Chapter 13：

Huo Ran, who was in another city, had an extremely busy day.

Early in the morning, he was woken up by Huo Zhendong's phone call, saying that some old friends wanted to visit the company in the morning and asked him to come over to accompany him.

Huo Ran, who originally wanted to skip work to catch up on sleep, had no choice but to resign himself to his fate and get up, and went to the company honestly.

Yesterday he visited Dr. Tao's island in the game, and found that Dr. Tao hadn't been online for a long time. The island was deserted. Seeing the little hedgehog holding a hoe, Huo Ran immediately volunteered to help.

Two animals, one big and one small, tossed and tossed until twelve o'clock, and finally brought the island back to its former vitality.

Huo Ran hasn't played this game for long, and he is immersed in the joy of doing infrastructure construction on a single player, and even Huo Sihan is the only friend added.

This is the first time he has worked with others to build an island. The big brown bear swings an ax to chop down trees, and his stamina is about to bottom out. Just as he is about to put down the ax to find something to eat, the little hedgehog brings some fruit to increase his stamina in time and hands it to him.

That feeling was amazing, Huo Ran suddenly understood the attraction of the game's social mode.

So after Dr. Tao went offline to sleep, Huo Ran, who was still in high spirits, pulled out the scarf that made Animal Island go viral a while ago. Huo Sihan sent him the link when he was trying to lure him into the pit.

There are tens of thousands of comments under the scarf, and many of the top-rated comments are all about what happened when I played Animal Island. Some are humorous, and more are full of warmth.

Huo Ran was fascinated by watching it, and followed the recommendation in the comments, went to the creation area of ​​the official forum of Animal Island. There are various forms of derivative works in it, which are wonderful. Huo Ran stared at the screen intently, clicking on one after another. new web page.

When he came back to his senses, he saw the time in the upper right corner of the computer, and it was already four o'clock in the morning.

Huo Ran, who rarely stays up late, hastily turned off his computer and went to bed, in a daze, thinking about the forum post he hadn't read just now.

The next day, he entered the company with dark circles under his eyes, calmly ignored the regular delivery of roses, calmly accepted the ardent care from his assistant Xiao Jiang, and then followed behind Huo Zhendong to talk and laugh happily with several uncles, listening humbly A dreadful emotion for the younger generation.

Huo Ran, who only slept for three hours, felt that he was a warrior in life.

After the visit, Huo Zhendong took his old friends to continue the next trip, and Huo Ran finally relaxed.

Come here, why not hold a few more meetings.

After reading the voices of many players in the middle of the night, Huo Ran discovered the charm of the virtual game world. He didn't know about it before, thinking that playing games was just a pastime when he was bored.

But from Dr. Tao to many other players, they devote themselves to the game, establish many new interpersonal relationships, and learn knowledge and skills that seem useless in reality. Some people have made friends, Lovers and even lifelong partners, some people have developed new interests and obtained unexpected opportunities because of this.

These people who are addicted to a certain game should not be simply classified as Internet addiction. Many times, they are looking for a second life in another world.

At a certain time, they will bid farewell to this virtual world for various reasons, but they will never forget the traces they left here, which may change their real lives.

If one-way streaming movies are the art of dreaming, then Huo Ran thinks that games with interaction as the core should be the art of dreaming.

So Huo Ran called the newly established game development department in the group, and wanted to make up a temporary supplementary class and listen to professionals talk about games before leaving for Shanxi.

Before Huo Zhendong asked people to invest in emerging game companies everywhere, it was precisely to break into this blue ocean industry that has great potential in the future with the development of technology.

Walking into the meeting room, many people saw this airborne vice president for the first time. Before they could observe the legendary second-generation wealthy man who was born with a golden spoon in his mouth, they were quickly taken away from their thoughts by Huo Ran's barrage of questions. .

When the meeting that lasted the whole afternoon ended, the group of people seemed to be drained dry, and they could no longer remember the subtle envy and contempt at the beginning, and there was only one thought left in their hearts: he is indeed the son of Huo Zhendong.

