I may not be human [holographic]

water……

Surrounded by water...

wrapped him, squeezed him...

It seemed that something hard pierced through his mouth, penetrated his whole body, and fixed him in the deep water...

There was a slight sound in the water: "Di-di-di-"

There seemed to be some continuous humming, like a group of unknown things whispering in his ear.

But he couldn't wake up, no matter how hard he struggled, he couldn't escape the darkness.Even this vague awareness came and went in fits and starts.

He seemed to have had a dream, and dreamed that he was standing on the edge of the square, watching the gangster with the knife rushing towards a group of innocent children very clearly.

He should rush up...

Yes, he remembered that he rushed up...

He still remembers the feeling of the knife piercing his body, the feeling of dying from blood loss, as if his soul was out of his body, he will never forget...

In a daze, in a trance...

He felt his soul float out of his body again.

He suddenly dreamed of another scene.

It was in a labyrinthine place, holding a crying little girl in his arms, walking anxiously through the corridors, as if looking for an exit.

He opened a gate and saw the device inside the gate, and the anxiety and panic in his heart disappeared immediately.

He put the little girl into an egg-shaped container, and finally let her go, so that he could close the lid of the escape pod tightly...

It seems, what else did that little girl say...?

——"Little brother, I will find someone to save you! You must live! You must live!"

"You must hold on! Yan Yan!"

His mother's weeping voice seemed to echo in his ears, but it was illusory. When he desperately wanted to hear it more clearly, he couldn't catch a trace of it.

"Be sure to survive!"

"Wake up! Lin Zhengyan!"

"Lin Zhengyan!"

……

"Star mark time, six o'clock sharp."

Lin Zhengyan opened his eyes, and the familiar ceiling came into view, but he didn't realize where it was for a moment.

In the next second, he was suddenly wrapped up from the bed by a huge force, and fell into a warm embrace.The man's arms were so tight that it almost crushed all the bones in his body.

Immediately afterwards, Lin Zhengyan felt something soft and hot touch his lips.

It was a kiss that was so desperate that it was almost crazy, it didn't even look like a kiss anymore, but it was trying to grab all of him and tear him apart.

Lin Zhengyan didn't realize it until he was kissed for a long time.

"you……"

He struggled to push Shi Changan away, fell back to the bed, propped himself up and sat on the head of the bed, staring at the past with wide-eyed eyes.

At that time, Chang'an half-kneeled on the edge of the bed, with his arms propped beside Lin Zhengyan, his eyes were as sharp as a falcon, and he stared back.

The red eye sockets or bloodshot eyeballs cannot be simulated in the game, but Lin Zhengyan inexplicably felt that Shi Changan's expression should be like that - that kind of expression that could not tell whether it was anger or ecstasy, almost going crazy .

Lin Zhengyan felt that he should say something, but Shi Changan's expression brought too much oppression, he just felt that his throat was tightly blocked, and he couldn't utter a single syllable.

Shi Changan stared at Lin Zhengyan for a while, then let out a long breath, stretched out his hand and pulled Lin Zhengyan into his arms again, and hugged him gently.

He whispered in Lin Zhengyan's ear, "Sorry, I...was too excited."

Lin Zhengyan was still speechless.

Shi Changan sniffled, a little aggrieved, and said in a low voice, "It's good that you're fine."

"...En." Lin Zhengyan let out a muffled reply from his nasal cavity.

He raised his hand, gently pushed Shi Changan away, moved closer to the head of the bed, opened the system panel, and tried to divert his attention so as to forget about the kiss just now.

On the panel, it shows that the current time is 12 o'clock in the morning on December 27th.

After losing consciousness for nearly a whole day, he was able to "go online" on time, which may be considered a surprise.

It seems that being killed in the game will not cause him to disappear permanently, but... he will lose consciousness for a long time.

and also……

"How am I here online?"

He has already realized that this is Shi Changan's apartment bedroom, if he was forced to "offline" since he was killed in battle, then he should also wake up in that sinkhole.

"It was I who brought you back." Shi Changan said, his gaze still not leaving Lin Zhengyan.

Lin Zhengyan frowned: "I'm dead... After I was killed, didn't I go offline directly?"

Shi Changan pursed his lips, and the twitching of his cheek muscles showed that he was gritting his molars hard.

After a long while, he finally said, "No, when I found you, you were no different from a... dead body."

He didn't want to think about how he felt when he saw Lin Zhengyan in that state.

There will be no wounds on the body of the game model, but the destroyed exoskeleton armor and protective clothing clearly show what kind of torture Lin Zhengyan has suffered.

He carried Lin Zhengyan back to the dormitory and changed into new clothes, but no matter what he couldn't wake up the person in front of him.

Then, he watched helplessly as the man disappeared suddenly at ten o'clock in the evening.

At that moment, Shi Changan felt as if a volcano erupted suddenly in his chest, and the monstrous anger could hardly be suppressed any longer.

He considers himself a mature enough person, there are few virtual things in the game world that can make him angry.Even the things that caused the two brothers Shen Xing to leave the Corps, and even the small actions that Qing Qing did in private yesterday, in his opinion, were just children's play. If he is in a bad mood, he will call back. It may even be ignored at all.

However, yesterday, someone touched his reverse scale.

He almost couldn't hold back and sent a message to the studio of "Star Trace Era", asking them to restore the whole story from the database, and went to catch those thugs himself!It was Yuheng who persuaded him for a long time that this place was just a game and should not involve reality, so he finally held back.

After calming down, he began to regret again.

