First Player

  【"Butterfly, butterfly, why did you die?"】

“Are you a wing born from breaking, a firefly that flutters into the fire to be burned to death?”]

“Is it the tentacles that heal due to bleeding, or the head that grows for beheading?”]

  【"You succumb to the darkness that already exists."】

　　　「“You succumb to the dawn that does not yet exist.”]

 …

 I opened my eyes.

There is a rosin-like smell floating in the air. This smell is very familiar to me. It is the smell of formalin.

I have hidden formalin in my cabinet and conducted experiments with formalin.

…Um? wrong.

 I did hide formalin in the cabinet, which Yue Yue and I got. But I have never done any experiments on formalin. Why would I have such an idea?

 After thinking for a moment, I realized that this was the effect of the "possession state" on me. The thought of this body affects me, but it is harmless and helps me think about the identity and temperament of this body.

 I looked around, and it was pitch black. It was a completely dark room, with only the clock ticking, ticking.

 …The young man said that he wanted to teleport me to a safe place, so where is this place?

 I quickly touched the light switch on the wall, and the room lit up. The brain, eyes, heart, stomach and other organs are floating in jars of bright green liquid. This looks like a room where human organs are stored.

…but.

 I frowned, the feeling of déjà vu getting stronger and stronger in my mind.

 …Why does this scene look so familiar? I seem to have seen it somewhere...

 I captured the fragmented light and shadow in my mind, until a call came from outside the door -

"-PhD!"

A girl in a white coat pushed open the door. Her eyes were beautiful green and she had a name tag on her chest. She was about seventeen or eighteen years old.

At this moment, I felt that the pictures in my mind seemed to overlap in some way. I stared at her face so keenly that I almost thought I was in a dream.

The girl smiled at me: "Dr. Li, the gods began to take action, and a large number of old god's books were burned. Fortunately, you escaped, we are the safest here."

 I followed the girl out of the room.

 Walking through the long corridor, a group of children were sitting in the classroom reading. Outside the window is an ice-white scene, with white clouds, white ground, and white buildings. The setting sun is sliding down obliquely, and the walls reflect the color of the burning clouds. The children read poems aloud with bright eyes:

 “Do not go gentle into that good night,

 Old people should burn and cry to the sunset,



I looked sideways at the girl and couldn't help but ask:

 “Is your name…Xiaohan?”

The girl was stunned for a moment, then pointed her finger at the name tag on her chest: "I am the 2024th android of the 'Ark Project', and my mission is to assist you in the Millennium Project. When I was born, the name given to me by the manufacturer was indeed ' Osamu'. Doctor, how could you forget this?"

 “Who made you?”

 “Old God.” The girl said.

 The strange feeling in my heart is getting stronger and stronger. I have never met the old god, I only know about him in the classics. I know nothing about the disposition of the old gods or what they have done. I've always thought of the Old Gods as characters who lived in the background, like the long-dead Asa Aktor.

 But these words of the android Xiaohan... made me feel that the old gods are more like myself. Only I can remember that there once was a girl named "Xiaohan".

　　Am I going to go back to the ancient times and become the old **** myself?

 This is unlikely. The time ouroboros in the ruined world is because the entire world is between virtual dimensions, but the tower of the old world cannot change the history of thousands of years ago. So...why do the Old Gods look so much like me?

 At this time, the reading sound in the classroom suddenly stopped. A teenager put down his book, ran out of the classroom, and walked up to me. The boy was wearing an ultra-modern uniform, his eyes were narrow and dull, and he looked up at me.

I had a vague idea of ​​who he was, the look in his eyes... looked so much like a person.

 After looking at each other for a moment, the young man spoke:

 “My identity is that of a saint, I don’t have any special skills.”

I called out who he was: "Lu Shu."

It seems that Lu Shu has possessed a child, so that’s good, let’s meet up.

 …

 I learned a lot of things.

The location I am in is called the "Life Hard Drive Center Experimental City". It is currently the safest and most secretive place in the world - its mission is to store the Life Hard Drive, collect thousands of years of negative emotions and convert them into energy, and when the old ones are old after a thousand years When the **** wakes up, the old **** can take over the life hard drive and build an utopia.

 This is also the main content of the Millennium Plan.

