The Fourth Quadrant of Online Games

What Pu Yiyang said matches what Pu Yiyang thought before.

Regardless of whether it is the star of the voyage or the glass crystal, these superficial designs are essentially a trap, a trap prepared for him.Someone specifically wanted to trouble him, probably because he was the only one who had the password to open the safe, but even he didn't expect that the safe was really in the game, and the things hidden inside would be left by his father A consciousness projection.

"Before in Siam City, and on the Voyage Star, the person who told me not to go several times, was you?" He asked the man in front of him.He may have guessed the answer before, but he still couldn't believe it.

The man grabbed his hair and blinked: "Although this place does not belong to DELTA, the basic algorithms still have some similarities. I wrote them anyway. Even if I can't get out, it's not difficult to do something secretly."

Pu Yiyang frowned: "You said you can't get out? You've never left the Sea of ​​Nothingness? Then on the Voyage Star..."

The man in the hood he saw was indeed a Xibei product?

Even though he had already told himself not to expect anything from this man, at this moment, there was still a tinge of joy that couldn't be contained in his heart.

"Xiao Yang, I'm sorry, maybe I'm going to disappoint you again." The man grinned slightly melancholy, he seemed to know what happened outside and what Pu Yiyang was thinking, "I haven't left here, but it doesn't mean The 'Pu Zhengping' that appeared outside is not the real 'Pu Zhengping'. In the final analysis, none of us is your father, and we are all your father. We are probably part of his consciousness and have part of his thoughts. You also I know, people will always change, not to mention one year, two years, ten years, even if it is the same minute and the same second, there may be quite a few completely different ideas in your mind. I think, the one you saw' I', he's some fragments of me from the past left by an old friend. What he said to you, I'm sorry, is exactly what I used to think.

"I was very young back then, and my mind was full of unrealistic fantasies. As a researcher obsessed with unknown possibilities, one day you suddenly discovered that the piece of heaven that has been pressing on the top of human beings for tens of thousands of years , you can touch it just by raising your hand, can you refuse the desire to be the first to reach out?" The man looked at Pu Yiyang, although his eyes were calm, there was a faint fire that had not been extinguished for decades.

"So you cooperated with Xiang Renjie?" Pu Yiyang had probably had enough of the blows before, and it was rare that Pu Yiyang was no longer ready to yell at the man.

The man scratched his eyebrows with a little embarrassment on his face, especially when he looked at Pu Yiyang.

"When I met him, my research had just begun to take shape. I was so excited that I wanted to let the whole world know and accept this result, but it was a pity that I ran into walls everywhere." He wiped his nose with his hand and smiled wryly, " Really, I hit a wall everywhere. Even the brother who understands me the most doesn’t like my research, and always advises me not to be too aggressive. I don’t understand him, and I quarreled with him several times, telling him to take care of me. Later, an academic At the meeting, my thesis was rejected by the old man of the organizing committee. I went to discuss it in a fit of anger, and finally met him. He hadn’t come out to start a business at that time, he was just a salesman of a neurotechnology company. I was quite surprised that he actually read it. My research. I was really overjoyed to find like-minded readers for a little fantasy published in a corner magazine, so I quickly became friends with him."

Pu Yiyang couldn't hold back, and said bitterly: "Just friends?"

As if he didn't expect him to ask such a straightforward question, Pu Zhengping coughed violently a few times.

"Xiao Yang, I don't want to lie to you. Your father did do a lot of wrong things." He rubbed his face and said, "I often didn't understand what I was thinking. In the midst of passion, and the person who was with me at that time was Renjie... A mistake is a mistake, hurting your mother and you is the biggest mistake I have ever made in my life, I know I am going to die, oh no, put it now It’s probably all dead, and my biggest regret is that I can’t make up for you.”

If his body was really here, he would probably tremble with his heart. Pu Yiyang couldn't tell whether it was because of disgust or anger, so he could only ask as calmly as possible: "Did Xiang Renjie kill you?"

