Doomsday Wonderland

"Yu Yuan!"

A distant cry rushed through the waves, heavy rain, and darkness. The voice seemed to grab Xie Feng and stop her from sinking any further, or from falling further into the depths of the endless black sea.

But it's too late.

Her mother, her sister, her best friend, her partner... were gradually moving away and sinking in the waves, and she had no other choice but to follow them.

"Yu Yuan, it's me, are you okay?"

The voice still didn't give up or dissipate, but was approaching in a moment - from the black turbulence rolling under the sea, someone firmly grabbed her shoulder; the hand pressed against her skin and clothes, unexpectedly The ground is dry, which makes people feel refreshed and their mind is pulled back.

...Yu Yuan blinked slowly.

The dark night disappeared, the sea disappeared, and the bright sky reflected in his eyes. For a moment, he didn't know where he was or where Dongluo Rongchen went - no, that's not right, the data seemed to be confused.

He has never known a woman named Dong Luorong.

It was a memory from "Xie Feng" in a data packet. He just accidentally let it run in his mind; before the complete operation was completed, it was interrupted.

"Yu Yuan?"

The woman who abruptly woke him up from that dreamlike state - now he recognized it, she was Lin Sanjiu - was bending down and standing in front of him, with a heavy layer of worry on her face. And surprise, and... and how happy?

Is she happy to be reunited?

Although the data body discards emotions, with enough pattern analysis, emotional expressions on human faces can be identified. After his data processing returned to normal, Yu Yuan quickly recalled everything, so accurately that he could even determine the minute and second - he accidentally triggered a person's memory, and there were still a few people who had it at the beginning. He was very self-aware and even thought about the causes of the doomsday of those two planets; but what happened next?

Since when did he really think of himself as Xie Feng?

So much so that he even felt a little empty in his arms - the person who was supposed to be hugged tightly by him turned out to have nothing to do with him?

When Yu Yuan was tracing back the "backstage records" in his mind, Lin Sanjiu suddenly plopped down and knelt down beside him, and then he realized that he was half lying on the ground.

Yu Yuan blinked again. At this time, the look on Lin Sanjiu's face was really weird.

She stretched out a hand, a little trembling and hesitant, but she still reached over and landed on his face very carefully.

Yu Yuan was stunned and felt her fingertips gently swiping on the skin a few times.

"You...you are crying."

Lin Sanjiu lowered his head, looked at his fingertips wet with tears, and murmured.

When she raised her head, her eye circles were slightly red; she unconsciously pursed her lips a little tighter, and all the details showed that she seemed to be about to cry.

This is really baffling.

As a data body, Yu Yuan could shed tears, which already showed that there was something wrong in his body; and when Lin Sanjiu saw him shed tears, she would also shed tears, which was really incomprehensible.

However, something even more inexplicable was yet to come: Yu Yuan raised his hand and touched his face, and found that tears were still pouring out with no intention of stopping. The tears came so fiercely that they blurred Lin Sanjiu's face. He didn't even have time to clearly see the surroundings around him at the moment, and he didn't know how to deal with this mistake. For a while, he could only sit there, helpless, and let the tears flow. Keep rolling down.

"It's okay, it's okay,"

Lin Sanjiu's tone sounded as if she had been stabbed. She took out a pack of tissues from somewhere and hurriedly pressed several pieces of paper with the scent of tea on Yu Yuan's face. . "You must have been affected by someone else's memories. Those are other people's memories. It's okay. You're out now...you'll be able to calm down soon."

Such a simple conclusion, Yu Yuan thought of it immediately after regaining consciousness, and Lin Sanjiu didn't need to say it at all. But he remained silent and allowed her to wipe a bunch of paper towels on his face, pushing his head back several times.

He shed tears for a total of seventeen seconds.

After confirming that his tears had finally stopped, Lin Sanjiu seemed to finally breathe a sigh of relief. She put away the paper and took a closer look at Yu Yuan - Yu Yuan had already returned to normal at this time, and he thought his expression must have returned to his usual expressionless face.

Lin Sanjiu seemed to be searching for something on his face, but couldn't find it, so she sat back a little disappointed. "It's okay," she said again, and patted his hand: "You won't step into another memory again. I have already found a way to ensure that we are all safe."

...Has she cracked this weird space and found an absolutely safe path?

Before speaking, Yu Yuan turned around and looked around where he was.

Soon after he fell into this strange space, he analyzed its general nature from various signs. The existence of the memory scene itself does not mean that the memory data is running; he estimated that there is a "core" that needs to be triggered by someone before the memory data can actually start running.

