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This is an ordinary early winter morning, just as ordinary as other early winter mornings. The difference is that Barney Crocker was awakened by a nightmare again. He was so frightened by the scene in the dream that he sat up directly, covered in sweat, It seems that it is not winter but summer when the thermostat is malfunctioning.

The temperature in the room is warm and pleasant. Barney, who still feels like he is in a nightmare, still feels like he is in an ice cellar, and the room is extremely cold.

After a night of nightmares, Barney didn't actually sleep well. Even though he had slept for ten hours, his fatigue didn't improve.It was still early to wake up, and the embers of the nightmare made it impossible for him to fall asleep again. After sitting on the bed for a while, he reached for the alarm clock on the bedside table and canceled the alarm again.

When he just stood up from the bed, he was still trembling a little. He dragged his weak legs into the bathroom, stood under the shower and let the slightly hot water flow all over his body. After a few minutes, Barney finally felt his body from the outside to the inside. After warming up, the hot water made his skin red and made him feel alive.This feeling is probably one of the reasons why he insists on the ancient water bath.

No longer feeling the bone-chilling cold, he dared to review his dreams. At the beginning, he thought those were just dreams. When the dreams appeared more and more frequently, he began to have doubts. As the number of dreams As the number increased, the blurry scene in the dream gradually became clearer. After the layers of fog were cleared away, he felt more and more real in it, as if it was not just a dream but his real memory.

The first time he had this assumption, he thought it was a side effect caused by excessive stress, but he didn't take it to heart. After all, since the countdown appeared, with the increase in workload, most of the colleagues in the company have been stressed big.But then he couldn't think like this anymore, many things in the dream happened in reality.

When the dream was still vague, he only felt a faint sense of vision. As the dream became clearer, he clearly saw what really happened a few days later.

Soon after he felt the instant vision, he started to make some notes, but it stopped soon, and he was afraid to write any more.

It's not that he didn't think about telling this matter out, it's better to let others enlighten him than to keep it in his heart, but his previous experience told him that it's better not to talk about it.After saying it, he will get more or less attention from the media, and nine out of ten will call him a prophet or something. He himself doesn’t believe that he is a prophet—otherwise why doesn’t he know what will happen after the countdown ends—that’s still Forget about keeping this secret in your stomach, even if you feel crazy, it's better than being watched by everyone.

After coming out of the bathroom, the time was still much earlier than usual. After hesitating for a while, he decided to go out for breakfast to change his mood. He picked up the dog leash and waved to Jim.

Although it was only early winter, the temperature in the morning was already very cold. Barney wrapped his coat around him and led Jim to the coffee shop.

Many of his colleagues live in this community or nearby communities, so it is not surprising to meet two or three colleagues now, but not all colleagues can just nod their heads. When he was physically and mentally exhausted, Barney just wanted to be alone. According to the tradition, this kind of wish is usually as difficult to realize as "going back to his hometown to get married".

"Good morning, Bonnie."

"Good morning, Daisy."

"You can't get back at me by calling me a girl's name for calling you bunny."

"Or do you want me to help you see if something is really wrong with your language system? I promise to send you a better new system along the way."

Seeing that the master couldn't get through this way, Danny naturally turned his attention to Jim, "Good morning, Jim."

Compared with the host's getting up, Jim is very warm and friendly. He took the initiative to rub Danny's leg with his head, and raised a front leg to shake Danny's hand.Danny fulfilled Jim's wish to shake hands, he pampered Jim's little head, "What a good boy."

Barney looked helplessly at the enthusiastic interaction between Jim and Danny, and looked at Jim's big watery eyes. In the end, he didn't say the "little traitor" out of his mouth, "Danny, are you going out for a walk too?"

"I've found that running in the morning is also a good time to observe humans."

"I'm going to have breakfast, do you want to join me?"

"Ok."

After sitting down in the glass corridor of the coffee shop, Barney felt a little regretful. While eating a sandwich, he looked helplessly at Danny who was happily drinking motor oil while charging himself with the sun, "You must Do you want to drink motor oil at this time? The smell makes me think you are about to burn."

"You still have the evil fun of burning androids? Humans are terrible."

"..."

"Are you thinking about replacing me with a sperm whale again? I've told you many times that this idea really can't be realized."

"I'm suddenly starting to hope that when the countdown ends it's the end of the world."

After hearing the word "end of the world", Danny's eyes lit up, but Barney, who was busy with the sandwich, didn't notice, "What else do you know about this countdown?"

"Me? I know as much as everyone, but it's really troublesome to have countdowns on all the screens. As you should have seen, the cash register screen is completely occupied. They have to change the way to collect money. It seems that all electronic terminals The countdown has begun, so will you receive the countdown too?"

"Yes, they're jumping in my head right now," said Danny, pointing to his own head, "You just said the end of the world."

"I don't know why, but there is a voice in my heart telling me that it is the countdown to the end of the world." Looking at Danny who obviously did not understand the term "voice in his heart", he felt that Danny was about to Showing a "wrong face"—Barney named some of Danny's expressions, of course, this was done without Danny's knowledge—he waved his hand helplessly, "Forget it, don't worry about it .”

"Do you really think that's a countdown to the end of the world?"

"Yeah, after the countdown is over, there's a bang, and everyone is blown into space."

After finishing speaking, Barney continued to solve the sandwich on his own. The long silence made him puzzled. He originally thought that Danny was going to start a new conversation after ending this topic. Such a long silence is really not Danny's character. In the weird silence, Barney raised his head, only to see Danny just sitting quietly as if his computer had died.

Barney called Danny's name a few times, but there was no response. The unresponsive Danny frightened Barney. He quickly lifted up Danny's sleeve, and the jumping light spots on his arm showed that he was not dead. But the amount of information he was processing was quite huge. Looking at the almost overloaded CPU, Barney was very worried that Danny would really burn like this.

The author has something to say: Daisy, Daisy, in addition to Daisy as a female name, this word actually has the meaning of daisy.