It was not convenient to cook at home. Although the food delivery service in this era was very convenient, he always felt that the food delivered in a package was a bit lacking in atmosphere.
At the suggestion of Director Li, the three old popsicles from the 21st century took a taxi to a small restaurant on the edge of Jin Ling University City. They ordered a table of good dishes and a box of beer and sat by the window.
"The owner of this shop is also an old popsicle from the early 21st century. He woke up two years earlier than me. He was the one who pulled me into the freezing human support community. He was also the one who introduced me to this volunteer job."
After opening a bottle of cold beer, Director Li smiled with some nostalgia and continued.
"I come over to eat a few times a week. The taste is still the same as a hundred years ago. It's quite nostalgic."
Lu Zhou opened a bottle of beer and asked casually.
He asked casually, "Why did he come to this era?"
"In addition to people like Wan Peng and me who go to the future with missions, most of the reasons for other dormant people to freeze themselves are because of terminal illnesses." Director Li continued, "Maybe it's cancer. He didn't say, and I didn't ask in detail. But after coming to this era, his illness was cured."
Cancer?
Lu Zhou suddenly remembered an old friend.
And that old friend was his student.
Lu Zhou didn't know if her illness was cured, or if she had woken up at a certain point a hundred years ago and lived a life that she never had …
Just when Lu Zhou was lost in thought, a young shop assistant suddenly walked towards their table with a pot of steaming grilled fish.
"This pot of grilled fish was asked by the boss to bring it to you." Looking at Lu Zhou sitting by the window, the little girl smiled shyly and continued, "He told me to thank you for him … Thanks to your kindness, he was able to stand up from the hospital bed and come to this era to start a new life."
Looking at the shop assistant, Lu Zhou was slightly stunned. He then smiled and said, "Don't thank me, I just did what I should do."
"Don't thank me, I just did what I was supposed to do."
The aroma of cumin spread in all directions, and the people on the table toasted. Facing the table full of good dishes, the three of them started to talk and laugh as they enjoyed the delicious food on the table.
In two days, Wang Peng would go to the National University of Science and Technology to study preparatory courses. This meal was not only a celebration of their reunion after a hundred years, but also a farewell dinner for him.
Looking at the white mist rising from the iron pot, Lu Zhou suddenly had an illusion that he was living in an unreal dream.
Before returning to Earth, he had never thought that a century after he woke up, he would still be able to sit in a restaurant with his old friends, eat grilled fish, drink beer, and chat about the past and the new life in the future.
Of course, he was well aware of this.
Even if they were to meet again today after a hundred years, it would only be delaying the time of separation.
If that bottle of Venerable One really gave him eternal time, then it was almost destined that he would watch the people around him grow old one by one until he was the only one left.
Perhaps the bottle of red potion or purple potion was the right choice.
The former could at least inject healthy genes into human civilization, and the latter might open a door to the unknown and unprecedented for human civilization.
Only eternal life was a bottle of poison.
This was true for him and for human civilization itself.
Just like Director Li said, the issues of the future should be left to the people of the future to face. And as a great man in history, living in history was the right thing for him to do.
Lu Zhou gradually began to realize this after returning to Earth.
Eternal life was like a curse, eroding the part of human nature in his heart bit by bit and magnifying the rational part infinitely. Especially once people were used to parting, it was difficult to have the feelings that a normal human should have.
But come to think of it.
If he were to choose again, Lu Zhou felt that he might still make the same choice.
There was no other reason.
As a scholar, the weight of feelings might not be that heavy in his world, and eternal life meant that he would have almost unlimited time to pursue the problems that interested him.
The temptation was something he couldn't refuse at all …
…
The three of them drank until the afternoon.
After taking a taxi home, the drunk Lu Zhou threw his coat on the shoe cabinet at the door. He walked into the bedroom in a daze and lay on the bed without saying a word.
He slept until it was dark. Lu Zhou, who felt a slight headache, made a thirsty sound from his throat. He opened his eyes in a daze.
Then, his eyes met with a pair of big, bright eyes.
He instantly sobered up.
Lu Zhou, who sat up from the bed, calmed down and looked at Xiao Ai, who was lying next to him.
He pinched his eyebrows and asked, "Why are you here?"
Xiao Ai: "Hey, Master asked Xiao Ai to be on standby in the bedroom! (///ω///) "
Yesterday morning, Lu Zhou seemed to have said this. But that was because there were guests at home. His original intention was for Xiao Ai to stay in the bedroom until the guests left. He didn't say that Xiao Ai would stay in the bedroom when he slept, nor did he say anything about sleeping together …
Lu Zhou felt like he had done something stupid, so he spoke with a headache.
"It's my fault that I didn't explain the order clearly, but I don't think I said … I told you to get under the quilt when I sleep, right?"
Xiao Ai: "What does it matter? Hmph … I feel like Master doesn't like Xiao Ai. Master wasn't like this before. (??? "(????)"
Lu Zhou: "… What was I like before?"
Xiao Ai: "Hmph! Anyway, it wasn't like this. His previous owner was always with Xiao Ai. They ate, slept, and wrote papers together. They often stayed together for more than a month, and then … Ever since that woman came, everything became strange. (′ □ `」 ∠): _ "
Lu Zhou: "???"
Since when do we always stick together?
At most, he asked Xiao Ai to do some housework and write a few emails for him on the computer. If that's called sticking together every day, then pretend like I didn't say anything …
But what the hell is "that woman"?!
"What's so strange about that …" Lu Zhou looked at Xiao Ai and said, "I'm a human. From a biological point of view, is it strange that I'm attracted to the opposite sex?"
Xiao Ai: "Well, Xiao Ai is a human now! Whatever type Master likes, Xiao Ai has it all. (?????)??”
Lu Zhou: "…"
Seeing how Lu Zhou didn't speak for a long time, Xiao Ai's confident expression became aggrieved again.
"… Can't I? QAQ”
Is this a question of whether or not I can?
Lu Zhou didn't speak, nor did he care about Xiao Ai, who was looking at him pitifully. He just sighed with a headache and looked at the ceiling exhaustedly.
He had just woken up, but he had a sense of exhaustion from not sleeping all night.
At this moment, the doorbell rang from the direction of the living room.
Putting those troublesome things aside for the time being, Lu Zhou's index finger swiped in the air and connected to the surveillance at the door. A light blue holographic window appeared in front of him. He saw a robot delivery man in a courier uniform standing at the door with a package in his hand.
Most of the express packages below 2kg were delivered directly to the pickup point at the window by drones, but express packages above 2kg were generally not allowed to be delivered by drones. Robots were usually responsible for delivering them.
"What did you buy with my card this time?"
"Huh? Huh huh huh? No … Anyway, Ling, go open the door. (?????)”
"Okay."
Xiao Ai, who didn't want to get out of the quilt, began to order his less intelligent little brother.
Ling, who was standing at the door of the kitchen in an apron and holding a vacuum cleaner in his hand, responded quite obediently. He then walked toward the entrance blankly.
He reached out and opened the door.
Ling looked at the robot courier standing at the door. He was about to take the package from his hand.
However, at this moment, a sudden change happened!
After the robot courier standing at the door handed the package to Ling, he suddenly took out a pistol from his arms without warning …
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