When Yang Jia looked to the side, Li Bai just opened his eyes.
When their eyes met, she recalled Li Bai's cry before she lost consciousness. Perhaps even Li Bai himself couldn't have anticipated the sudden outburst of emotion at that moment?
"Are you okay?" They both asked at the same time, then smiled at each other.
Perhaps this cycle of losing consciousness and regaining consciousness became a habit, so the two of them didn't communicate as much as before. Of course, it was also possible that Yang Jia first noticed the people around him and simply couldn't continue to communicate with Li Bai in this situation without paying attention to the others.
So she sat up, looked around, and asked, "What's going on?"
Immediately, everyone rushed to explain the situation. After discovering the mountain had collapsed, and that they were trapped underneath, and surprisingly, they hadn't returned to the city dead, everyone organized themselves, cleared the rubble, and dug the bodies out. After confirming that they were still breathing and had heartbeats, and that they weren't even injured, appearing to be merely comatose, they finally felt relieved. Originally, everyone was supposed to return after today's meeting, but after the unexpected incident, everyone stayed behind.
Yang Jia checked the time again and confirmed that from the moment the mountain collapsed to the moment they woke up, less than half a day had passed. Yet, they had spent a full five days in that isolated dimension. Either it wasn't their bodies that entered, only their consciousness, or time didn't count in isolated dimensions. In this dimension, they were out the next second. It was just that they were trapped under the rubble, and no one noticed.
The former is impossible. This isn't a mechanic, but a holographic online game, and there's no such setting. Even if there was, they should be able to sense it. So, is it the latter?
No...it's possible that it was just an illusion, a dream they had in their sleep.
"Do you still remember?" Yang Jia turned and asked Li Bai.
Li Bai nodded at her. Zhuo Tianyang and the other two had just woken up, and Yang Jia had asked them about it, confirming that everyone had retained this memory. But even so, there was no way to come to a definitive conclusion.
But whether it was a real space or an illusion, it didn't matter to them. The key point now was: what secrets were hidden in it, and why did they experience this?
Yang Jia once guessed that the method to connect the two cities was hidden here, but now when he thinks about it, he just feels confused and baffled.
Just as she lowered her head in thought, Li Bai suddenly said beside her, "One day, the whole world will fall into a deep sleep."
"...This sentence seems familiar?" Yang Jia asked uncertainly.
"These are the words written on the parchment scroll left behind by the NPC named Yuanjia in the basement of Phoenix City." Zhao Wenhan reminded from the side.
"Yes!" As soon as she said that, Yang Jia remembered. She took the parchment scroll out of her backpack and unfolded it. Sure enough, it contained the exact words Li Bai had just recited, word for word.
Speaking of which, the scene they had witnessed earlier in the dark space, where the entire world was enveloped by a meteor shower, all life was annihilated, and the world was ultimately plunged into darkness, did bear some resemblance to the words on the parchment. In other words, the words on the parchment were like a prophecy, or even a record of these words.
"Maybe this has something to do with the background of the game world." Zhuo Tianyang took the parchment and took a look at it, then analyzed.
When he wasn't acting like a middle school kid, he seemed quite reliable. And given his reckless approach, he'd managed to survive until now, so his personal abilities were quite impressive. He probably had far more experience in this sort of thing than Yang Jia and Li Bai. So his analysis made some sense.
And after he reminded everyone, everyone realized that no one seemed to know the background of the game world.
The official website describes the game in a very exaggerated way, but in fact there is not much specific information, only the sentence "waiting for players to explore on their own."
Considering that the game world is constructed by the intelligent main brain after the basic data is input, it is very likely that even the development team does not know what the specific background is like?
Previously, because the structure of the map in the game was very similar to that in real life, no one thought much of it and simply assumed it was copied completely from reality. But now it seems that this is clearly not the case.
Li Bai glanced at Yang Jia and said, "In the real world, eight hundred years ago, a war broke out that affected the entire Earth. The excessive use of superweapons brought irreversible pollution and damage to the Earth's ecological balance. Even after the war ended, this irreversible damage could not be repaired. Large areas of land were uninhabitable, and humans were forced to adjust their political structure and adapt to the environment."
