Wei You was not sure whether the game could not be loaded because the motherboard of the mobile phone had been replaced.
It is not accurate to say that it cannot be loaded. He opens the game several times a day and finds that it is pushing the progress bar at a very slow speed.
Although it is not hopeless, at such a slow speed, it may take more than ten or twenty days for the progress bar to load to 99%.
For such a long time, a teenage child is penniless and has no one to support him. How is he going to survive? Can he take care of himself?
Every time he thought of this, Wei You became so anxious that he couldn't sleep.
Despite this, his life and work in reality have to go on.
Three days later, Wei You returned to the city where he rented an apartment.
In fact, it was already close to the Chinese New Year, and his parents hoped that he would just stay home and celebrate the New Year before going out. However, since Wei You's video production equipment was all in the apartment, he had to go back.
The first episode of "Qingyou/Xing" received unexpected results after it was uploaded, with the number of views exceeding any previous joint video in which Wei You collaborated with others.
He didn't know what impact the success of this cooperation would have on Xia Guangsi and others. Anyway, for Wei You, his most intuitive feeling was that he seemed to be on the verge of becoming popular.
During this period, not only did the number of fans increase rapidly, but if you go out without wearing a mask, you will be recognized by passers-by, and more sponsors will come to you.
Even after the second episode was aired, several girls who had added him on WeChat at UP主events but had never communicated with him sent him messages asking if he was single.
Wei You always found excuses to politely reject any girl who showed obvious interest in dating him.
As for the olive branch thrown by the sponsor, he accepted a few promotions after a deeper understanding, so he has been concentrating on making videos at home for the past two weeks.
Except for eating, sleeping and going to the toilet, the rest of the time is either working or on the way to work.
A busy life can certainly make people forget a lot of their worries, but in the dead of night before going to bed, Wei You would inevitably think of the people and life in the game world. Then he would open his phone to see where the progress bar was loading, and wonder how old Wei Xu is now, what grade he is in, and so on.
Half a month passed unknowingly. On a cold night, Wei You uploaded the last video of his sponsor eating. After washing up, he lay down on the bed to rest.
I opened the game app before going to bed, and the progress bar loaded rapidly, and finally got stuck at 89%.
Wei You breathed a sigh of relief and estimated that it would take about two more days to load everything.
Thinking that he might be able to re-enter the game, Wei You felt happy but also conflicted and worried.
As time in the outside world passed mercilessly day by day, according to his calculations, Wei Xu had gradually grown up, and was no longer the skinny and adorable little kid in his initial impression.
What's more, he has been gone for three years. To Wei Xu, his behavior might be no different from what his mother did back then.
As such an irresponsible brother, does Wei Xu really want to see me again?
Whenever he thought of this, Wei You's thoughts became complicated and his mood became hazy and complex, as if he was homesick.
Perhaps it was because the darkness caused Wei You to think too much about Wei Xu, and that night he had a very strange dream.
At first, he dreamed that he entered the dim and crowded room of Wei Shaodong's house again through the game.
But the room was not empty as usual. Instead, the doors inside and outside were open, and many strangers were standing there.
Just when he was worried that his sudden appearance would cause a commotion among the group of people, he found that no one in the room seemed to see him and treated him as if he were air.
Because it was a dream, Wei You was not surprised and calmly accepted the fact that they could not see him.
He was eager to find Wei Xu, so he walked into the master bedroom which was crowded with people.
When he entered, someone happened to be going out. In order to avoid the head-on collision, Wei You turned sideways, but when he looked up, he happened to see two black-and-white portraits of the old man hanging on the wall.
The room was filled with unknown smoke, which prevented him from seeing the faces in the photos clearly. However, he inexplicably felt that today's photos were eerie, as if the people in the photos were staring at him.
Wei You didn't dare to look anymore, he turned around and looked at the bed opposite which was surrounded by a group of people.
Through the gap between the two men, he saw a dead person lying straight on the bed, his whole body covered with white cloth.
All of a sudden, Wei You felt the air was filled with a cold, musty smell and a thick scent of incense ash. The tape recorder also began to play the Buddhist music "The Holy Name of Amitabha". The atmosphere was so depressing that he felt a little breathless.
Wei You walked out of the room almost as if he was escaping. The next moment, he felt as if he was following everyone in a car into a large courtyard.
He sat in a lounge-like area with many people sitting around him.
When he saw the crematorium on the TV on the wall, he realized that he was in a funeral home.
For a moment, the air in the room was also filled with a suffocating smell.
Wei You walked outside, taking deep gulps of cold air as he walked. After a while, he walked along the aisle and came to a wooden corridor.
There was a chilly drizzle outside, and the dense and fine raindrops soaked the green plants in the yard on both sides.
Wei You saw the person he was looking for under the corridor.
The other person has grown a lot taller, his hair has grown longer, he seems to be a lot thinner, and the contours of his face have become clearer.
