Middle-aged Love Patch

As a veteran player, Xu Youyuan certainly knows that there will be a big difference between the image in the game and the real image, but the real appearance of Xiaoju is too similar to the appearance of Ah Tou in the game.

Moreover, the name Pinpin is the strongest Alpha on earth, and Shi Yue often whispers in Xu Youyuan's ear, saying how strong and powerful her college friend is, a hacker boss, which inevitably created a stereotype for Xu Youyuan. , I feel that Alpha herself should be a gloomy, deep bangs, a house girl who wears glasses, and a fresh and cute little girl with a stinky face.

Xu Youyuan was slightly taken aback, and quickly greeted Xiaoju again.

Xiaoju snorted and squinted at her: "I know what you're thinking. Xu Youyuan, don't judge people by their appearance, otherwise you will be unlucky one day."

It was Xu Youyuan who first admitted to the wrong person and offended her. The other party was Shi Yue's classmate and good friend. After all, she was also a child, so of course it was impossible to get to know her.

Xu Youyuan showed a gentle smile and said: "It's my fault, it's my fault, but it's because Ah Tou looks so similar to you in the dark room that I got confused. Speaking of which, Ah Tou followed your appearance Are you pinching your face? You and Ah Tou have a really good relationship."

Xiaoju didn't expect her to say that, and she was still waiting for a hundred words of displeasure, but suddenly mentioning Atou made her face blush, she gave Xu Youyuan a look, and stopped talking.

It seems that this trick is quite effective.Xu Youyuan was happy by herself, Shi Yue posted it and whispered in her ear:

"Okay, Xu Youyuan, you've only been with me for a long time, and you're using the way I tease you to tease others?"

"What the hell, what do you mean you made fun of me?"

"To deal with Mensao who is hard-spoken and soft-hearted, immediately poke the shameful one."

"It turns out that you have been thinking about these messy things in your mind all day long."

"How can you say that you are a mess? You are my baby."

Okay, Xu Youyuan admits that she is a little influenced by Shi Yue, why is the good part absorbed slowly, and the cheap part is infected so quickly?

"Are you talking about me?"

Just as Xiaoju was about to leave, a hand stretched out from the izakaya, wrapped her arms around her shoulders and hugged her back.

The woman holding Xiaoju is about the same height as Xu Youyuan, wearing a thin honey-colored cotton windbreaker that reaches to the knee, a short skirt with bare legs and low heels, her long hair is neatly tied up like a capable professional woman, hugging Xiaoju Tangerine rubbed her face.

"Go away!" Xiaoju yelled angrily, "That thick layer of powder on your face wiped me off!"

"Don't go, let me smell it and see if I've sprayed my favorite perfume again today. Well, it smells so good, it's a good baby." The woman kissed Xiaoju first, wrapped her arms around her waist, and made sure to put this one on After the vicious little beast subdued, he turned his head and said to Xu Youyuan, "I'm sorry, Lao Xu, this guy from my family just has a bit of a mouth, but he's actually quite thin-skinned."

No need to guess, this must be right.

It's just that there is a big difference between the images in the minds of Ah Tou and Xu Youyuan.

"What's your name, Lao Xu?" Shi Yue was upset, "My sister."

Ah Tou: "If you call me, call me."

"How can I be the same."

Ah Tou ignored her, and secretly said to Xu Youyuan: "Brother Yue is not like this usually, he doesn't talk very much, and when we gather together, he is always distracted, and she has no objection to what to do. Today, if you are here, she will I started to be poor and particular. I longed for someone who could cure her, thank you for accepting her and eliminating harm for the people."

Shi Yue pinched the back of her neck: "What are you talking about?"

Ah Tou: "I said that your longing for Sister Niao has finally come true. Hey, have you been lifting weights recently, have you? Are your hands getting stronger again? Stop pinching, your neck is broken."

When the four of them were walking to the izakaya together, Xiaoju asked Ah Tou if he had arrived early, but she didn't say anything, causing her to wait at the door for a long time in vain.

"I thought you went in. I just took time to meet a client who was late, but I didn't expect you to be even later."

