According to Nolan's description, in the last few reincarnations, the world was coming to an end without exception.
"Wasn't it like this before?" Hao Ren heard the deeper meaning in Nolan's words and immediately asked.
"Before? At the beginning? "Nolan thought for a moment." It wasn't like this at the beginning. In my memory, the earliest 'scripts' were very peaceful. Although the situation of the world reset was very strange, the world was very safe after each reset. There was no war at that time, the world was peaceful, and usually very prosperous. Now that I think about it, apart from being a little boring, life at that time was peaceful and comfortable, even so comfortable that it made people sleepy. Sometimes I lived with my family in a big house in the mountains, and sometimes I was a safe and prosperous citizen. I remember that I was even the daughter of a president and the princess of a small country on the sea. That was an era without war at all. "
Hao Ren listened in amazement. He thought that every reincarnation of the world was the end of the world. He did not expect that the deepest part of Nolan's memory turned out to be a pastoral era. He paused and asked, "When did the world go to war?"
"I can't remember," Nolan said softly. "You know, it's very difficult to remember the exact time in the reincarnation. I can only roughly infer that it was in the middle of my memory. Three or four thousand years ago or a little earlier, every reincarnation of the world began to become dangerous. At first, there were sporadic wars in the 'scripts,' and then natural and man-made disasters when the reset was coming. Later, it developed into large-scale wars and even genocidal wars. In the last dozens of reincarnations, the world showed signs of coming to an end before the reset, with a symbolic catastrophe as the beginning. "
"Nanomachine Swarm out of control …" Hao Ren whispered. "This event itself may be an illusion, but it has a symbolic meaning. Perhaps it represents the direction of the world, or some kind of 'main line'?"
"The world is a ridiculous stage play," Nolan said with a poker face. "Maybe the director of this stage play likes disaster movies recently."
Nolan liked to describe the world as a stage, and she used "script", "director", and "plot" to describe everything she had experienced. Now, Hao Ren also agreed with this statement. But he had other thoughts. "Have you tried to contact the people in the 'real world' or the 'conscious world'?"
"You mean those 'people' who are controlling the stage from outside?" Nolan looked into Hao Ren's eyes and suddenly smiled. "I tried, many, many years ago, but it was useless. No one responded. No matter how much noise I made, even if I detonated a nuclear bomb in the city or blew up the entire continental shelf, it was useless. No one responded to me. They would only press the restart button silently and replace the broken stage with a new one. It is unrealistic to want to 'wake up'. We are all trapped here, and we are part of this script. The person who holds the script does not care about the little complaints of us characters. "
"It sounds a bit like giving up," Hao Ren sighed. "If possible, the only way is to get in touch with the 'conscious world'."
He felt that things were in a dilemma. In the real Plane of Dreams, he could not locate the location of Zorm. In this' false stage ', he could not get in touch with the real world. If he wanted to wake up here, he could only sit up in the hibernation pod at home. Some sleeping law prevented him from getting in touch with the world behind the scenes. Although it seemed to be covered by a thin layer of black veil, he could not get a hold of it.
It made one anxious to the point of scratching one's heart and liver.
Nolan heard that Hao Ren was interested in the conscious world and immediately warned him sternly. "Don't try it rashly, and don't even think about it too much in your mind. That's how Khiton went crazy. I tried it once before, and my brain was severely damaged. I spent four years lying in the hospital. There must be some mechanism in this world that prevents us from leaving this place. It's some kind of irresistible mechanism. "
"Seriously damaged brain?!" Hao Ren was startled. "That is to say, this world will have an active response to the idea of human 'leaving'?"
Nolan was startled by Hao Ren's eager eyes. "What do you want to do?"
Hao Ren looked excited. "If I study this' active response ', isn't it tantamount to going against the controller behind the scenes of the world?"
"I advise you to give up this idea immediately." Nolan frowned. "Let's not talk about where you start first. Are you sure that the controller behind the scenes of the world will be interested in a small 'role'? I even suspect that the 'director' deliberately kept the memory of the Awakened like you and me, just to increase the fun. "
Hao Ren hugged his head and leaned back on the frame of the mountain bike. He exhaled softly. "If that's the case, then it's really a bad 'director'."
Nolan's warning did not mean much to him. No matter who or what was behind the scenes of the world, 'it' was unlikely to affect a spiritual avatar. Hao Ren was glad that he was teleported in through a dream, and there was a set of advanced Xi Ling hibernation equipment in the real world as a security lock. He was not afraid of the world's counterattack. But before launching an 'attack', he first had to find the key to talk to the behind-the-scenes controller of this world.
"Nanomachine Swarm …" Hao Ren mentioned it again. He thought of the mysterious voice he heard when he entered the ruins of the north. His intuition told him that it was probably what he was looking for. "This world has come to an end in the recent reincarnations without exception. Nolan, do you think it's simply because someone who wrote the script has a bad hobby?"
Nolan looked at Hao Ren curiously. "You mean …"
"Even if you like to watch disaster movies, you'll throw up after watching it dozens of times," Hao Ren said slowly. "I'm more inclined to think that the behind-the-scenes controller of this world is incapable of controlling the overall situation. Maybe there's something wrong with his program, causing the world to collapse after a while. You said that the world was peaceful in the first reincarnations. It looks like a paradise to me. I don't think a 'person' who could create such a paradise world would suddenly change his temperament and cause the end of the world. "
Nolan did not say anything. She just quietly looked at Hao Ren for a while. She felt that the man in front of her was too naive, but she had no intention of correcting him. She believed that as long as Hao Ren experienced a few more reincarnations and a few more wars, he would become like her.
Nolan was once naive, and she had died more than once because of this naivety. Now she looked young, but her heart had been weathered and hardened. After the excitement of meeting "companions" for the first time faded, she shifted her attention away from exploring the nature of the world and began to think about what the three of them would do next.
"The situation in this reincarnation is worse than before. It seems that we've been thrown into the battlefield from the beginning," Nolan whispered, rubbing her forehead. "If I remember correctly, the 'script' this time is like this: the aerospace technology of this planet is in a state of deformity. A huge 'Chosen One Empire' controls all the cutting-edge technology and prohibits' mortal countries' from launching high-orbit spacecraft into the sky. Those who conduct aerospace research without permission are called extreme aerospace elements by this empire and are strangled like terrorists. At this point in time, there is a serious internal struggle for imperial power in the 'Chosen One Empire'. Some of the technological information has also been leaked by the progressive nobles, and other countries in the world are uniting to plot against the hegemon. Perhaps soon there will be a world war here, and the scale will not be smaller than the 60-year war in the last reincarnation. "
"What's your identity this time?" Hao Ren asked casually.
"A freedom fighter driving a modified car on a rampage." Nolan patted the big tire she was leaning against. "To put it bluntly, I should be a wandering bandit. This time, I'm here to help guard the secret base for a high commission. But I just left my employer and ran away, so there should be some trouble next. But don't worry, I'm used to it … Every time the world resets, I'll be flustered for a while. Retaining the memory of reincarnation also comes with a price. I can't integrate well into the new role. "
Nolan smiled bitterly and shook her head. Then she suddenly remembered something. "Oh yes, a reminder, you may meet Gray Fox's companions … Although I'm sorry, they may not be our companions this time. If they are enemies … Make it as easy as possible for them. "
The MDT, who was examining its own leg not far away, suddenly interjected. "Is there a need for that?"
"This is to keep myself alive." Nolan was expressionless. "Sooner or later the world will reset anyway, what's the use of keeping so many emotions? 'Naivety' is the first thing to be discarded. "
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