To Sutta

【008】

The gunshot came suddenly, Lin Ling stood up suddenly, frowning.

"What's going on?" Suta sat up nervously, his voice was very close, right in the hospital.

"We have to leave here." Lin Ling helped Suta up: "Can we still go? I'll carry you on my back."

Su Ta said: "Of course we can go. But where are we going? Let's call the police first!"

"I'll go out and see the situation first."

Lin Ling was about to leave, but Su Ta grabbed his sleeve tightly in an instant: "Don't go! It's too dangerous!"

While talking, there was a slight sound of footsteps outside the door, and the two of them immediately fell silent, only hearing the sound of footsteps walking back and forth in the corridor for a while, and finally someone knocked on the door lightly.

Before Suta realized what was going on, Lin Ling hugged him into his arms.The bullet pierced through the door, flew into the room, and embedded itself in the wall.The sawdust cracked, and the door collapsed with a loud noise.

Suta's heart was beating violently, and his head was blank. After a few seconds, he was thankful that no one was standing behind the door.

Amidst the dust, a few people wrapped in black leather clothes came in. They stood in a row, with their black muzzles pointing straight at Lin Ling.

"Lin Ling." The leader said in a muffled and deep voice: "After playing the game of cat and mouse for so long, I think you are tired of it. You know what we want, so obediently hand over the things, and we don't have to. Go to war, after all, in the end, both sides will suffer, and no one will have a good time."

Su Ta felt that Lin Ling hugged him tighter, and he grabbed Lin Ling's clothes, full of anxiety in his heart.

Unexpectedly, Lin Ling smiled: "After playing the game for so long, you also know that I never intend to give you anything."

Before the words were finished, the man in black fired four shots without a silencer, and the sound waves in the room were deafening.

Su Ta wanted to push Lin Ling away for a moment, but the other party just hugged him tightly. At the last moment when he closed his eyes, Su Ta saw bullets flying across the air, but was blocked by an invisible barrier in front of Lin Ling.The bullet was like a stone falling into a lake, and there was a wave of water flickering around it.

Su Ta thought he was dazzled, and stared at Lin Ling with shock in his eyes.

The next second, Lin Ling quickly pulled out a gun from nowhere and shot at the four men in black.

At the same time, a group of doctors and nurses suddenly poured in outside the door, and there were even patients in hospital gowns, all with guns in their hands, and fired wildly at the man in black, forming a siege.

"Let's go!" Lin Ling guarded Su Ta and walked quickly from the corner to the door.

The man in black chased the two of them with firepower.

Su Ta was still in shock, and kept looking back, only to see that the man in black was forced to back up. The bullets could not hurt the man in black, but the firepower of the man in black could hit the doctors and nurses, and the wall of flesh collapsed instantly. At the same time, it was filled by more people, which seemed shocking.

"What, what's going on?" Su Ta reluctantly followed Lin Ling's pace, the corridor was empty, only the sound of gunshots rang out behind him.

Lin Ling said: "I'll explain to you when I get to a safe place."

The two stopped talking and walked quickly all the way.Although Suta's bones were brittle and his physical strength was not very good, he hadn't reached the point where he couldn't even walk.

The two were on the sixth floor and did not take the elevator. After going down two floors, they encountered a group of men in black at the corner. Lin Ling changed from somewhere. He fell to the ground.

"Let's go to the third floor." Lin Ling looked very calm.

Su Ta was confused by this series of changes, but subconsciously followed Lin Ling's words.In the end, the two came to a consulting room. Lin Ling closed the door, then dragged out a virtual screen out of thin air, wrote a few strings of codes on it, turned around, and looked at Suta.

There was no one in the consulting room, and only the sound of Suta's suppressed breathing was in the air.

Su Ta sat down on the chair and spent 2 minutes digesting what he saw and heard just now. The questions buried in his heart a few days ago emerged one by one, and he clenched his hands tightly.

"I'm sorry, Suta." Lin Ling sighed and approached Suta, but he motioned to keep a distance.

"Answer me a question first..." Suta's voice trembled: "Is this world true or false?"

"sorry."

"Just tell me if it's true or not!"

A trace of unbearableness flashed in Lin Ling's eyes for a moment, but soon, he looked directly into Su Ta's eyes and said word by word: "This is a world created with codes."

It was as if a bucket of cold water had been poured on Suta's head, and there was a buzzing sound in his ears. Lin Ling walked over quickly and said something, but Suta couldn't hear it clearly.

He looked down at his hand, and found that his whole body flashed like an image, and strings of codes overflowed from his fingertips.At the same time, a series of transparent numbers appeared on the walls around the consulting room, which were rapidly disintegrating, and the entire space was crumbling.

"This, what is this..." Suta looked at his hands blankly.

"Don't look, Suta." Lin Ling ignored the gradually peeling wall, put his hand on Suta's shoulder, and blocked his eyes, "Take a deep breath, you have to calm down."

A few minutes later, Suta calmed down a little, and was confused for a while.The consulting room was also reorganized as his mood stabilized.

Lin Ling said: "What do you want to know? You ask, I answer, I won't lie to you."

Suta took a deep breath and said, "Am I still alive? Or is it just a string of codes in this world?"

"You're alive. You're a human being, but it's your brainwaves that are working here."

"What about my body?!" Suta stood up and said eagerly, "I'm going back to the real world now!"

The moment he finished saying this, some memory fragments suddenly appeared in Suta's mind, but before he had time to think about it, the picture flashed by, and he could only look at Lin Ling blankly.

"...Lin Ling, did I forget something?"

Lin Ling leaned against the table next to Suta, looking sideways at him.There is no window in this consulting room, and the light from the energy-saving lamp is just right, hitting Lin Ling's face, he smiled faintly, but somehow made Su Ta feel sad.Lin Ling said: "You have known me for six years, but I have known you for 13 years. Can you remember, Suta?"

"When we were in college, we were majoring in the Department of Information Technology. At that time, you were very interested in virtual reality technology. You once proposed to me an idea. If you connect brain waves to a computer, record the data, and then use the computer to speculate based on the data. Can the behavior of generating brain waves replicate a personality?"

Lin Ling looked at Su Ta and said, "If this personality is given a virtual reality environment that matches his memory, can he live independently in the data?"

Suta's heart was pounding, he felt like he was listening to a completely strange story, but it felt so familiar.

"But due to conditions and capacity constraints, we have never implemented this plan."

"It wasn't until we met at the game company and established a relationship that we didn't think about it again. Lu Mo provided us with the company's equipment, so we decided to start experimenting with ourselves and record brain waves."

"The most basic data should be recorded for at least one year..." Suta felt that the memory was gradually returning, and muttered to himself: "But during this time, I fell ill, it was bone cancer..."

Lin Ling remained silent.

Suta was immersed in the grotesque memories, tears fell down, and he could hardly breathe: "In the seventh month of the record, I... I have... died..."

Lin Ling held Su Ta's face in his hands, and wiped away his tears little by little with his fingers.Tears are warm, translucent, soft, but hot, like a small drop of flame falling from a candle, burning from the skin to the bottom of the heart.