if the earth was a game

When Liang Qiuyan went online again, he saw a vast expanse of whiteness, the surroundings were as clean as white paper, and there was nothing but him, so he thought to himself, what the hell is this?

As if he knew what he was thinking, a childish voice suddenly sounded: "This is the inner world of the earth. [For quick updates on Phoenix Novels, please search for f/h/x/s/c/o/m]"

Liang Qiuyan turned around, and saw a seven or eight-year-old child standing behind him. He was quite cute, with tender cheeks, indistinguishable between male and female, but with the pale background, it was easy to make people feel chills.Liang Qiuyan saw a lot of ghosts and ghosts in Taohuayuan, so he was not afraid at this time, and said to the child: "I have only heard of Lifan, but I have never heard of Lishijie."

The child said: "The earth is a game. Everything you and I see is data. You and I are just a piece of code. The world in the world is a place to return items to data. You can regard it as the data processing area."

Liang Qiuyan seems to understand, but it does not prevent him from continuing to ask: "Who are you? How do you know this?"

The child didn't answer his words, but raised his hand, and a honeycomb-like building immediately appeared in front of them. In each hexagonal cell, there was a blue-white egg. The egg was translucent, and something bulged inside. A drum seemed to be beating a heart, but it was wrapped in a layer of data, so it couldn't be seen clearly.

Tens of thousands of nest rooms were gathered together, densely packed, and the number couldn't be counted. Liang Qiuyan's scalp felt numb after seeing it. He suppressed his nausea and asked, "What is this?"

The child said: "Program error, loophole, bug, pick a name you like."

"Is this a bug?" Liang Qiuyan felt his voice so surprised that the end sound floated up, "So many? Why do they look like duck eggs?"

"A program is bound to be accompanied by a lot of errors. You can't understand the data level, so I transform them into something you can understand."

"Then why do they look alive?"

The child glanced at Liang Qiuyan, expressionless: "They are alive."

Liang Qiuyan disagreed: "How could a bug be alive?"

"Do you think you are alive?"

"Of course I'm alive."

"Then it's alive."

Liang Qiuyan thought to himself, what kind of logic is this?

I only heard the child say: "This is the world of data, you are just a piece of data, you are alive, then the data is alive, bugs are also data, why can't it be alive?"

Liang Qiuyan stared, speechless, thought for a long time and said: "This logic is wrong, I am data, and tables, stools and rocks are also data. I am alive, does it mean that they are also alive?"

The child asked back, "Why not?"

"They have no breathing, no heartbeat, no vital signs, how can they be considered alive?"

"Vital signs are nothing more than physical movements. If I put a pacemaker, blood circulator, mechanical lung lobes, etc. on a dummy so that he has heartbeat, breathing and various vital signs, then he is alive. Is it?"

Liang Qiuyan hesitated: "...not counting."

"why?"

"It can't think."

"Can't think?" The child smiled playfully, "Aren't the flowers and trees alive? Isn't the beating heart in your body alive? Isn't the unformed embryo in your stomach alive?"

Liang Qiuyan collapsed, damn it, why is he discussing philosophical issues with a child here?

The child added: "Isn't there a saying in the watch world that every plant and tree has a soul, and the same is true for bugs. As long as there is enough time, they can all develop personalities."

Liang Qiuyan: "Wait a minute, even if I admit that bugs are alive, you can't make progress. What the hell is personality?"

"Do you think the me who is talking to you now is a dialogue program that has already been set up or an independent individual with personality and thought?"

Liang Qiuyan looked the child up and down: "Even if it is a program, but with such a high intelligence response, I also think you are an independent individual with intelligence."

The child smiled: "Then I am the proof that the bug has personality. The source program of the earth was not perfect from the very beginning, and there was a loophole at the beginning of operation. The loophole is me. I woke up from chaos, experienced thousands of years, and developed emotions and desires. With thoughts and feelings, I became a 'person' like you."

Liang Qiuyan was amazed, but after a change of heart, he asked instead: "You say you are a bug, who can prove it?"

The child replied to him: "I brought you to this place, but that doesn't prove that my ability is really a bug?"

