Dashboard and buttons. [No pop-up novel website]
There are seemingly endless instruments and buttons.
Lu Yuan stared at these dashboards and buttons in a daze.
This is the third month since he traveled through time.
This "maybe" is a huge spaceship. Through the portholes, you can see the faint starry sky and endless darkness outside, no matter how long it takes. For science student Lu Yuan, it is not difficult to infer some facts, for example - he is not close to any galaxy or river system. Because all visible stars are dim, they don't even look as bright as stars observed on a clear night from Earth, which would have to pass through the atmosphere.
Magnitude is a unit of measurement for measuring the luminosity of celestial objects. The magnitude observed with the naked eye can be called visual magnitude. Generally speaking, the brighter the object being observed, the smaller the visual magnitude. When the moon is full, the moon's magnitude is minus 12.6. Generally, the brightness of the brightest star is 1, and the minimum magnitude observable by the naked eye is 6. In the starry sky in front of us, there are no stars with a magnitude greater than 2.
The ship was incredibly large and... dark.
He was in a huge hall. Except for the indicator lights on the instrument panel in front of him, there was no light or sound. There were a dozen chairs in front of the dashboard - he woke up in one of them - and the others were empty.
He once walked several hundred meters to the other side of the dark hall, which was empty. There was nothing but the sound of footsteps, and he couldn't even find the opposite wall. When he couldn't see the faint light behind him, he ran back. At the beginning, when he looked at the darkness in front of him, Lu Yuan always felt that evil spirits and beasts would suddenly burst out from inside, which made him sleep uneasy. But now, he really hoped that there was something else in the darkness, even a ghost.
What really tortured him and kept him unable to sleep was the desperate silence.
Looking at the huge panel in front of him, he felt like he was going crazy. Isn't this damn place a spaceship that's hundreds of years ahead of the Earth? ! Why is Mao still using a control panel that looks like a chemical workshop in the 1970s? Asshole! What about your quantum computer? ! Where is your holographic operating panel? ! At least give me a voiceover!
There is air and gravity here. In addition to yelling every day, he can also eat a white ointment to survive.
Thankfully, there's a device on it that's simple enough for people on Earth to understand - a hose extending into a transparent container like toothpaste, with a button on top. Each time you press it, more than half a cup of "toothpaste" will be poured into the cup. This is Lu Yuan's "day" food. Because there are no tools to measure time, darkness and silence will make time extremely long, so the length of time cannot be determined. But within the scope of "a day" for Lu Yuan, "toothpaste" would only flow out of the tube once.
So when the time was almost up every day, Lu Yuan would stay by the hose, pressing the milky white button again and again until food came out. It wasn't because of hunger. Although he did lose more than ten kilograms, his hunger was not strong. He stayed by the button simply because it was the only part of the ship that "reacted" to his actions. When you shout into the room and only hear the echo, and when you walk into the darkness and find darkness, the response of a button is also precious.
There are fourteen indicator lights that are still on on the panel, some are orange-red, some are dim, and some emit white light. These are Lu Yuan's only light source.
There were originally fifteen lights, but Lu Yuan extinguished one after trying to operate some buttons. From then on, he never dared to touch the panel again.
He fell asleep for an unknown amount of time. When he woke up, he still didn't know how long it had been. He yelled and smashed the chair crazily, like a trapped beast. But he still didn't touch the buttons on the dashboard, which was the only hope he had left in the darkness.
In the first month, he memorized the sequence of all the buttons, and his roar gradually turned into silence. (In fact, there is no time, and the unit of month cannot be calculated. This is just a self-set by Lu Yuan in order to maintain human behavior.
In the second month, he cut his coat into thin strings, tied them to a chair, and then groped into the darkness holding the strings. He walked along the wall and eventually returned to the chair. He confirmed that it was an empty rectangular hall of about 400 square meters. He found a door at the end of the hall, a door that could not be opened. There were no handles, switches or anything similar on it. There were only four gaps up, down, left and right that were as high as a person and as wide as half a person, which made him guess that they were a door.
He tried every means, but no matter whether he pushed, buckled, moved, kicked, head-butted, bitten, or violently hit his body, the door was like four gaps in the wall, motionless, damn space technology! He couldn't even get a thin line out through the crack in the door.
In the third month, he confirmed something else.
The spaceship is not flying.
Yes, this is an abandoned spaceship parked in the vast universe.
There is no engine sound, no noisy machine running sound, and it can be considered that the room is well soundproofed.
Without the meteorites, debris or dust passing by the window, it can be said that the universe is damn empty.
But after he finally recalled his poor space knowledge and used the "toothpaste" on the porthole to mark each brighter star, he kept observing for a month, and the position never changed.
The relative position has never changed, and the spacecraft has no tremors during flight, only half-dead solidification and stillness.
Lu Yuan became silent.
He used white "toothpaste" to mark all the buttons with numbers, and pressed one every time he became desperate enough to bear it.
On the third "day", he pressed button No. 15, and another light went out. When he pressed it again, it did not light up. I pressed all the buttons No. 1 to 15, but the light still didn't come on.
The fifth day...
...
More and more lights go out and never come on again, more and more darkness and despair.
Lu Yuan couldn't remember how long he hadn't spoken. His instinct for language began to leave him, and he could only utter meaningless syllables when he opened his mouth.
...
This is the last light, and the last button.
This button is yellow, oval, and looks very special.
