This Game Is Too Realistic

Near the power room on the lower deck.

An orange-yellow holographic isolation belt was suspended in the corridor, enclosing a large isolated area.

This is where the collision occurred.

A lifeboat-class civilian spacecraft crashed into the outer shell of the Orion cruiser, and half of the hull was connected to the Orion cruiser's hull.

Even if we look at the relatively short space history of human civilization, this is considered a quite explosive accident.

What is particularly puzzling is how the small boat passed through the defense of the deflector shield and broke through the almost impossible to break through the hull shell.

Fortunately, the gymnasium in the living area on the lower deck was damaged. At that time, because the spacecraft was about to enter the hyperspace channel, such entertainment facilities were blocked, so no one was injured.

This was also the reason why many people came to watch.

The ship's safety and maintenance department immediately shut down the air exchange system in the damaged area and isolated the damaged area in accordance with the plan in the safety manual.

Although only a small cabin was actually damaged, the safety director sealed off the entire related area based on the assessment report of the four engineers.

At this moment, engineers wearing aerospace exoskeletons were standing around the isolation belt, working on the 㱒board in their hands.

Seeing Luo Yi approaching, one of the engineers stepped forward and said.

"Hey, this is a controlled area, you have to put on your space suit before coming in."

Luo Yi hung the respirator around his neck and showed his three IDs at the same time.

"The modified prosthesis on my body has the function of resisting low-pressure environments. Is there a risk of secondary explosion?"

The engineer turned around and exchanged glances with his colleague standing next to the isolation belt, then looked at him and replied.

"That's not the case. We have shut down the reactor and chemical battery of the spacecraft that caused the accident."

"That's enough, I'm just taking a look outside to understand the situation here." Luo Yi patted him on the shoulder, walked through the isolation belt, and walked to the door of the room with the [Under Repair] sign.

The alloy door was tightly sealed, with a layer of folded titanium alloy reinforcement plates attached to the inside and outside.

The staff standing nearby handed him a board with a camera attached to the repair robot's screen.

Through the picture on the board, Luo Yi saw the situation in the room. He saw that the fitness equipment had been hit by the huge impact force in a corner of the room, and the outer shell of the ship was dented by the spacecraft. A breach with a radius of about 1 to 2 meters.

That scene can simply be described as tragic.

Luo Yi frowned.

Honestly, it's not like the damage a lifeboat-class civilian craft could do.

"Jianyi seems to have exploded, doesn't it?" The engineer looked at him and shrugged, grinning and said, "But actually no, we did not find an armor-piercing warhead on the spacecraft. This is indeed a ship for scientific investigation. It is a civilian spacecraft, and there are obvious traces of oxygen on the surface of the spacecraft... From this, it can be inferred that the ship should have been working in the atmosphere. "

The staff on the side also said.

"Anyway, we rescued the people as soon as possible. The other damage could not be dealt with with the repair tools on the ship, so we had to leave it to the construction workers of the star port."

Luo nodded, recorded the information on the storage crystal, and then continued to ask.

"The child you rescued said that there is another person on this... scientific research ship. She should be a little girl. Have you found out?"

The staff standing at the door exchanged glances in confusion, and then looked at him with a strange expression.

"How is that possible?"

"At that time, the eight rescue teams rushed in one after another, and there was only one sleeping cabin in the entire ship."

"Did he break his brain?"

Luo Yi didn't speak. He tapped the screen twice with his index finger, controlled the repair robot to move forward a few steps, and focused the camera on the cockpit that had been damaged and deformed by the impact.

There really is nothing there.

While he was deep in thought, the engineer standing next to him suddenly spoke.

"Speaking of which, something strange happened."

Luo Yi looked at him.

"What a weird thing."

The engineer continued.

"Some people heard the explosion, some people didn't."

Luo Yi was stunned for a moment.

He remembered that he heard it, so he rushed to the scene as soon as possible.

But there were indeed some people who didn't hear it. For example, his comrade Xiao Yong came over after hearing the alarm.

