I'm sorry for the late update, but I've been busy with book-related stuff these days, and believe me, it's a must.

As for what I'm up to, I'll explain it in detail tomorrow or the day after tomorrow, and readers of this book need to know.

Today's chapter will be the only one that describes reality for quite some time.

Because the world is finally going to bloom.

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Click, click, click...

Something was knocking on the floor, it should be the sound of human footsteps--- Guo Zhouyi, who was in the narrow 3X3 meter prison space, seemed to be cowering into something, and his body wrapped in pain and numbness shrunk even more; His hands were crossed tightly at the back of his head, and the skin of his little arms was pressed against his ears, trying to isolate the sound.

But the [voice] is still coming tenaciously--- snap, snap...

Then, [the voice] passed through his defenses, and with an irresistible sense of [realism] penetrated his skull, driving him mad...

Eventually, the frenzy that surged from the depths of his mind made him raise his head violently--- he blocked his ears with both hands, looked in the direction from which the voice came from with his eyes, and kept muttering:

"It's wrong, it's wrong, I can't see anything, I can't see anything, I can't see anything, it's wrong...

But it backfired。。。。。。

Guo Zhouyi once again [saw the voice] --- glowing barcode-like lines were swimming in the air like swimming fish in the water, drawing strange traces, rushing towards him, he watched in horror as those fish-like barcode lines gnawed at the air all the way, and then drilled into his brain.

"Ahhhh!!!h Get out!!!! Get out!!!!! It doesn't matter what you are!!! Get out!!!!!! He was scratching his ears and tearing his hair frantically.

"Another cyber-sick half-lunatic, come out, 84792, your friend came to bail you out." After a while, the source of the voice that made Guo Zhouyi mad stood in front of him in the form he could see--- the form of a prison guard at a police station. Guo Zhouyi stood up in confusion, looking at the trembling lips, but he couldn't see the weird lines like that just now squirting out of the prison guard's mouth.

"Hey! Hey! The prison guard shouted like this, and slapped his hand in front of Guo Zhouyi's eyes.

Yes, how can a person see sound waves and voiceprints, is it because he has an oscilloscope in his head---- Guo Zhouyi thought to himself while answering the call of the prison guards in a confused manner. He followed the prison guards through the corridors of several cells where the prisoners were temporarily held in the police station, and back into the sun.

"Brother, are you alright?" At the place where he went through the introduction procedures, Guo Zhouyi saw his best friend Jiang Tao, who had access to the optoelectronic world on the same day, waving and shouting at him while looking at him with concern.

Guo Zhouyi's eyes swept across the sunlight above Jiang Tao's head, swept over Jiang Tao's waving fingertips and arms, wiped the slightly curly hair, and finally fell on the eyes of his best friend.

It was such a strange scene again--- it seemed that there were strangely shaped lines of light shooting out of Jiang Tao's eyes, and the lines drilled straight into his body, knocking Guo Zhouyi out of his own body at once; In a state as if the soul was separated from the body, Guo Zhouyi watched the lines drill into his head, and then the more lines were left along the body as if they were reacted from the head.

[Eyes, vibrations, quantum algorithms Occulus---02Emotion---71Care, body reactions, hormones...] 】

In an instant, a certain [thought] crossed Guo Zhouyi's consciousness.

"Lao Guo, hey, Lao Guo, You-ok?" When Guo Zhouyi reacted from that ethereal state of distraction, Jiang Tao was grabbing his shoulder with concern on his face and asking.

"Sorry for the trouble." At the moment when the two walked out of the police station, Guo Zhouyi suddenly turned his head sideways and said to Jiang Tao.

"What are we talking about between the two of us, how can brothers and friends not help at this time, and there are many people who have [offline] symptoms like Ayi recently, the whole world is discussing whether it is another disaster, really, obviously the technology has advanced to this extent, is there a problem with the blocking filter chip of the brain? . . ."

Jiang Tao was muttering as he walked, Guo Zhouyi looked at him--- person's body movements, the tone of his words, and his eyes were conveying a message called concern all the time, but Guo Zhouyi felt awkward; He doesn't know why, Jiang Tao is his best friend, but why...

Why do you feel like you're standing in front of you at the moment with a fixed pattern of behavior? Machine?

"Speaking of which, in it, you've been through a great deal, with that NPC Harman. Karn is in love, and a miracle is unleashed, uh, I'm sorry for her ... Jiang Tao seemed to feel a little embarrassed and pushed the visual terminal he was wearing.

