment, I speculated on your position with a very narrow idea. We detected signs of activity in your eyes, and the last time it was very close. I We take it for granted that you and the system are still one, so when we found out that you lost your memory, we were even a little fortunate and felt that there was one less troublesome person. We hope that you will not be involved in this matter again, and will not become a stumbling block, so I lied to you and said It was a training injury, not a word about the system."
Youhuo listened quietly and said, "I guessed it. It's okay to apologize, as long as the result is good."
Wu Cheng looked at the young man for a long time, and suddenly felt more guilty. But he knew that a person with such arrogance would not care about this guilt. He said: "In addition to my apology, I also want to tell you that there are 26,921 test takers who entered the system by mistake, plus invigilators and other personnel, a total of 28,114 people, all of which are within our medical coverage, and all of them are No less. Although some of them are in poor condition, we will do our best."
After saying this, he saw the two young people in front of him smile, the smile was not deep, but there was a sense of relief.
He saw the man named Qin Qiu nodded and said, "It's good, then we're not busy."
***
The troop review lasted three months and ended in the spring.
The initial invigilator team headed by You Huo was almost all qualified. They are not only soldiers with excellent personal ability, but also the first batch of entrants to the system. They are familiar with various training and screening mechanisms. After the review, they are directly organized into a special team, responsible for the ability before various international military exercises. Bootcamp.
The death squad led by Qin Zhu successfully completed the task and returned to the team after the review.
The once complicated and huge system has become "a piece of ruins", all design materials and records have been archived, and only a box of program disks is left at the core, which remains in Qin Research's team.
In the turn of the season, everything is finally getting back on track, but there are still some people missing.
For example, Chu Yue.
Her eyes went back and forth, and it was April that she finally healed.
The day the treatment ended was April 17, Chu Yue sat on the bed and heard the little nurse say to her with a smile, "The weather is fine outside, the roses in the sanatorium are all open, and you can catch up with the most beautiful one. "
Chu Yue laughed and said, "Then I'm really lucky."
The little nurse added: "It may be uncomfortable when the gauze is removed for a while. We have adjusted the light, but you may still feel a little dazzling, and you will see all white. Believe me, it will be fine soon. "
Chu Yue smiled again and said, "It doesn't matter, it's common for me to be white."
The little nurse thought she was just joking along the lines, but it wasn't. She does see this scene quite often, in her confinement cell.
Whenever the confinement room came into effect, she would see a white, boundless expanse, and she could not see the head from east, west, north or south, and she sat alone in it.
For a long time, she felt that this was a summary of her life, coming alone and going alone. She was most afraid of this, and she was destined to live like this.
She once thought that she didn't care about these things, but every time she walked into the confinement room, the white world would shroud her again.
Just like now, although she said "it's okay", she still subconsciously hoped that the dazzling white would last for a shorter time.
She heard the little nurse's clothing rubbing, the scissors left the iron plate, and the gauze in front of her made a light "click" sound.
Then, his face was empty, and the sense of restraint completely disappeared.
She tried to open her eyes at the nurse's reminder...
That white patch lasted for a very short time, unexpectedly short, so that before she could react, she saw a blurred figure.
The light penetrated in, and the vision became clearer and clearer, and she finally saw the world around her—
It is no longer white fog, but people, many, many people.
She saw A, 001, Gao Qi, Zhao Jiatong, Lao Yu and Xiao, Yang Shu, Wu Li and Shu Xue...
At that moment, she suddenly thought of a word: life and death.
But the word is too heavy, and "life and death" always seems a bit tragic. She hopes that these people will never have anything to do with "tragedy" again.
Then... best friend.
Chu Yue thought.
If it's a bit bland, put a word in front of it.
On April 17, she took off the gauze and opened her eyes. There was a group of people waiting for her outside the large glass. They were her lifelong friends.