Chapter 1 Team 5/Rorong Line
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My name is Luo Rong, I am a high school student from Suizhou, Hubei Province, I am stupid, no matter what I do, I am a beat slower than others.
I was very weak, weak from childhood to adulthood, no matter what school or class I was in, I was always the one who was sent, bullied and ridiculed.
I was very timid, and whenever I saw a stranger or was in an unfamiliar environment, I would be nervous, break out in a cold sweat, and I would not dare to speak, or even take a big breath.
Countless times, when I was being bullied, I wished that some god-like god would appear to save me, but I knew that there was no God in this world. When man is born, many things are already predestined, the poor and the rich, the talented and the dull and stupid, the handsome and the tall and the ugly...... That's the way the world is.
That day, I was on the high cliff behind the school, hesitating whether to choose to commit suicide by jumping off the cliff and end my life, but I received a text message unexpectedly. That text message asked me if I wanted to be God.
I just numbly sent a reply:
There is no God in this world.
Then I was involved in a game called God Game hosted by a girl named Miyoko.
The moment I left the unrestricted free space, the last thing I saw was the red lips and the smile at the corners of the mysterious girl named Miyoko, and for the first time, I felt my heart boiling hot. But before I could take a second look at her, I noticed that my surroundings had become dark.
When I opened my eyes, it was still dark, except for a green light in front of me, which was very faint, like a dark star in the night.
Where? Where am I? My whole body was creepy, so nervous that I didn't dare to breathe, and I didn't even dare to move.
I staggered back, but my palm touched something warm and soft, like a human hand......
"Ahh A scream rang out in the darkness, "Don't, don't come here!" β
It wasn't me, it was another, timid and frightened, soft and jerky, but it was clearly a man's voice.
"Who, who......" I shrank back in horror and took a few steps back until my back was pressed against some cold metal object, my eyes squinting and trembling to distance myself from the source of the sound.
At this moment, the originally dark space began to gradually brighten, and a dark red light shone down from overhead, illuminating the space in front of me. At this time, I saw in front of me a slender and tall foreigner with long blond hair, this foreigner's face was as white as snow, his face was very delicate, his eyes were wide open, the bridge of his nose was straight, his lips were thin, his appearance could be described as a country and a city, he looked very timid and afraid, I recognized, it was the foreigner I had seen in the unrestricted free space just now. But even though he was very good-looking, I saw his protruding Adam's apple and the men's clothes he was wearing, and his shoulders that were slightly wider than the average woman's, plus the male voice I had just heard, so I knew he was actually a man. Behind the man, there were five other people, all of whom were also looking at me in horror and blankness.
Although the light was still very blurry, I could barely see that this seemed to be a conformal pod, reconnaissance cabin or clutch cabin, because I saw that in this small space of less than 30 square meters, there were all kinds of sophisticated and complex instruments, such as steam power engines, pressure measuring instruments, temperature instruments, sonar imaging systems, automatic fire extinguishing devices, thermal imaging, oxygen measurement, salinity instruments, sensing, infrared, high. Low-frequency signal receivers, radar scanners, GPS, and even large-screen displays like CRT displays......
Although I am very timid, I also like to watch some military movies, so I know more or less about military weapons such as nuclear submarines and warplanes.
"What the hell is this place?" The sound of an urn sounded, it was a strong man with a tall horse from the front, I recognized him at a glance, he was Su Ling, who had bullied me in school for three years, and he was one of the people I walked around when I saw it. Of course, there are two other people who bully me the most in the class, namely Huang Haibo, who likes to use my notebook, exercise book and test papers as waste paper to sell money to buy cigarettes, and Hu Jushuai, who likes to use rubber bands to stick to the back of my head.
What's even more unfortunate is that in the back position, there is the woman I least want to see - Wei Nannan, a coquettish woman who is dressed explicitly, has wavy hair, and has a charming face, and bad rumors spread throughout the school, in addition, there is also a foreign man who looks nondescript, wears a gold belt chain and has four crimson pigtails behind his head, and is 1.9 meters tall.
