God said, "Let there be light." There was light.
At the beginning of creation, the first thing that appeared in the void was endless white. No one can see their origin, nor their destination, and see nothing but a single color. But unlike the darkness that obscures everything even within a short distance, the boy under this white light can clearly see his hands, the clothes on his body, and the extremely smooth mirror-like ground under his feet.
One moment, Mephisto looked at the slowly closing machine and closed his eyes and escaped into the darkness. The next second, daylight fell on his eyelids. When he opened his eyes again, this was the place filled with light.
Pure, peaceful, like heaven.
The boy looked around, trying to find something special, but all he saw was emptiness. He lowered his head and looked at the ground under his feet, held the crutch in his right hand, and took a tentative step forward.
When the soles of the feet landed, they were still flat. After confirming that the way forward was not an illusion, he took the second step, followed by the third and fourth steps...
There was no pain in the knee, and the bones were stronger than usual. The nerve that had been severed suddenly returned to its original state, allowing Mephisto to taste running again. His speed is getting faster and faster, and his steps are getting harder and harder. The smooth mirror reflects the boy's clothes raised due to his movements, as well as his smile that gradually regains its color and is filled with emotion.
"Ha ha……"
The crutch was thrown away, far behind. Mephistopheles waved his arms to embrace the breeze, his heart beating as fast as his breathing. After becoming an infected person, he had not been able to move his legs so freely for a long time, and even the feelings in his heart gradually became as inactive as his legs, unable to move.
Faust's death stimulated Mephistopheles' spirit and pulled him out of the darkness. The sarcophagus gave him the ability to run again, turning him back into a normal person.
The matter has come to this, even if death lies ahead...
Mephisto stopped, bent down and put his hands on his knees, breathing heavily. Although this sprint made him feel like his lungs were about to explode, there was a slight smile on his lips.
Having lost the pillar of survival, the last questions have been answered, and it's time to make atonement.
This is the ending that I deserve. I have been prepared to face it for a long time. It is not scary at all. All that is left in my heart is the tranquility like water, just like this land filled with light.
Mephistopheles already felt something when he saw the open walls. Sarcophagus is definitely not named because this machine looks like a coffin. It is really a coffin, a place for the dead.
But it was so beautiful inside, and now he was looking forward to how he would die in the end.
As if the world was aware of Mephisto's thoughts, something strange happened in front of the boy. The world that was originally empty except for him suddenly had a blue beam of light, falling from the sky and shining not far in front of him.
Mephistopheles carefully observed the light beam in front of him and saw a green data flow like a waterfall facing it. Soon, the density of those data streams became lighter and began to deform and twist, as if it had turned into a human shape. This beam of light also gradually shrank along with the changes in the data flow, and finally disappeared.
A girl in tights is floating in the air, her arms are naturally stretched and open, her head is raised and her eyes are closed. Then, as if she noticed the gaze of the boy in front of her, she lowered her head and opened her eyes. Mephistopheles froze when he saw the "human" who suddenly appeared in front of him, as well as her appearance and pupils.
This piece of "paradise" has made him highly resistant to things he cannot understand, so there is nothing surprising about him. But the key is...
The girl looks very young, and combined with her thin figure, she seems to have just grown up. She has beautiful short hair, and the ends of her hair are dyed light green with a little bit of yellow, which reminds people of the buds in early spring, and is the same color as her pupils.
The same goes for the clothes on her body. The white one-piece bodysuit is dotted with light green decorations and color blocks. The whole person's temperament looks like a seedling, with the faint fragrance and coolness of life, and the smile at the corner of her mouth. People can't help but keep a certain distance from her. If they are not alienated, they are not close.
The girl who looked perfect was enough to attract the attention of anyone of the opposite sex, but Mephistopheles only felt confused because this girl reminded him of someone.
A guy who only exists in the Integrated Movement Intelligence Network is as important as Dr. Noah.
Rhode Island Medical Director, Kelsey.
He could use anything valuable on his body to guarantee that the girl suspended in the air in front of him was exactly the same as Kelsey described in the intelligence.
Could this be Rhode Island's secret base?
Or is it a trap?
So what does she want from herself?
"Don't be afraid." 'Kelsey' smiled slightly and slowly fell to the ground.
"I'm not who you think I am, even if I look the same."
Then, she raised her hand. Light burst out from the palm of her hand, and the girl's arm gradually became blurred, with countless flowing data streams inside.
"I'm just an AI, the administrator of this space."
After proving her identity, the girl's arm returned to its original shape.
