" This broken world is actually the earliest virtual community that Old Gu and I created with the support of the stronghold," Yan Mu said.
"Stronghold? What's that?" Wei Guanqing asked because he had heard this term from Lu Ye before.
"That's the human coalition government during the apocalypse. There's only one government in the entire world, and that's the stronghold.”
"Doomsday?" The two of them asked doubtfully.
Yan Mu looked at the two of them and seemed to have guessed something. He asked,"Does Earth know?"
Wei Guanqing nodded, but Lei Yao shook his head.
"That was the place where humans first lived. There were green trees, fragrant grass, mountains, rivers, warm sun, and when you look up at night, you can see the bright galaxy. There were also all kinds of animals. Anyway, everything you can know about beauty originated from Earth…"
Lei Yao suddenly remembered the world in Wei Guanqing's mind. Was that Earth?
"That was a day that cannot be erased in human history.
Countless sparks fell from the sky with a loud bang. The ground trembled and turned into a sea of fire. The tall buildings were instantly flattened. Weak lives were like ants in front of the natural disaster, with nowhere to escape.
The humans hiding underground were lucky enough to escape, but they also witnessed the end of a thousand-year-old civilization. When they returned to the surface after hiding underground for decades, they found that the world had become dead silent. Above their heads was a haze that could not dissipate. There was no sunlight at all. Deadly dust floated in the air. There were no plants or animals. Humans had become the last life on this planet.”
"You mean those, those beautiful things are gone?”Lei Yao asked.
Yan Mu nodded.
Lei Yao sighed sadly. He didn't expect that he had followed Wei Guanqing all the way here to find a world that had disappeared.
" Sometimes, I have to sigh at how powerful humans are. They were able to find a direction so quickly after the apocalypse, unite as one, and re-establish a new coalition government. Under the efforts of the coalition government, a huge man-made city barrier was built. The outer layer of the barrier was a barrier that could isolate fatal dust, and the barrier contained all the materials and facilities needed for human life. It could be said to be a miracle after the apocalypse.”
" Although the government citizens in the stronghold are strictly divided into classes, in an era where even survival was a problem while hiding underground, being able to become a citizen of the coalition government and live in the stronghold is already a great gift.”
" When my parents first stepped into the stronghold, they were the lowest ranking United Citizens. It was only through their hard work that I was able to obtain an education. Later on, I met Old Gu, my husband Gu Long, at the stronghold's university. He was devastated at the time because his parents had passed away from an incurable disease.”
"An incurable disease? Then what is it?" Lei Yao asked.
" Humans living on Earth, which is the real world, are not made up of codes like our bodies. The human body is very fragile and will be damaged by injuries or diseases. Some diseases are incurable, such as the terminal respiratory disease after the apocalypse. It was a survival problem that all humans had to face before the construction of the stronghold. Once they contracted this disease, they could only wait for death.”
Wei Guanqing looked at Lei Yao, who seemed to be thinking about something.
" Old Gu's parents were suffering from this illness. After his parents passed away, Old Gu always wanted to do something for them. He wanted to do something for the people who had no chance to live in the stronghold and were constantly in danger. Hence, the idea of a virtual community appeared in his mind. It would be great if he could let the human's memories leave the mutated body and live in the virtual world.”
" With Old Gu's efforts, the prototype of the virtual community appeared. I paid attention to him not only because he was a very popular student in the school," Yan Mu said with a blush on his face, as if the high-spirited, handsome senior from back then appeared in front of him." It's also because the courses I studied in school were related to this. After studying his report, I told him some of my opinions about the report.”
" I didn't expect that my opinion would inspire him. At his invitation, I became the second person in this project and later became his wife," Yan Mu said.
"The prototype of the virtual community finally attracted the attention of the government. With the strong support of the government, the virtual community plan was established. "As the main person in charge, we wholeheartedly wanted to recreate that beautiful world that had been destroyed. Seeing the community slowly turn from a concept into a reality, we seemed to see the dawn of success."
" The construction of the community is almost complete, and Old Lin, who is in charge of the human memory project, has also sent good news. They have successfully stripped the memory from the human body and turned it into digital code. How to make the code into a living person and enter the virtual community is my job.”
"It can be said that the operation of all life in the virtual community has passed through my hands, and those cyborgs were created by me code by code. "I've always wanted to create cyborgs that have self-awareness like humans, but every human's core code set is unique and can't be edited or copied. Therefore, no matter how hard I try, I can only make cyborgs look a little smarter. There's still a fundamental difference between them and humans…"
"Is there still a difference?" Lei Yao suddenly asked in a low voice.
Yan Mu glanced at him, his eyes revealing a hesitant light, saying,""All the cyborgs were created by me with painstaking effort. They are like my children. I have memorized everyone's form code.”
" Later, the community entered the testing phase, and the government issued a recruitment notice to the people outside the stronghold. A total of 100,000 people were recruited to participate in the test. In other words, everyone you see here, other than the cyborgs, are volunteers from back then.”
" The test went very smoothly. The government couldn't wait to set up a new world plan. The new world will be a larger virtual community with more resources. Oh, I can't say community because it's so large. Just like its name, it's a world.”
"Then could the place I was in be the new world?”Wei Guanqing asked.
Yan Mu nodded and said,"It should be, but that's already a matter for the future."”
"What do you mean?" Lei Yao asked.
"After the New World Project was established, the coalition government wanted us to continue to be the person in charge of the project, but Old Gu refused. Because the development of the community had almost exhausted his energy, and our son had just been born, he also wanted to spend more time with his family. For him, the virtual community could be said to have completed his mission. We have also handed over all the information regarding the construction of the virtual community to the government. Anyone can use the information to complete the construction of the new world using the community as a template.”
" So we continued to guard the virtual community, but by then, it was already called the old community, corresponding to the new world. " We guarded the old community and updated it occasionally when we had time. Later on, the old community was handed over to someone else to manage. I didn't expect that this was the beginning of all the tragedies.”
Wei Guanqing and Lei Yao pricked up their ears and listened attentively when they heard the ups and downs of the plot.
"Ever since Old Gu let go, he rarely went to the old community base, but that day, he happened to pass by the base and went in to check. He discovered that the codes of some people in the old community had been modified and implanted with a control program. He could only suspect that it was an order from the coalition government. However, when the plan was established, they had already discussed this issue, and the coalition government had agreed to his conditions. All people who lived in the virtual community would be 100% free without any restrictions.”
"Ever since Old Gu accidentally discovered this matter, we began to receive warnings from unknown people, telling us to stay out of this matter. However, Old Gu was not the kind of person who would give in. The old community was his hard work, and he would not let anyone ruin his achievements. With Old Lin's help, we discovered more secrets. Someone tried to use the virus to interfere with the human code group to remove the taboo of the core code group.”
"Virus body!" Lei Yao couldn't help but shout.
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