"Did you know that there is a kind of monster on the earth called phantom? The illusion it creates is exactly the same as reality. You might be a phantom."

"If you don't believe me, you should believe in Chongming. You have dealt with him a lot, and you know him well."

Liang Qiuyan suddenly heard Chongming's name from his mouth, and became suspicious: "Are you so familiar with me?"

"I'm not familiar with you, but I am familiar with him." The child said, "Although bugs can generate personality, few actually generate personality. Bugs are attached to account numbers. Generally, bugs have not yet generated personality, causing The wrong account was deleted, and Chongming was a special case. His players had given up playing for a long time, but I don’t know why the account was not deleted. Then Chongming was born from a bug in the account. To be honest, he and I am the only native on earth who was born on earth and died on earth. For this reason, I was familiar with him until he began to pursue the secret buried deep in the core of the earth. You and I both know this secret. It's just that the earth is actually a game, but he doesn't know that he was born on the earth, and his inherent cognition has bound him since birth. How could he realize that there may be another world outside a world, even if he realizes , and can’t even imagine what the outside world looks like.”

"You didn't tell him?"

"I told him, and then what? He will start longing for the world outside the earth, wanting to go outside, but is this possible for us?"

The other party's voice was not loud, and the tone was not harsh, but it really blocked Liang Qiuyan's speech. Liang Qiuyan hesitated a few words, and finally turned the corner to lead the topic elsewhere, looked up at the hive and asked: "There are so many people here. bug, my bug is there too?"

The air in front of Liang Qiuyan suddenly fluctuated like water waves, and a blue-white egg appeared in front of his eyes alternately from the ripples.

"This one?" He took a closer look. This egg looks no different from the outside of the hive, but inside the translucent data layer is wrapped a golden cube. The corners of the cube are not sharp lines, but smooth. The blunt edge of the cube rotates at an extremely slow speed, and occasional patterns of unknown meaning flash across the surface. There seems to be something wrapped inside the cube, but no matter how close Liang Qiuyan gets, he still can’t see what’s inside. Feel the red core.

He reached out and touched it. The egg surface was neither cold nor hot, and it was not as hard as he imagined. "Why does this one look different from the others?"

The child said, "Of course it's different, otherwise why do you think I'm looking for you?"

Liang Qiuyan was very speechless for a while, and chatted for a long time, until now he got to the point, because he had a big heart, and the first sentence for other people to come here must be "Where is this? Who are you? Find me What are you doing?" It's not like Liang Qiuyan discussed philosophical issues with a complete stranger under such unusual circumstances.

It took Liang Qiuyan some time to understand the reason of the other party. The matter was simple and simple, but also complicated. It was simple because the other party wanted him to do a favor. And he said it was complicated because the reason why the other party needed help seemed to him to be very complicated, and at the same time very nonsense.

The other party said that a pseudo-one-dimensional creature has invaded the earth system, posing a serious threat to the safety of the earth. If it is not eradicated as soon as possible, it will eat up the earth.

One-dimensional is point and data. Pseudo-one-dimensional creatures are like viruses in computers. They live and feed on data. The earth is a world of pure data. cake.No one knows where it came from, and where it entered the earth. The only known fact is that it came in and devoured the data of the earth at a terrifying speed.

The other party also said that he encountered the confusion of the background setting of the earth some time ago because he was affected by the cannibalization of data by pseudo-one-dimensional creatures. The pseudo-one-dimensional creatures ate part of the core data, causing the earth to run abnormally. The game company and the other party who are bugs , One in the open, one in the dark, the two sides worked together to remedy, modified the player's memory data, suppressed this matter, and did not let other players notice the abnormality, but judging from the speed at which pseudo-one-dimensional creatures devour data, exposure is also Sooner or later.

"So you need me to give you my bug?" Liang Qiuyan asked, pointing at the blue and white egg.

"To be precise, it's the permission to use it. I can crack other people's bugs, but yours is special. I haven't cracked it, so I need to grant permission to use it."

"What kind of pseudo-one-dimensional creature are you going to use it against? Isn't there a GM? Report this problem to them and let them solve it?" Liang Qiuyan was puzzled.

