When the law of conservation of isolation is broken

Joad looked at Lu Xing silently.He seemed to be trapped by some things, he touched them gently, kept thinking, and he would not say a word until he learned the final truth.

The room was silent.The sound effect of the game next door was turned up to the maximum, and the sound of the sword being inserted into the treasure chest flowed from the crack of the door.

"...What the hell is this?" Long Jiu, he said, his voice was very calm, but there was an undercurrent in it.

"What the hell is this?" Lu Xing repeated Joad's words, and shook his head slyly, "I asked myself the same way at the beginning. This is like a horror video, which is sold on the dark web of Mars."

"What do you think this is?" he said calmly, looking at Joad.

Joad didn't speak, he pursed his lips tightly.

"What did you see?" Lu Xing changed his question, but Joad still didn't answer.

"What do you think?" Seeing this, Lu Xing gave up on asking Qiao De, and turned his head to look at Zhang Luotuo.

Zhang Luotuo blinked, but before he could react, he lingered in the remaining images in a daze.Operation.home.injection.die.A dreamlike female voice.Everything is like a complicated dream, those elements are too diverse, no one knows what Lu Xing is referring to.

But Zhang Luotuo vaguely felt that he knew what Lu Xing wanted him to say.He closed his eyes and saw the girl with the orange hair, she was wearing a black uniform, he noticed it at first sight, he had been looking at this outfit for several years.He also noticed many elements in it: Fan Liu, Mars, homeland.He felt that he touched something, but he hesitated and didn't say it, he didn't know what Lu Xing was thinking.

"Is it the uniform of the management department?" Lu Xing said, he read Zhang Luotuo's thoughts, and said it directly, "I also noticed it in my sleep, and it was more than you."

Putting his finger on the table, he lightly pressed upwards, the holographic image, these things reappeared, buildings, crowds, spaceships, he stared at them, and his voice was dreamlike: "On the journey from Mars to the earth In my dream, this image was repeated fifteen times in my dream because of the repeat playback function of the chip. I remember it very clearly. Every time it started, it was a normal street scene in Chongqing city, just like the inter-class video I watched before. , but each time it plays halfway through, the screen suddenly jumps and turns into a murder in a secret room, which is like an infinite world."

"I remember this dream deeply, completely, every detail. The dream looped endlessly, and I almost thought I wouldn't wake up until I opened my eyes." He turned and faced Joad, challenging Raising eyebrows, as if recalling the past, "Do you remember? When we first arrived in Chongqing?"

Joad obviously remembered, but he stared at Lu Xing more vigilantly and pensively. After a long time, he nodded in confirmation: "I remember."

Lu Xing removed his hand from the control button of the holographic image: "You must remember that when we woke up, we were already in a certain building in Chongqing, and the spaceship had already left by itself. When I woke up, you were all still asleep, of course some people Wake up, some people don't."

Those buildings left waves of light marks on his face when the frame rate was shaking: "I still remember the dream after waking up. And when the dream surprised me so much, I couldn't help but wondered about other people's dreams. Is the content of the dream chip the same as mine? Is it the same? I asked Zhao Yi nervously what her dream was like? She was still emotionally unstable, so she told me impatiently that it was just during the class break at the Mars base. She didn’t mention the promenade at all in the video introducing Chongqing’s geography, a pile of scrap iron cities, and broken toy spaceships. Then I asked you again, do you remember? You were even more impatient and thought I'm joking."

He smiled slightly and looked at Joad, but the smile didn't mean to smile at all: "And the others answered the same as you, they talked about the content of their dream chips on the spaceship, what gray sky, buildings, geography , all about Chongqing, but no one mentioned the operating table. I tentatively asked them if they saw a long corridor, but they all shook their heads."

"So what's going on?" The holographic image was imprinted on Lu Xing's face strangely, and he murmured immersed in his own words, "I was very confused at the time, I really couldn't figure it out, I wanted to understand this, why Only my dream was different - and it looked like that? Those are obviously the clothes of the management department? Those people? Mars? Also mentioned Fan Liu? But before I had time to continue thinking, someone from the previous management department called .They were coming over to talk to us about the handover, so I didn't have time to think about my dream. I had to guess maybe it was a programming error so my dream was different, or maybe it was a prank."

thump.The door shook slightly.Someone walks past the door into another private arcade, where a burst of "Minebomb" music pierces as he opens his own door.Lu Xing rested for a while amidst the music: "When they came, I suppressed that feeling, after all, it was just an unfounded dream. And when they started talking about Chongqing, I immediately realized that I had So much to do, I'll forget about it right away, as weird as it is, it's just a dream. Until that day comes."

Until that day comes.When Lu Xing said this, he paused.

Joad looked up, his gray eyes unblinking, waiting as if he knew what Ashika was going to say.

Lu Xing looked up at the tallest building flashing on the table. Its roof seemed out of reach. He stared blankly for a while until his eyes had to blink because of soreness.

"Until Zeng Lin died." He said emptyly.

The sound went straight into Zhang Camel's eardrums.

