Chapter 5 Chapter 5 The End of Light

The black-clothed troops drove a not-so-short distance in the ruins. Lan Ruisi paid attention to the time during the march. His watch had already stopped when the accident happened. No matter how much he shook it, he could not display the time again. Based on intuitive estimation, Lan Ruisi I felt that the troops had been on the road for at least three to five hours, but the sky hadn't changed, it was still hopelessly gloomy. When they came to an open plain, the troops hurriedly retreated in another direction, because there was extremely bright smoke and dust in front of them. According to the team members, it was a unique catastrophe called "sandstorm" in this place.

Although Lan Ruisi couldn't see anything frightening about the puff of smoke, the group of women in black who easily annihilated the enemy showed a flustered and terrified expression. Fortunately, the troops got rid of the bright "sand storm" after advancing rapidly, and walked through the ruins for a while before arriving at their base. Even then, however, the sky remained depressingly dark. The base of the troops in black was not much better than the ruins along the road. At best, they built a few shelters among the ruins. After arriving at their hometown, the women in black seemed to be finally relieved, and returned to their own residences chattering.

Lan Ruisi walked around the base once, and was surprised to find that this place was full of women, not even a single man! Lan Ruisi stood under the deep blue sky, looking at the figures of Leier and Jie'er from afar.Leier was skillfully clearing a quantum gun, occasionally smiled, and turned her head to talk softly with Jie'er. He looked at the faces of the two women, and was surprised to find that their facial features were quite alike. Leier was tall and older. She looked about thirty years old, and Jieer was shorter than her. Looking up, a childish look appeared on Yanran's smiling face.Lan Ruisi guessed that she should not even be twenty years old.

Suddenly, a muffled voice sounded beside him. Looking back, it was Yang Liming, a middle-aged woman whom he had met before, who spoke. "No one knows what kind of relationship the two of them have." Yang Liming followed Lan Ruisi's gaze. At this moment, Leier had wiped the quantum gun in her hand and took a cup of hot drink from Jie'er. "Two years ago, Leier found Jie'er from somewhere, and told everyone that Jie'er was the most important person in her life, and that whoever bullied Jie'er, she would definitely kill him. It stands to reason that Jie'er Her son doesn't know how to fight, nor does she have other logistical skills, if it were someone else, it would be absolutely impossible for Leier to take her in..."

Lan Ruisi was silent. "So, of course, some people guessed," Yang Liming said, "Whether Jie'er is Leier's or not, at first some people guessed if it was Leier's daughter? But the age couldn't be justified, guess they are sisters? Leier And said no..." "Then you mean..." Lan Ruisi showed a surprised expression, "The two of them are..." "Of course not." Yang Liming laughed: "There is no such thing in our army, because in our army, no one knows how to talk about love. Leier often said that lust is the biggest obstacle to survival. She herself Never fall into this trap."

Leier lowered her head and smiled sweetly to talk to Jie'er again. When she turned her head and saw Lan Ruisi from a distance, she got up and walked towards him. "Because there's nothing else to do now," Leier smiled lightly, "Didn't you say you want to know about this space? I'll take you to a place." Lan Ruisi looked at Jie'er behind her. "Is she going too?" Rael shook her head. "Just the two of us." Walking through a piece of barren ruins, the light belt in the sky twisted and twisted in the distance, and the shape was very strange.Lan Ruisi watched intently, and Leier looked back at him with soft eyes.

"That band of light...what the hell is it?" Lan Ruisi finally couldn't help asking: "What is this place?" "You..." Leier's eyes were intriguing, "You really don't know anything?" "what!" "It's nothing," Leyle shook her head and continued to move forward, "I don't know what the light belt you see is, we all call it 'Forest of Time', but my father once said before his death that it is a A space distortion phenomenon called 'time pulse', in fact, the space we are in now is also in a state of space distortion."

"I don't understand," Lan Ruisi asked in confusion, "What does this have to do with where this place is?" "Basically, it's a place with no time and no space, and I don't know how to explain it. My dad might be able to explain it, but he..." Leier frowned, and looked at Lan Ruisi thoughtfully, as if she didn't know how to word it. "He...is not here, so I'm going to take you to the exhibition hall." The "exhibition hall" that Leier mentioned is actually a metal building that collapsed extremely thoroughly. It may have been a towering and magnificent building at first, but after the collapse, it formed a long wall of hundreds of meters on the ground.

