Xu Youyuan really had something to do, and it was an urgent matter that she didn't expect at all.
Her former colleague Xiao Ke suddenly called her and asked her to come out to chat.
"You know, about that."
Xiao Ke left such a short sentence, which whetted Xu Youyuan's appetite.
This former colleague still works at SQUALL after Xu Youyuan's accident, and is one of the core figures of the "Reshape the Universe" project, the leader of the second development team. When the vehicle incident happened that year, she was also the docking person.
Xiao Ke was recruited by Xu Youyuan herself to join the company, and she was very important to her. Before the accident, she was one of Xu Youyuan's right-hand assistants. After the accident, the person who quickly left the relationship with Xu Youyuan was also the fastest. she.
After Xu Youyuan left SQUALL, many people removed her from their contacts in order to protect themselves. Xu Youyuan was also disappointed, but think about it from another angle. Others also have their own careers and families to take into account, so it is reasonable to do so. .
It's just that things have changed during this time.
With the crazy rise of holographic games, a new generation of holographic games represented by "Dark Chamber" has begun to launch a violent impact on established companies. According to industry analysis, the SQUALL monopoly that has lost Xu Youyuan will soon be broken. Before 2040, holographic games around the world will blossom, and even break through the existing game logic and have brand new gameplay.
If SQUALL is still holding on to its previous achievements and not making progress, it may be eliminated within five years.
The crisis of SQUALL has once again focused people's attention on Xu Youyuan, who is almost reclusive.
Many media are speculating on Xu Youyuan's current whereabouts. Although Xu Youyuan did not appear in front of the world in a high-profile manner, she did not deliberately hide it.
After working for so many years, she was once on the cusp of the blade. Xu Youyuan knew that there was no impermeable wall in the world. Unless she died, the media would still be able to trace her movements if she wanted to.
There is no point in deliberately hiding, as long as it is low-key.
Xu Youyuan went to Canglu Company to help, and was preparing several game projects. From the very beginning when she took over, she knew that it would definitely be spread. It turned out that she was right, and it was spread.
She is busy, but it's not that she doesn't surf the Internet. Even if those who ridiculed a generation of grandmasters who have no jobs and can only take on these small projects to make ends meet are not posted in front of her eyes, there are still a lot of good people who specifically adore her under these gossips. Wanting to block her heart, she even took a screenshot and sent it to her mailbox, for fear that she would not be able to see it.
Xu Youyuan had also cared about what the outside world thought of her before, but when she saw these gossips a lot, she realized that behind their backs, these people had a heart that wanted to make her angry and push her out of the normal track. Xu Youyuan knew that she could never do what they wished, and she must walk on her own path in a down-to-earth manner. After a while, she really didn't mind.
When she began to abandon the cynicism of the outside world and concentrated on the projects on Canglu's side, with the decline of SQUALL and the decline of its influence on the industry, some small companies also began to play Xu Youyuan's idea, wanting to pay cheap She was poached by her salary, and many people have already contacted her on emails and WeChat.
For these companies, Xu Youyuan did not respond at all.
The colder the reaction to the outside world, the more the outside world will discuss her.
Among these game companies that wanted to hire Xu Youyuan, many of them invited her to her former colleagues who had already quit. Xu Youyuan understood that many people had left the original company and sought other development.
Some people originally used SQUALL as a springboard. After they were plated with a layer of gold, they went to small companies to be leaders.
And some people really smelled the crisis of SQUALL in the post-Xu Youyuan era, and took the initiative to leave for career development.
These two groups of people who left the original company brought another thought-provoking news—in addition to them, some people left quietly, or even completely disappeared from the game industry. The young kite is the same.
This incident caught Xu Youyuan's attention three months ago.
She once discussed this matter with Canglu, and Heron also sent people to inquire about it. After inquiring about some leftovers, it seems that it is still somewhat related to the vehicle world back then, but the specific inside story seems to be more tightly covered.
