This Game Is Too Realistic

The empty room was silent except for the slight white noise of the operating electronic components.

The chair with its back to the door remained motionless, like a silent theatergoer.

Chu Guang didn't know if the professor's old friend "Observer" was also watching.

But even if it was, it probably wouldn't be able to jump out and say anything.

After all, it said the next encounter would be dozens of millennia later.

If he could wait until then.

The professor standing on the screen seemed to be lost in distant memories. He stood quietly and thought for a long time, and then spoke in a thoughtful tone.

"That was a love affair long ago, more than three hundred years ago."

"I can't remember whether that was the first time or the second time I saw [it], but it was indeed the first time it had a heart-to-heart conversation with me."

"At that time, I had mastered the mysteries of the four fundamental forces, and gradually began to use gravity as a medium to touch the boundaries of dimensions... Just as observers expected, after we mastered the power comparable to stars, we again Got the key to Maiwa Starry Sky.”

Chu Guang had a surprised expression on his face.

"Hyperdrive? Did you invent it?"

The professor shook his head.

"No, I'm not very interested in specific applications. Those things are what my students are doing. But my research on neutrinos, quark-gluon slurries and gravitons has laid the theoretical foundation for the hyperspace engine. . Including deflector shields, including the anti-gravity you are familiar with, they are actually all extended applications of hyperspace theory..."

It’s okay if you’re not interested…

Feeling the strong smell coming to his face, Chu Guang touched his nose unconsciously.

Although he knew that the other person was not deliberately showing off, he found that he was still being pretended.

Perhaps this is due to specialization in the art industry.

He is still better at being sinister than pretending to be cool.

When he was talking about this, the professor suddenly stopped talking as if he was thinking of something.

"I won't tell you those complicated things. If you are interested, you can understand it yourself. There is a popular science book called "Past, Present, and Future" on the bookshelf of the library on the B4 floor, which uses popular language to reveal It understands the principles of hyperspace and FTL engines, and will be more friendly to amateurs.”

Chu Guang nodded.

"I read it a long time ago...did you write it?"

He didn't remember who the author of the book was, but he only remembered the "gravity bond" mentioned in the book. It opened his eyes to the fact that this was how super-light navigation in the era of the People's Union was actually done.

The professor smiled and said.

"That's not what my students wrote."

Good guy.

Being faked again!

Chu Guang coughed lightly.

"...Are we digressing from the topic?"

"Sorry, the interruption was a bit long."

The professor smiled sheepishly and resumed his previous tone, and continued talking.

"In short... on the Nth year after the establishment of the People's Federation, we took the key to the sea of ​​​​stars and completed the first ascension of the entire human civilization. From that day on, our frontier was no longer just the earth. , and began to expand to other planets outside the Earth-Moon system.”

"And just when the People's Federation needed me most, the Observer came to me and predicted future crises and all kinds of 'natural disasters'. In the end, it wanted me to dig a grave on Mars, a bigger one than Nanmen. The ruins of the two are small and have many graves... However, due to some reasons, I did not succeed. "

Chu Guang: "What love?"

The professor was silent for a while, as if he didn't want to talk about this issue, but he seemed to feel that it was a matter of love, so he finally spoke.

"Something personal... My wife was seriously ill. At least at that time, there was no cure. Even though we had mastered the power of the stars at that time. Moreover, those who stand in a similar position to you People didn’t want me to take risks, and they tried to persuade me for a long time... Anyway, I finally chose to stay in the era I should be in. "

"There's really nothing we can do about it, it's human nature." Chu Guang nodded, with some appreciation in his eyes.

He is not an emotionless person.

On the contrary, he not only values ​​feelings, but is also willing to make friends with people who value feelings.

Although people with such weaknesses may not necessarily be good people, they usually have a bottom line. They will pay attention to what they eat and look like, they will have some scruples, and they will not do anything to give birth to a son without a butthole.

By the way, this is one of the reasons why he remains single.

Even though he has no regrets about giving birth to a son without an asshole.

"Really? You think it's human nature, right... Besides, love is not that simple."

The voice that floated through the screen was filled with complex emotions. It was hard to describe whether it was about leaving something behind or taking up some responsibility that was not one's own.

