Dashboard with buttons.

Meters and buttons that exist as if they were endless.

Lu Yuan stared at these dashboards and buttons in a daze.

This is the third month he's traveled over.

This "maybe" is a huge spaceship, and through the porthole you can see the faint starry sky and endless darkness outside, no matter how much time it takes. For science student Lu Yuan, it is not difficult to deduce some facts, such as - he is not close to any galaxy or river system. Because the brightness of all visible stars is dim, and it does not even look as bright as the brightness of the stars observed on a clear night on Earth, it is known that it passes through the atmosphere.

Magnitude is a unit of measurement that measures the luminosity of a celestial body, and a magnitude observed with the naked eye can be called a visual magnitude. In general, the brighter the observed target, the smaller the value of the visual magnitude. The Moon has a magnitude of minus 12.6 at the time of the Full Moon, the brightest star is generally magnitude 1, and the smallest magnitude visible to the naked eye is 6. In the starry sky in front of you, there are no stars with a magnitude greater than 2.

The ship was unusually large and dark.

He was in a huge hall, with no light or sound other than the indicator light on the instrument panel in front of him. There were a dozen chairs in front of the instrument panel—he woke up from one of them—and the others were empty.

He had walked a few hundred meters to the other side of the dark hall, empty, with nothing but footsteps, not even the opposite wall. When he couldn't see the faint light behind him, he ran back. At the beginning, when he looked at the darkness in front of him, Lu Yuan always felt that there would suddenly be evil ghosts and beasts inside, which once made him sleepless. But now, he wished there was something else in the darkness, even if it was a ghost.

What really tormented him and kept him awake was the desperate silence.

Looking at the huge panel in front of him, he felt like he was going crazy. Isn't this damn place a spaceship that has advanced the Earth for hundreds of years?! For Mao is still using the control panel of the chemical workshop style in the seventies, bastard! Where's your quantum computer?! Where's your holographic control panel?! At least give me a voice!

There is air here, there is gravity, and in addition to yelling every day, he can also eat a white ointment to survive.

Thankfully, there's a device on it that is so simple that earthlings can understand it — a hose that stretches into a clear container like toothpaste with a button on it. Every time you press it, you will pour more than half a cup of "toothpaste" into the cup, which is the food of Lu Yuan's "day". Because there is no tool to measure time, and the darkness and silence make it particularly long, the length of time cannot be determined. But Lu Yuan is within the scope of "one day", and the tube will only flow out of the "toothpaste" once.

So every day when the time was approaching, Lu Yuan would stay by the side of the hose, pressing the milky button again and again until the food came out. It wasn't because of hunger, although he did lose more than a dozen kilograms, the hunger was not strong. He stayed at the button, simply because it was the only part of the ship that would "react" to his actions. When you shout into the room only to hear an echo, and when you walk into the darkness and find darkness, the response of a button is precious.

There are fourteen indicator lights that are still lit on the panel, some are orange and red, some are dim, and some emit white light, which is the only light source for Lu Yuan.

Originally, there were fifteen lights, but after Lu Yuan tried to operate some buttons, he extinguished one, and he never dared to touch that panel again.

He fell asleep, for some time. He woke up, still for an unknown amount of time. He yelled and slammed his chair like a sleepy beast. But he still didn't touch the buttons on the dashboard, which was the only little hope left in his darkness.

For the first month, he wrote down the order of all the buttons, and gradually went from roaring to silent. (There is no time, and there is no way to calculate the unit of the month, which is just Lu Yuan's self-setting in order to maintain human behavior.) ）

The following month, he dismantled his coat into thin threads, tied them to a chair, and groped in the darkness with the threads. He walked along the wall and eventually returned to the chair position. He confirmed that it was an empty rectangular hall of about 400 square meters, and he found a door at the end of the hall, a door that could not be opened. There were no handles, switches, or anything like that, just four slits at the top, bottom, left, right, and width of a man and half a man wide, making him guess it was a door.

He tried everything he could, but no matter pushing, clasping, panning, kicking, headbutting, biting, and slamming his body, the door was like four gaps in the wall, not moving, damn space technology! He couldn't even get a thin line out of the crack in the door.

In the third month, he confirmed another thing.

The ship is not flying.

Yes, it's an abandoned spaceship parked in the middle of the universe.

There is no engine sound, there is no noisy machine running sound, and it can be considered that the room is well insulated.

Without meteorites, debris, or dust passing through the window, the universe is damn empty.

But after he finally remembered the poor knowledge of space, and used the "toothpaste" on the porthole to mark every bright star, he kept observing for a month, and the position never changed.

The relative position had never changed, and the ship had no tremor in flight, only half of it had frozen, standing still.

Lu Yuan began to become silent.

He used white "toothpaste" and marked all the buttons with numbers, pressing one every time he was desperate and unbearable.

On the third "day", he pressed the number 15 button, and another light went out, and he pressed it again, but it did not light up. Press all the buttons from 1 to 15 and the light still won't come on.

Day 5

More and more lights go out and never come back on, more and more darkness and despair.

Lu Yuan couldn't remember how long he hadn't spoken, the instinct of language began to leave him, and he could only make some meaningless syllables when he opened his mouth

This is the last light, and the last button.

This button is yellow, oval in shape, and looks very special.

Lu Yuanzhi said that this was his own illusion, and before that, there were many buttons that he thought were special.

