Lost Narrative Poetry

"Why...is this happening..."

“Is this world really not Minecraft?”

The two of them felt dizzy for a while, and everything they saw in front of them made them feel scared and timid. They even wondered whether they and others had been tricked, had terrible hallucinations, or fell into insane delirium.

Otherwise, it would be impossible to explain what is happening in front of us.

The mosaic style that fills the screen, the style of pixels and squares, although it loses the high definition and the resolution is so low that it makes people crazy, but it is also extremely recognizable because of it, instantly reminding them of a certain A famous indie game.

—The entire world takes place in a three-dimensional grid of cubes, each occupied by a specific kind of block...

——And blocks are the basic components of the world...

The scene in front of me is like this. It can even be said that it is exactly the same style of painting.

Weird and incomprehensible, although there are no indescribable distortions, such as ugly deformities, bloated tentacles, huge chunks of flesh with countless tentacles, etc., but at this moment, the mental impact given to them But it is equally huge.

Is this the crazy truth about the world?

Is this what all the legendary mages, great inventors, and alchemist sages in the future will see after falling into the land abandoned by the gods? Let him understand the nature of the world and gain the true eyes that can see through the false appearances of the world?

It really makes people's sanity plummet. There are obvious cracks in the rationality and worldview, and they are beginning to become shaky.

"how come……"

The young square figure opened his mouth, but he didn't know what to say. His tone was full of shock and disbelief.

His own feeling was nothing, but the whole world in his eyes turned into a mosaic and pixel MC style, not just his teammates. He tried to raise his arm and found that in his field of vision, his own arm also It turned into a rough pixel block.

It's really very simple and crude...

The entire arm is a square.

There are not even elbows, let alone five subdivided fingers. After a long period of evolution, humans finally walked upright, thus liberating the flexible hands, a landmark representative of evolution, and they were denied like this!

However, his own sense of touch and perception had no impact at all. This sense of disobedience was simply beyond the pale.

Just like a fat blue man, he can only stretch out his round hands, but he is extremely flexible and can grab and hold anything.

"This is...the "Heart of the World"? ... Something is wrong, absolutely something is wrong..."

The woman finally came to her senses from the shock that left her brain blank, but her thoughts were still extremely messy. She looked at the captain with a dull expression (although it was not visible at all due to the low resolution). Stuttering and asked:

"Didn't you say that this worldview is similar to DND? Why does the so-called "Heart of the World" look like this..."

"..."

"..."

"I...I don't know. I just saw this, okay..."

This is indeed a question, but if you ask me, who should I ask?

The young captain could only answer dryly, feeling messy in the wind.

"Then what should we do now? We won't always be like this, right?" The female square man somewhat collapsed and shouted loudly, the decibels of her voice soaring instantly.

After all, women love beauty by nature, and they cannot accept having an acne on their face, let alone turning into a pixelated square person.

She couldn't accept it at all, and even felt that it would be better to have some terrible danger, a real kind of danger, such as ancient guardians, vicious ruins agencies, and other real risks.

At least it was a tangible danger that we had a chance to fight, not like now...

"Y-It should be fine, right?" The young man was still a little confused and had not fully recovered his thinking ability. He subconsciously replied, "This seems to be only what we can see. In the eyes of others, we should not have changed... "

"Is this the point?!" The female square person felt like she was going crazy.

——This is also a disabling blow!

Even more cruel, because it is a permanent dimensionality reduction from the aesthetic level! Not only in my own eyes, I am a pixel-style block, but other people and even the whole world are also pixel-style blocks!

She understood almost instantly why this plot character would be crazy and nagging in the future... Whoever faces the truth of the world like this will definitely become crazy after a long time.

"Calm down! Calm down! We will find a way!" The young captain was intimidated by her momentum. He probably felt danger and took a step back before subconsciously speaking to comfort her.

"No, that's right, there will be a way..." The square man, who could vaguely see the image of a woman, took a deep breath, seemed to be infected by his emotions, regained some composure, and nodded firmly. "Captain, do you have any ideas?"

"..."

"..."

"Let's... look for a time machine first?" The captain carefully proposed a method that seemed quite feasible. If it succeeds, it will definitely solve the current dilemma.

…

…

Ten minutes later.

The two square men had calmed down and did some simple exploration in the temple.

