Global Examination

You Huo and Qin Chen's health is so good that they recovered surprisingly quickly.After the last bottle of drip was hung up, their physiological monitoring data showed no abnormality.

While sighing, the director combed the top of his bare head with his fingers and said, "The process still has to go, and the full body checkup arranged for you still needs to be done. Who was that before, Gao Qi? He boasted that he was very good when he got out of bed. It’s not a problem to cross-country for [-] kilometers, but what’s the result? Didn’t he just have a fever the next day, and continue to hang the water in despair.”

Gao Qi, who was far away in the army, sneezed three times in a row, not knowing that he had been made a model.

"The observation period is one week. This week, you can stay in the hospital with peace of mind. Our conditions here are very good, the scenery is good, and it is very supportive." The director said earnestly: "You are now in the review period, of course, This is also a process issue, and I don't mean to deny credit. We all know that the review period is at least a few months shorter. It doesn't mean that you can finish the review immediately if you go a few days earlier, so just take care of your health here ,All right?"

Before the two could speak, the director smiled and said: "Okay, that's the deal."

You Huo: "..."

"Hey, so the data is useless, and you need to rest for a while just looking at your face." The director added something more annoying, then put the pen back in his breast pocket, grabbed the thermos cup and ran away.

This middle-aged and elderly friend has never been so agile and healthy.

You Huo sat expressionlessly on the head of the bed for a while.He didn't even need to turn his head, he could see Qin Chen smiling from the corner of his eye.

"What are you laughing at?" He asked angrily.

"It's nothing." Qin Chen coughed and straightened his face, but he still couldn't hide his smile when he spoke, "It's just that our chief examiner suddenly finds that we don't know how to deal with such nagging middle-aged and elderly people. I feel like you are tucked under the quilt When I got a hammer, I wanted to swing it with one hand, but I still had to hold it firmly with the other hand."

You Huo was silent for a moment, pointed at the door with his chin and said, "Get lost."

Qin Chen's smile deepened, he propped himself up on the edge of the bed and leaned over to kiss him, saying, "My legs are numb, I'm sorry."

***

Although the director is nagging, he arranges the work with first-rate efficiency.After a while, the little nurse who was in charge of taking them for examination came and led them to the examination center in the next building.

It took nearly an hour before and after the inspection.

When You Huo came out from inside, the elevator door on this floor happened to open, and a figure yelled "Brother" and launched himself over.

You don't need to look at your face to know it's Yu Wen.

Old Yu shouted in the elevator: "He just woke up, don't let him knock you back!"

So Yu Wen's launch trajectory forced a sharp turn and threw himself on the chair in the corridor.

He grabbed the chair and stopped himself, grinning at You Huo: "Brother, Brother Qin."

It was obviously winter, but his forehead was sweating like a steamed bun just out of the oven.

You Huo let out a "hmm" and asked, "Did you run over here?"

"No." Yu Wen slumped on the chair like a dead dog, took a few breaths and explained: "I just ran for a short distance, and the hotel we live in is just one street away from here, about [-] meters away, very close. Mainly I have to drag Lao Yu."

The days of surviving in the system were long and tormented, but the time to convert them into reality was very short. Lao Yu and his son had limited impact and were discharged from the hospital within a week. They have been living nearby since then, waiting for You Huo and Qin Chen to wake up.

"I just received a notice from the hospital saying that I can come to see you. I guess I must have woken up." Old Yu walked over and wiped the sweat from his forehead with a tissue.He pointed to the inpatient building and said, "We were going straight there, but we happened to meet the little nurse downstairs, and she said that you are here for a physical examination. Are you waiting to do it now, or have you finished it?"

"It's done, wait for the report." You Huo said.

"Oh, it's pretty fast." Old Yu nodded.

He went around to the self-service machine to read the report number, and then came back, sat down on the nearby chair, and listened to Yu Wen's whining complaint.

Yu Wen said: "Brother, do you know, we used to come every day, and we were stopped downstairs by the inpatient department every day."

"why?"

"Because the intensive care unit here doesn't allow visitors." Yu Wen raised his chin and began to blow, "Me, and Lao Yu, our father and I have also lived in the intensive care unit after all, who would have thought that it is easy to get out and difficult to get in?" .”

After listening for a while, Lao Yu interjected at the right time: "Don't listen to this bastard complaining about blindness. The hospital's regulations are like this, and it's not intentional not to let you see. No, if you can visit, let us know immediately."

