Lead dust and silence constitute the world in front of us. Sewage flows everywhere, emitting a foul odor, and countless flocs float in the air. Lead dust spreads from the eyes, but it is not night now. The thick lead clouds are rolling and twisting in the sky, changing into diffe

　Leady dust and silence constitute the world in front of us. Sewage flows everywhere, emitting a foul odor, and countless flocs float in the air. Lead dust spreads from the eyes, but it is not night now. The thick lead clouds are rolling and twisting in the sky, changing into different shapes.

Liu Jianbo lay motionless on the ground, maintaining the same posture for three hours. He was covered in a thick piece of linen cloth. The linen cloth was burnt yellow with patches of gray-brown stains on it, which was very similar to the color of the earth. He would not be noticed lying on the ground like this.

Not far away, there are dilapidated houses and skyscrapers with almost only their frames left. There are piles of burned cars on the roadside, leaving only their remains.

Occasionally, there will be a noise in the ears. If you look closely, you will see that it is a cockroach nearly a foot long crawling by.

The sky is getting darker, but the boundary between day and night is actually not obvious. Thick lead clouds rolled and twisted in the air, and everything you could see was ruins, including upturned roads, mountains of garbage, and the smell of decay.

Liu Jianbo carefully climbed up from the ground and tiptoed toward an empty cave. Different from the eternal leaden dust outside, there is a little light in the cave. I don't know what kind of luminous thing is attached to the cave wall, so that the cave is not dark.

Deep in the cave, there are several creatures with long tails. If you look carefully, they are very similar to rabbits in the old world, but I don’t know why they have such long tails.

They were all sleeping soundly at this time, and Liu Jianbo had been lying outside for several hours, waiting for this moment. He carefully took out two plastic jugs from his body, squatted beside a puddle on the ground and poured water into them carefully.

After filling the two plastic jugs, he slowly exited the cave and left the only water source within thirty miles.

Liu Jianbo’s home is eight kilometers away from this water source, but this is only his home in the game world. He is in a bionic game in 3158. The background of the game is a thousand years after the total war.

Although a thousand years have passed since the all-out war, the sky is still shrouded in heavy radiation clouds, and the plants on the ground have withered. There is no sun during the day, no stars at night, only endless rolling clouds of lead.

This game called "Total Awakening" is extremely real. There is no NPC in the game world, and there is no resurrection. Each player in the game world has only one life. Once he dies, he will never enter the game again.

Time in the game always moves forward. Even if the player leaves the game world, what should happen in the game world will still happen, and what has happened is irreversible.

For example, if the player is injured in the game world, but when the player returns to reality, if the matter is delayed for too long, then the player in the game world may be seriously injured and die.

Such a simulated game and such an exciting background is like experiencing another life. It naturally attracts so many people. It is no exaggeration to say that almost everyone has a game ID.

　In the game world, everyone has to fight for survival, because this is a world after all-out war, with food shortages and drinking water scarce. Intense radiation has caused various mutations. Cockroaches that could be easily trampled to death in the past are now nearly a foot long. The once docile rabbit can easily kill people in the game world.

But in the real world, dogs that are tamed by humans actually have a vague intelligence that can stand with humans.

Everything here is novel, everything here is cruel.

Correspondingly, players can take risks in the game, and even marry and have children. The premise is that you must have enough ability to survive in this game world.

Liu Jianbo has always been cautious. He built his home in an abandoned well. He turned a foot deep into the well and dug a space of twenty square meters. The mouth of the well was covered by several abandoned cars, making it difficult to be discovered. .

hurried home with the water he stole from the water source guarded by the rabbit.A few days ago, a player who was pushing a supermarket shopping cart died of ulcers all over his body not far away. He picked up a few bottles of canned beans from the shopping cart that were produced in an unknown year. After carefully dividing them, he felt that he was okay. Consume for five days.

This is a gift from God. No matter what achievements you want to make in the game, surviving is the first goal.

He has been in the game for nearly six hours and is about to reach the limit. He must go back quickly and return to the real world after eating. This is a rigid rule in the game. If he does not comply, he will most likely be logged out.

logging out means death.

But before he reached the well, he saw a humanoid object lying on the ground. He walked over carefully and turned it over with his feet. This is a young woman, about 20 years old, wearing a gray-brown sack.

should be dead! Liu Jianbo is not surprised. This is too common in the game "Total Awakening". But when he turned around to leave, his leg was grabbed by this person. Her eyes were weak and pitiful, and she murmured and begged: "Please help me!"

Liu Jianbo thought for a while, but finally couldn't decide to leave. He took her into his home in the well and gave her some carefully planned canned beans.

She devoured the food, drank the water Liu Jianbo had stolen after lurking for several hours, and then took out something similar to an earphone from her body.

