I don't know weeks

"Once upon a time, Zhuang Zhou dreamed of being a butterfly, and the butterfly was so lifelike, it was a metaphor for his ideals and ambitions!"I don't know Zhou Ye.If you suddenly feel it, then you will feel like a week.I don't know that Zhou's dream is Hu Die and Hu Die's dream is Zhou Yu?Zhou and Hu Die must be divided.This is called materialization. 』

Laughter from all directions in the vast world spreads enthusiastically in the same illusion. Immortal virtual human beings dress themselves up in a dazzling and youthful way. People come and go in the images of schools and office buildings. The Forbidden City built by waves and particles. The floating palace is full of atmosphere.

But when Shen Xuan took off his glasses and all the prosperity faded away, only the gray ceiling remained in front of his eyes.Zixi, she thought, the world hasn't changed at all after you left.

Sunday, March 2072, 6

Han Zixi

"Shen Xuan, behind, be careful behind!!"

In that flashy 0.1 second, Han Zixi watched Shen Xuan's eyes under the goggles suddenly widen.While aiming the G36K short/rifle/gun in her hand above Shen Xuan's left shoulder, she jumped up and pulled her to the ground.The bullets of the short/rifle/gun burst out of the air, making a whistling sound with the smell of gunpowder, and then sank deeply into the chest of the enemy behind him.

But Han Zixi was also shot.Bright red glaring blood gushed out from her shoulders and dripped onto Shen Xuan's cheeks.

"There's no need to cover me! Just hit me to save time." Shen Xuan angrily wiped the blood off his face under her.

"Oh... I don't dare to see you bleed."

Shen Xuan gritted his teeth, looked past her to the sky, his face suddenly changed, "... I said this level is so simple, it turns out that the difficulty lies behind."

Han Zixi followed her gaze while using a bandage to stop the bleeding. It was a bomber that burst out of the drowsy gunpowder smoke.It flew extremely fast, followed by a huge roaring sound, followed by a terrifying scream, and a whole row of bombs broke away from the machine and dived towards the top floor of the tall building where they were, forming a perfect flat throwing motion curve.

"There is no hope." Han Zixi stood up and said calmly.

"How should I go about this? I guess the only option is to buy a radio wave rifle/gun for drones, or a missile shielding device,...but how can I have so much money!? Or borrow a knife to kill someone and let that damned plane kill itself It's impossible to crash."

The game ended with Shen Xuan muttering, the pain of limbs shattered by the explosion was artificially alleviated, and soon disappeared without a trace.After admiring their miserable score in the game hall for a while, the two walked side by side into the sunshine outside the door.

"Are you really playing this game for the first time?" Shen Xuan asked, "I still remember the machine gunner who was shot in the head by you. Even if your score is delayed by me, it's nothing."

Han Zixi nodded solemnly: "It's indeed the first time... My dad, you know. He never played this kind of tense game, so I don't play it either."

Han Zixi's father has a bad heart, which is a family hereditary disease that is passed down from male to female.Shen Xuan knew it, so he kept silent.

"It's okay." Han Zixi couldn't bear to see her cautious expression, so he reached out and touched her fingertips, "It's almost six o'clock, I'm going down to eat."

They walked through eccentric neighborhoods, avoided all the crowds, and entered the city park.Han Zixi sat on the bench under the tree, clasped his hands in front of his knees, and closed his eyes.The light spots under the sieve of the leaves swayed gently between her eyebrows and eyes.

"Don't forget English class at eight o'clock." Shen Xuan said.

Han Zixi nodded and did not move.The name hanging above the head flickered due to the electromagnetic pulse, and changed into the words "Han Zixi [offline]", and then the whole person disappeared. Woke up under induction.

In short, after 2048 AD, the world split into two, we call them Metaworld and Online World.

