【01】

"Maybe I hope I can shine!" Jiang Shuo replied, showing a rare bright smile after speaking, and asked: "Mr. Qin...Qin Er, you haven't said anything yet, what do you want to eat?"

"I'm not picky about food." Qin Yiheng said, "By the way, can you drink? I still have two bottles of red wine at home. My brother gave them to me and they haven't been opened yet."

Jiang Shuo hesitated for a moment.

Qin Yiheng looked at the other party with some confusion, and asked, "What? Are you allergic to alcohol?"

"That's not true, I just have poor wine quality, and it's easy to go crazy when I drink too much..." Jiang Shuo was a little embarrassed.

"Then drink less." Qin Yiheng turned around to get the wine.

【02】

Jiang Shuo's cooking skills are better than Qin Yiheng's imagination, and his drinking capacity is smaller than Qin Yiheng's imagination.

After only drinking a little red wine, Jiang Shuo threw himself on the dining table.

Qin Yiheng drank the rest of the wine in his cup slowly, stood up, looked at the back of Jiang Shuo's head, and remembered that Jiang Shuo had protected himself behind him several times during the crisis in the game. Facing him unreservedly.

"It looks very thin, not light." Qin Yiheng hugged Jiang Shuo horizontally, and sent him into the guest room. He wanted to put him directly on the bed, but he became obsessed with cleanliness, so he couldn't help taking off Jiang Shuo's coat and putting him in the room. Lie down on the bed.

After covering Jiang Shuo with the quilt, Qin Yiheng pulled up a chair and sat on the edge of the bed. He looked at Jiang Shuo's flushed face, and his long and dense eyelashes fluctuated with his breathing.It seems that the person in front of him and his memory of Jiang Shuo in the game seem to overlap again.

However, Qin Yiheng's crossed fingers suddenly tightened. In fact, it is still uncertain whether it was Jiang Shuo or Liu Zhi who woke up.

After Jiang Shuo woke up from the game last time, he insisted that he was Jiang Shuo, but he had no memory of the game at all.Regarding his own second personality, Jiang Shuo said that he knew about it, but he had been treated before, and his second personality hadn't appeared for a long time.

In reality, Qin Yiheng didn't know Jiang Shuo before, and he doesn't know what kind of person Jiang Shuo is usually, let alone what his other personality is like.

This time when Jiang Shuo bought a haunted house, he found the same string of copper coins as in the game.

Qin Yiheng felt that this matter was by no means a coincidence.

【03】

Jiang Shuo had a dream. In the dream, there was always an invisible monster chasing him. He ran desperately, desperately.Surrounded by buildings, he wanted to go into the building to hide, but he couldn't pass the face recognition system under the building, so he couldn't get in anyway.

He felt that the monster was getting closer and closer. He was so tired from running, his legs were as if they were filled with lead, and every step he took, he had to exert all his strength.

He ran slower and slower, and the monster behind him was getting closer and closer.

Those buildings were silent, as if they were waiting to see how he was swallowed by a monster, full of the hard and cold temperament of reinforced concrete.

"Click!" Suddenly the door of a house opened, and Jiang Shuo rushed in without caring about anything.

"Hush—don't go out!" Jiang Shuo just rushed in, immediately blocked the door, and made a silent gesture to the person who opened the door to go out, but the person ignored Jiang Shuo at all and insisted on opening the door to go out, Jiang Shuo hurriedly stopped, but The man refused to cooperate no matter what.

Jiang Shuo also lost the strength to entangle.

The door was opened by that person.

The light shone in.

There is nothing outside.

Where is the monster?

Jiang Shuo was wondering when suddenly a terrifying face appeared in front of him.

【04】

Jiang Shuo woke up from the dream.

"Jiang Shuo?" In front of him was not a monster in his dream, but Qin Yiheng had a concerned expression, "What's wrong with you?"

It was only then that Jiang Shuo noticed that Qin Yiheng was holding his wrists firmly.

