under one roof

35

Snowing.

The whole city seems to be in a dream. All the decadence and gloom in winter are covered by white snowflakes, and the sky and the earth blend into a strange tone.

Yu Chen gradually woke up, his finger moved, and there was a fool on it, and the wound was painful.He wanted to open his eyes, but his eyes were also swollen, and everything he saw was hazy.He was lying down with a bed under his body, covered with a quilt, and the ceiling above his head was very familiar, but he couldn't figure out where it was for a while.

"Are you awake?" Ao Lie pushed the door open and came in. Seeing Yu Chen's movement, he hurried forward, "Thank God, you're finally awake. What's wrong with you? Are you thirsty? Drink water? Do you have anything to say? "His series of questions blocked Yu Chen's mind that hadn't turned around yet.Yu Chen could barely distinguish who the silhouette in front of him was, and he opened his mouth to speak, feeling uncomfortable as if he had a mouthful of broken glass in his throat.

"I thought I was going to die again," he said.

"I thought so too." Ao Lie said, "Brother and I have reached the edge of Nalingrad, and my head hurts as if I was about to explode when I was about to go forward. Hey, I didn't tell you Do you want to tell me something? There's no need to use such a drastic way, right? I'm still connected to your nerves." He pointed to his head.

"I..." Yu Chen thought of Rong Pu's death, his heart ached, and he felt dizzy again.He was stunned for a while, and then said, "Where's the boat?"

"I sent a message to the search and rescue team in the human world, and they will naturally rescue it. Whether it is life or death depends on fate, and we can't care too much."

Yu Chen asked again: "Then... what about Yang Jian?"

"He...is not very well." Ao Lie replied hesitantly, "I didn't see him when I first arrived, but I finally found him at the bottom of the sea. His bracelet is broken and he can't wake up. Eldest brother is trying to find a way."

Things were so bad, Yu Chen couldn't digest these things, his mind was still empty, and he sighed instinctively.

"Oh, by the way, this is for you." Ao Lie took out a small box with jade and chips inside.When he found Yu Chen, Yu Chen's hands were covered with blood, and he was half unconscious in time, with his fists tightly clenched.In the end, it was Ao Lie who broke open it forcefully and found the contents inside.There was a deep wound on Yu Chen's palm, a small chip and jade pendant were stuck on it by blood.

"I don't want it." Yu Chen shook his head and turned his back to refuse.

Ao Lie was helpless, and said: "Then I'll put it aside for you, you can rest for a while. If you need anything, just call me, I can hear you."

Yu Chen responded lightly.

The room is quiet, but when you listen carefully, there is a graceful singing voice that seems to be absent, as if you have heard it in a dream.Yu Chen closed his eyes in a drowsy state, and suddenly felt dizzy, the smell of blood filled his nose and mouth, making him gag.He couldn't close his eyes, he could only open them, the eyelids drooping a little bit, and the eyelashes were listless.Every blink of his eyes sent him torn between two worlds.Eyes open is the unconscious Yang Jian and the pain in this world, eyes closed is the pain of Rong Pu's death.

Yu Chen felt very discouraged for a moment, all hope was lost, he only wanted to end himself and end these troubles.Because he has never been a brave and decisive person, he will be afraid, shrink back, and even escape.

He was in a daze on the bed as if he had lost his soul, flashing through Rong Pu's severed heart over and over again in his mind, he got up in fright, covered in cold sweat, and looked at the small box on the table.A small chip and the piece of jade were placed together securely, and it could be seen that Ao Lie had carefully cleaned it up, without any trace of blood on it.Yu Chen picked up the chip with his other uninjured hand, looked at it carefully, and shouted: "Ao Lie! Ao Lie!"

Hearing the sound, Ao Lie rushed over and asked, "What's wrong?"

"Is it okay outside?" Yu Chen yelled too hard just now, his throat hurts, and he spoke hoarsely, "I mean...outside."

