Volume 1 Desert Symbols Chapter 4 The beginning of it all
Xue Shanhai never dreamed that this trip would be so bizarre, and if he was asked to choose again, he would definitely not come.
He thought that he would be able to quickly find the source of the distress cry according to Professor Mo's instructions on this trip, but the first stop was to this planet numbered A36. A36 is a near-Earth planet, which has been judged to be a lifeless place due to the lack of water sources on Earth, but it is such a place, there are other human beings, and there is a city.
Here's the thing.
In order for the surviving human beings to break through the traditional evolutionary mechanism and continue to survive in the virus-infested world, the scientist Dr. Mo Yunxian discovered a new scheme to use human cell synthesis technology to recombine the sequence symbols in the virus and the sequence of human DNA, and gave birth to a new life form - Xingyuan.
Implanting this organism into the body can better adapt to changes in the environment, especially because it has a strong immune effect on existing viruses, and most importantly, its powerful regenerative ability may allow humanity to enter the age of true immortality.
But the fact is that most of the people who have undergone the transformation of the star source will immediately go into shock or even die, and those who survive will become unconscious vegetative people, and some will become monsters who can only eat because they can't withstand the changes of the star source. As a result, the source has so far been housed in a research base and has never been activated.
The energy of the star source far exceeded expectations, and its appearance also caused a huge fission, and the radio waves on the star source were dispersed to all corners of the universe through the nebula.
Inadvertently received an echo from outer space, a sequence of symbols they had never seen before, and after analysis, it turned out to be a string of human distress signals, and it was unknown who sent it, or if it came from the distant universe. And in addition to the distress signal, it also contains some information about the star source, as if these people calling for help are members of the research team.
The people who did the study, including Professor Mo and him, are known to only five people. And these five people have stayed in the base all the time and have never left.
In order to find out, Professor Mo handed over this arduous task to Xue Shanhai.
Although it is not technically a problem to travel to the galaxy that has been discovered, in fact, the selection of personnel is also extremely harsh, and in order to be on the safe side, Professor Mo arranged for four other people to assist Xue Shanhai.
These five people were not chosen at random, but sent Qiao Shu and Sang Yi, who had the most experience in interstellar travel, followed by Dr. He Yimu and Xue, who was proficient in data programs and machinery.
In this way, the five of them embarked on a journey to find the origin of the mysterious symbol, and the first stop was the planet called A36, and when they approached here, their detector received a sequence symbol, which is now the 'Dream Flower'.
Then, it was what happened after that, facing Qiao Shu, who was over half a hundred years old in front of him, Xue Shanhai didn't know where to start for a while.
"Tell me how you got here." Qiao Shu took the lead in opening the conversation.
Being asked by Qiao Shu, Xue Shanhai didn't know where to start for a while, so he told Qiao Shu everything he had experienced, including the process of escaping from the spaceship and the entire process of the battle with the barge just now.
Qiao Shu nodded as he listened, as if all this had been expected.
"So, coming out of the ship, you met Emu, and she was transported to the last three years ago, when Snow and I were both judged dead?" Qiao Shu rehashed what Shanhai had just said, and also showed a strange smile, as if all this was expected by him.
"That's right." Xue Shanhai nodded, "And several of us have such a mark on our wrists." β
Xue Shanhai showed Qiao Shu the symbol of the petal on his wrist, and Qiao Shu also revealed the symbol on his wrist and frowned: "I have always been curious about this symbol, except for me and Xue, no one else in this city has." β
"Snow is here, too?" Xue Shanhai looked around, and there were only two people in the grocery store, him and Qiao Shu.
"Xue is now a young singer in a record company, and unlike me, he has to record every day and is very busy." Qiao Shu smiled and said, "I didn't see that this kid actually had a talent for singing before." β
"You're still smiling, it looks like you and Xue have adapted to life here." Xue Shanhai got up and walked to a row of bookshelves, picked up a magazine, and the photo of the singer on the cover turned out to be snow.
"Fifty years, trapped in this city, it's hard to adapt or not." Qiao Shu said slowly, then picked up another book from the shelf and handed it to Xue Shanhai.
