Chen Yang's heart was filled with emotion. He didn't know that the mission point was a fragment of the real world before, but now he knew. Isn't this his home? He is home, home.
"Xiao Chen, what's wrong with you? You were fine just now, why are you crying?" The proprietress handed over fried dough sticks and soy milk, her expression surprised and worried.
Chen Yang couldn't stop crying. The huge grief and fatigue overwhelmed him at an inopportune time.
Chao Jian took the breakfast in one hand and left the store holding Chen Yang's hand with the other. They walked through the concerned voices of the old neighbors and the smell of fireworks and stopped deep in a secluded alley.
Chen Yang was still crying, his tears wet his chin. He had never lost control so violently before. This was the first time.
Chao Jian held Chen Yang in his arms, stroking the back of his head and then the back of his neck.
Low threshold, susceptible.
Chen Yang cried until he was dizzy. His emotions were so overwhelming that they almost drowned him.
"I'll take my time." Chen Yang stopped halfway through squatting on the ground. He stood up, grabbed Chao Jian's arm tightly and said anxiously, "Go home. I'll go home first."
"Okay, go home." Chao Jian let him go.
The house was still the same. Everything was the same as what Chen Yang saw before he went out in the morning. There was no change.
Chen Yang was still excited the previous second, but was hit by a feeling of dejection the next second. His red and swollen eyes began to become moist again. His current memories were all false. Who knew if his home was like this before he started the mission.
Chen Yang looked at Chao Jian.
Chao Jian wiped away the tears from the corners of his eyes: "Brother, I have never been to your house."
Chen Yang couldn't help but feel sad: "Is that so."
A cup of soy milk was brought to Chen Yang's mouth. He stared at Chao Jian, his heart beating faster and he was extremely moved.
Chao Jian lowered her head and let Chen Yang kiss her.
Chen Yang rubbed Chao Jian's lips for a few times and said dissatisfiedly: "Why don't you react?"
Susceptible people will become sad and worried because of a small thing, thinking about this and that, and their inner world can't stop for a moment. Chao Jian pinched Chen Yang's chin and deepened the kiss.
When Chen Yang was drinking soy milk, he held Chao Jian's hands, and their fingers were intertwined, showing his clingy nature.
"Chao Jian, is this really exactly the same as the original Sanlian Bridge?" Chen Yang leaned on the balcony railing and looked down. He always forgot one thing, and his memory was unreliable. Only Chao Jian was reliable.
Chao Jian said, "I'll tell you after I've finished touring this area."
Chen Yang's upper body leaned forward unconsciously, and his heels had left the ground. At this moment, an arm suddenly grabbed him from behind and took him away from the guardrail.
At that moment just now, Chen Yang had the urge to jump off the balcony, he wanted to land.
Landing will make him feel safe.
In fact, Chen Yang knew how abnormal he was, but he could not change or adjust himself.
Once the threshold is reached, he cannot enter the final stage. He must fall into the emotional, psychological, and perceptual climax area, the deeper the better.
Chen Yang took out his phone from his pocket and saw that there was no signal: "This place is the same as the previous mission points. There are only missioners and NPCs. It doesn't feel like a fragment of the real world at all."
"You are a tasker now, and you are here to complete the task." Chao Jian ate the fried dough sticks, "When you change to the identity of a customs clearance person, perhaps you will see something different."
Chen Yang put his phone back into his pocket: "What about you? What do those mission points you saw look like?"
"You and I share the same ID number, and what I see is the world through your eyes." Chao Jian said it lightly and nonchalantly, but Chen Yang felt a strong sense of sadness.
Glass heart, Chen Yang thought, I have a glass heart now.
"Are those unfamiliar faces all taskers?" Chen Yang recalled the scene he saw outside the breakfast shop. "There were so many of them, in large groups."
As soon as he finished speaking, there was a knock on the door.
Chen Yang's face changed. It was basically certain that the people knocking on the door were neighbors, but they were NPCs and they would not come to chat.
Here comes the mission!
Chen Yang squeezed the empty soy milk cup hard and rushed to the entrance: "Who?"
A male voice came from outside: "Me."
Chen Yang: “…” He asked cautiously, “Who are you?”
"Xiao Chen, can't you even recognize my voice?" The person outside the door was speechless.
Chen Yang glanced at Chao Jian: "Do you have any memory that matches the number?"
Chao Jian: “No.”
"Then I'll open the door." Chen Yang grabbed the door handle and pulled it open.
A man in his thirties was standing at the door. He was wearing a black work suit and holding a stack of papers in his hands.
Chen Yang didn't recognize him. His eyes swept across the nameplate in front of the man. He was the leader of the scenic area management office. His surname was Liu, and he said Liu Zhi.
Chen Yang was shocked. It turned out that the real Sanlian Bridge was a tourist attraction. The whole area was like that. The next moment, his eyelids twitched wildly as he remembered something!
In the mission at the train station, he bought a magazine after entering the station. The magazine was full of scenic spots in Qingcheng, including the Sanlian Bridge. Moreover, the Sanlian Bridge in the magazine had one more place than the Sanlian Bridge in the virtual world.
Right here!
It is very likely related to this mission!
Chen Yang tried to recall the photo of that scenic spot, but he found that he could not remember it at all, as if that part of his memory had been erased.
"Xiao Chen, this is the registration form you filled out last week." Liu Zhi handed two sheets of paper to Chen Yang, "It's approved. Gather at the west side of the memorial hall at 2 pm. Remember to come. I have something to talk about."
Chen Yang took the two registration forms and looked at them. They were signed in his and Chao Jian's handwriting.
Chen Yang was not surprised by this and he quickly looked through the information on the registration form.
