This Game Is Too Realistic

In the infirmary of the guided missile cruiser Orion, Jiang Xuezhou, who was covered in bandages, was lying quietly on the medical bed, and the intensive care equipment beside him made a slight beeping sound.

People are still alive.

But didn't wake up.

Facing the gentle electrocardiogram ripples on the holographic screen, Luo Yi, who had taken off his power armor, frowned slightly, looked at the doctor aside and said.

"Aren't you awake yet?"

Before the doctor spoke, the nursing staff on the side couldn't help but roll their eyes.

"It can't be that fast. It's a miracle that this child is alive, right?"

Luo Yi said with a bitter smile.

"I didn't mean to rush..."

He may indeed be a little impatient.

After all, everyone is confused about the situation in front of them.

Not just him, many people want to quickly find out what happened.

And what exactly went wrong.

Staring at the screen of the vital signs monitor, Lin Youyou, who had been silent for a long time, suddenly raised his head.

"It sounds a little strange."

Luo Yi looked at her and asked.

"What's weird?"

The knuckle of her index finger touched her chin, Lin Youyou said thoughtfully.

"After we used the tissue repair gel, her wounds were indeed healing, but there was no change in metabolic levels and heart rate..."

When she said this, she suddenly remembered something and another sentence popped out of her mouth.

"It seems to have been the same before."

Luo Yi asked.

"Before?"

"That child named Ye Shi." Lin Youyou said truthfully while recalling the situation at the time, "We cured his injuries and repaired his prosthetic body, but his metabolic rate and heart rate did not show any symptoms. Signs of recovery... By the way, so is his body temperature, which is not a normal body temperature at all, and I am always worried about him passing out."

Luo Yi's brows wrinkled slightly.

At this time, a message from the eight staff members suddenly popped up on the communication channel.

Without thinking much, he immediately pressed the button to connect.

"Hello?"

"Are you free right now?"

"I'm always free and can tell you things directly."

The person on the other end said it immediately without any nonsense.

"Come to the reserve warehouse on the lower deck...the warehouse for emergency escape supplies. We found new clues here."

"I'll be there soon."

Luo nodded, hung up the phone, and then quickly left the infirmary and went to the warehouse that his colleagues from the Eight Departments mentioned on the phone.

The warehouse was not far from the room where he was on duty, but it was still a little far away from the infirmary.

It took him about five minutes to arrive at his destination. He saw security personnel from the Eight Departments standing at the door of an open cabinet, and the warehouse staff who reported the crime were standing next to them.

"what happened?"

The security officer who called him earlier raised his hand to greet him, and then walked up to him with a tablet.

"We just received a report from the staff of the emergency supplies management warehouse that a sleeping cabin was lost in the storage warehouse, and the lock of the storage cabinet was violently broken."

Luo Yi asked.

"Did you just discover it?"

The security officer nodded and said.

"Yes, it was fine when I checked it yesterday, but it was gone when I checked it again today. But the strange thing is that the security system failed. Is it very similar to before?"

Luo Yi frowned.

"Could it be that the colleague in charge of the warehouse made a mistake?"

This is a hyperspace passage, no one can get out, and the lost sleeping cabin must still be on the starship.

And most importantly, he couldn't figure out who would steal that thing.

The security officer shook his head.

"I don't think it should be...because we have found the lost sleeping cabin."

Luo Yi was stunned for a moment and looked at him confused.

"…Then are there any questions?"

The security officer looked at him with a subtle expression and continued.

"The problem is... we found the lost sleeping cabin at the accident scene."

…

In the Sheriff's Office on the lower deck, the main participants in the "Dawn" plan stood expressionless.

Including captain Zhao Tianhe, executive officer Wu Mengke, and Dr. Wu from the fifth department, etc.

Their plan was obviously perfect.

But I don’t know why, but it still failed in the end.

Looking at the sleeping girl on the screen, Zhao Tianhe stretched out his index finger and thumb to pinch the tired forehead, sighed slowly and said.

"It seems that the universe is more cruel than we imagined..."

Wu Mengke looked at him, with a hint of sadness in the crow's feet at the corners of his eyes.

"So we...this is a failure?"

Zhao Tianhe did not answer.

What they were going through now was more complicated than any battle he had ever encountered.

His experience is of no use here.

