Hello, How Long Has This Been Going On?

There are many kinds of products in the hypermarket, and Tao Zhiyue is dazzled by seeing them, feeling like he has not seen for a long time.

In his previous life, he liked to visit big supermarkets. This time, he checked the list of ingredients to buy, and threw all the snacks and snacks he wanted into the shopping cart.

In the end, Tao Zhiyue bought a lot without paying attention. It would be very tiring to squeeze the bus with no empty seats, so he had to take a taxi home as a luxury.

Sitting in the taxi, looking at the three overstuffed shopping bags beside him, Tao Zhiyue silently regretted his impulsive consumption.

In addition to confessing, I am still very satisfied.

He vaguely felt that HR's unexpected appearance seemed to bring a series of unpredictable chain reactions to his life.

When Tao Zhiyue returned home, it was already dark, and the beef stewed for at least two or three hours, obviously it was too late to make dinner.

But right now, Tao Zhiyue was in high spirits, so he ate some snacks to pad his belly, checked the recipes, rolled up his sleeves and started fighting.

Wash the beef, change the knife and cut into pieces, soak in cold water for half an hour after blanching, then pour it into a large soup pot, add the prepared seasoning, and boil on high heat.

The light pink beef gradually turned brown from the brine, and it was boiling in the pot, and the aroma went straight to the nose.

Tao Zhi swallowed his saliva, turned to low heat and simmered until the beef was thoroughly cooked, and could be easily pierced with chopsticks.

He picked up a small piece of beef and tasted it. It was very fragrant, but unfortunately it was not fully flavored, and it was a bit bland.

According to the instructions in the recipe, soak the beef in brine overnight, it will be more delicious.

So that night, Tao Zhiyue fell asleep with great anticipation.

It had been a long time since he looked forward to the next day with such eagerness.

The next day, Tao Zhi, who had dreamed of herding cattle in the grassland all night, woke up early, solemnly removed the plastic wrap that sealed the pot, took out a large piece of braised beef slices, and then poured a bowl of noodles into it. Fresh and fragrant marinade, placed full of beef, and sprinkled with some green onion for decoration.

Tao Zhi Yue squinted his eyes happily when he ate the stewed beef and smooth noodles together.

It was delicious, he thought it was more delicious than the one he ate at the noodle shop that night, maybe because he made it himself.

Yesterday he bought more than three catties of beef, the portion is full, and the braised meat is very good with rice. If he eats it alone, he can eat many meals.

If you can invite friends to share it.

The room was quietly wafting tempting spices, Tao Zhi took a deep breath, closed his eyes, and stopped thinking about it.

It was still a day of doing nothing, after Tao Zhiyue patrolled the house carefully, he decided to do a big cleaning to welcome the arrival of summer.

Sweeping, mopping, tidying up wardrobes, storing sundries, changing sheets and quilts, cleaning up oil accumulated in the kitchen...

Time flies when I get busy, and it's time for dinner in the blink of an eye.

Tao Zhiyue cooked a pot full of white rice, fried a plate of vegetables, marinated rice with beef, it was a must.

After the meal, Tao Zhiyue sat down in front of the computer contentedly, and started surfing the Internet as usual.

After watching the forum for a while, I watched a few funny videos, and there was a new development in the space on the pp.

At this time, it is probably chicken soup sent by the hunk coach in the gym, urging members to actively make appointments with him in the new week.

Tao Zhiyue clicked on it casually, and it turned out to be the macho coach.

He slid down while watching, and a familiar landscape photo appeared below.

[Dynamic] HR: It's a loss to the industry that I didn't become an architect/cute [Picture] [Picture] [Picture]

Seeing the content of the screenshot, Tao Zhiyue was slightly taken aback. He didn't expect that the old-fashioned HR brother would also play the hottest online game nowadays.

As a sandbox game, Animal Island has the biggest feature of free creation of players, but the extremely high degree of freedom is also a threshold. Players lack a sense of purpose, and they don’t know what to do when they enter the game, and it is easy to lose interest.

