My name is Qi Xia. I woke up after a flood that swept the world and found myself trapped in a "trial field" designed by a higher civilization. My teammates and I entered dungeons such as Bronze Dam, Zheng He's Treasure Ship, and Xi'an Ancient City Ruins one after another. Each mission was accompanied by a screening process and sacrifice value calculation. Lao Zhou died to protect us in the bronze copy. Before he died, he told me that I was "Key No. 073" And could unlock the door of civilization's destiny. Lin Xiaoman used a movable type knife to help me decipher the data stream, but my sister Qi Xiao was marked as the ultimate sacrifice target.
Lu Chen appears to be the commander of the alliance, but is actually a member of the Culler organization, trying to initiate the "Return to Zero Protocol" to clear human consciousness. I discovered his ability to manipulate NPC memories on Zheng He's treasure ship, and began to doubt the authenticity of the real world. As the dungeon progresses, my neural chip awakens and is able to read and reverse-write the data stream, and obtain props such as the "Reverse-Writing Key" and "Blood Pact Blade".
In the data copy, Lin Xiaoman was implanted with the "betrayal agreement", and I used the blade of the blood contract to cut off her memory shackles. We finally confirmed that the so-called "reality" is just a copy of a higher level, and everyone's consciousness is being monitored. In the end, I merged the power of rules and free will to forge the "Sword of New Rules", destroy the "Return to Zero Protocol", and release all controlled NPCs.
But victory is just the beginning of another round of screening. The universe restarts, and the void vortex swallows up all the coordinates of civilization. The data remnants of Lao Zhou guide us to sail to the unknown star field, become a new generation of "observers", and welcome a new era that truly belongs to mankind. Popular short story setting
