The night before the promotion

Chapter 46: Cleaning Brother Ruan [Thanks to the Dark and Unparalleled Leader]

Zhou Si and Ruan Linrui's encounter originated from a card game.

I still remember that it was a late night when he was working overtime. Zhou Si opened the game out of boredom. He wanted to play a few rounds casually, but he found that there were local players who could be matched with him.

Zhou Si never thought that he would meet similar players in Shenwei Technology. After all, this card game has long lost its former glory and has become tepid, which can be regarded as a real niche game.

He sent a battle invitation, and after waiting for a while, the other party agreed. The id was the cleaner Ruan Ge.

The two fought several times, and Zhou Si was defeated by the opponent every time. Gradually, Zhou Si also became angry and vowed to win that battle.

I don’t know if it was Zhou Si’s anger that made his operation better, or if the opponent let him win, but Zhou Si actually won.

After winning, he naturally wanted to release the frustration in his heart. Zhou Si opened the built-in chat box of the game and glared at the cleaning man Ruan.

When the cleaning man Ruan suggested playing another game, Zhou Si simply logged off and ignored him.

He guessed that the cleaning man, Ruan Ge's face must have turned green with anger.

Then Zhou Si received a text message.

"Your name is Zhou Si, you work at Shenwei Technology, R&D Department, your home address is He'an Community, Dongcheng District, Yanyan City, your mobile phone number and ID number are...

You are currently on the sixth floor of the R&D Department of Shenwei Science and Technology Industrial Park. Now, the avatar body closest to you has been requisitioned. In less than three minutes, you will see an avatar body kicking open the door and breaking your limbs, or..."

After reading the text message, Zhou Si discovered that the card game on the screen, which should have been closed, had started up again. A battle invitation from the cleaner Ruan Ge popped up, along with a message from the cleaner Ruan Ge.

"Come in and get beaten."

Zhou Si chose to accept the invitation.

In this way, Zhou Si met a gaming netizen.

Some people can go to bed on the first day they meet, while others reveal their inner thoughts, understand each other's souls, and communicate everything about each other's lives.

There are many similar examples, but Zhou Si feels that no one would give out personal information on the first day of knowing each other, and it is a one-sided thing.

Fortunately, in the days that followed, Zhou Si did not receive any inexplicable loan information, and the cleaning man Ruan also participated in Zhou Si's daily life.

At first, Zhou Si was not used to the cleaning man Ruan. He was like a ghost on the Internet, appearing and disappearing out of nowhere.

Cleaner Ruan Ge's hacking skills are very advanced. Zhou Si believes that he is from the Information Security Department, and only people in that department have this level of ability.

He most often appeared when Zhou Si was working overtime at night. When Zhou Si was hanging on to his last breath with a cup of coffee, he would suddenly take over Zhou Si's computer, pop up the game interface, and invite Zhou Si to play a game.

Zhou Si rarely refuses, not because the cleaning man Ruan has access to his personal information, but because during the long and boring nights, he really needs to do something else to refresh himself and pass the time.

The most important thing is that it makes Zhou Si feel that he is not alone.

Cleaning boy Ruan Ge is like a cold gaming robot. Every time he comes online, he plays games with Zhou Si. The two seldom talk to each other, and the only communication they have is mutual ridicule and trash talk.

Later, Zhou Si got used to the existence of the cleaner Ruan Ge, and the cleaner Ruan Ge also invaded Zhou Si's real life little by little.

He was no longer confined to appearing at night, and often suddenly started Zhou Si's game during the day. There were several times when Zhou Si was not in front of the computer, and the game interface was discovered by the leader, resulting in Zhou Si being scolded.

After complaining about this to the cleaning guy Ruan, who rarely did, actually apologized. He said that he would compensate Zhou Si for the performance that had been deducted.

Zhou Si didn't take the cleaning man Ruan's words seriously and just regarded it as an apologetic reply from an online netizen. However, when Zhou Si swiped his card in the cafeteria, he found that there were several thousand more yuan in his employee card.

This should be the compensation that the cleaner Ruan Ge mentioned, and his hacking skills may be more powerful than he imagined.

Gradually, the communication between Zhou Si and the cleaning man Ruan became more frequent. In addition to games, the two also had a lot of exchanges on work. When Zhou Si encountered a problem that he couldn't understand, he asked him to remotely control his computer and watch the lines of code fly by.

But suddenly one day, the cleaning man Ruan seemed to have disappeared and was not online for several days. Only then did Zhou Si realize that it was the cleaning man Ruan who had contacted him unilaterally all along.

Zhou Si didn’t know his name, what he looked like, or even whether he was a man or a woman. The only thing he could do was to log into the game to see if he was online.

Therefore, there was always a game running in the background of Zhou Si's computer, online 24 hours a day.

Two weeks after the cleaning man Ruan disappeared, he came back online. Zhou Si was very excited and had many questions to ask, but as soon as he typed the words in the chat box, he silently deleted them.

