In the summer of Year 65 of the 37th Constitution Calendar, the Federation's most wanted criminal, Uncle Feng Yu, who was determined by the Central Computer to be in the first sequence of events, was turned into a pile of ash by the West Woods Military's Ancient Bell. That night, his apprentice, his little sidekick Xu Le, accompanied by a thunderstorm, accompanied by a painful howl, replaced the chip in the metal bracelet on his wrist with the back of his neck.
From that moment on, Donglin orphan Xu Le died, and the young retired soldier Xu Le was born.
No one in this world knew that at the moment Xu Le replaced the chip, in the distant capital ring, planet S1, in the core area of the Bureau of Proclamation on the outskirts of the special zone, the Federal Central Computer had made the following response.
"Citizen number: DLAS420500481X, information node missing, name: Xu Le, remarks: Federation 4427, target 2, death confirmed."
"Warning: This is an extension of the first sequence of events."
"Serious warning: 30% chance that citizen Xu Le has entered an abnormal situation, serial number 72. Citizen Xu Le has entered an abnormal situation, serial number 72."
"Response: Search on your own. If you can find them, initiate contact. If the target refuses, establish an observation system and submit a report for the government's reference."
"Abnormal situation handling program one, end."
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More than a year later, the first abnormal situation handling program was restarted.
Although the Federal Central Computer had determined that Xu Le orphan from Donglin orphan had a 30% chance of entering an abnormal situation, and Xu Le, the gatekeeper from Linhai prefecture, had overlapping information with the former, so the possibility of entering an abnormal situation was even lower. However, the Central Computer was still silently and faithfully executing the program. It constantly tried to relocate the damaged information node through the huge network across countless galaxies, trying to form an active contact mode with the other party.
In the Central Computer's records, there had been 72 abnormal situations or suspected abnormal situations in history, all of which were first sequence events. In the Central Computer's operational priority level, they were absolute priority.
The brilliance of the charter tried to separate a little bit, approaching Xu Le who existed in this world like dust. Therefore, the words of those white light talismans began to repeat over and over again, appearing in that space with a dark background, appearing in front of his eyes … However, there was no response, because he was unable to make any response.
"Initiate contact. Do you accept?"
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After an unknown amount of time, in the spacious room deep inside the building of the Bureau of Proclamation, a row of tiny cursor characters appeared below the two-dimensional projection light screen.
"Initiating contact has failed. Determining if the other party refuses."
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Xu Le, who was in a coma and in a dream, did not know that he had begun some kind of contact with the most advanced technological civilization in human society. In his dream, he stared blankly at the light talisman in front of him that kept disappearing and condensing. Then, he realized that the light talisman had disappeared. In an instant, a feeling called loss began to spread in this space.
The disappearance of the light talisman was actually the Central Computer determining that the other party did not accept the initiating contact and began the next step of the program activation. If it determined that Xu Le had refused the initiating contact, according to the first abnormal situation handling procedure, the Central Computer would establish an observation system. At the same time, it would produce a situation report in the shortest amount of time and submit it to the Federation government for reference.
Without a doubt, if a detailed report on Xu Le really appeared in the Bureau of Proclamation, it would definitely arouse the suspicion of many people. The past and history of this fake identity would all be dug up. In front of the Federation's pervasive state apparatus, Xu Le would definitely not be able to perfectly play the role of a retired soldier. The true identity of a fugitive from the Federation would be exposed in the light of day, and he would face the severe consequences of the first sequence of events that would follow.
This moment was the most critical moment since Xu Le's escape. The most dangerous moment might be in the next second. While he was still in the dark dream, he would face the pursuit and assassination of everywhere, just like Uncle Feng Yu in the past.
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The Central Computer's program paused for a moment at this moment, and then it gave the most logical judgment it thought.
"Denied."
"Initiating the second type of contact."
In the unconscious Xu Le, there were no abnormal changes to the nerves in his cerebral cortex. The microchip behind his neck was determined to be damaged, and the Central Computer seemed to be able to sense the changes in his brainwaves through a certain method through the microchip. From this, it confirmed that Xu Le did not reject its suggestion to initiate contact, but rather … due to some reason, the other party was unable to respond.
At this moment, the Central Computer determined that the target it was constantly searching for was in a completely unconscious state. In other words, it was commonly used in human society to describe a person in a vegetative state.
The crystallization of incomparably advanced human technology, the incomparably advanced monitoring methods, and the incomparably mechanical extension of the program finally allowed the Central Computer to come up with a mechanical and laughable conclusion, but it was also the conclusion that was most likely to be closest to the truth.
It had to be said that Xu Le's luck played the most important role in this moment. And following the activation of the second type of contact program of the Central Computer, even more miraculous things began to happen to his body.
Countless scenes began to be instilled into his mind through the microchip. Although these scenes would occasionally distort and be interrupted, they continued to steadily pour in and flash before his eyes.
