First Player

Chapter 4·【I still don’t understand love. 】

"See? If I don't want you to leave, you can't leave at all." Lin Guang said.

He approached Su Ming'an step by step, with his back to the setting sun, dragging out a long black shadow. When Su Mingan threatened him with a blood-stamped pocket watch, he was actually not afraid at all.

"But you broke the promise." Su Ming'an whispered: "At first, I said I would kill Edward within one day, but he is not dead yet..."

"It doesn't matter, you just need to wait here." Lin Guang said: "It won't be long before there will be no one else in the world. I will fulfill my promise to you."

"What?"

"I have been thinking... that keeping everyone alive might be good for the world." Lin Guang said to himself: "But I gradually discovered that people are ugly, jealous, unaware of themselves, and keen to oppress Heroes... These people have no sparkle in my eyes, why should I save them? Luvis... tell me, why should you save them?"

"Because of the 'player' mission." Su Mingan said.

"Because... the 'Player' mission." Lin Guang seemed to be chewing on this sentence: "So, in order to prevent the situation from getting worse and worse, I might as well kill all these people. In this way, from Fundamentally put an end to [Tavi’s] invasion.”

Su Mingan was stunned when he heard this.

——What kind of brain circuit is this?

——Because you want to prevent [Tavi] from invading humans, why not just kill all humans? What unique solution is this?

Lin Guang is indeed a madman. No one taught him what a normal person should think. He is like a person who is missing part of his emotional judgment and only wants to deduce the answer from the results. Always results in ridiculous behavior.

"Tell me, what is the Dawn System?" Su Mingan asked.

Lin Guang's eyes suddenly lit up.

"Are you willing to chat with me?" Lin Guang showed a bright smile, his mood changed rapidly, as if he was not the one who shot just now.

……madman.

Su Mingan continued to ask: "Yes, I am willing to chat with you. Can you tell me what the Dawn System is?"

"I don't recommend that you activate the Dawn System to solve the dilemma." Lin Guang said: "Once it is activated, you will have no retreat."

"You mean that the activation of the Dawn System can compete with [Tavite]?" Su Mingan confirmed.

"Of course." Lin Guang said: "Isn't the principle of the Dawn System - bringing everyone into a 'two-dimensional world'?"

Su Mingan was slightly startled.

He immediately started AI Du's Baidu Encyclopedia and searched for the definition of "two-dimensional world".

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[Cute Little Du Baidu Encyclopedia:]

[Two-dimensional world: a virtual world composed of computer 0s and 1s activated by current, similar to the world on paper. 】

[Three-dimensional world: the normal world you are currently in. 】

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Su Mingan suddenly understood the meaning.

To use an inappropriate analogy - two dimensions are like the two dimensions on paper, and three dimensions are like the normal three dimensional world.

Activating the Dawn System is equivalent to "reducing the dimensionality" of everyone, hiding humans from a three-dimensional world full of crises into a two-dimensional world.

There is essentially no difference between the two worlds. The environment, characters, urban structure, and layout are basically the same. It's just that the two-dimensional world has an extra layer of film compared to the three-dimensional world, blocking the intrusion of [other dimensions]. It's more like an illusory parallel world.

Lin Guang's eyes were bright: "Luvis, you have played games. Through the game system, you can create a virtual game world that is more suitable for human survival.

In the same way, if you choose to fully activate the Dawn System, then everyone will enter this fictional 'two-dimensional world', which is a [safe zone] without the prying eyes of other dimensions. "

Lin Guang's words instantly penetrated Su Ming'an like thunder.

According to history, Akto later actually successfully activated the Dawn System. So - the city of measurement in the 102nd year of the disaster is actually a 'two-dimensional world'?

He always thought that Caius Tower was a simulated world - but Lin Guang now told him that the city of measurement in the 102nd year of the disaster was a virtual world?

"Then after everyone enters the two-dimensional world, what should we do in the three-dimensional world we are in now?" Su Mingan said.

Lin Guang said: "Dimensionality reduction means that the Dawn system will record everything in the three-dimensional world and substitute everyone's brain data into the two-dimensional world it has constructed. When humans find a way to suppress [him] in the two-dimensional world After using [dimensional] methods, they might be able to ascend to another dimension, return to the three-dimensional world, and drive [other dimensions] out completely.