Lu Xing straightened up, his voice became softer: "From the day he died, I feel that many things are no longer the same. Friends, enemies, cities, they all suddenly changed, like illusion and reality, reality and illusion, Those days were a mess for me. The dream was reality, and the reality was a dream. At that time, I thought of that dream again."

"In the beginning, the dream was just a flash, but because of Zeng Lin's death, I had a lot of time to kill, and the dream began to appear frequently in my mind. What was the dream? The weirdness, the reality feeling, and more things that I never wanted to know. And I find that whenever I think about that dream, I feel better, less painful, and that long-lost sense of confusion can take away the fear of Zeng Lin's death. Thinking and sadness, so I began to want to understand that dream deeply, and avoid being sad all the time. But after all, that dream has passed for a long time, and I can only remember some intermittently—so I went to your office." Lu Xing raised his head, looked at Joad, raised his eyebrows.

This turning point was very abrupt, Zhang Luotuo couldn't help frowning, Lu Xing noticed his reaction, spread his hands at him, and said sarcastically: "You don't know—he is the head of the management department, and the one who has the most contacts with Mars It’s him, and he has a copy of basically everything. I want to try to see if I can find that dream. After all, those dreams are actually the data that Mars entered into our minds, loaded into the chip, and came to Chongqing with us. Most likely the chip wasn't brought back to Mars, but kept with him."

He turned his head, tapped his fingers on the table, and returned to the game interface this time, it was blocked in the middle of them like a glass wall: "But I was just holding the mentality of trying, Mars probably destroyed the chip, In the end, I didn’t expect that I really found it. Huo Huo didn’t seem to think that the video loaded with Chongqing’s geography knowledge was important. So I successfully brought all those chips home. Then I used the TV to put the chips one by one. Repeatedly, I found that the images in other people’s chips seemed to be nothing special, and they were Chongqing’s things from the beginning to the end. But until I put it in mine.”

He paused: "When I saw 49 minutes and 25 seconds, when the wing blocked the picture, the dream was surrounded and interrupted by black familiarly, and then jumped to that picture, I realized that it was real. Then I saw that scene and content again. Mars. Homeland. And the people, the people in uniform, the people who were killed."

Joad said nothing, his usual alertness, his gray eyes revealing little but a slight twinkle.

"The images in my sleep may not be clear, but the video couldn't be clearer, I remember exactly what I saw. I saw that the uniform was the uniform of the management department, and the people in the uniform looked like us, a replica We. The video also mentioned Mars, homeland, things that I am very familiar with. I had doubts at that time, although I didn’t know the specific direction of the suspicion, but I could feel that something was wrong with the video, some Something was wrong——" A spaceship flew past Lu Xing's eyes, and he didn't care about Joad's silence, "I decided to figure out what was going on at that time: this video, in which the man in the management department's clothes Man, is this a prank or something? Are those people in there real? What's going on with all this?"

Zhang Luotuo held his breath, Lu Xing looked at him, Zhang Luotuo saw the question Lu Xing said flowed through his expression: those people, those "Mars", words that are so familiar but confusing.

Lu Xing moved his eyes away, he looked at the mural hanging on his left, he looked at the complicated patterns for a long time.Woven on it is the statue of the God of Dunhuang, the god of games.It took him a while to look up and speak: "I noticed the operating table in the video, and it looked like it belonged to some hospital. Since the group of people wore the same uniform as us, I assumed that if they were real, they should be the same Like us, we both live in Chongqing, so this place should be a hospital in Chongqing. So I thought maybe I could know something through the hospital. But I tossed for a long time, and spent half a month running around in various slums and hospitals I ran, but found nothing. Because there are too many hospitals in Chongqing, and there are also many private clinics, especially in poor areas, where almost everyone likes to renew their bodies on a simple operating table."

He lowered his head and looked at the complicated buttons on the table. His hand stroked lightly, but he didn't press it down: "I felt like I was looking for a needle in a haystack, so I gave up... When I thought it was hopeless, I looked at it for the last time. During that video, I suddenly noticed something—”

His eyes seemed to be in deep thought: "I found that the robot mentioned a word at the end: Cemetery D-0 area."

Zhang Luotuo noticed that Qiao De seemed to have understood, and he moved slightly.

Zhang Luotuo also understood, and he cautiously asked, "Feishan Cemetery?"

Cemetery is an ominous word, they rarely mention it.And Chongqing also doesn't like cemeteries, that's too unknown, maybe because of this there is only one cemetery in Chongqing: 'Feishan Cemetery'.Zhang Luotuo has a deep memory of this. He saw an advertisement on TV, which advertised that it would be the final destination of all of them, and everyone could have an area of ​​less than a few square meters in it.

"The only home in Chongqing, the space is large enough, of course, you will be refrigerated to ensure that your face is as beautiful as when you were alive." The advertiser smiled, but he shuddered.

He couldn't help trembling, Lu Xing glanced at him: "Have you been there too?"

Zhang Luotuo shook his head and replied, "I know it."

