When the law of conservation of isolation is broken

Time flows slowly, the days before Saturday are getting longer day by day, and Zhang Luotuo's wound is gradually healing.Calm wraps them from head to toe like plastic wrap, stinging their skin.Qiao De and Zhang Luotuo didn't mention Lu Xing to each other after that day, but they both knew that they remembered him all the time.Lu Xing's sudden punch, there was something in his words, and those questions came like a tidal wave—what does that mean?

But they have no choice, Lu Xing's puzzle can only be solved that day.All they can do is wait, wait for the "port", wait for Lu Xing, and wait for the truth to come by itself.

Zhang Luotuo once thought that after Lu Xing found out about him, someone from the management department would come to arrest him, but after two days nothing happened, maybe because of Qiao De and Zheng Zheng, Lu Xing didn't want to drag his good friend into the water .

Zhang Luotuo looked at the electronic calendar, and the date on it was getting closer and closer to the day when they were going to meet Lu Xing.

Before that, they continued to live in Zheng Zheng's house - the monitoring of the management department may still continue, and the safest way is to stay here.

On Wednesday, in a very gray and foggy weather, Zhang Luotuo and Qiao De borrowed Zheng Zheng’s spaceship to go out. Her spaceship was between old and new, in good condition, and had never had any maintenance records. The counterfeit police and Eleven Company almost won't pay attention to it.Joad rolled up the window, and under the guidance of the artificial navigator, he drove out of the downtown area and crossed the streets with few people.

Finally they drove to the abandoned land.Zhang Luotuo's eyes glanced at the figure under the gray sky, crossed a desolate boundary, and saw a familiar scene: the wreckage of an old spaceship docked in the huge sports field.

A week earlier, his ship was crumbling, surrounded by dozens of R-63s, and his left arm was bleeding.Finally he grabbed Joad's hand, and his spaceship crashed into the green artificial turf.

The spacecraft is still lying in the abandoned sports field.No one will come here once a month. The game plaza in Nanping has become a new virtual refuge, and people's desire for sports and artificial turf has diminished to nothing.Zhang Luotuo jumped off the spaceship, he felt the icy wind blowing against his face, and the sand and dust on the grass rolled occasionally.Not far away, the wreckage lay flat on the ground. The traces of it falling from the sky and being hit by the ground remained at the stern of the ship. It had been separated from the fuselage, and many parts were scattered on the ground.

The spaceship looked like a squeezed beer can, and the height of the cabin was half lower than usual.Zhang Luotuo walked over, he had to bend down to put his hand into the cabin.He struggled to reach the running box at the bottom of the cracked artificial navigator, which was connected to the wires of the display, and it was firmly a part of the wreckage.

With great difficulty he separated them and removed the small run box, which required a little dexterity or the ship might collapse.Joad stood behind him, holding the top of the spaceship coldly.

"Thank you..." Zhang Luotuo took a breath and murmured, looking at the thin square running box, "It doesn't matter what the display is, but the only thing that can run Ah Mei's chip model is this old running box... no Can't come."

"I don't understand why you must have it." Joad frowned, as if he didn't understand his behavior, "You can buy another one."

Zhang Luotuo shook his head, but lowered his head as much as possible to avoid hitting the top of the spaceship: "He is my good friend. I didn't think there was much difference between him and me before. Now it proves that he and I are the same thing."

Zhang Luotuo tilted his head and saw Joad's face through the gap. Joad was obviously choked up by Zhang Luotuo's words. He frowned, as if he was thinking about machines and humans.In the end he looked to the sky, arrogant as always, and said softly, "Okay."

Zhang Luotuo buried his head, laughed, and continued to do his own work. He knew that Qiao De had succumbed silently.

At night, he repaired the running box in the living room. After charging, the small circular indicator light on the running box kept flashing blue light. Zhang Luotuo inserted the chip in. At first, the running box was silent and did not respond.After five long seconds, a huge "Zi" sound echoed in the room, and the sound was nothingness.Then the "Zi" sound slowly melted, and the sound became deeper and deeper.

