Chapter 9: Acquaintance

"It's going to be recorded. Wu Xin replied reluctantly.

"Well, one more question. ”

"Didn't you say that was the 'last question'?"

"If you really act as stated in the privacy clause, my question is naturally the last one, since you have broken your promise, should you answer me a few more questions?"

"I don't see any necessary connection, but lest you see me as an unfilial daughter who has no regard for her father's life and death, I will reluctantly answer a few more questions from Mr. Writer. A smile crossed the corner of Wu Xin's mouth.

"How to observe the dream world constructed by the previous experience system?Is there any limit?" Mo Yuan's mind had more and more questions, and at the same time, he became more and more confirmed about the assumption in his heart.

"Naturally, it can't be like watching a movie. You can't show it in 2D or 3D. You'll need to plug in to the experience system, and depending on the settings, you'll enter the recorded dream, and then you'll be able to observe. Wu Xin replied, "As for the restrictions, one is that only people who have appeared in that dream can view that 'history', because all records are encrypted, and the key is the biometric characteristics of the participants themselves, and the specific algorithm is only strictly controlled by the family." The second is that you can only observe, and you can't interact with any object in the dream, because that's the 'history' that has already been recorded, and perhaps the word 'history' is not accurate enough. ”

"Earlier, after I was awakened from the experience system, I noticed a problem. When I was in the dream constructed by the experience system, I didn't even realize that I was a writer who came to experience 'life' to collect materials, well, Mr. Writer", Mo Yuan glanced at Wu Xin, Wu Xin nodded slightly in response, Mo Yuan continued, " I didn't realize that I was in a virtual world built by computers, and I didn't have the slightest discomfort or suspicion about my identity, my high school information technology teacher, as if I was a high school information technology teacher, an amateur hacker who made some extra money at night with my knowledge and skills, oh, and I naturally disdained to be called a hacker. My identity, my surroundings, all this did not make me a little unnatural, I seemed to have lived in this environment in this capacity, until I was awakened, this suddenly realized, the previous was all virtual world, then I remembered my original purpose, I came to experience life to collect materials. What's going on with all this?"

"Human memory can be divided into working memory, short-term memory and long-term memory, and in the preparation stage before you access the experience system, we will emptiness your working memory and short-term memory through drugs and hypnosis, hinder the normal retrieval of the parts of long-term memory related to this experience, and give you cognition related to your new identity and environment. Wu Xin picked up a booklet and threw it to Mo Yuan, "Actually, there is an introduction to these contents in the customer notice, I think, you probably haven't read it, right?"

"I haven't received a similar pamphlet, what do you think?" Mo Yuan put on an innocent expression, "However, you guys are really thoughtful, in this way, after I enter the system, I can experience my life in the most real state, in fact, I don't even realize that I am experiencing life, this is the most real experience." If I enter the system and know that I am a 'Mr. Writer', that I am here to 'pretend' to experience life as a high school information technology teacher, and that everything around me is built by the experience system, then the value of the experience will inevitably be lost. ”

"That's right," Wu Xin pointed to the booklet that was thrown to Mo Yuan's customers, "This booklet is mine, so I'll give it to you." ”

"Thank you. Mo Yuan was satisfied, first disguised as a friend of Wu Xin's father, infiltrated the laboratory, collected a lot of internal information, and three days later, he mixed into the laboratory and learned a lot of information about the experience system, and finally, on the question of whether the experience system records the customer's dreams and whether there is a suspicion of violating privacy, highlighting the dream record may be able to help Wu Xin's father's awakening.

"Any more questions?" Wu Xin asked.

"Not for the time being, it's time for me to take my leave. Mo Yuan took the pamphlet and prepared to leave, he couldn't wait to conceive a new novel.

"Okay, I'll get you out of Zone A. ”

"Okay, thank you", Mo Yuan casually flipped through the booklet in his hand as he walked, pointed to a few words in the corner of the page and asked, "What is this 'U2F'?"

"Oh, this is the first three characters of the string generated by Jia Yan after encrypting my name with my birthday, when I was a child, I thought it was funny and used it as my signature, and now, it has become a habit. ”

"Really?" Mo Yuan stopped walking out of the lab, "I may need to go back to my previous dreams." ”

"Huh?" Wu Xin was a little puzzled.

"According to the time in the dream, I was woken up at 'Saturday, 2:05 p.m.', and from what I knew about the system settings, although the virtual world and the real world are different in date, they are the same in the 'hours, minutes, seconds', in order to reduce the time difference of customers. Well, according to the actual time, I also woke up at '2:05 p.m.', and then, on my way to Area C for a psychological evaluation, I was fortunate enough to meet you, Mr. Senior Researcher, and then, I learned that Ling Zun 'has been in a coma since 14:30', which I remember was said by Researcher A. At that time, I noticed that the two were very close in time, but apart from the proximity in time, there was no special connection between me, a writer who came to experience life and seek material, and the main developer of the 'human experience system', so I thought about my hypothesis for a little and thought it was too bizarre, so I gave up. Speaking of this, Mo Yuan suddenly realized that he seemed to have missed his mouth, it was really a hundred secrets, and he would lose too many words, he hurriedly glanced at Wu Xin, fortunately, Wu Xin didn't have any special reaction, just listening to him calmly. Mo Yuan continued: "In that dream, I accepted such a commission: to deliver the specified message to the other party without any information about the other party, the time was set at two o'clock in the afternoon, and the place was a café. Eventually, when I managed to get that message to the other person, I received a distress message from 'HelpMe', and then, when my experience time came, I was awakened and out of the experience system. ”

"It sounds like you think it's Jia Yan himself who asks you for help?" You speculate that Jia Yan and you met at a café at about two o'clock in the afternoon, and he sent a distress message, and then, at two and a half you were woken up by the system, and he started at half past two and entered a coma", Wu Xin disagreed, "There is no evidence for these speculations of yours. In reality, it is entirely possible that another customer who is involved in the same dream as you may be a customer who wants to experience the life of a spy, or even a computer person, who will meet you at a café at two o'clock and send you a distress message. As for Jia Yan, because of an accident in the experiment, he began at half past two and entered a coma. That's all. ”

"I hope so, too, but-", Mo Yuan said word by word, "U2FsdGVkX1." ”

"How did you know the complete string?" Wu Xin asked in surprise.

"That's exactly the message I've been tasked with. Mo Yuan replied, "Now, come to think of it, the client and the person who connected the café should be the same person, that is, Ling Zun, and this string of characters is used as a password for the joint, a kind of identity verification, and finally, the distress message I received indicates that Ling Zun should be in some kind of danger." Now it is imperative that I go back to my old dreams and perhaps find some clues. ”

"Mr. Writer, do you really want to risk the unknown in order to save someone you don't know?" Wu Xin looked at Mo Yuan, his eyes clear and bright.

Mo Yuan was stunned and looked at Wu Xin stupidly. When did this clever woman find out? Did she just say that she had slipped out? Or did she find out earlier? Why didn't she expose him? Did she remember that she was always teasing him as "Mr. Writer", and was she enjoying the pleasure of seeing through everything?

"Now, acquaintance. Mo Yuan, who was relieved, looked at him with a smile in his eyes.