"No wonder you're dressed like this."

"Huh? You don't like it?"

Xiaoju put her hands in her pockets, and looked elsewhere rather nonchalantly.

"Hey." Ah Tou sighed, took off his coat, and only wore a tight shirt, his good figure looming, "The weather is too hot, it's only been a few months, it's like summer."

"!" Xiaoju immediately snatched her coat and wrapped it around her like a rice dumpling.

Atou: "Are you not interested?"

Xiaoju: "...Stop talking nonsense."

Today, Shi Yue has reserved the place, and there are only their friends in the entire izakaya. After all, the big star Yan Rong is coming, so it is not convenient for outsiders.

Cang Lu called to say that there was a traffic jam and they would be a few minutes late.

"It's okay, come here slowly." Xu Youyuan told her on the phone, "If you want to eat something, I'll order it for you first."

"We can all do it, eat with you. I want draft beer for drinking, just give Yan Rong a glass of lemonade."

"Okay, let's order first, let the boss prepare it and wait for you to come."

"Okay, we're only 3 kilometers away, soon."

Cang Lu hung up the phone and found that the traffic flow was still motionless.

They have been here for more than 15 minutes.

"Did something happen ahead?" Yan Rong opened the traffic information on the navigation map, and if there was an accident ahead and blocked the road, there would be an accident reminder.

"I'll go down and have a look." Cang Lu got out of the car and walked forward. On the road, he heard that there was indeed an accident ahead. A car actually hit the guardrail, and the whole car turned over and the glass shattered.Fortunately, the cars behind stopped quickly, and only two of them had a slight rear-end collision. If all of them were driven manually, the scene must have been very tragic.

"What's the matter with the car at the top? It still hits the guardrail these days?"

"I don't know if the unmanned driving system is broken, it's terrible."

"No way... what about the police and first aid?"

"The police and first aid will not be able to get through this block for a while, but this is considered an A-level accident, and a helicopter must be obtained."

Cang Lu took a closer look, and saw that the cars in front were parked crookedly, and some of them were close together with their fronts sunken in. All the car owners gathered around to look at the scene of the accident.

Cang Lu couldn't see the condition of the owner of the car in the accident. He heard that the owner of the car was a woman, and she was still inside.A group of people helped her turn the car over and tried to pull her out, but she refused and lay there with blood on her face, not knowing why.

"My brain is not normal." A short and strong man with a lot of dust on his body said, leaning against his car, "The car is overturned and he is still playing games and refuses to come out. I don't know which mental hospital escaped from it." of."

"Huh? Playing games?"

"That's right, she was attached to the access crystal of the game, with a look of blood on her face, and she was still in the car. Just now, a few buddies and I were trying to get her out and take her to the hospital, but as soon as I put my hand in, she died. Got caught, look." The man raised his arm angrily, and there were two terrible bloodstains on his arm, "Isn't this a brain disease or something? I know it's a game overturned, but I don't know it, I thought it was a zombie."

"Playing games and overturning? It's not possible." Someone in the crowd said, "Automatic driving systems have been popularized for a long time, and most people play games in cars. It's not 10 years ago. How could it be possible to overturn while playing games?"

"Maybe it's an old car with a manual drive?"

"I drive this year's new Daben, okay? There's no manual one anymore."

"Or is the system broken?"

"How dare you play games if the system is broken and changed to manual driving? What kind of operation is this?"

Everyone said something to me, and at the end of the day, I felt that this matter was too mysterious, and my spine felt a little chilly.

When Cang Lu returned to the car to talk to Yan Rong, the sound of a helicopter came from the sky.

Cang Lu opened the car window to look in the direction of the helicopter, but it was too far away to see clearly.

"Here." Yan Rong handed her a telescope, "I happened to bring it to my ex-teammate's concert the day before yesterday."

"You have a good relationship with your ex-teammates."

"How could it be?" Yan Rong smiled, "I went to see how much her dance moves are wrong, and whether her professional ability is still so bad."

Cang Lu: "..."