"This book may help you."
Xue Shanhai took the book, only to see that it said "Dream Flower" Time Retrospective Experience Introduction Book. The publication time is the time when Qiaoshu appeared here.,The content of the book is roughly to introduce a new game.,It's a time rewind game.,It introduces the gameplay.,The 'Dream Flower' in it is a creature with ideology.,As long as you turn on the time rewind mode, you can go back' Dream Flower's memory of any period of time, and during that time to complete the task set by the system to pass the level, if the mission fails, it will be punished and teleported to a period of time and fight with the barge, only by winning the battle can you return to the right point in time to start the backtracking mission again.
The game is a story mode, and the task of passing the level is roughly to complete the story plot, and choose the correct plot direction, the wrong direction will make the entire story line deviate and cause the mission to fail.
The more Xue Shanhai looked at the above content, the more real it became, as if everything he had experienced was the content of the game above, what was fighting with the barge, what was going back to the past, he had already experienced it all.
"What's going on with this game?" Xue Shanhai was puzzled.
"Fifty years ago, a new game developed by Gu's Game Group was based on the 'Dream Flower', and almost everyone in the city has it." Qiao Shu explained.
"But the content of this game,It's too real.,I heard Yimu say.,The city was attacked by the refutation a long time ago.,In order to fight against the refutation.,The people in the city developed the Dream Flower to counteract them.,Later, the Dream Flower system was established.,The tower in the city is the place where the Dream Flower data is stored.,Where is this game.,It's clearly a historical document.γ
"Doesn't a game just have to be a sense of realism for people to experience?" Qiao Shu said.
"But there's no need for any games at all, the time rewind thing has already happened here, and it's on us!" Xue Shanhai couldn't calm down, and there was even a moment when he felt like he was in this game.
"Is it possible that we were actually caught in this game from the moment we came to this planet?" Qiao Shu picked up the tea on the table and took a small sip.
"Don't you say it's really possible!" Xue Shanhai's eyes widened and he looked serious.
"Hahaha." Hearing Xue Shanhai's answer, Qiao Shu couldn't help laughing, "That's what I said, you still take it seriously, Shanhai, when did you become so naΓ―ve." If you want to say that the snow game madman believes this kind of thing, how can you believe this kind of thing. β
"No, don't you think everything we experienced is very similar to the content of the game, time back, time back!" Xue Shanhai was a little excited.
"It's impossible, this game was shut down after more than a year of launch, and we don't know the reason, we only know that a few people experienced the game that year and there was an accident, and the Gu Group recycled and destroyed all the game equipment overnight, and didn't even leave the basic information, and I finally bought this introduction book from a dealer." Qiao Shu put down the teacup in his hand, took the introduction book from Xue Shanhai's hand, and opened the last page of the introduction book and handed it to Xue Shanhai.
"What is this?"
"The names of the people who developed the game are all on it."
Xue Shanhai looked at the list behind him, and a name suddenly caught his attention.
Gu Liancheng, the boss of the Gu Group.
He never thought that the cold man with the mustache and the big koi tattoo would be the owner of this game company.
"What, you know this guy?" Joe asked.
"Well, this is one of those people I've met since I entered the Tower." Xue Shanhai replied, and then he saw two other names, which seemed to be the other two people beside Liancheng, one was called Qin An and the other was Gu He.
"Oh? Fifty years later, they must have become bad old men like me. Qiao Shu said as he picked up the rag next to him and skillfully wiped the dust on the shelves, seeing that he was a little inconvenient with his waist and legs, Xue Shanhai was still a little uncomfortable.
"No, they don't seem to have changed." Xue Shanhai was surprised, yes, why haven't they changed!
"Huh." Qiao Shu stopped what he was doing, turned to look at Xue Shanhai and said, "This man is not a good man, I didn't expect him to be able to do this with the 'Dream Flower', and he really did anything to resurrect that person." β
"What resurrection, resurrection of whom?"