"You—I." It was like a drunk man with his tongue out. After a few minutes of struggle, the voice finally formed a complete sentence.

"Zhang Luotuo?... Where is this?" Ah Coal's voice, it broke free from it, and said very confusedly, stammering, as if it didn't respond, "Why do I feel like I haven't been running for a long time?"

It began to automatically adjust the memory, plan the past, the reminder light kept flashing, and after a few seconds, its voice became angry: "I remember! You abandoned me!" It said, the voice was angry and sharp, obviously the spaceship Memories from before the fall have returned to his stored black box.

"That's it." Joad sat on the left side of Zhang Luotuo, and said coldly, covering one ear, because Ah Mei's voice was irritating.

Zhang Luotuo glared at him, and had to spend a long time explaining to Ah Coal about the crash, Joad, where they were, and the urgency of the situation, but he skipped the middle part about the fake man .Ah Coal turned off the blue wick of the running box and kept pretending to be dead until half an hour later he was willing to listen to Zhang Luotuo's speech, but this did not mean that it forgave him. Zhang Luotuo told the story before the crash over and over again, Ah Mei Coal's anger is still high.It took Zhang Luotuo another hour, and a promise never to do it again, to calm him down.Finally, Zheng Zheng came in from the door and explained to him again.

"Don't trust the management department, he wants to sow discord between you, the camel didn't abandon you, and even withheld your chip at a critical moment, and recovered your operating disk today, otherwise you will really die. "She said succinctly, trying to be as sincere as possible, and Ah Mei finally calmed down.Although the question of whether Zhang Luotuo abandoned it is still open to debate, its attention has turned to sowing discord.

"I understand." Ah Coal said proudly, its words accompanied by sharp currents, "I understood the whole story. Just like Zheng Zheng said, that stupid boss wanted to destroy our relationship, but you actually saved me .I understand, after all I can think, those new navigators can't do it, they only listen to the master's orders."

"I forgive you." It said, finally forgiving Zhang Luotuo.Then it got happy and even played some music, very old fashioned.

Zheng Zheng immediately stood up from the sofa and danced along: "Very well, I just want to dance." She subtly flattered Ah Mei, while trying to darken Zhang Luotuo and Qiao De. "Come and jump!" She struggled to lip-synch, and her smile at Ah Mei became strained and stiff.

Zhang Luotuo stood up and walked towards the center of the living room.But Joad was resolute. He stood beside the sofa, a century away from the silver floor in the middle.Zhang Luotuo had no choice but to hold Joad's hand. He felt that Joad was being forced to freeze, but after a few seconds, Joad followed with a cold face, as if the music was covering the Virus data on him.Zhang Luotuo couldn't help grinning. Joad's appearance reminded him of himself. A few months ago, he was taken away by Lulu at the old man's record store. That's what he looked like.

Joad noticed Zhang Luotuo's smile, he frowned and lowered his head.

"You call me Boss Boss in private?" he said, in a harsh tone.

A beam of orange light hit the top of his head, and Zheng Zheng turned on the colored ball lights in the living room at some point.Spots of light dance on the ground with the lyrical music.Zhang Luotuo pretended not to hear, he smiled at Qiao De with erratic eyes, hid his left arm behind his back, and continued dancing.Joad raised his eyebrows at him, without thinking about it, he gently grabbed Zhang Luotuo's hand and continued to dance perfunctorily.At this moment, Ah Mei changed to a song with a modern lyrical style, and Zhang Luotuo changed his dance position to join Zheng Zheng's dance. Qiao De stood impatiently between them, as if he wanted to go back to the room at any time.

Looking at this scene, Zhang Luotuo unconsciously laughed again.

Colorful dots, a room full of singing, his friend, Joad.