It is strange to say that the alarm should have sounded as soon as the explosion occurred, but the alarm did not work. Instead, after the relevant units on the lower deck reported the damage information, another unit Manually sounded.

This was also the main reason for the gathering of people at that time.

After all, based on everyone's past experience, if the alarm doesn't go off, it means it's not a big deal, and it's normal to want to take a look.

What's unusual is that some people hear the explosion and some don't.

Luo Yi carefully recalled the scene at that time. There were indeed not many people in the room, only a few dozen.

Compared to the thousands of people on the lower deck, this number is indeed too small.

"Is there any pattern to this?"

"I can't tell," the engineer shook his head, "I also wanted to ask you if you have any clues."

The staff on the side laughed and joked.

"In other words, this should be the work of the fifth department. The war is over, and that department should play a role."

"Didn't that guy say it, time traveler?"

"Haha, according to what he said, we have to buy ourselves personal accident insurance now."

"The personal accident insurance is okay. Can we let the 'Alliance' pay for it?"

"Hahaha."

Obviously no one believed that the child came from Japan. After all, it was an indisputable fact that they were still alive.

At this moment, the engineer suddenly thought of something and spoke.

"By the way, there's one more thing."

Luo Yi, who was deep in thought, raised his head.

"Can you finish the sentence in one sitting?"

"I just remembered it..." The engineer looked at the adjacent rooms and pointed at the one at the end of the corner. "That's the canteen in the living area. There were a few people in it at the time, but their They didn’t hear anything, and they didn’t realize something was wrong until our people came in.”

Luo Yi was stunned again.

His duty room was relatively far away from here, and everyone heard the violent explosion, but the people near the center of the explosion heard nothing?

"It's strange, isn't it? The soundproofing effect there is actually not that good. More than once, someone complained that the people dining there were too noisy." The engineer shrugged his shoulders and said in a joking tone, "Maybe we should find a real The pastor."

"That makes sense."

Luo nodded, returned the board in his hand to the staff on the side, and then looked at the engineer who said seriously.

"This information is very important... I would like to circle the people on the lower deck who heard the explosion and those who did not hear the explosion, and then mark what they did and where they were when the explosion happened. This might help Help solve the dilemma we are facing now.”

"Good idea," the engineer snapped his fingers, "Go and discuss it with the people from the Eight Departments. This is their job."

Department Eight is the ship safety and maintenance department, which is equivalent to the security management department on the entire starship, including the security director, peace officer, emergency rescue team, etc.

Although the name of Department Four (Engineering and Maintenance Department) also means maintenance, it is mainly responsible for technical work such as equipment maintenance and outer space operations.

A starship with 3,000 people is like a small town sailing in space, with almost everyone assigned specific duties.

But sometimes Luo Yi couldn't help but want to complain. They had too many departments, and even they themselves had to think for a while about whose job it was.

But fortunately, everyone is responsible. At most, the work is not enough, and no one is playing ball.

Luo Yi wrote down the information he gathered, nodded his head neatly and said.

"I'll go."

…

The weapons and defense department as the third department is the quasi-combat department of the Orion guided missile cruiser and is also the emergency response department.

Although the Eighth Department is responsible for general public security incidents, the Three Departments are usually involved in major accidents that are serious enough to cause damage to the ship's hull, threaten the lives of all officers and soldiers on the ship, and where the suspicion of a KB attack cannot be ruled out.

As a professional soldier, Luo Yi acted quickly. After inspecting the accident scene and the torpedo library, he immediately went to the Eight Departments to exchange information and obtain the access control status of various functional facilities.

In this way, the current location of everyone can be easily determined.

Regarding the intelligence provided by the third department, the eighth department also showed a considerable degree of attention and sent almost all security personnel to visit and investigate all 1,600 crew members on the lower deck.

The result of the investigation was beyond everyone's expectation. Only a few people heard the explosion, but because the alarm did not go off, most people didn't take it seriously.

In the conference room of Department 8, a three-dimensional holographic image of the lower deck of the Orion cruiser was suspended on the conference table.

