The moment he closed the door, Ye Qingxuan fell into the abyss.
In fact, this is just an illusion of the senses. Except for everything flashing fast in front of my eyes, my body does not feel any weightlessness at all.
A hallucinatory world, as if moving in an illusion.
But the difference with the illusion is that he has become a hint of illusion and integrated into a part of the entire huge virtual scene.
[Translation plug-in loaded]
With this string of detailed characters flashing before his eyes, Ye Qingxuan woke up from his trance and saw a green ocean around him.
Those are endless numbers.
As if in an instant, the entire world was replaced with ten times more laws and formulas, and everything turned into a string of thin and boring data and records.
Including Ye Qingxuan himself.
This feeling is extremely unpleasant, but here, unpleasantness is just a string of insignificant roots in Ye Qingxuan's data.
And, why a translation plug-in
He could feel that this was done by Ye Xuan, but why was it a translation plug-in
Ye Qingxuan had already gained almost all the knowledge of ancient texts from Ye Xuan's memory, and another translation plug-in would not make any difference.
But soon, he discovered that... the function of this plug-in was completely different from what he understood.
It translates not language…
In his "perception" and "observation", everything that originally collapsed into countless formulas and records quickly began to change, sublimate, and transform.
It is not a change that changes the world.
It's just that after "a leaf blinds the eyes", Mount Tai is no longer visible.
Through the "filter" of the translation plug-in, the data world in the central core was quickly transformed into something that Ye Qingxuan could recognize.
As a result, a maze of thousands of feet rose from the ground.
Not only the planes of the four rooms on the left and right, but also the sky and the earth are shrouded in endless fog and high walls. In the dark world, there are only six roads leading to different directions.
At the end of every road, there are six different choices. Six times six, then six times, and then six times again…
The maze is rapidly increasing in value at a cubic-level terrifying speed.
He instantly lost where he was, and even the door he came from was submerged by the maze sweeping in all directions like a sea.
Ye Qingxuan even began to wonder if he had heard wrongly.
Is this what Ye Xuan calls a shortcut
This is obviously a cage that will never find an end!
Now I can't even find my way back...
Could it be that he accidentally offended this ancestor, and then he opened the door leading to death to harm himself? Well, that guy might do that...
Ye Qingxuan used himself to save others, and began to use his own dark psychology to speculate on Ye Xuan's purpose.
Ye Xuan's angry voice soon sounded in his ears.
"That's enough for you! What are you doing here? Run!" He urged anxiously: "The Internet Police of the Firewall have discovered you!"
"What the hell? Internet... police?"
Ye Qingxuan looked around the maze blankly: "Does it sound similar to the patrolling police officers in Avalon?"
"Completely different! They are all law enforcement AIs in the original virtual illusion. They are not even human beings. They have been infected by Prince Dong. You must not take any chances-"
Ye Xuan's voice stopped suddenly and turned into a shrill scream.
The vague communication was severed.
At that moment, Ye Qingxuan suddenly turned around, and he didn't know when a tall shadow appeared behind him.
Like a cold outline coming out of a nightmare, the translation plug-in was not afraid to use the worst impression in Ye Qingxuan's memory to depict the outline of that thing.
You can vaguely see that it is a humanoid object wearing a black uniform. The texture is like steel and glass. In short, it is definitely not flesh and blood.
It wears a large cap, hiding its face in the shadows, or in other words, it has no such thing as a face at all.
There was only a pair of cold and cruel eyes, looking down from the burly body, staring at Ye Qingxuan, as if examining even the slightest bit of filth in Ye Qingxuan's heart.
"User Ye Qingxuan, you have been reported for violating network management regulations and user civility convention—"
A mechanical and cold voice came out.
The thing pulled out something that looked like a sword and pointed it at Ye Qingxuan. On the blade, the fierce light of destruction shone. Although she was clearly standing in front of him, it seemed as if everything from top to bottom, left, and right was blocked and surrounded by him.
"In your conversation with user???, you used words that insulted women and violated the crime of discrimination against women -"
"etc!"
Ye Qingxuan looked confused and felt extremely aggrieved. It was okay to be called a murderer or crazy, but suddenly he was said to be discriminatory against women.
"Where did I insult women?"
A scroll appeared in the other hand of the "Internet Police" and unfolded, revealing the chat history between him and Ye Xuan.