It's terrible, except for the blonde foreign man in front of me who looks as timid as me, the remaining five people look so scary, the foreign man with pigtails doesn't look like a good person at first glance, and the three people Wei Nannan and Huang Haibo are simply the people I don't want to meet in my life, if it's just a thing, maybe I'll still have a little comfort from seeing my fellow countrymen, but now I only have despair.
"Hey, what's this place? Who the fuck knows? Su Ling's rough voice made my eardrums hurt, and I subconsciously shrank back, so frightened that I took two steps back, not daring to look at him.
"Luo Rong, will you come over for me? Can you tell me what the hell is going on? What does the woman just now mean by what is the name of beauty and what is the word? And what does the book she gave you mean? Su Ling's sharp gaze fell on my face, causing my neck to shrink instinctively, and only then did I realize that I had been clutching the book called "Machine World" that I had obtained in that unrestricted free space before.
But before I could take a few steps back, Huang Haibo stepped forward and grabbed my hair, dragged me forward, snatched the book from my hand, and asked viciously:
"Hey, come over to me and tell me clearly, what the hell is going on, what is this place?"
"IβI don't, I don't...... I don't know," I said, trembling, and stumbling.
Before I could shrink my neck, Hu Jushuai on the side gave me an ear scraper, which hurt so much that half of my face was hot, I don't know why he beat me, but in normal times, he has never beaten me less, and I have never dared to resist.
I covered my face and retreated in fear, while Hu Jushuai spat and began to curse, saying:
"Brother Su, I think we really bumped into a ghost today, could it be that this kid retaliated against us for playing some tricks?"
Hearing Hu Jushuai's words, my heart beat faster, I didn't expect them to associate the current things in this regard.
I hurriedly shook my head to explain that I didn't know, but just then, an alarm sounded above my head:
"Alert! Alert! The E-segment radar detected at least 1,200 robot battleships in front of Base A1 in a circular encirclement! Submarine B13 is now beginning to flee urgently! β
Then I felt the whole cabin start to shake violently, and everything in the cabin was shaking, as if it were the scene of an earthquake. But at this moment, another voice sounded:
"Alert! Alert! The reactor steam generator in the clutch compartment caught fire, the cause of the fire: the third circuit was blocked! The steam pressure rises sharply, the cooling pump does not operate normally, the backup power starts, and the automatic fire extinguishing device starts! β
"Neutrons were not detected in the chambers, gamma rays were mild, radiation levels were mild, moderators were activated, and control rods were urgently mobilized! The damage management situation is unknown! This submarine is about to float up at a large elevation angle and maneuver to the depth of the antenna, and the course remains the same! Please prepare all members of the submarine to be under pressure! β
Thundered!
The whole cabin shook violently, and I felt like duckweed in the middle of a huge wave, shaking with the shaking of the cabin, and I bumped from one instrument to another, bumping and bumping, and three wounds fell on my body.
"On fire? Submarine? What the hell is going on? Su Ling began to curse.
And the man with the blond hair clutched his head in panic and exclaimed:
"Oh no, the robot fleet still found the A1 base, it's over...... Oops......"
The blonde man seemed to know something, and I saw his hands trembling as if he had heard some terrible news.
He was huddled in the corner of the cabin, holding his head, his eyes tightly closed, his lips slightly pale.
"Hey, what the hell is going on? What robot fleet? What base? Is this making a movie or acting!? Su Ling leaned over to the blonde man, grabbed his arm and asked in a rough voice. Why can't I understand anything? β
The blonde man lifted his pale face, and I saw two long strings of tears hanging from his face.
"Didn't you hear...... The fleet of robots has surrounded the A1 base...... That's one of only two bases left on Earth...... Moreover, there were twelve hundred battleships...... It's over...... That kind of firepower is one-tenth of all the military power of the robot, and the only remaining human troops can't resist that kind of firepower, it's over...... The end of humanity has come......"
"The end of humanity? How do you speak inexplicably? Can you tell me what's going on? Huang Haibo began to get impatient, and when he saw the blonde man crying, he grabbed his hair directly.