"Maybe." Pu Zhengping looked up at the sky, "It didn't take long for me to realize that he had changed. Or, maybe I never knew him. He became more urgent than me, and he was determined to Plan C has become a general-purpose technology and put it on the market—but how is this possible? My brain is not completely broken, and I still know how far any technology is from theory to application, and how many times it needs to go through Cautious experiment. Renjie didn't believe it, he always felt that there could be a shortcut. It was only then that I realized that my dream and his dream were only similar in appearance. What I wanted was to be able to touch the piece that everyone dreams of. God, he is more complicated, he wants too much, some of which I can't agree with. When FREE was established and DELTA was about to go online, I thought we had reached a compromise and were willing to use brain-computer access as the first step. The result I was wrong, he still wanted more, and he seemed to know that I started to doubt him, and hid some more important things. I resigned from him, and I was really tired, and I didn't feel good. I can't go on, and I want to come back to you..."

"So he made a move on you. He is afraid that you will use this technology to find others in the future and become a strong enemy of FREE. He would rather destroy you and Plan C." Pu Yiyang deliberately ignored the phrase "return to you", "Until now, when he was sick and dying, he remembered these old things again, and was anxious to find out the part of you that was hidden, so as to renew his life."

Pu Zhengping slammed his mouth: "It really seems like he would do something." He glanced at Pu Yiyang, "It's a pity that I have been dead for ten years and you will be implicated, Xiao Yang, Dad deserves his death at his hands , but you can't, he wants to do something to you, I will not agree anyway. I really regret that I told him that I was preparing a gift for you... He must have discovered the sea of ​​nothingness after my death, guessed it This has something to do with the 'gift' I gave you, so I tried every means to use you to let him find me. Fortunately, you didn't let him succeed, and I'm really happy to see that you came here instead of him."

Pu Yiyang said in a daze, "Are you happy?"

He thought the man didn't want him long ago.

"Yes, I'm very happy." Pu Zhengping said briskly, he stretched out a hand, hesitantly, but put it on Pu Yiyang's shoulder, "I've been waiting for this day for ten years, I know I'm about to Dead, I'm afraid you'll never see me again... I don't have time. I don't have a chance to see you again, it's all my own fault. But you're different, Young, I owe you so much, I think you should Hate me, but what if one day you need me? So I'm here waiting. My only hope is that you can see me when you want to see me. Even if I'm dead, it's okay, it's It's okay. This is the last thing I can do for you."

Pu Yiyang didn't move, as if he was frozen, neither wanting to approach the man nor brushing his hand away.

"What if... I hadn't come here?" he asked.

"Then I'll continue to wait." Pu Zhengping said without hesitation, "I'm dead long ago, I'm a ghost, the biggest advantage of being a ghost is that I have a lot of time. I can stay in this place for ten years, 20 Years... until you don't want to come to Delta anymore. On that day, I will know that you don't need me anymore. I will go to destruction with Delta."

Pu Yiyang stared and tried his best to control his breathing, even though he didn't need it.He thought to himself, why did it become like this?He should have continued to hate this man, hated to the point that he would not be moved in the slightest, and there would be no possibility of forgiveness in his life, but as he sat here now, he clearly heard the old scar on his heart crack open, What flowed out was not blood, but a scalding hot stream, which rushed to the top of his head in one breath, and swirled persistently in his nasal cavity and eye sockets. He needed to thank the connecting device, otherwise he would let the man know that he was defeated at this moment.

He could see that just sitting here, not refusing, not getting up to leave, was enough to make the man happy.

This is really happy, just like the look in the man's eyes when he messed up the draft paper that the man wrote so hard, folded it into a paper airplane, and stuffed it into the man's hand.

Obviously everything is irreparable, the wounds won’t heal, the tears shed can’t flow back, and even the moment when the father and son reunited, it didn’t happen at all—the man died, ten years ago, alone Sinking in the icy river, only a shadow was left in the dream they had agreed upon.Pu Yiyang would not deceive himself, and he knew that Pu Zhengping would not either.A shadow is just a shadow, even if it can be seen and touched, it means nothing to the dead.

The sea of ​​nothingness hidden in the depths of DELTA is a dream within a dream. The dreamer is Pu Zhengping, and the dreamer is him. Pu Zhengping spent so much effort before his death just to fulfill the promise he made with Pu Yiyang. The agreement between them was just to satisfy Pu Yiyang's unilateral wish.