Ao Lie understood Yu Chen's meaning, frowned and said: "Not good, very bad..."

"I need a computer."

"Can you move? How about I help you out."

"Then trouble you."

Ao Lie led Yu Chen to go out. His house was a deep mansion, surrounded by greenery. Even in winter, there were still pines and cypresses standing. In addition, there was a thick barrier on the outermost side. It was naturally clean and seemed to be isolated from the world.Ao Lie asked: "The surroundings of that ship are very strange. It seems that something released huge energy in an instant, but I searched carefully, and there was nothing. Do you remember what happened that night?"

"Remember." Yu Chen said, "NO.4 has evolved."

"what?"

"It...it possesses human intelligence. I think it was invaded and transformed by my senior brother without being noticed...and he himself has become completely unrecognizable." Yu Chen said, "I ask you, can humans and Are the machines integrated?"

Ao Lie said: "Your question is beyond the outline. This is something you humans did, and it has nothing to do with us."

"That chip and that piece of jade...was given to me by senior brother before he died." Yu Chen said with difficulty, "He put him in his heart, I think it should be of some use."

"Then you don't want it?" Ao Lie said, "Who is your brother?"

"He is..." Yu Chen thought for a while and said, "He is a very powerful and excellent person."

Ao Lie had never seen such a complex look in Yu Chen's eyes when he mentioned someone, and suddenly asked: "What about Yang Jian? You care about everything in the world after you wake up, but you don't seem to care much about Yang Jian. Don't talk about going to see him."

"Didn't you say that if he can't wake up, can he wake up when I go to see him?" Yu Chen said helplessly, "I think I should do something useful, maybe we can all be less some burden."

"If Yang Jian were an ordinary person, after hearing what you said, no matter how righteous he was, he would feel cold in his heart."

"But he's not."

Ao Lie snorted lightly.

Yu Chen said: "I forgot to ask, after such a fight...will the survivors know your secret?"

"No." Ao Lie said, "I have cast a spell, and they will only remember a shipwreck."

"..."

Ao Lie helped Yu Chen to his computer room, everything was on standby when no one was using it.After Yu Chen sat down, the virtual keyboard appeared in front of him, and the huge screen swished on. Yu Chen thought for a while, and typed a series of letters with his hands."Failed" is always displayed in red on the screen.He frowned and said, "Sure enough, NO.4 is completely paralyzed."

"It's not the worst." Ao Lie continued, "After my senior brother and I brought you back, the human world seemed to change overnight, and all the computer-controlled machines stopped working. Can you imagine What? Store doors are open, no security system in the office building, personal account passwords are leaked... Now I'm afraid only the bank and government network can support work through the backup network, and the rest is a mess. You built that system Come out, haven't you considered what kind of emergency plan you need if something unexpected happens?"

"How could it be that I didn't think about it." Yu Chen smiled wryly, "No one has started that program at all... Or, no one can control NO.4 now, it has its own consciousness. No matter how much we think about it, How can you consider that machines will have intelligence? Hey... this is all for later."

"If this continues, I'm afraid the days of peace in the world will really come to an end." Ao Lie said.

Yu Chen sat blankly in front of the screen, and after a long time, slowly shrugged.He implanted that small chip into the host, and there were prickling snowflakes on the screen, and then Rong Pu's face appeared.

It was his gentle and young appearance.

Yu Chen felt a twinge of pain, and he forced himself to continue watching.

"The 231st experiment." Rong Pu carefully recorded the data. As if he had made sufficient preparations, he looked at the progress on the screen with anticipation. Halfway through the process, it showed that he could not continue. His emotions changed from The excitement suddenly fell, and he said, "Failure." He typed on the computer for a while, and said as if talking to himself: "Why can't it move? Obviously, the thinking mode can be programmed..."

