When Yang Jia finally looked in the mirror, he finally understood what Li Bai meant by "It's not quite what I thought."
To be fair, the face in the mirror is very beautiful. Even though her current physical condition makes her skinny, and her eyes look too big, her cheekbones too high, and her skin color too dark, it is hard to describe her as having a kind of sickly beauty.
But the problem was that this face was completely unfamiliar to her, she had never seen it before!
Fortunately, Li Bai was able to look at this face with deep affection before, so she didn't notice anything wrong at all.
The last time Yang Jia went offline, she did dream about the various experiences of this body, but those were just memories after all. Most of them were important but messy fragments, and the amount of information they contained was huge, so of course she didn't pay attention to what she looked like in that "dream" self.
The result was that she almost couldn't hold the mirror firmly in her hand.
To be exact, the mirror had already fallen, but Li Bai reached out to block it, but she caught it again. Yang Jia finally recovered from his shock and looked up at Li Bai, "Why didn't you tell me?"
"I thought you would be prepared."
"You..." Yang Jia was speechless for a moment before remembering that since Li Bai had even checked the files, he should know what this body looked like. But he couldn't help but mutter, "Are you so sure this is me?"
"I wasn't sure at first, but the moment you opened your eyes, I was sure." Li Bai said.
She hadn't told Yang Jia that, while he was still asleep, she had actually visited the dozens of researchers, especially the girl also named "Yang Jia." The two of them looked nothing like the face Yang Jia had in the game. So, she immediately confirmed her suspicions: this was the Yang Jia she was looking for.
That's why she was waiting here so that Yang Jia could see her when he opened his eyes.
And Li Bai would never mistake the way Yang Jia looked at him.
Yang Jia hesitated for a moment, but now that things had come to this, she felt she had no choice but to accept them. However, she hesitated, then said to Li Bai, "I used to think that while Yang Jia and I might have a close relationship, there were also differences. Now it seems I was right."
Perhaps she really entered this body by coincidence, and is essentially different from Yang Jia.
As for what exactly happened in the meantime, and why this happened, Yang Jia wasn't sure if he could find the answer. And while he was here, where had Yang Jia gone? It was a question he didn't dare to think about.
Li Bai obviously thought of this, which is why she didn't mention it to Yang Jia before.
Who can feel at ease taking another person's things as their own?
Although this was not their choice.
Li Bai could understand Yang Jia's feelings, but if she had known this would happen, she would still make the same choice if she had to do it again. At least the Yang Jia who had only existed in virtual data now appeared before her in reality.
She could only say, "Perhaps this is fate. Many coincidences we already know about, and some key points we don't know about yet, ultimately led to this result. Don't overthink it." She paused, opened her arms and hugged Yang Jia tightly, and after a moment, she said, "Anyway, I'm very grateful to her."
Thank her for bringing you to me.
In fact, although they couldn't guess it, as adults who had experienced certain things, both of them had some guesses in their hearts.
The most likely scenario is that after Yang Jia's consciousness entered the game, because he lacked a clear subjective consciousness and was unable to create a character like ordinary players, it gradually disintegrated. These fragmented thoughts were captured and stored by the system. Then, not long ago, by chance, they were integrated into Yang Jia's consciousness.
Of course, getting to this point will be extremely difficult, and some of the steps involved are currently difficult to see.
One piece of evidence is "Yang Jia," who arrived on Hope Star a few years ago and was infected with the fourth-generation virus. Yang Jia had also seen her memories in the system's information stream. Although it's still unknown whether this is true or not, it's also unknown how the system was able to obtain this information when they clearly don't have helmets.
But it was probably precisely because of this difference—because her consciousness was originally an NPC composed of data, it was complete, while the consciousness of other people who fell into a deep sleep was chaotic and vague—that Yang Jia was able to wake up quickly, while they were still sleeping.
If this was indeed the case, then she wasn't Yang Jia, yet she was also Yang Jia. Because she had finally captured the last remaining thought of the other person. Presumably, it was precisely because of this opportunity that she was able to "go offline."
So after hearing Li Bai's words, Yang Jia nodded and said, "I know."
No matter whether it is true or not, just act as if you are and live well.
Thinking of this, Yang Jia picked up the mirror again and said, "Come to think of it, I'm the one who got the upper hand. She's much prettier than me, isn't she?"
