In this complete darkness, Hatsuizumi could no longer remember how many days and nights she had spent, and without light, it was impossible to understand the passage of time.

"That's terrible," she muttered to herself, "I sensed the exit last time, was it fixed?" "It's not a good thing to be caught in the gap of the virtual world and be in the company of the number of jù, but she is proud to think that she has found a way out, but she is trapped in such a strange place.

For the first time in her life, Hatsuizumi wanted to give up, but even if she could replicate the brainwave, it would mean that all her previous efforts would be in vain, and if she did choose death, even if her companions could understand that she knew they wouldn't blame her, she wouldn't be able to forgive herself.

Thinking like this, Hatsuizumi calmed down and began to analyze the structure of the number around him again.

It has been almost ten years since the first large-scale devouring of humans in the virtual world, and the so-called "devouring" means that some people in the virtual world suddenly cannot return to reality, and can only be sustained by the nutrition warehouse. There have also been attempts to forcibly cut off those people from the virtual world, with the result that most of those who were still alive went straight into a state of brain death.

Since then, no one has dared to cut ties at will, and with the occasional small-scale devouring event, the total number of people who have lost contact has reached nearly a million.

In the face of this sudden disaster, the government chose to make the genetic modification plan that was originally secretly carried out public, and Hatsuzumi was one of the first batch of modified people, and the first batch of modifications were mostly related to strengthening the brain, which made them have the ability to break through the barriers of the virtual world even if they were devoured.

However, the scarcity of the number of transformers makes the investigation still slow, not to mention that even if the brain is different from that of ordinary people, the work is still difficult, as Hatsuizumi is now facing, leaving the world of the last devoured person and entering this storage station that belongs to the abandoned number jù.

It's hard to see that she's not tortured and crazy, she smiled bitterly.

Although with the invention of brainwave replication technology, they can be said not to really die, but brainwave replication can only copy the brain before entering the virtual world, and the memories in the virtual world will no longer exist.

Hatsuizumi remembers that in the previous world, the Devoured asked her to send a message to his mother, who had raised him, before he died—death in the virtual world itself did not affect reality, but it was different for the Devoured, because the protective mechanism for the brain had failed.

It is there that death means brain death.

In other words, no matter what, the possibility that the devoured can return to reality is a cruelty that everyone knows well.

Hatsuizumi remembered a lot of such people, and even if these were too heavy for her, she couldn't just throw them away. Because these are things she never had, things that an artificial being was born without.

There was complete silence in the darkness, and she seemed to hear the sound of her heart "pounding" and the sound of blood flowing through her body. These darkness seemed to freeze the shackles on her, trying to make her give up the ability to think.

The darkness became more and more urgent, and Hatsuizumi realized that before she knew it, the darkness had become something tangible, and she would be crumpled and torn apart here—she tried to gather the last bit of strength to hit the small hole she had managed to find, and an even more powerful force surged out of her chest, she didn't know where that power came from, but in front of it, both Hatsuizumi itself and the darkness seemed insignificant.

That power seemed to make her see, or really see, the entire universe where the sun, moon and stars were located. But how is that possible? How can people carry the sun, moon and stars? Even in this virtual world.

In her heart, she didn't feel that there was anything wrong with this force, just like the guidance of fate itself, and she just had to follow the instructions of fate.

There wasn't much time for Hatsuizumi to think about it, because that power had torn apart the nothingness that had imprisoned her for many days like a torrent, and it was like a torrent, enveloping her, leaving her with no choice to move forward.

She was greeted by a light that she hadn't seen for a long time, and when the light pierced into her eyes, it was accompanied by a burning sting and the joy of the rest of her life.

Although she is still in the virtual space, it is much better than the silent and lightless world.

The development of technology has long made the difference between virtual and real insignificant, and the human senses can hardly detect any difference. In fact, in the virtual world, there is a clearer blue sky than in reality, and cleaner air, which is one of the important reasons why this technology is widely used.

Chu Quan looked up at the sky for a while, took a deep breath, and couldn't help laughing: fate still favored her. She thought.

Even if the smile is more akin to crying.

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"Hatsuizumi has reappeared in the detection range," said a young woman with short hair and eyes with a cold expression, "Caojing, you go to her?" ”

"Good ......," the girl named Cao Jing was interrupted by a more indifferent voice before she could finish speaking: "I'll go." ”

Cao Xun's eyes widened, and he said unhappily to the person who spoke up, "Mokhi, don't rob me of the task. ”

"You're so careless, you can't do it." The boy said expressionlessly.

"What are you saying?" Grass said through gritted teeth.

Seeing that a tragedy was about to unfold, the bespectacled woman reacted without thinking: "Then let's go to the end of the light." ”

"Nine Babies - Why!" Cao Jing said dissatisfiedly.

"Because," Jiu Ying glanced at her meaningfully, "you do what you do—"

Grass Wattle silently rolled to the corner to plant grass, whimpering strange spells.

"So, I'll go." Sueguang said lightly.

"Calm down, and be sure to bring her back." Although the end light will always have a dead face, but the heart may be the most anxious of all people, Jiu Ying thought, after such a end light found the first spring, it would be a pleasant thing to think about.

By the way, Hatsuizumi, the nominal leader of the team, who has been missing for more than half a year and suffers mental torture even if he is found, silently lights a candle.

Chuquan, who was still feeling sad about why he was wearing ancient costumes, suddenly felt a chill rise from the bottom of his heart.