Sword of Daybreaker

Gao Wen has been paying attention to Sandbox No.1 for a long time, and has been quite curious where its entrance is. According to the information previously investigated, although Sandbox No.1 is an independent thinking network, it still has a backbone network. The entrance and exit, but Gao Wen and Daniel once scanned the entire spiritual network and found no place for its entrance.

And now, he finally knew why no one knew the mysterious entrance—

After deciding to start, the archbishops of the Golden Chamber left the seats one after another. Although Gao Wen didn't know why, he also stood up, and then he saw that everyone took a step back, and there was a lot of mysterious characters on the picture. The surface of Wen's golden round table suddenly burst into a circle of light and reality.

The rising starlight polymer of Mergol III slowly descended from mid-air, like a viscous liquid, contacted the center of the round table. In the next second, the radiating imaginary and solid light suddenly stained the layers. The superimposed starlight then quickly spread across the surface of the round table like a halo—

Vortex-like openings were formed in the starlight. Floating clouds and sand were faintly visible in the vortex, as well as dim mountains and rivers.

At the same time as the entrance opened, the round table sank to the same level as the ground: it truly became a portal inlaid on the ground.

The round table of this golden chamber is the entrance to the sandbox one, and Meghal III is the "key" to open the entrance!

"... This is a bit unexpected to me," Gao Wen stood next to the swirling entrance, looking down at the hazy clouds and sand dust, and said with a smile, "Then, here is the sandbox number one." ? Just walk in? "

"It was easy to enter the sandbox number one, but we were not sure what would happen after we entered it. When the expedition team entered last time, a lot of weird changes had occurred in it, proving that the number one sandbox was losing surveillance. The situation has been constantly evolving, "Megur III re-floating to mid-air, said in a weaker voice than just now," outlanders ... although my entrustment may seem to you a lot, but please Remember-be careful. "

"I will remember."

Gao Wen nodded, while Selina Gellman next to him had already taken a step forward and entered the entrance of the swirling vortex.

Gao Wen, Yuri, and Magnum followed closely behind.

The four figures quickly disappeared into the depths of the vortex. When the winding clouds and mists closed again, the stars around the entrance wriggled and recovered, and the round table inlaid on the ground returned to its original appearance again.

There was silence in the hall for two seconds before Mergoll III's voice broke the silence: "Dear everyone, start-do what we should do.

"Concentrate all remaining computing power to the sandbox and security system, shut down all non-essential functions of the backbone network, and shut down ... the city of dreams."

The archbishops responded in unison: "Yes! Under the Pope!"

One figure disappeared into the golden hall, and with each disappearing figure, the light in the golden hall seemed to dim.

And beyond the golden hall, the entire city of dreams also changed.

The clear and bright sky suddenly faded, and the gray and white endless chaos enveloped the entire world. Those splendid palaces, elegant towers, and rare and dreamy plants were all transformed into nothingness and black and white grids in a scattered light spot The line covered the urban land, and then even this black and white grid line was swallowed up by the endless mist ...

The dream city that was once beautiful and exhausted by human imagination was restored to the most chaotic initial dream in a few breaths, and in this boundless darkness, only the light of mist and chaos, only The "Golden Chamber", which had shrunk to only one hall, still stood on the ground.

In the hall where the light was already dim, the creeping starlight aggregates calmed down, floating quietly in the air, as if thinking, as if remembering ...

...

In the underground palace of the dormant in the real world, the priests wearing black or white robes returned to the real world, while maintaining the most basic connection to the spiritual network and providing their own computing power, while walking around the palace With.

"Dream control begins! Dream control begins!"

Some priests are ordering aloud, some priests are checking the prohibition in every part of the palace, some priests set off to the surface to perform the dream surveillance of the entire "Orangedale" area.

Noisy movements in the palace can be heard even at the lowest level of the underground palace. "Soul Song", located in the containment area on the ground floor but having lowered the containment level due to the relief of pollution symptoms, noticed the change in the atmosphere in the corridor outside. He raised his head and came behind the iron gate with the complex runes. He asked gently, "Mr. Guard, what is happening outside?"

"Dream control, Archbishop Wendy," the guard's muffled voice came from outside, as if wearing a thick helmet, "please wait and don't dream."

"... I wish I could help."

"Please stay awake tonight, this is the greatest help for everyone."

"You're right, Mr. Guard."

Wendy whispered, retreated to his bed and sat quietly on it.

On the wall opposite her, glittering crystal dust paint depicts a complex set of symbols, which consist of many curved lines and circles, as if it were a symbol of some deep-sea animal, with a profound mysterious meaning.

Looking at the symbols, Wendy's mind quickly became sober and rational, and most of the nervousness and depression had disappeared.

Just a little shy, I want to dig big squid ...

...

Gao Wen felt that he was walking down a ramp that went down to the depths of endless yellow sand and clouds. Without knowing how long he had walked, he suddenly felt the strange and strange atmosphere around him suddenly swept away. The clouds dispersed, and his eyes suddenly opened up.

A city standing in the yellow sand appeared to him and Selina and others.

The city has a turquoise exterior wall, the towering walls are clear, the arrow towers and observation decks look extraordinary under the blue sky, but no guards can be seen on the walls or in front of the gates.

While seeing this desert city, a strange rotten smell also drifted into Gao Wen's nostrils.