"Wait, Brother Su, I think this is so weird, let's ...... Could it be that it has crossed over? Hu Jushuai asked with some uncertainty, "I've seen that the characters in some novels have traveled to other times and other worlds or something, and we suddenly came here, is it the woman named Miyoko who did it?" We...... Really crossed? β
"Crossed? Did we cross over? β
Everyone began to talk about it, and finally Su Ling pulled the crying blonde man and asked:
"Hey, do you know anything? What era is it? Where are we? Also What is the end of humanity? You explain it to me......"
The blonde man, Rika, looked at his person with tears in his eyes, as if he was speechless in fear, but under the intimidation of the man with the pigtails, he was still forced to say the cause and effect intermittently.
"You ...... I really don't know...... It's the year 3129...... The Earth has been occupied by robots for three hundred years, and there are less than 1.5 million people left on the Earth, hiding in deep-sea bases around the world......"
"We ...... Now it should be in the submarine of one of the A1 bases, the last base of mankind......"
The blonde man's words had just fallen, and the submarine shook violently again, and my arm hit something hard again, and it hurt so much that I was about to burst into tears.
"What S$ 3129? What robots take over the planet? What the hell is going on? What exactly do we do now? Hearing the blonde man's words, Su Ling was also a little panicked. Who are you? β
"I ...... My name is Cyril Julius Cesar...... I don't know why that's happening now...... I turned out to be a native of Base A1 and a recruit there...... But now I don't know why this happened...... I remember using the liaison in Base A1 and then I was taken to that unrestricted free space......" said the blonde man named Golori, who looked harmless like a panicked bird.
"It's inexplicable!" Huang Haibo began to curse, "What kind of plane are you playing?" Lao Tzu wants to go out, where is the exit? β
Just then the submarine shook again, and the alarm sounded even more quickly than before:
"Alert! The propulsion compartment of the first floor of the engine burst into the water! The submarine is about to emerge urgently! Please prepare for pressure on all personnel in the cabin! β
This time I felt that the whole world had turned upside down, the place that was the bulkhead suddenly became the ground, and the ground where I was standing became a bulkhead again, I and Gololi and Su Ling turned over a few times and hit the wall, and then I felt that my whole body was about to be crushed into a meatloaf by the floor that suddenly squeezed up. I was stuck to the ground and couldn't move, and it took me about five minutes before I could barely catch my breath. And Wei Nannan has already cried:
"I'm going to die, I'm going to die, what the hell is going on?"
"Don't cry, Nannan, let's go out ......" Hu Jushuai comforted Wei Nannan, and then suddenly rushed forward when the submarine began to stabilize gradually, kicked open the exit of the submarine cabin, and rushed out with Wei Nannan's hand. Huang Haibo, Su Ling, and the foreigner with pigtails rushed out without saying a word.
"Su ...... Brother Su...... Pull me, my feet, my feet can't move......" Because of the pressure of the submarine, my legs are trembling now, I grabbed Su Ling's hand and wanted him to pull me, but Su Ling looked at me coldly, shook off my hand, and kicked me in the abdomen at the same time, kicking me out of the air, before shouting:
"Get out of the way!"
Then they ran towards the exit.
I clutched my stomach in pain, my stomach churning, and I vomited stomach acid. At this time, I saw Golori on the side, he was still curled up in the corner, his hands on his knees, trembling, seeing that his face was also full of fear, and at the same time he threw a worried gaze at me, I couldn't help but feel a sense of relief and an inexplicable sadness.
When I saw Golori, I knew that the two of us were the same, both cowards, cowards and bullied cowards, and both wretches who were always looked down upon. We are destined to be abandoned.
"Are you alright......?" I asked, looking at the shivering golori.
"Me. Am I fine...... You're ...... Are you okay? You've been kicked by him......" Golori smiled sadly, looked at me, trembling and barely trying to get up.
"It's a little painful...... By the way, can you speak Chinese? β
"Chinese? You speak Esperanto, right? Golori looked at me in surprise, "Because of the decline in human population, there is only one language in the world for a long time......"
So that's the case, I patted my head, so to speak, am I really in the future world?