It can be seen clearly with binoculars. Several emergency and firefighters dragged the female car owner out, put her on a stretcher and fastened her seat belt.

The woman struggled hard, her eyes rolled white, and she was still yelling something.The man before was right, she did have the access crystal of the game on the end of her eyebrows.

The LOGO Canglu on the access crystal is very familiar.

The woman screamed as she was being carried to the helicopter door to be dragged up, looking disoriented, causing the onlookers to back off.

"What's going on." Yan Rong saw that Cang Lu was a little tense, which made her also worried.

"It may be epilepsy." Cang Lu returned to the car, and the road ahead was cleared quickly.

"The look on your face doesn't say that."

"Let's meet up with Sister Bird and the others first."

……

"Really, I'm going to have a heart attack watching a game."

When the waiter brought up the wine and skewers, Jiang Yun tied up her long hair so that she could have more room to play: "When Sister Niao and Xiao Yue rushed to the penultimate map, I almost took Sister Hui's My hand was pinched and broken."

Sister Hui sat beside her, arranged the dishes and tea on the table, and said with a smile: "That's right, you guys are bloody in the game, and I'm the same outside the game. I'm thinking about watching the finals with Yunyun next time." It's time to be fully armed."

"Hey." Ah Gan shivered at the sound of "Yunyun".

"What are you talking about?" Ah Gan's girlfriend Chen Shu complained about her.

"It's not too nasty."

"Not all couples are like this, I think everyone is like you." In the second half of the sentence, Chen Shu turned his head and said to the relatives and friends present, "A Gan has no interest at all, and he is like a boring piece of wood. Bright."

Generally, in this situation, everyone will laugh perfunctorily to resolve the embarrassment. Young couples, especially those who have been married for many years, let alone those who have not had sex for two years, seem to be enemies when they dislike each other. Not very willing to get involved in their wars.

Except Yan Rong.

"Sister, you can take your wife on a date in the dark room." Yan Rong and Cang Lu had just sat down and drank a couple of sips of water. After hearing their complaints, they quickly entered the party atmosphere, and even made suggestions, holding Cang Lu's arms sweetly. Honey said, "My dear, I couldn't make up my mind whether to be with me or not, but it's really amazing. After dating in the dark room, our relationship has stabilized. The dark room is really a great one. Dating software. My honey and I have already decided to honeymoon after the finals. Really, you can find everything you want in the dark room."

After Yan Rong, the playwright, was blessed by Cang Lu, the buff of the playwright was improved to a higher level, and she completely killed Sister Hui in seconds.Ah Gan's goosebumps came up, and Chen Shu also laughed awkwardly:

"Old husband and wife, why do you still have an appointment?"

When Yan Rong heard these words, his face immediately became serious: "Why can't old couples date? The more old couples are, the more they want to find passion! I know many players in the dark room who have been married for several years and have no feelings for each other. , I will ignite my passion after entering the game..."

Yan Rong was crazy about Amway's secret room, and Cang Lu told everyone about the strange things that happened on the way after drinking a big gulp of beer.

"The car overturned while playing games?" Shi Yue asked suspiciously, "Is it still a dark car? That person is still driving manually while playing games? Is it so awesome?"

Cang Lu said: "This is the strangest point. That car has an automatic driving system, which may be broken. But it doesn't make sense why the man wants to play games while driving."

Shi Ye: "The game is more important than life series?"

Cang Lu shook his head: "Not sure, and the state of that person when he was sent away also gave people goosebumps. Many people were shooting at that time, and it is possible that the access crystal logo of the dark room was also photographed. It's the finals, Shi Yue, You Yuan, you better be careful."

When everyone was discussing, Xu Youyuan didn't speak the whole time.Shi Yue felt that she seemed to have something to say, so she took her outside to stand for a while.

"Did you think of something?" Shi Yue asked her.

Xu Youyuan took out her mobile phone and typed in the keyword "car rollover", and sure enough, she found the footage taken by the mobile phone at the scene. This disturbing news has become a hot spot in real time. The label reads "female driver playing car rollover", The playback volume has exceeded 800 million.

