Chapter 310 Where is she
? This feeling was like when she turned around and tried to look for something that she had thrown away in a corner, it suddenly appeared in front of her after disappearing for several days!
She didn't understand why she hadn't thought of it before.
To verify, she took out a can of synthetic meat from her bag, slowly walked to the cat, opened it and put the can down. The cat lowered its head and ate happily as usual.
Youxi took out a delicate and small camera from her bag and started filming the cat.
Twenty minutes later, she didn't meet the elevator girl.
An hour later, Youxi, who had returned to her residence and taken a shower, turned on the three-dimensional screen to watch the news.
Before going to bed that night, she wrapped herself in her coat and went to the terrace.
The wind was strong on the high-rise terrace at night. She leaned against the handrail and looked at the strange city below. From this height, the slums at the bottom of the city were covered by various neon advertisements in the middle.
She could hear the sound of aircraft passing through the driveway, the conversations of neighbors at home, smell the heavy dust in the air, and taste the delicious food... She was holding the railing with her hand, and her palm could feel the slightly cold touch below.
If... her guess was confirmed, then all this would be too terrible.
The next day was not a workday, so she deliberately chose to go out at noon. It happened that the couple opposite also wanted to go out for dinner and shopping.
Youxi said hello to the other party, pretending to go out as well, and followed him all the way to the garage. During the period, she kept fiddling with the camera in her hand. On the surface, she was watching the video, but in fact she filmed the whole process of the other party.
That night, she did not see the black cat in the garage.
After two days of rest, it was work again. In the morning, she secretly took a photo of the couple across the street who were reluctant to say goodbye, and in the evening she took the same photo of the girl in the elevator.
After repeating this for several days, she felt that it was enough.
Youxi returned to the house, took out the computer from the space, imported several videos, and then stored them in different categories. Then she opened a program to play two videos of the same person or cat at the same time, and compared them frame by frame.
After more than half an hour, she finished comparing all the videos, and the result was clearly placed in front of her. The creepy weirdness surrounded her again.
She remembered that Xing Min had talked about the difference between the virtual world and the low-latitude world in the "Devouring Land".
Everything in the virtual world is set, the angle of the flower, the swing amplitude when the wind blows, although it looks beautiful, but if you take pictures of this process every time, you will find that this beauty has no soul, but is just mechanically moving according to the set track, and each movement track is exactly the same.
Just like every time she goes to the mission world, Xing Min has placed the world characters for her in advance. Before she goes there, or after she leaves, the characters will make perfect reactions and expressions according to the set track.
Ordinary people would never notice it, but those who are close to her and know her well can tell the difference.
Now, she uses 100% accurate technology to compare, and the results tell her that the same person and cat, taken on different days, those almost identical farewell scenes, the cat's movements and expressions when eating, the elevator girl's running posture and tone, are all exactly the same, not a single frame is different.
What does this mean?
If it is a real person, even if he is doing the same thing, even if he is saying the same sentence, even if the sentences and expressions are similar between the two times, it is impossible to be exactly the same, just like copying and pasting.
So, this world... is a virtual world!
Those people and cats are like real NPCs, moving forward, turning, and retreating on the set track.
Everything was indeed done perfectly, but now thinking about it, it was so rough, so rough that it was completely polarized from the current state of the world, the world setting in her memory, and everything she felt.
All the memories matched, and all the feelings were terribly real, so rigorous, with strict logic, without any flaws, and so vivid that she had never thought about it before.
If this is just a virtual world, why is there such a polarization?
What is going on in this world?
The terminal station - is it another station? But the mobile phone in the endless train world has disappeared, and she has not received any messages.
You Xi slowly raised her head and looked around, her eyes full of scrutiny and doubt. Even though this is not her native world, for nearly a month, she thought this was a real world, but now she found that it was not the case.
This feeling is more terrifying than being trapped in an endless loop.
The furniture and walls in front of her suddenly began to distort, and there were noisy sounds and crackling noises in her ears. She couldn't tell what those sounds were.
She thought the walls and furniture were broken, but when she stood up and wanted to walk over, she stumbled and found that she was the one who was dizzy.
