under fern mountain

If a person forgets all the things that happened after that when the memory reappears, he will re-experience everything at the beginning like a reincarnation.

Consciousness is uploaded at a very high speed in the fiber optic cable, which is by no means a pleasant feeling.

Shi Ran pushed away the heavy snow in 38, pushed away the lonely intern in the heavy snow, and pushed away the colorful Christmas lights in the night market.He pushed away Pei Haojie, who had a fever of [-]°, pushed away the two secretly holding hands, pushed away the intimate kiss in the tea room, pushed away the lingering love day and night.He found that the memories he could recall were actually very few, and even the sporadic fragments were not determined by his will but by his brain.All the pain and suffering left him, he forgot the many disputes and the distance that could not be passed, and he forgot who had the thorns and scarred wounds.

He forgot why he risked his life to come here.

He woke up from the phantom light, his hands and feet were numb, he couldn't open his eyes, like a baby who couldn't speak, and couldn't even utter the simplest syllables.It took a while for his hearing and smell to come to life, and he felt like he was lying on a bed with a drip on the back of his hand.The smell of disinfectant is strong, and the sound of the exhaust fan is very soft.His eyelids were extremely heavy, and he failed several times to open them.

Just when he was a little panicked, he heard the sound of the chair rubbing against the ground.The visual shielding enhanced his other perception abilities, and even the slightest sound could bring him some information—someone was sitting on a wooden chair not far from him, at most one meter away.The rustling sound is mixed with the familiar breath, like someone is peeling an apple.

who is it?

He has to listen attentively to find more useful information.

His eyes still couldn't open, his throat seemed to be blocked by a wet sponge, and he didn't have the strength to move at all... It was as if only his brain was active in his whole body.

Suddenly someone spoke.

It was a voice he was too familiar with.

"What story do you want to hear today?" Pei Haojie didn't realize that the person on the bed had woken up. He was very skilled at peeling the peel, and the peel was not broken by his knife. "I don't have any new stories to tell. Can I just repeat it?"

Shi Ran was so shocked that every cell in his body jumped up, but his body remained motionless.He quickly thought about the current situation.It's possible that he was in the hospital, sick, and very serious. Judging from Pei Haojie's tone, it wasn't a day or two... He even got used to talking to himself when he was sleeping.

Shi Ran's breathing became heavy.

He inhaled as much oxygen as possible, heaved his chest as hard as he could, in order to make his shriveled body look more alive... so that Pei Haojie could notice that he had woken up.Where he couldn't see, Pei Haojie stopped peeling her hands in surprise, the curly apple peel broke off under the knife, and he staggered and kicked away the trash can in front of him.

"Ran Ran?"

Shi Ran obviously felt that his voice was getting closer to him. He was thinking about what to do next when Pei Haojie slammed into the emergency call device beside the bed—there were numerous footsteps, and he knew it with his ears. Nurses filed in.His clothes were stripped off and a cold detector was pasted on him. Someone removed his needle, someone auscultated his chest, and then someone pulled Pei Haojie outside the door, talking eagerly in a low voice.Shi Ran couldn't hear clearly.

An electronic penetrating sound came out from a certain detector, and the doctor was still talking quickly, Pei Haojie's voice sounded very excited.

Someone lifted his eyelids, and his pupils shrank violently under the strong light. Before he could even see the person's face clearly, he fell into darkness again, and there was only a burnt hole in his vision.

"Congratulations, Mr. Pei, your lover's brain activity has returned to normal. We will monitor him regularly in the next period of time. If it is stable, there is hope for recovery."

Pei Haojie said words of thanks incoherently, carefully wrote down every note and order of the doctor, and asked many trivial questions, not all of which could be answered.They put Shi Ran on an EEG reader, and as the screen gradually turned on, he seemed to hear a slight choking sound.

They're reading me, Shi Ran thought.It feels scary.

"Are you conscious now? If so, imagine a pink goat," he heard someone ask.

It's kind of funny, but he's still trying to picture a pink goat in his head.

The instrument made a sound.

"Now imagine an endless ocean."

Shi Ran still did as before, but this time the instrument made a different sound.

"We will ask you a few questions next, if the answer is yes, please imagine a pink goat, if the answer is no, please imagine the sea."

Shi Ran imagined a pink goat.

The doctor paused, as if he didn't expect him to be so cooperative.Next, he asked some weird questions experimentally, such as one plus one equals two, for example, the earth is triangular, birds can fly, dogs can swim, the sun rises from the west... Shi Ran's imagination is in the pink goat Jumping repeatedly between the boundless sea and the boundless sea, the doctor finally became excited after verifying the accuracy of his answer.Only then did he start asking him some really helpful questions.

"Do you think you are fully awake now?"

Picture a pink goat.

"Do you know who you are?"

Picture a pink goat.

"Are you aware of your current situation?"

Imagine the boundless sea.

"Where does your body hurt?"

The boundless sea.

"Do you have a sense of touch?"

Pink goat.

The boring questions seem to go on endlessly.Finally, he heard Pei Haojie's trembling voice, and he interrupted as if he couldn't bear it.

"Of course, do you know who I am?"

of course I know.

Shi Ran imagined a pink goat.

He felt something scalding liquid fall on the back of his hand, and then he realized what it was belatedly.

