Middle-aged Love Patch

Xu Youyuan really had something to do, and it was an important matter that hadn't been thought of suddenly.

Her former colleague Xiao Ke suddenly called her and asked her to come out for a chat.

"You know, about that."

Xiao Ke dropped such a short sentence and shook Xu Youyuan's appetite.

This former colleague still worked at SQUALL after Xu Youyuan's accident, and was one of the core figures of the "Reshaping the Universe" project and the leader of the second development group. She was also the docking person when the vehicle incident happened that year.

Xiao Ke was hired by Xu Youyuan himself, and she valued her very much. Before the accident, she was one of Xu Youyuan’s right-hand assistants. After the accident, the person who quickly left the relationship with Xu Youyuan was also the fastest. she was.

After Xu Youyuan left SQUALL, many people deleted her from the contacts for self-protection. Xu Youyuan also lost her experience. But from another perspective, other people also have their own careers and families to take care of. It is reasonable to do so. .

It's just that the situation has changed a bit during this time.

With the frenzied rise of holographic games, a new generation of holographic games represented by the "secret box" has begun to make a fierce impact on established companies. According to industry analysis, the SQUALL monopoly position that has lost Xu Youyuan will soon be broken. Before 2040, holographic games worldwide will flourish, and even break through existing game logic and have brand new gameplay.

If SQUALL still keeps its past achievements and does not know how to make progress, it may be eliminated within five years.

The crisis of SQUALL once again focused people's attention on the almost hidden Xu Youyi.

Many media are speculating about Xu Youyuan's whereabouts now. Although Xu Youyuan did not appear in front of the world in high profile, she did not deliberately hide it either.

After working for so many years and once on the cusp of a knife's edge, Xu Youyuan knows that there is no impermeable wall in the world. Unless she is dead, the media can still track her movements if she wants to track her down.

There is no point in deliberately hiding, as long as you act low-key.

Xu Youyuan went to Canglu Company to help. She was preparing several game projects. From the very beginning, she knew that she would definitely spread it out. The facts proved that what she thought was right, and it was indeed spread out.

She is busy, but it’s not that she doesn’t surf the Internet. Even if the things that ridiculed the generation of masters for not having a job and can only barely make ends meet with these small projects have not been posted to her eyes, there are still many good deeds who specially ate her under these gossips. I wanted her to block her heart, and even directly cut the picture and sent it to her mailbox, for fear that she would not be able to see it.

Xu Youyuan had also cared about what the outside world thinks of her before, but when she read these rumors and rumors too much, she understood that these people had a heart that wanted her to be angry and wanted to push her out of the normal track. Xu Youyuan understands that she can't do what they want, and must walk on her own path steadily. Over time, she really didn't mind.

When she began to abandon the cynicism from the outside world and concentrate on the project on Canglu, with the decline of SQUALL and the decline in its influence in the industry, some small companies began to play Xu Youyuan’s idea and wanted to pay cheaply. She was dug up for her salary, and many people have contacted her on emails and WeChat.

For these companies, Xu Youyuan did not respond at all.

The colder the reaction to the outside world, the higher the degree of discussion about her from the outside world.

Among the game companies that wanted to hire Xu Youyuan, many of those who invited her were former colleagues who had already quit. Xu Youyuan understood that many people had already left the original company to seek another development.

Some people use SQUALL as a springboard, and after plating a layer of gold, they go to small companies as leaders, living less and making more money.

And some people really smelled the crisis of SQUALL in the post-Xu Youyuan era, and left for career development.

These two people who left the original company brought another thought-provoking news-in addition to them, some people left quietly, and even disappeared from the game industry completely. The methods that were stifled and used in the past Xu Youyuan's body is exactly the same.

This incident attracted Xu Youyi's attention three months ago.

She had discussed this matter with Canglu, and Heron also sent someone to inquire, and inquired about some scraps, which seemed to be related to the world of vehicles back then, but the specific inside information seemed to be more tightly covered.

