In the semi-curved central control room, the computer screen shows that the game clearance time was a few seconds ago, and there is still a little bit of residual heat in the computer chair. The traces of human activities are very obvious, but the human figure is half invisible.

The person in charge of the laboratory frowned and walked around inside, even photographing the walls covered with white tiles, then pressed the headset solemnly, and said, "Is it possible that the computer has been hacked?"

"Team leader, the computer in the control room has never been connected to the Internet. The possibility of intrusion through the network is zero, but it does not rule out that someone uses a USB flash drive to import the virus." The voice in the headset paused, "And there is... haunted .”

"Come down and check the computer. We must find out the reason." The person in charge ordered him, "There is a pair of shoe covers missing at the door. Someone has come in. It cannot be haunted in the laboratory."

Just as these people were dignifiedly searching the central control room and the entire laboratory, Xi Changlin had already walked out in an open and honest manner.Standing on the side of the road outside Shengming Pharmaceutical Factory, he bent down and tore off the shoe covers on the soles of his feet, then took out a lighter, and ignited the two plastic covers in an extremely unfriendly manner, destroying the corpses and destroying the traces.

The location information received in the mobile phone reminded Xi Changlin that the car that He Chi asked to drive was nearby, but Xi Changlin only glanced in that direction, then raised his legs and walked towards the bus stop, waiting for the few passing buses. One of the buses here.

"Boss, do you really want to congratulate Boss like this?" the system said with some reluctance.

Xi Changlin frowned slightly, "It's a way to love me and him, isn't it? He likes me and wants me to like him too, but I can't do it. Since it can't be done, the deal is Not a fair and reciprocal deal, is there a problem with my abort?"

The system scratched its head, and couldn't think of any words to justify for a while. Even after carefully savoring Xi Changlin's words, it still felt quite reasonable——He Chi likes, and it can even be said that he loves Xi Changlin deeply. It is not only that Xi Changlin is by his side, but also that Xi Changlin opens his heart to accept him.For Xi Changlin, only the former can be given, and no amount can be given.

The expectations of the two sides are different, and the conditions and bargaining chips are not equal. Even if the entanglement continues, I am afraid that there will be no good results.

During that long period of time, it is not that there have been such cases. At first, the love for the other party was so deep, and later because he could not possess everything, the hatred for Xi Changlin was so strong, and finally even blackened, which seriously affected the progress of the mission.

The system that doesn't know much about human emotions sighed. Although it understood, it still couldn't bear it. "But I still feel that Boss He is very pitiful."

Xi Changlin stood at the end of the waiting line, slowly moved forward with the flow of people, got on the bus, walked directly to the end of the bus, and sat down by the window.

"It's quite pitiful." He looked at the ever-distant scenery outside the window, and whispered to the system, "Anyone who likes me is very pitiful."

After riding for three hours and burning three invisibility amulets, Xi Changlin returned to the hospital.

Gong Qing and his fiancée who came to "visit" in the ward had already left, and only He Chi was left in the huge room.Instead of sitting on the sofa to handle work as usual, he sat cross-legged under the wall-mounted TV screen, playing games with a handle.

That's the place Xi Changlin would always choose to play games. Generally speaking, He Chi would try to pull him onto the sofa, or at least put a beanbag under his buttocks.

Now He Chi sat in Xi Changlin's favorite position abnormally, pursed his lips expressionlessly, and played a game that they had already cleared together.

Xi Changlin felt that he looked like he was about to cry.

The footsteps that were about to step into the door paused, at this moment, Xi Changlin was a little afraid to walk over.

He suddenly remembered what He Chi once said, the thought he had when he saw him playing "Farewell" with his guitar in his arms six years ago at the cemetery - "It would be great if I could walk up to you and give you a hug".

At this moment, Xi Changlin also had the same thought.

"Do you want to go over and hug him?" The young man said to himself in his heart.

But soon, he refuted himself, "But if the hug misunderstood him, what should I do? Should I simply leave and cut off all his thoughts?"