It is indeed a simple exploration, because there is only such a huge space in the temple that is so vast that it seems to be able to accommodate an entire land. There are no other side halls, side halls and other spaces hidden, and it can be seen at a glance.

Huge murals were painted on the side walls of the huge temple. Although they were also pixelated, their size was too large, so they could see the specific paintings more clearly.

The first mural is a figure that seems to exist forever in the chaos. It is a bit blurry and it is not clear whether it is a man or a woman.

"He" was holding something in the darkness, and was talking to several other figures gathered in front of "him".

The second mural is a scene of the earth gradually taking shape in its primitive state in the chaos and pitch-black void.

The surface covered by a sea of ​​lava and gas rotated, shattered, and finally stabilized, and then the stars, moon, and sun all orbited around it, surrounded by the endless void or astral realm.

The third mural shows the beginning of the prosperous period. Many complex lives appeared in the nascent world at the same time, just like the Cambrian explosion of species. Countless creatures were born and multiplied, constantly evolving, and a mighty long river was vaguely visible. forward.

From every corner of the huge mural, you can find figures of species that have appeared in history, from the giant reptiles that dominated the sky, to the elegant children of the forest, to the later giants and dwarves, the latter of whom are today's humans.

The fourth mural...

There is no more, and the corresponding side wall of the temple is just blank. It seems that the historical record has stopped abruptly after reaching the stage of the first three murals.

Because next, God... gave up the world.

"..."

"..."

There was silence in the temple, and the air was so quiet that it could make one's ears tingle.

The two square people were speechless for a long time, their hearts filled with shock.

Although everything seems so funny and is presented in a pixel style, just seeing it makes people feel powerless and unable to be serious at all. However, for them, it is as if they are peeking into the world. The biggest secret.

The remaining warmth of the Genesis seemed to be still close before their eyes. They felt that their hearts were beating fiercely, and unknowingly they had exceeded the medical limit, as if they were about to explode.

"..."

"..."

"Perhaps this is really the place abandoned by God. The so-called heart of the world may actually be the abandoned creation factory, the original workshop of the Creator who created this world..." Swallowing a mouthful of saliva with difficulty, the young cube People tried hard to suppress the shock and awe in their hearts.

"This makes sense. In the original plot, Master Patrick and the Alchemist Sage must have found this temple after waking up, and then encountered the same thing as us..."

The female square man also felt extremely awed, and could only try hard to force himself to calm down again and again, and seriously use his brain to connect the clues he currently had.

"He has clearly seen the essential context of the world, as if he has mastered some of the bottom-level authority of this world... Perhaps although our current vision is strange, in this world, we really have a golden finger..."

"And he must have seen these three murals. Like us, he learned about the past history of this world, so he said that this is the heart of the world, a place abandoned by gods, and behaved crazy in the future... …”

Yes, that must be it.

Everything seems to fit.

only……

"Why Minecraft?"

The young captain smiled bitterly. He wanted to deny everything in front of him, because the more he was shocked and awed by the secret of creation that he had just glimpsed from the mural, the more the contrast between the pixel square painting style in front of him made him tremble. fear.

Although he was shocked to get a glimpse of a corner of the world's creation history, it did not make him lose his temper too much, because he himself was a lost person. From his awakening to the present, he did not know how much time had passed, nor how much he had crossed. The plane world.

No matter how vast a single world is, his vision must be much brighter and broader than that of the natives who are limited to a single world. This is a matter of course.

but……

Still the question, why Minecraft?

Isn't this a concept of entertainment culture that only exists in time and space like the earth?

Could it be that the Creator actually comes from a hometown with a similar concept to himself and others? This may be an explanation, but for what reason did He shape the Heart of the World like this? Even if the creatures in this world explore it, it is impossible to understand what it is.

Even if it's a bad joke, someone has to be able to understand it. It's like joking with someone. If the other person can't get the laugh at all, then there's no point in it at all.

Maybe this simply has no special meaning, or maybe I and other mortals cannot understand the perspective and thinking of the transcendent.

certainly……

There is another more likely speculation, that is, the creator may have foreseen their arrival and made a joke to the two of them?

The young man's face was gloomy and uncertain. This should be impossible. Before he and others arrived, the "plot" should have been like this. If we continue to delve deeper, we may also find out which came first, the chicken or the egg. question.

And if there is such a terrifying existence...

The woman seemed to have thought of this as well, and remained silent for a long time, so that the atmosphere in the temple suddenly became depressing again.

