This Game is Too Real

   On the Heart of Steel floating above the clouds, a "Viper" transport plane floating far away contained the plume of the plasma engine and stopped on the steel-paved deck.

  Four men in gray robes were escorted by four players wearing exoskeletons, and walked out of the Viper's cabin.

  One of them suffered a gunshot wound to his left leg, which was simply bandaged and walked with a limp. The other three were not shot, but the disheveled appearance obviously suffered a lot.

   But here, no one will sympathize with them.

  They are all apostles of the Torch Church. Or war criminals.

  In just a few hours, at least tens of thousands of survivors died directly or indirectly from the interference of the 03 wave band of the mind interference device.

  God collapsed even more.

  About 20 soldiers from the Guards Regiment waited by the side of the apron early.

  Seeing the group of soldiers with live ammunition, Yule, who was standing in the middle, turned slightly pale.

  He is the head of the Diocese of Pine Cone Wood Farm, and also the head of the research on the 03 wave band. If he is captured, the tribunal will definitely not leave him alone.

  However, seeing these guys and the airship under his feet, he doubted whether the tribunal had the ability to fish him out.

   "Anti-gravity device... You have recovered the anti-gravity technology!" He muttered, but no one paid attention to him.

  In order to prevent him from hiding something like a locator or a bug, a soldier stepped forward and put a metal ring equipped with a shielding device around the necks of him and the other three apostles.

  One of the apostles tried to resist, but he was honest after being shot.

  Looking at Ye Shi walking in front of him, Lu Bei raised his right fist and knocked it on the left side of the breastplate, giving a neat military salute.

"Thanks for your hard work."

   "You're welcome, say hello to the manager for me, and I'll leave the rest to you." Ye Shi said with a smile after returning the military salute.

   Lu Bei nodded, watched him go back to the plane, and then led the four ashen-faced guys towards the elevator.

   There was no communication along the way.

  Yul finally lost his composure and asked aloud. "Where are you... planning to take us?"

   Lu Bei didn't speak, he went straight to a door, knocked on it, and then pushed it away.

  Looking at Zhao Tiangan lying on his back on the ground, Yuer's pupils suddenly shrank, his face became paler, and his Adam's apple moved unconsciously.

  The man in blue power armor sized him up, then looked at the soldier standing next to him.

   "Come one by one, and find a place to close the others first."

"Yes!"

  The man nodded respectfully, then waved his hand, led a group of soldiers, and took his three colleagues to other places.

   Soon Yule was the only one left at the door.

  Standing alone at the door, seeing the man in blue power armor sizing him up, he inadvertently met his gaze, and suddenly felt a tremor in his heart.

   Those pupils are as deep as black holes.

   Just looking at each other for a moment, he felt as if his soul had been pulled out of his body, exposed to the sun without reservation, and burned by the light.

  No secret can be hidden...

  As a researcher, he doesn't believe in something illusory like the soul, let alone that there are really people in this world who can read a person's soul through their eyes.

  However, he couldn't help avoiding his sight.

   At this time, the man spoke. "What's your name."

   "Yul." He didn't want to say a word, but he blurted out subconsciously, and this also made him feel annoyed for a while.

   Chu Guang looked into his eyes and continued. "Are you aware of what you're doing?" Yule raised his head and said with a stiff neck. "clear…"

  He thought that the man would ask him why he did this, but the man didn't ask anything, just simply nodded.

"That's good."

  The tone that the matter was over made Yule feel a little bit astonished.

  I obviously didn’t say anything, this guy

  Why do you act like you know everything?

   Could it be that he really has the ability to read minds?

   There was a trace of fear in Yuer's eyes, but soon he felt ashamed of this stupid idea, and the expression of fear gradually turned into anger.

  How could there be such metaphysics!

   This guy must be bluffing!

  If you think that he will be frightened by such a simple matter and explain everything in one go, then you don’t understand him too well.

  If this is a necessary sacrifice, then sacrifice yourself.

  Yul raised his head, made an appearance that he would rather die than submit, and said with a stiff neck and a bluff.

   "Hehe, I can't say a word—" Before he finished speaking, a pair of glasses hung on the bridge of his nose.

   His vision was blurred by the black lenses, and Yule was slightly taken aback.

This is…

  In an instant, he seemed to think of something, and his face changed suddenly.

   Mnemonic? !

  Why do these guys even have this kind of thing!

"wait for me-"

  It's a pity that the word "Shuo" has not been uttered yet, as the electric sound of "嗡" penetrates the eardrum, his consciousness is instantly broken like a computer that has been forcibly shut down.

   "Hey."