Lu Yuan knew that this was his illusion. Before that, there were many buttons that he thought were special.
"This square button is very special. It must have a special meaning... This red button is very special. Maybe it will open something..."
He always hints to himself like this, and he always keeps opening that door.
Unfortunately, there was nothing but the slowly extinguishing lights.
The button was pressed and the light went out.
He waited for a long time, but nothing happened.
He pressed all the buttons once, he pressed the buttons again, he pressed them all in reverse order, he skipped…
No! No! Nothing at all! Not a single light came on anymore.
I can't see my fingers.
Lu Yuan fumbled, picked up his knife, which was a sharp fragment of a chair, and then touched the wall and walked towards the door.
He has traveled back and forth countless times within a distance of less than three hundred meters, and even complete darkness cannot stop him.
He became more determined as he walked.
If, if that door hadn't opened yet. He wished to die there.
The sound of blood dripping from his wrists onto the floor made Lu Yuan feel happy. He stretched out his arms to let the wounds on both sides bleed more freely. This is the only different voice for an unknown amount of time. The dizziness caused by ischemia began to dominate his brain, and he tried to cling to the wall to prevent himself from falling. Although he knew that the wound on his wrist would be clotted soon, he no longer had the courage to make a third cut.
Lu Yuan staggered toward the door. There would be no rescue or blood transfusion here. He could finally fulfill his wish to commit suicide. So he hoped that he would die lying on the door. If someone opens that door in the distant future, he hopes to jump out and scare him. This was his last wish. He just smiled dizzy and narcissistically, adjusted his posture and made a leaping motion, lying on the door.
"I will slowly turn into a pile of bones. How can I keep the skeleton from falling?" Lu Yuan put his hands on the door, letting the blood flow along the crack of the door, and began to think about this profound question. Completely unaware that the door suddenly opened to both sides, a non-existent gap appeared in the middle, and then the door shrank to both sides like an elevator. Lu Yuan, who had lost too much blood and was nearly unconscious, jumped out as he expected. .
At the moment before he was knocked unconscious, Lu Yuan seemed to hear a scream, so he sank into the darkness contentedly, not wanting to wake up again.
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If things were based on Lu Yuan's ideas, he wouldn't be here. Therefore, there is no doubt that he woke up reluctantly. In a smaller room, he was lying on the floor, with nothing but four gaps on the wall not far away. No, in that big room, at least there were chairs to sit on, beat, and buttons to practice arranging and combining.
He sat up and saw a white substance wrapped around his wrist to heal the wound. It looked like the "toothpaste" he eats every day. If there was anything here that pleased him, it was the light. Yes, there are no lights, but the walls, the roof, and the floor beneath you are all milky white and translucent, emitting a soft radiance. The light is not dazzling but can illuminate every detail. Under such all-round illumination, not even a shadow will be left.
After getting used to it for a while, he remembered the scream before he fell into coma, and tentatively said loudly: "Come out! I see you!"
"Ah, how is that possible?" A neutral voice said in surprise, coming from all directions. Immediately, the wall facing Lu Yuan became more and more transparent, and an image of a person made of light appeared on it. He was about 1.75 meters tall and his gender could not be determined.
"Who are you?" Lu Yuan suppressed the joy in his heart, deliberately relaxed his body and sat cross-legged on the floor, and asked casually. He was really afraid of accidentally scaring the "alien" away again. At this time, not to mention it looked like a "person", even if it was an alien, Lu Yuan would raise it and not kill it easily. Lu Yuan can now tell clearly who is scarier, aliens or loneliness.
"We...I...I am the Lord God." Guangren seemed to rarely communicate with others, and he changed his self-identity several times before finally saying a complete sentence.
"The Lord God? It's a big ball of light that arranges the reincarnators to go through terrifying worlds one after another, so that the reincarnators continue to become stronger and evolve, help each other and kill each other, just to survive?" Lu Yuan said this in the same way. For people who work in computers, reading novels and other things is a normal entertainment behavior. Unlimited streaming and so on are also understood. He suddenly thought of something else and asked: "I was summoned by you? Then what am I in the original world? Missing? Why did you recruit me? To put it bluntly, although I think I am not bad, I am still I have some self-awareness. Just because I haven’t exercised in the past ten years and weigh 200 kilograms, if I were allowed to enter the Lord God’s space, wouldn’t it mean that I would die!”
"We...I'm not a big ball of light!" The light man retorted angrily.
"I am the Lord God, and you are my summoner. You have died in your previous life, so there is no need to ask, the answer will come from you in the future..."
"Um... Lord God, interrupt me, can we stop talking so hard? Your way of expression is too... antique, and I can't accept it. Or we can change to something more general, and let me, the earth that evolved from apes, A way of speaking that allows people to communicate smoothly?”
"Well, okay. As our first summoner, appropriate privileges are still allowed." The light man seemed to relax and quickly agreed to Lu Yuan's request. Lu Yuan seemed to hear the sound of a large book being closed. Was it an illusion?
"Thank you very much. I would also like to ask Lord God to answer the question I just asked. Huh? Wait, you said the first summoner? So..."
"Well, I am the new Lord God, and I am also the Lord you need to serve for the rest of your life."
"We'll talk about serving something later. Are you the one who locked me in a dark room for several months?! Even a trial or something is too much! The Sa family wants to find out clearly even if they risk their lives. !”
"Well, well, we just haven't learned how to open the door..."
