Extra: Reality
When Ji Yunding woke up, he felt his whole body was cold and his bones were aching as if his marrow had been sucked out.
She jumped out of the capsule and looked around. She saw many zombies standing around. They were motionless and did not respond to Ji Yunding.
For some reason, they all held a bottle in their hands and were about to put something into a certain part of the capsule.
This place seems to be a certain floor inside a wide building. The area as big as several football fields is filled with capsules, leaving only narrow aisles.
A line extended from each capsule, connected to an extremely complex control console. Ji Yunding walked closer and watched the screen flicker. Zero on the screen looked at her and asked her in a cold mechanical voice what help she needed.
"I want weapons." Ji Yunding had thought about it on the way here, "Then tell me roughly how the rules of this world work, and how it is different from the previous world."
Ji Yunding felt that his physical ability had not declined much, but he could no longer use either his oath ability or his bipolar energy.
As expected, Sister Tang was right. One's own basic physical fitness is the most reliable and useful thing.
Thinking of this, Ji Yunding lowered his eyes slightly, sighed softly, and took something like a mobile phone according to Zero's instructions, watching it appear on the portable screen, and continued to guide her.
Along the way, Ji Yunding passed by many motionless people, but she had no interest in paying attention to them. Now Ji Yunding is still in a low mood, but she is used to not delaying her work.
This building has a total of 100 floors, 10 underground and 90 above ground. Ji Yunding happened to be on the 30th floor.
It is reported that the ground around the building has been replaced with a new solid material, and most natural disasters cannot shake the building. It relies on solar energy and other natural energy to operate for a long time without maintenance.
"Six hundred thousand hibernation pods...what about the others?"
"That's all. In order to rationalize the population and maintain order, we are making effective use of those who are not removed... Do you want to hear the details?"
"No, thank you."
You can tell it's not a good thing just by thinking about it, so just know the result.
Life is born from mistakes. If genes never make mistakes, the world would be dead now. When mistakes are no longer allowed to exist, humans will disappear. Perhaps this is also a "rule".
Ji Yunding walked up to the elevator, thought for a moment, and pressed the button for the 28th floor. It didn't matter where he went, he would just pick a floor in the middle and take a look, then go to the rooftop to take a look, and finally go out to take a look.
What should he do next? For the first time in his life, Ji Yunding felt lost. It seemed that everything was meaningless and no one was alive anymore.
The friction sound of the elevator in operation was clearly audible, and Ji Yunding rubbed his ears and found that he still had hearing far beyond that of ordinary people.
A bit of a strange sound.
"Zero, how do these people who have been stripped of their emotions treat me?"
"Strictly speaking, they are currently incapable of having an 'attitude'. Their reactions are entirely dependent on your actions. If you don't trigger them, they have no ability to act autonomously.
According to the set rules, those who have passed this experiment have the highest authority. You can order me to shoot them with the built-in defense device on the ceiling. "
Ji Yunding nodded, but still clenched the knife in his hand - this cold weapon was a clean tool found in a place that was probably an interrogation room, and it was no longer used anywhere else.
As the elevator announcement sounded, the elevator door slowly opened. Ji Yunding looked at the person standing outside the elevator and was completely stunned.
The light blond hair looked a little darker in the room. Ji Liuxing was holding a corpse that came from nowhere, looking at Ji Yunding, and wiped the blood off his face awkwardly.
Or should we say a guy who looks like him? Although Ji Yunding was confused, he tied up the other person very quickly and efficiently after he came to his senses.
No matter who it is, it is safer to put the knife on the other person's neck first and then talk. However, the two people looked at each other and no one knew what to say.
Ji Yunding seemed to be interrogating him but actually didn't know what to ask. Ji Liuxing cooperated by putting his hands behind his back but he didn't know what he was supposed to confess.
There was silence for about a minute, and the AI couldn't bear to watch any longer.
"The self-inspection results showed that no relevant agents were detected in the toxin storage area. It is speculated that the entire process could not be completed due to a manual shutdown caused by force majeure."
Ji Yunding suddenly remembered what was written in the student handbook - the rules summarized or formulated by humans may not be correct.
