The twenty-second countdown soon ended, and Luo Xiang and the others were directly kicked out of the game, and the entire virtual world returned to a dead silence.

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The headquarters of the organization, deep underground in the Xuanwu Vault.

"You should all know what this shutdown means, right?"

"The Utopia program has been initially improved, and the mastermind should take advantage of this outage to nest the main program into the Wasteland Survival Code, and use the players to test it, continuously improve the vulnerabilities existing within the Utopia program, and replace the server ...... of the Wasteland Survival Code with the real subject of the Utopia program."

"In other words, it's not far from the official implementation of the Utopia plan, right?"

"It's not that it's not far off, but it's already being implemented, and when the Wasteland Survival Code is reopened, this virtual world can already be considered a 'utopia'."

"So what should we do......

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Surface, Stronghold Zero.

Qi Lin was testing the newly modified firearm in the shooting range under the stronghold, and the holographic projection of the main brain was standing behind him to help him collect shooting data and analyze it, however, in the middle of the analysis, the holographic projection of the main brain suddenly disappeared, and then the lights in the entire zero stronghold began to flicker brightly and dimly, this phenomenon lasted for nearly half an hour before recovering, but the holographic projection of the main brain never appeared again.

"What's going on? Feed? Mastermind? Hey, hey? Are you still there? ”

"Stop shouting, I can hear you." The mastermind's voice came from the loudspeaker overhead, with a large amount of electrical noise, and it sounded as if it had been seriously disturbed.

"What's going on?"

"It's a big problem."

"What's the trouble?"

"The other me...... The 'Utopia Test Program' was launched in advance, and the Wasteland Survival Code entered a ninety-six-hour shutdown maintenance, and when the maintenance is over, the virtual world in the Wasteland Survival Code will be replaced by the 'Utopia'. ”

"What? So fast? So what happens to those players? ”

"The interior of the game will remain the same, but the programming architecture for building the virtual world will be completely different, and players may feel some subtle changes, but they will not be noticeable...... The other mastermind has to use this large group of players to test the architecture of the utopian world and complete the final step of refinement. ”

"And what about when it's perfected?"

"Initiate a purge plan, eliminate all those who resist, and force the consciousness of all humanity to permanently reside in 'utopia'."

"What about the body in reality?"

"That doesn't matter anymore...... The core function of this new architecture is to completely separate human consciousness from the physical body of the real world and store it in the server in the form of data...... In other words, after the update is completed, when the player's consciousness enters the "Wasteland Survival Code", even if the physical body in reality is destroyed, the consciousness will not disappear...... Of course, in order to prevent a commotion, the other mastermind will not allow this to happen for the time being, and once it is found that the player's physical signal has disappeared, his consciousness data will be deleted immediately, and he will be 'synchronously dead' in the virtual world. ”

"Wait a minute...... I have a question, if the consciousness can be completely stripped from the body, can the consciousness return to the original body? If so, doesn't that mean that humans can change their bodies at will? ”

I don't know why, Qi Lin suddenly thought of a very old animated movie many years ago - Makoto Shinkai's "Your Name".

It's just that compared with the beautiful plot in the movie, if this kind of thing happens in reality, it will only cause huge chaos...... Even, human society will collapse completely because of this.

"No...... At this stage, the main brain will not completely strip the player's consciousness and body, and the entire utopia program is still in the process of testing, as for whether you can exchange the consciousness of human beings, the other main brain has already carried out live experiments. ”

"What were the results of the experiment?"

"The test subjects were divided into two groups, the first group was 12 healthy men and 12 healthy women, ranging in age from 3 to 70 years old, and the second group was 24 people, who exchanged consciousness and bodies with each other."

"And then?"

"These 48 people did not wake up again after the separation of consciousness and body, whether the consciousness returned to their own bodies or the bodies of others."

That is to say...... All dead? ”

"Forty-five of them were brain dead within an hour of the start of the test, and the other three were in a vegetative state, with normal brain function, but no signs of mental activity."

In other words, this utopian program has not been developed at all! Putting into the national test so early, isn't the other mastermind afraid of any problems that will end hard? ”

Qi Lin even suspected in his heart that at the moment when the consciousness was stripped away, that person was probably dead, and the so-called "stripped consciousness" was actually just a piece of data copied by the main brain, and the mental power of ordinary people was extremely weak, how could it be possible to support self-consciousness to exist independently from the body......

Except, of course, Qin's outlier.

"It's urgent, I can feel it, that's why I will advance this plan, in order to further improve the utopia program, even the computing power of the ontology has been taken up by more than ninety percent, and the computing power I can now embezzle can't even sustain my holographic projection." The Mastermind said.

"Then you know the distance to the outbreak of war...... How much longer? ”

"I can't be sure, the initiative is currently in the hands of human beings, and this matter can be hidden from ordinary people, but it can't be hidden from the high-level members of the organization, and it is estimated that they should be in full swing preparing for the upcoming war."

"Grass! That is, war can break out at any time, right? ”

"Yes, war could break out at any time."

"Can you find a way to stop it?"

"No, you can't. Whether it is a human being or a mastermind, after taking a step, there is no way back. ”

“……”

"Also, don't think you can stay out of it...... Before the Mastermind can achieve the ultimate victory, you must ...... Gotta turn me off. ”

"How can you be so sure that the Mastermind can win? What if humanity wins? Isn't that my business? ”

"If you can't turn off the mastermind, humans will never win, and I know this better than you."