Su Mingan opened his eyes and found that he was sitting on a chair.

In front of me is an ice-white laboratory, with thousands of monitoring screens lined up on the walls.

The streets and alleys of the City of Surveying, the auditorium of Constantine University, the pubs in the fringe area, and even the sand outside... every scene is clearly presented in the grid of surveillance.

This should be the ruined building of the City of Measurement, the headquarters of the Dawn System.

A young man with a transparent figure stood with his back to Su Ming'an. His pure white robe looked like falling snow, with plush piping surrounding the young man's shoulders and neck.

Hearing the noise, the young man turned around and looked at Su Mingan. His silver eyelashes trembled slightly, like a butterfly flying in the night. The data flow surged around him like a storm, like a manic

Jiang Tao.

"Dawn system?" Su Mingan stood up.

"Welcome back, Doctor. Congratulations on completing Caius Tower." Dawn said.

"Where's Su Lin?"

"He and you did not teleport back to the same place." Dawn System replied.

Su Mingan clicked on the system bar and prepared to release tasks to the players. However, he found that the line "Task Distribution Rights" was gray and could not be clicked.

He pressed it again, but the panel still did not respond. It seemed that his permissions were blocked.

At this moment, Su Mingan realized something was wrong.

He looked at the Dawn System in front of him, and he noticed that the Dawn System presented a male posture today, rather than the usual female image.

"Ling Ming, I'm going to assign new tasks to the players." Su Mingan said, "Where are my permissions?"

He turned on the AI ​​​​Xico on his wrist, only to find that Xico had also fallen into a dormant state. The screen of the watch was black, and he could not even communicate with the outside world.

Then in the eyes of outsiders, wouldn’t he be out of touch?

Dawn System watched his actions:

"As you know before, there are two times in the ruined world. One we call the standard time, and the other we call the origin time. The origin time is the time in the Dawn system, which is based on the standard time."

"The simulation of the world is calculated by the system. I used computing power to calculate the entire twenty days. Then I came up with a solution - the timeline of the player's arrival. The player follows the standard timeline, but there is only the origin in the Dawn system

.Players are moving towards a certain standard time on the paper of Dawn System."

"Therefore, the entire world is built on countless simulations, and the absoluteness of the data represents everything."

Su Mingan listened calmly to Liming System's words: "So?"

At dawn, I looked back at the city-state in the darkness. A pale, round moon was hidden in the black mist, like a silver lake in the wilderness.

His pale cheeks were slightly tilted, and his eyes were staring intently at the silent night of the city. From here, one could see the paths of pale corpses, and the trucks that were still traveling in the black fog.

He quietly looked at these humans who were struggling to survive. There was no pity, no sorrow, and no sympathy in his eyes, just like a god looking down on the city.

"Doctor, I need to inform you of something."

"After all the 2,300 simulations of Caius Tower were completed, due to the completion of the mission of the trap program Linguang T-0321, I collected enough data and learned about the situation of [Tasi]."

"In the past twelve hours, I have conducted thirty-six trillion simulations within my system. I have compared the city-state's resource reserves, personnel action plans, and firewall resistance time with the situation of [other dimensions].

Comprehensive comparison.”

"Among them, there were a total of eight simulations in which the ruined world was successfully defended and humanity won."

When Liming System said this, he looked at Su Mingan.

But Su Ming'an heard what he said.

"Thirty-six trillion simulations, only eight successful ones?" Su Mingan said.

"This is a cruel fact." Dawn System said: "Based on the data obtained by Linguang T-0321, I have discovered that our winning rate is not even one in a billion, doctor."

"Are you serious?" Su Mingan took a step back.

"According to the emergency regulations, this resistance is hopeless. Doctor, I will end the 'Dawn Project', and my mission will be to save the last hope of mankind. Strive to ensure that there are still humans after the world is invaded by [Tavi]

A chance to rise again." Dawn System said.

"Wait a minute..." Su Ming'an understood: "You mean, you want to give up resisting [Tali Wei], give up the 'Dawn Project' that has been launched, give up those who are transporting resources, give up everything now?

"

In Su Ming'an's sight, Liming System nodded slowly.

"Yes."

"While there are still more than ten hours left, I need to carry out the final transfer work as soon as possible to transfer mankind's most precious information into my program. Please rest assured, even if everything in reality is eventually destroyed by [him]

Even if it is destroyed, I can still preserve the last images and biological specimens of human beings."

Su Mingan heard this and looked at the Dawn System, finally feeling the difference between humans and programs.