Qin Yiheng immediately let go and said, "You suddenly became agitated just now, grabbed my tie and almost strangled me to death. I couldn't wake you up, so..."

Jiang Shuo sat up from the bed, patted his forehead, and said angrily, "I really can't drink, and I will definitely quit drinking in the future."

It was already dawn at this time, Qin Yiheng straightened his clothes and said, "I still have lessons to take this morning, so I'll go to school first. I've already entered your information into my home system, so you can come as you find convenient."

Jiang Shuo nodded, his eyes seemed to have not fully recovered from the alcohol and nightmares.

Qin Yiheng glanced at him, immediately went to take a brief shower, changed his clothes and went out.

Jiang Shuo was the only one left in the room. Looking at the chairs in the room, he suddenly thought: "He won't stay up all night to take care of me?"

【05】

Qin Yiheng lied.

He did have two classes to teach this morning, but he had already transferred classes with another teacher last night.

He sat in the driver's seat of the self-driving car, but did not select the automatic driving mode.

He drove to a place - the S City Welfare Institute.

【06】

Jiang Shuo got up and found that the restaurant had been cleaned up as if no fire had been fired last night, and it had returned to the cold state he had just seen yesterday.

But there was a portion of soy milk, two deep-fried dough sticks and two steamed buns on the table.

Jiang Shuo is sure that Qin Yiheng left it to him, although Qin Yiheng didn't say it.

Jiang Shuo looked around while eating breakfast. Qin Yiheng was there yesterday, so he was too embarrassed to look around.Looking at it again today, I found that Qin Yiheng was indeed a bit too clean.

Clean with hardly any decorations.

The room was so white that after Jiang Shuo took two steps on the ground, he would look down to see if the ground was dirty by himself.

"There are two classes in the morning, so he will come back for dinner at noon?" Jiang Shuo looked at the time. He still remembered that Qin Yiheng was full of praise for his craftsmanship last night before he was drunk.

【07】

Qin Yiheng came out of the orphanage with a bad complexion.He raised his hand and called his brother: "Brother, you have many friends, can I trouble you to check something for me?"

【08】

Jiang Shuo started to prepare dishes, he felt that there was enough time for him to cook two hard dishes for lunch.

【09】

The time is already 01:30 noon, Jiang Shuo watched the time go by, even with an intelligent heat preservation system to ensure that the dishes will not cool down, but the flavor will always be a little bit lost.

He couldn't help sending Qin Yiheng a message: "Are you going home for lunch?"

"I ate in the cafeteria." Qin Yiheng's reply was only one sentence.

Jiang Shuo silently added a bowl of rice to himself, but for some reason, he had no appetite.

"Are you free tonight?" Qin Yiheng suddenly sent another message.

Jiang Shuo thought for a while and replied: "I'm free. What's the matter?"

Qin Yiheng: "I am interested in a house, and I would like to trouble you to accompany me to see the house."

"no problem."

"I'll pick you up later."

【10】

Jiang Shuo and Qin Yiheng stood at the door of the room, under the cold light of the floor lamp, both of them looked a little pale.

The landlord looked at Jiang Shuo, hesitated to speak, he probably didn't expect that he just broke his promise yesterday, and finally met again today.

Following the light from the corridor and the faint light from the balcony, one can see that the inside of the house is already a mess, and all the simple furniture and appliances are gone.The floor on the ground was lifted up, and the tiles under the floor were also smashed now.The paint and putty had all peeled off from the walls, exposing the rectangular sides of the bricks.All the lights on the ceiling have been removed, exposing exposed wires, and there is not even a complete piece of wall covering on the top...

"What a coincidence..." The landlord was still the same landlord. He looked at Jiang Shuo with an awkward smile, "I didn't expect you to know each other."

"My friend is a real estate agent and knows a lot, so I asked him to help me refer." Qin Yiheng adjusted his glasses and looked at the landlord.

The landlord laughed dryly, raised the mobile phone in his hand so that it could take pictures of more places in the house, and said to Jiang Shuo: "You have seen this house before, and you said it was very good. After you buy it, you will see it." I can start to decorate, and even the demolition fee is saved.”

