Great Power Technology

Da Liu opposite him was obviously stunned for a moment, and the next second, a strange smile appeared on his face.

Immediately afterwards, Ye Zhou's mind became dizzy.

When he opened his eyes again, he seemed to find himself in a familiar room.

It was a rental house near the school where I once lived.

The time is 202X, the afternoon after graduation.

Ye Zhou's mind was in chaos. He felt as if he had experienced many things, but when he wanted to recall it, he found that he could not remember anything.

He subconsciously looked at his wrist. There was nothing there, but he always felt that there should be something.

What is it?

Ye Zhou thought desperately. The chaotic memories washed away the rocks in his mind like broken waves. The surging white color covered up the color of the rocks. He wanted to peel away the waves to see the rocks, but he tried hard again and again. All in vain.

Ye Zhou sighed, and the quilt wrapped around his body like waterweed. He grabbed the kitchen knife on the cutting board beside the bed and tried to cut open the quilt, but the kitchen knife seemed to have not been sharpened after chopping the bones the day before. No matter how hard he tried, You can't scratch the quilt at all.

In desperation, he had no choice but to sit up wrapped in the quilt and began to move towards the bathroom in small steps. However, the body dragging the quilt was too bulky, and the bathroom door was blocked by a mess of mops. He tried to clear the obstacle with all his hands. Don't take action.

After struggling for a long time, Ye Zhou finally pushed open the bathroom door and opened the shower valve with his head. As the hot water poured down, the cotton in the quilt melted like marshmallows, and he finally got rid of the restraints. , the quilt was washed down along with the hot water above my head.

Ye Zhou rolled up the quilt on the ground into a ball and stuffed it into the toilet. After pressing the flush button, a huge vortex swept the quilt into the sewer.

Vortex?

Wait, why am I here?

The next second, Ye Zhou's consciousness seemed to be sucked into the huge vortex. After the world was spinning, he found himself sitting in a desert filled with yellow sand.

In the distance, two strange planes were taking off, while nearby was a pile of broken, blazing wreckage of the aircraft.

Ye Zhou stood up and walked towards the direction of the wreckage. He felt that he was very familiar with the scene in front of him, but he couldn't tell when it was.

He stroked the damaged surface of the plane, and the sharp metal pierced the palm of his hand. Then, blood gradually dripped on the ground. When Ye Zhou turned his head, he saw a giant bird rising into the sky.

The sea of ​​sand surged, and huge waves of rolling yellow sand rushed towards Ye Zhou. He felt suffocated one after another, so he ran back desperately, but as he ran, he actually found himself flying.

The feeling of hanging in the air was extremely real. He was floating in the air dozens of meters above the ground. His body was spinning and rolling uncontrollably. Severe dizziness came over him again. When he opened his eyes again, the scene he saw changed again. .

This time, he stood in the biting cold wind.

Under his feet were mountains of green mountains, and behind him were the tombs. Ye Zhou involuntarily stepped towards the edge of the cliff, but just a second before he raised his leg, a voice seemed to be shouting in his consciousness.

The voice came from behind him.

Ye Zhou looked back, and in an instant, the tide in his mind receded rapidly, and the ferocious rocks emerged from the water.

A relieved smile appeared on his face, and then he let go of his right hand.

The fire of the explosion re-illuminated Da Liu's face in front of him. In the astonishment of the other party, Ye Zhou calmly watched the scene in front of him fall into pieces like a broken mirror.

There are no mushroom-shaped buildings, no jammers, and certainly no so-called "barrier breakers" organizations.

Everything is fake.

But virtual invasion is real.

The memory flow started to flow again, this time, at the same slow speed as before.

The location he is currently in is a village hidden in the mountains - or in other words, it is a well-camouflaged experimental base.

A few days ago, officials suddenly discovered this village that appeared out of thin air in the Sangui area during a high-altitude survey. After confirming that there were human activities in the village, they sent Ye Zhou and his party to investigate. However, the moment they entered the village, Ye Zhou Zhou and others' BCI chips were all interfered with, and everyone fell into the same illusion.

Just as Ye Zhou had seen before, in that illusion, they saw future technology that transcended reality, a life of absolute equality and abundance, and all the beautiful things in imagination.

What's even more chilling is that such illusions are even slightly adjusted for their purposes. For example, Ye Zhou still has memories of performing tasks in his subconscious, so the disruptor made up a story for him about destroying the source of interference. Mission - Ironically, this is exactly what Ye Zhou is doing now.

He shook his head slightly, feeling the sluggishness of his body losing support after the BCI chip completely collapsed. Then, he walked down the steps where he was standing step by step, leaving his teammates behind and walked straight towards the central area of ​​the base.

