Outside the gate, separated by a wall, more than 4,000 people were cheering, and everyone thought they had succeeded. But You Huo and Qin Jiu changed their faces - this was not what they expected.
According to estimates, when the damage degree of the main control center reaches 100%, the building will turn into ruins, leaving only the core main control console.
The core console is impregnable, and defense holes will only appear in the last 1% of the critical point. If you seize those few seconds and blast away the main console, the most vulnerable things in the system will be exposed.
It should be something similar to a chip, which is difficult to distinguish with the naked eye, similar to the one that was placed in the eyes of wandering back then, and is called the core of the system.
At this moment, Yu Yu has two choices.
Or, use the correction program to interfere with the "nuclear", forcibly make the system generate self-correction consciousness and fall into a state of self-destruction. And before it self-destructs, by the rules, it throws everyone out.
Or, they can wait for the S group to disappear completely and take master control of the system. With just one command, everyone can be set free.
But now, the master control center is disintegrating, they have neither taken master control nor seen the nucleus.
The sound of the system suddenly rang again, intermittently like a poor connection:
【warn! warn! The main... control center was irreversibly... damaged, and the emergency treatment of the S group failed... failed! The main invigilator's escrow program has been banned, and the control will be taken back across the board within 10 seconds. 】
[The main control center is abandoned... and the self-cleaning program has been started. 】
[Countdown, 10—]
The sudden change blinded the cheering people, and everyone stopped blankly and looked at each other.
"What's the situation? Isn't it about to end?"
"What do you mean by self-cleaning? Self-destruct?"
"impossible!"
"Then what do we do? Shouldn't we go out first?"
In the noisy discussion, someone said: "You won't be able to get out, right?!"
Those words were like a nuclear bomb that exploded among thousands.
【9—8—】
The reciprocal of the system hangs overhead, and every time a number is counted, it explodes again, causing everyone's brains to buzz and go blank.
The sky was full of gray and yellow, and the dust mist shrouded overhead. Outside the thick fog, there was a warning light-like thing blinking with the countdown, flashing red light like a shadow, like a reminder.
Just when it flashed to the 4th time with the countdown, there was a rustling sound in the broadcast, and another voice forcibly replaced the system:
[Boss, A, I am 154. 】
The moment 154 grabbed control, the red light stopped, the countdown stopped, and everyone's heart hung in their throats.
For You Huo and Qin Research in the building, the voice of 154 came from the main console in front of him.
"154? Can you hear us?" Qin research went straight to the topic: "We blasted off the main console, but there is no nuclear, it's empty."
[I know, while the main control center is destroyed, I have been grabbing control. I have seen everything that happened here just now, but I haven't been able to speak. 】
[When I came, I reminded two things. 】
[One is that what the members of Group S said just now is not entirely true. I took over the system's historical repository a minute ago and saw past data for everyone. As far as I know, the initial proctors are all real people entering the system, which is similar to making a point of intersection between two dimensions with the help of magnetic fields and various conditions. Only after that did the system change its method, especially after it was severely out of control, only a small part of it was real people, such as the boss, and most of them were thinking entry. Maybe the system realizes that the disappearance is too conspicuous, and that illness, shock, and brain death are normal. 】
154's tone was a little anxious and angry: [So don't believe those nonsense, I'm afraid that the two of you will start to have no taboos when you hear that you are not in the flesh. To die is to die! 】
"I know." You Huo said.
In fact, half a minute ago, the moment he heard those words, he almost really believed it.
But just now, when Qin Jiu opened the "curtain" and walked to his side, he suddenly remembered something - ear studs.
If he here is really just a projection of thinking, it is impossible for this earring to stay in his ear from system to reality.
【It is good to know. 】
154 breathed a sigh of relief.
[The second thing is the core of the system. If it is not here, it must be hidden—]
His words were suddenly cut off by the waist, and in the distance beyond the dense fog, the red warning light flashed again, and the cold voice of the system took the lead again, continuing its countdown:
【7—】
Before everyone could digest 154 words, they fell into a new round of panic.
Qin Jiu squeezed his eyebrows, trying to stay sane and sober under the forced interference of the countdown: "154 means that the system has hidden the core, the question is where is it hidden."
【6—】
"Since the main control center can be destroyed if it is destroyed, it must not be in any corner here. Where else can it be hidden?" Qin Research looked around, "Where is it that it can rest assured."
"Where it looks absolutely safe." You Huo licked his dry lips.
These little actions are enough to show that even they are beginning to feel restless and nervous.
【5—】
What is an absolutely safe place
It's either a place you can never think of, or a place you won't rashly move if you think of it.
The system is somewhat arrogant, it's impossible to put the core in the corner, and no matter what, it won't really leave the center.
