gentle collapse

After Xie Yu left, Zheng Yi was also dragged away by his mother.Before leaving, he grabbed the door frame and scolded me: "I promised to cook pork ribs for me, liar."

"Mom will make it for you when you get home." His mother dragged him outside forcefully. I walked over to protect his abdomen and said, "I'll come to see you tomorrow."

Zheng Yi held her mother's hand instead, calmed down her emotions, then turned her head and whispered in my ear: "If you go to break into any company or government department, I will beat you to death. "

I couldn't help laughing: "If I'm not dead, who will support me if I'm paralyzed?"

"I raise you."

I was a little surprised.

Zheng Yi went on to say, "I'll apply for the subsistence allowance for you, a few hundred yuan a month."

I smiled and took a few steps back, and waved to Zheng Yi and his mother: "Goodbye, go slowly."

In my heart, I really hoped that they would walk slowly. I threw the ribs on the chopping board back into the shopping basket, which was troublesome.If you eat alone, you can warm up the leftovers.Zhang Ran is gone, Chen Wei will definitely not come here on his own initiative again, I have to come to see him in person, it will be a long time before he leaves school, and there is no rush.I sat down, and the lame cat also jumped onto the sofa. I wanted to hug it, but it frantically moved and cut my hand several times.I had to put it down gently, but it took a few steps and lay on my lap again.

Maybe it's because it's too cold at home, and it has no other place to go.I would have liked to sit a little longer, at least until it stood up.As a result, it suddenly occurred to me...

On the other end of the phone: "I'll just ask you something, do you want to do it?"

Just now I dropped the work tag and left, and the promotion work over there hasn't been done yet.I hastily hung up the phone and went out again.When the promotion work is over and the goods are moved, it is already evening. I look at my watch and I plan to eat something to fill my stomach.I just wanted to enter a noodle shop, but I didn't go in after looking at its signboard and location.

It took me a while to find the store. When I entered, there was no one in there, and he was cleaning the table.

"Wu Fan." I called out to him.

"What to eat?" Holding the bowl, he pointed at the price list posted on the wall.

"Two taels of mutton powder."

He served it, turned around and wanted to leave, I said: "I told you that I would come to you when I was free, but I forgot..."

"You haven't forgotten, you just have more important things to do all the time, and you will choose not to think about the remaining insignificant things." Wu Fan smiled indifferently, "Is that so? This is me My girlfriend told me."

"She's very smart." I lowered my head and picked up a chopstick of rice noodles and stuffed them into my mouth.During this period of time, I really never once thought of him, "It should be fine if you sit down and rest for a while?"

He sat down, and he did not show the tense and cautious expression before, but he was calm and generous.This is a place he is familiar with and feels at ease, and more importantly, I am no longer worthy of his careful treatment. I guess he has already negotiated with the system: "Is your current girlfriend re-arranged by the system?"

He shook his head: "I chased after myself... I like her. The system won't give up on you, sometimes it will come to torture me, I'll just treat myself as someone with a strange disease, and it won't hurt to death."

"My brother was time-traveled." I said this because I didn't want Wu Fan to feel that he was underestimated and looked down upon by me. There was a reason why I didn't come.But I feel that I don’t have much strength, maybe it’s because I’m exhausted, maybe it’s because I’m mentally weak, I don’t plan to cry and say something to him according to my wound, it’s useless, but there are some words, I still want to say, "You are a good person and deserve to be respected. No one can despise you because of your status. Although I am bad, you will definitely meet a good friend who is worthy of your heart."

"Why do you say that I am a good person? My girlfriends always promised me directly and never sent me a good person card. You have sent me all the good person cards in my life." Wu Fan's expression finally loosened, and he gestured with his hand After a while, "at least send me a stack."

In fact, it is not. When I rejected him before, I always spoke righteously, and I never even said politely that he is a good person.I took another bite of the powder and found it a little funny. When I looked up at him, I found his face was slumped. He said, "I remember your brother, he is a very gentle person."

"That's right, everyone said that." I laughed and touched my pocket, "The change is just right, I'll come back when I'm free, and you can talk to me about how you and your girlfriend met."

He sighed, pressed his hands on the table, leaned forward as if he wanted to say something to me, he glanced back, his lips moved a few times, his voice was low and vague: "He will come back, it's just time Sooner or later, you have to wait." Wu Fan bent down to put away the bowl, then raised his head to look at me again, this time his voice was very loud, "Goodbye."

Wu Fan is carrying a system on his body, and he is likely to come from the future.The city's secrets must have been revealed in the future.I immediately turned around and ran to the door of Chen Wei's house.It was Xiao Xiaoyan who opened the door for me. Chen Wei hadn't finished school yet, so she asked me to sit in the living room and wait, and she went into the kitchen to make me a cup of tea.Then she made everyone else back off and sat next to me.

She was very close to me and pulled my hand with unnatural force, turning my elbow towards me, and I saw a small blue bruise.

"There's a bug buried under here, you have it, and he has it too."

I first thought of Zheng Yi: "You mean Zheng Yi also has this installed on his body?"

