Right on Target

Xiaosu No. 1 ignored Xie Zhenshu's gaze, it landed lightly, like a pinch of consciousness without making a sound. It said, "Let's go."

Xie Zhenshu squeezed out the cigarette, bewitched by its voice, took a lot of effort to calm down, and asked: "Where are you going?"

Xiao Su stared at Xie Zhenshu with her black cat eyes: "Find a keyhole."

Xie Zhenshu got up and followed Xiao Su. It didn't take long for the lights of the station to shrink into a small glowing bean. The darkness was getting deeper and deeper, the cat was black again, and Xie Zhenshu could hardly see it clearly.

Xiao Su said, "Why don't you ask me why I'm looking for the keyhole?"

Xie Zhenshu said: "He always does things with reason."

Xiao Su said: "What he, it's me, it's me."

Xie Zhenshu threw the lighter back into his pocket, followed it and said, "You always have a reason for doing things."

When Xiao Su was happy, her tail lit up. It turned its head, flicked the tip of its tail back and forth, and said while admiring: "You should praise me more, so that I can be more powerful."

Xie Zhenshu doesn't know what this "power" refers to. He hasn't even figured out how this little guy appeared, but it looks like a feline version of Su Heting, and even his speech habits are exactly the same.

With the glowing tail, the direction of Xie Zhenshu's travel is no longer blurred. They walked for a while, and Xie Zhenshu felt that the road under his feet became very strange, as if it was floating up and down.

Xiao Su stopped and lowered her tail to the ground. The moment the tip of the tail touched the ground, the blue light brightened brightly, as if the glacier had awakened. In an instant, the rushing river passed by Xie Zhenshu's feet.

Xiao Su said, "Look, it's a human being."

The river was so fast that Xie Zhenshu didn't see anyone standing on it. He squatted down, and by the blue light, he found that there was an invisible layer between himself and the river. The river was dimly blue, and there were some spots of light, like whitebait, jumping about in it.

Xie Zhenshu said, "Is that a human being?"

Xiao Su lowered his head to look down, and said: "It's half of them, some of them have no body, so they can only live like this."

Xie Zhenshu touched the surface of the river with his fingertips, and the transparent compartment bounced off circles of ripples, causing subtle wrinkles in the space around him. He asked, "Did Artemis upload them here?"

"No, it's me," Xiao Su lay down on the water, "I didn't want everyone to die, so I came up with this way to steal everyone from the storage vault of the main **** system. As the saying goes, the most dangerous The place is the safest place, how about it, can't you think of it?"

Xie Zhenshu said: "So smart."

Xiao Su raised her tail, couldn't hold back her complacency, and nodded repeatedly. When it shakes its tail, it will bring up a string of fluorescent lights, like tiny butterflies flying in the dark, but unfortunately these light spots will disappear when they touch Xie Pillow's shirt. It said: "This river circles around District 14. In addition to storing consciousness, it can also be used as a signpost. Walk along it and you will find the keyhole."

They went on.

The river of consciousness is silent and meandering, and the blue end cannot be seen from their position. After an unknown amount of time, Xie Zhenshu heard some vague whispers.

"Once upon a time there was a little bear who lived in a distant snow mountain...

"It loves to sleep and often sleeps from winter to summer.

"... there are many friends in the dream, they live happily together..."

Xie Zhenshu has heard this story before. It is a story in his children's picture book called "Grizzly Bear Tarrou and Friends in His Dream". He stopped and asked, "Who's telling the story?"

Xiao Su said: "Shhh, keep your voice down, we've reached the land of boredom, they are sleeping now."

Xie Zhenshu suspected that he heard it wrong: how can there be boredom here? Xiao Su seemed to know what Xie Zhenshu was thinking, so she jumped onto a mailbox, turned her tail, and showed Xie Zhenshu a picture.

The river was passing through the crumbling city, and they were stopping at an intersection. Not far from them was an open-air square, and there were many familiar figures Xie Zhenshu sat on it.

These obnoxious shapes are exactly the same as the one Xie Zhenshu once controlled. They are either leaning against the wall or lying on their backs, all in a sound sleep. Because there is no sound device, they are silent even in sleep, like a group of statues. Strangely though, they have many heads hanging from their necks and hands.

"Oh," a head pretending to be dead suddenly opened its eyes and reprimanded, "How long are you going to take the photo? Turn off the light, it's really rude!"

Xiao Su introduced to Xie Zhenshu: "This is Feitou Liaozi, who is specially used to tell stories to boredom."

Seeing that it ignored him, he yelled: "Hey, smelly cat, do you hear me? Turn off the lights! I'm talking to you."

Xiao Su said: "I'm bored and has no eyes. I don't want it to be too lonely, so I changed the data stored in the cross star and made Flying Head Liaozi into its story machine."

Xie Zhenshu said: "Do you like boredom?"

Xiao Su said: "I don't like to be tired of light... Well, I don't understand why I designed it like this. There is a word in my memory called 'Love House and Wu', probably because of this."

It looked up at Xie Pillow Book, its eyes were innocent, neither evasive nor shy. It is just one of Su Heting's separated consciousnesses, and it doesn't understand emotions very well, but because of this, it speaks more frankly, almost putting Su Heting's inner thoughts here.

Flying Liaozi, who had been ignored over there, jumped up and down angrily, and shouted, "Don't ignore me!"

