dramatic death

Chapter 121 Purpose

Some scholars once said that when a person starts to miss the past constantly and is keen to immerse himself in memories, he has already entered the age of aging.After the new era, the average life expectancy of human beings has increased to 370 years. This figure means that for ordinary people—at least for ordinary people who can meet their basic necessities, 40s may still be just a child.

However, Chen Yan didn't realize for a moment that he was getting old more clearly than now.

In the short three years, he has recalled everything he has experienced countless times, exported those things worth collecting into three-dimensional projections, labeled them by category, and then treasured them in the storage cube in the study.

That little black cube—the Rubik's Cube, is the most popular black technology of the Academy of Sciences for so many years. It has saved the lives of countless workers and left traces of their family members' existence.

This thing is only available to the staff of the Academy of Sciences, and it is a kind and cruel tool.The small Rubik's Cube belonging to Chen Yan stores his only two family members. The current capacity can only store 15 segments. When he climbs to a higher position in the future, he can store more memories.

He can live only in these memories.

If his plan fails, he wants to live only in these memories.

But the reason why "memory" is cruel is that it will always be updated with new and deeper things.The Academy of Sciences still hasn’t developed any method of accessing long-term memory at this stage. They can only stimulate people’s memory system through keywords, trying to let the subjects recall the desired things independently, and then store them in the Rubik’s Cube .

If the subject forgets and cannot recall it anyway, then the part of his lost memory will never be recalled.

There will be faults in his memory cube.

Or be replaced by something fresh and deeper.

Chen Yan stood in the dark corridor of the dormitory building, silently looking at the "monster" in front of him.His Adam's apple rolled, and there seemed to be countless double images in front of his eyes. In the same place and at different times, countless teenagers with similar figures appeared in front of him. Their flexible limbs swung up and down to form a vivid body. Then, the moment he turned his head, he died in various ways.

Die in various ways.

He blinked slowly, and tightened his grip on the electric baton in his hand.

10 minutes ago, Cheng Mingque was still "alive".

Perhaps it cannot be defined in such a strange way as "alive", but the 15-year-old "Cheng Mingque" stored in Hakoniwa Online can indeed only be counted as Cheng Mingque's own thinking data.

This data was uploaded last time, which is the third "Hakoniwa Project".

After the new era, "games" as an important form of entertainment in people's lives have won strong support from the government, which is specifically characterized by a rather strict grading system and two fixed operating modes of "projection" and "immersion". model.

As the name suggests, "projection type" is a semi-virtual game built directly by mobile terminals in reality. Players can see the game scene in the room and their own home decoration facilities.This kind of game is characterized by "convenience and safety". Players can leave the game with their eyes open and enter the game with their eyes closed. Generally, there will be no psychological burden.

But the other is much more dangerous.

Most of the "immersive" games are built on the individual's thinking, which is equivalent to closing your eyes and then coming to another world in an instant.Its advantage is that it is more physical and more realistic; the disadvantage is that it is easy to overplay and forget to leave the game, so that the real body has various physiological problems.

In order to prevent the life of players from being in danger, game producers usually set an online time, strictly control the health status of players, and remind players to leave the game in time.

However, Hakoniwa Online, as a typical second game, does not have any interaction mode related to reality.

And, until now, it has no out-of-game buttons.

This is actually a rather unfair design. To some extent, the producer of the game may even face life imprisonment in the White Tower.However, so far no one organization has controlled the development of the situation. It may also be because too many organizations have reached out, so that this matter is not easy to control.

In fact, Chen Yan understands better than everyone who is currently online in this game. For a long time, they may not be able to leave this game at all.

Because this game was not a "game" at all.

The name "Hakoniwa" originated from the former "seed project", which has been implemented for 12 years.The first group of subjects started 9 years ago, so now, the current experiment they are conducting should be the third generation.

Yes, the experiment, logically speaking, the so-called "Hakoniwa Project", is just a human experiment for testing related reagents.

This experiment should not have been started years ago. It was originally scheduled to be in August this year, which is the summer vacation time of the children.The selected subjects should not be these ordinary people, but some more "professional"—or "experimental subjects who have experienced relevant reagent injections", just like the third Hakoniwa Project.

The original test site was in an underground base of the Academy of Sciences located in the abandoned capital. All the subjects will be strictly monitored in all aspects of data on the body to ensure the relative safety of human experiments.

The current situation is obviously an accident.

——Perhaps to be more clear, this status quo can be called "premeditated for a long time".

