Chapter 1 Step 1

"You are finally here."

The moment the door of the train opened, a Xumin who seemed to have been waiting here for a long time stood up.

Lin noticed that this imaginary man was wearing a gorgeous red costume, and there were many small discs of gold and silver on it, which seemed to be something called a 'medal'.

Every time he completes any merit, he will get a medal. This virtual man seems to have a very high merit, and his age is also very old.

"General!" When the commander saw the virtual citizen, he immediately made a 'saluting' action.

"Okay." The Xumin who was translated into a general by Lin raised his hand gently and said, "You must be very tired coming here, come with me."

Saying that, it turned around and walked away, and the commander and other virtual people immediately followed after seeing this.

"It seems that we have encountered a very difficult opponent this time." While walking in the aisle, the general said to the commander, "Captain, I really didn't expect it to do that kind of thing."

"This..." the commander said: "General, I don't think it's surprising, the captain has that kind of character..."

Lin listened to them talking and looked at the surrounding situation. In this 'space dome', because most of the walls are transparent, you can see many other rooms. It seems that there are many other rooms except here. In an extremely crowded place, a large group of phantoms are desperately crowding onto the aircraft or train. Although there are queues for them, there will always be a few phantoms who want to be faster when they enter, causing all of them to crowd.

After the aircraft here is fully loaded, it will fly out from the outer layer of the dome along with the open window. Lin paid attention to the display panels. It seems that most of the aircraft are not flying to the void, but to other places.

Only the train went directly to Void Area 52, and the virtual people who got on the train looked less panicked.

After going through a few turns and downhill, the commander and a group of virtual people followed the general to the lower floor of the dome. Lin saw that there were many virtual people lined up here, and in front of the team was a three-dimensional video installation. Citizens are lining up to hold something and stick it into the stereoscopic image...

This seems to be doing an action called 'ticket checking'. Passing virtual people can go to the upper floor to take the aircraft or train. Each different aircraft and train have different entrances, and they also have different ticket checking devices. .

The train that Lin was on also had a ticket checking device, but it wasn't turned on now, and of course there were no crowds lining up here, so she walked out very easily.

"...We need this colony." Before reaching the gate, the general stopped suddenly.

The general had been chatting with the commander when he was leaving, they were talking about the situation on the pom-pom, Lynn found out that the commander might have been on the Wanderer because he wasn't very specific about the pom-pom. Yes, but it is clear how serious the situation is.

"...We can't give up, we can't even publicize the result of failure." The general continued: "In fact, many people are suspicious that we are wasting resources, so we can't tell failure, only success."

"Otherwise, there will be no next time. They will doubt our ability and cancel this operation." When the general said, he also opened the door...

"At the same time, we will have no future."

At the moment when the door opened, countless noises entered Lin's mind instantly. I saw that on the street outside the door, it could be said that countless virtual people were coming and going back and forth. This was something Lin had seen. The most 'spectacular' biomes, it's hard to imagine a time when a group of individual creatures is denser than a swarm.

"A lot of people..." Not only Lin, but other virtual people were also stunned by this magnificent sight. Although they had seen it when they were on the train in the sky, there was no way to be as shocked as they were at such a close distance.

"You see," the general said. "Not only this city, but our whole world is like this... it's too crowded."

"However, the people here are not aware of this problem." The general said: "Most people think that life is normal and safe now, they only care about what to eat tonight, not what future generations should live in. place."

"Only that new world can save us. We can't spend hundreds of years looking for other places." The general said: "You must remember this, and absolutely must not reveal any information! Including your own relatives, do you know?"

"Yes!" The virtual people responded in unison: "The commander has said it many times before."

Seeing that they were always emphasizing this point, Lin wanted to see how it would be revealed.

"I believe you are all great fighters," said the general. "Do you have a place to go?"

"Yes... I want to go back to my grandfather's house." "I want to go back to my grandmother's house..." Many false people reported the cities and countries they wanted to go to, but only a few false people said nothing.