If he hadn't used those methods to mark Lin Zhengyan as himself, if he had silently protected Lin Zhengyan from the very beginning, then Lin Zhengyan might not have been so targeted, nor would he have been tortured like this.

Why didn't he realize that Lin Zhengyan was a treasure to him the very first moment they met?

He should have realized it!

Obviously... from the very beginning, that boy should be different.

In order to calm down the beast in his heart, he stayed offline all day and all night, and stayed by the empty bed in the game dormitory, thinking about the little things since he met Lin Zhengyan.

The more he thought about it, the harder it was for him to forgive himself.

What qualifications does he have to say that he likes Lin Zhengyan?

However, he couldn't let go and no longer like Lin Zhengyan.

Impossible.

It's better to protect him from now on and never, never let him be hurt like this again!

When Lin Zhengyan watched, the madness and surprise in Chang'an's eyes gradually faded away, turning into bitterness, his heart skipped a beat, and he broke the silence and asked, "How did you find me? Is the ice field sinkhole over there?"

Shi Changan said: "...Didn't you use the teleportation ring to ask me for help?"

After finishing speaking, he gritted his molars again, and said with difficulty: "I'm sorry, I'm late."

Lin Zhengyan glanced at Shi Chang'an, seeing the pain in the other's eyes, inexplicably felt a little distressed.

"Lin Zhengyan." Shi Changan leaned slightly, looked into Lin Zhengyan's eyes seriously, and asked in a low voice, "Let me take care of you, okay?"

His answer was a very long, very long silence.

The longer Shi Changan waited, the more anxious he became, and the longer the silence, the more he felt... Lin Zhengyan would not give him the answer he wanted.

So he decided to take the initiative.

Turning his head to look at Lin Zhengyan, Shi Changan firmly said: "Even if you reject me, it doesn't matter, because no matter what your decision is, I will always pester you in the future. I go online at six o'clock in the morning and log off at ten o'clock in the evening. Three meals a day rely on nutrient solution injections, and I can do it. Whether you agree to be with me or not, I just stick to you unilaterally."

As he spoke, he became more and more anxious.Thinking of what Lin Zhengyan had endured, he became a little annoyed, and couldn't help but raise his voice half a point: "Anyway, no matter what happens, you won't escape from offline, even if you are tortured and killed, you won't be offline. Then you hide too." Don't leave me!"

Lin Zhengyan looked up at Shi Changan, and asked cautiously, "Are you angry?"

Shi Changan raised his hand and rubbed his face, his tone slowed down a bit: "It's already at that time, why don't you go offline and escape?"

When Lin Zhengyan looked into Shi Changan's eyes, it seemed that he was looking at the window behind him, or in fact, what he was looking at was the faintly visible corner of the sky outside the window.

The expression on his face was a bit confused, and he was silent for a long time before he spoke word by word at a very slow speed: "I can't tell you."

Shi Changan did not expect to get such an answer that was not an answer.He clenched his fist tightly, and asked again: "You haven't changed the pain setting, and you can't tell me why?"

Lin Zhengyan slowly withdrew his confused gaze, fixedly looked at Shi Changan, and nodded.

When Chang'an exhaled heavily, he really didn't know what to do with Lin Zhengyan.

Lin Zhengyan sighed, and said, "Shi Chang'an, you don't need to be angry, really."

Shi Changan turned his head to stare at Lin Zhengyan, but did not speak.

Lin Zheng said, "I won't fall into such a clumsy trap next time, trust me."

Shi Changan still didn't speak, his eyes looked at Lin Zhengyan without blinking.

Lin Zhengyan twitched the corners of his mouth, smirked, and said, "Actually, I'm quite happy. Being killed in the game, but not really disappearing forever...I'm... really happy."

Shi Chang'an keenly noticed something wrong in Lin Zhengyan's words, frowned and asked, "Why do you think that if you die in the game, you will disappear?"

Lin Zhengyan couldn't explain it.

Shi Changan laughed angrily: "You can't tell me again?"

Lin Zhengyan was silent for a long time, then nodded.

"Do you really think that I can't find out who you are in reality?"

Shi Changan was full of anxiety and had nowhere to vent, mixed with self-blame, he had no way to speak, and said with a smile: "As long as I want to check, where did you access this game helmet, I just ask Things. Your little secrets are no different from running naked in front of the powerful."

These words hit Lin Zhengyan's ears so hard that his heart seemed to stop beating.

"No!" He looked up at Shi Changan in panic, reached out and grabbed Shi Changan's arm, and blurted out: "Don't check!"

God knows if Shi Changan really checks his data, will the game company discover the existence of his soul.What if they format him for fear of irreversible damage to the game? !

In fact, Shi Changan already regretted it when he said that sentence.

Not only because the federal law stipulates the protection of citizens' identity information, but also because that sentence sounds like a low-level threat, and it really shouldn't be said at this time to add pressure to Lin Zhengyan.

Lin Zhengyan didn't have the time to figure out the expression on Chang'an's face at all, he was very panicked, he just begged for mercy: "You... don't look into my real affairs, okay?"

Shi Changan was about to apologize, but was taken aback by this question.

Seeing that the person didn't answer, Lin Zhengyan dragged his tone and said to Shi Chang'an flatteringly, "... Please?"

This almost coquettish tone seemed to pour into Shi Chang'an's heart all the way through Shi Chang'an's ears, and then with the sudden acceleration of the heartbeat, it flowed to his limbs and bones.

Shi Changan only felt that all his bones were brittle.