"The main job is to manage this virtual world and answer questions for people who 'accidentally' break in."
"You can call me any name you want, as long as it doesn't have any insulting meaning." She smiled, with an expression that Kelsey had never done before: "After all, as a perceptual AI, I still have self-respect. of."
…
Mephistopheles looked at the smiling AI in front of him, his brows slowly furrowed, but soon relaxed. Every word this girl said was beyond his imagination and had a severe impact on his world view, but Mephisto was still relieved quickly - it didn't matter.
"Sensational AI? I don't think anyone or organization can research you in the world of Terra."
Existence is reasonable. She is already standing in front of him, so there is no need to dwell on this shocking fact. It is more important to figure out how the other party appears.
His intuition told him that he was standing in front of a door full of secrets.
"It's really not possible now. But time doesn't just stand still. It comes from the past and goes to the future."
Although this AI said that she had nothing to do with Kelsey, the way she spoke was just as confusing to the listener as that guy.
But it's fairly easy to understand.
From the past to the future...
The current world of Terra is only a thousand years old, and no one knows what the world of Terra was like before the history books record it, and it is impossible to know clearly. Just like mountains rising from the flat ground, historians of the world of Terra could only see cliffs covered by mist at the beginning of this millennium, and what was under the cliff...
no one knows.
The Terran people began to thrive on this planet without even a single evolutionary process.
Of course, it is also possible that they have traveled from the future. In the era of technological explosion in human imagination, it is not difficult to develop a machine that travels through time and space.
perhaps.
"Then can you tell me who studied you?"
Mephisto looked at the AI up and down, comparing her clothing style with the pitiful lack of relevant knowledge in his head.
The result is obvious. There is no trace of any country in his clothing. Even Colombia, which has the world's highest technological level, cannot produce such an avant-garde and simple design.
"Sorry, you don't have enough authority and I can't answer relevant questions."
The girl refused with a smile, and the smile on her face was full of professionalism in Mephisto's eyes.
"Permission..." He chewed the word, thinking of the first time he saw Rhode Island.
"That guy named Noah, how much authority does he have?"
Although he was prepared to be rejected, he still hoped to get some relevant information.
"Noah? I don't have such a user."
The girl shook her head slightly, and her floating hair drew a thin stream of data in the air.
"No?" This was beyond Mephisto's expectation.
"That doctor from Rhode Island, he's dressed like rice dumplings with no skin exposed to the air."
He said what Noah looked like and asked again: "You don't have such, uh..."
"user?"
This wording is quite strange.
"Um……"
The data flow around the girl gradually became more prominent and was no longer as detailed as it was at the beginning. It seemed that the AI was thinking, or calculating.
It fits the reaction of this humanoid figure, although the AI should be able to get the result immediately.
"His name is not Noah."
Two seconds later, the data flow surrounding the girl disappeared and the answer was given.
"I can't tell you his real name or his authority."
A red cross appeared in front of Mephisto.
"You do not have sufficient permissions to perform this operation."
Like his initial answer, Mephisto was a little disappointed. Just by saying "Noah is not Noah", he understood that there was definitely a big secret hidden in this AI's hard drive, but it was a pity that he was just an ordinary person who broke in by mistake...
"correct."
He remembered an important point.
"Why did you let me in?"
You must know that he touched the wall for ten minutes at the beginning. His hands were covered with dust and he didn't even touch anything similar to a switch. As a result, I was so disheartened that I was about to leave, and the sarcophagus opened by itself again?
This looks like an adventure in a novel, but the adventure was either deliberately arranged or just a lucky coincidence. Mephisto believed more in the former when it came to opening the sarcophagus.
"Anyone who wishes to enter the sarcophagus will do so, as long as he has no other purpose."
The AI gave a casual-sounding answer, which sounded more like perfunctory to Mephisto's ears.
"Actually, I could have opened the door for you at the beginning, but because someone came, I pushed it back."
Mephistopheles recalled the sudden appearance of the band of soldiers and invited him to command the remaining supporters against the rebels. But at that time, he only wanted to find out what the sarcophagus was, and didn't take the soldiers' words to heart at all, so he got the opportunity to enter the sarcophagus.
"That wall..."
Mephistopheles reluctantly believed this perfunctory explanation, but he still had many questions, especially about the cracked wall. The entrance to a high-tech creation cannot be made of reinforced concrete, it should be wrapped in a solid alloy.
It is said to be a sarcophagus, but this is more like a description of the machine as a whole. From the outside, it is wrapped in a huge reinforced concrete forest, which does not mean that it is built of this material.