It all looked so good, so good, so incredible, it almost made him forget that he himself had been "disappeared" in the city, and that as long as he went out, he might be at risk of being discovered and arrested by the management department, and it also made him forget The city they're in isn't real, he's just a fake in it.

Zhang Luotuo couldn't help but imagine that if Lu Xing hadn't been here, nothing happened on Saturday, and he hadn't been sentenced to death, Zhao Yi's order to assassinate him didn't exist, surveillance never took effect, and everything ended before it happened, then his What will the smile look like now?

And if, he thought inexplicably, their happiness was not based on this singularity, which was only the tiniest part of their endless existence, how many parts of it would they have?

He blinked, and the scene in front of him gradually blurred.

And if.And if.he thinks.

...if they could be completely free and live in a real city.

That vague thought appeared in the upper air, composed of colorful, soft and miniature colored ball lights, and it was fleeting.

At nine o'clock in the evening, he closed the curtains, lay in the middle of the bed, and fell asleep in a daze. He felt someone coming in from the living room and watching him by the bed.Zhang Luotuo opened his eyes slightly, held the hand of the man in the hazy scene, and the man gently rubbed the back of his hand. They all knew that Saturday was coming.He smelled the familiar smell and felt called by the pure black, he finally found a safe place in the steel city.

When he got up the next morning, Qiao De and Zheng Zheng had disappeared. They both went to work in the company. Zhang Luotuo had to stay in Zheng Zheng's apartment all the time. He couldn't go anywhere when he was alone.He stayed in the living room, and could only talk to Ah Mei occasionally, or fix things, staring blankly in the silence, feeling the blood flow from his left arm.But that is not a sluggish calm. Zhang Luotuo can often capture the heavy restlessness when he walks around, and the restlessness picks up something and makes him think over and over again.

Lu Xing, meet at the company on Saturday.He often thought of this, when he was lying on the bed alone during the conversation between Ah Mei and him.He guessed that Joad might be as troubled by it as he was.He vaguely felt something was wrong, but he didn't know why.

And the second one is related to Zheng Zheng.Zhang Luotuo pretended nothing to Zheng Zheng after Lu Xing beat him, and continued to live as before, because he knew that it would be too embarrassing to ask, and letting things dissipate like the wind was the best way, and it was not Zheng Zheng's fault .But another question was still lingering in his mind. He hadn't talked to Zheng Zheng after Lu Xing left. The two of them deliberately changed the topic and continued to be friends without any disturbance.

But Zhang Luotuo wanted to speak, he remembered.

He is a counterfeit.Hearing this, Zheng Zheng leaned against the door, not surprised.

Zheng Zheng has long known about imitation people.He wanted to ask her, but he was afraid of hurting Zheng Zheng.He knows that time is running out, and the longer the question accumulates, the harder it is to ask. He wants to ask, but the opportunity will never come. He keeps looking for the right moment.

Saturday morning finally came, and Joad set off early in the morning, planning to rent a spaceship outside and drive to Nanping, so as to avoid leaving direct evidence of the exchange. He was still very sensitive to the word trap.After Zhang Luotuo washed his face and stroked his fur, Ah Mei used "Morning News" as his morning accompaniment. In just a few days, he had adapted to his new identity as a newscaster and weather forecaster.

At this time, Zhang Luotuo realized that this was the last moment. They set off immediately to meet Lu Xing. He had to ask Zheng Zheng before this, and he would not have the opportunity to ask Zheng Zheng after that. Even if he knew the reason from Lu Xing, the relationship between them The gap will also become bigger and bigger.

He took a deep breath and decided to talk to her.He eventually found her in the kitchen.

The strong smell of coffee wafted in the air, and Zheng Zheng was walking up and down, briskly looking for cups and sugar cubes.The coffee was already boiling in the kitchen and the foam was gurgling and screaming.Zheng Zheng didn't look back, she pressed the button and the electricity stopped.She picked up the kettle and poured coffee into two cups.Zhang Camel stared unblinkingly at the liquid, which frothed brown and white on the cup.

