Planetary Museum

At the exit of the Geocentric Park, a federal man was in a daze among the crowd.

The bustling crowd in front of him, the flying car floating back and forth in the sky, and the huge vortex on the sea level in the distance, which is deeply sunken and leads to the center of the earth, all made him feel a strange feeling of being at a loss.

The growing sense of strangeness.

This feeling constantly reminds the thinking subject—as if, he does not belong here.

He stretched out his hand and stared blankly at the hair on the back of his hand and arm - in his memory, even if there was hair on his arm, it should be faint and transparent.

But now, he touched it with his hand, and the strange touch reminded himself again—it seemed that these didn't belong to him.

He tentatively scratched lightly with the other hand, then suddenly grabbed the hair fiercely, and pulled it out forcefully. The slight pain was also unfamiliar, much milder than the pain in his impression, as if It's just like being bitten by a mosquito... Mosquito?

Mosquitoes are tiny flying insects with six legs, wings and blood-sucking mouthparts, which can easily pierce the skin, causing itching and swelling... He still remembers that in the dilapidated house in Dayang Village, every time he came to In summer, the smelly gutters at the door will breed a large number of mosquitoes...

Dayang Village, smelly ditch, mosquitoes...

The center of the earth park, the maelstrom, the flying traffic ship...

No, I don't belong here!The master of thinking suddenly realized this!I am from the earth, I am 18 years old, I am a yellow-skinned Asian Chinese, my skin is bare, my world...it is a world of cars, roads, countryside, cities...

And here, why am I here?Search and rescue team, mission...

wrong!

No no no!

A sudden thought suddenly occupied the entire thinking space of the thinking master, making him feel that the blood in his whole body was frozen instantly.

who am I?

I am... Wu...

Wu what?Wu... what? ? ?

This was his own name, but he paused for a moment.

Wu...Xiao...Qing?

It seems so?But it seems that it is not...

If I was really Wu Xiaoqing, then I should still keep in touch with the search and rescue team, I should be back in the search and rescue ship, I should be discussing the progress of the follow-up mission, I should... I should do many, many things.

Instead of just standing here like now, staring at the scenery that I have seen once.

There is only one thing that is certain now - I don't belong here.

Without an interpreter from the search and rescue team, he could barely understand a single word spoken by the people around him. Although he had the same physical features as the people around him... let alone other people, even if he looked at his body, he would have a A subconscious sense of rejection and strangeness.

Then, why do I still appear here?

He clearly remembered that he had finished all the work, and it seemed that at just a moment ago, he was still in contact with the search and rescue team, and he was about to let himself return to reality—back to the search and rescue ship.

But I didn't go out!

Did the search and rescue team make a mistake?

No... No... According to the plan, if the communication between him and the search and rescue team is cut off, it means that the Federation has completely turned against them.

But if that's the case, why do you still stay here?I should go back to the boat!

No! --No!

He suddenly realized a more terrifying fact. For Wu Xiaoqing, this fact was just a small trouble in the process of carrying out the mission, but for himself!

For myself!

Who are you?

Are you Wu Xiaoqing?

Of course it is!

No, not right!

Maybe...should...should be counted?

But... More possibilities, maybe I am just... but just...

He felt that his thinking was like this huge vortex in front of him. The gravity of the entire planet was surrounding him, constantly rotating and tearing... His brain kept putting forward various hypotheses, and these hypotheses were constantly rejected by himself. , Finally, an increasingly clear conclusion emerged unconsciously.

This conclusion made him feel chills all over!

A hand patted his shoulder at this moment, when his thoughts were almost frozen.He turned his head and saw a familiar face. Suddenly, it seemed that the whole world had found a fulcrum.

"Changbai!" He called out the other person's name, "Tell me, what happened?"

"Hush!" Changbai subconsciously glanced at the people around him, and after making sure that everyone hadn't noticed them, he quickly pulled him and said, "Mr. Wu, quickly follow me."

Changbai's car was parked nearby. After the two got on the car, the car quickly accelerated through a section of track on the ground and quickly reached the flying state.Then, in his surprised eyes, the whole car was like in a sci-fi movie. The body of the car underwent a rapid transformation in the air. A car that was originally driving on the ground became an aircraft flying in the sky.This cognition completely confirmed his guess just now - he really does not belong to this world.

"Mr. Wu," Changbai first operated on the vehicle console for a while, about setting up the driving route, etc. After that, Changbai turned his head and said to him solemnly, "Your situation is very dangerous now."

He nodded. In the short period of time before, he had thought of a lot, especially the thought of "danger".But he just felt it faintly in his subconscious, and he was still vague about what the danger was.

"Do you... still remember your identity?" Changbai turned on his communicator, and showed the video clips of his previous exchange with Wu Xiaoqing, "This is our previous conversation... Do you still have any impression?"

He nodded, pointed to the speaking character on the screen and said, "I remember these words...it seems...that I said it myself, I come from..."

