End of Mystery

This is Night City, or rather, the matrix?

When the girl was staring at him, Xiao Xiao was also looking at her.

He cherished this opportunity, so he concentrated his attention and looked at her very seriously, refusing to let go of the slightest bit.

But in the end, it was Xiao Xiao who felt a little at a loss.

can't read.

It's hard to describe the feeling at this moment, under Xiao Xiao's observation, she looks like a real person, just sitting there so real, there is no difference between what she understands and the people she usually sees. It's different... But if it's really someone I've seen before, Xiao Xiao can see through it at a glance. The ability of the clairvoyant allows Xiao Xiao to see through anyone.

But this can't be seen through.

Even if Xiao Xiao exerted the power of the seer to the extreme, the three eyes of the seer were staring round, but he couldn't feel any deep-seated emotions from this girl who was sitting quietly. Being independent from the entire world, this confirmed the speculation of the aborigines that this kind of life form is foreign in itself and has no connection with this world...

……wrong.

Xiao Xiao just thought of the answer, but suddenly vetoed himself.

He looked at the girl harder, and suddenly realized that he was actually wrong just now.

She is not completely independent of this world, on the contrary, she is closely connected with every part of this world.

I can't describe the bewilderment of this moment.

Even though Xiao Xiao had made sufficient preparations, he still couldn't define her.

And judging from the results I observed with the eyes of the seer at this moment, the things I wanted to verify before suddenly fell into deep chaos. The answer that I had already been inclined in my heart suddenly changed. vulnerable...

If she is Night City itself, then it is inevitable that she is connected to everything.

If she is just a foreign matrix, then it is inevitable that she is independent from this world.

But she happens to have both.

This made Xiao Xiao fall into confusion and bewilderment the first time he saw her.

It wasn't until Xiao Xiao was in a state of mind explosion that he experienced countless thoughts arising and extinguishing and colliding and tearing before he suddenly woke up:

Yes, she is neither the city itself, nor a simple matrix.

She is the source of mystery!

...

Xiao Xiao forgot who he heard it from, and heard these four words for the first time, but he had no special feeling before.

Until now, seeing this girl with my own eyes, and feeling the complex cognition that she conveyed to me, I suddenly realized that whether I define her by the will of the city or by the mother's body, it is not accurate, only the mysterious source is the most accurate. suitable.

Because she is the source of all fantasies in the huge night bottom city.

She is the root of all weirdness and pollution, all surreal phenomena, and the source of all irrationality.

The final verification was successful.

The moment he saw this girl, Xiao Xiao felt an indescribable sense of heaviness and oppression in his heart.

After chatting with Bai Cheng from Yedi City earlier, he was curious, is it true that the will of the city will appear in front of foreigners?

It is precisely because of this that he began to test his thoughts on the train to Night Bottom City. He has a final goal. No matter how much he thinks, it is better to see the source. Anyway, , although the current self is completely unable to explain this kind of life, but since she has appeared, I should be able to see her, otherwise... otherwise she just looks down on me.

Emmmm

In the end, she was still very face-saving.

...

...

All kinds of useful or useless, logical or chaotic thoughts flickered in his mind, Xiao Xiao cheered up extremely.

He tried hard to control his trembling emotions, with a gentle and steady face, and adjusted his facial muscles little by little, intending to convey his friendliness and harmlessness to this unknown, mysterious, and unfathomable life form in front of him. signal of……

Then he heard the girl's expressionless voice after putting down the coffee cup:

"Aren't you bullying people too much?"

"..."

"?"

The smile that Xiao Xiao tried to adjust just now froze on his face.

Where is this going?

And the girl who put down the coffee cup gradually showed a lot of resentment on her indifferent expression after she said this sentence, and she could even see the grievance in those slightly red eyes: "I was the weakest one, and I always felt scared. I didn't know when I would be eaten by those big guys, so I kept hiding..."

"Because I was afraid, I hid in the deepest part of the night. I kept quiet and didn't provoke anyone..."

"But you still catch me bullying, cut off my tentacles, eliminate my influence, and threaten to destroy my anchor..."

"..."

She seemed to get angrier as she spoke, and suddenly looked up at Xiao Xiao, her little head moved forward:

"Just kill me..."

"..."

"...Damn it!"

The development of the matter was beyond Xiao Xiao's expectation. With his explosive thinking ability, his expression almost completely lost control.

Why did things go completely differently from what I thought?

Seeing the girl's aggrieved expression, he wanted to pinch himself to see if she was still in a dream.

In the state of mind explosion, time has actually passed for a long time. Xiao Xiao tried his best to adjust his mood, trying to figure out what he should say, but from a realistic point of view, Xiao Xiao seemed to just pause for a while, and then suddenly looked straight at the girl, said:

"What are you guys?"

"..."

