Chapter 3

001 is very curious about what kind of person the host wants to call.

It waited quietly for the host to dial the number. After waiting for a while, it saw the host delete the numbers just entered one by one.

001:?

It senses the host's uneasiness.

As an internship system, it can distinguish the host's mood, but it is difficult to understand why the host has such emotions.

001 couldn't help but ask: "Host, aren't you calling?"

"Um."

"Why don't you fight again?"

Xie Yishu said nothing.

During those five years on the Ancient Blue Star, he thought about Gu Yan every day. He thought about Atlantis and the family members in the Mouton Orphanage.

But he didn't know if Gu Yan was like him.

He must have thought about it at the beginning. Just like he spent a long time trying to come back in the beginning, Gu Yan must have spent a long time looking for him.

One day, two days, a month, two months... maybe longer.

But he left for five whole years.

Five years, there are too many variables.

He and Gu Yan had only been together for three years. Five years was enough to heal the pain and dilute all feelings.

Not to mention that he disappeared directly from Gu Yan's life, and there was no news from him for five years.

His boyfriend may have become someone else's boyfriend.

Maybe the children will call them daddy.

001 is like a child who likes to break the casserole and ask for answers. Xie Yishu responded vaguely, "Call me later." He lowered his head and quickly typed another number.

Mouton Orphanage.

001 saw the host making a call, calmed down, and listened curiously.

It can detect changes in the host's mood. The host's mood was a little low just now, but now it is cheerful again for some reason.

The other end of the phone was quickly connected, and a milky voice sounded in Guang's head: "Hello?"

Xie Yishu recalled a circle in his mind, but could not connect this voice with his familiar younger siblings. He thought it might be a child who had just been sent to the orphanage in the past few years, so he couldn't help but said in a gentle tone: "Hello."

Their Mouton Orphanage, although it is called Mouton Orphanage, is actually just a small orphanage on Mouton Planet.

In the countryside of a remote courtyard, far away from the main city. Although the federal government allocates funds every year, the amount allocated is not large. The money is not enough to buy books and clothes for older children, let alone toys. They just

The landline phone is used as a toy, taking turns to receive calls from the outside world.

It wasn't until he came to the main star to go to college that the life of the orphanage got better. I heard that a rich man from the main star donated money to their orphanage.

In college, he also bought a lot of toys that the children of the main star liked to play with and sent them back, but the tradition of taking turns answering the phone seemed to have continued.

The child on the other side of Guang Nao seemed to be afraid of strangers, and his breathing was a little quick: "This is the Mouton Orphanage, who are you looking for?"

"I'm looking for Mama Zhang, is she there?"

"She's in the yard. I'll call her."

The receiver was placed on the table and made a "clicking" sound. Xie Yishu could hear the patter of footsteps and the questions of other children——

"Azhi, who is it?" "Is it someone from the government?" "Are you looking for Mother Zhang?"

Then, the familiar, unique, hurried footsteps that seemed to bring a gust of wind came from far away, and a middle-aged woman's voice sounded from the other end of the brain: "Hello?"

Xie Yishu's nose felt sore.

This was a bit unexpected. He thought he was fully prepared before making the call. Unexpectedly, hearing the familiar voice made his eye circles feel hot.

It was a bit embarrassing, but luckily I didn't cry. Xie Yishu sniffed, smiled and shouted: "Mom."

He is the first batch of children after the Mouton Orphanage was built.

Their children all lost their parents when they were infancy. To them, Mother Zhang, Mother Li, and Mother Wang, who had always taken care of them, were their biological mothers, and they always called them "Mom."

Later, more children were sent in from the outside world. Some of the children were older and could remember their parents and refused to call others "Mom". This group of children changed their words together and refused to let their younger brothers and sisters.

I feel close and distant.

But privately, they still prefer to call the three mothers "Mom".

When Xie Yishu called "Mom", the other person immediately guessed who he was: "...Xiao Shu?"