So, if you decide to activate the Dawn system, this is a delay. It is equivalent to humans giving up the entire real three-dimensional world, and everyone is forced to escape into the two-dimensional world built by the Dawn System.

And once we fail to develop a way to completely suppress [other dimensions], then we will always be trapped in the two-dimensional world of the Dawn System. If something goes wrong with the Dawn System, or even if it is invaded by [Tavi], humanity will be completely doomed. "

Su Mingan was silent.

Although Lin Guang's words are complicated, you can understand them if you understand them carefully.

Judging from the situation in Measurement City in Cataclysm 102, there is indeed something wrong with the Dawn system. [Taiwei] can still invade the two-dimensional city of measurement without restraint.

So... judging from the ending, it might be better not to activate the Dawn system.

Jumping the entire world back and forth between two dimensions and three dimensions to avoid the crisis of being invaded by everyone... Akto's Dawn System was simply a genius idea, but it was a pity that it did not succeed.

"Lin Guang, I heard that the Dawn System is in the City of Gods. Let me take a look at it." Su Mingan said.

Lin Guang walked up to him and squatted down.

Su Mingan lost too much blood and really didn't have the strength to speak, so he just looked at Lin Guang.

"Do you want to see the Dawn System?" Linguang asked.

"Yeah." Su Mingan nodded.

Lin Guang stretched out his hand, took Su Ming'an's left arm, pushed aside Su Ming'an's bloody fingers, and placed them against Lin Guang's own heart.

"Do you recognize me as your friend now?" Lin Guang asked.

"Yeah..." Su Mingan said perfunctorily.

"Then take a look." Lin Guang said.

They were in a stalemate, and the scene was quiet for half a minute. Su Mingan waited for a while, and Lin Guang didn't move for a long time.

"Where is the Dawn System?" Su Mingan asked almost breathlessly without any strength.

Lin Guang said nothing, just stared at him.

Su Mingan raised his eyes.

He could only see the bloody light of the setting sun in the sky, and through his five fingers, he could vaguely feel Lin Guang's heartbeat. One after another, it was the vibration of life.

……etc.

Su Mingan suddenly realized something, and a panic squeezed his heart.

"You said you are -" Su Ming'an suddenly raised her voice and choked to cough again.

"Yeah." Lin Guang smiled:

"The Dawn System, it's inside my body."

Su Mingan stared at Lin Guang's chest.

"I look forward to working with you to prevent the doomsday, but I don't want to give up our real world to [Tavi]. I don't want everyone to live in a system, so I won't let you start it." Lin Guang said.

Su Mingan shook his head:

"wrong……"

He wanted to give some more advice.

at this time,

He saw the smile rising at the corner of Lin Guang's mouth, a strange, excited smile, as if he had gotten what he wanted.

"boom--!"

He suddenly saw a blazing cloud-like light in the distance, and endless brilliant light rose from before his eyes, shining like the sun.

High-rise buildings broke and collapsed, the bloody sun seemed to be ignited, and the world seemed to be suspended at this moment.

Endless storms surged out, accompanied by horrific nuclear explosions. The ground twisted, cracked, and trembled... almost covering all of his field of vision. Only the City of Gods - only this place was like a copper wall and an iron wall, like a god. The blessed city was not disturbed by the explosion.

Su Mingan looked at such a terrifying scene, and it took him a while to realize what was happening in the outside world.

The fire, sound after sound, seemed to turn the world into static black and white.

Nuclear explosion.

Lin Guang launched a nuclear explosion.

——It turned out that this was the reason why Lin Guang sat back and ignored the war. When the situation became uncontrollable, Lin Guang chose to directly launch a nuclear explosion, killing everyone except the City of Gods.

No wonder Lin Guang just said, "Soon there will be no one else in the world."

Lin Guang has been waiting for this moment—the moment when everyone dies.

Su Ming'an's heartbeat seemed to stop, and everything trembling in front of him invaded his field of vision, almost depriving him of all his ability to think.

