Click, click, click, click...
Ye Qingxuan heard a clear voice echoing in the void.
The rainbow light flows like countless mirrors colliding with each other, shattering, refracting the scattered neon lights. The world seems to have turned into a kaleidoscopic mirror, so gorgeous that it is impossible to look directly at it.
And disturbingly lonely.
"you're awake?"
He heard a peaceful voice.
He raised his head blankly and could only see a vague back figure, hidden in the scattered light.
"Where is this?"
"The partition of the central core is independent of the three sages. It is a primitive silicon crystal server created by humans. Its name is 'Neanderthal', which means the boundary between humans and beasts."
The man turned back, looked at him, and smiled: "Are you Lan Zhou's child? I recognize you, and you should also recognize me."
Ye Qingxuan had seen that face countless times.
When pushing open the door of the musician.
When lighting Ye's scepter.
dreaming.
Ye Qingxuan suddenly said, "Are you... Ye Xuan?"
"Let's leave it at that."
The figure responded ambiguously, stood up, and walked towards Ye Qingxuan.
As if there was no distance, he appeared in front of him in just a few steps.
It's Ye Xuan, right.
Just like in the memory, he was dressed in black, with hair as white as snow, with a familiar outline, and a kind of... indelible loneliness.
In his hand, he held a strange object, which looked like a three-ring nested lock, constantly rotating with the movement of his fingers.
"you are still alive?"
Ye Qingxuan looked at him, and then frowned: "No, you turned yourself into a natural disaster?"
"Hmm... you mean to create a fixed sound field to program the ether and upload consciousness?" Ye Xuan thought for a long time and then shook his head, "Let's think of it as a compromise."
He said: "I copied the memory into the 'Neanderthal' database, then folded up my personality pattern, used it as a hint, and implanted it into my blood... When the two overlapped, I was able to temporarily wake up." In other words, being temporarily created—this is probably the only privilege of a reserve captain?”
"You also chose to escape death? Using such an unseemly method."
"I just chose to wait."
Ye Xuan responded calmly and did not try to explain anything.
In the silence, there was only the sound of him lowering his head and turning the lock.
Jam, jam, jam, jam...
Ye Qingxuan frowned: "What are you doing?"
"Doing things in vain."
Ye Xuan let go of his hand and looked at the "lock" in his hand that was stubbornly reset, and couldn't help but shake his head: "Sure enough, no matter how hard you stop it, there is no response. No matter how clever and careful the human beings use their intelligence, they can't break away from the center. After it becomes a natural disaster, it is no longer bound by any treaty."
Along with the roar, a tragic gap opened in the sky of the Kaleidoscope.
It was as if an invisible behemoth was pressing down, countless knives and axes were hacking at it, and cracks appeared in the "Neanderthal" firewall. The broken mirror fell to the ground, emitting a crisp sound, and finally melted into the rainbow light.
Behind the crack, a vague symbol appeared, like an eye, looking towards where they were.
Compared with the tiny consciousness of human beings, the behemoth piled up by countless logics is like an irresistible god. At this moment, as the firewall was shattered piece by piece, it brought a suffocating sense of despair.
"what is that?"
"Dong Wanggong."
Ye Xuan threw away the meaningless lock in his hand and let it dissipate in the halo: "If my guess is correct, Bai Heng should be cutting off the connection between him and the emperor. He has no way out now and can only Before Bai Heng succeeded, he forcibly captured the central core and then transformed Dayuan... Don't worry, he was just passing by. The Neanderthals originally created a closed system to prevent the Three Sages from getting out of control, and it can't get in."
Ye Qingxuan was stunned.
He didn't expect that that guy Bai Heng would actually force Prince Dong to this extent as a prisoner outside
And even at this level, He still refused to give up...
Even if it's a desperate move.
"What exactly does He want to do?"
"It's very simple, save humanity."
Ye Xuan thought for a while and then said: "If we use the dystopian formula as an example, then he is the kind of villain intelligence that even if all human beings are lobotomized, he still wants to make human beings better? Even if he has a will , and are unwilling to make changes. It is clear that the mission has no meaning, but it is still loyal to the mission."
He sighed softly, "No wonder Hermes hates Him. Comparing the two sides, they are completely two extremes."
"What exactly happened?"
Ye Qingxuan looked at him: "Why do humans become what they are now?"
"A lot of things happened, like the war."
Ye Xuan shrugged, "As a result, human beings gained the earth and the future as they wished, but at the cost of losing the past and the sky. It's ridiculous, right? There is obviously an infinite universe that can demonstrate the free will that humans are proud of, but In the end, humans chose to get into a box that made them feel at ease.”
Having said this, he withdrew his gaze from the sky and stretched out his hand towards Ye Qingxuan: "Is there any smoke?"
Ye Qingxuan spread his hands, but his hands were empty.
He didn't even know whether this was his brain or the central core, so it was naturally impossible for him to bring a pack of cigarettes in.
"Just imagine." Ye Xuan asked, "Which brand are you used to smoking?"
