I am not human

In front of you is a door.

A very ordinary wooden door, the color is very old-fashioned yellow, with an upside-down blessing character pasted on the top, and traces of crayon graffiti on the bottom.

where is thisLiao Qingshu couldn't remember.

There was no such door in his memory.The doors of the orphanage are all white and a bit dirty. As for the doors of the Wanwu Academy, there are all kinds of weird styles, but there is absolutely no such thing in my impression.

What's behind the door?

Liao Qingshu stretched out his hand to push the door, but stopped abruptly, a wordless fear gripped his heart tightly, making him unable to move.

There seemed to be vague voices coming from behind the door, which got into the ears one by one, but they couldn't hear clearly.Liao Qingshu unconsciously opened her mouth, opened and closed her lips, and made a silent call——

He opened his eyes suddenly.

There is a soft spring bed under her body, and a pure white ceiling in front of her eyes.Liao Qingshu blinked, sat up, stared at the empty wall in a daze.

... This is not the first time I have had such a dream.

Ever since he was brushed by Muman once in the grove, he has been dreaming of the same door frequently.Sometimes he overcomes his fear to open it, but more often he doesn't even have the courage to touch it.But there is actually no difference, because even if the door is opened, all you see is boundless darkness.

He once secretly went to Muman without telling Jiufang Ziyan, and asked about the things behind the door.Muman looked at him wearily, with two deep dark circles under his beautiful eyes: "What's behind the door? How would I know?"

"But in a dream..."

"That's not me, it's just a clone of me, understand?" Muman lay down on the table and explained, "Actually, the clone is not very accurate. If you use the terms you can understand, it is actually a program. Install It can be used on qualified monsters. Create dreams, spy on memories, seize weaknesses and attack them. This is probably the operation process of this program. It can only read what exists in your memory. Brain supplements are not in this within the capabilities of the program."

"It means... in my current memory, there is nothing behind the door?" Liao Qingshu asked.

"That's about it." Muman yawned, "Did you ask me? I still want to catch up on sleep..."

Liao Qingshu looked at the time, it was very good, it was 09:30 in the morning.

"Are you tired?" he asked.

Muman said angrily: "Yes, I'm very tired, I'm sleepy! So what? Do you still want to stay and chat with me? I'll show you."

Liao Qingshu had no choice but to leave, but before leaving the door, she asked again: "If this kind of memory loss is yours, can you do it?"

Muman tilted his head and looked at him for a while, then smiled slightly: "I said, what you said is a bit annoying."

Lazily slumped on the chair, he said to Liao Qingshu: "The human brain is actually similar to a computer. You should know this, right? It generates a lot of files every day, records a lot of things, and then cleans them up again and again at regular intervals. Delete unimportant files. But these files are not completely deleted, but put into the trash can. Although they can’t be remembered normally, they will appear in dreams together with other memories.”

Liao Qingshu looked at him thoughtfully: "So?"

"There are many ways to delete memories, and this is not an uncommon method. But most 'amnestics' are just dragging files into the trash can. However, your memory, even in a dream can't show..."

"That is to say, it has been completely deleted." Liao Qingshu murmured, and for some reason, she suddenly felt relieved, "I see, I'm sorry to trouble you."

Muman looked at his expression and mocked: "Do you feel happy knowing that you have a missing part?"

"Some things, it's better if you don't remember them." Liao Qingshu vaguely agreed.

But Muman said: "You humans are so naive... What is yours is yours. If you insist on throwing it away, you will suffer retribution."

With just such a sentence, Liao Qingshu's mood that had just been relaxed suddenly became heavy again.

Jiufang Ziyan's voice came from outside the door, and Liao Qingshu came back to his senses.He changed his clothes and walked out the door, only to see Jiufang Ziyan talking on the phone in the living room, Old Zhan casually lying on the sofa, and Xiaobu running around on the ground, chasing a small red ball.The red ball looked familiar, Liao Qingshu picked it up and looked, sure enough, it was the ruby ​​given to him by Langgan.

He mouthed Jiufang Ziyan displeasedly: "Who told you to touch my things?"

