160. Farewell(2/2)
"This system has bet on the hard work of many people, and those who are alive and deceased like us. It has been spent many years, and manpower, material resources and the most advanced technology are all in it. It will be in vain to destroy it." She paused and added: "You may feel that I existed with the help of the system, and I am afraid of disappearing, so I would say such things. In fact, it is not. Even those outside, those who have been competing with the system, will feel distressed and regretful if they know that the system has been completely destroyed. Do you believe it? If possible, they may be more inclined to shut down rather than destroy."
You Huo turned his head behind his back and said, "Does this matter matter if you do this, please ask the more than 4,000 people outside first. Do they feel sorry for them? Or ask those who are still working hard in the examination room to survive. Will they feel sorry for destroying this place? There is also a group of people who should ask the most, but they are dead and die in various examination rooms. Why don't you try to communicate? After the communication, come and tell me whether they should destroy this place."
The woman hadn't spoken for a long time, just staring at You Huo quietly, not knowing whether she had nothing to say to refute or something.
After a while, she spoke, "Son, you are angry."
"You rarely get so angry when you were a child, and you rarely say such long words." She seemed to be recalling, and her tone actually had a trace of gentleness.
You Huo's lips were straight and he looked at her coldly, but he did not interrupt immediately.
"At that time, you were probably so tall?" She gestured on her waist, "It's very young. Sometimes I think life is very magical. Such a child is my son. You are very quiet, don't talk, don't ask stupid and childish questions like other children, don't mess around, don't have too much intense emotions. I've imagined what you would look like when you grow up, and I think there shouldn't be any other adults' problems."
"Many people have been trapped in various secular pits all their lives, and it's okay to be hungry and full, but there are some very empty things, love and hate... These always make people become irrational, have obvious emotions, and sometimes even show their ugly appearance. At that time, I thought, you will definitely not be like this when you grow up."
She looked at You Huo again and said, "You look like I imagined, I'm very-"
You Huo finally interrupted her: "You have a little misunderstanding."
"What?" the woman was stunned.
You Huo said coldly: "Love and hate □□... I have all the things you said, which are much different from what you imagined."
The other party was silent, and her sick expression made her seem unreasonable. She pulled away from her memories and asked calmly: "What affected you? Are there some things and people you have encountered here over the years?"
You Huo didn't say anything, maybe she was too lazy to say anything. But she knew she was right.
"But... it's ridiculous, isn't it? None of these are true."
You Huo's eyebrows frowned: "What does it mean?"
She said: "The design principle of this system is a world constructed by magnetic fields and brain waves. Of course, your every move still holds the brain, and the nerves used are almost the same, so the purpose of screening and training can be achieved, but this is not true. I have been here for a long time. Although it is not as ubiquitous as the system, I also know a lot of things. Even if the system gets out of control later and so many candidates accidentally pull in, this is the case. Really, they may be lying on the bed of a hospital, in shock, coma or something, not death."
"What you see, what you experience, the people you know, and the things you have done are just phantoms that the brain projects in the system. Why do you have to fall into the world and get angry about the phantoms? Can these be considered real?" she said, "all are fake."
The space surrounded by the "curtain" fell into a dead silence. She looked at Youhuo's face, as if she was trying to sense his emotions. But unfortunately, she failed and could only rely on guessing.
She said: "It's hard to accept, right?"
You Huo shook his head and said, "I'm just thinking that my definition of reality may be different from yours."
She asked, "Why are the difference?"
Youhuo said calmly: "I know I've experienced this, and this is the reality."
After saying that, he lowered his eyes, adjusted the plug valve of the weapon neatly, and then calmly lifted the barrel.
"I know you passed away more than ten years ago. I knelt down the whole funeral. Now you are just the afterimages left by the system. Now, you are the phantoms, I am the real one. There are people waiting for me outside, and he is also the real one."
You Huo raised his eyes and said to the person with a similar face to him through the cold and monotonous metal platform, a few steps away from the space and more than ten years: "I have been doing it when I was a child for too long. I can't remember what I did and said on the day you passed away. Just think this meeting was an opportunity, and I will say goodbye to you seriously."
"You may not have any interest in knowing, but I will say it. Your brother is doing well, I am doing well, and we have a good relationship."
At a very occasional moment, You Huo thought that if time went back to more than ten years ago, he would say something to her when he saw his mother again.
He thought he would ask a reason, ask her why she did those things and why she took up his eyes, and if she felt regretful for a moment.
But when he really saw it, he found that he was much calmer than he thought and did not stick to these things.
She gave birth to him and raised him, but she didn't like him very much.
This fact is not that difficult to accept.
"That's it." You Huo said.
The damage degree of the main control center has reached 98%, only five minutes before the end.
He narrowed his eyes and pointed the muzzle at the main console.
That second, the explosion suddenly sounded, and successive artillery fire flew from somewhere behind him, all falling to the place where You Huo was aiming.
The "curtain" made a sizzling sound, flashed a few times, and disappeared suddenly.
You Huo turned his head and saw Qin Ju remove the cannon barrel from his shoulder and walk up the steps with his long tube.
The woman next to the main console asked subconsciously: "Who are you?"
Qin Jiao put his shoulder on You Huo and said to the phantom that was about to disappear: "Sorry, I came a little earlier and heard some conversations with you. My name is Qin Jiao, I'll come to find my truth."
The moment the speech fell, the entire main control center began to collapse.
Chapter completed!