After thinking for a while, he felt that such a thought seemed a bit cruel, and he froze on the spot and dared not move.

At this moment, a gust of wind blew through, and diffused into the ward from the corridor, mixed with the smell of moist soil after the rain and the bitter smell of vegetation.

Xi Changlin saw He Chi's nose fluttering, then turned his head, stared at the place where he was, which should be a deserted place in He Chi's eyes, and said:

"came back?"

Xi Changlin was startled, and after a few seconds, he walked over.

He struggled while walking, and finally chose to sit next to He Chi, and then he released the effect of the invisibility talisman, with a smile in his tone: "How did you find out?"

"The smell the wind blows in has changed." He Chi closed his eyes and said softly, "You went to Shengming Pharmaceutical Factory, and you inevitably picked up some of the smell there."

The young man let out an "oh", seeing that He Chi's mind was no longer focused on the game, he fished out the handle in his hand, and continued to play at the current progress.

He Chi's eyes fell from Xi Changlin's face to his fingers, and after a while, he said, "Are you planning to leave the hospital and go back?"

Xi Changlin's fingertips trembled: "Sometimes, it may be a good thing not to understand so thoroughly."

"You're not going to let me follow you anymore." He Chi changed his questioning tone to affirmative, raised his hand, but after a slight pause, he lowered it in mid-air.

Xi Changlin is not in the mood to play games anymore.He pressed pause, bit his lip, and whispered, "Don't follow me anymore, I don't deserve your likes like this."

Without even thinking about it, He Chi retorted: "Liking someone is not about whether it's worth it or not."

"But don't you think it's stupid? Doing business at a loss, talking about a business that can't make ends meet..." Xi Changlin frowned.

He Chi's expression became a little weird. He interrupted Xi Changlin, his voice raised inadvertently: "Like this thing is not a business, nor is it a business. It's a matter of feelings and has nothing to do with interests. I love you not because you can Bring me something, but because of you—so no matter what you look like, where you are, or what identity you are, I long for you. Even if you let me go away again and again, I will find you. "

At the end, his tone lowered, his voice was slightly hoarse, revealing a bit of helplessness and sadness.

Xi Changlin's eyes became confused, and his dark eyes met those blue as the sea. After a long time, he said: "I don't understand... Maybe I once understood it, but it's been too long, and I have forgotten it."

"It's not that you don't understand, you just selectively don't want to understand." He Chi shook his head, "You were afraid that the feeling of 'like' would hurt you, so you found a corner and hid it far away of."

He Chi's eyes are full of uncontrollable emotions, as deep as the night sky with upside-down stars, silently hiding the emotions and words of hundreds of millions of light years, it is complicated at first glance, but when you look at it again, it is simple Understand to the extreme.

Xi Changlin stared at He Chi for a while, feeling that he couldn't bear the gaze, so he turned his head away.

"Maybe you're right, I just don't want to understand, and I don't really want to come out of that corner." He said softly, and after he finished speaking, he put the game controller on the ground and stood up slowly.

"Are you leaving?" He Chi got up, followed Xi Changlin three steps, and asked in a hoarse voice.

"I don't like you, He Chi." Xi Changlin narrowed his gaze, and pinched off a leaf from a potted plant in the corner, "I can't treat you like you treat me."

"You don't need to be like me." He Chi whispered, "You don't have to force yourself to respond to me."

The floor-to-ceiling windows reflect the appearance of Xi Changlin, his eyes are as black as ink, and his eyes are narrow and beautiful. When he is not smiling, the tails of his eyes are slightly drooping, giving him a sense of alienation for no reason. When he laughs, he becomes more gentle and cute.

Xi Changlin bent his eyes, looked at He Chi through the reflection on the glass, and said in a clear voice with rare seriousness: "I can't do it, it bothers me and makes me feel sad."

As he spoke, he raised his finger to the sky: "Look, He Chi, the rain is about to fall again. If you want to run in the heavy rain and not be chased by others, you must abandon your umbrella."

