To be honest, Lu Zhou felt like he was on a roller coaster.
Moreover, it was the kind that climbed to the top of the slope and fell head first down.
After floating in the endless darkness for a long time, suddenly a feeling of being captured by gravity came from the edge of his consciousness. Under the pull of this gravity, a faint light source soon appeared in Lu Zhou's field of vision.
Gradually, the light source got closer.
It was close to the place where he could reach out his hand.
Just as Lu Zhou was thinking about what the system wanted to convey to him, a huge pulling force suddenly pulled him toward the faint light source.
As if breaking through the clouds, the moment he hit the light source, everything in his field of vision suddenly became clear.
Sense of touch, smell, taste …
All five senses returned.
The strong wind blowing in his face made Lu Zhou squint his eyes subconsciously. It was not until he struggled to overcome the raging airflow that he opened his eyes with difficulty...
Then, he was deeply shocked by everything in front of him.
"Where... is this?!"
Muttering to himself, every inch of his pupils was filled with shock. So much so that Lu Zhou even forgot his current situation. He was falling from an altitude of who knows how many thousands of meters...
This was a strange and dazzling world.
The boundless land was filled with a forest of steel in the truest sense of the word.
Minimalist and heavily homogenized black obelisks exuded a cold air, like skyscrapers standing in the empty wilderness. Every inch of the metal-covered land exuded a unique luster of metal. Every "street" was as steep as a ruler. Looking down, it looked like a blank chessboard.
If one only looked at it from the outside, it looked like a city.
However, Lu Zhou, who was looking down from the sky, couldn't feel even the slightest breath that belonged to a living being.
Not even the feeling that there had once been a living person.
How should he put it?
If he was allowed to live here, he would probably go crazy in a few days.
There was no other reason.
It was like a tomb.
It was as if those "skyscrapers" were not built for living people, but tombstones used to mourn something.
For some reason, Lu Zhou suddenly thought of Asimov's "Base", the description of the Milky Way's capital, Chuantuo. Although most of the people in the Imperial Capital lived underground, living and working in small cubicles of a few square meters, the Empire was not completely devoid of achievements on the surface. Steel and industrial facilities covered every inch of soil. The entire planet did not look like a planet, but more like a huge man-made object …
Lu Zhou wasn't sure if Amosif's future world was as strict and minimalistic as this place, but in terms of development, everything in front of him was indeed very similar to the destroyed Chuantuo …
There wasn't much time left for Lu Zhou to think.
The powerful gravitational force pulled him out of the void and threw him to the surface in less than a few breaths.
Just when Lu Zhou closed his eyes and held his breath, the miserable scene of a squashed tomato didn't happen.
A gentle force stopped him, allowing him to decelerate before he reached the surface.
When Lu Zhou felt the gentle force, his pupils contracted, and a hint of excitement appeared in his eyes.
"Anti-gravity?!"
"No … This isn't reality, what the f * ck am I talking about?"
This was the world of consciousness.
Although for some reason, the system returned his five senses to him, this still didn't change the fact that his body was still on a soft bed in the Corinthia Hotel in St. Petersburg, Russia …
Forget about technology that was beyond common sense, even magic wouldn't be strange, right?
Just like the VR online games in sci-fi movies, copying the laws of physics in reality would make people feel like there was something wrong with it. Choking with emotion, Lu Zhou felt like he was choking.
His feet finally touched solid ground.
Without indulging in the sense of security of returning to the surface, Lu Zhou calmed down a little and began to look around and inspect the surrounding environment.
As a matter of fact, when he was in the "city" and stood at the foot of the steep obelisks, he deeply felt the majesty of this huge man-made structure.
The walls were made of unknown materials, but they were as smooth and steep as a mirror, without a single flaw.
"Strange design …"
When Lu Zhou reached out and touched the smooth black wall, he suddenly had a look of shock on his face.
Although his experience was not enough to judge the level of the material's mirror-like surface, his intuition told him that such a large area of polishing and seamless splicing was almost impossible with modern industrial technology.
This was more than just technology that was two eras ahead.
Of course, this wasn't the most shocking thing.
In a gravitational environment, to be able to make metal, or material that seemed to be metal, maintain such a steep shape and extend thousands of meters from the surface to the sky … At least in Lu Zhou's knowledge, this kind of material and engineering technology should not exist on Earth.
Intuition told Lu Zhou that this should not be completely fabricated in the Space of Consciousness.