Before Xie Yishu could respond, he heard the other side crying and scolding: "You damn child, where did you die? Do you know that Ma Li, Ma Wang, and I have been worried about you in the past five years?"

Xie Yishu touched his nose. Among the three mothers, he was the closest to Zhang's mother.

So my first reaction was to ask Mother Zhang to answer the phone, but I forgot that Mother Zhang is the most likely to cry among the three mothers.

"Hey, Mom, Mom, don't cry, don't scare your brothers and sisters..."

Xie Yishu spent a lot of effort to comfort Zhang's mother.

After retelling the short story she had written in the service hall, Zhang’s mother changed the topic and said, “You damn kid, even if you are diagnosed with a terminal illness by the hospital, you can’t stop thinking about it. Come back, go home.”

, tell mom..."

Zhang's mother is different from the staff in the service hall. She is more familiar with Xie Yishu.

In order to make his little story more believable, Xie Yishu added some small factors such as "diagnosed as terminally ill by the hospital" and "after getting out of despair, he returned for a follow-up visit and found out that it was a misdiagnosis by a small hospital."

After he promised not to act stupid again in the future, he would go to a big hospital for a comprehensive check-up, and then go back to Mouton Star to visit them in a few days, Mother Zhang let him go.

She repeatedly told Xie Yishu to change hospitals for examinations and come back no matter what the results were. She didn't believe the holographic video Xie Yishu sent, and she had to see him with her own eyes to feel at ease.

Xie Yishu responded one by one.

In fact, if it weren't for the insufficient balance in his account and the inability to afford a ticket back to Mouton, he might be on his way back to Mouton now.

Zhang’s mother gave a few more instructions, fearing that Xie Yishu would be busy with other things and would not take up his time anymore. She told him to take good care of himself on the main star and return to Mouton as soon as possible when he was free, and then hung up the phone.

Before hanging up the phone, Zhang's mother thought of something: "By the way, Xiao Shu, do you still remember that you brought back a boy named Gu when you were in college?"

Xie Yishu tightened his grip on Guang Nao: "Remember."

"That boy has been looking for you. After you disappeared, he came to the orphanage every year. He just came once in June this year... Remember to call him to report that he is safe."

Xie Yishu took a while to find his voice: "Okay."

"Is he still the same number?"

"That's right." Zhang's mother paused, as if she was looking for something, and after a while reported a series of numbers, "This is the number he left in the orphanage."

Unchanged.

It's still the same number from the university.

Xie Yishu closed his eyes and promised Zhang's mother that he would call her to report that she was safe. When the other end of the optical brain hung up the phone, Xie Yishu held the optical brain and leaned against the wall.

He felt like his heart was going to explode.

Just like you think you are stuck at a certain point, everyone else is constantly moving forward.

I closed my eyes because of fear, but when I opened them, I found that some people were still there.

001 found that he could not understand the host's emotions more and more.

The mood of its host changes too quickly, and every time there are several different emotions mixed together.

It thinks it can do a study, called "Host Emotion Observation Diary".

When the one-year period is up, the superiors will come for acceptance, and they will hand in the research report. In this way, maybe even if it does not perform well in promoting the host, the superiors will be able to add some points for the fact that it has a research report and give it a passing grade C.

-.

Xie Yishu doesn't know what 001 is thinking.

He dialed Gu Yan's number again.

"Du-du-du--"

The phone didn't go through.

He didn't hear the thoughts, only the cold electronic voice: "The user you dialed has turned off..."

It may be that the optical computer is out of power.

Xie Yishu thought about dialing again later, but couldn't help but feel a little disappointed.

He stuffed his bare head into his trouser pocket and walked out of the alley with his bag on his back.

The street lights lit up outside. 001 put away the small notebook that recorded the host's emotions and asked: "Host, host, where should we go next?"

"Find a place to live."

"001 knows it!"
To be continued...