Xu Youyuan didn't expect that Xiao Ke would come to her. The other party didn't directly reveal what he wanted to say to her, but Xu Youyuan probably knew that it must be related to the vehicle incident that year.

No matter what the former colleague treats her, today's appointment with Xiaoyuan is definitely going to go.

The place where the other party asked her was in a Chinese restaurant with a lot of people. Xiao Ke also wanted to dispel Xu Youyuan's suspicion, and made a special appointment in a crowded place.

When Xu Youyuan arrived at the Chinese restaurant, Xiao Ke had already arrived, sitting in the corner.

Xu Youyuan almost didn't recognize her at a glance.

Former colleagues Xiao Ke and Xu Youyuan are alumni of different majors, and they have been younger than her for five years.

In all, Xiao Ke has just touched the edge of 30 years old this year. Less than a year ago, when Xu Youyuan left the former company, Xiao Ke was still black and full of youthful vitality. When I saw her today, most of her hair was actually grayed out. If she hadn't seen her face, Xu Youyuan would have thought that the person sitting here was an elderly person.

"Sister Xu..." Xiao Ke took the initiative to greet her. When Xu Youyuan sat down, she saw that Xiao Ke was a little thin and out of shape, and her white hair made people panic.

"What's the matter with you? Are you tired from work?" Xu Youyuan asked as she sat down.

Xiao Ke shook her head, as if thinking of something particularly bad, her expression was a bit painful.

It is still very cautious to come to the appointment with Xu Youyuan today, and Xiao Ke also knows that Xu Youyuan should be cautious. In order to eliminate Xu Youyuan's worries, Xiao Ke does not bring a bag or even a mobile phone. When Xu Youyuan sat down, Xiao Ke turned over all her pockets and showed her to show her sincerity.

After the show, Xiao Ke didn't have the thought of circumstance to think about any opening remarks, and said straightforwardly, "Although it is not directly related, but my current ghost appearance is not completely related to work... Sister Xu, you should guess that I came to you this time. What I want to say. The vehicle incident that year, you were indeed calculated."

Xu Youyuan said while pressing the page-turning button of the menu: "You found a loophole in the development, and the record of the video with me was deleted. It is also planned."

Xiao Ke admits: "I do know about this, even I did it myself. We have a record of communicating with you, so all subsequent operations can be pushed to you, saying that they are all instructed by you. But you There is no video recording on the side, and it was wiped off by the person who wiped the ass. When you know this, everything is a foregone conclusion."

Xu Youyuan ordered a few dishes and asked Xiao Ke if she wanted rice, but Xiao Ke said no. Xu Youyuan added a bowl of whole grain rice to herself, feeling that today's topic should be very popular.

"It takes me a lot of time to kick me out." Xu Youyuan sighed in retrospect, "Unfortunately, this incident did not make the sales of Reshaping the Universe rise in the end, although it eliminated my big trouble, said In the end, Liu Feng still suffered a loss."

"No..." Xiao Ke lowered her voice again, "His goal is long gone in the game."

Xiao Ke's words completely changed Xu Youyuan's expression.

"Liu... has he finally started that project?"

Xiao Ke stopped talking and asked the waiter to bring a pen for help. In this era, anyone who still uses paper and pen has basically achieved paperless office. The clerk helped her find it for a long time.

Xiao Ke wrote it on the paper and handed it to Xu Youyuan.

Xu Youyu unfolds the paper:

"Reshaping the universe is just a fig leaf from the beginning to the end, a blinding method. From the very beginning, what LF wants is to connect to the player's neurons and read information from the human brain! The method of directly reading neurons is more than 20 years ago. The smart phone APP steals user information more directly and more privately. Although holographic games are connected to neurons, but the courage and ability, and the only one who dares to read the user's brain information illegally is probably only LF. This is unprecedented. A huge cake, LF wants to enjoy it alone!"