Jiang Shuo's eyes were dull, and he looked into the room with no emotion in his eyes.

"Well, let's take a look and contact if it's appropriate." Qin Yiheng said politely to the landlord, "It's really troublesome for us to come to see the house at such a late hour."

"It's okay, take a good look at this house, at this price, it's definitely worth it!" The landlord glanced at Jiang Shuo again, and said with a guilty conscience, "It's really not good, this house can still be negotiated."

Qin Yiheng smiled at the landlord and said, "Can I go in and have a look?"

The landlord glanced into the house, swallowed, and said, "Well... I suddenly remembered that there is something else going on at home. Well, you can take care of yourself, there is nothing here anyway, close the door when you leave Just do it."

【11】

This is an old community, old houses, mostly elderly people, and some tenants.

This point is actually not too late, but the neighborhood is extremely quiet.

After the landlord left, only Jiang Shuo and Qin Yiheng were left standing at the door of the house, with the old-fashioned anti-theft door wide open.

This is a high-rise building more than 20 years ago, and they are on the highest top floor.In the design of two elevators and three households, the household they looked at was the southern side household, the furthest away from the elevator, so it seemed to be separated from the other two households.

Qin Yiheng turned on the phone's light, and was about to walk to the rent, but Jiang Shuo held him by the corner of his clothes.

"Don't go." Jiang Shuo's voice was not loud, but in the quiet night, he could hear it very clearly.

Qin Yiheng glanced back at him and said, "It's okay, I'll go in and have a look alone, you wait for me at the door."

"Qin Yiheng, why did you do this?" Jiang Shuo didn't let go of his hand, he lowered his head, his tone was different from before.

Qin Yiheng scanned the house with the light of his mobile phone, turned off the light of the mobile phone, looked at Jiang Shuo, and did not speak.

"Ding!" A voice came from the direction of the elevator, and the elevator door opened.

Jiang Shuo and Qin Yiheng looked towards the elevator entrance at the same time.

A skinny and short old man appeared in the corridor. He saw the two of them, he was taken aback for a moment, then looked up at the floor, and immediately muttered "Oh, I was wrong" and quickly pressed the elevator button to return to the elevator.

【12】

The corridor was quiet again.

Qin Yiheng didn't seem interested in going in to see the house either, and closed the door with a bang. This room still uses the once popular anti-theft door.He glanced at Jiang Shuo, then walked to the window of the fire exit on the floor and opened the window to let the cold wind blow in.

Jiang Shuo also walked to him and watched the night scene outside through the window.

This area is the old city, and a little farther away is the new city.

If the new city is a brilliant diamond, the old city seems more like a dim pearl.The times are always changing from old to new, and the waves behind beat the waves ahead, and one wave is higher than the other.

The two of them silently blowing the cold wind and looking at the night scene, they don't know how long it has passed.

Qin Yiheng raised his hand and looked at the time, and said, "It's almost there, let's go back too."

【13】

In the car, Qin Yiheng began to set the car mode. He said: "Jiang Shuo, I am not a nosy person. Many people may not believe it. Although I study psychology, teach psychology, and run a psychological clinic , but in fact, it is difficult for me to feel other people's emotions, and it is difficult to empathize with others. Over the years, I have judged other people's emotional states more by theoretical analysis than by feelings, so I try to play That virtual game, I want to try to see if it will change in this immersive game. As a result, because of the game bug and you in the game, I almost re-experience a different life. Now I , it seems that I can feel a little more of other people's feelings. Just like for you now, I can feel your mood swings."

Jiang Shuo finally said, "You know everything?"

Qin Yiheng let out a "hmm" and said, "Stop pretending, too."

Jiang Shuo smiled wryly.

The vehicle started, and the brilliance continued to slide backwards from the body.

After Qin Yiheng activated the automatic driving mode, he took off his glasses and turned to look at Jiang Shuo in the passenger seat.

