034: The Royal Road

"Li Si is dead? I really don't know."

Regarding the death of his old friend, Jiao Ziniu had no emotion at all. "Anyway, I have prepared my consciousness early, and it may have been uploaded. I am just waiting for the Electronic Immigrants area of "Star Abyss" to be built, upload it and enjoy life."

"No."

Xia Yubing glanced at Jiao Ziniu:

"Li Si committed suicide."

"Suicide?" Jiao Ziniu's pupils shrank, extremely surprised. "How could someone actually commit suicide these days?"

Compared to death, suicide is a rare act.

"He probably encountered some unbearable pain. I saw his obituary on the news."

Xia Yubing took out the terminal, searched for the news of the day, and showed it to Jiao Ziniu: "Here - the police report: The deceased's home is clean and tidy, the belongings are in order, and there is no suicide note. He took a large amount of sleeping pills before he died. It is as if he has never been to the whole world."

Jiao Ziniu looked at the information on the projection screen, and the black and white text revealed concise information.

The deceased was a young and handsome young man with cold eyes, drooped eyelids and corners of his mouth. He seemed to be indifferent to the world around him. Although his face was not good, he would definitely be popular with many girls just by looking at the beautiful flowers.

Now, he can only permanently freeze the image in black and white photos.

Familiar people leave strangely.

"Li Si... I remember how good he was with swordsmanship. He had no basic skills, but he was able to fight with his instructor easily."

Jiao Ziniu muttered:

"No matter what, you shouldn't give up on the future. It's so good to live, and you can have hope and tomorrow while living. This is simply... too cowardly."

"You have no right to ask others to be as strong as you." Xia Yubing put away his mobile phone. "The person is dead and did not leave a will. He probably has no attachment to the future. There is no need to criticize or criticize him."

"If it were me, I would not choose to commit suicide." Jiao Ziniu said persistently, "No matter what difficulties I encounter, even if we are destined to die together, I will continue to move forward."

"A good idea, but not everyone is as brave as you. Li Si I have a good relationship with him. He also said he planned to go to college before. Who knew something like this would happen."

Xia Yubing shrugged:

"Let's go, it's time for us to have dinner."

"Well, we can't keep the minister and manager waiting for us for too long."

Jiao Ziniu stopped worrying about the topic of Li Si and followed Xia Bing into the club venue.

Passing through the fighting arena and ring, the aroma of the food immediately filled the air.

"Oh, the smell of pasta." Jiao Ziniu's eyes lit up.

"Expert." Xia Yubing answered immediately.

"Please don't play such old tricks. You are too old and you can't feel the humor at all."

"I can't help it, I'm just a person looking for ancient things."

Xia Yubing stretched:

"When something becomes nostalgic, it means that its era has passed. But I think that since something is nostalgic, it means that it is not completely meaningless or completely wrong."

"In an era full of spaceships, Electronic Immigrants, Space Federation and Neural Link games, participating in the history Martial Arts Club - this thing is very nostalgic." Jiao Ziniu complained.

"Damn - I heard you two nagging from afar."

The curtain of the restaurant was opened, and a tall and thin young man raised his middle fingers and showed a contemptuous smile to the two of them, "You two are really good at chatting, but you are proficient in everything. If you come later, we won't even need to watch TV. We will just invite you two to chat. What kind of sketch do you want? You sit here: Coca-Cola goes down the throat, 70% of it turns into a cross talk, and the remaining 30% is spit out, which is half a joke."

"Hey, brother Wen Long, look what you said, if I, the poster girl, go to talk about cross talk, you will have to sweep the floor and wash the toilet to record the account. When the time comes, you turn on the live broadcast, and when you see 'cross talk rookie Xia Yubing', I will be cheered by the whole house, but don't drop the little pearl."

Xia Yubing spread his hands.

"Fuck you, it's okay to lie to your buddies, but don't lie to yourself."

Wen Long looked at Jiao Ziniu: "You're here A Niu. I haven't seen you for a long time. How are you? Which university did you go to?"

"Ring Maple Thirteenth Heavy Industries University, but there are basically no classes on weekdays." Jiao Ziniu said.

"Okay, come and play sword fighting when you have time." Wen Long wiped the oil and flour off his hands and shouted into the restaurant, "Hey, Minister, A Niu is here. Let's put the dumplings in the pot!"

