Forces of Temptation

"That's what you said." Yuan Mingqing said, "In our place, they are all numbered. Now in our game development historical database, we can still find their video data."

... Li Yinhang almost blurted out the sentence "Let me see".

She is not heartless.

It's just because the content is too shocking, she always thinks it's fake, it's a joke, and she feels that there is no way to take it seriously.

But Nan Zhou and Jiang Fang were obviously very serious.

Jiang Fang took the words: "Then, there will be us?"

Yuan Mingqing nodded.

"Because the Earth copy completely simulates our previous ecological environment and internal and external environment, those creatures that did not die in the catastrophe started to evolve by themselves."

He said: "This history about how humans evolved, how they survived, and how they originated, you yourself should know best."

"The first knot for counting is the origin of mathematics; the fire that is lighted is the origin of chemistry; the first dance for fishing and hunting sacrifices is the origin of art...no one knows what it is It will inspire you, maybe it is a star you observe, an apple that falls by chance... Regardless of whether these are correct or not, you are indeed slowly approaching and discovering the laws and truths of the universe."

"That was discovered by us, and it was used in the process of building the copy. And you, without anyone prompting you, also discovered this."

"So, can you imagine? When we discovered you, how much your development history surprised us."

Having said this, Yuan Mingqing unconsciously lowered his voice, trying to restore the shock of hearing thunder in a silent place.

He still remembers the trance he felt when he first received information about civilizations on Earth.

That feeling is like listening closely to the independent and complete language systems of different species of ants, and seeing how bees build hexagonal nests with an obtuse angle of 109°28' and an acute angle of 70°32' Throughout the whole process, we can see how creatures mate in primitive ways, become, live, break, and empty, and live endlessly in the never-ending death.

This kind of creature called human beings has gone through many roads, including detours, right paths, and dead ends. On every road, they stumble and don't know the way forward, but they still chase the boundless unknown.

They search for the sun, the future, the distance, and the unknown.

Some people are romantic and ideal, and they can die in the morning and evening.

Some people are down-to-earth and have been Kuafu all their lives, living a busy, fulfilling, and chaotic life.

When Yuan Mingqing received the memory, perhaps because of the excessive explosion of information, there was a hallucination.

He turned his head and saw those weak humans bouncing and chasing after them, stepping on their footsteps, forming a torrent of history.

Countless people drowned and disappeared in the torrent, but they never stopped.

Maybe it was because of being surrounded by crowds, maybe it was because they didn't know the end was so boring, maybe it was because of various reasons, but everyone never stopped.

...not like them.

They have been stagnant for so long that they have few other pursuits.

Yuan Mingqing put away that little irrelevant feeling, and emphasized softly: "You... are us."

He also knew that his emotions were a little too much.

So he tried to bring the topic back to the normal track: "Although... this is a very complete dungeon with self-consistent logic and can run for a long time, but because it is a dungeon, it is normal for some small bugs to occasionally occur."

"These, you should also have a sense of body."

Li Yinhang let out an "ah".

As far as her superficial cognition is concerned, she did have a few personal experiences.

On the far side, before Japan, there was a debate about whether Fanta had a "golden apple" flavor.

Coca-Cola claims it never launched the line of drinks.

But quite a few people can vividly describe the outer packaging and taste of that drink.

More recently, when Li Yinhang was a child, he clearly remembered a song that sang "56 ethnic groups, 56 flowers", but when he grew up, he saw the official version of the lyrics, all of which were "56 constellations, 56 flowers".

She still remembers the teacher taught that the word "specific" should have three horizontal lines in it.

But her college classmates killed her, and the teacher taught Liang Heng.

This seems to be some kind of mass memory error called what effect.

And Li Yinhang himself has also experienced that when he went to a certain place and a certain event happened, he felt that all these things seemed familiar, or he simply saw the same scene in a dream.

This feeling is all the more powerful because there are clear details to verify it.

Therefore, Li Yinhang joked with his friends, saying that there might be some bug in this world, and she discovered it.

But this kind of "one word becomes a prophecy", when I think about it, it is not pleasant.

While she was staring at the gap in the floor in front of her in a daze, Nan Zhou advanced the topic to the next stage: "So, the dungeon has been abandoned for so many years, how did you find out?"

Yuan Mingqing replied: "Because, human beings also started to do the same things as us."

Jiang Fang closed his eyes and chuckled lightly: "...Understood. "Gravity."

Yuan Mingqing looked at Jiang Fang, nodded in agreement again, and agreed with his speculation.