This is another doubtful point, because a huge building like this is made purely of metal.I have never even heard of this kind of building. Leier found a gap in one of them and climbed in, motioning for Lan Ruisi to come with her.Lan Ruisi bent down, intending to climb into the gap, suddenly, a strange thing caught his eyes. It's not really a strange thing, it's just a small metal plaque covered with dust, about one meter long and fifty centimeters wide. Wipe away the dust, engraved with eye-catching English. On the 274th floor, Dezhou Biochemical Software Company, established in 2017, has a 20-year history and excellent reputation.

Lan Ruisi looked at the ordinary plaque on it, but looked at the number and felt a little dazed, 2017... The voice of Rael in front came hollowly. "What's wrong? Come here!" Lan Ruisi walked through several floors of the collapsed building, and had to bend and crawl through some places, and finally came to a laboratory full of rust spots. On the broken wall, Leyle wiped one of the walls slightly, revealing a TV screen.She deftly pressed a few buttons next to the screen, and a thin glimmer of light appeared on the screen. After a while of warm-up, a few disturbing ripples flashed on the screen, followed by a strangely shaped virtual portrait.

"Hey... the historical record of the earth's chronology..." Amidst the harsh noise, the virtual person showed a stiff smile, and continued to speak smoothly: "For the sake of future generations, the record of the computer catastrophe in 2038 AD..." Lan Ruisi turned to look at Leier dumbfounded, but she just shook her head. For a while, Lan Ruisi intuitively thought that the virtual image was just a creative title of a sci-fi film, but suddenly, many thoughts seemed to flow together, and with a "swipe" sound, many things were pieced together into a clear picture. pattern. A world that is never dawn and never dark. A combat aircraft ahead of its time. Also, the "2017" on the plaque just now. "Could it be..." Lan Ruisi murmured, "How is it possible...in 1998...I...I really came to AD 2038?" Rachel watched him silently. "No," she said softly, "it's not...and it's not 2038 either." Amidst the doubts, Lan Ruisi heard the dummy continue to speak. "Human civilization officially entered the computer era in the 1970s. The computer, which is actually called a 'high-speed data calculator', has penetrated into human civilization since then, and has become an important technology that civilized society relies on at the end of the 20th century. Finance, people's livelihood, national defense, traffic, transportation and other matters are closely related to computer technology. However, at the end of the 20th century, scientists discovered a major crisis hidden in the computer system. It broke out in the early morning of the millennium, so it is called the 'millennium crisis' in history." On the screen, several data are displayed at this time. "In the 1970s, when computer technology was still quite backward, in order to save memory capacity, scientists simplified the computer's counting method from four digits to two digits, that is to say, AD 19 In 1972, it was represented by "Qi Er" in the computer. This notation has been used for decades, and there will be major problems in the 2000 AD. Because the computer itself has no judgment ability, in the 2000 AD, the use of The computer system of this way of counting years will be confused, because in the cognition of the computer, it is not known whether '00' represents 1900 AD or 2200 AD, and many systems will therefore be regarded as computer, and thus caused immeasurable catastrophe. In just a few decades from the advent of the first computer to AD 2000, computer technology has developed faster than anyone imagined, and it has become a huge and full of The monster of the puzzle. But because of the early assessment and early warning of the scientists, and the adoption of more complex repair measures, the crisis of the 'millennium' was detonated on time in the second thousand years of AD, but the disaster caused was not as large as expected, It also made many people breathe a sigh of relief. However, this breath of relief is still too early, because the crisis of the millennium has not disappeared, it has only been delayed for thirty-eight years. Scientists repaired the way of counting the year in the second millennium AD, Let the computer system not crash when jumping from '99 to 00', causing disasters. But no one thought that the memory capacity of the computer can only accommodate 2 to the 32nd power minus one second. If this number is exceeded, all computers will be at a loss and become uncontrollable monsters. Two to the thirty-second power minus one second, converted into a year is 68 years, from the time when the first computer came out in the 1970s Since then, the real computer disaster will happen again in 2038 AD, sixty-eight years later." On the screen, a terrible scene of catastrophe appeared at this time. "In 2038 AD, human beings became hopelessly dependent on computers. At that time, the research on magnetic field time and space, artificial intelligence, quantum theory and other technologies also advanced by leaps and bounds. Therefore, in the spring of 2038 AD , Sixty-seven percent of the computers on the earth have undergone mutations at the same time, and the results of the mutations have destroyed many magnetic field and force field experiments, resulting in mutations, distorting time and space, and giving birth to a terrifying new race of humans: "computer people" '. The phenomenon of space-time distortion has drawn many cities into unknown space, and computer humans