Behind the Red Gate, a new world was presented to Li Ben, and with another new memory attached, he felt like he had traveled through again.

The memory that contained the emotions of others was copied into Li Ben's consciousness.

Anzeroth, male, 13 years old.

The world lives in an era before the Great Collapse, when human civilization was at its peak. Human labor has been liberated, any production activities can be completed by artificial intelligence, and even the manufacturing of intelligent machinery is completed by complex highly intelligent robots, simply put, robots can copy robots.

The fears of mechanical intelligence did not happen. Human living materials come from the synthesis of advanced substances, and through a manufacturing process beyond the atomic level, hydrogen atoms can be turned into carbon atoms, and iron atoms can also be turned into gold atoms, as long as there is enough mass around for the reaction to occur.

People don't need to go to work, they just need to enjoy the services of smart machinery. Humans do not have to learn inefficiently, as long as they connect their mature brains to "deep learning systems" as adults, they can master all the existing empirical knowledge of science, economics, culture and history in a matter of hours.

The only thing for human beings to do is to hand over the problem to the intelligence center when there is a whimsical problem, and the supercomputing brain will analyze and give feedback, in short, human beings only need to contribute their own imagination to continue to develop cutting-edge physics.

Lee Ben looked at his tiny arms and realized that he had become the little boy named "Anzeroth". This boy has a happy family, a younger sister and a childhood sweetheart, the girl next door... Very good, standard for winners in life.

What does it take to pass the test? That was the first question he pondered.

The so-called painful trial means to go through and overcome suffering... So where is the so-called tribulation event? Before the Great Apocalypse, humanity could be regarded as an advanced civilization in the universe that could hardly be found... Could it be that a great destruction is about to happen?

There are no hints in this world, and you have to find the answers yourself.

"Angie, Miss Kelly has come to play with you. The gentle voice of the mechanical maid A394 came from behind Lee himself, and Angie was the nickname given to him by those close to him.

"Okay, please let her in. ”

There is no one else in the house.

After the age of 10, human children in this world will live independently from their parents and enjoy life independently. Angelos's parents live not far away, and they only need to open the portal in the home in one step, so they are not really independent in reality.

This is not the planet I'm on. Lee Ben learned this through the information in the boy's memory. The planet he was on was just one of many human colonies.

"Angie, look what I've brought!" Kelly, a lovely girl her own age as the boy, jumped into the living room with a double ponytail.

She tapped into the air, and the one-eyed orb floating behind it scanned the living room with red light.

Immediately afterward, the surrounding environment begins to change, and Lee Ben and Kelly enter a world of ice and snow, a huge tracked car powered by three heavy steam turbines travels through the snow, and its four sides are surrounded by hundreds of hungry and cold humans, who are warmed by the heat of the steam emitted by it, and people follow the locomotive...

"This is..."Antiquity 4 Ice Storm"?"

"That's right, I've got the game's closed beta, let's play it together!" Kelly excitedly invited Angelos.

When Lee was about to reply to her, the world went gray, everything stood still, and three options popped up in front of his eyes.

1. Say no politely.

2. Agree to play with Kelly.

3. Kick it out in a frenzy.

Is this a game of choice? But what kind of painful trial is this?

This was Lee's idea at this time, and it would be really interesting to have something new that had never been seen before.

Well... Generally speaking, option 2 would be more appropriate.

He held out his hand and pointed to option 2. The world regains its colors.

Kelly said, "Let's start now." ”

A communication box appears in front of Leeben's eyes: Kelly invites you into the game.

Accept, reject.

He chose to accept.

Kelly took the initiative to take his hand and pulled him to sit on the sofa without letting go, and a very warm and tender touch came from the palm of her hand.

At this time, you should close your eyes. Memories from Angelos told him.

When you close your eyes, the world is not dark, but swirls around it with colored flecks of light. This is the loading screen before entering the game world.

