"Human beings are ignorant and ignorant, and they always have to believe in something to live."

"So we all understand that the world needs a ...... Heroes, even fake, puppet-like heroes. ”

"But I'm not going to be this hero, even if I'm as noble as a god."

"Because that's not where I belong."

"Even if I die, I will accept it of my own will, even if there is nothing left by then."

……

Once again, humanity ushered in a catastrophe, witnessing the blood-red Flower of the Last Dawn slowly blooming.

In 4048, a game was born that transported every player to an incomparably unreal, yet incomparably real and grand world.

AR games. When human civilization has developed to a certain extent, it often explores some new paths and pursues new excitement and entertainment.

As a result, what used to exist only in the illusion of imagination has gradually become a reality, and people are no longer confined to a narrow city, but want to go to the past and the future.

Super AR has been around for a long time, and people have used it in games for granted, but it was only a small experiment, not so long ago.

A game developed by the CCP and the city-state of China, "Kyushu", which lasted more than ten years, was finally officially launched, and it instantly caused an explosive reaction.

The game uses the information exchange between the computer and the cranial nerves, directly clones the person's memory, and then brings the surface consciousness into the computer for the game, and finally moves the new memory into the person's brain, and at the same time automatically strips the memory that is already there.

Because of the high computing speed of the computer, the time in the game is almost static, for the player, it may be to connect the machine, close your eyes, come to another world, live for decades, hang up, open your eyes, look at the time, good guy, only ten seconds have passed, or something.

In the past, game novels often had consciousness travel and the like, and it wasn't something that wouldn't happen, but there were some discrepancies. For example, after the player logs out, the memory of the game character is not completely peeled, or it is not peeled, then the avatar in the game will think that he has crossed over.

Of course...... There are exceptions to the exception.

There was a hiccup with the game system, which caused two people to have their consciousness not stripped away, and their memories were left in the game world.

Although after thousands of years of research, humans have learned to capture consciousness and memory, they still do not understand what kind of existence consciousness is, so they are forced to meet the collapse.

This is where our story begins.

…………

4059, June.

In the not very large office, there are scattered clutter piles of clutter, and a large floor-to-ceiling window replaces an entire wall. Outside the window are tall buildings hovering into the sky, a complex of floating bridges, and countless flying machines.

Because of the shrinking living space, people began to make effective use of this space in every possible way, and the architectural model called "minaret" appeared. The structure of this type of building is as follows: first a building of a certain height with a large footprint, then a smaller building of the same height is built on top of it, then it continues upwards until it becomes a certain size, and finally a ring-shaped, spiraling small house is built around each floor.

There are other complexes besides minarets, but minarets are undoubtedly standard for a city-state - the outer city will not build minarets, they will choose to build high-rise buildings, then use the towers as pillars, and then build several floors of "roofs" horizontally, and impose a ban on high-altitude flight, and the occupants can only descend to the ground through the prescribed passages.

Fortunately, after so many years of "evolution", human beings have overcome altitude sickness, high altitude sickness, and high altitude sickness one by one...... If this continues, it will not be a problem to break through to the troposphere in the future - provided that humanity has not discovered a planet that can be used for "colonization" until then. However, if the discovered planet has life, it is a higher creature, and human beings will explode their nature, like a "tough guy", "Duel!" "If it's a low-level creature, then the catering culture is about to change.

"Knock, knock, knock......"

Qin Wei gently tapped on the armrest of the chair, leaning back on the back of the chair with his eyes closed, not knowing what he was thinking. Sitting next to him was a man in a military uniform with pale blue lines.

"Haven't they come yet?" Qin Yu asked.

"Right now," Zoe said, starting the countdown to "three, two, one......"

"Is this it?" A woman's voice came from outside the door, followed by a knock on the door.

Qin Yi stood up, straightened his clothes, and then glanced at Zuo Yi.

"Come in."

The door opened, and a man and a woman walked in.

The woman is dressed in smart clothes, full of energy, with half-length short hair draped over her shoulders, full of heroism. On the other hand, the men in the back are sloppy, lazy, and yawning, but they are not the kind of people who are unkempt.

Zuo Yi didn't talk nonsense, nodded at the two of them, and then directly pointed at Qin Wei and introduced: "Qin Yi is the proposer of this plan, and now as the eighth-level "special dispatcher" specially assigned to the shadow department, he directly leads the implementation of the plan. ”

The Confederation underwent several reforms to eventually establish a basic political hierarchy that was divided from top to bottom from 1 to 10. The first three levels are the decision-making level, the middle three levels are the management level, the last three levels are the leadership level, and the last level is the executive level. The rights and rations enjoyed by the different levels are different.

"Oh," the woman nodded, then looked up and down carefully, and finally stretched out her hand to Qin Yu, "'Idler' Lin Yuxuan, they prefer to call me ......" She paused, "Xun Zimin." ”

Xun Zimin, a member of the CCP and City-State Special Operations Group, is directly appointed by the federal Supreme Investigation Team, which oversees management, and enjoys the fourth level of treatment, but the rating is only ten.

Qin Wei also stretched out his hand, and the two shook hands.

"Ha~" The man yawned.