She shook her head in denial, and said, "The person who was talking to you just now has it too. He clearly knew that he had a bug on his body, and he knew that he shouldn't have said those words, but he said them anyway. You will put him in jail."

I was taken aback: "What secret did he say, why should he be arrested?"

"Haven't you already guessed part of it? I've been waiting here for you." She stood up and poured the tea on the ground, "Wait for you to throw yourself into the trap."

Yes, I guess, in a certain year after 2021, a big event will happen in Los Angeles, which is enough to shock the whole world.In order to prevent this matter from leaking in advance, they implemented supervision on people who traveled back from the future.Once they find out that the news has been leaked, they will take us into custody forcibly.And this matter is about time travel.

It was too late, a few people jumped out from nowhere around me and pinned me to the cold ground.Her high heels stayed in front of me, squatting down, I saw her face.She is not Xiao Xiaoyan at all, she is holding a piece of skin in her hands, her face and neck have raised flesh-colored edges, white glue sticks to it, dotted with stars, she smiles...it's really ugly .

I was escorted by those people to stand up and follow behind her, watching her casually pull something out of her collar and roll it into her hand.I've seen that thing, it's part of the equipment that the government gave to Zheng Yi, and it can talk to his backpack.

I know that Chen Wei's family lives in a villa, but I didn't expect the back garden of his house to be so big. It has been a long time since I came out of the back door.Later, they finally stopped in front of a tree, knocked on the trunk several times regularly, and the ground at the other end of the tree moved, revealing a staircase with a steep slope.

And the spiral staircase fits the wall smoothly, making people dizzy and seems to have no end.The hole goes straight down, and the person gradually begins to have difficulty breathing.Finally, they tapped their fingers to the screen and opened the door.

It was very warm inside, with sufficient oxygen, and it was exactly the same as the system company's furnishings.This is obviously not a prison, but another secret research institute of theirs.I seem to have some kind of confidence, and I feel that they have no intention of killing me.Coming here, the worst result is to be treated as an experiment.They put me in a room where sat an old man, at least 70 years old, with white hair, huge bags under the eyes, a hooked nose, and a wrinkled mouth.

He said to me, "Son, come here."

I walked over, stood in front of the table, and stared at him.

"You suffered a lot because you were not smart enough and overestimated your abilities." He slowly flipped through the documents on the desk, ignoring the ringing of the phone in the empty room, and found a Something, "What to do? Do you want to be locked in?"

I said, "Let me work here."

"You're just a liberal arts student."

"Free labor, as long as you agree, I promise to keep my mouth shut." I approached him, "Or, one day, people will see an unbelievable truth, maybe it's tattooed on a body, maybe it's some other way. They Suddenly learned that this city is a complete lie, the so-called system company is not a time-traveling company, and the time-traveling machine does not exist at all."

This is my guess, based on the words of Xie Yu and Xiao Xiaoyan and my own personal experience.If I hadn't seen the change in his face, I could have continued to guess...

I am a liberal arts student, and I have no scientific research ability, but sometimes the imagination of liberal arts students is beyond the reach of others.I'm playing side-by-side, betting on the possibility of guessing a part of the truth, even a close one.

I won the bet.

He looked at me in shock, his expression slowly changed until he was full of smiles, clapped his hands together, and repeated: "Traveling machines don't exist at all..."

He got up from his chair and started walking around me: "You're not smart, but you're not stupid either. I wasn't going to hand you over to the police, because I have a better way to deal with it than prison. Prohibition saves social resources. But I am really short of people during this time... Come and be a monitor, one-on-one monitor, and submit the monitor summary report at twelve o'clock in the evening."

The monitors definitely don't have access to the core secrets, and they may even have been working for many years, and still don't know what is going on here.But I can't be too hasty, and prematurely revealing my strong intentions will only cause them to lose their trust.I can wait.

He asked me, "For your brother?"

I nodded.

He still didn't feel kindly when he smiled, and he said, "Do it well."

"Then where is Wu Fan?"

"If you're fine, he's fine."

After working here, no one has disclosed any information to me, they will not communicate with me.They speak the same language, but it's not a foreign language, and I can understand simple words, as long as they don't speak so fast.

My listener is a woman.To be honest, it is very difficult for me to monitor twelve hours a day, it is like having another person in my ear, and it makes me feel embarrassed... that piece of wiretapping is obviously implanted under the surface The device has the function of viewing the screen.The position of the arm is a bit strange, I have never seen a girl from that angle.

She was a teenager, and she had two dimples when she smiled.She was extremely optimistic, as if traveling to a strange city was like an adventure for her, and this depressing city was more like a paradise.Sometimes when she was walking on the road, she would poke her head over her head to see other people, and while lying on the fence of the embankment, she would pull out a foxtail and wrap it around her ring finger.

She sees this as a new continent, and I think... she is my new continent.

Because, one day she went to the amusement park to play bungee jumping, and when she came back, I couldn't understand what she was saying, and she used the language used by these workers.She went to the Municipal Bureau of Space-Time to inquire the next day, pointed to her throat and made a call.The staff asked her to open her mouth and put something in it.She coughed a few times and her voice returned to normal.