I looked at the exit of the cabin and wanted to rush out like Su Ling and the others, but as the angle of the submarine changed, the exit gate that was supposed to be in front of me actually became overhead, and for a while, Gololi and I couldn't climb out and were trapped in the cabin.
"What to do? How are we going to get this submarine out? I asked, in a panic.
Gololi shook her head helplessly, gritted her silver teeth, her eyes were red, and Nuno said:
"I remember that there should be a rescue pod in the submarine that can be separated alone, and if the release chamber of the rescue pod has not yet been flooded, maybe you can escape from the submarine in the rescue pod...... But even then, we won't be able to get far...... We are already surrounded by a fleet of robots...... It's already hard to escape from the encirclement...... Robots are much smarter than humans, and they can think of any escape route that humans can think of before they can find it, and they are more complicated than humans...... Their technology is more developed than that of humans, because the technology of robots relies on the method of computational simulation traversal to try the possible combinations of various physical and chemical forms from the basic theory, and then design various new inventions and tools, and the creative ability of robots is much stronger than that of humans...... Their sonar and radar systems are also much more advanced than humans, making it easy to locate escape pods and submarines under the seabed...... It's useless, when the robot discovers the last base of the human race, the human being will be saved......"
In the end, there was already a cry in Golori's voice.
As soon as I was infected by Golori's words, I was also nervous, and my whole body was shaking.
"So what are we going to do......"
"I ...... I don't know......" Golori became anxious, with tears on her face.
At this moment, the submarine shook violently again, and then, my body and Golori's bodies slammed backwards at the same time, hitting the compartment of a semi-ovoid organ, and I don't know if I hit any open mechanism, I suddenly felt a void behind me, and the whole person fell backwards, and my head hit the ground, and the pain was bubbling in front of my eyes, and when I opened my eyes and barely stood up, I found that my eyes were full of white light, At this time, I realized that a ball compartment in this cabin, which had been very large, had been unconsciously opened, and under the wrapping of several energy power delivery pipes and multi-stage circuits, I saw something that emitted a strange light.
What is that? I don't know, it's hard to even put into words the strange object, it looks like a huge eye, but it's a round metal eye, this metal eye floats in the air, the eye is surrounded by fine lines like eyelashes, the pupil of this eye is turquoise, and there are even strange tiny currents flickering around the pupil.
And with the appearance of this peculiar eye, the siren in the cabin also sounded again:
"Alert! Alert! The line of the three-level sealed cabin is damaged, and the storage compartment has been opened! The Eye of Wittgenstein is in danger of being invaded! β
"The Eye of Wittgenstein? What is it...... Stuff? "Looking at this evil and disgusting eye floating in front of me, I felt a little creepy.
And the brother Lori on the side covered her small mouth and let out an exclamation:
"Wittgenstein's Eye...... This is actually Wittgenstein's Eye...... The underground government actually studied the Eye of Wittgenstein......"
"This ...... What is this? I asked in a panic.
Golori just couldn't stop marveling, and it took him a long time before he turned his face to look at me and said:
"This is the ultimate weapon that humans use to counter robot inventions...... It is said that it was a 'weapon' that was invented by using the quantum delay selection effect, the quantum entanglement effect, and the effect of photons traveling through time and space at the quantum scale...... This is the ultimate weapon of mankind, and even robots have not invented it......"
"Wouldn't it? Can you predict the future, and can you change the history of the future? I looked at the magical eye floating in the air in front of me and began to tremble, "Is this really a human invention?" But...... Didn't you say that the technology of robots is more advanced than that of humans? β
"Yes, yes, the overall technology of robots is much more advanced than ours, and we know that we can't compare to robots, so we take a single but sophisticated route, just like the Wittgenstein Eye in front of us...... Moreover, I heard that the invention of the Wittgenstein Eye is due to the fact that humans live under the sea, and neutrinos in the universe will leave obvious traces in the sea when they pass through the deep sea...... Oh my God, this is really the Wittgenstein Eye, I remember that the underground government strictly blocked all news about this, and only the military knew a little bit about it...... It must be because the A1 base has been invaded, so the people in the base want to urgently transfer the Eye of Wittgenstein, but we didn't expect to be discovered......" Golori looked very excited, as if she had forgotten about our situation.
