Disaster Simulator, global collapse begins.

"Simulator".

I'm here

"Can we start the second simulation now?"

Chen Jie remembered the new feature mentioned by the simulator last time: in the simulation of the real world, a second layer could be activated.

Furthermore, this second simulation will span random timeframes, potentially a minute later, or hundreds or thousands of years later.

You must settle this simulation first before you can start the second one on the settlement selection screen.

"Then how will the settlement be made?" he asked, knowing the answer already.

The host dies, or the disaster is defeated.

"If I die, can I still start the second simulation?"

Can not

"..."

However, you can use a freeze-thaw device to achieve a state of suspended animation, and then you can still complete the process with my help.

"You should have said so earlier," Chen Jie complained. "Is it funny to talk in such a drawn-out, breathy way?"

Fun to pinch

"You've gone astray over the years..."

Give me back that reliable simulator that was as serious and unsmiling as a machine! It must have been corrupted by that pink fairy all these years.

No, because of the white hair of the K-series clone, she said she should call her Miss White Fairy.

Unlike Chen Jie, the white fairy lady, who is a herald, has not changed her appearance at all over the years.

After working as a maid for several years, whose cooking skills were practically poisonous, she approached Chen Jie, saying she wanted to travel away from home.

"This world is big and beautiful, with many interesting things. Just like when I chose to leave the town, I, this fairy, also want to travel."

So she left, occasionally sending back souvenirs and photos of herself, and telling Chen Jie about the people and things she had encountered in their correspondence.

Honestly, it's a bit like raising a traveling frog...

Her footprints have covered the globe, including places plagued by war and poverty.

Because the protective umbrella controlled the vast majority of the country's top officials, the war temporarily stopped, but the suffering and pain were still deeply imprinted on those lands, and only a long enough time would allow them to slowly heal.

The girl travels alone, and naturally she will encounter some dangers along the way. However, as a Herrscher, her combat power is undeniable. Unless a nuclear bomb is dropped, there is really nothing on the surface that can threaten her.

She changed identities one after another, integrated into different lives, and met different people.

From Earth to the Moon, Mars, and now to the Ringworld under construction.

Chen Jie called her.

"It's time to go home. I'm ending this simulation."

At this moment, the white fairy is playing the role of a new-era gold prospector, piloting her own large spaceship, acting as captain, and leading a group of followers in search of treasure in the open-mining asteroid belt.

It will be some time before she returns.

During this period, under Chen Jie's orders, Umbrella Corporation began to organize the world's science and technology, as well as other related political, economic, and cultural developments...

It was condensed into 4000+ TB of data, stored in a hard drive array the size of an old-fashioned computer case.

This is the entirety of human civilization.

The White Fairy returned, greeted everyone, and then lay down in her hibernation nest with her followers, who had been selected over the past few centuries.

Taking advantage of the gap in his income, Chen Jie also lay down in a cryogenic sleep pod.

To avoid damage to cell structure from freezing, one approach is to inject a cell-protecting coagulant beforehand. This approach was inspired by a tree frog from the Americas that can revive from frozen hibernation, and a coagulant was extracted and produced.

Secondly, it needs to be flash-frozen—why does flash-frozen food taste better than meat that is slowly frozen in your own freezer?

Because during slow freezing, water inside cells forms ice crystals, damaging the cell structure, while quick freezing does not have this problem.

Thirdly, there is the issue of thawing, which is also the biggest obstacle Chen Jie encountered in the world before he traveled to it.

However, this problem is now easily solved in the face of liquid soul steel.

Feeling the cold air instantly freeze him, Chen Jie lost consciousness.

This simulation has ended.

Start settlement

——BadEnd——Isn't it fine too?

……

Chapter 113 Double Simulation, Human Extinction

The disaster has vanished without a trace, and you never imagined that you would almost die of old age in a simulated world. But thinking about it carefully, after a century of technological advancement, isn't this... not so bad?

End or start the dual simulation (this option is enabled if the main character survives the initial simulation at the time of settlement).

"Activate the second simulation." In the pitch-black settlement space, Chen Jie, now fully conscious, made his choice.

In the dual simulation, we probably won't be able to chat. I wish you good luck in your search for this disaster.

……

[Ambient temperature rise detected. No wake-up command received. Restarting...]

[Reboot failed, no external device detected, error reported...]

[Report failed, no network detected]

[Execute emergency resuscitation procedures]

Chen Jie slowly woke up, and a biting wind mixed with sand hit his face.

As he watched the lines of text scroll by, he retrieved a mirror from the dimensional rift.

The person in the mirror has white hair and deep eyes. Time has not dried up his features like other old people, but rather like a carving knife, leaving behind a sense of perseverance and uprightness with the frost of the years.

What a handsome old man!

"So... dual simulation means directly inheriting the identity?"

No wonder one of the requirements was that one could not die.

This handsome old man is Chen Jie himself, or rather, the one he simulated last time.

With the help of Soul Steel, although it's impossible to completely replace one's physical body and ascend to mechanical ascension like Otto, maintaining youth is still quite simple.

Look around.

A vast, boundless Gobi Desert stretches out, devoid of any greenery that symbolizes life, with thick, dark clouds hanging in the sky.