The people behind were silent for a long time, so that the silence was only broken when the nurse came to put Xi Changlin on the drip with a tray.

"There will be no IV injections in the afternoon." The smile on the corner of Xi Changlin's lips revived again. He turned his gaze and said to the nurse, "Please take me to go through the discharge procedures."

Apart from Xi Changlin's weak constitution, and the "slight concussion" that several experts consulted cautiously but could not finalize, other things are really fine, and there is no need for hospitalization at all.

Yesterday, it happened again that the little nurse dropped the potion because of hide-and-seek, and was transferred to work in other areas. The nurses on the entire VIP floor were cautious and fearful, for fear that something would go wrong again, and He Chi, the ancestor, would be "a red-faced beauty" Smile", do things like "Tianliang Wang Po".

Now when she heard that Xi Changlin was going to be discharged from the hospital, the nurse couldn't hide her joy, her eyes lit up instantly, but after a while she realized her gaffe, she hurriedly lowered her head and coughed covertly, and said, "I need to talk to the attending doctor when I'm discharged from the hospital." Communicate, I will help you inform him."

After she finished speaking, she walked away with the tray as she came, with brisk steps, like a lark.

The young man raised his eyebrows, went to the closet, and took out the backpack that Jia Guoping brought yesterday, which he often used, which contained scripts, pads, wallets and some things.

"Where are you going after you're discharged from the hospital?" He Chi asked abruptly.

Xi Changlin put the bag on his shoulders slowly, and then answered him: "Where else can I go? Of course it is back to the set."

The discharge procedure was done very quickly. Not only the nurses on this floor, but even Xi Changlin's attending doctor wanted him to leave the hospital quickly, and they were all in one go when signing.Xi Changlin felt that after he left, people in the hospital would even set off firecrackers and hold a celebration party.

Xi Changlin deliberately waited for a while, took the elevator with He Chi and left, until they reached the underground garage, then turned and walked in another direction, which was considered as a way to save He Chi's face.

He used WeChat to call Didi Taxi, and instead of going back to the set as he had told He Chi earlier, he asked the driver to drive the car downstairs to his dilapidated apartment.

"Boss He has been following you. Now the car is parked downstairs, but no one came up." When pressing the elevator, the system said to Xi Changlin.

"I know." Xi Changlin closed his eyes and said while playing with his fingers.

Going upstairs, Xi Changlin first asked the system to check whether there were monitoring and eavesdropping devices inside and outside the room, and after confirming that it was safe, he took out the key to open the door.

It's just that he hasn't come here for two days, but Xi Changlin feels like a century has passed. When he saw the musical instruments hanging on the wall, he suddenly felt tired.

His fingers swayed between the guqin, guzheng, pipa and guitar, and after going back and forth several times, they stopped on the guqin.

This is not an expensive Guqin, but a Fuxi-style practice piano worth only 4000 RMB. It is made of very poor fir wood, and the varnish is painted black and shiny.

Xi Changlin took the guqin down, sat cross-legged on the floor, put it on his knees, and plucked the strings.

It started with an introductory song "Autumn Wind Ci", but Xi Changlin suddenly remembered the line in the lyrics "Entering my lovesickness door, knowing my lovesickness, long lovesickness, long lovesickness, short lovesickness, infinite extreme", he paused suddenly, even more Hui changed the strings and played "Xian Weng Cao" instead.

He sang while playing, and the lyrics that he thought were extremely funny when he was a beginner now have a bit of charm.

"It's really strange." After the song, Xi Changlin said to Qin, "Why can I easily accept and play with other people's feelings before? Like, love, hate, are not all means that can be used ?”

"Why are you so hard on He Chi? He is obviously the most reliable ally."

No one answered in the silent room.

After a while, the piano sounded again.

Time passed bit by bit, the pointer turned a few times, the system popped its head, and sounded a reminder: "It's raining outside, but Mr. He still hasn't left."

