第31章

I never played that online game again. But I found myself drawn to studying network security, encryption, and the fundamental nature of data. I have a feeling, a persistent intuition, that the answer to what I experienced lies in the intersection of these fields, and something far beyond our current understanding of reality.

Sometimes, when I’m alone late at night, staring at my computer screen, I wonder if the ‘entity’ is truly gone, or if it was just sent back to its own realm, waiting for another opportunity. Or perhaps, it wasn’t an entity at all, but a process, a natural cosmic event that we simply don’t have the language or the understanding to describe.

And sometimes, when I see the news about strange glitches in the fabric of the internet, or unexplained digital phenomena, I can’t help but wonder if they are connected to what happened in 神木镇.

I am no longer just a computer science student. I am a “迷途之人,” who has glimpsed the blurred boundary between worlds, and perhaps, unknowingly, holds a key to that boundary. The fear is still there, a cold knot in my stomach, but it is mixed with a strange sense of purpose, a burning curiosity.