The germination of VR (Virtual Reality) was as early as the last century, and the holographic projection technology was developed simultaneously with it.The development of the latter soon stagnated, because the applicable occasions of the projection that could not be seen were quite limited; in contrast, VR developed rapidly, and soon evolved from a bulky helmet that could only simulate vision to a lightweight Objectless glasses and induction suits.With the increase in supply quantity and quality, the popularity of VR equipment, which was only seen in the entertainment centers of first-tier cities in the 21st century, even surpassed that of smartphones in that year.At first, schools, companies, governments and other organizations in various countries built local area networks on VR platforms that only accommodate internal personnel; however, in 10, countries reached an agreement to jointly establish an "online world". The launch marks the official birth of the online world, that is, the transition from a single world to a double world: from then on, all people who use VR equipment enter the same world from one world; they meet the basic needs of survival in the metaworld needs while doing everything else in the online world.

At the beginning of the online world, the online government/government was originally a part of the original government/government, and later achieved a parallel status, belonging to the management departments of the host management centers of various countries.Shen Xuan's father works in the city's online government/government, maintaining public order in the online society.

Speaking of Shen Xuan, she is a little girl who can easily catch other people's eyes.Even in the online world.Beautiful, beauty-loving, chasing the front line of trends, loving to laugh and talking... It is the kind of person that Han Zixi thinks at first glance that he will never have an intersection with him.Because she herself has been introverted and even withdrawn for a long time.But during these years when they were classmates, Shen Xuan took Han Zixi almost all over the online world - from the corners of the city to virtual attractions around the world, from the dazzling electronic shopping malls to the game halls where the system is full all day long.

Han Zixi was different.In Shen Xuan's words, she is like a "thick-skinned steamed stuffed bun".She is keen on reading all kinds of books, but she doesn't like to talk and communicate, she just likes to think for herself; she doesn't care about the secular vision and aesthetic tendency, and keeps her shoulder-length short hair all year round, cool and clean without any flower powder The face is more stable than the weather in the online world.Her mother's name is Wu Xiaohan, and she works as a language teacher in a virtual elementary school. Her father's name is Han Shan, and she works as a sales manager in a company full of online chatter.

All human beings, including them, seem content to lie at home and go back and forth between the two worlds.

The next morning, Han Zixi finished breakfast with his parents.Breakfast is delivered upstairs by an unmanned express cabinet.They haven't been out for a long time.

A ray of pure skylight peeked through the curtains, but none of them pulled it back.After the family of three bid farewell to each other, they went into their respective bedrooms to turn on the VR equipment, and merged into the torrent that poured into the virtual world along the Internet from all over the world.

The system scanned the identity chip implanted in her left arm through the induction suit and let her go.Feeling the rising sun dazzled her eyes when her feet stepped on the ground, the sun, which was many times brighter than the skylight through the gaps in the curtains, was rising at the edge of the world, and the silhouette of the city shimmered shimmering in the mist.This is a city of Yongchun, and the spring breeze blowing through her short hair contains the fragrance of sycamore flowers.

Her drop-off point is always in the city park.Many people chose to switch scenes after going online, so that if the system does not freeze, they can reach their destination within a second; but Han Zixi is unwilling to do that.She walked slowly around the edge of the city, listening to the singing of birds and stepping on the sunshine to the school.

As one of the earliest VR systems that came out, the teaching organization of online schools is quite mature. Each class has its own independent platform branch without interference, and rich teaching methods have been developed relying on VR technology. 12 years of uninterrupted basic education includes basic language, logic, politics, science, history and art, as well as an introduction to the online world (specially for junior students) and extracurricular practical activities - visit the online government/government, Play virtual attractions or even visit Edward Space Station, you name it.

The class teaching system scanned the chip again and put Han Zixi into the classroom.There was a constant beeping sound in the classroom, which was the notification sound for the students in the same class to enter the system.