According to the opinions of the three combatants, they marked the area where those who heard the explosion were in red, and the areas where those who did not hear the explosion were marked in yellow.

The light blue holographic image is almost filled with red and yellow colors. The meandering red is like a long dragon spreading on the inside of the ship. Unfortunately, there is no obvious pattern.

But what is interesting is that there is no situation where some people in the same area hear the explosion and others do not.

In other words, there is no third possibility between red and yellow.

"It seems that the problem lies in the space." Looking at the marked map, Luo Yi said thoughtfully, "I think we should focus on checking these rooms marked in red."

The security director of the Eight Departments stood nearby, with a subtle expression on his unshaven face.

He seemed to have thought of something, but thought it was too ridiculous, but finally coughed and said.

"Do you know what I thought of?"

The eyes gathered around the conference table looked at him, and Luo Yi asked for everyone present.

"what?"

The security director said immediately.

"Schrödinger's cat."

There were whispers around the table, and this statement was recognized by some people.

Looking at Luo Yi who was silent, the security director continued in an uncertain tone.

"Aren't we stuck in the hyperspace channel now? Such a strange thing happened again... Do you think we are trapped in a place similar to quantum space?"

Not liking this ambiguous statement, Luo Yi asked seriously.

"What is quantum space? What is its specific definition?"

The security director was speechless for a moment, rubbed his index finger on his stubble, and said with a wry smile.

"Actually, I was just guessing. I'm not doing physics... I'm studying logistics management."

The security guard standing aside whistled and said teasingly.

"It seems we don't have a professional counterpart on board."

"Isn't the person from the fifth department a professional counterpart?"

"It's the right one, but it's useless."

Unexpectedly, someone was persecuting Dr. Wu here, and Luo Yi made a helpless expression.

"I plan to ask him what he thinks later...about the quantum space you mentioned."

The security director coughed awkwardly.

"That's my current name... Anyway, it means something similar. Just ask."

Just a joke.

That guy is a top student after all.

He actually believed in Dr. Wu's professional knowledge and diploma.

After the meeting.

Luo Yi rushed to the fifth department non-stop, only to find that Dr. Wu was not here. The only person on duty was an intern he led. After some questioning, he learned that the guy had gone to drink again.

The scientific research and technology department has too little work, and it is a marginal department that is completely useless. Most of the people who work here have loose personalities and are accustomed to being lazy.

In desperation, Luo Yi could only contact Babu's friends, and finally found this drunk guy in a bar in the corner of the middle deck.

Looking at Dr. Wu lying on the bar, Luo Yi sighed and walked to sit next to him, then looked at the bionic robot bartender in front of him.

"Two glasses of lemonade."

"Is it ice or room temperature?"

"A glass of ice and a glass of room temperature."

"Yes sir."

The bionic robot replied with a gentle voice, and soon there were two more glasses of water with lemon slices on the table.

Pushing the hot cup in front of Dr. Wu, Luo Yi picked up the cup with floating ice cubes and took a sip.

From 8 a.m. standard time until he got off work, he had been busy for ten hours without eating a bite.

However, this is not entirely due to busyness, but also partly due to lack of appetite.

Looking at Wu Xinghuan reaching out to touch the cup, he said in a casual tone.

“Is it appropriate to drink during work hours?”

"It doesn't matter..."

Wu Xinghuan grabbed the cup and took a sip. He frowned when he found that there was no alcohol smell and it was still hot.

Seeing this guy's bad attitude, Luo Yi raised his eyebrows.

"What do you mean it doesn't matter? Didn't you discover the physics of me? And you said we will miss you... the one who never leaves your hand with the wine bottle?"

Hearing this, Wu Xinghuan laughed self-deprecatingly, shook the lemonade in his hand, and cast his confused eyes on the wine cabinet in front of him.

"It doesn't matter anymore... No one will remember us, I didn't discover the physics of you, the old building hasn't collapsed, it's even stronger. We're still in our cages, we just happen to be on the rollers. The hamster that came down."

