"Hmm?" The reaction from the opposite side made Li Huailin stunned for a moment, "Do you know me?"

"No, no, your name is a bit similar to the name of someone in my memory." Hoffman said here, "21xx... it won't be true."

"What's the situation with Li Huailin in your memory?" Li Huailin asked directly.

"Nearly 200 years ago, a person who caused the 'big crisis' was also called Li Huailin. This name is also a relatively common name in China." Hoffman said here, "It is said that there seems to be different names in the same sound in China. Your name should be different from that Li Huailin."

"What is the big crisis?" Li Huailin asked directly. Yes, although the name Li Huailin is not uncommon, he always feels that what the other party is talking about should be himself.

"Sure enough, hasn't happened yet?" Hoffman said, "That was a huge crisis that mankind was facing at that time. Without any defense, a large number of war machinery suddenly appeared on the earth. Due to the inability to deal with it, it is said that humans were almost extinct at that time. Fortunately, all countries worked together to avoid the worst situation. However, the civilization of the past is almost destroyed."

"Are war machinery?" Li Huailin nodded slightly. When he said this, he remembered the robot found on the moon before, which caused humans to almost destroy it? He believed this. After all, the thing that Liu Heyun had told him before was very dangerous, but strangely, Hoffman said that humans were unprepared. Hasn't this been discovered now? And the G4 must have known it, how could it be unprepared? The most important thing is that according to Hoffman, this matter was done by himself, so how could it be counted on his head.

"It is said that the situation was really dangerous at that time," Hoffman said. "It is said that it was the biggest crisis since the birth of human civilization. If there was no such catastrophe, the process of human civilization would be much faster than it is now."

"You said that a man named Li Huailin caused that catastrophe?" Li Huailin asked, "How did he do it?"

"I... don't know, after all, it was something that happened more than a hundred years ago. The situation was so chaotic at that time that humans were beaten to the ground and space for a time. All the documents that got up early were gone. The only thing I know now is this." Hoffman said.

"If there is no information, then it's okay?" Li Huailin said, "For example, our current technological level should not be able to create those war machines. So how could Li Huailin create these machinery and cause a big crisis? I think it was the Zhengzhou government who made these things for the sake of war, and then lost control, leading to a big crisis. Then in order to conceal these mistakes, he casually put the charge on a person. This explanation is more normal, right?"

"This..." Hoffman here thought for a moment and nodded, "What you said makes sense, but I don't know much about this matter and have not studied it in depth. What everyone knows is what I said."

"That is to say, someone controls public opinion." Li Huailin said.

"Maybe. But at that time everyone was studying how to solve those war machines. No one would study this problem." After saying that, Hoffman looked at Li Huailin, "You... are really that Li Huailin?"

Yes, when he heard Li Huailin's tone, Hoffman here also felt that he might be the Li Huailin he remembered. This guy is the culprit who caused the Earth's crisis? Hoffman really didn't expect that he could see such a person, and he was a little confused for a while.

"Although it's not 100% certain, I think the person should be talking about me." Li Huailin said.

"So you have nothing to do with those war machines?" Hoffman asked. Yes, according to Li Huailin's previous conversation, Hoffman also felt that what he knew might not be the truth.

"I don't know if it's relevant, but those machines were not made by me, and I don't have any intention to destroy the world." Li Huailin said, "But I am not very clear whether the situation caused by me is happening now. After all, this is still nothing happened. However, it is obvious that the Zheng Mansion is hiding something, and I can be sure of this."

"How do you say it?" Hoffman asked.

"Now that Zhengzhou has discovered those war machines, so what you said before is completely unprepared is quite strange." Li Huailin said.

"That's it." Hoffmann nodded here, "I understand. After all, these things happened before. After so long, it's hard to say what happened at that time. But since it hasn't happened yet, can I stop this? Change history?"

"Don't talk about what changed history first, let's talk about your situation first." Li Huailin said, "Who are you? What's going on in this company? What's going on now?"

"Yes." Hoffman nodded. After all, Li Huailin also told him some of the situation. It is very important to exchange information now. "My name is William Hoffman, a system engineer. Due to some reasons, he came to work in this paradise company. This paradise company is a virtual engineering project that Zhengzhou participated in. On the surface, it is to solve the problem of human hibernation."

"Hibernation problem?" Li Huailin asked.

"Yes, you probably haven't had this situation yet, right? In fact, due to the occurrence of a major crisis in the future, most people on the earth have entered the underground world to hide, but the underground space is not that large. Some people also chose to hibernate directly. However, general hibernation technology needs to consume energy if it wants to maintain it. The energy problem was also a big problem in our era, so a new technology was urgently needed to solve this problem. The paradise company was born to solve this problem. Through some technologies, human consciousness is put into the virtual world, and then ** will directly destroy it, retain DNA information, and when the time for hibernation comes, you can directly copy the body and inject consciousness again. If you succeed, of course, you can solve the energy problem. After all, maintaining a server requires much less energy than hundreds of millions of hibernation pods." Hoffman said, "If the plan is successful, maybe it can open up a new world. I was shocked by this plan at the beginning and I participated."

