Pairs of eyes gathered around the conference table looked at him, and Luo Yi asked for everyone present. "What?"

The security chief said immediately. "Schrödinger's cat."

There were whispers in front of the meeting table, and this statement was recognized by some people. Looking at the silent Luo Yi, the security director continued in an uncertain tone.

"Aren't we stuck in the hyperspace channel now? Such a strange thing happened again... Do you think we are stuck in a place similar to quantum space?"

Not liking this ambiguous statement, Luo Yi asked seriously. "What is quantum space? What is its specific definition?"

The security director was speechless for a moment, rubbed his index finger on the stubble, and said with a wry smile. "Actually, I was just guessing. I'm not doing physics... I'm studying logistics management." The security officer standing aside boasted.

Whistling, he said teasingly.

"It seems that we don't have a professional counterpart on the ship." "Isn't the person from the fifth department a professional counterpart?"

"It speaks volumes, but it's of no use."

Unexpectedly, someone was persecuting Dr. Wu here. Luo Yi made a helpless expression. "I plan to ask him for his opinion later...about the quantum space you mentioned." The security director coughed awkwardly.

"That's the name I made up... Anyway, it means something similar, just ask." Joking aside.

That guy is a top student after all.

He actually still believed in Dr. Wu’s professional knowledge and diploma. After the meeting.

Luo Yi rushed to the fifth department without stopping, only to find that Dr. Wu was not here. There was only an intern he led on duty. After some questioning, he learned that the guy had gone to drink again.

There is too little work in the Scientific Research and Technology Department, and it is a marginal department that is completely useless. Most of the people who work here have loose personalities and are accustomed to being lazy.

In desperation, Luo Yi could only contact Babu's friends, and finally found this drunk guy in a bar in the corner of the middle deck.

Looking at Dr. Wu lying on the bar, Luo Yi sighed and walked to sit next to him, then looked at the bionic robot bartender in front of him.

"Two glasses of lemonade."

"Is it iced or room temperature?" "One cup of ice and one cup of room temperature." "Okay sir."

The bionic robot replied with a gentle voice, and soon there were two more glasses of water with lemon slices on the table. He pushed the hot glass in front of Dr. Wu, and Luo Yi picked up the glass with ice cubes floating in it and drank it.

mouth.

From 8 o'clock in the morning standard time to now when he got off work, he had been busy for ten hours without eating a bite. However, this was not entirely due to busyness, but also partly due to lack of appetite.

Looking at Wu Xinghuan reaching out to touch the glass, he said in a casual tone, "Is it appropriate to drink during work hours?"

"never mind……"

Wu Xinghuan grabbed the cup and took a sip. He found that there was no smell of alcohol and it was still hot, so he frowned. Seeing this guy's bad attitude, Luo Yi raised his eyebrows.

"What do you mean it doesn't matter? Didn't you discover new physics? You said we will miss you... the one who never leaves your hand with the wine bottle?"

Hearing this, Wu Xinghuan laughed self-deprecatingly, shook the lemonade in his hand, and cast his blurred eyes towards the wine cabinet in front of him.

"It doesn't matter anymore... No one will remember us, I haven't discovered new physics, the old building has not collapsed, it is even stronger. We are still in our cage, we just happen to be on the rollers."

The hamster that came down."

This guy was obviously drunk. Luo Yi couldn't understand what he was saying at all. He seemed to deny his previous conclusion. "So... now you think that guy is not a time traveler anymore?"

"Isn't it important?" Wu Xinghuan shook his head, picked up the cup and took a sip. Luo Yi frowned and stared into his eyes seriously.

"Listen, you are the only one on the ship who can hopefully help us understand the current situation. We need to know what is happening to us. I don't know what problems you encountered in your research, but I hope that at least now, you can cheer up!

"

This sentence seemed to have some effect. Wu Xinghuan raised his head and looked at him, staring directly at him. "Let's make a hypothesis."

Luo Yi looked at him and motioned him to continue.

Wu Xinghuan placed the cup on the table, took two seeds from the lemon slice and threw them in. Looking at the sinking lemon seeds, he said slowly.

"There is a video game with many, many people in it.\n.\n.\n.\n.\nJust assume there are 10 billion." Luo Yi frowned.

"Then what?" Wu Xinghuan continued.

"Our eyes have limits, and of course the lens also has limits. Now let's assume that this lens can only see 100 million people, and our game console supports 100 million people on the same screen."

Without waiting for Luo Yi to ask, he said non-stop.

"Then the question is, what about the 9.9 billion people outside the camera? Where did they go?" Luo Yi was stunned by this question for a while and answered with a weird expression. "Of course they are outside the camera.

"

"Smart!" Wu Xinghuan gave a thumbs up and grinned, "It's a pity that we only saw the surface...The truth is that they are all in the quantum state."

