The Fourth Quadrant of Online Games

The man's face is somewhat transparent, unlike any player or NPC in DELTA.But his facial features are still clear. He looks in his 30s. Although he is unshaven, his clear eyes and the corners of his mouth that are always upturned make him look younger than his actual age.

It was not only Pu Yiyang who was stunned, but also Xiang Hong who had seen this person's photo in the company.

Why did Pu Zhengping appear here?No, his mind is still clear. Pu Zhengping has been dead for ten years. He saw the news at that time with his own eyes, and now he has become an urn of ashes buried in the ground.

What appeared in front of him could not be Pu Zhengping. To put it bluntly, it wasn’t even a holographic image. It should be that someone took the image of Pu Zhengping and built a model. I don’t know what purpose it was, and it was placed on the star of the voyage. NPC body.

Xiang Hong thought so, but couldn't help but look at the passing by. Seeing that the human youth who had just looked like an old god was not in a hurry, he was completely fooled at this moment, and stared at him without saying a word. He stared at the man who suddenly appeared.

He understands Pu Yiyang's feelings very well, no one can be too comfortable seeing his father who has been dead for ten years suddenly appear in the game.

Especially that guy with a fatherly face opened his mouth and called him by his nickname directly.

Wait, nickname?How does this NPC know that the person passing by is Pu Yiyang, and is it just waiting here?

Xiang Hong shuddered, and quickly let a gun explode. You grabbed an arm passing by, and said, "Don't listen to him. This person just saw..." He really wanted to say that it was Wu Zheng's conspiracy, but When the words came to his lips, he remembered that he had never revealed his identity to Pu Yiyang, so he became vague and changed, "He is not a good person."

As he spoke, he glanced at "Pu Zhengping" in front of him, saw that face that was [-]% similar to Pu Yiyang, and felt that what he said was not so kind, but it was related to Pu Yiyang's personal safety, so don't say a few bad words Even if he was asked to shoot the former founder of DELTA "to death", he would not hesitate at all.

But he was afraid that the other person would hesitate.

Those passing by still stood where they were, looked at the man in front of them, and said, "Did you do all of this?"

"You mean the star of the voyage?" The man smiled and said, "Yes, I did it. Xiao Yang, I told you that this is a gift from me."

Gift?

The corner of Pu Yiyang's mouth curved into a mocking arc.

He has been going around in this game for ten years and traveled to every corner of the DELTA galaxy. He just remembers what the man said to him. Find out a little bit about men in this game.

The shadow that he hadn't caught up with in the past ten years will appear here without saying hello, after turning DELTA upside down with a boatload of black mud.

"I don't want to ask you about the game." He let the passer-by take a step forward, his spine was trembling when he spoke, "Tell me, did you do the thing that created A-VATAR and hurt the player? "

Even Xiang Hong was taken aback.

The cornerstone algorithm was created by Pu Zhengping, and Plan C was also Pu Zhengping's plan, but Pu Zhengping died a long time ago, so he firmly believed that these moths were created by Wu Zheng for his own ambition.But now, looking at the vivid "Pu Zhengping" on the screen, his heart skipped a beat.

Plan C is the immortality plan for human beings. What Wu Zheng keeps saying is to liberate human consciousness from the shackles of the physical body?If the consciousness can be separated from the body, it is not impossible to live in the game for ten or eight years after the death of the physical body.Could it be that the man in front of him is not a cover used to deceive Pu Yiyang, but the founder of Project C, Pu Yiyang's real father, right?

That's really "hell".

The "ghost" looked at those passing by with a benevolent expression: "Xiao Yang, the A-VATAR algorithm is not for harming people, but just the opposite. You have already seen how much danger humans are facing right now." .”

Pu Yiyang didn't give his father any face at all: "Just those black mud monsters devouring the earth? I'm not eight years old or 15 years old. I don't want to hear any bedtime stories."

"A story is a story, you can choose not to believe it," the man said calmly, "Others may not understand the meaning of the A-VATAR algorithm, but I know it, and you must."

Pu Yiyang exploded: "How do I understand? Why do I need to understand? Pu Zhengping, the things you've been tinkering with all day long by abandoning your wives and children are actually trying to turn people into lunatics who have lost their souls. Your dream has to pay for the pain of so many people, you fucking want me to understand you? My mom is right, you are a fucking bastard. I will not understand you, I will never understand you, I The most impossible thing to do in life is to become like you!"

