you are the cutest in the world

Wei You stared at the phone in his hand.

Half a minute passed, and the game interface was still white.

The progress bar is stuck at "99%" and it keeps showing "Loading". It can't be turned back or turned off, and it doesn't even work by pressing and holding the power off button.

He frowned, and had to turn his attention to the trouble at hand.

He was in a strange two-bedroom house with old-fashioned decoration, and in front of him was a door that was ajar.

It had been a while since he had inexplicably appeared in front of this door.

As an online literature lover, facing the sudden change in his environment, Wei You immediately thought of the word time travel.

It stands to reason that when this happens, the protagonist should feel curious, excited or uneasy for a while.

However, when things came to Wei You's place, he didn't have much time to think and be surprised. The constant sobbing of children in the room took away most of his attention.

Kind of like a horror movie...

Wei You's heart was beating like thunder, and he repeated several times of psychological training for himself, then took a deep breath, raised his hand and pushed open the door lightly.

Dim natural light overflowed from the room, he mustered up the courage to glance in, his expression froze suddenly.

What he saw was a not very spacious room.

The lower part of the wall is painted light green. There are solid wood wardrobes, tables and chairs on both sides of the window, and a bed in the center. The decoration and furnishings are very old-fashioned.

But these are not the point, the point is the child sitting at the end of the bed.

The child was wearing a little green dinosaur pajamas, with his back facing him. The bright yellow "little spikes" on the back of the pajamas rose and fell, accompanied by the rhythm of twitching, and there were intermittent crying sounds.

If the layout and furnishings of this room only made Wei You feel a little familiar, when he saw this child in dinosaur pajamas, a weird guess immediately flashed through his mind.

Dark blue curtains, doraemon-patterned sheets, half of the green-painted walls, a boy in a little dinosaur pajamas...

Here, it seems to be exactly the same as the game scene in "Zai Zai's Growth Plan" he played half a month ago.

Perhaps, he not only traveled through time, but also entered a game.

As a full-time UP host, Wei You often needs to accept some game demo promotion orders to make ends meet, but "Zai Zai's Growth Plan" is really not an advertisement he accepts.

About a month ago, this simulation training game suddenly became popular on the Internet. Wei You opened this game purely following the trend.

He remembers that he randomly picked a little boy to adopt, and because the character had flat watermelon bangs, he nicknamed the boy Melon Cub.

At first, it may be affected by the wind direction of the outside world, playing this game is indeed very good.

In addition to the video recording period, Wei You also carefully raised the cubs for a period of time, doing cub-raising tasks on a regular basis every day, dressing the cubs, feeding them, putting them to sleep, and tutoring them with homework.

However, games with the same content model will always feel boring after playing for a long time, so after the boom in raising cubs on the Internet passed, he naturally gave up the game.

Until just now, he wanted to play a lighter game to pass the time while waiting for the takeaway, so he clicked on this game that he hadn't touched in half a month.

Unexpectedly, before the game was loaded, he felt his eyes go dark, and he came to this strange world.

The old-fashioned clock on the cabinet in the living room suddenly made a crisp sound of "dang", which shocked him.

The bell struck five times in a row, announcing that it was five o'clock in the afternoon.

Wei You glanced at his phone again, the progress bar of the game was still stuck at "99%", motionless, like a beautiful brick.

He had to realize that he had really traveled into this game called "Zai Zai's Growth Plan".

The child at the end of the bed was still sobbing intermittently, crying softly, shrugging his shoulders pitifully.

Wei You stood hesitantly at the door, and after a moment of deliberation, he called out tentatively: "Gua Zai?"

The "Little Dinosaur" paused for a few seconds with its trembling body, then turned its head slowly.

Surrounded by pajamas and a hat, the boy's face was extraordinarily petite. A pair of big eyes that were red from crying were embedded in his fair and round face. He looked about six or seven years old.

As if to confirm Wei You's guess, the moment he saw him, a big crystal teardrop slid down the boy's cheek.

While raising his hand to wipe away his tears, the child stared straight at the person at the door, and asked with his mouth flattened, "Brother hasn't come to see Gua Zai for so long, do you want Gua Zai?"

Wei You: "..."

Wei You's immediate feeling is regret, very regret.

As for whether he regrets not clicking on the game, or regretting not abandoning the game casually, he can't say, and it may be both.

He doesn't know how to go back now, and the phone is as immobile as a piece of wood, so Wei You can only deal with the situation in front of him first.

"Isn't brother here?"

He coaxed first subconsciously.

He searched the room and didn't find a paper towel, so he picked up the floral handkerchief folded on the table, went to the bed and squatted down, and wiped the water droplets from the corners of Gua Zai's face with the handkerchief.

Wei You has always kept a respectful distance from human cubs he doesn't know. Generally, when he sees other people's children, he will just take a detour, for fear of getting into any trouble.

But the child in front of him is different. This is a paper man he has raised on his phone for half a month. Before half a month, it was his own son who took screenshots and sent them to Moments every day.

For this reason, even when meeting him for the first time, he didn't feel uncomfortable in the face of the boy.

What's more, Xiao Gua Zai is also very beautiful, with fair and tender skin, and good facial features.

Maybe it's because of her young age, there is still unabated baby fat on her cheeks, she looks milky and cuter.

Wei You felt that no one would dislike such a cute human cub, and he was no exception.

