Real-world changes
The alarm clock on the table rang. Li Zhu was too sleepy to open his eyes. He stretched his arms out of the quilt and stretched comfortably.
His hand touched something furry and he froze.
The first thing I saw after opening my eyes was the white ceiling above my head. On the neat round lampshade there was a small black spot left by a reptile.
Li Zhu had been unhappy with the little black spot for a long time and was preparing to clean it up after the task was completed.
Wait, the mission isn't over yet, he can't go back to his home!
Li Zhu turned over and sat up. Every decoration around him was very familiar to him.
There was also the Hug Bear toy he had just touched. It was a reward for himself when he went to the arcade to catch dolls after completing his last mission.
"Brother Tong, why am I back?"
365 is deeply bound to the host and will always exist in Li Zhu's consciousness as long as he does not resign from the administration.
"This system has detected that the host has been invaded by unknown data and has automatically activated the protection and return program." 365 reported, "But please rest assured, host, we have now completely left the small world."
Li Zhu didn't remember being invaded by any unknown data, but he had several rounds of sex with Gao Cong'ai, and their bodies were covered with each other's scent.
Trying hard to calm himself, he quickly walked to the dressing mirror.
His face is only 50% similar to Xu Xiaozhe's, and his figure is even more emaciated.
He really came back.
"Where is Gao Cong'ai?" Li Zhu's voice trembled.
365 was silent.
"Speak!" Li Zhu suppressed his anger. Things happened too suddenly and he didn't have time to say goodbye to Gao Cong'ai properly.
If the other party found out that he died suddenly...
Li Zhu's face was pale, and his chest felt like a stone was pressing on it, so heavy that he couldn't breathe.
He squatted on the ground, clutching his collar and breathing rapidly, "Can I still go back?"
The small world and the real world only differ in dimension, and there is no other difference.
Everyone living in that world is a living, flesh-and-blood person. Even after he leaves, time will not stand still, and the world will continue to move forward.
And Gao Cong'ai, who survived, must be very sad.
And there is Lang Feng.
What would he do if he found out his brother was missing? He only had Xu Xiaozhe as his relative.
"365, I want to go back." Li Zhu rubbed the back of his hand across the corner of his eyes, leaving some moisture.
He stood up, walked to the coat rack to get his coat, and planned to go to the bureau to apply.
"You can't go back." said the system.
"You promised me that you would help me apply to stay in the small world!" Li Zhu shouted, his eyes red.
Before he fell asleep, he heard Gao Cong'ai whisper in his ear that he liked her.
Why did everything change when I woke up?
"I did agree, but..." 365 possesses emotions and feelings, but rationality is his basic setting. He rarely shows hesitation like he did today. "But something unexpected happened."
Li Zhu stood there without saying a word, pinching his palms hard with his fingers.
"You go out and take a look first." 365 said halfway. According to the host's mood, only reality can calm him down.
Li Zhu took a deep breath, but the depression in his chest did not dissipate at all.
He quickly went to the balcony. The sky outside was as gloomy as ink mixed in water. The sun was blocked by thick black clouds, and only the outline of the halo could be seen.
"Our world has been invaded by unknown dark matter, and it has overlapped with the smaller world. Government departments are currently working hard to find a solution," 365 warned sternly. "Don't go out for the time being. Once this is resolved, I'll try to help you apply to return to your previous smaller world."
"What does overlap mean?" Li Zhu asked. "What about the people from the small world? Will they appear here too?"
"Also, what is dark matter? How come I don't know it?"
Li Zhu had lived for 22 years and had never heard of such a thing.
365: "The incident happened at the beginning of this quick travel. It was because the small world was invaded that the mission content was temporarily changed."
It only found out about this after it came back.
The mission of this time is to clear out high-risk targets caused by the accumulation of negative emotions. What if the accumulation of these negative emotions is not formed naturally, but is caused by external intervention?
"Is what happened to the Gao family related to dark matter?"
"Yes," 365 said. "From the information I got from the Administration, Miss Liang became a ghost because of the influence of dark matter."
Li Zhu frowned. "What exactly is dark matter? Is it a person? Or is it a tiny particle that cannot be seen or touched?"
"You can go to the Administration, and you'll find the answer there."
The only way to go back is to resolve the current chaos.