This roar made Xiang Hong speechless.

Pu Yiyang was pretending to be something, he had already seen it, otherwise there would be no drunkenness in Seattle, no tossing and turning in the middle of the night, but what he didn't expect was that this matter would be so big and so intense that it would make the always easy-going Even this submissive person yelled like that.

Except for Pu Yiyang, no one knows what the matter of Pu Zhengping means to him. It is a knife, which has been pierced in the heart for ten years. bleeding.

Very good, he thought, now a man is not only a scumbag who abandoned his family, but also a big scumbag who takes human life as a stepping stone.

He wasn't surprised at all, but why did his heart still hurt so much? He was pierced with a knife early in the morning, but he still hasn't been numb yet.

"I understand your feelings," the man smiled wryly, "but this must be done by someone. The future of mankind will face a turning point. If it does not evolve in time, no one can survive it. Darkness is approaching ——Not only from the outside world, but also from the human heart. The body is a cage, but also a high wall. Human consciousness is trapped in a small and fragile physical body, and can never see higher or farther. People are short-sighted and do not see In the future, we only want the present; people are selfish, selfish, and kill each other. Can’t you see it? If you don’t make some changes, no matter whether the darkness will come or not, human beings have already killed themselves!”

As he spoke, he raised his head to look at the dome.

The heavy black clouds dispersed a little, and the earth rotated and pulled closer. As far as the eye could see, there were towns in reality, but thick smoke billowed on the horizon, ruined walls, and corpses everywhere.

"Human beings need to be united in order to grow stronger. Everyone knows this truth. But unity is not easy to say? Because there is always a gap between people, and this gap is our physical body." The man continued, "Gods don't want humans to The building of the Tower of Babel has allowed human beings to cut off the bridges connecting each other, so that we have to resort to language with many fallacies to communicate inefficiently. However, if we already have a way to make human consciousness How about breaking through the shackles, connecting with each other frankly, and being more closely connected? What if we can create a huge network, so that every lonely consciousness is no longer alone, but as a key node, shining brightly in this network? ?Human beings will evolve to a whole new level, no longer afraid of being alone, dying of old age, or even the coldness of the universe, and on that day, we will have infinite time and infinite space, and have this whole and even countless galaxies!"

The man's voice was so passionate that the two people outside the screen fell into temporary aphasia.

Xiang Hong had already heard part of the content of Plan C from Wu Zheng.When Wu Zheng persuaded him, he mentioned the great flood that would eventually occur, and advised him to follow the general trend and join them.At that time, he wholeheartedly believed that this was all fallacy and heresy.But when he listened to this specter who was suspected to be Pu Zhengping state these thoughts, even if he told himself [-] nonsense in his heart, he still couldn't help being infected.

Because what this person said was not playing with words to confuse people. He could clearly feel that the person who said this really believed in what he said.

For the future of mankind?

If there is anyone in this world who keeps saying this, that person must be either a child full of fantasy in his head, or a big fool with wishful thinking, or he is coaxing and deceiving people like children and fools.

Because as long as one lives a little rationally, one can realize one's own insignificance, one's strength and desires are at best just a little bubble in the long river of time flowing in the vast world. .

Xianghong is as proud as he is, and at most he pretends to be FREE. He dares not and never thinks about carrying the future of mankind by himself.

Then the man in front of him, when he uttered bold words to save mankind, was he stupid, crazy or bad?In particular, this person is not only talking with his mouth, he is already practicing his dream, he made DELTA, he created the A-VATAR algorithm, if he hadn't died ten years ago, he would have already walked in this so-called On the road of saving, liberating, and evolving mankind.

Xiang Hong looked at Pu Zhengping in a daze, and for the first time in his heart, he had a slight sense of the "big flood" that Wu Zheng said.

"You know what you're doing," he said with a deep frown. "You're killing people."

It's so interesting, he thought to himself, until now, the blood that was once paved in the dark night still persisted in his mind, thinking of the Gomangs who fell in Delta that day.

