Chapter 6: An Anxious and Tormented Heart and a Broken Container
The weather is nice today, and the air after the rain wafts with the faint and fresh smell of grass.
At this time, you can always see some square iron boxes, walking back and forth in an orderly manner on the wide green grass, they are some unmanned lawn mower groups. Once upon a time, maintaining vast areas of lawn in a park to keep them neat and leveled was always a lot of manpower, but now it only takes one or two operators to give instructions to the drone swarm in shifts. The weeding work that was operated by someone only remains in the memory of the grandparents.
"The scent of grass always makes people feel a natural vitality." A man with a paper pamphlet said as he looked out the window at the lawn.
"If you want, approach them and squat down to see, the bodies of the grass cut by the sharp blades, flowing out of the green juice, even so, they can always live tenaciously, as long as the roots are still there, they will continue to grow, never afraid, no matter how the external force destroys, they can always stand up again, with their tenacious vitality silently fighting, that faint pungent fragrance is their unyielding will, is the proof of life." Mo Zilan lightly leaned on the eaves of the window, looking into the distance, the breeze blowing her hair, and the gentle strands of hair waved the beat on the immature water spirit's face.
"Interesting angles, you can always get a little surprise from the cold." The man lifted his black-rimmed glasses with the index finger of his left hand.
"What are we going to test today?" Mo Zi tilted his head and held it with his right hand, looking at the man.
"Wait a minute, I'll see...... I'll take a look at ......" The man flipped through the pamphlet back and forth, looking for information. To be honest, in these days, people are accustomed to using tablet devices for work and life, and few people use paper manuscripts anymore, perhaps because he is an old-school and traditional person.
"Today we're going to test a new device connectivity system, which should seem simple and be a relatively rudimentary project. How are you doing today and when are you going to start? ”
"Then what are we waiting for, let's go now, Chen Yuanhang" After that, Mo Zilan and Chen Yuanhang took the shuttle bus in the park to the workshop laboratory.
After 15 minutes on the shuttle bus, they finally arrived at their destination, which was a group of newly built buildings in the park not long ago. The exterior looks the same as the previous buildings, but they all have a uniform style, with a uniform light blue and white tone. Many of the equipment and facilities are still being installed and commissioned, so it can be said that this is still a construction site.
"This place doesn't look ready yet." Mo Zilan walked through the various equipment and metal building materials scattered in the entrance hall while observing the surrounding situation.
"Yes, as you said, it will take another month or two for this place to be officially operational. But it doesn't matter, it doesn't affect our work. The lab is on the eighth floor, and it's already set up, brand new equipment, new design, new ......"
"It doesn't matter what happens, let's go." Zi Mu interrupted Chen Yuanhang's speech, walked straight to the elevator room, and talked about the park, he was always very excited, and he could talk endlessly, not because he was tired of his impromptu speech, but because she was really not in the mood today, she just wanted to be alone and quiet, and walk alone after finishing her work as soon as possible.
"The equipment has been self-checked, the system is all right, and the communication is normal...... All the preparations are ready to go! The operator of the laboratory turned around and reported to Chen Yuanhang on the side after a busy time.
"Okay, Xiao Liu, I've worked hard for you, let's start here." Chen Yuanhang took notes in the report, and then the experiment began.
She stepped up to the chair and sat relaxed, watching the operator Xiao Liu tie the interface of various equipment and life support systems to her. She has become accustomed to this kind of work flow, and she is already familiar with the road, this is her job, a guinea pig-like existence. Work is work, and after a few hours, she is a free soul again, wandering around.
"Record...... The 8th Deep Immersion Human Connection Test Begins! ”
"Subject is in place, final examination begins!"
"Heart rate...... Normal. ”
"Body temperature...... Normal. ”
"Physical indicators...... Normal. ”
System Communication ...... Normal. ”
"Start connecting !!"
Everything was as calm as usual, and gradually Mo Zi's eyelids closed, and with the regular ups and downs of her light chest, she slowly fell into a deep sleep, and her consciousness and system network became one.
It's a pale blue ocean, surrounded by something like a marssimus, which changes randomly and flexibly like a cloud. Walking through it, the touch of the pedal is very light, and it is slightly different from the clouds in the real world, which can really be touched.
If you want, imagine silently in your heart, any fantasy is no longer a fantasy, any impossible can be possible, and any wild thoughts can become the wings of dreams.
Here, you really just can.
Mo Zi man flew and jumped in the clouds, the clouds under his feet transformed into a big bird, with a slender body, a long beak, and unfolded wings like countless banana leaves in series, wide and soft, the gliding wind blew the wings, and the wind flowed under the cloud-like wings. The tail, not so much a tail, is more like a dragging streamer, undulating like a wave, and if there is a color, it must be colorful.
This elf, who does not exist in this world, must be the embodiment of her heart, light, agile, and yearning for freedom.
Carry her elves over mountains, across straits, high-fives with the water, and dance with the grasslands.
The sky in the distance is brightly lit and smoky, and it is a city in the sky. The lights of the world are always full of temptation for people, as long as there is still some nostalgia for the world, there will always be some home here, and there will be a cloud of its own.