She held on to the table and shook her head vigorously. The dizziness faded a little, and the noisy sounds became clearer. She tried to distinguish them from the crackling noises, and soon found that the noisy sounds seemed to be the same voice, and that voice was repeating the same sentence over and over again.
Who is talking?
What are they talking about?
She pressed her forehead tightly, resisting the feeling of dizziness and nausea, and tried to distinguish.
...Open?
Open what? What do you want her to open?
Wait - this voice sounds familiar...
It seems... It's her! ?
Suddenly, a strong sleepiness came over her, as if she didn't want her to continue listening, and wanted to make her fall asleep as if to suppress everything.
What will happen after falling asleep?
When she wakes up again, will she remember everything she discovered today?
You Xi's mind moved slightly, and a sharp dagger appeared in her right hand. She stretched out her left hand and slashed it towards her palm.
The moment the sharp blade slashed through her skin, she told herself that she would definitely be injured, her skin would be scratched, blood would flow out, and she would feel - pain!
Very painful!
Her super-strong physique, which had been strengthened nine times, was cut by a small dagger, and her right hand barely exerted much strength.
Blood rushed out of her palm and dripped onto the floor.
You Xi looked at her bloody left hand and suddenly laughed.
The rigorous, perfect, and flawless logic finally cracked.
And what changed everything was her own consciousness.
This is not just a virtual world, this is also her world of consciousness!
It is like a huge virtual base, superimposed and infiltrated with her subjective consciousness, so all the parts related to her memory are vivid and have a strong and rigorous logic, because they are transformed from her thoughts and her consciousness.
Only her own consciousness and logic can deceive herself, convince her senses, and tell her that this is the real mission world reality.
But the part involving the base world is rough and false, and the people and animals will only move on the arranged track.
When she believed in this world, the imaginary part, no matter how crude it was, could be easily overlooked.
When she no longer believed in this world, everything started to go wrong...
The pain suppressed the sleepiness that invaded her, and the voice beside her ear became clearer and clearer, and the crackling noise gradually disappeared.
She heard the voice clearly, it was indeed her own voice.
——Open...
——You...Open...
She once again endured the strong pain and concentrated her attention to distinguish, she heard her own voice saying in her ear:
——Youxi, open your eyes!!
She closed her eyes gently, and then suddenly opened them.
**
Suddenly, the world was dark. There
was no real world where the train appeared in the sky, no residential house on the 103rd floor, no neighbors, black cats, girls and training centers...
Where was she?
She was sweating profusely and gasping for breath. Otherwise, she would suffocate to death in the next second.
Her brain seemed to be in great pain due to overexertion. It felt like someone was holding a sharp hammer and hitting the back of her head repeatedly. A heavy feeling of dizziness and nausea came over her.
She leaned weakly against the cold wall in front of her. It took her a long time to feel a little bit of strength again.
It was still dark around her, but her body's senses were recovering little by little. She felt the narrow circular wall surrounding her. Its cold and hard texture was somewhat like metal or glass.
There was a strong stinging pain in her shoulders, neck and back of her head. She raised her hands to feel around, but as soon as she raised her hands a little, they were pulled by something on her shoulders, and the pain intensified.
She collapsed again, and this time the time she took to recover was shorter than the last time.
The scene around her also became clearer. What
was surrounding her was not a metal wall, but a glass wall. To be more precise, it was a round glass column. There were round glass columns all around, and each glass column... had a person in it!
They all stood there, motionless, as if they were asleep.
The thing that pierced her shoulders seemed to be some kind of fastener, fixing each of them in the glass column like a robot. She raised her hands again, endured the pain, and felt the back of her neck and the back of her head.
There were several long and thin tubes, one end of which was inserted into the back of her neck and the back of her head, and the other end was connected to the glass column upwards.
All the people here should be the same as her, as if they were treated as objects and hung in this way...
Where is this place? Where are the others?
Soon, her gradually recovered hearing accurately conveyed the sounds outside this space to her.
She heard subtle and rhythmic rumbling sounds and the whistling of the wind - was she on the train?
In addition, there was melodious music and light and pleasant conversations coming from far away, and this sound was very familiar.
You Xi suddenly realized that from beginning to end, she had never left the golden train!