"Come in, camel, come get your coffee." Zheng Zheng said while pouring, without turning his head, his voice was very soft.She had sensed his gaze.

Zhang Luotuo trembled: "Thank you." He said unnaturally.

"It's nothing." Zheng Zheng shrugged, "You are going to Lu Xing's place today, he is sometimes not easy to get along with."

She hesitated for a moment, and then said: "Sorry..." She raised her eyes, "I didn't expect him to come here suddenly that day..." It seemed that this sentence had been held in her heart for too long. After she said this, Like a sigh of relief.

Zhang Luotuo immediately shook his head: "It's okay, he is also your good friend, I don't want to embarrass you." After he finished speaking, he fell silent.He remembered what he had said again, and he cleared his throat, trying to speak, but for a moment didn't know how to do so.For a while there was only coffee in the air.He watched as two sugar cubes were dropped into the brown liquid and then disappeared.Imitate people.The thought tormented him.Now standing here are two imitators.Zhang Luotuo unconsciously realized this and lowered his head.

The bomb that exploded a few days ago is still echoing in the memory deep in the cerebral cortex.

It was very quiet between them for a while, even too quiet, detached from nature.Zheng Zheng seemed to realize this too, she suddenly turned her head in embarrassment: "How about having a drink?" She pointed to the coffee and smiled at him.The coffee foam splashed on the frosted glass, and a small pattern was blocked.

Zhang Luotuo shrugged, walked over, took a cup of coffee, and took a sip under Zheng Zheng's gaze. It tasted very astringent and bitter. He frowned, wanting to tell Zheng Zheng something.But Zheng Zheng didn't give him a chance to make this suggestion.

"I found out about it two months ago." She said suddenly, very calmly.

Zhang Luotuo froze in place, for a moment he didn't even understand what Zheng Zheng was talking about.Zheng Zheng looked at his confused expression, and added: "Imitate people."

Zhang Luotuo put down the cup unconsciously, and Zheng Zheng first spoke. She is always too smart, and she understood what Zhang Luotuo meant before she started talking.

"I told you that before, I said that I had a crazy idea because..." Zheng Zheng swallowed his breath, calmly, and said softly, "Because of Li Xiangxiang."

"Now I can tell you what I think...that's what I think, I'm a copycat." Zheng Zheng said, shrugging.

Li Xiangxiang, two months ago.

Time went backwards in Zhang Luotuo's memory until it reached a suitable node.Two months ago, he and Joad had just been to the old man's record store, and they became good friends, and the days of those phone calls were vivid in his memory.Zheng Zheng suddenly became a little bit wrong at that time, but he didn't care, he devoted himself to another friendship.Those nights, the streets, the sarcasm and conversations everywhere.He sat down amidst the turmoil, and faced Zheng Zheng. Zheng Zheng stared at him worriedly, and said to him, "Do you want tickets for Li Xiangxiang's concert?"

That's when.Zhang Luotuo grasped that day keenly. He could clearly see the memory of Zheng Zheng when he spoke.Li Xiangxiang, she said.The tone seems to be avoiding disaster.

The secrets suddenly gushed out of the ground.

Zhang Luotuo understood.

"Although Lu Xing told me, I had guessed before." She said, shrugging, as if she didn't care.

Zheng Zheng's tone was too flat.But Zhang Luotuo caught something else in an instant, which was unsupportable and fragmented.Zheng Zheng seldom does this, she hardly does, most of the time she laughs even when she is drunk, and her breath has a strong smell of "Fire World".Zhang Luotuo took a step forward involuntarily, wanting to comfort her, but he didn't have time to do so, Zheng Zheng had already started to say the next sentence.

She muttered, as if to herself, "I didn't tell you all, sorry. But I was too panicked. Now I can tell you how she panicked me. She asked me a question. The question is, 'What's the difference between a human and an imitation?'”

