Chapter 226:
The dusty room, with thick curtains blocking the windows, looks like a utility room at first glance.
An old man with gray hair, in his fifties, groped to open the door. He cautiously confirmed that the environment was as usual and that no one had come in before opening the door again, "Come in."
"Thank you."
A baby-faced youth came in. He held a sleeping little girl in his arms. After entering the room, he placed the little **** the sofa gently, and then carefully fed a few pills before looking up at the old man.
"Thank you, Professor Wang."
Professor Wang shook his head and poured a glass of water for the youth, "This is what I should do."
He checked the safety of the room carefully before returning to the sofa and asked the young man, "What's your name?"
The youth replied: "Bai Qi."
He took out the card in his pocket: "This is the mark I found in the abandoned research room on the fifth floor of the No. 1 Research Building."
Professor Wang took it, adjusted his glasses, his serious eyes stayed on the piece of paper, showing a hint of relief, "Yes, this is the code I left behind. Only people who have worked on the same project as me, And a researcher with the same will can crack the code above, but you…”
"I'm not a researcher." Bai Qi was very calm.
He did not disguise his identity in front of this npc, "Actually, I am neither an intruder nor a tourist. But I can't reveal my identity here, I hope you forgive me."
Bai Qi's attitude made Professor Wang nod, "I can understand. Rather than knowing your identity, I want to hear the truth... In this small town, to be honest There are not many people."
The old man smiled bitterly: "Everyone is deceiving the people around them, deceiving the survivors, and even deceiving themselves."
Bai Qi: "But you are sober."
Professor Wang shook his head: "No, I can only be regarded as a half sober person. For the past, for everything that will happen in the future, for these behemoths, I'm just an insignificant ant."
He took out an instrument and placed it on the little girl's forehead, the instrument beeped twice and displayed a number.
"The doomsday radiation in her body is very high, but it is still within a sustainable range, and there is no danger to her life for the time being." Professor Wang took off his glasses and sighed: "...But even if the strength is so small, I also want to do something in the last time."
"Do something to change the tragedy that is about to happen, and become a straw under the wheel of history that may change the rut. Even if the possibility is extremely low, stick to it."
Professor Wang took off his glasses, "Presumably, you already know what I did."
Bai Qi: "You, without telling everyone the truth, injected a special piece of data into the program of [New World], and this special data will be automatically integrated into a [New World] with the birth of [New World]. important links, and then spread the word.”
Professor Wang nodded and shook his head again: "Actually, I'm not sure whether it can be spread, or in what form, and whether it can end up in the right hands... After all, at the end of the program No one knows what it will evolve into until it is completed."
"We have exchanged with a mysterious, high-dimensional, powerful unknown world, to be precise, with the uncertainty in the deeper part of the universe... The price of exchange is that we spend The highest creations that human beings can achieve in their lifetimes will eventually be out of our control.”
Professor Wang didn't know if Bai Qi could understand it, he used a metaphor: "This process is actually like worshiping the gods. You know? culture."
"We create a thing, and then we will burn incense or read the Bible to pray for the blessing of a certain god. But what is our ultimate goal? To make the things we create better and better, Instead of letting the gods really land in the world. Because once the gods really land, this world will no longer be the world that humans want."
Bai Qi nodded and said softly, "But this time, your research is out of control."
Professor Wang put on his glasses again, the wrinkles and calluses on his hands resting on the old trousers, and he seemed to have no strength to lift them up again.
"Yes, it got out of our hands in a well-planned conspiracy."
"This time, we failed to create new creations that belonged to humans. They connected to another universe that we couldn't touch, and then produced their own divinity - like the main program. When I The first time I saw it, it was just a brain capable of super-core computing. But now, it has begun to evolve autonomously, and at a certain time in the future, it will inevitably give birth to its own will and life form, which overrides the use of programs above."
"Of course, this is only a small part of the variable. It may not even be a bad thing - because the real disaster is always man-made."
Bai Qi's expression did not change. He listened carefully to every word Professor Wang said, and then asked his own questions.
The two were more like scholars discussing with each other, communicating calmly and discussing the past, although most of the time it was Professor Wang himself speaking. He rambled about a lot of things, from this small town, to his memories and his former family, his eyes became brighter and brighter.
"If there is a chance to do it all over again, I will never participate in all this again. This is a mistake in the first place. The future of human beings must be handed over to human beings, to resist, to break and stand up, Instead of handing it over to the very few, creating a so-called safe haven by sacrificing the majority."
The old man looked directly at the young man with bright eyes, and his voice was like a bell: "The eternal survival of only a few people is another form of extinction."
