When the law of conservation of isolation is broken

It was already two o'clock in the afternoon when they walked out of the apartment, the sky was gray, with some dazzling pink mixed between the dark clouds, it was a spaceship, it was glowing red, probably almost out of flight fuel.The atmosphere after the signing of the contract was very unpleasant. Fan Liu's child was taken away, and he obviously didn't want to chat with the kidnapper anymore.He didn't give them an eviction order, but his expression was very cold. He would rather talk to Big A all the time, and then get angry because he couldn't see the answer on the blue screen displayed on Big A's neck.After repeating this several times, Qiao De and Zhang Luotuo wisely chose to leave, and closed the door with the contract and the electronic instrument full of data.

They went through the Qianhui Market again, and it was easier to get there than when they came. Zhang Luotuo was already mentally prepared when he walked out of the Jinshan apartment, and he made up his mind to ignore those booing mobs.But it was still a bit ineffective. When the girl in a sequined raincoat asked behind him: "Do you want to talk to me?", he still couldn't help lowering his head, his eyes didn't know where to look.

"Come on." A black-haired girl with crystal nails came forward, and she laughed. Zhang Luotuo could see that one of her lower teeth was inlaid with red agate.

"Hold...Sorry, no need." Zhang Luotuo said, stammering, but the words had zero effect. The other party pulled him, and his nails gently dug into his skin.He knew the situation was bad for himself and he should get rid of it, but he didn't want to do anything to a girl, or say anything.While he was still in a dilemma, Joad, who was slowing down and waiting for him, was already impatient. He stepped forward, pulled the hand away without looking sideways, and let it return to its original place.The girl's nails broke away from Zhang Luotuo's skin, and two curved nicks remained on Zhang Luotuo's body, like a broken wire.

"Let's go." Chodra held up the camel's arm and walked straight forward without stopping.Behind them, the black-haired girl who was pulled away was stunned, but she didn't stop Joad. Zhang Luotuo guessed that she didn't dare. Joad gave people a very bluffing feeling, as if he was out of place anywhere.After a while, the sequined raincoats disappeared, replaced by a noisy crowd-junkies, repairmen in bucket hats, bounty hunters shuttled through the crowd, banknotes were passed around, the smell of garbage and Food smells mixed together, like a night party.

Joad let go of his hand and said sarcastically, "Be careful next time."

Zhang Luotuo understood what he meant, but without Joad's help, he might still be caught now.

"Thank you." He said sincerely.

Joad quickened his pace as if he hadn't heard it.Zhang Luotuo walked behind, watching Qiao De's back.He noticed that Joad's anxiety was much better than before entering the apartment, and signing the contract made him relax a lot.

Joad's spaceship was faithfully waiting for them at the dock.Joad paid the electronic watchman two hundred electronic currency.Zhang Luotuo had heard the radio on the spaceship, and the news said that the number of spaceships in Chongqing had soared to the point of explosion in recent years.Everyone could see that the airspace was about to turn into a catastrophe, and the dock was jammed like a convenience store all day and all night.The Management and Control Bureau had to explicitly stop this situation, such as increasing the parking price of commercial shipyards, and the congested Shapingba and Jiulongpo districts in key control areas.Many apartment classes living in apartments expressed dissatisfaction, but they still had to obey the command and park the spaceship obediently at home to avoid heavy burdens.

Zhang Luotuo heard that the spaceship will be replaced in the near future, and the old spaceship and navigator will not be produced again.Zhang Luotuo decided to hide these things from Ah Coal. It is very sensitive to the word "elimination". Once it was unable to work because of similar incidents. Give it an update before it crashes.

They got on the spaceship, Joad started the flight engine, and then turned on the artificial intelligence navigator.The loyal navigator guides them. Zhang Luotuo notices that the voice of the navigator is very hoarse, a bit like Lisa, a popular love song singer recently.But Zhang Luotuo didn't care much about this. He rolled down the window of the spaceship slightly, bit his fingers, and stared blankly at the holographic image in the distance.But he didn't actually look at anything.His thoughts were hovering in the sky, still seemingly touching the Jinshan Apartment, as if closing his eyes, bypassing the huge library, he could reach the C exhibition room.

Those words, the feeling of slipping on the floor, being unable to move...

Zhang Luotuo bit his nails and rolled up the window. The curiosity and anxiety in his heart made him take a deep breath. It felt like he opened the map of Chongqing for the first time and didn't know what he would see.He finally plucked up the courage to turn his head away: "Jord?"

