Chapter 19 [Scene 3] It doesn’t matter, I will always be with you...
"You two have a very good relationship." He Yuezhe responded with a smile.
Yuan Yang sighed helplessly, patted No. 13 on the back, and told him to get up quickly.
"In the early days of their creation, puppets are indeed more dependent on their makers."
After Yuan Yang finished speaking, he went to the kitchen to get three glasses of water at He Yuezhe's signal.
After keeping one cup for himself, he handed the remaining two cups to No. 13 and He Yuezhe respectively.
He Yuezhe nodded, took the water, and expressed his understanding: "What's more, he still has part of your personality in him?"
"That's right." Number 13, who had been born for nearly 8,000 days but still relied on his creator, also nodded and curled up on the sofa, pretending to know nothing.
"Are you not planning to enter the game this time?" Yuan Yang asked.
No. 13 looked left and right, shut up, picked up the remote control and turned on the TV.
He Yuezhe had just been chilled and was not very interested in the ice water that Yuan Yang brought. He shook the cup but did not drink it.
"Yeah, otherwise how could I find you. And, do you know me?" She pointed at herself.
"Of course I know him," Yuan Yang replied calmly, adding a few more ice cubes to his glass. "Aren't we neighbors?"
"A liar is a puppy." He Yuezhe didn't believe Yuan Yang's answer at all. She turned her head to look at the horror movie "Little Balloon" on TV which was requested by No. 13.
From the first page's "You finally found this place" and the diary's "The original owner's neighbor looks familiar, I might know someone who looks very similar to her."
Combining the two, He Yuezhe inferred that Yuan Yang might not know Tang Liu, but he must have known someone "very similar to her".
"No." Yuan Yang's eyes were firm.
"Really?" He Yuezhe said with a surprised expression, "Then what's my name?"
“…”
"Oh?" He Yuezhe shook his head, and a strange silence fell between the two.
It turned out to be just as I guessed!
Seeing that both of them were attracted by their favorite horror movie, No. 13 stood up and skipped to turn off the lights. Suddenly, the whole house was left with only the light from the movie flickering.
"Balloons, balloons, little balloons."
"I have a little balloon. Do you see it? Can you...help me get it back?"
Colorful balloons of different sizes filled the snow-white room without any lines. The child with a balloon head was pulling a balloon string in his hand and looking at the audience outside the screen.
No. 13 pointed the remote control in his hand at the TV, and on the various screens, the sound of balloons exploding continued to be heard.
“It’s not this color.”
“It’s not this shape.”
“It’s not this size.”
"My little balloon, my little balloon! Thank you!"
[Congratulations on successfully completing the level!]
Even movies can be made interactive?
"How's it going? Am I good or not?" Number 13 came closer to Yuan Yang and said, "When you're not around, I can only play secretly with the lights off, otherwise grandpa will scold me again."
He hugged Yuan Yang's arm with grievance: "When can you play with me? Grandpa is really fierce!"
"How is Grandpa fierce?" Yuan Yang was surprised.
In this world, his parents are not around, and his grandfather is very tolerant of him.
And there is no need to socialize anywhere, so it is very convenient to go anywhere and do anything, with basically no restrictions.
But ever since he started making dolls, every generation of dolls would complain to him about things like "Grandpa is too fierce".
However, in order to ensure the uniqueness of the original owner of this world, he has always sealed himself in a freezer, and there is nothing he can do about it.
"Grandpa always says that my dad is so great, but I do nothing all day long. It's just, it's just... woooooooooooooo!" No. 13 started crying as he spoke.
“......?” Yuan Yang turned into a stone statue and stood still.
Could it be that the original owner's grandfather had discovered his identity a long time ago?
...Then why is he still so nice to me?
"Do you also think that grandpa is right..." No. 13 looked up at him with tears in her eyes.
Yuan Yang was silent for a long while, ignoring him, and turned to He Yuezhe and said, "If you don't enter the game, this cycle will end after today. If you have anything else to ask, you can ask me now."
"Are you going to tell her a little secret? Can't I listen?" No. 13 asked, "She'll lose her memory. Don't tell her, tell me instead!"
