"That should be the border."
Corpse Ji's terminal raised her finger to point at the picture sent back from the external monitor, with a hint of surprise in her tone.
Hao Ren stared dumbfounded at the images from outside the spaceship, and he sighed after a long time: "...It's really just waking up from a dream."
The Giant Turtle Rock Terrace is gliding briskly in a silent and bizarre cosmic space, its speed has dropped to a low speed state close to that of cruising in the atmosphere, the boundary of this world is presented around the spaceship, its scene is like a child's outline in a dream The starry sky that came out: Weird, simple, straightforward.
Countless celestial bodies passed by outside the spaceship, small and colorful.
Hao Ren and Corpse Ji finally came to the observation platform on the upper part of Juguiyantai, experiencing the border of this false world for themselves. He saw groups of light clusters floating in space, with delicate patterns or halos depicted on the light clusters, stars less than one meter in diameter and gaseous planets the size of eggs flying around him like projections in a holographic planetarium Flying to and fro, they run in precise orbits, glowing, life and death flickering. Some marble-like planets flew towards them. They had no mass and strength. When they touched the shell of the Giant Turtle Rock, they burst into sparks and dissipated like a disturbed TV screen. Hao Ren stretched out his hand into a Inside the dazzlingly bright "star", he felt a slight heat and a tingling sensation as if it was over-charged. The star was disturbed, and it disappeared without a sound in a burst of shaking.
"This is the boundary of the world," the terminal stood among the stars, the blond hair reflected the hazy starlight, "a universe of holographic projection... and it's so small, it's like a model."
"Because it's very close to Zhuomu." Hao Ren glanced down, and a dim blue dot was shining slightly under the Giant Turtle Rock Platform. It was Zhuomu, and it was still in sight. "At this distance. To simulate It is enough to create such a layer of image to get out of the starry sky. As long as no one comes to this place with a spaceship... no one will find out that the starry sky above their heads is made."
"What if someone finds out?"
"The world is reset at regular intervals, because it cannot allow humans to develop excessive technology. It cannot even allow humans to develop technology with peace of mind... But the simulation program of this world must follow the principle of 'reality', and it cannot let the world's There is a sense of incongruity in the development, so the only way to prevent humans from entering space is to restart the entire map." Hao Ren thought he had grasped the key to the problem, but there is still a crucial answer that cannot be grasped. "But restarting the map It can be done in any way, Nolan is the only person in the world who can retain the reincarnation memory. Other human beings are refreshed without consciousness, so what is the meaning of the Doomsday War?"
In the first few thousand years of this world, every reincarnation was a peaceful pastoral world. Human beings enjoyed peace and prosperity in the reincarnation, and never found anything wrong with their own world, but in the recent dozens of reincarnations In , the world begins to end—each ending in the flames of war. Hao Ren felt that this was meaningless. If he just wanted to use the virtual world to trap the human beings here, a peaceful, slow, and no-progress world would be more suitable than a war-torn world. So what's the point of those World War scripts anyway
"With my brain, I can think of a lot of more suitable scenario maps. If we restart the feudal era, a map can even be used for thousands of years without worrying about humans rushing out of the earth," Hao Ren frowned and shook his head slightly. "So the meaning of this world is not to trap humans, and to prevent humans from discovering the secrets of the starry sky should just be an incidental protection measure... I guess. This should be a refuge."
"Why don't we go a little further to the border?" Shi Ji terminal suggested, "There is still a road ahead, and this virtual space seems to be quite large."
"I'm worried that it will cause data overflow," Hao Ren hesitated. "If this world is simulated by a computer program, the behavior of forcibly visiting the boundary may lead to logic errors."
Shi Ji terminal thought for a while: "According to the experience of this machine, such a complex system must have a disaster buffer module. If we forcefully rush out of the boundary, we will probably be bounced back directly. And even if the data overflows. As long as we retreat in time It should be no problem: such a powerful virtual program, it doesn't even have a function to fix bugs, right?"