Xue Shanhai was very puzzled, but at this moment, Xue Shanhai suddenly felt that his head was muddy, and everything around him became blurred, he shook his head hard and tried to wake himself up, but his body fell uncontrollably, and when he was dying, he saw Qiao Shu anxiously calling his name, and then he lost consciousness.
When he woke up again, he was back in the Tower.
During the time when he was in a coma, the barge in the tower had been cleared by Liancheng, the protective shield of the tower was repaired again, and he was placed in a room to be taken care of by Yimu because of his coma, and he heard Yimu say that he had been in a coma for two whole days.
Xue Shanhai told Yimu about his encounter with Qiao Shu after he was unconscious, but Yimu didn't think so, thinking that Shanhai cared too much about Qiao Shu and them, so he thought about it day and night, and comforted him and told him not to think about it.
But Xue Shanhai couldn't let go of the conversation with Qiao Shu, as well as the game with the theme of Dream Flower, and Gu Liancheng's matter, he felt that it was not a dream, but all this was a huge mystery, and he just wanted to find someone to solve it for him quickly.
The devil sent the gods, and he knocked on the door of Liancheng's office.
At this time, Gu Liancheng was sitting on a chair drinking coffee, and the digital screen next to him was still on the monitoring system of the entire tower.
"Mr. Gu has time to chat?" Xue Shanhai wasn't sure if this person would confess to himself about the city's 'Dream Flower' game fifty years ago, and the resurrection that Qiao Shu said at the end.
"What's the matter?" Liancheng's attitude was not friendly, and his eyes never took off the screen when he replied, as if he was a little resistant to him as an outsider.
"I would like to ask if Mr. Gu developed a game called 'Dream Flower' Time Rewind 50 years ago."
When he heard this name, Liancheng's hand on the armrest moved slightly, and his eyes finally fell on Xue Shanhai from the digital screen, he looked Xue Shanhai up and down, and then leaned on the back of the chair a little lazily and said: "If Mr. Xue Shanhai is bored, you can go to your companion for tea, I don't have time to talk to you about any games." β
"What about the Gu Group?" Xue Shanhai then asked.
Hearing this name, Lian Cheng's face was a little ugly, as if he was holding back something, he stood up and walked in front of Xue Shanhai, looking at him a little condescendingly, and his tone was not friendly.
"I've never heard of the Gu Group, and I don't know what 'Dream Flower' games are, I still have things to do here, since the system barrier was shut down a few days ago, the protection system has been sounding an alarm, if you don't fix it quickly, you and I, including the rest of the entire tower, will be in danger."
Looking at Gu Liancheng's appearance, I don't know if he really doesn't know or is lying, and he can't prove that he has seen the introduction to the 'Dream Flower' time rewind game, so it's not good to continue to ask for a while.
What's more, he can't be sure now whether Gu Liancheng fifty years ago and Gu Liancheng now are the same person, in case they are just the same name.
"Isn't the protective system fixed? How did the alarm appear again. Xue Shanhai also took advantage of the situation to transfer the problem.
"The previous protective shield was deliberately damaged, and although it was repaired, it left many loopholes that were difficult to solve." Lian Cheng said impatiently, he really didn't want to say anything more to this outsider.
"What kind of vulnerability, can I take a look?" Xue Shanhai asked.
"You know?" Liancheng raised his eyebrows, a little skeptical.
Xue Shanhai looked at the digital screen, then entered a string of data on the screen, and then opened the entrance programs of several device terminals and looked at it, smiled, and seemed to understand something.
After Xue Shanhai's operation in less than ten minutes, all the data vulnerabilities left in the protection system were solved, and the defense power was increased by a full five percentage points.
Liancheng looked at Xue Shanhai's operation, and it was clear that he only changed the path of a few programs, but he easily solved the overall problem, how could he not have thought of this method.
"Well, it's settled." Xue Shanhai was a little proud.
"I didn't expect you to be of some use to this guy who is dragging his feet in battle."
"What do you mean by procrastination?" Xue Shanhai was a little dissatisfied.
"Two days ago, Gu He and I dragged you out from under your claws."
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