Dream Guide

Mei Ziqing sent Aoki downstairs and said goodbye: "Mr. Aoki, please come often when you have time. If you come more often, maybe the professor's health will get better!"

Qingmu didn't know that Mei Yiqiu was watching them from the surveillance camera and was in good spirits. But his intuition told him that the professor's change was not as simple as it seemed.

Aoki looked at Mei Ziqing's face, trying to find something in her eyes, but found nothing. He pondered for a moment and said: "Oh, I still have a lot of things to do. I may not be in Wuzhong often in the future. Professor, please take care of your health!"

Mei Ziqing smiled and said calmly, "Ah, that's what you should do!"

Aoki feels more and more that there is something wrong with Mei Ziqing. The calmer it is, the more unusual it is. What she said just now was probably very tempting. But, what is she worried about?

Just as he was about to go out, Aoki suddenly remembered something and said, "Ah, I forgot that there is an old friend here. I should go see him."

Mei Ziqing was stunned and asked, "Are you talking about Dr. Bian or Uncle Yu?"

Aoki was also stunned for a moment. The only person he knew with the surname Bian was Bian Ziyuan, but at that time Bian Ziyuan was still an undergraduate student who came to the laboratory for internship. How could he get a doctorate so quickly?

As for Lao Yu, he almost looked away if Mei Ziqing hadn't mentioned it. He didn't know that Lao Yu came to work in Mei's laboratory. When he entered, he saw an old man's face in the security room that looked familiar, but he didn't think about Lao Yu and thought it was arranged by Hou Biao's security company. people.

"Oh, if they were here, I'd have to check it out, but what I just mentioned was another one."

"The other one?" Mei Ziqing couldn't remember who else Qingmu was familiar with here, "Who is it?"

"GHOST." Aoki said.

"Ah, what you're talking about is..." Mei Ziqing suddenly realized, thinking of the old servers in the basement, she said a little embarrassedly, "I don't know... well... you know, our laboratory has very high requirements for electronic equipment. , the Internet and Montnets have developed rapidly in the past few years, many equipment will be obsolete in one or two years, and you have been away for five years, those servers..."

"Are you gone anymore?"

"Oh, it is here, but it is too old and has not been used for several years." Mei Ziqing said, "The professor still arranged for someone to take care of it in the first two years after you left, and we could occasionally contact it through the GHOST file. , but then the contact became less and less, you didn’t come back, and no one knew if the ghost was still there, so the computer room was abandoned.”

Aoki nodded to express understanding. Only you can communicate with ghosts. If you don't come for five years, it's normal for the computer room to be abandoned. It stands to reason that the ghost will not disappear, but the computer room is abandoned, and it has no value if it stays here. The Internet will probably take back this sub-consciousness, or let it go somewhere else.

Regardless, he decided to go down and have a look.

Mei Ziqing did not stop him or accompany him down, but went to the duty room to call Lao Yu over. Lao Yu was originally in charge of the basement and was familiar with the circuits there.

Mei Ziqing explained a few words, then said "please help yourself" and went back to work.

The old man is really old, with white hair on his head, bags under his eyes, and the skin on his face looks like jellyfish skin soaked in water. However, his mind was still clear, and although his eyes were a little blurry, he still recognized Aoki at a glance.

Old Yu's eyes suddenly turned red, tears welled up in his eyes, and a few cloudy old eye droppings poured in and out. He said:

"You're finally back?"

Aoki felt strange hearing his words and asked, "Do you know where I went?"

Old Yu shook his head: "I don't know." He wiped his face again and said, "I thought you were back. Is it time for Pengcheng to come back too?"

Only then did Aoki know that he was thinking about Zhao Pengcheng, but he didn't know where Zhao Pengcheng was at the moment or how he was doing. The only contact method between him and Zhao Pengcheng is GHOST. I don’t know if Zhao Pengcheng still keeps the phone and the GHOST folder. More importantly, it’s not sure whether the ghost is still there.

Seeing that Qingmu didn't say anything, Lao Yu became a little anxious and said, "I did everything you asked, you can't ignore Pengcheng!"

Aoki was stunned and asked: "What did I ask you to do?"

Old Yu looked around to make sure there was no one there, and then said: "I have taken good care of the computer room and the network cables, and all the cables that need to be connected are connected. I will do whatever you tell me to do in your dreams every time you come back." , no problem at all.”

Aoki asked: "Am I in your dream?"

Lao Yu said: "Yes, I couldn't remember it at first. You taught me a few times, and then I was able to remember the things in the dream. I understand that the things explained in the dream are safe and leave no traces."

Aoki asked: "Are you sure it was me you saw in your dream?"

"I'm sure, why are you not sure!" Old Yu said firmly, "I know, this is called dream teaching. I have read books and also like to listen to storytelling. It is said in storytelling that Cheng Yaojin's three-blade ax is the one he talks to the immortal in his dream. I learned it. Anyone who can teach in dreams is an immortal, I know."

Aoki felt that something was a little strange. Seeing that Lao Yu is like this is not nonsense. Someone should be dressing up as himself and entering Lao Yu's dream.

Who could this be?

"Then tell me, how many times have I come to your dream and what have you said?" Aoki asked.

Lao Yu thought for a while and said: "It's not that many times, just four or five times. Anyway, you haven't been here for two or three years, but I remember what you told me! You asked me to take care of this computer room, and let me take care of it." I laid out the wiring according to the drawing you gave me, and connected it to the outside line, and you asked me to help Bian Ziyuan unlock the door..."

Aoki was confused and asked, "Who else have you told these things to?"

Lao Yu said: "No, no one has ever said that I am very strict with my words! When I was in trouble, I never said a word more about things I shouldn't have said."

Qingmu knew that he couldn't ask more from Lao Yu, so he said, "Take me to the computer room first."

Lao Yu nodded "Hey" and took Qingmu to the basement.

The equipment in the computer room is still working normally. Lao Yu first turned on the dust removal and air filtration systems. After the air was fresh and the dust that had accumulated for several years was removed, he turned on all the servers and took Qingmu in.

The basement is still the same as it was five years ago, and the machines have not been replaced. According to the requirements of Mei's Laboratory, such equipment and computer rooms should have been eliminated long ago, but because of the existence of ghosts, they have been preserved.

Aoki didn't feel anything at all, except that the buzzing sound was a little louder than the last time he came here. Time had not left any traces on these iron boxes.

The small lounge specially prepared for him in the middle of the computer room is still there. He sat inside for a while, quietly waiting for the computer dream world after the server fell asleep.

Then, he saw the "ghost", and his consciousness immediately judged that this "ghost" was not the ghost he once knew.

"You're finally here!" said the ghost. "I've been waiting for you for a long time."

"Are you...the Internet?"