Stray Chapter 13: Boot animation
"Why...is this..."
"Is this world really not Minecraft?"
The two were dizzy for a while, and everything in front of them made them feel fear and timidity, and even wondered if they and others had been recruited, had terrible hallucinations, or fell into delirium of insanity.
Otherwise, there is no way to explain what is happening in front of you.
The mosaic style of the full screen, the style of pixels and squares, although the style of pixels and squares has lost the high-definition, and the resolution is so low that it makes people crazy, but it is also extremely recognizable because of this, and it reminds them in an instant. Played a famous indie game.
- The entire world takes place in a 3D grid of cubes, each occupied by a specific kind of block...
—and blocks are the basic building blocks of the world...
The scene in front of me is like this, and it can even be said that it is exactly the same style of painting.
grotesque and incomprehensible, although there are no nameless distortions, such as ugly deformities, puffy tentacles, giant fleshy lumps surging with countless tentacles, etc., but at this moment, give them The mental impact is equally huge.
Is this the crazy truth of the world?
This is what the legendary mages, great inventors, and alchemy sages of the future will see after falling into the Land Forsaken by God? Let him understand the essence of the world and gain the real eye that can see through the false appearance of the world?
really made people's sanity plummet. There were obvious cracks in reason and worldview, and they began to crumble.
"How could..."
The square figure in the shape of a youth opened his mouth, but he didn't know what to say, his tone was full of shock and disbelief.
His own feeling is nothing, but the whole world in his eyes has become the MC style of mosaic and pixel points. 's arms also turned into rough pixel squares.
is really very simple and rude...
The entire arm is a square.
doesn't even have elbows, let alone the five fingers that are subdivided - human beings have gone through a long period of evolution to finally walk upright, and the flexible hands that have been liberated, the evolutionary representative of milestone significance, have been denied in this way. !
His own tactile perception has no influence, such a sense of disobedience is simply breaking through the sky.
is like a certain blue fat man. He can only stretch out his round hands, but he is extremely flexible, and he can pick up and hold everything.
"This is..."Heart of the World"? ...not right, absolutely wrong..."
The woman finally recovered from her shocked brain, but her thinking was still extremely messy. She looked sluggish (although because of the low resolution, she couldn't see it at all) After the captain, he stammered and asked:
"Isn't this worldview similar to DND? Why does the so-called "Heart of the World" look like this..."
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"I...I don't know, I just saw this too..."
This is indeed a question, but you ask me who am I going to ask?
The youth captain could only answer dryly, feeling the wind was messy.
"Then what do we do now? Shouldn't we be like this all the time?" The woman in the cube was somewhat collapsed, shouting loudly, and the decibel of her voice soared instantly.
After all, women's nature is to love beauty, and it is unacceptable to have a pimple on their face, let alone become a square person with pixel style.
She couldn't accept it at all, and even felt that it was better to have some terrible danger, the real one would come well, some ancient guardian, vicious relic agency, and so on, wouldn't it be good to threaten the real risk? ?
At least it was a tangible danger that could be confronted, not as it is now...
"Yes, it should be fine, right?" The young man was still a little confused and did not fully recover his ability to think, so he subconsciously replied, "This seems to be only what we can see for ourselves, in the eyes of others, we should have no change. Yes..."
"Is that the point?!" The female square guy thought he was going crazy.
——This is also a disabling blow!
is even more cruel, because it is a permanent dimensionality reduction from the aesthetic level! Not only in my own eyes, I am a pixel-style block, even other people and even the whole world are pixel-style blocks!
She understood almost instantly why this character in the plot would be crazy in the future... Whoever faces the truth of the world will be crazy for a long time.
"Calm down! Calm down! We will find a way!" The youth captain was shocked by her aura. He probably felt the danger and took a step back before subconsciously speaking to comfort him.
"No, that's right, there will be a way..." The square man who could see the image of a woman took a deep breath, seemed to be infected by his emotions, recovered a little calm, and nodded firmly. "Captain, do you have any ideas?"
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"Let's... find a time machine first?" The captain carefully proposed a method that seemed quite feasible. As long as it was successful, it would definitely solve the current predicament.
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ten minutes later.