Yu Wen was not annoyed by the tragic downfall, but laughed instead: "Hey, I'm not really complaining, isn't this an exaggerated performance, to relieve my brother's boredom."

When he spoke the second half of the sentence, his tone sank.He propped up his carefree Erlang legs and stretched his waist backwards.And when he sat upright again and stopped talking so exaggeratedly, his whole figure exuded the temperament of a young man.

Old Yu suddenly realized that this bastard had really grown up.

You Huo asked them: "When will you return to Harbin?"

Yu Wen said: "What are you talking about bro? You are still living in the hospital here, why should we go back?"

"No one is looking for you?"

"Yes, some high school buddies invited me to a party, and my roommate asked me when I would return to school." Yu Wen said, "Fortunately, my emergency contact number is the mobile phone number of my high school buddy. He probably thought I was skipping class. Sneaked out to play, and blocked it for me."

Lao Yu sat up straight and glared angrily.

Yu Wen covered his face with his elbow and said, "No, I can explain later."

"It's not... You used to drink twice in the past three days and didn't know where to go. I'll leave your phone number. If I have something to call you later, it may not be of much use."

If it was in the past, Yu Wen said this kind of thing with confidence, so how could he say it.Now it is vague, the second half seems to be swallowed in the throat, and it will be over soon.

Old Yu opened his mouth, with an embarrassed and guilty expression on his face.

Yu Wen scratched his ears and cheeks for a while, and said, "Oh, I didn't mean that either. I used to mean that, but now it's gone."

Lao Yu sighed and was about to open his mouth.

Yu Wen interrupted: "Stop, I'm most afraid of this kind of sensational link. Anyway, don't drink it in the future. If you drink it, you will suffer from gout and stroke. I will change the contact number back when I go back to school. Is that okay?"

"Okay." Old Yu nodded.

"You set up a written proof." Yu Wen pretended to go to the backpack.

"Get out of here." Old Yu slapped him on the back without using much force.

Yu Wen threw Bao Le away.

He said to You Huo: "Fortunately, this matter didn't take a few days, and our Lao Yu's family doesn't have the kind of relatives who have to meet every other day. Some drinking friends came to Lao Yu, thinking that we would send you off by the way." Arrived in Beijing."

Lao Yu followed suit and nodded, and said, "Anyway, someone will deal with the follow-up explanation, so we don't need to worry about it."

They chatted for a few more words, and Yu Wen's cell phone suddenly rang.

You Huo has a habit of looking at people's mobile phones, so he turned his head to talk to Qin Chen, and just after he said a few words, he heard Yu Wen burst into a low voice.

You Huo and Qin Chen raised their eyebrows and looked over at the same time, only to see Yu Wen holding the phone and sighing a long time, looking as if his energy had been sucked dry by a monster.

"What's wrong?" they asked.

Yu Wen took the initiative to show them the phone screen.

You Huo glanced at it, it was a chat interface, and there were four lines of words on the interface:

You have become friends with "You have the ability to turn the book"

You have the ability to flip books: who are you?

Yu Wen: Xueba, I am Yu Wen.

You have the ability to flip through the book: ...Who is Yu Wen?

Chat is over.

Qin Chen looked a little funny, and asked him, "Are you searching for that elementary school bully?"

Yu Wen raised his finger and said, "Brother Qin, wait a moment, I'll show you."

He rummaged through the phone, found a photo, and enlarged it for You Huo and Qin Chen. It was a string of characters mixed with English and numbers.

"This is the account Di Li left me. He said that I can add him when I come out. I will take care of me when I walk in the rivers and lakes." Yu Wen poked his finger on the screen and said: "I counted, this number is 22 digits, and it is still numbers and English. Mixed up. But look, is this the number zero or the letter o? Is this the number 5 or the letter s? Is this the number 6 or the b? And this... what the hell is this?"

You Huo looked at the string of dog crawling characters, and finally couldn't help asking: "Handwritten?"

Yu Wen: "Ang."

He laughed angrily when he finished.

"Hey, Xueba! How can you believe that Xueba's characters are so ugly?" Yu Wen said with a tired face: "I'm trying every possibility, this is the wrong person added six times, I'm trying to add it successfully before I die Come to him."

You Huo glanced at him.