In the gloomy light of the rainy day, the color of the boy's hair is as rich as ink, which makes his face look even whiter, as if covered with a layer of black and white filter, forming a color effect like a movie scene from the last century.
Wei You didn't know he was dreaming, he just felt that this scene was a little unreal.
He was just about to call his name when he saw a woman holding a big black umbrella walking into the corridor from the yard.
The woman put away her umbrella, revealing a very delicate and gentle face.
Wei You's steps suddenly stopped and his eyes focused on the woman in the black dress.
Wei You couldn't describe what kind of woman she was. He felt like he couldn't see her face clearly.
She seemed very young, yet also old. Her eyes had both the innocence of a young person and the haggardness of having experienced many hardships. But there was no doubt that she was very beautiful and extremely charming, with an almost mysterious beauty.
Wei You saw the woman take out a thick envelope and hand it to Wei Xu.
Wei Xu lowered his head and took it silently. The woman smiled gently and said something. She raised her hand and patted Wei Xu on the back. Then the two of them turned around and walked towards Wei You.
Just like those people before them, there was no sign of Wei You in their eyes.
Wei You then vaguely regained consciousness and realized that he was dreaming.
For a moment, he seemed to wake up and struggled to escape from the dream, but the next second he came to a bright classroom.
The light in the classroom was dim and white, and Wei You once again forgot that he was dreaming.
He saw that there was only one student sitting in the middle of the last row in the classroom, sleeping, so he walked towards that side.
Walking to the man's seat, Wei You recognized him as Wei Xu by the outline of his sleeping face.
Under the pale skylight, Wei Xu's fluffy and soft black hair seemed exceptionally smooth, glowing with youthful luster, as if tempting people to touch it.
He couldn't help but reach out his hand, put it on the boy's hair, and gently stroked the back of his head.
The boy seemed to realize something and turned his head.
Wei You immediately withdrew his hand, but the boy still woke up, raised his head, and looked forward with half-open eyes in confusion.
He touched his hair, and suddenly stopped as if he thought of something. Then he stood up abruptly and looked straight ahead.
"Is that you?" he asked in a low voice.
Wei You's heartbeat suddenly quickened. Even though he knew that he couldn't see him, at this moment he felt as if he was being watched by him.
After hesitating for a moment, he called out softly, "Idiot."
"Did you come back to see me?"
"It's me." Wei You replied.
"If it's you, can you touch the top of my head again?"
The boy pleaded in a low voice. He didn't know when the corners of his eyes had turned red and there was a moist luster in his eyes.
Wei You then realized that Wei Xu could not hear him, and his heart ached as he looked into Wei Xu's tearful eyes.
He raised his hand and wanted to touch his soft black hair.
But before his hand touched his hair, he heard an alarm ringing in his ear.
Awakened by the alarm clock, Wei You opened his eyes sleepily.
Looking at the snow-white ceiling, bizarre scenes flashed before his eyes, and he felt as if he had just finished watching a long movie.
He got up slowly, washed, and mechanically took out toast and eggs from the refrigerator and went to the kitchen to make breakfast. No matter what he did, the scene in his dream kept replaying in his mind.
Many questions that cannot be thought of in dreams suddenly become clear after waking up.
The dead person covered with white cloth that he saw at first, since he was lying on Wei Shaodong's bed, should be Wei Shaodong himself, and the strangers surrounding him should be Wei Shaodong's friends, colleagues or distant relatives.
The mysterious woman he met at the funeral home later, if he guessed correctly, should be Wei Xu's biological mother.
Although he could no longer remember what she looked like, he did have a vague intuition about her in his dream.
When the woman and Wei Xu walked towards him side by side, Wei You felt that they had a similar lonely and proud temperament.
Wei Shaodong died, and Wei Xu's mother came back... This was really an incredible dream.
But is this really a dream?
Wei You was filled with doubts and worries.
In the past, whenever he had a dream, he would forget most of it when he woke up. But this time, he not only remembered many details of the dream, but even the soft and slightly cool touch of touching Wei Xu's hair seemed to be imprinted in the palm of his hand.
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At noon on February 6th, seventeen days after he last returned to the real world, Wei You finally entered the game space again.
Compared to Jinyang, which was still in deep winter, the temperature in Xiangfang seven years ago was obviously much warmer, but not too hot either. It was probably in early autumn.
Wei You took out his cell phone, connected to the Internet and checked the date and year. It was October 11, 2014.
According to calculations, Wei Xu should be seventeen years old now and in his second year of high school.
Today is Saturday, but no one seems to be home.
Not only was there no one there, but Wei You took a walk around the living room and found obvious traces of dust on the tables, cabinets, and sofas.
The old-fashioned clock on the cabinet showed time much slower than that on the mobile phone, and it seemed that it had not been wound up for a long time.
The air was stuffy, the windows were closed, and the whole room gave people the feeling that no one had lived in it for a long time.
This shouldn't happen!
