"As early as the twentieth century, a Chinese science fiction writer once described similar technology in his novel, which was called 'Seven Shells.'" Wang Yang was very relaxed, and even spread his hands and put them on the armrests of the sofa: "In this novel, scientists create an intermediary called 'shell', a coverall, which is made of a mixture of silver wire and carbon nanotubes, and is densely covered with nerve sensors that are perfectly attached to the body**, which will transmit virtual signals to the corresponding sensory nerves, through which people can fully integrate into the virtual world." And this kind of virtual technology has developed to the point that someone who enters the virtual system cannot distinguish the real or false environment without the help of the outside system, just like the crew in a closed spaceship, without the reference outside the system, they cannot confirm whether they are in motion or not. ”

"It can't be." Neo, who had already listened attentively, completely substituted himself into Wang Yang's narration, and when he heard something that did not match his common sense, he immediately couldn't help but interject: "People who enter the virtual environment are not completely closed, at least their thinking is formed outside the virtual system, and naturally carries its inertia." Therefore, it is entirely possible to use this inertia as a reference to judge the reality of the environment. For example, when sitting in a closed car, you can use the tilt of the water in the teacup to determine whether the vehicle is accelerating. ”

"Bingo." Wang Yang snapped his fingers: "This is indeed a problem that is technically difficult to solve. But believe me, scientists aren't stupid either. They have been able to take out the minds of the subjects and feed them back into the virtual environment in real time. For example, although a virtual system is connected to a global information network and can access almost unlimited information at any time, it certainly cannot contain the personal memories of the subject. For example, the appearance of the father and mother 20 years ago, and then the house where they lived when they were children, the games they played in childhood, or the secret love for a female classmate, etc. However," Wang Yang suddenly emphasized in an aggravated tone, "Everything that can be extracted from the subject's own memory bank will be seamlessly entered into the virtual environment, so the subject still does not have a benchmark to identify." ”

Neo opened his mouth to refute something, but this field was obviously not his specialty, so he had to continue to listen to Wang Yang.

"In order to further refine this virtual technology, scientists have been recruiting the most talented young people around the world to find vulnerabilities in the virtual world in order to improve the design, and the protagonist of the novel is one of them. He relied on his cleverness to find loopholes in the virtual world many times during the experiment, but with the development of the experimental process, he gradually formed a thinking inertia in the virtual world. began to blur the boundaries between the real and the virtual, until finally, when he left the virtual world, he still couldn't believe that he really existed, so much so that he wanted to confirm it by self-harming his body. ”

"Oh God! It's horrible. Neo couldn't help but exclaim, and then hurriedly asked, "What about later?" ”

Wang Yang said lightly: "However, the desire of the heart cannot be stopped by any force, and in the end, the protagonist returned to his hometown and confirmed himself in his mother's love." ”

Neo let out a sigh of relief, and his nervous body leaning forward slightly slowly relaxed. After thinking about it for a while, he suddenly came to his senses: "Does this story have anything to do with Morpheus's problem?" ”

Wang Yang looked at him meaningfully: "Don't you think that we are very similar to the subject who was lost in the virtual world?" ”

Neo was stunned for a moment, and suddenly felt a thrill, looked at Wang Yang in shock, and muttered, "That's right." That's it...... It looks like everything is normal, but 。。。。。。 But I always feel that there is something wrong behind this normal world, but I can't say it。。。。。。 That feeling。。。。。。 It's terrible! ”

"So, from the moment I felt that way, I immediately thought of this story." Wang Yang's eyes gradually sharpened: "When I applied this assumption to myself, I found that it was the feeling that I had been looking for all along. Yes, the real senses, the virtual world, and, the imprisoned mind. ”

At this moment, Neo was already sweating profusely.

Morpheus, who had been listening silently beside him, did not interrupt the two of them, but quietly watched Wang Yang talk with the help of sunglasses, with a trace of inexplicable sadness and pain in his eyes, but Wang Yang, who was engaged in speaking, and Neo, who was attentive, did not notice it.

If you want to say that you have the deepest feeling for this kind of virtual and real, among all the people present, there is no one who can surpass Morpheus. Pain breeds profoundness, despair gives birth to faith, and it is precisely because of such deep heartache that his condensed faith is extremely strong, as long as he can truly end all this, he will not hesitate to sacrifice everything he has, whether it is life or soul.