  Dragging Yule from behind, Frost vigorously dragged him to the corner and sat aside.

  Looking at the unconscious Yuer, Chu Guang showed no pity on his expression.

The memory extractor was seized from the Enlightenment Association. Its working principle is to use the most feared fragments in the user's subconscious to weave dreams, and seal the user's memory, only allowing it to be left bit by bit, and repeatedly Scrape away until there is nothing left.

  The more you resist, the more painful you will be.

  Theoretically, this device can not only extract people's memory, but even help people remember things that they don't even remember.

  Because it will cause a certain load on God, so he will hardly use this thing in interrogation.

  If he is deceived, coerced, or has unspeakable difficulties, he will give this guy a chance to confess and be lenient.

   But this guy said it himself, he is clear.

  Since this is the case, if you are treated in the same way, you probably won't have any complaints. Compared with the survivors of Pine Cone Farm, this punishment is still too light for him.

  Looking at the puppet sitting on his shoulder, Chu Guang asked.

   "Xiao Qi, how long does memory retrieval take?"

   Resting her index finger on her chin, Xiao Qi, who had already connected to the memory extractor, closed her eyes and thought for a while.

   "Well, one or two hours should be enough?"

   Said in an uncertain tone, its eyes suddenly opened, and it gave a light surprise and continued, "...this guy actually has a bionics chip in his head?"

  Chu Guang frowned slightly.

"Any questions?"

  Xiao Qi looked at the solar eclipse standing aside, and whispered.

   "Eclipse, can the security program on the chip be fixed? I'll pass it on to you."

   Eclipse nodded expressionlessly. "It's not a big problem."

   While saying this, the light blue data flow has been reflected in the center of its pupils.

   Receiving an affirmative answer, Xiao Qi quickly looked at Chu Guang and gave a thumbs up proudly.

   "It's not a big problem, master! Don't worry, leave it to Xiao Qi!"

  Chu Guang: "..." Forget it.

   In short, the result is good.

   Memory retrieval is completed quickly.

   Actually, it would take a lot of time according to the normal process, but Xiao Qi put the memory retrieval program on the server of the shelter.

  The data processing capability of the shelter server is completely different from the processor of that portable electronic device.

   To make a less vivid comparison, one is a rocket and the other is a bicycle.

   It's like putting nitrogen on a bike for acceleration.

  One hour in the dream is only equivalent to half a minute in reality.

  In fact, if there is no limit to the speed at which the brain can process information, the speed of reading memory can be even more exaggerated.

  But even though Xiao Qi had shown mercy, the brain of the apostle whose memory had been drained was still under a lot of load.

  Although the person has woken up, he is no different from a vegetative person, even more exaggerated than the vegetative person.

  Looking at Yuer who was walking straight towards the wall, Chu Guang couldn't help showing a strange expression.

   "So is he awake now or not?"

  Xiao Qi's expression was a little subtle.

   "Uh... probably awake, but not quite awake."

"What's the meaning?"

"To put it simply, the picture he saw was still the dream formed based on his memory, but the brain has actually regained control over the body...so in our eyes he was walking towards the wall, but in his own eyes, he Now it's probably just going from the living room to the kitchen."

   Simply put, it is a high PING fighter?

  Obviously in the eyes of other players, he has been walking towards the wall, but in the eyes of the player himself, he has already walked from the B bag to the middle door.

  Chu Guang's heart skipped a beat.

   "Like sleepwalking?"

   "Well, although there are some differences, they have almost the same meaning."

   When talking about this, Xiao Qi added something in a low voice.

   "I suggest that it's better to fix him up...or he might eat strange things for breakfast."

   "Like shoes or something."

  Chu Guang nodded, looked at the soldier beside him and ordered him to take this guy to the confinement room and tie him to the bed for two days.

  Keep this guy out of trouble.

  A few passing young players happened to see the guy walking straight towards the wall, and immediately whispered excitedly.

   "Is this NPC stuck on the wall?"

   "BUG! It's a BUG!"

   "Awesome, this game really has bugs!

  Although every version looks at the dog planning to fix the BUG there, no one has ever seen what the real BUG looks like.

   This time it can be regarded as meeting!

  Not caring about the captives anymore, Chu Guang returned to the captain's room alone, sat on a chair, picked up the virtual reality device on the table and put it on his head.

   Tapping his index finger on the side, he spoke.

   "Xiao Qi, help me connect the retrieved memories."

   A vigorous voice quickly reached his ears.

   "Alright master!"

   Just as the voice fell, light blue light particles spread from the center of his field of vision to the surroundings, changing everything they touched into a different look.