The two watched the video with their heads next to each other. The video was not shot with professional equipment but a Korean mobile phone. From a long distance, it was zoomed into a close-up shot in an instant, and the woman's face and the logo on the game access crystal on the temple were captured perfectly. Clearly.

"Humph." After watching this video and the very label for the dark room, Shi Yue sneered, "Borrowing an accident to come to the dark room, it may even be a specially invited performance. This kind of contradiction is so fake that it cannot be repeated. Some people believe in fake things."

It was rare for Xu Youyuan not to agree with her words.

Things may not be that simple.

Xu Youyuan found "Xiao Ke"'s phone number from her phone and dialed it, but no one answered after waiting for a long time.Xu Youyuan hung up again, and after half the ring, someone finally said "Hello".

"Xiao Ke?"

The other party paused and said, "I am Xiao Ke's mother."

Xu Youyuan had a very bad premonition: "Auntie, where is Xiao Ke?"

After an unbearable silence, he said to the other person, "She passed away two months ago."

"What? Passed away?" Xu Youyuan made a "boom" in her head, her throat tightened, and she said almost instinctively, "I'm sorry, please be sorry..."

The other person was about to hang up the phone, Xu Youyuan hurriedly stopped her: "Auntie, I'm Xiaoke's former colleague, can I ask why she died? I just met her before she returned to her hometown years ago ..."

"Because of a car accident."

"A car accident?"

"Yes, on the 29th day of the year, she suddenly bumped into an oncoming truck on the way home from work..." Xiao Ke's mother seemed to have not recovered from the pain of losing her daughter, and her voice was controlled when she mentioned it. Trembling uncontrollably, "I don't know why this kind of thing happened. Her car is obviously an unmanned driving system, so this kind of thing will never happen..."

Xu Youyuan asked strangely: "When Xiao Ke had an accident, was he playing a game?"

"You, how do you know?"

Xu Youyuan's heart beat faster: "Auntie, are you home today? Is it convenient for me to visit you later?"

After making an appointment with Xiao Ke's mother on the phone, Xu Youyuan immediately bought a ticket for the vacuum train, and there was no time to meet again. Now her whole heart has flown away and she needs to figure out some things.

"I'll go with you." Shi Yue was worried, so she took her bag and came out together.

"it is good."

The two bid farewell to their friends, saying that they had very important things to do, and they would invite everyone to dinner when they came back.

"Go quickly if you have something urgent, please talk later if you don't invite dinner." Shi Ye said, "Both of you should pay attention to safety."

Shi Yue: "Don't worry."

The two left the izakaya and went to the vacuum station. On the way, Xu Youyuan told Shi Yue what Xiao Ke said when she came to her years ago, about Liu Feng and SQUALL's dangerous experiment of using holographic game access neurons to steal user information. And speculation that there may be support from government parties behind it.

"So you think Xiao Ke's death and the female car owner's car accident may be related to this experiment?" Shi Yue asked.

"Yes."

"But when the female car owner had an accident, the access crystal attached was a dark box."

Xu Youyuan looked into Shi Yue's eyes: "This is what I'm most worried about."

More than an hour later, Xu Youyuan and Shi Yue came to a small town in the southwest 1400 kilometers away.

Driverless taxis have also been popularized here. According to the address given to her by Xiao Ke's mother, the two soon arrived at an old community built around 2010.

When he came to the door of the house, he found that the door was ajar.

The two looked at each other in shock.

Could it be...

"You are here." Xiao Ke's mother came to open the door, "I have been waiting for you."

Xu Youyuan and Shi Yue breathed a sigh of relief, there were no villains and no murders were done, watching too many movies...

After entering the house, Xiaoke's mother poured water for them. Xu Youyuan showed today's video of the female driver overturning the car to Xiaoke's mother. Xiaoke's mother said:

"I also saw this video on TV later, and it was very similar to when Xiao Ke had an accident. Xiao Ke was also attached to the access crystal of the game at the time."

"Which game is it?"

"It's about reshaping the universe."

"Then was there anything unusual about her before the accident?"