The girl was stunned for a moment, then she was angry and anxious: "You still curse people now, don't you?"

"No……"

Xiao Xiao immediately shook his head, but the expression of seriousness and doubt on his face became more intense, and he asked seriously: "I'm really curious, what are you guys? Demons from hell? Gods from heaven? Are you from outside? Or are you the aborigines born in this world? What is your relationship with this city? What are you pursuing here? Painful substances?"

As he asked a series of words, the girl's expression seemed to be a little silent.

Xiao Xiao couldn't feel any changes in her body, but intuitively felt that she was thinking quickly.

Xiao Xiao didn't know how fast she was thinking, but she obviously thought for a long time.

It seemed that some problems had been confirmed, and it seemed that she had just made some decisions, and the smile on her face changed slightly.

Looking at Xiao Xiao, she said softly: "You already know how to threaten me, but you still want to ask me these things?"

"Threatening you doesn't need to understand you."

Xiao Xiao knew that what he said was very important, but in the face of this girl who couldn't see through, he decided to tell the truth. No matter what his cognition or experience was, it was too shallow in front of the mysterious source. He believed in himself His lies would not have the desired effect, so he decided to use the most honest words to complete his communication with this first mysterious source.

So he replied slowly: "I just guessed some of your logic based on some theories, and then threatened to cut off these logics to force you...to ask you to show up to meet me. But I still Curious, what do you belong to?"

Listening to Xiao Xiao's words, the girl's expression seemed to be somewhat astonished.

But in Xiao Xiao's somewhat blurred vision, this kind of astonishment seems to be an illusion in itself.

The girl just smiled and looked at herself: "Tell me what you understand."

"I know you have some guesses in your heart, otherwise it would be meaningless for you to see me."

"..."

Xiao Xiao nodded. As a clairvoyant himself, facing this girl, he felt like being targeted by the clairvoyant.

So he took a deep breath and said in a low voice: "You seem to be the city itself, and you seem to be a person who descended from outside the city. You fell from the sky and fell into everyone's heads. I know, you are not Not real, you should... just live in the spirit world, you influence some people to see everything you want them to see..."

"But you have no choice but to control some people by polluting... or purchasing..."

"I can be sure of one thing, you can interfere with the operation of this city and control the power of the city itself, but this control is not unstoppable. If you kill those who have been polluted by you, the city can refuse I can still see your dominance, the strangers... or the city messengers are your final anchor, they exist in this city, and you can exist."

"If you kill these strangers, what will happen to you?"

"Just disappear, or lose the last connection with this city, and be forced to wander in the sea of ​​mist?"

"..."

After he said this, the atmosphere in the coffee shop became a bit dignified, and the surrounding time and space stagnated. Xiao Xiao noticed that the clerk behind the counter had kept the same movements for a long time, and the mysterious man in front of him The girl looked at herself with a kind of empty eyes, those eyes were too deep, and she couldn't see the end of them.

"You are too powerful, you can do too many things we can't imagine, but at some point, you don't seem to be so omnipotent, you have all the power we understand, but you seem to be Pursue what..."

"So, I don't quite understand..."

He was silent for a while, and then slowly asked the final question: "Are you all gods born in the spiritual world..."

"Or the devil who came to conquer this world?"

"..."

"..."

It wasn't until he finished speaking that Xiao Xiao took a deep breath, stopped, and quietly waited for the other party's answer.

He was not sure what the other party was willing to tell him, but he was sure of one thing: no matter what the other party answered, even if he just lied to himself, the research on the aborigines and the understanding of the mysterious source would be a significant piece of evidence and progress.

"It's really amazing that you can say this."

Unexpectedly, when the girl spoke, she actually praised herself: "Man is a creature imprisoned in cognition, so when the answer exists outside cognition, few people even think of doubting something, Probably because you are fundamentally different from other people, or other factors are deliberately driving you to see these things that are close to the answer..."

"But if you can ask these questions, it means that you have already begun to try to break the cage of cognition."

"And it's reasonable for you to feel confused..."

She suddenly smiled and said, "Because your life level hasn't changed yet, you can't understand higher-dimensional things."

"Maybe I really don't understand."

Xiao Xiao replied immediately, even looking a little anxious: "But I want to know an answer."

"Which is real, what the aborigines see or what the stranger sees?"

"Is it true that the aborigines are just your transformations? Or are the foreigners living in your fantasy all the time?"

"..."

"That's the problem..."

Seeing his worried look, the girl suddenly laughed and said, "Why can't it all be true?"

"..."

Xiao Xiao was stunned suddenly, and it took him a long time to answer: "This is not an answer."

"I don't know if you have played games..."

The girl looked at Xiao Xiao with a smile, and said: "Those games have exquisite graphics and backgrounds, and some even have a complete history and origin. Some people place their hopes on life in this game world. Everything is real, and someone is modifying the game in the background, in his view, the game is just a bunch of chaotic codes..."

