Chen Mo, who returned to the real world, flashed a trace of trance in his eyes.

He looked at everything in the office, it was already night, there were only two people in the room, he and Tiantian, and he felt like he was in a dream.

"How much time has passed?"

"About seven hours."

And in the realm of the original shards, at least a few days have passed.

Fortunately, he had the experience of activating a lot of traverser talents, and after Chen Mo was in a trance for a while, he got used to it, nodded and muttered, "So that's the case." ”

Seeing that Chen Mo stopped talking, Tian Tian was a little nervous.

"Boss?"

"Hmm."

Chen Mo came back to his senses, and he took a deep breath.

"Wait a minute, I need to compare it again."

Immediately, he took out a prop, and when he was on a doomsday mission in the hive world, he went to the barren and uninhabited world through the hive organization and found a material left by an ancient civilization.

Cue: Black ice.

Quality: Treasure.

Conditions of use: Master the power of the true body.

Item attributes: Mathematical factor, space-time factor.

Item description: Inside this piece of black ice, the ice stores the digital memories of 100,000 ancient humans, who hope to suspend their lives in this way, so that future people can revive them when the technology is mature.

"Can you bring me in the same way you just did?"

"I'm going to study this."

A few hours later.

Tian Tian held the black ice in one hand and Chen Mo in the other, after Chen Mo's body trembled slightly, there was a trance in front of him again, and then the furnishings of the office on the second floor gradually changed, turning into a picture of the punk technology world of countless metal pipe buildings.

"This?"

Chen Mo was stunned for a moment, then reached out and touched the metal pipe in front of him.

The cold touch, the hard material, the rust details, the dripping dynamics, everything is so real.

After Chen Mo was stunned for a long time, he didn't believe in evil, picked up a stone and smashed it at the rows of iron pipes in front of him, sending out a clear metal echo.

It's almost like the real world!

"The detail rendering here is almost perfect, it seems that the two worlds that created the original sin fragment and the black ice, although there are commonalities in the pursuit of eternal life, but the domain tendency of the technology tree is completely different, the civilization that created the black ice pursues some superficial things, while the civilization that created the original sin fragment pursues more essential things."

Immediately, Chen Mo walked out of the alley he was in.

There were muddy water stains everywhere under his feet, and the air was filled with a dark and decaying atmosphere, but when he stepped out of the alley and came to the main road area, he couldn't help but be stunned.

As far as the eye can see, it is crowded.

All kinds of dazzling neon lights are shining, the lights are full of restlessness, people are wearing all kinds of alternative clothes, their bodies are full of tattoos, some are also equipped with mechanical limbs, their faces are painted with weird smoky makeup, and their expressions are very exaggerated, as if they are in a state of high excitement or decadent and languishing.

In comparison, Chen Mo's usual outfit is a little too unusual here.

A group of men and women with smoky makeup, after seeing Chen Mo, seemed to have found prey, and excitedly surrounded them.

"A scientist?"

"Hey, you're going to have an emotional breakdown too, come and have fun?"

"The end of science is suicide, haha!"

Chen Mo was surrounded by these people in the center, and everyone else who passed by also looked at Chen Mo like a pitiful worm, and some people sighed.

A tall-looking man put his arms around Chen Mo's neck.

"Relax."

He said to Chen Mo with an exaggerated smile: "Thirty years ago, like you, I was also a scientist, working diligently every day, hoping to find the laws of the universe, but after seeing with my own eyes that the universe was irregular and chaotic, and countless colleagues committed suicide in front of me, I also thought about it, as immortals, what do we want to do so much, happiness is a day by day, and what rushes out of the universe and returns to the real world, it is all ......nonsense."

Then he took out a few pills.

"Come on, eat it and you will never think about it again, you will really feel the disorder of the world, the restlessness of the body, get rid of all the troubles, this is a real world."

Chen Mo pushed away the strange pill that was close at hand.

As a Chinese traverser, he penetrated the anti-drug spirit into the bone marrow, and then left this neighborhood amid the ridicule of these men and women.

He needs to familiarize himself with the weird rules here.

The night passed.

The era of depravity seems to be over, and a large number of robots are cleaning up the streets from filth, including some corners, which also seems to represent the beginning of a new day.

As the sky grew brighter, some people in normal clothes and sane appeared on the streets, heading to work in various buildings.

It's just that the number of scientists is significantly smaller than that of the degenerates at night.

After Chen Mo appeared on the street this time, he didn't attract anyone's special attention.

