Hello, How Long Has This Been Going On?

The door opened slowly, Huo Ran stretched out his hand and pressed the light switch by the wall, then he turned slightly sideways, so that the space at the door was displayed in front of Tao Zhiyue.

Originally, there was only faint moonlight in the room, and the night was hazy.

After a light click, the edge of the mirror-like floor suddenly lit up gradually.

The small spherical light bulbs were like dominoes toppled, lit up one by one, and soon formed a circle, becoming the first beam of light, illuminating the whole world.

The arc-shaped space is covered with wooden bookshelves, and the shelves are full of books. With the outline of the ground, the light strips are completely lit, and the bookshelves start from the bottom and light up with soft background lights.

Tao Zhi stepped lightly, walked inside, and looked at everything around him in shock.

In the reflection of the mirror floor, the warm yellow light spreads to the sky and the center of the earth at the same time, forming a complete spherical world between reality and illusion.

On the surface of the world, the regularly extended wooden frame is like longitude and latitude lines, interlaced vertically and horizontally. Between the lines, the spines of different colors are arranged in pieces, like the land, deep forest and ocean glimpsed from the universe, with mottled color patches.

Standing on the ground, Tao Zhiyue can see his own reflection when he lowers his head. In the vast sea of ​​books, everything is peaceful and grand.

He is in the middle of the world.

Huo Ran stood aside, watching him quietly, waiting for him to recover.

Tao Zhiyue looked at it for a long time in a daze, and finally his eyes fell on the outline light strip on the ground, and he asked dumbly, "Does that represent the equator?"

Huo Ran just laughed, and there was some nostalgia in his eyes: "The first time I walked into this room, I asked the same question."

"My mother said yes, my father said no, I looked back at them in confusion, and they both looked at each other, and it became my father said yes, and my mother said no."

"In the end, my sister decided that it was the halo of an angel. Translating it in an adult's language, it can barely be named a planetary ring, which sounds a little more romantic than the equator."

Tao Zhiyue laughed, "Then this can't be Earth, is it Saturn? Or Jupiter? Uranus?"

"I've always called this place Saturn, after all, Saturn's rings are the most famous."

"So your wish is to hide a Saturn at home?" Tao Zhiyue said with emotion, "Is this really simple?"

"You can tell by the name, Saturn is of course very simple."

Huo Ran made a joke, and then said seriously: "Actually, I just wanted a study room that was big enough. In the end, it turned into such a huge Saturn library, which was beyond my expectation."

"Maybe it was because at that time I always said that I would go out to travel around the world. For a while, I read geography albums every day, and I didn't pay much attention in class."

"Standing in this position that day, facing the room full of books, my dad told me that the world is here, see these first, and then go to see the bigger world."

"It took a long time for me to understand this sentence."

"If I hadn't read about the wonders of life in books, and hadn't seen navicula magnified countless times with my own eyes, then I wouldn't have seen the leaves on the bottom of the sea and the boat under the microscope, and I wouldn't have been able to use one of my tools like that day. A snorkeling experience that tries to give you an example of the romance and mystery of the world."

Tao Zhiyue murmured: "So this place has changed your destiny and made you who you are now."

"Maybe sooner."

Huo Ran thought for a while, and walked towards a transparent square glass cover on the bookshelf, inside which was a black astronomical telescope, which looked a bit old.

"That was my fifth birthday present."

"I didn't know until a long time ago that my dad was going to buy me a set of enlightenment books on financial management that day, and slowly train me to inherit his mantle. But on the way to the mall, he saw a sudden large meteor shower , I temporarily changed my mind and bought an astronomical telescope."

With that said, Huo Ran took out a folder from the pile of books beside the glass cover.

"When I heard him talk about it, I kept thinking how magnificent the meteor shower that could change his mind in an instant would be."

"Later, I collected a lot of reports and photos of that day, and wanted to see the meteor shower that was very important to me, but unfortunately it came too suddenly, there was no astronomical forecast, and it was fleeting, leaving behind images There is very little information."

"So I even felt for a while that it was a miracle that came especially for me."

The folder was opened, and some newspapers and photos were neatly stored in the transparent interlayer.

The ink-colored night sky is printed on the yellowed newspaper, and in the black and white pages, a large number of falling meteors appear bright white, dragging a long fuzzy tail, like a dream.

When Tao Zhiyue saw this picture, his heart suddenly beat heavily.

He felt an indescribable intimacy and familiarity.

He obviously shouldn't have seen the meteor shower that fell in this world twenty years ago.

Huo Ran smiled and said, "Doesn't it feel amazing? An unexpected celestial phenomenon, just a single thought, may change the fate of a lifetime."

"Well, if it wasn't for a single thought, maybe I wouldn't add the contact information you left that day."

"Looking back now, I was really stupid at that time, like an old man."

Tao Zhiyue was also thinking about it. All along, he accepted the established fact that he was reborn after wearing a book, but he never seemed to think about the reason.

Human death should be like a lamp being extinguished, why did he come to a brand new world?

Why the world in this book?

He doesn't read novels, and only sleeps when he works. There was a problem with the project at that time, and he was very busy every day. He was so busy that he occasionally suffered from chest pains and heart palpitations. Use it next holiday, so you can stay home for a while longer.

Tao Zhiyue got off work at 10:30 that night, which was already the earliest day of the week. There was a traffic jam around the park, and there were more than 200 numbers on the taxi app.

So he decided to avoid the flow of people, and while thinking about the needs to be realized tomorrow, he walked two kilometers outside and caught the last subway.

