Out of the cage

In 3373, ten years after the Space and Time Management Bureau initiated the sanctions, Wei Keng, an individual who had just completed forty years of compulsory education and was about to take his summer vacation, came to the prosperous Taiheng governance area at this time.

Oh, at this time, marine infrastructure and transportation are developed, and the largest cities at this time are no longer the coastal cities like Baihai and New York a thousand years ago. These once world pearls are like the 21st century, Luoyang and Bianliang can only rely on " "Ancient style" urban character design is the same as increasing visibility.

At this time, the super city is in the center of the Pacific Plate, and the huge buoyancy system on the seabed can support even larger cities. The multi-story building framework under the sea allows the average human private space to reach tens of thousands of square meters. And through the translucent sea water, you can see the stars-like lights below the plate city!

Such "space expansion" below the sea surface is very easy. It would be too difficult to dig into the earth's crust on land.

Oh, Wei Keng’s ancestral homestead is still at a price but not marketable. Because it is an "ancient building" located in the precious central area of ​​Eurasia.

Student Wei Keng once again inspected the contemporary large-scale residential area "culture and education" in this big city.

In contemporary ocean cities, "spiritual injection" has entered ocean life.

In the deep-sea building blocks that are usually hundreds of meters hollow (similar to the hollows of the Big Pants Building), now there are often large sea crawlers lying on the top of the undersea building, and marine mammals swaying outside the water glass of the building. Compared with the natural species a thousand years ago, these "spirit-infused" alien species are much cleaner, with no barnacles, and have been artificially repaired.

Looking at these enlightened large creatures through the glass plate, Wei Keng: If tens of millions of years later, a new generation of civilization could not find any traces of human civilization, but saw these fossils of creatures that suddenly became huge, they would definitely be very confused. Bar? (Master Wei was pressed against the glass, his nose squeezed into the shape of a pig’s nose. This aroused the disdain of the spirit fish outside the glass window.)

Wei Keng didn't care at all that his image was looked down upon. He continued to look at the giant beasts eating the buffet meat provided by the "mechanical submarine" outside the thick glass warehouse. He couldn't help but murmur in a low voice: "'There is a fish in the North Ming Dynasty, and its name is Kun, Kun is so big, one pot..." Wei Keng stopped reading because saliva dripped from the corner of his mouth and wiped it quickly."

Wei Keng's "idiot" behavior in public places is rare in big cities where rules are everywhere. It is said that when contemporary people enter public places, the artificial intelligence hanging on their ears will remind them of their "appearance" at any time. In other words, Wei Keng, a countryman who is used to being free and undisciplined, makes a fool of himself in the city.

Ten minutes later, Wei Keng entered the building in the deep sea. As Wei Keng arrived, unique lines flashed on the door behind him. As Wei Keng gradually entered, the flashing lines followed Wei Keng, following him like a shadow on the wall beside him. The three-dimensional underground guides Wei Keng, and these lines on the wall will directly construct a three-dimensional large map according to Wei Keng's needs (similar to the small map of Diablo).

Wei Keng stood on his skateboard and walked along, reading about the evolution of new architectural styles in the past two hundred years.

Although these submarine building blocks are made of titanium alloy, the outer layer is covered with a layer of basalt like a ceramic glaze layer to prevent seawater penetration and corrosion. This makes such deep-sea real estate have a service life of more than eighty years!

…There are many strange things in the new era that the ancients have never seen…

Wei Keng walked into the Deep Sea Space Square in the second half of the 34th century. In the square, he saw a huge area of ​​33 meters high and 300 hectares supported by thick and thin steel columns. This area simulated various Environments, such as cyber buildings, natural rainforests, and desert squares, most of the time the peak number of people does not exceed a hundred people.

In this square, people can simulate flying with a sword, or use nano clouds to create telekinetic confrontation in space.

Wei Keng, looking around, is just like the ancients from the Tang Dynasty who saw the night market that goes on day and night in the 21st century. Later, Wei Keng came to the platform to report his name and apply for a "game account".

A few months later,

Whether it is small games such as sword control or telekinesis, Keng has shown "extraordinary talent".

Three years later, in the Taiping Competition, in the local division, Wei Keng defeated his opponents in the entire region one by one.

Even among the players in major events that are watched by billions of people, Wei Keng still has a winning rate of 30% to 40%. As for why he did not win the first place, it is just that Wei Keng wanted to "enough is enough."

Such an easy victory made Wei Keng feel that the world had changed.

When did my "middle-class appearance" become my "peak qualification"?

