Yu Tang fell into the electronic storm that greeted him.
The light curtain, which had begun to dim and dissipate, seemed to be suddenly awakened by the falling figure.
In the flow of time, particles that should never overlap create mottled spots of light, and the splashing fragments of light lead to deeper and deeper whirlpools.
These vortices turned the electron storm into turbulence. The remaining fragments were caught up in the turbulence, churning out from the deepest part of the storm and turning into untouchable light and shadow.
Countless changing images emerged.
Wearing formal attire and holding a wedding invitation that had nothing to do with him, he sat in Yu Tang, a remote corner of the guest seats that was the least noticeable.
Yu Tang was pushed out of the studio, staggering and barely standing, with a thin bank card thrown at his feet.
Yu Tang was waiting outside the hotel late at night, curled up in the nanny car and taking a nap, but was suddenly awakened by the alarm clock.
Yu Tang was huddled under a desk lamp, practicing calligraphy with a pen. Whenever he saw someone walking by, he would quickly cover the words with his hands for fear of being laughed at.
…
Nineteen-year-old Yu Tang used all his money to buy the neatest and cleanest clothes.
He specially cut his hair, took a cold shower, tried to straighten his body, tightly grasped the recruitment notice he picked up, and walked into the human resources office of the agency with great anticipation.
"What are these?"
Luo Ran watched them passing through the screen. His dynamic vision was the best among the few people, but his mind was still on the mocking and contemptuous faces of those people.
Luo Ran frowned, his shoulders tensed: "Is this how they treat Mr. Yu? Why didn't we stop earlier—"
"This is what happened originally." Pu Ying turned on the Dolphin's autopilot mode, raised her hand, and gently pressed Luo Ran's arm. "It happened a long time ago."
These things actually happened.
This is the world that has not been forcibly reset or changed, and it is also the original plan of the terminal.
In this world, Sui Si and Ke Ming achieved success and became a loving couple. Sheng Yi became the strongest mecha operator in the entire alliance and was hailed as a hero admired by everyone.
Wen Er is the youngest director of the Science Department. He has published countless cutting-edge papers and his name will be written into textbooks and history. Zhong San's game company has taken over all the marginal asteroids, and its power has gradually expanded, completely infiltrating the core of the alliance on the central star.
It was also in this world that Shi Ji was forced to merge into the program and became the best wingman autonomous driving AI.
Luo Ran and his fiery red SUV disappeared in the heavy rain and hurricane, and were never found again.
Feng Qing experienced death again and again. He was completely unable to maintain the stability of his own particles. He was swallowed up by his own domain and disappeared in the villa that he could never leave.
The electron storm endured the pain and peeled off the most obedient and capable particles bit by bit, but in the end it was unable to find the person it was looking for.
Yu Tang chose the right place and played the right role. He just didn't know that the boy who had volunteered at the orphanage had been replaced by someone else, leaving an empty shell for the players to choose.
That young man who could boil hot milk, make very sweet cookies, build powerful mechas and book-turning robots, and wrap himself in a soft blanket, became a victim of madness and greed and died at the age of nineteen.
…
Their world is made into books.
They are all tools in the book who are forced to participate, not allowed to resist, and not worthy of their own destiny.
"In the unchanged world, Yu Tang fell from the rooftop into an electronic storm after the wedding."
Pu Ying said: "After that, Mr. Zhan got an asteroid."
Pu Ying stared at the view of the monitor, one of his hands still covering Luo Ran's arm to prevent him from accidentally pulling the wound again: "He reset the time, and everything started over again - this process was repeated many times."
Zhan Chen reset time many times.
The faster he got the asteroids, the faster the planned endings could happen, and the book was forced back to page 1.
Finally this time, Electronic Storm woke up from his deep sleep and returned to their world in order to become a formal employee of the bookstore.
"We are in this book now."
The wingman glided in front of the mecha, and Shi Ji's voice came through the transmitter: "This book can be read many times, but there is a rule, the page numbers must not be repeated."
Once page numbers are repeated, the world in the book will collapse.
—When I turned the page of this book for the first time, the ending page belonging to Yu Tang had already been torn off by the electronic storm.
"We have to be careful." Shi Ji held down the joystick of his wingman and searched for Yu Tang's figure in the storm. "Once the particles completely overlap, there is a high probability that a violent shock will occur—"
Before he could finish his words, a hurricane suddenly came without warning, completely crushing all the light and shadows they saw.
A darkness deeper than the night spread out, and the searchlight was completely swallowed up before it could go a few meters. Countless turbulent currents lurking in the dark erupted at the same time, and the drastic changes in the currents instantly enveloped the Dolphin.
This level of control difficulty is no longer something that automatic driving can handle. Luo Ran took over the Dolphin at the same time and changed the propulsion mode: "Is the wingman still there? How is Shi Ji doing?"
"Around us!"
Pu Ying steadied himself, rushed over to the violently shaking mecha, and put on goggles for Luo Ran: "The wingman reported the coordinates! Sector D, distance 2.3, corrected 9k speed per second..."
The sound of electricity in the intercom became louder and louder. Even if the volume was increased, it was drowned out by all other sounds.
The mecha was able to adjust to the environment and the state of weightlessness, but the powerful pressure seemed to have exceeded the upper limit of regulation. The space seemed to be infinitely squeezed, and the sound of heartbeats mixed with the turbulence of blood violently hit the eardrums.
It is the roar that comes from the deepest part of life.
Luo Ran tore off the bandage that was in the way, and manipulated the mecha and the silver light of his wingman. Suddenly, he saw something strange on the monitor: "There is another mecha in here!"
Pu Ying unbuckled her seat belt, held onto the control panel, and looked over.