"God!" Trinity in the other room exclaimed in a low voice, "How is this possible? ”

The mustachioed, ruffian-looking Severer tilted his head and said to Trinity, "Is the prophet sure that the savior is the little white face?" Not this Chinese? ”

Trinity glanced at him, not speaking, but there was a hint of doubt in her eyes.

With Wang Yang's demonstration first, Neo finally put his mind at ease, after all, because of the previous metal bug incident, Neo has had a psychological shadow on the tracking program, although he has seen the bugs being removed with his own eyes, but he shuddered at the thought of that creepy scene. But if he had to choose between freedom and bugs, he would rather choose the former. It's just that when he mustered up the courage to put the last red pill in Morpheus's right hand into his mouth, and when he tried to get the cup again, his hand froze in mid-air - Wang Yang had already drunk the water.

When he was embarrassed, Wang Yang suddenly patted Neo on the shoulder, and Neo, who was taken aback, was so excited that he actually choked the pill into it.

He stroked his chest and patted his back, and after half the weather, Neo reluctantly swallowed the pill stuck in his throat.

was looked at by Neo's resentful eyes, but Wang Yang smiled without changing his face: "When I was stuck in my throat when I was a child, my mother treated it like this, and it really worked." No thanks, this is what I should do. (concave ^_^)

- Thank you for your size, but did you get into it?

Neo's heart was broken.

Wang Yang turned to Morpheus with an excited face: "Do you want to start now?" I can't wait. ”

“。。。。。。” Erasing the black line from his head, Morpheus returned to his unfathomable state: "Follow me." ”

In another large room, there are already several large-scale control instruments that seem to be very advanced in the room, all kinds of lights and electrodes are flickering, and Trinity and the others are nervously operating.

Next, just like in the movie, undress (- undress again), stick electrodes, and sit in the electric chair.

Morpheus invited Neo and Wang Yang to the two seats that looked like electric chairs, and said, "Wang Yang is right, there is a tracking program in the pill, which can disrupt your input and output carrier signals, so as to determine the location of your body. ”

Neo's expression froze, and his stomach began to ache again.

"That 。。。。。。" In order to hide his unnaturalness, Neo hurriedly diverted his attention by speaking, "What does that mean?" ”

"Fasten your seatbelts, rookie," Sever, who was holding the control instrument, replied with a smile in the tone of an old bird, "Say goodbye to my hometown." ”

Listening to this classic line from "The Wizard of Oz", everyone else couldn't help but show a tacit smile.

Neo turned his head sideways to look at Wang Yang, but found that Wang Yang was lying on the electric chair, with his eyes slightly closed, as if he had fallen asleep, but the corners of his mouth showed a hint of relief chuckle, I don't know what was going on, Neo suddenly felt that smile was very similar to the pride that a seasoned hunter would have when he watched his prey fall into the trap he had planted step by step. And that hapless prey is a lot like 。。。。。。

Morpheus looked at Neo and whispered, "You ever had a dream that seemed to have happened, what if you couldn't wake up?" How can you tell the difference between a dream and the real world? ”

Neo listened to Morpheus's words, and inexplicably remembered the story Wang Yang had told him just now, and suddenly, he seemed to look sideways at a mirror full of cracks around him, and every broken surface in the mirror reflected a self. Everyone seems so lost and at a loss. Neo was in his trance, when a tiny sound that was almost inaudible sounded, and the mirror slowly healed on its own.

When Neo was extremely surprised, Wang Yang beside him suddenly said, "Isn't it amazing? ”

Neo was startled and looked at Wang Yang, only to find that Wang Yang was still lying there with his eyes slightly closed, as if in a dream: "Jacques Lacan said in his famous 'mirror stage' theory that children between the ages of 6 and 18 months will use the figure reflected in the mirror to confirm their image. This affirmation allows the child to gradually break free from the 'fragmented body' and thus gain a basic unity of identity for himself. Before the mirror stage, children can only see their own bodies as a pile of broken objects, and even fear their incomplete bodies. Children before the mirror stage cannot recognize the integrity of their own bodies through their own perception of time, space, movement, etc., and only the mirror image of the child itself can provide a structural whole. Of course, in a broader sense, Lacan's mirror image is merely a symbolic object—a symbol that is external to the subject and at the same time gives it a position. ”