When his voice fell to the ground, the already cloudy sky suddenly brightened, and then there was a bang, and thunder rolled from the sky.

Xi Changlin's piano sound stopped.

"What time is it?" the young man asked.

System: "It's already six o'clock in the evening."

Xi Changlin said "Oh", and went barefoot to turn on the light, then went to the kitchen to find a pack of instant noodles and a stick of Shuanghui Wangzhongwang, boiled a pot of water, washed the dishes and chopsticks, and prepared to soak them.

"Are you sure you want to eat this?" the system asked in surprise.

"Just eating this may not be enough, how about ordering a barbecue takeaway?" Xi Changlin raised his eyebrows, his tone relaxed and natural.

system:"……"

He was silent for a long while, and then said helplessly, "Farewell, why don't you order a nutritious and healthy crock pot soup, and then eat some stir-fried vegetables."

Hearing this, Xi Changlin was also silent for a while.

When the water in the kettle boiled, the young man finally said, "Farewell."

There was a strong wind outside the window, and the sky quickly sank. The rain seemed to be pouring down, and with the violent thunder hitting the ground, it soon formed a stagnant water.

Standing outside the floor-to-ceiling windows, Xi Changlin looked downstairs, and saw He Chi's car by the side of the road. Judging by his posture, he might have to watch downstairs all night.

He stood upstairs and looked at it for a while, raised his hand, and quickly closed the two layers of curtains, so that the light in the room could no longer be seen.

The timing app reminded that the time was up in 3 minutes, Xi Changlin slowly turned back to the kitchen and brought out the noodle bowl.

The instant noodles are flavored with beef with pickled peppers. Not only did he cut a piece of ham for himself, he also put an egg in it, which can be said to be a very luxurious dinner.

Just as Xi Changlin took the chopsticks to stir the ingredients evenly, there was a knock on the door.

"It's takeaway." The system said, "I thought it was delivered to the next door, but it looks like Mr. He ordered it for you."

As if Xi Changlin hadn't heard the knock on the door, he continued to stir his instant noodles, then brought up the boiled egg, and cut it in half with chopsticks, letting the noodle soup soak into the egg yolk.

"Are you really not going to open the door?" the system asked.

"Doesn't opening the door mean that I let go and accept his kindness?" Xi Changlin asked him back.

The system said "Yes" and dived down.

It took Xi Changlin 10 minutes to finish the bowl of pickled pepper beef noodles, then took out the pad and ApplePencil from his backpack, and called up the video of the mice recorded in the laboratory of Shengming Pharmaceutical Factory today, and concentrated on research.

The light in the room was dimmed, illuminating Xi Changlin with a deep silhouette.He pursed his lips and recorded all the key points in the memo.

This video is not long, only a few minutes, but it contains huge information. Xi Changlin watched it over and over again, and got some ideas, but it was very chaotic, and it was difficult to sort out his thoughts for a while.

Xi Changlin was lost in thought, the white ApplePencil was spinning between his fingers, who knew that he used too much force suddenly, and the whole pen flew out, and at this moment, another thunder exploded outside.

The sound of the Apple Pencil falling to the ground overlapped with the sound of thunder, which was covered up half dead. The thunder resounded through the sky, as if it was rubbing against the balcony, and even the windows vibrated; the bright white lightning also penetrated Dark gray curtains were drawn, which were as bright as rays, as if to burn through a corner of the curtain.

From the gap in the curtains, one can see the blue and purple light in the sky tearing apart the sky like a hard hand, and the thunder is shaking, as if it is going to stir the fire on the ground.Xi Changlin's eyebrows twitched, and he subconsciously blurted out: "Did you hit anyone?"

The system replied empathetically: "There are no people, but a tree fell down, and the water on the ground couldn't recede, so the downstairs has already flooded."

"..."

"'Welcome to Pinghai City to see the sea', this sentence has become a hot search on Weibo." The system added, "This rain is transferred from the surrounding districts and counties to the urban area, and several districts and counties have already been flooded. gone."

