CHAPTER XXXV

In the days that followed, people went crazy or disappeared suddenly, and not only that, but the situation spread from the whole country to the whole world, with eschatological proclamations spread on the Internet - some said that God had sent down divine punishment, some said that an unknown virus had invaded, and some said that aliens had abducted, and so on.

Some extremist religions abroad even committed mass suicide in the name of "atonement", and when this move was transmitted back to China, it was like throwing effervescent tablets into boiling water, and the already restless crowd became more and more restless! Some radical crowds took this opportunity to start smashing and looting on the streets unscrupulously, and for a while everywhere was panicked and chaotic.

Fortunately, there are only a few who go crazy and disappear, and the country's iron-fisted order is still there, and this chaotic situation does not last long, and the excessive speech on the Internet is immediately blocked. Patrols were also sent down from above, and there were people on the streets 24 hours a day to guard and maintain order, and it was stipulated that without permission, as long as it was after 5 p.m. in the afternoon, citizens were not allowed to go out on the streets and move around at will, and food and daily necessities could only be purchased at designated points.

In less than two days, life gradually returned to an orderly state, although people still disappeared every day, but there were coercive means to suppress it, and finally lived smoothly.

At this point, however, Cobe had no time to pay attention to the news - because Xie Mo hadn't been back for a week, and the call would never indicate that he was not in the service area.

Ke Bei looked at the ten silent buns in the refrigerator, feeling like she had been pricked by a needle, and her heart ached and was sad - it was only then that she realized that she knew very little about Xie Mo. Every time she was in crisis, Xie Mo would show up in time to rescue her, but now, Ke Bei didn't even know where he was......

You can't just sit back and wait.

Ke Bei thought of what Dong Run told her in her "dream", and she had a feeling in her heart that as long as she figured out what was going on in this world, she would be able to find a breakthrough for the current dilemma, and the key to cracking the truth of the world was on Dong Run......

Ke Bei was thinking about it when there was a sudden knock on the door, her eyes lit up at first, and then she thought that Xie Mo didn't need a key to come in, and her face fell, so she walked to open the door dejectedly.

Officer Wei stood outside the door, saw her haggard face and looked depressed, raised his eyebrows, and said, "Ouch, Xiao Ke, what's wrong?" Does your face look so ugly? ”

Ke Bei was annoyed at this moment, and she didn't have the energy to deal with him, "What are you looking for me?" ”

"Young man, why are you so angry?" Officer Wei glanced into the room and asked her, "Where's your boyfriend?" ”

"I don't know." Ke Bei's heart ached: "He hasn't been back for a week." ”

Officer Wei let out a clear sigh, looked Ke Bei up and down, and said, "No wonder, tsk." ”

Ke Bei raised her hand to close the door.

"Oh, don't!" Officer Wei didn't know how to squeeze the fat body into the door, he smiled and blinked his black bean eyes, and said: "I'll just ask you something, the big guy suddenly disappeared recently, our police station is about to turn the world upside down and still hasn't found out anything, I think it should be related to your boyfriend, do you have any reliable news?" ”

“…… What do you think? ”

Officer Wei sighed, "I think so, I thought that if your boyfriend was here, he might be able to ask something, but now, hey......"

"So what are you doing here? Hurry up, let's go! ”

"Hey, hey, don't, I've been running for a day, at least let me go in for a cup of tea!"

Ke Bei didn't care about him, forced him out of the door, and then just closed the door with a "snap", the mobile phone message prompt sounded, she opened it casually, and was stunned - it turned out to be Dong Run?

Dong Run: Within 30 minutes, come to my room immediately.

In the "dream" before, Dong Run said that she should wait for information, which turned out to be what it meant.

Ke Bei stayed where she was for a second, then opened the door and rushed out.

Officer Wei was still waiting for the elevator, Ke Bei went up and grabbed his fat arm and said, "Officer Wei, did you drive here?" Take me somewhere. ”

Officer Wei was stunned, "Huh? Where to? ”

"Our school."

***

As soon as Officer Wei drove the car to the school gate, he heard a loud noise and screaming in the distance.

Ke Bei's heart sank, and she glanced at Officer Wei, and then the two of them immediately got out of the car.

I don't know what happened, but the pedestrians around stopped and pointed at the distance, because the school was surrounded by residential areas, and many citizens probed their bodies from windows or balconies, one or two curious, or craned their necks to look into the distance.

Ke Bei followed everyone's line of sight, and then the whole person was shocked!

At the entrance of the school, you can see a 30-storey office building two streets away, with a height of more than 100 meters, which was just built a year ago, and the whole building is very tall, attracting many enterprises to settle in.

