The air was suddenly quiet.

A fresh breeze blew, causing ripples in the lake and lotus flowers.

"What?" Huang Yi was stunned for a while, then finally came to his senses and was dumbfounded.

Mr. Huang Sha smiled slightly and said, "You think it's unbelievable, right?" The Seven Demon Kings, Dragons, Magic, Monsters, Gods, these fantastic things are all real! ”

"Isn't this fiction?" Huang Yi asked in horror.

Mr. Huang Sha shook his head and smiled: "Actually, you have long been in contact with the truth, I found a conversation from your virtual world experience, that is the Winter Snow Festival of the year you first entered the virtual world, when you were still level 90, you were walking in Longdu with the little skirt, discussing things related to the Yellow Emperor and the Winter Snow Festival, at this time the poet suddenly arrived, and in the chat with you, he mentioned an interesting story - it is said that a plot planner of Times Company, during a space trip, accidentally obtained a strange red stone, When he fell asleep that night, he dreamed of such a plot, which was later written into the plot of the second world. ”

Huang Yi recalled it and vaguely remembered that there really seemed to be such a thing, and couldn't help but say: "Could it be that this story is true?" ”

Mr. Huang Sha nodded: "This story is so fantastical that everyone thinks it is gossip circulating on the Internet. In fact, this story does have a prototype, the red stone does exist, and it is from it that we know the truth of the universe. ”

Huang Yi held his breath, feeling that the worldview he had accepted since he was a child was about to be washed away, and he would know the most important discovery in human history.

"Decades ago, an astronaut from our time company got a glowing red stone near Mars on a spacecraft, and after bringing it back, we studied it carefully and found that there is a magical power in that stone, and you have been in the virtual world for so long, you should know what red often represents."

Huang Yi was stunned, suddenly reacted, and said in surprise: "Divine power? ”

"Yes! The magical power contained in the red stone is the divine power, and we have explored it through various methods, and found that the stone contains a huge amount of information, including dragons, magic, the seven demon kings, the heavenly realm, the god of death, and other things similar to those in the fantasy world. It is very likely that this stone was created by intelligent life, and the sheer amount of information it contains, the abundance of detail is breathtaking, these details correspond to each other, are interrelated, and seamless, and there is no flaw in them, so that it is hard to believe that these are fictitious, and can only be so detailed if they have actually happened. ”

Mr. Huang Sha paused, and continued: "We didn't dare to believe this information at the time, after all, it was not consistent with our scientific findings. At that time, our interstellar navigation technology was very backward, and human space travel could only go to places like the moon and Mars, and it was difficult to verify whether the information in this red stone was true or false. However, this information is still very useful, and we used this information as a blueprint to create the first generation of the virtual world "Hope". Originally, this matter could have ended here and been skipped as an unsolved mystery, but another incident happened more than ten years ago. ”

"More than 10 years ago, the Voyager 2 satellite suddenly returned a piece of information, and it actually stopped. Voyager 2 is a satellite launched by the United States more than 100 years ago, and it and Voyager 1 were the first two man-made objects to leave the solar system. Voyager 2 is traveling at a speed of more than 50,000 kilometers per hour in space, and why did it suddenly stop when it should have been moving forward in the cosmic vacuum? ”

"Could it be that you hit an asteroid or something?" Huang Yi asked.

Mr. Huang Sha shook his head: "If it hits an asteroid at a speed of more than 50,000 kilometers per hour, it will be shattered a long time ago, and it is impossible to send back information." We speculate that Voyager 2 must have had some kind of special encounter, and it is even possible that there is some anomaly in the information module, and some speculate that it may have been captured by intelligent life. ”

"At that time, we happened to have made a major breakthrough in the field of space, immediately launched the newly developed starship at that time, and quickly covered the distance that Voyager 2 took more than a hundred years to cover, and as a result, the spacecraft also stopped after flying to the location of Voyager 2, and could not continue to move forward. It turns out that there is a strange barrier there that hinders our satellites and ships, as well as our further exploration. Speaking of barriers, you should know how to call them in the language of the virtual world. Mr. Huang Sha said, looking at Huang Yi.

"Could it be...... Enchantment? Huang Yi said uncertainly.

"That's right! It's an enchantment! After some research, our scientists discovered that the barrier was related to quantum, and in order to break the secret of that barrier, we increased our investment in the quantum field, and at the same time, we also conducted more in-depth research on the red stone we obtained decades ago. We came to the conclusion that the red stone should have come from outside the barrier, and the information inside the stone was likely to be real outside the barrier. It's just that I don't know why, this stone penetrates the barrier, or that barrier is only one-way, and the things on the outside can come in, but the things inside can't go out. This cannot but make us believe that there are other intelligent beings in the universe, and that the enchantment is set by them, and that the life on our earth may be a branch of them, or they may have sown it, or it may even be in captivity by them. ”

Huang Yi bit his lip and said, "You mean, beyond that enchantment is actually the real universe?" And what we thought of as the universe was just an illusory illusion created by that enchantment? ”

"Yes. That barrier is very magical, it can send false information to humans, making humans mistakenly believe that they have observed gravitational waves, making humans mistakenly believe that they have observed starlight emitted tens of billions of years ago, and making humans misunderstand everything, and all the previous human observations are false information from this barrier. Can you believe it? The universe we know is actually just an illusion, and the real universe is like what it appears in the virtual world. ”

Mr. Huang Sha paused and continued: "After that, we continued to use the information in that stone as a blueprint to create the second-generation virtual world "Heroes", and the third-generation virtual world "Origin" to be released next, the purpose is to screen out a group of 'heroes', go to the real universe, and explore the true 'origin' of human beings. ”

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The poet talks to Huang Yi about the red stone, in chapter 398