"It's really beautiful...... "Golori sighed, her eyes sparkling.
At that moment, there was a loud bang above my head, and I looked up, only to see two men in peculiar orange suits jumping in from above, both holding weapons similar to bazookas, but their bazookas looked much more convenient than the exaggerated giant bazookas in the movie.
"Huh? Is it human? Wait, don't fire, ask where they're coming from! "One of them saw our appearance and stopped the muzzle of the gun in time." Maybe they're in the same league as the gang that just ran out! β
"But they could also be AI spies or traitors!!" Another said. "We don't have time to ask for their identities right now! It's better to kill them, lest they get out of trouble! β
Kill me? These people are going to kill us? Why, is it because we accidentally broke into their submarine and they took us for an enemy? No way...... No, am I just going to die like this inexplicably?
Hearing the voices of the two masked men above, my heart fluttered, although I once thought about suicide, but now in the face of other people's guns, I found that I was so cowardly, so greedy.
"Don't, don't kill us......"
I began to raise my hands in a trembling voice in surrender, and I found that my throat was trembling, and I was limp in the face of the muzzle, and I could not use any strength at all.
"We ...... We are not spies...... Please, don't kill us......" I began to snot in fear, my vocal cords trembling.
And I found that Golori was just as nervous and scared as I was, he subconsciously grabbed my palm, and I felt his whole arm tremble violently.
"What to do...... What should I do...... They treat us like bad guys...... What should I do......" Golori also began to burst into tears, even more panicked than me, it was really the first time I had seen someone weaker and more timid than me.
"They're begging for mercy, do you want to let them go first?" The first to speak asked.
"There's no time, shoot! Now that the situation is urgent, there is no time to think too much, and they have opened the eyes of Wittgenstein, most likely trying to destroy it! Kill them now! β
The other person was categorical.
"But the five people who ran out before weren't executed......"
"Those people only need to leave one or two to ask where they came from, and the superfluous people can be killed."
"That'...... All right. "Then I saw the mouth of the bazooka that was round like a black hole pointed at me.
When I saw the bazooka's mouth, I felt my brain go blank.
Am I really going to die? This died here in such an unknown way?
My whole body trembled so badly that I could even hear my own heartbeat clearly, and at this moment, the submarine shook violently again, and the two people standing at the door of the cabin above actually tilted their bodies and failed to fire the bazooka in time, and my and Golori's bodies also flew out with the violently shaking submarine.
I felt my forehead hit something hard, and when I grabbed it, I realized that when I opened my eyes, I realized that I was holding a round and cold thing in my hand, and when I looked at it, it was actually Wittgenstein's Eye.
I don't know where the courage came from, but I was also in a hurry, so I grabbed the Wittgenstein Eye in my hand, took out the bazooka again and said to me and Golori:
"You...... If you shoot a bazooka, I'll ...... I'll just smash it! β
I closed my eyes nervously, fearing that the next moment the black bazooka would spew out a warhead and swallow me.
But what I didn't expect was that my deterrence was really effective, and the missiles above really didn't come as expected.
"If the robots really came to destroy the Eye of Wittgenstein, it doesn't look like they can do to maximize their profits. Looks like you're really not robots, okay, you put down the Eye of Wittstein first, then raise your hands and crouch in the corner, we promise you not to shoot! After a moment of silence, I couldn't help but be delighted when I heard the sound from above, but as soon as I thought about it, I couldn't help but think what if they shot after I let go of the Eye of Wittgens. I'm a timid person, so I'm careful everywhere, and I think a lot about whatever I do, and I hesitated at the moment.
Just for a short moment of my hesitation, the brother next to me suddenly shouted:
"Get out of the way!" Then I was struck the waist, and I fell and rolled on the ground, and when it was too late, I heard an indescribable noise in my ears, which made my whole body tremble, and then I looked up, and there was a huge crater in the ground where I had stood, which seemed to have been caused by a bullet. In a moment, I almost got shot through.