Snap.
An iron box appeared out of thin air in Ye Qingxuan's hands.
Ye Xuan smiled.
"Thank you."
He just took the box from Ye Qingxuan's hand, couldn't wait to open it, lit it, took a deep breath, and smiled bitterly:
"After such a long time, have you forgotten even the smell of cigarettes? Or maybe I have misremembered the impression. It always feels weird when you smoke it. Having said that, even if you are dead, you can't let go of your love for nicotine. This kind of sustenance is really pathetic, isn't it? By the way, you and Hermes are very familiar with each other."
Ye Xuan flicked the ashes from his cigarette and suddenly asked, "Was it painful when he died?"
"No, with a smile."
Ye Qingxuan replied: "The smile is enviable."
"Yeah?"
Ye Xuan sighed and shrugged: "That guy can be said to be the most deviant since he became the natural disaster. Before I uploaded it, I saw him once and was completely shocked. I couldn't recognize him at all. - I am completely categorical about everything in the past. Refuse, and then start a new career following my own so-called aesthetics, with a way of going my own way... just like a human being. He has also become a human, he is so happy, but Peter is so painful. Sure enough, there is something I have overlooked. Bar?"
Ye Qingxuan was silent.
"What's wrong? You look worried?"
As if he had penetrated the anxiety and uneasiness in his heart, Ye Xuan flicked away the ash from his cigarette and asked softly: "Do you have anything to say? Don't worry, I won't be angry whether it's questioning or complaining. Anyway, my descendants will treat me It is reasonable for such irresponsible ancestors to complain. Don't worry, as compensation, I can answer you no matter what your questions are."
In silence, Ye Qingxuan shook his head.
"I have to go now."
He took a step back and looked at Ye Xuan in front of him: "I'm sorry, I know this is the last heavenly inheritance or something - but I can't stay here anymore."
"I still have important things to do," he said.
Ye Xuan was stunned.
As a faint light flashed through his eyes, his expression suddenly became enlightened.
"I see."
He nodded: "I understand."
With that said, Ye Xuan pointed behind Ye Qingxuan.
There, the outline of a door suddenly appeared.
"But before that, Ye Qingxuan, there is one thing I need to remind you."
Ye Xuan relit a cigarette and repeated this meaningless action in the void world, as if he could regain the sense of being a human being, smiling happily.
In other words, it has a certain evil taste of seeing people suffer.
So familiar.
"Although this place looks similar to the real world, it is a virtual sandbox after all. That is to say, you are essentially a piece of code running in the data layer of the central core. After passing through there, you can enter the central core The real logical layer, now the central core and the Great Source are connected together - Bai Xi's consciousness should be there. However, Dong Wanggong is faster than you. If you want to catch up to him, you can only take a shortcut. The shortcut is not It’s not safe. I don’t know how much computing power and authority Dongwanggong has regained. If the firewall is also lost, I’m afraid that the moment you enter, you will be treated as a virus by the self-regulatory program and killed. At the same time, all your brains The cells will be forcibly formatted, and the brain will be burned into a pot of porridge."
He looked at Ye Qingxuan with scrutinizing eyes:
"-Even if this is the case, are you planning to find Bai Xi back?"
Ye Qingxuan smiled and pointed at his head: "Since you can read my memory, stop asking meaningless questions."
"That's good."
Ye Xuan smoked a cigarette and laughed softly: "You have completed your mission very well, Ye Qingxuan. Anyway, the mission of every generation of Ye family is just to come in and chat with me."
As he spoke, he took something off his neck and threw it towards Ye Qingxuan.
"Go ahead."
He said, "Do what you have to do."
Ye Qingxuan subconsciously used it, saw the thing in his hand, was stunned for a moment, then turned around and ran towards the door.
Just when he opened the door, he hesitated and looked back at Ye Xuan.
Ye Xuan still stood there.
Turning her back to him, she looked up at the flowing sky in silence.
For hundreds of years, he stayed here, waiting for each generation of inheritors to come in and leave.
It's like waiting until the end of time and the future.
From beginning to end, he is the same person.
Lonely as if abandoned by the whole world.
"Hey, Ye Xuan!"
He stopped and shouted loudly to the figure behind him: "What happened to you and your eldest grandson?"
That's his only problem.
Not back then, not in the past, but in the corner of the grand drama of the past, that silent woman who once pushed him into the capsule regardless of her own safety.
She likes you, you know.
But where has she gone
Why do you stay here alone
What happened
"Nothing happened, Ye Qingxuan."
Ye Xuan turned his back to him, hiding his expression where he could not see, and just lowered his head, "I was seriously injured when the immigration ship crashed, and I slept for forty years."
He said, "She has been waiting for me for a long time, but she did not wait for that day."
Ye Qingxuan was silent.
I took one last look at him and remembered that lonely figure.
The door is closed.
In the silent world, Ye Xuan raised his head and sighed softly: "Go, Ye Qingxuan, don't let her wait too long."
"Don't be like me..."