This kind of experiment was repeated many times, and Yu Chen also watched it many times, but none of them were successful.Rong Pu in the perspective is also getting more and more frustrated, and will even get so depressed that he gets drunk, smashes the things in the room, and then shouts: "Why don't you give me more time! Why!"

Ao Lie asked: "What's wrong with him? Why does he feel a little nervous?"

"I don't know. He was not such a person before." Yu Chen recalled.

Rong Pu lay on the ground all night, and when he woke up, his whole body was trembling. He wanted to stand up with the chair, but his muscles seemed not to listen to him. After a slight contraction, all the strength was released at once. , and made him stagger and fall.

Yu Chen bit his finger and continued to watch, the middle part of the video was missing, and later, Rong Pu no longer recorded his experiment process, but would say some irrelevant words.His health also seemed to be getting worse and worse, and sometimes he couldn't even hold a pen.Until one day, the angle of view of the camera was in an extremely hidden corner. Rong Pu was working at his desk with his back arched. The door of his room creaked and he asked suspiciously who it was. There was no sound outside, so he walked over to have a look. Into the blind angle of the lens.

Only a voice-over asked, "Is that Mr. Rong Pu?"

Rong Pu said yes.

Then there is no more picture.

Ao Lie said sharply: "That person has a problem."

"I think his voice is very familiar..." Yu Chen scratched his hair and said, "I seem to have heard it somewhere, very very familiar."

"There's still some content in the back." Ao Lie pointed to the screen and said, "Put it in the back."

Hearing this, Yu Chen continued to play the video. After the screen went dark for a long time, it suddenly changed to the first-person perspective.That perspective walked around the room, and then came to the mirror, it was Rong Pu's face, but when he raised his hand, his right hand turned into a machine completely!Rong Pu didn't seem to be unusual about this, as if he was not surprised.

He was sitting in front of the computer, and Yu Chen saw through his eyes the program virus he wrote to modify No.4. What made Yu Chen even more horrified was that the language was all exactly the same as what he saw from Yang Jian!He widened his eyes in horror, and Ao Lie was also very surprised. The two looked at each other, and Ao Lie said, "Is your senior brother anti-social?"

"I don't think he is." Yu Chen pointed to the screen to freeze the picture.

Rong Pu opened the drawer to look for something, and there was something similar to a case under it. Yu Chen could barely make out the words written on it after zooming in on the picture several times.

Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, commonly known as ALS.Patients will feel weak and fatigue easily in the early stage, and then develop into generalized muscle atrophy and dysphagia, eventually leading to respiratory failure.

Yu Chen's tears fell down with a "swish", and he sat in a daze as if he was frozen, tears flowed out, but he didn't cry at all.Ao Lie was terribly frightened by him, pushed Yu Chen and asked: "The dog leash! Why are you crying! What's the matter? Don't cry if you have something to say!"

"It's not that he wants to become like this, he's sick..." Yu Chen said to himself, "I pester him every day, and I don't even know he's sick, what am I doing...I'm so stupid and stupid. blind……"

"Has he been used?" Ao Lie asked.

Yu Chen stayed for a while, and suddenly became very firm and said: "No! Brother is not a fool! He dug out the chip and left it to me. He must not just want me to know his past. There must be... there must be other things. secret."

Only the video part in the chip is unencrypted, and the rest are all encrypted three times with a very delicate technique. Yu Chen usually sees those codes and his head would explode, but now he is extremely focused on thinking about various logics.No matter how Ao Lie yelled, he couldn't move.

Ao Lie had no choice but to let Yu Chen forget to eat and sleep, as long as he couldn't die anyway.When he came out, he ran into Monkey King, and seeing Monkey King's sad expression, he went over and asked, "How is Yang Jian?"

Sun Wukong shook his head: "I only hate that I am not a Daluo Jinxian."

"How can we do this?" Ao Lie said.

Sun Wukong patted Ao Lie on the shoulder and said with a smile: "The sky is falling and the big brother is still here, so it's not your turn to worry about it, little dragon!"