all ghosts like me

This boy is a miniature version of Luo Duo.

He looks seventeen or eighteen years old, his body lines have been formed, but his arms are a little thinner.The handsomeness on his face was exactly the same as that of Luo Duo, but still a bit childish.

The young man hummed a song, finished watering the flowers, and looked at the blue sky and white clouds outside the window.

Recalling the sound of Ding Dong, the boy looked sideways and walked to the door.

He held the doorknob and opened the door.

***

Although the research institute is located in the military building, it has an independent defense system.The subterranean depths gave it the best cover, and its outer perimeter was composed of the strongest alloys man could forage after the cataclysm.

Cheng Jia sat on the bottom floor of the research institute, and the main body of Yanju was placed in the room next to him.

There are still a dozen or so people in the research institute, and the brain-dead garbage robots wander around without stopping for a moment.

As if nothing happened.

A beep sounded on the screen in front of Cheng Jia.

He froze for a few seconds before pressing the connect button.

In just a few days, a few strands of white hair grew out of Meng Jianbo's temples, but his face was still stern, without any signs of fatigue.

The research institute is free from the military and belongs to a third-party force. On the surface, they are responsible for the "guarantee of all existing human science and technology forces" and are not dominated by any party, but in fact the research institute is controlled by others everywhere.

It takes money to develop things, and a few frail scholars need to be protected.

General Meng on the screen did not speak, but the countdown window floating in the upper right corner made a beep.

Count down three hours.

Meng Jianbo's expression did not change, and he said, "You are a student of Master He. Have you completed the research that your teacher did not complete before his death?"

Cheng Jia has a handsome appearance, and looks obedient and clever, with a bit of a literati's temperament in his eyebrows and eyes.When he was in the special service team, the voices of the team members would subconsciously lower their voices when speaking to him.

He always had a smile on his face, and never panicked when encountering things, as if it was no big deal if the world was destroyed.

Cheng Jia raised his head and replied to Meng Jianbo: "General, you know that is impossible."

"Master He said that it is theoretically possible." Meng Jianbo insisted: "He also successfully predicted the coming of the catastrophe."

Cheng Jia shook her head and said nothing.

Meng Jianbo finally became a little irritable, and forced to ask: "Can they win? Can we... can win?"

Yanju is a generation of artificial intelligence AI, which integrates the efforts of too many people.The person in charge of the team is surnamed He, and everyone respectfully calls him Master He.

Master He devoted his whole life to Yanju.

Yanju's ability to evolve independently makes it "perfect".

Big data can predict the development of things, so what about an intelligent AI with a powerful network system and information about all human beings?

Before the catastrophe came, Master He sent a warning with the most advanced code in his hand.Less than 24 hours after the warning, yellow sand filled the sky, and the upper echelons of the military received mysterious coordinates.

During the transfer, the army protected Yanju's main engine, but lost its master, He Shi.

Only Cheng Jia was left.

He is the only disciple of Master He, he restored most of the functions of Yanju, and created the second generation only AI Yaoji.

"I am a capable person." Cheng Jia still had a smile on his face, looking at Meng Jianbo neither humble nor overbearing, chewing two words: "We?"

A piercing light shot out from Meng Jianbo's eyes.

"You sure know!"

There was anger in his voice, showing majesty.

Cheng Jia shook his head.

He is slow, and the expression on his face is not like that of a young man in his early twenties, showing a bit of old age.

"Ability users, polluters..."

Cheng Jia chuckled and asked, "How many died?"

Meng Jianbo didn't speak, but the expression on his face already answered Cheng Jia's question.

The situation is serious.

After the catastrophe, everyone wants to become a person with abilities, and master these abilities that did not belong to humans.However, everyone does not realize that there is a price to pay for obtaining something that does not belong to you.

The mass death of capable users cannot be prevented by existing forces.

Cheng Jia didn't get an answer, so he stood up, walked to the host of Yanju, and sighed.

Meng Jianbo's expression became lively.

"You really have a way!"

Cheng Jia shook her head, looked at Yanju's huge mainframe, walked to the side of Yanju, and looked at an inconspicuous black button.

"There is only one chance." He was gentle, calm, but with a bit of coldness: "I don't know if Yanju can predict, but the teacher has a prophecy, I don't know if the general wants to hear it?"

Meng Jianbo frowned.

Cheng Jia answered by herself: "The end of evolution is destruction."

After all, he pressed the black button.

The huge machine roared, and Yanju, which had only part of its system working, was activated.

Meng Jianbo looked into the research institute with a bit of fear and a bit of complexity.

The iris biometric dual authentication system was turned on, just like Meng Yue once contacted No. [-] in the underground lake, Cheng Jia stretched out his finger and asked the machine to take his own DNA sample.

Certification passed.

"Welcome, Cheng Jia."

A voice very similar to that of Meng Jianbo sounded.

"Nice to see you again, this time, what can I do for you?"

Cheng Jia said coldly: "Start the final upgrade process."

