Chapter 14 chapter Five

In the winter when I was twenty-five years old, I ran away from home and lived in another country, renting a small single room.All the equipment in the single room is based on the simplest, no holographic game consoles, no 4D projectors, anyway, there are no gadgets that fascinate office workers and young people.Now I want to add a strange machine.In fact, it is cheaper than a game console. The porter came in carrying it.I took a random spot in the living room. "Here, just put it there." I commanded.They installed and adjusted it for me, and then took out the order form for me to sign, "The total is 69,000 points." I nodded, took out the city card and swiped it on the terminal.With a beep, I saw Cary's numbers quickly dwindle to only a fraction.whatever.

After those people left, I couldn't wait to lie down.Soon, I was once again overwhelmed by the real past. I am twenty-two years old.It was the second time I saw Xiaodi.She was still wearing the same red coat, and walked towards me head-on.After she left me her phone number last time, we called and chatted a few times at first.Later, her number was disconnected.I think she doesn't like me.I have a thin face, so I had to lower my head this time, pretending not to see her. "Hi!" I heard her voice. After looking around, I was sure she was calling me.I pretended I just saw her: "Oh, it's you!"

"Great, the second time I saw you... the second time," she murmured.It was also winter, and she rubbed her hands to keep warm. "It's cold outside. Uh...would you like something warm to drink...ah, I mean if you don't have time then forget it. If you're busy..." I tried to invite her but couldn't get my words together. "Yeah, it's really cold. Are your hands cold?" She said, she took my hand at once, and the movement was natural, "Your hand is also very cold." This movement of holding hands, it seems that she just wants to feel Check the temperature of my hand, but she didn't let go.

At this time, all my senses were left with the hand held by her. "Go get something to drink, let's go." She dragged me towards a coffee shop, and we walked very slowly.I kept feeling the soft hand that belonged to a girl in my hand.Every knuckle is so crisp. "You like me, don't you? You miss me and never forget me." She said to me. But I didn't come back to my senses for a while: "Well, what did you just say?" "Hey, it's nothing." She shrank her neck. In fact, I should have heard what she said.It surprised me when she said that, and I decided to take the courage to be proactive, "Yes, I've always...always missed you."

"That's why we can meet again!" She said to me generously without being shy at all. I don't understand what she means. But we just stayed together, doing a lot of things, like all couples do.In her kitchen she bakes me hash browns, which she says she learned from the internet.To do this, she also bought a small cheap oven.She invited me to her apartment, and I sat in the living room of her small apartment, which looked into the kitchen.I watched her while watching TV.The afternoon sun shone through the windows into the kitchen, and her body was coated in white, as if melting into the light, like an overexposed photograph.The whole room smells of cheese.

... I removed the hood, ripped off the cables, and went back to the couch.daze.Let the aroma of cheese disperse longer, longer.Ah, I should have guessed so.She often disappeared for a day or two for no reason. At first I thought she was busy with work, so I didn't care much.Until one time, she lost contact with me for a week. "Where have you been? Seven days! I can't find you for seven days." "I told you, but you never believed it. You thought I was one of those young people who watched TV serials and said the usual lines from TV. But what I said was true."

Yes, she did.She said she existed in wave form.We ordinary people are in the form of particles, and we appear step by step, day after day, one place after another.But she is not.She has no fixed place, appears here, appears there.Appear in the future, appear in the past. "You mean time traveler? Great. But why don't you get older or younger than normal every time you show up? Right, that's how it's shown on TV." "Because it's all made up on TV. And I repeat, I'm not a time traveler. I just can't keep showing up. The only reason I'm around you again is because you're thinking about me, watching me, making me My wave function collapses. And as soon as you lose focus, I disappear."

"Oh." I was a little frustrated.Because I don't quite understand what she said, and I don't even believe it.But I have no choice.I never thought I could find a girlfriend as good as her, and I couldn't live without her.Anyway, as long as she still wants to be by my side, it's fine. "So listen carefully." She said seriously, "If I disappear, it's not because I don't love you, it's because you don't love me anymore. At least it means that you haven't paid much attention to me for a while." She leaned close to my face , Say it word by word.Just when I started to feel that it was serious, she giggled again. "Silly," she said, and scratched my nose.

I couldn't tell the truth from the fake, but I was still shocked by what she said, and even felt sorry for her short-term disappearance the few times before.I hugged her and murmured, "I'm sorry, Xiao Di, I won't let you disappear again."