When the law of conservation of isolation is broken

He opened the door, and Joad stood before him.

Joad's shoulders were covered with large and small water stains, and a wisp of rain slid down his cheek, making him look like a grim chief in a survival game.

"Why did it take so long?" Joad said, raising his eyebrows, his tone as cold as ever.But Zhang Luotuo noticed that he looked a little anxious, as if he was deliberating and embarrassing something.Zhang Luotuo wanted to say something as usual, but when he opened his mouth, he found that his mind was blank, still stuck in the scenes he had just heard and seen.

"Chirp!" A group of pink fur balls flew onto Joad's leather shoes.Joad squatted down habitually, letting Mao Mao jump on his palm.

"Go in," he said, closing the door.

"What's wrong with you? Are you sick?" He noticed Zhang Luotuo's face and frowned ironically.

Zhang Luotuo shook his head, feeling a shock-like feeling surrounding all his thoughts, he couldn't even think at all, he pretended to be normal and said, "It's nothing, I'll make you a cup of coffee."

He walked into the kitchen with his back turned to Joad, and took a packet of instant coffee from the cupboard.He felt that Joad's eyes rested on his back, as if he was thinking about something.Then Joad followed him into the living room, just as he had come to his house before.

Zhang Luotuo cut open the coffee bag and poured in the powder.rustling sound.

He blinked, and those things flashed by.

... In the record store shot by R-63, Joad looked in the direction of the camera accurately amidst the buzzing sound.

He poured hot water into the cup, and the coffee powder turned into liquid and swirled.

...Dozens of scenes, each of which is him and Joad meeting.From Qiao De's first visit to his home to Li Xiangxiang's concert, there was not a single absence in between.Scenes of their conversations and walks together are captured intermittently, with nothing but the two of them.

The rotational speed of the liquid turning slows down.The thick coffee liquid gradually stagnates like a storm mouth.The smell of two cups of instant coffee wafted through the kitchen.

What does this mean?He stopped stirring, thought.

"What's wrong with you?" A cold voice sounded from behind him.

Zhang Luotuo shook his hands in fright, and turned around to find that Joad had taken off his coat and was standing at the kitchen door looking at him suspiciously. Mao Mao lay on his shoulders and looked at him with the same hatred.

Joad stepped forward and asked again: "What's the matter with you?" Zhang Luotuo felt that his voice seemed to be full of worry, but it might be an illusion. Joad has never had anything to do with the word worry.

"Are you allergic again? Do you want to go to the hospital?" Seeing that he didn't answer, Joad frowned and said involuntarily.

"I'm fine." Zhang Luotuo said hurriedly, avoiding Joad's sight. Maybe he was exaggerating, and Joad's eyes became very suspicious.

Zhang Luotuo cleared his throat and pretended nothing happened. He squeezed out a cheerful smile and gave him Joad's cup of coffee: "Your." He said, walked out of the kitchen, turned his back to Joad, as usual General stroked Maomao, who was staring at him worriedly.

Zhang Luotuo walked into the living room, he did not turn on a few lights, the pink light outside the window invaded his residence, the whole living room was like a strange pink ballroom.Joad also came in, he patted Maomao, Maomao jumped off his body, jumped to Zhang Luotuo's arm.Zhang Luotuo rubbed the remote control in his hand, as if it could control everything.

"I remember you left a message on the phone last night, saying what you want to say to me today." Zhang Luotuo changed the subject, but he found that his voice was very stiff and unnatural.

"Yes." Joad nodded, tried to take a sip of coffee, but put it down immediately, even though Zhang Luotuo would make him a cup every time, he seemed to never be able to get used to instant coffee.He rubbed his fingers, as if he was still thinking and brewing vocabulary, and he didn't intend to say it immediately.

Suddenly no one spoke between them, and there was silence.

Maomao jumped around among them, Zhang Luotuo moved his arm away, and pinched the remote control in a different direction to prevent it from accidentally touching the remote control.

Zhang Luotuo felt a continuous, long-lasting hum enveloping him.

"Zhang Luotuo, are you really sick?"

Zhang Luotuo was taken aback and turned his head. Joad was looking at him. Joad's voice sounded sarcastic, with a slight sense of ridicule, but Zhang Luotuo vaguely sensed the concern under Joad's sarcasm. Joad has always been like this—— Once Mao Mao ate an apple secretly, its mechanical stomach obviously couldn't digest it, and it had a problem that day.While listening to Mao Mao's loud whimpering, Joad coldly announced to it that he would throw it away, and at the same time handed over the replacement parts brought by the company to Zhang Camel who was shaving the hair on Mao Mao's stomach.