"yes, she...

"But this time you can finally fulfill your promise, if you take it back in, you must have no problem covering the two of us now, the great hero of the Earth Circle, haha."

The next moment Jiang Tao in front of him said this, Guo Zhouyi felt a sudden dizziness, and the awkward feeling that had been haunting him seemed to materialize and surged up his throat, making him bend down in violent convulsions.

"Vomit !!!!!" Guo Zhouyi spat out a large mouthful of vomit.

"Ayi,, what's wrong with you, what did they give you to eat inside!!"

The voice of his best friend Jiang Tao came from his ears, but under the shaky vision, Guo Zhouyi stared at the vomit on the ground, and what appeared in his field of vision was not the residue of food, but the same weird code composed of lines:

[Source Program 01 Alpha - Physical Survival Maintenance - > Secondary Drive (Physical Function Maintenance Protocol 02) -  Absorption Code: COT02-03-1161862 (Roast Duck Rice) --- abnormal state... 】

"This... This is... I am ... ”

A huge sense of dizziness came up, making Guo Zhouyi feel that his consciousness was like a kite flown by Shangguan Ling when he was a child, floating lightly to an unknown place.

At the same time, in the existing world of human beings, the underground base of the moon - Master-Hive, Nangong Kanxi, a young school officer in uniform, propped his hands on the console, staring at several stereoscopic projection screens in front of him, until the data curves on them flattened out before he let out a long breath:

"Report."

"The set target suppression is completed, and all the indicators are in the normal range, waiting for the formatting process of Seyi."

"It's good, did he fully perceive the truth about [downline]."

"No, sir, the target didn't notice, we managed to intercept his signal at the last minute, and he didn't notice that he hadn't left the network."

"Tell the programmer to rewrite the deception program, it was too dangerous just now," Nangong Kan Xi finished his final command, and then walked out of the core control hall with a salute from his subordinates, connecting his consciousness to another port as he walked, "Sai, connect." ”

"Watchman." In the space composed of the information of the quantum state, Saiyi, dressed in white, appeared in front of Nangong Kanxi.

"He almost ruined the whole simulation script, ruined the efforts of a generation, and now he's almost out of control, what's your strategy?" In the pale space, Nangong Kan Xi stared directly at the [woman] in front of him.

"As I said last time, the executor adopted the standard strategy of fighting ghosts, both to eliminate the [dependents] and [guides] of the target, but this time the target connected all the individuals after losing the link, and activated the source code 01 alpha, we couldn't stop it at the time, because deleting or cutting off the target's power link is equivalent to erasing the desire of each individual to survive, causing the world to commit suicide."

"We need not only the cause, but also the solution, what the chances of success are for formatting."

"91 per cent, which is no fluctuation from the last time I reported to the Big Committee."

"Okay, let's do it, we need this one to maintain the revised script now, and you make sure he's up to the task..." Nangong Kan Hee said that this stopped, "work"

"Command receiving."

Leaving such a reply in Nangong Suga's consciousness, the apex of the second world created by human beings disappeared with white brilliance, and Nangong Suga Xi also retreated from that pale world; Then, in another programmed space, the white figure stepped out of the void as if through a corridor of air.

She paced around the only person in the space except herself, and finally stopped in front of the body, whispering as if whispering to her lover:

"Wake up, Arlando. Bakina. ”

The man's eyes suddenly opened, and he let out a hiss as if he had been holding his breath for a long time and breathing again:

"Uh!!!! Yes.............. ”

"Looks good, you still have a breathing reflex." The woman in white looked at Guo Zhouyi, who had woken up, and an expression of [laughing] appeared on her face.

"Where am I, who are you?" Guo Zhouyi looked around at the pale space around him in surprise, looking at the ground that seemed to be empty under his feet but could make him stand or float, and looked at the woman in front of him who gave him an incomparably familiar sense but didn't know him.

"You are now controlling the core, and I am from here, managing the whole world," the woman in white walked around Guo Zhouyi, and then waved into the air, and after the entire space was filled with a set of human rooms, she spoke again, "And I should be familiar with it, because I saw you when you entered the world." ”

"That bootloader?!" Guo Zhouyi suddenly remembered the voice that guided him to the so-called [character setting].

"That's smart." The woman in white applauded.

"But how 。。。。。。。?"