Xu Youyuan didn't expect that Xiaoke would come to find her. The other party did not directly disclose what she wanted to tell her, but Xu Youyuan probably knew that it must be related to the vehicle incident that year.
No matter what her former colleagues did to her, today's appointment Xu Youyuan must go.
The place where the other party asked her was in a Chinese restaurant with a lot of people. Xiao Ke also made an appointment in a place with a lot of people in order to dispel Xu Youyuan's suspicion.
When Xu Youyuan arrived at the Chinese restaurant, Xiao Ke had already arrived and was sitting in the corner.
Xu Youyuan almost didn't recognize her at a glance.
Former colleagues Xiao Ke and Xu Youyuan are alumni, with different majors, five years younger than her.
After all, Xiao Ke has just reached the edge of 30 years old this year. Less than a year ago, when Xu Youyuan left the former company, Xiao Ke was still black-haired and full of youthful energy. Today, I saw that her hair was more than half gray. If she hadn't seen her face, Xu Youyuan would have thought that the person sitting here was an elder.
"Sister Xu..." Xiao Ke took the initiative to greet her. When Xu Youyuan sat down, she saw that Xiao Ke was a little out of shape, and her white hair made people panic.
"What's the matter with you? Are you too tired from work?" Xu Youyuan asked as she sat down.
Xiaoke shook her head, as if thinking of some particularly bad memory, her expression a little painful.
It is still very cautious to come to make an appointment with Xu Youyuan today, and Xiaoke also knows that Xu Youyuan should be cautious. In order to alleviate Xu Youyuan's concerns, Xiaoke did not bring a bag, not even a mobile phone. When Xu Youyuan sat down, Xiaoke turned over all the pockets and showed her to show her sincerity.
After the show, Xiao Ke didn't have the time to think about any opening remarks, and said bluntly, "Although it's not directly related, it's not that my current ghostly appearance has nothing to do with work... Sister Xu, you should be able to guess who I came to see you this time. What do you want to say. The vehicle incident of that year, you were indeed calculated."
Xu Youyuan said while pressing the button of the menu page: "When you developed a loophole and the record of my video was deleted, it was also planned."
Xiaoke admitted: "I do know about this, and I even did it myself. We have a record of communicating with you, so all the operations in the future can be pushed to you, saying that they were all instructed by you. But your There is no video recording of the side, and it was wiped by the person who wiped the butt. When you know this, everything is a foregone conclusion."
Xu Youyuan ordered a few dishes and asked Xiaoke if she wanted rice, and Xiaoke said no. Xu Youyuan added a bowl of coarse grain rice to herself, feeling that today's topic should be very good.
"It took a lot of work to get me out of the game." Xu Youyuan sighed in retrospect, "Unfortunately, in the end, this incident did not make the sales of Reshaping the universe pick up, even though I was a big trouble, said In the end, Liu Feng is still at a loss."
"No..." Xiao Ke lowered her voice again, "His goal has long been out of the game."
Xiao Ke's words completely changed Xu Youyuan's expression.
"Liu... Did he finally start that plan?"
Xiao Ke stopped talking and asked the waiter to help bring a pen over. In this era, who still uses pen and paper, basically achieves a paperless office, and the clerk helped her to find it for a long time.
Xiaoke wrote it on the paper and handed it to Xu Youyuan.
Xu Youyuan unfolded the paper:
"Reshaping the universe is just a fig leaf from the beginning to the end, a trick, what LF wants from the very beginning is to access the neurons of the player and read information from the human brain! The method of directly reading neurons is more than 20 years ago. Smartphone APP stealing user data is more direct and private. Although holographic games are all connected to neurons, but the courage and ability, I am afraid that only LF dares to read the user's brain information illegally. This is an unprecedented Huge cake, LF wants to have it all!"