Zhang Luotuo nodded, he was not surprised, Li Xiangxiang had told him.Facing Zheng Zheng's sincere gaze, he lowered his head and said softly, "I know...she told me." He also lied to Zheng Zheng, "Sorry, I didn't tell you."

"She told you?" Zheng Zheng was a little surprised, then she smiled slightly, "Then we're even."

She was not angry, but a little relaxed: "I'm still thinking about how to speak, now I don't have to, you already know." She paused, and continued, "Then I won't tell the previous story. I learned from her Tell me the question started. When she asked the question, I did panic that a fake human could think. But there is another thing besides the panic. That's what I was really afraid of, and I didn't tell you - Confused. Her question overwhelmed me, what is the difference between human beings and counterfeit human beings? I thought of many ways to answer her, but none of them satisfied me. Finally I searched online. 'Thinking'. Online It is said that the difference between imitators and human beings lies in thinking. But I followed this logic, and I found something wrong: if imitators can also think, then is there no difference between human beings and imitators at all? So where is the boundary between Li Xiangxiang and me? This question troubled me deeply, and then—"

"This question aroused my confusion." Zheng Zheng said, she moved two glasses on the tray, their mouths were emitting heat, and the fragrance floated faintly under the ceiling of the building, "I began to think, if human beings There is no difference from an imitation person, so am I equivalent to being a human being and an imitation person? Is it possible that I am actually a complete imitation person like Li Xiangxiang? My reason tells me that it is impossible, but this thinking is like a virus The same involuntary growth. That crazy thought knocked me down and tortured me to death. I wandered in that thought every day, like being trapped in a mobile hard drive. In the end, I couldn't answer her anymore, because I was also caught in this strange circle. "

"And that's why I didn't tell you, because the thought of it would make me look like a madman, and I feel that way myself," she said, rubbing her eyes and smiling bitterly, her voice strangely empty.

Zhang Luotuo buried his head, and he listened carefully to Zheng Zheng's words, and what kind of problems she derived from her desperate and crazy thoughts.

"You're not crazy." He could only say softly, the bitter taste of coffee burst into the air immediately on the tip of his tongue.

"Thank you." Zheng Zheng laughed, her eyes became very soft, she was silent for a while, as if this blocked the way of narration.She sighed, retrieved the valve, and continued, "Since then, I have started to doubt, even looking for evidence from my life to see if I am human."

"It sounds crazy, I thought it would make me realize that I'm all crazy, but the more I searched, the more confused I became. At first I couldn't find anything because something seemed to be stuck in my head, preventing I was thinking about it, I was walking in a blind spot. But as time went on, the thing became looser. Some new questions can be automatically generated in my mind, although only in a flash. For example: Why have I never Been to the borders of Chongqing city? Why can I never fly out of the atmosphere of Chongqing to go to other places - although the atmosphere of the sky is poisonous, but technology can overcome it, but no one wants to do it. It's like a bug in the program Ignored. And why is there no childhood in my memory? Only now? I find that the longer I think about it, the more doubts I have, and before Li Xiangxiang asked, I never paid attention to these things."

Zhang Luotuo knew this, and Qiao De mentioned it to him.The Martians have programmed their neurons to have a blind spot for what's wrong with the city.He was speechless, looking at her intently, knowing that comfort would feel like perfunctory aspirin at this moment.

Zheng Zheng raised his head sincerely: "I felt very crazy at the time, like a dream, or a wild fantasy before the crash, but it was absolutely true. I didn't have any consciousness except feeling like I was stuck in a quagmire. I had no way out. Until Ashiyuki confirmed this to me." She shrugged and continued, "He noticed something wrong with me in a meeting, and I talked to him privately. I was very wary at first, but he is a good guy and a good friend , we feel sorry for each other.”

She said this, showing a smile, and then frowned, as if trying to find an adjective: "He usually...is not like a few days ago."

