nonexistent experiment

Chapter 57 Devil World (Part [-])
The system restarts within 2-6 hours.
I have never heard of people still burning straw. As early as the first half of the last century, the disposal of straw has long since gotten rid of the old traditional incineration method, which has been expressly prohibited by law in most countries.More importantly, straw is recycled and reused through modern science and technology, and its economic value is even higher than that of planting crops themselves.

So when I saw the billowing smoke, I couldn't help but feel a little doubtful, and the taxi just drove into the call site at this time.

Fortunately, the place where the straw is burning is the place I must pass through when I return, and I can just explore it and satisfy my curiosity.

In the image displayed on the earring, Su Runyao has also arrived at the taxi stand, and I dialed her number.

"arrive?"

"You've been watching me?"

"It's just a matter of concern. How about it? Do you have a car?"

"I just called, and the system shows that I need to wait for 15 minutes."

"Well, I guess so. There are not many cars in this remote place." I remembered the burning straw I saw, and couldn't help asking: "Guess what I saw?"

"Burning straw?" She actually asked me back.

"What? You saw it too?" I asked in surprise.

"Well, I smelled a strange smell in the air while I was running. I saw several places of black smoke from a long distance. I didn't think it was burning straw at first, after all."

"Well, I didn't expect that someone would do such a thing now."

"Don't you find it strange? The two of us are more than 800 kilometers apart, and we both saw behaviors that have been eradicated in the last century."

"After you say that, it's really strange. Could it be that there is a problem with the restart?"

"I don't think it should be. I really can't think of any necessary connection between restarting and burning straw!"

I suddenly thought of Chen Song, this guy has always had an alternative way of thinking, maybe he can give some reasonable logic.

"Chen Song. Is there any strange phenomenon on the road?" I asked him.

"Nothing, it's just some coastal road, not even a bird."

Then I told him what I and Su Runyao saw about burning straw: "What's your opinion?"

Chen Song was silent for a while, and then said to us: "If there is no problem with the restart itself, is there something wrong with people?"

"People? Who?" Su Runyao asked immediately.

"It stands to reason that after the 'primitive life' was restarted, all the weird phenomena that happened before should be experienced by everyone in our universe, and the three of us didn't feel any surprise because we knew the truth. But for everyone else in the system."

After hearing what he said, I immediately interrupted him: "This is impossible. According to common sense, their memory during this period will be cleared as soon as the system is restarted."

"Look, you said that according to common sense, do you think these things we have experienced can be called common sense?"

"For ordinary people who don't know the truth, everything that happened is like a dream." Su Runyao compensated.

"It's not just a dream, it's just a nightmare, an unacceptable nightmare, do you know what the scariest nightmare is?"

Su Runyao and I blurted out almost at the same time: "Everyone had the same nightmare!"

"That's right!"

"That means that the external system is actually still paralyzed." Su Runyao thought of this first.

"According to this logic, it is very likely that this is the case." Chen Song's voice sounded a little uneasy.

"What's going to happen?" I asked.

"Remember that saying? God created us, and we created the devil!"

The three of us were silent. After a few seconds, I spoke first: "We must meet up immediately. Do not use energy bars for non-essential situations for the time being. Everyone should pay attention to safety and pay attention to each other's movements in real time."

"At present, it seems that this is the only way to go. I am still 5 kilometers away from the taxi stand." Chen Song echoed my proposal.

"You have to be more careful yourself." Su Runyao reminded me.

After hanging up the connection, the taxi drove to the side of the straw-burning farmland during our conversation.The system in the car has turned off the air exchanger, indicating that the outside air quality is extremely polluted, and turned on the air self-inspection system.

In order to see clearly what was happening in the wheat field, I manually controlled the speed of the taxi and turned it to the lowest gear.

When the taxi approached, I saw the flames soaring into the sky, thick black smoke accompanied by heat waves surging upwards, and even inside the car one could feel the muggy airflow.But even so, under such a fire, people can still be seen throwing straw into the fire.

At this time, a total of 5 ignition points were ignited on the edge of the wheat field. These ignition points formed a regular pentagon, and the area was estimated to be the size of a basketball court.

In the center of the burning site, an elderly woman was wearing a colorful dress and a scarlet ghost mask. She held an unknown staff in her left hand and a flat scepter in her right. Snare drum, she hit the snare drum with the tip of her staff while following the rhythmic roar of the crowd around her, while dancing around in circles and doing weird dances.

Without any rational thinking, the scene in front of you is a standard sacrificial scene.

Through the car window, I stared at the ghost mask with bated breath. The mask with red face and fangs accompanied by the irregular pace of the witch looked particularly eerie.The taxi was still moving forward at a slow speed, and the witch seemed to have entered a state of insanity, her twisting posture was almost distorted.

As a strange wind blew by, the blazing flame spit out its tongue and rushed straight into the sky. Under the blazing flame and the surging heat wave, the lifeless red ghost face seemed to be melted, dripping blood down.Just for a moment, the forward speed of the rental car kept pace with the rotation of the witch, and for just a moment, through the black and hollow eye frames on the mask, I seemed to feel the devil staring straight into my eyes, I rushed over.

