Chapter 21 – Your name

TL: Cloe

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Word count: 2120

“GitHub is a famous gay dating website for monks. In the middle of the night when your roommates are snoring and grinding their teeth, only its dark pages and colorful text can bring you solace. No matter how lonely your soul is, your fingers can touch the elastic surface. The beating is never alone…”

Lin Huai: “The one you are talking about should be a P*rnhub, not GitHub.”

“It is GitHub, not P*rnhub.”

“The one you were talking about is clearly P*rnhub, I heard the p.”

“You rascal. So young but don’t want to study, thinking about such things every day and visiting p- sites. It’s not good for you.” Chu Tianshu said as he put his arm on his shoulder, “Let Gege¹It means elder brother brainwash you a little……”

“Thousands of dollars have been lost, but you will gain them back again.” Chu Tian comforted him, “It doesn’t matter if the things are gone. Please participate in more games in the future. There will be many interesting game props.”

Lin Huai raised his eyes: “Really?”

“If I’m lying then I’m a dog.”

Lin Huai stood up from the ground, shook off a few leaves from his trousers, and finally showed a happy smile. When he looked back, the entire villa was already in a strange Schrödinger superposition state²Schrödinger’s famous thought experiment, where a cat can be simultaneously alive and dead until observed. In broader terms, it could describe a state of ambiguity or uncertainty, where multiple possibilities exist simultaneously until a definitive observation or measurement is made., fluctuating and trembling in the distorted light, and completely dissolved into the dusk.

They are still in the villa area. But what Lin Huai and Chu Tian faced turned into a wasteland. The sound of traffic and the chirping of birds once again crossed the walls of the villa area and echoed in the air. Lin Huai knew that when the fire clouds gradually turned dark, the lights of thousands of houses in the city would also light up. The river of lights is the home of all living beings.

He and Chu Tian walked one behind the other, neither of them speaking. When he arrived at the gate of the community, Chu Tian said: “After you go out from here you will find the main street. Then turn left and you will find a bus stop. Did you bring your bus card?”

The direction his hand pointed was the boulevard Lin Huai walked into under the guidance of the Gaode map.

The direction he was pointing at was the road where Lin Huai arrived using Gaode Map, LinYin Road.

Lin Huai hummed and asked, “Actually, I still have a few questions……”

Chu Tian clasped his hands behind his head and walked around, looking very sluggish: “Huh?”

“Will I ever see you again after leaving this place?”

Chu Tian, ​​who was walking in front of him, stopped and said: “Every player, no matter what they have experienced in the game or who they have fought side by side with, will forget the names and faces of their companions once they leave the instance. This is one of the rules of the game. Once you’re out of the game, it is reality. You can also call it a type of protection mechanism. ”

“Why is it called protection?”

“Maybe the game will be afraid that the players will beat each other up after the instance ends. However, after entering a new instance, all the memories about the game will be restored.” Chu Tian said, “It can be seen from this that memory is the least important thing. Reliable things can be changed at will……”

“Oh.” Lin Huai felt a little regretful.

Chu Tian asked: “Does your phone still have any battery left?”

“Yeah, why?”

Chu Tian took out his mobile phone: “Add WeChat. Although our memories will be changed, Ma ○ Teng’s data will never be deleted, unlike Li ○ Hong…”

Lin Huai side-eyed him: “Didn’t you say that even if you add WeChat, you will forget who I am?”

Chu Tian answered in an as-a-matter-of-course tone: “The more WeChat friends the better. You are still young and don’t know the importance of WeChat friends in forwarding voting and hacking activities.”

Lin Huai: ……

He took out his QR code and let Chu Tian scan it. The original owner’s phone broke while he was jumping off a building, so he later bought a new mobile phone card and applied for a new WeChat account under the guidance of his roommate. After the friend application was approved, Chu Tian took his phone back and was very satisfied.

After exchanging WeChat, it was the finally the time to say goodbye. Lin Huai walked in front of Chu Tian and stepped through the gate of the community, but at this moment he heard a voice from behind: “Crow.”

The tone sounded like he was calling out to someone. Lin Huai was stunned for a moment, and then turned around after a while: “What?”

“Nothing.” Chu Tian shrugged carelessly, “I accidentally recognized the wrong person.”

But his expression clearly didn’t look like he was mistaken. Lin Huai felt a little itchy looking at his pretended innocent expression.

After Lin Huai left, Chu Tian closed his eyes and bit his thumb subconsciously.

This is what he does subconsciously every time he’s thinking about something. In his mind, two humanoid figures are slowly overlapping.

‘What the heck is…’ he thought, ‘No, I need further observation. ‘

‘I must think of a way. ‘

* * *

It wasn’t until he reached the bus stop and squeezed into a bus did Lin Huai remembered something.

He could no longer remember the face of the human who had left a deep impression on him, nor could he remember his name.

Before exiting the game, he heard a system sound that said, “The takeaway item ‘raincoat’ you have obtained has been stored in your backpack and will be distributed in the next game.” He originally thought about staying in the villa, but after exploring the depth of the game, he didn’t expect that the game didn’t even leave him a loophole.

The game’s ability is indeed really strong, even far beyond himself. It can even distort his memories after the game is over.