This headphone-like thing is a device that returns from the game world to the real world. If Liu Jianbo did not save her just now, then according to the uninterrupted time lapse setting in the game world, even if she returns to the real world, then the game world She will also die and will not get a second chance.

Liu Jianbo had finished eating at this time, took out the same device, and entered a state of silence after a while.

Life remains the same, and Liu Jianbo is bored with the nine-to-five life. He can never find fun in work and life.

Looking at the wall-mounted air conditioner on the wall, Liu Jianbo sighed deeply. He is an ordinary employee of an advertising company. He looks ordinary and has an ordinary job. The biggest advantage is that there are no outstanding disadvantages, and the biggest disadvantage is that there are no outstanding advantages.

　A character who blends into the crowd and will never be noticed, repeating almost the same life every day. The pretty girls in the company didn't want to talk to him, and he pretended to be reserved and arrogant. In fact, only he knew how much he wanted to have a girlfriend.

But this can only be a fantasy. He put on his clothes mechanically. After washing, he turned off the air conditioner and went out to work.

The subway is always so crowded during the morning rush hour. The tea eggs he bought for breakfast were overcrowded and stained all over his clothes.

After getting off the subway, he ate the squeezed tea eggs while standing, then changed into a small yellow car and rode for two stops, then got on a bus. Twenty stops later, he arrived at the company where he worked.

He has to do this kind of commuting every day. The company director always has a poker face, as if everyone owes her five million, and she also looks like a middle-aged woman who has reached menopause , but in fact she is only twenty-five years old.

After get off work at noon, Liu Jianbo did not eat takeout like others, but ran out of the company and ate a fresh egg fried rice. There were many diners in the small restaurant. Most of them were in a good mood and chatting with each other. Liu Jianbo had no such interest.

In the afternoon after get off work, he would return to the community where he lived in the same way, but he would sit in the square in front of the community for a while. There were pigeons flying around in the square, boys and girls playing skateboards, and aunts dancing in the square. .

Occasionally, people will have quarrels, everything is so ordinary, but with a strong smell of fireworks.

Such a life is too ordinary and boring for Liu Jianbo. In comparison, he prefers the excitement in "Total Awakening". Although he needs to worry about life all the time and worry about his life every minute, he still like.

In fact, he has thought about it more than once. Even if his ID in the game dies, he is not worried. At worst, he will return to this boring real world and continue his real life.

But he still tried his best not to die. He really wanted to know what kind of rewards he would get if he survived in the game world.

He sat there until dark, bought a few pieces of bread from the supermarket in front of the community to fill his stomach, then went home and took out a device like a small headset, and couldn't wait to enter the game world.

There are no chat channels, no shopping malls, and no gathering points in "Total Awakening". Anyone who enters the game world needs to explore alone. To be precise, many people starve to death or die of thirst in the game. I have never seen anyone else in my life.

Liu Jianbo is happy not to see others, because seeing others means danger.

But at this time, there was someone else sitting in front of him, the woman he rescued from outside.

She called herself Li Dan and thanked Liu Jianbo for saving her.

In the real world, Liu Jianbo doesn’t talk much, and there are no people he can talk to. This is one of the main reasons why he is bored. At this time, a girl of the same age as him suddenly appeared, and she was good-looking, and he felt very comfortable.

Li Dan had no intention of leaving. She could see that Liu Jianbo's underground home was very safe and extremely comfortable. She was alone outside, and the post-radiation world, which was like the wilderness but far scarier than the wilderness, was not suitable for her to survive at all.

　She wanted to be attached to Liu Jianbo, but it was not convenient to explain.

Liu Jianbo did not express his position, but he had already acquiesced to Li Dan living here.

The two chatted from reality to fiction, from classics and history to philosophy. Liu Jianbo tried his best to be humorous, while Li Dan tried his best to be a good listener. Although they were just chatting, they still consumed calories. They ate canned beans when they were hungry and drank water when they were thirsty.

A few hours later, the water Liu Jianbo stole from the water source hole guarded by the rabbit had bottomed out.

　Without food, you can survive on your body fat for a while, but without water, you really can't. I looked at my watch and saw that it had been five hours since I entered the game world. The upper limit was eight hours. In three hours, I couldn't steal any water at all.

If you can’t steal water, you can’t do anything next time you enter the game except stealing water.

After Liu Jianbo returned to the real world, he was always absent-minded and made several mistakes at work, causing the poker-faced manager to become furious and punish him for working overtime.

When I finally got home from get off work, six hours had passed since I originally entered the game world. I don’t know how anxious Li Dan must have been waiting.

With these doubts, he quickly entered the game world.

But what made him feel terrible was that Li Dan was not at home, and neither was the kettle.