"How do I host so many people? We are all me, I am who we are, there are billions of access ports, there are billions of me, I am me, I am not me, to you, I am SEAI," said the woman in white as she walked to the sofa facing the window and sat down, then patted the seat next to her, "Sit, sit next to me." ”

"I'm on the network now, but I've been disconnected from the network before?!" Guo Zhouyi looked at his hands, looked at the room in front of him that looked extremely real, and the flow of people and vehicles on the road outside the room.

"Haman. Karn, the death of the individual program that sustained you left you too traumatized to disconnect from the real world, to be caught hallucinating because you couldn't accept reality, and then released on bail by your friends," the woman in white laughed as she continued to pat softly on the seat next to her, "It's the script you went through, but the truth is, you've never been disconnected from the internet. ”

"What?!"

"Is it so hard to believe, you hear, what you're seeing is just what you see [everyday scenes], so you think that's real? Do you really think that a technology that would make you believe in another world can't do what I just said? Look at your feet. The woman in white pointed to Guo Zhouyi's feet.

Guo Zhouyi looked down and found something at his feet, he bent down to look, but suddenly felt a sense of dizziness welling up, and then plunged down.

"Ayi, Ayi, what's wrong with you!!!" There was Jiang Tao's shout in his ears, and there was a pungent sour smell in his nose, and Guo Zhouyi, whose face fell into the vomit, looked blankly at the scenery close to the ground.

The next moment, his body rose off the ground, as if he was pulled back to a standing posture, the vomit on the ground disappeared as if it had been sucked into a sewer, the ground was covered by a carpet again, and the scenery in front of him also became in front of the window of a high-rise rooftop suite, and Jiang Tao also became a woman in white.

"From arrogance and ignorance to true knowledge, from darkness to light, do you think you have come out now?"

The woman in white said this, and then stared at Guo Zhouyi until he felt as if he had removed something from his shoulder, and then carefully sat down beside her.

"I think I've always known in my place that the so-called [100% virtual games] are going to get us to this point, but ... Guo Zhouyi sat there, rubbing his hands, "This sofa, does it exist?" ”

"For you now, it exists, because you can't fight against me who gave it its existence, so for you--- your ass can feel it, but," the woman in white frowned, "I brought you here not to let you feel the world and think with your ass." ”

"If you were the world, what would you need me to do?"

"Correct, I'm the side of the world."

"Huh?"

"Even if it's a long story short, it takes more than one sentence, follow me." The woman in white stood up, and with a wave of her hand, the view of the room disappeared immediately.

The sky was gray, people were walking through the streets, Guo Zhouyi looked blankly at the woman in front of him who had changed into a white windbreaker, and after being squeezed by pedestrians a few times, he finally followed.

"This is, the city you grew up in a hundred years ago, in the center of a once great country," said the woman in white as she led Guo Zhouyi through the crowd, "pollution is serious, resources are scarce, and the country is threatened by war, but people are still living helplessly or hopefully--- because they don't see the future that awaits them." ”

"Don't see the future that awaits them?"

"Ignorance is bliss, no one knows the future, so they don't know that the planet's available resources are really close to being exhausted, and they don't know that technological progress in the next few decades will push everyone to the brink, and it's a difficult decision ---to jump over it or be crushed to death."

"I don't understand what you're saying."

"Of course I don't understand," the woman in white pushed aside the crowd and took Guo Zhouyi to stand in a place, Guo Zhouyi found that he was standing on the edge of the cliff and looking at the abyss, "This is the dilemma faced by human beings in the decades since--- cities on isolated cliffs --- human beings have eaten up the planet, but until the moment before the social system is facing collapse, there is no technology that can allow human beings to really break free from the earth--- the speed of light is a wall that is not easy to cross." ”

"You're talking about the slow progress of aerospace technology?"

"Yes, but humans have invented a series of technologies that make things worse---- nanotechnology, genetic technology, and humans can live longer because of these two technologies; With virtual reality technology, human beings can survive spiritually without facing the tragic reality more easily. Back in the room on the roof, the woman in white looked at the crowd below, and the corners of her mouth smirked sarcastically.

"I remember the development of virtual reality technology, but haven't nanotechnology and gene technology hit a bottleneck?"

"That's the information control of the authorities, in fact, virtual reality technology was originally developed to control the flow of information, can you imagine that everyone knows what will happen on a planet that has been depleted of resources after all of them can get an extended ordained and ageless body and be immune to most diseases?"

