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M83 seemed to turn to look at him: "Thank you."

Lu Ting's hand was empty, and the umbrella was taken away from the other end he was holding.Fingers didn't make contact.

"I came to wait for the bus too. I thought I might run into you. I took my umbrella with me. I didn't expect such a coincidence." Lu Ting said, "I have completed the bus pass and installed the program. This car There should be a trip at ten o'clock."

It's 44:[-] now.

"Hmm." M83 said, wrapped the lanyard behind the umbrella handle around his wrist, and hung it casually.Lu Ting moved his eyelashes and quietly looked at his shadow: "Thank you last time."

"You're welcome."

"Is there anything going on in a while? I want to treat you to a supper, and..." Lu Ting looked to the other side of his body, and he was able to be generous to the two children again, "Your brother and sister?"

"They have to go to school tomorrow morning." M83 should have acquiesced to the siblings.

Then I'll invite you alone, that's fine.Lu Ting swallowed this sentence into his stomach.

"You really don't have to be so polite, I didn't help you with anything." M83 said again.

Lu Ting realized that he didn't even have the courage to turn his head back to stare at the road, so he kept his posture just now, looking at the stars on the girl's skirt, and heard the boy ask, "Are you a policeman?"

"I am." Lu Ting looked at the two black circular eyepieces on his mask.

The boy immediately pulled the girl two steps away, his voice was muffled by the mask, and he still seemed very unfriendly, "Are you going to cross the river in a car? What are you going to do? Investigate the case? Arrest people? Then why don't you wear a uniform?"

Lu Tingxin said, you have a lot of control, if I say that I want to pick up on your brother, take your brother to my house, and live with me, so I won't take you, can you hit me?

"I'll go get treatment." His face was still serious.

"What disease?" The boy really asked.

"Anyway, it's a strange disease, my limbs are weak, my metabolism is speeding up, and I can only think about one thing," Lu Ting said carelessly, and as if he suddenly remembered something, he tore off his backpack and searched, "My sister is a doctor , she said that this disease is caused by me always forgetting to wear a mask and inhaling too much radiation dust, but it is difficult to cure, and prevention is always better than cure—”

"So this is for you."

A brand-new pair of gas masks, the latest generation of the mainstream brand launched more than two months ago, is still a limited edition, with complete functions such as filtering night vision and communication, and has a service life of 40 months. He handed it to M83 .The body also turned around naturally, and Lu Ting finally raised his eyelids.

With the light here, he could see clearly, his eyes were one gray and one green.

Gray on the left...probably.It's only a little lighter than black, with a faint mist in it. It's okay to look at it lightly, but it's okay to stare at it deeply, as if it will soon fall into trying to figure out "how to describe this eye color?" strange circle.The right side is extremely bright. When looking over, the thin and smooth eyelids droop slightly, the corners of the eyes are still raised, and the pupils refract white light, like a piece of rich-toned emerald.

"Last time I saw you didn't wear this, and you got caught in the rain, it's really not good," Lu Ting was dodged, and he found that his thoughts had become messy again. In front of M83's straight eyes, he I can't explain the origin of this mask, why I carry it with me, and why I can take it out to give away when I meet it, "Anyway, wear it! I will wear it if you wear it." Box and ziplock bag back into backpack.

M83 still looked at him intently, as if a little surprised: "If you have anything to do with me, please speak directly."

Lu Ting almost choked, and the hand holding the corner of the mask hung in the air: "I'm fine, I—"

"Brother, just take it," the boy interrupted behind him, the earphones must have been taken off, and the noise leakage of the noise was more obvious, "I can't usually find this kind of thing, the price of one is enough for us to spend half a year, and we The store over there is not authorized to sell it, and you can’t grab it from someone on the road!”

M83 silently pressed Lu Ting's hand down.Not far away, there was an orange light, and it was the bus. He walked around Lu Ting and stood behind his younger siblings. As soon as the door opened, he pushed the children up the steps, and then got on the bus himself.

