Chapter 152: The Law of the Dark Forest
After wiping his face, Fang Xiaofan followed behind Zhang Runan, I have to say that the person in front of him now gives him the impression that he is a complete female man, of course, he is still as beautiful as ever, but he is not the same style as Lu Xueqi and Shen Chen at all. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info
The two walked through a long corridor that appeared to be made of alloy for about ten meters, and then entered another room. This room looks more like a living room, and there are a total of six people in it, five men and one woman. Four people sat on the side watching, and a man was in front of a virtual screen, pressing buttons. The other person was the man dressed in white, sitting in the corner, tinkering with a strange-looking round thing in his hand.
In the center of the living room is a huge three-dimensional projection screen, on which are some simulated pictures, but Fang Xiaofan can't understand it.
"There's their sentry here, and there's a dark river underneath the sentry........," the man in front of the screen said, demonstrating.
"Head, the newcomer has been brought." Zhang Runan walked to the virtual screen and said to a bald white man in his fifties among the four.
"Welcome, Xiaofan, welcome to the revival team." The bald man stood up, smiled, stretched out his hand to Fang Xiaofan, and said, "Let's get to know our members first." β
Fang Xiaofan stretched out his hand and shook it, then nodded.
"I won't introduce her, Zhang Runan." The white man pointed at Zhang Runan and said with a smile: "Let me introduce myself first, my name is Arthur, I am the leader of this team, I am fifty-six years old this year, and I am the first person here to escape from their hands." β
"My name is Lin Feng, twenty-eight years old, we just met, I am the medical staff of this team, and your health will be under my control in the future." The man in white said, patting Fang Xiaofan on the shoulder.
"My name is Da Yu, I am twenty-nine years old, I am a computer expert, and I will be in charge of your system in the future." The man operating the virtual screen said, his face was white and his body was slightly fat.
"My name is Xia Xia, and I am an ordinary person with some brute strength, thirty-two years old, and I am very happy to meet you." Sia was a brown-skinned black man, tall, who looked like he should be over 1.9 meters tall, and his muscles were very strong.
"RocΓo, weapons expert, thirty-five years old, tell me what kind of weapon you want directly, and you will be satisfied." Rocio is also Caucasian and speaks coolly.
"My name is Kaeya, I'm twenty-seven years old, and I don't have any special skills." Kaeya is a brown-skinned, sexy girl with a plump figure, wearing a tank top and a ponytail, and she looks very smart.
"Okay, everyone knows each other, and they will be brothers and sisters in the future." Arthur looked at everyone and said, then pulled Fang Xiaofan's arm, "Xiaofan, you come with me." β
When Arthur walked to the door with Fang Xiaofan, he suddenly stopped and said inside: "Big fish, you continue to analyze, don't wait for me." β
The two went to another room, where there was an old-fashioned sofa with a coffee table in front of it, and they sat down on the sofa.
"I won't spare you, I know you're confused." Arthur said, smiling slightly, but soon showed a sad expression.
"The more direct, the better." Fang Xiaofan nodded, if he didn't tell him to understand everything, I'm afraid he would go crazy.
"Do you want one?" Arthur lit a cigarette, and every time he talked about something like this, he had to smoke or he wouldn't be able to talk about it at all. He made his own cigarette and used the leaves of a tree.
Fang Xiaofan shook his head, he saw that the expression on Arthur's face had completely begun to change, becoming extremely serious.
"I remember that year, I was just in my early twenties, and it was October 2025." Arthur puffed out a puff of cigarette and began to speak slowly.
"At that time, the United States cooperated with China on a space program, which seemed to be called zero-distance contact, searching for possible aliens in space, which is what the news said." Arthur paused, "Later, they contacted an extraterrestrial civilization called the Trojan civilization, and their technology was more advanced than ours. β
"At that time, the two civilizations communicated for a while, but it was they who brought us something new, technology and understanding of the universe. Those fools were completely carried away by the excitement, and he Trojans believed as if they were gods, completely ignoring the laws of the Dark Forest. For the Trojans, there is no defense, almost unreserved trust, and they tell each other everything they have. It wasn't until one day that the Trojans drove ten star warships that they were dumbfounded. Each of their warships was the size of a city with a population of millions, and it was a supergiant. β
"Until the Trojans fired our laser cannons, those idiots were still preaching the goodwill of the Trojans." Arthur took another puff of cigarette and spit it out, his voice sounded like a sigh, then he looked at Fang Xiaofan's incredible expression, and continued: "I went through that war, I was only twenty years old at that time, and I had just started to have a girlfriend, she was a blonde girl, very beautiful, but she was later killed by the Trojan laser cannon. The main reason why the Trojans came into contact with the earth was to occupy the earth and seek new resources for survival, which I later learned. β
Arthur paused again, as if remembering a sad past.