"No, no..."

At this time, Dr. Wu, who had been silent until now, suddenly spoke.

A pair of eyes looked at him.

Including Zhao Tianhe, his cousin Wu Mengke, the navigator and many other senior officers, as well as Sergeant Luo Yi who was standing at the door about to report the situation, etc...

He turned his attention to the monitoring terminal, looked at the unconscious girl on the holographic screen, and swallowed hard.

"We succeeded, but the final result was different from what we originally imagined..."

Zhao Tianhe frowned.

"What's the meaning?"

Wu Xinghuan looked away from the holographic screen and looked at the captain intently.

"You judge that the Gemini will definitely launch a neutron torpedo after confirming that we refuse to execute the order... right?"

Zhao Tianhe nodded and said in a tone that left no room for doubt.

"Based on what I know about Song Yuchuan, the captain of the Gemini, he will definitely do this."

Wu Xinghuan asked immediately.

"What kind of person is he?"

Zhao Tianhe replied without thinking.

"That guy is a wolf. He is cruel to others and even more cruel to himself. If there are ten radicals among a hundred civilians on a ship, he will default to the other ninety innocent people as necessary sacrifices."

Wu Xinghuan said step by step.

"So you opened fire without hesitation."

Zhao Tianhe did not shy away and simply nodded.

"Yes, there is no other way to deal with the beast. In that situation, you will die or I will live... Do we want to discuss this issue at this time?"

"We have to talk about this because it's the key to the situation we're in."

Wu Xinghuan stared at him intently and continued in a serious tone.

"Then now you are the captain of the Gemini, or you are Song Yuchuan himself... You are in front of a person who understands you very well. That guy will not show mercy and will abandon all illusions at the first opportunity and make the final decision. Bad choice...if you were him, what would you choose?"

Zhao Tianhe's pupils dilated slightly.

That was an answer that almost didn't need to be thought about. The option automatically appeared in his mind.

"...I will strike first."

Wu Xinghuan stared at him and asked.

"You will definitely strike first. You know that your opponent knows very well that you are a beast. You know that your opponent will not have any hesitation or guilt in killing you... So, how do you plan to strike?"

The air in the Sheriff's Office became quiet, and pairs of eyes were staring at the two of them.

No one said anything.

Zhao Tianhe was silent for a long time and turned his gaze to one side.

"I'll hide the neutron bomb in the landing craft..."

Wu Mengke's eyes widened in astonishment, staring at Captain Zhao in disbelief.

The same goes for the other officers on the side, all with expressions of astonishment on their faces.

What shocked them was not the commander's choice.

It is the best possible judgment made by their superiors who put themselves in the other party's shoes.

At that time the landing craft was most likely unmanned from the start...

Wu Xinghuan was not satisfied with this answer and continued to press forward.

"Is that just that? Die together with your opponent? You still have an unfinished mission. You should be cruel not only to others, but also to yourself..."

This time Zhao Tianhe was silent for a long time.

But in the end, he still said the last resort.

"...I will upload the thoughts of the entire crew of the ship to the shipboard server, and kill myself before the neutron torpedo the opponent is about to launch hits us, making us invincible from the beginning. And ensure that the orders of the Lagrange Point Space Station can be correctly executed even after our death."

to be honest.

They are not fighting for profit, just for their different beliefs.

They are not enemies.

Even after everything is over, he will consider atonement for what he has done——

For example, you can use the files and data backed up on the server to resurrect teammates you have killed with your own hands.

There was no need to continue to deduce what happened next. They already understood the whole story, and the truth was far more cruel than they imagined.

Zhao Tianhe's Adam's apple moved.

At that moment he seemed to have aged more than ten years.

"...I'm sorry, comrades, I still underestimated their determination."

"You don't need to be sorry. This is what has happened... it's just that we in the superposition state don't know it."

Wu Xinghuan shook his head slightly, then continued to cast his gaze on the girl on the holographic screen, and continued as if muttering to himself.

"To be honest...I knew it all the moment I saw her."

"We are all superposition states, and they are two different superposition states, coming from two completely parallel timelines α and β. There are two intersection points in our entanglement, one is the starting point and the other is the end point."

