The glow of the sky was fading, and the last rays of gold before the sun set swept obliquely into the cave where Hao Ren and Nolan were temporarily hiding, coating everything in the cave with a dappled and wandering pale golden light.Nolan leaned sideways on the giant tires of his mountain bike, half bathed in the setting sun, half hidden in the darkness.She exhaled, "When did you start talking......
I can't remember the first time I realized that something was wrong with the world, thousands of years ago.It could also be earlier.One of the earliest images I remember was vacationing with my family in the countryside in the southern hemisphere, and then somehow waking up as a storekeeper for a company......
There's no point in going back to these things for a long time, it's just a mess of experiences that keep repeating themselves anyway.Sometimes I die in an accident and when I come back to find that the world has completely changed, and sometimes it happens like today, when I don't die, the whole world suddenly changes, and in the blink of an eye, I have a new identity and new teammates.I don't even know if the passage of time in my sense is real - maybe it was all just a few hours ago, and the beginning of all worlds was a few hours ago......
But it doesn't make much sense either. ”Hao Ren listened quietly, there were too many questions in his mind, but he couldn't sort out an order, so he simply thought of something and asked: "Is there any law for the reset of the world?"
”"There is no pattern," Nolan shook his head, "sometimes it resets every few decades, sometimes it changes in a few years, the shortest reset cycle I remember was two years, and the longest one was almost two centuries - I died twice during that time, and when I woke up to find that the world stage was still going on, but my identity had changed, I was amazed at the time, and naively thought that this reincarnation had finally stabilized, only to be reset in the afternoon of the second resurrection." ”Hao Ren nodded, it seems that this world is not based on Nolan's death as a restart switch, if a certain stability of the world is too long, Nolan's reincarnation during the period will become a resurrection of changing identities, just like a game character who goes offline and then opens a trumpet to log in somewhere else.In this way, although the girl in front of her is special, it should not be the cause and effect of this chaotic world."
After each reset, all people and things in this world will gain a new identity and 'setting', and interpersonal relationships, international relations, the world situation, culture, religion, and even technological models will change," Nolan looked at Hao Ren and thought that it was the person who experienced the "sober reincarnation" for the first time who was confused, so he explained casually, "I also studied the map and found that the terrain and landforms of the whole world have also changed, sometimes there will be several continents on the planet, and sometimes there will be only one mother continent."
There are also changes in plants and animals, but the magnitude of the changes is not very large, and it is always the species that are randomly proportioned, at most in the distribution area......
But you shouldn't understand this, you're keeping your memory for the first time, and you shouldn't have accumulated much knowledge yet. ”Nolan has been through thousands of years of reincarnation, and the amount of knowledge she has accumulated is staggering, and as an expert in any field, it is probably not a problem, so it is normal to go off topic and talk about ecology.Previously, when she was in the Gray Fox Mercenary Regiment, she was reticent only because she couldn't find someone to talk to, but now it is clear that she regards Hao Ren as a companion.Hao Ren shook his head: "It's okay, I also understand a little bit about ecological issues."
Anyway, if you say so, the world is a bit of a sandbox game of sorts?
Let's say there's a director or program behind it that controls everything, and it pulls in some material from a library of assets at a time to generate a 'world'?
”"You deduced from the morphology of the plants and animals I just mentioned?"
Nolan looked at Hao Ren with some surprise, "I didn't expect you to dabble in a wide range of things."
You're right, and I've thought so too, the world really looks like a program that constantly generates maps automatically......
It's just that even if it's true, it's useless, we can't control it. ”Hao Ren didn't hear what Nolan said in the last sentence, because he was thinking about something deeper, out of this worldview.He was convinced that he was currently on the dream plane, which meant that there was a 100% real world outside of the planet "Drom", and he thought of Heaton's journal and Ulanov's epiphany before he died, if the world was virtual or false......
So where is the interface with the real world?