 This experimental city where I am should be called "Nine Netherworld" a thousand years later.

At present, the Millennium Project has not yet begun, and this place is equivalent to an empty shell, only serving as a shelter and housing many talented children.

 In a hall full of surveillance screens, I met a man in his twenties.

 The man is elegant and dignified in appearance, wearing a brown and black round hat. His name is Xia Jiawen, and he is the fifth person in charge of the Millennium Project. He is stationed here, waiting for the day when the Millennium Project will be officially launched.

 As for the person I possess, his name is Li Mingyue, and he is the fourth person in charge. My appearance is the same as it will be a thousand years ago, but I remember that Li Mingyue should have white hair, but at this time I have black hair, and there is no trace of the church in my clothing, but a white coat of a scientific researcher.

 This makes me feel wrong.

 Thousands of years later, people who are full of religious atmosphere were only born for science a thousand years ago and did not touch the mysteries. It turns out that a person can really undergo such a subversive transformation over a long period of time.

“Dr. Li, are you okay? I heard that you escaped through teleportation.” Xia Jiawen took a few steps closer.

 “I’m fine.” I looked at the room with a little emotion. Tens of thousands of monitoring screens are in a dormant state, and the flower pots on the high platform are empty, without the white morning flowers picked by Su Wensheng a thousand years later. Everything is original.     Everything has not begun yet.

 I have come to the beginning.

 The Millennium Plan spans a long period of time, involves a wide range of things, and is related to the destiny of the entire civilization. Under the manager, there are tens of millions of service workers, scientific researchers, soldiers, and politicians. The efforts of tens of millions of people allowed the plan to be implemented, and countless preparations were made.

In order to hide it from the high-dimensionalists, there are only about twenty people with real knowledge of the plan, and each person is responsible for a different section. This is to prevent someone from revealing the entire plan if they are caught. The entire Millennium Plan includes a preparation period, a beginning period, an ongoing period, and a completion period. Even if there are errors or omissions in any link, other links can be made up for in a saturated manner.

For example, the fourth manager I possess, Li Mingyue, is responsible for "recording, researching and passing on spirits and rules". In short, "writing a rule book". Therefore, my information is limited to this, and I cannot know the full picture of the Millennium Plan. For example, aspects such as "What is the essence of the life hard drive" and "Why the old gods will surely wake up after a thousand years" are not the areas I am responsible for.

 In layman’s terms, this is a saturation plan. No matter who has a problem, more people can take care of it, and the whole situation will not collapse just because someone is lost. At the same time, this is also a divided plan. Except for the first and second managers who know the full picture of the Millennium Plan, the remaining tens of millions of actors only need to do their own part and listen to the plan one by one. Orders passed from superiors.

 …Its scale is huge, it spans a long time, its involvement is vast, and its influence is far-reaching, it is difficult to imagine.

 But I can imagine the pressure on the thirteen managers—they only live a hundred years, but they have to arrange their plans until a thousand years later. Even if they can’t see the light themselves.

 Xia Jiawen opened a cabinet.

 I saw many decorations in the cabinet. Light balls, six-pointed stars, ribbons. How could such a serious experimental city store such gadgets?

 “This is it?” I asked.

"Tomorrow is the Peace Festival." Xia Jiawen squatted down and packed up these small things, with a nostalgic emotion on his face: "The children have made a lot of preparations for the festival. It's time to give these small trinkets to them. I want to give them to the children. Have a happy Christmas Day.”

 Happiness Festival should be a festival in the old world, similar to Christmas and Lucky Fate.

 I think Xia Jiawen is really a gentle person.

As the fifth person in charge, Xia Jiawen is responsible for the section of "Garrisoning the Life Hard Drive Center Experimental City and assisting the sleep of the Life Hard Drive". In layman's terms, it is the security of the Experimental City (Nine Nether) - before the plan begins, Xia Jiawen needs Guard Jiuyou, train future generations of successors, and assist in completing the central content of the plan. After the plan started, he needed to immediately seal off Jiuyou, reincarnate and wait here for generations, and maintain the basic operation of Jiuyou until the arrival of the old gods a thousand years later.