But now, as if there is a hand of God, with a knife, the beautiful office building is like cutting tofu, from the top floor to the waist of the office building, straight cut dozens of meters of hole, cut off a corner!

That scene was extremely shocking, just like a science fiction movie recreated in front of my eyes!

And Ke Bei took a closer look and found that the incision was extremely flat, not even the glass at the cut line was not broken in half, and the incision was ...... It's as if the office building was supposed to look like this.

"What the hell?! Why are there moths again! ”

Officer Wei said "WTF" with a look on his face, and immediately took out his mobile phone to make a call.

A few minutes later, Officer Wei hung up the phone and said to Ke Bei: "No debris of the building was found at the scene, and my colleague said that there was no warning in advance, and half of the corner of the office building was ...... Disappeared out of thin air. ”

Cobe: "What about the people inside?" ”

"I haven't heard anything yet." Officer Wei frowned, "What's the matter, first someone went crazy for some reason, and then someone disappeared, yes!" Before it was over, the building disappeared. ”

Ke Bei didn't speak, she stared at the office building for a long time, and always felt that this scene had an inexplicable sense of immediacy, she pondered for a long time, and finally remembered where she had seen this scene - although the size was different, and the time was earlier, but at the moment when Yang Hui disappeared, the way her bed disappeared was not also a little similar to the way the office building disappeared?

But what is the connection between an office building more than 100 meters high and a two-meter-wide bed?

Ke Bei was thinking about it, but Officer Wei pushed her violently, "Didn't you say that there was an urgent matter when you entered the school?" What are you doing here? Let's go, I'll go in with you, and I'll have to go over to the office building to see the situation. ”

Ke Bei: "If you have something to do, you can get busy first, I'll just go in by myself." ”

Officer Wei opened the car door and asked, "Do you really need me to accompany you in?" ”

"No, it's not very peaceful over there," Ke Bei pointed to the cake-shaped office building in the distance, "You'll be busy later." ”

Officer Wei didn't force it, "That's okay, keep your phone unblocked, I'm near here, contact me immediately if I have something." ”

Ke Bei was not polite to him, nodded and turned around and entered the school.

The school has been closed for a long time, the whole campus is empty, and the streets that are clean and fresh on weekdays are full of dead leaves and scattered garbage.

If you want to go to the real yàn building, you need to verify your fingerprints, Ke Bei called Dong Run as soon as she arrived downstairs and asked her to come down to pick it up, but it turned out that she couldn't get through. Ke Bei wondered when she walked into the building and was surprised to find that the fingerprint verification door was open!

Could it be that Dong Run left her the door?

Ke Bei was a little apprehensive in her heart, afraid that she would encounter something strange again, so she was careful and light along the way, like a thief, but she went up to the sixth floor unimpeded.

The door of the 601 real room was not locked, Ke Bei hesitated, but when she thought of Xie Mo, she finally gritted her teeth, pushed the door and walked in.

In the real room, Dong Run sat in front of the real table with his back straight, and the familiar glasses and big buck teeth made Ke Bei breathe a sigh of relief instantly.

Ke Bei walked over, "Emma, I saw the fingerprint authentication door downstairs open, and I thought something was wrong, but I was scared to death......"

Before I could say a word, she suddenly froze.

Before, because Dong Run was sitting behind the real yàn table, the lower half of his body was blocked by the main chassis scattered on the ground, but Ke Bei bypassed the table and found that Dong Run's legs were gone......

No, to be exact, it should be the part below the abdomen, just like the translucent treatment made with PS, it is all translucent, and if you don't see it closely, the lower body will be like it's gone!

The unreal of the lower body and the physical body of the upper body are combined......

Although it was a little unkind, Ke Bei was frightened and at the same time wanted to laugh a little - how did Nima feel a bit like the lamp god in Aladdin's magic lamp?

Ke Bei asked dryly, "What's going on?" ”

Dong Run was silent for a while, and said, "Recently, people have been disappearing, you know—I'm about to disappear too......"

Ke Bei looked confused.

"I don't have much time to buy." Dong Run looked down at his watch and said calmly: "Come and sit here, we only have half an hour." ”

"Huh?" Ke Bei hurriedly sat down, "What the hell is half an hour?!" You're about to disappear, sister, why are you still so calm?! ”

Dong Run smiled very happily, "Don't worry, this is not death, but a new life." ”

Kebei: "What do you mean?" ”

Sounds so esoteric.