Not to mention the question of where Wei Shaodong would live, in his opinion, it was already difficult for Wei Xu to live and study alone, and he should not be able to afford the three-year rent of the house next door, so he should move back to his home here.
Could it be that the other person went to study in a high school far away and has been living in the dormitory?
This thought flashed through Wei You's mind, and he felt that it was possible.
With Wei Xu's grades, if he performs well in the high school entrance exam, he should be the kind of student that all major high schools will offer excellent conditions and compete to be admitted to. Then it is very likely that he can go to a high school farther away from home.
Of course, he has been away for so long that many things may have changed. It would be useless to speculate further now. It would be better to ask people who live nearby.
Thinking of this, Wei You decided to go out and see what was going on.
When he turned around, he saw the half-open door of Wei Shaodong's room, and the bizarre dream from two days ago once again came into his mind.
Driven by an unspeakable thought, he pushed open the door of Wei Shaodong's room, and then a dull smell of incense ash hit him in the face.
The curtains in the room were closed and the light was dim, so I couldn't see clearly what was going on.
Wei You turned on the light and the first thing he noticed was the bed.
The Simmons bed was bare, with no bedding on it, and the chairs and tables, which were always piled with dirty clothes, were now cleaned and covered with a thin layer of dust.
Like the living room outside, it looked like no one had lived here for a long time.
He took a deep breath and looked at the wall on one side.
There was a row of photo frames hanging on the wall. Next to the two black-and-white photos of the old man was a color photo. It was a photo of Wei Shaodong.
The moment he saw the person's face clearly, Wei You felt his scalp tingling. Recalling the scene in his dream, his heart beat rapidly in panic.
Wei Shaodong in the photo looks very young, probably only twenty-four or twenty-five years old.
When this photo was taken, his skin had not yet become rough and dark from his later work, and his facial features were very handsome. The corners of his mouth were slightly raised, and a hint of a smile could be seen.
This was completely different from the gloomy and violent man that Wei You had in mind.
It’s hard to believe that this man is actually dead!
And those strange and illusory scenes that he thought were dreams turned out not to be dreams...
Wei You didn't know how he left the room. When he came to his senses, his body was already standing at the door of the next room.
Wei You was not sure whether Wei Xu continued to pay the rent here.
He took out the key and tried to open the door to see if he could open it, but before he inserted the key into the door lock, he glanced at the shiny smooth keyhole and knew that he couldn't open it. The lock and door handle of this door had been replaced.
For a moment, Wei You felt mixed emotions, as if he had witnessed the demolition of the old home where he had lived for decades.
Putting the key back into his pocket, Wei You sighed and walked down the stairs.
When he reached the entrance of the alley, Wei You saw the fat owner of the fruit shop sitting in the shop looking at his mobile phone. He wanted to go in and ask him about Wei Xu, but at this moment, he glanced at the street opposite and suddenly stopped.
There used to be a hotel diagonally opposite the fruit shop, but it has now been renovated into a milk tea shop.
The milk tea shop was doing a booming business. Many students in high school uniforms gathered in front of the counter, and Wei Xu was also there.
But he didn't seem to be here to buy milk tea, but rather seemed to be stopped by someone.
The one who stopped him was a girl with a ponytail. She first handed Wei Xu a letter with a pink cover, and then gave him a cup of milk tea with a straw.
Wei You originally thought that Wei Xu would refuse, but he didn't expect that this boy would actually accept both the letter and the milk tea.
Wei You felt a little depressed, not knowing why.
The girl with the ponytail was obviously very happy. I don’t know what she said to Wei Xu, but the smile on her face was particularly bright.
Wei Xu nodded expressionlessly, and after the girl left, he drank his milk tea and prepared to cross the road.
After taking only two steps, he looked up and saw the scene opposite him. He suddenly stopped and stood stiffly beside the osmanthus tree at the door of the milk tea shop.
Wei You's eyes swept over his neat high school uniform, then met his slightly surprised gaze, tilted his head slightly and smiled at him.
A car drove across the road, bringing up a dry warm breeze that blew up the other person's slightly long hair, and the scent of osmanthus in the air suddenly became stronger.
It took Wei Xu two seconds before he started walking again.
Perhaps it was the advantage of his long legs, he took big steps and arrived at the entrance of the alley in a few seconds.
But he did not stay beside Wei You. Instead, he brushed past his shoulder and walked into the alley as if he didn't see him.
Wei You blinked in surprise, and for a moment began to wonder if he was dreaming again.
He looked at the boy's tall and thin back and was about to call him when the other person turned around.
The sunlight shining through the gaps in the alley just happened to fall on his snow-white school uniform. In the dark alley, his figure seemed unreally bright.
Wei Xu seemed to be blinded by the sunlight. He looked at him with half-opened eyes and asked, "Aren't you going home?"
His expression and tone were somewhat lazy, and his voice was cold, which made Wei You feel unfamiliar.
Hearing this man's voice, Wei You realized that his little kid had grown up.
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