Chapter 1: Their Story (1)
Tale...... When should I start talking?
In retrospect, it may be because of the book, when a group of enthusiasts were brought together, the beginning of the story was brewed in it.
In 2007, a book called "Infinite Terror" began to be serialized on the Chinese Internet, which was the largest online station in the country.
Since then, the originator of a new genre and routine of online literature has been born.
When Infinite Horror sparked a huge craze and created a genre called "Infinite Stream", there was also a group of hardcore enthusiasts who spontaneously gathered together to discuss, communicate, and gossip with each other every day......
"So, madman, when are you going to make a cameo as well?"
In a QQ group, a user with the screen name named A certain Ai posted such a sentence.
Subsequently, a user with the online name Crazy Brother replied: "Okay, if you want to sign up for a cameo, tell me, but this book can't be written, but it can appear in my next book, who wants?" ”
"Okay, okay, I'm going to sign up." Users with the screen name Feng Zhan Zhuyi immediately followed.
"Count me in." Another user with the screen name Yu Tiandao also said.
After a while, there were enough six or seven users who expressed a desire to make a cameo, although it was just a fandom written by a netizen in the Q group of the fan forum.
"Okay, but don't regret it." After determining the person who wanted to make a cameo, the crazy brother knocked down such a sentence in the Q group.
A certain Ai spoke: "You don't want to write me to death, do you? ”
The crazy brother replied: "Guess. ”
A certain Ai: "I want you to write me wisely and powerfully, and I am awesome and coaxing." ”
Crazy brother: "Don't worry, I will definitely write you extremely obscenely, and you will be beaten up for being unusually cheap, and you will not die well." ”
A certain Ai: "Damn! ”
"Damn!"
In a dimly lit room, a thin man let out this exclamation, exactly what he said on the QQ group, he was the person in the QQ group with the online name of a certain Ai.
Ai's room is not large, only a dozen square meters, and in a small room, there is a bed, a computer desk, a chair, and a garbage can.
It's just that on the computer desk, there are piles of instant noodles and lunch boxes that have been eaten, the garbage in the trash can has long been overflowing, and the floor of the room is piled with dirty clothes and all kinds of empty beer cans and drink bottles.
In the only valuable laptop screen in the whole room, in addition to a QQ window, there is also a programming software.
Although there was a light in the room, I don't know if it was to save electricity or get used to the dim environment, so I didn't turn on the light. And the garbage piled up in the room also began to emit a strong odor, which filled the whole room with a strange smell.
But a certain Ai did not feel uncomfortable, but touched the fish with great interest...... As a coder working outside, a certain Ai, who is a heavy otaku, has always adhered to a point of view that the so-called real world is far less wonderful than the virtual world. As long as he can be given a computer with Internet access, no matter how bad the environment is, he can continue to live.
Well, keep alive......
After a certain Ai finished speaking, he smiled, closed the QQ page, and started to work regardless of the fact that the icon in the lower right corner was still flashing......
Of course, when it comes to work, it's actually overtime. After all, it's late at night, and it's already time to get off work. The building where he works closes at half past eight in the evening, and no one is allowed to stay in the whole building.
Therefore, even if a certain Ai's work is not completed, he can only take the work home and then work overtime. Of course, there is no overtime pay for this kind of overtime, and this family ......
If the broken house rented by 1,002 rents a month can also be called a home, then countless Beipiao Guangpiao families will have homes.
Let's talk about a certain person...... He is actually a very ordinary person, with an ordinary family background, an ordinary education, and an ordinary job. Height, body type, appearance, and even hobbies do not have any advantages or attractive highlights that can be used.
For the so-called "dream", as soon as I graduated from college, I went to this big city in the south to look for a job, from the beginning of the enthusiasm and expectations for the future, to the current cold reality crushed.
When I first came to this city, I hoped to change my destiny by working hard, becoming a CEO, marrying Bai Fumei, and reaching the pinnacle of life...... By now, I was overwhelmed by the heavy pressure.