"The young man named Ye Shi is our starting point, and the girl named Jiang Xuezhou is our end point. And in their own cycle, everything is the other way around. The girl named Jiang Xuezhou is the starting point of everything, and that girl named Jiang Xuezhou is the starting point of everything. The young man is the end.”

"And we are already dead."

He eventually discovered new physics.

The spread of information can not only exceed the speed of light, but can even travel through time and space.

Their encounter across time and space is the best proof.

Whether this memory is ultimately interpreted as a dream, a sense of instant vision, or some kind of psychological effect... they have left proof of their existence on each other's timelines.

He wanted to give this amazing discovery a name, but after some thought he gave up.

Let’s leave it to future generations to summarize…

About this special field of information and information entangled with each other.

The room was quiet for a long time.

The person who finally broke the silence was Wu Mengke, the starship's executive officer, or second-in-command.

"...I don't know why, but after hearing you say that we were dead, I suddenly breathed a sigh of relief."

She smiled bitterly, looked at the screen of the monitoring terminal with complicated eyes and continued.

"At least...their existence proves that our choice was not wrong."

Zhao Tianhe glanced at her, with a hint of surprise in his eyes.

"which aspect?"

"every aspect."

Wu Mengke thought for a while and then said.

"The boy we saw before was a shelter resident...this kid should be a wastelander."

Zhao Tianhe nodded.

"maybe."

Wu Mengke looked at him, and a kind smile suddenly appeared on his always serious face.

"Actually...it's pretty good, isn't it? Although they are obviously different from us, I still see many things in them that we once praised, such as love and courage...and there are many other things that I don't know what to say about them. How to describe something.”

Luo Yi understood the thoughts of the executive lady, and said after thinking for a moment.

"What you want to say is... hope?"

Wu Mengke smiled and nodded.

"Probably. Anyway, I think it's good to leave the future to them."

They did not turn into beasts.

They are still people.

In this case, there is nothing to be afraid of.

As for death.

That's just a fate.

She is like a kind old grandmother at this moment.

Although she is not that old, she is only middle-aged.

"Maybe you are right." Zhao Tianhe was silent for a while and then said slowly.

According to Dr. Wu's theory, there was no one on the Gemini landing craft from the beginning, only a fully loaded neutron bomb warhead, and there might even be bionic humans or intelligent programs that came to take over the starship.

In other words, it was not them and Gemini that formed the superposition state, but themselves.

And whether they died at the exit or entrance of the hyperspace channel, their death was destined to happen.

In this case, the "Daybreak" plan would have been impossible to succeed from the beginning.

And they are destined to be unable to go to the future 200 years later to fulfill their agreement with that child.

After a pause, Zhao Tianhe looked at Dr. Wu Xinghuan.

"So according to your theory, there's nothing we can do... right?"

Wu Xinghuan shook his head.

"No, even if our death is destined... there is still something we can do."

Seeing a pair of eyes looking at him, he took a deep breath and continued.

"As I just said... we are in a superposition state at this moment. Even if our superposition state has collapsed in the future, there is still something we can do in the remaining time that does not exist. matter."

Zhao Tianhe asked in a deep voice.

"That thing is?"

"Our exit." Wu Xinghuan stared at him intently and said decisively, "We can decide which future we go to..."

Everyone looked at him.

The expression may be surprised, heavy, surprised, or unbelievable...

Zhao Tianhe continued to ask.

"...Can you explain it in detail?"

At this moment, Wu Xinghuan was calmer than ever before, and he connected all the confusing clues together.

"...We do receive information from the future, right? Because of the quantum entanglement of superposition states, because of some kind of field that we don't know about. In short, we do see them."

"We have this common memory, even if this memory has not appeared in our timeline. We know that in 200 years there will be an organization called the Alliance. With ideals and enthusiasm, they will end the Wasteland Era and bring Sweep the old into the grave and take our children with us to the new era!”

"That shared memory is their coordinates, and that's where we are going - the future where those children exist!"

Although this sounds like a dying fantasy, that shared memory is not completely fictitious, but a memory that actually exists in their minds.

And it’s a memory that resonates with all of them!

It is precisely because of that resonance for the future that they have not given up until now.

Zhao Tianhe looked at him seriously.

"How do we get there?"

"It's very simple...it's not simple either. We have to form a closed loop with their timeline!"

Looking at the dark-colored people who were getting serious, Wu Xinghuan turned his attention to Luo Yi who was standing at the door.