The buildings here are strange, the same pale blue crystal tone, the pedestrians on the street are also different, the four-legged creature with the body of a banana and the head of the human head, the strange guy with the head of the square box, not so much a box is more like a microwave oven, there is still a light inside, and lo and behold, the door opens, and it is really a microwave oven. With an antique tape recorder with wings and two rows of eight-wheeled wheels underneath, the streets here are always a novelty.
"Dingdingding!!!dingding"
The shrill screams of sirens cut through the silence, cutting through the atmosphere around them, and an air of terror and danger flowed out.
Following the sound of the alarm, Zi Mu opened his heavy eyes, his vision was blurred, and his head was groggy, perhaps because of the forced disconnection, his consciousness could not well adapt to the gravity of reality and the real sense of powerlessness.
I saw a dark red light in front of her, swaying from side to side, and after more than ten seconds, she gradually regained a clear line of sight.
It was the laboratory's emergency alarm that went off, and the radio intermittently repeated the voice broadcast of the evacuation of the building. None of the staff members around could see it, and the sound of explosions could be heard from time to time in the distance, and the huge fluctuations caused by the explosion could be felt throughout the room.
"What the hell is this...... What happened?! Mo Zinan struggled with his weak body, slowly untied the connecting device on his body, slid from the recliner and fell to the ground, and staggered towards the exit. When I passed through the first closed door, I saw several people lying or lying on their stomachs in front of the equipment display, all of them were staff here, and the equipment on the ground was also full of debris and blood stains shattered by the explosion.
She found Xiao Liu leaning against the door of the next exit, covered in blood, and his body was pierced by a huge piece of glass. She tried to wake up Xiao Liu, but found that he was no longer breathing.
"How could this be, just a little moment after my consciousness disappeared, and this place became like this!?"
"I must find a way to escape from here, I can't, I can't die here, it's not !! now" Mo Zilan struggled to get up and swayed through the porches, and at the emergency passage of the escape, he met Liu Yuanhang, who was also injured.
"Too ...... Great, meet you here. You're not hurt, are you? Yuanhang held his glasses with his fingers.
"I'm fine, just woke up from the virtual connection, I'm a little weak, and I can still walk. You're bleeding from your head, are you okay? What the hell is going on, and how did this become like this? She asked eagerly, trying to figure out what was going on.
"I don't know the details, but I just know that suddenly there was a violent explosion in the building, the whole building was shaking, and many people were affected by the explosion, and now it is estimated that most of the people have fled after hearing the alarm."
"I just saw Xiao Liu and a few other staff members, they all fell in a pool of blood, and there were no signs of life......"
Xiao Liu...... He's a nice guy...... It's too late to say so much now, hurry! Hurry up and follow me, the road ahead is blocked by the fire wall, I know where else to get out! ”
The two supported each other, ran through the burning ruins, and fled in the direction of the exit, although the building's fully automatic firefighting facilities sprayed water with all their might, and the fire and destructive power caused by the explosion were too serious to contain the fire.
Just as they reached the first floor, they saw the light at the exit, which was already in front of them. A huge steel beam fell down and hit the two of them, and they passed out in an instant.
At this time, rescuers rushed into the fire with unmanned firefighting robots to start emergency rescue, and the two were rescued by the first one because they were close to the exit.
After all, he was hit by a steel beam, and he inhaled a lot of smoke. The situation of the two was not optimistic, and they were rushed to the medical school directly under the Western Lighthouse for rescue.
Two waves of ambulances came at the entrance of the medical school at the same time, one side was sent from the park, and the other side was sent from the city. Sent here, it must have been in big trouble.
The hospital's ambulance team sprang into action. The rescue room was busy, and the medical staff of the shaking figures were racing against time, competing with Lord Yama for their lives.
"There are three injured people here who are given the highest priority to be treated. Two men and one woman, two burns and heavy impact, excessive blood loss and unconscious, another comminuted fracture of the whole body, severe head injury, multiple organ failure, need emergency resuscitation!! ”
"It can't go on like this, so many seriously injured people have come at once, there are not enough manpower, traditional methods will not work, and their lives will not be saved!"
"Director, it seems that the only way to do this is to take the plunge and give it a try! Give the order! ”
"Prepare a fully enclosed life support system cabin, fully open the man-machine joint system, immediately convene a joint meeting of technical experts, by the way, notify the headquarters of the Western Lighthouse directly under the hospital, we need their strength! Hurry up and execute !! ”
In a hurry, the staff of various posts scattered and got busy after receiving the command of the leaders of the hospital.
"Bring up the information of the three of them."
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"Liu Yuanhang, Mo Zimu...... Wing... Wing Xiao point?! ”
"Why are these two children here, is this providential...... Alas......" Director Xiao looked at the data on the data and sighed helplessly.
Sometimes the encounters of life are so strange and uncertain, full of uncertain certainty, that everything is fixed in the moment it happens.
Yi Xiaodian and Mo Zilan, two suffering people whose fates are connected, are still intertwined at the end of the parallel and unrelated timeline.