Human beings are born because of mistakes, and they keep making mistakes, but ultimately, it is because of mistakes that humans survive, and everyone is still alive.
They are all still alive...
This reason even sounds a bit ridiculous, but as an individual, Ji Yunding is not in the mood to think about what it means. She just looks at Ji Liuxing.
"Is this place real or fake? Are you real?"
“…I want to ask this question, too.”
I was so tired that I didn't have the energy to feel ecstatic or celebrate. What should I say? "It's so good and so lucky"? Or cry with joy?
If anything, these two people now don't even know who to direct their anger at having their lives manipulated at. They only feel a deep sense of exhaustion.
Ji Yunding silently untied Ji Liuxing and rested his forehead on his shoulder.
Neither of them spoke much. They sat on the ground leaning against each other in silence for a while, then stood up tacitly, checked around to confirm the situation while talking about other topics as if nothing had happened and exchanging some information.
Touching these motionless people might trigger them, so Ji Liuxing chose a lone one and touched him for the sake of caution. As a result, the other party quickly jumped up and he had no choice but to break its neck.
"It hurts so much. The wound won't heal. It's been five minutes."
"Normally, a scratched skin won't heal in five minutes, let alone yours..."
As Ji Yunding was speaking, she glanced out of the corner of her eye and suddenly noticed that the "people" around her seemed to be looking at her vaguely.
They can't be considered human beings, but just a bunch of living creatures covered in human skin, flesh, blood and bones - whether they can be called living creatures requires careful consideration and discussion.
Ji Liuxing followed Ji Yunding's line of sight and said with a smile, "You saved me again. If you had come later, you would have only seen my dead body."
"Then I..." Ji Yunding imagined himself entering this place at a certain point in time and seeing Ji Liuxing's body. He lowered his eyes slightly and stopped talking. Instead, he raised his phone and gave an order, "Shoot."
Since everyone is alive, there is no need for these things. They should pay for the sins they have committed.
Their existence is not only a threat, but also a blasphemy to those who once lived - those who once lived in these bodies can never come back. Even if emotions are injected, what is generated is a new human being generated according to the proportion of emotions.
These creatures did not resist - they had no biological instincts and could only make "reasonable" judgments. If struggling was useless, they would not struggle. Obviously, they also felt that Ji Yunding was not someone who would accept their negotiations.
There was no hysterical death struggle as natural living creatures should have. They just looked at Ji Yunding in unison, trying their best to appear harmless.
Yes, they are still choosing the most reasonable action at the moment, taking advantage of Ji Yunding's "feelings" as a human being. After thinking about this, I can only feel creepy.
There is no human being inside these pieces of flesh and bones.
"Then we can just say that these creatures took the initiative and had no choice but to do so. It will save us trouble."
Ji Yunding turned around and agreed with Ji Liuxing, thought for a moment, and added,
"You wait here. It's safe here. I'll go deal with the other floors and decide who to wake up first. Zero, give him permission to use defensive weapons within this floor."
"This floor? No, I really want to try out some hot weapons." Ji Liuxing glanced at the fallen bodies and the disgusting red and white liquids on the ground, and smiled, "After all, the research team was not allowed to use guns before. Let me go..."
"And how many more years do you plan to spend digesting the guilt? You are not suited to this kind of thing. If you want to be a vase, then be a good one and stay here."
Ji Yunding's tone was somewhat helpless. He raised his hand and tapped Ji Liuxing's forehead.
"You are not the boss anymore. I am the boss now. Get it clear. Your term is over."
Ji Liuxing was silent for a while and rubbed his hair: "But I am afraid of blood, can you at least let me go with you? It's so scary to stay in a place full of corpses."
"Do you have to say all this nonsense?" Ji Yunding sighed, too lazy to argue anymore, and pulled Ji Liuxing towards the elevator, "Let's go if you want to. It's not the first time I've been an accomplice anyway."
"Say something like this and you'll feel more relaxed. After all, you're not going to do anything pleasant."