"In three days, the annual tourism festival will be here. Let's work together this year." Liu Zhi said gently, "Okay, let's do this for now. You guys get busy."
Chen Yang raised his eyebrows. The mission is in three days
"Knock knock" Liu Zhi was knocking on the door opposite, and soon the door opened from the inside.
Chen Yang glanced casually and bumped into his neighbor across the street. They both said in unison: "It's you!"
The neighbor is an acquaintance, Miss Qiao.
Miss Qiao is a visual feast every time she appears, and this time is no exception. She has big wavy hair tied up with a thin hairpin, and a light-colored cheongsam underneath her dark green windbreaker.
The collar of the cheongsam was buttoned up, wrapping her slender neck. Instead of looking conservative and dull, it made her look more seductive.
"Xiao Yangyang, we are destined to meet each other despite the distance." Miss Qiao joked casually.
Chen Yang's reaction was a little big. He knew that the person living opposite would not be a literary youth, but he did not expect it to be an old teammate.
"Sister Qiao, have you met other taskers?" Chen Yang asked.
Miss Qiao crossed her legs and tapped her shoes in the air a few times: "I just got here."
"Is Sanlian Bridge a place in the real world?" She casually looked around the living room, her eyes falling on a photo frame. It was a photo of Chen Yang and Chao Jian. "Is this your home?"
The living room was full of signs of two people living together. Chen Yang did not hide it: "Yes."
"Well," Miss Qiao tapped her legs with her black-polished fingers, "because of the mission point this time, the mission participants will face two situations. One, if you are from Sanlianqiao, you will live in your own home. If you are not from here, you will live in a random house and become a member of a certain household."
Chen Yang nodded in agreement.
"It seems that we are neighbors during the mission." Miss Qiao did not intend to discuss in detail. She just said this and stood up.
After walking a few steps, Miss Qiao turned around and smiled charmingly: "By the way, I didn't expect to meet you here. I didn't bring anything with me, so I owe you a gift for being single. I'll make up for it when I go out."
Before Chen Yang could react, Miss Qiao walked away gracefully in high heels, leaving behind a scent of mature perfume.
Miss Qiao was very selective when teasing people, so she avoided Chao Jian and didn't say a word. That kind of distance was not intentional, but because they were really unfamiliar with each other.
Chen Yang thought too much. Chao Jian, who had not been reset, was like a reference. As long as he knew someone but didn't know him, it meant that the other party had been reset.
During the mission in the small town, Chao Jian mentioned Miss Qiao's skills, and it was obvious that he had some understanding of her.
Chen Yang pursed his lips. It seemed that Miss Qiao had been reset twice.
Thinking this in his mind, Chen Yang still asked. He wanted to get an accurate answer from Chao Jian.
Chao Jian just replied with a "hmm".
Chen Yang fell on Chao Jian, and Miss Qiao called him "Little Yangyang", which was a name that both Sun Wenjun and Zheng Zhitan had called him.
Does that mean...
"Miss Qiao and I were teammates before," Chen Yang said with certainty, "and Zheng Zhitan as well."
Chao Jian fed Chen Yang a mouthful of fried dough stick.
Chen Yang said while eating, "Liu Zhi said we should gather at 2pm. It's still early now, let's go downstairs." He wanted to walk around the Sanlian Bridge, and then ask Chao Jian to tell him if there were any changes to this fragment of the world.
The sun gradually rose.
Chen Yang took Chao Jian for a walk and took photos, greeting every neighbor they met.
This was the mission with the most NPCs that Chen Yang had done, and it was also the mission background he was most familiar with. He saw the stage, the folk museum, ancient trees, the lantern festival, the homestay, the Fan Hong Memorial Hall... These places also had the Three-Link Bridge in the fake world, but they were open and not so formal, and they had been renovated.
Moreover, the three linked bridges in the fake world were connected in all directions and people could enter and exit freely, but this one only has one entrance and one exit. There are staff guarding both sides and one has to buy a ticket to enter.
"Nothing has changed in the places we have seen so far," Chao Jian said. "This is how the Sanlian Bridge used to be."
Chen Yang was in this fragment of the world, looking confused: "I don't remember anything at all."
"I'll remember it." Chao Jian held Chen Yang in his arms, not letting the passers-by around see the sadness in his eyes.
When Chen Yang was comprehending life, he faintly heard someone calling him. The voice sounded familiar. He raised his face from Chao Jian's arms and looked around uncertainly.
"Brother!" the shout became clear.
Chen Yang's heart was beating like thunder. He quickly found the target and opened his eyes wide in disbelief.
Chao Jian watched as a man pushed through the crowd and ran towards Chen Yang, as if he was going to pick him up and spin him around a few times.
"Crunch!" Chao Jian clenched his teeth and the milk slices shattered.
Chen Yang felt a chill down his spine and hurriedly explained, "He is Zhang Qi, a security guard at the rehabilitation center and my friend. Although my social relationship with him is fake, we have already formed a bond..."
Before he could finish his words, Zhang Qi had already rushed to Chen Yang. He was very excited, with tears on his bearded face and his arms outstretched, like a father hen seeing his chicks.
Chen Yang pinched Chao Jian's little chirp like a furry cat and said quickly, "Brother Qi, why are you here?"
Zhang Qi sensed a subtle atmosphere. He glanced at Chen Yang and the tall and handsome young stranger, and his eyes became a little strange.
"This is my girlfriend." Chen Yang introduced Chao Jian.
Zhang Qi's jaw dropped in shock: "Brother, you you you..."
I kept saying "you" for a long time but couldn't finish the sentence. I didn't know what to say and I couldn't believe it.