This mission is lonely and painful. Once the plan starts, everyone in Jiuyou will not be able to leave Jiuyou in this life. They can only wait and be isolated from the world for the rest of their lives. No one will know that there is such a group of people in Jiuyou. Many generations of people can only stay here from birth to death, like generations of island guards stationed on a remote island.

 …This makes me sad.

 Thousands of years later, I have never heard of them shouldering such a responsibility. They got nothing from fame and fortune, and their lives from generation to generation were dedicated to waiting.

At this time, I finally understood why Jiuyou looked like that a thousand years later - the experimental city was obviously uninhabited, but there were devices everywhere that facilitated human life, such as cars that opened automatically, coffee that came out of the oven automatically, and robots that cleaned up garbage... In fact, All prepared for Xia Jiawen and his descendants.

 After all, they are going to live here their whole lives.

 But clearly something unexpected happened. Thousands of years later, Xia Jiawen and the others could not wait in Jiuyou. If I had followed the plan, when I arrived at Jiuyou, there would be reincarnated descendants of Xia Jiawen and others to guide me and prevent me from awakening the overlapping shadow, but there was no such thing.

 Thousands of years ago people took almost every situation into consideration. It's a pity that the time span is too big, many plans failed in the long years, and Jiuyou was finally empty.

Xia Jiawen held the light ball, took a long step, and walked outside.

“By the way, Teacher Xia, are these surveillance screens...?” I immediately caught up and pointed at the tens of thousands of surveillance screens around me.

Xia Jiawen explained:

"The section I am responsible for includes the four major tasks of guarding Jiuyou, cultivating reincarnated heirs, cultivating old **** carriers, and establishing a monitoring room. I need to build a monitoring room that can monitor every corner of the world. It has been initially set up, but for the time being It cannot be operated because technology has not yet developed to monitor without signals. But the first manager said that he will eventually come to Jiuyou to help run this monitoring room. I don’t know what means he will use. "

Xia Jiawen spoke eloquently for several paragraphs, which was very easy to understand and I could understand it.

I guess that the first person in charge is the "General Qin" who often appears in myths.

 “How can I help?” I asked. Although I can't study the spirit of speech for the time being, I may be able to help.

The thirteen of us managers must trust each other, even to the point of trusting each other for life and death, which is comparable to the nine seats in the ruined world. However, the responsibility for the ruined world falls almost entirely on Akto, but the thirteen managers each have their own responsibilities.

Xia Jiawen raised his eyebrows and put a silver bell into my hand.

"Of course you can help." Xia Jiawen smiled: "I haven't seen you for a long time since the preparations for the Millennium Project began. Come and decorate the peace tree with me tomorrow."

  …Such a simple task really takes care of me.

 I looked at the bell in my palm.

It is just an ordinary decorative bell, and as my palm trembles slightly, it jingles.

Tens of thousands of surveillance screens reflect Xia Jiawen and I, like dim prisms, shining on the future a thousand years later.

Facing Xia Jiawen's smile, I fiddled with the bell, as if I heard the faint laughter deep in time and space.

 …

　　【Day·First Day】

 【Possessed character: Li Mingyue (the fourth manager)】

 【Responsible direction: recording, research and inheritance of words and rules】

　　【Complete the plot and you will receive a reward: career upgrade】

 【Current plot direction: God announces the erasure of history→Teleport and escape into the Experimental City (Nine Nether)】

 …

 After I made it clear that I didn’t want to be idle, Xia Jiawen proposed that I become a teacher. After all, the task of "cultivating reincarnation heirs" is the most important. Xia Jiawen's main task is actually to teach children.

I stood on the podium and read the lesson plan in my hand:

“We will be reincarnated after death. Therefore, we need to pay attention to people who are suitable to take over the hard drive of the life of the manager. They are named [qualified persons], which means [contemporary managers] in the cycle of reincarnation from generation to generation.”

"During reincarnation, because the appearance and temperament may change, it is difficult for us to recognize who is the 'contemporary host'. Therefore, I proposed a plan to transform the body. As long as it can be physically different from ordinary people, It will become an identification mark that cannot be falsified. After the life hard drive is implanted, the body of the qualified person will be significantly different from that of ordinary people. This difference is reflected in the flesh and blood..."

 At this time, a child raised his hand.