角色故事•二(解锁条件:角色等级40)
在父母的葬礼上,她穿一身全黑的丧服。她依旧把头发束得很好,如墨的发丝遮掩着她的神情。
她没有掉一滴眼泪。
直到夜色降临,在实验室的屏幕上,数据螺旋制成的层层几何花纹在戏声中变换、舒展、流动,而将那花纹层层剥去后,是她万般呵护、小心制作的秘密——阖眼的父亲与母亲,二者冰冷如沉睡般的面容。
「是辜负。他们没能遵守和外婆的约定。」
「我也没能履行保护父母的承诺,同样辜负了他们。」
「唯有科学…不会辜负。」她说。
少女希望父母平等,便将自己从前的昵称抹去,将名字从二人姓氏中各取一。
自那以后,每当有人问及「家」,她的眼中总是闪过一丝迷茫,她似乎把一切都忘了。
在这样的状态中,她开始了忽视时间规律的演算。由于沉迷科研,她的进食毫不规律,兴致起来便研究几日几夜,到了极限便昏昏睡去。
很快,她只借着火萤微弱的光,在每个夜晚收获研究的进展。她愈对已有的生命法则置若罔闻,她的前进就愈加迅速;她完全不在乎公式,接着她漠视了生命的意义。她只去观察、用双手揣摩,将数据握在手里感受,接着就编纂出新的物种规律。
于是,在她的实验室中,那些蕨类植物与花愈发生长地茂盛,它们以肉眼可见的速度长高,接着充斥了所有空间。在那花叶开合的缝隙中——笼罩着父母清冷而素净的、由「数据」汇聚而成的面庞。
在沉睡的「父母」将要睁开双眼的时刻——她几乎摧毁了整个星球原本的物种衍变规律,但她仍然在向着自己的目标前进。
直到她从研究中抬起头,猛烈地望向天空:「智识」的瞥视降临到了她的身上。
Character Story: Part II
• Unlocked at Character Level 40
She was dressed all in black in a mourning attire at her parents' funeral. As usual, she still tied her hair neatly. Her expression was hidden behind her ink-black strands of hair.
She did not shed a single tear.
As the night fell, layers of geometric patterns formed by data spirals appeared on the screen in the lab. They shifted, expanded, and flowed along with the sound of traditional theater songs. After peeling away the layers of the patterns, the secret she meticulously crafted and protected with care was revealed — her parents with their eyes closed. Their faces were as impassive as if they were asleep.
"This is a let-down. They failed to keep their promise with Grandma."
"And I, too, let them down for failing to protect them as promised."
"Only science... never lets anyone down," she said.
Wanting her parents to be equal, she stopped using her previous nickname and gave herself a new name by combining each of her parents' surnames.
Since then, whenever someone asked her about her "home," there would be a flash of confusion in her eyes. She seems to have forgotten everything.
In such a state, she started working around the clock on her calculations. She was so engrossed in her research that she never ate regularly. When she was on a roll, she could spend entire days and nights working on research without sleeping, and only dozed off when she hit her limit.
Soon, she was only relying on the faint glow of fireflies to gather her research results every night. The more dismissive she was of the existing laws of life, the quicker she progressed. She totally disregarded formulas, then moved on to ignoring the meaning of life. She simply observed, assessed with her hands, held the data in her palm to feel it, then proceeded to concoct new laws for species.
As a result, the ferns and flowers in her lab flourished ever more. They grew at a speed visible to the human sight, and ultimately filled every space in the lab. In the space between the flowers and leaves laid the serene and emotionless countenance of her parents, formed by the aggregation of "data."
The moment her sleeping "parents" were about to open their eyes — By then, she had nearly destroyed the existing laws of biological evolution on the entire planet, yet she still marched on toward her goal.
It wasn't until she looked up from her research and stared at the sky did she notice the gaze of the Erudition had descended upon her.