However, there is no way to continue like this. The two square people can only discuss and discuss hard to see if there is any information that they have not remembered, and the other party happens to know it, so they can complete the information for each other.

This is somewhat helpful.

Because the scene in front of them was completely beyond their understanding, and it also shattered the confidence of both of them, making them not know what to do next.

He didn't even know how to get out. He even suspected that due to the butterfly effect caused by the interference of the two of them, even Master Patrick, who was still in a coma, might not know how to get out in the future.

I can only rack my brains, think hard, and search my guts, trying to find some useful information that can be brought about by the advantages of the plot.

"There are very, very few clues about the Land Abandoned by God in the plot. When this guy reappeared twelve years later, he just had a word with the protagonist..."

"It was the witch who, after entering the legendary realm, had to deal with a more severe situation, because in the later stages of the turmoil in the material plane, the situation was getting worse and worse. The wars between various races resulted in countless casualties, which was the foundation for the survival of the gods. They were all shaken..."

Because believers' faith is the source of power for the gods in this worldview. If they lose their faith, the power of the gods will become weaker and weaker, or even gradually die. Therefore, in the later stages of the turmoil, the gods, whose overall strength was greatly weakened, were basically anxious...

They even went out in person to attack each other, wanting to take this opportunity to eliminate their enemies and seize faith, not only to protect themselves, but also to kill other gods. Everyone is a hunter, everyone is a prey...

But in this way, the blow to the material plane will be even more devastating.

The heroes in the legendary field are no longer able to turn the tide. In the face of this huge disaster that looks like the end of the world, the role they can play has become very small, so other methods must be found for this.

For example, it involves some ancient secrets, some previous solar era that is older than the current world, and so on, are all goals that people are crazy to pursue.

We can't blame them. After all, when the enemy they want to fight rises to the level of gods, they are unable to fight and can only place their hope in the legends, those transcendent powers that are more majestic than the gods of the current generation...

"Ever since, this important character who has completely seen through the nature of the world has been introduced, completely opening up the alchemical era of the material plane, making the power of magic technology close to that of the gods..."

The young cube man said with a toothache and looked at the unconscious cube man behind him.

"To be honest, this plot caused some turmoil at the time, because it had a deus ex machina vibe. The protagonist group spent more than fifty episodes in the first season, and finally the big problem that they had to face was introduced in the second chapter. Not long after the second season started, a new character suddenly appeared and solved the problem..."

"This naturally made many readers dissatisfied. Even if the official patch was later added, saying that this person was the only child of destiny who fell into the Land Abandoned by the Gods in history, there was no way to convince the public, and because of the subsequent pitfalls of the Land Abandoned by the Gods, The delay in filling it in has always been regarded as a failure..."

"Reality doesn't follow logic, but the work does say that even in a real world, it's not unusual for something like this to happen..." The female square man shook her head.

"..."

"..."

Then there was another moment of silence, the two people facing each other with square faces, staring at each other with big eyes and small eyes.

It seems that a lot of brain cells have been killed and a wave of forced thinking storms have been carried out, but it still doesn't help. This ghost place only has a few ambiguous names, and they are all based on the middle-aged people who are still unconscious. The Cube Man only mentioned it once in the plot, almost as a narration.

Nothing else.

How to do this.

"There is nothing we can do..." The young captain finally broke the long silence. He gritted his teeth and turned to look at the projection in the center of the temple.

There are stone pillars and altars standing on the ground that seem to be as high as the sky. In comparison, the two of them are like little ants before Mount Tai, and what is displayed on the huge altar is a three-dimensional projection of pixel style.

It seems to be a real-time dynamic map of the entire world. It is projected from the material plane, the upper plane, the lower plane, and the void star realm outside the surrounding world. However, due to resolution issues, it can only be seen. A rough idea.

That might be the breakthrough.

"We can wait a little longer..." the female square man advised.

Although she was the most broken just now and couldn't accept it all, she has calmed down now and is naturally not willing to take risks with the captain.

"We can't wait any longer. Lao Wang and the others are still waiting for us to go out... This character only appeared more than ten years later. Who knows how long he had been here before that. Maybe even the time is out of sync. There is no such time..."

The captain had already made up his mind.

"Let's give it a try first. Since Patrick, who is still an ordinary person, can go back safely, there must be no danger. If he can find a way to leave, we will definitely be able to..."