"How did Gua Zai recognize me?" Wei You brushed his slightly longer bangs aside and asked patiently, "Have you seen me before?"

The boy shook his head, although he didn't shed any more tears, his body was still sobbing uncontrollably.

He looked at Wei You, and replied slowly after each pause: "Voice, bedtime story."

Wei You thought about his words carefully, and then suddenly realized.

Indeed, one of the tasks he had to do every day when he was playing games was to lull him to sleep with voice.

"So you recognize my voice?"

The boy nodded.

"Will the melon boy be afraid when he sees his brother appearing here suddenly?"

The child shook his head hastily, stretched out a hand from his sleeve to grab Wei You's wrist next to his leg, and said, "Gua Zai misses you very much."

Being looked at by the other party with eyes full of liking and anticipation, Wei You felt a sense of guilt in his heart.

He coughed lightly, deliberately changed the subject and asked, "What were you crying for just now?"

The boy lowered his head, lowered his eyes, and remained silent.

Almost at the same time, Wei You heard two soft "cuckoo" sounds from his stomach.

"hungry?"

"Little Dinosaur" looked up at him with reddish eyes, and nodded his head in embarrassment.

Wei You sighed, rubbed Gua Zai's little head through the hat, then stood up and said, "The Gua Zai will wait for me here for a while, and my brother will cook something delicious for you."

The boy nodded again and watched Wei You turn around and walk out.

After sitting on the bed for a while, he also climbed out of the bed, put on his slippers and walked out of the room.

To cook for Zai Zai in the game, you usually only need to use points to buy ingredients, then put the ingredients on the stove in the kitchen, and wait for a while to generate food.

Now it is different, what to eat in reality can only be done by yourself.

Fortunately, as a single person living alone, Wei You is still a bit stingy. Unless he really doesn't have enough time, he would rather go to the vegetable market to buy ingredients and cook by himself than spend extra money on ordering takeaways. Therefore, he has trained well good workmanship.

When Wei You said that he wanted to prepare delicious food for Gua Zai, his tone was full of confidence, but as soon as he wandered around the kitchen, most of his confidence was immediately killed.

The cabinets and the stove were empty, and he searched the entire kitchen, but he couldn't find any ingredients that could be used.

Wei You was shocked when he opened the refrigerator.

He had never seen such a clean refrigerator except when visiting an electrical appliance store.

The refrigerated area was empty except for a few bottles of beer, and the refrigerated area was so shabby that there was only a bag of pickles frozen into stones, and a faint rotten smell could be smelled through the bag.

"There's nothing to eat at home."

Just as Wei You was holding the bag of pickles in the red plastic bag, and was considering whether to stuff it back or throw it away, a soft, nasal voice from a boy sounded beside him.

Wei You turned his head and saw Wei Xu standing at the door of the kitchen with a sad face.

He asked, "Then what did you plan to have for dinner?"

Wei Xu turned his head to look at the dining table on the right side of the living room.

Wei You casually stuffed the pickles back and closed the refrigerator door.

Walking to the dining table and looking at it, he frowned immediately: "This is what you eat at night?"

Wei Xu nodded.

Wei You frowned and looked at the small bowl of leftovers on the dining table, and the prunes that were eaten with only a little oil base, and suddenly realized that something was wrong.

In the game, it can be said that he adopted Gua Zai and became Gua Zai's guardian by default, but if it is now in reality, Gua Zai should have his own parents.

He looked up at the closed door opposite Wei Xu's room.

If he remembered correctly, in the game, Gua Zai's house didn't have this room, but since this room appeared here, it should be the room of Wei Xu's parents without accident.

Wei You made up his mind, turned around and squatted in front of Gua Zai and asked, "Where are your parents?"

The boy didn't seem to expect that he would ask this, and he was stunned for a while before answering: "Daddy only comes back on weekends."

After a pause, he continued, "Mom ran away from home."

Wei You was surprised by this result and didn't know what to say for a moment.

I thought to myself, it seems that the child's family environment is far more special than he imagined.

He thought for a moment, then asked, "Then how do you manage your three meals a day when your father is away?"

"Lunch is eaten at school, and dinner is made by myself," Wei Xu said vaguely, "Dad will give me pocket money to buy breakfast."

"How much did he pay you?"

Hearing his question, Wei Xu led Wei You to the TV without any vigilance.

He opened the drawer of the TV cabinet and took out a small cardboard box, which contained some coins, most of which were dime, and some one-dollar and fifty-cent coins.

"Every time Dad comes back, he puts a few dollars in it." Wei Xu held the small paper box and looked up at Wei Youdao. "He said he knew the money in it. I can only take one dollar a day. I take too much." will be discovered by him.”

"So you only have one yuan of pocket money every day, and you have to use it to buy breakfast?"

"Fifty cents is enough to buy breakfast," Wei Xu said, "There is still fifty cents to save."

Wei You raised his eyebrows in disbelief.

In his concept, fifty cents can never buy breakfast, even a steamed bun with vegetables without a little meat costs one yuan.

He scanned the living room, his eyes stayed on the old desktop TV for a while, and then he sat down on the sofa and asked, "Gua Zai, can you tell brother, what year is it now, what month is it?"

"2005." Wei Xu easily answered the year.

As for the question of months and days, he thought for a while before answering, "School starts on September [-]st, and September [-]st was last Thursday, and today is also Thursday, so today is September [-]th."