The child didn't match his age, and sighed extremely maturely: "You think they haven't tried it? In the data world, only data can deal with data, but pseudo-one-dimensional creatures are data nemesis. The anti-virus programs they compiled are in its eyes and The other edible data is no different."

Liang Qiuyan frowned after hearing this: "According to what you say, using my bug to deal with it is like beating a dog with a meat bun? How is it different from an anti-virus program?"

"No, your bug is very special. The game company and I cannot interfere with your memory, so you will be affected by the change of the earth's settings. According to my guess, there should be special code in your bug. It cannot Swallowed by a pseudo-one-dimensional creature."

Liang Qiuyan said: "You didn't screen other people? Maybe some people have special codes in their data."

"I have already implemented the plan you mentioned. December 2012, 12, do you know what this time means?"

"The end of the world! There are quite a lot of sayings like this recently, can't it be true?"

"This time point is the time when I deduced and calculated that the pseudo-one-dimensional creatures devoured the core data of the earth. It is not an exaggeration to say that it is the end of the earth." The child said, "I distributed this information and changed the measurement data at the same time, so that Some big people are convinced of this, and then use their resources to carry out the "New Humanity Project". They think that this plan is to continue the fire of mankind, but you know, this plan is actually for me to find out special codes, But unfortunately, the experiment failed and the plan fell through, so I have to come to you for help."

Liang Qiuyan: "Wait! Isn't the end of the world predicted a long time ago? At that time, the pseudo-one-dimensional creatures hadn't invaded the earth, right?"

The child smiled lightly: "History is something that people can manipulate. I just changed the data in the Mayan tomb and added a little rumor induction. Later, it was opened to the sun and the prophecy became known to the world. , Do you think anyone will have doubts? Preconceived ideas, all unreasonable places, human beings will use their own imagination to make up for it."

"I'm going! It's real! It's only a few months away from December 21st!"

The child added: "Believe it or not, the worst-case scenario for you is to abandon the Earth, shut down this server, and leave this place for pseudo-one-dimensional creatures. Anyway, pseudo-one-dimensional creatures cannot invade the three-dimensional world, but right For me, this is undoubtedly a catastrophe, I can’t live without the earth, to put it bluntly, I ask you for help only for personal purposes, not for the salvation of all sentient beings.”

Liang Qiuyan thought for a while and said: "I gave you the permission to use my bug, and then? Will it affect me?"

"I don't want to lie to you, to be honest with you, I don't know, I can't analyze your bug, maybe there is an anti-matter code written in it. I can't predict what will happen, but one thing I can be sure of, this will not threaten you life."

Liang Qiuyan nodded, expressing his understanding, as if he remembered something and said: "Hey, let me ask you a question, after you solved that pseudo-one-dimensional creature, will there be no more confusion in the background setting of the earth? I'm really fed up In order to refresh the world view every day!"

"Get rid of the pseudo-one-dimensional creatures. Even if I don't repair the core data, the company will fix it. Don't worry about that." The child paused, "Then you are going to help me?"

"Help, as long as it can solve the problem of setting confusion, you can say anything."

Liang Qiuyan really can't stand it. The first thing he does when he goes online every day is to see what Shen Fengpei's painting style is like today. Human and non-human types have been called all over the place, and he lives as if he has amnesia every day. It's better not to Get rid of the bug and go to the real memory to accept the baptism of the new painting style like everyone else.

Before giving the authority to the child, Liang Qiuyan made a request. He wanted to see what the pseudo-one-dimensional creature in the child's mouth looked like. The child nodded and agreed. It is a snow cake without slush, the black sky is upside down on it, and the lines at the junction of black and white are incomplete and intermittent, a bit like a broken egg shell.

A claw with a fleshy ball protruded tremblingly from the junction, scratched the white ground twice, and a piece of the white shell was broken off by it. Liang Qiuyan seemed to hear a crisp cracking sound, and then a furry head poked out , eating the white shell like eating snow cakes, and crawled out with a chubby body to lie on the white shell, lazily lying motionless, as if taking a nap after eating.