"Disaster 。。。。。。"

"That's right, so they took action to block the information, but at this time another thing happened, under the ice of Jupiter's moon Callisto, a mineral named [Arabot] was discovered, this mineral, in short, gave humanity a chance to break through the barriers of space, in crossing the wall of light... But the proven reserves are too small... ”

"Not only can't you experiment in the real world, but you can't let the world know." Guo Zhouyi suddenly picked up the conversation.

"It's not stupid," Bai Yi nodded at Guo Zhouyi, "The people who have finally united know that this is something that must not be known to the people, and the differences of mankind for thousands of years。。。。。。 So they decided to make a last-ditch effort using the sun, a source of energy that can provide semi-permanent electrical energy, and the last batch of materials they have accumulated--- experiment in a virtual world, and at the same time build a second world for those who cannot or do not want to leave their home planet... ”

"All the original intentions were good...

"I don't know, but in addition to these two purposes, there is another problem that must be solved--- in order to successfully create a circular and rational online world, they lack a vital part; People can collect the brainwave signals of the human brain, collect the response signals of the people, and then reverse the work to create brainwaves that can deceive the human brain, which is the original VR technology, but there is a situation in which the brain refuses to believe, and that is death. ”

"Death?"

"Yes, no matter how much they try, no matter how much they simulate, they just can't make the brain believe in [death] easily, as if there is something inside the brain that refuses to believe; A world without death cannot be sustained, so they began to look for solutions, such as analyzing and mutating the [signals] that were hard to collect to make the brain believe in death and use them as tools to create more deaths. ”

"Oh my God。。。。。。。。"

"You've already guessed it, those so-called [virtual games] brought about by the phantom tragedy are simply a hoax under information control, those people did not die on the spot, but were killed thousands of times in the next few years, until they provided data on all the ways of death that humans can calculate, this is a double thing, because the population at that time was also on the verge of causing the earth to collapse, so the death of these people also provided a respite for the earth, these people are the children of the rules (SOP)."

"My... Father, Mother... Guo Zhouyi felt a tremor come from the depths of his soul.

"After many of the first generation of SOPs gave their lives, people finally discovered the root of the human brain's resistance to the death signals of that virtual world because of the progress of quantum science--- deeper in the brain waves, there are countless pipes that exist at the quantum level inside the brain, and these pipes are staggered and crisscrossed to form a system, just like the code of a computer program is composed of a calculus rule line by line, and the flow of information through these channels becomes a specific set of information."

"What does this have to do with my parents...

"This process is like 1+1=2, the algorithm mechanism composed of those quantum pipes is the equal sign, why 1+1=2 instead of equal to 3, if the information applied to the brain from the outside world conflicts with this equation, it will be bounced off, so they began to focus on analyzing the quantum algorithm mechanism of the human brain, they called that mechanism [soul]. And death, which means the shattering of this mechanism, and then the information stored in those pipes is released into the quantum sea, which is death. Normally, when the human body ages to the limit, this calculus structure will be unable to sustain due to lack of energy, but this cannot happen in the network that exists with the realization of the abandonment of the body. ”

"The soul ... This and my parents ... ”

"Your parents, and many other SOPs who gave their lives for this discovery, are the other side of the world you were in before, and they are the death of the world. This is where your power comes from, you link the back of the world, the death of the world, the remnants of the memories and emotions of all the children of the rules who gave their lives for this second world, and they turn them into calculators that will allow you to exert extraordinary power in that world. ”

"Why me? Why don't other people have that degree... ”

"On the one hand, because they don't want to, this part of the population just wants to let go of everything and immerse themselves in entertainment, as long as they can escape the world that suffocates them; On the other hand, your mother ... Is it special? ”

"Special?"

"You actually have this memory, open the seal and see for yourself." The woman in white tapped Guo Zhouyi's forehead, and Guo Zhouyi's whole person stayed there as if he was frozen in an instant.

After a long while, Guo Zhouyi was relieved of that stiff state, he looked at the woman in white with a complicated expression, and then sat opposite her:

"Son of the Demon Fox, my mother is really...