"Huh?" Joad stared straight ahead without turning his head. He was turning the spaceship so that it could enter the third flightway.

"I want to say... Big A, that mechanical red-crowned crane, does it have the function of... talking?" Zhang Luotuo asked stammeringly, licking his lips.He didn't know what to say, everything was so ridiculous.His experience working at Eleven Company told him that this possibility was basically impossible, but he held out a strange hope that Joad might know more.

Joad frowned and said without thinking, "Of course not, this type of robot can't talk. What are you thinking?" He obviously thought it was a stupid question.

Zhang Luotuo lowered his eyelids, Joad's answer was within his expectations, he was not surprised.In fact, he felt that he also knew the standard answer: the animal-shaped robots currently manufactured on the market cannot speak for the sake of authenticity, but an unrealistic and absurd hope still vaguely fills his heart.

He stopped talking, turned his head, and looked at the holographic image outside the window.A giant projection of a white tooth.His nerves moved slightly away from here, and he returned to Fan Liu's C exhibition room again.

... He was lying on the ground, those low voices, the cold floor, but when he opened his eyes again, Big A was watching him worriedly, reminding him to hurry up.

Is that fantasy?But it felt real.

He touched his fingers and stroked them lightly.

as real as it is now.

He closed his eyes, and suddenly noticed a singing voice flowing in the spaceship, but he hadn't noticed it at all just now.Now the voice drilled into his ears.This voice is a song, an old song, very soothing and gentle, like something that would be popular in the last century.

Zhang Luotuo unconsciously said, "Sweet Honey, Teresa Teng's?"

Joad didn't answer him right away.He was changing the driving state to automatic mode, with one free hand, paddling something on the little flying pigeon, frowning anxiously, and constantly sending messages.

Feige is a product developed by Eleven Company. It looks like a white chip. People use it to send text messages and have secret discussions on spaceships with weak signals. Together with Liuliu, it was the star product when Chongqing was first established. But unlike Liuliu’s ending, despite the appearance of spaceship telephones and manual navigation, and the continuous replacement of spaceship models, it did not decline in this neon city, perhaps because of its confidentiality function, except for the sender and receiver. Believers, if other people want to read the information, they can only see a line of garbled codes on the screen-it is said that Eleven Company has used some kind of black technology, and no one has been able to crack this so far.

"What?" After a while, he raised his head and said.

"I mean, is this song "Sweet Honey"?" Zhang Luotuo asked again, he remembered the name of the song.

""Sweet Honey"?" Joad stopped on the blue screen of Flying Pigeon.

"..."Sweet Honey", Teresa Teng's?" Zhang Luotuo didn't hesitate, he thought he remembered correctly, the singer of the 80s, he had been comforted by her many times.

Joad's expression became a little complicated and stiff, and Zhang Luotuo didn't know why. "You know the song?" Joad said, in a questioning tone.

Zhang Luotuo felt insulted. He frowned and said, "You're not the only one who listens to music. I used to have her album, but I accidentally lost it."

It was a long time ago, and Zhang Luotuo couldn't remember how long it was.At that time, he had just come to Eleven Company. He had just arrived, hadn’t made friends, and didn’t know Zheng Zheng. He had no other choice but to work silently. His daily pleasure was wandering around in the slums, brushing past drug lords and gunmen. , trying to buy something new, but most of it was rubbish.

It was there that he found Teresa Teng's records.It sits in a corner, unnoticed, and the "Best Pop Song of the 80s" written on the back has collected dust, apparently unnoticed, even though the price tag is five e-currencies—people these days sneer at singers from the last century, they Love virtual idols: models built with electronic numbers, well-designed singing voices, like Miss Tomoko and California girls.

Zhang Luotuo bought the record back.There is this song in it, "Sweet Honey".

Whenever the weekend comes, Zhang Luotuo plays this song in the apartment, does his own repair work, or reads books, and stays silent all day like a camel in the desert.Only this song is playing in the apartment, a gentle voice that never stops, and the music accompanies him to take a nap.But then one day, the apartment was burglarized, and he never saw the record again. It mysteriously disappeared along with newly repaired tools, pillows, and some coins.