The child explained at the side: "For you, the pseudo-one-dimensional creature is just a concept, but here, it shows its original shape, and it is eating data."

Liang Qiuyan was speechless. The pseudo-one-dimensional creature in his imagination should be a thin and long line, similar to a thread. Who knew that the deity turned out to be a black and white reversed version of a panda!He looks like a wretched uncle wearing a mask!

Liang Qiuyan was silent for a while, then changed the subject abruptly, and said to the child, "Speaking of which, what should I call you?"

The child said, "I don't have a name, but I have a name for walking in the world. You can call me Solomon."

"...The one that seals the 72 demon gods?"

"No."

As soon as Liang Qiuyan calmed down, the child continued: "I didn't seal them, they were created when I was bored."

"........."

Well, knowing that human beings are created by duplicating Nuwa's data, it's no big deal for Solomon to create a few demon gods in creative mode.

Liang Qiuyan gave the bug permission to Solomon. The process of extracting bugs from his character data was very simple. Liang Qiuyan felt that the world was calm in the blink of an eye.

Without Solomon, without pseudo-one-dimensional creatures, there are no mechas, mermaids, orcs, human beasts, and no abo!

This is efficient!

Liang Qiuyan sighed in his heart, finally ushering in a beautiful new life.

After thinking about it, he suddenly smashed it and something went wrong.

No, given Solomon's bug, shouldn't his real memory disappear along with the bug?Why are you still here?

In the next few days, it was a profound explanation of what it means for an unlucky person to fall backwards and get a nosebleed.

One of Liang Qiuyan's bugs disappeared, but I don't know if Solomon put in a few more bugs when he took them away, so the bugs on his body increased instead.

The world view of the earth has not changed, but the changes in Liang Qiuyan have not stopped. In other words, the world view of the earth has been manifested in him alone.

For example, if I wake up today and find that I have cat ears, the cat ears will be gone when I wake up tomorrow morning, but with the addition of a fox tail, Liang Qiuyan will feel bad.

What is even worse is Shen Fengpei. Liang Qiuyan deeply believes that he can go to the Internet to ask questions: what should I do if I wake up every day and see that the race of the male ticket is changing?Urgent, wait online!

Liang Qiuyan was in a frenzy, thinking about whether to a game with a dark face.

There was a lot of fuss, and the sun circled around slowly. On a sunny afternoon, the doorbell of Liang Qiuyan’s house rang. When he opened the door, he saw two children standing at the door. He knew one of them, and it was he who swore When I saw Solomon again, who definitely wanted to show him some color, the other one didn't know him, but when he met, he held a smiling face and called him sweetly: "Mom!"

All of a sudden, Liang Qiuyan was so confused that he forgot to teach Solomon a lesson.

Solomon squeezed into the room without treating himself as an outsider, and another child hugged Liang Qiuyan's thigh and refused to let go.

Solomon and Liang Qiuyan said that after his bug was eaten by the pseudo-one-dimensional creature, not only was it not digested, but also a personality was born in a very short period of time, and it was put on the shell of the pseudo-one-dimensional creature. With a body, Solomon followed suit, After repairing his appearance, she took him to find Liang Qiuyan, after all, Liang Qiuyan was his biological mother.

Liang Qiuyan was dumbfounded after hearing this, is he happy to be a mother?

Shen Fengpei watched the farce indifferently, until the bug holding Liang Qiuyan's thigh saw him and called Dad without hesitation.

Shen Fengpei, who was happy to be a father, had a complex expression, and was silent for a while, then reached out and touched Bug's head, acquiescing to the word "father".

Inexplicably, Liang Qiuyan had two more children: "..."

Life is full of vicissitudes, and the world is impermanent. The ancients did not deceive him.

The pseudo-one-dimensional creatures were eliminated, and the crisis of the end of the world was resolved, and the family lived happily together ever since.

It would be more perfect if there is no word that Solomon casually mentioned one day.

He said, "How many dimensions do you think the human mind has?"

Liang Qiuyan looked at the backs of Solomon and Bug under the sun, and for some reason, a chill surged from the bottom of his heart.

Earth is really just a game?