have been raging all over the place, bringing the earth into an incomparably miserable situation..." The virtual person's information came to an abrupt end, leaving only a blur of noise. Rael looked sad. "Since 2038, the entire world has entered a state of chaos, and many areas have been swept into the torrent of time, and have never returned since then, and no one knows where the people, things, and things that were swept away went. " She said quietly: "Of course, we also came to this place before we realized what it was like to be involved in the Time Demon Realm." This is the first time Lan Ruisi heard this term. "Time Demon Realm? This place you are in is the entire area that was involved in the Time Demon Realm?" "Yeah!" Rael nodded, "This place was originally the city of Dallas in the United States and the rest of the world in the 21st century, but of course it's completely changed now." "So, who else is there? You weren't the only ones here, were you?" "When we first came here, we were faced with an extremely terrifying environment. In addition to never seeing the light of day, most of the city's construction facilities and most of the people were involved in the process of the demon world Destruction and death, those who survived, but faced with many dangers and disasters." "It's like..." Lan Ruisi said, "Those flying machines?" "Those are the cyberhumans who followed us into time and space, taking pleasure in killing humans. In addition to them, catastrophes such as the Forest of Time and sandstorms also claimed the lives of many people." "Time Forest? What is that?" "Just now, did you see a band of light hanging from the cloud like a snake in the distance?" "En!" Lan Ruisi nodded. "That is also a phenomenon of time distortion, but people who have studied this phenomenon say that no one dares to approach its force field range, because once it is involved, it will never be known where it will go, what era it will be, and whether it will even be alive. Nobody knows." "Has anyone been in there?" "Yes," Leier nodded, but said the answer that Lan Ruisi had already guessed, "but no one has ever come back." There was a brief moment of silence between the two, and after a while, Leier spoke quietly. "Surviving in this Time Demon Realm is a very difficult task. It is not difficult to fight against disasters and dangers, but not many people can bear loneliness and absolute despair." "Absolute despair? How come?" "In this kind of dark world, people's emotions are easy to be depressed, especially when we live in such a precarious life every day, and there is no exit in front of us. Many of us just go crazy like this and end ourselves. s life." "Oh..." Lan Ruisi understood a little bit, and a shadow of frustration gradually appeared in her heart. "What you see now is that the rest of the people in Dallas are all women, isn't it strange? Only when you are in such an absolute situation will you know that women's resistance to stress is so much stronger than men's." .” "Whenever I feel depressed, I will come here to have a look, because it was originally an encyclopedic information company. In the 21st century AD, human information has reached the level of detail, so , in this place, you can find almost all the information in the history of human civilization. But the longer I have been exposed to information here, I discovered a strange phenomenon..." "Strange phenomenon?" Rael nodded. "I found that perhaps because of the time reversal, the biochemical information system here seems to have undergone a change. Some information is actually the future that hasn't happened yet!" "The future?" Lan Ruisiqi said: "That is to say, can the history that has not happened before be predicted?" "It can be said that, but I still have no way to be sure whether it is true or not, because we have no way to prove things that haven't happened yet." Rael pressed a few more buttons on another mechanism, and this time, a fluorescent screen slowly rose from the center of the room. On the top of the screen, dozens of options appeared. Leyle deftly controls the arrow on the screen to move to the "Chronicle" item, where there are numbers for each year, but the option is only up to 2037. The arrow has pointed to the empty space after the last year, but Rael still presses the "go" button. Then, different images began to appear on the entire screen like a revolving lantern, and sound effects sounded from the surrounding audio systems. The jubilant press conference of the scientific community announced the invention of a great cross-century technology, and the scientists in the picture shouted more than once: "Pandora's nucleic acid!" In the chaotic battlefield, sometimes giants of extremely high stature would appear in the crowd and kill them with obsession. A group of elite special forces attack space, the target is a giant alien spaceship. The scene that followed made Lan Ruisi almost stop breathing, but Leyle just looked at his shocked expression calmly, as if she knew his reaction a long time ago. On the screen, the entire earth was covered with dots of light, and then, like a plague, the most beautiful water-blue planet in space became dark, showing a terrible ashes. Next, a huge transparent colony was built on the broken earth. "It's weird..." Lan Ruisi murmured, "These things really didn't happen in the era of 2037?" Leyle shook her head without saying a word, and released another scene. This scene is a bit weird, there is a ghost-like person kneeling beside the cliff, surrounded by several brutal corpses. Then he roared loudly towards the open area of ​​the valley, the roar was extremely shrill, the sound