Chapter 104 Chapter 17 Rustling, rustling, first...

There was a very light sound, rustling, rustling, coming from the window, making Li Zheng think that a mouse had run into his rental house.

Soon, the sound became louder, more urgent, faster, and clearer.

It's raining.

The weather in Cheongdam City has always been so irregular, with sudden sudden storms and rain, and then sudden clear skies. It is even normal for it to rain and be sunny at the same time.

In the small rental house, in the square bedroom, there is a 1.8-meter bed, a dark solid wood wardrobe, and a warm yellow bedside lamp.

Li Zheng finished smoking a cigarette. The young man sitting opposite him sat cross-legged on the floor and chattered with him about some of his past.

He said that in his memory, he had been very free since he was a child, and his peers around him envied him.

He said he had a good business sense and started doing business on the Internet when he was a teenager, and he created a lot of strange and weird things.

No reason, just thought it was fun.

"You said you were from another world, so what about your family back there when you came here..."

Li Zheng stared into his eyes, not missing any subtle changes in his expression.

"Didn't you say your parents are very kind to you and love you so much? How could you bear to leave them? Or will you return once you've completed your mission?"

"Of course not!"

Wei Sheng first refuted the last question, and then began to explain the previous questions.

"Even though I say this, you might think I'm a heartless person, but I do feel...that even if I leave them, they won't be sad. Similarly, I've always been..."

"Okay, they're very nice, and they treat me very well, but I might be born an ungrateful person. They're so nice to me, and they never restrict me, but sometimes I actually feel that this kindness is too fake... But only when I'm here, by your side, do I feel..."

He swallowed the rest of his words again.

"Anyway, I don't plan to go back..."

Perhaps sensing the heavy atmosphere, Wei Sheng tried to lighten the mood by telling a joke: "They are still young anyway, so we can get another one."

Li Zheng stared at the muscles around his eyes and lips, and continued to ask a few questions about his childhood and his emotional problems.

"...Have you ever been in love?"

"No." Wei Sheng added, "I don't know why, but every time I feel like I can't continue the conversation. It's like I'm not from the same world as them. Isn't that strange? I feel the same way."

“…………”

Li Zheng said nothing, staring at him quietly. Since he was at a higher position, he could see that he was also looking down at him from above.

The heavy rain outside the window was hitting the window, sometimes accompanied by the whistling sound of the wind.

"Do I need to bring an umbrella to work today?" Wei said casually, "It feels like it's raining, and it seems to be a little colder than before."

"...can I get you a thicker blanket?"

"No, no, I think it's fine."

The atmosphere fell silent again.

"Don't you have anything else to ask me?" Wei Sheng raised his eyebrows at Li Zheng. "Ask me whatever you want to ask me. I'll tell you everything and I won't hide anything from you."

"I do have a question."

"you say."

"In your world, comics have open endings. The story ends abruptly when the protagonist is about to choose whether to stay in the game or go to the real world. There's no mention of the protagonist's final choice, right?"

"yes."

Wei Sheng nodded as a matter of course.

"What if, what if, if an awakened NPC leaves the game world and goes to the real world, what will he be like in the real world? Will he remember that he was once an NPC in the game?"

This made Wei Sheng fall into thought.

He seemed to have never thought about it from this angle, nor had he ever thought about this problem, so he began to think along the lines of what Officer Li said.

"Well... let me think... I think I saw it in an interview or somewhere else, I forgot where..."

Wei Sheng fell into deep thought.

"If an NPC from the game world comes to the real world, they will forget everything in the game and live on with another identity. I think that's what happened. I don't remember it very well because I don't pay much attention to it."

Li Zheng said nothing and continued to stare at him.

"Oh, right, in the last few pages of the comic, two awakened NPCs said they wanted to return to the real world together. Then another character proposed a hypothesis: maybe the real world isn't the same world. You might both be returning to the real world, but maybe not the same world? Then the two lovers decided to stay. But this conversation didn't continue, so I don't know what happened next."

Wei Sheng was still amazed at his memory. He said that his memory has always been not very good, but just now he thought hard and actually remembered it.

"Then there's a possibility that an NPC, after escaping the game and returning to the real world, will forget they were once a game NPC. If, by some chance, they return to the game world, will there be two of them?"

