[Science Fiction] Escape from Paint City

Before the corrosive gas flooded the base of the White Tower, everyone lay down in the life capsule.However, the smart brain has not been officially activated yet, and people are in a standby state before entering the virtual world. This standby state cannot last for too long. Dr. Qi must make all the preparations within two hours.

The limited resources inside the White Tower base were no longer enough for him to produce a second protective suit.Judging from the past calculation data, there is no way to eliminate devouring insects. We can only wait for their devouring ability to weaken with the passage of time, and finally self-destruction due to insufficient intake.How long this wait will take is unpredictable.

Dr. Qi is confident that if he cannot find a solution, no one in the world will be able to.There is no signal to be sent out now, but as far as he knows, there are many experiments similar to the Dust Star Project in other countries. A small number of people should have survived. The only thing to do now is to wait.

He thought, the resistance agent on the outer wall of the White Tower base can last a thousand times, that is, 1 years.Leaving aside whether the devouring worm can go to self-destruction as he expected within 1 years, he must find a suitable successor for himself.

If he dies, no one will start the awakening program in reality, and everyone will sleep forever in the virtual world. In the end, no matter whether the resistance agent is exhausted or the devouring insect dies first, people will never come back.

Dr. Qi thought about it, and finally decided to find a hundred people with strong will to become the watchmen of the White Tower.These watchmen must struggle to remember reality without shutting down the brain core, choose to leave the virtual world, leave the utopia created for them by the brain, and spend their entire lives guarding these sleeping humans. Wake them up when the dust settles.

With limited time, Dr. Qi selected these [-] people based on everyone's life analysis, personality test and brain calculation, and Shui Chen was also among them.Dr. Qi hesitated for a moment after seeing it, but finally did not remove him from the watchman's queue.

The watchmen are undoubtedly sacrificed for everyone. They must be awakened in advance and live alone in pain and sobriety. Return to the real world.

Even if Dr. Qi prefers the children of his best friend, he cannot indulge his selfishness for the sake of human survival.A flaw in any one of the watchmen could lead to the destruction of all.

Called out these one hundred watchmen individually to ensure that after they awakened, relevant explanations and countermeasures would appear in their memory.In addition to waiting for the final result, the watchmen also need to do a series of daily maintenance, and all matters have been deeply imprinted in the depths of their consciousness.

After doing all this, two hours have passed, the standby mode is over, and everyone has officially entered the virtual world created by the brain.Everything that happened there was not something that Dr. Qi could easily interfere with.

Dr. Qi spent the last 20 years in this white tower.During this period, he struggled to get in touch with survivors from other countries. Sure enough, as he expected, scientists from all countries came to the same conclusion that there was no other way but to wait for the natural extinction of the devouring insects.They also tacitly chose the way of inheritance to ensure that as many humans as possible survived.

As for how the surviving human beings should live on the devouring worm-swept earth, everyone is silent at present and can only wait for that day to come.

It was observed from the detector that outside the surviving base, there was darkness everywhere, and nothing else could be seen, only swarms of insects were constantly walking and surging, looking for something to devour.On the outer wall of the White Tower base, a new batch of devouring worms try to climb up every day, looking for gaps to attack.Seeing this scene, even though he knew that the White Tower was safe, Dr. Qi couldn't help but feel palpitations.

Sometimes he even wondered, would the devouring worm really die by itself?Even if there is, the White Tower base can really resist the attacks of the devouring insects day after day, can we really wait until that day?

Panic and depression were growing in Dr. Qi's heart day by day. Fortunately, such days only lasted for 20 years. He controlled the negative emotions in his heart and told himself to persevere every day.

Perhaps affected by such a mood, occasionally when the condition is good, Dr. Qi becomes more and more sympathetic and will take over the endlessly waiting watchmen.At the end of his life, he had two things in store for the Watchers to come.

The first is a short video.In the video, Dr. Qi chose the day when he was in the best state of mind, and talked about the current situation in various countries, the duty of the watchman, and the hope for the future.For the first time in his life, he did not truthfully tell the results of his research, but told the subsequent watchmen with certainty that after 9000 years, the devouring insects would definitely disappear, and human beings would finally wait for the hope of survival.

He wants to tell the watchers that their sacrifices will not be in vain, everything is under control at present, all people need is to wait patiently, and this waiting will have an end.Dr. Qi felt that it was enough for those unknown panics to remain in his heart alone.

The second is the Evening Star Project.Dr. Qi finally softened his heart. He hoped that after these watchmen spent their entire lives making sacrifices, their consciousness could return to the world of great will directly at the core of the brain, where they could start a new life of their own.Even if they can no longer return to the real world, at least Dr. Qi can promise them a new life.

This plan was started too late, and not enough time was given to debug and improve. Until the last moment, the chance of successfully uploading consciousness was only [-]%.Dr. Qi used a small program to hide all the contents of the Evening Star Project in the core of the brain. Only the watchers who entered the virtual world as outsiders after being awakened can get this information.