Hao Ren thought about it carefully. Finally decided to try it out according to the suggestion of Shi Ji terminal. To be honest, he was also curious about the scene at the end of the boundary.
The Giant Turtle Rock Terrace began to accelerate slowly again, and this time it was moving forward more cautiously than before. Hao Ren and the terminal stayed on the upper observation platform, controlling the spacecraft to move forward through remote control. Beside the two "persons", the small celestial bodies floating in the universe became more and more dense, and their shapes became more bizarre. Because they are quite far away from Droam, it is difficult to observe their details from the telescope on the surface, so these celestial bodies tend to be shoddy, and many stars are simply luminous flat maps, with the round side facing Droam forever.
Going forward, even the galaxies have become flat maps with dynamic images floating on them.
In the end, the spaceship came to a stop without warning, without inertia, without vibration, just as if the pause button was pressed, it stopped abruptly in space. Hao Ren noticed that the front of the spaceship had lost its color, showing an ugly off-white color like a 3D model without textures. At the end of his field of vision was an endless darkness, without any starry sky or textures anymore.
"This is the ultimate boundary of this world," the terminal observed the scene at the end of the event horizon, "There is no defined and rendered area, and it seems that this 'universe' has not collapsed because we reached the boundary, the previous worries are unnecessary. "
"We are here, but the controller behind the world still hasn't shown up." Hao Ren came to the end of the observation platform and looked around the scene. The "universe" was divided into two before his eyes, and half was an endless dark scene. Half of it is densely packed with luminous celestial bodies, but he didn't hear the voice of the creator of this virtual world at the end of the world, "Hello! Is there anyone?! We're here! The end of the world! Aren't you going to come out and say something? !"
The terminal glanced at him: "Do you think anyone can hear it? There is no air outside the platform."
"Do you think the controller of the virtual world needs to use his ears to listen to the voice in the program?"
The terminal asked another question: "So there is really a controller in this virtual world?"
Hao Ren's eyebrows twitched: "You mean..."
"Maybe all of this is automatic," the terminal shook his head, "or maybe there was a controller before, but... wait!"
Hao Ren suddenly became nervous: "What's wrong?"
"This machine seems to have received a signal from the detection drone swarm just now!" The terminal covered its forehead and concentrated on listening to the voice from the information link, "It is a direct connection signal... very weak and distorted... but it is indeed a direct connection Signal. Part of the sensing function of this machine seems to be restored!"
"Recovery?" Hao Ren widened his eyes and looked at the starry sky around him, "Could it be because we are in the 'boundary'?"
"Probably... Probably here is the closest to the real world, so it can break through something like a firewall and communicate with the outside world," the terminal said quickly, "It may also be that the background programs of this world have weakened the control of this area. , the shielding disappeared...Damn it, the signal is still too weak for this unit to hear clearly."
Hao Ren made a decisive decision: "Don't waste bandwidth, can you send navigation information? Just send navigation information!"
"Try it on this machine!"
"You'd better hurry up," Hao Ren said as he looked towards the place where the stars were densest. He found that those celestial bodies were flickering rapidly. This was an unprecedented phenomenon. It was obvious that something unexpected was happening." This place doesn't seem quite right... I'm afraid the background program in this world has finally decided to do something!"
The terminal yelled loudly: "This machine is working hard, working hard!"
Time passed by every minute and every second, and almost all the "stars" in the universe began to shine crazily, and celestial bodies continued to disappear. At a speed almost visible to the naked eye, large swaths of dark areas appeared in Hao Ren's field of vision. A lightning idea suddenly popped out of his mind: collapse.
The world is falling apart!
"It has been transmitted!" The data terminal shouted loudly, "Although only part of it has been transmitted..."
"Then leave this place quickly!!"
(It seems to be doubled at the end of this month. When you vote, save half of the monthly votes until the end of the month. As for why half of the votes are reserved... because of the Dianniang Xuanxue voting system, there seems to be an upper limit for one vote. The votes accumulated at the end of the month Too many seem to be too much to vote for.) (to be continued~^~)