This guy was obviously drunk. Luo Yi couldn't understand what he was saying at all, but he seemed to deny his previous conclusion.

"So... now you think that guy is not a time traveler?"

"Isn't it important?" Wu Xinghuan shook his head, picked up the cup and took a sip.

Luo Yi frowned and stared into his eyes seriously.

"Look, you're the only one on the ship who has any hope of helping us understand what's going on. We need to know what's happening to us. I don't know what problems you encountered in your research, but I hope that at least now you can cheer up. !”

This sentence seemed to have some effect. Wu Xinghuan raised his head and looked at him, staring directly at him.

"Let's make an assumption."

Luo Yi looked at him and motioned him to continue.

Wu Xinghuan put the cup on the table, took two seeds from the lemon slice and threw them in.

Looking at the sinking lemon seeds, he said slowly.

"There is a video game with many, many people... let's say there are 10 billion."

Luo Yi frowned.

"Then what?"

Wu Xinghuan continued.

"Our eyes have limits, and of course the lens also has limits. Now let's assume that this lens can only see 100 million people, and our game console supports 100 million people on the same screen."

Without waiting for Luo Yi to ask, he said non-stop.

"Then the question is, what about the 9.9 billion people outside the camera? Where have they gone?"

Unfazed by this question, Luo Yi was stunned for a while and answered with a strange expression.

"Of course it's off camera."

"Smart!" Wu Xinghuan gave a thumbs up and grinned, "It's a pity that we only saw the surface...the truth is that they are all quantum state beings."

"You know that they are stored, and the computer also assumes that they are indeed stored. Even the names of each of them are recorded, but they are not actually directly generated in our program, right? Or rather, they are saved. In the cache, they will only be generated in real time and seen by us when we move the camera over.”

"People in the old era used this method to create games at low cost. As long as the perspective is limited to a certain range and clever use of screen loading, a planet can be created with just a few textures."

"I can probably understand what you mean," Luo Yi said with a frown, "But what does this have to do with the situation we are facing now?"

Wu Xinghuan did not answer directly, but knocked over the cup on the bar.

Looking at the stunned Luo Yi, he said slowly.

"There was an explosion outside the camera, and it really happened. You have even seen the number of casualties, the aftermath of the explosion, and the subsequent effects... But did the explosion really happen?"

"Do you still need to ask?" Luo Yi looked at him in confusion, "You said it yourself, there was indeed an explosion there."

"I am the camera, I am the narrative agent, I told you about the explosion." Wu Xinghuan stared into his eyes and said with a smile, "But what you should know is that when you move the camera in front of you, the special effects of the explosion will , people’s screams, and what someone saw and did before they died, they didn’t actually happen from my program, did they?”

"Perhaps when the explosion occurred, a certain guy was gesturing his middle finger to you outside the game. I bet you would be exclaimed in disbelief when you saw it, because a certain NPC not only awakened his self-awareness but also broke the fourth wall... ...But you have no chance to see it, because when you move the camera over, you may not even be able to find his body. "

Luo Yi looked at him blankly, vaguely seeming to have understood something.

"Event horizon," Wu Xinghuan slowly spit out a word from his mouth, and then said, "We call the space-time interface where an event can just be observed the 'event horizon', and in this exaggerated example, the angle of your lens The edge is what I call the horizon.”

"For us sitting here, we in the hyperspace channel are just outside the 'event horizon'. Including the kid who went astray, we are all put into a world that is impenetrable to the outside world. Black box. Our ending is a given for him, and his ending is irrelevant to us, because no matter what he tells us, what happens in the future, we are already dead in his timeline.”

When he said this, Wu Xinghuan smiled to himself again.

"The universe is much more cruel than we imagine, isn't it? According to this theory, no matter what we do at this moment, it is meaningless, even if our walls are covered with words and our legendary experiences are written down, What should be erased will be erased.”

"Perhaps we have encountered countless time travel events in history...but there is no exception. They are just like the NPC I mentioned standing outside the camera and gesticulating the middle finger at the player. No one knows that he has broken The fourth wall. When the God overlooking us came back to his senses, the reason was exactly what we saw... because we didn't hear about this time travel at all."