Don't cry - Shi Ran thought so, but he was helpless, he could only imagine the sea crazily, imagining countless seas, imagining constantly and repeatedly.The instrument screeches and the indicator lights come on constantly.Doctors and nurses swarmed over again, trying to stabilize his mood and pulse.

"He has just woken up and is still unstable. Don't stimulate him like this, it's very dangerous." The doctor pulled away Pei Haojie who was also out of control by the bed, and dragged him away from the bed.

Pei Haojie wiped her face vigorously and apologized again and again, but she couldn't believe it was true.He wanted to say a few more words to Shi Ran, but the doctor no longer allowed him, saying that everything should be done step by step, don't have any pressure today, don't talk to him too much, and ask too many questions.Pei Haojie agreed one by one.

Their voices were very low, and Shi Ran couldn't hear them clearly. He just felt that someone messily took off those instruments from his body, including the reader on his head.This meant that he had lost his only means of communication, but he was still powerless to stop it, and could only frantically imagine the sea trying to send them a negative signal.Unfortunately, he has no choice.The reader was still removed from his head, and he fell into nothingness again.

He gradually remembered why he was here.He came here to find Pei Haojie and bring him back.But why is he in such a state now?The memory seems to be disturbed, or has he forgotten something?Could it be that he had already found Pei Haojie, but fell into a coma?

Is it all over?

The human voice dispersed like a tide, and soon only the breathing of two people remained in the room.He could feel Pei Haojie approaching him cautiously, holding his hand, and kissing him dazedly.

At first, Pei Haojie was reluctant to speak as if she was afraid of disturbing Shi Ran, and just stayed with him. After a while, he began to whisper to himself.Shi Ran could hear from his whispers that his body looked extremely poor, and his life might even be in danger.Later, he gave up the non-responsive communication and started telling Shi Ran stories again.His strange and wonderful stories, I don't know where I heard them... Shi Ran was a little dazed, and he remembered that he used to read poems to him in the hospital, which seemed to be a long time ago.

The doctor would come to check his body every day, and the limited 10 minutes was the only time he could communicate with Pei Haojie.He was dying of anxiety, but he couldn't replace the person who asked the question.Pei Haojie's questions are always blank.For example, do you want to eat apples, does it hurt to pee, does it feel boring... Shi Ran even refused to answer some questions, feeling dumbfounded.

At this time, a bunch of garbled codes with unknown meaning would appear on the brain wave reader.

Pei Haojie insisted on explaining to the doctor, saying that Shi Ran missed her very much.

Shi Ran's body also recovered quickly.

He could already feel hungry on the second day, and sleepy on the third day. He moved his fingers on the morning of the fourth day and found that the heavy suction force disappeared.He failed at least thirteen times, and finally opened his eyes at No. 14.

When Pei Haojie looked at him for the first time, her eyes turned red uncontrollably.

After fully waking up this morning, the body quickly recovered all mechanisms as if the final switch had been turned on.In the morning he could still feel the dryness of the joints and the stiffness of the muscles, and at night he could already speak very slowly and make simple movements.It's just that the strength is not very great.He can drink water and eat porridge, but he can't bite the apple that Pei Haojie peeled for him.

"What the hell is this...?" Shi Ran struggled to pronounce.

Even he himself didn't know how confused and puzzled he was showing at the moment.

Pei Haojie just stared at him deeply, then kissed him forcefully, as if to vent some emotion.Shi Ran was hurt a bit, but he didn't refuse, but forced himself to raise his hand vigorously, hugging Pei Haojie's sweaty back.

The person in front of him was deeply buried in his chest, and he calmed down his emotions for a long time.

Finally, Pei Haojie raised her head, and gently stroked the back of Shi Ran's head with five fingers.

"You slept for 760 nine days." His voice sounded depressed and heavy, "I thought...you were really going to abandon me and stay in the game completely. I tried everything I could to wake you up, but It's useless, it's useless...the only thing I can do is wait."

"Seven hundred... 69 days?" Shi Ran looked at him in shock, "What do you mean by staying in the game? Wait... You, please clarify."

"Don't you remember everything?" Pei Haojie raised his head, Shi Ran's face was reflected in his pupils, he made no secret of his love, "Before you fell into a coma, we had a bad relationship for a while. Then you Immersed in a virtual game and never woke up again... I tried everything I could to get the tech team to implant information in your cortex telling you that the world you are in is fake, but it didn't work."

Shi Ran's head was booming, giving birth to a sense of perverted absurdity.

"With the mentality of trying temporarily, I agree that they will implant the written corner code into your virtual game, so that you can actively break away from the game."

"What script?" Shi Ran asked tremblingly.

Pei Haojie smiled wryly: "It's just a reversal of our identities in reality. In the script, I'm addicted to the game, I'm escaping from life, and I'm in danger... After the script is implanted, the virtual space is not It is no longer the warm Noah's Ark, but another real space that has been shaped."

"In the end, if you're lucky, no matter what method you use, you'll re-upload your consciousness from the game, and then—return to reality."

"It's a good thing you're back." Pei Haojie closed her eyes and pressed her forehead against his.

For a moment, Shi Ran felt cold sweat all over his body and shuddered.

The author has something to say: I have seen an experiment on vegetative people in recent years, which is to let them test the YESorNO problem by imagining two fixed things. It turns out that many vegetative people who are not brain dead actually retain consciousness all the time. Thinking, but also perceiving the outside world...