After working for less than three years, Ai already looks like a middle-aged man in his thirties. Nearly three years of day and night reversal of his busy work life made him pale, his eyes were blank, and his eye sockets hung with a pair of dark circles all year round. Meals are all based on instant noodles and boxed lunches, and it is a luxury to be able to call and order takeout once in a while.
Because of his long-term irregular work and diet, stomach medicine, coffee, and sleeping pills have become indispensable materials for him. However, this heavy work pressure of overdrawing his body did not improve his life, let alone change his life.
Three years, three years, the balance in his account still did not exceed five figures, but the hair on the top of his head became less and less. The company's benefits are getting less and less, and the boss is only thinking about how to squeeze employees and reduce expenses all day long.
There are many times, at night, looking at the traffic on the street, a thought has sprung up in a certain Ai's heart...... Walk over to a speeding car, and you'll be able to live a hellish life again.
However, in the end, Ai did not do that. Perhaps, this is also the common characteristic of most people, everyone feels that life is so tiring, but ...... I want to die, but I don't dare.
In this case, the only thing Ai can do is to place his mind in the ethereal virtual world, using something called electronic heroin to numb his already exhausted body and mind. Otherwise, a certain Ai really doesn't know how to hold on.
As a senior otaku, a certain Ai is naturally in love with the Internet, Japanese anime, or various online games and 3A masterpieces, and most of the money he makes is invested in the bottomless pit of games.
Then, in addition to his family, there is basically no friend in the real world, and the only thing he can communicate with is that in addition to communicating with colleagues at work, he is left to soak in forums and Q groups, and chat and talk with netizens who smell like him...... Infinitely horrible things too.
A certain Ai likes infinite horror very much, and there is nothing wrong with saying that he is a fan, otherwise, he would not have joined such a forum built by like-minded people, and the Q group established by like-minded people.
And the guy in the Q group whose screen name is Crazy Brother is a street writer who writes a book that is completely copied from the infinite horror setting. Of course, there are a lot of such fandoms on a certain point of Chinese Internet, after all, these two years are the hottest time for infinite streaming, and there are countless infinite streams of all kinds.
I am familiar with him, and it is also because he registered the forum of his like-minded people, and then chatted better with a certain Ai in the forum, so he added the Q group, so he became so familiar.
Of course, in any case, being able to meet a "writer" is still a novelty. After all, not everyone can write about this kind of thing, and if it is really an individual who can write a complete long book, then what do you need a professional writer to do?
So,After occasionally taking the time to take a look at the street fighting fandom written by this street writer,A certain Ai also half-jokingly said that he wanted to make a cameo.。
It's just that a certain Ai didn't expect that what happened later was completely beyond his expectations.
Late at night, early in the morning......
When Ai finally closed the computer, yawned a lot, and then lay down on the bed and began to sleep, Ai somehow always felt as if something big was about to happen.
However, sleepiness overcame Ai's reason, and he decided that no matter what happened, it would be better to wait until he woke up.
A certain Ai, who fell asleep with a snoring, began to have a bizarre dream in his sleep.
"Want to understand the meaning of life? Think...... Is it really alive? ”
A voice kept echoing in the dream, and a certain Ai couldn't tell who the voice was, but in the haze, he vaguely felt that this sentence was so familiar...... It's like I've heard it somewhere.
"Yes, or ...... No? ”
"Yes or No?" A certain Ai muttered and repeated, the inexplicable familiarity became clearer, but a certain Ai did not dare to make a decision, he always felt that if he really agreed to it, or refused, he would regret it.
In this way, in this sentence "Do you want to understand the meaning of life?" Think...... Is it really alive? In the process of constantly echoing in his mind, a certain Ai ...... Woke up.
Woken up by the ringtone of his mobile phone, Ai opened his eyes, he was still familiar with eight o'clock, but he went to work at half past nine, and he only had an hour and a half left, if he didn't get up now, even if he could squeeze into the subway, he would definitely be late, and he didn't want to eat breakfast.
