Why is the NPC Frightened By Me Again [Infinite Stream]

Thin raindrops fell from the sky, and with twilight, fell on the dark umbrella.

Only then did Lin Huai realize that... Autumn is here.

The change of seasons is an objective concept, and human cognition of seasons tends to be subjective. Sometimes it is a red circle drawn on the calendar, sometimes it is a cold wind and torrential rain swept across the northwest in the weather forecast, sometimes it is the off-white claw button coats on the girls laughing along the road, and Khaki plaid scarf in maple leaves.

However, it wasn't until this moment that Lin Huai looked at Mu Yu, who had never fallen on his skin because he was blocked by an umbrella, and realized that autumn had arrived.

That is to say...

It has been a year since he became "Lin Huai".

What he realized at that moment was that in addition to the coming of autumn, there was another person coming.

A random encounter, whether deliberate or accidental.

The umbrella hit him on the head, which is actually a very pointless thing, because the rain is not very heavy. He was also not afraid that he might catch a cold because of the rain.

And the arrival of that person is also a meaningless thing. This person can't answer his questions. He may be connected to his past, but he can't explain his current existence.

But why...he suddenly felt sad?

Lin Huai always felt that she was always quite happy. He can always find things in his life that make him happy, or, through his own efforts, make things happy (though some will be afraid of it). Therefore, even after discovering this absurd truth, what he felt for the first time was not shock or panic, but daze.

Pure daze.

It was an outsider dazed, like Meursault losing his mother, like a spaceship in space suddenly losing the signal from the main console.

The original real world became absurd and meaningless, and he and this grand stage were suddenly separated from each other. The audience laughed and talked under the stage, the actors performed in front of the stage, and everything was played out like a script. And he stood in the middle of the stage, looking at his own life that was abruptly inserted here, feeling separated and at a loss.

Perhaps it was because of this feeling that he could not explain himself, that he sat on the steps for a whole afternoon without thinking of doing anything in the past.

However, the moment that umbrella was propped over his head.

He suddenly felt that he was connected to the world.

At that moment, the clouds in the sky began to move and gather toward the west as the sun set; the cool raindrops began to fall down the sky; the students who had completed their studies walked out of the classroom in twos and threes, and passed them by chatting and talking, happily discussing the night's itinerary.

And he, at this moment, raised his head and looked at the person holding the umbrella.

——And suddenly, in the emptiness of nothingness, I felt real sadness.

"Hey..." The man holding the umbrella saw his face and took a look at himself with the glass door next to him, "Do I look so ugly today?"

"..."

"Why do you look like I'm ugly crying..." he said loudly, "what are you doing sitting here?"

Lin Huai looked up at the sky: "I'm thinking about something very philosophical."

"……for example?"

"Who am I, where am I, and what am I going to do."

"?"

"'Lin Huai' and 'Crow' are just a name, a code name, you can call Lin Huai, I can also call Lin Huai, these students who have passed by, they can do it. What happens after the code name is removed? I am again Who?"

"..."

"Where did I come from, where did I die, why did I appear in this world? What does my appearance mean to the world, did the world choose me or did I choose the world?"

"Is there a necessary connection between me and the universe? Is there an end to the universe, is there a length of time... um..."

"Enough," Chu Tianshu put his hands on his shoulders and said very sincerely, "I killed me."

"Oh." Lin Huai smiled, "This can also be handled, as expected of you."

Then, a coat fell on his head. The owner of the coat pressed Lin Huai's head wrapped in the coat and said, "Don't laugh when you don't want to laugh."

"..."

Then, Chu Tianshu turned his back and covered his eyes: "Now you can cry out loud, don't worry, apart from my expensive waterproof windbreaker jacket, no one will remember me. Stop your crying. Cover your head with a coat and cry like a man... eh eh, why are you kicking me?"

Chu Tianshu, who was kicked by Lin Huai, squatted down, Lin Huai withdrew his foot, and lowered his head expressionlessly.

Covering his head with his coat, he lowered his head for a long time before he said, "What are you doing here?"

...are you here to see me?

He was taken aback by this thought, and then he heard Chu Tianshu say, "This is a bit of a long story..."

"Probably, because of the illegal use of electrical appliances, I was fined by the relevant departments, and the house was temporarily impounded. And because I rented a new house, I have no liquidity in my hand, and the latest manuscript fee will not be hit until tomorrow. to the card."

"therefore."

"I'm here to find you a meal."

Lin Huai:  …

He choked back the inexplicable feelings in his heart, and turned to look at Chu Tianshu with contempt. With his back to him, Chu Tianshu was still saying to himself, "I can't help it. Recently, pork is too expensive, and it costs more than fifty yuan per pound. Even the price of take-out has increased. If you have a full month, you can use your noble student meal card to kindly take me in..."

