Earth calendar year 454.
A spacecraft lands at the moon base.
The people on this spaceship are all researchers who were infected with the virus on Hope Star. Their bodies have been stretched to their limits, but the virus vaccine has not been developed yet, so they have no choice but to enter the lunar base, lie in the cryostat and fall asleep, waiting for the day when hope will come.
The youngest of the researchers, who is only 26 years old this year, was originally one of the most promising life science researchers in the Greater China Research Institute.
After talking to her father on the phone, she lay down in the freezer with the beautiful expectation of waking up and fell into a deep sleep.
Her father, the leader of high-tech in the Greater China region, was secretly leading a research project at the time.
Twenty years later, when the project was nearing completion, his health suddenly deteriorated and he was even unable to continue to lead the work, so he had to hand over all the projects at hand to others.
On the night of leaving the project base, the professor finally wrote a small easter egg and used his authority to send it to the core of the project's main brain "Feitian".
After the professor left the base, a new project leader took office. The main brain Feitian started self-inspection and discovered this little easter egg.
"Redundant data detected, do you want to clear it?"
The newly appointed person in charge casually chose to clear it out.
"Cleared...Self-check completed, no abnormalities in all areas. Please enter the command." After a moment, the voice of the flying machine sounded.
In the 474th year of the Earth calendar, the game "Reality," billed as "humanity's second world" and a "perfect restoration of the world of eight hundred years ago," launched its public beta test. However, the general public was unaware of the government's expectations for this project.
At the same time, in the frozen base on the moon, a young female researcher who had been sleeping suddenly woke up.
Like all her predecessors, she didn't live to see the virus resolved, and her life finally came to an end. But unlike those predecessors, she didn't die quietly in her sleep, but regained consciousness at this moment.
As if some unknown being had orchestrated all of this, the moment she opened her eyes, the helmet on her head detected brain fluctuations and automatically connected to the game. Yang Jia, who had thought she would die after a brief awakening, found herself in a new world the moment she closed her eyes.
"Welcome to the 'real' world!" On the big screen in front of her was a background that was very similar to the Hope Star, and a mechanical electronic sound reminded her in her ears.
"Reality", that is the project that my father is responsible for. Has he succeeded?
Yang Jia was a little excited and followed the electronic prompts to complete the binding. However, when scanning the body data, an unexpected situation occurred.
Because her real body was too weak and she was in a special environment, the scanning and copying could not proceed smoothly and the entire progress was stuck here.
Logically, this was a special case where she couldn't log in. She only needed to wait for a while and be sent out of the system space, and nothing else would be affected. But at this moment, the system suddenly responded and started another program.
Yang Jia saw with her own eyes that the system, in a way that she could not understand, instantly sent her to a very unfamiliar place surrounded by ice and snow, and then opened up a space here and placed her in it.
Now, she has become Sleeping Beauty, "lying quietly in a coffin made of ice and snow, waiting for the prince to come and kiss her awake."
The story of "Sleeping Beauty" was the only story Professor Yang ever told Yang Jia when she was a child. Because their late mother had bookmarked this page, their careless father had no recollection of whether he had told the story before, and whenever he opened the book, he would just start from there.
So she listened to this story over and over again when she was a child.
This was a little secret between them, father and daughter, that no one else would know. This was an arrangement made by her father for her, and at that moment, Yang Jia understood.
If her physical discomfort was so bad, if she had recovered as she expected, then when she entered this game, she might instantly have two bodies, one as an NPC and the other as a player.
Of course, this "Sleeping Beauty" who is far away from the world and cannot be found by anyone is a useless NPC and may not have any impact on the progress of the game, so this is just a small easter egg specially prepared for her.
When he realized this, Yang Jia's eyes became moist.
Because at that moment, she had sensed that something might have happened to her father, otherwise he would not have left such a special gift for her in this way.
They didn't even get to see each other one last time, let alone say goodbye properly. Think about it, what was that last meeting like?
It was an ordinary day. She was in a hurry to go to school. When she was standing at the door changing her shoes, her father said behind her, "I have a project next..."
It was common for him to take on projects, and he was often away from home for months at a time. Yang Jia had gotten used to it since he was a child, and now he didn't think there was anything wrong with it. He nodded casually and said, "I understand," and then walked out the door without looking back.
Her father joined the project team and temporarily restricted her entry and exit. Shortly thereafter, she signed up for the recruitment to Hope Star.
Until she was sent to the moon, their only communication during this period was her last call, in which she smiled and looked forward to what would happen after she woke up.
But she never woke up, and her father never waited for this day...
At this moment, lying here like a rag doll, unable to move, Yang Jia couldn't even cry, because her body was half frozen and she couldn't react like that at all.
She didn't know how long she would have to lie here, or if she would ever see the light of day again. But Yang Jia seemed to have gotten used to this kind of lying there waiting, even her thoughts had become very slow. Sometimes she would even lose track of time, forgetting how long she had been lying there.
If there was any specific thought in her mind, it was this: could her body in the lunar base still hold up? If not, what was she doing now? Was she just living in another way?
But it’s better this way. If my father is still alive, he would probably feel comforted to know that this little gift he left behind inadvertently actually has such a function, right?
So no matter what, she still has to live!
Just when Yang Jia thought he would lie there forever, someone finally broke into the Ice Palace.
That person had familiar features and a temperament as cold as ice and snow.
Without any curiosity or temptation, she split the ice coffin with a sword and rescued Yang Jia from it.
"Maybe this is a hidden quest NPC?" She heard someone say this next to that person.
Yang Jia tried to smile, but failed.
She was plunged into darkness.
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