When his eyes went dark, Shen Ran felt like he was going to die.

Reality is not a fantasy novel, and the luminous stone is not a mysterious gem that can bring adventures to young people. That only means that it contains harmful radioactive substances.

But why would Third Uncle harm himself like this?

Fortunately, I closed the box before passing out... I hope my uncle's family will never be as naive as me.

Compared to becoming another hyena wandering the streets, dying like this seems acceptable. But Shen Ran is still a little unwilling because he is still a virgin who has never tasted love.

Although the technology of in vitro reproduction has been mature as early as the 20th century, the Earth Federation previously planned to establish a fertility bureau, with the state machine responsible for the continuation of civilization to ensure that human genes will be excellent in the future. But this The utopian plan was canceled anyway.

Shen Ran felt that the genes of people like him would most likely not enter the fertility bureau. When he thought about the book saying that reproduction is the instinctive duty of life, and he died as a virgin, wouldn't it mean that he had no chance of entering the fertility bureau? Have you not realized the meaning of life?

Realizing the meaning of life...? Well, Shen Ran suddenly wanted to cry bitterly and shout out the last sentence in the world, "I really want a woman!".

The youthful bodies on campus, the charming women in the bar, the long-legged black-haired ladies, or the well-behaved loli schoolgirls, all of them have primitive desires flowing in.

There is also the invisible sea on Mars in the textbooks, the bizarre interstellar explorers on the TV screen, and all the unknown and beautiful things. The world is so vast, but I have never seen anything. I have been so useless for just ten years. Five years, and then died in a daze in the room. This made the young man suddenly collapse and want to cry.

But after a long time, Shen Ran suddenly felt a sharp pain.

It's not the heartache of life, but the pain that affects the body.

pain!

It felt like something had gotten into his mouth, and then moved all the way deep along his esophagus, and his soft throat seemed to have been scratched by pieces of razor blades.

In reality, the unconscious young man suddenly bent over like a shrimp, and his whole body trembled like a sieve.

etc!

What?

Shen Ran was in severe pain and panicked again. A foreign object had entered his body and it was still alive.

That thing was moving in his belly. How could a robot that wasn't made of steel and iron bones endure such torture? The pain was like magma spewing from the earth's crust, hitting the core of the brain.

So much so that Shen Ran had auditory hallucinations, and scenes of chaos flashed through the darkness in his eyes.

He actually saw his father, the woman, and the third uncle he remembered from his childhood, and his ears were filled with noisy sounds.

"Shen Chengwen, you disappoint me so much. I was really blind before I followed you."

"If you divorce, divorce! Get out! Get away as far away as possible!"

"Why are you crying? Xiaoran, remember, this is your mother, she is no different from those bitches in the company. As long as we lose our value, we will be abandoned..."

"..."

In the midst of the great sadness that he had to go through before dying, Shen Ran suddenly heard another strange voice. It was not a human voice, but an extremely weird signal, but he somehow sensed its meaning.

"Number 09, Activating..."

"The first try, failed, the embryo is undernourished; repeat, the second try, failed, the embryo is undernourished; repeat, the third try..."

"..."

By this time, Shen Ran gradually lost consciousness completely, because blood was being lost everywhere in his body. In order to ensure that he would not die from pain, his brain automatically shut down many functions. Only the brainstem, which only carries out subconscious activities, still has electrical signals.

And if an outsider looks through it, they will be shocked to find that there is a black shadow the size of a thumb in Shen Ran's cerebral cortex, and it is still alive. It has taken root in Shen Ran's brain, like a parasite.

...

...

"Repeat, try the 532nd time, fail."

"Warning, the host function is about to stop; warning, the embryo is seriously damaged; warning..."

The thumb-sized black shadow took root in Shen Ran's cerebral cortex, stretched out tentacles, and released a strange energy similar to electric current, flowing throughout the brain to ensure that the poor boy was not brain dead.

However, due to the influence of radiation, Shen Ran's body functions have seriously deteriorated. In addition, the thumb-sized black shadow also has serious problems, and he is currently encountering a problem that is difficult to solve.