"Call up the panel."

A light screen appeared in front of Chen Jie, and he slid his finger to start operating the cable.

This is equivalent to the mobile phone of the future.

Approximately ten milliliters of specially programmed Soul Steel, along with a thumb-sized chip implanted, allows the device to connect to the internet, play various software programs, and assist in calculations and information storage.

The screen is projected directly onto the retina, making it incredibly easy to use and understand.

I checked and found that although there is no network here, according to the previous settings, the system will automatically enter the timeline of major events when there is a network connection.

Chen Jie got a general idea of ​​the current situation.

Seventeen years after he chose to go into cryosleep, in 2153, a rebellious force known as the Prophet emerged on the surface of the earth.

Spreading conspiracy theories, discrediting the protection network, attacking various buildings and facilities on the ground...

Even if it were 170 years, he couldn't guarantee that the successors wouldn't have turned into evil dragons, but it was only because he and the fairy Ellie had been gone for seventeen years that the entire organization wouldn't have changed.

Logically, such a madman should have been caught quickly, but the mysterious prophet seems to really have the power of prophecy and the ability to control disasters such as storms, earthquakes, and meteorite falls.

"This prophet... seems a bit like something out of the Originium Scourge!"

Chen Jie had left behind information related to Originium long ago, and even after he went into slumber, there were people specifically responsible for investigating it. Clearly, those wise men made the same deductions as him.

An investigation was launched, and Originium was indeed found in the places where the disasters occurred. A series of experiments were then conducted.

Unfortunately, these valuable experimental data are not among the major events that the system automatically records.

"Damn it."

What followed was a war against the Umbrella Movement and the Prophet's Cult.

The jaw-dropping highlights are that this war lasted for ten years and that Umbrella Corporation completely lost it.

It's important to know that while he was in a cold sleep, Umbrella's special forces, combined with martial arts training, soul steel exoskeletons, and high-tech weaponry, could be said to have an average combat strength of A-level per person. In terms of destructive power alone, if you include calling in space-based weapons for strikes, it would reach the level of S-level.

But they lost.

The specific reason is unknown.

2163 years later, Earth became a forbidden zone that Umbrella could not enter. Thick Originium dust covered the entire planet's sky, and even quantum communication networks could not penetrate it.

For the next hundred years or so, nothing major happened, or rather, the major events automatically recorded by the system were things Chen Jie didn't care about, mainly those related to politics and economics.

Initially, Umbrella would send some troops to attempt to land on Earth, but after a few years they abandoned this operation, which had been receiving no feedback.

A quarter of the ring world has been built, but there has still been no breakthrough in faster-than-light (FTL) travel technology.

This means that even if a Dyson Belt is built and its footprints are spread across several planets in the solar system, in the eyes of a more advanced civilization (if such a civilization exists), human civilization is still a primitive civilization without FTL.

Over the next two hundred years, Chen Jie looked at the timeline of major events and felt that the protective umbrella was gradually changing, a fate that all groups could not escape over time.

The world is still being filled and completed, which means that new territories are constantly emerging. Thanks to the benefits of development, there haven't been any major problems inside.

But after that, human society as a whole gradually moved towards cyberpunk.

It is said that only civilizations that are somewhat technologically advanced and do not go to space will fall into the trap of cyberpunk, but isn't the spatial distance between the solar system and other surrounding stars, which is measured in light-years, also a huge cage similar to Earth's gravity?

It's just that the stage has been changed to a much larger one.

On the Ringworld, a spectacular megastructure that took nearly four hundred years to build, slums overflowing with sewage have been constructed.

Nothing could be more ironic.

Unlike the agricultural era, where dynasties could be changed at will, the more advanced the technology, the more difficult it was for ordinary people to resist their fate.

Several wars broke out, but they were all brutally suppressed.

Someone made contact with extraterrestrial intelligent life, and then a purple light flashed.

All microorganisms in the water and air died, and the next day, small animals died in large numbers. People all over the world also experienced various health problems...

Laboratory research and calculations have shown that the fleeting purple light was actually a gamma-ray burst.

All organic life forms, including humans, will die within two weeks.

Madness, despair, but nothing worked.

At this moment, a group of people within Umbrella thought of Earth, the planet shrouded in thick Originium dust, which had been swept by gamma-ray bursts but seemed to have had little effect.

They landed their spaceship, only to be attacked by a natural disaster, and the spaceship exploded.

Last hope was shattered, and humanity, along with all organic life in the solar system except for Earth, which was covered in layers of Originium dust, perished.

Simple and efficient.

All that remains is the cold, steel machinery, repeating day after day the last instructions it received.

The system's logging ends here.

"Undergo a physical examination."

[...metabolic dysfunction and abnormal hormone secretion were detected]

[Presumably due to genetic abnormalities resulting from radiation exposure]

"This experience is truly... bizarre and wonderful."

He is going to die.

Although his body was frozen, the particle stream still destroyed the genes of all his cells. Now that he has been thawed and his body has resumed metabolic activity, the countdown to death has begun.

In the end, it wasn't that they died fighting against natural disasters, but rather that someone leaked Earth's coordinates.

Two weeks?