Qiu Yanzhi was shocked.
He looked up at Qin He in disbelief, and held the tablet in his hand even tighter. His fingernails almost made deep marks on the tablet screen.
He opened his mouth, his voice hoarse, but tried his best to keep his composure.
"...I don't quite understand what you're saying."
Qin He looked at him fixedly, and suddenly smiled: "Forget it if you don't understand, just think I'm talking nonsense."
Qiu Yanzhi pursed his lips and stopped talking.
Qin He asked again, "Are you really not going to eat with me?"
Qiu Yanzhi shook his head.
Qin He said: "Okay, then I'll go first."
After Qin He finished speaking, he raised his foot and left here.
Qiu Yanzhi looked up at his back. It wasn't until the man disappeared at the end of the corridor that he suddenly remembered something, lowered his head in a panic, and looked at the tablet in his hand.
What was displayed on the tablet was not He Zhou's face, but the furnishings of the restaurant at home.
"... He Zhou." Qiu Yanzhi called out He Zhou's name, with a barely audible tremor in his voice.
The screen on the tablet trembled, as if someone pressed the switch button, and in the next second, it turned into He Zhou's face again.
In contrast, He Zhou seemed to be much calmer than Qiu Yanzhi.
He sat quietly in the chair, his black eyes were very quiet, and he seemed to have no emotions mixed in.
He raised his head and looked at Qiu Yanzhi, and said as if nothing had happened, "Qiu Yanzhi, I just ordered a steak, I guess I can have dinner with you."
Qiu Yanzhi bit his lower lip nervously, and then said, "...Did you hear it just now?"
He Zhou nodded.
Qiu Yanzhi's tone was a little flustered, as if he was eager to explain something: "He Zhou, you are not an imitation, you are you..."
"Qiu Yanzhi." He Zhou said solemnly, "You don't need to explain anything to me."
He paused, then continued, "I know that."
Qiu Yanzhi: "...what do you know?"
"I know I'm an imitation." He Zhou said.
Qiu Yanzhi's eyes widened, as if he was eager to refute him, but as soon as he opened his mouth, He Zhou interrupted him again.
He Zhou: "Actually, the first time I learned that there are people who look the same as me in reality, I had doubts in my heart. Qiu Yanzhi, I am an NPC in the game, and my appearance and my name are all given to me. It is designed by people, and this design can be created through imagination, or it can be reproduced with a real person as a model.”
"Today, when you were not at home, I checked through the Internet and found out that... Part of the information about human He Zhou, he is in the technology industry, and he has developed and invested in a number of different types of holographic games. It is not surprising that an NPC in the game "Dream" was made based on him."
He Zhou paused, and said in a gentle voice, "Qiu Yanzhi, you actually guessed it, didn't you? It's just that you don't want to admit it."
Qiu Yanzhi stayed where he was.
He couldn't refute, he only felt that his heart was hurting like a bee stung.
"But it's nothing." He Zhou said, "Even if I use someone else's name, even if my body replicates someone else's body, the moment I walk out of the game and have an independent consciousness, I'm already out of touch. Come out and exist as an independent person, Qiu Yanzhi, do you think I'm right?"
Qiu Yanzhi was stunned for a moment, then nodded.
He Zhou bent his eyes and smiled, as if he had finally succeeded in comforting: "Then don't stay here, hurry up and eat."
The atmosphere finally calmed down during the meal, and both of them seemed to have left everything that happened just now behind them.
The dining environment of the hotel is very beautiful.
Qiu Yanzhi chose the rooftop on the second floor, and when he looked up, he could just see the sunset on the horizon and the scenery in the distance.
There is a gentle breeze blowing slowly in the air, bringing the scent of flowers in the distance.
Qiu Yanzhi chatted with He Zhou while eating, about the air here, about the crowd here, about a drink on the plane today that was particularly delicious, and about a cat downstairs frowning on the side of the road. very scary.
After finishing the meal, Qiu Yanzhi glanced down at his watch, only to realize to his surprise that it was past the early morning on Hezhou's side.
Only then did he reluctantly say good night to He Zhou: "Go to bed earlier."
"OK, good night."
He Zhou said.
After the video hung up, the smile on He Zhou's lips slowly calmed down.
He Zhou quietly looked at the screen in front of him until it went black.
Then he picked up the plate in front of him and went to the kitchen to clean it up.
After finishing everything, he slowly walked to the bedroom.
In the corner of the bedroom is a dusty holographic play pod.
He Zhou stood there for a while, then turned on the power button of the holographic cabin.
The bedroom did not turn on the lights, only the moonlight reflected from the window, which seemed very dim.
The holographic cabin made a slight noise, and then, the light bar surrounding the edge of the holographic cabin slowly lit up, drawing out the graceful and smooth outline of the holographic cabin, and the lights flickered in the dark corner of the bedroom.
He Zhou stood silently in the dark, and it took some time before he slowly extended his hand.
The cool blue light reflected on his hands, and in the dark night, it almost reflected a somewhat eerie scene.
His slender fingers slowly touched the fuselage of the holographic capsule.
The blue light of the holographic cabin made his fingers more and more cold and white, and from a distance, it looked like a ghost in the dark.
Immediately after.
He touched the tip of the index finger on the fuselage of the holographic cabin, and it slowly became transparent.
The blue light passed through his fingers almost unhindered.
Transparency spreads from the first knuckle.
Next is the entire index finger, middle finger, ring finger, thumb, and then the entire right hand.
It was like the holographic capsule in front of him was going to devour him.
When his entire hand was about to become transparent.