Li Dan went to find water! Liu Jianbo was very worried. Although everyone who survived in this game had their own specific survival skills, Li Dan was probably not familiar with this place. How did she know where there was water?

There is another thing that worries him the most. If Li Dan does not act covertly and brings others to his residence, it will be all over. He will be kicked out or even die. Then there will be no so-called upgrades and so-called strength in the game world.

The more he thought about it, the more worried and scared he became. He decided not to wait any longer. Although his time in the game was limited this time, he decided to go out and search.

Before she could go out, she saw Li Dan coming back with water. He yelled at the top of his lungs, scolding her for taking the risk of going out to find water by herself, but Li Dan chuckled. Such scolding showed that he was worried about her, and he would not worry if he was indifferent.

With this episode, the relationship between the two heated up rapidly. After several repetitions, they finally had a substantial breakthrough, and Li Dan became Liu Jianbo's girlfriend in the game.

Compared to Liu Jianbo, Li Dan thinks about many more questions. One question she often thinks about is, why is the game "Total Awakening" so different? There are no NPCs, no world channels, no shops, and no equipment upgrades. How does this game company make money?

Also, they rely on small earphone-like things to travel between reality and games. Where did this small ear-like device come from?

Liu Jianbo tried hard to recall, trying to remember that he passed by a game company and was attracted to buy this round-trip device, which was equivalent to buying the qualification to enter the game.

In this way, Li Dan’s doubts can be solved. They don’t sell equipment in the game world, nor do they rely on upgrades to make money from players. They rely on selling this round trip device, which is a one-time sale. Whether it was him, Li Dan, or other players, they all got the shuttle device after purchasing it.

But in this case, another major problem arises. If the game company makes money by selling round-trip devices, why are there game settings that cannot be resurrected after death? If the player dies and needs to purchase a new shuttle device and then enter the game world with a new identity, wouldn't he be able to make more money?

This leads to the ultimate question, where is this game company? What country is it from? Where did they buy this shuttle?

Neither Liu Jianbo nor Li Dan could remember when they purchased the shuttle device, as if they already had it.

I have a girlfriend in the game, but not in reality. Because "Total Awakening" is highly simulated, when he returned to reality, when he was working in an advertising company, Liu Jianbo thought about it more than once, what does Li Dan do in reality? Where does she work? What is her job?

In the game, the two of them talk about everything. They have already had physical intimacy, so why not show up?

Like everyone else, Liu Jianbo once had the fear of running away. He was afraid that in the game, Li Dan needed his own place to live, so he stayed with him. However, this was not the case in reality, so once they met in reality, they would only be in vain. Increase embarrassment.

But as the days passed, Liu Jianbo put aside this fear and decided that after entering the game world again, he would ask Li Dan about his job and address in the real world. He wanted to find Li Dan.

But something unexpected happened.

When Liu Jianbo entered the game world, he found that Li Dan was not there, but there were knocking sounds outside.

His heart sank to the bottom, and intense fear made him tremble all over. This knocking sound did not sound like it was coming from a person. Could someone have found this residence?

At this moment, he heard another scream from Li Dan outside. He could no longer hide like this, so he secretly peeked out of the well and discovered something that made him desperate.

There are a few bare-chested, skinny and hungry people outside. Their hair is very long and they have thick dark circles under their eyes. Each of them is holding a stick in his hand. These sticks are covered with nails and have been artificially inflicted. Got the mace.

They used these maces to hit the abandoned cars, making bursts of harsh sounds.

Among these people was Li Dan, who looked frightened. The kettle in her hand had fallen to the ground, and the precious water flowed out without caring to clean it up.

After these people had finished knocking, they swarmed up and left with Li Dan. Liu Jianbo did not dare to stay, climbed out of the well and followed behind.

He can't give up Li Dan, she is his girlfriend. The two have lived together for a long time and have deep feelings. And these people holding maces look like very hungry people, and they can do anything.

These people were walking in front and laughing, and did not even notice Liu Jianbo following behind. When they arrived at an abandoned factory, they took Li Dan inside, while Liu Jianbo quietly sneaked in through a gap not far away.

There was a raging fire burning in the factory, and there were many things hanging on the rows of shelves. Liu Jianbo couldn't see clearly because it was too far away. After those people tied up Li Dan, they discussed something in a low voice.

Liu Jianbo wanted to get closer and listen, but he tripped over after taking just two steps. When he lowered his head, he saw that there were bones all around him, and there were many more in the corner.

He couldn't help but tremble all over, and at the same time he understood the intention of these people in bringing Li Dan here. They were eating people.

　This shameless world, this evil game setting!

Liu Jianbo has never hated this game so much. If this were in the real world, where would such a thing happen? Although real life is boring, such a situation of the weak and the strong will never happen, nor will such a group of evil people appear.

He deeply felt how wonderful his boring life was, but it was useless to think about it at this time. He had to find a way to save Li Dan.