"I don't deny that I'm guilty," the man admitted readily. He looked at the passers-by with regret, "I know I let Xiao Yang down, because I've never been a hero. I'm just doing what I think is right .Sometimes being right doesn't mean it's moral, it's what people like. The world can't accept it, but someone has to pull the gate. The person who pulls the gate may be criticized by everyone, and maybe he himself will also Doomed, but this is necessary for human beings, so I will do it, and I will do it at all costs."

Willing to be a sinner...not a hero?

This almost self-sacrificing spirit was so fanatical, like a raging fire, Xiang Hong admitted that he was shocked, but even so, even so...he still refused to agree.

He looked at the passersby.

And Pu Zhengping was also looking at the passerby, or at Pu Yiyang behind the screen.

The man stretched out a hand to his son: "Xiao Yang, I don't need you to forgive me, and I never think I deserve to be forgiven. I just hope you can understand what Dad is doing and help me .”

The sense of disobedience that was still tugging at him in Xianghong's heart was getting worse.

He suddenly saw something appearing on the wall, strands of it, so dark it was eerie.It's black mud!When Pu Zhengping was speaking, the black mud had sneaked here from nowhere, and at this moment, it was peeling off the wall little by little, falling to the ground, surging, like a living swamp, eager to approach them.

A dazzling blue light shot from bottom to top, directly hitting the dome.

"As long as you give me the glass crystal," Pu Zhengping's voice gradually softened, with a hollow echo, as if he had merged with the female voice AI. He stretched out his translucent hand and approached the passing people. "My son, with the glazed crystals, our great plan can finally be realized."

Beside him, the blue beam of light that originally preserved the glazed crystals was constantly spinning and rising, as if waiting for a passing hand to reach out.

As he moved, the frescoes on the dome also changed.A crystal-shaped Venus rose slowly, and under the golden light, the devastated battlefield was quickly repaired, corpses stood up again, buildings returned to their original positions, cities shrank again, and turned into a giant on the rotating earth. Small points of light, and these points of light gradually increased, and finally turned from points to lines, and from lines to surfaces, lighting up the entire planet.

The stronger the light, the boundless darkness also seems to be timid, and it will fade away like a tide.The glazed crystal hanging above the earth is like a patron saint, shining steadily, and returning the earth to a peaceful life.

In stark contrast to the mural above, there is an empty blue beam of light below, and the black mud that is passing by and pounced on you with a single shot.

As he got closer, a human figure quickly grew out of the black mud. With a low growl, the man stretched out so much that his back almost hit the dome. He pulled out two tens of meters long knives in his hand, and walked towards the road. Passed straight over.

It's Lieutenant Gerald.

Lieutenant Gerald, who was swallowed by the black mud, rushed towards the passing people with the hatred he had "been alive".

Xiang Hong immediately pulled out his gun, leaped out with one step, and shot wildly at the black mud Gerald.

He soared to the limit of his hand speed, his ten fingers typing on the virtual keyboard were numb, but behind the gorgeous firepower net, there was an unscathed black mud giant.

The black mud Gerrard roared again, speeded up, and continued to sprint towards them.

Xiang Hong maintained his hand speed and used all the skills he could, but he still couldn't stop the black mud giant's footsteps. Instead, his blood line was getting lower and lower, and his stamina was almost exhausted.

He turned to look at the passerby.

The human youth didn't know anything about the black mud Gerald behind him. He was staring at the man in front of him, as if he was about to reach out.

"No!" Xiang Hong shouted loudly, "I can't give it to him!"

He was so anxious that he wished he could rush out of the room to wake up Pu Yiyang, but he didn't dare to shoot you and leave passing by.

The black mud Gerald's blade approached the side of the Tyre's neck. Xiang Hong didn't have time to dodge, and he didn't even think about dodging. human shoulders.

"It's not true," he said, seizing the last second.

The human youth on the screen moved.

The passerby really stretched out his palm to the ghost waiting for him. Pu Zhengping saw it, and there was an encouraging smile on the corner of his mouth.

The next moment, a pure black sharp blade appeared in the palm of the human being, and without any hesitation, it pierced into the ghost's chest.

"I know you're not real." Pu Yiyang watched the little black smoke on his wrist piercing into the heart of the "father" on the opposite side, as if losing strength, his hands dropped from the screen.