**
In a dark space on the train, there was a sound of glass breaking, followed by the sound of something falling to the ground.
You Xi half-lay on the broken glass, gasping for breath again.
This body was too weak now. Just cutting the connecting hose and breaking the glass tube had consumed a lot of her energy.
She didn't calm down for long. A flashing red light suddenly lit up behind the broken glass tube. She guessed that it must be an alarm triggered because she broke the glass. She quickly stood up, rushed to the red light, and directly destroyed the circuit of the alarm device.
The red light disappeared, and the unsettling sense of oppression also disappeared.
But she still didn't dare to let her guard down. She found a glass pillar near the corner and hid herself in the darkness behind the glass pillar. [High Temperature Perfume] appeared in her hand. She let go of her senses and listened vigilantly to the movements outside.
One minute passed, five minutes passed... Ten minutes later, there was still no movement outside.
It seemed that she was fast enough to destroy the alarm device in time without alarming the people on the train.
The pain in her shoulders, back of the neck and back of the head never stopped. She didn't know what would happen if she pulled out the thing that was inserted there rashly, so she didn't pull it hard just now, but just cut it off with a sharp blade.
A camping light appeared next to her hand. She took out a mirror with a stand. With the help of the light, she saw clearly what she looked like at the moment.
Her face was pale, her forehead was covered with sweat, her lips were blue, and she looked like a sick, weak and wolfish person.
This weakness was not only physical, but also mental. Her spirit seemed to be over-consumed and was now completely in a negative state, so she felt a splitting headache, dizziness and nausea.
On her shoulders, two metal claw-shaped buckles were deeply embedded in her body. They were the fasteners that had just fixed her in a standing position in the glass column.
She could feel the piercing pain there when she moved her arms slightly.
She hadn't felt this kind of pain for many years. Since she had pushed her body strength to more than five times, almost nothing could hurt her easily. Even if she was hurt, it was only a superficial wound. She didn't even need to use [Repair Foundation]. The body's rapid self-healing ability could quickly heal the wound.
She looked at the fixed point of the metal claw buckle in the mirror and pulled out the foreign object that was stuck in her body bit by bit.
The piercing pain came, and her fingertips trembled. She tried to get her brain to work as quickly as possible, thinking and analyzing everything, trying to distract herself from the pain.
The apocalyptic setting in that virtual reality world undoubtedly came from her consciousness. The setting was a combination of the apocalyptic novels she had read before, the speculations from memory fragments, and some settings of the Devouring Land, so it seemed so real.
If she hadn't seen NPC Ron several times in the virtual reality world, she wouldn't have begun to doubt the world she was in. Ron couldn't be simulated by the virtual world, but should be simulated by her own subconscious mind as a reminder to herself.
Just like the sound that repeatedly rang in her ears before she woke up, it also came from her own subconscious mind.
In the final analysis, she was able to wake up so quickly because of her physical fitness that was far superior to that of ordinary people...
In addition, she still couldn't judge when she and her companions began to fall into the virtual world and the world of consciousness? How much of the seven or eight days they spent on the golden train was real, and how much was fake?
This train must have been very impressive to have deceived her and Xing Min...
You Xi groaned slightly, and the second metal claw-shaped buckle fell to the ground.
She let out a long breath, quickly took out the [Repair Foundation] from the space, applied it to the wound, and then took out a super analgesic and hemostatic medicine that she had stockpiled in the "Devouring Land".
This medicine is for internal use, and it will quickly relieve pain after drinking it.
The injury on the shoulder was treated, but she still didn't dare to touch the invisible back of the neck and the back of the head easily.
Fortunately, after drinking the medicine, even the two wounds seemed to be less painful.
She stood up and began to look for her companions among the surrounding glass columns.
**
The whole space is sealed, without windows, and is rectangular in shape. It is obviously a carriage. Judging from the distance of the music and conversation outside, it should be far away from the Golden Train passenger activity area and suites.
Now think about it, although they have been on the train for seven or eight days, they have not actually checked the entire train. Each time they went to the carriage that the train allowed them to go to. At the same time, because the train doors have a transmission function, they came and went at fixed points, and their understanding of this train is basically zero.