He finished, thinking that Joad would be sarcastic about him, like his eccentric taste, or the staleness of the song.But what was surprising was that Joad just glanced at him with an expression of not being able to say anything, and then turned his head away without saying a word, leaving Zhang Luotuo alone in an embarrassing silence.Zhang Luotuo vaguely saw his expression, that face was hidden under the shadow of the spaceship passing by, a certain expression flashed past, it looked like confusion or something else, but Zhang Luotuo couldn't catch it.

Zhang Luotuo cleared his throat, this time realizing that his voice just now was too loud—he was choking back on his boss.He looked out the window shyly, resting his chin with his hands, pretending to look at the scenery of the holographic forest outside.

The spaceship began to slide violently.

Zhang Luotuo guessed that he should have arrived in Yuzhong District.He lowered his head and leaned against the window sill, and sure enough, he saw the silver statue of Q shining in front of the company's gate. The top of his head and thick cheeks were overlooked by passing spaceships, as if he were a strange statue.

The parking lot was already full, but the management department had its own special parking space, and Joad landed in a calm manner, like a professional pilot.

Zhang Luotuo's seat belt was automatically unbuckled, and the voice of the artificial intelligence navigator gradually became quieter as the spacecraft fell: "The journey has reached the end..."

The sound of the engine turned from wavy to silent, and the lights in the spaceship went out one by one.

Zhang Luotuo put the seat belt aside, moved his legs awkwardly, and waited for Joad to unlock the door, but he found that Joad did not move.

Zhang Luotuo looked back a little uneasy, and found Joad with his head hanging down, looking at the flat carpet of the spaceship, as if he was thinking about something. about something.

Joad looked bored, a pinprick of uneasiness wrapped his face.

Zhang Luotuo tentatively called out: "Jode? Should we go down?" He frowned and asked.

Only then did Joad raise his head. He seemed to be surprised by Zhang Luotuo's shout, and he was a little dazed. His gray eyes looked aggressive in the dark cabin.Seeing Zhang Luotuo's scrutinizing expression, he turned off the flying pigeon calmly, folded his hands, and straightened up, as if he was about to say something after deep thought.

Zhang Luotuo put his hand on the doorknob, waiting for Joad to unlock it.

"Jord?" he reminded him, pointing to the doorknob.Joad's eyes swept across the door of the spaceship and moved away immediately, Zhang Luotuo's words were like inhaling water from a sponge to him.

He ignored Zhang Luotuo's reminder and said, "I have one thing."

Zhang Luotuo was stunned: "What?" He looked at Qiao De and gently moved his hand away from the doorknob.He found that there was no smile on Joad's face. Although it was not surprising, in this environment, he felt that things were going badly, although he didn't know which way it was badly.

"...You mentioned Teresa Teng just now." Joad said very calmly, as if he was talking about a market research, but his voice was slightly higher than usual, as if his throat was dry.

"Yes." Zhang Luotuo gently held the handle on the back with his hand, not understanding why he said this.

"And you said you liked her," Joad continued.

"Yes?" Zhang Luotuo said hesitantly, becoming more and more confused.

Joad nodded, as management always did.

"Yes, but...?" Zhang Luotuo didn't understand Joad's intention, and he scratched the back of his head.

"I have a complete set of Teresa Teng's records at home." Joad changed his posture, crossed his legs and sat on a chair.His gray eyes made Zhang Luotuo unreasonably intuit that Joad was feeling restless now.

"Come and listen this Saturday." He said, crossing his hands, and said unnaturally.

They didn't speak for a while, the spaceship cabin was silent, the windows vibrated slightly, and other spaceships landed from the side.Zhang Luotuo didn't know if he heard it wrong.

In the spaceship, the engine is dead, and Joad is opposite, and the raindrops hit the windows like diamonds.

Is this a hallucination, like Big A talking to him?Zhang Luotuo frowned and replied in surprise: "Me?" He looked at Qiao De and blinked.

Joad didn't respond to his question, and ignored Zhang Luotuo's unconscionable response. He stood up without changing his face, unlocked the door, pulled the key of the spaceship out of the keyhole, and said directly: "Saturday at one o'clock in the afternoon, Kowloon 668 Slope, Gateway Arch, where you will find me."

Zhang Luotuo was stunned for a moment. During this time, Joad had already opened the door and stepped off the spaceship.The cold wind outside the spaceship suddenly hit Zhang Luotuo, and Joad's side face sank in the bright neon lights.

The heavy rain in Chongqing has been falling.