The two cube people have calmed down and made a simple exploration in the temple.
is indeed a simple exploration, because there is only such a huge space in the temple that it seems to be able to fit the entire land, and there are no other hidden halls, side halls and other spaces, which are unobstructed.
On the side wall of the huge temple, there are huge murals, although they are also pixel-style, but because their size is too huge, they can let them see the specific paintings more clearly.
The first mural is a figure that seems to exist forever in the chaos.
"He" was holding something in the dark, and was talking to several other figures gathered in front of "him".
The second mural is a chaotic, dark void, where the earth in its original state is gradually taking shape.
The surface covered by the lava sea and gas turned, shattered, and finally stabilized, and the stars, moon, and sun all orbited around it, surrounded by an endless void or astral plane.
The third mural is the beginning of the prosperous period. Many complex life forms appeared in the nascent world at the same time, just like the explosion of species in the Cambrian period. Countless creatures were born and reproduced, and they continued to evolve. The long river is moving forward.
From every corner of the huge mural, you can find the figures of species that have appeared in history, from the giant reptiles that dominated the sky, to the graceful children of the forest, to the later giants and dwarves, the latter is now of humans.
The fourth mural...
is gone, and the corresponding temple wall is just blank. It seems that the stage of historical records to the first three murals has come to an abrupt end.
Because next, God... abandoned the world.
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There was silence in the temple, and the air was so quiet that one could feel the ear tingling.
The two square people were unable to speak for a long time, and their hearts were full of shock.
Although everything seems so funny, it is presented in a pixel-style style, just seeing it makes people feel powerless and feel completely unreasonable, but for them, it seems to be watching The biggest secret of this world.
The aftermath of Genesis seems to be still in sight. They feel that their hearts are beating violently, and before they know it, they have broken through the limits of medicine, as if they are about to explode.
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"This may really be the land abandoned by God. The so-called heart of the world may actually be the abandoned creation factory, the original workshop of the creator of this world..." He swallowed hard. , the young cube people tried hard to suppress the shock and awe in their hearts.
"This makes sense. In the original plot, this master Patrick and alchemist must have found this temple after waking up, and then encountered the same thing as us. ..."
The female square person also felt extremely awe-inspiring, and could only try to force herself to be calm and calm, use her brains seriously, and connect the clues she currently had.
"He can clearly see the essence of the world, as if he has mastered a part of the bottom-level authority of this world... Maybe although our current vision is very strange, but in this world, it is really a golden finger ..."
"And he must have seen these three murals. Like us, he has learned about the past history of this world, so he will say that this is the heart of the world, a place abandoned by God, and will behave in the future. Crazy..."
Yes, that must be it.
seems to be all about it.
is just...
"Why Minecraft?"
The youth captain smiled wryly. He wanted to deny everything in front of him, because the more he was in awe of the secret of creation that he had just seen from the mural, the more the contrast presented by the pixel square style in front of him would be. Make him tremble with fear.
peeping into a corner of the history of the creation of the world, although shocking, but it will not make him too complacent, because he himself is a lost person, from the awakening to the present, I don't know how much time has passed, and I don't know How many planes have crossed the world.
No matter how vast a single world is, his vision must be much brighter and broader than that of the natives who are confined to a single world, which is a matter of course.
But...
Still the question, why Minecraft?
Isn't this an entertainment culture concept that only Earth-like time and space have?
Could it be that the creator is actually a hometown of similar concepts to himself and others? This may be an explanation, but why did He shape the heart of the world this way? Even if the creatures in this world have explored it, it is impossible to understand what this is.
Even if it's bad taste, someone has to understand it. It's like joking with someone. If the other party can't get a joke at all, then it's meaningless at all.
Perhaps this is simply because it has no special meaning, or perhaps mortals such as myself cannot understand the perspective and thinking of the transcendent.
Of course...
There is also a more likely speculation that the creator may have foreseen their arrival and made a joke on the two of them?
The young man's face is gloomy and uncertain. This should be impossible. Before he and others arrive, the "plot" should be like this. If we continue to investigate further, we may also investigate whether the chicken or the chicken comes first. There is an egg problem.
And if there is such a terrifying existence...
