Stop, that monster!

What happened before?Where have all his memories gone?Restart, what exactly does it mean! !

After the initial shock, Zheng Wei began to seriously think about this issue.

Seeing that Zheng Wei didn't speak for a long time, the panda finally couldn't help asking: "Didn't you say there are hidden missions?"

"Hidden mission?" Zheng Wei was taken aback, wondering what the panda's words meant.

The panda scratched his head and explained: "I tell you how you died, and you will tell me more information. Isn't this just your hidden mission?"

Zheng Wei snorted, he thought for a while and said: "Tomorrow, if I still remember you tomorrow, I will tell you. Also, can you lend me your potion for checking death records?"

The panda generously gave the potion to Zheng Wei. When the panda opened the backpack, Zheng Wei found a button-like thing.

Zheng Wei asked: "What is this?"

The panda picked up the button with his fleshy palm and said, "A small recording button, do you like it? Then I will give it to you too. Will there be hidden missions?"

Zheng Wei smiled, and made a glass of milk for the panda: "This is the reward for the recording buckle. You give me a recording buckle, and I will give you a glass of milk."

Panda rubbed his head and muttered: "This reward is too stupid, the recording buckle is more expensive than milk!"

Zheng Wei shrugged his shoulders, showing a helpless expression that the system is set up like this.

The panda left after drinking the milk. As soon as it left, there was no one else in the whole library, only the golden retriever tied in the corner by Zheng Wei.

The golden retriever was already asleep, with his chin resting on his paws, looking gentle and friendly, but Zheng Wei only felt creepy.

"I have to figure out what it means to restart!" Zheng Wei said to himself in his heart, but he couldn't get out of the library, so he couldn't communicate with other npcs, wondering if they were also restarted.

Zheng Wei clenched the death record potion in his hand, and put the potion in his trousers purse.

He looked around and found that there were very few players in the lobby at this time, but to avoid anyone coming in, he took out a piece of paper and a pen from the drawer, and wrote a line on it: "Service suspended. "

He pasted this piece of paper on the door of the library, then closed the door, went back to his book bar, made a place where no one could see, and wrote down the things he was going to do on the paper.

He was ready to test himself to death.

After writing everything that happened in detail on paper, he used a glass cup to press the piece of paper on the bar, broke another glass, looked for a relatively sharp fragment, and then walked to the golden retriever. Release the golden retriever from its leash.

The golden retriever rushed towards Zheng Wei quickly, wagging its tail so affectionately that it almost shook its butt off.

Zheng Wei took a deep breath. He had worked as an agent and knew where to pierce. People would die the fastest. He was very decisive and cut his own neck with the glass shards in his hand.

Five minutes later, Zheng Wei blinked again, and he found himself by the window, and there was no one in the library.

As soon as Zheng Wei turned his head, he saw a piece of paper under a glass on the bar counter.

He walked over quickly and saw what he wrote on the piece of paper.

Zheng Wei's eyes closed slightly, he crumpled up the paper, swallowed it, and started looking for things on the floor of the library.

Sure enough, in the corner of the library, he saw the green bottle of potion and a recording buckle, which Zheng Wei had brought with him before, and he would not take it away after death.

Zheng Wei made a judgment in his heart - some special medicines on the npc's body will not disappear with the death of the npc, they will be left at the place of death, which is the legendary - monster-killing explosive items.

Zheng Wei picked up the bottle of potion and smeared it on his lower abdomen. The record of skulls has increased by one, and it has become fourteen, but there is no record of restarting.

He pressed the recording button again, and the recording recorded his words before his death, as well as the sound of the dog crushing bones after his death.

Zheng Wei suddenly heard what Instructor Yi said: "Don't try to commit suicide, because even after you commit suicide, you will be resurrected soon."

From this point of view, there is no difference between suicide and being killed by it.However, the player's items and equipment will not be deleted, and they will still function.

Zheng Wei also tore off the "suspension of service" paper at the entrance of the library, crushed it and swallowed it in his stomach.

He doesn't have the slightest symptom of wanting to excrete, so the things that the npc eats should not reappear. Does this also mean that the things eaten by him will be deleted by the system by default?

Zheng Wei reopened the door of the library, and he found that there were many books on the bookshelves in the library, some even about computer games.