When we look up at the sky, the stars fall... The dust is full of atmosphere, the light is no more, and the cold winter is coming...

This is the in-game opening line, which briefly describes the game's backstory. The main story is that due to an asteroid hitting the planet, stirring up a large amount of dust to obscure the light of the stars, the global temperature has dropped sharply, and people must find relatively stable areas on the continental plates that move violently from time to time, and build giant steam engines to transfer heat.

Players take on the role of a leader who builds a city around a giant steam engine to help people survive. This is a survival management game.

Enter the game......

Game Mode – Duo Mode. Time rate× 100.

Current Quest - Survive two cities for 100 days.

It's so cold here. The bone-chilling sensation is transmitted to the brain through analog signals.

Lee Ben is not in the same place as Kelly, they each run a tribe.

Since the game is still in closed beta, there is no tutorial for beginners, and the task of the game is only to survive.

Do you want two tribes to survive... Looks like I'll have to find Kelly first... No, I'm not here to play games!

Li Ben suddenly woke up, he was still in the prophetic trial, why did he come to play the game in a good way?

For a moment, he felt that he was Angelos, forgetting who he was.

One should not choose 2, it should be said that one should not think in the identity and position of Angelos. He regrets it now.

If Lee's environment was safe, he wouldn't mind playing a little game in this trial to get a feel for the high-tech of the future world. It's a pity that the reality doesn't allow it.

Try exiting the game directly.

The system shows that it is not possible to quit in two-player mode unless the other player agrees.

Kelly declined his request to quit the game, and she couldn't DM the game while it was in progress.

No way... Hurry up and end this game.

The game is played in the first person, and he plays a middle-aged man whose appearance is that of an adult Angelos.

To end this game quickly. He decided to lead his citizens directly to death, made many decisions that went against the will of the people, and used strong methods to impose harsh policies.

A week later, he was tied up by his men and thrown out of the city.

System Warning: You have lost your status as a leader.

But the game still doesn't end there.

Why do you want to make it so realistic. Shivering in the cold wind, Leeben was dissatisfied with the fact that the game was too exquisite.

Being expelled by yourself does not end the game, so even if you die, it is probably useless. For the mission to fail, one of the cities must be destroyed.

Now they are in trouble, they can no longer meddle in the internal affairs of the city, and they cannot induce them to perish.

When Li Ben was so embarrassed, a passing expedition found him. They took out a portrait and compared it to confirm that Lee Ben or Angelos was the person they were looking for.

They are a search party sent by Kelly.

He was quickly brought to adult Kelly. It was a stone house, and there lived a sexy and lovely beauty in it.

The development of the city under Kelly's leadership is not bad, and the stone house is the most advanced housing in the current version. When connected to the heating system, the interior of the house is comfortable and pleasant.

Kelly first laughed at him mercilessly. Then he said that he had sent someone. Travel to his city. Communicate. Be prepared to incorporate it into your own management.

"Can you let me out first?"

"No, I can't. You promised to play with me. ”

"But I can't do anything now. ”

"Just manage it with me. I don't want to be alone in this world for 100 days. ”

"But I'm in a hurry. That one... I have an urgent need to urinate. "Lee Ben told a lame lie.

"Don't you want to be with me so much?" Kelly looked at him with tears in her eyes.

"Well..." Although he knew that the other party was essentially a little girl, he was a little shaken when she coquetted to Li Ben in her adult attitude.

"Forget it, you go out first. Kelly suddenly let him go, and used her authority to kick Lee Ben out of the game.

After returning to the outside world, Lee Ben found that his hand was still being held by Kelly.

He gently pulled out of it and asked himself: Is my choice good or bad?

Thinking of this, he actually went to the toilet.

Just as he returned, the unexpected happened - Kelly was dead.

Her pupils dilated, and she collapsed limply on the couch, her mouth slightly open, and her saliva flowed uncontrollably. Li Ben stepped forward to shake her and tried to give first aid, perform CPR, but everything was in vain.

