Compared with five years ago, Mei Yiqiu is much older, the wrinkles on his face have deepened, and the hand holding the pipe trembles a bit, only the white hair is still stubbornly exploding, radiating rays of wisdom.

"So you went to the M42 Nebula. This is an amazing thing!" The professor took out a box of cigarettes from the drawer and threw it to Aoki. He grabbed the pipe and started smoking.

Aoki waved his hand and said, "Quit."

"Cough cough cough..." The professor suddenly coughed a few times violently, and then stared at Aoki with wide eyes, as if he was more shocked than hearing the story of the Itsa people, "Quit?!...Um...what? Did it?"

Aoki smiled and said, "Ramla doesn't seem to grow tobacco, and there is no woman smoking cigarettes on her lap."

Mei Yiqiu laughed and said, "I don't smoke cigars! I still like my pipe...cough..." He took two puffs and coughed again, "...cough...cough cough cough cough... …"

Mei Ziqing heard the cough coming in, and rebuked with concern: "Professor, if you ask you to smoke less, you just won't listen!"

She pressed a few times on the touch screen on the wall, replaced the air circulation system in the room, increased the oxygen supply, and the air in the room suddenly became fresher.

She went to the cabinet again to get a box of medicine, but she heard Mei Yi begging to scream: "No! I won't take medicine! Take the medicine away!...cough cough cough..."

Mei Ziqingchao Aoki stretched out his hands helplessly.

Aoki had seen Mei Ziqing in the aisle before coming to Mei for the office. After Aoki came back, everyone he saw had changed. Only this woman was exactly the same as five years ago, still so gentle and beautiful, as if she wouldn't be old. The corner of her mouth always keeps the standard smile of a Japanese woman, and sometimes people have to doubt whether she is a robot.

"The professor is getting more and more stubborn!" Mei Ziqing whispered to Aoki, "His lungs are not good, and he refuses to take medicine, so his addiction to cigarettes is getting bigger and bigger..."

"I can't die!" Mei Yiqiu's hearing is still so good. He cried out a little angrily, knocking on the table with a pipe, "I can't die! Cough cough... Are you cursing me to die? Cough...cough...I don't want to eat...cough cough...take medicine!"

"Professor, I didn't mean that!" Mei Ziqing said aggrievedly.

Aoki felt that Mei Yiqiu was really old. He thought that the professor was not surprised by his story in Ramla because of his calmness, but now he discovered that it was probably just that people couldn't take care of that much when they got old.

"Professor, if you are not in good health, you still need to take the medicine." Qingmu helped Mei Ziqing to say something.

Mei Yiqiu calmed down a bit, but his chest was still rising and falling, "Okay, okay, you all thought I was old, even you think so! Um... even you think so!"

He put the pill into his mouth angrily, probably choked when drinking water, and coughed again.

Cough cough... cough cough cough cough cough...

He coughed endlessly, his body was a little convulsive, he arched his back, buried his head under the table, coughed and vomited into the trash can, and didn't know if the medicine he had taken was vomited out.

Even so, he did not let go of the pipe in his hand, and as soon as the coughing stopped, he tried to put the pipe in his mouth.

Mei Ziqing looked at Aoki like asking for help.

Aoki couldn't stand it anymore, shook his head, snatched the pipe and said, "Professor, you can't smoke anymore."

Mei Yiqiu panted hard, looking at Aoki angrily, but helplessly.

"Professor, I hope you can help me analyze things about Ramla and the Holy Land." Aoki hopes to divert the professor's attention by changing the topic. "How likely is Gaia consciousness to actually exist? What risk? I always feel that someone has dug a hole and is waiting for me to jump."

"Then jump!" Mei Yiqiu gasped and said, "What's the big deal? The earth has been peaceful for the past few years, and nothing has happened. This is due to the panic caused by the invasion of parasitic consciousness. Politicians and businessmen are not jumping like before, for fear that they will be treated as parasites when they jump out, but the tubing and pocket sounds are full of silly beeps pretending to be aliens. Now everyone is proud of "I am a parasite" Yes, you say it’s funny or not? It’s as stupid as if someone was proud of a traitor 80 years ago and put a sticker on his forehead to tell the world. Ahem..."