On the way to the airport, Huo Ran, who had absorbed many unfamiliar concepts in his head, was excited, and he still didn't feel sleepy in the stretched luxury car specially arranged by his assistant.

A lot of exciting ideas and plans were floating in his mind, and he began to lose his mind.

…Did the host of the lop-eared bunny in the post last night get together with her neighbor tit?

Didn't read the post, so anxious.

Huo Ran struggled a bit, took out an antique keypad from his pocket that was out of place with everything around him, and tried to log onto the official forum of Animal Island.

The system of this button machine is really backward, the product has been discontinued for many years, even the original manufacturer has closed down, and the system has not been updated for a long time, so the built-in browser does not support many common web page formats.

The forum couldn't be opened at all, and the jump page was blank, which made Huo Ran even more curious, as if there were a hundred cat's paws scratching in his heart.

Sitting across from him, Jiang Nansheng secretly glanced at him and immediately handed over his mobile phone, "Mr. Huo, do you need to use mine?"

Huo Ran glanced at his face, which was still in normal color, and cautiously refused: "No, I'll just take a look."

Jiang Nansheng felt a little regretful, and still tried to fight for it: "Mr. Huo, don't you want to change your mobile phone? Your mobile phone is too old, which is very inconvenient. If you need to change to a new one, I will send someone to the airport right away."

Huo Ran was silent for a moment, and did not answer him directly: "I will close my eyes and rest for a while, call me when I arrive."

He wasn't mentally ready yet.

Although in the eyes of others, it may be a strange thing for him to be entangled and hesitant about such a trivial matter.

But for him, this is not just a change of mobile phone, it is a habit he has maintained for ten years, and it is also his longest and persistent resistance to his father, Huo Zhendong, who was once busy with his career and neglected his family.

Later, Huo Zhendong did change, he would spare time to communicate with his sons and daughters, instead of simply and rudely controlling and preaching to them.

Those strong and rigid words that sound caring are actually the most unsophisticated gestures of perfunctory, often accompanied by chronic damage.

At that time, Huo Ran and Huo Sihan were still young, and they only thought their father was careless and strict, but his wife who spent more time with Huo Zhendong couldn't bear it anymore, and the relationship between husband and wife was exhausted, and when Huo Ran became an adult, they divorced.

So Huo Ran hasn't changed his mobile phone so far. This outdated old mobile phone is like a symbol representing the past years, and he can't find an opportunity to erase it.

At eight o'clock in the evening, the plane landed.

Huo Ran took a nap on the plane, and his energy improved a lot, and the dark circles under his eyes disappeared.

He rolled down the car window and looked at the night in northern Shanxi. The lights were bright, the street was full of bustling food stalls, the market was full of smoke and fire, and the aroma of barbecue fried rice blew into the wind domineeringly.

Huo Ran has been to many cities at home and abroad, but this is the first time he has come to Jinbei.

This time Jiang Nansheng was sitting in the co-pilot, looking down at his phone, when he suddenly turned his head in surprise.

"Mr. Huo, the old Mr. Huo actually posted a message!" Jiang Nansheng handed over the phone and sighed, "I thought the old Mr. Huo only used this to send messages."

Huo Ran took the phone very carefully, being very careful not to touch his hand, lest the other party seize any opportunity to blush.

[Dynamic] Contentment and happiness: friends come from afar! [Image] [image]

In the picture are photos of a sumptuous dinner, and a group photo of Huo Zhendong and several uncles standing shoulder to shoulder in the daytime, all of them flushed from drinking, and Huo Zhendong with half-white hair laughed so that the corners of his eyes were full of wrinkles.

Most of the pp users are young people, and middle-aged and elderly people usually use another instant messaging software with simpler functions.

Jiang Nansheng continued: "It's no wonder that Huo is always so successful. He always cares about the lives of young people and keeps getting in touch with new things. My parents refuse to use PP anyway, and if they don't try it, they say it's too difficult and they don't know how to use it. "

Probably no one can guess the reason why Huo Zhendong uses PP, in fact, he wants his son to change his mobile phone.

Looking at Jiang Nansheng's admiring expression, Huo Ran thought silently in his heart.