"...Then which one do you say is real?"

"..."

Xiao Xiao seemed to be touched by something in his heart, but he clenched the corners of his mouth and did not speak.

He was worried that he would interrupt, and he would not say anything more to the convenience.

"Don't be so careful..."

The girl suddenly let out a long breath of relief, and there was a bit of complaint in her voice: "Those who didn't know thought you were the one being bullied... I don't know if you are a strange person in this world, or some hateful The guy is using you to beat me, but I am very angry, I have been singled out after hiding so hard, so I feel very insecure now..."

"In that case, I do want to tell you something."

She looked at Xiao Xiao, her face seemed a little calm: "Nao, anyway, I'm already the worst."

Xiao Xiao was suddenly agitated, forced to remain silent, and said, "Tell me what?"

The girl said: "The answer you most want to know..."

Xiao Xiao's heart trembled slightly: "Are you really..."

"I've said it before, your current level of life is too low, you can't understand the answer directly..."

The girl smiled, as if thinking of something, and said in a low voice: "But maybe there is a way to let you understand that after you came to Night City, I know everything you did, including the person you saw who passed me. Power to download people who are reborn conscious in a whole new body, so why can't you understand that we are also downloading our own consciousness?"

"this……"

Xiao Xiao was startled suddenly, not even the ability to think explosively could calm him down.

On the contrary, precisely because of the existence of the ability to explode his mind, the more he thought about it, the more terrifying he became.

download awareness?

If the mysterious source is just the consciousness being downloaded, then who is the body waiting for the consciousness to settle in?

City?

If the city starts to be occupied by the consciousness of downloading, then where does the original consciousness of the city go?

"It's just a metaphor..."

The girl saw the shock in Xiao Xiao's heart, and her expression became happier: "But, this metaphor really made you understand a lot, didn't it? Of course, you don't have to be so anxious and afraid first, what I need to declare in advance is , even if we are the consciousness that this world is downloading, but we are not actively invading this body, and we are anti-customer..."

"us……"

She looked into Xiao Xiao's eyes and said in a deep voice, "I was invited!"

At this moment, as if there was a lightning strike, it hit Xiao Xiao's mind instantly. He looked up at the girl blankly. For a moment, he felt that she was becoming extremely tall, far taller than this city Even taller, and suddenly felt that she was illusory, and did not even exist, as if a deep and painful whine sounded in her ears, it was the despair of something being swallowed.

Since leaving his bedroom, his brain has rarely felt out of control.

But at this moment, the feeling of being out of control suddenly reappeared.

Countless pictures, true and false, flashed through his mind in an instant. He thought of those gloomy eyes at his class reunion, the mouse man in the subway station, the man who was suffocated to death by life, and the That rotten street reminded me of the city that had turned into endless flesh and blood, and the unusually gloomy gaze of Heimen City, and all these extremely weird images flashed quickly.

In the end, it suddenly turned into a pair of eyes.

Fear, despair, flickering, containing endless pain.

That was the woman in the video tape I saw when I was strengthening the observer route.

"Look, I'm just saying you shouldn't pursue this kind of answer..."

The girl seemed to be able to feel the depression in Xiao Xiao's heart, and she laughed excitedly: "It's hard for me to understand, who would be willing to give this kind of power to you? You just need to be obedient, just like me Just like those messengers... the distribution of authority is a must, but once the wrong authority is given to some people, it is easy to be backlashed."

Xiao Xiao was unable to answer these questions, but kept thinking in his chaotic mind.

He verified these at the beginning, and he didn't have any purpose.

Verification is an end in itself.

Because in the small building of the old president, I saw too many research reports of the aborigines on the mother body, so I also had doubts about self-cognition, so I subconsciously searched for the answer, but when I got close to the answer, I found myself Simply unable to understand.

He had seen the mysterious source of Night City, and even the other party admitted it so frankly.

But what's the use of knowing it?

...

...

"Since it has already started, don't stop..."

And also in Xiao Xiao's chaos, the girl in a lolita dress suddenly leaned over with a mysterious smile on her face, patted Xiao Xiao's shoulder lightly, and whispered in his ear: "Actually I can see that you are a little different from other people, but don't worry, I will keep this matter a secret for you, you found me, it really made me feel very insecure, but think again..."

"Maybe this is my only chance of not being eaten?"

"..."

With a mysterious smile on her face, she gently cupped Xiao Xiao's face: "So, shall we form an alliance?"

"To show my sincerity, I give this gift to you!"

"..."

The clerk next to him took out an exquisite gift box from the shelf behind the counter and handed it over.

The girl solemnly placed the gift box in front of Xiao Xiao, with a mysterious and bewitching voice:

"Use it well..."

"... Poor Mr. World!"