Among them, the line "What happened to you and your eldest grandson later?" is highlighted in red.
"This sentence implies that women have no dominance and are on the passive side of emotions, objectifies women, and exposes the ugly face of your male chauvinism!"
The Internet police solemnly declared: "Crime, discrimination against women, sentenced to 'death penalty'!"
"Fuck, wait a minute!"
Ye Qingxuan subconsciously wanted to resist, but found that he could not feel any ether now, he could not even move his legs, and he felt more and more aggrieved.
"To put it bluntly, even if I discriminate against women, there is no need for the death penalty! Isn't it okay to ban someone?"
"Crime, death penalty!"
The Internet police roared, and the dark figure raised the blade, and suddenly paused: "Retrieval completed, crime updated, user Ye Qingxuan committed breathing crime, survival crime, pet abuse crime, individualism crime, rebellious thought crime, hidden danger crime, illegal crime The crime of climbing over the wall... sin, sin, sin, sin, sin!"
Countless people's solemn declarations overlapped, and countless unbelievable charges were gathered on Ye Qingxuan.
Ye Qingxuan just wanted to kill this ghost with a mouthful of old blood.
Forget about the inexplicable crime of breathing. If you illegally circumvent the wall without saying anything, it’s a fucking crime of pet abuse!
My friend, are you still being reasonable
I am not abusing Lao Fei, it is Lao Fei who is abusing me, okay!
Ye Qingxuan wanted to refute, but it was too late.
Every time the sound fell, a layer of red light appeared on Ye Qingxuan's body, until finally, he was dyed red. That layer of red burned him like a flame, eroding his "data shell" from the outside in, trying to completely disintegrate and crush his process.
"-Sentenced to death!!!"
At that moment, the cyber police's sword fell.
The process named [Pain.EXE] was repeated and started tens of thousands of times in an instant, completely filling all of Ye Qingxuan's computing space. Every inch of his consciousness and breathing made him roar miserably and scream in pain!
But then, at that moment, a roar broke out.
Through the filter of the translation plug-in, Ye Qingxuan saw that in the data layer under the countless formulas, a huge thing suddenly appeared, like a palm, roughly standing in front of Ye Qingxuan and the Internet police. It was almost unreasonable. A gap was opened in the blockade, and then he was suddenly pulled out and thrown towards the maze.
That's Ye Xuan in "Neanderthal".
"Stop yelling and run!"
He urged Ye Qingxuan to run away immediately.
The executable program named Pain was all closed in an instant. Although his whole body was damaged, he could not feel any pain or panic. Ye Qingxuan was forcibly hacked by Ye Xuan and executed a program called "Mechanized Thinking". sandbox program.
Under the protection of the program, he seemed to be isolated from the outside world, and could only use a few buttons to control himself to run away like a headless mouse.
But the speed is so slow.
He could even see the scene behind him through the big hole in his chest.
The Internet policeman began to split rapidly, one turned into two, two turned into four, four turned into eight... A sea of people roared in from in front of him, from behind, and from the left and right.
Every outline is equally cruel and cold, with cold eyes locked firmly on him, whispering: "Death penalty! Death penalty! Death penalty!"
"No, sooner or later... No, you will be caught up soon!" Ye Qingxuan shouted in panic, "What on earth is this? Think of a solution quickly, Ye Xuan!"
"Now that you are so miserable, where has your ambition to never regret it gone?"
On the other end of the communication, Ye Xuan's voice was also full of pressure: "Neanderthals are a closed system. It's a miracle that I can interfere with the outside world even a little bit! These things are created after the AI was implanted by a gangster virus. Variants of, wait... The previous virtual environment settings have not been deleted, wait, wait! I found it!"
Along with Ye Xuan's voice of surprise, a dark window popped up in front of Ye Qingxuan's eyes, and a string of numbers and codes were quickly entered into it.
[keyser soze 9999]
[I see dead people]
[there is no spoon]
[It vexes me]
…
Some commands turned red as soon as they were entered, while some commands were still effective, and layers of glow blessed Ye Qingxuan's body in an instant.
A gorgeous and majestic pumpkin carriage suddenly emerged from under his feet, and the strange projections of seven dwarfs sang and danced around him.
What's even worse is that he also wears a white lace tutu skirt, which means he can see as many ghosts as he wants.