"I remember you did statistics. There were 227 people who heard the explosion... right?"

Luo nodded and said.

"Yes...and, I have one more thing to report. The sleeping module we found in the landing craft is the sleeping module we lost."

Wu Xinghuan snapped his fingers and looked around energetically.

"The timeline has changed. This is the most direct evidence! And the moment we sent that child away!"

“That’s why I just said that our ‘Dawn Plan’ did not fail, it was just different from what we expected!”

"We didn't know we were dead at that time. We thought there would be a group of heavily armed soldiers on the landing craft. It wasn't until we discovered there was nothing there that we realized we were wrong. Our opponents were more serious than we thought. Cruel and tenacious!”

Zhao Tianhe already vaguely understood what he meant.

"The timelines have completed the first intersection...it still needs a second intersection to form a closed loop, right? Is that what you mean?"

"Correct!" Wu Xinghuan looked at him with bright eyes, and then looked around at everyone present, "We have successfully received information from the future. We already know our own death, and even know how many people will survive and how many will survive." Personal death.”

"A total of 227 people heard the explosion... The speed of neutron radiation is much faster than the transmission of sound waves. Under what circumstances can the explosion of a neutron bomb be heard?"

"...Although this is nonsense, I still have to say that only living people can hear the explosion of a neutron bomb."

Luo Yi's eyes widened instantly, including many people standing at the scene.

He had this vague feeling a long time ago, only to be ignored among the trivial clues.

Zhao Tianhe stared at Wu Xinghuan intently and suddenly laughed out loud.

"It seems that I am the ghost."

It's not just him.

Including almost all senior officers on the bridge at the time, they did not hear the explosion or the alarm triggered by the explosion.

They didn't realize something was going on on the lower deck until someone came up to report it.

Now he finally understood why.

The equipment is not malfunctioning.

It's just that they can't survive the "next second" when the siren sounds.

However, in this hyperspace channel where time stagnated, they still completed the exchange of information with the help of an unknown field.

In other words.

In fact, they are not just exchanging information with the future, they also have a certain resonance field with each other.

After adjusting his expression, he looked at Wu Xinghuan without changing his expression and continued fearlessly.

"Go on, tell us... what else can we, the dying, do for the new era 200 years from now."

"There is only one thing you can do - go back to the moment you entered the hyperspace channel, stay where you were at that time...and wait for death."

Looking at his cousin, Wu Xinghuan reluctantly said these words, and then turned his attention to Luo Yi who was standing at the door.

"And you... including me, and all the 227 people who heard the explosion, we are survivors of neutron radiation. Although we were lucky enough not to be killed directly, death is only a matter of time."

"But even so, there will still be some time before we die of suffocation or starvation... During this time, we have to complete the closed loop of time, guide the girl lying on the treatment bed to come to us, and also prepare for them Weapons to help them defeat enemies we have not defeated.”

"It seems that what we should keep is not the 'celestial being,'" Wu Mengke joked, "but something else."

Luo Yi raised his hand, looked at everyone and said seriously.

"I will be in charge of the sleeping cabin... The emergency equipment management warehouse is next to my office. If I hear the explosion, I will open the warehouse as soon as possible and drag the sleeping cabin to the landing craft at that time."

Koala was silent for a while and then raised his hand.

"Leave the guidance to me... I heard that they hit the lower deck. My repair room is nearby. I will make a holographic guidance device to guide the girl... uh, to the dormant cabin. s room?"

"This is not enough." Zhao Tianhe shook his head and looked at Wu Xinghuan who wanted to say something, "She must start the ship's warp engine, right?"

"That's right, and it's more than that," Wu Xinghuan nodded and continued calmly, "Celestial beings occupied our starship two hundred years later and took control of this starship...at least including the weapon system. She has control over most of the equipment inside, and we have to help her and her friends regain control of the starship."

Koala said sweating profusely.

"This...this is a bit too difficult for me."

He didn't even know how long he could live without the hyperspace channel.

"Haha, it's okay, brother," the artificial intelligence expert from Shibu put his arm on his shoulder, smiled and patted his shoulder, "There are us too! You are responsible for designing the navigation device to help her find the warp speed. As for the engine switch, we are responsible for leaving a surprise on the engine for the tomb robbers.”