He subconsciously wanted to talk about the earth, but a thought suddenly appeared in his mind and reminded himself—he came to perform a mission this time, and the identity he used was a member of the civilization of the search and rescue team.

"I'm from the search and rescue team." He said with certainty.

"You are very sure of your identity, that's good," Changbai called up the picture of Shen Changwen and Xu Yan at the party at this time, "Do you remember them?"

"Remember, they are my companions." He noticed in the video that Shen Changwen and Xu Yan were lying on the ground to hide, and asked anxiously, "What's wrong with them?"

"Don't worry, they are safe for the time being, and are waiting for you to meet up there," Changbai seemed relieved, and then continued, "Your situation is much better than I thought, now, the last question, you Do you understand your current situation?"

When he said these words, Changbai's tone was serious and solemn, and when he said this, this seriousness and solemnity added another layer: "Or, do you have the willingness to understand your own situation?"

Even if Changbai's attitude is ignored, such words alone are enough to make him subconsciously vigilant, and the emotions that have just settled down suddenly begin to tense up again.

They were already flying quite high at this time, and looking out of the window, the whole world seemed to become clear at a glance.

He saw many flying objects similar to their speeding cars on the top, bottom, left, and right sides. On the ground, there were constantly traffic from the city converging into the sky. Return—Huge holes have been opened in many cities on the ground, just like the maelstrom he saw in the geocentric park just now.

A large amount of traffic descended from the sky, was attracted to the vortex in the land, and directly entered the depths of the earth... When he watched these scenes, he could also feel his consciousness, his memory that was constantly searching , go deeper into that deeper place...

The traffic flow in reality was still going on, but his consciousness stayed in his memory, as if a person suddenly lost his way...

He remembers Dayang Village, the search and rescue team, the mission, Shen Changwen and Wang Youquan... He remembered that many things should have happened between them, and just seeing the photos of the two of them just now, he could subconsciously surge up in his heart Familiarity and security.But when he pursued the source of this feeling carefully, he found a problem...

How did they meet?What tasks have you performed before?When did he and Shen Changwen meet for the first time?What about the first task?When did you meet Xu Yan for the first time? ...Even, when did he first meet the search and rescue team?

He doesn't know, no... He feels that he knows, and he must know!He even took it for granted that he knew all this, but when he really wanted to reproduce all this in his memory, he found that he couldn't do it.

At this time, he suddenly understood the two questions Changbai asked.

Do you understand where you are now?

Are you willing to understand your own situation?

What situation?

Obviously not referring to their safety... In terms of safety, he has no say at all.They are just strangers in the federation, they don't belong to this world, they don't understand this civilization, and they haven't made corresponding preparations—maybe they did, but that preparation work is obviously not for themselves.

He turned his head and saw Changbai's eyes staring at him, which seemed to be a ray of light, directly illuminating the huge and vague fact that he had constructed in his mind just now, the moment he saw this fact clearly, he I found myself feeling scared from the bottom of my heart.

He opened his mouth and tried to tell the truth, even though he hadn't thought about how to face him at all: "I...I..." His lips trembled, and he pointed his finger at himself with difficulty: "I... ...not the real Wu Xiaoqing, right?"

Changbai looked at him, his eyes showed worry and deep sympathy unconsciously, then Changbai nodded lightly, as if to encourage him to continue.

"I'm... just a copy program... just... simulating the existence of Wu Xiaoqing," after the most difficult part was over, he said the rest with a wry smile, "The real Wu Xiaoqing has already returned to rescue on the ship, and I... just stay here in his capacity... a substitute."

Changbai looked at him, and after being silent for a while, he said, "What you said is quite close to the truth. Let me add that in our current moral system, we don't think that personified data is a substitute for the corresponding personality, or It is a kind of backup, and we recognize the independence of the data itself."

"Really?" He smiled more clearly, his muscles pulled out an ugly shape on his face, "But I'm not you, I just want to be the only Wu Xiaoqing in my knowledge."

Then he raised his head sadly, looking up at the blue sky and white clouds above his head: "But now... this is no longer possible... Also, why are there so many incompleteness in my memory."

"Because all your current data is the real Wu Xiaoqing's time in the game, the system scans the brain information. Generally speaking, the longer a person stays in the game, the more The more comprehensive the information ... the more simulated it is."

"In other words, my essence is to imitate Wu Xiaoqing's thinking."

"Yes," Changbai glanced at him, and carefully reminded, "Wu Xiaoqing only stayed on the second earth for more than a day, and most of the time he was alone...Among the three of you, your The amount of data is minimal. It makes you … more prone to emotional depression.”

"I've already realized it." Compared with depression, he looked at the picture on the communicator at this moment, and was more worried about another question, "Then what should we do next?"

"Low your head," just after the long vernacular, the speeding car began to experience a slight weightlessness at this time. As the range of vision in front of him decreased, the entire speeding car began to descend. The heads of the two people were slightly lowered. There was a flash of light ahead, before raising his head, Changbai turned his face and said, "Two choices, surrender or resist."