"...According to what I learned later, that guy concealed quite important information. There were indeed some 'good things' buried in that tomb, but at that time we simply did not have the ability to fully excavate that ruins. , once you get in, you can’t get out, no matter who you are! No wonder it asked me to get out, that root is a trap, this guy wants to kill me!”

Chu Guang was stunned for a few seconds, with astonishment written on his face.

"Observer...want to kill you? Why?"

The man on the screen was silent for a while, and then spoke after a long time.

"I don't know, maybe it doesn't necessarily want to kill me, or maybe it just wants me to disappear for a while. According to it, my progress is beyond its expectations. It is a cross-regional organization that cooperates on a global scale... …That is, the People’s Federation was born ahead of schedule, two centuries earlier than expected.”

"Not only that, including the completion of the first fusion reactor, including the construction of the space elevator, etc., they are all based on the prosperity of all mankind."

"Although I think it's not a big deal, it's all small in the face of time, and it's not my fault alone, but it thinks that we in this universe are moving too fast, and there is an undercurrent under the vision of prosperity. ”

"According to its point of view, the explosive progress of science and technology has allowed us to skip the problems that should be encountered and the real-life tools that should be obtained from solving problems. Once our speed slows down in the future, we have skipped Problems will break out, and all our efforts will be wasted by just a small risk, and this risk will almost certainly happen in the future. "

Chu Guang pressed his eyebrows and thought for a while, trying to clarify the contradiction between the two parties.

To put it simply, the observer hopes to give appropriate intervention, but the result of the intervention exceeds his expectations.

So it plans to remove the interference term.

No--

This is actually not quite accurate.

A more accurate statement would be that it gave the professor two choices.

Either Mars, accept its "macro-control" and develop in the direction of a boundary breaker.

Either give up the system and stay on your original timeline, but the price is that it will remove excessive interference, or receive "a helping hand from the void."

According to the professor, he actually no longer had much use for the system given to him by the observer.

If there is no higher-level pursuit, there is really no need to be at the mercy of observers in order to preserve the system.

"...What happened next?" Chu Guang continued to ask.

The professor on the screen spoke slowly.

"It actually didn't matter after that. It said it would find someone else in the future, and then it disappeared from my system with it, as if it had never been there. But it doesn't matter anymore. I have said before that at that time I no longer need its help...but it seems to have disappeared and came to me again after many years. It didn't say why it came, but I can probably guess, maybe because it found out. There is no future."

Chu Guang: "This 'no' means...there is no boundary breaker?"

The professor shook his head.

"It refers to one...according to it, if I continue to stay on this timeline where I am, our civilization will overdraw and destroy all the future. Or to put it another way, countless universes in which I exist will Until the final heat death of the universe, the next 'Border Breaker' will not be born."

Chu Guang's Adam's apple moved, he was silent for a long time, and then he sighed softly.

"That sounds too exaggerated."

The professor smiled lightly.

"It's quite exaggerated, but in fact it also has its truth. According to its soap bubble theory, the two time states of past and future exist instantaneously in the void, and the multiverse and parallel world also exist instantaneously. . Any decision I take on the timeline of my existence will change the future results, and these changes were possible at the beginning of the universe."

When he said this, the professor's voice suddenly took on a hint of loneliness.

Chu Guang wasn't sure if there was any regret in it, but there was definitely helplessness and annoyance.

"It showed me another future, which is another possibility in the parallel world. I saw the future after Mars... where I saw my descendants, and the descendants of many people I am familiar with, They are all living a good life, and although it cannot be compared with the prosperous era, it is not much inferior."

"At the end of that future, I finally left my home planet, but the future of our civilization was bright. Although we experienced some twists and turns during this period, it did not recover like the Wasteland Era... And in the end, we Walking into the sea of ​​​​stars with a new attitude.”

Looking at the blurry face, Chu Guang thought for a long time and asked.

"Do you regret it?"

"No, I'm just a little regretful," the professor shook his head and said slowly, "At that time, I was actually a little suspicious of its capriciousness. It said it would never come to me again, but it suddenly took it. Come to me with the so-called alternative future.”

"Of course I rejected it, it was disappointing...but if you think about it, it might actually be the last chance to get history on the right track."

"Maybe, if I die at the right time, that would be the best ending -"

"I can't live with that."

Chu Guang shook his head and said this without thinking.

"History can't always advance exactly as we imagine. You can't represent what's right, and neither can I, nor can a pair of eyes floating in nothingness represent it."