But now Zhang Luotuo was shrouded in a bigger shadow, he couldn't get more from that sarcastic tone.

He shook his head, stepped back on the sofa, and said softly, "I'm fine."

Joad's sarcasm disappeared, leaving only complete seriousness: "I'll fly you to the hospital in a spaceship."

"No need." Zhang Luotuo muttered, "I'm fine." He avoided Joad's attempt to pull him up and his suspicious gaze.He felt a heavy feeling pressing on his heart, making him unable to breathe.

This evasion seemed to make Joad realize that Zhang Luotuo's depression seemed to have nothing to do with his physical condition.His expression became suspicious at that moment, his face looked unpredictable under the shroud of pink light reflected from the window, but he didn't ask Zhang Luotuo what was going on, maybe because he knew that even if he asked Zhang Luotuo, he wouldn't There was an answer, so he directly gave up the option of finding the answer from Zhang Luotuo, and directly activated his own keen search instinct of the management department, turned his eyes away from Zhang Luotuo, searched here like he usually searches the office, and found the answer by himself.

His eyes moved to every corner of the room one by one, Mao Mao, the repair table full of various things, the repair box full of repair tools, and the glass windows that illuminate the brilliant night scene in the distance.

But he didn't seem to find anything from these small things, so he set sail again.

Various posters hanging on the wall, all kinds of old-fashioned records in the box.He analyzed them one by one, and then ruthlessly threw them away.

Then there is TV.He looked at the TV for about three or four seconds, from its screen to the memory slot that was opened at the bottom of it.

He looked at it thoughtfully for a long time.

Then, Joad's eyes seemed to come back from the other end of the network, and his eyes fell on Zhang Luotuo again.From Zhang Luotuo's face to the neck, and then to the hands, he looked quickly, as if he just glanced at it in an ordinary way, but when he swept across Zhang Luotuo's right hand, his speed slowed down.

He watched Zhang Luotuo hold the remote control tightly, even a little bit sweaty.

His gaze froze.

"Why are you holding the TV remote?" he asked.

Zhang Luotuo thumped in his heart, and he gently moved his arms behind his back, avoiding Joad's question.

"By the way, you haven't told me what you came here today to tell me?" Zhang Luotuo asked pretending to be relaxed.

There was a sudden silence between them, the small room of about [-] square meters was filled with dullness, even Mao Mao stopped jumping, it felt something was wrong between them.There is intermittent music in the distance, which is the advertisement of the capsule hotel that has been interrupted all night.

I don't know who moved first, maybe Joad, maybe Zhang Luotuo, but one of them moved first, and then the other started to move.

Joad looked at the remote sharply and said, "Show me the remote."

Zhang Luotuo shook his head, put his hands behind his back, and took a step back.

Joad took a step in the direction of Zhang Luotuo.He stretched out his hand to grab the remote control, but Zhang Luotuo quickly dodged it.Joad's hand gently grabbed the arm of the camel. Zhang Luotuo wanted to break free from him, but found that Joad's strength was too strong, so he hid the remote control behind his back and pressed it with the strength of his hands and back.

Zhang Luotuo panted, he raised his head and found that he could see Qiao De's appearance at a close distance now, his gray eyes, gloomy cheeks, and thin lips, all of which reminded Zhang Luotuo of the sky in Chongqing unconsciously.He moved his eyes away with difficulty, and found that Joad's hand was unexpectedly cold, and even the camel's arm that Joad was holding became cold.Zhang Luotuo tried to break free from him, then took two steps back, holding on to the remote control tightly.

Joad came again.He moved closer to Zhang Luotuo, and stretched his hand behind Zhang Luotuo's back. Zhang Luotuo moved his hand from side to side with difficulty, avoiding Joad's pursuit like a game of jumping landmines.Zhang Luotuo backed away and kept backing without looking behind.He didn't know if there was an obstacle behind him, or how long he could back off.Joad's face reminded him of that day, the day he saw Zeng Lin lying on the ground, Joad walked in with security personnel behind him.But there were some differences. Zhang Luotuo couldn't tell what was different, he just felt it vaguely.

