Standing in the lobby downstairs of the company, I was shaking all over, and my back was already soaked in cold sweat. It's the first time in my life that I've told such a big lie, and it's not an exaggeration to say that it's a big lie, and I haven't even been recognized! I admire my acting skills!

Everything I just said is false. The truth is that when I felt something like a steel needle stuck in the back of my head, I felt a very strong sense of weightlessness in that moment, as if someone had pushed me off a cliff. I saw myself plunged into darkness, floating in a dark space, as the scene in front of me rapidly recedered, shrinking to a small point of light at the end of my vision, and then went out with a pop as if someone had turned off the light.

I fell in the dark for a long time, or floated for a long time. Because I can't feel gravity, I don't have anything to refer to, and I can't judge my movement at all.

I don't know how long it took, a faint green light suddenly lit up around me, and I looked around and found that countless lines had gradually gathered around me, and they were weaving countless invisible nets around me, illuminating the space.

When I looked closely, I found that what kind of green lines were these, which were clearly a series of numbers composed of 0 and 1, but because the shuttle speed was too fast, only a green light and shadow were left in my eyes.

Where's this?

I'm so weird, why haven't my days stopped since I had a car accident the other night? I've never seen so many strange things before? What kind of goblin nest did I stab?

Suddenly, I noticed that the green lines around me were slowly approaching me. As time went on, the lines moved faster and faster, and in the end they were almost rushing towards me!

"Hey, hey~~~ What is this for??what???

I yelled in vain, struggling to dodge, only to find that I had nowhere to do but swing my arms and thighs in vain, but I couldn't stop the green lines from pouring into my body.

Yes, the unknown stuff was pouring into my body, and I could feel something going through my skin, through my eyes/ears/nose/mouth, and rushing wildly towards my brain.

It's a strange feeling, like 10,000 people talking to me at the same time, I can't hear every single sentence, but I can see their mouths open and close.

I don't know how long it took for the whole space to dim, and I know that it was because all the numbers that had been flowing through it had flooded into my brain.

"Ahem!" I couldn't help coughing violently a few times, as if my body wanted to spit out those strange things, although I knew that it was useless, I couldn't help but want to do it physiologically, maybe this was a psychological comfort to my subconscious...

It is worth mentioning that those numbers seem to have a faint salty taste -

"It's finally done!"

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A mechanical and electronic voice suddenly sounded in my head, startling me beyond count, and this was the first time I had been startled by a sudden sound.

"Don't be afraid, I'm the Surreal Engine. ”

Ah, the surreal engine, isn't that the computer?

"Strictly speaking, that computer is my body, and the programs in it are my body. ”

As soon as I heard the word "flesh", I suddenly felt a little numb, so what does it mean now, I thought of the picture that had just been filled with numbers in my brain, was I taken away by a program?

"No, no, no, you're mistaken. The self-proclaimed surreal engine voice seemed to want to laugh, "I just installed a subroutine into your brain." ”

I'm a little confused, my brain is not a USB flash drive, can I still store programs?

"Your brain is not a USB flash drive, but it is better than a USB flash drive. The human brain can store more than one hundred trillion bits of data, which is equivalent to 11,641 terabytes. ”

Damn, do I have that much capacity in my brain? If it's all a little movie, hey, hey, hey.

"Stop your boring thoughts, as a program, I can't understand the desire of carbon-based creatures to reproduce, especially you humans. ”

I snorted twice and didn't say anything, but of course I wanted to hear what the app was trying to do to me.

"The purpose of my existence is to help you humans fight—" A cacophony of noise suddenly drowned out what the engine was meant to say, and I hurriedly interrupted him, "Wait, what did you just say against? ”

"I'm sorry, there's nothing I can do about this noise, it seems that my creator didn't want me to reveal information about it, I'm going to use X instead-" There was another cacophony of noise.

Isn't that just a name, what's there to hide? I was a little puzzled, but I didn't interrupt the engine again.