"..." The woman opened her mouth, but in the end she didn't say anything.

That is said, but it is still different. Even if this native triggers something special, he may not understand it at all... After all, in this MC-style space, there are synthesis workbenches, consoles, Things like cheat modes don't seem to be surprising at all.

But the two of us are different. What if we accidentally bump into each other and something big goes wrong?

But as the captain said, we really can't wait any longer, we have to explore first... Moreover, they all have trump cards such as immortality and resurrection, which gives them some confidence.

It took an unknown amount of time to climb up the altar.

The two of them were like ants climbing Mount Tai. Even though their physical fitness was extraordinary and they possessed various supernatural powers, they still felt as if they were climbing an endless pillar leading to the sky.

But fortunately, all the hard work comes out in the end.

"Let me see... is there a way to trigger it?" The young man tried to use his own experience, staring at the huge projection in the sky, closing his eyes and concentrating on his thoughts, trying to establish contact and communication with it, and control it with his thoughts.

This is a habit in space. Although I know that the operation method is definitely not that simple, but give it a try first, and then...

At this moment, he suddenly felt that his spirit seemed to be connected to a huge database, and he was stunned for a moment.

etc? So simple?

The next moment, the young man's face changed drastically. He felt a sudden and endless wave of terrifying information, as if a whole universe had invaded his brain and then completely unfolded in it.

His soul was almost shattered by the impact at the first moment. He could only hold on to his instincts, but his soul was still trembling under the violent impact and was on the verge of collapse.

no! This can't go on like this!

Will die! You will die!

It must stop immediately!

"...It was found that there is no permission to access. According to the agreement, it is being revised and the current basic access users will be given operating permissions..."

There seemed to be a loud voice that was deafening.

But he couldn't think, he could only passively receive it, and at the same time, he tried hard to disconnect the link and stop the approaching destruction.

"...The operating system is coming back online. Activation requires..." The cold voice continued.

Stop! Stop! Stop it!

"...The search for the illusion secret number field has been completed. The current cosmological constant parameters are operating correctly. If you want to inject new parameters, please proceed..."

"...The limited quantum interference field is running in good condition, and the number of simulation threads currently accounts for 71% of the computing power..."

The cold voice continued, and the young man's consciousness was almost completely shattered by the impact.

stop!

Stop it!

Repeated over and over again, at the last moment, the moment before his soul was about to be completely torn apart, it seemed that the eternal roar of life's unwillingness burst out from the deepest part of his soul.

The cold voice that resounded in the consciousness seemed to pause for a moment, and became a little stuck the next moment——

"Received the operation command, stopped all current simulation threads, and is shutting down..."

"Incorrect command input, insufficient permission level."

"Shutdown procedure terminated!"

"An error occurred in some threads and is being reopened... Program error, data is being backed up, and the system will be restarted later..."

At this moment, it was as if the whole world had been pressed on the stop button, and the long river of time was frozen for an instant.

Some kind of weird fluctuations penetrated the barriers of the world and spread toward the material plane and the outer reaches of the universe.

The simulated world shuts down and then restarts.

And the data that was just urgently backed up can be traced back to the previous point, as if nothing had happened.

At least for the information in the box, that's how it is. It's like an object whose time has been stopped and is unaware of that non-existent time... The only difference is that it has actually been restarted. Now The simulation world is rebooting.

The gods cast their gazes in astonishment from the Kingdom of Stars, and countless people in the world were in panic.

Countless creatures suddenly found that the entire world was plunged into darkness, the sky was obscured, and seemed to be plunged into void chaos, and everything ceased to exist.

On the dark abyss, there is an extremely huge, fuzzy figure that transcends time and space, holding a crystal wall shell ball in its hand.

The sphere contains the entire world, and all creatures can clearly see this. At this moment, they all feel absurdly that they and others are contained in a glass ball, looking out. Things that happened.

Or what happened.

"What you sing about, I will show it to you so that you can see what you have accomplished."

The vague figure spoke to the other figures in the emptiness and chaos.

Then--

In an era older than gods or the world, the Creator waved his arms to open up the world. In the abyss of time, surrounded by countless stars, he split the nothingness to create the sky, splitting the sky where all the beginnings of this world began. and land.

(PS: Today... ah no, tomorrow is the last day. My parents will come back the day after tomorrow, so I don’t need to be responsible for those troublesome things o(*￣▽￣*)o)