There seemed to be something behind him, a bench or a trash can, but before he could think about it, he tripped and leaned back. He grabbed the remote control desperately, trying to protect it, but still couldn't avoid it at the last moment when he landed. It flew from his hand and fell to the ground.

"Boom."

Fluffy pink fluff was flying around the room, thinking it was a game of capture, it jumped up from the sofa and chased the remote control.

Zhang Luotuo felt no pain, and was even very relaxed, because a soft thing was covering him, like a blanket or something.

"Hiss—" He took a light breath.It was Joad's hand. He put his hand on the back of Zhang Luotuo's head before he almost fell to the ground, and the other hand held his arm tightly, so Zhang Luotuo didn't fall straight to the ground, but It's more like a person falling into the water in a straight line, almost falling into the water, but being rescued by being pulled.Zhang Luotuo gasped for breath and looked at Joad in shock. Joad frowned and looked at him in the same way. They stared at each other under the dim pink light and darkness. They didn't speak for a long time, but He looked out of breath, as if he had forgotten the fight and struggle just now.

Qiao De bent down slightly, let Zhang Luotuo lie flat on the ground, and then pulled his hand from behind Zhang Luotuo's head.

Zhang Luotuo could feel the coldness behind him.A cold floor, as if lying on an operating table.

He looked at Joad without blinking. Joad did not stand up after Zhang Luotuo fell to the ground, but half-kneeled beside him, looking at Zhang Luotuo from above.They looked at each other, none of them took their eyes off, and the low-flying honking of the distant spaceship passed between them.Zhang Luotuo noticed Joad's lower eyelids. Joad's lower eyelids looked abrupt on their own, but they fit perfectly on his face——Zhang Luotuo himself didn't know his confused thoughts, he panted, his eyes wandered randomly across Joad's face.

Joad looked much calmer, he didn't speak or move, just looked at him calmly.

"Listen..." Joad whispered, and the anxiety returned to him, but he stopped again, as if he didn't know what to say.

He stretched out his hand, and slowly brushed away a strand of hair on Zhang Camel's forehead. The movement was slow.

Zhang Luotuo's panting gradually decreased, and he wanted to hear what Joad had to say.

But it wasn't Joad's voice that echoed again.

A soft "beep" sounded in the room.

The TV turned on, and a blue light flashed across the screen.

"So what do you think?" Suddenly, a voice sounded from the TV. Even though the speed had been doubled, it was still clearly Joad's voice. It was slightly sarcastic, but still maintained calm and restraint.

Then came Zhang Luotuo's voice, that voice was hallucinatory, nagging, even if it speeded up, it was very soft and serious.

"I just think..."

The rustling current of the TV is filled with it.

Zhang Luotuo and Qiao De looked at each other blankly.In the next second, Joad's originally opened mouth slowly closed at this moment. He raised his head and looked at the TV screen with a strange expression.

Zhang Luotuo turned his head, from this angle he could see what happened.On the wooden floor where the pink light flowed, the remote control kept hitting the floor with a banging sound.Maomao jumped up and down on the remote control panel. It used the remote control as a springboard game, jumping from left to right and from top to bottom on the buttons. It skipped the volume down key and the volume up key in turn.The sound of the TV suddenly became smaller, and then louder again, and then it stepped on the switch with its left foot, and the TV was turned off, and the sound disappeared at once——it stepped on it again, and the TV screen turned on again stand up.

It jumped onto a blue key.

That's the rewind button.

Everything reflows at twice the speed.Zhang Luotuo turned over, and he heard the voices of himself and Qiao De on the TV chattering like two robots, and no one could understand a word.Although the black screen did not move at all, after the recording was rewinded for more than a minute, it was found the weakness of the armor, the black was suddenly penetrated, light and shadow rushed out, the pixels filled the entire TV screen, and the sound Like a huge color block, it fills all the gaps.Then the figures of him and Joad appeared on the TV screen, and greeted R-63's snooping with opposite movements, one scene after another, as if it would never end.They were talking on TV, but what they said was like a secret language, and no one could understand a word.

Zhang Luotuo propped himself up and sat up with difficulty.

Joad watched TV, motionless.His face was expressionless, his gray eyes unmoved by the sight, and nothing could shake its color.He looked coldly at himself and Zhang Luotuo on the TV screen, as if he was frozen and confused, as if he didn't understand what was in front of him.But Zhang Luotuo noticed that Joad's expression was neither shocked nor angry, as if he was just confused about some insignificant things.