I shivered with fright and barely looked up, only to see the man in the protective suit on the left above me with a small light pistol pointed at me.
He just said that I would let go of Wittgenstein's Eye and let us go, and it was a lie to trick me into letting go of Wittgenstein!
My heart was beating violently, and my legs were trembling, and I didn't dare to move.
What to do? Seeing the man raise his gun and aim it at me again, I was already so frightened that I couldn't use any strength. No, I was really going to be killed, the bullets would go through my skull and through me, and the blood-soaked sight was already in my mind, and I felt the whole world spin and a nauseous feeling churning in my stomach.
Trembling, I slowly picked up the Eye of Wittgenstein and brought it to me, and the two men on it seemed to take this thing very seriously, and perhaps, only if it was attached to my face, they would not dare to hit me for fear of a bullet piercing the Eye of Wittgenstein......
"Don't, don't hit me...... Don't hit me...... Otherwise you'll break its ......"
Trembling, I pressed the Wittgenstein Eye to my eyes, and the fine, electrode-like metal wires on the Wittgenstein Eye were also tightly attached to my fingers and face, and I could even sensitively feel the fluffy and itchy sensation of these metal threads.
But the miraculous thing happened at this moment, and just as I raised the Wittgenstein Eye to the height of my eye, the Wittgenstein Eye in my hand suddenly emitted a strange light, like a light coming out of a dark and deep tunnel, and it was about to suck me in.
And then in the next moment, in my field of vision, the whole world was divided.
It was a feeling that I couldn't describe in words, it was definitely the most amazing situation I've ever experienced in my life, even weirder than being in an infinite free space.
Human language is far from enough to describe such a scene, and if we do, we can only use metaphors.
The moment my eyes met Wittgenstein's Eye, I felt as if I was in a dark space, where there was no concept of time, no concept of up and down, no concept of left and right, I didn't even feel the presence of my own body, and then it was as if I was facing countless surveillance cameras, and in this boundless dark space, countless windows appeared, and these windows floated in the darkness like bubbles. Each window is showing a similar, but not identical, scene.
In some of the windows, the man on the left fired first, and I saw a flash of fire in the bubble window, and then the whole window turned blood red, and then the window disappeared. And in some of the windows, the guy on the right shoots first, and then the camera shudders a little, and the bullet doesn't seem to hit me. In other windows, both officers did not shoot, but put away their guns, or in some windows, both officers fired, and then the window began to shake violently, and finally suddenly froze on the perspective facing the floor, and then the picture began to dim, as if to mean that I was not shot in that window, but was seriously injured and unable to move.
I understood the significance of these windows in an instant, because Golori had just said that Wittgenstein's eyes could see the future......
That's right, what I'm seeing at the moment is the future, and it's the future on different timelines, and each future is similar to each other, and there may be a huge deviation, some timelines where I am killed, and some timelines where I don't.
And I, all I have to do is choose to jump into that timeline where I didn't get shot, and I won't be killed.
I will never be killed.
The countless results in these windows are not actually what I see, but as if they were stored in my brain from the beginning, as if they were determined at the beginning of the birth of the universe, and I am standing outside the universe to observe and choose these results. As a result, there are thousands of bubble windows in the dark space at every moment, and countless bubble windows will disappear, representing the future that is constantly divided and the future that is constantly disappearing.
Is the future decided at the moment of the birth of the universe, or is it changed by our actions? If someone stands outside the universe, is everything in our world predestined, and it is only because we are usually a part of this universe that we have the illusion that the future is random?
I didn't know about these philosophical questions, I just instinctively blended into one of the bubble windows, in that world, my body gently twisted a hundred and eighty degrees, then my shoulders sank slightly, my waist leaned forward slightly, my left heel was raised, and I hooked up, my right arm was stretched out in an L-shape, the five fingers of my left hand were spread out, and my neck was slightly twisted to the right, and I easily dodged the six bullets fired by the two people above me in a row.
Six bullets, one grazed my neck, the second grazed between my left thumb and forefinger, the third flew over my head, the fourth hit the ground where I had stepped on my left foot a second ago, the fifth grazed my abdomen, and the last passed under my armpit.