  First the floor, then the table and chairs, then the walls—the room under his feet changed from the captain's quarters to a pure white room.

  Chu Guang has never seen this place before.

  But from the nurse delivering the baby, the baby lying in the mother's arms, and the father-like man standing next to the hospital bed, he can probably tell that this should be the delivery room.

  People in the delivery room were busy, and the couple sweetly discussed what to name the baby in their arms.

  No one noticed the stranger standing in the room.

   After all, this is the memory of "Yul", he does not belong here.

  Chu Guang stretched out his hand, passed through the body of the nurse on the side, and then walked to the window, looking out of the window.

  The green plants outside the window are lush and lush, the birds are singing and the flowers are fragrant...I didn't expect that even this kind of detail was perfectly restored.

   "Why did you send me here?" Chu Guang's voice was full of helplessness.

  He is not interested in knowing the life of a small person.

  Even though this memory may be important to that person, it is insignificant to him and this wasteland.

   If he really read through these twenty or thirty years of memories from beginning to end, he wouldn't have to do anything else.

  Light blue light particles flicker.

  Following Chu Guang into this memory together, Xiaoran, who had turned into a doll, sat down on his shoulder, swaying her calf and said shyly.

  Sorry, master, I will drag you in

   Degree bar!

  Looking at Xiaoran's shy smile, Chu Guang always felt that this guy did it on purpose.

  Seeing that the master did not speak, Xiao Ran asked in a low voice with a guilty conscience.

  That started when he joined the Church of the Torch?

  Hmm wait.

  Chu Guang was just about to nod, when suddenly his heart moved and he noticed a detail.

  Through the lush green plants outside the window, you can see towering buildings from a distance, as well as the endless stream of cars...even the ideal city is inferior to it.

   This is clearly not a wasteland.

   This guy was born before the war?

  ...Starting from the memory before he entered the dormant cabin," Chu Guang continued after a pause, "I want to know which shelter he entered. "

  However, Xiao Qi's answer was beyond his expectation.

   "He is not a refuge resident." Not a refuge resident? Chu Guang frowned slightly.

   "Then take me there before he enters the dormant cabin... I want to know the reason why he chooses 'time travel' and the way to go to the future. "

   As he spoke, Chu Guang left the window, walked to the side of the bedside table, and looked at the holographic screen suspended above the electronic clock.

  The year is 2100.

  The 75th year of the Prosperity Era.

  At this moment, the prosperous age is at the forefront, and people have built a utopia on the ground, and both material and gods have been infinitely satisfied.

   And just ten years later, that is, in 2110, the industry and academia will once again liberate people's imagination of a better life in the future.

  The graviton channel and the FTL engine will officially knock on the door of the interstellar era. The ticket to the world beyond light years will no longer be a one-way ticket with no return, but an adventure that anyone can come and go.

  Of course, not all things that come with the future are good things. Taking a step forward can discover new treasures, but it also means that more new problems are coming.

For example, just 13 years later, the psychic interference device developed to replace the "infrasonic fence" was originally used to drive away dangerous alien species that harassed the colony, but it broke out in the third ecological protection zone of Qingquan City, the mother planet, suspected of brainwashing and human body. The shocking scandal of the experiment.

  That incident made a big fuss, and even the authorities were implicated, but it was obviously just a small episode for the people living in Utopia.

  Chu Guang felt that even if he could talk to the people in front of him across time and space, no one would believe that the baby lying in the swaddle at this moment did something that even Satan would be dumbfounded two hundred years later.

   And if he told the people here that it was just a small episode in the distant future, and all the good things would end in 29 years, he would probably be regarded as a strange lunatic.

  The year is 2100.

  From the first year of the Wasteland Era - 2129, there are only 29 years left. ． ． ． ． ．

  Vaguely heard that the mother named the child in her arms "Yul", Chu Guang immediately saw the scenery around him fly away with the progress bar dragged by Xiao Qi.

  Like many people in that era, Yule had a happy childhood, went to school smoothly, and then got a job...

  When everything settled down, the clean and bright delivery room has become a simple and spacious office. From the wide floor-to-ceiling windows, you can see floating clouds and forest-like tall buildings.

  A well-dressed young man stood in front of his desk, talking excitedly to his boss sitting behind the desk.

  Chu Guang didn't listen carefully to their conversation, but paid attention to the clues containing time information for the first time.

   Soon he found what he was looking for on a holographic billboard outside the floor-to-ceiling window——

   It is now July 13, 2121.

   Three days later, there will be a press conference for a popular home security robot, and the pre-order price is only 100,000 credits—but these are not the point.