Lu Ting immediately stopped being dazed, clutching the five fingers of the right hand that was touched just now, chased after him to swipe his identity magnetic stripe, and quickly boarded the bus.I saw the two rows of seats in the middle, and the two children had already taken off their masks. M83 had just put her sister's heavy schoolbag back on her lap, and sat down by the window in the back row of her siblings.

There were not many people in this car, and there were only four of them waiting for the car just now, and there was an empty seat next to him.

Lu Ting approached, walking in a hurry, the soles of his boots rubbed against the rubber floor, "You helped me, but you didn't let me treat you to dinner, so I just want to return the gift," he stood in the aisle, and M83 There was a chair across, and he stared wide-eyed, "Excuse me, what's the problem?"

M83 frowned: "This is not an equivalent exchange. I don't need it either. The radiation dust has little effect on me."

The girl in the front row turned around and leaned on the backrest, showing only a pair of eyes: "Brother, this police officer is a good man...he is concerned about you, and you always only wear it for us, and we are also very worried about you." .”

The voice was low and timid, M83 frowned, but ignored her.

Lu Ting suddenly had an idea, looked at the little girl gratefully, and said: "I have a few more at home, and I will give them to your younger brothers and sisters next time. The ones they use now are too old, but the premise is that you now Put this on," he paused, then added loudly, "I'll put it on for you!"

He just leaned over and got close to M83. The switch of the mask has been turned on. It only needs to be lightly buckled, and it will automatically deform according to the facial lines, adjust to a perfect fit, and then permanently fix the shape. .

M83 didn't resist, just leaned against the back of the chair and raised his face, as if he was doing whatever he wanted, and looked a little obedient.

Touching the filtered breath with his fingertips, Lu Ting took a slight breath, stabilized his wrist, and gently stroked two handfuls of hair caught on the edge.After the adjusted blue light came on, Lu Ting waved his hand in front of the goggles, "Open your eyes and see?"

M83 said, "I didn't close my eyes."

Lu Ting stared at him in a daze for two seconds, then suddenly burst out laughing, his eyebrows and eyes were curved, reflected on the mirror.For some reason, he blushed from laughing, and he stood up straight again, turned his head away, and subconsciously pursed his mouth. He didn't even dare to look at the two children who turned their heads to watch, and only focused on the countdown at the tail of the bus.

The radiation purifier in the compartment was humming.

Another four minutes to go.

"By the way," Lu Ting tried to look casual, "Give me a contact information, and I will send you the manual."

M83 had already taken off his mask and put it on the seat next to him. Hearing this, he pulled down his neckline to reveal the barcode.

"...What are you doing?" Lu Ting only felt his tongue get stuck.

"Scan this and you will know everything." M83 crossed his legs leisurely.

Lu Ting just reviewed the problem of artificial human coding two days ago.He once believed that this kind of household registration system was quite anti-human and would be abolished sooner or later, so with a certain resistance, he didn't listen to it very seriously in school. After graduation, he stayed in the upper class and rarely had contact with it.But it's different now, since the person he likes also has this kind of thing, then of course he needs to understand, carefully look through the magnetic card where the notes are stored, and his mind will be clear.

He knew that after scanning this small barcode, not to mention the contact information, where the person in front of him lived, what family members he had, when he was born, what kind of education and work experience, and even most of the genetic information, all would be known. Everything appears in your own police bracelet, and can be clearly projected at any time.

Any police officer—even if he is not a regular police officer who graduated from an excellent police academy like him, but is just a supplementary assistant police officer, those guys who come from unknown sources with low commissions and often break out conflicts with civilians, have the authority to do so.

Just because the subjects are artificial humans, or their descendants.

But of course Lu Ting didn't want to.He didn't even think about intercepting the barcode from the video in the recorder to restore it. To be precise, he felt a little disdainful about this kind of private access to other people's privacy.

And unwilling.