Xu Youyuan actually knew about this earlier than Xiao Ke, so when he saw these shocking secrets written by Xiao Ke, Xu Youyuan did not show much surprise, and wrote on the paper:

"Isn't LF afraid of being arrested?" When writing these words, Xu Youyuan suddenly wanted to understand something, "Could it be that someone in the government is supporting him?"

Xiao Ke didn't take the paper back. She nodded after seeing Xu Youyuan finished writing this line.

No wonder.

Xu Youyuan knows that all major social events and big news that have caused extensive discussion will definitely have government intervention behind them. Either the government’s acquiescence, or the government’s own creation.

Events that the government does not allow will definitely not be fermented.

Xu Youyuan should have understood that Liu Feng could have the courage to steal information from the human brain, and there must not be only the power of the S company behind this.

Xiao Ke took the paper back and continued to write:

"Even the government does not have only one faction. You know that the government is now in a stage of fighting between two factions. It is only one of the factions that supports him behind LF. Their power is very powerful and mysterious. I just know that there is such a group of people. But in my status, it is impossible to know who they are. However, I believe that if the true face of LF can be exposed and the crimes of S Company can be exposed, another faction will definitely be supported. After all, LF's current experiments are very good. It may kill people."

When Xiao Ke said this, she pointed to her gray hair: "My hair was white due to the experiment, and I almost lost my life. Afterwards, LF gave me a large sum of money as a comfort gold and a hush fee. But this The fact is too dangerous. I think if I don’t say it, a crisis will definitely happen in the next five years. This crisis will no longer only affect you and me, and no longer just the game industry. It will be a disaster for the entire mankind. ."

So Xiao Ke took Liu Pang's money and stabbed it out. It was also very good.

"I know I betrayed you before, and now you will not completely believe me anyway." Xiao Ke can also see Xu Youyuan's thoughts, "but I don't need you to believe me, but I don't want more. The victim of LF. I took the money from LF because I need it for the rest of my life. From then on I will quit the game industry and return to my hometown to be an ordinary civil servant who may be replaced by artificial intelligence at any time. This is My destiny. And you, sister Xu, you created the holographic game, you proposed the neuron reading technology, and you opened up all of this. Therefore, I think whether you want to stop LF, you have the right to know the hologram The game will bring strong storms to mankind. And you have the right to wash away your stigma."

At the end of this line, Xiao Ke gave a coordinate.

Xu Youyuan could tell at a glance that this is the coordinate in the reshaping of the universe.

"What you want, the evidence that can wash away your stigma is still in this place for the time being. It is in the most difficult and dangerous depths of the game universe that reshapes the universe. It was still there temporarily when I left S company, as long as Transmission bridge technology has not undergone disruptive changes in a day, and LF cannot remove it in a day."

Xu Youyuan marked the sitting in his mind, and then tore the paper to pieces.

Their dishes came, and there was a plate of grilled chickens. The small open fire stove was specially ordered by Xu Youyu. She threw the shredded paper into the stove and turned it into ashes.

The meal was very silent, Xu Youyuan and Xiao Ke didn't say anything after burning the shreds.

After eating, she walked out of the restaurant's door. The snow was flying, and Xu Youyuan found that Xiao Ke was coughing constantly, she was still shivering with the cold even in her thick down jacket, her face pale.

"What is it like..." Xu Youyuan asked.

"In fact, I don't know the true core principle. I'm just a small person. I was tempted by the high experimental subsidies when I participated in the experiment." Xiao Ke said, "But I can tell you how I feel after the experiment. From the experiment It’s been more than half a month now that I really came out of the experimental scene. And I came out with the help of others. Outline

"That scene is very confusing. It is not directly read, but very similar to a game. It traps you in the game like a nightmare, makes you confused between the game and reality, and even your brain is deceived. In this long period of time, the information in your brain will be extracted little by little unsuspectingly, and you have no resistance at all. It will even set up different scenarios to deceive and induce your brain, many Things that you may have forgotten will be reinvigorated in the scene. All your memories will be excavated and become LF products!"

