Da Liu on the opposite side was obviously stunned. The next second, a strange smile appeared on his face.

Immediately afterwards, Ye Zhou's mind was dizzy.

When he opened his eyes again, he seemed to find himself in a familiar room.

It was a rental house I lived in before, just near the school.

It was 202x, the afternoon when I just graduated.

Ye Zhou's mind was in chaos. He felt that he had experienced many things, but when he wanted to think about it, he found that he could not remember anything.

He subconsciously looked at his wrist, there was nothing there, but he always felt that something should be.

What is it?

Ye Zhou thought desperately, and the chaotic memories washed away the reefs in his mind like broken waves. The surging white covered the color of the reefs themselves. He wanted to peel off the waves and look at the reefs, but his efforts were in vain.

Ye Zhou sighed, the quilt wrapped tightly with water plants. He grabbed the kitchen knife on the cutting board on the bed and tried to cut the quilt, but the kitchen knife seemed to have not been ground after chopping the bones the day before. No matter how hard he tried, he could not scratch the quilt.

In desperation, he had to sit up wrapped in the quilt and began to move towards the bathroom step by step. However, the body dragging the quilt was too large, and the bathroom door was blocked by a messy mop. He couldn't reach out his hand at all when trying to clear the barrier.

After struggling for a long time, Ye Zhou finally pushed open the bathroom door and opened the shower valve with his head. As the hot water dripped, the cotton in the quilt on his body melted like marshmallows. He finally shook the bondage, and the quilt was washed down with the hot water above his head.

Ye Zhou rolled the quilt on the ground into a ball and stuffed it into the toilet. After pressing the flush button, a huge vortex rolled the quilt into the sewer.

Vortex?

Wait, why am I here?

The next second, Ye Zhou's consciousness seemed to be sucked into the huge vortex. After the sky was spinning, he found himself sitting in the desert full of yellow sand.

Two strange planes were taking off in the distance, while nearby were a pile of broken, hot wreckage of aircraft.

Ye Zhou stood up and walked towards the wreckage. He felt that he was extremely familiar with the scene in front of him, but he couldn't say when it was.

He stroked the damaged surface of the plane, and the sharp metal pierced into his palm. Then, blood gradually dripped onto the ground. When Ye Zhou turned his head, he saw a giant bird soaring into the air.

The sea of ​​sand was surging, and the huge waves of rolling yellow sand rushed towards Ye Zhou. He felt suffocation after wave, and ran back desperately, but as he ran, he actually found himself flying up.

The feeling of hanging in the air was extremely real. He floated in the sky dozens of meters above the ground, his body rotated uncontrollably and rolled, and violent dizziness surged up again. When he opened his eyes again, the scene he saw changed again.

This time, he stood in the bitter cold wind.

Below his feet were green mountains and graves behind him. Ye Zhou couldn't help but step towards the edge of the cliff, but just a second before he raised his legs, there seemed to be a voice in his consciousness.

The voice came from behind him.

Ye Zhou looked back and in a blink of an eye, the tide in his mind quickly receded, and the hideous reefs emerged from the water.

A relieved smile appeared on his face, and then he let go of his right hand.

The explosion of fire illuminated Liu's face in front of him again. In the other party's shocked expression, Ye Zhou calmly watched the scene in front of him fall like a broken mirror.

There are no buildings in the shape of mushrooms, no jammers, and of course there are no so-called "blocking people" organizations.

Everything is fake.

But virtual invasion is true.

The memory stream started injection again, this time, the speed was as slow as ever.

His current location is a village hidden in the deep mountains--or, it is an experimental base that is well-disguised.

A few days ago, during a high-altitude survey, the official suddenly discovered this village that appeared out of thin air in the Sanwu District area. After confirming that there were personnel activities in the village, Ye Zhou and his group went to investigate. However, the moment they entered the village, all the BCI chips of Ye Zhou and others were disturbed, and everyone was trapped in the same illusion.

Just as Ye Zhou saw before, in that illusion, they saw future technology beyond reality, absolutely equal and abundant life, and all the beautiful things they imagined.

What is even more terrifying is that such illusions have even been made minor adjustments because of their purpose. For example, Ye Zhou has memories of performing tasks in his subconscious mind, so the interferer fabricated a task for him to destroy the source of interference - ironically, this is exactly what Ye Zhou is going to do now.

He shook his head gently, feeling the insolent feeling of losing assistance after the BCI chip completely collapsed. Then, he walked down the steps he originally stood, left his teammates beside him, and walked straight to the center of the base.

Along the way, Ye Zhou saw the "village" in the illusion doing incredible movements unconsciously. Some were sitting on chairs, simulated driving postures with their hands, and their bodies were constantly swaying from side to side; some were running wildly in the paddy fields, and every time they fell, they would grab a handful of mud from the ground and smear on their faces; some were hanging in the air by a rope, posing in a superman flying posture, with an intoxicated look on their faces.