The mechanical guards soon arrived, taking Kelly's body for examination and investigating Angelos. After the human inquisitor had reviewed all the relevant information, the boy was released.

The final outcome of the incident was determined to be an accident.

Kelly has an accident after the death of an in-game character, resulting in her failure to return to consciousness, and her brain determines that she is dead, and eventually stops breathing.

Is this the consequence of the wrong choice?

As he watched Kelly's mother cry bitterly, a strong wave of negativity from Angelos' memory surrounded him.

If I could accompany her in the game and complete the mission together, this wouldn't have happened...

Emotions of regret and self-reproach hit Li Ben's soul, and an indescribable feeling of suffocation surrounded him, as if he was surrounded by the hot sulfur smoke of the volcano, burning himself from the inside out.

He couldn't help but shed tears of regret and hatred, and finally realized what the real pain meant.

Lee Ben was not afraid of physical pain, as was clear from the near-frantic battles he had fought before.

So in this trial, the god of fate gives him another person's memory, another life, or another personality. If he chooses the wrong one, he will be punished by the "other ego".

Because what can make a person completely collapse often does not come from the outside world, but from itself.

There is no end to this punishment, and as long as he retains Angelos' memories and personality, the experience will be shadowed and imprinted and will stay with him forever.

However, the strengthened soul will of Li Benna would not be defeated so easily.

The wrong choice was made once, however, the trial is not over yet... What's next? What's next?

"Brother," Angelos' sister Margaret looked at him worriedly.

Margaret is only a year younger than Angelos and is friends with Kelly. She took the initiative to walk up to Angelos and hugged him, sharing her grief with her. Naturally, their parents knew about this and had already gone to comfort Kelly's parents.

When he was able to control his emotions a little, Li Ben began to think about the crux of the problem - what was the cause of the accident?

He didn't think that there would be any senseless accidents in this trial world to deliberately torture him, and this must also be an important clue.

Aita once said that after the Great Destruction came, most of the advanced technology of the human race in this world would fail. In the past, there have been harbingers and visions.

The Great Destruction did not happen instantly, but only erupted after a certain amount of chaotic power had accumulated.

If you think about it this way, it makes sense to attribute the cause of the accident to the forces of chaos, and it should even be said that there is no better explanation than that.

If this was before the Great Destruction happened, could it be that the condition for clearing the level was to prevent the Great Destruction?

No one can do this, and this is not the difficulty of testing a human soul.

If there is such a task, the person who does it should be rewarded for becoming a god directly, no, when he does it, he has already surpassed God.

Think about it, is there any information you haven't noticed?

In other words, is this Angelos real in history, or is it just a fiction created by the god of fate for the sake of trials?

The god of fate didn't leave much time for Lee Ben to think about it.

"Brother, let's go live with Mom and Dad. ”

When my sister suggested this, the option came again.

1. Accept your sister's offer.

2. Refuse on the grounds that you want to be alone and quietly.

3. Let your sister be alone with you.

Li Ben chose 1 because he felt that the family could better share the pain together at this time, and if there were any more accidents, they could take care of each other. The trial has already begun.

This is a small two-storey villa.

At night, Angelos slept in two beds in the same room as his sister, the cozy cottage of their youth. Parents are right next door.

The sleepiness that Lee Ben felt was coming from his current human body. After all, he was a young boy who was still developing, and what happened on this day made him too tired both mentally and physically.

The boy's brain gave such a warning, and Lee Ben had to fall into a deep sleep.

In the middle of the night, he woke up from his sleep to find that his sister was not in the room. The door to the room was open, and the outside lights were on.

Sensing acutely, something was wrong, he got up and walked out of the room.

The night was quiet and too quiet.

Li Ben heard the same movement coming from his parents' room next door. He leaned close to the door and heard a deep wheezing sound coming from the room. He didn't think much about it and left there.