There were not many people on the subway, so Tao Zhiyue randomly chose an empty seat and sat down, looking forward in a daze.

The passenger on the opposite side lowered his head and held his mobile phone, typing quickly on the touch screen, waving his fingers deftly.

He stared blankly for a while, and felt that he should also play with his mobile phone for a while to pass the boring time.

The hand hanging by his side was only a few centimeters away from the phone in his trouser pocket, but for some reason, he couldn't move it.

Even though he was sitting, he seemed to be even more tired, his chest seemed to be filled with lead, and even his breathing became extremely tired.

He couldn't remember anything after that, maybe it was the brain's self-protection mechanism that helped him put away that painful and desperate memory.

Why did he get this chance to do it all over again?

Why did Huo Ran in this world embark on a completely different life path from the one in the novel?

Tao Zhiyue seldom took the initiative to think about what happened that day, and tried to recall it at this moment, but still couldn't find the answer.

Huo Ran noticed his distraught expression, and asked with concern: "Is it too stuffy in the room?"

"No, I just lost my mind." Tao Zhiyue shook his head, "I remembered something else."

Huo Ran didn't delve into it, and said regretfully: "If you say you're bored, I can take you to the next scenic spot logically."

Tao Zhiyue laughed, and cooperated: "I thought about it again, it seems a little too boring here."

"Then let's go for a walk."

Huo Ran solemnly pressed another switch at hand, and the outer curved wall gradually moved away to the sides.

"You haven't even noticed that this is a fake wall, but it's actually a balcony door, so you can see the moonlight in the room."

A door appeared in the complete spherical world.

Tao Zhiyue followed Huo Ran out, and saw a huge astronomical telescope placed in the center of the balcony under the starlight.

The white body shell is bathed in the moonlight, shining brightly.

"When I grew up, I bought a more professional telescope, so the five-year-old retired." Huo Ran joked.

"I think observing here is like standing at the intersection of Saturn and the Earth and looking into space. Isn't it special?"

"It's very special and unique." Tao Zhiyue looked at the deep night sky and sighed, "They are separated by more than a billion kilometers, and there shouldn't be any intersection between them."

"I think my sister and I should take half the credit." Huo Ran analyzed rationally, "She proposed the planetary ring, and I decided to call this place Saturn. It's rare for us to work together to accomplish good things together."

Tao Zhiyue was first amused by him, and then fell silent for a moment under the starry night.

"You gave another good example about the romance and mystery of the world." Tao Zhiyue said, "Although half of it seems to be due to human will."

He seems to have caught something.

Huo Ran nodded: "That's why I love to read science fiction. Half of it is the real world, and the other half is detached imagination. When they are mixed together, beautiful stories often emerge."

Tao Zhiyue's lips moved, and he said softly, "What do you think is the meaning of novels?"

Topics jump naturally.

Huo Ran thought for a while.

"For readers, it should be entertainment, and experience a different life by the way."

"Although I don't know how to write novels, after reading many books, I feel that most of the authors who wrote them are fulfilling some kind of wish."

"Some people write down their feelings to get sympathy, some use imagination to construct the magnificent future they are looking forward to, and some people reunite with the dead in the story."

"As a bystander, I often feel moved when I see those supplements and reconstructions to the real world."

What if you are not a bystander?

Looking at Huo Ran with a serious expression in front of him, Tao Zhiyue hesitated for a while, wondering if he should take this opportunity to speak out.

"What's the matter?" Huo Ran finished answering, and asked curiously, "I found out that you don't like reading novels, is it because you think it's all fiction, so it's meaningless?"

Tao Zhiyue shook his head without hesitation: "No, fiction is good."

Both he and Huo Ran have lives because of the fictional world.

"It's just that I tend to take fictional things as real and confuse the boundary between it and reality, so I don't watch it."

Huo Ran was thoughtful, he always felt that there was a deeper meaning behind this sentence.

The sudden ringing of the phone cut through the silence under the starlight and interrupted his thoughts.

The caller ID is Lu Yan.

"It's the one I told you about when I was young."

He didn't avoid it, and picked up the phone directly.

Tao Zhiyue seemed to be relieved, and heard a faint voice coming out of the microphone.

"Are you back? You made such a big deal yesterday, and you met your parents today, aren't you moving a little too fast..."

Not wanting to eavesdrop on his phone call, Tao Zhiyue looked down at his phone, just in time to see Huo Ran's post two hours ago.

He took a photo of the dinner, a table of delicious home-cooked dishes, and five pairs of bowls and chopsticks.

The tone of the accompanying text is very flat, with obvious showing off.

[Dynamic] HR: Bring your boyfriend to meet your parents. [picture]

Mutual friends represented by Guan Yudong have already set up a dog food feast in the comment area.

With a smile on the brows and eyes, Tao Zhi thought about it more, and commented on the expression of cheers.

Huo Ran's voice came from beside his ear.

"We are going back to Jinbei tomorrow night. I don't know when we will come next time. Do you want to meet my group of friends during the day? I don't want to go out to eat, so I can come to my house for an outdoor barbecue."

Huo Ran forgot about the mobile phone that was in the call, and watched him concentrate on taking care of himself: "There are many places that I didn't take you to visit. In the basement alone, there are billiard halls, wine cellars, swimming pools, and other random things. Tomorrow You can play around by the way…”

There was an unbelievable voice on the phone: "Huo Ran, can you at least cover the microphone when you show your affection! Do you think I don't exist?"

It seems that this former crush is really thinking about it.

Tao Zhiyue couldn't help but laugh: "Okay."