The Record of Unusual Creatures

The ray of the sky is gradually receding. The last line of the sun before the sun fell to the mountain slanted into the cave where Hao Ren and Nolan temporarily hid, and all the caves were plated with pale gold and light. Nolan leaned sideways on the huge tires of the mountain bike, half of his body was bathed in the setting sun, and half of his body was hidden in the darkness. She sighed: "When did you start talking about it... I can't remember when I first realized that the world is not right, probably thousands of years ago? It may be earlier. The earliest picture in my memory is Following the family vacation in the southern hemisphere, and then somehow woke up and became a warehouse clerk of a company... It doesn't make sense to trace these long-term things. Anyway, it is a repeated and chaotic experience. Sometimes I will die from accidents. After the resurrection, I will find that the world has completely changed. Sometimes, there will be situations like today. Without death, the whole world will suddenly change. In a blink of an eye, I will have a new identity and New teammates. I don't even know if the time lapse in my feelings is true. Maybe it's just a few hours ago. All the world's starting points are a few hours ago... but that doesn't make much sense. ”

Hao Ren listened quietly, he had too many problems in his mind, but he couldn't sort out the order. What did he think of asking: "Is there a law of resettlement in the world?"

"There is no law," Nolan shook his head. "Sometimes it is reset once in a few decades. Sometimes it will change within a few years. The shortest reset period in my memory is two years, and the longest one has nearly two. I died two times during that period. After I woke up, I found that the world stage was still going on, but my identity changed. At that time, I was amazed and naively thought that this cycle was finally stabilized. The result was the second time. On the afternoon of the resurrection, I encountered a reset."

Hao Ren nodded, it seems that the world is not restarted by the death of Nolan, if the stability time of the world is too long. Nolan's reincarnation during the period will become a resurrection of the change of identity, just like a game character is off the line and then opened a trumpet to land elsewhere. As a result, this girl is special. But it should not be the cause and effect of this confusing world.

"After each reset, all people and things in this world will gain new identity and 'set', and interpersonal relationships, international relations, world situations, culture, religion, and even technology models will change," Nolan sees Hao. Ren fell into thinking and thought that this person who had experienced the "awake reincarnation" for the first time was confused, so he explained it casually. "I also studied the map. I found that the terrain of the whole world has also changed. Sometimes there will be several pieces on the planet. On the mainland, sometimes there is only one mother continent. There are also changes in plants and animals, but the changes are not too large. Always those species are randomly matched, and at most there are changes in the distribution area... but you should also Don't understand, you are the first to retain your memory, you should have not accumulated too much knowledge."

Nolan has experienced thousands of years of reincarnation, and the amount of knowledge she has accumulated is staggering. As an expert in any field, I am afraid it will not be a problem. Therefore, it is normal to say that it is ecologically correct. When she was in the Grey Fox Mercenary, she was silent because she couldn't find the object she could tell, but now it is clear that she regards Hao Ren as a companion.

Hao Ren shook his head: "Nothing, I understand a little about ecological problems. I understand a little. In short, if you say so, is this world a bit like a sandbox game? We assume that there is a director or program behind it." Everything, every time it mobilizes some material from a library to generate a 'world'?"

"Are you inferring from the animal and plant form I mentioned?" Nolan looked at Hao Ren with some surprise. "I didn't expect you to be involved in a wide range. You are right, I thought about it. The world really is like a program that constantly generates maps automatically...just if these are really useless, we can't control them."

Hao Ren did not hear what Nolan said in the last sentence, because he was thinking about some deeper problems that jumped out of this worldview. He is convinced that he is currently in a dream plane, which means that there is a real world outside the "Zum" planet. He thought of Heaton's diary and Ulanov's epiphany before his death. If the world is virtual or false...what is its interface with the real world? Since Heaton and Ulanov can suddenly realize the illusion of the world. That means that this virtual world is not perfect, it must have some kind of violation!

"Population!" Hao Ren suddenly looked up at Nolan. “Are the population changing after each reset of the world?”

Nolan has some doubts: "Population? Does this have anything to do with it?"

"Hidden once said that the world is a fake, and Ulanov said something similar when he died," Hao Ren explained. "If the world is fake, then you think the people in the world are real." What?"

Nolan’s eyes are slightly enlarged: “Do you suspect that other human beings in the world are np?”

"No, I think they are all true," Hao Ren waved his hand. "It is because of this that I asked you about the population. According to your situation, you will be resurrected after death, which means that there is no "mechanism" in the world. The function of 'cache', every real human death will immediately appear in the rest of the world as a new identity. So if everyone in the world is real, then every time the world resets the population should not change, with With the development of the world, human beings will die and the total population will not change. But if the total population of the world is reset every time, it means that at least some human beings are np, and the number of real humans should depend on the weight of the world. Set the minimum population for a period in the cycle."

Nolan looked at Hao Ren with surprise: "Are you really going through the ‘reset’ for the first time?”

"How come this suddenly?"

"You think about these issues very deeply, and obviously they are considered in a very calm and thoughtful way." Nolan looked at Hao Ren's eyes full of suspicion. "I didn't want to go so deep in the first few rounds. I just thought about living more for a while, but you seem to feel that it doesn't matter."

There is still a half sentence in her heart: this analysis is like an outsider.

Hao Ren’s forehead was infiltrated with cold sweat, and his heart said that the girl’s feeling was really sharp and terrible. He smiled and shifted Nolan's attention: "Cough, this is not important, you should be my natural nerves. If you can't do it, you will continue to be my neurosis..."

Nolan: "...I didn't really think about the population problem you said, but your ideas are very novel and reasonable. I didn't pay special attention to this population problem, but I have seen several censuses occasionally. The report, I think the population of the world in each reset cycle should not change much...may be completely equal. Maybe after all, the world is big, there are many people, and the census can never be accurate, as long as this The 'program' behind the world is a little bit of a move, and it will make people feel that the world's population is not constant."

At the end of the day, she smirked at the corner of her mouth: "And every time the world will last only a few decades, time is not enough for people to find any abnormal situation."

Hao Ren frowned: "So the human beings in this world should all be real... just thrown into a constantly refreshing sandbox stage?"

At this time, he was really a bit of a three-view collapse. He realized that his previous exploration and wandering in this world had nothing to do for a long time. The truth of this world was hidden under a layer of grotesque foam, the so-called nano-group, The North Ring Road and the World War turned out to be just a stage play. When he thought of this, he laughed and laughed at himself: "Hey... I am still full of blood and want to understand whether the loss of control of the nano-fleet sixty-five years ago is the key to the problem. The result is not a key issue for a long time. It is not a problem. It didn’t happen at all..."

"No," Nolan suddenly interrupted him. "I am afraid this incident is really embarrassing."

Hao Ren: "Ah?"

"In the recent resets, the world has seen a similar trend," Nolan said with a serious face. "No matter what the starting world setting is, it will eventually evolve into a global war, a weapon out of control, The last days of the world. The last time the nano-fleet was out of control. Last time, the global nuclear bomb was out of control. Before that, the satellite weapon was falsified by ai... The script was slightly different, but the final process was almost exactly the same as the whole world was dying."

(There was a strong wind hail here yesterday afternoon, the community and the surrounding area were blacked out, and it has not recovered yet... This chapter was uploaded with a notebook + mobile hotspot. The last bit of charging in the treasure is also exhausted, if it is not tomorrow If it is restored... then it’s really nothing.) (To be continued)