Someone laughed loudly and came to Li Dan, dragging her to a small room on the side. Li Dan's scream was like a sharp sword piercing Liu Jianbo, making him angry and jealous, and he reached out to pick up a bag. With a bone, he quietly walked towards the small house.

But he was discovered before he entered the house. A group of people surrounded him, and Li Dan was already dead in the house. He felt that his heart was bleeding, and at the same time he felt that he was so incompetent that he could not even save his girlfriend. Protection, what is this but incompetence?

Those disheveled men were approaching quickly with maces in their hands. He ran for his life in front of him with tears in his eyes. Finally, under the cover of lead clouds and floating floc, he escaped into the cave usually used to steal water.

Those people couldn't find him, so they cursed and walked away. Liu Jianbo lay in the cave and cried silently. He hated the setting of this game, and he hated the world in this game. Before he could ask Li Dan about her job and address in real life, she died in the game.

In this game, once you die, you will never appear again, which means that he will never be able to find Li Dan again.

Why is it so cruel? Why so heartless? Why do such a group of people appear? Why kill each other?

　Like in the real world, wouldn’t it be nice to have a smile on everyone’s face? Isn’t it good for everyone to respect each other? What kind of person could set up such a game from which there is no turning back?

He cried for a long time, and then he returned to his residence in despair. The smell of Li Dan still lingered here. He put on the shuttle device with tears in his eyes. When he returned to the real world, his face was still stained with tears but he was unwilling to open his eyes.

　"Realistic emotions can indeed be brought into the game, but this is not allowed."

　"Erase, erase this memory!"

　"Error, error..."

　It was so noisy that Liu Jianbo suddenly opened his eyes. Could it be that Someone broke into your home? When he saw it, he saw a group of people busy connecting something. He found that he was in a huge space. There was a huge machine in the middle of the space, and all those people were busy working around the machine.

He was confused and confused, but at the same time he had hope. Did he end up at the development company of the "Total Awakening" game? Then they can find Li Dan. They should have the identity information of Li Dan when he purchased the shuttle device.

　"Did you develop such a cruel game? I need to know the identity information of the player Li Dan. Where does she live? What does she do in reality? I want to find her."

　Those who were busy turned around to look at him , but his face was all indifferent. He said in an almost pleading tone: "I am a very boring person in reality. I finally fell in love with someone in the game. Please let me find her. Although the real world is boring, it is better than that kind of cruelty." The game world is much more gentle. Even if you cancel my account and take back my shuttle device, I will accept it."

Everyone finally calmed down. After a long silence, the figures of these people began to blur, disappearing and appearing. Liu Jianbo. Surprised, these are actually holographic projections? Why is this happening?

All those projections disappeared. Liu Jianbo walked around like a puppet. When he saw an upward ladder, he climbed up mechanically. He didn’t know how long he climbed. He saw an upward iron plate. He pushed it open and looked outside.What you see is a cave, with water dripping down from the top of the cave, making a puddle below. Beside these puddles, dozens of mutated rabbits with long tails were squatting or lying on their stomachs.

　He is underground in Shuiyuan Cave, but why is this happening? He closed the iron plate again and went back. Next to the huge machine in the middle, he saw many small ear-like shuttles.

Gently picked it up and put it on, countless scenes flew past his eyes, including his growth as a child, him sitting in the square, the roar of the poker-faced manager, and the past.

Pick up another one, still the same picture, and another one, still the same picture.

When he fell to the ground, countless numbers appeared in front of a huge screen. These numbers fell to the bottom of the screen as if they were falling downwards, and they kept repeating a sentence mechanically: "Correction, correction, correction!"

On Liu Jianbo's face Full of tears, he finally understood that commuting, going to work, and sitting around in the so-called real world were all the same repetitions that everyone was experiencing.

And he is not a human being, but a human memory stored in this huge machine. It is a string of cold codes and the memories of the entire human race about the old world.

Therefore, "Total Awakening" is not a game, but the real world now. He returns to reality to go to work, be bored, quiet, peaceful, and happy, which are mankind's collective memories of the old world.

In other words, the game he thinks is reality, and reality is a game. That cold hell that is full of radiation, full of lead clouds, where the weak eat the strong, and where there is neither wind, rain, nor sunshine, is real.

And that peaceful world that he thought was boring, without passion, and commuting to get off work every day was just human beings' memories and yearning for the beautiful past.

In the world of "Total Awakening", there is no humanity, no happiness, and no peace. Just radiation, lead clouds and endless savagery. That is the world a thousand years after the all-out war.

War, war destroyed an era.

War, war created an era.

Human beings, human beings are looking forward to a new civilization.

Human beings, humans are waiting to reawaken.

(This article was originally published by Black Wife!)