"Then the warrior downstairs was washed away by the water?" Xi Changlin blinked.

The system went to investigate, and it took several minutes to answer Xi Changlin: "Boss He's car is still in good condition, and this little water should be able to flow through safely, but if you stay here all night, it's hard to say what will happen tomorrow. Yes. After all, Boss, your downstairs is a low-lying area, and the water can accumulate very deep, very deep."

Hearing this, Xi Changlin straightened his back on the sofa, and stepped on the floor instead of crossing his feet, but only for a moment, he returned to the previous nested salted fish posture.However, his finger poked on the home button of the tablet, returned to the desktop, then poked open WeChat, and clicked into the chat box with someone.

—I don't want to see you on the news tomorrow.

The other party replied in seconds:

—I asked Emi to go to Shengming Pharmaceutical Factory and got some things. I preliminarily judged that the experiment that Shengming Pharmaceutical Factory is doing includes two parts. One is to guide the X virus to mutate and make other viruses that are not so dangerous. The second is to kill this "other virus" method.

Xi Changlin: "..."

It's simply not right.

He stared at the message for at least 3 minutes, and the status of the other party was displayed as "typing" again.

—He Chi: From the connection, it can be inferred that Gong Qing and the others may want to put this virus into public places, so that people can be infected widely, and then promote the medicine.

Xi Changlin couldn't hold back, poked the input field, and started typing:

—Sure enough, the behavior of capitalists is driven by interests.But is this upfront investment too great?

——He Chi: Their laboratory was small at first, and it was only expanded to such a large size in recent years. The time cost is not high, but the manpower and money are not known.However, once this virus is used to open up the market and occupy an absolute share, the position of Shengming Pharmaceutical Factory will be unshakable in the future.

— Xi Changlin: Just to lay the foundation for the future?

—He Chi: Yes, to lay the foundation, but if the X virus has other uses, the possibilities are not limited to this.

Xi Changlin gave a "tsk", and tapped the edge of the tablet briskly with his fingers, and his confused thoughts suddenly became clear.But he didn't forget why he took the initiative to start this conversation. After drawing a few circles with his fingertips in the void, he fell back to the keyboard.

—Mr. He, should you "drift" along the water and go back now?

The other party directly played a video, but Xi Changlin refused to answer it.

Another video, another rejection.

After several repetitions, He Chi finally gave up and switched to speaking.In the noisy rain, his voice was low, hoarse and tired: "The water is too deep, the car is turned off, and there is no way to start it."

Xi Changlin replied "fart" very indiscreetly, followed by "scroll".

The words of persuading people to go back ended here, Xi Changlin turned off the screen, no longer caring whether He Chi would be submerged in the rain or not.He cleaned up the things on the table, took the noodle bowl to the kitchen to wash, took a shower, and after blowing his head, buried his face in the pillow and fell asleep.

The next morning, Xi Changlin was woken up by Jia Guoping who came to the door.

The young man thought about it, but he could only think that it was He Chi who told the manager that he had been discharged from the hospital.

Xi Changlin squinted his eyes halfway, took the toothbrush packed with toothpaste from Jia Guoping, and began to brush his teeth mechanically. After a while, he asked the system: "Did the warrior in the rainstorm wash away yesterday?"

"Shortly after you fell asleep, Boss He left. He walked cleanly and without muddling, and there was no way to see that his car was not ignited."

The young man let out an "oh", lowered his gaze, and continued to brush his teeth.

Jia Guoping stood at the door of the bathroom, and said to Xi Changlin in a loud and fast voice: "I have already reported to Director Qin that you will be able to return to the crew today, and your role is still on the last day, so no adjustments will be made. But Dance class has been put on the agenda, and the first class will start this afternoon... Oh, and one more point, a new section has been added to the dance drama, which is the sword dance, where the oiran Yi Qingbo and the national teacher Mu Xi Bei face swords under the moonlit night , that is, the sword dance between you and Lou Yang."

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