Xiao Ke's words made Xu Youyuan's hair terrifying. She expected the tip of the iceberg of Liu Feng's conspiracy, but she did not expect that there was such a daunting truth under the iceberg.

"I'm afraid." Xiao Ke hid his face in the collar of the down jacket, "I also wanted to stop all of this, but I don't think I have this ability. I don't want to enter that terrible game again... escape."

Xiao Ke stared at Xu Youyuan: "Just like when Sister Xu left SQUALL. You brought me into the line, and you carefully cultivated me to be so good to me, but I told you the truth when you were forced to leave because of the unreasonable disaster. I dare not say...I am a cowardly and cowardly person, I admit it. I have exhausted all my courage to come to you today to tell you these things. I don't expect you to forgive me, I..."

Xu Youyuan sighed softly and said: "I have never blamed you. You have broken through yourself by choosing to tell the truth today."

Xiao Ke's heart was touched by Xu Youyuan's gentle words, she couldn't help but hug Xu Youyuan, crying silently in her arms for a long time, and her tears were already dry when she left.

"This world may really change dramatically. I don't know if it is my luck or my sorrow to live in this era." Xiao Ke said when he left, "but it is indeed my life, I admit it."

When Xiao Ke's figure was about to disappear in the snow, she suddenly thought of a question and turned to ask Xu Youyuan: "Sister Xu, are you trusting?"

Xu Youyuan put her hands in her pockets and answered without any hesitation: "I don't believe it, I only believe in myself."

Xiao Ke stared at Xu Youyu for a long time, and finally smiled comfortedly: "Fortunately, you are still there in this era."

Xiao Ke is gone, and Xu Youyuan knows that she should never see Xiao Ke again in her life, but what Xiao Ke left her is extremely precious.

That coordinate.

In the depths of reshaping the universe, what she wants is still there...

Everything is still too late.

The phone vibrated, and Xu Youyuan took it out and found that it was Shiye's WeChat.

"Xiao Yue saw it."

Xu Youyuan frowned, what did she see?

While wondering, Shiye's WeChat came in again: "We were just by your side and saw you hugging that woman. Are you okay? Who is that woman!"

by……

Can you take a breather?

Xu Youyuan immediately called Shiye and asked where they were.

"After we drank in the izakaya, we originally planned to come here to sing and have fun. When we first came over, we saw you and a girl hugged together. Why did you say it was such a coincidence?"

Xu Youyi helplessly: "Is it so bloody...Where is Shi Yue?"

"After Xiaoyue saw it, she said she was going back to rest, and she sent us to the singing place and she left." Shiye said, "She said that she was too tired recently and wanted to go back to sleep for a while, so she didn't accompany her. We played. But also, she is really tired recently, her eyes are bloodshot."

Xu Youyuan didn't know what to say for a while.

"Are you coming here?"

"right away."

When I arrived at KTV, Yue was not there. Jiang Yun saw that Xu Youyuan was about to talk about Xiao Xiao again. She drank a lot of wine when she was in the izakaya, and she would continue to order wine when she came to KTV, saying that she would not be drunk tonight, and she would be a good man after sober.

Xu Youyuan was a little absent-minded, took out her mobile phone and opened WeChat, looked at Shiyue's bright red peony portrait, and wanted to say something to her. After searching her belly for a long time, she felt a little hypocritical.

Do you want to explain to her that the person you just hugged is just a former colleague? Does it mean that there is no silver here?

But if you don’t explain...

Xu Youyuan was still frowning, and Jiang Yun didn't click any song on the other end, instead projecting all the photos from the phone on the singing screen.

These photos are all old photos they took before, some of them were taken more than ten years ago.

At that time, they were all energetic, full of collagen, and even the curvature of their smiles was several degrees larger than they are now.

