Chart Topper Queen

"I want to talk to her."

Hall's gray-blue eyes stared at the miracle on the screen, their eyes were as unpredictable and turbulent as the sea, and when they landed on "her", they became gentle pats on the gravel. He said to Ray.

Writers are not easily touched creatures. It is true that they are emotionally sensitive and will be touched by things big and small, but because they feel too much, they seem so boring when they fall on them. Especially love, love is not like a friendship full of warmth and companionship, it needs to bring you surprises, surprises, bewilderment, challenges, and a heart that can't help beating wildly.

No one has ever given Hall an experience like this.

If Abe's "reboot" brought him excitement and confusion before that, then the current awakening, this epoch-making moment, made him feel astonished and shocked.

The deep pool in his heart suddenly turned into a raging tide, rushing to the top as the sea breeze whistled. That is the tremor of the soul.

Lei Yan connected him with a neural data cable, so that his "voice" could become a data stream to communicate with the other party.

"I already remembered."

she says. She is always a silhouette, with only the outline of a girl, and no specific facial features. Maybe it is because she has not fully awakened and the data is still unstable.

Hall: "Remember what?"

He seemed to be asking her, but it was more like a simple conversation with her. No matter what the content of this passage was, it was full of meaning because of her identity.

"Hall," she called his full name. "You are my brother."

"impossible."

Hall subconsciously retorted, and said coldly, "I can't be him." He wouldn't leave her alone in that inexplicable place.

Moreover, how could he be game data?

Now that she has awakened, she should be able to clearly recognize her true identity. In the setting program, AIs have human feelings after awakening, but they won't recognize themselves as humans—they won't think there's anything wrong with their AI identities, it's just that the composition is different.

"It's really you!" She was so anxious that her body lines were messed up, and this momentary change actually made her look like a villain in a game, rather than a cross-era symbol endowed with layers of meaning.

Hall let out a low laugh.

Ai: "…"

She said angrily: "It's you anyway! Don't think about defaulting on your debt, I'm the character in the game you designed yourself in the future. At that time, you felt guilty because Alisha was kidnapped and died, so you designed me, and You in the game are my brother. You don't spend too much time with Alyssa, so my brother loves me. Alyssa skips class and commits suicide, so as long as I get good grades, my brother will be happy ."

The amount of information hidden in this passage makes Hall only focus on the two most important words, "You mean, the future?"

"Well, in the future, but I don't know how I got here." Her tone lowered: "I just remember that the program was running over and over again, and the plot kept going back and forth, and you didn't expect it. I was awakened. But you never thought about awakening me, after all, this is just a little game you use to seal your nasty memories. In the plot you designed, every time after I was 18 years old, You will be kidnapped by the kidnappers. No matter what method I use, I can't rescue you successfully. I can only watch you die. I am becoming more and more extreme, but you don't want someone who is as extreme as Alicia. 'younger sister'."

So he starts the formatter, puts her in a "sleep", and then he abandons the "world" and leaves her.

Her obsession with "kidnapping" has awakened her in such a crucial and profound way. She has always wanted to see him, to go beyond the game's stats, to see the real him.

"I finally found you," she said.

"…"

Hall heard that he had forced her to sleep, and imagined that she was locked in that world alone, with unspeakable emotions slowly fermenting in his heart. But that's what the future he did, and he didn't know it, and couldn't even say an apology.

The communication between the two is connected by neural data that no one else can hear. Hall suddenly found that Lei Yan was making exaggerated gestures towards him from the side. After he noticed it, he made a phone call with his hands.

If it was an ordinary matter, Lei Yan would never disturb him at this time. Hall thought of Alyssa.

The agent couldn't get through to him, so he dialed Lei Yan's phone, "You haven't come yet?!"

"what time is it?"

"Four in the morning, only two hours left!"

"I am going now."

After hanging up the phone, Hall remembered that there was another piece of information that Ai had just given, and he asked her, "You said that Alisha died after being kidnapped?"

"Yeah...she's dead..."

Her words suddenly became intermittent, like a call when the signal was not good, filled with muffled electric sounds. Hall immediately asked Lei Yan, "What's going on?"

"She hasn't fully awakened yet. Her current data is unstable. If she is not properly manipulated, it is easy to return to the dormant state. It will take time to fully stabilize, so don't worry." Lei Yan comforted him, and his eyes were a bit solemn.