"You know they exist, and the host also acquiesces that they do exist, and even each of their names is recorded, but they are not actually generated directly in our program, right? Or they are saved in the cache,

Only when we move the camera over will they be generated in real time and be seen by us." "People in the old era used this method to make games at low cost, as long as the perspective is limited to a certain range and cleverly

Using screen loading, you can create a planet with just a few textures."

"I can probably understand what you mean," Luo Yi frowned and said, "But what does this have to do with the situation we are facing now?"

Wu Xinghuan did not answer directly, but knocked over the cup on the bar. Looking at the stunned Luo Yi, he said slowly.

"Now there is an explosion outside the camera, and it really happened. You have even seen the number of casualties, the aftermath of the explosion, and the subsequent effects... But did the explosion really happen?"

"Do you still need to ask?" Luo Yi looked at him in confusion, "You said it yourself, there was indeed an explosion there."

"I am the host, I am the narrator, and I am telling you about the explosion." Wu Xinghuan stared into his eyes and said with a smile, "But what you should know is that before you move the camera over, the special effects of the explosion, people

The screams and what someone saw and did before they died were not actually generated on my program, were they?"

"Perhaps when the explosion happened, some guy was gesturing his middle finger to you outside the game. I bet you would be amazed when you saw it, because a certain NPC not only awakened to self-awareness but also broke the fourth wall.

...But you have no chance to see it, because when you move the camera over, you may not even be able to find his body."

Luo Yi looked at him blankly, vaguely seeming to have understood something.

"Event horizon," Wu Xinghuan slowly spit out a word from his mouth, and then said, "We call the space-time interface where an event can just be observed the 'event horizon', and in this exaggerated example, the angle of your lens

The edge is what I call the horizon."

"And for us sitting here, we in the hyperspace channel are just outside the "event horizon". Including the kid who went astray, we are all put into a world that is impenetrable to the outside world.

Black box. Our ending is an established fact for him, and his ending is irrelevant to us, because no matter what he tells us or what happens in the future, we are already dead in his timeline."

When he said this, Wu Xinghuan smiled to himself again.

"The universe is much crueler than we imagine, isn't it? According to this theory, no matter what we do at this moment, it is meaningless, even if we carve words on the wall and write down our legendary experiences,

Whatever should be erased will be erased.”

"Perhaps we have encountered time travelers countless times in history...but there is no exception. They are just like the NPC I mentioned standing outside the camera and gesticulating the middle finger at the player. No one knows that he has broken through time.

The fourth wall was broken. When the God who was overlooking us came back to his senses, he had been completely erased. And the reason is exactly the result we saw...because we had never heard of this time traveler at all."

Luo Yi couldn't help but hold his breath, and after a long time he slowly said, "But...how did we get in?"

Just because of hyperspace travel?

But since the outbreak of this war, we have experienced countless hyperspace voyages, and we have never heard of any starship encountering something like this...

etc.

It's not necessarily that they haven't encountered it before.

A drop of cold sweat slowly ran across Luo Yi's forehead and dripped on the bar of the bar. Maybe someone had met him before, but no one knew about it.

It's like no one knows what the afterlife is like, whether it's reincarnation or going to a place called heaven. They have only one piece of information left to the outside world - or "inside the horizon".

That is undisputed death.

"How did we get in? Haha, only God knows how we got in."

Wu Xinghuan laughed out loud, looked at Luo Yi who seemed to be enlightened, and said slowly, "This kind of thing is not important at all. Maybe a big explosion killed us all in an instant, but we don't

Just know it..."

When he said this, he burped, drunkenly stared into Luo Yi's eyes, and said every word.

"So why did I say you were doing something meaningless? Because that guy was telling the truth! We may have... no, it's not possible, it's certain!"

"We are dead!"

"And you and I sitting here...are just ghosts." There was silence at the bar.

Only the bionic robot wiped the cup skillfully and made a chirping sound.

Luo Yi stared at Wu Xinghuan blankly, stared at that face for a long time, and finally looked at the robot bartender. "...Two glasses of the fountain of life."

The android bartender said in a gentle voice.

"I don't recommend that you drink alcohol during duty hours, especially strong cocktails." "But you gave it to him." Luo Yi pointed at Wu Xinghuan sitting next to him. A troubled look appeared on the face of the android bartender.

"But this gentleman said he was from the Fifth Department, and you all said that the Fifth Department didn't have to work..." Luo Yi's brows twitched, but he still said calmly.

"I'll give him what he wants."

This statement seemed to be recognized by the android bartender, and two glasses of clear and transparent spirits were quickly placed on the bar. Luo Yi pushed one of the glasses in front of Dr. Wu, and then sprinkled a few grains of salt into his own glass.

"Everything you said is just your inference. I can also speculate that we are actually on different timelines...just like that parallel universe theory."

Wu Xinghuan shrugged.
To be continued...