After all, the thing in the inventory was called "Void Memory", not "Void Game" or "Void Movie". At least so far, although this broken system was a bit honest when it deceived him, it was not to the extent of using false advertising to deceive him …
His right hand touched the smooth surface of the mirror. He didn't know what switch he had touched, but a tiny gap suddenly appeared on the metal wall that was as smooth as a mirror. Soon, the large metal plate turned into rolling cubes and spread to the side, opening up a path.
Looking at this strange scene, Lu Zhou subconsciously hesitated for two seconds.
However, since he was in the Space of Consciousness, even if something went wrong, it would not threaten his body in reality. He took a deep breath and summoned the courage to walk in.
The interior of the building was very spacious.
Sharp-shaped black metal strips fell from the ceiling more than ten meters high and went straight to the floor.
Blue light spots flickered according to a certain pattern, scattered on the surface of these blade-shaped metal strips, connected by delicate and steep engraved lines.
And this, was the only light source in this dark space.
For some reason, looking at this scene in front of him, Lu Zhou suddenly thought of the mainframe of the server. And at the moment when he made this connection, an even more terrifying thought suddenly appeared in his mind.
Maybe …
The building he walked into was itself a huge computer with countless chips integrated into it.
In fact, the enormous artificial aggregation that he mistook as a "city" was itself a huge integrated circuit made of countless processors. It was a "city-level" or even a "planetary-level" array computer that encompassed everything …
After all, even when he came down from ten thousand meters high, he did not really see the boundary of this city.
"… Unbelievable, what level of data is this that requires such a huge computer to process."
Muttering to himself, Lu Zhou carefully walked through the rows of blade-shaped chip racks and walked into the depths of the building.
It didn't take long for Lu Zhou to arrive at the area suspected to be the center of the building.
This was a circular space, the ceiling was much lower than the previous room, only four or five meters high. And sitting in the middle of the room was a pool of water that exuded a light blue halo.
Lu Zhou walked to the edge of the pool and looked down. The light blue arc did not belong to the pool itself, but it was projected from the bottom of the pool.
A veil-like mist slowly floated out from the edge of the pool, exuding a bone-chilling aura. The pool in front of him was only a very shallow layer, but this dense layer of mist rendered the vision of a bone-chilling cold.
Although he did not undergo rigorous experiments, his accumulated experience in the laboratory and his trained intuition told him that the liquid flowing here might be extremely low temperature liquid helium.
As for the purpose …
It was probably used to cool down the thousands of "blades" in this building.
Lu Zhou stood at the edge of the pool and looked at it for a while. He was about to leave and walk around to learn from the engineering experience here. Suddenly, he vaguely saw something at the bottom of the pool.
"… Is there something hidden under here?"
Lu Zhou frowned and squatted down.
He saw a cube the size of a Rubik's Cube quietly lying under the pool.
Suddenly, a crazy idea came to his mind.
Should I take it out and take a look?
As soon as this thought popped up, it got out of hand.
It's just a body of consciousness.
Even if it hurts, it won't affect the real world …
Lu Zhou took a deep breath and made up his mind. He mustered all of his courage and did something stupid that he would never do a second time in his life. He put his hands into the cold liquid helium.
Almost as soon as his hands touched the surface of the liquid.
The entire pool seemed to come to life as it began to jump wildly.
"It's a superfluid!"
The liquid helium instantly vaporized. Because of the Leighton Frost effect, a layer of steam formed on the surface of his hands, blocking out the surging cold.
However, this obviously wouldn't last long.
Lu Zhou didn't have time to be surprised. He clenched his teeth and endured the soul-tearing pain as he took out the cube from the bottom of the pool.
"Ahhh!!!"
The cube left the water.
Lu Zhou, who was sitting on the ground, quickly moved away from the edge of the pool.
He looked at the tumbling pool water and let out a sigh of relief. He ignored his completely frozen hands and looked at the cube in his hand.
With the faint light from the ceiling, he could barely see that the cube was golden in color, and on the smooth mirror-like surface, he could see the same hollow pattern as the blade-shaped servers outside, as well as the tiny light spots that dotted the surface like stars.
If he got closer, he could even hear the subtle buzzing coming from the cube.
At this moment, Lu Zhou finally remembered where he had seen this thing before.
Although it wasn't golden in color, it was black as if it had been burnt …
Almost at the same time, a huge gravitational force suddenly attacked him from behind without warning.
It was as if the surrounding scene was being torn apart by the gravitational force, falling apart in the boundless void …
"Is it time?"
Before he could even let out a sigh, the golden cube shattered into countless spots of light and was sucked away by the invisible abyss along with his scattered body.
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