Arriving at the hotel, Huo Ran turned on the computer as soon as he entered the room. He had been thinking about the posts about lop-eared rabbits and **** for a long time, and he didn't have time to chat with Dr. Tao all day today. I don't know if he is in a better mood.

He boarded the app, and while waiting for the browser to redirect, he sent a message to Dr. Tao.

[HR: Dr. Tao, I have arrived in northern Shanxi and just entered the hotel room. The climate here is really comfortable. ]

The moment the news was sent, Dr. Tao's new news popped up.

[Tao: I brought the snacks I made to my colleagues today, and I will take a new step at work tomorrow. It takes courage to step out of the comfort zone, and I will doubt whether it is right to do so, but after stepping out, I feel happier Yes, I think that's right. ]

[Tao: Thank you for what you said to me yesterday ^-^]

After a few brief chats, Dr. Tao quickly went to sleep, but Huo Ran stared at this passage, without looking away for a long time.

Although he didn't know what Dr. Tao looked like or what kind of life he was leading, Huo Ran always felt that Dr. Tao was a brave and decisive person from the day he met him.

Sure enough, even Dr. Tao would be confused and distressed, but as long as there is a little power from the outside world, he can cheer up and try those things that he has been avoiding.

Huo Ran's eyes flickered, and he looked at the color-screen keypad machine that had been with him for ten years. It was lying quietly on the table, and the paint color had already dimmed.

This is the most stubborn label in his life, but it is not only him, but also Huo Zhendong who has been stuck in his heart for a long time.

Huo Ran took a deep breath, no longer hesitated, and called the hotel concierge.

Twenty minutes later, he inserted the SIM card into the new phone, turned it on, and downloaded the pp.

While waiting for the app to download, Huo Ran successfully opened the Animal Island forum on his phone this time.

On the latest first floor, the owner of the Lop-Eared Rabbit posted a photo of the new tree house she and the chickadee built. She didn’t post any more text, but everyone saw two small hay nests in the tree house, and a small nest One is full of carrots, and another is a nest of thick twigs.

Huo Ran slid down the screen to see the yelling reply, and unconsciously smiled.

What Dr. Tao said was right, Huo Ran felt that he seemed to have become happier.

Opening the pp, Huo Ran entered the dynamic page of the space, and liked the dynamic of contentment and happiness.

Huo Zhendong didn't sleep, and sent a message a few minutes later.

[Contentment and happiness: Arrived at the hotel? ]

[HR: Arrived for a while. ]

[HR: Drinking alcohol and staying up so late. ]

[Contentment and happiness: If you drink too much, let's take a walk and blow the air! ]

[HR: Guess what I'm using to chat with you? ]

Huo Ran saw that Huo Zhendong had been typing for a long time, probably several rounds of deletion, deletion and modification, and finally sent a lonely emoji.

[Satisfaction and happiness: /like]

This is very similar to Huo Zhendong's style of not being able to speak, so Huo Ranyi did the same.

[HR: /handshake]

[Satisfaction and happiness: /clasping fists]

Looking at the silly default expressions on the screen, Huo Ran suddenly had an idea.

[HR: Dad, I have set an example, shouldn't you also keep up with the trend of the times? ]

[Contentment and happiness: what trend? ]

[HR: Nowadays young people like to use emoticons, if you use them too, it will make you appear fashionable and friendly. ]

[HR: You can long press on the picture to add it to the emoticon, and then click on the heart symbol, then you can choose the emoticon package to send. ]

[HR: For you Huahua.jpg]

[HR: Look, I'd be happier if you compliment me with such a cute expression, which looks much more sincere than that thumb. ]

[Satisfaction and happiness: Oh, the bells and whistles! ]

Unable to fool the old-fashioned old father, Huo Ran resentfully put down the new phone, got up and went to take a shower.

I can't overplay it, I have to get up early tomorrow to get down to business.

After a while, Huo Ran came out to dry his hair, feeling tired, and took his new mobile phone aside to charge before going to bed.

As soon as the screen lit up, Huo Zhendong sent a message five minutes ago.

[Contentment and happiness: Huahua for you.jpg]