Xu Youyuan actually knew about this earlier than Xiao Ke, so when she saw these shocking secrets written by Xiao Ke, Xu Youyuan did not show much surprise, and wrote on the paper:
"Isn't LF afraid of being arrested?" When writing these words, Xu Youyuan suddenly realized something, "Could it be that someone in the government is supporting him in this matter?"
Xiaoke didn't take the paper back, she nodded after seeing Xu Youyuan finish writing the line.
No wonder.
Xu Youyuan knew that for any major social event or big news that caused widespread discussion, there must be government intervention behind it. It's not the government's acquiescence, or it's the government's own creation.
Events that are not allowed by the government will definitely not be fermented.
Xu Youyuan should have understood long ago that Liu Feng could have the courage to steal information from the human brain, and there must not be only the power of the S company behind this.
Xiaoke took the paper back and continued to write:
"Even the government does not have only one faction. You know that the government is currently in a stage of competition between two factions. The one behind LF is only one of the factions. Their power is very powerful and mysterious. I just know that there are such a group of people, But it is impossible for me to know who they are. However, I believe that if the true face of LF can be exposed and the crimes of S company are exposed, it will definitely get the support of another faction. After all, the experiments LF is doing now are very important. There could be fatalities.”
When Xiao Ke said this, she pointed to her white hair: "My hair was white because of the experiment, and I almost lost my life. Afterwards, LF gave me a large sum of money, which was considered as appeasement and hush money. But this The fact is too dangerous, I think if I don't speak it out, a crisis will definitely happen in the next five years. This crisis will not only affect you and me, no longer just the game industry, it will be a disaster for the entire human race ."
So Xiaoke took Liu Fatty's money, and still poked it out, which is also very good.
"I know that I betrayed you before, and now you won't completely believe me no matter what." Xiao Ke could also see Xu Youyuan's thoughts, "but I don't need you to believe me, I just don't want more The victim of LF. I took the money from LF because I needed it to live the rest of my life. From now on, I will quit the game industry and return to my hometown to be an ordinary civil servant who may be replaced by artificial intelligence at any time. My destiny. And you, Sister Xu, you created the holographic game, you came up with the technology of reading neurons, and you opened up all of this. So, I think you have the right to know about holography whether you want to stop LF or not. Games are going to bring a great storm to mankind. And you have more right to wash away the stigma from yourself.”
At the end of the line, Xiao Ke gave a coordinate.
Xu Youyuan saw at a glance that this was the coordinate in the reshaping universe.
"The things you want, the evidence to wash away your stigma is still in this place. It's in the most dangerous depths of the game universe that reshapes the universe. It was still there for the time being when I left Company S, as long as Transmission bridge technology does not have a disruptive change in a day, and LF can't remove it in a day."
Xu Youyuan marked this seat in her mind, then tore the paper to shreds.
When their dishes came, there was a plate of roasted chicken, and the small open fire stove was specially ordered by Xu Youyuan. She threw the shredded paper into the stove and turned it into ashes.
The meal was very silent, and Xu Youyuan and Xiao Ke didn't say anything after burning the shredded paper.
After eating, she walked out of the door of the restaurant, and the snow was flying. Xu Youyuan found that Xiao Ke was coughing constantly. Even though she was wearing a thick down jacket, she was still shivering with cold and her face was pale.
"What does it feel like..." Xu Youyuan asked.
"Actually, I don't know the real core principle. I'm just a small person. When I participated in the experiment, I was tempted by the high experimental subsidy." Xiaoke said, "But I can tell you how I feel after the experiment. From the experiment It's been more than half a month now that I have really come out of the experimental scene. And I have come out with the help of others. Outline and organize
"That scene is very confusing, not directly read, but very similar to the game, it traps you in the game like a nightmare, makes you unable to distinguish between the game and reality, and even your brain is deceived. During this long time, the information in your brain will be extracted bit by bit without any defense, and you have no ability to resist at all. It will even set up different scenarios to trick and induce your brain, many Things that may have been forgotten by yourself will be reactivated in the scene. All your memories will be excavated and become LF's commodities!"