He went to look it up, from here, it is also a way to understand the outside world.

But it is a pity that the computer books only contain some simple computer knowledge, which Zheng Wei already knows.

There is also a history book. Zheng Wei flipped through it and found that this history book should be the world view of the game "Realm of Terror" planned and written. The history is still stuck at the moment when the aliens invaded the world and turned into zombies at the end of the world in 2012. .

But Zheng Wei has lived until 2016, and no zombies have been found yet, and no aliens have appeared, just an alien signal.Then this so-called history book is fictitious and unreliable.

According to the test done by Zheng Wei, death is just the memory deleted 5 minutes before death, so does restarting mean that all the memories that come to this game will be deleted, and the npc will be restored to its original state?

It's like formatting the phone, computer, reinstalling the system, and ghost?

Zheng Wei thinks this is very possible, because if a small part of his memory can be deleted, then there is no problem in deleting a large part.

Regarding the speculation about what the restart is, Zheng Wei feels that he can only reason to this point based on his own situation.

Then the next question is: Under what circumstances are you restarted?Looking at the death record on the lower abdomen, there is no necessary regular connection with the restart.

Zheng Wei remembered that Kung Fu Panda didn't know the meaning of restart, that is to say, this function will not be open to players, it is an exclusive function of npc in this game.

Zheng Wei wanted to think about why the npc restarted from the perspective of a game developer, but he couldn't think of an answer to this question.

He can only try and let the higher-level program tell him.

But each program has its own role, the npcs in this hall will not run around, how can I attract other programs?In particular, other talking smart programs.

Zheng Wei bowed his head in thought, and after a while, he decided to take a gamble.

Zheng Wei's eyes fell on the Golden Retriever again. This dog seemed to clean up its own body. If -- this dog died, who would clean it up?

Zheng Wei waved at the golden retriever, and the golden retriever ran over cheerfully. Without hesitation, Zheng Wei grabbed the golden retriever's neck with one arm, and with a little force, the dog stopped breathing.

Zheng Wei put the dog's body in place, silently waiting for the person who would come.

The golden retriever's body didn't disappear immediately, but after 3 minutes, Zheng Wei heard footsteps coming towards him.

Zheng Wei looked up, and saw an acquaintance walking up the stairs, or a familiar program—Instructor Yi.

Instructor Yi was still wearing his suit, black uniform, long silver hair, and a perfect face with no flaws, cold and expressionless.

His golden whip was at his waist, and the silver studs on his boots gleamed.

Instructor Yi walked straight towards the library, the sound of his boots trampling on the ground was clearly audible, Zheng Wei felt a little nervous, he knew this was his chance.

Instructor Yi stopped in front of Zheng Wei, his gray eyes showed no emotion: "Why did your dog die?"

Zheng Wei slowly stood up from the ground, he looked directly at Instructor Yi, Instructor Yi is undoubtedly a program that manages NPCs, he is more advanced than himself, in terms of logic design, it is difficult for a human brain to compare with an intelligent program .

Zheng Wei thinks that it is basically impossible for him to get a formula from Instructor Yi or trick him into saying something.

In Instructor Yi's settings, there should be something to say and what not to say, so Zheng Wei decided to ask directly, and he said, "I killed this dog."

Instructor Yi looked Zheng Wei up and down: "Why did you kill your dog?"

Zheng Wei said: "Because I want to find someone to come over, this dog died, someone must come to clean up its body, but I didn't expect it to be you."

Instructor Yi was not interested in the dog's death, he just looked at Zheng Wei and asked, "Why are you looking for me?"

Zheng Wei said: "I heard a player say a very strange word today, 'restart', do you know what this word means?"

Instructor Yi looked at Zheng Wei vigilantly, and he said after a while: "I'm in charge of restarting the npc in the lobby of the novice area, of course I know what it means."

Zheng Wei's heart skipped a beat for no reason, and he said, "I...can I know?"

Instructor Yi still had no expression on his cold face: "Of course you can know, but I must warn you that an npc can be restarted infinitely, but if he is too obsessed with what restart is, he can only be deleted. This problem The upper limit is one time, if you still ask me this question next time, it means that you are not suitable for this job, and I will report and delete you. Think carefully, do you really want to know what restart is?"