He didn't understand what this "core" was and where it was, so when traveling between "bubbles", Yu Yuan was always very cautious and only walked close to the edge when traveling - according to his analysis, this was A safer route.

However, such a route naturally brings many restrictions. When Yu Yuan followed the edge of the previous bubble and stepped forward into the next bubble, he came to the sea - under his feet was a long and narrow dock that stretched straight into the sea. He had no other choice but to follow the dock toward the sea.

But when Yu Yuan stopped crying, he realized that he was not sitting on that dock.

Along with the dock, the sea and the sky disappeared. In fact, he was sitting on an ordinary piece of ground, with a gray sky above his head. Lin Sanjiu was sitting next to him, looking more than ten meters away, and could not see anything clearly.

This was really strange, because he didn't know what he was seeing.

No matter how ordinary the ground is, it must have a certain appearance. For example, the cement floor is plastered, and the land is also divided into black soil and loess, whether there are weeds or not. But Yu Yuan stared at the floor under him for a long time, and found that I can't come up with any description of it myself.

He couldn't tell what this floor looked like, as if it was so ordinary and ordinary that even if he stared at it unblinkingly, it would slip through the gaps between his attention.

Probably noticing his gaze, Lin Sanjiu seemed to understand his doubts and explained: "That kind of memory territory, before it is shaped by people's memories, its original and most primitive state is like this... I also I can’t tell what it looks like, but I think it may be because of its chaotic state that it can be shaped into various scenes.”

Yu Yuan was not used to Lin Sanjiu being the one providing answers.

He now needed to ask Lin Sanjiu how she cracked this space and obtained as much space information as possible. When he opened his mouth, he thought he was going to do this.

However, what he heard himself say was: "...she is dead."

"Who?" Lin Sanjiu was stunned for a moment, then reacted. "Is it the person in the memory you triggered?"

Yu Yuan nodded. Although he still didn't understand why he kept making mistakes, as soon as he started talking, continuing to talk seemed to become a smooth and natural thing. "I recognized Xie Feng's planet from very early in my memory, and I also know what happened on that planet... Those two planets are both in my database."

For some unknown reason, he then briefly told Lin Sanjiu about Xie Feng's experience.

"The cause of Morning Star's doomsday, as Xie Feng deduced, is the giant red maple trees that are native to that planet. Part of their roots are distributed on the ground. When dead bodies appear on the ground, they absorb the dead bodies and integrate biological information... To use an analogy you can understand, after absorbing a large number of dead bodies, they become spirits."

"Where did so many dead bodies come from?" Lin Sanjiu couldn't help but ask.

"Random deaths caused by extreme climate change are becoming more and more frequent." Yu Yuan replied briefly, "But that is the cause. What ultimately directly destroys the human world is to absorb more biological information—human information— And the red maple trees are going crazy.”

"Are you active?" Lin Sanjiu couldn't help being surprised and asked, "Then... what about Xie Feng's world?"

Yu Yuan paused. "That is a very special cause of doomsday. Even in my database, the only human world that was ended by this cause is Xie Feng's planet."

Lin Sanjiu listened with rapt attention and leaned forward slightly. Curiosity made her amber pupils shine with clear luster - she had this look in her eyes when he and she broke through the dream dungeon together. It seemed that they had been there for so many years. , has never changed.

"...It's water poisoning."

"ah?"

"Excessive precipitation in a short period of time has poisoned the planet's water. This is the easiest way for humans to understand." Yu Yuan said in a realistic tone, "You see, Morning Star is a standard It is a planet in the sense of the word, but Wu Xing is not. Wu Xing is a living organism, but no one who lives on it knows it.”

Lin Sanjiu's eyes widened and she murmured, "Like...like Sibaan's queen mother?"

"It can be said that." Yu Yuan explained, "Just like there are countless bacterial communities in humans, the planet and humans could have continued to coexist. But after Wu Xing was poisoned by water, a series of... well, Physiological changes. The toxins it produces are expanded and doubled by the continuous precipitation, and are spread to every corner of the planet along with the water.

"That memory was interrupted before it reached the final point," Yu Yuan said while looking around, "But I think it is very close to the end... Dong Luorong is already dead, and later I don’t think the thing is important anymore. What I really can’t understand is why I was so affected and even fully accepted Xie Feng’s sense of identity... However, this can all be discussed later. How did you find it? mine?"

Faced with this question, Lin Sanjiu couldn't help but smile.