After several times of reflection on whether he was cheating, Wei Keng once reviewed all his memories and determined that most of them had been sealed. There was no false start.

Finally, the reason was found through comparative observation. That is the "healthy growth rate of will."

Since the last century, human beings have begun to use "biological incarnations" to treat conscious trauma. Well, in short, after encountering setbacks, they can directly "Zhuang Zhou Mengdie" start a happy journey. Make sure you are open-minded and mentally stable.

However, if "trauma" is so easy to treat, does Wei Keng still need to spend hundreds of years from the Pandora plane to the multidimensional plane to "liberate" himself? …

Especially on the training ground, when Mr. Wei saw the children who were defeated by him, he was very frustrated at first, but when he saw them again a day later, he gave up his desire to win like a sage.

Wei Keng was stunned and couldn't help but said: "Are you like this during the learning process?"

As a result, this contemporary kid said: Study? Old man, knowledge can be injected now. ——A look that says you are out of date.

People in the 33rd century, looking at the efforts of ordinary people in the ancient industrial age, the tragic "list rankings", and the setback in confidence caused by being at the bottom, are just like people in the ancient industrial age looking at the sacrifice of life for righteousness during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period in China, and feel it is unbearable .

It is true that in the past, Mr. Wei was "last" in the ranking competition.

Wei Keng: The feeling of "being at the bottom" is "beginning to default that you can't compete with others." Of course, in the process of "finally gritting one's teeth and catching up step by step from the bottom to the front", one can find that this is an important process of "extracting oneself from the crowd's desires". In the end, what we compete for is not the ranking, but "self-refinement."

However, contemporary young people have not achieved the qualifications, and the process of self-refining has always been to restore their self-confidence through spiritual injection, and they have never really faced real setbacks!

Wei Keng took a deep breath, and after confirming that there was a generation gap between himself and the new generation, he continued to test this era to see what would happen if a spoonful of "cruelty" was poured into it.

"Video games" in the 21st century also had rankings. At that time, elementary school students were tricked to the point of crying.

Ever since, in his last year in the underwater city, Wei Keng frequently participated in sports events such as force field confrontation and sword control. Use the most cunning methods to educate children to understand the dangers of the world.

But after winning thousands of games, the underwater city began to activate the "underage protection", classifying Wei Keng as a willpower regenerator, no longer participating in low-level matches, but arranging confrontations with advanced artificial intelligence!

After Wei Keng saw the new rankings after matching with artificial intelligence, he discovered the seriousness of the "class" differentiation. On the list of those who fought against advanced artificial intelligence, there were all well-documented people who had the will of hundreds of years ago. Regenerative differentiation.

After regeneration appeared in the twenty-sixth century, it was previously just a technology that allowed the will of the old to continue in new lives. However, after ten centuries of development, it has become an important means of increasing the population. And once it becomes part of the increasing population, then this part will compete with other increasing populations for the right to speak in society!

That is to say, the new generation born after the 30th century has encountered competition from "rebirthers". Since regenerators have accumulated a large amount of resources in their previous lives, they have capital advantages at birth, and combined with their own will growth plan, they also have advantages in education. The new generation cannot compete.

Individual Wei Keng, who is also a regenerator, silently acknowledged this!

Wei Keng, who can "cultivate both life and life", can better naturally accept setbacks, adjust his will, and make progress in failures. However, the new generation who relies too much on "spiritual injection treatment", oh, just like in "Psychic Confrontation" and "Sword Racing" In these projects, if their competitive spirit is slightly bumped by the Wei Keng axis, their vigor will be lost.

Wei Keng: In the moral, intellectual, physical, aesthetic and labor system, the "labor" item is to connect nature with life, and at the same time, life cultivation should be the key link, so that the taste in nature can be moved from low to high.

Obviously, the contemporary earth civilization has not given such serious and responsible tenderness to the "new generation". These people who took advantage of the dividends to reach high positions hundreds of years ago and monopolized the existence of the upper class of society have given the new generation cheap, Best fooled freedom!

So much so that in small entertainment and competitions, they showed behaviors that seemed to protect the "confidence of the new generation" but did not at all cultivate the rigidity of the new generation in the face of setbacks.

When leaving the deep-sea metropolis, after Wei Keng made sure that there was no artificial intelligence surveillance around him, he yelled at everyone: "No wonder I raised the compulsory education to fifty or sixty years, and I still have no one to give back my love!" I am no longer a middle-aged man, I have become a superman!"

