Li Yao picked up a handful of black seawater and found that the seawater was like a mixture of mucus and sand, spilling from his fingers in a very strange shape.
It seems that the collapse of the virtual world has affected the core logic layer, and even the dynamic model of sea water cannot remain stable, resulting in all kinds of strange changes.
This was a deserted world, and Li Yao did not feel the strong breath of life.
After walking along the beach for a long time, the only thing that can be called "life" is that it can be seen everywhere on the beach, like deflated rubber balls, but with countless tentacles, like a weird mixture of crabs and jellyfish. thing.
These weird big crabs were motionless and emitted a very unpleasant rancid smell.
It was unclear whether they were dead or "alive".
Naturally, they are not virtual lives generated by the virtual world itself, but artificial intelligence added when the virtual world was constructed.
The original plan was to use them to modulate the original ocean, monitor various data changes in the virtual seawater, and accelerate virtual life.
The birth of.
However, with the collapse of the virtual world, not only has virtual life not been born, but even the core databases of these artificial intelligences have become increasingly lengthy and cumbersome, with a large amount of data overflowing and falling into an infinite loop, unable to run any instructions.
"Boom...boom...boom..."
In the purple sky, zigzag-shaped dark clouds rolled feebly, and thunder was heard one after another, but the thunder only had the first half but not the second half, like the sound of a rooster with its neck stuck, and it stopped suddenly.
It sounds unspeakably uncomfortable.
On the other side of the beach was an endless big city.
Looking far into the distance, Li Yao found that this ultra-modern city seemed to have experienced the most severe earthquake and meteorite bombardment.
There were ruins everywhere, explosions and raging flames.
The burnt marks looked more desperate and lifeless than the black sea.
"Hello" The virtual world gave Li Yao a very uncomfortable feeling.
It was as if there was only this collapsed world left in the entire universe, and he was the only one left in this collapsed world.
He couldn't help but shrink his neck and shouted loudly.
The expedition team members Long Yangjun, Wei Qingqing, and Professor Xie Wufeng actually landed on the beach not far from him, but no one responded to his call.
When Li Yao finally found the large army and wondered why they didn't respond to him, he found that whether it was the mysterious Long Yangjun, the knowledgeable Professor Xie Wufeng, the spiritual tribe Wei Qingqing, and all the expedition team members, they all Staring at the beach in a daze.
Li Yao stretched his neck, looked towards the beach, and slowly opened his mouth.
He saw a long scroll, or hundreds of sand paintings, stretching from one end of the beach to the other.
The initial sand painting techniques were very immature, like a child randomly picking up a branch and sketching it on the beach.
It was impossible to understand what was being drawn, and it was completely messy lines.
Gradually, the sand paintings had their own content and skeleton.
Although they still looked very immature, they had a rough style that reminded Li Yao of the murals left by cavemen deep in the caves.
The content of the sand paintings seems to be the depths of the primitive ocean, all kinds of strange fungi, algae, nautiluses, trilobites and other strange things.
As various primitive marine creatures gradually evolved, the brush strokes of the sand paintings became more and more sophisticated, and the content arrangement became more and more precise.
Using fine grains of sand, a long scroll of biological evolution was vividly and vividly depicted.
Marine life, reptiles, mammals, primates, the enlightenment of Pangu civilization, the birth of modern humans, the division of human beings, wars and development, the scale of sand paintings is getting larger and larger, the structure is getting more and more complex, and it develops from a flat surface When it comes to three-dimensionality, until the end, it can no longer be called a "sand painting", but a large-scale sand sculpture of two cute children, a boy and a girl, sitting alone on the surface of a devastated planet, with fleshy little hands.
He held his cheeks, as if looking up at the stars.
But in front of them were densely packed human tombstones.
There was no light in the eyes of the two children, which were made of gravel.
They showed no sadness, no joy, no fear, no anger towards the tombstones that flooded the whole world.
Li Yao swallowed hard.
He vaguely felt that such a long scroll of sand paintings looked familiar, as if he had seen it somewhere.
By the way, isn't this the sand painting version of the half-step too illusory realm at the entrance of the Tinder Base?
However, at the end of the "evolutionary road" created by Professor Mo Xuan, what replaced humans were some large silver-white spheres similar to his own body, condensed from liquid metal.
But at the end of this sand painting, even though the entire planet is covered with human tombstones, there are still two children looking up at the stars.
What does this mean?
Li Yao's mouth was a little dry and he asked Xie Wufeng softly: "Professor Xie, what does this mean?
Who left this sand painting, Professor Mo Xuan?"
"I don't know, but it's... very strange."