Li Zhu doesn't consider himself a high-tech talent. He can only try his best to find out what happened. If possible, he is willing to contribute a little.
Before going out, Li Zhu couldn't help but touch his chest.
I miss Gao Cong'ai.
Fortunately, after I came back, the voyeurism disappeared automatically, and this longing became positive and full of warmth.
The mixed desires are within controllable range.
The atmosphere in the administration was serious. When the minister saw Li Zhu knocking on the door, he rubbed his brows.
"how are you feeling?"
"Not very good, Minister, I want to go back." Li Zhu looked at the other party hesitantly.
"Your application has been sent to my email 365, but before I could approve it, it was attacked by unknown data." The minister took off his glasses and casually placed them on the table, leaning back in his chair and looking at the young man on the other side of the desk. "This temporary change of mission has a certain risk. The organization will provide some compensation as appropriate. As for returning, I can't promise you anything."
When the system said "can't go back", he didn't take it too seriously.
After all, it is just an auxiliary system. If a leader says something like that, it is tantamount to a death sentence.
"Why?" Li Zhu's heart sank. Realizing his tone was too high, he pursed his lips and whispered, "Is it related to dark matter?"
"Yes." The minister stood up, "Come with me."
The Quick Travel Bureau and the Institute of Physics are in the same area, and the two buildings are connected by two corridors.
The minister swiped his card and entered, and was met by a researcher.
Because they had received a call in advance, the researcher took the two people directly to the newly established research department.
The staff in the department were all in a hurry, looking as if they were facing a serious enemy, as if they had encountered a major problem.
The researcher led the two to an empty glass isolation room.
Li Zhu looked at it puzzledly for a moment, "What do you want us to see?"
The researcher pointed to the void behind the glass.
Li Zhu concentrated and looked more carefully this time, and then he discovered that there were some translucent tiny particles floating in the air.
The particles moved regularly in the air.
Gradually, this group of unknown substances gathered together and took on color. They gradually changed and moved closer together to form a face.
A face exactly like the minister next to Li Zhu.
Next came the neck, torso, and limbs, and those materials transformed into the second "minister".
The researcher adjusted his glasses and explained slowly, "They're called matter, but they're actually a special kind of organism, unlike anything we've studied before. They can simulate everything. At the same time, they possess a special emotional wavelength and energy field, subtly influencing the emotions and energy of others."
"These substances not only exist in our world, they have also invaded countless smaller worlds, disrupting their magnetic fields and forming a massive black hole that sucked the smaller worlds into the real world, causing them to overlap. At the same time, the sudden appearance of the black hole has also expanded the area of our world."
overlapping.
Li Zhu recalled the strange sights he had seen on the way to the bureau.
Among the familiar skyscrapers were some buildings he had never seen before. The most outrageous thing was that a small hill appeared on the huge square directly opposite the city center building.
Li Zhu did not see the black hole that the researcher had mentioned. He only saw the sky filled with strange-shaped clouds.
As if ravaged by a storm, some are like pulled cotton, and some are like exploded debris.
It was not until this moment that Li Zhu finally realized that the world was different.
"On the way here, I saw many strange buildings that didn't exist in this world. If solid objects overlapped with this world, what about people?"
"It's the entire space that's overlapping, not just a part of it. The people in that space naturally come to our world as well." The researcher raised the control panel on his wrist and clicked a few times to call up a piece of data.
"These are the inhabitants of small worlds that have come to our world that we have monitored so far."
Li Zhu counted silently in his mind, Oh my god, there are seven zeros at the end.
That's too exaggerated.
Researcher: "Any further questions?"
"No more." Li Zhu shook his head blankly and walked out slowly behind the minister.
When he reached the middle of the corridor, he suddenly called out to his leader: "Minister, can you help me find two people?"
The minister already knew what happened to Li Zhu from 365's work report. Without the other party saying anything, he guessed who Li Zhu was looking for.
"Lang Feng and Gao Cong'ai, right? Sure."
"Thank you, Minister."
Minister: "Don't be too happy too soon. According to the analysis of the small world data I obtained, Gao Cong'ai is not an ordinary person."
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There was a lot of traffic on the road and the sound of car horns was constant.
There are a huge number of small worlds and the overlap is still continuing. Li Zhu was walking on the road when he suddenly saw an old man in a white robe who appeared out of thin air.
