Chapter Eighty-Nine: Find Mimi#

Qi Min took off his headset, jumped out of the window with a gun on his back, and walked in the direction of the central dome.

When she walked out of the alley, she saw another "zombie". Qi Min shot and broke his head off his neck, only to feel a dull pain in his shoulder.

The feeling of a real rifle and an air rifle is obviously different, and Qi Min knows that when the gun is fired, the shoulder does not touch the butt, and the recoil can easily hurt the shoulder. She rubbed her shoulders as she walked in the direction of her destination, only to realize that something was wrong: she knew what the recoil of a rifle was, but why did Mimi know?

It could only be that Mimi didn't know it, and the image and related concepts of this rifle were completely generated by Qi Min's consciousness. This conjecture can also explain the cavity effect of the bullet hitting the "zombie", and even the "zombie" itself - Mimi has never seen anyone else play "Resident Evil"!

Similarly, it is obvious that the room that Qi Min just entered with the surveillance video following Mimi also came from her own consciousness. The buildings in the Mimi world didn't even have doors, how could there be details like metal floors and old wooden tables, and she couldn't have seen cathode ray displays that had been obsolete more than ten or twenty years before she was born.

This made Qi Min wonder if the Mimi she saw on that screen was real, or if it was just her own imagination. It seemed that she had fallen into the predicament of a "brain in a vat", but at this point she seemed to have no choice, she could not know Mimi's location in other ways that would avoid the possibility of her own imagination, and even she could not be sure if Mimi was still in the brain-like body.

Even though that Mimi might not be the real Mimi, Qi Min still decided to go to the central dome to find her.

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Along the way, Qi Min killed nine "zombies", and although he picked up two more magazines, he actually didn't even finish the bullets in the original magazine. The zombies in this virtual world seem to be weak, move slowly, and are not attracted to "living people".

Qi Min quietly turned around the streets, and it didn't take much effort to knock down the "zombies", because his physical fitness in the virtual world was obviously enhanced, and there was no special feeling after running for about a kilometer in a row.

However, just when she thought it was the EASY mode of playing a zombie single-player game, she saw a handwritten wooden sign around the corner: Be careful! Zombie tide ahead.

Zombie Tide ...... Sounds like something out of some outdated game. Qi Min chuckled in her heart, she wasn't too afraid of these black and purple things, but if there was a "zombie tide" near the central area, it meant that the zombies in this virtual world would be in danger because they might attack the central dome.

Looks like she's going to have to speed up.

Qi Min held his rifle and avoided the zombies by listening to their footsteps as much as possible. However, as soon as she had passed through the fifth or sixth floor of the building, she heard dense footsteps in the distance ahead, accompanied by the sound of her limbs hitting hard objects.

Qi Min quietly walked over there against the wall, and after passing through another alley, he saw that a central dome similar to a high-permeable glass texture had appeared in front of him, but a large group of zombies below were constantly knocking, trying to enter the transparent hemisphere.

It seemed that these zombies should have been imagined by Qi Min, but even she herself couldn't understand why she wanted to create such difficulties for herself. However, Qi Min felt that there was no need to be tough with the zombies, so she quietly went around to another alley on the right. There was also a small group of zombies gathered in front of the alley, but the total number was obviously much smaller than the one just now. Qi Min looked around left and right again, and found that these zombies tended to gather to attack the outer wall of the central dome.

There may be two reasons for this: the first is that they attack at the weak point of the entrance, so Qi Min can determine the entrance to the central dome accordingly. Second, they may choose a random point of attack and only form groups due to their tendency to gather.

Qi Min walked around the building closest to the central dome and found that the zombie herd was not evenly distributed. She found two spots where there were fewer zombies and threw an empty magazine to test it.

If these zombies are really the monsters that Qi Min imagined according to "Resident Evil", then their IQ and sensory acuity are much lower than that of her as a "player". Sure enough, when the empty magazine landed and made a sound, the zombies realized that there was something else here, and they rushed to the empty magazine that they couldn't understand.

At this time, Qi Min slipped to the glass-like outer wall of the central dome to investigate, but found that the outer wall was not solid, but like water restrained by some invisible external force, which could be passed directly by her.

In this way, Qi Min walked into the central dome in the isolation of the water layer. She turned around and raised her gun, and saw that the zombies who had already reacted pounced on the place where Qi Min had passed through the water layer, but it only made a "bang, bang" impact sound as if it was blocked by a thick glass wall.

I don't know how much defense this wall of water has against zombies. Qi Min couldn't help but feel that if this virtual world was a game imagined by Mimi, then its logic and playability would be a little lower. Of course, you can't expect a little girl who is not yet four years old to come up with any excellent game works, Qi Min can only play literacy games on old desktops at this age.

"Mom!" Mimi's voice came from behind her.

Qi Min turned around and put down his gun, and saw the little girl stumbling over from the other end, which was almost the diameter of the central dome. At this time, she no longer cared whether this Mimi was real or her own imagination, Qi Min hurriedly ran over and hugged her daughter in her arms.

"Mom...... It's scary here......" Mimi said while crying while hugging Qi Min's neck, "There are so many monsters out there...... Mom I want to go home......"

"Okay, okay, let's go home right away." Qi Min comforted her, "Mimi, do you remember how you got here?" โ€

Mimi shook her head, hugged Qi Min's neck and said, "I'm here all of a sudden...... And thenใ€And then there were a lot of monsters outside......"

Qi Min realized that if this Mimi was the real Mimi's consciousness, then after she entered the brain-like body, she actually only constructed a warm and bright central dome and a circle of blue-purple buildings outside, and those zombies only began to appear after Qi Min entered the brain-like body. Then this may be able to explain, because Qi Min associates the original building layout with the survival game, and her consciousness autonomously produces the image of guns and zombies.

However, she has no control over this imagination herself, and she does not know how to transform it into an entity in this virtual world. However, it stands to reason that Mimi, who originally built this world, should have this "permission", and she was the first to enter the blank brain-like body.