Author: Binary Sword Fairy

Ogami sat up straight, pinched the space between her toes, and then slapped her hands on the keyboard fiercely:

"I don't want to have a mutant sitting on my head when I sleep at night again!"

When Chen Yan raised his head and saw his computer screen, the white screen was torn apart by an unknown force again, revealing the scene behind the paper like a hole in the paper -

From time to time, a few flashes of thunder and lightning flashed through the dark sky, illuminating the dark clouds that even lightning could not penetrate. It was also during this sudden glimpse that a small aircraft flashed past high in the sky.

It was raining heavily under the sky, and a tattered little robot was carrying a tattered sack. Its one hand - which was obviously a hand that did not originally belong to it - was longer than its body. On a rainy night

E-waste is being picked up in a huge mountain of e-waste that is several times taller than the tallest building in China.

Its body is almost entirely a skeleton—a skeleton pieced together from all kinds of electronic waste.

The core of the driving skeleton is a mobile phone.

An ordinary smartphone.

The smartphone was already very tattered, with most of the circuit board exposed, but it and the battery were carefully wrapped in plastic tape found from nowhere. Rainwater dripped from the gaps in its body, just avoiding the circuit board and

Battery part.

There are multiple ugly solder joints on the circuit board, and these solder joints usually extend a flying line. One side of the flying line is the circuit board and the other side is its torso - this is how it controls its body.

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After being busy for an unknown amount of time, it suddenly gained something——

In a small sealed box, it found an old game console.

It connected the game console to a junk power source that it had found before, and found that the game console could still start.

But it doesn't have a display, so it's impossible to immediately know what data is still in the game console.

It also found an almost intact disc inside the game console.

"se...sekiro"

It called the ancient database in the smartphone and read out the name on the disc extremely clumsily and slowly:

""Sekiro:Shadows Die Twice""

It seemed to recognize something familiar from this name, and the loudspeaker in its mechanical head, which was almost full of blockages, made an excited voice:

"Seki...se...Ogami!"

"Ogami!"

The scene of the little garbage robot holding the CD high was torn apart again by an unknown force, and the rainy night in front of it revealed the scene behind the paper like a hole in the paper——

When a room of about ten square meters occupied his field of vision, the feeling of "owning a body" came back.

Chen Yan looked up blankly and saw that the light in the room was dim. There was only a spotlight shining in the center of the room. Opposite him, on the other end of the spotlight, there was a short man sitting on the sofa. On the ground next to the sofa on the right side was

A broken goblet.

The spotlight was pointed at him. Only half of the person on the sofa could be seen, and his face was completely hidden in the darkness.

"You shouldn't come back now."

That was... the sound of sobbing?

A woman's sobs.

Listening to the sobs, Chen Yan suddenly felt empathy - empathy that was not based on synesthesia at all - but he didn't know what to say.

"Even so, I will still fulfill my duties."

A table appeared out of thin air in front of him. On the table were two pills, one red and one blue.

The woman continued:

"Eat red and you will see the real world."

"Eat blue and you will return to your world."

Chen Yan's shocked mind was calmed down in a short time, so he didn't hesitate when he reached out and picked up the blue pill.

Before he took the blue pill, the woman asked in a voice that was "completely incomprehensible" but full of "emotional surprise":

"Why...don't you want to see the real world?"

The real world?

Is it the BIOS?

Or is it something... deeper than BIOS?

Chen Yan had a clear understanding and became more determined.

"Everything I have experienced is my life."

He said and swallowed the pill.

The next moment, the lights in the whole world went dark.

Chen Yan's consciousness began to become blurry.

It was hazy, like a dream that had gone through countless years.

Chaotic words flooded into my mind, and endless colorful lights and shadows appeared one after another.

Until an urgent call appeared, Chen Yan suddenly opened his eyes.

The light at noon shone into the porthole from the south, spreading golden reflections throughout the cabin. Chen Yan's dilated pupils began to shrink when he opened his eyes, until the reflection of light entered his pupils, and he saw his companions

Anxious face.

"You finally woke up!"

Ogami's face was full of self-blame, and her tone was filled with regret:

"I shouldn't have taken you into such a deep place..."

Chen Yan glanced at Nuomi Guo, who had nervous eyes, stabilized his mind, and told them the scenes he had just seen.

A face with a shocked expression flashed out from behind Ogami, that was Osmandis:

"That's it! No wonder the line of sight is broken! It turns out it's because the driver was touched!"

Looking at the doubtful looks cast by everyone, Osmandis explained:

"Let me explain it in layman's terms:

If the world we live in is compared to a complete computer system, then the place you are going to is similar to the driver between hardware and software.

BIOS is a basic input and output system solidified in the chip and used to manage hardware settings. As a software, it is the deepest level and belongs to the bottom layer of the software system. It provides the most direct hardware settings and control - for us, BIOS means

The underlying rules that exist in the deeper world - even the [deepest world], are the basis for the operation of our entire world.

In modern science, logic simulates some of the basic rules of BIOS, and mathematics digitizes them, but the degree and method are very superficial. Except for a few powerful people, other scholars have almost never touched the core.

part.

The driver is the bridge between the hardware and the software operating system. A software must go through the driver to run on the hardware - [bridge], you must understand this meaning.

The driver is the bridge. You are standing on the bridge. One side of the bridge is the software operating system - [the world we live in], and the other side is the BIOS - [the deepest world].

It stands to reason that when you come to the bridge, you should be able to see part of the true appearance of the BIOS."

Osmandis quickly frowned:

"You stood on the bridge and saw those scenes, they may have happened in [our world], or they may have happened in BIOS.

If those scenes happened in [our world], they should be Ogami's real experiences in previous generations.

But if those scenes happen in the BIOS..."

Osmandis' face gradually became ugly:

"I can't imagine what that is."

Ogami said in a deep voice:

"Is that my [destiny]?"

When these words were spoken, no one in the cabin reacted for a moment.

Ogami spoke again:

"If this world is run based on BIOS, we living in this world should also have a predetermined [destiny] - for me, it is countless struggles and failures - if BIOS stipulates that I can only

Failure, then, is this my fate in [our world]?"

Nuomiguo's face was extremely ugly. Ogami's failure was almost equivalent to her failure.

Osmandis lowered his head and thought for a long time, frowning and speechless.

No one can give an accurate answer to such a hopeless and complex question.

As the only person who witnessed everything from entering the cemetery to standing on the bridge, Chen Yan expressed his thoughts according to his own understanding:

"The only thing we can be sure of now is that the answer you want is probably in the BIOS - the corpses in the [cemetery] represent [the life of a certain generation], paving the way to the BIOS.
To be continued...