Chapter 318 Interests, Morality and Zombie Project
One hour out to sea, and based on distance, Liberty City would be out of sight anyway.
But when Wang Xu looked back, he felt that Liberty City was not far away, as if he could reach it within ten minutes of returning home.
Touching his chin, Wang Xu thought of two possibilities.
The first is that Liberty City is constant, its size and visibility are not limited by distance.
The second thing is that Liberty City has not changed. It is that he has not walked far. It is like running on a treadmill. It looks like he is running forward, but in fact he is just standing still.
Wang Xu stopped the yacht and carefully observed the water surface.
The sea is still the same sea, and there seems to be nothing special about it, as if he is just overthinking it.
But in this calmness, Wang Xu became more and more sure that he was driving the boat on the sea level. The sea was the treadmill track, and he fell into a treadmill-like ocean.
Sitting on the boat and lighting a cigarette, Wang Xu let the yacht drift with the current and quietly looked at Liberty City in the distance.
After smoking a cigarette, he hung his watch on the rudder and steered the yacht back.
Fifteen minutes later...
"Dry!"
It took Wang Xu an hour to sail south, but it only took Wang Xu fifteen minutes to return to Freeport.
There is indeed something wrong with the sea. I am afraid that fifteen minutes after he left the port, he fell into a treadmill-like sea.
It looks like it's moving forward, but in fact it's just standing still. The yacht's progress is just an illusion.
Ignoring the enthusiastic call from the charter merchant, Wang Xu ran to the other end of the port and took the ferry to the ticket window.
After spending thirty dollars to buy a boat ticket, Wang Xu sat with his family of three, waiting to go to sea again.
With the sound of the ferry's whistle in his ears, Wang Xu looked at his watch frequently, waiting for the barrier to appear. He wanted to try whether these people's way of traveling would be different from his.
Ten minutes later, the barrier had not appeared. However, among the family of three, the little girl holding a doll asked him curiously: "Uncle, why do you always check the time? Are you in a hurry to go to Philadelphia?"
"Yes!" Wang Xu replied casually, not in the mood for small talk.
Seeing that Wang Xu didn't want to talk, the person who seemed to be the little girl's father took her back into his arms and prevented her from disturbing Wang Xu again.
Another five minutes passed, and the barrier line still didn't appear.
Wang Xu looked at the sea. The speed of the ferry was much slower than that of the yacht. The yacht encountered the barrier line in fifteen minutes, and the ferry probably needed twenty minutes to travel.
Gently tapping his watch, Wang Xu raised his head and looked at the sea.
The little girl who was hugged by her father seemed to like talking to him. She actually broke away from her father's arms and came up to her again and asked: "Uncle, what are you doing in Philadelphia? Can you tell Annie?"
"I..."
Wang Xugang just wanted to deal with it, and when he looked out the window, he noticed that the bow of the ferry was slowly disappearing.
This is a real disappearance, as if there is a black hole in the space in front of it, starting from the bow and swallowing back, the ferry is slowly but surely disappearing into the sea.
Wang Xu's eyes widened, he raised his hand and pointed forward, loudly saying: "Look!"
"What are you looking at?"
The passengers on the boat looked outside one after another, and then looked at Wang Xu with puzzled faces.
Wang Xu scanned the surroundings and found that no one could see the condition of the ship's hull, and only he could see it.
The disappearance continues, the bow of the ship has completely disappeared and is continuing towards the hull.
Wang Xu sat in his seat and watched helplessly as the people in the row in front disappeared without a trace while talking and laughing, while the others chatted and laughed without any reaction.
"Do it!" Wang Xu didn't dare to try. If he just sat there and didn't move, would he disappear and where would he go after disappearing?
As soon as he stepped on the cabin with his right foot, Wang Xu flew backwards.
Annie looked at him in surprise, her mouth turned into an O shape, and she said loudly: "Mom, there is Superman!"
Plop!!!
The little girl saw Superman in her eyes and quickly jumped out of the boat and plunged directly into the sea.
When his head emerged from the sea, Wang Xu's last gaze was fixed on the last scene of the entire ferry disappearing.
The space in front is like a black hole. It looks like clear water and blue sky, but it swallows up the entire ferry.
