The next day, the core computer room of the research laboratory was properly arranged, and the first batch of experts and researchers would soon move in. At that time, a new project based on the system core disk would officially start.
The person in charge of cleaning put away the packaging for transportation and took it out, but You Huo and Qin Jiao stayed in the computer room.
A special screen was lit in front of them, and the two figures squatted under the screen busy.
Gao Qi hunched over a metal handle and said to the person on the other end, "922, lift up that chassis."
Wen Yuan was stunned for a moment. In the S team, there were many people calling his name, but Qin Qiu was the only one who called this code name. Now that I suddenly heard another person shouting like that, I couldn't help feeling a little emotional.
When they first left the system, they tried to ditch the numbers and call them names. Others are fine, but they can't get used to it.
This went back and forth for a long time, and finally called back the code name one after another.
They are all witnesses to each other's experience of that time. As long as they still meet, they are destined to remember the past, the days they used to be in the system, the people they met, and the things they did.
But it doesn't matter, all experiences, good or bad, have value, at least they make up their entire life.
Wen Yuan recovered from his stupor, held up the chassis, and called out "Boss".
Qin Qiu leaned over and put the core disk in from the side.
"Okay." You Huo pointed at the screen and said.
They straightened up and clapped the dust on their hands.
Wen Yuan looked at the screen and tapped on the console. The others stood by, waiting in silence.
After the world of the system was disintegrated, the "soul" that always brought nightmares disappeared, along with 154. Although he is separated from the ontology of the system, he still depends on the constructed world, living and dying together.
However, they do not believe in this evil. They always believe that the main console of the system body and the "core" of the system body are really disturbed and destroyed. 154 may be affected, but it will not disappear completely.
They have tried many methods, and they have found many experts. But every time the result is similar, just like Wen Yuan said: If 154 is still there, this surviving core disk should be his habitat.
They have passed information to the core disk many times, almost countless, but they have never received a response.
In fact, there is another possibility that they have been reluctant to think about—
When the system kernel was destroyed, the broadcast said "fixed program detected", and at that moment, the real correction program was still in their hands. Someone must have simulated the "correction program" and merged with the "core" of the system to truly end those nightmares and tragedies.
So... who else can simulate a "fixer"
Only 154.
Sometimes, Wen Yuan would suddenly think of that scene at night, the system's voice circling in his mind, repeating that sentence continuously, after a long time, it would slowly change into a tone of 154.
Then he couldn't sleep again, no matter how tiring he was training during the day, it was difficult for him to sink into sleep peacefully.
Once he finally fell asleep when it was almost dawn, and unfortunately dreamed of that scene. The dream is not restored at all, and a lot of things are added.
He dreamed that 154 occupied the throat of the system, and said to them with a rustling broadcast: "I'll give you a ride at the end, it's not worth being a bad friend for a few years."
After he woke up, he sat on the bed for a long time, thinking that he might never meet such a bad friend again in his life.
Wen Yuan paused and explained, "I made an application before and linked the dynamics of the core disk to my mobile phone. It suddenly moved a little last night, so I wanted to come and see what happened today."
He finally tapped the keyboard, and the screen finally fully lit up, showing that the system core disk was in the simplest mode, and next to it were some basic operation buttons, such as startup, shutdown, and searching for database information. Like a dead computer.
Wen Yuan familiarly entered several interfaces, but found nothing. Finally, he cut into the monitoring interface again, pointed to a small wave peak in the early morning last night and said, "Look, it was past 2 o'clock last night."
Gao Qi asked, "What does this sudden fluctuation mean?"
"This core disk has always been in low-frequency operation mode... It's like a mobile phone standby, not really turned off, in order to ensure its subsequent stability." Wen Yuan explained: "This fluctuation means that the core disk does not maintain the original mode at that moment, It's like your phone on standby suddenly receives a message and lights up."
Gao Qi said, "Isn't that a good thing!"
Wen Yuan nodded and said after a moment of silence: "Yes, I didn't fall asleep in the middle of the night last night. But I'm worried that this is because of the instability caused by the frequent movement of it recently. Not... "
He paused and said quickly in a low voice, "Not evidence of 154's existence."
The computer room was quiet, and only the low-pitched sound of the core disk could be heard.
After a long time, Qin Qiu said: "The core disk is the most important part of the system, if it is moved, it will lead to instability. It's a bit unreasonable, right?"
Wen Yuan was stunned for a moment, his eyes suddenly brightened.