Zhou Si had been curious about the identity of the cleaner Ruan Ge, his life and past. Zhou Si had tried to bring up various topics to open up a conversation with the cleaner Ruan Ge, but the cleaner Ruan Ge seemed to know Zhou Si's purpose and always casually fooled him.

It is unclear whether this is due to the hacker's awareness of personal information, or whether cleaner Ruan simply rejects all of this and locks himself in a corner of the Internet.

Zhou Si reached a tacit understanding with the cleaning man Ruan and stopped asking about his personal affairs. They just played games, purely for the sake of playing games.

That night, the cleaner Ruan Ge unexpectedly became addicted to the Internet. He played games by himself for the entire night, from midnight to dawn.

Zhou Si felt that he was worried.

Zhou Si was like a detective solving a mystery. He inferred the cleaning man Ruan's emotions from his reactions in the game. But if you look closely, this kind of thing is boring and absurd. However, Zhou Si was full of curiosity about him.

Making others curious about themselves is a person's greatest charm.

When the sky was slightly bright, he typed, "I beat you completely." Zhou Si didn't care, "It's just 20 consecutive wins. It's not like I haven't lost so badly before."

"No, this time is different," he said. "I used twenty different decks to beat you once, completely and completely."

Zhou Si admired and said, "That's amazing."

Next, the two of them would say a few nasty things to each other, then say good night and log off, just like any other day.

But this time, the cleaning man asked, "There's a new restaurant opened in Shenwei Building. Do you want to go try it together?"

Zhou Si was stunned for a moment. He rubbed his eyes, suspecting that his eyesight was blurry from staying up late.

He was not mistaken. After knowing each other for such a long time, this was the first time that the cleaning man Ruan invited him. It was a real invitation.

Zhou Si replied, "Okay, but it will have to wait until night. I need to go to sleep."

"Me too, see you tonight."

The entire industrial park belongs to Shenwei Technology. Among the countless buildings, the most eye-catching one is the Shenwei Building in the center.

Zhou Si had only come here a few times, when submitting test reports and attending R&D meetings. The rest of the time, he worked in the independent building of the R&D department.

The place we met was called a restaurant, but it was more like a huge commercial plaza with all kinds of stores. At first glance, it was hard to believe that you were in a high-tech building.

Zhou Si looked at the figures hurrying by, and suddenly he remembered that he and the cleaning man Ruan had only agreed to meet at a vague location, and they had not exchanged any identities. Among this crowd, he had no idea which one was the cleaning man Ruan.

But soon, Zhou Si calmed down. He didn't know the cleaner Ruan Ge, but the cleaner Ruan Ge knew him and could even recite his ID number backwards.

"Hey, Zhou Si."

Someone patted Zhou Si on the back. Zhou Si turned around and saw a girl wearing bulky work clothes.

This was the first time Zhou Si met Ruan Linrui in real life.

……

A stray bullet hit the corner of the camouflage mask, and the mask on the right side of the face completely shattered, revealing Zhou Si's blood-soaked pupils.

Zhou Si did not dodge. He opened fire and fought back while continuing to recover his strength. He needed to seize every minute and every second.

During this gap, Ruan Linrui ended the fierce network attack and defense battle and regained control of her avatar body. She noticed Zhou Si who was fighting fiercely on the side.

She recalled the good old days and lamented the cruelty of reality, the two intertwined at this moment.

A subtle sense of separation spread in Ruan Linrui's heart, and she couldn't help but ask herself why everything turned out like this.

"Zhou Si, it's over."

Ruan Linrui carried Zhou Si on her back and led him to evacuate to the other side. "There are too many of them. It's only a matter of time before we lose."

"It's not us, it's just me," Zhou Si replied nonchalantly, "You're not here."

Ruan Linrui was silent for a while, her steely face expressionless, "What you said is really sad."

The metal shell made Zhou Si feel a little uncomfortable. He missed Ruan Linrui's soft body. Many distracting thoughts kept circling in his head.

"Feel sorry."

"What are you sorry about?"

Ruan Linrui carried Zhou Si on her back and rushed into a corridor on one side, closing the doors along the way, trying to delay some time.

Zhou Si said tiredly, "I'm sorry for everything."

"And then? Just one sentence and it's over?"

Although Ruan Linrui complained, she still controlled her avatar body and rummaged through the drawers in each room. Since Shanjun had such a heavy-tasting program here, there should also be emergency medical supplies.

"found it!"

Ruan Linrui found an emergency medical kit in a row of cabinets.

She wrapped the wound on Zhou Si's thigh with gauze, then took out a tourniquet and tied it tightly around his thigh.

"Instead of a meaningless apology, why don't you explain why you became like this? Was it an immortal accident?"

Ruan Linrui took out the medicine and prepared to inject it. "Say something, Zhou Si. If you die, I won't know the answer anymore."

"Does the answer matter?"

"It's important, because I loved you, so I want to know why." Ruan Linrui said as she inserted the needle.

(End of this chapter)