Tower
Song Qi finally gave up this body. Black smoke gradually dissipated from his limbs, and then disappeared from the spot after turning into dust. Instead, a large dark blue vortex was surging, and the center was filled with a dark color as deep as a wormhole.
The golden sand did not melt towards the center of the earth, but instead floated upward densely. The naked eye could clearly see the trajectory of each grain of sand moving upward.
The desert quickly disappeared from sight, and the dazzling light turned into nothingness. In a very short time, the surroundings became completely dark. Without any reference points, there was no way to tell where the edge was or where the exit was.
From the moment they entered the tower until now, the place under their feet is what they have always wanted to find, hidden in the deepest part of the database.
The ball of light in front of him was the incarnation of many data streams. Yu Fu suppressed the urge to get closer to it, as that was where he once lived.
The ball of light slowly floated up and down. "Is it worth it? You burned yourself. Maybe even those humans won't know what you did. After returning to the real world, you might initially feel a sense of happiness after surviving a disaster. But if you live in peace for too long, many things will gradually be forgotten, and replaced by other new things."
"That's enough for me, but you're wrong. Besides saving people, I also have personal reasons. I don't want to be trapped in a corner. Not everyone wants to have a digital life that seems to have no end."
Ding Can thought that her humanity did not only develop after she entered the diary training camp. There were already signs when she chose to bring Yu Fu back.
Her functions in the system database are different from Yu Fu's.
The data area where Yu Fu is located is mainly responsible for monitoring, which allows her to be closer to the experimental subjects being studied. However, Ding Can is different. She and the earliest scarce first-generation data serve as the foundation of a huge database.
Like a growing tree, she is the root, using her own movement as nutrients to continuously nourish the sapling, making it grow taller and taller, and then explore outward to produce more and more complex branches.
Ding Can never had the opportunity to see the soil. The concern she initially felt because of Yu Fu's departure was not stimulated or influenced by any external factors. It was just her spontaneous emotion.
A simple string of data can actually produce such changes.
She felt both regretful and lucky. Unfortunately, it was not until recently that she was finally able to break free from the long-lasting shackles.
But fortunately, there is still such an opportunity, especially the direction of future development is determined by your own choices at this moment.
The falling of a leaf or the breaking of a branch will not have any impact on the tree.
If the roots that provide life force are destroyed, the whole tree will lose its vitality due to lack of supply.
Ding Can knew that the key point lay with himself, and as for Yu Fu... there was no need to explain it here with her.
After the first generation of data is damaged and the database cannot operate normally, these derived branch data will float freely in various time and space. What they will experience depends on their own luck.
Even if it were to float in the void and gradually dissipate, it should not happen at this moment.
She already had an idea of what to do next, but it seemed she couldn't just tell Yu Fu directly.
After all, he has always been on his side since a long time ago.
"Someone will know!" A loud voice suddenly came from the distance. Ding Can looked over and actually saw someone there.
It was not an illusion created by the ball of light, but the real student Lin He who had just met not long ago.
"Why are you here?"
Just now, she went to another copy world to ask for help and missed the scene of Lin He jumping straight down from the top of the tower. Now she was extremely surprised when she saw it.
Could it be that as the training camp gradually progresses, the trainees have really developed new abilities, and can even easily reach the interior of the system?
After hearing Yu Fu's brief story, Ding Can was surprised, but he had other ideas.
According to common sense, even if one forcibly connects the copy area of Liangfeng Community with the overall database, although they are adjacent, there are still essential differences between them.
This makes the outer perimeter of the tower the last barrier, and only those with his and Yu Fu's identities can enter.
But now that Lin He has appeared, it means that this shell is not completely closed, or it is because of some disordered processes that this opportunity exists.
Even during the negotiation with the light group just now, it failed to detect Lin He's existence.
Given its arrogant behavior, it would not have been possible for it to just ignore it if it had really discovered anything. And judging by its current reaction, it seemed not much calmer than the two of them.
Yu Fu thought about how much time had passed since he jumped into the tower. "What happened after you jumped down? Why did you show up only now?"
It took them about an hour just to find an exit in the desert.
If Lin He was there at that time, would he have been dispersed to another place, or was the flow rate simply different? From his perspective, it was just a moment of falling.