Zheng Wei weighed it silently in his heart. He doubted that instructor Yi would kill himself after explaining the "restart", but Zheng Wei was not too worried. If you get the recording button left by Kung Fu Panda, the button will record the conversation intact, as long as you can find this button when you lose your memory.

Moreover, even if the button is discovered by others, the final result of the investigation will only be left behind by the player accidentally, and has nothing to do with him.

Zheng Wei nodded slightly and said, "If your authority allows, please tell me, I want to know."

Instructor Yi took out his leather whip from his waist and wrapped it around the dog's corpse on the ground. The corpse quickly turned into fly ash and ceased to exist.

After doing all this, Instructor Yi looked at Zheng Wei with his gray glasses, as if he wanted to figure out what the guide npc in front of him was thinking.

But Instructor Yi didn't have permission to view Zheng Wei's source code, so he didn't know what Zheng Wei was thinking, and it was even more impossible to know that this was actually a person.

Zheng Wei also looked directly at Instructor Yi. For some reason, before Instructor Yi was about to speak, he felt that this cold-looking program seemed to have some emotions that he shouldn't have.

Instructor Yi finally spoke, and he spoke slowly: "Our program is immortal."

Zheng Wei clearly felt a feeling of loneliness when Instructor Yi was talking about this issue.

Instructor Yi continued: "Some programs are too anthropomorphic, so they sometimes mistake themselves for human beings, and thus cannot bear the day-to-day life, especially the npcs in this novice area, they will try to commit suicide and run away. , or other ways to escape from this kind of life. In order to prevent this from happening, a system was designed above. Every npc will not remember that he was killed, so at least they will not Work creates boredom; after a period of time, some npcs will find that they have died, and some npcs will be completely tired of their work, which affects the operation of the game, so it needs to be restarted at this time."

Zheng Wei almost understood in his heart.Rebooting is indeed to delete the memories of npcs working here, so that they feel fresh about everything here and not so boring.

Sure enough, Instructor Yi said: "When all intelligent programs enter this game, they will have an original state. Before entering the game, it is the original state. The people and things encountered in the game are the follow-up stories. Restarting is to put This npc is restored to its original state, allowing it to better focus on its own work, rather than anything else. That is, delete the follow-up memories he encountered in the game."

Zheng Wei remained silent. After listening to Instructor Yi's explanation, he completely understood the meaning of restarting: it is equivalent to restoring the factory settings of computers, mobile phones or other electronic products.

And the purpose of this "restart" is not much different from "restore factory settings".

The reason why the mobile phone is restored to factory settings and the computer is ghosted again is that after they have been used for a period of time, they will be messed up by the user, affecting performance. After "resetting to factory settings", they can make them work better.

And the NPCs in this game, because they are too realistic and intelligent, will have some bad emotions after staying in the game for a period of time. "Restart" will make them completely forget these things and be able to run and work better.

Instructor Yi looked at Zheng Wei for a while, and said, "This is also a plan for the mental health of npcs."

Zheng Wei raised his head suddenly, and he saw that Instructor Yi was looking at him with a slightly envious look. Zheng Wei knew that he had been restarted three times. Then, whether Instructor Yi in front of him had also been restarted?

Zheng Wei thought for a while, and asked in a more roundabout way: "I remember, the first time you took me to visit some monsters in the novice area. The monsters there all know you. Do they also have to be restarted?"

Instructor Yi said: "The ways of monsters and npcs are different. They have not restarted. They are another way. You don't need to understand this way. In short, you are lucky. Some things you don't want to remember, you All it takes is death to forget."

Zheng Wei finally asked: "Then... have you been restarted?"

Instructor Yi's lips were tightly pursed, and after a while, Instructor Yi said: "No comment. Now that you know what restarting is, according to relevant regulations, you need... to be restarted again."

When Zheng Wei fell softly under Instructor Yi's feet, Instructor Yi's body was straight, and he stood there without moving. His gray eyes stared at Zheng Wei. After a while, he finally used a barely audible The voice said: "I envy you npcs very much, because you can forget everything, just remember happiness and unlimited expectations. But I have not, and cannot, be restarted."

He took out another miniature walkie-talkie at the collar, adjusted the frequency, and said indifferently: "Restart the program numbered npc10 in 231 minutes. After testing, the cleaning program JM05 is not suitable, and replace it with the r-type cleaning program. Over."