Moreover, a pair of butterfly wings exuding colorful and vulgar fluorescence are fluttering in the wind behind her.
From a blank slate to bling.
And the speed... is even 100,000 times faster!
It was almost too late for Ye Qingxuan to react. He could only rely on instinct to choose between every fork in the road, rushing into dead ends, unable to find the exit at all.
Behind the scenes, the group of AIs that had turned into viruses were still pursuing it, chasing it like a shadow. If you were a little slower, it would seem that they would catch it.
Several dwarfs had been cut off at the waist by them. Blood spurted out, and then quickly blurred, turning into a patchwork of messy colors that made it difficult to see clearly.
Ye Qingxuan lowered his head, looked at his lace tutu and the playful pink magic wand in his hand, and felt a little broken:
"What the hell is this!"
"Ahem, I remember it should be the equipment in a card-drawing game..." Ye Xuan replied awkwardly: "But don't worry, at least you are now a boss with all the magic clothes! As long as you are not stupid enough to think that you can counterattack... If you kill him, nothing will happen for the time being."
"Then where exactly should I go?"
Ye Qingxuan looked at the maze around him blankly, completely confused and unable to find his direction.
"If you ask me, who should I ask? If I can help you, it will be enough to burn your life. Even the old man is not omnipotent. At least you have to rely on your blood to explode!"
At the critical moment, even Ye Xuan, who had always maintained the image of a gentle cousin, revealed his unreliable side, making Ye Qingxuan especially want to beat him.
"How about speaking human words!"
"Oh, as the saying goes, I can't help you. Just ask for your own blessings for your great grandson."
Ye Xuan's words were understated, which made Ye Qingxuan have the urge to vomit blood: "I'm almost dead, can you stop taking advantage?"
"I have promoted you for many generations by saying that you are my great grandson, what else do you want?!"
"Are you thinking that there will be no chance in the future, so you will seize the opportunity to take advantage of me? Can't you please stop mentioning this word!"
Ye Qingxuan responded angrily, his eyes suddenly blurred, and then his whole body stiffened.
While running wildly, I felt bone-chillingly cold.
"What's wrong? Why does it suddenly feel like you've seen a ghost?"
Ye Qingxuan wanted to swallow to show his panic, but he really didn't know what the command of this action was. He could only look at the blurry scenes speeding by on both sides in panic.
"Did you just... see a white shadow suddenly flash past?"
"No!"
After Ye Xuan was silent for a long time, he sent an interrupting ellipsis: "Do you want to tell me a ghost story in the virtual program! Please start your performance..."
"Really, no lie-"
Before Ye Qingxuan finished speaking, another flash of whiteness flashed in front of his eyes. If he had any hair on his face, it would definitely stand on end at this moment: "Here he is again!"
"No, everything is fine here - is there something wrong with your neural interface? You don't look like you have claustrophobia? Could it be..."
"Stop treating me!"
Ye Qingxuan was so angry that he almost jumped up and was completely confused.
Because the sad white shadow appeared again, this time right in front.
He gritted his teeth, clenched the pink chicken-heart magic wand in his hand that had no purpose, and pushed the carriage forward with all his strength - no matter what it was, just crush it to death first!
In an instant, a long distance flew by.
The galloping pumpkin cart rolled forward amidst the roar, but at the last moment, Ye Qingxuan felt as if he was struck by lightning. He grabbed the reins as if crazy, and the two white horses with saws in front made a rigid noise. Neighing, losing stability, he suddenly hit the wall.
Amidst the roar, Ye Qingxuan felt that he was about to break.
The roar of earth shattering.
It broke through the south wall, but no dust flew out.
The carriage ran again, and after passing through the thick wall, it miraculously remained intact. There's just one pumpkin missing.
In a daze, Ye Qingxuan heard Ye Xuan roar: "Are you fucking crazy! If I hadn't reacted quickly, your data shell would have overloaded and exploded!"
"—Bai Xi."
Ye Qingxuan turned back blankly, trying to catch a glimpse of that familiar figure again through the hole that was gradually going away behind him. No matter what, he couldn't believe it.
At that moment, the last moment before the collision, he saw Bai Xi.
That face is so familiar.
"What you saw was an illusion!!!!"