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Professor Xie Wufeng mused, "Everything in the virtual world is calculated in real time, and it is constantly changing just like the real world.
You see, the ebb and flow here, although weak and slow, still exist, and from the beach's Judging from the shape, not long ago, the rise and fall of the tide was much more violent than now, and the sea water at high tide was enough to submerge the sand paintings. " "That's right."
Wei Qingqing also said, "Although the virtual spirit world collapsed in the past, it was not completely static.
Instead, it moved more violently and without any rules.
It was a world where mountains collapsed, earth cracked, lightning flashed and thundered, howling winds, and stormy waves came and went.
If the world had left this piece of sand painting at that time, it would have been erased, or in other words, 'deleted'."
"That is to say" Li Yao thought carefully for a moment, "This sand painting was left behind not long ago after the 'vitality' of the virtual world gradually dried up and turned into a dying and still world?
"That was almost the critical moment when Professor Mo Xuan was preparing to launch his final plan.
Why did he leave such weird traces here at that time?
If he had to 'express' something, the Taixu illusion of the Fire Base was enough to explain him. concept.
"Moreover, the initial childish and rough brushstrokes are not quite like Professor Mo Xuan's style, but they really look like an innocent child.
"The question is, besides Professor Mo Xuan, does anyone else exist in the ethereal world?
Will they leave such a painting?"
“Both the brushstrokes and the style can be simulated.”
Professor Xie Wufeng said, "Creating such a sand painting is not complicated in itself.
Both technology and computing power are a piece of cake.
As long as the database is large enough and a command is input into the crystal brain, it can be completed in an instant.
"The key is, who gave this 'instruction' to whom, and what is its purpose?"
This question caused everyone to fall into silence, and every expedition team member felt a chill on the back of their head, as if there were two pairs of shining little eyes hiding among the gravel, looking at them with a smile.
Li Yao knelt down on one knee and carefully observed the sand paintings one after another.
For some reason, he had an extremely strange feeling.
He felt that these sand paintings gave him an unreasonable sense of... intimacy?
It was like a weak electric current swept through his body, making him feel numb from his eyelids to his lips.
He couldn't tell whether it was pleasure or discomfort.
How should I put it, he suddenly felt that these sand paintings were made by his own hands, or in other words, if he were allowed to depict the evolution of life, he would probably draw them like this.
Li Yao was startled, then calmed down and continued to ask: "Have you found the fragments of 'No. 17' and 'No. 18'?"
"not yet."
Professor Xie Wufeng said, "It was originally just some fragmented and illusory runes and data fragments.
It would not be surprising even if it was completely wiped out by the ethereal world.
"Why, do you suspect that this piece of sand painting was left by 'No. 17' and 'No. 18'?
This is also possible.
Suppose Professor Mo Xuan first embedded an instruction related to the sand painting in their bodies.
Under certain conditions, It was automatically activated, driving them to leave these things behind.
Well, this is a quite reasonable explanation.
"Let's go and see the city."
The expedition team followed the steps covered with cracks and weeds and entered this once majestic but now dilapidated city by the sea.
Li Yao discovered that this city was a collection of all the cities of human civilization throughout the ages, with antique pavilions and modern glass-walled skyscrapers closely integrated together.
Over there are towering peaks and splashing waterfalls.
Here is a vacuum track piercing the sky and a sunken square hundreds of meters deep.
However, after experiencing the collapse of the ethereal world, this "City of Ten Thousand Cities" was completely reduced to ruins.
Whether it was pavilions or skyscrapers, they were all entangled with weeds and vines.
Waterfalls dried up, pipes broke, and sunken The square was filled with debris and dust, like a tomb of human civilization.
"Professor Mo Xuan once talked to me about his idea of creating virtual life."
Looking at the deserted streets and the city filled with bones, Professor Xie Wufeng sighed, "At that time, Professor Mo Xuan firmly believed that a new virtual life would be born, but he also did not want to create a kind of virtual life that humans could not understand or comprehend.
Human beings are virtual beings that are not controlled by humans and are enemies of humans.
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"How should I put it?
He hopes to create a virtual life that has human ideas and emotions, identifies with human morals and values, and even regards himself as a 'son of mankind', or in other words, an evolved version of human beings.
"So, while creating the 'virtual primitive ocean', he also built this glorious city, integrating the essence of human civilization, including our technology, law, morality, art and heroic stories.
It's all condensed in it.
"You can think of this big city as a combination of a 'history museum' and a 'big library'.
The entire civilization is in it.
Virtual life will be nurtured, born and continued under the light of this 'civilized city'."
Evolve and become a 'good boy' in a sense."