There are six glass columns in a row, and the entire carriage has about 30 rows. The number of people here alone has exceeded the upper limit of the number of passengers on the Golden Train that she had previously speculated.
Therefore, the question she had questioned before had an answer: the entire golden train really had more than 180 passengers. The upper limit of 180 passengers was only for those staying in the VIP suites and those who could come and go freely in the open functional areas of the train.
And the number of people like them who were placed in the closed space of the train was probably five times, ten times... or even more than 180.
Think about it, if most of the passengers who boarded the train every time chose to stay, how could there be only 180 people on the train.
She didn't notice it when she was inside the glass column just now, but now she found out that there was a tiny screen on each glass column.
The screen was pitch black, and she touched it lightly, and it suddenly lit up.
Half of the screen displays monitoring information such as the person's heart rate and heartbeat, and the other half is a video picture, which is presented from a first-person perspective. Some people are eating with their families, some are chatting with their lovers, some are partying with friends, some are skiing in the snowy mountains, and some are on vacation at the seaside...
The picture has no sound and is inconsistent. Sometimes it is dark one second, and it is dawn the next. It is obvious that one second they are planning a trip, and the next second they have arrived at the tourist destination.
You Xi looked at it and suddenly felt cold all over.
She knew what this was. It was a dream reflection of the world in everyone's mind, or a picture presented by conscious thinking.
These pictures are integrated into the virtual world provided by the train, forming a logical and self-consistent world, which will make everyone feel real and immersed in it.
If it was just a virtual world, let alone her, which other passenger who could get to this level was not smart and sharp? It was estimated that she would wake up after being trapped for a short time, just like the nightmare world she entered at the "White Bird Lake" station. The illusion that time was completely different from this time.
Only when people are dreaming can they be logically self-consistent and perfectly ignore those parts that are not quite right.
She didn't know how this train was done and what the purpose was, but it was obvious that everyone here was deeply trapped in it and couldn't wake up. What about
her companions?
You Xi walked forward quickly, her eyes swept across the rows of glass columns, and at the same time called Xing Min in her mind.
Xing Min did not respond to her. There are two possibilities. The first is that he is too far away from her and he cannot sense her for the time being. The second is that his consciousness is still trapped in dreams and virtual worlds, so he cannot hear her.
She quickly checked all the glass columns. Tang Yatong and the others were not here.
She came to one end of the carriage and wanted to open the door to go to other carriages, but when she raised her hand to swipe the bracelet to unlock it, she found that the golden train bracelet was not on her wrist.
Was it taken off?
Or... from that time on, she and everyone else had entered the illusion?
Youxi knew that she was in a bad mood. After experiencing many apocalypses, she had great strength, and she had a group of equally powerful partners around her, which made her feel confident of winning to some extent.
This did not mean that she was not vigilant or cautious, but that she trusted herself and her companions. She believed that as long as everyone was together, no matter how difficult the battle was, they could overcome it together.
This was a belief.
But now, she was in a weak physical state, and there were still foreign objects in the back of her head and neck that had not been removed. She could not figure out the situation around her, and she had lost the trace of her companions.
She was very anxious, and this anxiety had seriously affected her thinking and judgment.
She had to calm down!
This body must have not eaten or drunk anything for a long time. She could feel the discomfort in her stomach. She took out a cup of hot cocoa from the space and found a corner in the dark carriage again. She drank the hot drink bit by bit to restore her strength.
At the same time, she also calmed her mind.
She had to start from the beginning. They received a reminder on their mobile phones and entered the VIP room on the second floor of the departure hall. The VIP lounge and platform are different from the past, and all fighting between passengers is prohibited...
Afterwards, they went to the platform through the mobile phone prompts and saw a strange scene, but after boarding the train, they did not receive any mobile phone prompts...
Later, all their message prompts came from the bracelet given by the Golden Train - when thinking of this, Youxi's heart skipped a beat, and a strange feeling spread from the bottom of her heart.
She thought about it again, and indeed, since they got on the train and put on the bracelet, the mobile phone of the Endless Train World has not sent any message prompts.
That is to say, all subsequent prompts, including the arrival and disembarkation methods of the terminal station, were told to them by the golden train, not the endless train phone.
What is the difference between the two?