Three months ago, at the beginning of autumn, ELF announced their blueprint for the new game.The first thing that caught the attention of the Academy of Sciences was the terrible title of the game-"Hakoniwa Online" seemed to be a prank against the "Hakoniwa Project".

Has the Academy meddled?It is impossible for them not to intervene.

Blind optimism will inevitably lead to failure, and preventing the passing of time is the daily life of the group of delusional patients in the Academy of Sciences.After the ELF press conference, they offered "helping hands" in various names, but with little effect. Their intervention did not cause any interference to the development of "Hakoniwa Online", and even indirectly promoted the other party to speed up the process.

The person in charge of this project at ELF Company——Mr. Xu Jingchen, who is so innocent that his resume is fake at first glance, looks like a virtual manager specially developed for this game. His whereabouts are uncertain, information is unknown, and it is impossible threatened by any foreign object.

No one can stop the development of "Hakoniwa Online", just like at this moment, no one can turn off the running game.

It sounds like a fallacy, but it happened.

Just like about a month and a half ago, "the third generation of eve has the ability to control "Hakoniwa"" was originally a fallacy.

The game started off off guard.

But it was a good thing for Chen Yan.

He and Cheng Mingque were walking in the corridor of the dormitory 10 minutes ago. The light-on mechanism of the "hunting mode" is like a bet on a gambling table. Generally, there are only two outcomes, so every step is quite a test of the heart.

All the lights in the corridor are installed on the wall on the right, which is closer to Yintong and the others according to their orientation.If Chen Yan and Dong Tiantian wanted to turn on the light, they must first discredit the road ahead, and by the way, they must be full of energy and spirit to watch the six roads and listen to all directions.

This is not a good game. When lighting the lights at the gate of 439, Cheng Mingque felt that he was more tired than running for two kilometers on the playground.

There were no zombies or monsters in the corridor, or in other words, apart from the stumps piled up at the door, there wasn't even a single extra item.Cheng Mingque pressed the switch on the wall and let out a long breath. The overly quiet environment made his nerves a little uncomfortable. This is not a good state, so he took the initiative to provoke the topic.

He didn't look back, and while waving the fire ax to scratch the air in mid-air, testing if there was anything strange in the darkness, he asked casually, "Brother Chen, what are you upset about?"

Chen Yan was stunned by his question.

Cheng Mingque didn't care too much when he asked this question, or he didn't really expect to get an answer when he asked, but he just mentioned it casually when he had nothing to say.The small fire ax was knocking on the wall, and there was nothing weird behind the sticky black curtain of 437 and 440. Chen Yan followed Cheng Mingque into the darkness, and groped for a hole on the wall. Switch, "snapped" to turn on the dome light.

He heard himself say casually, "Really?"

There is nothing between 437 and 440. This corridor is a bit strangely empty, including the body parts at the door, as if someone has already cleaned it up in advance.Cheng Mingque leaned against the wall, and when he heard the words, he raised his head with an expression of "Can't you feel it yourself?" He said, "Yeah, it wasn't obvious at first, but then it got worse."

"Especially..." Cheng Mingque tilted his head and thought for a moment, "When we first came back from the hall downstairs, something was wrong with you. I remember you went to check the compartment behind the observation room? You were in What did you see inside?"

Chen Yan smiled: "It's just some cleaning tools, what can I have in the house of the dormitory auntie?"

"That's hard to say. The kids in our school are always playful. Who knows if there are any cats, cats and dogs hiding monsters that scare you back."

Cheng Mingque didn't distract himself when he said this, and continued to move forward after finishing speaking.Chen Yan stood there without moving for a while, watching the young man gradually approaching the dark back, and smiled with difficulty holding the corner of his mouth.

Am I irritable?he asked himself in his heart.

A small voice came up and sighed helplessly: "Probably so."

There will always be countless thoughts of regret in a person's life. It seems that if God gives you a chance to change, most people will choose to go back to the past to make up for the regrets in their lives.They will work hard and do their best to make up for the lost beauty.

But is the past really that easy to change?

Chen Yan stood in the corridor, looking at the stained blood on Cheng Mingque's bright coat.He heard that the other party connected to the in-game voice, and it seemed that Yin Tong was on the other side of the call, so that Cheng Mingque responded and looked in his direction with a smile.

He saw Cheng Mingque turning his head to look at him, his bright eyes bent into crescents.

Then a hand came from the darkness behind him and grabbed his slender neck.

……

This is his teenager, No.30 died five times before his eyes.