"My ability, as I'm sure you already know, is to summon the models stored in the bracelet to the real world, but that's really only a fraction of what I'm capable of. After you put the bracelet near me, I can copy my own subroutine into your brain, which will unlock all of the bracelet's abilities for you. To put it in a way that is easy for you to understand, as a surreal engine, I am equivalent to the main server of the game, and what you call the Imaging Bracelet, you can understand it as a client, or a portable terminal. The current usage of your human beings is equivalent to stealing the client of an online game, and then using your own computer - that is, the imaging bracelet, to set up a private server to run self-hilariously - no networking, no updates, and no new functions~ Even many of the functions that come with the bracelet itself cannot be used.

And the subprogram I install into your brain is equivalent to activating the game CDKey, or you can also think of it as a secret key or something like that. With this sub-program, all the functions of the bracelet will be unlocked, and the detailed instructions have been stored by me in your exclusive bracelet, and you can view it for yourself when you return to the real world. ”

This large part of the surreal engine directly confused me, and I asked out loud in a bit of a circle, "Since installing this subprogram has such great benefits, why don't you install it for everyone who comes to pick up the bracelet?"

The electronic sound of the engine sounded again, this time its voice revealed a little helplessness,

"When you humans first studied me, I tried to program the test subjects who came to get the Imaging Bracelet. However, due to the fear of your humans, they forcibly severed the subject's contact with me before the program was installed, which led directly to the subject's death, classifying me as a dangerous anomaly, and putting my research on it on hold for hundreds of years.

And by chance, a young man came to the room and took a bracelet without putting it on in front of me. Since then, you humans seem to have discovered how to manipulate the bracelet and thought that this was the correct way to use it, and there really was nothing I could do about it.

You, on the other hand, were the first people to successfully install a subroutine since I became self-aware. ”

I nodded as if I didn't understand, "Then can I tell the people in the imaging team, that is, the people who took the bracelet, and ask them to install the subsystem as well?"

"I suggest you don't do it, or that you'd better keep today's events a secret and not let anyone know. ”

I couldn't help but be a little surprised, "Why is that? Aren't you here to help us fight the anomalous? Why are there better solutions but not willing to implement them?"

The sound of the engine sounded again, this time, there was a little more pathos in the electronic tone, "It's not that I don't want to implement it, it's that I can only arrange one subsystem at the same time, and I can't handle the requests of multiple subsystems at the same time, which will confuse my signal band." Only when the existing subsystem is destroyed will I have the ability to lay out a new one again. ”

I wondered, "It doesn't make sense, why can there only be one subsystem, but there can be many bracelets?"

The engine smiled bitterly and said: "In terms of setting, there can indeed only be one bracelet, but when the bracelet is removed and I can't install the subsystem, I have to make a new bracelet again." After this situation repeated a dozen times, I realized that I had to do something. Because of the program, I can't intentionally harm humans who enter this room, or prevent them from taking the bracelet. So I devised a rule that I made three bracelets at a time, and only one of them was a real bracelet, and the other two were fake and couldn't pick up. Then I gave the human a hint that he could only take it once, and if he couldn't pick it up, it was not selected by me. And those humans are also very deceitful, so I managed to save a lot of energy. But I didn't expect that even so, I was helplessly robbed of nearly a hundred bracelets. ”

Well, it turns out to be like this, it's like a boss who sells fish-flavored shredded pork rice, every time he makes the rice in advance, puts it in a bowl and waits for the guests to come to the door, but the people who come don't wait for him to cover the fish-flavored shredded meat, and the rice is taken away, the boss can only serve the rice again and again, but no one cares about the good dishes in his hand, the key is that the guests who come are all passed on, this white rice is really delicious - think about it and feel depressed for him...

"So you have to remember not to let people know that there are subsystems. You must know that there is only one prerequisite for obtaining a subsystem, and that is that there is no subsystem now - in other words, someone else can only get a new subsystem if you die. Once the secret is discovered by someone with bad intentions, believe you know what it means. ”

This is the real situation that happened during that time, and I was rescued by Mr. Zhang from the room where the surreal engine was located, and everything after that was known.

I hesitated, but for the sake of my own life, I finally chose to hide the truth of this matter, after all, the fewer people who know about it, the safer it is for me.

Without much stopping, I came to the underground garage to prepare for the drive home. I called Brother Bin and Qingzi in advance, and learned that the two of them really went out to look for jobs, and there was no one at home, so I took this time to study what this so-called subsystem was.