"this…………………"

Wei Sheng also began to think hard about this problem. Logically, this seemed to be fine, but if there were two of them, wouldn't that be strange?

Won’t there be bugs?

More importantly...

"Why did this NPC return to the game world? Didn't he want to escape the game world and go to the real world? Why return to the game world? What's the reason? This doesn't make sense."

Li Zheng also looked at him and repeated softly, "Yeah, I don't think it makes sense either."

"unless--"

Wei Sheng was tired from sitting cross-legged, so he lay down, wrapped himself in the dark blue velvet blanket that Li Zheng had given him, and sang a long tune.

"Unless what?"

Li Zheng asked curiously.

"Unless there's someone in the game world who's incredibly important to this NPC, that would explain why he went back... Ah, it's already past five o'clock. What time do you start work? 8:30 or 9?"

"Half past eight."

According to regulations, Li Zheng's statutory working hours are from 8:30 to 12:00 in the morning and from 13:30 to 17:30 in the afternoon, but he rarely goes to and from get off work according to the prescribed time, unless he is very free. Most of the time, he is on standby at all times.

"Then you should get some more sleep. You'll probably be busy all day tomorrow, so you need to get some rest now."

He started nagging again, saying that he worked so hard and he might as well quit, saying that he had plenty of money anyway and could support him.

"Um."

When Li Zheng fell into a deep sleep, there was still a violent storm outside. When he was woken up by the alarm clock, there was no sound of rain at all.

The first thing he smelled was the aroma of hot pot, and then he heard the faint sounds of people walking and talking in the corridor. It must be the neighbors upstairs who had woken up, and from time to time there was the occasional barking of a puppy.

I knew it was the dog of the family upstairs.

He opened his eyes and saw the familiar ceiling again. He turned over and found the mat next to the bed was empty.

Wei Sheng woke up.

But he didn't sit on the floor with his legs crossed and his cheek in his hand like he did the night before, staring at him without blinking as he slept.

He put on a slightly dusty apron.

The small coffee table was filled with food.

Li Zheng got out of bed, walked from the bedroom to the living room, and then from the living room to the small kitchen. He looked at the food on the coffee table and opened the refrigerator to take a look.

Yes, the food on the table was packed last night. Looking at the flowing dishes, Li Zheng had a feeling that they would not be able to finish it.

In the end, it was just as he imagined. He didn't touch the ten or so portions and packed them up to take home. Perhaps some people who cared about their reputation would find it embarrassing to pack up, but Li Zheng never cared about that.

Wei Sheng seems to be the same.

Last night, Li Zheng put everything into the refrigerator's cold storage layer one by one. Now, Wei Sheng took them out one by one and placed them neatly on his small coffee table.

Full to the brim.

In the middle of the dishes was the small electric skillet in the kitchen cabinet. I remember buying it when it was on sale. Although it was a little small, it has been working well for a long time.

"I wanted to make you some breakfast, but when I opened the refrigerator, I saw what I packed yesterday. I think hot pot would be okay for breakfast."

He held a bowl of prepared dipping sauce and said with a clear lack of confidence, "No one said it's not allowed, right?"

Indeed, there is currently no law that explicitly prohibits eating hot pot in the morning. Li Zheng took the chopsticks and the small bowl of sauce he had handed over.

The bottom of the small rice cooker was boiling and bubbling. Wei Shengzhi put a few slices of beef in it. Guessing that he had lost, he took a pair of chopsticks and fished it out.

"Come, try it quickly?"

The taste is indeed adjusted according to his preferences. I don’t know where he knew the taste. Is it from his own game interface?

Li Zheng suddenly looked up at the air above Wei Sheng's head. He remembered what Wei Lele said. In his eyes, the world was like a huge game interface, and everyone had a name and identity above their head.

So every time before, every time Wei Sheng saw me, there would be a name above my head?

What would that look like?

He thought about it and found it quite strange.

"What's wrong?" Seeing Li Zheng looking at him, Wei Sheng thought he thought his seasoning was not good enough, "Is there something wrong with the taste?"

"No, it's not bad."

"That's good."

The two of them continued with the topic from last night and chatted for a while.

About the fact that this world is a game.

Wei Shengben was worried that Officer Li would not be able to accept this, and was even more worried that it would accelerate his ending in the comics. As a result, Officer Li seemed to accept it quite quickly.