There seemed to be a smile in Yanju's voice, and he said: "Of order, my friend. The upgrade time is estimated to be three hours, during which a large amount of existing resources will be extracted, please wait patiently."

Cheng Jia turned her head and said to Meng Jianbo, "You will get the answer."

As soon as the voice fell, the display screen suddenly went black.

At the same time, District [-] and District [-], which are uniformly powered by the military, suddenly lost power.

Six months after the catastrophe, mankind once again lost its light and fell into darkness.

****

Human beings' definition of District [-] is the Garden of Eden.

The activation of Yanju did not have any impact on District [-]. The car carrying Luo Duo and Meng Yue stopped, and there was a school outside the car window.

"Do you think this school looks familiar?" Luo Duo asked.

The teaching building in the distance presents a "concave" pattern, Meng Yue frowned and said, "Hui Qing."

The door is open.

"Let's go," Luo Duo seemed relaxed, "It seems that he wants us to go in."

That being said, after getting off the car, the two found that the school's door was locked.

There were no openings in the retractable iron fence, and the security room was empty, with no one to be seen.

In the story of Huiqing and Fan Xiaoqi, the whole school is shrouded in thick fog.But now it is clean and the field of vision is clear.

Luo Duo stretched out his hand and shook the iron door, there was a creaking sound, but no one responded.

What does this mean?

He was a little irritable in his heart, since he walked in here, or since the memory slowly recovered, this irritability had enveloped Luo Duo.

Meng Yue suddenly held his hand.

Luo Duo was startled, turned his head and saw a little worry in Meng Yue's eyes, he sighed, and was about to shake his head with a smile.However, just as the corner of his mouth was half raised, he suddenly saw Meng Yue's expression change, and threw him to the ground.

There was a loud and crisp sound of "touch", and Luo Duo smelled the smell of bullet fire.

And Meng Yue reacted one step faster than him!

The gunshots tore open the iron fence, Meng Yue grabbed Luo Duo with his hands, and kicked towards the iron gate with his feet.The retractable door was overwhelmed, shaking twice and whining, Meng Yue led Luo Duo into the gap and hid in the security room.

In just a few seconds, it was thrilling.

"How can there be a gun?" Luo Duo was puzzled.

Meng Yue knew more, he said: "Dawn's gun."

Before departure, all Shuguang staff were equipped with a lot of weapons.It's a pity that Luo Duo can't do anything, and in the end he only holds a dagger and a fool's pistol.In contrast, Meng Yue was fully armed.

He is familiar with these guns, and can even hear the difference between them from the sound.

Luo Duo started to fiddle with the contact device with his head down, but there was no response from the device, and even the special channel made by Cheng Jia was lonely.

Meng Yue looked by the window, but unfortunately nothing happened except for the sound that forced them in.The two waited for more than ten minutes without seeing any movement, and decided to go out through the back door of the security room to have a look.

This school is indeed the same as the one in the game world.

After walking around, Luo Duo's mood became more and more complicated.

Zero has the ability to build the world, and Luo Duo can understand the existence of the game world.But he can't figure out what is Zero's purpose in creating all this?Are the so-called "games" really for fun?

The investigation failed, Luo Duo said, "We... still haven't found the right place."

Meng Yue glanced at the countdown of less than one hour, squeezed Luo Duo's hand, and comforted him.

At the gate of the campus, the inexplicable shooting scene remained as it was, and Meng Yue even found bullet casings not far away.He frowned at the shell case, picked it up calmly and put it in his pocket.Luo Duo on the side didn't notice these details, he found an old car on the side of the road.

As far back as I can remember, there were so many of these scrapped cars after the catastrophe that people had to send them to the car cemetery.Luo Duo opened the door, turned back and called Meng Yue, "Come and try."

Meng Yue sat in the driver's seat and turned on the ignition, the car was hit, he asked Luo Duo: "Where are you going?"

Luo Duo smiled wryly, he didn't like this arranged feeling.

So Meng Yue didn't ask any more questions, and just drove aimlessly in the city.The people outside the window are still very happy and happy, walking on the road step by step.The plants in Central Park decayed and showed a withered and yellow color.There are people sitting on the lounge chairs, and there is a small wooden house not far away.

cabin...

"Wait!" Luo Duo shouted suddenly: "Go back! Drive back!"

The road without vehicles made Meng Yue unimpeded, he turned around on the solid line very willfully, and asked Luo Duo: "What's wrong?"

"The wooden house in front...we stop there."

Meng Yue quickly stopped the car.

Luo Duo felt a pain in his head.

He pressed his temples, looked at the wooden house, and murmured: "I remember here..."

In the game, or in other words, in the private space after the game, he has seen this place.

Two teenagers once sat on the fallen tree trunk next to the wooden house, dangling their legs, talking and laughing.

Luo Duo looked at Meng Yue and got out of the car first.

He walked to the side of the wooden house and raised his hand to knock on the door.