"Human beings are ignorant and ignorant. They always have to believe in something in order to survive."
"So what we all understand is that this world needs a... hero, even a false and puppet-like hero."
"But I will not be this hero, even as noble as a god."
"Because this is not where I belong."
"Even if I die, I will accept it with my own will, even if I have nothing left by then."
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Humanity once again faced disaster and witnessed the blood-red flower of the end slowly blooming.
In 4048, a game was born, which brought every player to an extremely illusory, yet extremely real and grand world.
AR games. When human civilization develops to a certain level, it often explores new roads and pursues new excitement and entertainment.
As a result, things that only existed in fantasy in the past have gradually become reality. People are no longer limited to the narrow city and want to go to the past and future.
Super AR has been around for a long time, and people have applied it to games as a matter of course, but it was only a small attempt until not long ago.
A game "Kyushu" developed by the city-state of the Republic of China was finally officially launched after more than ten years, and it instantly caused an explosive response.
The game uses information exchange between computers and brain nerves to directly clone people's memories, then bring surface consciousness into the computer to play the game, and finally move new memories into the person's brain, while automatically stripping away existing memories.
Because of the high computing speed of computers, time in the game almost stands still. For players, it may be to connect to the machine, close their eyes, come to a different world, live for decades, die, open their eyes, and... Look at the time, my dear, only ten seconds have passed or something like that.
In the past, game novels often included conscious time travel and the like. It is not something that will never happen, but there are some discrepancies. For example, after the player logs out, the memory of the game character is not completely peeled off, or is not peeled off, which will cause the avatar existing in the game to think that he has traveled through time.
Of course...there are exceptions.
There were some minor problems with the game system, which resulted in the consciousness of two people not being separated, 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 don't quite understand what consciousness is, so they are forced to welcome the collapse.
Our story begins here.
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June 4059.
In the office, which is not very big, there are some messy things scattered here and there, and a huge floor-to-ceiling window replaces an entire wall. Outside the window are tall buildings circling towards the sky, criss-crossing floating bridges, and countless flying transportation machines.
Due to the reduction of living space, people began to try every means to effectively utilize the only space, so the architectural model called "spire" emerged. The structure of this kind of building is like this: first build a building with a larger area and a certain height, then build a smaller building with the same height on top, and then continue upward until the area becomes a certain small, and finally A circular, spiraling circle of small housing is built around each level.
In addition to spires, there are other building complexes, but spires are undoubtedly the standard feature of a city-state. The outer city will not build spires. They will choose to build tall buildings that reach the sky, and then use the tall buildings as pillars to build several more horizontally. The "roof" of the first floor is also prohibited from flying at high altitudes, and residents can only descend to the ground through prescribed passages.
Fortunately, after so many years of "evolution", humans have overcome altitude sickness, altitude sickness, and altitude sickness... If this continues, it won't be a problem to break through to the troposphere in the future - provided that until then humans No planet has been found that can be used to "colonize". However, if the planet discovered has life, it is a higher-level creature, and human beings will burst out of their nature, like a "tough guy", "Duel!" If it is a lower-level creature, then the catering culture will probably change.
"Knock, knock, knock..."
Qin Tie gently tapped the armrest of the chair and leaned on the back of the chair with his eyes closed, not knowing what he was thinking. Sitting next to him was a man wearing a blue military uniform.
"Aren't they here yet?" Qin Xi asked.
"Right away," Zuo Yi said, starting the countdown "Three, two, one..."
"Is this here?" A woman's voice came from outside the door, followed by a knock on the door.
Qin Cui stood up, straightened his clothes, and then winked at Zuo Yi.
"Come in."
The door opened and a man and a woman came in.
The woman is dressed in smart clothes, full of energy, with half-length short hair draped over her shoulders, and is full of heroism. On the other hand, the man behind him looked slovenly, lazy, and yawning, but he was not the unkempt kind of person.
Zuo Yi didn't waste any time, nodded to the two of them, and then pointed directly at Qin Xi and introduced: "Qin Xi is the proposer of this plan. He is now the eighth-level "special dispatcher" assigned to the film department. , directly lead the execution of the plan.”
After many reforms, the Federation finally established a basic political hierarchy system, divided from top to bottom into levels one to ten. 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 execution level. The rights and material allocations enjoyed by different levels are different.
"Oh," the woman nodded, then looked up and down carefully, and finally extended her hand to Qin Tie, "'Idle Person' Lin Yuxuan, they prefer to call me..." She paused, "Xun Zimin."
Xun Zimin, a member of the Central China Communist Party's city-state special operations team, was directly appointed by the federal top investigation team that oversees management. He enjoys fourth-level treatment, but is only rated at tenth level.
Qin Cong also extended his hand, and the two shook hands.
"Ha~" The man yawned.