In everyone's opinion, in this world, the inside of the train is the only "safe" place, because all fighting is prohibited and violators will be eliminated, but what if - not?
What if... that would perfectly explain everything.
In the darkness, Youxi's eyes lit up a little.
If it were someone else, even if they guessed this, they would not be able to verify the guess immediately, but she can!
Youxi put away the hot drink and was about to take something from the space, when suddenly, she noticed a gaze coming towards her in the dark and silent carriage.
She gave up what she originally wanted to take out, and a bottle of [High Temperature Perfume] appeared in her hand. She looked up and said, "Come out."
"Hey, how did you find me?" A soft voice sounded in the darkness. The other party appeared from the darkness, jumped down, and looked at her with a smile from a distance of ten meters.
You Xi remembered this face: "Mensha."
"You still remember my name?" She spoke in a light tone, with a smile on the corner of her lips, looking innocent.
"What do you want to do?" You Xi had a blank expression.
"Are you too ruthless? After all, we know each other, and I just happened to pass by and found that you were in trouble, so I wanted to help you."
You Xi sneered: "Help me? If you wanted to help me, why did you personally hand this golden team ticket to me?" In fact, she had already figured out this matter before.
There is no doubt that Mengsha was the one who triggered the alliance upgrade game in the "Devouring Land".
She seemed to know the site very well, so she instigated and planned the mob rebellion, gathered a certain number of people in that area, and finally made the quantitative change into a qualitative change.
Of course, the other party might not just be for the "golden team ticket", after all, the other party could not have expected her situation here, and it is also possible that she could not survive the upgrade game and died directly in this game.
If she had not had the chance to follow the troops to the Cloud City-State and successfully restarted the robot, they might not have been able to survive for thirty minutes.
But no matter what the outcome was, the other party's purpose would not be good.
"No matter who you are, what you did has clearly told me that you are an enemy! You probably don't want to - can't kill me directly, but just want to trap me or let me die in a disaster."
As You Xi said this, the other party's expression changed slightly, and the smile on her lips disappeared.
"Who are you?" After You Xi asked, she suddenly laughed, "You must have thought that I would fight with you and then keep asking this question, right?" In fact, she didn't even bother to say those words to the other party before. Since she had already confirmed that the other party was an enemy, no matter what she said to her, it would be nonsense. She said
those things just to cover up the other hand hidden in her pocket.
The timing of the other party's appearance was very strange. It was when she sorted out some things and stood up abruptly.
She didn't know if the other party guessed what she wanted to do, but she only had one chance, so she had to be more cautious.
At this moment, in her other hand half-hidden behind the glass column, the screen of the mobile phone of Endless Train World has entered the final inquiry through her click.
The team has been detected, and the props will take effect on everyone. Do you want to continue to confirm the use of the station reset ticket?
Yes/No?
You Xi did not hesitate and quickly clicked "Yes".
When she received this reward at the "White Bird Lake" station, she told her partners that if one day they encountered a completely irreversible danger at the station, this would be a last-ditch effort.
But now, this is not a last-ditch effort, but for verification.
If the verification is successful, she will not only confirm her guess, but also save all her partners!
The space around her suddenly twisted, and Mengsha, who was originally ten meters away from her, suddenly seemed to be separated from her by a wall.
It really worked!
The other party rushed to her in a few steps. Although he was very close to her, he couldn't get close to her.
"How did you get a site reset ticket? There are only three rare treasure boxes in the whole station each time! Only one site reset ticket will appear in ten thousand rare treasure boxes! With such a small probability, how could you get it by chance!?"
Outside the twisted space, Mengsha's face gradually showed a shocked expression, as if she suddenly thought of something, but was shocked by this idea, and even angry, "She arranged it! It was all arranged by her, right! She spent so much effort just for you... What on earth did you-"
The rest of the words were erased by the twisted space.
Youxi seemed to be separated from the original space in an instant, and something wrapped around her, flowing through her body like water, warm and safe.
She had guessed what this "site reset ticket" resets, is it to reset the time? Or reset the entire site?
But now she understands, Youxi feels the blood hole on her shoulder healing rapidly, the foreign objects on the back of her neck and the back of her head also fall off instantly, and the originally painful wounds are also recovering rapidly.
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