I was so frightened that my legs went limp and I sat down in the car, my body trembling, I immediately increased the speed of the car, and left quickly.The life test of the earrings showed that my heartbeat had reached 140BPM, my blood pressure had risen to 155mmHg, and every pore in my body was sweating outwards. I dared not and had no energy to look outside again. It took a few minutes for my body to return to normal. , I panted heavily, cautiously raised my head and looked out of the car.

At this moment, I can see the endless wheat fields outside the car, and I can only feel the slight swing of the wheat waves in the tranquility. The air circulator was turned on again, and I breathed the familiar wheat-scented air, and every hair follicle on the skin was also warmed. Infected by this ease, enjoy this comfort to the fullest.The tranquility of the countryside is in stark contrast to the previous horror atmosphere, which gave me a strange illusion, as if everything just now had never happened, it was just a simple switch between illusion and reality, and it was like It is the short space-time interlacing between hell and heaven.

But soon I was slapped again by reality, and not far ahead, I saw the black smoke that seemed familiar but I didn't want to think of it again.

After being relieved for a while, I connected Chen Song and Su Runyao again. According to the positioning, Chen Song had reached the call point at this time, and according to Su Runyao's moving speed, she should have boarded a taxi as well. up.

"I saw it." I said weakly.

"What did you see?" Su Runyao asked.

"In the thick smoke, what's happening! This is the first time I've seen such a sacrificial scene" I told them in detail what I saw before, and in the process of describing it, I still couldn't stop being afraid .

"Hahahaha! Peed your pants!" Chen Song laughed wantonly over there.

I ignored him, although it wasn't as unbearable as he said, but the fact is almost the same.

"I, I saw it too." Su Runyao's voice was a little trembling: "But the appearance of those people and the layout of the scene are very different from what you said, I feel more like some kind of primitive tribe's costume, dancing It was a man, shirtless, with various colors painted on his body and face, with strange accessories, I can't tell what it is, I have never seen it, it just makes my scalp tingle."

"That's right, the two of you are now more than 700 kilometers apart. According to the division of our world, the areas you belong to should be two completely different races. Although I don't know this ancient ritual very well, but listen to you The situation introduced seems to be like this. Generally speaking, fire has a special role in sacrifices, exorcising evil spirits or attracting spirits, so even two different races use burning straw method." Chen Song analyzed with us.

"Why do they sacrifice?" Su Runyao asked.

"Because of the restart." Chen Song replied without thinking.

"That's right, it must be a restart. If it were me, I saw the world that lost its color without knowing it, and then entered the black hole-like void space, and finally returned to reality. There is a high probability that I will also be in a rush." collapse. Superstition and sacrifice are human beings' response measures when they cannot explain nature, and they are also a wish for blessing and safety."

"Well, I haven't seen any weird phenomena along the way." Chen Song thought for a while and continued: "However, according to my estimation, the closer to the central area, the higher the probability of weird things happening. "

"It's very possible! Yao, don't get out of the car unless you have to. These people may not be mentally normal now!"

"Yao, Yao, Yao, you only have her in your eyes, do you still have me!" Chen Song teased me.

"Song, you have to take care of yourself too."

With this rare laugh, our taxi continued to drive forward, and we took another step towards hell.

Sure enough, as Chen Song expected, various sacrificial scenes appeared more and more frequently along the way.With the previous experience and psychological preparation, when I saw those horrible and weird scenes again, my heart was much calmer.

In these sacrificial scenes, of course, besides burning straw, there are also many scenes that I did not expect.

There are a group of people kneeling in the same direction; some line up to beat gongs and drums; some dress up as various monsters and monsters in strange shapes. All these strange and traditional scenes are enough to make a complete human sacrifice documentary .

The strangeness along the way made me temporarily forget the time. When I realized it, it was less than 200 kilometers away from the center of the world, and it had been 3 hours since the system restarted.

The strange thing is that during the nearly 2-hour journey, I hardly saw a taxi passing by. It seemed that I was the only car on the highway in the whole world, which inevitably made me feel a little uneasy.

The battery of the taxi shows that it is almost exhausted. From the navigation system in the car, it can be seen that it will enter the urban forest 5 kilometers ahead.Just when the vehicle was about to enter the urban forest, I heard loud shouts from outside the window, and the road in front of me was tightly blocked by crowds of people. After the taxi issued two alarm messages, , was forced to stop at the roadside of the forest entrance road.

I immediately connected them, informed me of the situation I am facing, and reminded them that the same situation as mine might happen to them. The most important thing is that I am still worried about Su Runyao. I suggest that she keep energy cells ready at all times. In case of danger Turn on superman mode immediately.

The crowd in front of me sealed the urban forest with more than 10 entrances, and there were thousands of people in the entrance alone.They were all emotional, holding the projection screen high in their hands. From my angle, I could only see the text displayed in reverse, but I could still see the general meaning clearly.

"The universe restarts, the order changes", "Reorganization of the new world", "Big bang ushers in big changes".
I speculate that this should be the marching crowd moving to the city center, after experiencing the system restart, they want to overthrow the government and seize the new regime.I looked around, and since the parade crowd had their backs to me, no one noticed my presence, so I got out of the car carefully, followed the tail end of the parade crowd, and moved forward together.

It took more than two hours to walk the 10 kilometers of urban forest.

(End of this chapter)