There is a problem with the game system of "Fantasy".

At first, there were problems with individual players logging in, and then on a large scale. Now, Abyss Technology has to temporarily announce that players in some areas cannot go online for the time being, and it will take at least two or three days until the problems are solved and rectified. The blow of "Fantasy" can almost be said to be fatal.

As an employee of the non-technical department, Yu Yuan only heard a little bit of wind at first, but he did not expect the situation to intensify to such an extent, and Lin Ling also mentioned to him with a bad face when chatting at noon one day, the company's internal system may be hacked. Black, there's a lurking insider being bought by other companies -- and Abyss Tech's biggest enemy has always been clear, Blazing Games.

"Damn, these people will play bad games if they can't make the game themselves," Lin Ling was very indignant when he said this.

The problem of the game "Fantasy" will be solved sooner or later, but it is fatal. The sudden incident has caused the external public opinion to continue to ferment. In the past few days, the company has been very nervous. Fourteen hours of high-intensity standby, just to be able to solve it as soon as possible. On the other hand, the insider in the company is still being investigated one by one, and it can be said that everyone is in a daze.

On the first day of the incident, Lin Ling was so busy that she didn't even have time to make a phone call at home. Lin Yi couldn't get in touch with anyone. In the end, she found Yu Yuan. Yu Yuan helped her there in the evening. Only then did the company realize that Lin Ling, who was working overtime, had even fallen asleep at the workstation, and other technicians were almost in the same situation.

At this time, testers like Yu Yuan didn't have to do anything for the time being, and it was the best help to not cause new troubles to the company.

The time has come to the third day when some areas are banned from logging in, and the collective efforts have finally paid off. At least for now, players can log in normally, and many other problems are still under investigation, but everyone can finally take a breather.

At eleven o'clock that night, when Yu Yuan had finished reviewing the materials for the Intermediate Architect Exam and was about to go to sleep, he suddenly received a call from Ying Tao.

"Yu Yuan, do you know where Mr. Lu is?"

As soon as the other party called, it was just such a sentence, which made Yu Yuan bewildered, how could he know where Mr. Lu was?

"Sister Ying Tao, what's wrong?"

"I can't get in touch with Mr. Lu, there is something in the company that needs his instructions," Ying Tao's hurried voice calmed down a little, "You live close to Mr. Lu's house, can you help me visit Lu Is sir at home?"

"Okay, don't worry, I'll go now."

"Thank you, please, if you can find Mr. Lu, please let me know as soon as possible."

There was a busy tone after hanging up. Yu Yuan got up from the bed without changing his pajamas. He put on a coat and hurried out to the elevator. He knew which house Mr. Lu lived in—and even knew the password of the other party’s door. .

At the beginning, Mr. Lu took the initiative to tell him, but he didn't expect it to be used now.

When they reached the top floor, there was only one household there. Yu Yuan silently walked to the door and knocked gently, "Mr. Lu?"

Waited a while, no response.

Yu Yuan looked at the place where he entered the password, hesitated for a moment, and entered the password according to his memory.

One after another, only then did Yu Yuan realize that this string of passwords was like a birthday, even a little familiar.

Is it Mr. Lu's own birthday? It doesn't look like...

With a slight noise, the door opened.

"Mr. Lu, am I in?"

Yu Yuan opened the door, and the living room was also dark. He fumbled to find the switch on the wall, and the bright light instantly filled the room.

Mr. Lu didn't respond, and he didn't seem to be here.

He walked around this floor and searched from the living room to several rooms. He didn't see any signs of anyone, but there was a staircase leading downstairs. He remembered that Mr. Lu mentioned that this house on the top floor It was the other party who bought two floors to get through, forming a jump floor.

Yu Yuan walked down the stairs slowly, shouting tentatively as he walked, "Mr. Lu?"

The bottom floor is also all in darkness, without a trace of light, and walking here is almost invisible. Yu Yuan fumbled to find the switch on this floor but couldn't find it, so he could only go inside first.

After his eyes got used to the darkness, everything became a little smoother. He walked in room by room, as if looking for some hidden treasure. Every time he opened a door, he was ready to see Mr. Lu's mentality inside. Prepare.

Maybe it was the dark environment that gave him some time to think. For some reason, he remembered Carle, who looked like Mr. Lu at the first sight, and that Louis also learned to become Carle. Looking at his face will remind him of Mr. Lu.

Mr. Lu's inexplicable affection for him and such an active attitude, many things may seem blunt to others, but when Mr. Lu faces him, it always seems so natural.

Why, is there any secret hidden in Mr. Lu...

Yu Yuan finally reached the last room at the end of the corridor.

Looking in the dark, this door seems to be more special than the others. The carved door is very delicate, and it is not an exaggeration to say that it looks like some kind of art. Yu Yuan put his hand on the cold doorknob, inexplicably having a premonition that perhaps Mr. Lu is inside now.

He went in.

The space inside is much larger than he imagined. There are many instruments full of technology. The light lines on the outside exude a faint blue light in the dark, but the most important thing is... Mr. Lu is indeed inside. .

