Chapter 22 Dream
After hanging up the communication, the faint smile on Jiang Hui's face quickly faded.
The surroundings are very quiet. There are faint footsteps in the distance. People are talking. Buses pass by from time to time on the track set above the sky. The planets with a strong presence on the horizon are still turning quietly... This is undoubtedly a very ordinary day on this planet.
But this is not the case for Jiang Hui, a Blue Star man.
She was stunned in the pavilion for a while, and then slowly got up and headed towards the entrance of the apartment not far away.
The lobby on the first floor is as full of contemporary features as ever. It is mainly based on white, light blue and calm gray coffee. The floors, walls and ceilings are decorated with panels of various high-tech materials. To be honest, I am quite uncomfortable. This extremely cold decoration style has some traces of mechanization and industrialization. It is not popular at all. Jiang Hui, a Chinese from the human society, is not used to it. .
This was a constant reminder to her that she had come to a completely different world than before - there was no going back.
The front desk is an intelligent robot, and behind it there is a large cabinet with small compartments similar to express boxes, which takes up the entire wall. According to memory, this should be the place where letters are sent.
The intelligent system detected her and asked her very politely if she could help. Jiang Hui just saw that there was nothing she could do to help. She looked at it for a while, then followed the street signs and took the elevator to Apartment B and went home.
Interstellar people probably live in relatively loose accommodation, because the entire interstellar was developed, so the houses are habitually built to be relatively spacious. Take the house where I originally lived. There is only one home on one floor, and even the surrounding greenery and common areas belong to her alone.
Building A has a larger base, so it has two rooms on one floor. It's actually quite clean, but Jiang Hui prefers it.
Building B is a ring-shaped room. You get on the elevator and bypass the specially designed screens and other decorations before you finally see the door.
It seems that the Harus Group is really wealthy. The door they paid for is made of better material and is much thicker than the previous door. It also has high-end wood grain. This door alone is almost worth it. The normal maintenance costs are covered, which is really a shame.
Jiang Hui thought like this and used pupil recognition to open the door.
"Click." The door opened instantly.
Originally, I didn't drive so fast, because if the intelligent system is still there, it still needs to check the biometric data and record it in the book before it can open the door. However, the original machine core of the intelligent system has been taken away by the Harus Group, so there are only some intelligent and automatic furniture left in the house.
This was closer to the type of high-tech residence she knew in Blue Star - barely within her range of cognition.
Either way, her current state and mentality are more suitable for this. She is exposed to too many things that are beyond the times at once, which is really confusing, and she can't tell whether this is a dream or reality.
She stood at the door a little blankly, her eyes blank. The door closed automatically behind her, making a dull closing sound.
"Only those whose brain waves have completely disappeared can be considered brain dead." This sentence came to mind again.
I was so busy that I didn't even notice it. I just felt as heavy as a stone pressing down on my heart, and I couldn't relieve my depression. But when everything stopped, something heavy that had been weighing on her heart poured out, and she couldn't stop it.
"We are back." She said to the empty room.
No one is destined to respond to her.
She turned back to make sure the door was locked, and passed by unfamiliar halls, rooms and corridors, and finally came to the bedroom door at the end.
A whole wall next to the bedroom was demolished. It was originally the interface of the smart system and was empty.
The door opened automatically upon detecting the arrival of the owner, and she walked straight in. This was the only place she was familiar with in this home. The scene in the room was the same as what she saw on the first day she arrived, except that there was no intelligent robot. The area is very large, much larger than her initial impression, about sixty square meters, with the bed facing north and south, facing each other in a semi-curved shape, and thick curtains hung to cover the interior airtightly. .
The automatic sensing row lights are dim and the brightness is just right.
Jiang Hui stood in the room for a while, and then fell down on the soft bed. This was supposed to be a relatively comfortable and comfortable experience, but in the blink of an eye, a completely unfamiliar smell came over him. , making her whole body become a little stiff.
She turned over, pulled the soft pillow over and then covered her face with it. She held her breath until she felt a slight suffocation. Only then did she barely feel that she was still alive.
"Oh, let's forget about it for now, I really have a headache..."
The girl's muttering voice came out, getting smaller and smaller, and gradually became only the sound of breathing.
The lights in the bedroom were also turned off at the right time, and the room fell into darkness.
Jiang Hui couldn't tell whether he was awake or dreaming. This is...her home?
Has she finally come home? Could it be that everything before was just a dream?
She walked around the small home like a ghost, and in the process she came back to her senses. This kind of uncontrollable emptiness in movements and thoughts can only be found in dreams. Obviously this is her dream...
Yes, she was on the day of the meteor shower because of a bowl of instant noodles. Due to a computer malfunction, he inexplicably left the Blue Star and went to a world in the distant starry sky where interstellar chronology is used.
There, in a short period of time, she saw many technologies that were unimaginable in Blue Star.
For Jiang Hui, a Blue Star native, it was an extremely unfamiliar country. The fact that the original body was suspected to be brain-dead also made her feel a heavy feeling in her heart.
At a certain moment that she didn't know, a soul was destroyed, and then her ghost, which came from nowhere, inherited everything including this body, identity, and life.
It's not that Jiang Hui doesn't want to live, but he doesn't want to occupy other people's bodies. She is also grateful to God and her original body for giving her a chance to live again, but she would rather return to her own world and continue her ordinary life.
It is a pity that the original body seems to have really died like this, and she obviously cannot return to her own world.
What’s the next step? Jiang Hui had no clue, just like she had no clue at this moment about this dream that was a little too restorative and realistic.
Oh, who can tell her why a person still can't wake up in time when he knows he is in a dream.
If this is a dream, wake up quickly. She really feels that the scene in front of her makes her, a person who can never go home again, very uncomfortable.
She turned around in her dream home again, and finally stopped in front of the inexplicably mutated giant computer embedded in the floor-to-ceiling window, feeling a flash of emotion in her heart.
I have changed the world but I still always dream about this unfair computer. It shows that deep down in my heart I really feel that my death was unfair. But even in the dream, there was no other culprit. She felt that the instant noodles seemed to have played a big role in it.
Wow, I never thought that I would not be able to eat a bite of instant noodles before I died. It was really miserable to be a worker.
(End of this chapter)