"Have you ever regretted it?" he asked the shadow.

"Regret?" Pu Zhengping murmured, just like he used to think about difficult math problems, leaning his head back against the wall, "No. I feel guilty, for you and your mother. But I also know that I am destined to On this road, when I touched that corner of the sky, it was destined. There is no way for me to turn back and pretend that I can't do this. Human beings will come to this day one day, even if it is not I, and someone else can do it. This is the torrent that will eventually happen, and I am just one of the waves."

This is more like what the man in black robe said on the star of the voyage.It's just that Pu Yiyang looks at this issue more calmly than the resistance he felt during his crazy preaching: "The real A-VATAR algorithm... What are you going to do with it?"

"You misunderstood, Xiao Yang, you all misunderstood." Pu Zhengping showed two rows of big white teeth, raised his hand, and made a comparison with two fingers, "I haven't completed Plan C at all, I just, It’s just a little bit more than what Xiang Renjie got. That’s just the beginning, and the transformation of mankind is just about to begin.”

Pu Yiyang couldn't help being taken aback: "It's not finished yet?"

"Of course. Don't think your father is so glorious. If I can really upload consciousness to make human beings live forever, I will foolishly kill Xiang Renjie?" Pu Zhengping said straightforwardly, "He always thinks that he can find me. It's his business to survive, he's just too confused, he thinks too much when he's dying."

Pu Yiyang: "..."

Pu Zhengping cleared his throat: "Anyway, you asked me what I plan to do with this algorithm, I have already thought about it, and I plan to give you this little thing I hid."

He patted Pu Yiyang's pocket.

Pu Yiyang stretched out his hand and just touched the glass crystal.The crystal was glowing and heating up now, making his sweater pocket sparkle, as if it contained a vibrant little sun.

"This is the rest of the algorithm, you can turn it on now." Pu Zhengping said, "Of course, it's up to you to decide whether to turn it on and when to turn it on."

The corner of Pu Yiyang's mouth twitched: "Are you throwing the blame?"

Pu Zhengping shrunk his neck shamelessly: "Oh, Xiao Yang, look at what you said, your father and I are already dead, how can we bear any blame or provoke such a beam? To put it bluntly, I have already died. I paid the price for my past arrogance. I did wrong things and believed in the wrong people. But mathematics is innocent, and this algorithm is also innocent. I touched the world a little earlier than others, but I am not a god. No one is a god in this world. We don’t create rules, we just discover them. Which direction human beings will go in the future is a matter for human beings to decide, not for a certain person. As a little boy who rushed to the beach early Individual, I can only do this at most, hand over this discovery to you, clap your hands and lay flat, looking forward to where the next wave will arrive..."

Pu Yiyang couldn't deny that there was some truth in what he said, but it didn't prevent him from still wanting to make a clean break with a dead old ghost who dumped a hot potato to him without saying a word.

"I'm not like you, I'm not a genius." He said with a squint.

"Xiao Yang, you don't have to be like me, you are already much better than me." Pu Zhengping did what he used to do to his son, pinching Pu Yiyang's face, "Silly boy, you have long wanted to Well what to do, isn’t it? Ask your own heart.”

Pu Yiyang touched his heart silently.

His heart wasn't beating, but he did hear what his dad wanted him to hear.

"Let's go when you figure it out." Pu Zhengping slumped back to the corner of the wall, folded his hands, pillowed it behind his head, and closed his eyes comfortably, "It's time for me to sleep too. When I wake up, brother must The meeting will come up to urge me, telling me not to hide here and think about it, and I will get presbyopia sooner or later... Yingying will wait for me to go back in the dormitory. She has cooked my favorite sweet-scented osmanthus sugar porridge early, and I will bring it to her My favorite smoked fish...hehe, if Xiao Yang is good enough, I'll take some zongzi candies back and tell Yingying to stay in my study until eleven o'clock at night..."

In his father's ravings, Pu Yiyang suddenly wanted to get closer, but found that he couldn't do it.

The sun that fell on the man was too bright, and finally, bit by bit, this dream that he didn't know belonged to was slowly melted away.