waves impacted on the valley, and also aroused long-lasting echoes. He called it as if it was a person's name. "Ge... Lei... Xin..." Then, the picture fell into endless darkness and stopped abruptly. Lan Ruisi looked back at Leier in surprise, and took a deep breath. "That name...Greixin..." He said a little inarticulately, "I've heard that name before!" "In a dream, isn't it?" Rael was not surprised at all, as if it was a normal thing. "And, I saw you in my dream!" Lan Ruisi called out, "You know that, right?" "No." Rael said cleanly: "I don't know what you saw in your dream, but I can tell you, it was just a dream, you know? It was just a dream!" "But you know I'm coming, don't you?" Lan Ruisi said stubbornly. "I do know that you are coming, but it's really not what you imagined," Leier said gently, "One day, you will understand." "One day..." Looking at her delicate face and the cross scars on her face, Lan Ruisi faintly felt that what she said was the truth. From the beginning, what she said may be all the truth, because although Leier's appearance is very similar to the woman in the dream, but at this moment he found that the strong and calm temperament she exudes is similar to that of the woman in the dream. completely different. But…… "Let's not talk about this now, shall we?" Leier said softly, "You just said that you heard this 'Grey New' in your dream, didn't you?" "En!" Lan Ruisi was a little absent-minded, but still nodded. "I just have the impression that I often hear someone calling his name in my dreams." After a pause, he suddenly remembered something, and asked curiously: "Who is this person? Has there really been such a person?" "I am not very clear about this person, but my father once told me that this is a time and space adventure story that takes place in the future world, but such legends have appeared since the 20th century," she said. Shaking his head, "But he couldn't explain the real situation to me." "Another person from the future? A story with no way to verify it?" "It's hard to say." Leyle found another strange-shaped instrument, "Because I have searched for a lot of information and found that this name actually appeared in the classics of many eras." She pressed a few buttons on the instrument, and a faint shimmer of light shone from the instrument, projecting on the wall. This instrument is like a projector, but the picture quality projected is much clearer than the projectors of the 20th century. The first scene looks like a poker card, with twelve constellations painted in an ancient style, such as Scorpio, Aquarius, Pisces, Taurus... and other brightly colored images, the twelve constellations surround a baby in his arms man. Then, in the blank space of Jingzhuan, the words "Ge Leixin" were written in poor handwriting. "This kind of card is a fortune-telling method that was popular at the end of the 20th century. It is called 'Tarot Card'. As for why there is an image of this card left, it is unknown." The second scene is a few lines of text, which seem to be photocopied from ordinary books, but due to damage, some text has been missing. "...The legend of time and space, the end, the beginning, the end is also the starting point, the remote place of the twelve stars, only 'he' can go..." "...time hero Grexin...traveling through time and space for three thousand years...going through all dangers...just to see her faint smile..." "...the pain of tearing all the muscles, traveling through time and space, and paying a huge price..." Seeing this paragraph, Lan Ruisi asked curiously: "The pain that tears all the muscles... What is that?" Rael shook her head. "I don't know, looks like someone's horrible experience of time travel." The most interesting thing is that on the last page of the text, the detailed time, place, and person of the document are also written. "...In 2379 A.D., the 'Pandora Nucleic Acid Prohibition Act was overturned', and Ouyang Jiankang, the highest judge of the Siluoyang City Legislative Council, filed a file..." "This is also the content that was preserved in the archives," Leyle said, "You have also seen that if the above content is true, this should be a document from the 24th century AD, but it is absolutely true. right here..." There are still several files with the word "Greixin" appearing next. All in all, this name that appears in Lan Ruisi's dreams from time to time seems to be a real person. However, this "real person" would not appear for hundreds of years. crazy! Lan Ruisi secretly thought this way again in his heart, but he became more and more convinced that he was indeed in an unprecedented and unprecedented mystery. Walking out of the data company, it was already raining outside. In this strange world, even the rain is very strange, the kind of rain is warm and warm, and it is not comfortable to drench on the body. Lan Ruisi turned to look at Leier, and wanted to ask her if this kind of rain would cause damage to the human body. However, Leier seemed to be thinking about something, looking at the sky and thinking so engrossed that she was drenched by Yusi. It seems that nothing will happen, right? Lan Ruisi couldn't help showing a wry smile, but unconsciously remembered the English lyrics "Rain and Tears" in the 20th century. "Rain and tears generally look like on a rainy day, you can pretend that the tears are the rain on your face..." The hot rain in the Time Demon Realm is still falling densely. Of course, Lan Ruisi doesn't have such a poetic feeling in his heart at the moment, but the feeling of wanting to cry faintly appears in his heart. Rael was still standing there in a daze, without any movement at all.