Those residents who are still struggling to survive, those soldiers running in the sand...and the white birds on the bell tower, the footprints in the snow, the music scores in the glacier, the maltose in the lanes - everything about human beings...those

Billions of lives, and countless children like flowers - the dawn system means -

Su Mingan's pupils narrowed slightly.

——Give up completely?

Because of the information brought about by the sacrifice of Linguang T-0321, the Dawn System, after comparison, learned that it was almost impossible for humans to win, so it decisively decided to give up all previous considerations - the excellent cooperation between time, space, and dimensions.

, those firewalls that have been simulated 2,300 times, those lines of defense built by the peak of human wisdom - are they equivalent to nothing?

Tredia, whose chest was pierced by the sword blade, Noah who closed his eyes in his arms, Beilisel who called him "Asa", Mori who hung his head in the wheelchair, and Lin who disappeared in the ruins.

Light, billions of human beings who sacrificed for one spring...what are they regarded as?

Because there is no chance of winning anymore, I choose to give up. This is indeed a rational decision, but for humans, it is too cruel.

"Please rest assured that Dr. Akto has final considerations in this regard." Seeing Su Mingan's expression turned bad, Liming System said: "He had implanted a final plan in my program - if everything he did was still not good,

To allow humanity to continue to exist, I will automatically launch the new plan 'Hope', with the primary purpose of preserving humanity's most cherished resources and most precious talents, and to preserve the last spark of the human species."

"Doctor, we haven't lost yet."

"I lost." Su Mingan said.

His voice was extremely soft, and all the strength in his body seemed to be removed. He took a step back and sat back on the chair, like an empty shell with his soul removed.

——This is different from the ending where he redeemed Zhai Xing, but he redeemed an empty Zhai Xing without a human being. What is the difference between this and this ending?

He stared at the flashing green light in the eternal night. It was the light on the backs of the necks of the protective clothing personnel, forming a sea of ​​bright green stars. At a glance, there were thousands and thousands of them. Each ray of light

, represents an unyielding life.

They don't know yet that they have been abandoned by Dawn.

Su Ming'an thought that Akto was indeed calmer than him - so calm that he was cruel. As early as 102 years ago, Akto had even considered this kind of ending, which was similar to the group's destruction.

But no one can accept this ending.

If there are only a few people left in a population, and all art, literature, and music only leave words and images, what is the difference between the population and extinction?

"For a civilization, this is the best result under limited conditions." At this time, Xiao Ai's voice came from Su Mingan's shoulder, and the fox appeared out of nowhere.

Su Mingan pressed it back and made a "puff" sound.

"Ling Ming, what is your specific plan?" Su Mingan said.

Dawn System turned around, and the white data brilliance surged crazily with his movements, and clusters condensed around him, like blooming flowers.

Then, text visible to the naked eye flashed in the data. Along with the harsh sound, blood-colored light circulated in the room, illuminating Su Ming'an's face as red as blood, and Li Ming's transparent body was stained with the luster of blood.

"Didi-didi-didi!"

A heavy, silent breath circulated in the air, and even Su Mingan's hair blew in the wind.

Li Ming raised his head slightly, his white hair rose up with the wind, and lines of text flowed around him. There was no longer any light in his pupils, replaced by the numbers 0 and 1, occupying all of his pupils. The same

As red as blood.

The blood kept flashing, and countless data surrounded the two people. Su Mingan could no longer see any furniture in the room, and there were only waves of red and white ripples around him.

The distant city-state was as dark as night, and raindrops poured in through the window and onto Su Ming'an's face. He couldn't help but blink his eyes, his eyes filled with soreness.

At this moment, he suddenly remembered what Akto said when he parted with Akto:

【I once thought that as long as I exhausted my power, I could save everyone.】

[I once thought that as long as I used my wisdom and rationality to the fullest, I could build a defense tower that would never fall.]

[...But I finally discovered that some people, some things, and even the entire world may be destined to have no ending. 】

[I never dare to believe in hope. Whenever I decide to hold on to hope, the skin that has not been cut out by the knife blade will be exposed, and it will be cut by more knife edges until it becomes numb. 】

[Manpower sometimes runs out, and some people can only burn at the most splendid moment and die at the most dazzling moment. In the end, we may even find that we only have one way, and it has already led to the worst ending from the beginning. 】

[Su Mingan, if one day you and I really face such a situation, we have no other choice but to accept it. 】

[If one day, the choice of the fate of the world is placed in your hands, I hope you can still maintain your rationality.]

【Because we have done our best.】

【Because I can’t regret it anymore.】
To be continued...