Three forty-two in the morning.
Qiu Yun bought a cup of coffee and brought one to An Shuang, "Here."
"Thank you." She didn't take her eyes off the screen.
"You won't have more than 25 hours of rest this week, right? That's less than four hours of sleep a day." Qiu Yun stretched her waist and looked at her dark circles, which were getting heavier, and continued, "I How can you still be energetic after two night shifts?"
An Shuang didn't answer her, as if he never got tired.
She sat behind her and lazed for a while, "Isn't the part you want to write already completed a long time ago? What is the part of the program you just backed up?"
"Nothing." An Shuang said.
"You should go home and rest tomorrow. I feel like you will become an immortal if you continue like this."
An Shuang said it was okay, "I can hold on."
Ever since Zhang Hanju's death, she felt uncomfortable.
First, they cried bitterly outside the ward. Zhang Hanju's body was not claimed by anyone. It was An Shuang who came to claim it. After cremation, he bought a cemetery and buried it on a mountain.
Qiu Yun remembered that the night after she was buried, everyone had finished leaving. It rained lightly that day. She drove to wait for her at the bottom of the mountain and called her. She told her to leave first and there was no need to wait for her.
Later, she was worried and waited in the car for her to go down the mountain to pick her up. But then she fell asleep and waited all night, only to see her coming down the next morning.
She actually stayed with Zhang Han all night.
Driving her back to the city, she spoke even less. It must have been cold in the mountains at night. I don't know how she stayed all night.
Since that day, she has been in this state.
She also tried to persuade An Shuang, but An Shuang's reply to her was no different from before, but more calm and rational.
She didn't make a fuss or break down, but it was this calmness and indifference that made Qiu Yun feel strange.
Her sadness didn't seem to last long.
Qiu Yun drank some coffee and became more energetic. She approached behind her and said, "There is no one else here now. Let's just talk quietly. Besides, the work is done. There are still monitoring systems watching. These projects will not Something went wrong.”
"What do you want to say? It will be dawn in more than an hour. You can catch up on some sleep." An Shuang did not stop.
"I bought a ticket to Hainan. How about we go on a trip to relax?"
An Shuang declined, "Let's go some time later. I'm quite busy recently."
"Oh, everyone is on vacation after working overtime, but you're the only one who doesn't take any rest. What's wrong? You're the only one who acts like a cow?"
"You don't have to worry about me. If you want to go, you can ask other colleagues."
Qiu Yun felt a little sad in her heart, "In your heart, I'm just your colleague, not a friend?"
"……you are my friend."
"We've known each other since you joined the company," Qiu Yun said.
"Yeah." She responded.
"Since you still regard me as a friend, I have to worry about you. Something has really been wrong with you recently. Although you didn't talk much in the past, you have talked less and less in the past few days."
"The work is a bit troublesome and I can't finish it all at once."
"Nonsense, you didn't work like this before, and you weren't so silent back then." Qiu Yun said.
An Shuang's eyes were a little sore from staring at one place for too long. She stepped away from the computer and took a break by talking to her.
"I'm really fine, don't worry. I just want to figure out why in the game we can still see... see Zhang Hanju's route, but we can't contact her."
Qiu Yun was helpless. It was only normal that he couldn't contact her. If he could, it wouldn't be a ghost. People are dead but their consciousness still exists. How could there be such a weird thing? "He Houdan could see her route and it was not during a meeting." Having said that, as an NPC, this character has been used as soon as it is set up, and the disappearance of No. 003 as her embedded consciousness will not affect the subsequent movement of this NPC in the game."
This was not the answer An Shuang wanted, so she started working again without making any assumptions.
Seeing that she was turning into a workaholic again, Qiu Yun stepped forward and held her hand down, "Just tell me why it started again. If you do this again, I will report directly to your superior that you are working crazy."
An Shuang had no choice but to stop, "Ye Xuyang won't care about me, as long as I don't cause trouble for him."
At this moment, the contact signal was captured in the background.
At this time, it was four o'clock in the morning.
A line of small words came from the aerial projection, "Sunrise Games No. 003 is applying for a connection. Do you want to reject it?"
Qiu Yun froze in her seat, read the line of words carefully, rubbed her eyes hard, and wiped off the eye cream she had just applied, "What?"
What the hell!
Qiu Yun quickly whispered, "Reject, reject quickly..."
An Shuang's eyes looked at the line of words, and his empty eyes suddenly glowed with light, and he said in a controlled voice, "Accept."
The connection signal dinged.
The character Zhang Hanju appeared in front of them.
"What's going on! I haven't been able to contact you lately. Is there something wrong with the system? Oh my, I'm so worried. You don't know. Now we can't get out of this forest and we don't have anything to eat. Uh, too. Let’s have something to eat. I can eat any kind of pheasant, rabbit, fish, berries... That’s not the point. It’s snowing here non-stop. I’m freezing to death. How can we get out of here? Huh?”
She rubbed her hands and breathed into them.
An Shuang stared at her blankly. For a moment, she slowly lowered her head, her shoulders trembling. After another moment, she burst out into a low cry, and all the fear and despair collapsed at this moment.
Zhang Hanju stomped his feet in the snow, "What's wrong with you? Why are you crying?"
Qiu Yun was so surprised that she couldn't say a word, "You...are you Zhang Hanju or No. 003?"
"Huh?" She pursed her lips, "Qiu Yun, please be serious. I'm really about to freeze to death in the game. If I go back from here, I'll have brain problems due to the cold. This is all a work-related injury. Remember to apply for me in advance," she joked.
In the blink of an eye, he saw An Shuang was still crying, "What's wrong with you? I can't go back for the time being. Why are you crying? Tell me, I don't feel at ease here if you don't tell me. Did someone bully you? Or at home?" What happened? I should go back soon, don't worry."
Qiu Yun still couldn't believe it at all. She was horrified. Death was like a light going out. There was no way she could still exist. She immediately started to contact Zhong Xingfeng on the computer. Unexpectedly, An Shuang was faster than her. "Don't tell him yet. I want to Let’s talk about it after it becomes clear.”
"Tell who?" Zhang Hanju was confused on the other side, "What's wrong? You can't contact me, are you more anxious than me?"
Qiu Yun stood up and asked Zhang Hanju, "What on earth are you——"
She was frightened by An Shuang's eyes. She had never seen her look so fierce before, as if she could do anything to stop her as long as she said one more word.
When he turned around, his face changed, "It's nothing. Is everything normal over there?" An Shuang wiped his tears, his eyes still red.
"It's okay, it's just that I suddenly vomited blood a few days ago, and then... I was rescued again inexplicably." Zhang Hanju couldn't figure it out himself.
"You haven't told me yet, why were you crying just now?"
"I work overtime until I'm about to vomit. It's like you're on vacation over there. How can I not be so jealous that I cry when I see you?" she said with a smile.
Zhang Hanju didn't believe it, "What happened to you just now? You didn't tell me. You don't tell me every time."
"It's really okay. I thought I couldn't contact you. What happened to you inside? As soon as I saw you, I felt relieved." An Shuang said.
She exhaled and felt relieved, "I contacted you just to say that it may be difficult to deliver signals to the backend in this forest area, so if you can't find me when you look back, don't worry."
Shen Tianhuan's voice came from not far away, and Zhang Hanju said hurriedly, "I don't dare to communicate in front of their NPCs now. I feel like they have become smarter. Okay, he is looking for me. Let's talk later." Also, you are not allowed to cry anymore, stop crying, I’m leaving, let’s talk next time.”