Ye Xuan seemed to be suffering from some severe pain and roared at him: "Stop being an idiot, Ye Qingxuan, no matter what you saw in the maze of the firewall, it was all fake! Even me was a fake! How early was I He died a hundred years ago, do you understand! You are looking for death like crazy, but you told me that you saw Bai Xi? You can rest assured! Bai Xi is not here! "
"I saw!"
Ye Qingxuan retorted angrily: "I saw it!"
"What you see is just data! Do you fucking understand data!" Ye Xuan roared: "That's not real. Do you think this is really some kind of virtual world? This is a sandbox! This is the data layer , there is no room for thinking here! Only rigid programs run here! Human beings have no such thing as souls! Wake up, Ye Qingxuan! No one can appear in the maze of the firewall, no one! Even you now, It’s just a dream in a chair, and I can empathize with my account data!”
At that moment, Ye Qingxuan froze, as if he was frozen instantly.
"Ye Xuan, you just..."
He asked dully: "What did you just say?"
"...What's wrong?" Ye Xuan, who was on the other end of the communication, noticed his gaffe and responded awkwardly: "I said you are just an account here."
"The previous sentence, your previous sentence!" Ye Qingxuan gritted his teeth: "You said that only 'rigid procedures' are active here, right?"
"What's wrong? Wait wait wait! No way..."
Ye Xuan's logic module seemed to have deduced some result, and then the emotional module began to lose control: "You mean: that little girl forcibly turned herself into a program? Impossible! What is she planning? Just to appear in Here? This is simply suicide!"
"Yes, just like you!"
Ye Qingxuan endured the anger that came from nowhere in his heart, suddenly changed the direction of the carriage, and ran towards the road he came from.
"Are you crazy? You can't find a way out, so you are looking for death?!"
"No, I just went to find her."
Ye Qingxuan turned a deaf ear to Ye Xuan's obstruction and ran towards a dead end.
He finally recalled those eyes, her eyes... so empty and silent.
That look was like Bai Xi meeting him again in the alley that night in Avalon.
But what he saw was not Bai Xi.
It’s Chaoyue…
"Wait a minute, Ye Qingxuan, she might want to kill you! She has already tricked you once!"
Ye Xuan urgently flipped through Ye Qingxuan's memories, retrieving all information about Chaoyue:
"That girl has had serious problems since she was born. Even without CT and diagnosis, I can conclude that she must have undergone partial brain tissue resection and pons amputation surgery. Everything she showed was just following her father's instructions. It's just a logical machine created. Her personality is so weak that it can be ignored, otherwise how could she appear here? Your own anger is just 'empathy' caused by the similarity in appearance between her and Bai Xi. Reason. A little bit! You expect her to come to you for something good, but you are just seeking medical treatment in a hurry!"
"Then why didn't she kill me?"
Ye Qingxuan asked: "If she wants to kill me, just stopping me for a moment is enough for the virus to kill me, right?"
"Don't be an idiot..."
Ye Xuan seemed to be cursing, and only a harsh and sharp sound sounded from Ye Qingxuan's ears, followed by countless messy noises and distant and vague shouts.
"Dong Wang... closed... communication will soon... you... Ye Qingxuan... you... I'm sorry, you have to be careful..."
Ye Qingxuan could feel that Ye Xuan's voice was quickly moving away from him.
Isolated by layers of barriers.
In the end, there was only a hoarse sigh.
Communication is cut off.
Silence returned, and in the rush of the broken car, even the sound could not be heard.
There was only Ye Qingxuan's confused and futile call.
Ye Xuan's voice disappeared.
He was left alone, running wildly through the endless maze, but in vain he could not find the way he came.
After losing his way, he suddenly felt that he might never get out again.
Ye Qingxuan tried to shout Ye Xuan's name, but no one paid attention to him. He was probably really angry, cut off communication, and allowed his unscrupulous descendants to fend for themselves.
Maybe something happened again and he couldn't protect himself.
Ye Qingxuan, on the other hand, has lost his way back, chasing in vain and crazily the illusion that represents nothing, like a hysterical madman.
What's funny is that now he can't even find a way to seek his own death.
Maybe a long time has passed.
Perhaps many years have passed.
Maybe a moment in the past.
He finally saw that blurry figure again, appearing at the end of the road. For some reason, her figure flickered erratically, as thin as an illusion, and restless.
She looked at Ye Qingxuan, then stretched out her hand and pointed at a fork in the maze.