Where did Margaret go? Will she go to the bathroom?

He went to check the bathroom again and found that the door was open and there was no one inside.

So he went downstairs to look for it, and found the mechanical maid who had fallen into a shutdown state.

These robots automatically go into quiet mode at night, making no sound, and are also able to act as guards, so there's no reason to turn them off. This is another doubt.

Lee Ben tries to reawaken the mechanical maid. After some operation, the highly intelligent robot in front of him did not move.

Failure is unlikely, and they are able to replace the faulty parts themselves.

Then the answer can only be chaos erosion. ”

"Margaret!" Lee Ben directly called out his sister's name.

There was no response in the room.

He saw the entrance to the basement, but it was locked with an electronic lock, and he didn't have access to it. In memory, Margaret had authority, and she might be down there.

There is no way, at this time you have to find your parents to solve it. He thought.

Li Ben ran upstairs again and began to bang violently on his parents' door.

There is also no feedback in it.

Even if you're doing that, there's no reason why you can't hear what is going on here.

"Mom and Dad opened the door, Margaret was gone. He shouted to the door in the voice of a little boy.

But the door still didn't open.

In any case, it is impossible for a normal parent not to make any answer after hearing such a cry from their child.

And now there is an eerie silence in the house.

He stopped shouting and banging, and listened carefully to the door.

The wheezing sound in the room was still there, but at this time there were more sticky and glutinous sounds, the sounds of animals chirping and swallowing as they ate.

That's when the third choice arrived.

1. Forcibly open the door.

2. Flee the place and call the police.

3. Ask your neighbors for help.

Seeing these options, Li Ben was basically sure that something bad had happened here.

The sensible option now would be to flee here and call the police. So he chose two.

When he came to his senses, he was already standing outside the house. It didn't take long for the mechanized police unit to arrive.

First, there was the sound of gunfire in the room, and several thick laser columns erupted from the roof of her house. Then came various explosions, in which the stumps of some of the mechanical cops were reduced to a pile of fragments of parts.

By the time it was over, most of his parents' home had been destroyed, and he had seen the corpse of a giant monster.

The monster has no hands, no neck, only a pair of upright feet, about two meters tall. At the top is a large bony mouth with a sharp cone, which looks like a bullet in shape. Round mouthparts like lampreys sprout from all over its body, hanging from its long, twisted tentacles.

At this time, the monster had already died under the attack of many high-energy weapons, and the green slime seemed to be its blood, emitting a violent fishy stench under the effect of the heat wave.

At the same time, he witnessed the mutilated corpses of his parents in the rubble, partially charred and fragmented, mixed with many other material fragments. If it weren't for the clothes, body shape, and some decorations on his body, he wouldn't have been able to tell that they were his familiar parents.

Seeing this scene, Li Ben realized that his choice had gone wrong.

Sure enough, the pain from the other personality was so intense that it almost tore his own soul apart. And as this pain deepened, he once again fell into the situation where he couldn't tell whether he was Lee Ben or Angelos.

"Ahhh!...h

The impact was no small felt, seeing the tragic death of a loved one. This is something that will be unimaginable in the human world in the future.

What really happened in front of and behind Angelos' eyes, anger, fear, remorse, disbelief, self-avoidance, madness and confusion......

All the negative emotions turned into countless sharp blades, leaving a crack in the soul in one go.

If the previous wrong choice made Li Ben feel like he was doing a sauna with sulfur steam. So this time, he really sank into the magma and took a refreshing bath.

The world turned blood-red, everything was torn apart, and space began to shatter.

Then he felt like he had fallen into the endless darkness, but thankfully he grabbed a red door as he fell.

Regardless of three-seven-twenty-one, he jumped in.

Turn back to the morning of the day.

"Angie, Miss Kelly has come to play with you. The voice of the mechanical maid A394 sounded behind Li Ben again.