Jiang Yun sighed with emotion while flipping through the photos, saying that the flowers have re-bloomed and people will never be young again, as if after tonight she is not going to be born again but is going to die.

After reading the contents on the phone, I still have to look through the photos everyone posted in the circle of friends. There was nothing in Xu Youyuan's circle of friends, so she had to turn to Shiye and Agan's. They turned and pointed with emotion.

Xu Youyuan disliked her at first, and stopped when she watched the sudden movement of drinking a drink in her hand.

"In what year did we go to Japan to take the photos? It was during the cherry blossom season. It was really luxurious." Jiang Yun pointed to the people on the screen who were grinning under the cherry trees. "At that time we were all too poor. To die, even Sister Bird’s reshaping of the universe hasn’t even started to make money, right... Just because I like it, I broke my family and traveled. I’m sure I can’t do it now. It’s great to be young..."

What Jiang Yun was talking about Xu Youyuan could not hear clearly. In her eyes, she only saw the line that Shiye had matched at the top of the photo:

"Sister Bird’s favorite cherry blossoms, must come"

Cherry blossoms?

Bird sister's favorite?

The global limited-edition cherry blossom bath ball that Shiyue grabbed by guarding the dot came to mind.

"Don't you like it?"

"Why should I like it?"

"You old fish!"

It turns out that the cherry blossom stem is here.

Xu Youyuan has long forgotten that she once liked cherry blossoms so much, and traveled all the way for the cherry blossom season.

But there was someone who helped her remember, even now.

This little bastard... why don't you just say it?

Xu Youyuan stood up with her coat in her arms, and was about to walk outside when she opened the door.

Agan said "Hey?" and asked her: "Where are you going?"

Shi Ye patted A-Gan: "Don't disturb Sister Bird. Sister Niao has an epiphany."

A rod: "?"

Xu Youyuan went downstairs, got into the car quickly, and drove towards Nanjiang One Hotel.

If there is any misunderstanding, just say it in person.

If she really cares about a person's feelings, she will definitely not misunderstand that person. Even if there is a misunderstanding, it is impossible to let the misunderstanding stay overnight.

Xu Youyuan wants to explain to Shi Yue personally that even if there is no silver here, even if he is hypocritical, Xu Youyuan does not want to make Shi Yue unhappy.

It turned out that life is not just a crowded one-way street. When she lowered her head and rushed forward, there was a gentle gaze silently following her beside her.

Many of the things that have been liked and obsessed with age have been forgotten by Xu Youyi and disappeared in the gap of time. Even the young self may be buried by time.

But someone remembered her life trajectory, remembered all her preferences.

And this person has never spoken a word.

How did Shi Yue persist until now, never praying for any sweetness?

When Xu Youyuan drove to the entrance of Nanjiang ONE Su community, the snow fell even more.

What kind of plot is this idol drama that is not suitable for the big sister Xu Youyuan, okay?

Xu Youyuan's car cannot enter the community without a pass. She parked the car across the road, walked over, and entered the access code for her relatives at the gate.

I don't know what Shi Yue's expression will be when she sees her suddenly visiting.

Xu Youyuan holds a gift in her hand. It is not a New Year's gift, but a gift that must be given tonight. She believed that Shi Yue would like it very much after seeing it.

No matter how heavy the wind and snow are, Xu Youyi's heart is still hot.

With a "hum", the password is invalid.

Xu Youyuan: "Huh?"

Xu Youyuan didn't know that the access codes for relatives were also time-effective, and her group of codes from Shiye could no longer open the door to the community.

If you don’t want to play an idol drama, you don’t have to freeze me. !

The plot of the idol drama turned into a miserable drama in an instant. Xu Youyuan called Shiyue, but Shiyue didn't answer...

Xu Youyuan: "???"

The uncle at the door was poking Xu Youyuan's back tightly with a vigilant gaze. Xu Youyuan hugged herself tightly and shivered.