Jiang Shuo put on a helpless smile: "Qin Er, it's really not easy to hide from you. You're right, and I won't pretend anymore. In fact, I haven't forgotten everything in the game at all."

Qin Yiheng smiled, just looked at the other party, and said, "You pretend to have amnesia, because you originally didn't want me to get involved."

Jiang Shuo let out a long breath, relaxed his whole body, and said, "Qin Er, thank you."

"You're welcome." Qin Yiheng said, "Jiang Shuo, you should thank yourself, not me."

Jiang Shuo was silent.

Qin Yiheng went on to say: "You deliberately told me about your house purchase, just to let me know and stop you."

Jiang Shuo looked at the scenery outside the car window. The street at night was like a transparent fruit-flavored hard candy that was not too sweet.

"That old man just now," Jiang Shuo said, "was one of the instigators of the tragedy in my family 18 years ago, but he escaped the punishment he deserved." Jiang Shuo's face was very ugly, and his tone of voice was also stiff and cold, "He knew clearly My dad is sick, and he deliberately spread rumors about my mother's style of work. My dad was so angry that he asked him to reason. As a result, he made rumors even worse. The so-called three people become tigers. My dad's condition was under control, but he was still stimulated , and began to target my mother everywhere. My mother was so angry that she found that guy and wanted him to apologize, but he took advantage of this and deliberately misled my father. "

Jiang Shuo suddenly paused for a while, closed his eyes tightly, and pretended to be relaxed: "The tragedy happened to my family later." Then he opened his eyes again, and continued: "It's just that the public opinion at that time was all focused on my father. No one cares about other things about my illness and what happened to my family. And that person was only sentenced for picking a quarrel and provoking trouble-it is said that there is not enough evidence, and his mouth is too rigid. "

Qin Yiheng listened quietly.

"The copper coins in the lampshade are my grandfather's collection. On the morning of the accident, my grandfather and I played games and hid the copper coins. I couldn't find them." Jiang Shuo said with a smile, "Fortunately, this landlord later He just resurfaced the floor, painted the walls, and didn't change the lights. Fortunately, his house has never been sold, and it can only be rented to unsuspecting tenants for a short time each time. Every time the tenant finds out, he moves out immediately Let’s go, no one thought about changing the lamp. Fortunately, the location of the lamp where my grandfather hid the copper coins is not important, and no one went to repair it after it was broken for so long.”

Qin Yiheng didn't smile, he looked at Jiang Shuo's side face, the soft and firm outline.

"I also inquired about that person before, and knew that he still lives nearby. So I deliberately found out the string of copper coins, and even asked the media to report it, just to lure him here secretly." Jiang Shuo said, turning his head and glanced at Qin Yiheng, "And you see, he really came."

Qin Yiheng asked, "What did you arrange in the room?"

"I didn't arrange anything." Jiang Shuo laughed, "It's just that there are risks in the house itself, wires, balconies, the ground... plus his age and illness, I just plan to gamble on the probability."

The car stopped in front of a red light, and Qin Yiheng said, "Tonight, if I don't come, you will come too." Qin Yiheng looked at the seconds countdown on the red light countdown, and continued, "You will choose to go in after him. Going over later will at least scare the other party half to death, and his heart doesn't seem to be very good. And you can still have a good reason to be there—after all, you planned to buy this house in the first place."

"Qin Er, you know everything, whether in the game or in reality. In the game, I think I know you very well, but when I return to reality, I have no choice but to hide in front of you. For you in reality, But I know almost nothing." Jiang Shuo said, "But I still trust you very much, isn't it strange?"

This time it was Qin Yiheng's turn to be silent. He thought for a while and said, "Jiang Shuo, I don't know everything. For example, I don't know whether you were trapped in the game on purpose or not. And you Whether the plan was made by you alone, or by another personality of yours."

An elusive smile flickered at the corner of Jiang Shuo's mouth. He stared at Qin Yiheng's eyes and said slowly, "What do you think? Doctor Qin?"

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