"After technology has made great progress, you, like us, began to pursue pleasure. The pursuit of reality cannot satisfy your visual wonders. What's more, your pursuit is also the same as ours—"Gravity"— —You are also trying to build a small world made entirely of data.”

Jiang Fang said: "Although our technical level is good, it has not reached the level where we can perfectly reproduce an earth."

"Yes. No." Yuan Mingqing said, "Your level is indeed good, and you can already build a small-scale world. But you didn't attract our attention at first."

"until--"

Yuan Mingqing raised his hand and pointed at Nan Zhou: "His appearance."

Nan Zhou tilted his head slightly, pointing at himself: "Me?"

Yuan Mingqing said: "I just said that we didn't want to waste our time repairing your system, but gave up directly because we found a way to make copies more efficiently."

"Every creator has a brand new world. They change according to the rules preset by the creator. They are a natural copy that can run perfectly once generated. This copy space can be large or small, and it will deduce What kind of story is completely up to the designer’s arrangement. In this world where everything is made up of data, as long as we establish a stable data channel, we can transport players to this world.”

"For example, the [Sand, Sand, Sand] dungeon you experienced is a brand new and difficult dungeon that hasn't had time to be officially put into use."

"Before we abandoned the earth, we began to study this copy mode; after the extinction of what you call 'dinosaurs', this technology has fully matured, and the cost of creating copies has been greatly reduced. Naturally, we don't need to waste energy on on an outdated copy."

"However, one day, we noticed that there was an abnormal signal transmitted by a dungeon, which appeared in a place where it should not appear."

Yuan Mingqing paused: "... After searching, we found that there is a human being who, like us, has opened up the channel between the world and the copy."

Nan Zhou fell into deep thought.

He thought that they had received Yi Shuige's help during the chasing battle of thousands of people.

Yi Shuige is the technical consultant for the "Home Island" module of "Gravity".

He told them many things.

At that time, Nan Zhou couldn't quite understand what that meant.

But now, he gradually understood everything.

—— "...your initial modeling was not what you are now."

——"Since you were born in "Eternal Day", you have been living in the world of "Eternal Day"."

——"The game does not recreate a world, but uses a certain method to intentionally or unintentionally break the barrier between the two worlds."

In essence, they are also a world composed of data, and there are objective conditions for connecting with the replica world.

And the engineer surnamed Mo who was mentioned by Yi Shuige, who liked to dance the waltz and pursued excellence in his work, committed suicide by jumping off the building for unknown reasons on the day when the copy of "Eternal Day" began to be tested.

Deputy Chief Engineer Cen, who took over all the work, was uncharacteristically devoted to the work.

In the midst of high-intensity, exhausting pleasures, he enjoys a secret, supreme pleasure.

They are clearly engaged in the same work, looking in the same direction.

At the same point of sight, what exactly did they see?

What makes them a despair, a mania?

During that brief exchange with Yi Shuige, Deputy Chief Engineer Cen once released some news to him.

"Have you... seen a miracle?"

All of this, through this sentence, was finally successfully connected.

Mr. Mo accidentally achieved the same frequency with the Gaowei people, broke through the data barrier, entered the "copy", and saw the real "never town".

Maybe he thinks it's the multiverse, maybe he thinks he's crazy, maybe he realizes some terrible connection behind it, and realizes that he may have made an irreparable mistake.

In short, under a huge mental shock, he committed suicide by jumping off the building after dancing a waltz.

After Deputy Chief Engineer Cen took over his job, he also saw that passage.

Unlike Mr. Mo, he thought it was a "miracle".

He guards this huge secret with all his heart, uses the data law he built to infiltrate the world, sets Nanzhou as a boss, and sets up a resurrection mechanism on him, so that players can experience what he thinks is the essence of the game. Happiness - absolutely true.

Death is real, bosses are real, and confrontations are real.

Seeing the players' complaints about the difficulty of the level and Nanzhou being too smart in the forum, no one knows what he is thinking.

But he walked down this road silently and excitedly, just like those human beings before him, full of longing and forging ahead.

He had no idea what kind of crisis was dormant in the dark unknown ahead.

"...So, you were the ones who appeared in front of us first."

Yuan Mingqing concluded: "When you break the barriers of numbers and use data to establish a channel to explore other worlds, your own existence is also exposed to our eyes."

"For us, it was one day that we suddenly discovered that this long-abandoned copy had been updated. The place where there should be no creatures is densely packed with people."

"That's where... the 'Gravity' game plan begins."

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