Wang Xu gasped for air, and the next second he realized that he didn't know how to swim and was just a landlubber from the north.
Gululu...
A burst of bubbles turned outwards, and Wang Xu sank into the sea.
An ordinary landlubber would probably have drowned like this, and only Wang Xu could save him.
Wang Xu doesn't know how to swim, but the true energy in his body is endless. It doesn't matter if he holds his breath for a short period of time.
While holding his breath, Wang Xu was messing around, trying to get back to the surface of the water.
But it was not easy. He tried several times but failed. In desperation, he could only release the robot in the space ring.
boom!!!
At Wang Xu's signal, the robot started its rocket jet and took him out of the sea.
Looking at the sea below, Wang Xu felt faintly afraid.
What he was afraid of was not that he didn't know how to swim, but that the ferry would disappear.
Although he didn't know what would happen if he didn't jump into the sea, thinking about the extremely weird scene, it probably wouldn't be a good thing.
"The location where the ferry disappeared should be the location of the barrier line. What does it represent? A boundary line, a divided area, or the background wall in the game? I can see the ferry being swallowed up, but others can't. Why?
, is it because I am an alien species and have not been affected by digitization?”
Holding the robot's arm, Wang Xu looked at the sea beneath his feet, feeling too confused.
A gust of cold wind blew by, and Wang Xu felt that his clothes were wet, and it was very uncomfortable to wear them.
The true energy in the body spread throughout the body, and the soaked clothes suddenly became dry again.
Wang Xu withdrew his gaze and ordered the robot: "Take me to fly south."
The robot started the jet and took Wang Xu to fly south.
Half an hour later, Wang Xu stopped the robot because he discovered that there were blocking lines even in the air.
According to the speed of the robot, half an hour's flight is enough to fly several times around Liberty City and cover a distance of hundreds of miles.
After comparison, Wang Xu found that Liberty City was still so far away, indicating that not only the sea, but also the air was affected by unknown laws.
Not at sea, not in the air. The entire Liberty City is shrouded in an unknown position.
Wang Xu had to sigh, if there was only one main world in this world, Liberty City, even if he could reset the search resources infinitely, it would be very useless to him.
Because by now, Wang Xu's vision has been very high. I am afraid that the supplies obtained by Liberty City are not as profitable as a bottle of evolutionary fluid.
"etc!"
Wang Xu was suddenly stunned and whispered: "Evolutionary fluid?"
Evolutionary fluid is obtained from zombies. As long as there are zombies, evolutionary fluid will appear.
The world of Grand Theft Auto can be infinitely reset. It is just one Liberty City with a population of more than 12 million.
If a zombie virus is introduced into the world, will it be able to infect tens of millions of people in minutes? Coupled with its resettable nature, will it be able to infect once a day and continue forever?
Even if one hundred zombies produce one crystal core, ten million people will still have one hundred thousand crystal nuclei.
The world of Grand Theft Auto is not valuable, but the crystal cores are valuable. A stable place with 100,000 crystal cores every day is extremely valuable.
"Destroying a world just to harvest a steady stream of crystal cores, are people who do this still considered human beings?"
"Why don't you count it? The world of Grand Theft Auto can be reset infinitely. The people here are just like the NPCs in the game. They will be refreshed in just one day. Are the people who can be refreshed still human beings?"
"The definition of human beings is thoughts. After NPCs have thoughts, how are they different from us? Who dares to say that in the eyes of other civilizations, we humans are not the same products as NPCs. Good is good, evil is evil, you ask yourself
Conscience, can you treat the little girl who is talking to you as an NPC?"
"Morality is used to restrain the weak, and the strong will override morality. Without them making zombies to obtain crystal nuclei, these NPCs will be reincarnated day after day. What's wrong with using waste."
"Using waste, who is waste? Whoever wants to be used by you, who can you represent? If a stronger person appears, will he be able to use you as waste? Who can be deceived by such self-deception."
In Wang Xu's mind, heaven and man were at war for a moment.
One of the thoughts is called benefit. The left eye says benefit and the right eye says benefit. All that can be seen is benefit.
Another idea is called the bottom line. He has his own steelyard, and the steelyard carries morality and conscience.
Wang Xu was caught in a dilemma between his own interests on the one hand and his own morality and conscience on the other.