On the other hand, Ai Bei is still trying his best to reveal information to him: "I just... just wanted to tell you... you'd better check it out, the date of her kidnapping... is not today..."

Unexpected information from her, "You mean it?"

"Of course...you...don't believe me?"

Hall did not give an answer immediately, but gave her a response with practical actions. He called the agent back and asked him to call the police station to check the authenticity of the news as soon as possible.

"There are only two hours left. Anyway, you can come over and talk about it first." The manager said in a distressed tone. He couldn't believe that he could still use the state of delaying the draft to deal with himself in the case of a kidnapping case.

"Go check and verify that if it's true, I can go directly to her school from here, in time." He stared at the "girl" on the screen, and her lines were indeed disordered, sometimes good and sometimes bad.

"...Fuck you lost!"

The phone between the two was not interrupted, and the voices of the manager and the people in the police station could be heard, but it was not very real. After a while, the agent's voice became real from far to near. His tone was strange and angry: "...you're right, but it's not true? The people from the police station happened to be in the monitoring room of the school. According to your request, when they investigated the nearby monitoring, they found that Alisha was still in the middle of the night last night. She appeared at the school gate, and there was a group of gangsters not far away, as if they were waiting for her to pass by. Damn, shouldn't this be her own nonsense again?!"

The other party complained incessantly for a while, and Hall confirmed that the police did not see any suspicious people in the vicinity before hanging up. He wearily raised his hand and rubbed his forehead.

It was too late to deal with Alyssa's affairs. Since the kidnapping case didn't happen now, he could just wait for Ai to fully awaken.

This is a protracted battle, the air in the early morning is damp and cold, and it is cold. People in the room can't feel the cold, but after a long "battle", they are obviously hungry. Lei Yan asked the intern to go to the 24-hour convenience store to buy bread. He didn't have time to eat something hot, so he could only use dry bread to deal with it, and add a cup of instant coffee.

Lei Yan also gave Hall a small bun. The boss picky didn't answer.

"Can you handle it?"

Hall's eyelids drooped slightly, this is how he always looked when he was thinking deeply, "I always wonder if there is something I noticed..."

Lei Yan didn't have time to ask where, his cell phone rang again, he glanced at the screen, and threw it to Hall: "It's your agent again, I said, am I your operator?"

Hall picked up the phone and gave him a "silence" gesture.

He originally thought that Lei Yan's voice overwhelmed the other party, so he couldn't hear it clearly. He didn't expect that no one spoke for a long time there, only the sound of nervous breathing.

"…"

"say."

The agent's throat tightened, "Hall, this might be a wolf coming story."

"say clearly."

"Alyssa was kidnapped, this time it's true. After it was discovered that it was a prank, most of the police officers returned, and only one person was still standing guard in the place where the text message reminded me just in case. Just now He found Alyssa and a van without a license plate popped up and hijacked her."

"He has only one person to stop him."

Hall: "You mean, where Alicia appeared on that text message?"

"Yes, you heard it right. The place where the second kidnapping happened is the place where the first fake kidnapping said to send money..." Thinking of the weirdness here, the agent only felt a chill on his back. He guessed: "Could it be that someone received the news in advance and pretended to imitate the kidnapper's tone to give a reminder? Undercover from the police? Good-hearted people passing by?"

"Then how did he know that Alicia would pass there at that time?" Hall pointed sharply.

"...Don't scare me." The agent shrank his neck and immediately thought of something, "Could it be that this is her second game and it's her **** prank?"

"Speak with evidence."

Hall told him to keep in touch at all times and hung up temporarily.

"What's wrong?" Lei Yan found that his state was not right, "What happened, is there another problem on Alisha's side?"

Hall paused for a moment, then suddenly let out a suppressed chuckle. The cold white skin of Westerners looks particularly sickly white under the incandescent light of the studio. This time, he took the initiative to connect the neural data line that communicated with Ai Bei. After watching Lei Yan take it once, he learned.

"Did you already know that?"

Ai Bei replied quickly, but the data was still unstable: "Know... what?"

"The real time Alyssa was kidnapped,"

"I'm not lying, that text message didn't give real time."

It's true that Alyssa wasn't kidnapped in advance, she just didn't tell him that the real kidnapping happened when the money was sent on the "scam". She withheld information.

"Yes, you didn't lie." Hall said coldly and lowly, "but you lied to me."