She didn't finish, but Zhang Luotuo understood that his injury was still aching.

"But you can see that he doesn't really like the management department very much, even though he doesn't show it very much." She shrugged, "For some reason, he took me to the management department and read some materials. I was there Flipping and browsing, he walked through the data with me, and then I found that those thoughts that flashed by and disappeared were so real, they were right in front of me, and I didn’t need to doubt or break through anything, everything became It's so clear. And I, I'm—"

"I'm just a counterfeit person." She said word by word.Her voice was almost a whisper.

Zhang Luotuo stared at her, her expression was extremely pale, but she was too firm, it seemed that it took all her strength to say these words.

"I didn't tell you at that time because I was too shocked...I can't think of anything else but myself." She swallowed her saliva, her eyes became confused, and she said softly, "I had a very difficult time during that time. Oops...I'm sorry." She finished her explanation and stopped talking.Her eyes flickered, but they felt very fragile and heavy, even close to darkness.

Looking into those eyes, Zhang Luotuo felt out of breath.There are mixed feelings in his heart.

He shook his head unconsciously: "I'm sorry." He said softly.

Zheng Zheng glanced at him in surprise: "For what?"

Zhang Luotuo couldn't say it out, a strong sense of guilt clenched his chest.Zheng Zheng didn't say what she went to the management department to see, but Zhang Luotuo thought it should be similar to what he saw, and the evidence could almost overwhelm everyone.He remembered that during that time, Zheng Zheng was so depressed that she could hardly commute to and from get off work normally, and no one could find her.But at that time, Zhang Luotuo just felt that she was not like the usual Zheng Zheng. He never thought of forcing those questions out, and she could only bear them alone.

Zheng Zheng shook her head disapprovingly, and she showed a gentle smile.Once again, she saw through Zhang Luotuo's embarrassment and guilt at a glance. They had been friends for too long.

"You will always be my best friend," she said, very solemnly.

Zhang Luotuo raised his head suddenly, his heart was hit by the warm current.Some kind of uneasiness in the dark was ironed out at this moment.He raised his head and opened his mouth, but he couldn't speak for a long time, and finally he hesitated to return her a smile.

He remembered the first time they met at the company.Zheng Zheng, the girl in the orange dress.

"Okay, let's go have breakfast, you're going to see Lu Xing with Joad later." She took a deep breath and picked up the tray again, "He's not like this usually... I don't know why he is The reaction last time was so violent, maybe he will explain it clearly... I wish you all the best." She smiled, as if everything just now was a casual conversation, although it contained too much information and confession.The strong smell of those two cups of coffee flowed quietly.

Zhang Luotuo stayed where he was, and he looked out the window. Buildings and buildings covered each other, and they were never alone.There was an impulse in his heart, he had never told Zheng Zheng about that, maybe he should tell her, no matter what it was for.

"Hey." He stopped Zheng Zheng, thought for a while, and said, "I want to tell you something."

Zheng Zheng turned her head suspiciously, she had already walked to the edge of the kitchen.

Zhang Luotuo took a deep breath and said, "...that night, she told me that she loves you."

He knew that Zheng Zheng would understand right away, even though he didn't say who "she" was, Zheng Zheng would definitely understand.That night, Zhang Luotuo heard the most incomprehensible words in his life backstage at the tens of thousands of concerts.But now he felt that he seemed to understand something.Zheng Zheng's expressions were unpredictable at the moment he finished speaking, hesitation, confusion, and stupefied. Those expressions flashed by, and Zhang Luotuo couldn't fully capture them. Those expressions were too mysterious, just like the city of Chongqing.But in the end her expression stopped, frozen in a second, a pure smile.At that moment, she changed back to the former Zheng Zheng, not worried about anything, everything is very good, she is not afraid of everything, even the management department, because her smile is a small cockpit that can escape everything.

Then she took a step and walked out.