Since Heaton and Ulanov can suddenly realize the illusion of the world, it means that this virtual world is not perfect, and there must be some kind of discord in it!"
Population!"
Hao Ren suddenly raised his head and looked at Nolan, "After each reset of this world, has the population changed?"
”Nolan was a little puzzled: "Population?
Does it matter?
”"Heaton once said that the world is fake, and Ulanov said something similar when he was dying," Hao Ren explained, "If the world is fake, do you think the people in the world are real?"
”Nolan's eyes widened slightly: "Do you suspect that other humans in the world are NPCs?"
”"No, I think they're all true," Hao Ren waved his hand, "that's why I'm asking you about population."
Depending on your situation, you will be resurrected and reborn after death, which means that there is no 'cache' function in the 'mechanics' of this world, and every real human will immediately appear in the rest of the world as a new identity after death.Therefore, if all the people in this world are real, then the population of each world reset should not change, and with the development of the world, the total population of human beings will not change in life, aging, sickness and death.However, if the total number of people in the world is different each time it resets, then at least some of the humans are NPCs, and the number of real humans should depend on the minimum population of a certain reset cycle in the world. ”Nolan looked at Hao Ren in surprise: "Are you really experiencing a 'reset' for the first time?"
”"Why do you suddenly ask this?""
You've thought about these questions very deeply, and obviously thought about them in a very calm and deliberate way," Nolan looked at Hao Ren with suspicion in his eyes, "I didn't think about it in the first few reincarnations, and I just wanted to live a little longer - but you don't seem to think it all matters. ”She still didn't say a word in her heart: this analytical attitude was almost like an outsider.Hao Ren was oozing cold sweat on his forehead, and he said in his heart that this girl's senses were really acute.He smiled dryly to divert Nolan's attention: "Ahem, it doesn't matter, you just treat me as a naturally nervous person."
If you really can't, you continue to be a ...... of my nervousness" Nolan: "......
I haven't really thought about the population issue you mentioned, but your thinking is very novel and reasonable.I haven't paid much attention to this demographic issue, but I've seen a few census reports before, and I think the number of people in the world hasn't changed much in each reset cycle......
Maybe it's exactly the same.After all, the world is very big, there are many human beings, and the census can never be accurate, as long as the 'program' behind this world moves a little, human beings will not be aware of the constant situation of the world's population. ”At the end, she tugged at the corners of her mouth and showed a mocking smile: "And every time this world lasts for a few years and decades, there is simply not enough time for people to find anything abnormal." ”Hao Ren frowned: "So the human beings in this world should all be real......
Just thrown onto a constantly refreshing sandbox stage?
”At this time, he really felt a little bit of a collapse of his three views, and he realized that it was meaningless for him to explore and wander in this world for a long time before, and the truth of this world was hidden in a layer of bizarre bubble dramas.Thinking of this, he laughed at himself: "Tsk......
I was still full of enthusiasm to figure out if the loss of control of the nanomachine cluster 65 years ago was the key to the problem, but it turned out for a long time, not to mention the key, it was not even a problem - it didn't happen at all......"
"No," Nolan suddenly interrupted him, "I'm afraid this incident is really strange." ”Hao Ren: "Huh?
”"In the last few resets, the world has gone in a similar direction," Nolan said with a serious face, "no matter what the world setting is at the beginning, it will eventually evolve into a global war, a weapon out of control, and a round of the end of the world."
Last time, the nano machine swarm was out of control, last time it was the global nuclear bomb out of control, and before that, satellite weapons were tampered with by AI......
The script is slightly different, but the final flow is almost exactly the same – the whole world is going to perish. ”(There was a strong wind and hail here yesterday afternoon, and the power was cut off in the community and the surrounding area, and it has not been restored yet......
This chapter is uploaded with a notebook + mobile phone hotspot.,The last bit of power in the power bank is also exhausted.,If it doesn't recover tomorrow......
That's really no way. ）(To be continued.) )