As this sound rang, an alarm and chaotic footsteps suddenly sounded outside the room, getting closer and closer to the door.
Bai Qi: "I'm sorry for bothering you, they're chasing after you."
"No, I should be thanking you." Professor Wang shook his head with a smile: "It's been a long time since I have spoken to others for so long. There are some things I regret. I didn't say it in time, and I regret it for the rest of my life."
"Thank you for fulfilling my wish."
The old man got up and opened the heavy curtains. Outside the window was not a sunny street, but a dark entrance leading to an unknown space.
"I left a lot of marks, including the cards in your hand, some flowing data programs, and logs... I can feel that some of them have been destroyed, and some have been Some people got it, is that your friend?"
Bai Qi picked up the unconscious Aya and nodded, "It's my friend and the one who wants to change everything."
Professor Wang murmured: "Okay, that's great... I can feel at ease. At least our efforts haven't disappeared completely, but there is still a little use left."
"Goodbye, young man, go to the future. Go to your world and future."
"By the way, I have a secret that I can tell you at this time." The old man turned around, the door had been opened, and a group of blurred people broke in. Bai Qi Just looking at it, I felt a stinging pain in my eyes, and my vision was distorted and blurred.
Invisible, unknowable, this is a copy limit.
But it was this restriction that made Bai Qi instantly understand the identities of these intruders.
This restriction only applies to those who are still alive and alive.
In the deepening darkness, only Professor Wang's voice came from afar:
"Actually, I left two pieces of data in the system."
"The first paragraph is the cracked password, which contains my authority."
"The second paragraph is an instruction, which is left to the main program that is still evolving. There is only one sentence in it: save mankind."
In this way, no matter who controls the new world and what it looks like in the end, the unchangeable instructions from the main program cannot be cancelled.
No matter what happens, no matter what you do, please don't forget the human beings who are still struggling to survive in the apocalyptic world. As long as they exist, hope will never disappear.
…
Bai Qi felt like he was sinking into a piece of water, and he judged from the environment that this should be the underground reservoir of the town.
Some people were patrolling the top of the reservoir, and he couldn't go up. He followed the instructions given by Professor Wang and swam downstream to the bottom, where he found a secret door.
The secret door opens and the world changes.
"Puuuuuuuu..."
The moment the air entered her lungs, Bai Qi fell on her knees and coughed loudly. The life she had just been forcibly put together and resurrected had already fallen to **** skin, and she barely fell down.
"Bai Qi!"
His name was called, then food and water.
Han Leilei ran over and hugged him excitedly, and then carefully took Aya over, "We chose three ways to find you, I blindly picked one, but I didn't expect to find you!"
While calling Li Hua and Tang Xiao, he couldn't wait to ask: "How is it, what is your mission?"
Bai Qi handed over the card: "Professor Wang, one of the founders of Hope Town. He gave one-third of the keys and the final location, we have to complete three main tasks, and finally arrive at Enter the password at the location of the main program to get out of this copy."
"It's escaping, not customs clearance." Tang Xiao, who came over, noticed the wording, "This dungeon didn't clear customs, right?"
Bai Qi smiled bitterly: "That's right."
The only NPC who can be called a dungeon boss, happily martyred after fulfilling his long-cherished wish. It is expected that the entire copy will collapse and disappear soon.
Until then, they must find all the clues before they can leave.
There was a faint voice outside, and a few people looked out through the hidden gap, and flickering figures began to appear on the streets of the town, sometimes appearing and disappearing.
Tang Xiao: "The outer world and the inner world have begun to merge."
Li Hua immediately said: "The mission of Han Leilei and I is to find the data lost by researcher Nie Bai. Now the data is in our hands, we should find Nie Bai in the inner world and hand it over to him. It's done."
Tang Xiao: "My mission is to find Alita's identity in the new world."
As soon as her words came out, the air was silent for a few seconds,
Whether looking for data, fighting or setting fire, at least there is a direction of action. But Tang Xiao's mission is outrageous—
There are so many people in the alliance field, how do they know which is the transformed Alita?
Bai Qi suddenly said, "If it's this task, I seem to have a clue."
Tang Xiao pondered for a moment, "Me too."
In fact, this task is not difficult, as long as you have enough understanding of the alliance field and Hope Town at the same time, you can lock a range.
And since the task will be handed over to the player, it means that this "new identity" must be known to the player.
Tang Xiao looked at Bai Qi and said, "If our conclusions are correct in the end, it means—"
"—that's the correct answer.