"It's strange that she suddenly wants to go back to her hometown to save her." When mentioning this incident, Xiao Ke's mother was in a very complicated mood, and her hand holding the water glass was trembling slightly.

"Her father passed away early. She has said since she was a child that she will work hard to make money and want me to live a good life. She is a very enterprising child. It is not that she did not tactfully persuade her to come back to get married and have children. Every time she said it Refused. Later, I stopped talking about her but came back by myself, and when I came back, her hair was much grayer than mine. I asked her if something happened, and she only said that there was something wrong at work, and she came back I won’t leave, I’ll stay at home and take the civil servant exam. Civil servants are no longer so sought-after, and are gradually being replaced by robots. There are only a few jobs left. The salary is not high and there is basically no way to communicate with people. It doesn’t seem like she would like it. What I did. I was very worried about her, but the child didn’t want to talk more and I didn’t know how to ask. Since there was a problem at work, she would be safe after leaving the vortex of struggle and going home. I thought time would let Everything calmed down, but... it wasn't like that."

Xiao Ke's mother recalled the terrible things, her voice gradually became hoarse, and her eyes froze.

Years ago, after meeting Xu Youyuan, Xiao Ke returned to her hometown, found a job in an outsourcing technology company, and worked first, preparing for the civil service exam while working.

It was very calm at first, except that Xiao Ke sometimes couldn't sleep and walked around the living room, my mother hardly felt any difference in her.

The civil service exam failed for the first time. Although civil servants are no longer in demand, locals who want to find a stable job are still willing to take the exam.Xiao Ke's condition was not very good and she failed to pass.At the same time, the outsourcing company failed a project, and the boss lost a lot of money. Seeing that the company was about to fail, it transferred her to work in a more rural area, forcing her to resign in disguise, and she didn't get any compensation. If you can get it, you have to go to labor arbitration.

During that time, she was more stressed, so she started playing games to relieve stress.

"It is said that the pressure is relieved because of the high pressure, but it is actually just an excuse. It is an excuse for her to immerse herself in the game all the time without eating, drinking or sleeping."

Xiao Ke's mother's words made Xu Youyuan feel strange: "She is a game practitioner herself, and it's normal to love games. But she doesn't eat, drink, or sleep and just play games, this..."

"Don't doubt it, she really is like this. After her work was gone, she was immersed in reshaping the universe for a whole week. No matter what I said or asked, it didn't work. If I didn't directly grab her access crystal , She might really starve to death. I don’t know what’s going on, but she refused when I wanted to take her to the hospital. She even became very wary of me and wanted to move out.”

Xu Youyuan asked: "Has she ever attacked you?"

Xiao Ke's mother was not surprised by Xu Youyuan's question, she nodded slowly and said, "Yes, she once wanted to cut my hand with a fruit knife, and what she said scared me even more."

"what did she say?"

"she says……"

When the blade came across, Xiao Ke's mother instinctively withdrew her hand and escaped, the hair on the back of her hand stood on end.

"Xiao Ke..." She looked at her daughter in horror, completely unable to understand what was wrong with her.

Xiao Ke held the fruit knife tightly with trembling hands, still trying to find a chance to stab it.

"Is it fake? Is there blood..." She kept repeating this sentence.

Is it fake, is there blood?

Xu Youyuan's Shi Yue looked at each other, and found the same answer in their determined eyes.

"After that conflict, I was a little afraid of her, and I was very worried about her, so I went to the hospital and talked with a psychological expert all morning. When I left the hospital, I received a call from the police, saying that something happened to her." Ke's mother looked at the two of them, "Do you know something?"

"We have some guesses, but we're not sure yet." Xu Youyuan said, "Auntie, did Xiaoke leave anything?"

Xiao Ke's mother shook her head, stood up after a moment of silence, and went to the study to take out a laptop: "This is the laptop she used before she died. I wanted to open it, but I can't get in because of the password. You guys Can you unlock it?"

Shi Yue took the computer and said, "Let's take it back and try it out. If it works, I'll contact you again, is that okay?"

"Okay, sorry to trouble you."