Korra breathed a sigh of relief and smiled weakly.

"That's good...I'm really not good at hacking, especially when my opponent is also a master."

Suddenly someone raised his hand.

"I have a question. Can't we design in stagnant time? Even... let dead people participate in the design of the program."

It's always good to have an extra helping hand.

Besides, there are many talents on this starship, not just the programmers of the Tenth Department.

However, Dr. Wu shook his head and denied their plan to get stuck.

"It's useless. All the changes we made in the hyperspace channel will be erased. Except for the memories that have been proven to be preserved... nothing can be left."

But looking at the disappointed expressions of everyone, he suddenly changed the topic.

"But it's okay to practice it several times... and it doesn't matter how many times it is. After all, information can be retained through the resonance field. This does not violate the rules we have figured out."

Seeing everyone brainstorming and thinking of more and more solutions, Zhao Tianhe's stern face unfortunately also had a faint smile, and he made a rare joke.

"I never thought dead people could do so many things."

Wu Mengke said with a smile.

"After all, we won't die until the next second, so we're not dead yet."

Zhao Tianhe was silent for a while, with a look of relief and melancholy on his face.

"But I still feel a little regretful when I think about it. I have made an appointment with the person I met online... to go to Schlon City for vacation together after the war is over."

By the way, it should be called French Fries Port 200 years from now.

I heard the scenery is pretty good too.

Wu Mengke looked at this normally stern officer in surprise, as if he was looking at a foreign species in the wasteland.

Sensing the strange gaze, Zhao Tianhe looked at her with a strange expression.

"Any questions?"

"No..." Wu Mengke shook his head blankly, "I just never heard you say it."

Zhao Tianhe said with a smile.

"Hahaha, why are you talking about that kind of thing at work? It will make you think I am such an irregular person."

All right.

In fact, he is indeed not a serious person, just an ordinary human being.

He also has his own life where his colleagues can't see it, and there are some inventory stored in the virtual machine that he wants to delete but probably doesn't have time to delete.

The reason why he always has a stern expression is just because of work needs.

But after knowing that he was going to die soon, the burden on his shoulders was lifted and he lived out his true self.

"I've begun to feel this way..." Wu Mengke raised his index finger and pressed it between his eyebrows, with an expression that said he couldn't accept it, "You should take this secret to your grave, I thank you."

"You're welcome! Just think I was just farting, haha."

Zhao Tianhe smiled and turned his gaze to the terminal screen. The smile on his face suddenly became much more relieved, and the original melancholy also dissipated.

"But having said that, after chatting with you for a few words, I suddenly have no regrets."

Wu Mengke sighed.

"……What's the meaning?"

Zhao Tianhe said with a smile.

"Don't you think that girl...and that boy are just like our children?"

Wu Mengke was stunned for a moment and raised his eyebrows slightly.

"Do you also talk like this when you're having sex online?"

Zhao Tianhe coughed.

"Okay... I'm serious."

Wu Mengke turned his attention to the girl lying on the treatment bed on the holographic screen and said slowly.

"That's what I've always thought... If I had a granddaughter, or a great-great-granddaughter, she would probably be as brave and strong as her."

"It seems that I am slow," Zhao Tianhe smiled, "but now I have come to my senses. In fact, there is no need for us to go two hundred years later. They are our continuation... a world we cannot see." , they will see it for us.”

Wu Mengke joked.

"It would be great if everyone was as open-minded as we are."

"That is impossible."

He put away his kind smile, and his determined eyes reappeared on Zhao Tianhe's face with sharp features.

At this moment, he seemed to have become the unsmiling captain again.

Determination is not something only beasts possess.

However, the beasts always seem to misunderstand again and again, thinking that as long as they are more ruthless and have no bottom line than humans, and scare the standing people, they can eventually put them in the cage.

He would let the guy on the Gemini and the lunatics at Lagrange Point know how wrong they were and how ridiculous their dreams were.

"A bunch of old immortals want to take over Nestlé and dream about replacing it when it's all over... Go ahead and have sweet dreams."

"Whether it's 200 years or 2000 years, even if I have two feet in the grave, I will pull them into the coffin! Let's lie down together!"

The original title was actually called Morphogenic Field, but I felt like saying too much would be a spoiler, so I kept my mouth shut.