"This is also a helpless move." The girl sighed softly and spread her hands.
"The natural disaster was too violent. In order to protect myself, I could only shrink the main part, sacrificing certain functions to enhance the overall strength to resist the extrusion of the building. Although the entrance was pressed under the ruins, I could embed part of it into the ruins. By making these stacked stones part of the structure, the result is the entrance you see.”
Mephistopheles thought of the straight cracked wall and the internal structure that was completely different from the wall.
"This is one of my basic functions, the ability to quickly adapt to drastic changes in the environment. When a disaster destroys my shelter, I have become one with the fallen buildings, and those ruins have become me New armor."
After listening to the girl's proud introduction, Mephistopheles felt that he had come to the right place. Such a sci-fi tomb is definitely the best place to die.
"Then what can I, an ordinary person, do with the sarcophagus?"
Although he failed to figure out the details of Noah, his goal was achieved by entering the sarcophagus. All that was left was to see what other information he could get from this AI.
“Do what is in your heart.”
Looking at the AI's smile, Mephisto's heart didn't waver at all.
"Just as you imagined at the beginning, the sarcophagus is not only named based on its appearance, but also the function of this machine."
"You can throw away anything you don't want here, memories, organs, functions, life."
"This is where everything is buried."
Her voice was soft, but in Mephisto's ears it was as heavy as a rock.
"So far, thirty-seven people have entered the sarcophagus. Thirty-six of them chose to end their lives after learning the relevant information. Only one person left."
"Their occupations vary. There are researchers, cleaners, thieves, and soldiers. Some people come in with a smile and maintain their temperament until death; some people look at me for the first time. I burst into tears at the first sight, and tears were streaming from the corners of my eyes when I lost consciousness.”
"But regardless of the process, their results are the same."
The girl waved her hand, and dozens of shimmering crystals appeared behind her. Mephistopheles glanced at the gems suspended in the air and quickly counted their number.
Thirty six.
"These are the souls of those thirty-six people. Their bodies have dissipated and are sleeping in dreams forever. They can only be destroyed and cannot be awakened."
The girl looked at Mephisto and stopped talking. He knew what the other party was waiting for. Only when he said the request himself could she proceed with the next operation.
"The only person who leaves here..."
But before falling asleep, Mephisto still wanted to find out everything about Noah. Even if the fog in front of you is just a little lighter, you can make yourself have fewer questions.
"What did he bury of himself?"
Mephisto's question was received by the girl. She made a response plan in an instant, but stopped when she was about to say her refusal, and stopped before the last instruction.
She is a perceptual AI. Except for the most basic codes, she has the right to disobey other instructions, including confidentiality for high-privileged users. But as an AI created artificially to serve humans, she has never done this kind of behavior of disobeying instructions a few times. She has always stayed within the red line of the rules.
But if breaking the rules has no consequences and can make users feel at ease...
She will still step on the red line lightly.
Putting people first, it is impossible for this boy to go out again anyway. If he changes his mind after getting the answer, he won't let him go.
"Before I answer your question, I want to make sure."
The girl stretched her hand forward, and a transparent crystal appeared in the palm of her hand, slowly floating towards Mephisto and suspended between the two of them.
"What do you want to bury here with me?"
"all."
His answer followed the girl's words without thinking.
"I have nothing left to remember, and people outside are also looking forward to my death as soon as possible."
"Being able to die here and live in a dream forever is really the best ending for me."
The crystal slowly fell into Mephisto's hand, and was immediately grasped tightly. He felt the edges and warmth of his palms, and the connection between his body and his mind became increasingly loose, like an old house that had been in disrepair and was on the verge of collapse.
The white light became brighter and brighter, stinging Mephisto's eyes, and the girl's figure became increasingly blurry. Before his consciousness finally faded into darkness, he heard the answer he wanted.
"That man buried his feelings, all the good feelings."
Men...feelings.
emotion?
Mephistopheles suddenly understood why he felt the hidden resentment and pain when he first met Noah.
He doesn't have amnesia, he remembers everything.
He deprived himself of his rights as a human being, and the buried feelings gave this man the coldest heart in the world. It was no longer an organ composed of protein and oil, but iron.
This man deceived everyone, enemies, friends, family...
no no.
He has no friends or family, and everyone is against him. He weaves a harmless appearance for himself, hiding among the people who need him. Surrounded by those people, he moves slowly forward step by step without stopping.
he wants……
Revenge against the world.