Luo Yi couldn't help holding his breath, and after a long time he spoke slowly.

"But...how did we get in?"

Just because of hyperspace travel?

But since the outbreak of this war, we have experienced countless hyperspace voyages, and we have never heard of any starship encountering something like this...

etc.

It’s not necessarily that they haven’t encountered it before.

A drop of cold sweat slowly appeared on Luo Yi's forehead and dripped on the bar of the bar.

Maybe someone has met him before, but no one knows about it.

It's like no one knows what the world is like after death, whether it's reincarnation or going to a place called heaven.

There is only one message left to the outside world - or "inside the horizon".

That is undisputed death.

"How did we get in? Haha, only God knows how we got in."

Wu Xinghuan laughed out loud, looked at Luo Yi who seemed to be enlightened, and said slowly, "This kind of thing is not important at all. Maybe it was a big explosion that killed us all in an instant, but we didn't know it. That’s all…”

When he said this, he burped, drunkenly stared into Luo Yi's eyes, and said every word.

"So why did I say that you did something meaningless? Because that guy is telling the truth! We may have... no, it's not possible, it's certain!"

"We are dead!"

"And you and I sitting here...are just ghosts."

It was quiet at the bar.

Only the bionic robot wiped the cup skillfully and made a chirping sound.

Luo Yi stared at Wu Xinghuan blankly, stared at that face for a long time, and finally looked at the robot bartender.

"...Two cups of 'Spring of Life'."

The android bartender said in a gentle voice.

"I do not recommend that you drink alcohol while on duty, especially strong cocktails."

"But you gave it all to him." Luo Yi pointed to Wu Xinghuan sitting next to him.

A troubled look appeared on the android bartender's face.

"But this gentleman said he was from the Fifth Department, and you all said that the Fifth Department didn't have to work..."

Luo Yi's brows twitched, but he still said calmly.

"I gave him what he asked for."

This statement seemed to be recognized by the android bartender, and two glasses of clear and transparent spirits were quickly placed on the bar.

Luo Yi pushed one of the cups in front of Dr. Wu, and then sprinkled a few grains of salt into his own cup.

"Everything you said is just your inference. I can also speculate that we are actually on different timelines... just like that parallel universe theory."

Wu Xinghuan shrugged.

"You don't understand what the parallel universe theory is. If you really understand it, you should know that it is actually no different from what I said. The fate of our time and space is destined, almost destined-"

"I think there is a difference. The difference is that I am still breathing, my heart is still beating, at least I am still alive now." Luo Yi stared at his eyes and continued word by word, "The living should do the things of the living, and as for the things after death, let other living people think about it."

"But I have to apologize for my previous prejudice. You didn't do nothing. In fact, you did much more than any of us." In front of Dr. Wu, who was shocked, Luo Yi drank the liquor in the glass and stood up with his hands on the table.

"I still have things I can do. Although it may seem meaningless to you, I don't want to give up just like that."

Just as he was about to leave, monotonous applause suddenly came from the door of the bar.

Including the android standing behind the bar, the three of them looked at the door and saw their captain standing there.

"Hello, Mr. Captain." The android behind the bar greeted with a smile.

As for Wu Xinghuan, he hid his glass behind him awkwardly and then slid down from the bar stool.

Because behind the captain stood his cousin Wu Mengke.

He already felt the sharp eyes staring at himself who was drunk.

"Well said."

Zhao Tianhe put down his hands that were clapping, nodded to the bionic bartender, and then looked at the seat standing in front of the bar with a smile.

"This is the attitude that a Human Union warrior should have, never give up until the last moment."

"You are honored..." Luo Yi said politely after saluting.

Zhao Tianhe simply saluted, then looked at a guy who couldn't stand straight because he was drunk, and continued to speak with a smile.

"Dr. Wu, I noticed that you used the word "almost" when you mentioned 'our fate is predetermined' before."