"And then this is Jiang Sichen, that is, the 'Xie Zi'an', who is also a 'jobless vagrant'." Xun Zimin pointed to the man behind him.

Xie Zi'an is a member of the federal Supreme Investigation Group, but is not under the federal management system, and is only responsible to the Chinese Communist Party and the city-states.

"Let's get straight to the point and get down to business, what's your plan?" When everyone was seated, Xie Zi'an asked listlessly.

Qin Wei shrugged his shoulders and said, "Well, it's not a plan yet." Isn't this a matter for you to discuss? ”

"Huh?"

"I'm sorry, but ...... This is indeed the case at the moment. "Zo Yidao.

"No, no, how did you convince those high-level leaders at that time?" Xun Zimin asked, "Didn't you say 'put forward a plan'?" ”

"Yes, it's a 'plan.'" Qin Wei said, "I said something similar to 'I have a plan to change the current situation, you guys think about it for yourselves', and then they started to discuss. ”

Is "......" such a child's play?

Zuo Yin said: "I have some good ideas, so I took a little detour and told them about it - they thought it was not bad, so they agreed." ”

"I do have a plan, but ...... No, nothing. Qin Yu stopped talking.

Xun Zimin held her forehead, and she suddenly felt a little tired.

"Well, isn't there an old saying that 'there must be a road before the car reaches the mountain, and the living will not be suffocated to death by urine'? There's always a way. ”

"What if you suffocate to death?" Xie Zi'an said.

"Yes, and now the car can fly, and there is no need to go at all." Qin Yu nodded.

"Is that the point?" Xie Zi'an was thoughtful.

"What's there to think about!" Xun Zimin held his forehead again. She moved her gaze to Qin Wei.

"So, please have a good chat with us, since you, no, have, what plan, plan, then what is the point of letting us come."

"It's my suggestion," Mr. Zuo said, "and he just said that he does have a plan, but that plan is something shady and shady." It is likely that there will be a deeper aspect of the network involved. ”

Zuo Yin's gaze swept over Zuo Zi'an and Xun Zimin.

"I don't think anyone will know them better than the two of you. Learn more about that world. ”

Xie Zi'an was silent, and several people looked at each other with big eyes.

"Hey~" Qin Yu staggered to his feet, put his hands in his pockets, walked around the table, and walked towards the door. When passing by Xie Zi'an and the two, he said, "I'll go out first to take a breath." ”

Zuo Yin frowned and looked at Zuo Yin for a long time, then sighed.

"At least I have no reason to refuse you now, and ......" Xie Zi'an looked at Zuo Yin's eyes, "What you said to me before really makes it difficult for me to refuse." ”

Zuo Yin smiled, Xie Zi'an would definitely agree, he always knew.

"Well, it's a pleasure to work with."

Xun Zimin: "......"

"In the next few months, you can just listen to my command, as for Qin Yu, he is still young, and we adults will take care of the big things."

"I'm a kid too!!" Xun Zimin, who had been enduring it beside him, couldn't help it at all and was angry, "I'm only seventeen!! ”

"But," Xie Zi'an interjected, "but in a sense, you are already an old woman who has lived for hundreds of years......"

Xun Zimin kicked over.

"That doesn't count, I'm really only seventeen. Isn't it legal to be an adult in twenty? I'm still underage. ”

"That's right, then you go out and call that guy a few 'brother' or something, after all, he's twenty-four." Zoe teased.

Xun Zimin kicked Xie Zi'an again.

"What are you kicking me for?"

Zoe Yi smiled and said, "No kidding," he exhaled, restrained his emotions, and said, "Don't look at that guy like that, he is actually quite a reliable person." ”

"And," he paused, "he is far more mature than you think, even ...... Crazy. ”

When Xun Zimin opened the door to the outer platform, Qin Yu was standing on the edge of the platform not far away. The two walked through a house with a spiral structure overhead, standing in the sunlight.

Then they could clearly see the man standing in front of the light...... Or a boy – he really looks like a boy.

The boy trapped in the past.

It was a lonely back, but there seemed to be something infinite in it, as if you could see a mountain pressing on it, crumbling. But his back was straight.

"A person who has lost everything, a person who has nothing now, a person who has no future, will not have any scruples. Moreover, he is also the one chosen by 'them'. That's what Zoe said.

Xun Zimin was stunned, he seemed to see a familiar shadow in this back, the loneliness, sadness, the burden of everything that others had sent and abandoned everything about himself, the upright and standing back.

She saw Xie Zi'an step forward and stand beside Qin Wei, and at that moment, the backs of the two overlapped in her eyes.

Yes, this boy is the same as he was back then.

Qin Wei heard the movement, turned around, and smiled at them.

I don't know if it's an illusion, Xie Zi'an seems to see that behind Qin Wei, there is a girl, she is wearing a white skirt, her long hair is flying, she can't see her face clearly, maybe she dissipated too quickly, and she didn't have time to see it clearly.

"As for my plans, I can't reveal much to you right now, but ......"

Qin Yu said. His voice was soft, but it was carried by the wind and fell into the ears of the two of them.

"Welcome to join me and witness the future."