In the early morning, the sun shines in from the dusty screen windows and spreads on the computer desk with mottled paint, forming spots of light intertwined with light and darkness; in the golden air, there are a few grainy dust swimming, like countless dancing little angels...

"Hey~ Xiaoguan... wake up... Xiaoguan..."

"Um... don't make a fuss..." The young man lying on the computer desk shrugged impatiently, shook his hands on it, and muttered face down in a vague manner, "I'll sleep for a while, call me at 8 o'clock."

The young man standing behind him wearing a pair of black square glasses and holding a mop in his hand laughed and scolded: "Don't sleep, you'll have to drink the northwest wind next month. It's okay if you really don't want to get up. Go to my house to sleep, I'm going to clean it!"

After the man with glasses said, he saw that the young man on the computer desk was still not moving, and the black stainless steel computer chair that kicked the cushion and sponge were turned out, "Get up quickly, the boss will scold you later."

It seemed that it was not very comfortable. The young man lying there changed his position, pressed his head on his right arm with his body, then covered his head with his left hand, and hummed and said, "Who is your boss so tricky, let him..."

The young man suddenly stopped halfway, sat up straight, holding his face with his hands and rubbing his sleepy eyes. It was neither the 85-inch LCD monitor in the KTV private room nor the 55-inch Hisense curved TV in his living room, but an antique-grade 19-inch CRT flat monitor.

The flat monitor screen is a game login interface that was once popular all over the country - Legend of Hot Blood. The male mage wearing a dark gray mage robe is coolly lowering his head, putting one hand on his hips, and playing with the dark red fireball with the other.

The young man turned his dull eyes and focused his gaze on the old double row computer desk covered with smoke scars.

A plastic lighter printed with the Breaking Ru girl, half a pack of hard shells, and a smoky stainless steel ashtray, which contained most of the cigarette butts. The cool breeze outside the window blew the ash everywhere, leaving only a small area where he was lying on his side.

"This...where is this?" The strange scene in front of him made the young man wake up completely, and he turned around and looked at him in panic.

This is the first floor lobby of an old Internet cafe, with square layout, four rows of old CRT computers on both sides and in the middle, with two passages for people to pass only. At the end of the right hand is a wooden staircase with yellowed color, and on the left hand is a glass door, and outside the door is a noisy and lively road.

The familiar and unfamiliar environment made a look of confusion appear in the young man's pupils, trying hard to recall.

Last night, a friend invited him to attend the last crazy before marriage: a single party.

Everything was planned, and I first celebrated with a meal in the hotel, and then went to the bar to drink. It was supposed to be over, but one of them suggested singing, and then a call called four or five straight-hearted and straight-hearted women from the medical school.

Everyone didn't leave at first sight, and rushed to KTV with the groom to kill him.

In KTV, I naturally had another meal, and the sky was dark, and the sun and the moon were gone. I couldn’t tell whether it was a man or a woman. Anyway, I hugged her and touched her chest, and as long as she didn’t have a flat mouth, I would hit her.

Drink, squirt, touch, and below... Time flies?

I don't remember it.

Oh, by the way, his name is Guan Qiu.

...

"Cruff-"

The sound of the computer chair rubbing against the concrete floor of Guan Qiu woke up from the daze.

He held the armrest of the chair and looked up. Behind him was a man with glasses about 24 or 25 years old. He had a long face and dark circles. His face showed pale whiteness that had not been seen for a long time. His greasy hair was against his forehead. He was now carrying an ashtray to pour it into the trash can under his feet.

Seeing the other person's appearance, Guan Qiu's pupils shrank, and it seemed that he had seen this face somewhere in his memory. But that was a long time ago...

It seemed as if he noticed Guan Qiu's gaze. The man in glasses looked up and grinned and asked, "It's already 7:30 now, don't you go to work yet?"

Guan Qiu didn't answer and asked hesitantly: "You... are Xiao Zhou?"

The man in glasses looked at him strangely, but without answering. He put the ashtray on the table, then took a towel out of the bucket and wringed it out, and said while wiping the table: "You go to work during the day and stay up all night at night, and sooner or later you will be damaged. I advise you to be more at ease."

Listening to the man with glasses, Guan Qiu's mind felt like a flash of lightning flashed through his mind, and he thought of some impossible possibility.

He doesn't know what the man with glasses is named. He only knows in his memory that his surname is Zhou, and he is an Internet administrator who should be called "Scarecrow" Internet cafe if he remembers correctly.

But this is not important. What is important is that he knew Xiao Zhou around the end of 2002, and then in mid-2004, he went to another Internet cafe to work in the city, and never saw him again.

Compared with other passers-by in life, Guan Qiu remembers this little Zhou so clearly because all his passion for online games is wasted in this Internet cafe.

Xiao Zhou of this pipeline network has always taken good care of him. When he is short of money, he will wait for his boss to leave at night and use the network management card to secretly help him open the machine. He will buy a pack of cheap cigarettes to smoke together. He will give him a bucket of instant noodles occasionally.