She said: "Can you just give me a black machine like that? I wear it on my body. I feel like I put it in my mouth. I always think about it. Although there is no foreign body sensation, I always think... …Will brushing your teeth brush it out or something like that. Although you said no, but this bungee jumping, it fell off.”

"That thing is not convenient to carry, and it will make you different and separate from the aborigines. The one in your mouth didn't fall out, it was damaged by the shock, and you screamed too loudly."

The girl named Liu Xu smiled shyly.

I'm too slow, Xie Yu also mentioned this matter, that is, the Municipal Space-Time Bureau gave him a language converter.He is obviously from Sichuan, how could he not understand the language?At this point, I feel...maybe many traversers from outside are carrying that kind of equipment, and they collectively speak another language, as if what I speak, what people in this city speak, is an independent dialect .

I always come home late at night. When I get home, my dad is usually not asleep, leaving a lamp waiting for me, smoking a cigarette.After I opened the door with the key he got up, walked into the bedroom, and closed the door.Sometimes I will say one more sentence: "The supper is in the pot, if you don't want to eat it, you can have it for breakfast."

"I bought two sets of thermal underwear for you." I opened his door and put the clothes on the cabinet. "Stop smoking that three-dollar low-quality cigarette. Quit it. I'll buy you candy."

He said: "The peppermint smell is good, rushing to the throat."

I closed the door, smiled and shook my head.

In the room I live in, I sleep alone.I walked over with light steps, pulled down the quilt, and saw Zheng Yi's face.

"Are you back? Come in and lie down." He pulled the quilt away and moved inside, "Come on, warm yourself up."

His eyes did not open from the beginning to the end, and he turned over to continue sleeping.I went out to soak my feet in hot water, sat on the edge of the bed and asked him, "Why did you come here suddenly?"

"I want to eat ribs, so I came to see you. Why don't you have a day's rest at your place of work. Do you still have to go to work tomorrow?" He reluctantly opened his eyes and looked at me sleepily. "It's so hard to earn money now?"

"I have to work, tomorrow from [-]:[-] noon to [-]:[-] pm, I still have some time to rest in the morning. Do you want me to make up lessons for you?"

He shook his head quickly: "Farewell...don't."

Seeing that he looked so sleepy, I didn't intend to continue chatting with him, so I just put the bedding under my body, wiped my feet, and found another bed from the closet to cover it.It was quite warm where he slept.

He suddenly turned around again, and said to me with a sober expression: "No one talks to me at school. Ke Ke is busy dating all day long, and Lao Zhang has called her to the office many times, but she His grades improved, and the old Zhang was choked up, and recently when he stood at the back door of the classroom and looked inside, his face became darker and darker, which was really scary."

"You have so many buddies, it's boring." If he knew that my daily work content is to watch a girl eat, go to work, take a nap, get off work, and watch TV, he should have ignited his own life. hope.

"It's the best friend with you."

I suddenly remembered something: "By the way, why haven't I seen you carrying a backpack these few times?"

"He was expropriated by my mother... You don't know how much my mother loves him. She also connected a loudspeaker to his phone device and took him to the office every day. I can help and chat with the people in the office. And so on. The boss found out, thought he was quite talented, so he acquiesced, and gave my mother a little more bonus." When he talked about this, he was a little excited, "You don't know...I think if he hadn't Wearing it on a backpack, I guess he has become my stepfather now."

"Hahahaha." I couldn't help but laugh, "It feels quite amazing."

"Hey, can you have some sympathy?" He strangled my neck, "I'm also waiting for my dad to come back."

"Don't worry, he will definitely come back." I pulled Zheng Yi's hand away and told him, "I promise."

After the time travel machine is invented, everything will return to its original position.

"What's the use of your promise..." He seemed very dissatisfied, but he laughed after lying down, "Lin An, if you repeat your third year of high school next year, you can take the exam with me. I don't hold the exam There is hope for going out, it’s just that lousy university in Los Angeles, it’s not bad if I can pass the exam. When the time comes, I’ll cover you.”

"My current job is pretty good, and I may not go to school anymore." In fact, I want to go to college with Zheng Yi.Regardless of other doubts, at least I now clearly know that there is no machine that can travel through time and space, and it will be invented in a few years. I don't understand physics, so I can't help.I'm just an insignificant person in eternal time and space. All I can do is wait for these things to happen, and they will happen anyway.At that time, when all the dust settles and my brother comes back, if he sees that I haven't studied and I've accomplished nothing, he will definitely blame me too.I shouldn't continue to wade through muddy waters, and there's no need to wade through muddy waters anymore.

But my worries don't stop there. The complexity of this world may be far from what I've seen.Until the traversal machine was invented, I couldn't relax. The strings in my head were pulled by many thoughts, and I couldn't just let it go.Besides, I cannot now conclude that I must be useless.

"Fuck, I'll warm you up for nothing, and you won't even go to college with me." Zheng Yi threw the bedding over my head.

"Okay, go to bed early, and I will cook pork ribs for you in the morning."