He coughed again, "Cough cough... but I tell you, cough cough cough... this is all on the surface, under the calm sea is an undercurrent surging, and the earth is going to change drastically!"

Mei Yiqiu made an exaggerated expression on his face, and the deep wrinkles were twisted up like dry and moth-eaten old tree bark.

"Do you know why I want to make a dream guide game? Why develop a space box? Is it just to identify parasitic consciousness? No...cough cough... of course not... cough cough cough cough... we are... human civilization The last guardian of Situ! There was a code word on the note that Situ gave me back then...cough cough... coded whisper—mirror! cough cough... mirror!... cough cough cough..."

Aoki found that the professor's appearance was a bit crazy, unlike the old man who was awkward, humorous and full of wisdom back then.

He looked at Mei Ziqing puzzledly.

Mei Ziqing shook his head helplessly.

"Mirror! There is another world in the mirror... ahem..." Mei Yiqiu was still muttering to herself, "If this world fails, we will change to another world. The world in the mirror is exactly the same as ours, hide. Getting in the mirror is the best way, isn’t it...cough cough cough cough..."

Aoki felt that if he continued, he would not get the result he wanted. When he saw Mei Ziqing winking at him, he motioned to him to go out, and said, "Professor, I will see you another day."

Mei Ziqing also said, "Yes, Professor, you should rest."

As he said, he went over and took the bag of the trash can beside the professor, and took Aoki and walked out together.

As soon as they walked to the door, they heard the professor say: "Wait a minute!"

Aoki turned his head and saw the professor's serious face, his head covered in white hair and deep meaning in his eyes, he slowly stretched out his right hand and said solemnly:

"Return the pipe to me!"

Aoki was taken aback, only to find that the professor's pipe was still in his own hand, so he had to walk over and return the pipe to the professor's hand.

Mei Yiqiu took the pipe, his expression relaxed, and said, "Some things are clearly wrong, but I still can't help it! They have been wrong for a lifetime, and they can't be changed if they want to."

Aoki felt that there was something in Mei Yiqiu's words, but looking at his expression, he was not so sure. But Mei Yiqiu already impatiently began to wave his hand, "Go away, hurry up!"

When going out, at the moment the door closed, Aoki saw Mei Yiqiu skillfully fill the pipe with tobacco and lit the fire. Then, the coughing sound of "cough cough" came from the office, and then the door closed with a sound It was cut off inside.

Mei Ziqing opened the garbage bag and looked at it, and said, "Fortunately, the pills did not come out, otherwise they would have eaten it for nothing."

Aoki asked, "What happened to the professor?"

"I don't know. The hospital has been checked. Except for a bit of chronic bronchitis, there is no other disease, but he seems to..."

Mei Ziqing pointed to his head, "Something went wrong. I talked about the mirror all day long, mirroring the world. Once that button is pressed, the whole world can hide in the mirror. Ask him which mirror and where is the button. I can’t explain it clearly, talk in a mess."

At this time, a laboratory staff member passed by in the aisle and greeted Mei Ziqing respectfully: "Hello Professor Mei!"

Aoki looked at her suspiciously~lightnovelpub.net~Professor Mei?

Mei Ziqing explained with a smile: "Oh, I already got the title of professor the year before, and Dongda also hired me back as a professor, but I still like to stay in China, and the professor...he is like this now, there are so many projects in the laboratory. , Especially when the space box and the dream guide have reached a critical moment, someone needs to take the lead... you know..."

Aoki understands that the current Mei's laboratory is still in charge of Professor Mei, but Professor Mei is no longer Professor Bimei.

...

Mei Yiqiu sat in the office and gently pressed a button, and the monitoring screen of Aoki and Mei Ziqing walking out side by side appeared on the computer screen in front of him.

He put the pipe on his mouth, did not smoke, and gently put it back on the table. He spread out his palm, holding two pills in his palm. He was playing with pills, suddenly became awkward again, with a playful humorous expression on his face, and said to the screen:

"Right and wrong are sometimes not absolute. You are wrong for a lifetime, and you will always do it right once. Good luck, Mr. Sang."