So where
Proctoring area? resting place
Are there any places they dare not move
It seems not, after all, when they are crazy, they even dare to take it in themselves.
【4—】
Suddenly, You Huo's face changed.
The concept of "self" reminded him that other people's lives may be safer than the two of them, especially friends and companions.
Friends and Companions…
A blast of thunder sounded in his head.
At the critical moment, the radio rustled again.
154 once again grabbed control. He didn't say hello this time, and said quickly:
[Time is running out, we must first figure out where the system has hidden the nucleus. In addition, the correction program is in your hands, if it is hidden outside the main control center and you can't reach it, then you have to-]
154 paused.
He seemed to have swallowed what he was going to say, and changed his words: [I have to find another way. 】
He said this, but did not wait for the expected response. The two people next to the main console suddenly fell into silence for some reason.
【Boss? 】
【A? 】
【Are you listening? 】
"In..." Youyou looked at the main console.
Neither he nor Qin Qiu were distracted, they just suddenly thought of an answer—
Chu Yue.
There was a screeching sound on the radio, as if someone suddenly stood up.
Then, a very soft female voice sounded: "154."
The moment she spoke up, she revealed an indescribable daze, but she calmed down the next second, as if she had made up her mind, "I have something to tell you."
When hearing this sentence, You Huo's face changed.
He wanted to wait a moment, and wanted to tell Chu Yue not to be impulsive. But the next second, the broadcast went into silence, and even the background sound of Zizi stopped abruptly...
***
In the abandoned apartment in the second resting place, 154 watched the suspended broadcast and heard Chu Yue take a deep breath and say, "The core of the system should be hidden with me."
"I was the same as A, and my eyes were implanted, right? I think the nucleus is probably hidden inside."
In fact, for a long time, she felt that she was luckier than You Huo. They are also the objects of learning, special beings in the system, but their experiences are vastly different—
You are the one who is being simulated by the sound. You are the one who is stared at 24 hours a day. You are the one who is pushed to a high position and kicked out of the system.
In contrast, she has hardly experienced much ups and downs, has not received any harmful punishment, and even the things in her eyes are more stable than those of wandering, and once it is shut down, there will be no movement. So much so that she even occasionally forgets that there is such a thing that always follows her.
A long time ago, a colleague once said to her: "You and A are both the main invigilators, why do you feel that the system is a little biased towards him? In various occasions, the emphasis is on A, and you always seem to be downplayed and forgotten. the one."
She replied at the time: "You got it the other way around, I might be the one being biased."
She spent a lot of time thinking about why this bias exists.
Until today, she finally understood...
Because the system hides the most important things on her and doesn't want others to notice her.
It firmly believes that this is the safest place, because A can't hurt her rashly. And as long as A doesn't move, others are not a threat.
But unfortunately, it left out one person - herself.
Chu Yue pointed to her eyes and said, "They have already done what they have to do. Only the last one left, 154, do me a favor."
***
Above the wilderness, the countdown stopped abruptly in the last two seconds, and even the dust mist stopped in that second.
After a long silence, the system changed its tune:
[Self-clearing program interrupted. 】
[Correction detected. 】
[Kernel self-check is enabled. 】
【mistake. 】
【mistake. 】
【mistake. 】
…
Countless "mistakes" are repeated mechanically, like a long road with no end in sight.
Until a certain moment, this repetition finally stopped, and the sound of the system changed from calm to rough to distorted, like baked ice, it said:
[The self-test is over, the system failure level is S, and the test is completely terminated. 】
[This operation has a total of 6 years, 1 month and 7 days, with 26,921 reference personnel and 11,582 existing people. All personnel will clear the system within 5 minutes. 】
[The self-destruction program is officially launched. 】
The moment the voice fell, the wind was blowing high, and the dust and mist were surging.
12,822 independent examination rooms began to fall apart. All kinds of things that happened in these honeycomb-like lands, life and death, love and hate, joys and sorrows, will no longer exist from this moment, and will remain forever.
Some were crying, some were laughing, some were dazed, and some were screaming.
Chu Yue blinked amidst the unprovoked and noisy background, and a strange darkness swept toward her. In that darkness, a vaguely familiar figure came straight towards here.
She remembered what 154 said not long ago, and he asked her before he started, "Are you afraid?"
She said there was nothing scary about it, she had friends who could trust her life, and they would not leave her no matter what. Like she would never fail each other.
From then on, they were free.
It's very strange, it's obviously something to be happy, but for a moment, she wants to cry.
In the end, she saw You Huo and Qin Qiu at the end of her field of vision, and the night sky that was not far away after the gunpowder had dissipated.
It is the scenery that can never be seen in the system, the lights of thousands of homes, and the hustle and bustle of the world.