"Why is this in your place?" After a long time, he turned his head, unable to hear the emotion.

"I picked it up." Zhang Luotuo explained in a low voice, staring at Joad's face closely, his chest heaving gently.

Joad blinked expressionlessly.

Zhang Luotuo noticed something from Qiao De's question and gesture. Although Qiao De also acted like Zhang Luo Tuo who just opened the video, watching the TV motionlessly, with some astonishment and stupefied, his attitude seemed to be detached. Generally, there is no perception or surprise at the passing picture, the pixels rushing into his eyes, but unable to stain his cheeks with any color.Zhang Luotuo pushed aside the sound and color of those TVs, and looked at Qiao De from under the waves.He found that Joad was unexpectedly calm, didn't even ask "what's going on", didn't wonder at all, just let the pixel hit his face, and then fully accepted it.

This made Zhang Luotuo uneasy, and he read something fatal from Joad's performance.

Zhang Luotuo looked at Qiao De tentatively: "...do you know what's going on with this video?" He felt some suspicion in his panting voice, but he still had some hope.He hoped that Jod would say he didn't know, or that he didn't understand, or even mock Zhang Luotuo.

But Joad didn't answer, he didn't say a word, very calm, as if he didn't hear Zhang Luotuo's question, or ignored it, he still watched the TV, as if all his energy was concentrated there.An uncomfortable silence surrounded them.Joad breathed, his chest rose and fell shallowly, his gray eyes blinked occasionally, creating a miniature wind in the room.Zhang Luotuo thought for a while that he was frozen, just like the imitation man before he entered the mechanical decomposition plant.

The sound of rustling electricity, intermittent voices, the faces of Qiao De and Zhang Luotuo passed by the TV.

Joad turned his head, he looked at Zhang Luotuo, it was a meaningless stare, he didn't speak, not a word.

Zhang Luotuo suddenly understood.

"You knew about this video before?" He said softly, his hands trembling, and he fully understood what Joad meant.Everything frankly and quickly flashed before his eyes, nothing was hidden.An abnormal emotion surged into his chest, and he felt that insects climbed up his back and even penetrated into the nerves, making his neck hurt like an electric shock, and then the feeling spread to his whole body.

When he watched the video just now, he and Joad, and those recordings, they flashed in front of him quickly.

He felt something stuck in his throat, something blocking it.In the surveillance video, he and Joad were walking backwards on the street, which was very weird, and the laughter sounded far away, as if in the old world a century ago.

Joad looked very calm, but covered with some kind of haze, for a long time, he said.

"Yes."

R-63 patrolled in Zhang Luotuo's mind, making a long buzzing sound.

"...why?" he asked involuntarily, but he didn't know why exactly what he was asking.Why did Joad know about this video?Why is it about Joad?Why were the two of them photographed?What is the reason for all this?Many things converged in his mind, merged from various places, and everything in his mind gradually became disordered and chaotic.

"...There won't be any more in the future." After a long time, Joad said, his voice was very soft, almost as if he hadn't made a sound, Zhang Luotuo couldn't hear his emotions, and his voice sounded very far away.

Zhang Luotuo raised his head.He couldn't see Joad's face clearly, he was hidden in the line between pink light and black shadow.

It wasn't an answer, Joad didn't answer.

Silence stifled their words.

In the darkness, he heard Joad stand up gently and pick up the raincoat that had been soaked by rain.

Fluffy couldn't understand what happened.It watched Joad walk towards the door and leave much earlier than usual.It tilted its head and rolled over, trying to say goodbye to him before he reached the door.But it couldn't catch up, Joad was going so fast, it didn't even have time to honk that he was out and closed the door.

The door screams and warns behind Joad: 30.00% chance of being in distress on a midnight trip TWO!

Zhang Luotuo stood up and walked towards the TV.The remote control that Mao Mao had tortured was lying on the ground. He picked it up and heard the endless voices on the TV.He pressed the switch key, and after a "beep", all the sounds disappeared, and the room returned to silence.He walked back to the sofa unconsciously, slumped on it, buried his eyes in his hands, and looked at the ceiling wet with pink light through the gap.

midnight.Everything is as dull as the advertisements repeated by the holographic projections outside.