Ruyizhai

The elm tree rooted in the ruins of the Paris Observatory is still there, still tall, with sparse branches and leaves, still blooming densely and densely, bending the branches, but the observation room hidden among the branches of the elm tree seems to be smaller than before. It looks like the second sun hiding behind the tree, reflecting the sun's rays and emitting the same unobstructed and unavoidable light.Wu Xingchen squinted his eyes, the sun shifted, and fell on a tall black tower standing beside the elm tree. The tower was made of broken bricks and stones, and its shape was similar to the Luxor Obelisk. You can also see it on the tower. There are some uneven marks, but these are not Egyptian hieroglyphs, but the handwriting of masonry eroded by wind and rain.The black tower casts blacker reflections on the black earth.

Wu Xingchen passed the tower and got into the trunk of the elm tree.

The elevator in the tree trunk was still there, Wu Xingchen pulled the gate, and the elevator went up.Everything was the same as when he first came here.The elevator was quiet, he didn’t need to press any buttons, the green light under his feet pushed him up, Wu Xingchen suddenly became curious about the working principle of this elevator, when he came to visit Clara for the second time, the elevator was straight Could it be that Clara was secretly operating the elevator that brought him down?When he was in the observation room, he let the elevator take the visitors up, and when he was underground, he let the elevator take the visitors underground.Thinking of this, Wu Xingchen raised his head and waved his hands towards the four corners of the elevator.Perhaps there are hidden surveillance cameras around every corner.

The elevator stopped, Wu Xingchen opened the gate and walked out.What he saw before his eyes was still the same as ten years ago: under the brilliant cosmic starry sky, a person was sitting with his back to him.

He seemed to be floating in Andromeda.

The image of a corpse suspended in the darkness flashed past Wu Xingchen's eyes.Wu Xingchen pinched the center of his brows, and tried to shout: "Clara?"

The person floating on Andromeda turned around—it was indeed Clara, he stretched his waist, and waved to Wu Xingchen: "Hello."

Wu Xingchen smiled, and Clara waved to him as he did in the elevator.It seems that there are really surveillance cameras in the elevator.Wu Xingchen scratched the tip of his nose, walked towards Clara, and said: "I have something to trouble you, my terminal is broken, I don't know if you can fix it, it doesn't matter if you can't fully restore all functions, I just hope Restoring the image data inside, there is something entrusted to me by one of my comrades-in-arms before his death, he died, because of me, I think I have to tell his family members about his death, if he has any family members If his family wants to keep the video files he took, I think it would be more appropriate for them to keep them.”

Wu Xingchen walked up to Clara, took off the bracelet, handed it to him, and said, "I still need to trouble you to check the specific information of the black senior recorder 677 in the war camp."

Clara didn't move, lying in a cloud of crab-shaped nebula, eyelids drooping, and said lazily, "You know you're wanted by the Department of Social Services, right?" It was instantly replaced by a huge missing person notice.Every word in the missing person notice is almost as tall as Wu Xingchen, and every gesture is as thick as Wu Xingchen's arm. They don't look like words, but like painted high-rise buildings.

Wu Xingchen struggled to look at the huge text on the missing persons notice, and managed to piece together a sentence: "Looking for people...Wu Xingchen...the information publisher, Xiaoyue...the contact person, the Social Services Department..."

Clara patted a tower that looked like the word "Guan": "This is equivalent to being wanted by the Social Services Department and becoming a wanted criminal, do you know?"

Wu Xingchen shook his head, nodded again, and said, "Now I know..." His voice was a little softer, and he tentatively asked Clara: "Then, can you disable the positioning function of the terminal when you restore it?" ?”

Clara laughed loudly, and patted him: "Dude, what are you talking about as a comrade-in-arms, and you are wanted by the Social Services Department. It seems that you escaped from a war camp, right? Penniless?"