"This square button is very special, it must have a special meaning, this red button is very special, maybe it will open something"

He always hinted at himself like this, and he kept opening that door.

Unfortunately, there was nothing but the lights that were gradually dying out.

The button was pressed and the light went out.

He waited a long time, and nothing happened.

He pressed all the buttons again, he pressed them again, he pressed all the buttons in reverse order, he jumped and pressed

No! No! Nothing! None of the lights came on.

I can't see my fingers.

Lu Yuan fumbled, picked up his knife, which was a sharp chair fragment, and then felt the wall and walked towards the door.

At a distance of less than three hundred meters, he had already made countless round-trips, and even complete darkness could not stop him.

The more he walked, the more determined he became.

If, if that door hasn't opened yet. He wanted to die there.

The sound of blood ticking on the floor from his wrist made Lu Yuan feel happy, and he stretched out his arms to make the wounds on both sides bleed more freely. This is the only different voice for some unknown time. The vertigo caused by the lack of blood began to dominate his brain, and he struggled to cling to the wall to keep himself from falling. Although the wound on Zhiludao's wrist would soon congeal, he didn't have the courage to cut it a third time.

Lu Yuan staggered towards the door, there would be no rescue here, and there would be no blood transfusion, and he would finally be able to fulfill his wish to end himself. So he wished he had died lying on his stomach on the door. If someone opens that door in the distant future, he expects to scare him with a lunge. This was his last wish, and he smiled dizzily and self-absorbedly, adjusted his posture and made a pounce movement, and lay on the door.

"I'm going to slowly turn into a pile of bones, how can I make sure that the skeleton doesn't fall?" Lu Yuan propped his hands on the door, letting the blood flow down the crack in the door, and began to think about this profound question on his own. Completely unaware that the door suddenly opened to both sides, and a gap appeared in the middle, and then the door shrank to both sides like an elevator, and Lu Yuan, who had lost too much blood and was almost unconscious, pounced as he expected.

At the moment before being knocked unconscious, Lu Yuan seemed to hear a scream, so he sank into the darkness contentedly, not wanting to wake up again.

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If everything was based on Lu Yuan's thoughts, then he wouldn't have come to this place. So, there is no doubt that he still woke up reluctantly. In a smaller room, he lay on the floor, with nothing but four gaps in the wall not far away. No, it turned out that the big room had at least chairs to sit on, to beat, and buttons to practice permutations and combinations.

He sat up and saw a white substance wrapped around his wrist to allow the wound to heal, which looked like the "toothpaste" he took every day. If there's one thing that pleases him here, it's the light. Yes, there are no lights, but the walls, the roof, and the floor beneath them are milky white and translucent, giving off a soft glow, and the light is not dazzling but can shine delicately. Under such an all-round illumination, not even a shadow will be left.

After getting used to it for a while, he remembered the scream before he fell unconscious, and said tentatively and loudly: "Come out!" I see you! ”

"Ah, how is that possible?" A neutral voice said something in surprise, coming from all directions. Immediately, the wall facing Lu Yuan became more and more transparent, and the image of a person composed of light appeared on it, about one meter seventy-five tall, and it was impossible to distinguish the gender.

"Who are you?" Lu Yuan pressed the joy in his heart, deliberately relaxed his body and sat on the floor, and asked casually. He was really afraid of accidentally scaring the "aliens" away again. At this time, don't say that it looks like a "person", it is an alien, Lu Yuan will raise it, and it will not be killed easily. Who is more terrifying, alien or lonely, Lu Yuan can now tell very clearly.

"We and I are the Lord God." Guangren seemed to rarely communicate with people, and stumbled several times before he could say a sentence completely.

"Lord God? Is it a big ball of light, arranging for the reincarnators to go through the terrifying world one by one, so that the reincarnators continue to become stronger, evolve, help each other and fight each other, just to survive the main god? "Lu Yuan is also a computer professional, usually reading novels or something is a very normal entertainment behavior, infinite flow or something can be regarded as understanding. Something else suddenly occurred to him, and he asked, "I was summoned by you?" So what am I in the original world? Missing? Why did you recruit me? To put it mildly, although I think I'm pretty good, I'm still a little self-aware. Just because I haven't exercised for more than ten years and weighs 200 pounds, wouldn't it be death to let me enter the main god space! ”

"We're not big balls of light!" Hikari retorted angrily.

"I am the Lord God, and you are my summoner. Thou hast died in thy previous life, and there is no need to ask, there will be an answer."

"Excuse me, Lord God, can we stop talking so hard? Your expression is too antique for me to accept. Or can we change the way I can speak in a way that allows me, an earthling, who evolved from apes, to communicate smoothly? ”

"Well, okay. As our first summoner, appropriate privileges are allowed. The light man seemed to be relieved, and quickly agreed to Lu Yuan's request. Lu Yuan seemed to hear the sound of a tome closing the book, was it an illusion?

"Thank you, thank you, and I would like to ask Lord God to answer my question. Hey? Wait, you say the first summoner? Put it this way."

"Well, I am the new Lord God, and the Lord whom you will serve all your life."

"We'll talk about it later, are you the one who locked me in a dark room for months?! Even if it's a trial or something, it's too much! The Sprinkle family just gave up this life and wanted to ask clearly! ”

"Well, that, we just didn't learn how to open the door."