In the center of the room, there was an extremely special instrument that Yu Yuan couldn't even see the function. It seemed to be a completely transparent holographic capsule, and Mr. Lu was lying in it. Outside the holographic capsule, there were more than a dozen thick wires connected to it. The tube seems to be constantly transmitting information.

Is it because Mr. Lu was in the holographic cabin that he didn't hear from Ying Tao? But this shouldn't be, why did Mr. Lu disconnect from the outside world when he logged into the holographic cabin?

Yu Yuan walked up slowly and stood in front of the transparent cabin. This was the most obvious and main light source in the dark room. He put his hand on it, as if looking at Mr. Lu through a glass fish tank.

He had never had such an experience before. Looking at Mr. Lu from such an angle, it was as if he was looking at a person he met for the first time.

In addition to being released from the inside by the player, the holographic capsule can also be forced to stop from the outside. Yu Yuan studied around the glass cover for a while, but couldn't find a place to release it.

At this time, a voice came from the holographic cabin.

"Will you go..."

Yu Yuan was sure that he heard it clearly and clearly.

Lu Mingyuan was talking inside, which means that his current consciousness is still connected to the device and doing something, and Yu Yuan himself must be like this when he is playing the holographic game.

I don't know what kind of mentality it was out of, maybe because there was something inexplicable about these words, Yu Yuan didn't immediately continue to look for the close button, but squatted there to hear what Mr. Lu would say next.

In the quiet space, not long after, Yu Yuan heard it again.

"I said, I will come back to you when you promise not to leave..."

I'll be back when I don't leave?

Yu Yuan was inexplicably familiar. He had definitely heard this phrase recently, but he hadn't spoken much to Mr. Lu for a while.

Where did you hear that?

Yu Yuan hesitated. After all, this belongs to Mr. Lu's privacy. He should wake up Mr. Lu now and tell Ying Tao that he has been looking for him.

He bent down and continued to look for the emergency stop button, but at this moment, Mr. Lu, whose consciousness was not in reality, said another sentence, which made him completely unable to make the next move.

"You ask me what your name was, my dear, I have to tell you everything you forget..."

A name that is so numb that it makes him feel chills and goosebumps every time, but it is a habit of a certain octopus in the game.

Recalling the content of the previous conversation, Yu Yuan suddenly realized that Louis seemed to have said similar things before.

Leave, names, things forgotten—

All kinds of information overlapped, and Mr. Lu seemed to have an overly intimate attitude and a similar face since the first meeting.

He immediately had a bad premonition. If many parts of the first generation of the game "Fantasy" were involved in the programs that Mr. Lu personally worked on, then whether there are also results designed by Mr. Lu in the NPCs, and even thinking deeply.. ....

Mr. Lu's words brought him back to reality in an instant.

"The name you gave me at that time, little liar, the name you told me at that time was-Taro."

"This is the name you gave me when you appeared in front of me, Yu Yuan."

Taro.

Yuyuan.

The other party froze in place, full of extremely unbelievable emotions.

Some small things are like chains made of pearls, and now they are finally put together. If he had neglected them before, all the discrepancies gradually formed a closed loop.

Those NPCs in the game who have an inexplicably high opinion of him in the game, Mr. Lu who confided his feelings to him at first sight in reality, and the game "Fantasy".

He remembered the piles of documents related to game design in the old-fashioned USB flash drive, the drafts of a large number of Western Fantasy worldviews, and the evidence brought out by the Blazing Game Company when exposing the "plagiarism" of "Fantasy", saying that as early as the seventies A semi-finished Western fantasy game made by a game producer named Taro a few years ago, but in this era 70 years later, Mr. Lu stood at the press conference and in front of countless reporters who surrounded him and said firmly:

"I made this game as a tribute to Taro, and I wanted the best for him."

His own memory degeneration disease, no family relationship, wake up alone in this era, but it is so coincidentally trapped in the game.

Even Morrison, who was hiding his face under the bandages, and the ambiguous words before Morrison left, kept implying that he had forgotten something, and he would remember it - and the emotion Yu Yuan felt at that time was no longer there. Just because of the game, it was something that hit the bottom of his heart.

If you think about it further, even Louis told him, "I saw you earlier, when the world was born," and a white wolf told him that there had been one in his world. The black cat that is exactly the same as it, and even further back, the earliest NPC Lambert said something similar - I have seen you once.

Yu Yuan could feel the cold sweat pouring out all over his body.

Has he really forgotten a lot? If he really had a past with Mr. Lu 70 years ago, what kind of relationship should the two of them have? Did Mr. Lu choose to hibernate because he was ill, but why did he wake up early eight years ago, and why did he upgrade and iterate an old computer game into a holographic game? Just to pay homage?

And whether those NPCs are AI programs written by Mr. Lu, or are they being manipulated by him at all, Yu Yuan remembers that Lin Ling told him that some old companies such as Blazing Games are still using one person to make holographic games. The old technology of manipulating multiple characters through consciousness, since Mr. Lu has a background in holographic games, will it be related to these? But if it was just to get close to him, why did Mr. Lu have to use games?

