under fern mountain

The sudden weightlessness made Shi Ran open his eyes from the darkness.There was no one in the lounge, and the hot tea on the table was not completely cold.

He looked at the time, and calculated from the information Mr. Lin told him, Pei Haojie had been in a deep sleep for nearly 36 hours, and they had already started taking nutrient solution for him.The music in the corridor could hear Tietou and Li Qing'er talking on the phone. He drank the half-cold tea on the table in one gulp. A short rest could not relieve his mental fatigue, and he was stuck in extreme anxiety.

He thought he fell asleep because he was too tired, but in fact he fell into a brief faint just now.

Mr. Lin pushed the door open at this time, quickly looked at Shi Ran to confirm that he was fine, and then informed him of his current situation.

"His condition is temporarily stable. We have contacted the technical team in Switzerland. They are the technical team of Messiah's replica ontology. We hope they have a way to directly issue instructions to Messiah to help Mr. Pei get out of the virtual space directly. " After Mr. Lin finished speaking, he bowed deeply to Shi Ran, "We are very sorry for this unexpected situation."

"What does that mean? Be more specific."

"To put it simply, Mr. Pei's consciousness was directly uploaded to the virtual space after the 'original disk' surgery. Now it's not just a problem with the game. If he doesn't want to, he won't wake up even if the game stops. It has the ability to create a virtual space in the original disc and upload its own consciousness."

Shi Ran stood up abruptly: "How could this be possible!?"

"This is also the reason why the 'original disk' operation was controversial and ordered to be stopped. There are too many risks and uncertainties, and it is difficult for people to predict what irreversible results it will cause...Our technical team just talked about whether it can be done without consciousness. In the case of interruption, the 'original disk' removal operation is performed directly, and the conclusion is that the risk is too high."

As soon as Mr. Lin finished speaking, technicians rushed in.They told Mr. Lin that Pei Haojie's emotional state fluctuated, and the consciousness detection became more and more unstable. They hoped to urge Switzerland to speed up the process, because the longer the delay, the greater the risk.

Shi Ran chased after Mr. Lin.

He came to the testing room again and saw Pei Haojie lying on the monitoring chair in the middle, looking like he was sleeping peacefully.Light blue light filled the entire space, and he was connected with all kinds of cold equipment, which seemed to be a part of the machine.Standing in front of the glass window, Shi Ran was struck by an indescribable sense of unreality.

People from the research institute came one after another. The top management of Jinchuan Company, Mr. Lin's colleagues and the team all arrived, but Shi Ran didn't even take his eyes off Pei Haojie.

A small man was whispering something beside Mr. Lin. Shi Ran saw Mr. Lin waving his hand, looking very tired, and someone beside the man was trying to persuade him.From the small dispute, Shi Ran vaguely caught some words "risky", "you can try", "can't delay"... Shi Ran's eyes turned to him.

Shi Ran pushed aside the people around him and walked towards him: "What's your suggestion, I want to hear it?"

"Mr. Shi." Mr. Lin hesitated to disagree.

"Come with me." Shi Ran turned around and took the little man to the empty room on the side of the corridor, and asked him again, "What suggestion?"

"Mr. Shi, I have a suggestion to try... Cut off the server and close the Messiah right now. I don't know what will happen, but the longer the delay, the more dangerous it is. The 'original disk' mode is not like a brain wave reader—— "

"Boss Lin has already explained it to me." Shi Ran raised his hand to signal, "Let's talk about the key points."

The little man's eyes were fixed: "The program is an unreliable thing after all, but other players are different. If you can't get in from the inside, or you can get in from the outside...Mr. Pei is not the only one who participates in the game, if Uploading consciousness by other players and merging with Mr. Pei's server may bring back his consciousness on his own initiative."

Mr. Lin has already chased in from the outside, trying to pull the little man away, already looking a little angry.

"I am a member of the "Messiah" team and one of the players. I am willing to take the initiative to upload consciousness." The little man looked at Shi Ran and said.