Jiufang Ziyan held the mobile phone in one hand, waved it at him with the other, pointed at Lao Zhan, and made an angry middle finger.Liao Qingshu didn't say a word from the beginning to the end, but Liao Qingshu understood the general idea - most likely, Lao Zhan found the little cloth annoying and didn't want to deal with it, so he dug out his ruby ​​and used it as a ball of thread.

I don't know what's wrong with Xiaobu, obviously Lao Zhan doesn't like to deal with it very much, and he keeps sticking to Lao Zhan's body, even if his head is badly shot, he doesn't care.Jiufang Ziyan was so angry that he couldn't do anything about Lao Zhan who was elusive, so he had to turn around and scold Liao Qingshu, often scolding Liao Qingshu with black question marks all over his head, innocent and dazed.

But today, after all, he was wrong to blame Jiufang Ziyan first, so Liao Qingshu didn't express any opinion on the middle finger, and turned around and walked into the bathroom resentfully.When he came out, Jiufang Ziyan had already hung up the phone, and said to him, "It's packed? Let's go to the mountain management."

"Shouldn't we go directly to Shuima and Manman to collect management fees today?" Liao Qingshu asked strangely.

"Just now Mo Yi called and said that there is no need to go, she has other tasks assigned."

"Then breakfast..."

"Go to the management office of the mountain to eat, and Chongjun will treat you."

Liao Qingshu was actually not very willing to eat Jiufang Chongjun's food.

Familiar with the other party's financial situation and can't bear it is one aspect, and the other reason is that he really can't escape the guilt that fills his heart.

Ever since he learned that Jiufang Zhongjun voluntarily became a guinea pig of the research institute in order to support the management of the mountain, his eyes on the director changed from "good morning, boss" to "caring for the poor"—even though he himself has few Money, but this is not a reason to allow others to treat guests with peace of mind, especially when the other party sells their bodies in exchange for the money for the treats.

"You're the one who plays a lot." Jiufang Ziyan gave him a sideways glance and asked, "Do you want fried dough sticks?"

Liao Qingshu looked at the deep-fried dough stick eagerly, and nodded slightly.

Jiufang Ziyan gave him a "cut", handed him the last fried dough stick, and opened a cup of soy milk for him.Liao Qingshu took a bite out of the soy milk, her mouth was full of crunchiness and guilt.

Just at this time, Jiufang Zhongjun came out of the office, still looking like a radiant black toothpaste, but with a strange emerald green on his head.Jiufang Ziyan took a sip of soy milk and asked, "Going out?"

"Yeah." Jiufang Zhongjun stroked his green hair, "Yesterday's experiment is not finished yet, Professor Yang told me to go again."

...Are you sure you went to the laboratory and not the hair salon next door?Liao Qingshu watched him leave, the corners of his mouth twitched, Jiufang Ziyan raised his hand and knocked him on the head: "Eat well, don't glance around!"

"His hair!" Liao Qingshu said, "Don't you think it's very eye-catching?"

"It's just the experimental results, just get used to it." Jiufang Ziyan didn't take it seriously, "Manly man, what's wrong with the green spots on his hair? It's better than shedding crystal tears."

"Don't even mention it, it's cheaper to shed crystal tears." Xu Moyi walked in with a stack of documents, and followed Jiufang Ziyan's words, "The tears that Chongjun shed last time were sold as strawberry crystals." , sold for a lot of money."

"That's okay too?" Liao Qingshu was stunned for a moment, then suddenly called out, "By the way, in this case, can those ores in the mountains and seas be sold? I remember that there are jades on many mountains..."

Before he finished speaking, Jiufang Ziyan knocked on the forehead again: "You are the only one who is smart and can come up with ideas! If this can be done, why should we eat fried dough sticks here?"

Liao Qingshu rubbed her forehead pitifully, and asked, "Why, can't you sell it?"

"It's not that you can't sell it, it's that you can't sell it." Xu Moyi explained, "Chongjun won't let you do this kind of thing, baby, don't mention it in front of him."

"Yeah, Juno and Jupiter have made similar suggestions before, and even wrote the plan, but Zhong Jun insisted on not agreeing, and the three of them got into a fight..."