Almost as soon as Han Zixi took his seat, Shen Xuan appeared.The emergence of the virtual world has brought good news to young and beautiful girls all over the world who love to dress up. This good news includes not only the cost of clothing and makeup, but also various sparkling virtual special effects; She changed into a new dress that she had never worn before. Her eyes were pink, her lips were translucent, her cheeks were painted with bright powder, and her hair was shining with stars. Han Zixi became inexplicably happy when he saw her.Well, Han Zixi felt that she would never admit in her life that this was a fixed moment that she was looking forward to every day.

"I'm stuck..." Shen Xuan sat down next to her and complained in a low voice, "I didn't say that, this 17G network is indeed almost over."

The first class is a literature class.The elegant female teacher wearing glasses gently touched the blackboard with her fingertips, and the teaching text appeared on it.Han Zixi and Shen Xuan sat together, raising their heads and scratching their chins with the end of a pen. The twenty slightly raised heads in front of them looked fluffy in the morning light, and their golden hair trembled with everyone's small movements; The golden classroom seemed to freeze in front of her eyes for two seconds, and then she realized that something was wrong.

The blue sky outside was shimmering, barely noticeable at first, but then even the sunlight began to waver.At the moment when the sun was dimming, Han Zixi seemed to catch a glimpse of the squares covering the sky—the baseline of the virtual sky.She turned around abruptly and grabbed Shen Xuan's hand.Shen Xuan opened his eyes wide, his complexion pale:

"Han...?"

Han Zixi suddenly couldn't see anything.She tore off the VR glasses forcefully and sat up on the bed, Shen Xuan's terrified and confused expression at the last moment still remained in front of her eyes.She believed that she had the same expression—see the devil.

Flash back?Is it just her, or...

Her gradually recovering hearing picked up distant sounds from all directions, and she heard yelling downstairs, footsteps circling and irritated whining upstairs.It's just that she didn't hear a word they said, but she was indeed not the only one.Everyone was brutally kicked out of the online world this morning.

Han Zixi slowly put away his glasses, took off his induction suit, and stood up.She stood there looking down at her deserted bed and empty bedroom—after staying like this for a while, she opened the door and walked into the living room.Han Shan stood motionless next to Wu Xiaohan; Wu Xiaohan was sitting on the sofa, a ray of skylight from the curtains lay in front of her, like a bright blade.

"It's probably a system failure. We can't get the news if we can't go online, just wait." Wu Xiaohan said to her with a sigh.

"Let's do something..." Han Zixi stopped in the middle of her sentence. She desperately thought about what else was left at home, but books, chess boards, paintbrushes, game consoles, these things she had used countless times in the online world It doesn't exist here.So she changed her words, "Let's go out and have a look together."

In the end, she went out alone.They insisted on waiting at home because they both had unfinished work.

Han Zixi walked down the stairs holding onto the railing of the stairs, and her noisy words gradually melted into the shadows behind her. She was dazzled by the sun for the second time today.Large groups of light white clouds float in the blue sky, and a large green belt in front of the residential area has been neglected for a long time. The grass and trees are overgrown, and the leaves look like emerald green and transparent under the morning sun.She recalled the date she saw when she went online, and it turned out that it was already summer; but she never imagined that the Yuan World would have such good weather.

There was no one around, not a soul.Han Zixi didn't know where to go, and he didn't know what other places worth visiting in this metaworld. There were only some unmanned express vehicles passing by on the roads in the city from time to time.Han Zixi walked aimlessly along the road, passing one residential area after another, when she raised her head, she accidentally saw a blue distant mountain outside the city. face.

The weather is getting hotter.She had a strange feeling—breathing became short of breath, and her limbs were not working well.She saw a relatively clean curbstone, sat on it with her hands on her knees, and involuntarily let out a sigh: This is the feeling of "tired".

"...Why on earth did I come out?" Han Zixi said to himself, regretting his strange decision.