A mystery is solved, followed by new problems that spring up like mushrooms.

At this time, his heart was beating like a drum. Seeing Mr. Lu lying peacefully there was a completely different feeling. He couldn't tell whether he was sad or angry, and even wanted to laugh. The mixed emotions were just like As complex as an overturned condiment bottle.

If they had really had a very close connection seventy years ago, how would Mr. Lu feel when he entered the hibernation cabin, woke up and forgot everything? What have you been carrying in silence?

The button to open the holographic cabin was right at his hand. Yu Yuan looked at Mr. Lu who was lying inside, his eyes were a little dazed, and he forced himself to calm down after wiping his face.

No matter what has happened, no matter whether it is possible to recall all the memories, at least as long as you have communicated and don't leave any regrets in the future, it is already the best result.

Yu Yuan pressed the forced escape button.

The light emitted by the transparent holographic cabin also suddenly extinguished, and the huge room seemed to fall into the deep sea where the fingers could not be seen, and they were all in the same darkness.

Yu Yuan stood there, watching the people in the holographic cabin move, and seeing that he opened the lid from the inside, he was about to stand up slowly, so he also stretched out his hand.

"Mr. Lu, I'm Yu Yuan—or, maybe you'll be willing to tell me if there's another name related to me."

Lu Mingyuan, who had just regained consciousness, was a little sluggish at first, but he reacted in the blink of an eye. The look in Yu Yuan's eyes was no longer a surprise, but a sea-like gentleness.

Yu Yuan's eyes suddenly became more complicated, "Maybe you can tell me what is the relationship between Taro and me?"

"You already know," Lu Mingyuan didn't mean anything to hide, maybe he waited for this moment for a long time, "Taro is the name you used, and it was not changed when you started making the first game. ."

"Then..." Yu Yuan gritted his teeth, obviously he was standing, but he felt that the initiative was not in his hands.

Lu Mingyuan's eyes were full of hope, as if to encourage him to speak out all his doubts.

"I've thought about how to tell you for a long time, but if you find something yourself, maybe it's a suitable choice."

"Mr. Lu, you and me—what is your relationship with me? We really had a relationship seventy years ago..."

"Yu Yuan," Lu Mingyuan gently took his hand. It was just a little touch, but Yu Yuan, like a frightened rabbit, couldn't help but take a step back, and Mr. Lu's eyes seemed to be filled with a gentle smile. "To be honest, I would love to tell you directly that we are lovers."

What, really ever had such a relationship? !

Yu Yuan felt that his brain that was about to crash would be scrapped just like an overloaded computer.

"But I can't deceive you, let alone take any advantage of your memory loss," Lu Mingyuan chuckled, "So there are some things I should honestly want you to admit, do you still remember the story of the Anderson family - Morrison and you. "

Yu Yuan was even more frightened, "Do you still have such an outrageous family relationship with me?!"

This sister died, the mother killed the father, and the whole family was finally buried in the fire. It's too terrifying!

"How is it possible, I want to say that's how you and I met," Lu Mingyuan gently stroked the back of Yu Yuan's hand, as if to comfort a frightened cat, "We come from our own reorganized families, not related by blood. When I was only a few years old, I actually wanted to call you brother, but unfortunately you forgot all about it, if you want to hear me call you like that now—"

Thinking that Mr. Lu might call him that, Yu Yuan immediately covered the other's mouth, "Okay, enough here!"

But Lu Mingyuan obviously didn't think it was enough, and in the next second, Yu Yuan felt a burst of wetness in his palms.

"Are you a dog!"

Lu Mingyuan sat in his seat, looking straight up at Yu Yuan, holding his hand in his own, his eyes extremely focused.

"Brother, long time no see."

"Stop yelling—" Yu Yuan's face became hot, "I mean you at least give me some time to digest so much information!"

"Yes," Lu Mingyuan smiled, "I woke up eight years earlier than you. In fact, according to my actual age, I am already older than you."

Yu Yuan, whose mind had been led astray by Lin Ling for a long time, also wondered if this was just a difference between years and years, and after realizing what he was thinking, he couldn't slap himself to sober up.

But some people's thinking is obviously more problematic, only to hear Lu Mingyuan say with a smile: "Then should you call me brother now?"

Hearing this, Yu Yuan froze on the spot, "Don't talk nonsense!"

"How can this be nonsense, I'm just stating objective facts," Lu Mingyuan stood up, "after all, I have called you brother so many times before, do you want me to help you recall, and call you a few times and you will I can remember."

"Brother, brother..." Lu Mingyuan silently put a hand on the waist of the person in front of him.

It was the first time in his life that he was treated with such a tone and such a title, and Yu Yuan blushed for some reason, "I told you to stop calling me."

"Okay, I won't talk, I'll shut up."

The next second, Lu Mingyuan suddenly pulled him closer and kissed him like this, but Yu Yuan, who was unprepared for it, didn't have time to react at all, and turned into Lu Mingyuan's unilateral attack.

In a dark environment, they were kissing for such a long time, as if the kiss had come so late, spanning seventy years.