As he spoke, Ji Liuxing turned his arm and gently held Ji Yunding's wrist. Ji Yunding let go of Ji Liuxing's sleeve, held his wrist in reverse, and continued,
"You are the only one who feels sad. I just think I did what I should do."
"No matter how many times I want to say, you are really amazing."
"You never stop praising people, so be quiet for a moment and listen to me."
As they talked, the two walked into the elevator hand in hand. Ji Liuxing looked at Ji Yunding quietly, and the atmosphere was subtly tense.
While the elevator was heading to the top floor, Ji Yunding tried to word it, but finally decided to just say it directly.
“I’m not someone who wants to back down because of what you’ve done in the past or the cost I’ve incurred.
So, if you become something I cannot accept, or do something I cannot accept, I will give up on you much faster than you think. Do you understand?"
Ji Liuxing tilted his head and said in a matter-of-fact tone: "It doesn't matter, I will die by myself, I won't bother you."
“…Not really.” Now even Ji Yunding felt that this guy was a bit extreme.
But Ji Liuxing just continued talking, and his tone was just like chatting.
“If a person saves my life, rescues me from suffering, reshapes my personality, and enables me to face myself, and I fail this person… then people like me have no value in living.
You don’t have to feel pressured, it’s just that I can’t accept who I am. I will die - it has nothing to do with anyone, it’s just that I can’t accept it. ”
Ji Yunding was silent for a while, wanting to say something but stopping himself. He felt that he was not in a clear mind to say this to Ji Liuxing.
Finally, Ji Yunding couldn't help but sigh and complained, "What a psycho."
"Objectively speaking, I am, aren't you?"
"All right."
Saying "lunatic" in a group will attack zero people because no one knows who you are talking about.
"But if I'm a little sentimental..."
Ji Liuxing tilted his head slightly, his eyes slightly raised and narrowed.
"Are you trying to say that you are willing to try to expect something from me? After all, you don't like to say useless things."
"Talking to you really saves effort." Ji Yunding nodded, expressing his approval of his ability to understand.
I don’t know if normal people would high-five in this atmosphere, but these two people high-fived each other and then started talking about business again.
"Boss, what criteria are we going to use to wake people up?"
"As for the legal standards, we'll let the people in the Ministry of Justice study them. But first, let's get everyone from Group 1 here to discuss how to clear the creatures outside the building. I'm not confident in handing it over to other people.
This is a bit confusing, so I will explain it in order. After the two of us cleared the things in the building, we first counted the supplies in the building and confirmed the number of people who could support it.
Just now, Zero told me that current technology can use natural energy to generate food. Because a large number of human experiments have been conducted, human body modification technology has also been developed to reduce human energy loss.
We need to confirm this part before we start to wake people up to make sure there are no mistakes. Then I will use my authority to wake people up, and you will be responsible for explaining the situation to them and calming their emotions.
There are many things to do. I will just think about these for now. I will make plans after everyone in the other group wakes up. I also need to ask Nuonuo something... I think she will be very happy. "
"Lin Shu had been saying that she wanted a group to rule the world, and she actually came true... By the way, human experiment?"
"There are only 600,000 people left in the world, and those creatures have no moral values. It's easy to imagine how the technology in this world has developed so fast.
And after all, aren’t we selected through human experiments? Why should we be surprised? "
Ji Yunding spoke calmly, and felt that Ji Liuxing's mood had visibly become lower. After thinking for a while, he added,
"Don't think about it. It's useless to think about anything. The dead are dead. Everything will be fine in the future... maybe."
Ji Yunding tried very hard to comfort people, but she was not used to saying things that went beyond logic, so she added a word of uncertainty in the end.
It will be okay, after all, humans are not hopeless. There are all kinds of people in the world, and there are always many people working hard to keep the world turning.
The future is so far away that no individual can foresee it. Perhaps desperate things will still happen along the way, and perhaps in the end things will go against one's wishes.
But no matter who they are, they are trying to get closer to happiness, either ignorantly or soberly. With such hope in mind, the longest hand on the clock moves step by step.
You can’t see the dawn outside when you are inside the building, but the sun will surely rise and everything will be fine.
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