Xiao Su turned off the tail light and said, "Got it, you can go on sleeping."

As expected, Feitou Liaozi rolled back and continued to whisper. Their murmurs overlapped with the river of consciousness at the foot of Xie Zhenshu, weaving together a strange dream.

Xiao Su jumped out of the mailbox and rubbed against Xie Zhenshu's legs: "My inventory is limited, and Flying Head Liaozi can only repeat this story. I don't know if I will get tired of listening to it. Let's go, don't wake up Annoying, they haven't woken up yet."

Xie Zhenshu had never been rubbed by a cat before, so he looked down for a while.

Xiao Su felt something and said, "I'm sorry, I can't help it. In order to avoid detection, I had to adjust all the data to the direction of the cat..." It suddenly rounded the cat's pupils and stared at Xie Zhenshu's trouser legs , unbelievable, "Damn! I actually lose hair?!"

Xie Zhenshu picked it up, it was very light, and its body was as slippery as water, as if it would flow to the ground soon.

Xiao Su raised her head and said, "Why are you hugging me?"

Xie Zhenshu said: "Convenience."

Xiao Su bent her tail and reminded him: "I will lose hair."

Xie Zhenshu is very young when it comes to hugging cats, he hangs Xiaosu on his arm, and holds up its feet, as if he does not let go.

Xiao Su said: "Okay, jumping around is really hard. Thanks, just keep going forward."

Xie Zhenshu was very curious about the emergence of light-sickness, so he asked: "Why do you want to create light-sickness?"

Xiao Su said: "When you are tired of light, you will chase after light. I need them to linger here and protect this river for me."

After the collapse here, only the river of consciousness will glow. Based on this, Xie Zhenshu guessed that this river should have been built by Su Heting when District 14 began to collapse, otherwise it would be difficult to hide from the surveillance of the clown and others.

The officer said, "Protection? Will someone come here?"

The whispers of Flying Tuozi gradually moved away, and they returned to the silent blue light. Xiao Su put her front paws on Xie Zhenshu's arm, nodded, and said: "There are 36810 detailed information about District 14 in Cross Star, this world will not collapse, it will only become ruins after the experiment is over. I need to use it so that people with only consciousness can live here, but the place where it maintains its operation is still in the light track area of ​​reality, and it will be discovered by the main **** system in a short time, so I have to preemptively create some small monsters to protect it Everyone."

Xie Zhenshu said: "You are amazing."

Xiaosu's tail lit up again with a "ding" sound, which was a performance after being praised. It said lazily: "Yes, yes, the more powerful ones are yet to come, remember to continue to praise me."

It didn't mention why it wanted to protect these people, it just kept wagging its tail, and patted Xie Zhenshu's abdomen slightly while speaking. The speed was not fast, just like its tone of speech, it was slow.

Xie Zhenshu said: "Why is Xiaosu No. 1, are there still No. 2 and No. 3?"

If there are, he wants to find them and return them to Su Heting properly. He only needs one Su Heting.

Xiao Su said: "This is a secret, I don't know, anyway, my name is No. 1, if there are No. 2 and No. 3, they have to call me Big Brother. But you shouldn't be able to hold a group of cats. I'm the only one that is enough." .”

Xie Zhenshu thought about the scene, he was covered with cats all over his body, if they all used Su Heting's voice, he would not be able to tell which was which. After a long while, he struggled to get his thoughts out of the pile of cat Xiaosu, and found that the river had turned a bend.

The blue river flows into a still urban river, like flowing paint, gradually covering it. Xie Zhenshu walked down the steps, and saw a tied boat near the steps.

Xiao Su struggled a few times, jumped out of Xie Zhenshu's arms, and landed on the boat. It licked its paw twice and said, "Get on the boat, we have to take a boat for this journey."

Xie Zhenshu untied the rope and boarded the boat. The boat melted into the river and moved forward under the impetus of the light spot of consciousness.

Sitting on the bow of the boat, Xiao Su said, "You can see interesting things when you lie down."

Xie Zhenshu was lying on the clean deck and saw the darkness above. He spread his arms, turned his head slightly, stared at Xiao Su, and said, "Liar."

He always likes to call Su Heting a liar, and he can't tell whether he can't forget the days when he was cheated, or he hopes to be cheated a few more times.

Xiao Su fell over with a "plop", rolled around Xie Zhenshu a few times, and finally hooked Xie Zhenshu's shirt with her front paws, and said, "Look, I will do a magic trick for you."

It tapped its tail, and the speed of the boat became faster. At the same time, the dots of consciousness in the river, like fireworks, exploded around the boat without a sound, and fell back into the blue light, as if it would not go out silver flame. This simple magic splashed a little bit of light, falling on Xie Zhenshu's hair and shirt, like warm snow.

Xiao Su said: "It's time for you to go offline, just take a nap. Good night, thank you for the pillow book, and see you tomorrow."

Xie Zhenshu didn't say a word, and grabbed its wagging tail.

Xiao Su said: "Ah! You can't catch the tail! You know—"

Xie Zhenshu said: "Praise me."

The dot disappeared, the wind blew the collar of the officer's shirt, and he returned to the darkness, like a cold jade sinking in deep water. The magic is very beautiful, but his beautiful eyes only look at Su Heting, the eyes are cold and lonely. After a while, he gently tugged the cat's tail and said it again.

"Su Heting, praise me."