Isn't he trying to get to know M83 as a policeman? If he scans it, wouldn't he be wrong from the beginning?

"You'd better give me the communication code." He called up the projection keyboard of the bracelet, a heat-sensitive light screen of Lan Yingying, supported by his wrist, stretched out in front of M83, "Just press it."

The reminder that the countdown to departure is 2 minutes suddenly rang. During the short ringtone, M83 didn't say much, and his fingers seemed to be only lightly stroked on the keyboard. Lu Ting almost thought that he was fooling himself, but turned back to focus At first glance, the new contact has indeed been added.

The remark is still a number, but it becomes the last seven digits of the barcode, CTA9M83.

"My name is Lu Ting, you can call me Lu, can you tell me your name?" Lu Ting asked quickly.

"We are all called numbers, unlike you," the boy in the front row said again, before Lu Ting almost forgot his existence, "For example, my name is R179."

"I'm R180," the girl said softly. "We are twins, but fraternal, so we don't look the same. We are in different classes in the same school. Today, my brother held a parent-teacher meeting. It's my turn to go to my class..."

Realizing that she was digressing, her voice became smaller and smaller.

M83 nodded, counting it as a supplement to his siblings and an explanation to Lu Ting.

With 20 seconds left, the broadcast is reminding: "Passengers, please sit still and hold on, and use seat belts correctly—"

Lu Ting was suddenly speechless, and he saw M83 raised his eyes, looked at himself standing beside him, and took off the mask sitting next to him, probably as a kind of welcome that went with the flow.

But he turned around stiffly and consciously sat in the back row of the three brothers and sisters.The moment his butt touched the chair, his gaze passed less than half a meter in front of him, the pitch-black hair and the white earlobes and the back of the neck, his heart was filled with regret, why didn't he want to sit there?It was a tailor-made position for him, and anyone who wanted to snatch him had to be in a hurry.

Then why not sit?

I can only blame myself for being too timid, thinking about so many topics in advance, and really wanting to be together, but he seems to be unable to say a word.Embarrassed and clumsy, he doesn't want to be seen by M83.

In the final analysis, it is still too easy to be shy. Where did so much shyness get in the way?Lu Ting rubbed his still hot face and scolded himself in his heart.

Then he fiddled with the bracelet happily, and after sending the instructions for using the mask, he stared at the two strings of serial numbers and communication codes from left to right, and then from right to left.Soon enough to memorize, Lu Ting leaned back in the chair again, put his hands on his lower abdomen, and happily exchanged feelings with the messy hair standing upright in the front row.

It trembles up and down from time to time following the rhythm of driving.

At about 26:[-], the bus passed a river, which was designed to be amphibious, and it was like sailing on water at this time.This river is called "Saxon", most of the water in the river basin is black, and the part where it enters the sea is said to be red, but Lu Ting has only seen it in the expansion pack, and his personal experience of this river is limited to seeing it through the air. Passing through the layer of radiation dust, I looked around vaguely for a few times.

"This is where we live. It's next to the pier. It's a big block." R179 half-kneeled on a chair and pointed out the window, but it was pitch black, and Lu Ting could only see some scattered houses. shadow.

"We'll get off after one stop," R180's head popped out, and she could hear that she had tried to let go of her voice, "Officer, where do you want to get off?"

"I'll be your next stop." Lu Ting blurted out.

I regret it after I finish speaking.You are cowardly!Back off when things get tough!Isn't it what you want to go down with others!He yelled at himself again.

"The terminal? It's so messy, I don't even like to go there, where does the doctor live? What's wrong with you?" R179 asked suspiciously.

"I have a map, and don't forget, I'm a policeman." Lu Ting glared at him.

R179 shrugged his shoulders, put on his own mask, and went to the car door with his schoolbag on his back to wait. R180 followed him with his head down, and M83 didn't show anything. He didn't wear the new mask, but hung it on his belt, and put his sister on it as usual. After about 2 minutes, he led the two children out of the car.