It was only then that Wu Xingchen realized that if you want something from someone, you have to talk about remuneration. When he was a citizen, Wu Xingchen always had a balance in his terminal that could be used to pay for car rental fees, apartment rent, and living expenses—even though he had Can't remember at all how much cash balance he had, how much credit balance, but it's no use recalling those balances now, his old terminal was useless when he was a member of the war camp, and he was no longer a Union citizen , he became a member of the war camp, the people there were deprived of the title of citizenship, they lived in a self-contained social system, now, he escaped from the war camp, but his citizenship cannot come back Not only that, but he had to add "deserter" and "wanted criminal" to his identity prefix. He was penniless, and "deserter" and "wanted criminal" couldn't work and make money. , Before saying goodbye to Ruyi Zhai, thank God if he can not be taken back to the war camp by the Social Services Department, what can he use to pay Clara?

When Wu Xingchen was distressed, Clara took another picture of the missing person notice, and the screen changed, and the missing person notice became a "reward order", and the words like tall buildings changed into hills.A picture with extremely high resolution is inlaid among the mountains and rivers.

Wu Xingchen looked at the picture, he saw a young man standing in front of a mound stroking the mound.The man's hair covers his ears, his bangs cover his eyebrows, he has dark eyes, his nose is high and straight, his face is expressionless, and he looks a little indifferent. The man is wearing a black vest, and there is a bandage on his left shoulder. The bandage is dirty, and his hand There were bloodstains on it, the man was wearing black pants and black boots, and there was a cut at the left knee, which made the man look very sloppy.

Wu Xingchen looked down at his left trouser leg, there was a slit on his knee and his mouth was open.

There is no doubt that the man in this picture is him.

Clara said: "Maybe you still need a human skin mask? Or plastic surgery? As long as you can afford the price, I can arrange it for you. How about it? Have you figured out how to pay for it?"

Wu Xingchen glanced at him, muttered, but still said: "I don't have money..."

His eyes returned to the reward order. He had never seen a reward order, and he rarely saw his own photo. He couldn't help reaching out and touching Wu Xingchen in the photo.The screen was hot and smooth to the touch, and his face was hot and smooth to the touch.

"You see yourself for the first time?" Clara asked.

Wu Xingchen withdrew his hand, a little embarrassed: "I seldom notice my appearance."

He tried the text part of the reward order: the person offering the reward, the Pampas Eagle, the contact person, the Pampas Eagle, and the amount of the reward: 100 gold coins.

"gold?"

"Coins made of gold."

"Is it still in circulation?"

"Circulating on the black market."

"Is there really a black market? It wasn't made up by Ruyizhai, the words in his story..." Wu Xingchen said, and clicked on the word Pampas Eagle, Clara laughed straight: "You think you can click to view Details?"

Wu Xingchen asked, "Who is this Pampas eagle?"

"It's an organization."

"A hobby association?"

"Basically, religion? Social group? You can put it this way..." Clara snapped her fingers, and the reward order disappeared. What they saw was a series of square electronic screens, each with Shows the same car.

Wu Xingchen recognized it: "This is my car parked nearby!"

Clara enlarged the license plate on one screen with her hand, and the license plates on all other screens were also enlarged. Clara said: "This is their car. If you stole their car, of course you will be wanted by them."

Wu Xingchen said: "I didn't do it on purpose, I will return it, do you have the address of their organization?"

Clara stretched out her hand towards him and grinned: "This information is given to you for free. Have you figured out how to pay for it? To restore the data, you have to hack into the system of the war camp to find someone for you. It's not cheap."

Wu Xingchen touched his pocket and took out a bunch of keys, a map of Paris, and a pair of gloves.Clara curled her lips: "Why do I want these?" He thought for a while and said, "Well, you bring me the white suit from Ruyizhai."

Wu Xingchen lowered his head, and then lowered his voice: "I don't know where he is..." He said softly, "I still want to ask you if he has come to look for you..."

Clara said, "The last time I saw him was ten years ago."

Wu Xingchen said, "He's gone."

He raised his head again, looked at the electronic screens that surrounded him, and said, "Maybe I should post a missing person notice."

Clara smiled and said, "What a great idea! Voice mode, submit a missing person notice."