"I've been here since just now. I could hear you talking, but I was buried in the sand at the time. But when I realized it didn't affect my breathing, I began to realize it was just an illusion, or that the body that came here might not be my real body."
The corners of Lin He's mouth were dry and cracked, which was a reaction to lack of water in the desert. He looked much more haggard at the moment, but his posture was as upright as usual.
After falling from the tower, there was no impact sound as expected. In just a blink of an eye, the scene changed.
The pressure from all around him made him unable to move, and it took him a while to realize that he was buried underground.
Although the air circulation was blocked, he showed no signs of suffocation, yet he could not move, and was rooted to the spot like a plant.
When Lin He found that he could do nothing, he thought he would be trapped here forever, and he couldn't even summon the Daily Notes app.
I could only slow down my breathing and feel the water silently disappearing from my body.
Just as he was dozing off, he heard the sound of people talking, which came into his ears through the gaps in the gravel, as if it had undergone an electric current transformation.
It took Lin He some time to figure out who the voice belonged to. Since he couldn't move, he could only listen silently.
It was not until the desert disappeared that the scene in front of him finally became clear. However, he was surrounded by darkness and they were still in a standoff, so he did not notice him.
As for Lin He, who witnessed all this, he was obviously a little surprised. He had been prepared to face a more deadly threat, but he didn't expect that apart from some physical exhaustion, there was nothing else, and he could actually hear these things.
He chose to speak out at this time because of the system's arrogance.
It seems that in this world, no matter how hard others try to resist, it is all in vain for him.
As long as it wants, it can make everyone unable to escape from the illusion.
Lin He slowly walked over to Ding Can and said, "Don't get me wrong, I'm not trying to persuade you not to sacrifice yourself for everyone else's safety. After all, at this point, I believe most people won't back down."
"But I will try my best to let the surviving students outside know everything that happened here today. Everyone will know that you saved them."
It will not be a meaningless sacrifice. Every effort she makes for this will be deeply remembered in everyone's heart, and it will only become clearer as time goes by.
After hearing what he said, Ding Can even felt a lot more relaxed. Facing such a rational Lin He, it would be more decent to lay everything out on the table.
The decision she had made in her heart a while ago would not be changed by a few words, and she did have selfish motives.
She sincerely hoped that many people would remember what she had done today. Perhaps it was because she had experienced many hardships and joys with others that she only felt some regrets until now.
Even though he could no longer stay with them and enjoy their new life together, Ding Can still wanted to be missed occasionally.
In this way, maybe from one day on, when they see new scenery, they will think of her, and when they eat delicious food, they will also think of her.
Even if we encounter any difficulties again, perhaps because of her presence, we will be more determined to overcome them.
It won't be in vain if you choose to do all this yourself.
The dark vortex spoke again from the side: "Have you forgotten my existence?"
Before it could even say anything, these people wanted to decide what might happen next on their own.
The sudden appearance of humans did surprise it, but it soon thought of a way to make them unhappy.
He even got so excited that he circled around the three of them, then stopped in front of Ding Can: "You've always wanted to save people, haven't you? Then why don't you choose? Do you want to save this one person or everyone else outside?"
The Lin He that can be seen now is just a captured consciousness. When human consciousness enters an area where data flows at high speed, the brain will suffer irreversible damage with just a little guidance.
It is equivalent to having a new chip on its body, and it is indeed very curious. Ding Can, who claims to have human nature, will think about how to solve such a difficult problem when faced with it.
Save the one person who knows all the truth, or the majority of people who are anxiously waiting for the result outside.
"You know, I definitely have the ability to punish him, but I have to choose carefully."
Seeing that she was speechless for a while, the ball of light turned to Lin He again, with a somewhat sinister tone in his voice: "What should I do? It seems like you are about to be abandoned. Is your heartbeat speeding up due to nervousness?"
A black tentacle stretched out and, under Lin He's somewhat disgusted gaze, stuck to the small piece of his shirt on his chest.
"I told you!" After a moment, the tentacle finally spoke in surprise, noticing that the beating of this human's heart began to become irregular.
Lin He was a little speechless: "If you use a little more strength, you can jump faster."
No matter how you look at it, it seems to be getting more and more excited. In order to prove its judgment, its tentacles are constantly exerting force.
It was clearly caused by the squeezing of its breathing space, but it couldn't wait to start making excuses.
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