"it is good."

"If it doesn't work, I can only eat and sleep on the street, steal a bike, and finally die in a frozen alley in the cold winter... What did you say?"

"I said yes."

Lin Huai stood up and patted the ashes on his body. Then, he saw that Chu Tianshu turned his head with moved eyes, holding a mobile phone with a bright screen in his hand: "So simple? You are so kind, I haven't finished reading the manuscript I found on the Internet... …”

On the screen of his mobile phone, there was a manuscript that had just been read in half.

Lin Huai: I don't know why I think it would be better for him to starve to death on the spot.

"Let's go and eat," Chu Tianshu grabbed his shoulders and rubbed his head with the other hand, "As expected of my best friend, I checked on the way here, I want to eat The newly opened ramen..."

He carried Lin Huai down the steps half-dragging and half-holding, and kept talking about what he knew about the canteen in S. And Lin Huai was lazy for some reason. He was too lazy to talk, too lazy to complain, and too lazy to break free from his holding his hand.

The two of them walked out of the library's sphere of influence a few steps before Chu Tianshu said, "You are not something that can be simply defined by a code name."

"...What?" Lin Huai, who was in a daze, replied with a short sentence after a long time.

They were walking past the Music Plaza in the center of the campus, where the fountain rises every night at seven o'clock.

It was six fifty-five now.

"As you said, the name is a code name, and the body is a collection of proteins and sugars. In a hundred years, I will become a mineral, and you will too. Neither the name nor the body can define a person. The name is the file name, the body is the operating interface, and only the soul is the most important code."

"Maybe you're asking me again, if the body, the name, and the memory have all changed, how is it defined? But even if these have changed, the feelings of being together once are real. And they are in the In life, at that particular time, it actually happened."

"and……"

The fountain rose at that moment, covering the sky with gorgeous water splashes. In this huge sound of water, Lin Huai saw Chu Tianshu's lips and moved.

Finally, he touched his nose.

The fountain is over. Chu Tianshu looked at Lin Huai with sincere eyes, as if expecting a response.

"What did you just say?" Lin Huai asked. "The fountain was so loud that I didn't hear it."

"that……"

Chu Tianshu's face had a rare shyness, he scratched his face with his fingers, lowered his head, and looked at Lin Huai, who was covering his head with his coat.

"this……"

The street lamps on the side of the road turned on one by one, and the warm yellow lights illuminated not only the water splashes of the fountain, but also Lin Huai's eyes.

"That... can you give me back my coat?" Chu Tianshu said.

Lin Huai: "Huh?"

Chu Tianshu sneezed, rubbed his nose again, and said embarrassedly, "That, yes, it's a little cold."

Lin Huai: "..."

"It's not that I'm not healthy, but it's objective, it's a bit cold." Chu Tianshu said, "Today, the north wind is level 3, it will rain at night, and the minimum temperature is 15 degrees..."

Lin Huai: "..."

"And you also know that your body is a little cold right now." Chu Tianshu said, "It's really a little cold to walk with you for so long."

Lin Huai: "..."

"The skin evaporates the moisture, the air moves away the heat, the third boundary condition of heat transfer... Don't look at me like that! I'll be cold, it's normal..."

Lin Huai: "==#"

"So can you..."

Lin Huai shoved the windbreaker covering himself into Chu Tianshu's arms with a blank expression.

"So, you've actually become a French coffee..." After arriving at the ramen shop, Lin Huai stirred the noodles in the mixing bowl and looked at him with his chin on his hand, "But this kind of thing happened to you, I don't care at all. No surprises..."

"It's not so much that I became a legal person, it's better to say that I suffered a double blow, both psychological and physical. Along with my own dignity, I was completely insulted..."

Chu Tianshu vividly described the process of his being attacked by the relevant departments. Lin Huai sat next to him and listened, and the more he listened, the more wrong he felt. He ate the soft-hearted egg and asked, "...Why are there only two female law enforcement officers in the relevant department?"

"Oh," said Chu Tianshu, "because they are my mother and my sister."

Lin Huai:  …

"In short, looking at me who is not looking for a job, not going out, and indulging in two-dimensional and horror movies at home, the relevant departments have launched a final arrest warrant for me, and they have entered the room without authorization and confiscated all my research results. I originally wanted to I fled back to Nanjing with my cat overnight, but finally found that in the vast and indifferent city of S, I still have the last comrade in arms who can give me food." Chu Tianshu said, "So I did not hesitate, I drove here to join you."

Lin Huai:  …