"As long as it's you, it looks good."
Li Bai said the same thing, but Yang Jia's mood when he heard it again was different from the last time.
She couldn't help but ask, "Don't you feel awkward when you watch it?" Li Bai seemed to get into the state faster than her!
"I know it's you." Li Bai let her go, staring into her eyes and said, "Your eyes are different from others. I can recognize them."
Although this statement was very mysterious, Yang Jia chose to believe her.
However, despite saying so, the two of them rarely showed any affection after that. At most, they would hold hands and hug each other. Yang Jia himself couldn't get over the kiss, and Li Bai was probably not much different. This kind of estrangement could only be erased with the passage of time. There was no other way.
In this way, Yang Jia was able to cultivate himself in peace.
As her body functions gradually recovered, she went from initially injecting nutrient solution, to taking nutrient solution orally, then drinking tasteless liquid food, and finally being able to eat some lighter meals, and finally became like a "human" again.
But this recovery also means that the day of separation is approaching.
The final decision was that Bai Ting would follow Yang Jia back to Earth. Firstly, Yang Jia was completely unfamiliar with the real world, and settling in would be difficult without help. Secondly, the current situation in the game required help stabilizing it before Yang Jia could successfully log in.
Regardless of Bai Ting's commanding abilities, her status as Bai Shu's younger sister was a significant advantage. In this localized war, her status could help stabilize the situation.
Li Bai himself, naturally, would take the researchers, whose health had stabilized, back to Planet Hope. They still showed no signs of waking up, and could only remain in the medical cabin. It had been so long that Li Bai and the others began to doubt their chances of waking naturally. There was little point in staying on the moon; perhaps taking them to Planet Hope would help them find the cause and wake them up.
None of them saw the other off, nor did they say anything like goodbye. They boarded the spaceship at the same time and flew in completely different directions.
Shortly after their spacecraft took off, another spacecraft slowly landed. Alighting from it was a research team sent from Earth to study a vaccine for the DIE virus. They would set up a laboratory on the moon to conduct this research.
As for why it took so long to form this experimental team, it was naturally because of a series of disputes along the way. First, there were internal struggles and compromises within the Chinese region, which had obtained the research data. But before they could reach a conclusion, the other two regions caught wind of the situation and joined.
Although the Chinese region is relatively strong among the three major forces on the earth, they have to give in when the European and American regions unite.
So by the time the members of this ragtag research team were finally decided, a long time had naturally passed.
Then the research team went directly to the moon and set up a laboratory there. All materials and resources were provided by Earth. As for the experimental subjects - weren't there still many in the frozen base?
But when the team leader made this request to the garrison, their reaction was quite surprising. "Hasn't the DIE virus been resolved? After Hope developed a vaccine, they came over to pick up the frozen people—and the spacecraft only took off less than half an hour ago."
…
Although he had seen it more than once in his memories, Yang Jia was still a little uncomfortable when he got off the spaceship and saw the gray sky. Even the sun seemed to be blocked by it, leaving only a dazzling pale light.
It wasn't like that in the game world, where the mountains and rivers were picturesque and the sun was bright. But here, the entire world seemed shrouded in an invisible shadow, making everything within sight seem dim and dull. So, no matter how tall they were, they seemed to lack a certain soul-stirring power, leaving only absolute awe.
Our mother planet Earth has reached its end.
Although humans are powerful and have built the greatest civilization in history on this planet, they cannot stop this process, so they can only try every possible means to find other ways out.
Bai Ting only knew what Li Bai had revealed on the spaceship about Yang Jia's identity. She assumed Yang Jia was sighing because he had returned to Earth after so many years, so she smiled and said, "This place is renovated every year, so not much has changed. I doubt things on Earth change at all."
Yang Jia came back to his senses and retracted his gaze, "Let's go."
As the Earth's environment became increasingly degraded, its surface became unsuitable for human survival and instead contained a variety of harmful substances. Consequently, buildings grew taller and taller, and cities became truly socially structured. The floor each person lived on corresponded to their social status.
For the sake of secrecy, Li Bai did not arrange a high-rise house for Yang Jia. The two of them took a large elevator and went down to a height of about the 50th floor before getting off the car.
As soon as he got off the car, Yang Jia was stunned by the noise and the bustling crowd in front of him.
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