"Besides, if it really represents the truth, it won't be me standing here now, but someone else predicted by it."

Chu Guang could actually somewhat understand the self-blame deep inside the professor's heart.

Although as he said himself, no one would blame the Wasteland Era (the "Father of the Prosperity Era"), just like no one would blame Li Min for the chaos of Anshi, and no one would blame the outbreak of World War II. The steam engine has a watt head.

Each generation has its own affairs, and even the role played by the same person in different life stages is different.

At most, future generations will blame themselves for failing to live up to the professor's expectations and failing to continue the prosperity he created.

However, it is obvious that the observation not only revealed another future to him, but also revealed to him the wasteland era and the dozens of millennia that followed, letting him know that it was impossible to know the cause and effect in the first place——

Including the Wasteland Chronicles is a foregone conclusion.

Even if you build more shelters, you can't save everyone, and you can't change the ending of human beings turning into dust.

And all this happened because of you...

Although no one would accuse him of this, he still couldn't get over the hurdle in his heart.

In fact, he spent the entire second half of his life preparing for the predicted disaster.

Including planning to build a shelter.

Including the Ark Project black box.

Even including the establishment of "academy" and so on.

These plans were foreshadowed as early as the middle of the prosperity era, and the professor's shadow is behind them...

If you don't have a strong sense of responsibility, you will never be able to shoulder these responsibilities that are irrelevant.

It is worth mentioning that because "the wolf is really coming", and it comes at a time when everyone thinks that the utopia of infinite prosperity will continue forever, so many old popsicles in the wasteland regard the professor as Gods are generally worshiped.

This includes the chief of the Great Rift Valley, the old Riddler-like old man.

Also included is Dr. Conclusion who is standing behind the academy, the guy who is said to have been transformed into a digital life.

They don't know about the void and the matter of observation.

From their point of view, and even from the perspective of all wasteland visitors, they would never think that this was a last resort, but that they were undoubtedly far-sighted.

Chu Guang will know that these are purely accidental.

However, his views are still the same as before, and nothing will change because of knowing this.

If we refused to move forward because of fear of a downward spiral, humans would probably still be in the trees at this time.

Moreover, they have proven through their actions that their destiny is in their own hands, rather than being controlled by the illusory and void.

"You just said you didn't know what choice I would make. I can tell you now that I may not make the same choice as you, but I will make the choice I think is right."

The professor who stood in the screen was silent for a while, and suddenly he laughed a little freely.

"I want to say that it is you as expected, but I think this statement is a bit strange. Although we are different, we still made the same choice... The choice I made at that time was the choice that I thought was the right choice from the bottom of my heart."

He is indeed full of curiosity about the void, and he also longs to understand the origin of the universe, but if the price is to give up his identity as a human and become a chess piece of the observer - the so-called "breaking the world", then that is another matter.

Prevent the heat death of the universe.

This does sound grand, but what does it have to do with being a human being?

In the face of that endless cause, the entire galaxy is just a mayfly.

Maybe he made different choices in other universes and changed something or prevented something in the distant future.

But at least in this universe, he chose to live as a human being.

With the people he loves.

Looking at the professor standing on the screen, Chu Guang nodded slightly, always feeling that there was something in his words, as if he had known him a long time ago.

But this is actually nothing strange.

Since he has traveled through the universe and projected his thoughts into another, younger universe, he must have gone through repeated observations and selections before finally choosing himself.

"Have you taken that relic item?"

It is reasonable to speculate that it should be something that constitutes the morphogenesis field.

As expected, the professor on the screen nodded and said with an approving smile on his face.

"Yes, I tried to do some remedial work afterwards, including collecting the remains on Mars... I think you have probably guessed the nature of the morphogenesis field."

Chu Guang also nodded.

"Thought resonance can penetrate the membrane of the universe and convey information that both parties agree with. My conclusion is that you should have found yourself, and it is very likely that you have just obtained the system."

"Congmei," the blurry figure snapped his fingers, and the admiration in the looming sight became more and more obvious, "your understanding is not inferior to mine... The only regret is that you are not engaged in scientific research."

"I'm not interested either. I'm only responsible for setting the rules of the game," Chu Guang said with a nonchalant expression on his face, "So what did you get from the ruins?"