The woman also seemed to have thought of this, and she didn't say a word for a long time, so that the atmosphere in the temple became depressed again for a while.
But this is not the way to go. The two square people can only discuss and discuss hard to see if there is any information that they have not remembered, and the other party happens to know and complement each other's information.
This is somewhat helpful.
Because the scene in front of them was completely beyond their understanding, it also shattered the confidence of the two of them, so that they didn't know what to do next.
I don't even know how to get out, and I even suspect that the butterfly effect caused by the interference of the two of them may even cause the future Master Patrick, who is still in a coma, to not know how to get out after that.
I can only rack my brains, think hard, search my stomach, and try to find some useful information brought by the advantages of the plot.
"There are very, very few clues about the Land Forsaken in the plot. When this guy reappeared twelve years later, he just talked to the protagonists..."
"It was the witch who entered the legendary realm, in order to deal with a more severe situation, because in the later stage of the material plane's turbulence, the situation was getting worse and worse, and the wars of various races resulted in countless casualties. The foundations of existence are shaken..."
Because believers’ belief is the source of power for the gods in this worldview, if they lose faith, the power of the gods will become weaker and weaker, and even gradually die. Therefore, in the later stage of the turmoil, the gods whose overall strength has been greatly weakened are basically anxious...
They even went off the field in person and attacked each other, wanting to take this opportunity to destroy the enemy and **** their beliefs, not only for self-protection, but also to kill other gods, everyone is a hunter, everyone is a prey...
But in this way, the blow to the Material Plane is even more devastating.
The heroes of the legendary realm have also been unable to turn the tide. In the face of this huge disaster like the end of the world, the role they can play has become very small, so other methods must be found for this.
It seems that it involves some ancient secrets, what is the previous solar age that is older than the current world, and so on, which are the targets that people are chasing wildly.
can't blame them. After all, when the enemy to fight rises to the level of the gods, they who are unable to fight can only pin their hopes on the legends, and those gods are more stalwart than the gods of the present generation. ...
"As a result, this important character who completely saw the essence of the world was introduced, and the alchemy era of the material plane was completely opened, making the power of magic technology almost equal to the gods..."
The square man in the form of a youth said with a toothache, and looked at the unconscious square man behind him.
"To be honest, this episode caused some turmoil at the time. Because of the mechanical serenity, the protagonists spent more than 50 episodes in the first season, and finally brought up the big problem that they had to face. , soon after the beginning of the second season, it was solved by the sudden appearance of a new character..."
" This naturally makes many readers dissatisfied, even if the official patch was later added, saying that this is the only child of destiny who fell into the Land Forsaken by God, there is no way to convince the public, and because the Land Forsaken by God later The pit has not been filled, and this has always been regarded as a failure..."
"Reality doesn't speak logic, but the work needs to say that even in a real world, it's not unusual for such a thing to happen..." The woman in the cube shook her head.
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followed by another moment of silence, the two square faces to each other, big eyes staring at small eyes.
seems to have killed a lot of brain cells and forced a wave of thinking, but it still doesn't help. This ghost place has only a few ambiguous names, and it's still in a coma. The middle-aged square man in the plot used an almost narration method, and only mentioned it.
nothing else.
How can this be done.
"There's no other way..." The youth captain finally broke the long silence. He gritted his teeth and turned to look at the projection in the center of the temple.
There are stone pillars and altars that seem to be sky-high on the ground. In contrast, the two of them are like little ants before Mount Tai, and what appears on the huge altar is a three-dimensional pixel style. projection.
It seems to be a real-time dynamic map of the entire world. It is projected from the material plane, the upper plane, the lower plane, and the void star realm outside the surrounding world, but because of the resolution problem, only Can see roughly.
there may be a breakthrough.
"We can wait a little longer..." The female square person persuaded.
Although she was the most devastated just now, she couldn't accept all this, but now that she has calmed down, she naturally does not want the captain to take risks.
"I can't wait, Pharaoh and the others are still waiting for us to go out... This character only appeared after more than ten years, who knows how long he has been here before that, maybe even the time is out of sync , we simply don't have the time..."
Captain has already made up his mind.
"Try it first, since Patrick, who is still an ordinary person, can go back safely, there must be no danger. He can find a way to leave, and we can definitely..."