He chuckled and said, "Yes."
Just because of this "also", they started a long wait and try.
The experts and researchers involved in the project also hoped to keep the traces of 154, so while they perfected the framework of the new system, they sent greetings and messages to the depths of the core.
This has almost become a daily habit of this group of people, and it is unstoppable.
So spring, summer, autumn and winter... The four seasons have gone through more than one round.
The entire project was completed in the fall of the second year, and the new system was basically completed, mainly used for the framework and screening assistance of training scenarios, and it could be put into use soon.
The special training camp at that time had the atmosphere of late autumn, and it was a little deserted, because You Huo and Qin Jiao took all the students to the south for joint training at sea. Only the researcher who was in charge of the finishing was left in the huge place, and it was a little depressingly quiet.
Wen Yuan didn't go to lunch, but entered the core computer room with a special cleaner. Out of obsessive-compulsive disorder or... something else, he plans to clean up the place a little, after all, he'll be returning to Team S in a week.
The next time I come here, I will have to wait for the new system to boot. After that... I don't know what year and month.
He sat in front of the screen in the computer room for a while, then turned on the system and sent a sentence to the core disk. Everything was as usual.
Maybe it was because he was leaving. He looked at what was passed on and suddenly felt that it was too simple. He clearly had a lot to say. Not only him, but also Qin Qiu, You Huo, 021... Everyone who has witnessed the existence of 154 has a lot to say.
But it's not a one-sided talk. What they want is to communicate, to have a back-and-forth conversation as before, whether it is small talk, joking, or mutual damage, as long as there is a response.
Wen Yuan was in a daze for a long time, and when he came back to his senses, the screen was already full of messages he sent, because his finger subconsciously pressed the send button.
Every message is blank and has no content, as if it has something to say, but I don't know where to start.
Wen Yuan was taken aback, such continuous message transmission could easily cause some program disturbances.
He stood up in a slump and tapped the keys, intending to undo the blank and useless content, and by the way, to check whether there was any confusion.
Just when he was about to press the execution program, the screen suddenly flashed.
At that moment, Wen Yuan thought he was dazzled.
The program on the screen is still scrolling, going down hundreds of lines in an instant.
He stood there for a long time, suddenly reaching out and desperately pulling the screen back.
He rummaged for a long time, and finally found a message among the dense characters. The source of that message is shown as the core disk itself, and the content of the message is only three numbers and a punctuation:
922
…
Coincidentally, it was September 22, the day before the autumnal equinox.
At the moment when Wen Yuan was dumbfounded in front of the screen, Yu Wenzheng came out of the lecture hall of a university in Harbin, carrying his schoolbag while replying to the message, and discussing with his classmates what to eat for lunch.
Wu Li and Yang Shu stood in a laboratory in Beijing, wearing special glasses, lying beside the instrument to record data.
Di Li was propping his head up in a library in Shanghai, his phone was on silent, and it would suddenly light up occasionally.
Shu Xue changed jobs and was walking on the streets of a city in Zhejiang. She was slowly forgetting many things in the system. She only remembered that she seemed to have had a long dream. In the dream, someone told her that if there was a chance in the future, she could meet in this city.
She would meet a shy boy on this street corner that she passed by every day. He had just returned to campus after a long break due to his health. He would scratch his head and be pushed forward, embarrassedly saying, "My name is Zhao Wentu, I can… know you?"
And You Huo and Qin Jiu had just finished the special training in the morning, greeted Gao Qi, Chu Yue and the others, and went up the stairs to the deck floor.
The sky is always high and clear in this season. The sea breeze is humid, with a light autumn coolness, and it follows a long cloud that falls straight to the horizon.
Youhuo suddenly remembered the sea in the system. It was always windy on a fixed day, surfing at a fixed time, raining at a fixed time, and snowing at a fixed time...
Most importantly, it never sees the edge.
All the landscapes in the system are like that, with clouds, mountains and fog, without borders.
But it's different here.
Here the wind meets the mountain, and the boat stops at the shore.
The land behind him stretched over 100 million hectares, and the sea under his feet was over 3 million square kilometers. Going further south, at most, you can pass through the clouds and go around the ground.
Everything here has a beginning and an end, but it can accommodate all unexpected encounters and reunions after a long absence.
The world is bright and grand.
Welcome home.
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Alright, it's all over here. Thank you for putting up with my messy update time for 6 months, hard work~
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