The old man looked panicked and looked around.
He is probably the master of some immortal world.
He walked around the other person, seemingly calm, but his heart was actually in turmoil.
The minister said a lot to him before leaving.
"According to the main system's analysis, Gao Cong'ai's data is abnormal and his magnetic field is very strong. It is because of him that the wronged souls have turned into evil spirits. He has most likely already arrived in this world and is most likely out of our monitoring range."
"Dark matter is elusive and adept at camouflage. A blade of grass by the roadside, a passing person, could all be made of dark matter. The only reason the institute was able to capture them was because they had just returned from the small world and were exposed to the black hole's energy radiation, rendering them unconscious."
"We are currently unable to determine whether dark matter is a friend or foe, so you must be careful recently. If Gao Cong'ai finds you, you must report to the organization immediately."
"The world is in chaos right now. Your colleagues are on leave and have stopped working. You should take a break too."
The minister was very breathless when he said these words.
To the small world, the real world is a high-dimensional civilization.
But for dark matter, this is a low-dimensional civilization.
What’s the use of distinguishing between friend and foe? If the other party really wants to swallow up the world, can they still resist?
It's hard enough to catch one, how can you expect to catch more? Dream on.
Even if Gao Cong'ai really came to find him, he would not tell anyone and would hide him.
Li Zhu paused, his face flushed.
No wonder 365 and the minister said that he was attacked by unknown data, because Gao Cong'ai is not a human being at all!
Li Zhu remembered that his stomach was very bloated last night, he must have eaten a lot.
Maybe he ate too much, so the system detected that he was invaded and activated the protection program.
Li Zhu: “…”
For a moment, he didn't know whether it would be better to feel upset or to find Gao Cong'ai and beat him up first.
Before leaving the bureau, the minister gave Li Zhu a document containing a list of addresses where the indigenous people of the small world were currently resettled.
To know whether Lang Feng has come here, we must look for him one by one.
Li Zhu rode his hoverbike to the first address.
A long time ago, this place was where dangerous mental patients were imprisoned. With the rapid development of technology, treating mental illness is like treating a common cold, and it can be cured by taking special medicine.
Because the population was too large, the beds in each ward were converted into bunk beds to accommodate ten people.
Li Zhu was waiting for the staff at the information desk to look up his name. When he was about to leave without any results, he ran into a colleague from the Quick Travel Bureau.
Colleague Yuan Xinlan is a capable woman, known for her cold-bloodedness and ruthlessness. Li Zhu is just an acquaintance with her.
After greeting her, he turned his gaze to the little girl beside her.
"My daughter." Yuan Xinlan was in a good mood after finding the child, and she rarely chatted with Li Zhu for a few more words.
"The authorities haven't found an effective solution yet. Keeping people locked up is inhumane. If possible, citizens could temporarily take them in, allowing them to get acquainted with the new world and plan for the future."
"The future? Can't they go back?" Li Zhu noticed that there was a very thin black line on the little girl's neck.
"It took the Lord God hundreds and thousands of years to create this small world, so restoring it won't be easy. Furthermore, there are other creatures interfering..." Yuan Xinlan saw things clearly and didn't believe the soothing words from the bureau. "Actually, it's pretty good now."
The reality is that the world's total population is small, and almost everyone works to keep the low-latitude world running smoothly.
She looked down at the little girl with pigtails and wearing coarse linen clothes.
"At least she can come back to me." Yuan Xinlan touched the black collar around the little girl's neck. "I wonder when I can take it off."
"What is that?" If the other party hadn't asked specifically, Li Zhu would have thought it was an ordinary neck decoration.
"It has a built-in locator and anesthetic," Yuan Xinlan explained. "The residents of the overlapping small world are all illegal residents here. The collars are for constant monitoring to prevent them from committing crimes."
Li Zhu nodded.
Yuan Xinlan lowered her head and said to the little girl, "Say goodbye to your brother."
"Goodbye, brother."
Li Zhu looked back at the woman and child passing by him.
He had heard gossip from his colleagues before that Yuan Xinlan adopted a little girl from ancient times during a quick-travel mission.
It looks like it's her.
The above people regard the existence of dark matter as a formidable threat, but Li Zhu thinks it is a good thing.
At least, the people we miss can be reunited.
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