This is a crazy world. Unlike the matrix in the Matrix, the people here are not fixed in a certain nutrition pool, but are created with different illusions in various details according to their environment according to local conditions.

And the root of all this is the BCI chip in their minds.

Ye Zhou tried to use a communicator to report the situation to his superiors, but the signals in this area seemed to have been completely blocked, and even the dedicated quantum communication system was completely unfunctional.

Big deal.

Ye Zhou couldn't help but sigh in his heart.

In such an era and technological context, the power of the other party can be seen by creating such a vacuum zone on the borders of the world's strongest countries.

Thinking of this, Ye Zhou alertly pulled out his pistol from his waist, but just as he wanted to continue exploring and moving forward, a man's voice suddenly came from the wooden house beside him.

"I advise you to put down your gun, let's put down your gun, and we can still talk well."

Ye Zhou turned around vigilantly, and what appeared in front of him was a man shrouded in a black robe.

The other party stood in front of Ye Zhou with fearlessness and continued to speak:

"I have arranged a cradle system near this area. As long as my brain activity stops, the system will immediately detonate all bombs. At that time, one hundred and seventy-six innocent ordinary people in this base will go to hell with me."

"So, I advise you not to act rashly. I think you have guessed that what you are fighting against now is definitely not an ordinary kbzz, so please don't treat me with that kind of garbage attitude."

Hearing the man's words, Ye Zhou smiled mockingly and asked back:

"Aren't you trash? Isn't it anti-human enough to destroy other people's lives and trap them in hallucinations to achieve your ulterior motives?"

Looking at Ye Zhou's expression, the man shook his head gently and replied:

"No, you're wrong. It's not that I've trapped them in my hallucinations, it's that they chose their own world."

"I am just an ordinary maker, and everything that happens in that world has nothing to do with me."

"At most, we just want to use some side effects to help our race survive better."

"And, don't you think that in such a world, they are... happy?"

Ye Zhou raised his gun again and pointed it at the man, and spoke sternly:

"That kind of happiness is false. They cannot produce any value. If everyone chooses to turn to the illusion, who will maintain this world?"

"The crisis in the adjacent dimension is far from being resolved. Now you tell me that you have begun to pursue illusory happiness. I can't figure out who gave you the confidence?"

Hearing Ye Zhou's words, the man sighed, took off the hood from his head, and then continued:

"You think of us too badly...How can we do such a stupid thing at this time? It's the opposite of what you think, we are also working hard to save humanity."

"What's the meaning?"

Ye Zhou vigilantly pushed away the insurance on the pistol. He actually did not believe what the man said was the so-called cradle system, because according to the information he obtained from the information flow, in this post-neighboring era, all countries have tightened their weapons control policies, and no organization can quietly transport a batch of dangerous explosives to this sensitive area.

"Do you know, what is the biggest obstacle to space navigation?"

The man didn't mind Ye Zhou's actions at all, but sat down calmly on the steps in front of the wooden house. Before Ye Zhou could answer, he continued.

"It's not speed, energy, or life-sustaining system. All such problems can be solved with our technology. What really cannot be solved is human thinking."

"Human thinking will change. When humans on land begin to enter space and conduct a long space trip, all the morals and rules belonging to the earth will be broken, the old order will collapse, and despair and fear from deep space will swallow everyone, causing them to lose the motivation to move forward in a short period of time."

"We have done countless experiments and tried many methods, including but not limited to hibernation, second ecosystem, relay navigation, etc., but without exception, all these attempts failed."

"In our simulation, no starship flew out for more than a hundred years. Within three generations, everyone in the starship would die due to the melee caused by the collapse of order."

"Later, one of us genius proposed an idea."

"He said that humans are animals on the ground, and it is as difficult to get humans to the universe as fish on the shore."

"Yes, these fish may have evolved amphibious lungs, but they have not evolved amphibious brains."

"So, there is only one way to get these fish to really get to the shore: make them believe they are still in the water."

"Can you guess what we're going to do now?"

"Yes, we are building illusions for them, but the purpose of our illusions is not to immerse them in illusions, but... to make their actions and reality generated by illusions map each other."

"Can you understand that, then?"

"In reality, he may be operating the rudder in the starship, but in the fantasy, he is sailing on the sea surface of the North Atlantic."

"Only in this way, these fish can go on land; only in this way, these fish can win a glimmer of vitality for themselves; only in this way can we break away from this space that has been destroyed by the civilization of the adjacent dimension, find a brand new habitat, and rebuild our civilization."

After hearing the man's words, Ye Zhou tightened the trigger in shock and then asked in an incredible tone:
Chapter completed!