"Then this is Jiang Sichen, the 'Xie Zian', who is also a 'vagrant'." Xun Zimin pointed at the man behind him.
Xie Zian is a member of the federal highest investigation team, but he is not under the federal management system and is only responsible to the Communist Party of China and the city-state.
"Let's get straight to the point and get down to business. What's your plan?" Xie Zian asked listlessly when everyone sat down.
Qin Tie shrugged and said, "There is no plan yet. I asked you to discuss it."
"ha?"
"I'm sorry, but...this is indeed the case at the moment." Zuo Yi said.
"No, no, then how did you convince those senior officials at that time?" Xun Zimin asked, "Didn't you say 'proposed a plan'?"
"Yes, a 'plan' was proposed." Qin Xi said, "I said something like 'I have a plan that can change the current situation, you should think about it yourself', and then they started to discuss it."
"..." Is this such a child's play?
Zuo Yin said: "I did have some good ideas, so I took a roundabout way and talked them through it - they thought it was pretty good, so they agreed."
"I do have a plan, but... no, it's nothing." Qin Cuo stopped talking.
Xun Zimin held her forehead, and she suddenly felt a little tired.
"Well, isn't there an old saying that says: 'There must be a road before the car reaches the mountain, and no living person will be suffocated to death'? There will always be a way."
"What if I'm suffocated to death?" Xie Zian said.
"Yes, and now the cars can fly, so there is no need to travel at all." Qin Cui nodded.
"Is this the point?" Xie Zian thought thoughtfully.
"What's there to think about!" Xun Zimin raised his forehead again. She moved her gaze to Qin Xi.
"Then, please have a good chat with us. Since you don't have any plans, what's the point of letting us come?"
"It was my suggestion," Zuo Yin said. "He just said that he does have a plan, but that plan is something shady. It may involve deeper aspects of the network."
Zuo Yin glanced at Zuo Zian and Xun Zimin.
"I don't think anyone knows them better than you two. Knows more about that world."
Xie Zian was silent, and several people looked at each other with wide eyes.
"Hey~" Qin Tie stood up unsteadily, put his hands in his pockets, walked around the table and walked towards the door. When passing by Xie Zian and the other two, he said, "I'm going to go out and get some fresh air first."
Zuo Yin frowned and looked at Zuo Yin for a while, then sighed.
"At least I have no reason to refuse you now, and..." Xie Zian looked into Zuo Yin's eyes, "What you said to me before really makes it difficult for me to refuse."
Zuo Yin smiled, Xie Zian would definitely agree, he always knew it.
"Then, happy working together."
Xun Zimin: "..."
"In the next few months, just listen to my instructions. As for Qin Chou, he is still young. It is up to us adults to take care of big things."
"I'm a child too!!!" Xun Zimin, who had been holding back, couldn't bear it anymore and got angry, "I'm only seventeen!!!"
"But," Xie Zian interrupted, "but in a sense, you are already an old woman who has lived for hundreds of years..."
Xun Zimin kicked him over.
"That doesn't count. I'm really only seventeen. Doesn't the law stipulate that you have to be an adult at twenty? I'm still a minor."
"That's right. Then go out and call that guy 'brother' or something. After all, he is already twenty-four." Zuo Yi teased.
Xun Zimin kicked Xie Zian again.
"Why are you kicking me?"
Zuo Yi smiled and said, "No more kidding," he breathed out, calmed down his emotions, and said, "Even though that guy looks like that, he is actually a pretty reliable person."
"And," he paused, "he is far more mature than you think, and even...crazy."
When Xun Zimin opened the door to the outer platform, Qin Chou was standing on the edge of the platform not far away. The two passed through a house with a spiral structure overhead and stood in the sun.
Then, they could clearly see the man standing facing the light...or boy - he really looked like a boy.
A boy trapped in the past.
It was a lonely figure, but it seemed to contain infinite things, as if a mountain could be seen pressing on it, crumbling. But his back was straight.
"A person who once lost everything, a person who now has nothing, a person who has no future, will not have any scruples. Moreover, he is still the person chosen by 'them'." Zuo Yi said this.
Xun Zimin was stunned. In this back, he seemed to see a familiar shadow, the loneliness and sadness, the upright and standing back that had carried everything from others and abandoned everything about himself.
She saw Xie Zian walking forward and standing next to Qin Cui. At that moment, their backs overlapped in her eyes.
Yes, this boy is the same as he was back then.
Qin Tie heard the movement, turned around and smiled at them.
I don't know if it was an illusion, but Xie Zian seemed to see a girl behind Qin Cui. She was wearing a white skirt, with long hair flying, and her face could not be seen clearly. Maybe she disappeared too quickly and had not had time to see clearly.
"About my plan, although I can't reveal too much to you now, but..."
Qin Chou said. His voice was very soft, but it was carried by the wind and fell on the ears of the two of them.
"Welcome to join me and witness the future."