Yu Wen received his brother's meaning, and laughed at himself: "Are you mentally retarded?"

You Huo let out a "hmm" and said, "You took out your mobile phone at the time, why didn't you let him type?"

Yu Wen: "..."

Yu Wen: "..."

The idiot suddenly lost his vitality, slumped on the chair, and spit out a sentence for a long time: "It's stupid, he and I are both."

Just as he was recovering his body, the phone beeped again.

Yu Wen rolled his eyes and sat up, muttering, "Ding fart..."

As soon as he finished speaking, he stared at the phone and yelled, "Fuck."

"What's the matter?" Qin Chen asked.

Yu Wen jumped up and yelled, "He lied to me!!!"

He turned the phone over, and saw two more sentences on the chat interface.

You have the ability to flip through the book: forget it, stop playing, lest you block me.

You have the ability to flip the book: what about people?

Yu Wen pounded heavily: Hello, you and this user are not friends, goodbye.

He typed and walked to the window, leaning against the railing and started a round of mutual damage with the person on the other side of the screen.

As soon as Shabao's son left, Lao Yu took over the conversation and chatted with You Huo and Qin Jiu.

He is still not good at chatting with his nephew, the content is plain and simple, not interesting, it is nothing more than dispensable and homely gossip.

But it doesn't matter, the word "homely" is enough.

***

Lao Yu and his son stayed in the hospital for two hours until the end of visiting hours.After that, You Huo met another acquaintance—his former attending doctor and one of the participants of the entire system project, Wu Cheng.

It was a middle-aged man who looked thin and stable, because his hair turned silver gray prematurely, he looked a round older than his actual age.

In You Huo's impression, Dr. Wu is actually a bit rigid.The young doctor was a little afraid of him, and the nurses were also a little afraid of him. Even Yang Shu said that he was quite afraid of this mentor.

But when he saw You Huo this time, he showed a gentle and apologetic smile.

He said: "Originally I wanted Wu Li to come here. With her as a buffer, it might be easier for me to speak up. But firstly, she and Xiao Yang are still recuperating, and secondly, I am an unqualified elder. , should have the courage to bear mistakes."

In fact, after Qin Chen and You Huo woke up, they communicated with the people in the army and knew almost everything inside and outside the system——

As they deduced, the original project team leader of the system was Duden Liu. When he was young, he had cooperated with the military many times and participated in the design of countless things. Therefore, the original concept of this "talent training and screening system" As soon as it came out, it was handed over to Du Deng Liu, which was almost a matter of course.

But everyone forgets that Duden Liu is old.

Some people think about things that they didn't think about when they were young, such as life and death.Sometimes these thoughts make people look forward and backward, and always want to leave something behind, either to continue life, or to prove that they have existed.

Duden Liu is such a person.

So his idea was biased from the very beginning. He was not designing a sophisticated training and screening system, but was constructing a world, a world that allowed him to survive, but this world also had the function of screening and training. .

The difference between the two sounds huge, but it's actually subtle.

Except for the leader, the project team is almost all young people. Most of them can't understand Duden Liu's hidden thoughts. After all, their lives are still very, very long.

But there are a few exceptions, and You Huo's mother is one of them.She is in poor health, like a candle in the wind that will go out at any time, so even if she is young, she can empathize with Duden Liu.

These few exceptional researchers became supporters of Duden Liu's hidden ideas. They shared this secret and guarded it to the death.Each of them left their own "shadow" in the system, and these "shadows" became the later "S group".

After all these people have passed away, the system already has a framework and flesh and blood, and the next job is to adjust and improve it.

Wu Cheng's first contact with this project can be traced back to a long time ago. As an expert consultant in medicine, he will help solve related problems, but he does not intervene in the design.

He really got involved in the past few years. After the system went out of control, he stepped in with the support of the military and was one of the main personnel responsible for the aftermath.

Because outsiders can hardly get involved in solving the system.All external interference may cause the system to fall into self-enclosure, completely cut off the connection with reality, and become an independent space under an independent dimension.In that case, the people inside will never be able to get out again.

That's why there are death squads, and those who actively enter the system with missions.

Wu Cheng has many things to do every day, but in the final analysis, there are only three things——

save innocent victims;

Keep soldiers who enter the system because of their mission;

Save the researcher.

They have a complete system that can check the patients admitted to any hospital, and can also provide help and treatment remotely.