Xiao Ke's words made Xu Youyuan horrified. She expected the tip of the iceberg of Liu Feng's conspiracy, but she didn't expect that there was such a terrifying truth beneath the iceberg.
"I'm afraid." Xiaoke hid her face in the collar of her down jacket, "I once wanted to stop this, but I don't think I have the ability. I don't want to enter that terrible game at all... I can only escape ."
Xiaoke stared at Xu Youyuan: "Just like when you left SQUALL, Sister Xu. You brought me into the industry, you nurtured me carefully and treated me so well, but I told the truth when you were forced to leave due to the unavoidable disaster. Don't dare to say... I'm a cowardly person, I admit it. Coming to you today to tell you these things has exhausted all my courage. I don't expect you to forgive me, I... "
Xu Youyuan sighed softly and said, "I have never blamed you. You chose to tell the truth today, and you have broken through yourself."
Xiao Ke's heart was touched by Xu Youyuan's gentle words, and she couldn't help hugging Xu Youyuan, crying silently in her arms for a long time, and her tears had dried up when she left.
"The world may really change dramatically. I don't know whether it is my luck or my sorrow to live in this era." Xiaoke said as she left, "But it is indeed my life, I accept it."
When Xiao Ke's figure was about to disappear into the vast snow, she suddenly thought of a question and turned to ask Xu Youyuan, "Sister Xu, do you believe in fate?"
Xu Youyuan put her hands in her pockets and replied without any hesitation: "I don't believe it, I only believe in myself."
Xiaoke stared at Xu Youyuan for a long time, and finally smiled gratified: "Fortunately, there is still you in this era."
When Xiao Ke left, Xu Youyuan knew that she should never see Xiao Ke again in her life, but what Xiao Ke left her was extremely precious.
that coordinate.
In the depths of the reinvented universe, what she wants is still there...
Everything is still within reach.
The phone vibrated, Xu Youyuan took it out and found that it was Shi Ye's WeChat.
"Xiaoyue saw it."
Xu Youyuan frowned, what did you see
While wondering, another message came in on Shi Ye's WeChat: "We were right next to you just now and saw you hugging that girl, are you alright? Who is that girl!"
Depend on…
Can you take your breath away a bit
Xu Youyuan immediately called Shi Ye and asked where they were.
"After we drank at the izakaya, we originally planned to come here to sing and have some fun. We saw you and a girl hugging each other just after we came here. Why do you think you were so lucky?"
Xu Youyuan was helpless: "Is it so bloody... Where is Shi Yue?"
"When Xiaoyue saw it, she said she was going to go back to rest, and she left after sending us to the singing place." Shi Ye said, "She said she was too tired recently and wanted to go back to sleep for a while, so she didn't accompany her. We played. But yes, she is really tired recently, her eyes are bloodshot."
Xu Youyuan didn't know what to say for a while.
"Are you coming?"
"right away."
When it came to KTV, Shiyue was really gone, and Jiang Yun saw that Xu Youyuan was talking again about the matter with Xiaoxiao. When she was in the izakaya, she drank a lot of alcohol, and when she came to KTV, she would continue to order wine, saying that she would not be drunk or return tonight, and she would be a hero after sobering up.
Xu Youyuan was a little absent-minded. She took out her mobile phone and opened WeChat. She looked at Shi Yue's bright red peony head and wanted to say something to her. After searching for a long time, she felt a little hypocritical.
Should I explain to her that the person I hugged just now was just a former colleague? Does it mean that there is no silver here
But without explanation...
Xu Youyuan was still frowning, but Jiang Yun didn't order any songs, but projected the photos from her mobile phone on the big screen where she sang.
These photos are all old photos they took before, some of them were taken more than ten years ago.
At that time, they were all in full bloom, high-spirited, with collagen on their faces, and even the curvature of their smiles was several degrees larger than now.