"Immortal people are divided into two categories: the fallen and the scientists?"

Black Ice has existed for too long, and the end of civilization was imminent, and the world was about to die, so the spirit of all people was made into Black Ice in a digital way, hoping to be reborn one day in the future.

And for this plan, there are many supporting facilities in the frozen laboratory.

This laboratory was later discovered by the hive tissue.

The data virtual world in the black ice is so real that compared to the original sin realm, the graphics card rendering here seems to be a hundred generations higher.

"Let's get a job first."

He didn't think that by joining the Fallen, he would learn what he wanted to know.

And he suspected that after taking those weird pills, once the mind was confused, maybe it would affect himself in reality, after all, the soul is composed of countless thoughts, although a thought seems insignificant, but it is likely to change a person's fate at some point.

That's the case.

Becoming a scientist is undoubtedly a better choice.

There are no worries about food and clothing, no survival worries, and even transcendence of life and death, if there is any goal, it is the real world that very few people pursue.

This requires them to find the laws of the universe, and then mobilize all the resources in this universe to affect the so-called real world, after all, for game characters, as long as they learn to change their own programs, they can also affect the mechanical facilities of the real world.

And with these mechanical facilities in motion, it is not impossible to reshape the body and return to the real world.

"Hello."

"Hello."

Boom!

After seeing Chen Mo's mental outlook, the interviewer didn't say a word, directly agreed to Chen Mo's job application, and stamped a seal on the cover letter, which made him a little dumbfounded.

Holding the envelope, Chen Mo officially joined the company.

The direction he wants to study is materials science, after all, with the help of his identity as a refiner, he believes that he can make achievements in this field more quickly and get in touch with some of the essence of this world.

A month later.

Chen Mo became one of the fastest scientists ever to go through the training period in materials science.

During this time, he also learned the difference between the Fallen and the Scientists, a group of people who numb their five senses and enjoy the daily depravity, who have completely given up escaping the universe and returning to the so-called real world.

Scientists are people who stand up for what they believe in.

And the degenerate, the scientists, are not incapable of breaking boundaries.

It only takes one pill to allow scientists to fully enjoy the extreme stimulation of the five senses and make up for any empty mind, but the pill is addictive and can also cause mental confusion.

And only need to die once, and the immortals here will be "refreshed" once, which is equivalent to reading the file, returning to the most primitive state preserved at the moment when they became digital eternals, and re-choosing their own lives.

Half a year later.

Chen Mo's colleague is a chattering person, and according to past experience, he is a person who is at the forefront of science and is about to collapse mentally.

"Those damned degenerates, they will never understand that discovering the laws of the universe is happier than swallowing 10,000 Fun Pills!!"

His eyes were red and he hadn't slept in seven days.

His subject is a substance that can transform between solids, liquids, and gases at will, and has wonderful properties in each form.

I have to admit that he is very good, and he is one of the best scientists in this research institute.

But other scientists began to consciously leave him.

Only Chen Mo was carefully observing his state, as if watching a person go from normal to crazy, and then from crazy to desperate.

A year later.

Chen Mo has finally been rated as a senior researcher and is qualified to sit in on the 2024th Scientific Symposium.

He sat in the back row with anticipation, listening to the fierce quarrels of the scientists, each of which would attract countless teams of scientists, and make various formulas, experimental data, and experimental ideas public.

"Wrong, we're all wrong."

A man suddenly stood up with emotion, his eyes were red and desperate, and said: "We are just living in a dream, and we can't extricate ourselves from this damn game, everything here is not real. ”

Boom!

Immediately, he decisively pulled the trigger and chose to commit suicide.

"Ugh."

Seeing this, many people sighed, but many more were pity, although Chen Mo could not reach the so-called scientific frontier here, he could clearly feel the despair of these suicides.

They did not commit suicide because of cowardice, but because of the shattering of their dreams.

Just ten minutes later, another person had a nervous breakdown.

"The so-called science has never really existed, we are just a bunch of self-deceptive guys."

Boom!

With tears in her eyes, the female scientist chose to commit suicide.

"This is her 15th time, right?"

The researcher next to Chen Mo is a very mediocre type in the industry.

Although he tried very hard, the cage of wisdom restrained him and he could never go further.

But because of this, he lived long enough and accumulated enough memories.

"It's useless, she will soon stand out from the vast sea of people again, continue on this path, sit here and become my mentor, this is the essence of her soul."

As he spoke, he sighed.

(End of chapter)