Along the way, Ye Zhou saw the "villagers" in the illusion doing bizarre movements without realizing it. Some people were sitting on chairs, simulating driving postures with their hands, and their bodies were constantly swaying from side to side; some people were deep in the paddy field. They ran wildly, one foot at a time, and every time they fell, they had to grab a handful of mud from the ground and smear it on their faces; some people were suspended in the air by ropes, and they assumed a superhuman flying posture, with written all over their faces. An intoxicated look.

This is a crazy world. Unlike the matrix in The Matrix, the people here are not fixed in a certain nutrient pool, but are created in various details that are different according to local conditions and the environment they are in. hallucination.

The root of all this is the BCI chip in their brains.

Ye Zhou tried to use a communicator to report the situation to his superiors, but the signals in this area seemed to have been completely blocked, and even the dedicated quantum communication system was completely malfunctioning.

Generous.

Ye Zhou couldn't help but sigh in his heart.

Under such an era and technological background, being able to create such a vacuum zone on the border of the world's most powerful country shows the power of the other party.

Thinking of this, Ye Zhou cautiously pulled out the pistol from his waist, but just when he wanted to continue exploring, a man's voice suddenly came from the wooden house next to him.

"I advise you to put down the gun, put down the gun, and we can still have a good talk."

Ye Zhou turned around warily, and what appeared in front of him was a man shrouded in a black robe.

The other party stood confidently in front of Ye Zhou and continued to say:

"I have deployed a cradle system near this area. As soon as my brain activity stops, the system will immediately detonate all the bombs. At that time, one hundred and seventy-six innocent ordinary people in this base will go to hell with me. .”

"So, I advise you not to act rashly. I think you have guessed that what you are fighting now is definitely not an ordinary KBzz, so please don't treat me with that kind of rubbish attitude."

Hearing the man's words, Ye Zhou smiled sarcastically and asked:

"Aren't you trash? Ruining other people's lives, trapping them in illusions, and realizing your ulterior ambitions, isn't this enough against humanity?"

Looking at Ye Zhou's expression, the man shook his head slightly and replied:

"No, you are mistaken. I did not trap them in the illusion, they chose their own world."

"I'm just an ordinary maker, and everything that happens in that world has nothing to do with me."

"At most, we just want to use some side effects to help our species survive better."

"Besides, don't you think that in such a world, they live a very happy life?"

Ye Zhou raised his gun again, pointed it at the man, and said sternly:

"Such happiness is fake. They cannot produce any value. If everyone chooses to fall into illusion, who will maintain this world?"

"The crisis in the adjacent dimension is far from over. Now you tell me that you have actually begun to pursue illusory happiness. I don't understand who gave you the confidence?"

After hearing Ye Zhou's words, the man sighed, took off the hood on his head, and then continued:

"You think too bad about us. How could we do such a mindless thing at this time? It's exactly the opposite of what you think. We are also working hard to save mankind."

"What's the meaning?"

Ye Zhou cautiously opened the safety on the pistol. He actually did not believe the so-called cradle system the man said, because according to the information he got from the information flow, in this post-interdimensional era, various countries have tightened Without weapons control policies, it is impossible for any organization to quietly transport a batch of dangerous explosives to this sensitive area.

"You know, what's the biggest obstacle to space travel?"

The man didn't mind Ye Zhou's actions at all, but calmly sat down on the steps in front of the wooden house. He continued talking without waiting for Ye Zhou to answer.

"It's not speed, energy, or life support systems. All such problems can be solved with our technology. What really cannot be solved is the human mind."

"Human thinking will change. When humans on land begin to enter space and carry out long space journeys, all the morals and rules belonging to the earth will be broken, the old order will collapse, and despair will come from deep space. And fear will consume everyone and make them lose the motivation to move forward in a short period of time.”

"We have done countless experiments and tried many methods, including but not limited to hibernation, second ecosphere, relay navigation, etc., but without exception, all these attempts have failed. .”

"In our simulation, no starship has flown for more than a hundred years. Within three generations, everyone in the starship will die due to the melee caused by the breakdown of order."

"Then one of us geniuses came up with an idea."

"He said that humans are animals that belong to the ground. It is as difficult for humans to go to the universe as it is to land a fish."

"Yes, these fish may have evolved amphibious lungs, but they have not evolved amphibious brains."

"So the only way for these fish to actually come to shore is to make them believe they are still in the water."

"Now can you guess what we're going to do?"

"Yes, we are building a fantasy for them, but the purpose of building the fantasy is not to immerse them in the fantasy, but to allow their actions caused by the fantasy to reflect reality."

"Do you understand?"

"In reality, he may be operating the rudder of a starship, but in the fantasy, he is sailing on the North Atlantic."

"Only in this way can these fish walk onto land; only in this way can these fish fight for a chance of survival for themselves; and only in this way can we escape from this space that has been riddled with holes by the civilization of the adjacent dimension and go to Find a new habitat and rebuild our civilization."

After hearing what the man said, Ye Zhou tightened the trigger in shock, and then asked in an unbelievable tone:

"Are you a fugitive faction? How come you still exist?"