"Those soldiers who want to go to certain places, you can transfer here." Said, the general took out a few things and handed them to the virtual people who said they were going to other places.

"You can take the 'Universal Airship' directly here. This ticket includes the function of going back and forth." The general said: "After boarding, this 'Universal Airship' can send you anywhere."

"It's great, thank you General!" Several virtual people looked very excited after getting the tickets. Maybe they wanted to see what their grandfather's or grandmother's home was like?

But they do grow up listening to these stories, and it's no surprise that they want to see them.

"As expected of a general, it is ready." The commander said aside: "But I am worried that they will get lost, after all, they have never been here before..."

"It doesn't matter, there are people in the airship who are in charge of reception, and there are automatic navigation maps on the ticket." The general said: "If you want to go now, go quickly, after all, there are only seven days and nights!"

"Yes!" All the imaginary people ran back to the dome with high spirits.

Lin felt that they also had the idea of ​​running around to have a look, instead of following the commander all the time. After the group of phantoms left, there were only ten phantoms left here, including the spies.

"Then, the remaining soldiers, we will arrange accommodation for you at the headquarters."

The general also walked forward when he said this, and the virtual people followed it to the edge of the street.

On the edge of the street where the virtual people walk, another street can be seen, which can be translated as 'the road', which is a word in Lin's thoughts, which seems to refer to the road walked by a creature called 'horse', and There are also some species of mutated Maoyu that have turned into a creature called a 'horse'.

Although I said so much, it doesn't seem to have anything to do with this place.

The road here is the place where land machines are used. Like chariots, most land machines of the virtual people use wheel structures, and there are many kinds of shapes. A few use 'suspended' structures, but it is said that this kind of The price is very expensive, and ordinary people will not have it.

Generally speaking, the wheel structure is not as good as the leg structure, but because the legs are difficult to operate, they all like to use the wheel structure.

Lin noticed that there were still some rotating cylindrical objects on the side of the road, and she didn't know what they were doing.

On the road, a large number of machines are moving back and forth, and the tops of these machines called cars are also the same as other places, always flashing the light of advertisements, and countless lights flashing on the road are enough to make some imaginary people feel dizzy.

However, the virtual people who have lived here for a long time, such as generals, don't seem to care at all.

Looking at the complicated streets, and then looking at everything these creatures have built, are these things... all random?

In fact, none of the multicellular organisms on the pom-pom are purely random, not even the very primitive ones, and generally speaking, when a group of fungi begins to move towards multicellularity, they are not random anymore.

"Let's take this one." Suddenly the general spoke, and Lin found that it was walking towards a chariot parked beside the road. Although it looked like a chariot, it had no battery on it, and it was two times larger than a normal chariot. More than twice, there are neatly arranged windows in the lower half.

The general stepped forward, opened a door on the side of the chariot, and said to this side, "Come in, let's go to the base."

The virtual people were stunned for a moment. They seemed to be surprised that they wanted to ride this chariot, but they walked in quickly.

After going in and sitting down, Lin could see the surrounding scenery from the side window slowly descending, and the chariot flew up.

Not only the virtual people sitting in the chariot, but even the virtual people on the street looked at this flying chariot in surprise...

When the chariot rose to almost the same height as the dome, it suddenly accelerated and rushed in one direction...

The complicated streets with countless virtual people below quickly passed by Lin's eyes. This chariot shuttled between the towering buildings at high speed. Lin found that its flying height was much lower than other aircraft.

The flying chariot was very fast, but it almost collided with the buildings and billboards next to it several times. It seems that flying like this is "illegal", but maybe it doesn't matter because it is a general.

The chariot flew a few laps at high speed in the city, and then flew towards a target.

Where is... the headquarters?

Sure enough, it is very different from other buildings, it looks more like a... castle.

Around the headquarters stands a silver city wall, which isolates everything around it, and inside the city wall is a vast square with neatly arranged chariots and combat aircraft.

Further back, there are a lot of silver buildings.

Is there... a place to live?