minecraft: top of the last hope

Chapter 19 The Outside World

Bron tapped his head for a moment, then began to speak in his rich voice.During the period, Wen explained and supplemented what he said.The three of us, Bu Xin and Nasir, either crossed our legs, put our hands on our cheeks, or put our arms around our legs, and listened carefully, for fear of missing a word.

Back to the night of December 2016, 12.

That night, something happened in Denmark that made the safety of this new Microsoft virtual machine, which has been hyped in full swing, questioned by people: a little Danish girl played "Minecraft" with this virtual machine, and played After not withdrawing for a long time, her parents had no choice but to forcibly pull out her fingers, which resulted in tragedy—the little girl fell into a deep coma, stopped breathing for a while, and was rushed to the hospital.

In the end, the hospital saved the little girl's life, but her parents were told that it might be difficult for the little girl to wake up again, and she would become a vegetative state.

After the incident was reported by the media, it caused an uproar.The Danish girl's parents were distraught, and filed a lawsuit against Microsoft to demand compensation.

Microsoft reacted immediately, holding a press conference.The spokesperson said that all 100 virtual machines have undergone extremely strict inspections, and all of them are tested by special personnel before leaving the factory. There is absolutely no problem in terms of quality.They are deeply sorry about the Danish girl, but Microsoft has no reason to compensate, because before each player enters the game, the virtual machine will pop up a window, warning the player that they cannot forcibly pull out their fingers during the game, otherwise all the consequences will be caused borne by me.

When I heard this, I remembered that there was indeed a warning window that popped up when I first entered the game, but I clicked it without even looking at it.That's what was written above.

"Fortunately, there is no one in my family, otherwise I don't know how it ended." Bu Xin said to me.

"Ahem..." Bron coughed dryly, and continued, "Later, things became more and more complicated..."

Afterwards, incidents of virtual machine users not quitting for a long time began to appear in various places, causing public outcry.Because they don't want to repeat the mistakes of the Danish girl, the players' relatives and friends can only watch the players immersed in the game world, helpless.Some players have become dehydrated because they have been in the game for too long and have not eaten. They can only rely on drips to maintain their lives.

People are angry.In the United States, some family members of the victims carried the victims into wheelchairs, held placards and banners, and demonstrated in front of the Microsoft headquarters.They shouted "Microsoft get out of the earth", and the emotional ones even cried loudly, mournfully and desperately.Some Microsoft employees are worried, while others are gloating, wishing that this group of people blocked the door for another day, so that they can have an extra day off.

Microsoft had no choice but to hold another press conference.But different from the last time, this time the spokesperson kept a low profile and kept apologizing, saying that it was a serious mistake not to set an exit button outside the virtual machine, and they will urgently discuss a solution to give the victims and their relatives an explanation.

Next, Microsoft executives held a global video conference overnight. Since Bloom did not participate, he did not know what was discussed at the meeting.These technicians were arranged to go to another meeting to discuss technical solutions and then submit them to the above.

In the end, in order to investigate what caused the players to fail to exit the game, they decided to let two people use a device to go in and have a look.Just in case, they formulated n different plans to deal with emergencies and avoid accidents between the two of them.

One of the solutions is to bring up a command block in the game, so that they can enter commands to perform various operations, including quitting the game.

Bron and Wen are selected and enter the game.

No abnormalities were found when entering at the beginning, and you can exit normally.It wasn't until a box appeared inexplicably next to the birth point that they discovered that the "exit" operation suddenly changed to point to "null"!All the plans are based on the premise that the game files are normal, and now they are all abolished!

At that time, Bron and Wen were very nervous, and hurriedly tapped the keyboard on the command block to contact the outside world and told them that they could not quit! "Exit" points to lost!
Someone outside sent a message saying that the monitoring system was attacked, and now they are doing their best to rescue it.They thought that there might be a bug in the running process of the game, which made it impossible to quit the game. They told Bron and Wen to be careful and not to panic.

Bron and Wengan waited for a day, and someone from outside sent a message to explain that it was not a bug, but a virus file was found, but it was already integrated with the game body, and there was no way to remove it directly, because to remove it, Bron had to first He and Wen quit the game first, if rashly dismembering and anti-virusing the game body, the game will crash, Bron and Wen will die, or become vegetative!