Jiang Yun sighed while flipping through the photos, saying that there are no more young people in Japan when the flowers are re-opened, as if after tonight, she is not going to be reborn but to die.
After reading the photos on the mobile phone, I have to go through the photos that everyone has posted in the circle of friends. There was nothing in Xu Youyuan's circle of friends, so she had to look through Shiye and Ah Gan, pointing and pointing with emotion.
Xu Youyuan disliked her at first, but the movement of drinking a drink in her hand suddenly stopped.
"Which year did we go to Japan to take this photo? It's the cherry blossom season, it's really extravagant." Jiang Yun pointed to the screen where a few people were smiling and grinning under the cherry tree, "We were all so poor at that time. Damn, even Sister Bird’s remake of the universe hasn’t started to make money, right… Just because I like it, I’ll go bankrupt and go on a trip. It’s definitely impossible to do it now, it’s so good to be young…”
Xu Youyuan couldn't hear what Jiang Yun was saying. In her eyes, she only saw the line that Shi Ye added above the photo:
"Sister Bird's favorite cherry blossoms, must come"
Cherry blossoms
Miss Bird's favorite
In my mind, Shiyue's global limited cherry blossom bath ball, which was grabbed by the point, came to mind.
"Don't you like it?"
"Why should I like it?"
"You old fish!"
The original cherry blossom stems are here.
Xu Youyuan had long forgotten that she once liked cherry blossoms so much, and traveled thousands of miles for the cherry blossom season.
But there was someone who helped her remember, even to this day.
This little brat... why don't you just say it
Xu Youyuan stood up with her coat in her arms, and was about to go out after opening the door.
Ah Gan said "Hey?" and asked her, "Where are you going?"
Shi Ye patted Ah Rod: "Don't disturb Sister Bird. Sister Bird has an epiphany."
A rod: "?"
Xu Youyuan went downstairs, quickly got into the car, and drove to Nanjiang ONE.
If there is any misunderstanding, it's fine to clarify it face to face.
If she really cared about a person's feelings, she would definitely not let that person misunderstand. Even if there is a misunderstanding, it is impossible to let the misunderstanding stay overnight.
Xu Youyuan wanted to explain to Shi Yue herself that even if there was no silver here, even if it was hypocritical, Xu Youyuan didn't want to make Shi Yue unhappy.
It turned out that life is not just a crowded one-way street. When she rushed forward with her head lowered, there was a gentle gaze following her silently.
The persistent things that I once liked, with the growth of age, many have been forgotten by Xu Youyuan and disappeared in the gap of time. Even the younger self may be buried by time.
But there was someone who remembered the trajectory of her life, remembered all her likes and dislikes.
And this man never said a word.
How on earth did Shi Yue persist until now, never opening her mouth to pray any sweetness
When Xu Youyuan drove to the gate of Nanjiang ONE Su Community, the snow fell even harder.
What kind of idol drama plot is this, it's not suitable for Xu Youyuan, the big sister, okay
Xu Youyuan's car could not enter the community without a permit. She parked the car across the road, walked over, and entered the relative's access password at the gate.
I don't know what Shi Yue's expression will be when she sees her sudden visit.
Xu Youyuan holds a gift in her hand, not a New Year's gift, but a gift that must be given tonight. She believed that Shi Yue would like it very much after seeing it.
No matter how big the wind and snow is, Xu Youyuan's heart is still warm.
"Om", the password is invalid.
Xu Youyuan: "Huh?"
Xu Youyuan didn't know that it turned out that relatives' access passwords were also time-limited, and her group of passwords from Shiye could not open the door to the community.
If you don't want to act in an idol drama, you don't have to freeze me, right? !
The idol drama plot turned into a suffering drama in an instant. Xu Youyuan called Shi Yue, but Shi Yue didn't answer...
Xu Youyuan: "??"
The uncle who guarded the door was poking at Xu Youyuan's back with vigilant eyes, and Xu Youyuan hugged herself tightly, shivering.