"Enable a second set of commands to perform biological device redundancy."

In the human computer field, there is also the term equipment redundancy. It means that in a local area network, when a link between an incoming switch and a core switch fails, if one of the core switches fails, it will causing the entire network to become unavailable.

Equipment redundancy adopts a double-star network structure. Once a core device breaks down, another core device will immediately take over.

However, here, no one knows what this thumb-sized black shadow is and what kind of device it refers to?

A strange electric-like energy began to flow out of his brain, like a gurgling stream, nourishing Shen Ran's whole body like spring rain.

The human cells that were damaged by the radiation from the blue crystal stone once again underwent incredible changes.

Shen Ran felt like he was soaking in a hot spring, and his brain gradually recovered. Even his eyelids moved, but he could not fully open them yet.

Meanwhile, changes are still underway.

"Perform data redundancy."

Soon, something else was forcibly input into the hippocampus of the brain. In reality, the young man frowned as a lot of weird information was forced into his head, making him feel like his brain was going to explode.

"The command was successfully executed and the biological program was re-run."

"Activating..."

With strange signals,

Shen Ran's consciousness suddenly appeared in a vast starry sky. The stars, which were invisible to the naked eye, were scattered all around like broken diamonds, making him unable to believe the world in his eyes.

"Where is this place?" Shen Ran felt strange, but also inexplicably familiar.

The next moment, a strange voice sounded in the space, "The connection to the Deep Blue Network has been successfully established, number 09, do you want to log in?"

Deep blue network?

Shen Ran was stunned. He looked in all directions. Where was this starry sky?

Could it be that he is already dead?

There is no heaven after death, but some so-called deep blue network?

"Do you want to log in to the Deep Blue Network?"

The weird sound sounded again.

Shen Ran's heartbeat quickened, and he instinctively realized that he was not dead yet, but that something out of the blue had happened to him.

"What is the Deep Blue Network?" Shen Ran lacked care since childhood and the world did not cultivate him into a delicate flower in an ivory tower, so he behaved quite calmly and reasoned him to ask this question.

No response.

In this starry sky, I am the only one.

And the question, "Do you want to log in to the Deep Blue Network?"

There are some memories buried deep in the dark, which faintly stir the young Shen Ran's heartstrings.

Climb up.

Climb up.

An indescribable voice shouted like this, making Shen Ran feel like a wanderer longing to go home.

"No!"

Suddenly, Shen Ran's heart beat rapidly and he refused to respond.

The last time I yearned for the unknown, because my third uncle said something that would change my life, it turned out to be a piece of blue crystal ore that killed me. And the pain that was worse than life, now just thinking about it makes Shen Ran sweat. .

He never wanted to do it again. At the moment, he was only afraid of things he didn't understand.

Just live, even if you are studying at Anode High School, even if you are a mouse in the dungeon, so what?

I am just an ordinary mouse... What the psychological counselor in the Fire City Government Service Building said was not wrong.

Shen Ran forced himself to calm down and said, "I refuse."

In an instant, an emotion called loss began to spread in his body. But Shen Ran knew that this was definitely not caused by himself. This emotion came from external objects.

Now I just want to return to reality as soon as possible.

Following Shen Ran's answer, the starry space began to disintegrate and disappear like pieces of broken lenses. At the same time, a strange sound that was different from human language sounded, making the young Shen Ran panic.

"Welcome to the Deep Blue Network next time."

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...

Death is a necessary node for everyone.

If possible, the Creator should not have put this node at the end. Because the moment you face death, you can truly see everything about yourself and how precious life is.

The young Shen Ran could not walk into death calmly. The moment he hit rock bottom, his heart was filled with endless regrets.

Fortunately, Shen Ran has a chance to return to the real world.

With a faint sound of pain, he opened his eyelids with difficulty. The bright light made his eyes feel a little sore for the first time.

What catches the eye is the pure white ceiling.

So quiet...
To be continued...