NOVEL ONLINE FREE Chapter 16: Chapter 16
On the day of Frost Descent in 2045, Xiao Nuan's delivery truck skidded in front of the "Human Fireworks Museum". The small sun lamp on the incubator reflected the sausage relief on the door lintel, flickering with the light pink mark on her wrist - it was the "heat sensor" inherited from her mother Nuan Nuan, and it was now heating up the first-generation controller exhibition area on the third floor of the museum.
"The order note says 'I need sausages that can restore the temperature of the holographic projection.'" Xiao Nuan touched the sausage icon on her phone, and the address bar showed "Virtual Exhibition Area Maintenance Room", and the sender was signed "Uncle Bingdian". The mini sausage machine in the incubator suddenly started up, sizzling the honey mustard sausage she had baked in the morning, and the aroma penetrated the seam of the box, causing the electronic screen on the outer wall of the museum to appear with the silhouette of Li Xiaoming running away from the order 20 years ago.
When the door of the maintenance room opened automatically, Bingdian in a white coat was worried about the holographic projection. Chen Ge's robotic arm holographic image was stuck in the action of handing over the sausage, and the sticky note projection between the gears glowed coldly: "Since the cold data remnant of the frozen warehouse invaded last month, all the first-generation character projections have lost their temperature." When he turned around, the popsicle mark on his wrist flashed a faint light, forming a weak resonance with Xiao Nuan's sausage mark.
Xiao Nuan put the hot sausage on the operating table, and with the "puff" sound of the sausage casing bursting, Chen Ge's projection suddenly raised his hand to catch the virtual sausage. The sticky notes between the gears were no longer monochrome, but emerged with Kai Lan's graffiti twenty years ago - the little sun was surrounded by sausages and popsicles, which was the Möbius ring pattern that appeared at the end of Chapter 15.
"The projection must remember the real temperature." Xiao Nuan remembered what her mother often said, "The smell of sausage is the fixer of memory", and took out the replica of the metal stick fragment on the back of the work card. The moment the fragment touched the operating table, the holographic projection suddenly switched scenes: 17-year-old Li Xiaoming stuffed the last sausage into the arms of a homeless man at a convenience store on a snowy night. The sticky notes on the incubator were wet by the wind and snow, but they always glowed warmly in the projection.
The museum's alarm sounded at this time. The "Eye of Eros" model in the virtual exhibition area cracked, and the leaking cold data condensed into a popsicle shape and went straight to the first-generation controller display cabinet. The mark on Xiao Nuan's wrist suddenly burst into a strong light, turning the sausage in his hand into a golden data stream - exactly the same scene as when Nuan Nuan melted the cold data core 20 years ago.
"They are afraid of human codes!" Bingdian manipulated the robot arm to project, and the sound of the gears turned in sync with the frequency of Xiaonuan's sausage machine. "Your father used the route of running orders to draw firewalls, and your mother used oden chili oil to write comments. Now it's our turn ——" Before he finished speaking, Xiaonuan had already thrown the hot sausage data stream to the crack, and the oil exploded in the virtual space, spelling out the three-dimensional sausage words "eat while hot".
The cold data popsicle melted the moment it touched the sausage words, turning into countless transparent "thank you", which were real messages from all customers in the past 20 years. The glass of the first-generation controller display cabinet opened automatically, and the original metal stick fragment inside made a clear sound, resonating with Xiaonuan's replica, projecting a huge sausage star map on the museum dome —— each star was a holographic image of a warm delivery moment.
"Look, it's the spark from Brother Zhang welding the last bracket!" Xiao Nuan pointed at the flashing welding spot in the star map. Next to it was the picture of Wang Mengmeng dropping her sausage when she was so nervous when she was delivering her first order. "My mother said that these light spots will never go out, because everyone who receives the hot food will pass on the warmth."
Bingdian suddenly pointed at the new light spot on the edge of the star map: a new rider in a blue work suit was building a sausage nest for stray cats. On his work badge was a sausage-shaped sticky note that Xiao Nuan had given him last year. The moment the cold data cracks were completely healed, all the holographic projections returned to temperature - Brother Chen's robotic arm projection finally handed out sausages, Professor Kai's image was cooking kelp soup in the back kitchen of the convenience store, and Li Xiaoming's projection turned to Xiao Nuan and blinked: "Girl, it's time to deliver hot food to the next stop."
When leaving the museum, Xiao Nuan's delivery box had a virtual sausage - a gift from the first-generation system. It rotated gently in the incubator, and the heartbeat data of the deliverymen of all generations flowed on its surface. When she passed by the old site of the convenience store, she saw the automatic sausage grilling machine working for the office workers who came home late. The machine shell was engraved with her mother's warm handwriting: "All system patches are hidden in the first moment of sharing sausage."
The snow began to fall again, and Xiao Nuan's delivery truck cast a long shadow under the street light. The mark on her wrist was no longer hot, but like a piece of warm jade against her skin. The phone vibrated, a new order came from the "New Site of Frozen Food Warehouse", and the note read: "Please deliver the hope that never cools down, ingredients: sausage aroma, heartbeat, and warmth passed down from generation to generation." She touched the hot stamp on the back of her work badge - "137816th warm delivery", and suddenly realized that this story about sausage and heartbeat will never have a real ending.