Before Ye Qingxuan could speak, he disappeared, leaving Ye Qingxuan running wildly on the road pointed by the phantom, like a fool.
But soon, at the end of the forked road, at the intersection where six forked roads converged, a new shadow appeared, pointing upward.
Ye Qingxuan turned the reins without thinking.
Seizing that momentary opportunity, he wanted to shout loudly, but he couldn't make a sound.
The loud noise almost knocked him over.
Behind him, countless people of virus AI reappeared, chasing after him.
"Sin, sin, sin, sin!!!!"
"Death penalty! Death penalty! Death penalty! Death penalty!!!"
Countless red lights symbolizing sin chased him, pulling at the broken carriage under his feet, persistently trying to stop its movement, even if they could only pull out one iron nail.
First the nails, then the hull, and finally the rear end, the base, the stool, the axle, the wheel, and even the reins were all broken.
Ye Qingxuan could only jump on the back of a horse, hold on to the horse's neck, and chase the phantom's guidance.
Until a moment, a white light emerged from the far end.
Ye Qingxuan saw the exit.
The increasingly thin phantom stood at the exit, quietly guiding him in the direction, allowing Ye Qingxuan to gallop past him and run towards freedom.
But at the moment when they passed by, Ye Qingxuan jumped off the horse, rolled on the ground, hit the wall, and almost fell apart.
Not far behind him, the frenzy of the virus AI split swept across.
But separated by that thin phantom, their speed seemed to slow down. The closer they got, the more stuck they became. In the end, they were immersed in time that was slowed down tens of millions of times.
A thin line of distance, but difficult to reach.
"You shouldn't have stopped."
Ye Qingxuan heard her voice and looked at him with a pair of empty eyes.
She said, "Bai Xi is waiting for you."
"how about you?"
Ye Qingxuan looked into her eyes and found that the phantom was getting thinner and thinner, as if it was about to dissolve and dissipate in the endless ocean of data.
"It's fine that I'm here."
Chaoyue replied calmly: "I like it here, it's very quiet."
"Don't be stupid, no one likes to make machines! And no one likes this kind of ghost place!"
Regardless of her thoughts, Ye Qingxuan stretched out his hand and pulled her hard, but he felt that he was submerged in glue and was struggling to move. He squeezed out a voice from between his teeth:
"Even if Bai Xi sees you giving up on yourself, he will definitely lose his temper!"
Chaoyue looked at him quietly.
It was like that from beginning to end.
It was as if he couldn't feel the pain of separation, but just looking at something incomprehensible, his eyes became...confused.
"I poisoned you, you should hate me."
"It seems that everyone has harmed me, but I am the Holy Mother, and I am not up to par. I can forgive everyone, so it doesn't matter. Even if I am angry, when I see others showing me the look of asking for help, I have no resistance. .”
Ye Qingxuan reluctantly squeezed an arc from his round head to act as a smile: "You showed me the way, and we are even."
Chaoyue remained silent, without any reaction, like a dull child, or... unable to make any reaction.
Only the group of virus AIs are constantly approaching, already very close at hand!
Extremely urgent.
Ye Qingxuan was furious.
"Chaoyue, Yunlou Qingshu is dead!"
He jumped to his feet and shouted, and immediately felt guilty: "Okay... I'm just guessing, there is no evidence, but he hasn't responded for so long. There is still that bastard Bai Heng outside, and his second- and fifth-year-old son must be dead! Even if he doesn't kill you Consider him dead! Stop making machines! You can do whatever you like, as long as you don’t make machines!"
"But, I don't know how to make anything else."
"Then go and learn! Like Bai Xi!"
Ye Qingxuan used all his strength to roar at her:
“—Be yourself!”
At that moment, in the fleeting time, Ye Qingxuan felt that he was hallucinating, but the hallucination was so short that he could hardly detect it.
The tide moon has disappeared.
Before she dissipated, the corners of her mouth turned up slightly.
It's like laughing.
As the figure shattered, he was pushed out of the maze and fell from the air.
Amidst the howling wind, he fell downwards, falling endlessly, watching the group of virus AIs angrily charging at the exit, but he couldn't catch up.
He finally made it to the ground floor of the central core.
Approaching the great source.
But when he looked at his empty hands, he couldn't calm down the anger and frustration in his heart.
After all... After all...
He didn't do it after all.
The light engulfed everything.
He finally entered the "Great Source".