If it succeeds, it can be regarded as a small gift for them.Dr. Qi thought to himself, if he failed, he would naturally not realize it.

In addition, there is another unexpected surprise.Although I don't know what the principle is, the protective clothing does keep the wearer's appearance unchanged, and prevents the possibility of all diseases. The aging and functional decline of the internal organs still exist, but it can guarantee that all wearers They can all live to 120 years old.

Dr. Qi has also studied this direction, hoping to extend this maintenance effect to the inside of the body and prolong his lifespan.But he had to give up the idea after discovering that this delicate balance was purely accidental, and that any modification could affect the protective clothing itself's ability to block corrosive gases.

After launching the Dust Star Project, Dr. Qi has a deeper understanding of the core of the brain.The intellectual brain is indeed completely independent from the countless virtual worlds it created. They develop wholeheartedly for the wishes of the core characters, and even resist all invasion and interference from the real world.

He can't detect what happens to everyone in the virtual world, and if he doesn't close the core of the brain, he can only succeed unless he penetrates into the virtual world in the form of an outsider, making the core person aware of the falsity of the world and the truth of the virtual world he lives in. to wake him up.

Due to the form restrictions of outsiders, this emergency entry can only last for seven days, and after seven days, they cannot enter the virtual world again.If they are forced to stay for more than seven days, the outsider's consciousness will be attacked by the brain like a virus, and if it exceeds 24 hours, the consciousness will dissipate directly.Even if you leave within 24 hours, you will die quickly due to damage to your consciousness, and even your original appearance will quickly become old. Such a consciousness is completely impossible to participate in the Evening Star Project.

After realizing that he must be awakened in this way, Dr. Qi was also powerless to make changes.He chose a middle-aged woman with the highest awakening value. She was originally a teacher, but the fearless spirit of sacrifice and the sense of justice that insisted on the truth made Dr. Qi feel at ease.

In fact, guiding her in the virtual world was also very smooth.The middle-aged woman did not show any desire in the virtual world, and their meeting did not arouse too much vigilance and resistance in the brain. Dr. Qi basically took the middle-aged woman to read the truth of the world she lived in, and just Successfully woke her up.

Dr. Qi couldn't help but heaved a sigh of relief, but at the same time, he still had a faint worry in his heart.With the death of one watchman after another, the awakening value of the subsequent watchmen is getting lower and lower, and I am afraid that the difficulty of awakening will become higher and higher.What is even more uncertain is whether the intellectual brain will become more and more sharp and its rejection of outsiders will become stronger and stronger during the awakening again and again.

However, these are things Dr. Qi can no longer change.After awakening the consciousness of the middle-aged woman, Dr. Qi woke up before her, put the protective clothing on his body into the life capsule, and handed it to her.

Amid the crying of the middle-aged woman, Dr. Qi died with a smile on his face.He has never entered the life capsule, and has never been happy in the utopia created for him by the core of the brain. He spends the rest of his life in constant anxiety and panic, and even after death, he has no chance to return to the world of great will.His body and soul have dissipated, but he firmly believes that human beings can survive and live on this earth again.

Ten years have passed, 100 years have passed, 1000 years have passed.

Watchers wake up and die one after another, and it is not known whether their souls survive in the end.During this period, the inheritance relationship was almost broken, but everyone survived.

Until Sha Qianxing, until Shuichen, their ending was the same as that of their predecessors.

The author has something to say: I'm sorry, cuties, I stopped updating for a few days before continuing to update. I'm finally busy with the things of the past few days, and now I will continue to work hard to update.

To make a digression, although I haven't been able to sign a contract, I still want to continue writing in Jinjiang.I hope that after writing it, I can give the little cuties a feeling that whether the author signs the contract or not, she doesn't have to worry about her writing, and can follow it with confidence.In order to achieve this goal, I will continue to work hard.

This chapter is still the setting of the real world, and it is still from the perspective of Dr. Qi. In the next chapter, the protagonists will appear, and it will indeed reach the end of the whole story.

Dr. Qi is the person who knows the truth of all reality the most, so he will panic, be anxious, and be depressed. However, what he left to the younger generations is infinite hope and affirmation, so the watchmen in the future will be lonely even though they will be lonely. Feel that your sacrifice is worthwhile.

There is nothing crueler than thinking you made a huge sacrifice only to be told at the last minute that it was for nothing.

The stories of so many watchmen have been brought before. In fact, each has its own pain and choice. Those who usually look inconspicuous will show his/her light at this moment.

The end of the story of the Elder and his Awakener is hinted at in this chapter.

I originally wanted to name this article "Lighthouse Watcher", but my friends complained that the name was too boring and too dark.It is true that my first set is actually the story of my predecessors, that is to say, it is BE.But I felt that I should treat readers and myself better, so I chose the story of one of the watchmen, HE.