Her gaze involuntarily glanced at the lower right corner of her field of vision. On the upper layer of the world scene, her identity information plus time and location should have been suspended, as well as the red "log off" button.As long as the gaze is fixed on it for five seconds, the logout program can be triggered to return to the metaworld.But now she looked down to the right, and all she could see was a plant of grass rooted and swaying in the dust in the crack of the road.

She was stunned for a while, and had to admit that she still had to walk back like this, at the risk of not being able to find her way.

Not long after walking back, the sky began to darken.Han Zixi stopped and raised her head, watching in amazement that the white clouds gathered and piled up as if they were alive, until they covered the sky; a strong wind that seemed to come from a distant mountain came from behind her, pushing her staggeringly, and then Roaring filled all the streets of the city, and with it came the rain.The heavy rain was torrential, the thunder rolled across the sky, and the lightning that was wiped out went straight to the universe. Everything fell down in the natural rage, and Han Zixi was the only one left standing there, marveling at what he saw.

Her city has eternal spring, and there are also some summer and autumn cities in that world, and there is even a city of eternal winter prepared for winter travel enthusiasts, where it snows all year round and icebergs are towering.But there are no unexpected weather changes in the online world, because everything is firmly entered into the program code, and it continues to run accurately and continuously in the space station outside the earth.

For example, she has never seen urban convective rain caused by excessive temperature.

Before the heavy rain stopped, she stood in the rain like a fool, trying to mobilize all senses and cells to feel the real heavy rain in the real world.At that moment, something finally woke up in her heart.

On her way back through the rain, she met a man.She was wondering why someone would go out and wander around like her, when a flash of lightning illuminated that person's face—it was Han Shan.

"Dad?" she yelled.

Her own father was looking around under the big tree, wearing conspicuous bright blue short sleeves.Han Shan turned his head and saw her at this moment.

"Silly boy! You shouldn't have been let out, it's raining so much! What if you come back and have a fever?" He ran over as he spoke, and stuffed a long and thin thing into her hand.It was only then that Han Zixi noticed that he was holding a curved surface to protect him from the rain.

"This is...an umbrella?"

She had only read about this kind of thing in books, but had never seen it in either world, let alone used it.I didn't expect there to be a relic of this era in the house.She took the umbrella and opened it without a teacher. The ribs made a crisp sound when they were straightened.

Han Shan took out a dry towel from his pocket again as if by magic, and wiped his worried daughter's face.The umbrella in his hand was shaking, dripping dark blue spots on his clothes.Then they each held an umbrella and walked back one after the other.

"Zixi, do you remember how long it's been since you came out?" He asked suddenly.

Han Zixi choked while stepping on the water while thinking about his own thoughts.

"The last time I broke my head at home and went to the hospital... It's been two years."

Han Shan's sigh was inaudible in the sound of the rain: "It's really a good rain... The good rain knows the season, but we don't."

Han Zixi's heart trembled, and she pricked up her ears to hear her father continue to say: "Zixi, your father was 48 years old in 16. My 16 years of life, thinking about philosophy, reciting poems and prose, being angry with books, berating Fang Qiu... "

Han Zixi snorted loudly.He then calmly got back on track:

"Although the trend of closing oneself started long before I was born, but 48 years ago, at least we had only one world. A child your age would not have never seen an umbrella, nor would he be excited when it rained It has to be like something."

"I'm not so excited." Han Zixi retorted casually, but because of his words, he was thinking about other things.

But Han Shan, who was walking in front, didn't speak again.When they finally entered the house, Wu Xiaohan, who was waiting on the sofa, was startled by Han Zixi's distressed appearance.While she was busy brushing Han Zixi's hair, she suddenly remembered something and said to Han Shan, "By the way, I just went online, and your colleague came to me and told you to go to a meeting quickly..."

"The system has been repaired?" Han Shan's screams echoed, "Why didn't you say it earlier?? This is the mid-year meeting, which was interrupted just now, and now... no, I'm leaving, I'm leaving."