He Zhou's fingertips finally left the holographic cabin and were completely separated from the holographic cabin.
His right hand slowly appeared again.
First flashes the outline, then restores the flesh.
From the wrist, to the back of the hand, to the fingers.
He Zhou lowered his eyelids, his thick eyelashes concealed all the emotions in his black pupils.
His mouth pursed into a line in the dark night, and the blue light hit his face, lining his face with no warmth, like a dead man.
Then he reached out again and turned the power button off.
The blue light flickered, then went out, and the hum of the machine gradually came to a standstill.
He Zhou slowly lowered his head, raised his hand and held the white suet jade hanging from his neck.
The slightly hot temperature ran through the fingertips like an electric current.
He Zhou held the piece of jade tightly in his palm.
Then he was alone, standing in the dark bedroom for a long time.
Qiu Yanzhi went to sc company with Qin He and his team for project negotiation early the next morning.
Qiu Yanzhi had worked for Hezhou's company for nearly a month in the game, and he knew and was familiar with a lot of technical terms related to electronic technology, so his work went smoothly.
When Qin He and the boss of the other company were about to negotiate, he suddenly made other demands.
- While acquiring the other game project, he asked the technical members of the game project to help him deal with another game project.
The other's boss rejected the offer.
Because in the previous online discussion, Qin He only mentioned the acquisition of the other party's game products, and the core technical members of this game will end the cooperation after helping He Zhou complete the local transformation and migration of the game.
It didn't mention that the employees of their company needed to perform other services for Qin He.
Qin He said: "Don't get me wrong, I don't want all your employees, I only want some programmers, and I want to hire them to do a simple game data removal project, and I will give you additional compensation."
Qiu Yanzhi frowned, although he didn't know what Qin He wanted to do, he still translated it to the other party truthfully.
The boss of the other party was obviously curious: "Can you ask Mr. He what complex game data he wants to decompose?"
Qin He leaned back in his chair with some relaxation and said, "I invested in a holographic game with another friend four years ago, but there was a problem with that game, so that game had to stop. Server, now I want to hire a technical member of your company to completely clean up all the data of that game."
Qiu Yanzhi was stunned.
Qin He looked up at Qiu Yanzhi and motioned for him to translate.
Qiu Yanzhi stayed where he was, motionless.
"Qiu Yanzhi." Qin He reminded him softly.
Qiu Yanzhi seemed to suddenly come to his senses, and stumblingly translated to the boss of the other party.
The other party said that this proposal was a bit abrupt, and he needed to think about it again and give Qin He an answer tomorrow.
Qiu Yanzhi was still a little uneasy until he returned to the hotel.
When he was about to open the door, Qiu Yanzhi suddenly closed the door again, turned to look at Qin He opposite, and asked, "Can I take the liberty to ask you a question."
Qin He smiled, with a sad expression: "Xiaoyuan, it hurts me a little when you talk to me so politely. I always thought we were best friends."
… Xiaoyuan.
Qiu Yanzhi frowned.
I feel like this name is weird.
Little trash had never called him so nasty before.
But Qiu Yanzhi didn't have time to worry about these anymore. He looked up at Qin He and asked directly, "Then I'll ask, what is the name of the game you just said that needs to completely clear the data?"
As soon as Qiu Yanzhi finished speaking, Qin He's special assistant and lawyer just walked by and glanced carefully at Qiu Yanzhi and Qin He.
Qin He went a step further and said, "It seems a little inappropriate for us to talk here."
Qiu Yanzhi opened the door of the room: "Then let's come in and talk."
Qin He walked in with his feet up, sat on a single sofa next to him, and said, "It's "Dream Eater"."
Although he had expected it, Qiu Yanzhi's heart trembled when he heard these two words.
He closed the door, swallowed nervously, and sat opposite Qin He: "Then why do you... must clear the data of this game?"
Qin He glanced meaningfully at Qiu Yanzhi and said, "You should know the reason."
Qiu Yanzhi pursed his lips and did not speak.
Qin He sighed: "You know there was an accident in the game "Dream Eater"."
Qiu Yanzhi nodded: "...I heard that there was an investor who fell into a coma because of that game."
"It's my friend." Qin He said, "I was also one of the investors at the time. After entering the game, he suddenly fell into a coma and died after being in a coma for about half a year."
Qin He was silent for a while, and then said: "I thought the game was closed, and this matter has already been revealed, but..."
Qin He looked up at Qiu Yanzhi with dark pupils: "I only discovered a strange phenomenon some time ago."
"The npc in the game actually ran out."
"Doesn't that sound creepy."
"When I first got the news, I almost felt like I had seen a ghost."
"Xiaoyuan." Qin He smiled, "You seem to be more calm than me in this matter."
Qiu Yanzhi opened his mouth, but didn't say a word.
"I know you care about that npc. But after that npc, including that game, is completely destroyed, I will build a new npc in the newly acquired game, following my own appearance, and completely copy mine. Name and character, only for you to play alone."
Qin He looked up at Qiu Yanzhi.
Seems to be pampered.
He stretched out his hand, touched Qiu Yanzhi's hair, and laughed softly: "Xiaoyuan, I didn't know you liked me so much, and you transferred my emotions to an NPC. I'm actually a little jealous, but it's okay. , it's just a fresh toy, you want as many as you want."
Qiu Yanzhi was silent for a while.
Then he stretched out his hand and took Qin He's hand off his head.
He looked at Qin He, his voice slightly hoarse.
"Qin He, why do you suddenly make me feel so sick."
The smile on Qin He's face froze.