"The outcome of the war can be imagined, human beings have no power to resist, it is almost a massacre, rivers of blood, corpses scattered all over the field. The war lasted only two months before it ended, and then the Great Purge began, and the people who did not die were captured and tortured. I was also arrested at the time, but luckily I wasn't killed, but was kept in captivity and then studied. Those damn monkeys......"
"Damn monkeys?" Fang Xiaofan interrupted with some curiosity.
"Yes, damn monkeys, Trojans are apes, apes with hair off their faces. They are very intelligent and very capable of learning, but they don't have the complex emotions of human beings, they are very interested in the complex human brain and nervous system. They dissected some people's brains and began to study it, thinking that it was as complex as the structure of the universe, but they still didn't find anything about having such complex emotions for human beings. Later, one of their scholars stumbled upon some human words and images and other things that their society did not have, and they were ecstatic, as if they had gained a new continent. They turned some of the novels, movies and the like into programs one by one using their technology, and then played them out for viewing. β
"But do you know what that playback carrier is?"
"What is it?" If it weren't for the people here, Fang Xiaofan would have been unable to believe Arthur's words, this is like a science fiction movie at all.
"It's the human brain, and the brain acts as the carrier of those programs, and then plays them out through holograms, so that it's the same as watching the human mind, and it's more colorful. It's just that at this time, the human mind is like a player for those programs. At the same time, these programs can also allow them to better study human emotions, after all, human emotions in novels and movies are more abundant. β
"The technology evolved over time, and then some of their companies invented entertaining systems that could channel a human mind into the program, rather than just a carrier. They can see the world from the first point of view, and the human being appears in the program. β
"The invention of this technology can be said to have saved mankind, at least so that mankind has not been extinguished. But human beings are kept in captivity like plants, soaked in nutrient solutions all day long, and a thread is inserted into their heads as a conductor to connect to the virtual world. Those virtual programs can also control human appearances, features, and even superpowers that provide false images. According to their personal preferences, they have developed various super systems, such as super novel systems, super comic systems, super movie systems, etc., all of which are built on a common virtual platform, which is the world we lived in before. They created a virtual world that was exactly like the world before us, like an online game, where we were the characters in their game, and the systems were separate game worlds, like maps. β
"You mean, I'm a character in their game?" Fang Xiaofan was stunned, this is simply incredible.
Of course, there were many Trojans who opposed this, and they proposed the extinction of the human species to avoid future troubles. But the entertainment company's backstage seemed to be huge, forcing some to veto the proposal and start breeding humans in large numbers to sell to Trojan gamers. Moreover, some of their scientific researchers are not in favor of extermination of human beings, they need to study human emotions, and they need a large number of experimental subjects. β
"Why do they study human emotions?" Fang Xiaofan asked with some puzzlement, investing in them is much more advanced than human beings, so why do you need to understand the complex emotions of human beings.
"They want to learn human emotions, you know? Because once a civilization learns a new skill, I am afraid it will cause a qualitative leap in civilization, just like human beings learned to think, invented fire, and invented the effects of electricity. That's the difference between them and us, they don't miss every chance to raise the level of civilization, even if there is only the slightest hope. Arthur lit a cigarette again and smoked it again.
"I'm still a little incredulous, if emotions can have such a big impact, then why would civilization be slaughtered by them?" Fang Xiaofan still couldn't accept it, and even couldn't understand it.
"Every species has its own superiority, just as a bird can fly, a fish can swim, and a gecko's tail falls off and grows. The complex emotions of human beings are unique to them and do not possess them, so they want to study and want to learn. You may not be able to understand this, but you should believe me, Xiaofan, this is the real real world, and human beings have reached the point of precariousness. Arthur looked at Fang Xiaofan, with a hint of seriousness and expectation in his eyes.
"But how do you know that?" Fang Xiaofan took a deep breath, although he didn't believe it a little, but he knew that what Arthur said was likely to be true.
"I used to be just like you, just a tool in their game." Arthur stood up, turned around, and showed the back of his head, where there were two scars, and there was no hair on them.
Fang Xiaofan stretched out his hand tremblingly, and also touched the back of his head, there were also two scars there, like a new one........ (To be continued.) )