META Quantum Era

Chapter 1 Prologue: Out of Order1

On the third day, there was still no end to this sand dune, and Anji felt it was time to give up. Looking back at the footprint, with the help of the gyroscope, at least the dot matrix formed by his own row of footprints was not skewed. Even squatting down looks straight, extending one-way into the skyline as far as the eye can see, a perfect 90° intersection. It makes no sense to go on foot. This place will not be a natural product. Of course, there is no such flat desert in the real world. An Ji didn't know why he had to walk for three days with ghosts and demons. In his opinion, it was a full three days. Perhaps there is a problem with his own measurement scale, after all, this strange space is only composed of a single plane, desolate and monotonous. The only variable is that the light is periodically staggered between light and dark, but he knows that there is no basis for choosing this as the time reference system. There is no point to point, or even the meaning of going on, it should have been given up a long time ago, or there is no need to start at all. "The simulation is terminated and the data is reset. " More than ten seconds passed, but the desolate sand dunes did not change, and not even a pop-up window interface appeared. He repeated it again, this time directly in his throat. Anji was a little panicked now, and the silence of the sand dunes gradually shrouded an invisible sense of oppression, and there was a bit more paradox in the silence. "Disconnect and execute immediately! " The surroundings are still calm, even the light has solidified, and the gradient colors of the sand dunes and the blue sky divide the infinitely extended skyline. The scene is like a postmodern work of art, and Anji feels that he is the most discordant in the picture. One stroke. No, what the hell is this place? He seemed to have just realized that he really shouldn't have walked so far in a strange scene. "Gyroscope, parameter correction, negative 180° horizontal reversal. " The small white disc floating around immediately turned its direction, but fortunately it was still at its command. However, as the gyroscope accelerates, another kind of fear strikes from the bottom of my heart, the sense of emptiness without attachment. Because Anji had already vacated his feet at this moment, his whole body began to float involuntarily. Following time and orientation, he lost his last dependence, and gravity stopped simulating. This wasteland is getting farther and farther away from him, and now it is not difficult to look up and capture another message. It turns out that his footprints are not in a straight line. In the narrow field of vision on the ground, the eyes are too easy to be deceived. Under the weightlessness, Anji could only lower his head from time to time and raise his head, struggling to trace the end of his footprints in the swirling sky. The rounded arc was peeled off from the sky a little bit, turning into an irregular ellipse, and finally sketching a familiar outline. It turned out to be a woman's face, and the comparison of her own footprints made her look extremely huge. ...... "mom? " Almost subconsciously blurted out, the woman's outline also began to visualize, and the wasteland became concave and convex with the facial texture. An Ji stretched out his hand forward with all his strength, and his mother's appearance was completely highlighted in the sand dunes. It was so vivid that it seemed to open his mouth to respond to his cry just now. "wrong! The anonymous command has been lost..." "errordata：015340..." Suddenly, prompt boxes kept popping up around him, and the sand dunes that made up his mother's face gradually began to disintegrate. "An irreparable error has been detected! " "The disconnection procedure is ready, is it executed immediately? " After closing the pop-up window with a burst of brain, it seemed that the command line function had been restored urgently. He frantically entered a string of codes and numbers, doing his best to prevent the sand dune from collapsing. A square opening opened not far from the ground, and gravel poured in like a flood, filling the gap that was constantly flowing away. But the margin of the wasteland is still gradually shrinking, leaving only a pile of garbled code within reach of the darkness. More multi-shaped openings appeared, and the gravel impacted each other like a sea surging, and under the endless sand waves, the mother's mutilated face could barely be maintained. In a blink of an eye, most of the time had passed, and all he could see was the void of nothingness that swallowed the space, and he found that he could do nothing to stop it. Until the last grain of sand disappeared in front of him, all the light around him was lost. I don't know how long he was stunned, Anji suddenly remembered something, opened the command line again, and rummaged through millions of entries. This time the retrieval was unexpectedly fast. He took out the core codes one by one and rewritten the constant in the formula, but after hesitating a few times, he didn't make up his mind to click the confirm button. It's too messy. These are all temporary things, and there is no guarantee that the simulation engine will crash. While hesitating, Anji seemed to see a tiny thing floating not far away, which was almost difficult to capture with the n***d eye against a black background. It must also be a black thing. It's like being in front of you, and it's completely unpredictable. No, I can't find relevant data about this thing in the background. Why doesn't it possess any computing power? Did it cause this collapse? Or is it trying to help? In an instant, a ray of light rushed straight towards the door, and the sudden glare made it difficult for Anji to open his eyes. He stretched out his hand to block it, but he couldn't help but want to touch it. ...... It was a cold object, the light was concentrated on one end, and it came out from the fingers, like a flashlight. The subsequent shaking made Anji wake up a lot in an instant. It turned out to be a flashlight. "Wake up! The old man has sent you a message, so hurry up and reply. " Anji pushed away the flashlight, and the strong light caused a faint pain in his mind. He touched the back of his neck subconsciously, and the interface was disconnected for some unknown time, and the viscous touch of artificial spinal fluid came. "Can't you call me another way? Sooner or later, you will be blinded. "He half sat up and rubbed his stung eyes, took a deep breath and adapted to his body: "Brother Tai, is there still no data flow detected this time?" " "If you have data, you'll be damned. You really think of yourself as a mobile hard drive. You can plug it in wherever you want? The brain-computer interface started to call the police in less than three seconds. It wasn't because of my fast eyes and hands. I'm afraid your kid would have been covered in smoke a long time ago. " "Is it only three seconds? I seem to have had a long dream, but I can't remember what I dreamed of..." An Ji looked at his hands, as if there was a touch of grit left at his fingertips. "Oh, congratulations, it means you have successfully fallen into a coma again. "Pang Tai took a sharp breath of cool air, and sneered deflated: "I really want to hand this thing over to the Security Committee for storage. Sooner or later, something will happen to your kid." " "But before, my mother was because..." An Ji stopped talking, then there was a long silence, and her voice became very low: "Forget it, when I didn't say anything." " Pang Tai lit a cigarette, turned around and stood in front of a huge machine, performing cumbersome shutdown procedures. This thing is not like a product of the current era. Countless bulky metal tubes surround it, but it has an indescribable mechanical beauty. Pang Tai's movements were also slightly rough, and he seemed to be emotionally affected by the dispute just now. "Dr. Shen is a very respectable scholar and a great mother. I am willing to take risks and secretly come to help you do this kind of stupid thing. I never want to see the tragedy repeat itself. " "Sorry, I didn't think about it well. " "Time is very tight, contact the old man, it's about to start over there. Pang Tai shook his head and quickly changed the subject: "You are a big man today, so it's best not to be absent." " An Ji raised his arm and his bracelet mapped a half-body projection. Professor Zhang was in a giant square where 10,000 people gathered. People gradually took their seats around the round table in the center. Professor Zhang was sitting in the chief, and a position not far away was temporarily vacant. "Teacher, sorry for the delay, I will be there soon. " "It's okay, I know today is special, and you are also a sentimental child. But I believe that Ms. Shen will definitely be proud of your achievements now. "