He even asked back, "Is your mission to find the awakened...NPC?"

Wei Sheng nodded.

"That's perfect. I also want to find the real culprit, so our goals are the same."

"Yes, we can cooperate."

As he spoke, Wei Sheng brought a drink and clinked it with Li Zheng: "Come on. Happy cooperation."

Perhaps the atmosphere at that time was too warm and harmonious, which caused Wei Sheng to be particularly relaxed and accidentally said what was in his heart.

He said that when he was in the kitchen today, while Li Zheng was still soundly asleep, he would look back from time to time and suddenly he felt...

"How can I describe that feeling? It's pretty good to be like this all the time, just like living my life."

“………”

"Hahahaha, I'm just kidding."

We couldn't finish the hot pot in the end.

While eating, Li Zheng suddenly received a call and was about to leave in a hurry. Wei Sheng almost subconsciously put down his bowl and chopsticks, stood up and wanted to follow him.

But Li Zheng's words made him stay where he was.

"You don't have to go. Didn't you just say you would clean it up? Why are you trying to deny it and slack off so quickly?"

Officer Li, who had said he could cooperate, placed the keys on the table, quickly told him which one was for the front door, and taught him how to open the door if it couldn't be opened.

"You keep it. I'm leaving now."

"good."

Wei Sheng slowly sat back on the small stool, the smile on his lips sliding into a straight line little by little until he could no longer see Li Zheng.

Just now, three minutes before Officer Li received the call, the system told him that the NPC submitted yesterday was not the "first generation awakening NPC" they were looking for.

How is this possible?

Wei Sheng was shouting in his mind, wondering if the system had made a mistake in the detection. The man at the moment was the first clearly awakened NPC they had encountered, so how could it not be?

The crackling sound of the system failure gave him a headache.

What made him even more annoyed was that he had just clearly heard key words on the phone such as "the suspect who was interrogated yesterday..."

It was obvious that something must have happened to that person. Maybe he wanted to tell some important clues, or maybe he wanted to see Li Zheng, so he rushed over?

Him again?

Is he important?!

For some reason, whenever Wei Sheng thought of the man in the alley that day, he felt a sense of rejection in his heart, a possibility that he didn't want to think about.

He could only think of the superficial reasons, perhaps because that person also had an idea about that level, and he also liked it.

Yes, he likes Li Zheng.

If he hadn't come to this world, he would have only felt that he liked him as a character, but the first time he saw him...

Just from the first glance from afar, just that one glance, he felt that he fell deeply in love with him, no, it should be said that he fell deeply in love with him.

like…

This word is so unfamiliar.

In the past, Wei Sheng had never wanted to love anyone, nor had he ever thought about what it would be like if he loved someone, but when he saw Li Zheng, he immediately understood.

Like the positive and negative poles of a magnet, even if they are far apart, there will be a faint attraction.

The moment he met Li Zheng, and every minute and every second he spent with him, Wei Sheng could feel that every cell in his body was constantly telling him.

He likes this person.

He really, really likes this person.

He loves him.

Love you very much, love you very much, love you very much.

Love means wanting to be with him, wanting to be with him all the time, wanting to talk to him, talking about a lot of boring things together, eating a lot of meals together, and seeing him when waking up in the morning and before going to bed.

So that emotion is jealousy?

Wei Sheng pursed his lips tightly.

Oh, so it's jealousy. Because of jealousy, I find this person annoying. Because of jealousy, so...

As I was thinking, the system's voice sounded.

[That...bug seems to have appeared again.]

【？ ？ ？ ？ ？】

[The status shows that you have been hit by an item with a negative buff. You should be unconscious now, but seeing that you are fine, I think it may be a bug again.]

The system, which had little mission experience, was at a loss as to how to deal with the current situation. After checking everything and failing to find the problem, it could only assume that there was another bug.

There are so many bugs in this world.

When I first entered the mission world, the host's status inexplicably dropped. If it weren't for the system's help with props, I might have died as soon as I landed.

Due to his condition, the meeting was postponed for two days. The host was so anxious that he wanted to use props to remotely meet the officer Li he had been thinking about, but the props were not working. So, in order to meet him faster, he took a ride with an NPC.

Now... there's another bug.

The system even thinks it is normal.

【………】