"Slow down." Wu Xiaohan blamed.

Han Shan, who was saddened to criticize the online world just now, disappeared into the bedroom in a blink of an eye.A few petty grievances are not enough for a man like him to escape reality.Han Zixi stared at the door of her father's bedroom and thought.

"Mom, so what's going on this time?" she asked.

"That's it," she replied, "The online world is getting bigger and bigger, and the data is only increasing. There will always be times when the space in the memory will not be enough. I heard that they have opened up several spare spaces. , and plans to expand the space station... We have to wait until the year of the monkey.”

"I'm always dizzy, sometimes mild and sometimes severe. When it's severe, I feel black in front of my eyes." Han Zixi said.

Sitting across from the doctor, the virtual consulting room they are in is pure white and almost glows.The doctor looked at her inquiringly.

"When did it start?"

"During the maintenance of the space station last Monday. It started after I went online again that afternoon." After she finished speaking, she was silent for a moment, and then added with doubts, "And, I only do this when I'm online."

The doctor fiddled with the pen in his hand, frowning.

"Yaomeier, my suggestion is that you go to an offline hospital for a physical examination first, and then find a doctor there or upload the physical examination results here. I can't tell what disease you have just based on your description... But I Personally, I don't think your symptoms are purely physiological. You'd better go to a psychiatric clinic."

For a moment, Han Zixi's expression didn't change at all, as if she was thinking; then she pulled the corner of her mouth and smiled slightly: "Are you from Sichuan?"

The doctor also smiled in surprise when he heard the words, "Mandarin is spoken online now, and I can only remember some words in Sichuan dialect. Can you hear this?"

"...Thank you for your suggestion." She stood up and said, unwilling to continue the conversation.

Shen Xuan was waiting for her at the door of the consulting room, and when she saw her coming out, she asked in multiple voices: "How? What did he say? What's wrong? Is it serious?"

Han Zixi shook his head at her, stepped forward and took her hand, clicked on the city map in the view interface, selected a city park, and triggered a scene change.The pure white things around them dissolved and dissipated, and after the two of them were suspended in the void for a moment, the fragrance of the grass and trees in the park rushed over.

The dizziness came again.She was half-supported and half-dragged by Shen Xuan to the nearest bench, her eyes were wide open but she still couldn't see Shen Xuan who was so close in front of her, her face seemed to be covered with a shadow of turmoil.

"You scared me to death today, you know?? You fell face down on the ground as you walked, which scared the class teacher enough. Fortunately, the online world can't hurt your face. You have been dizzy for so many days Why didn't you tell your parents? You alone know? What did the doctor say? Tell me quickly."

She breathed heavily, waiting for the dizziness to pass.

"It's nothing, I already know. It's because of the failure of the space station. Shen Xuan, have you thought about it? There is no cover or annotation in your field of vision, and all you see is the world itself. It is the real sun shining on you, yes The real earth is carrying you. I haven’t thought about it, but I have experienced it. In contrast, the online world is really colorful and restless, like a bumpy ship that makes me feel dizzy. I am so dizzy now. "

After listening to her words, Shen Xuan shook his head seriously.A strand of tea-brown hair slid from her shoulders to her chest, and each strand was meticulously detailed, looking extremely real.

"Is that why you said it? I... seem to have heard this happen to some people when VR first came into use 50 years ago: the simulation was too rough and it was hard to fool the brain. But now ...The online world has already done a good job; and it will definitely get better and better in the future, improving those unstable things. No, what I want to say is not this, you must tell others if you feel uncomfortable?"

By the end, her face was flushed red.

"I know, I know," Han Zixi hurriedly appease the furious Shen Xuan, "Is it alright if I'm wrong, I'll be fine, and I'll report to you, don't worry."

Shen Xuan's angry expression fluctuated, and he blinked and smiled.The shadow across her face was illuminated by a smile and disappeared without a trace.