"Did you design this server?" Li Huailin asked.

"Oh, no, this server was made by Paradise Company. When I came, this server had been completed. We mainly maintain the internal world." Hoffman said here.

"Well..." Li Huailin nodded, still not knowing who the producer of this server was. After thinking about it, he asked again, "You just said it was on the surface, but you still found something, right? I saw the promotional video of this company when I came here before. You made the final part of the promotional video."

"Oh? That thing is still there?" Hoffman was stunned for a moment, "That's right. In fact, this company has other purposes hidden, and I only found out later."

"What the hell is it?" Li Huailin asked, "the ark plan you mentioned."

"This matter starts with the previous story. Although the plan of Paradise Company is still well implemented, the system here is still in the testing stage and has not yet officially started to operate. At this moment, a little unexpected happened in the only testing world. According to reports from some personnel, some special NPCs appeared in this world. These NPCs were not produced according to the set rules, but seemed to be generated independently by the system. Moreover, these newly born NPCs seem to have some independent awareness. This is of course a very terrifying thing. At that time, we held a meeting here, and decided to observe first and then deal with it." Hoffman said.

"And then you entered the game and observed it?" Li Huailin asked.

"Yes, my group and two other groups entered the game and were ready to observe these special NPCs. The observation results were beyond our expectations. These NPCs seemed to have a sense of autonomy, and even knew that they were virtual characters, just like real people." Hoffman said, "Of course we reported on this matter and then got the company's handling opinions. What was unexpected was that the company just asked us to deal with these NPCs, not to check the server and find out the source problems of these NPCs."

"What then?" Li Huailin asked.

"A little happened during this period." Hoffman said here, pausing a little. Judging from the other party's expression, Li Huailin probably knew that this matter had something to do with the God Slayer, but after all, he had a relationship with the virtual character. I guess he didn't know how to tell Li Huailin about this matter. Hoffman didn't explain it in detail, but mentioned it, "I discovered some strange things later."

"Well, for example." Li Huailin was not confused about the God Slayer. Now telling Hoffman what he said, maybe the other party wanted to go back to the game to find the God Slayer. Li Huailin still needed the other party to provide information, so of course he didn't speak up.

"A researcher in our group died." Hoffman said here.

"Hmm?" Li Huailin was a little stunned. What does this mean? It seemed to be a little jumping.

"It was only then that I realized a problem. The principle of this paradise system is to transfer human consciousness to this server and then destroy the other party's **. So if this consciousness disappears, does not mean that the person is really dead?" Hoffman said, "It is obvious that once a large number of people enter this virtual world, isn't the person who controls this server controlling the entire human world?"

"Well..." Li Huailin nodded, there was no problem with this.

"This made me a little bit suspicious of the purpose of this company, and then something even more surprising happened," Hoffman said. "In the process of entering the game investigation, we actually discovered a strange system in the game, which may be called a screening system."

"Filtering system?" Li Huailin asked.

"I don't know the specific situation, but it should be through a large-scale screening and then selecting some humans suitable for survival." Hoffman said.

"A human being suitable for survival?" Li Huailin asked.

"Yes, this is the Ark Plan." Hoffman said, "This virtual world is not a safe haven for mankind, but a cruel duel. When the world is blocked to a certain extent, it will trigger a system similar to a duel arena. After a series of duels, some people will be selected to gain the right to continue to survive."

"What?" Li Huailin was a little stunned, "Why do you have to do such a thing?"

"I don't know either." Hoffman said, "According to my guess, this machine may not be able to maintain the current number of humans, so the government deceived ordinary people into this machine in this way, and then selected more suitable humans to survive. Other wastes that are not suitable for survival will probably be directly disposed of."

"That's right?" Li Huailin touched his chin, "Didn't you just say that the energy required to maintain this server is not a lot of energy, so it doesn't matter if those people just live in it? Why do you have to set up a ring to deal with these people?"

"I don't know this...but this plan is true," said Hoffman here.

What Hoffman said may be true. Yes, the first thing Li Huailin thought of was the world trial. This is really a kind of full-scale screening, but what Li Huailin couldn't figure out was the other party's purpose. If the black beast behind this matter was the zheng family, there was no need to do this screening. This statement made Li Huailin feel very strange.

"I really don't understand the purpose," said Li Huailin. "I guess you don't know the purpose either, you just heard this news, right?"
Chapter completed!