What was the second type of contact?
No one knew.
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Xu Le was unable to wake up from his black dream. He could only look at the endless darkness. Black represented nothingness, represented death, and represented nothing. Then he saw an image. In the image, a young woman wearing a white nightgown was holding a baby. The young woman's face was filled with unquestionable love, as if she could not wait to devote all of her life to the baby in her arms.
This was the most cherished mother-child kinship of mankind.
Xu Le was an orphan. He had lost his parents and sister when he was very young. He missed them, but he had to admit that the faces of his family had long been blurred in his heart. He looked at the mother-child pair in the image and felt slightly envious, but did not have too strong of a reaction.
That unknown existence seemed to have sensed this. A second image appeared before his eyes. It was a group of children running and kicking a ball on the grass. This represented youth, represented friendship.
Xu Le did not have many friends. He cherished them, but did not have much of a reaction.
In the black dream, those strange images appeared more and more, and the speed at which they appeared became faster and faster. They filled the entire space. Those images showed the most spectacular snowy mountains on the West Woods planet, the magnificent red rocks in the S3 desert in the Upper Forest, the beautiful lakes in the outskirts of Philadelphia, and even more so, the endless starry sky that gave people a sense of awe and reverence. Those stars that had existed in the universe for hundreds of millions of years seemed to exist forever.
In the black dream, the layer of red artificial dust above the planet of the East Forest Region appeared, and the open-air mine pits that were barely visible under the dust appeared. Those mines had made great contributions to human civilization, and now they lay quietly in the green grassland. They looked like gunshot marks on the planet, and there was a breathtaking beauty to them.
Xu Le felt that it was very familiar. His heart ached, but he subconsciously felt conflicted. Along with his emotions and the subtle reactions in his cerebral cortex, the scene in the black dream changed again. It turned into expensive cars, into delicious delicacies from all over the world, into champagne with tiny bubbles rising from it, and into hard liquor with a sweet taste in its amber color …
Countless bright and beautiful colors appeared in the black dream. Those were women. There were all kinds of women. There were female students with long canine teeth and ponytails wearing student uniforms. There were upper-class women in formal wear who walked slowly. There were young girls wearing tennis skirts with their bare thighs and exuding a youthful aura …
Mature, young, beautiful, bashful, sunny, delicate, clothed, partially undone, completely naked and seductive … Women followed the bright images and walked gently.
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The images in the black dream included the aspects that humans valued the most and desired the most. However, they were still not enough to cause the muddle-headed Xu Le to have too strong of a reaction.
The rapid influx of images and data caused the entire Dark Dream Space to become somewhat unstable. Countless invisible cracks seemed to be tearing at something. Xu Le couldn't feel his body, but he felt an unbearable pain. He wanted to cry, he wanted to scream, but there were no tears, and he couldn't make a single sound.
In the black dream, the constantly flashing images served to accentuate the loneliness of his consciousness. While he was lonely, he still had to endure such pain. The space was expanding, as if it could explode at any moment … If it wasn't for Xu Le's consciousness existing in the dream being as tenacious and tenacious as his body, perhaps he would have already gone mad.
He had to remember something, grab hold of something. At this time, in the rapidly flashing images, a chip board appeared. The tiny solder points on it glowed faintly against the black background.
With a single thought, the switching of images slowed down.
All sorts of tools with their shells removed, those familiar household appliances that had accompanied him for many years, those exposed circuit boards, those hard metal brackets, those blueprints, those precise equipment in the control room — all of them were displayed in the black space in the form of images.
He stared at one of the blueprints and studied it carefully. That unexplainable pain finally subsided a little. He felt that the lines and structure on the blueprints were very familiar.
It was an M52, a black M52. It was the military mecha that had broken through the wall in the underground parking lot of the gymnasium!
With a single thought, countless blueprints of the internal structure of the mecha flew in from the periphery of the black space like snowflakes. They flew in front of his eyes and into his mind, as if they were very happy to have found something that he could focus on.
He had seen some of the blueprints before, but he had never seen most of them before. Those circuits and design ideas were so novel, and those control system designs were so … beautiful.
Xu Le stared at everything in front of him in a daze. He gradually remembered some of it, but began to look greedily at those images. However, the images moved faster and faster, so fast that he could not see them clearly at all. But strangely, these images that entered the black dream seemed to exist in his mind …
The images flowed in faster and faster. The space of the black dream could not hold on any longer and shattered into countless pieces. That intense pain returned to Xu Le's mind. With a buzz, he fainted, fainting in the dream.
But he woke up in reality.
The black dream shattered, and a white light descended upon the human world. He narrowed his eyes and looked at the faint sunlight coming in through the window. He saw the girl wearing a white gauze dress under the sunlight. He saw that smear of purple. He remembered what had happened before he fainted, but subconsciously judged that he was still dreaming.
If it was not a dream, how could he see this smear of purple?
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