Of course, he will naturally repay his kindness when he pays his salary.

The question now is, how could this Xiao Zhou be here? And according to time, the other party is in his forties now, so how could he be so young?

With great surprise and confusion, Guan Qiu slowly turned his head to look at the time prompt in the lower right corner of the computer monitor: 7:31, 2003-08-22.

Guan Qiu's head was as if it was struck by lightning, and he exploded with a "buzzing" sound. He stared at the time monitor with wide eyes and could not say a word for a long time.

Later, Xiao Zhou, the network administrator, saw that he didn't say anything for a long time and didn't get off the plane, shouted: "Hey, Xiaoguan, are you really not going to work? I heard you say you are late twice this month. If you want to absent from work again today, your salary will be deducted."

“…”

"Xiaoguan...Xiaoguan..." Seeing that Guan Qiu was sitting motionless, the network administrator Xiao Zhou came over and pushed him.

Guan Qiu, who finally returned to his god, looked at him with a strange look and asked, "Ah...what's wrong?"

"I said you haven't gone to work yet?"

Guan Qiu did not answer, but asked back: "Today is really... August 22, 2003?"

"Ah, what's wrong?"

Guan Qiu still didn't answer and asked again: "Where is the toilet?"

Xiao Zhou, who was originally a joker, saw Guan Qiu's strange expression and the words he asked were ridiculous. The smile on his face slowly disappeared, and he said worriedly: "The toilet is upstairs. How are you? Are you feeling uncomfortable? If not, you go to my room for a while. When your colleague comes, I will ask him to help you take leave in the factory."

Like Guan Qiu, the network administrator Xiao Zhou is also a legendary person. In order to have time to level up, he specially applied for night shifts with his boss so that he could concentrate on playing games in the second half of the night. Therefore, he knew that Guan Qiu had been overnight for a month.

But he can make up for his sleep during the day, while Guan Qiu has to go to work during the day. Many times he just finds a place in the factory to take a nap for a while, or sleeps very tired like last night.

Because of this, Xiao Zhou, the network administrator, thought Guan Qiu was in a trance after staying up late for a long time!

Unfortunately, the Internet information was not yet developed at this time, otherwise he should have known that there was a word that scared all immortal cultivators - sudden death!

Guan Qiu stood up in the chair, smiled and said, "I'm fine." He raised his legs and walked towards the stairs at the end of the passage.

Network administrator Xiao Zhou shouted from behind: "Why do I give you the key to sleep in my room for a while?"

Guan Qiu didn't answer, raised his hand and waved it behind him, and quickly walked up the stairs.

The space upstairs is a little larger than downstairs and the layout is also different. However, because the debris room, accessories lounge and bathroom occupy a part of the space, the actual computers are less than half of the downstairs.

It took more than an hour to finish all night. There were not many customers upstairs, and most of them were women. This is because the computer with a slightly higher configuration downstairs is only for those who play games, and only those who chat with QQ, listen to music and watch movies can go upstairs, and movies are only allowed to watch online cafes to download.

If you want to watch web movies, I'm sorry, I won't let you watch them because they will trawl the internet speed.

Following the direction I remembered, I came to the toilet where men and women used mixed together, knocked on the door and confirmed that there was no one inside, Guan Qiu pushed the door open and walked in, locking the door.

It was already bright outside at this time, so even if the toilet windows faced the shade, the inside was still very bright.

It just doesn't taste very good, and I don't know which guy is so unethical. It's fine if you don't flush the toilet after going to the bathroom. Moreover, the orange urine splashed and the toilet was filled with orange and outside.

"God bless him... he will lose every bet!"

Guan Qiu went over to the toilet, turned around and came to the bathroom, looked at the glass mirror that was missing. It was a childish face, feminine eyes, a firm nose bridge, just thick lips, and a handsome appearance.

Unfortunately, because I stayed up late for a long time, my face was pale, my eyes were dark, my eyes were big and unsightly, my skin was rough, I had many black heads on my nose, my lips were dry and cracked, and my slightly fat work clothes looked loose and sluggish when I wore them, and my image was really miserable.

He reached out to wipe off the dust from the mirror, and Guan Qiu leaned closer and looked at himself carefully.

A three-inch-long scar at the corner of the eyebrows disappeared. It was scratched by a beer bottle when he was fighting with a crowd in 2005;

A raised flesh cocoon on the lower jaw of the left face disappeared. It was pricked by small seeds when they opened the tablets with people in 2007.

I touched the top of my left ear with my hand, and an eight-cm long centipede scar there was gone. It was chopped by someone from behind in a bar in 2009, and the ear was gone after one centimeter.

I opened my mouth and looked at it. The zirconia full-ceramic front teeth had disappeared, replaced by a mouthful of snow-white and neat original green teeth.

Then he took off his clothes and looked carefully up, down, left and right, front and back, and all the marks left by his youthful frivolity disappeared.

Looking at the body full of youthful atmosphere in the mirror, Guan Qiu grinned and laughed silently.
Chapter completed!