But if you can just crush the rules, that would be no fun. Lin Huai’s favorite thing is to take action against those who think they have outstanding abilities. If the game has the strength to play with him, that’s good…… No, Lin Huai doesn’t mind accompanying him to the end.

With this mind, he once again tried to remember the name of the guy whom he had forgotten. After eliminating the two options of Mitsuha Miyamizu and Tachibana Taki, the bus driver began to remind in a loud voice: “The one sitting at the back, that’s right, we are at the S.³represents the line connecting the community to the subway”

After getting off the bus, a wave of heat rushed at him. The body Lin Huai is currently using is that of a college student, and his school is located in the suburbs of the bustling S city. A month ago, this body climbed up the school bell tower late at night and jumped.

At that time, Lin Huai was wandering around the school. He had been cultivating himself in recent years and had been sleeping in Wen County for a long time. However, an archeology professor dug up his grave. He was so angry that he traveled three hundred miles at night and broke one of the most expensive instruments in his laboratory. City S has beautiful scenery and a large population, so he thought that since he had reached this level of cultivation, he could find a corpse nearby and experience the warmth of the human world through the resurrection.

Just when he was about to soar due to the excess yang energy of the male and female ratio of 7:1, he encountered this high-quality and cheap corpse. The body lay on the ground, soulless and handsome in appearance. He thought why not use it when it’s right there, so he took over the body without hesitation and spent a whole night repairing it into a usable state.

When Lin Huai came back from the dead, he was ready to face strict tutors, endless assignments, cheating girlfriends with three boyfriends, and a GPA less than 1.7. The reasons for college student suicide are the same. But when he sorted through the information left by the original owner, he discovered that this was not the case.

The original owner’s parents divorced due to emotional conflicts, but they were generous. Even though the original owner lived alone, he could still get tens of thousands of living expenses every year. He is withdrawn and indifferent, so there is no misunderstanding about being trapped by love. In addition, although the original owner’s academic performance in the college was not considered to be good to the point one could win the national award, he was still an outstanding student who could win the school award. He committed suicide because of his study life, which makes no sense.

So Lin Huai wondered whether the original owner had borrowed an illegal private loan from 714 Net. With the body’s appearance, he could probably borrow tens of thousands of dollars. He was worried about this for a week, thinking that if someone called, he would crawl along the phone line and scare him. He looked forward to this very much, and even studied Sadako’s method of climbing out of the TV. Unfortunately, there was never a similar situation, and his unique skills were useless.

The original owner had no girlfriend or boyfriend, and he also wasn’t close with his three roommates. On weekdays, he was always alone, so when Lin Huai came to the dormitory for the first time and greeted his original roommates, the three of them were startled. The roommate who was playing Zhuge Liang was even more frightened, one move and fed three points.

But now Lin Huai has established a deep father-son relationship with his roommates. As soon as he opened the dormitory door, he smelled the aroma of Gan Guo Niu Wa⁴Here’s theimage

, mixed with the smell of smelly socks. One of his three roommates went to the lab, one went to the hip-hop club, and the remaining one ate takeout in the dormitory while playing The Witcher 3 on the desktop.

Lin Huai stood behind him and watched as he played. The roommate who is currently playing The Witcher 3 is named Lu Jin. He has a cute baby face. His ancestral home is Lanling, Shandong Province. He grew up in Sichuan when he was a child. He speaks second-level Mandarin. It took Lin Huai a long time to realize that he was not from Nanning, but from Lanling, Shandong. And there is no handsome man named Nanning King in this world.

Lu Jin received the reward for the kill and sighed with satisfaction. Just as he was about to lean back, he felt Lin Huai’s cool breath. He yelled: “Damn! When did you come back?”

“Just now.”

“Dad, why do you make no noise when you walk? It almost scared me to death.” Lu Jin patted his chest, “You’re back from looking for a house? How did it go?”

Lin Huai shook his head and sat across him: “Didn’t go really well.”

Lu Jin made a sound of understanding and then said: “Actually, you really don’t need to move out. Except for the fact there is no internet after twelve o’clock, our dormitory is fine. At worst, you can open a hotspot, and unlimited data will only cost a few dozen yuan a month.”

Regarding the no internet situation, Lin Huai actually didn’t care. All he cared about was the smell in the dormitory. As a former ghost, his body’s five senses are very sensitive. The stench that others may think is bearable, in his nose, is a mountain of corpses and a sea of ​​blood.

But even though he finally became a human after one hundred years, he still understood the principles of being a human being. He didn’t say anything about the smell of the dormitory, he just said, “I’m not used to living here.”

Lu Jin said: “You have lived here for two years now, how are you still now used to it? It is really expensive to buy a new house, and there are many properties nearby that are bought by real estate speculators, and the occupancy rate is not that high, maybe It’s also haunted.”

Lin Huai said: ” It’s okay, I like lively places.”

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  It means elder brother
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  Schrödinger’s famous thought experiment, where a cat can be simultaneously alive and dead until observed. In broader terms, it could describe a state of ambiguity or uncertainty, where multiple possibilities exist simultaneously until a definitive observation or measurement is made.
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  represents the line connecting the community to the subway
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  Here’s theimage