Dong Run didn't answer, she spontaneously froze for a while, and then suddenly asked, "Do you know what technology will develop into in the future?" ”

Colbe shook her head.

Dong Run looked at Ke Bei with an expression of looking at the mentally handicapped child, and said, "I'm afraid you won't understand...... Let's start with a hypothesis. ”

"What to assume?"

Dong Run was silent for a while and said, "Suppose ...... In the future, technology has been extremely mature, people are no longer threatened by diseases, genetic engineering has also developed to the point where you can create the life you want at will, and the earth is no longer the only dwelling place for human beings, and ......" she lowered her head and looked at the helmet in her arms, "Virtual reality technology is very mature, people use virtual reality technology to create a huge virtual world with computers......"

When Ke Bei heard this, she vaguely understood something in her heart, "And then?" What are you trying to illustrate? Do you want to say that we are actually like the one in "The Matrix", controlled by a computer with super intelligence? ”

With the advancement of science and technology, there are indeed many heated discussions on the topic of "whether intelligent AI can ban human beings", and many science fiction movies are filmed with the theme of "intelligent AI ruling the human world".

Dong Run touched his chin and nodded, "You can also understand it this way first, but it is also a little different." Ke Bei, I think you should have guessed something, what I said before is true - the world we live in is actually a virtual game created by the future world, and each of us is a player of this game, but for some reason, the virus invaded the mastermind of the virtual world, and the main brain automatically launched a defense mechanism and went to sleep, so we were trapped in this virtual world. ”

Kebei: "What do you mean...... This world is like a holographic online game written in a novel? And we're stuck in a game? ”

Dong Run nodded.

Kebei: "But how do you know?" Just because you saw Xie Mo's memory? How do you know if Xie Mo's memories are true? ”

"It's not just a dream," Dong Run said, "and I remember." ”

Ke Bei was stunned, "What do you think of?" ”

Dong Run glanced at her deeply, "I remembered our original world, the real place we are in." ”

“…… The original world? ”

Dong Run lifted his glasses and said slowly: "Actually, I just remembered some fragments, I seem to be a computer engineer in 'that' world, and I participated in the development of this virtual world, because the virtual world has a huge number of users, and because it is too real, it has even developed into a second world, and then I don't remember some specific details, it seems to be ...... Someone wants to invade the main brain to steal relevant military information, so they delivered a virus to the main brain of the virtual world, and the virus is very powerful, although the main brain has its own defense device, but in addition to defense, it can't be destroyed. During the second wave of the virus, in order to protect the relevant military information, the main brain automatically hibernated, and the virtual channel was also closed. ”

Dong Run touched the helmet in his arms and continued: "The virtual channel is the only channel to realize human-computer interaction between human brainwaves and the main brain. ”

Kebei: "How is it possible, if that's the case, why can you remember it, but I can't?" ”

Dong Run looked into the distance emptily, "The relationship between human beings and the virtual mastermind is like a mobile hard disk and a computer, when the computer is turned off, it is impossible to read the number of hard disks, and now the mastermind of the entire virtual world has entered sleep mode because of the virus invasion, so it cannot read the memory of human beings, and the masterbrain has rationalized all the worlds according to human intentions, so we are in the world, but we forget who we are." As for why I remember—" she paused, "I don't know, maybe it's a coincidence." ”

Cobe was stunned, she remembered that Fichte [note (1)] had said that nature originated from a higher, unconscious imagination. At that time, she was new to Romanticism, and she thought that the statement that Romantic philosophers regarded the "soul of the world" as a self, and then the "self" created the world in a dream was very interesting, but she never thought that the "imagination" and "self" that created the world were actually a computer.

Ke Bei came back to her senses, but found that Dong Run had just lost her legs, but now she was missing her waist, and her whole person was floating in the air - she was disappearing.

"Oh my God, your waist! What the hell is going on with you? And those people, why did they disappear for no reason? Is there any way to do it? Ke Bei said anxiously.

"You don't have to worry, I told you, it's not death." Dong Run smiled slightly, her eyes were filled with brilliance that Ke Bei had never seen before, and she said softly: "Although I don't know what the reason is, the main brain is waking up, the virtual channel has been opened, and everyone is exiting the game, this is not disappearing, but being reborn." ”

"Exit?"

Ke Bei was stunned for a moment, and reacted - yes, this is just a virtual world, it's a game, since you can log in, you can log out.