"Shut up!" Mr. Lin showed an angry expression, "You are not on the technical team, and you don't understand its complexity. Do you think that you can solve the problem by joining yourself in wishful thinking?"

"The reason we can't do anything is because he is now cut off from the perception of the outside world! His consciousness is completely immersed in the virtual world. The only thing we can monitor is his emotions. We know nothing about what he is going through!"

The little man defended in a low voice, somewhat guilty. He also knew how risky his proposal was. Mr. Lin didn't talk nonsense with him, and scolded him in a low voice while taking him out.

Shi Ran's eyes flicked back and forth between the two, and suddenly interrupted them: "Boss Lin."

The little man stopped arguing with Boss Lin and looked at him at the same time.

"You don't need to let him take the risk." Shi Ran glanced at the little man, "If players can upload their consciousness, why can't they upload my consciousness?"

Mr. Lin seemed to have expected that Shi Ran would make this decision after hearing what the little man said. He closed his eyes angrily and took a deep breath.

"Mr. Shi, we can't let you take this risk."

"Boss Lin." Shi Ran's words were serious, "...my lover is taking this risk!"

All of Mr. Lin's words were blocked by him.Shi Ran continued: "He is right. You seem to understand the current predicament, but in fact you don't know anything about what happened in the virtual space. My lover is in the game, what will happen to the worse and more irreversible things I don’t know yet, I don’t care whether to take risks or not.”

"He has been in a deep sleep for nearly forty hours now, and the risks are multiplying every minute and every second. Do you have any better methods?" Shi Ran stretched his hands hanging by his side Zhang Zhang, the veins of the muscles and bones are clearly visible, he said in an unquestionable tone, "Take me to meet your high-level, I hope to get a decision immediately."

When Shi Ran walked out of several high-rise rooms, he was stopped by the iron head.As Shi Ran's good friend, his attitude towards this decision is against it.But at this moment, any negation has nothing to do with Shi Ran, and no one can change his decision.

During the urgent discussion with the senior management and the board of directors, Shi Ran decided not to sign the exemption agreement about Pei Haojie.

"I can vouch for my own decision. As for his, I have no right to make a decision for him." He quickly signed his own, "What's more, it's irreversible now."

Until the second before lying on the bed, Mr. Lin was still trying to persuade him to give up.

"Mr. Shi, have you really thought about it?" Mr. Lin took off his glasses, his eyes were tortured, "This accident is entirely my responsibility. I know we have no friendship, but aside from being the director of Jinchuan, I am really very happy." Worrying about you."

Shi Ran didn't say anything else, just asked him, what is the worst result?

"I don't know." President Lin's voice was heavy, "Everything is unpredictable."

Shi Ran took out his mobile phone and sent a video file to Mr. Lin.Just now, he called himself and Pei Haojie's parents, but didn't tell them about the game.He recorded a video after hanging up, planning for the worst.

The light in the room dimmed, Shi Ran walked to Pei Haojie's recliner, and stroked the contours of his facial features with his fingers.

He leaned over and kissed Pei Haojie's lips.

"Let's start." Shi Ran lay down beside Pei Haojie.

Workers came up from around the room and hung many unnamed things on his body.He was put on the same EEG reader, heart rate monitor, and neural response controller as Pei Haojie. Finally, they injected a small amount of anesthesia into the back of his neck, and stuck a triangular device on his temple... Shi Ran felt it Tentacles stretched out like reptiles, penetrated under his skin, and the nerves began to tingle.

In a daze of consciousness, he felt that the iron head was holding his hand tightly, as if comforting and supporting him.

Shi Ran closed his eyes, the visual frame began to shake, and some confusing and complicated pictures appeared alternately and repeatedly.The body became extremely heavy, as if it wanted to penetrate the chair and fall deeper.

"Come." He guided himself not to be afraid of a series of unknown experiences.Images with unclear meanings overlap and appear, irregular light spots shake and draw out irregular lines, "Come on!"

