The rays of light in the sky were gradually receding, and the last ray of golden light before the sun set slanted into the cave where Hao Ren and Nolan were temporarily hiding, coating everything in the cave with a mottled, shifting pale golden light. Nolan leaned sideways on the huge tire of the mountain bike, half of his body was bathed in the setting sun, and half of his body was hidden in the darkness. She breathed out: "When did I start talking about it... I can't remember when I first realized that something was wrong with this world, maybe thousands of years ago? Maybe earlier. The earliest picture in my memory is following Family holidays in the southern hemisphere countryside and somehow waking up as warehouse clerks for some company... There's no point in going back so far, it's just the same shitty experience that repeats itself. Sometimes I will die in an accident, and after I am resurrected, I will find that the world has completely changed. Sometimes it will happen like today. Without death, the whole world will suddenly change. In the blink of an eye, I have a new identity and new teammates. .I don’t even know if the passage of time I’m feeling is real—maybe it all just happened a few hours ago, and all the worlds started a few hours ago...but that doesn’t make sense either.”
Hao Ren listened quietly. There were too many questions in his mind, but he couldn't sort them out in order. He simply asked what came to mind: "Is there any law for the reset of the world?"
"There is no pattern," Nolan shook his head. "Sometimes it resets every few decades, and sometimes it changes within a few years. The shortest reset cycle in my memory is two years, and the longest one is nearly two years." century—I died twice during that period, and when I woke up, I found that the world stage was still going on, but my identity had changed. On the afternoon of the first resurrection, I encountered a reset."
Hao Ren nodded. It seems that the world is not restarted with Nolan's death. If the world is stabilized for too long, Nolan's reincarnation during the period will become a resurrection with a different identity. It's like a game character logs in elsewhere after opening a trumpet account. In this way, although the girl in front of me is special, it should not be the source of cause and effect in this chaotic world.
"After each reset, everyone and everything in this world will get a new identity and 'setting', and interpersonal relationships, international relations, world situations, culture, religion, and even technological models will change," Nolan said. Ren fell into thinking, thinking that this person who experienced "consciousness reincarnation" for the first time was confused, so he explained casually, "I also studied the map. I found that the topography of the whole world has also changed. Sometimes there will be several pieces on the planet. Continents, sometimes there is only one mother continent. There are also changes in plants and animals, but the range of changes is not too large. Those species are always randomly mixed, and at most there are changes in the distribution area... But you should not say these things. Get it, it's the first time you've retained your memory, so you probably haven't accumulated much knowledge yet."
Nolan has experienced thousands of years of reincarnation, and the amount of knowledge she has accumulated is amazing. It is probably not a problem to be an expert or scholar in any field, so it is normal to digress into ecology while talking. When she was in the Gray Fox Mercenary Corps before, her reticence was just because she couldn't find someone to confide in, but now she clearly regarded Hao Ren as a companion.
Hao Ren shook his head: "It's okay. I also understand a little bit about ecological problems. In short, if you say it like this, this world is a bit like a sandbox game? Let's assume that there is a director or program behind it controlling it. Everything, it mobilizes some material from a material library every time to generate a 'world'?"
"Did you deduce it from the animal and plant forms I just mentioned?" Nolan looked at Hao Ren in surprise, "I didn't expect you to cover a wide range. You are right, I thought so too, this The world is really like a program that is constantly auto-generating maps... It's just that it doesn't matter if these are real, we can't control these."
Hao Ren didn't hear what Nolan said in the last sentence, because he was thinking about some deeper issues that jumped out of this worldview. He was convinced that he was currently in the dream plane, which meant that there was a 100% real world outside the planet "Drom". He thought of Heaton's diary and Ulanov's epiphany before he died. If this world is virtual or fake... where is its interface with the real world? Since Heaton and Ulanov can suddenly realize the illusion of the world, it means that this virtual world is not perfect. There must be some kind of incongruity in it!
"Population!" Hao Ren suddenly raised his head to look at Nolan, "After each reset of this world, does the population change?"
Nolan was a little puzzled: "Population? Does it matter?"
"Heaton once said that the world is fake, and Ulanov said something similar when he was dying," Hao Ren explained, "If the world is fake, then you think the people in the world are real Is it?"
Nolan's eyes widened slightly: "Do you suspect that other humans in the world are NPCs?"
"No, I think they are all real," Hao Ren waved his hand, "That's why I asked you about population. According to your situation, you will be resurrected after death, which means that there is no The function of 'cache', every real human will appear in other parts of the world with a new identity immediately after death. So if everyone in this world is real, then the population should not change every time the world resets. With the development of the world, human beings are born, old, sick, and dead, and the total population will not change. But if the total population of the world is different every time it is reset, it means that at least some human beings are NPCs, and the number of real humans should depend on the weight of the world. A certain population minimum value in the reset cycle."
Nolan looked at Hao Ren in surprise: "Is this really the first time you've experienced a 'reset'?"
"Why do you ask this suddenly?"
"You have thought about these issues very deeply, and obviously you have considered them calmly and carefully." Nolan looked at Hao Ren's eyes full of doubts, "I didn't think so deeply in the first few times of reincarnation. Sometimes I just want to live a little longer—but you look like it doesn't matter at all."
There was still half a word left in her mind: this analytical attitude was like that of an outsider.
Hao Ren's forehead was dripping with cold sweat, and he thought that this girl's senses were so sensitive that it was frightening. He diverted Nolan's attention with a dry smile: "Ahem, it's not important, you just think I'm born with a big nerve. If you really can't, you can continue to think I'm crazy..."
Nolan: "... I haven't really thought about the population issue you mentioned, but your thinking is very novel and reasonable. I haven't paid special attention to this population issue, but I have occasionally seen several population surveys before. According to the report, I think the population of this world should not change much in each reset cycle... Maybe it is completely equal. After all, the world is big and there are many people, and the census will never be accurate. As long as the world is behind A little manipulation of the 'programming' of the world can make human beings completely unaware of the constant state of the world's population."
At the end, she pulled the corners of her mouth and showed a mocking smile: "And this world will only last for a few years and decades every time. There is not enough time for people to discover any abnormalities."
Hao Ren frowned: "So the human beings in this world should all be real... just thrown into a constantly refreshing sandbox stage?"
At this time, he really felt a little disintegrated in his three views. He realized that his exploration and wandering in this world had been meaningless for a long time. The truth of this world was hidden under a layer of bizarre bubbles. The Northern Ring Tower and the World War turned out to be just a stage play. Thinking of this, he laughed at himself dumbfoundingly: "Tsk tsk... I was still full of enthusiasm to find out whether the out-of-control of the nanometer cluster sixty-five years ago was the key to the problem, but it turned out that it was not even the problem after a long time. never happened at all…”
"No," Nolan interrupted him suddenly, "I'm afraid this incident is really strange."
Hao Ren: "Huh?"
"In the recent resets, the trend of the world has shown a similar trend," Nolan said with a serious face, "No matter what the initial world setting is, it will eventually evolve into a global war, a weapon out of control, A round of doomsday. Last time, the nanometer fleet went out of control, last time, the global nuclear bomb went out of control, and before that, satellite weapons were tampered with by AI... The script is slightly different, but the final process is almost exactly the same—the whole world is going to perish.”
(There was a strong wind and hailstorm here yesterday afternoon, the community and surrounding areas were blacked out, and it has not been restored yet... This chapter was uploaded with a notebook + mobile phone hotspot, and the last bit of power in the power bank has also been exhausted. If it is not restored tomorrow If so... Then there is really no way.) (To be continued~^~)