Chapter 58

As the system prompt disappears, the copy restarts.

In the cool spring rain, a translucent female figure stood under the mistletoe, looking at the distant mountains and the rainy sky.

Silver-like raindrops fell from the sky and passed through her thin body. Without the slightest pause, they fell into the embrace of the earth and submerged into the soil that had been soaked by the rain, making no sound.

Marley's ghost no longer remembers, This is the first few springs it has been waiting for under the mistletoe.

In her silent eyes, the romantic mountains in the distance spread out under the gray clouds, with brilliant wild flowers dotted here and there, stretching all the way to the farm farther away, and the chirping of animals could be heard in the distance.

Everything is like the scene in her memory, the day her husband and children left her.

Thinking of his family, Ma Li's ghost's face darkened.

This spring rain came and went suddenly. Ma Li's ghost noticed that the rain was slowly getting lighter and seemed to be about to stop. He looked away from the empty mountains and sighed inconspicuously.

She lowered her gaze and was about to leave. Who knew that at this moment, the sound of horse hooves could be heard.

A thin figure wearing a hospital gown, riding a pure white pony, came through the misty drizzle.

Lu Miao drove the pony and stood one meter away from Ma Li's ghost. He lowered his head and rummaged in his small satchel for a while, then took out something and handed it to her.

"The facial mask you purchased online has arrived. Wash off this homemade mask quickly. It's too harmful to your skin!"

The young man had delicate eyebrows and a bright smile on his face. He lay on the horse's neck, winked at her playfully and pointed at the raindrops in the sky.

Ma Li's ghost was stunned for a moment, and while taking the thing in Lu Miao's hand, he hastily wiped the tears on his face, thanked Lu Miao in a low voice, and hid back in the lair with a red face before the light rain stopped completely.

inside.

After the young man left, she carefully poked her head out, watched the young man greet everyone in the town with the same warm smile, and then distributed the letters.

She remembered this young man.

He is different from everyone in the small town. Everyone was born in this world. This young man named Lu Miao suddenly appeared long after the server was launched.

Together with his house, which is said to have been inherited by messengers from past generations.

There is never a messenger in "An Ideal Town". Everyone's letters are automatically dropped into the mailbox after waking up every morning.

But since this young man appeared, there has been a messenger in the town.

Every morning, like players who are eager to go out to do tasks, the messenger will go out with a lot of letters and deliver various letters and items to residents in the town or players on the farm. Sometimes he is also responsible for mediation.

Conflicts between residents.

However, I heard that this young man who always smiled and had beautiful gray-blue eyes was not like this when he first came to the town.

Ma Li's ghost has never paid much attention to the outside world. In addition, it only comes out on rainy days and waits for the return of her family. It cannot well recall the appearance of the young man when he first arrived in the town.

But she remembers everyone's footsteps.

The steps of the town elder Liu are steady and slow, while the steps of the player are hurried. Lao Wang rarely comes out of his wooden house. What he is busy with every day is the items that everyone in the town asks him to help build, and his steps are always at home.

Working in the workplace, his wife, Aunt Cui, is always busy taking care of the family's daily life. Occasionally, the couple will go to the river here to watch the stars...

When this young man first came to the town, his footsteps were like a set metronome. The distance of each step, the length of time between steps, and even the number of steps needed to walk through the entire town were all extremely rigorous and rigid.

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It's like he doesn't want to do it himself, but he has to do it because of the system settings or other reasons.

Lu Miao at the beginning was simply better than the programmed nppcs like them.

But I don’t know since when, the sound of Lu Miao’s footsteps changed.

His footsteps gradually became brisk, rich, and freewheeling. After Lao Wang built a stable for him, the footsteps coming out of the messenger's house were different every day.

Lu Miao would still walk around the entire town, but sometimes on foot and sometimes on a pony.

After delivering all the letters to the residents of the town, he would no longer return directly to the messenger's hut and spend the longest lonely time of the day as before, but would gradually stop in various places in the town,

Walking in the mountains in spring, by the creek in summer, and under the maple trees in autumn.

In the winter of the first year, Lu Miao was no longer alone. The residents of the town would invite him to sit in their homes, and the tavern owner would invite him in to participate in festive games with everyone.

Lu Miao also began to participate in everyone's topics, like a real member of "Ideal Town".

He integrated into the collective even faster than Ma Li's ghost.

This is the first time that Ma Li has received a letter from him to herself, or in other words, this is the first time that Ma Li has received a letter from someone else.

Unlike everyone else in the town, Mary was a lonely ghost from the beginning.