Lu Xing shrugged, he noticed Zhang Luotuo's trembling, his tone was relaxed and cold, he didn't seem to care: "Actually, there's nothing scary inside, it's just like a decomposing factory for imitation humans - I've been there, Just after I decided to investigate, you all know that the only cemetery in Chongqing is Feishan Cemetery. It is similar to other places, the ceiling is made of a huge white canopy to keep out the rain, and the hologram of the blue sky is projected Kind of like that. The imitation man is lying in a transparent square box with a calm face, surrounded by a few people who mourn him, and next to them are fake plants and flowers. That’s about it, everyone can come in and out freely.”

He showed a look of reminiscence, as if thinking of something: "Except for District D, no one mourns in District D..." He read softly, "Do you know why?"

Zhang Luotuo didn't know. He looked at Joad. Joad ignored his gaze. He didn't blink his eyes, as if he was not ready to express any opinion. Zhang Luotuo was about to look away in disappointment, but suddenly, Joad answered coldly. Said: "District D, the area for the poor."

Lu Xing's legs trembled, he pulled out his hand, and his smile widened meaningfully: "Yes, District D, you are right, the slums. Those homeless people, gangsters, down-and-out killers, nameless people, they They were all buried in it, so there are too many people lying there, dozens of times more than other famous areas."

He sat up straight and narrowed his eyes: "And I remember that the area mentioned by the robot is in Area D, Area D-0."

Zhang Luotuo couldn't help trembling, mentioning that the cemetery made him feel some physical discomfort, and the game hall was very cold, and those holographic images covered him like wet rain from the ceiling.

Lu Xing glanced at him and showed a smile, which seemed to be his reaction. He continued to speak in a very comfortable tone, but he could hear that he was lost in memories: "I was not as afraid as you were at the time, I went straight into Area D …It’s actually okay there, but there are many times more people lying down than in other places. There are probably tens of thousands of transparent boxes there. In order to accommodate them and save space, the transparent boxes are minimized and their Folded into a knee-hugging shape, those people showed their cheeks, looking calm and suffering. Every time I walked past a face, I would forget them within ten seconds. I found again that I was at a loss walking inside, what was I looking for ?Are you expecting to find people who might not even exist? This is ridiculous, I can't find the one I want from so much sand.

"So I decided to ask." He said, "Ask the administrator. He was sitting in the management room in a daze. He looked at me blankly and told me that I could use photos to check. Basically, I could find everything. But I I came too hastily, I didn’t bring photos and videos, and I was also afraid that Mars would find out, because the data queried here can be uploaded to the Internet, so I can only pick the one I remember the most and ask him: looking for a girl with orange hair. But He still shook his head. I had no choice but to retreat and ask him if he knew where the D-0 area was. Then he pointed it out to me, starting from the first row in the D area, until the number of rows. But The area is too wide, endless as far as the eye can see, like a Nanping District. I know it is hopeless, and I have no choice but to walk over and wander in it, and I can't find anything. I think."

When Lu Xing talked about this, he pursed his lips, as if he remembered something strange, and finally he showed a sarcastic smile, as if he saw something faintly emerging.He continued: "That's what I thought, almost. But when I was wandering, something happened that was destined somewhere. I was walking among those square boxes. I didn't pay attention, and I accidentally bumped into one of the crystals. box. I turned around in shock, subconsciously wanting to say sorry, and then I saw a face with closed eyes, he was facing me through the glass. It’s nothing, this is a cemetery, he closed his eyes Yes, it was scary. But I noticed some differences, some nuances—that face looked very familiar, too familiar, as if I had just seen it."

Zhang Luotuo pinched his fingers uneasily, he vaguely felt something revealed in Lu Xing's words.

Lu Xing sat up, he looked at Zhang Luotuo and Qiao De, his eyes passed through the holographic images blown by the current: "That is not the person in my dream, but it also surprised me very much. He looks fat, Like an elephant, it felt so familiar to me, I seemed to have seen him and talked to him, although only once. Then I remembered."

"He was one of the people in the previous management department."

"He closed his eyes, motionless, sleeping in a square box, and looked no different from other corpses. But the strange thing is that there is a long suture and scar on his forehead."

Joad's pupils shrank sharply.

Zhang Luotuo trembled.He understood.

"That stitch is very familiar, it looks exactly like the stitches I saw in my dream."

Lu Xing's expression was very gloomy, and all the previous smiles collapsed.Those orange game titles became extremely dim under his expression. His expression completely changed at this moment, and countless emotions suddenly rushed into his words.

After he finished the previous sentence, he had to pause for a while, and then continued with his voice as calmly as possible: "At that time, I was completely confused. I never thought that I would see him here. Then my eyes turned to him Next to him there are countless square boxes. I walked down and down until the tenth square box to the left of him. I found that I had an impression of the people in these square boxes—they were all People from the previous management department, and now they are all lying in it. Then I found that they all have a long suture and scar on their foreheads."

"That is to say, they didn't return to Mars, but lay in the D-0 area of ​​Feishan Cemetery." Lu Xing said word by word.