Wang Yang's voice was flustered and his tone was low, and in front of this magical scene, there was an unusual contagion, which made Neo unconsciously ask, "So what?" ”

"So, we are now the children who are confused, and our self-perception is as incomplete as the mirror that feeds back. And what Morpheus can help us is to restore the mirror, so that we can see with our own eyes and feel with our own hearts. Break out of the sensory shield, liberate ourselves from the virtual signals transmitted to us by Matrix, and begin to clearly define ourselves, unify fragmented cognitions, and rediscover ourselves – our true selves. It's like that incredible mirror. ”

Neo felt a little incredible: Big brother, you are a programmer, how can you talk about philosophy and the Tao? I'm like an idiot in comparison.

As if seeing through Neo's thoughts, Wang Yang suddenly said: "By the way, if I'm not mistaken, don't you have a copy of Jean Baudrillard's "Simulation and Simulacrum" on your bookshelf? Especially the article "On Nothingness" in it, which says exactly what it means. The modern hyperreal and systemic control is represented by the dominant itself, and the existential melancholy and the exploitation of violence become the response of the dominated to dominant constructs. And that theme of nothingness became the big scene of the whole world. Hehe, very interesting argument, haven't you read it? ”

"Ahem, ahem!" Neo coughed quickly. Are you kidding? That book was used by him to store the hacking software disc of his own design, and the chapter "On Nothingness" was where the digging began, and the reason why he chose this book in the first place was simply to see that it was thick enough, who would read the contents?

"Let's talk about this mirror." Neo quickly changed the subject, compared to those shady hacking software, these philosophies that made him dizzy could also get him rid of some guilt, "The pieces are combined, that, what does it represent?" ”

The corners of Wang Yang's mouth twitched, bringing a narrow smile, but he didn't break the sand pot to ask the end, and then changed the topic: "The reunion of the broken mirror is just the information transmitted by our senses to our brains, and this just shows that this is a virtual world." So, it means that the virtual us and the real us are overlapping, and the mystery that has plagued us for a long time is being revealed. Congratulations. ”

Listening to Wang Yang's words, Neo's attention turned back to the mirror, both curious and apprehensive.

Wang Yang obviously didn't open his eyes, but he seemed to see through Neo's impatience, "Don't you want to feel it?" ”

Neo listened to this seductive question, and finally could not suppress his strong curiosity, and reached out to touch the mirror, which was already intact, and when his fingers touched the mirror, he found that it was not a hard entity as he imagined, but a weak force like liquid.

Neo glanced at Morpheus and Trinity, and continued to probe his finger into the mirror, but he couldn't feel the depth, and the mirror's reaction was the same as that of a liquid, and immediately rippled in a circle of water patterns, along with everyone's reflections, began to distort and deform, clear and ridiculous.

"Distorted images, divided consciousnesses, alienated worlds." Wang Yang opened his eyes at this time, looking at all this with burning eyes, "This is our perception of ourselves, or rather, us in the mirror stage." ”

Neo didn't have time to think about Wang Yang's sigh, only to see that the mirror became like a puddle of viscous liquid, flowing down the retracted finger to Neo's hand. Then it began to spread up his arm. And along with the metallic liquid spread a bone-chilling coldness.

"Impossible." Neo said in shock.

"What?" Morpheus asked.

"This can't be true!" Neo watched as the liquid quickly spilled over his arm and stretched all over his body.

"Start duplicating the program!" Trinity glanced at the screen and said to Morpheus.

"It's cold!" Neo panicked as the liquid spread rapidly through his body, quickly spilling over his body and hitting his head. "No more! It's cold! 'Neo struggled, but to no avail. The liquid suddenly rushed to the top of Neo's head, and Neo suddenly felt like he had fallen into the boundless sea, surrounded by water, and he struggled in the dark, only to feel that he was always drowning in the boundless liquid, unable to extricate himself. Only the voice of Morpheus was faintly heard, "Tank, find the signal quickly......" The voice grew farther and farther away, and then finally it was no longer heard.