However, a certain Ai, who has always been reluctant to be deducted from his salary because he was late, did not rush to get up today.
He sat up from the bed in a daze, and then his mind was still recalling the memories of the dream.
"Want to understand the meaning of life? Think...... Is it really alive? And Yes and No?? What the hell are you doing...... Am I too much of Infinite Horror? ”
A certain Ai laughed a little self-deprecatingly, of course this sentence is very famous, after all, this sentence is the beginning of infinite horror...... A certain muscular gorilla, a humanoid weapon of mass destruction, who later proved with his strength, clicked on the dialog box with this sentence, and thus entered the reincarnation world that was fascinated by countless people and YY.
The well-known degree of this sentence, even if it is not a lover of infinite streams, there are many people who know it. In the past, a certain Ai also wrote a small program to joke with others, that is, to write a dialog box, write this sentence on it, if you click Yes, the system will automatically restart, of course, click No is actually the same.
This kind of similar mini-program has been tired of playing in the communication group of infinite horror lovers. However, this is not the same as the situation encountered by a certain Ai...... How to say that? It's so weird, so weird that a certain Ai is still doubting whether he is real.
In the end, the class could not be missed, and a certain Ai had to continue to work to support himself.
Soon, when a certain Ai finally squeezed into the subway, he had almost forgotten about this incident, after all, his hair was falling out one by one, and his memory was not as good as before.
Then, towards the end of the morning work day, it's time for the lunch break......
"Ahhh
Ai stretched, yawned heavily, glanced at the computer screen, and prepared to get up and go to eat first.
However, just as Ai was about to get up and leave, he suddenly ...... A dialog box pops up.
"Uh...... Well? ”
Ai's eyes widened in surprise, looking at the dialog box in front of him, only to see that in this dialog box, there was a sentence written that he was so familiar that he couldn't be more familiar......
"Want to understand the meaning of life? Think...... Is it really alive? ”
Of course, there's the more familiar "Yes/No" option below.
"Damn, who's going to play this for me? Don't you know if you've been tired of playing for a long time? A certain Ai muttered, after all, this kind of similar thing has long been tired of being played in the QQ group.
However, a certain Ai felt that something was not quite right...... Because, in the past, those who played this kind of small program came through the QQ file transfer point to deceive newcomers to play.
And this dialog box pops up directly, directly on a certain Ai's desktop.
A certain Aike doesn't think that this is a trick made up by a boring hacker...... Zheng Zhe complained and took it seriously? A certain Ai didn't think that any boring hacker would make this thing after seeing infinite horror.
Moreover, Ai himself is a code farmer, and the firewall on the company's computer is also readily available, how can it be so easy to be hacked? Don't underestimate people.
To be on the safe side, Ai also took a special look at the computers of other colleagues, and the results were ...... Only on his computer, there is such a pop-up box.
"This ...... Won't it......"
Ai swallowed, and his hands trembled a little. He didn't think it would be a colleague who joked on him, he was an otaku, yes, but he wouldn't go around advertising that he was an infinitely terrifying fan, and no one would be bored enough to dig into his privacy.
So, is it ...... Is this true?
A certain Ai thought of the dream last night, in the dream, the voice kept repeating this sentence, could it be ......
Ai took a deep breath and ...... Try using anti-virus software to kill this dialog box as a virus.
Outcome...... Useless, useless. No matter how the antivirus software scans, everything shows that everything is fine.
Then, a certain Ai called up the task manager, but in the background program, there was no such dialog box at all, it was like a ghost!
"Really...... Really? ”
A certain Ai felt that his heart was about to jump out, and while his heart was pounding, a voice was constantly tempting him in the bottom of his heart, and said to him: "Press down, press down, press down......"
Maybe it's because of the temptation of this voice, maybe it's because a certain Ai himself has long been disgusted with this damn life.
Eventually, he moved the mouse with his right hand, moved the mouse to the "Yes" button, and then gave a light touch......
(End of chapter)