"Hey, goodbye!" Lu Ting stood up and shouted.

Once the car door was closed, nothing could be heard outside, including the farewell that M83 might respond to.However, it probably wasn't there in the first place. Before the car started, Lu Ting saw his back and had already walked off the station without even turning his head.

It's okay, bye, bye, bye.Lu Ting said silently.

When getting off the bus at the terminal, Lu Ting's scalp tightened and he sneezed three times in a row.The wristband shows that the body temperature is below 5 degrees, which should be relatively warm in August.There were only three people who got out of the car together, each walked away, and Lu Ting once again stood alone in a completely unfamiliar land.

He turned the night vision function to the highest level, at least it was better than nothing, and followed the map marked just now, and returned along the same route as the bus route.

In fact, he himself didn't know where his destination was. How could he keep walking half-blind until he crossed the river and returned to the departure station to ride the hoverbike hidden behind the pillars?Of course, Lu Ting knew that this was unrealistic. The most convenient way was to find another bus going in the opposite direction and take the bus all the way back, or call someone to pick him up.

Lu Ting decided to go to the previous stop first.It's all here, and he wants to take a good stroll in the neighborhood where M83 grew up.However, what he saw and heard could not be said to disappoint him, it could only be said to shock him—there were no familiar high-rise buildings, and no hawkers and pedestrians in the lower floors of the special zone, only temporary dilapidated bungalows crowded together like stacks of cardboard boxes. Take the widest and most flat path.People don't seem to like to turn on the lights, and they don't like to make noise. Everything is dark and quiet. In the vast gray fog, Lu Ting can only keep his eyes on the road and always pay attention to the reminder of the map in the headset.

After walking for about ten minutes, less than half of the distance, Lu Ting unexpectedly found a dead body leaning against the corner of the road.It has almost rotted, and the skin on the neck is no longer intact, and it is impossible to see whether there is a barcode or not.Lu Ting didn't move him anymore, took two deep breaths, took pictures calmly, recorded the coordinates, inserted the epidemic monitoring needle, and then uploaded the data to the police station.

"Officer Lu, we have received your report and will give feedback as soon as possible."

Pink's voice seemed very friendly at this time, but Lu Ting knew in his heart that this feedback would not know until the Year of the Monkey - the police's attitude towards the police situation in this area has always been very negative.

But what he could do, he had indeed done.

Inexplicably, he started to feel sad again. He recited the newly obtained communication code and then recited it backwards, as if he had gained some comfort.Passing around an alley full of old furniture, Lu Ting vaguely heard the sound of the engine, and vigilantly took off the headset on one side, squinting his eyes and looking forward.

There was indeed a motorcycle moving, not slow, towards him.

Lu Ting clenched the butt of the gun with his backhand and stood against the wall.More than ten seconds later, the motorcycle stopped in front of him. The model from more than ten years ago was bulky, with wide wheels, narrow seats and large cylinder headlights. The black paint was full of scratches. M83 rode on it, put on a transparent orange-red thing that looked like a plastic half-length raincoat, and looked sideways at him.

"What are you doing here?" Lu Ting's throat tightened, he thought it must be an illusion.

"Because I know you must still be on this road."

Lu Ting felt even more outrageous: "So you came to find me."

"You are looking for me. It's not just a matter of thanking you, there is no doctor here, so it's worthwhile for us to speak up," M83 said, taking off the umbrella pinned to his waist, reflecting the headlights of the motorcycle, shining brightly Handed it over, "Get in the car first, let's chat in another place, it's going to rain in a while."

"Rain?" Lu Ting held the front of the umbrella, but the electronic housekeeper did not give him such a forecast.

"My feeling." M83 brushed off the dust on the back seat, and then held the accelerator, his fingers resting on the black handlebars were dazzlingly white.The engine roared louder, as if it was about to drive away, M83 still stared at Lu Ting who was standing still without blinking: "It is generally very accurate."