"Then what should I do?" Wen was anxious.

"We are working hard, please be patient." The outside replied.

The people outside are also very considerate, afraid that they will be afraid, they joke and tell jokes to them, and send a steady stream of messages, although they are all things that don't matter to them.

People outside said that Microsoft found the information of buyers all over the world, and then sent a special person to fly to each buyer to deal with matters such as refund and compensation.Since this matter is worldwide and concerns lives, it has naturally attracted the attention of governments of various countries.But the government just sent people to express condolences, and didn't pay much attention to it.

But what happened next started to get confusing.People outside told them that Microsoft's CEO seemed to have been questioned several times by the FBI, and even more strangely, there was a device that could not find a buyer.

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Messages were sent one by one, but Bron and Wen were disheartened waiting, bored in the game, and didn't have the mood to read them.They didn't know which muscle was wrong, so they simply walked over to open the box, wanting to see what was inside...

"Boom!!!" There was a loud bang, and Bron and Wen were blown away and fell to the ground unconscious.

"... Then we will be linked in just like you." Bron said with a wry smile and spread his hands.

Bloom's words had us all lost in thought.In just a few days, so many things happened outside, our parents probably know by now that we are trapped in the game, and it hurts so much to think of them being helpless beside us.

If I could do it all over again, I would rather give Bu Xin an XX cup worth 50 yuan than a broken virtual machine worth 7999 dollars!
After a period of silence, I gradually remembered something, felt something was wrong, and quickly asked: "What do you mean you came in after being bombed? Didn't you say that you can only participate in this 'game' if you are not bombed?"

"Really! I didn't lie to you!" Bron took out the book from his backpack and handed it to me. "Look what's written on it. I was connected in because I was bombed!"

I also took out the book on my body, compared the two, and immediately found the difference!
On the second page of my book is a passage written in Chinese:

"You can survive to read this passage, which means that you have the qualifications to participate in this 'game'. I am in charge of everything. Whoever can pass the test of this 'game' will be able to wake up. Please use the black Crystal ball."

On the second page of his book is a passage written in English:

"You are dead and will fall into darkness. There is only one thing that can save you, and that is to participate in this 'game'. I am in charge of everything. Whoever can pass the test of this 'game' will be able to wake up. Use the black crystal ball well!"

The rest of the place is exactly the same.

"Good guy, that's how it is!" Bu Xin understood immediately after seeing it.

"Hehe." I sneered.I finally know that no matter whether you are killed by the explosion or not, you will be brought into this "game".
"Have you ever received a mission?" I closed the book and asked Bron and Wen.

"I got it." They nodded, "But I can't do it. 'Get Snowball', where can I find it?"

As soon as we heard the word "get the snowball", all three of us laughed.Monk Zhang Er couldn't figure out what we were laughing at.

"Your tasks are exactly the same as ours!" Nasir said with a blink of an eye.

"Let's walk together. We went up the mountain today to do this task." I patted my buttocks and stood up, "Let's talk while walking. I still have a lot of questions."

"Thank you." Wen said.She doesn't talk much, a very calm woman.

"I also have a lot of questions." Bu Xin raised the corner of his mouth and smiled, but his eyes were fixed on the command block in Bron's hand.It suddenly occurred to me that Bu Xin has a special habit of playing games. Could it be that he...

The sky outside is already slightly bright.We stood at the entrance of the cave and looked into the distance, and we could vaguely see the outline of the nearby mountain peaks and most of the Black Forest.There is a big circle in the black forest, which is the torch we left when we "ghosts hit the wall", and it is still stuck there and has not moved.Bron and Wen were very surprised when they saw it, and they even gave us a thumbs up after learning that it was a "great project" we did.

In addition to the big shiny circle in the black forest, there are also a few places that are lit with fire.But there are two places where the fire light can be said to be one piece, very bright, just in that great circle.If an "s"-shaped curve is added to the great circle, then this is just like a giant Taiji diagram.

"Tell me, could those two flames be 'white birch'?" Bu Xin stood beside me and turned to ask me.

"How do I know." I shook my head and said, "It will be dawn in a while, let's get ready to go."

I picked up the book, flipped through it casually, and suddenly turned to the last page.

(End of this chapter)