A hundred or so cars were painted white in an instant, Clara said, and pitch-black towers rose from the white:

Missing person notice, missing person, colon, Ruyizhai, contact person, colon:

Wu Xingchen interrupted: "I'm a wanted criminal, so you can't use my name?"

"Clara, additional link, number 68978, send."

After sending out the missing person notice, Clara suddenly said: "I figured it out, you can use your right brain and your right hand to pay the reward! The right brain is the reward for recovering the terminal and data, and the right hand is to help you find that person." The reward for 677's background information!"

Wu Xingchen said: "If you can restore the data in the terminal and find 677's family, I am willing."

Clara said, "Don't worry, I'll give you a mechanical arm, half a mechanical head, maybe even better than your current head."

He smiled and picked up Wu Xingchen's bracelet, put it in his pocket, and walked towards the elevator.Wu Xingchen asked, "How long will it take for the data to recover?"

Clara said, "Half an hour."

"What about the information?"

"Half an hour."

Clara got into the elevator and waved to Wu Xingchen: "What are you doing in a daze? Go down and pay me."

Wu Xingchen trotted over and got into the elevator.Clara closed the door, and the elevator fell down. He grabbed Wu Xingchen's right arm, weighed it, stroked it, and muttered: "The arm of the No. 13 generation genetic experiment strengthened the flexibility of the skin during adaptive transformation? Hmm , the ductility does not allow the tenth generation, but in the tenth generation, the ecological status of the earth is still unclear, um..."

The elevator hasn't stopped yet.Wu Xingchen asked: "Who built that tower? What is it used for?"

Clara grabbed his right hand, began to pinch his fingers, stroked his fingernails, and asked, "Did you build towers and castles with sand when you went to the beach when you were young?" Words like resistance, compression resistance, heat resistance.

Wu Xingchen said: "But this is not the sea, and bricks are not sand." But immediately, he figured it out: "Oh, you are making an analogy."

He asked, "Is it a giant who built the tower?"

"Perhaps," Clara said.

"Is the little boy who worked part-time in Ruyizhai's antique shop still with you?"

The elevator stopped.Clara shrugged, opened the door, took Wu Xingchen's right hand and walked out, the elevator was pitch black, Wu Xingchen couldn't see anything, he turned to look at the elevator, the elevator door was closed, and he was stuck in the dark In the process, he had no choice but to let Clara pull him away.

Suddenly, two green lights flashed before Wu Xingchen's eyes, and he heard Clara say, "Someone is calling."

"Telephone?"

"The video call request is based on the phone number left in the missing persons notice." Clara said, "The wanted criminal hides first."

After he finished speaking, Wu Xingchen felt pushed and fell to the ground.

Clara said, "It's you."

Wu Xingchen followed the prestige and saw a faint green light emitting from Clara's body, which seemed to be illuminated by the communication screen of the person with whom he had a video call.Wu Xingchen avoided the light from the screen, and he heard a person ask, "Are you looking for Ruyizhai? Why are you looking for him?"

The interrogator's voice was somewhat familiar, and Wu Xingchen couldn't help but sneak a glance at the screen.He saw Yuan Yuan, the owner of the Yuanyuan Theater, sitting on a red sofa, with a long-haired man resting on his lap, Yuan Yuan gently stroking the man's hair.The man quietly closed his eyes.

Wu Xingchen rushed out and asked: "You are in the theater... Are you in the Consummation Theater??"

Seeing Wu Xingchen, Yuanyuan was stunned for a while before nodding. After receiving this response, Wu Xingchen grabbed Clara and asked, "Where is the elevator?"

Clara pointed in a direction, and a white-lit path suddenly appeared at Wu Wu Xingchen's feet. At the end of the path, an elevator door slowly opened.Wu Xingchen rushed towards the elevator.

Clara yelled, "Don't forget to get the bracelet! Pay!"

Wu Xingchen repeatedly promised: "I will definitely come back! I will definitely pay!"

He ran into the elevator and kept urging: "Quick! Quick!"

The man sleeping on Yuan Yuan's lap looked exactly like Ru Yi Zhai.