"It's like this..." Dodging Wu Mengke's sharp eyes, Wu Xinghuan touched his nose and said awkwardly.

Zhao Tianhe said with a smile.

"So there is actually a way to change it, right?"

Wu Xinghuan was stunned.

Before he could speak, the captain paused for a moment and continued.

"For example... keep the established future unchanged and only change the unknown part."

Wu Xinghuan said with a wry smile.

"But how is this possible..."

Zhao Tianhe looked at him and said.

"Gemini is the sister ship of Orion, and we have the same design drawings." Wu Xinghuan looked at the captain with a strange expression. "You mean..." Zhao Tianhe said logically and clearly. "The spaceship that hit us does not have the ability to cruise between stars. We reasonably suspect that the accident occurred near the earth...at least a place that can be reached by a working fluid engine." Wu Xinghuan glanced at Luo Yi standing next to him, nodded slightly, and then said in a low voice. "It seems...that's the case." Zhao Tianhe continued to speak without paying attention to his little action. "And we are in a hyperspace channel. According to what I know, a hyperspace channel should not have an end or a beginning in the sense of classical space, but only an end or a beginning in the sense of time... Am I right?"

"Not exactly, but it's about the same. We can't calculate the distance between two massive celestial bodies... Wait, what do you mean-" Halfway through his speech, Wu Xinghuan's eyes suddenly widened, and he looked at the captain in surprise.

Zhao Tianhe stared at him and stated his hypothesis.

"Is it possible that this time traveler who claims to have boarded the Orion actually doesn't know whether he is on the Orion or the Gemini?"

Luo asked with a frown.

"But Gemini has already returned—"

Zhao Tianhe raised his hand to interrupt him.

"They were sunk, and we sank them."

The air in the bar was strangely quiet.

Luo Yi and Wu Xinghuan both stood there in a daze, and then they subconsciously looked at Wu Mengke standing behind Zhao Tianhe—the captain of this starship, the flight officer.

That face was expressionless, and there was not a trace of surprise.

It can be seen that the captain is not fooling around.

Luo Yi's Adam's apple moved, and he stared at Zhao Tianhe in disbelief, the officer he once respected so much.

"...Why?" Zhao Tianhe looked at the young soldier, sighed slowly, and said in a complex voice. "Because...we have to do this." "You...killed people..." Wu Xinghuan stared at his cousin in a daze, and squeezed out the last half of the sentence from his trembling lips, "...three thousand people?" His eyes were fixed on her, but this time she looked away and did not look at her brother. Zhao Tianhe coughed lightly, breaking the stiffness in the air. "We must stop the aerospace army from committing crimes. As for the specific process...all recorded in the black box. When I return to the space station at the Lagrange point, I will accept the arrest and explain my behavior to the military court. In addition, this is my decision alone, and it has nothing to do with all of you."

"General, the water behind this 'accident' is very deep. I don't want to bring shame to my glory, but we have to make a choice. If we don't take action, not only we will die, but many people will die, including many How hard it is to survive these three years..."

Luo Yi looked at the captain blankly, unable to accept this scrawled statement in his heart.

The Gemini is the sister ship of the Orion, and the personnel on both sides often rotate, and there are many people he knows on that ship.

However, now his most respected commander told him...those guys are dead.

And they killed him.

Or when the vast majority of people don’t know...

Wu Xinghuan took a deep breath and tried to distance himself from the bad news.

He did see some life -

He muttered in a voice that no one could hear.

"There are two cats in the box... only one is dead, and the other one's life or death is unknown."

"We saw the person who opened the box, but the person who opened the box only saw a dead cat... As long as they were dead, we were alive."

Luo Yi couldn't hear clearly what he said and had no intention of listening.

Looking at this lost young man, Zhao Tianhe's slightly weathered face showed a trace of fatigue that had never been shown before, and he spoke slowly.

"I will explain about the Gemini and the orders from the Lagrange Point space station later. Let's discuss how to solve the current problem first."

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(Thanks to "Aurora_" for the reward!!!)