"This is the first city you can see when you enter the sandbox No. 1, Nim Santjo City State, and it is also the starting point of civilization in the sandbox world," Selina whispered. This was set at least in the early days of the sandbox startup, but later, as history evolved and climate changed, the area was eroded by the desert, but it was still a traffic corridor and commercial prosperity. "

"It's an empty city now," Yuri continued, "the expedition that entered last reported that the city and surrounding villages were empty. In addition, they were attacked while staying overnight in the city, We need to be more careful about this. "

"There's a smell here," Magnum frowned, "as if something had decayed."

"The exploration team also reported this weird phenomenon before," Selena nodded. "Nim Santrow and the surrounding villages and towns are filled with this weird rotten smell, although not very strong, but the scope Very wide. The expedition did not find the source of the scent, but the scent itself seemed harmless. "

Gao Wen sniffed and said casually, "Will it be those disappearing sandbox residents who are rotten in a state we can't see?"

Yuri's face shook when he heard Gao Wen's words, and Magnum next to him subconsciously looked around the vast empty desert, and frowned, "This is really ... Does it scare people like you? "

"Call me Gao Wen directly, this may help relax," Gao Wen glanced at Magnum with a smile, and then walked towards the entrance of that city-state without waiting for the other party to answer. "Don't waste time, we can only have ' Ten days'. "

Magnum and others immediately followed, and Gao Wen quietly activated the settings in the consciousness as he walked, trying to communicate the perceptual runes that were set next to him in the real world.

He vaguely sensed the runes, and sensed the existence of Amber and Tyre with those runes.

But the feeling that came was very, very weird, with a weird and dull feeling, as if watching an extremely slow world with a serious delay.

Is this the effect of "time iteration" ...

Gao Wen was thoughtful.

Ten times the time iteration has already made you can only perceive the reality vaguely, and it is almost impossible to communicate with the real world. So in the past time iterations of thousands or even higher times, the residents in the sandbox No. 1 obviously It is impossible to interface with the real world.

Even if there is occasional information interaction, they can only receive very weird, distorted and blurred reality information.

This sandbox is an island ...

With such feelings, Gao Wen stepped into the city-state surrounded by yellow sand with three temporary partners.

Earthy or off-white buildings stand on both sides of the street. Most of them have flat roofs and curved window frames, and colorful red or yellow cloth drapes are suspended between tall houses and straddle between Above the street, the dry wind was constantly dancing.

"This is a completely different style from the phantom town we saw before ..." Magnum couldn't help but say.

Selina spoke and explained to Govin: "The sandbox number one is very large. In addition to this Nim Santjo city-state in the desert area, there is also a valley city in the forest area. The city of Fengxi on the edge of the wetland has different city states and kingdoms ... It has developed for thousands of years under the acceleration of time. Millions of virtual personalities have multiplied here, and the starting point of the sandbox civilization has been set. In the Iron Age, this was enough for the residents inside to expand their 'world' to a very large extent. "

Gao Wen raised an eyebrow: "The starting point of civilization is set in the Iron Age?"

"Yes," Selena nodded. "If it was set directly in the primitive era, it would take a long time for the sandbox to develop a true civilization, and there would be too much uncertainty in the middle, even if iterating over time. To accelerate, the entire experimental process will also be pulled very long, so we set a set of basic data for each sandbox, which contains the complete history from the primitive era to the iron age, and archaeological discoveries that can be corroborated, This allows the virtual and physical residents in the sandbox to enter the stage of civilization deduction faster. "

"... This is really a big project."

Selina seemed to hear a little deep meaning from Gao Wen's tone, and couldn't help wondering: "Is there anything wrong?"

"No ... I can't think of anything for the time being," Gao Wen shook his head. "I just admire your patience and perseverance in writing this set of things."

Selina wasn't sure if it was true praise or irony, but when she was about to say something more, a building appeared in her sight interrupted her next words in advance.

A building that is significantly taller and more grand than the surrounding buildings, with dozens of pale gold sculptural columns and stone arches at the end of the streets full of yellow sand.

"Is that a temple?" Gao Wen asked, looking away.

"The outline of the building reported by the expedition," Yuri nodded. "It should be the city-state temple of Nim Santrow."

Gao Wen thoughtfully: "It has a completely different style from the church in Phantom Town."

"But the same‘ **** ’is enshrined in it.”

Selina whispered.

Believe in the same **** ... But because of the differences in regional culture, temples of different styles have been built.

This once again made Gao Wen aware of the power of this sandbox in terms of "realism" and how the civilization in the sandbox developed step by step.

And while thinking, they have come to the temple.

At the entrance to the temple facing the street, Gao Wen saw the familiar relief, which was carved on a huge stone and stood on the square in front of the temple:

A huge palm covering the symbolic ground-this is the hallmark of the upper narrator.

Gao Wen's gaze swept over the relief that symbolized the upper narrator, striding over the boulder and preparing to enter the temple.

But at the gate of the temple, his steps stopped suddenly.

His gaze was staring at a stone pillar at the entrance of the temple.

On the surface of the stone pillar, a line of text was engraved deeply, the line of the text was deep, but the handwriting was messy and distorted. The depth of each line of strokes appeared dark red as if immersed in blood. Infinite despair and madness, it only has one sentence--

The gods are dead.

(Mummy!)