"..." The woman opened her mouth, but didn't say anything in the end.
said so, but it is still different. Even if this native triggers something special, he may not understand it at all... After all, in the space of this MC style, what synthesis workbench, Things like consoles, cheat modes, etc. all seem completely out of the ordinary.
But the two of them are different. What would happen if they accidentally bumped into each other?
But as the captain said, we really can't wait any longer, we have to explore it first... and they all have trump cards such as immortality and resurrection, which gives them some confidence.
It took an unknown amount of time to climb up to the altar.
The two of them are like ants climbing Mount Tai. Even if their physical fitness is not trivial, and they have various supernatural powers, they still feel that they are climbing the endless pillar leading to the sky. .
But fortunately, it was all hard work.
"Let me see...is there a way to trigger." The young man tried to use his own experience, watching the huge projection in the sky, closing his eyes and sinking his thoughts, trying to establish a connection and communication with it, and use his thoughts to control .
This is a habit in space. Although I know the operation method is definitely not so simple, but try it first, then...
At this moment, he suddenly felt that his spirit seemed to be connected to a huge database, and he was momentarily stunned.
Wait? So simple?
The next moment, the young man's face changed greatly, he felt the terrifying information frenzy that hit him, it was endless, as if an entire universe had invaded his brain, and then completely unfolded within it.
His divine soul was almost disintegrated by the impact at the first moment, and he could only hold on to his heart according to instinct, but his soul was still shaking under the violent impact, approaching collapse.
No way! Can't go on like this!
will die! myself will die!
must stop now!
"... Found unauthorised access, according to the agreement is being revised, granting the current basic access rights to operate..."
There seems to be a loud voice deafening.
But he couldn't think, he could only passively receive, and at the same time tried hard to break the link and stop the approaching destruction.
"...The operating system is coming back online, activation requires..." The cold voice continued.
Stop! stop! stop me!
"...The retrieval of the pseudo-secret number field is completed, and the current cosmological constant parameters are running correctly. If you want to inject new parameters, please operate..."
"...The limited quantum interference field is in good condition, and the number of simulation threads currently accounts for 71% of the computing power..."
's icy voice continued, and the young man's consciousness was almost completely destroyed by the shock.
Stop!
Give me a stop!
Repeated over and over again, at the last moment, just before his soul was about to be completely torn apart, it seemed as if the ancient roar of the unwillingness of life burst out from the deepest part of his heart.
The icy voice that resounded in his consciousness seemed to pause for a while, and the next moment became a bit stuck——
"Received the operation command, stopped all current simulation threads, is shutting down..."
"The command is entered incorrectly and the permission level is insufficient."
"Shutdown program terminated!"
"Some threads have errors, reopening... program error, data is being backed up, system will restart later..."
At this moment, it was as if the whole world had been pressed the stop button, and the long river of time was frozen for a moment.
Some kind of weird wave spreads through the barriers of the world towards the Material Plane and the outer universe.
simulates the world shutting down, then restarting.
and backtracking the data that was just urgently backed up to a previous point, as if nothing had happened.
At least for the information in the box, that's how it is, like an object whose time has been stopped, unaware of the non-existent time... The only difference is that it actually restarts Once, now the Sim World is rebooting.
The gods cast their gazes out from the kingdom of the stars in astonishment, and countless people in the world are uneasy.
Countless creatures suddenly found that the whole world was plunged into darkness, the sky was obscured, it seemed to fall into the chaos of void, and everything ceased to exist.
On the dark surface of the abyss, there is an incomparably huge, blurry figure that transcends time and space, holding the crystal wall shell ball in his hand.
The sphere contains the whole world. All creatures can clearly see this. At this moment, they all feel absurdly that they and others seem to be packed in a glass sphere. Look what's going on outside.
or something that happened.
"I will show what you sing so that you can see what you have accomplished."
The vague figure opened his mouth and said to the other figures in the emptiness and chaos.
Then——
In an age older than the gods or the world, the creator waved his arms to open up the world, in the abyss of time, surrounded by countless stars, severing the nothingness to create the sky, splitting everything in this world The beginning of heaven and earth.