Through this, they found almost everyone who could be pulled into the system.

Those who die in the system, the reality is very bad, almost brain dead.And Wu Cheng's mission is to keep them alive, even if there is only the slightest hope.

According to the director of the intensive care unit, the worst part is in this hospital, sleeping in a special ward, and Wu Cheng will come here every once in a while.

But they have shown no signs of waking up so far.

You Huo thought about meeting Dr. Wu again, but he didn't expect that the other party would apologize to him.

Wu Cheng said: "I'm ashamed. When I was treating you, I guessed your position with a very narrow mind. We detected signs of activity in your eyes, and they were very close last time. I We took it for granted that you were still one with the system, so when we found out that you had lost your memory, we were even a little glad that there was one less troublesome person. We hope you will stop participating in this matter and become a stumbling block, so I lied to you It was a training injury, not a word about the system."

After listening quietly, You Huo said, "I guessed it. It's fine to apologize, as long as the result is good."

Wu Cheng looked at this young man for a long time, and suddenly felt even more guilty.But he knew that a person with such a magnanimity would not care about this apology.He said: "I am here this time, in addition to apologizing, I also want to tell you that a total of 26921 candidates entered the system by mistake, including invigilators and other personnel, a total of 28114, all of which are within our medical coverage. No less. While some of them are in poor shape, we will do our best."

After saying this, he saw the two young men in front of him smile, not deep, but with a sense of relief.

He saw that the man named Qin Chen nodded his head and said, "Very good, then our work is not in vain."

***

The troop review lasted three months and concluded in the spring.

The initial proctor team headed by You Huo was almost all qualified.They are not only soldiers with excellent personal abilities, but also the first batch of entrants to the system. They are familiar with various training and screening mechanisms. After the review, they are directly organized into a special team to be responsible for the capabilities before various international military exercises. training camp.

The death squad headed by Qin Chen successfully completed the mission and returned to the team after the review.

The once complicated and huge system has become "a piece of ruins", all design materials and records have been archived, and the core is only a box of program disks, which are kept in Qin Research's team.

During the rotation of the seasons, everything finally slowly returned to the right track, but there were still some people missing.

Like Chu Yue.

Her eyes come back and forth, and it has been 4 months since the final cure.

The day the treatment ended was April 4th. Sitting on the bed, Chu Yue heard the little nurse say to her with a smile: "The weather outside is very nice, all the roses in the nursing home are in bloom, and you just caught up with the most beautiful crop. "

Chu Yue then laughed and said, "Then I'm really lucky."

The little nurse added: "It may be uncomfortable when the gauze is removed. We have adjusted the light, but you may still feel a little dazzling, and you will see a whole white. Believe me, it will be fine soon. "

Chu Yue laughed again and said, "It's okay, I can see a piece of white too."

The little nurse thought she was just making a joke along with the words, but it wasn't.She did see this scene often, in her confinement room.

Whenever the confinement room starts to take effect, she will see a piece of white, boundless, with no end in sight, east, west, north, south, and she sits alone in it.

For a long time, she felt that this was a summary of her life, coming and going alone.She is most afraid of this, and she is destined to live like this.

She once thought that she didn't care about these things, but every time she entered the confinement room, the white world would envelope her again.

Just like now, although she said "it doesn't matter", she still subconsciously hoped that the dazzling white would last for a shorter time.

She heard the friction of the little nurse's clothes, heard the scissors leave the iron plate, and heard the soft "click, click, click" of the gauze in front of her.

Then, his face was empty, and the sense of restraint disappeared completely.

She tried to open her eyes under the nurse's reminder...

That piece of white lasted for a short time, unexpectedly short, so that she saw a blurred figure before she could react.

The light penetrated in, and her vision became clearer and clearer, and she finally saw the world around her clearly——

It is no longer a white fog, but people, many, many people.

She saw A, 001, Gao Qi, Zhao Jiatong, Lao Yu and Yu Yu, Yang Shu, Wu Li and Shu Xue...

At that moment, she suddenly thought of a word: friendship between life and death.

But this word is too heavy, and it always seems a bit tragic to bring "life and death". She hopes that these people will never have anything to do with "tragic".

Then... a best friend.

Chu Yue thought.

If it's a bit bland, put a word in front of it.

On April 4, she took off the gauze and opened her eyes. There was a group of people waiting for her outside the large glass. They were her lifelong friends.