"The three potions represent stronger physical strength, almost unlimited lifespan, and spiritual power respectively. If used correctly, it can even change the genetic profile of the entire human race. However, if not used correctly, it may also become a curse, such as making people who should not live If a person lives too long, it would be like letting an immature baby hear too much noise from the void."

Just when Chu Guang was lost in thought, the professor on the screen suddenly changed the subject and said with a smile.

"Actually, those things are not important to you. I already got rid of those things in the early days of the Prosperity Era."

Chu Guang was stunned for a moment.

"...All of them?"

The professor said with a smile.

"That's right. Although in theory you can only choose one of the three potions to use. Mixing different potions may cause genetic contamination, but I thought of a trick and let the monkey who served as the experimental subject drink the potion. Then the three different experimental subjects were used to complement each other... including but not limited to allowing them to reproduce with other female monkeys, and controlling variables to allow their offspring to cross. "

This guy didn't choose to drink it himself?

A bit of surprise appeared on Chu Guang's face.

He originally thought that he had enough experience to "not know the heights of the sky", but he didn't expect that there was a guy here who was even less awe-inspiring. He really didn't pay attention to the void at all.

There was no surprise on Chu Guang's face, so the professor continued.

"The results of the experiment are quite astonishing, and they also confirmed my guess. That potion is probably a projection of high-dimensional matter on a three-dimensional surface, or it uses some kind of higher-dimensional technology that we don't understand. , so the permutations and combinations presented as DNA molecules are extremely complicated, just like conflicting codes. If these genomes appear in a person at the same time, the person's body will undoubtedly "report an error," and this is the so-called genetic contamination. ”

"So I did the next best thing and intercepted non-conflicting DNA fragments through repeated experiments, rearranged them using existing technology, and gradually transplanted them into [experimental clones]. Although the genotype formed through rearrangement showed effects It will be weaker, but it will be more stable and there will be no more genetic contamination.”

"And not only that, our research team also surprisingly discovered that as the body and genome adapt to each other, those 'annotated codes' will gradually be expressed correctly in a more stable form!"

Chu Guang swallowed.

"Even if you die and come back?"

"That's right, at least for clones that only hold partial fragments. All it takes is a culture chamber or a scanning device to record the life evolution process they have experienced before."

The professor nodded slightly and continued.

"The genome re-expression process can be completed in the culture chamber. After all, the life stages of clones can be artificially defined... I said [here, you should have already realized what the genetic sequence of your 'players' is" Something."

"I roughly understand. In other words... you have obtained a huge gene library by analyzing the three tubes of medicine, and the players' genetic codes are different 'segments' in different gene libraries under the regular gene arrangement and combination." As a result, they are responsible for exploring individual 'segments' of stable expression methods."

Chu Guang tried to simplify complex problems so that they could be understood.

Looking at the professor who nodded approvingly, he paused for a moment and continued.

"But there is one more thing I don't know about. What is my genetic sequence?"

As if waiting for him to ask this question, the figure on the screen showed a vague smile.

"This involves one of the most core secrets of Vault 404... Have you ever heard of the 'Gestalt Life Project'?"

"Of course I've heard of it..."

Chu Guang always felt that the eyes staring at him were somewhat meaningful, and a strange feeling gradually arose in his heart.

Difficult——

Just when he had almost guessed the answer, the professor standing on the screen revealed the final answer to him.

"Your DNA contains all the 'segments' in that gene pool, although most of them are in annotated form."

"This process is actually full of risks. It's like you have a nuclear bomb strapped to your body. If you are not careful, you will be blown up without even ashes... But who wants you to be a manager? Don't blame me for being cold-blooded. , someone has to take the risk.”

"Relatively speaking, the risks borne by players will be smaller. They only have a small piece of shrapnel, and they are only responsible for dismantling the shrapnel on their hands. In addition to carrying the nuclear bomb, you also have to be responsible for information." Summarize and integrate, and dismantle your own "nuclear bomb" based on the clues provided by the players... This is also one of the reasons why your 'sequence level' is positively correlated with the players' sequence level and quantity."

"During the entire process of division of labor and collaboration, we did refer to the operating model of the mutant slime mold mother nest and made improvements to a certain extent on this basis."

"That's why I tell you, you don't care what I get from that ruins, because I have already given those precious inheritance to you."

"And you are the 'Gestalt Life Form'!"