... Then, those who are not in the City of God, Yue Yue, Luna of the battle group... the way to the outside world, Tredia, Dong An'an, and... there are hundreds of millions of innocent people...?

He heard the system prompt.

For the first time, he knew that when a person with a special identity related to him dies, a notification sound will appear——

[Teammate (Luna) is dead. 】

[Teammate (Lu) is dead. 】

[The observer (Yue Yue) is dead and cannot be resurrected. 】

"..."

The desolate wind blew across Su Mingan's eyelashes.

The City of God was too comfortable and warm. He couldn't feel the radiation and heat from the outside world, and he couldn't see the endless corpses.

But the death reminders in the system bar are as red as blood, and the outside world is now a hell on earth.

……etc.

Why is there no death reminder for follower Lu Shu?

Is it because Lu Shu has been dead for a long time, or...

"——Ha, hahaha——Great, Lovis, look! Everyone is dead! Then no one will be infiltrated by [Tavi]."

The white-haired young man was spinning around in circles, looking extremely happy.

He looked at the apocalyptic scene with a smile, as if it were a wonderful comedy:

"——Lovis, I have some anti-radiation equipment here. Let's go for a walk in the nuclear blast zone together at night, just like we did on that winter night."

"——I learned a new song called Ode to Joy. Violet taught me... Ah, she was sent out by me before and should be dead. It doesn't matter. I can continue to study this song with you. "

He laughed loudly in the doomsday fire, and there seemed to be bright stars in his eyes:

"In this way, I don't have to stay in the City of God all the time. Maybe I can try to restore the game before the Century Catastrophe, and then we can play together. You can teach me..."

As he said this, he suddenly realized that Su Ming'an had not responded to him.

He turned around and saw Su Ming'an lying in a pool of blood.

"Lovis?" he asked, his eyes extremely confused: "Lovis?"

A small stream of blood dripped from Su Ming'an's temple, mixing into the large pool of blood on the ground.

Lin Guang stared blankly at Su Ming'an's slowly lowering fingertips. But Su Ming'an didn't look at him, and no one's shadow was reflected in his dark gray eyes.

Lin Guang seemed to be choked, and after a moment, he spoke softly.

"Why, what?" he said.

Su Mingan didn't respond, and the look in his eyes faded little by little.

"Everyone is dead... You no longer need to protect this world. No one is worth saving, and no one asks you to be a hero... You are already free." Lin Guang said in a trembling voice:

"You can play games, read detective novels, and if you want to play tennis, I can also create many mechanical armies to accompany you. If you want to go to school, the City of Gods also has classrooms, and I can build a university for you... …”

"If you like strawberries, they can be grown in the plantations in the City of Gods. If you want to eat chocolate, I can make it for you..."

"Lovis... the world is already safe. You are my best friend. How about you stay? No one can talk to me..."

Su Mingan squinted his eyes.

The annihilation pierced his temple, and his breath dropped gradually.

He saw the clouds of fire condensing in the distance under the bloody sun, like the wails of countless creatures. Endless storms surged, and the world outside the City of Gods turned into messy ruins.

There is no one left in this world.

The rest are evil spirits, devils, and executioners who massacred hundreds of millions of people.

Such a terrible world should be left to such a terrible executioner to enjoy alone.

At the last moment, he saw Lin Guang's eyes almost pleading, and his expression looked like he was about to cry.

"Luvis...Su Mingan."

"Did I do something wrong again?"

"Can you tell me... what is a friend? What is emotion? What is love?"

Lin Guang murmured repeatedly.

He wanted to grab something, but he was afraid it would break if he tried too hard.

Countless images intertwined crazily in Lin Guang's mind. These depressed emotions were so intertwined that they almost split open his brain. He tried to think of something, but all he could see was a blank.

...who is he?

...Why doesn't he remember anything?

——He always felt as if he had embarked on a wrong path from which he could not turn back, and things should not have been like this.

He, he and Luvis... shouldn't have become like this.

[Violet, what is love? 】

【When you live in this world, everything you feel every moment is love. 】

Lin Guang lowered his head.

His eyes were like a blind, dead meteor in the universe.

"It turns out it's really [despair]..."

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Su Mingan closed his eyes and lost his breath.