Dong Run looked down at his body that had been blurred to his chest, and sighed, "There's no time, now I have more important things to tell you." ”

Ke Bei saw that her expression suddenly became stern, and she couldn't help but straighten up, "What's the matter?" ”

Dong Run suddenly raised his head and stared at Ke Bei's eyes, "The virtual mastermind is very huge, and it took tens of millions of us engineers hundreds of years to successfully develop the mastermind, Jean is the name we gave to the virtual mastermind." ”

“…… Jean？ Keane? Ke Bei was stunned, "You called me that twice before......"

Dong Run nodded, "I have a vague memory...... It seems that after suffering from a virus attack, Jean randomly bound the relevant military confidential information to a user for the sake of insurance, so that it will take a lot of time to investigate the virus. And I saw in your eyes - I saw the code that was left of Jean......"

At first, Ke Bei didn't react, but after a while, she felt a boom in her head, exploding, "You mean to ...... The mastermind tied the data to me? My eyes...... Isn't that what the hell confidential information is? ”

No wonder! No wonder those monsters always want to gouge out her eyes!

Ke Bei remembered that Xie Mo had told her that the monsters that attacked her were not people, not even life, but now she finally understood what it meant - Nima's monsters turned out to be computer viruses! Of course there is no life!

There are hundreds of millions of users trapped in the virtual world, even if the virus searches one by one, it will take a long time, but no matter how long the time is, there is also a time to find it, Ke Bei shuttled through hundreds of worlds, and was finally found by the virus in this world, and Ke Bei can fully guess that those viruses erode people's bodies, disguised as humans to attack her, and then all of them were beaten by Xie Mo......

Dong Run: "It's very likely, I brought you here, mainly to let you take good care of your eyes and don't die too early." ”

"Do you die if you talk well? What does it mean not to die too soon? Ke Bei said indifferently, "Besides, even if I die, won't I be able to return to the original world?" ”

"It's different." Dong Run looked at her seriously, "The military confidential document is bound to you, if it is stolen, the consequences are unimaginable, even if it is not for yourself, think about it for others." ”

Ke Bei sighed, "I know, don't worry, before I return to the real world, I will pay attention, besides, isn't there still Xie Mo?" He's awesome, my eyes were stolen once before, and he helped me get them back! ”

"He'll help you get your eyes back?" Dong Run was puzzled, "How is it possible?" ”

Ke Bei saw that Dong Run had only one head left floating in the air, hesitated for a moment, and felt that there seemed to be nothing to worry about, so he briefly explained how he met Xie Mo, and saw that she and Xie Mo had experienced many worlds together.

"From another world?" Dong Run frowned, "It stands to reason that this is impossible, when we first developed Jean, we set that each virtual world could not interfere with each other, and the world would be set up with a rationalization standard, for example, if it is in the world of modern elements, elements that do not conform to 'common sense' such as magic will be blocked, and in the same way, if it is in the world of cultivating immortals, it is impossible for Western vampires to appear, and elements that do not conform to the world setting will be wiped out." ”

Just like the different service areas in online games, if you just take it casually, then the whole game will be messed up?

Ke Bei thought to herself, no, in this way, Xie Mo is simply full of bugs!

"You have important information bound to Jean, and it may have been arranged by Jean to circulate in multiple worlds, in order to escape the virus, but, you say...... Your boyfriend is he able to kill those infected by the virus? ”

Dong Run lifted his eyes on the bridge of his nose and said: "I remember that in the early days of the virus invading the main brain, Colonel Shamar, the chief engineer of the core R&D team of the virtual main brain, immediately urgently developed an anti-virus software, forcibly implanted it in the main brain, and made a special trip to track and protect the encrypted data, and then the main brain bound the encrypted data to you, and that anti-virus software should always be by your side to protect your ......."

Shamar…… Sha…… mar……

Ke Bei's whole person is not good, how this Shamar sounds like Xie Mo's Chinese transliteration!

Dong Run nodded, "Well, your boyfriend can ignore the world setting and travel from another world, and he can also have energy beyond the limit of this world, and he will not be erased, and...... Shamar…… Shemo. Your boyfriend could be, no, it must be the antivirus. ”

Ke Bei felt that she needed to be quiet, she had lived for more than 20 years, and she originally thought that she was just a fantasy actor who went to the wrong set, but when she could almost accept that the person she liked was a bun, she realized that she was still too naïve!

Ke Bei's brain made up for it, every time Xie Mo saved her, it was actually the same as the 360 security guard being checking and killing the virus, and then the whole person couldn't get better, and her mind was instantly exploded by various barrages:

――My husband is not only a bun, he is also an antivirus.

――The same kind as the 360 Security Guard.

- I was just a plus! Dense! Wen! Item! Clip!

――And you like an antivirus software?!

-- Good abuse QAQ