She was recalling to herself, not noticing the sudden change in Jiufang Ziyan's face because of those two names.Seeing this, Liao Qingshu quickly changed the subject and said, "Well, didn't you say there is a temporary mission? What do you want us to do?"

"Oh yes, that matter!" Xu Moyi put the document in his hand on the desk next door, but accidentally slipped it, and the document in his hand was immediately mixed with the messy paper on the desk.She sorted out the documents on the desktop in a panic, and her long hair flew up, flexible like tentacles, and quickly helped to organize them.

"To put it simply, it's...uh, a purchasing agent!" Xu Moyi said without raising his head.

Liao Qingshu, who was about to get up to help, suddenly paused: "Excuse me, what did you say?"

"Purchasing agent." The little gangster behind the computer explained, and Liao Qingshu realized his existence, "Just to help bring some things from the mountain and sea world. Those mountain gods who live in the old street want to celebrate their birthdays for themselves, and there is still a shortage. A few pieces of auspicious jade, ask us to bring some out from the mountain and sea world."

"God? Celebrate your own birthday?" Liao Qingshu was stunned when he heard that, and Jiufang Ziyan said: "It's just a sacrifice, I don't understand this."

"That's right." Xu Moyi took the time to explain, "Those mountain gods are all demigods with a long history. It is recorded in the "Shan Hai Jing". Jiyu, that is, colorful jade. How did that passage say, 'The head of Fanji Mountain...'"

"'The head of Fanji Mountain, from the mountains of Huizhu to the mountains of Manqu, Fanjiu Mountains, 670 miles away. The gods all have human faces and bird bodies. Shrine: use hair, use a lucky jade, throw but not糈.'" Liao Qingshu recited, with a look of surprise on his face, "My God, there are still such famous people living in the old street. Would it be better to pay homage every now and then when you have time?"

Jiufang Ziyan: "Blessings, I made it as if I have never seen it before. Didn't I take you to eat their fried cold noodles at their stall the day before yesterday, forgot?"

Liao Qingshu: "..."

Xu Moyi yelled, "Ah, are they still selling it? Then I'll have to talk to them later. The urban management has been very tight these days..."

Liao Qingshu: "...At least he is a mountain god, so he shouldn't be in such a bad situation, right?"

"So what about the mountain gods, no one worships them, they're just as bad as miscellaneous ghosts." Jiufang Ziyan sneered, "Now the Eastern Heaven Realm is ruled by Taoist gods, and there is no place for them in the entire system of gods, and I don't want to fight with Yin Yin." It’s almost the same as returning to the mountain and sea world to retire, so they can only get by outside. They are doing well, the food stall business is very good, and they have gathered some popularity and can make money.”

"As for the sacrifice, don't even think about it." Xiao Hei said indifferently, "Modern people at best worship Confucius and Conan before the exam."

"...So you just sacrifice yourself?" Liao Qingshu felt sad and absurd to burn paper for herself.He shook his head and asked Xu Moyi: "Then we are going to leave now?"

"No hurry, wait for Xiao Lin to come back first." Xu Moyi said, "Even in the mountains and seas, Jiyu is not easy to find. The most convenient way is to go directly to Langgan tree to ask for it, but Langgan has a weird temper , I’m not very happy to give things for nothing, so I have to exchange him with something else. Xiao Lin has already gone to buy the things he wants to exchange.”

Hearing this, Liao Qingshu unconsciously touched the ruby ​​in his pocket through his clothes.His small round jade ball was given by Lang Ganbai, although he never understood why he gave him this thing, but now that he thinks about it, he seems to have to prepare something in return.

"May I ask what Langgan likes more..." Liao Qingshu was asking, when he suddenly heard a cheerful male voice behind him.When he turned his head, he saw that Lin Hongle had entered the mountain management office with a large cardboard box in his arms.

"Hey, I'm eating!" Xiao Lin greeted enthusiastically, "I've prepared everything, you can go when you're done eating."

Jiufang Ziyan responded casually, and finished the soy milk in his hand.Liao Qingshu wiped her mouth, and was about to say hello to Xiao Lin, when she saw the contents in the box, she was shocked to stop.

He didn't see clearly what was stuffed in the box, but he still recognized the book on the top, which was obviously a second-hand copy of "Modern Western Economics".