"Damn it, why did you come just now? I wanted to drag you to make dumplings and smash them together!"

Minister Qi Qian Lu shouted angrily:

"Sherise insists on adding mozzarella cheese to the dumplings and putting the dumplings in the oven. Oh my god, who is going to stop him - and you, Katie! Beer is for making ducks, not for cooks!"

"What's wrong with you today? You all like to play old tricks so much."

Jiao Ziniu complained, suddenly subconsciously jumping sideways.

Snap.

He raised his head, turned around and subconsciously assumed a fighting stance, and his eyes immediately met a pair of beautiful brown eyes.

"Hey, Ziniu."

The girl said hello to him and put away the soft plastic sword she was practicing with, "Didn't you prepare for the exam? Why does it feel like you haven't trained for a year and your reaction speed is faster?"

"Hey, Jenna, why did you take out the weapon again?" Wen Long complained, "You secretly opened the warehouse door again, right?"

"Okay, okay, I'm in charge of the key anyway, just put it back."

Jenna didn't take it seriously and looked at Jiao Ziniu with a smile:

"I haven't been idle for a year. Have you become stronger again? Are you coming back to participate in the competition this time? How about going to play two rounds later?"

"We won't do it today." Jiao Ziniu thought for a while and said, "After dinner, let's chat for a while and catch up on old times, and I plan to go back."

"Oh, speaking of this, I am too." Wen Long echoed, "I have something else to do today, and I won't be here soon."

Jenna looked at the two of them from side to side, put his index finger on his cheek, and asked doubtfully, "Are you two going back to the same home?"

"Stop talking about outdated jokes." Jiao Ziniu glanced at Wen Long in surprise and said, "However, I can probably guess what brother Wen Long is going to do."

"Haha, you guessed it right." Wen Long grinned and showed a 'you know' look.

Bang! "Me too!"

A large box of Coke fell on the table, and the bold man rubbed his hands. "Jenna, the Coke you want is the classic one."

"Okay! Thank you, Kanshan." Jenna immediately lay down on the table, grabbed a few cans of Coke from the box, sat next to him and drank slowly, and even the others became more well-behaved.

"Looking at the mountain, you also..."

Jiao Ziniu showed a man's unique expression of tacit understanding.

"I've been talking for a long time, but I still don't know what you are talking about."

Xia Yubing complained:

"Don't tell me it's 'that', right? Ah, it's just like those old movies. The screenwriter doesn't know how to create a sense of mystery, so he keeps saying 'that', 'that adult', 'the unnameable XX', and then when he's about to tell the truth, he keeps repeating 'that' several times. Before he can finish speaking, he dies - stop playing riddles and tell me, what are you three going to do if you don't come to the activity this afternoon?"

""Star Abyss"!"

The three of them said in unison, in perfect agreement.

"Hate!" Xia Yubing showed a disgusted expression. "What's the point of the game?"

"It's different." Wen Long gestured and said, "This game is really great. It was developed as a project of Electronic Immigrants. Xue Chen is already waiting for the public beta, and is dedicated to guarding the server interface, for fear that if he misses it, he will lose a better initial identity."

"It's just a game, what about it?" Xia Yubing said disdainfully, "I will not look for a sense of accomplishment in the virtual world."

"Speaking of Electronic Immigrants - do we have a chance to see Ailey and Li Si?" Wang Kanshan scratched his head. "Actually, I have a pretty good relationship with them. I wonder if we can get together again in another world after Electronic Immigrants starts."

"That's just a game. The electronic soul is just a bunch of data. How can it be compared with real flesh and blood?" Xia Yubing rolled his eyes at the other party. "As soon as the server is shut down, your youth, your real estate, your electronic wife and family will be destroyed - I will not leave my destiny to the control of a group of capitalists who can sell their souls for money."

"I also plan to fall into the trap."

Jenna raised his hand. This cute mixed-race girl had big, watery eyes. She was drinking Coke obediently and looked like a koala.

"Jenna, you..." Xia Yubing said in disbelief, "How can you, a person with such a fulfilling real life, think of going to the virtual world to find a sense of existence?"

"Because in reality, you can't exercise strenuously." Jenna said, and took off his own leg. "Well, it was replaced last month, and the heart was just transplanted with a cloned organ. The doctor suggested that I rest for half a year, and I don't want to be idle."