It was a somewhat old mecha, two stories high, equipped with a military electromagnetic cannon and had bright red tail lights.
Luo Ran stretched out his hand and adjusted the corresponding frequency of the call channel, trying to contact the mecha that suddenly appeared.
The wound on his arm was pulled by such a reckless movement and started bleeding again.
The annoying pain surged in waves, making it impossible to control the most delicate operations. Luo Ran bit his lower lip, blinked away the cold sweat flowing into his eyes, and was about to try again when Pu Ying's hand reached over.
Pu Ying supported Luo Ran's injured arm, used her body to stop him from standing, and adjusted the intercom for Luo Ran: "It's Mr. Zhan."
Luo Ran used his strength to steady his body and raised his head.
There is no longer any light from the stars here. In the extremely dark space, only the huge outline of the armor can be vaguely seen.
... The electronic storm once smashed a mecha.
He couldn't find the human he raised, and there was nothing inside the mech. He hid in the broken and scrapped wreckage, and gradually stopped playing games and eating, and stopped imitating the human children, stepping on the moonlight as a grid to jump.
The electronic storm was flashing weakly as it picked up the wreckage of the mechas bit by bit and carried them home carefully.
Before the debris could be sent into the eye of the storm, it was annihilated into the smallest particles along the way.
Electronic Storm will never be able to embrace the things you like.
"I reassembled the particles."
Zhan Chen's gentle voice came through the intercom: "Follow me, be careful."
The particles scattered in the electronic storm were re-extracted and combined to make a new mecha. This mecha looks exactly like the previous one, can flash red lights, and can play the code-knocking game with the electronic storm.
At the same time, the internal structure of this mecha has also been transformed by the most talented mechanics in the world.
Zhan Chen controlled the mecha. The huge mechanical body served as both a guide and an escort, steadily isolating the turbulent vortex raging in the storm.
Amid the noise of the electric current, Shi Ji's voice came into the channel: "Mr. Zhan, what should we do?"
"Sail straight ahead," Zhan Chen said, "don't look back."
Luo Ran asked: "Just walk straight?"
Zhan Chen: "That's enough."
“Life is the most profound carrier of time.”
Zhan Chen said: "In this turbulence, humans are the thread of time."
Life is born in the continuation of this most special dimension, and becomes the measure of this dimension, from beginning to end, from life to death.
Time keeps flowing until the existence of observers gives it meaning.
Pu Ying raised his hand and turned on the observer.
In the direction where Zhan Chen's mecha led them, the pure black space seemed to be carefully and precisely cut out, and the original outline of the world was pulled and dragged out from it.
Countless transparent wires hanging from the air, guiding the actions of every person and the operation of every event, were completely broken and fell silently.
The mecha dragged the entire world forward, and the advancement became more and more difficult. The energy was quickly consumed and then replenished.
Luo Ran opened the internal monitoring of the mecha and saw flowing energy substances gathering out of thin air in the electronic storm and continuously pouring into the energy compartment of the mecha.
"Mr. Zhan." Luo Ran said, "Where is Mr. Yu now?"
Zhan Chen did not answer immediately.
He paused for a moment, held the control panel of the mecha with flashing indicator lights, and looked at the figure sleeping in the hibernation capsule.
… They went to attend Sui Si’s wedding.
Yu Tang's self-consciousness was the most severely damaged among the four people - the book was a malicious trap set by the terminal. Due to the high-intensity work, repeated psychological torture, and the electric shock device that was completely unethical, Yu Tang's self-consciousness was dormant for a long time before it finally gradually awakened in his body.
Yu Tang separated his own particles and asked Zhan Chen to help reshape Yu Tang's body, leaving Yu Tang's consciousness and skill cards in that body.
They completed the final scene and went to the wedding banquet, and they also deliberately adjusted the lighting around them so that the crowd would not notice them.
Yu Tang took away the particles that would trigger time distortion and entered the electron storm.
…
"He is on the other side." Zhan Chen said, "at the end of this darkness."
Electronic Storm always believes that it should be responsible for this matter - no matter how many people are plotting and colluding behind the scenes, no matter how many people create tragedies for their own selfishness and watch irreparable pain happen, these are another matter.
Yu Tang is determined to correct this world and return all things that belong to human beings to human beings themselves.
The flight of the mecha gradually stabilized. Pu Ying bandaged Luo Ran's wound, returned to the co-pilot seat, and fastened his seat belt.
He and Luo Ran looked at each other and looked towards the end of the thick darkness outside the protective shield.
I don't know when, the sky there was quietly dotted with stars.
The stars are twinkling, clouds are surrounding the crescent moon in the sky, and the vast night sky is extending to the distance.
The world has no boundaries.
"The only bright spot is him."
Zhan Chen's voice came through the transmitter: "We only have one chance, and we can't choose the wrong path, otherwise we might drag the world into another time stream."
“More clearly defined signatures are needed.”
Shi Ji had already explored all the areas and pulled the transmitter over: "As long as you identify the target, I can guarantee that I will fly over."
Zhan Chen nodded: "There are characteristics, and I need Luo Ran's help."
Luo Ran was stunned: "What?"
Zhan Chen: "Among these bright spots, some have a flashing interval of 0.75 seconds."
This is a code that they will never change and has nothing to do with any password.
Electron Storm sometimes couldn't help but run out to play, and occasionally he accidentally ran too far away, millions of light years away from Zhan Chen's cabin, and he didn't manage to get back in time for dinner.
Team leader Xiao Guang typed in Morse code, giving a secret signal to the humans who were eagerly waiting for him every day.
"He will fold the space in half, allowing Guang to take a shortcut back to report the news."
Zhan Chen said: "After dark, if there is a star outside my window that flashes every 0.75 seconds, it means he is going home."