After not seeing each other for a long time, Yuan Yang really feels that the newly made doll No. 13 is more and more similar to the AI he made in the real world.
As for amnesia...
It doesn’t matter, right?
"Don't you have ears?" Yuan Yang pushed him aside, "If you want to listen, take a note of it in your notebook."
"Oh oh." No. 13 obediently took out the small notebook he used to record the cycles, holding a pen and ready to start recording.
"So I start asking questions?"
He Yuezhe was originally watching the subsequent exciting plot of "Little Balloon" with great interest. When he heard the conversation between the two, he had to turn around and ask.
"please."
"You are not from this world?"
His own system was not there, and He Yuezhe didn't know if he could ask such questions. Anyway, it was not there, so even if he couldn't ask, no one would care.
Yuan Yang seemed to have anticipated this question: "Yes, maybe you and I are the same person."
"How could that be? I'm just an ordinary NPC in your mission," He Yuezhe smiled, "after all, you don't even know my 'name'."
"Anyone who can say something like this wouldn't be an ordinary NPC, right?" Yuan Yang looked at the boy next to him who was speaking very quickly, and his speech became slower.
"Okay. Second question, what is your mission?"
"Cleared 'Nuts'." Yuan Yang didn't ask any more questions, but just answered truthfully.
"Third, why do other players in the diary have looping memories, but the current loop loses its memory?"
"You should have seen from the diary that in the last cycle my original body went through, all the players in the game died because of me."
"So accordingly, they lost all memory of the loop."
"So, if you die in the game, you'll forget everything about the loop?"
"Yes."
He Yuezhe looked at Yuan Yang, who was unusually calm in front of him, and really couldn't match him with the shy boy in his memory.
"That's because I don't want them to suffer in the cycle anymore."
"Well, then, the fourth question is, why do you want to make dolls?"
Yuan Yang glanced at No. 13 who was taking notes seriously and said, "Same as Qin Ye."
"Um?"
“At first, it was so the puppets could provide me with emotional value, but then I realized they knew absolutely nothing about it.”
"I had no choice but to transfer the sensitive part of my personality into the puppets, and as a result, they all relied on that part to develop their own complete personalities."
“…That part of me can’t be moved back.”
It is also thanks to the powerful technology of this world, otherwise even if Yuan Yang had the idea, it would be difficult to make such a sophisticated puppet.
"It doesn't matter, I will always be with you!" No. 13 looked up. He obviously didn't know Yuan Yang's specific identity.
"...Okay. Any questions?"
“Do you have a system?”
"Yes, but I blocked it out from this world."
Ah, no wonder my system hasn’t been able to see a single page since the game started, it turns out it’s been blocked.
"So, was it you or Number Thirteen who entered 'Valley of Sounds' to stay with me?"
“…”
"Um?"
"I'm sorry, but you'll find out later."
"Okay, the second to last question. Who do you think I look like?" He Yuezhe pointed at himself. "Answer truthfully."
“…”
“…”
“…”
"A real friend." Yuan Yang finally spoke in silence.
He Yuezhe asked, "What's the name?"
“…I forgot.”
"A liar is a puppy."
"I really forgot. I didn't lie to you."
"I barely believe you." He Yuezhe stood up and turned on the light. "One last question. Are you willing to continue Operation Breakthrough?"
"Will you die?" Yuan Yang asked.
"Yes."
He Yuezhe showed her favorite smile when teasing people. She wanted to see Yuan Yang's reaction.
"But we are friends, and friends should trust each other unconditionally."
"Host! The prerequisite for salvation, 'the one who becomes the target of the mission, the one who deeply loves you', has been fulfilled!"
"You have chosen the direction: Friends."
"Are you a puppy?" Yuan Yang seemed to have seen through it, and curled his lips at her speechlessly.
"Hmph, tell me first whether you are willing or not."
"I do!" After recording all the questions and answers, No. 13 raised his hand high.
"......Okay, but you have to promise that you will not die, otherwise I will terminate the operation at any time." Seeing this, Yuan Yang could only nod and agree.