Both her husband and children died in the war, and the era where Ma Li lived was 100 years away from now. The people, things and things she was familiar with have disappeared in the long river of history.

In 100 years, time has changed, and the world has changed. No one remembers Ma Li's existence, let alone thinks about her and sends her letters.

But today, Ma Li got her own letter from Lu Miao.

Seeing Lu Miao's figure disappear from sight, Ma Li remembered that he had just pointed at the tears on her face and said they were pointing to the facial mask, and her cheeks turned red.

In the current Lu Miao, she can no longer see the lonely and mechanical look this young man had when he first came into the game.

For such a long time, she had never met Lu Miao face to face or had any actual interaction.

Ma Li did not expect that the young man who was better than nppc at the time would actually become such a considerate character, and would even use rainwater to cover up her embarrassment.

Once upon a time, Ma Li had thought that if her two children grew up normally, maybe the gentle eldest son would become a gentleman like Lu Miao.

But this can only be Ma Li's fantasy after all. Her and her husband's children have completely lost the chance to grow up during that war.

Ma Li couldn't help but feel a little sad. She lowered her head silently and saw the small box that Lu Miao gave her.

According to Lu Miao, this should be the facial mask she ordered online.

However, the NPCs in "Ideal Town" have the ability to learn independently. In order to prevent them from endangering social security, all NPCs are not allowed to connect to outside networks, let alone have money to buy outside things.

Ma Li didn't even remember what facial mask she bought.

She is a ghost.

Where do ghosts need such a thing?

Ma Li looked at the box in her hand and hesitated for a while.

If she had placed it in the past, she would have immediately returned the box quietly and avoided any interaction with Lu Miao in the future.

But when she thought of the smile Lu Miao showed her on the pony, Ma Li somehow didn't do it and even opened it out of curiosity.

What was inside the box was indeed not a facial mask, but a stack of thick letters and documents.

Ma Li just took out the letter on the top and turned it over. The moment she saw the words on it, her mind suddenly went blank, and then tears flowed down unconsciously.

The cover of the letter said: Ma Li, we are back.

The signature was not in Ma Li's husband's name, but at this time Ma Li could no longer care about that.

With trembling hands, she opened the letter as fast as she could in her life.

In the process of opening the letter, Ma Li remained rational and kept reminding herself that her husband and son had died in the war a hundred years ago, and this letter could not have been sent by them.

But she didn't expect that as soon as she opened the letter, an inexplicable force suddenly swept out and sucked her whole ghost into it.

After a moment of dizziness, Ma Li opened her eyes again.

Before she could be shocked, someone could actually pull her into another space before she could react. When Ma Li raised her head, she was shocked by the sight in front of her.

She actually appeared in the player's cabin.

The NPCs in "Ideal Town" have always known that they are just a string of data, but for them in the virtual world, this world built by data is their real world.

They are not like people in the real world, who experience birth, old age, illness and death, and live the same life day after day. All they have are family and friends around them, but they never feel dissatisfied.

Ma Li's ghost has never been able to integrate into the residents of the town because she is too lonely and can never wait for her husband and children, nor can she accept other NPCs.

But at this moment, after she was attacked by the letter, she opened her eyes again and saw her family members whom she missed day and night.

She was standing in the kitchen, preparing today's dinner. As soon as she raised her head, she saw her husband playing with the children in front of her.

The voice that was deeply embedded in my memory appeared in my ears, but Ma Li's ghost felt timid for a moment.

When she was hesitating whether to escape from this illusory dream immediately or raise her head to face it, she suddenly felt warm and was embraced by a strong and powerful body.

Her husband, who was a doctor in a small town, hugged her distressedly, wrapped her hand in his gentle palm, and warmed it with his own warmth.

Ma Li's body froze.

However, her husband seemed not to notice at all. He just gently put her broken hair back and asked softly: "What are you thinking about? Did the children do something bad that made you unhappy?"

Tears instantly burst into Ma Li's eyes.

Ma Li's husband suddenly panicked and quickly pulled her out of the kitchen and sat down on the sofa. The two children also stopped playing and came around with concern.

"Mom, what's wrong with you? Why are you crying?"

"Mom, don't be angry. I didn't bully my brother. We were just playing a war game."

Two pairs of small hands and her husband's big hands were busy wiping away Ma Li's tears. The real touch made Ma Li feel a little dazed, almost thinking that the loneliness and longing in the previous 100 years were just her imagination.

But at this moment, the youngest son said apologetically: "Mom, I'm sorry, I will never run around again. I won't let you find me."

When Ma Li heard this, she felt as if she had fallen into an ice cave.
To be continued...