There are two things that Wei Keng hates most in his life. When some people find that they don't need to compete, they stand on the dry shore and persuade others to struggle. In projects where you are fiercely competitive, advise others to be more open-minded and choose other paths!

The strange appearance of the chaotic era in the 21st century! On the one hand, the Propaganda Department persuades young people not to lie down but to strive, reflecting the striving style of young people in the new era. Education experts are calling for diversion, persuading most families to look beyond college. It probably corresponds to the "talker" mentioned above.

Wei Keng, an ancient man, saw the shadow of 1,300 years ago in the contemporary world!

…On the sun in 3392, Wei Keng sent his consciousness to the new area where Qin Tianfang was…

At this time, in the planetary core of the brown dwarf next door, Qin Tianfang, who was thinking about expanding from the star body to the star surface, was not surprised when he saw Wei Keng's communication.

Qin Tianfang: "How about it? Have you settled the matter of the solar system?"

Wei Keng stared at Qin Tianfang: "Do you know the situation in the dimension?"

Qin Tianfang: "No, no one reported information to me, but I know that you will definitely overturn the system I left behind after I left."

Wei Keng did not complain about Qin Tianfang's bad behavior of "not flushing the toilet". I have something else to do with him this time!

Wei Keng: "Now I'm a little confused in life."

Qin Tianfang clearly understood that there was something wrong with Wei Keng's words: "Huh? If you are confused, you usually don't ask others for advice unless~, well, tell me, I'm listening to your criticism. (He then crossed his legs, When he got out of the field, he began to imitate Wei Keng's careless behavior and waved his hands.)"

Wei Keng continued to mind his own business and said: "Those of us who have traveled through space and time can see that the time and space that flows faster than ours have multiple timelines, so is it possible that the main world also has multiple timelines?"

Wei Keng whispered: "A middle-aged man like me should spend most of his life marrying a wife and having children. Well, during the first plane war, if I had not entered time and space, maybe, you Might go my way."

Qin Tianfang: "Well, who can say for sure?"

Wei Keng stared at him: "I mean, have you ever thought that if the main world also has multiple timelines, then you in this timeline where I meet you now are considered weak!"

Another meaning of Wei Keng: When I returned to the main world from the sub-plane again and again, I missed "Qin Tianfang" or the powerful time and space of other people's consciousness! !

Narrator: The universe is widely diffused, so when a hot time point is diffused into a time stream, the variables also diffuse to each separate timeline and grow stronger.

According to this model, Wei Keng can explain why he, the winner, failed: because every time he travels, "he" comes to a time and space where others are colder, so now he has reached the "unique" step. , is inevitable. (Only Wei Keng, a middle-aged man, would think about whether he had not met anyone strong when he was "strong"!)

Qin Tianfang stared at Wei Keng: "What do you want to say?"

Wei Keng asked Qin Tianfang: Now a "middle-class" person like me has begun to determine the direction of the main world! ! Isn't it because other consciousnesses other than mine are gradually extinguished on this time stream that I can observe? (Wei Keng was on the time and space dam of the dark plane and determined the downstream of the fertile soil. Everyone has a shining time tributary. Wei Keng wondered if he was on the tributary now.)

Qin Tianfang on the distant star was silent for a while. (Wei Keng wants Qin Tianfang to revive.)

Qin Tianfang: "Maybe your guess is right, the time flow in our world is also dividing! Now, maybe I did not do my best. Maybe each time beam in time and space only allows one person to shine."

Qin Tianfang added: "However, there is one thing you are wrong about. You are not a handsome person. I saw you during the first plane war, and I felt it secretly, "You can walk well." "Far, far away"~" When it comes to flattering people, Qin Tianfang is very experienced, but Mr. Wei doesn't use it, and has a stern face like "Qin Tianfang owes 800 yuan."

Wei Keng ended the conversation with Qin Tianfang.

Wei Keng looked at the stars: Damn it, I still have to do this alone. Why is it so difficult to find someone to partner with?

The huge "stardust" in the star sea is a fertile soil to be developed, and it takes a "power" to support this "field".

"Also"~ Wei Keng looked at the universe: "Even if I am the only one left, civilization must be rekindled. To say the least, although I am not feeling well, I can endure it slowly and wait for the next generation. The next generation will have endless descendants! Wait five hundred or one thousand years to turn barrenness into fertile soil, and accumulate prosperity on the barren land. I don’t believe it. Hundreds of years and thousands of years, the lumps of earth will not wait until the day comes. The blazing sun descends.”