Therefore, the operation of Animal Island has been tepid for several years, until this time it unexpectedly went out of the circle.

Tao Zhiyue discovered this game not long after he came to this world. It is much better than similar games in the original world. Players can achieve many fine operations that Tao Zhiyue once thought was difficult to support with existing technology.

He studied while playing, and spent more than half a year of leisure time in Animal Island.

Since Tao Zhiyue chose a little hedgehog as his own image at the beginning, it was difficult to make some relatively large items by himself in the later stage.

He was unwilling to find other players to operate and cooperate together, and he was even more unwilling to give up half a year's hard work and change the number to start over. In a dilemma, he simply gave up the game and stopped playing.

HR sent a message asking about the renovation of the hut, and Tao Zhiyue dug out the screenshots he had saved before and sent them to him.

The folder is full of pictures, all kinds of frozen moments, the first harvest of the little hedgehog's farmland, every house of different styles that the little hedgehog has ever owned, the little hedgehog and the fruit-bearing grape trellis in summer...

Tao Zhiyue involuntarily fell into the memory that was still fresh, and the notification sounded.

[HR: Is Doctor Tao always alone? ]

He didn't have time to think why HR would ask such a question, he turned his head reflexively, and glanced at the rich-colored and fragrant braised beef on the table.

[Tao: Has my social fear attribute been discovered so quickly? 0.0]

During the working days in this world, from time to time, people curiously asked him why he didn’t join the group of colleagues and didn’t participate in any party activities.

Every time Tao Zhiyue prevaricates with social fear, when this word is mentioned, people often don't ask any more questions, with an expression of understanding, at most he is advised to participate in group activities as much as possible.

HR is persistently wanting to know the reason.

[HR: Is it because you feel that you have nothing to talk about with the people you know, so you can't become friends? ]

Tao Zhiyue wanted to continue to prevaricate, but his fingers froze and he couldn't type a word for a long time.

He couldn't write any words against his will in front of such a sincere question.

The bits and pieces of the past year flashed through Tao Zhiyue's mind, those ordinary and unchanging days, the gaps in life were full of small emotions that he deliberately suppressed, and they burst like a flood in an instant.

No.

He didn't want to be perfunctory anymore.

I don't want to perfuse a person who cares about him seriously, and I don't want to perfuse myself anymore.

Tao Zhiyue never feels that there is no topic to talk to people around him. He is the programmer Gua who passionately debates technical problems with him, his colleague Wang Heng who wants to invite him to fight for his dream together, and even the CEO who seems a little off-line is trying hard to deal with him. Unleash kindness.

Even the little girl who ran into him while running in the park in the morning generously and proactively told him that he would see her tomorrow.

From the day he was reborn, many people Tao Zhiyue met reached out to him, but he was always unwilling to respond.

Why can't I become friends with people?

You don't have to shut out everyone you know in life, even if you're trying to escape the horrors of a novel.

The chat window was still, HR was waiting for his answer, and the friend list on the side was empty, without any friends he met in reality.

Everything was silent except for the ticking of the clock on the wall.

The second hand, moving endlessly with regularity, was the only thing in the room that was moving.

Like him walking in a vacuum.

Tao Zhiyue finally realized that when he refused HR's invitation to meet, he didn't just want to have a real relationship with the other party.

He doesn't want to have a real emotional connection with anyone in this fictional world.

This is an illusory novel world presupposed by the plot. Could the people he meets already have a predetermined destiny? Will his appearance and association be in vain? Will the emotion he gets here make sense?

Do these people, these passing times, really exist?

Tao Zhi tapped out the answer lightly.

[Tao: No. ]

[Tao: I just... have no sense of reality. ]

This is an illusory answer, with no beginning and no end, making it difficult to respond.

But to his surprise, HR replied quickly, just like the night they met.

HR seems to need no hesitation at all about the questions that bother him the most.

[HR: You are breathing, you are real, you can see the screen and the messages from me. ]

[HR: That's realism. ]

[HR: Doctor Tao, hedgehogs can also be hugged. ]