  According to the history that Chu Guang knows, Vault 79 and its "Yongshi" plan were launched last year of this year.

   There seems to be signs of the end of the prosperous age.

  People began to feel anxious about the future intentionally or unconsciously, and the consensus that tomorrow will be better was gradually replaced by doomsday theory.

  Anxiety itself is a business opportunity.

   Selling Home Shelter

The   plan and protective equipment companies have made a lot of money from this, and the company under his feet is obviously no exception.

  Chu Guang glanced around in the office, and was surprised when he saw the documents on the desk, good guy, this is actually the headquarters of "Champion" Pharmaceuticals!

  The researchers of Vault 79 are all die-hard fans of this company, even the coffee beans are the brand of this company!

   But—he kept wanting to complain.

  Is it really okay for pharmaceutical companies to sell coffee? The conversation between the two in the office gradually became clear.

   "…..radiation resistance agent?"

  After reading the report in his hand, the boss touched his chin, the expression on his face was unpredictable, and the staff standing in front of him described it in an exaggerated tone.

   "That's right! I bet that this new type of anti-radiation agent will definitely become the next growth point of the company Lilan! And it will be explosive growth!" The two are not Juul.

   But it's Yule's memory, and the guy is clearly around.

  Chu Guang looked around, but couldn't find it, but he quickly thought that the guy was only 21 years old, and he might just be a newcomer to the workplace, so he immediately walked out of the office.

   Sure enough, the guy was at the door.

  He was holding a briefcase in his hand, his eyes were wandering around, and some very subtle expressions could be seen. He should have just left the campus not long ago.

  Although he looks younger, this kid is undoubtedly the one he interrogated just now.

   Seeing Yuer staring intently at the conversation in the office, Chu Guang also focused on the two people in the office.

  If Chu Guang's guess is correct, the new project they are discussing at the moment is the formula of "synthesizing anti-radiation agent with 'Blue Umbrella Mushroom'".

  In a sense, this formula has indeed saved many people.

  At least most of the mercenaries in Boulder City rely on this thing to continue their lives. His first pot of gold in the wasteland was also earned by selling that mushroom.

  "...In more professional terms, DNA self-repair technology! We discovered a special active substance in the body of a blue fungus, which can repair macromolecules damaged by neutron rays in organisms."

   "That's a good idea... IMHO medical nanorobots could do a lot better."

  Placing the report in his hand on the table, the man who looked like a boss interrupted the eloquence of the subordinate at the desk, and spread his hands and said.

   "We're a technology company, and IMHO, using mushrooms for medicine... sounds like an ancient idea."

  However, Yule's senior did not give up, but continued to speak vigorously.

   "War, friend, I'm talking about the war years! Of course I know that nanorobots can perfectly repair damaged macromolecular nucleic acids, proteins, and enzymes, but where did you find that kind of thing during the war years?"

"Compared with nanomedical robots that require a huge industrial chain to support, my plan is much more practical! Even if the worst happens, suppliers are completely paralyzed, raw materials all over the world are skyrocketing, we It is still possible to provide our consumers with cheap and reliable anti-radiation medicines... Of course, it is also possible to be slightly more expensive, and we have an unparalleled cost advantage!"

   This time, the boss sitting behind the desk didn't say no immediately, but touched his chin with an interested expression on his face.

   "Sounds interesting."

  Everyone feels that parting ways with the colonies is a high probability event, and war seems to have become the only way to resolve differences.

  To this day, nuclear weapons are still the most efficient thing to wipe life from the surface of the earth, the difference is only the way and scale of delivery, etc.

  A high-quality and cheap anti-radiation agent is undoubtedly much more practical than nano-robots in the age of radioactive fallout.

  Finally, Yule's seniors managed to convince their superiors.

  Even though the process was not easy, he wasted a lot of saliva.

   Seeing the seniors walking out of the office, Yule immediately stepped forward and asked.

"How about it?"

   A bright smile appeared on the senior's face.

   "It's done! The boss promised to lend us the research institute in Jinhe City, as long as I

  If we can produce visible results, he will fight for more budgets for us on the board of directors... time waits for no one, pack up the materials before you get off work, and we will start tomorrow morning! "

  Hearing this sentence, surprise floated on Yuer's face, and he clenched his fists excitedly, but he was so stupid that he held back only one sentence for a long time.

"Great!"

  Senior smiled and patted him on the shoulder. "work hard."

  Looking at the two people walking towards the elevator, Chu Guang showed surprise on his face.

   If he remembers correctly, the "Champion" group has only one research institute in Jinhe City—the one given to him by the college.

  At this moment, the research institute is being controlled by mutants...