He Yuezhe watched as Yuan Yang reached out his hand and high-fived No. 13 under his expectant gaze, then said, "I promise."
The three of them then agreed that after the next cycle began, they would enter the game together and continue with the "Breakthrough Operation" where the progress was stagnant at 97% to complete Yuan Yang's (He Yuezhe) mission.
^
The time was about to cross midnight, and He Yuezhe lay on the bed and began to review the information about Yuan Yang.
Combining the contents of the diary and the answer Yuan Yang gave her, Yuan Yang might be a member of the quick-travel platform just like herself.
However, neither he nor No. 13 have tassel bracelets on their wrists. Could it be that employees of different quick-travel platforms can enter the same world to carry out tasks?
Moreover, my task is exactly the same as his, and he is even the object of my task in my task panel.
Can the person who performs a task also exist as the object of someone else's task?
How strange.
Also, he seemed to know him, but He Yuezhe just felt that he looked familiar.
Well, it's strange that he looks familiar to me.
In short, everything about this boy became stranger after she got the answer.
Maybe there are some secrets that I don’t know about?
After the alarm clock rang at midnight, He Yuezhe gradually fell into sleep.
^
"Oh, I see." Yuan Yang's grandfather looked at the two people in front of him who looked almost identical and smiled happily. "That's good. Grandpa was worried that you wouldn't be able to make friends."
"Our Xiao Yuan is still very capable." Grandpa brought out the food from the kitchen.
The fragrant egg fried rice distracted Yuan Yang from his “breakthrough plan”.
He had waited for so long, and originally thought that he would be too excited to ignore these "favors" before leaving. Unexpectedly, these favors would become the ones that made him reluctant to leave.
not to mention……
"Of course!" No. 13 had already introduced himself to his grandfather, and he started to enjoy the food as soon as it was served.
"Hey, eat slowly, eat slowly. Look at you, you have some rice on your face." Grandpa patted No. 13's back with a smile in his eyes and picked off the grains of rice that were on his face.
No. 13 smiled broadly at his grandfather as he ate. He ate quickly, and after finishing, he said goodbye to the two of them with satisfaction and returned to Yuan Yang's room.
The two of them were left in the living room, but they could only hear the news broadcast on TV.
"Good evening, I'm reporter Xiaoxi. The closed beta for Hongludeng's new game, Nuts, has officially begun. Next, I'll take you inside the company for a deeper look."
"Xiao Yuan, is this the game you reserved?"
Grandpa kept saying the same words as before, with the same smile as before. Yuan Yang could hardly tell how many times this had happened.
"Grandpa, I'm sorry." Yuan Yang suddenly spoke nonsensically.
Grandpa's eyes were filled with surprise. "Huh? It's okay, Xiao Yuan. If you lost your phone, I can buy you another one. It's okay. Grandpa won't be angry."
...Even if you are so poor that you can only live in a place like this?
Wait, that's not right. When did I lose my phone?
"Grandpa, am I very different from before?" Yuan Yang was silent for a while.
Grandpa still smiled: "Yes, but no matter what, you will always be grandpa's favorite Xiao Yuan."
Like NPCs, they only have programmed dialogues and will never have self-awareness.
Yuan Yang also smiled, then turned and walked into the room.
"Thank you, Grandpa." He left his last words to his grandfather.
This is the original owner's grandfather, not my grandfather. I shouldn't behave in such abnormal ways.
He kept warning himself.
^
Walk into the room.
Yuan Yang saw No. 13 lying on the bed, flipping through the design drafts of previous generations of dolls, and writing something in his small notebook with a pen.
"Why are you suddenly looking at these?" Yuan Yang moved closer and leaned his head over.
"You're back!" No. 13 heard the sound, turned around immediately, and jumped off the bed happily.
"Didn't we just separate not long ago?" Yuan Yang frowned in confusion.
Number 13 put his hands on his hips and said dissatisfiedly: "That's because you haven't..."
“Click—”
Yuan Yang propped himself up, holding the "Spring" No. 13 in his hand.
"It's not good to be too dependent on others. I need to improve on that."
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The author has something to say: Number 13 is actually genderless. [Poor]
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