It also took a long period of development before the three regions of China, America and Europe were finally formed, and the remaining humans gathered in various new cities.
That's because it's simply impossible for humans to survive outside of cities. Only cities provide breathable air, sufficient food, and water. Outside of cities, storms, droughts, radiation, and all sorts of unpredictable disasters are rife.
But this is clearly not the case in the game world.
There are beautiful mountains and rivers outside the city. Although there are wild beasts, players can deal with them. There is no reason why the NPCs in the city, especially the armed ones, cannot be dealt with.
But before the game started, no NPC had ever thought of developing outside the city.
It wasn't impossible. There were also people like Yuan Hai who were forced to leave the city and lived in the wild. Yang Jia and the others hadn't thought much of it before, but with Yuan Hai's strength, he could compete with Yuan Jia for the position of city lord. Even if he lost, with his injuries, he wouldn't be unable to survive in the wild.
Normally, they would have occupied a location in the wild, formed a new settlement, and then reproduced and passed on their heritage, developing a primitive tribe in the mountains. Or, after accumulating enough strength, they could lead a counterattack back to the city. But Yuan Hai's death was... unclear.
Perhaps this game, with its distinct boundaries between the city and the countryside, hides more secrets.
Yang Jia had previously thought that the NPCs' reluctance to leave the city was due to the system, but now he thought, even if it was a system, there had to be a reason. It couldn't simply force a thought into every NPC's head saying "can't leave the city," but rather let them find their own reasons for not leaving.
And this reason should be related to the background of the game.
Yang Jia began to recall the history he had "learned." Unlike the real world, in this world, a great natural disaster had occurred long ago. What kind of disaster it was, and how terrible it was, even the historical records were vague.
——Or it’s not that it’s vague, but that there is a gap in the entire civilization inheritance.
What was that natural disaster, and how did it come about? No one knows. And what was the world like before it? Even less does anyone know. All of their "history" began after the disaster. And from that moment on, the Chinese region was divided into eighty-eight main cities, with no one ever leaving.
What if that natural disaster was a "meteorite shower"?
What they had experienced and witnessed before was perhaps the natural disaster of that time. Only under such a disaster would there be a 100% chance of death.
As you can imagine, with such a violent natural disaster nearly wiping out humanity, it's only natural that civilization would experience a break. It's also natural that a world ravaged by a meteor shower would leave behind some things that wouldn't benefit humanity. After all, these meteorites traveled a long way, so who knows what they brought?
But the question of how the world has evolved into its current state and why cities cannot be connected remains unresolved.
Yang Jia closed his eyes and recalled the scene he had witnessed earlier. It had been so shocking at the time that he hadn't been able to recall many details. The shock still lingered in his body, and even recalling it was a blur.
There must be something I have overlooked.
Yang Jia felt a little regretful. The incident happened so suddenly that she didn't even have time to think much. If she had known earlier, she would have observed it more carefully and not missed any details.
If you can't figure it out, you can only let it go for now. Since everything is fine, Yang Jia lets everyone disperse and do what they need to do.
She herself walked to the border between the two cities.
There is clearly nothing here, but I just can't take another step forward, as if there is an invisible wall blocking me.
"What kind of power do you think this would be?" she asked Li Bai who was standing beside her.
In fact, although she was asking Li Bai, it was no different from talking to herself. Yang Jia did not expect to get an answer from Li Bai, but she heard Li Bai answer almost without hesitation, "Meteorite."
"What?" Yang Jia turned his head and looked at her, not quite understanding.
Li Bai said, "If the images we see really existed, then the biggest difference comes from the meteorites." She looked toward the nearby peaks and asked, "Have you ever wondered where those meteorites went?"
Yang Jia's heart trembled slightly, and he suddenly reacted.
Yes, at that time, meteorites were falling like crazy. Not to mention other places, there were probably at least hundreds of them in the small town they were staying in. This kind of extraterrestrial material is extremely hard and unlikely to weather and erode like ordinary stone. Even after thousands of years, it should have left some traces.
But in today's gaming world, there is no trace of them at all.
Where do all these meteorites go?
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