His consciousness sank into the sea.

The actual upload on the music reader was successful.

In [-], Gemini went downstairs.

Shi Ran came out from the dark stairway after overtime work, and the sound of his hollow footsteps echoed in the corridor.The company's elevator broke down in the afternoon, and because it was Christmas Eve, the maintenance workers would not come back until the next Monday.Unlike the usual lonely streets, the holographic lanterns are more lively than other times, with young men and women running around in brightly dressed clothes.Everywhere was the sound of activity and gathering of voices.The inside and outside of the building seemed to be two worlds. Shi Ran looked up at the dancing lights on the surface of the Twin Towers, and a snowflake fell on his nose.The weather forecast said that there would be the first snow of winter tonight, which came on time.He opened the gray umbrella and walked to the subway station hungry, planning to treat himself on Christmas Eve, go home and take a hot bath, order a table of beer and barbecue, play games, check Weibo, and go shopping online Christmas discounts... Someone hooked his shoulders from behind.When he turned his head, the captain had a vigorous and handsome face.

"The team leader is working overtime so late!" Pei Haojie lowered his head, and unceremoniously got under Shi Ran's umbrella.

"Why are you here?"

"I live near here!" Pei Haojie looked away.

"But why are you downstairs in the company?"

"Just take a walk, tonight's Christmas Eve, it's so lively." Pei Haojie put his pockets in his pocket, looking at the colorful and smoky buildings around him, "What's the team leader's plan?"

Shi Ran raised the umbrella higher, so that the tall intern would not bow his waist: "Me? Go home and eat barbecue. You should have a lot of activities, right? Don't you go back to school?"

"Don't mention it, there are appointments... All kinds of single dogs are abused on Christmas Eve. I promised to go to the Christmas market with a buddy, but a girl asked him out, so I was mercilessly abandoned!" How many times have you practiced, but your eyes can't fool you. He looked at Shi Ran a few times, seemingly unintentionally and deliberately, "If you haven't arranged it, team leader, why don't you accompany me to see it? I read that the circle of friends said roast pig The elbow is very strong...is it a barbecue?"

Shi Ran was amused by him: "Well, it's also a barbecue!"

Pei Haojie stopped in her tracks and urged forcefully, "Then shall I take a taxi now?"

"You really want to go?"

The snow was falling a bit heavily, Shi Ran raised the edge of the umbrella, and looked at the young face from the bits of snow foam.

"It's meaningless if you talk alone." Pei Haojie's face was instantly buried in the dense white air from his breath.He squeezed into the umbrella, shortened the distance with Shi Ran properly, and said softly, "If there are two of you, I really want to go."

Pei Haojie has a vigorous power that no one can match, Shi Ran is not sure whether it is for everyone or only herself.

When he worked overtime on Christmas Eve so much that he just wanted to go home and take a bath, Pei Haojie was able to get rid of his illness, and his fatigue was easily melted away in the heavy snow.

His young, goofy eyes beguiled him.

He didn't know that it was his plan for a long time, so he followed him to the Christmas market in such a daze.

They bought stickers, crafts, glass hanging balls, and lavender throw pillows.I ate a few roasted pork knuckles, roast sausages, and cinnamon cakes.It was snowing outside the umbrella, and inside the umbrella they were holding hot red wine, every nerve was ironed and smoothed, stretched and comfortable.It was approaching twelve o'clock, and they climbed to the top floor of the shopping mall with a large crowd of people, counting down the Christmas fireworks.

Watching the lights go out one after another, Pei Haojie stepped on Shi Ran's shadow and sent him downstairs when he was slightly drunk.

Shi Ran stuffed the umbrella into his hand: "I'll go up first, be careful on the way home."

"Team leader... Shi Ran." Pei Haojie's eyes flickered, his drunken eyes seemed to be sober again, "Let's spend Christmas together next year too."