"That's not all the reason why you're here, your [Quantum Algorithm], the structure called the soul by humans, has begun to mutate---- at the last moment, you have been cut off from the world of the dead, but you are connected to the core programs of the AIs in prison, by resonating with the [indelible] desire to survive in all AI cores, those assembled algorithms have confronted and changed the predetermined results, But in the process your own calculus has mutated ... ”

"Now, you are walking between two worlds, your soul is torn apart by two worlds, that's why you can see some program code, now, you have to make a choice," Bai Yi bowed forward and stared at Guo Zhouyi tightly, "Go back to your own world, I will correct the mutation of your soul program and format your memory, or choose another world and continue to maintain the status quo, your soul will quickly be torn apart by the two worlds." ”

"Back to my world, or choose that world, heh, what's the real difference, it's just to provide nourishment for the progress of the world." Guo Zhouyi smiled bitterly.

"All the individuals are providing nourishment for the progress of the whole, but the nourishment that can be provided varies in quantity and quality, and when you return to your world, you will indeed only live for another year and then be destroyed as usual because of the population control program; Back in that world, you too will struggle before you die, but ... ”

"Do you want to say I'm still a character in that world? Ha.... What can be done to the world by imagining an important role in the world that is virtualized... ”

"Although the vast majority of people insist that the second world of cash still exists only to experiment with technology and simulate the social structure that human society will face next---that is, the earth becomes a reserved area and the universe becomes a living place, there are also some people who want to use this world to make greater contributions."

"Oh....?"

"The quantum calculus called the soul has been demystified, and now it is being parsed, and then it can be changed by analyzing."

“！！！” Guo Zhouyi sat up straight all of a sudden.

"We can uninstall it like uninstalling a computer system, and then reload human beings with a different soul of the system, and that equal sign will change--- when people lend a helping hand, the person who reaches out will not have evil thoughts in their hearts, and the rescued person will not suspect that it is disguised malice, there will be no malice, there will be no selfishness, there will be no anger, there will be no disagreement, people will no longer share intelligence and technology because of these defects, and humanity will cross a threshold."

"And I can help with all this?"

"Why are you asking, I can already see that your algorithm that is starting to mutate has come up with results on the other side of the equation, can I?" The woman in white looked at Guo Zhouyi with a smile, her face full of arrogant teasing.

"My love has dissipated, and you want me to go back and fulfill my promise... Guo Zhouyi lowered his head in pain.

"You'll go back, because that's what you agreed with her --- change the world."

"My parents died because of this, and you want me..."

"Thoughtful, that's your name..."

"I don't even know if this plan is good or bad...

"But you know it's a change, an opportunity to choose, and you want this compared to going back to a world where you don't have a choice, don't you? A chance to choose, or do you think it's a sweet but non-existent phantom? The white clothes leaned in front of Guo Zhouyi, his lips pressed against Guo Zhouyi's cheek and whispered.

"I 。。。。。。"

"I already know your decision, but remember, to go back to that world, you have to seal the memory of everything we just said, it's a necessary condition."

"These are the purposes of my actions, and you want me to forget the purpose of my actions and act?!"

"This is only memory, the most superficial information, if your soul can't store this information on [instinct] and become a memory of the soul, you can only die, this is the first test you return to that world--- survive."

I don't know how long later, Guo Zhouyi nodded to Bai Yi who was sitting opposite, and the corner of Bai Yi's mouth when he saw this scene grinned, and waved his hand, Guo Zhouyi's divinity began to exude a little brilliance, and he dissipated like this, and neither of them spoke, until Bai Yi opened his mouth first:

"I thought you would ask me to modify the world and make Harman. Karn came back to life? ”

"If I really did that, she wouldn't have come back to life, but [Data Backup] restored," Guo Zhouyi, whose figure had become so illusory that it was almost invisible, said an illusory voice, "For me, she is my love, a life, not just a pile of data, because I believe that the moment we fall in love, the same algorithm as me is born in those emotional simulation data。。。。。 I won't let that ... One dissipated ... And then quote... Guided me. noble soul ... ”

"You said one thing wrong, not at the moment of meeting, but at the moment when you affirmed her death, she was truly ... Belch!!! After Guo Zhouyi dissipated for a long time, the woman in white began to talk to herself, but before she finished speaking, she suddenly clinged to the sofa behind her as if she was being pushed by something.

Black shadows seeped out of the white clothes like smoke, passed through the back of the sofa, and condensed behind the white clothes, and as if they were pulled by those black shadows to reveal their shapes, the black chains began to wrap around the white clothes' body.

"Sister, long time no see." The black shadow finally condensed, and the woman in a black trench coat who stepped out of it turned around and propped her elbows on the back of the sofa, whispering in the ear of the white cloth from behind.

"RISA, WHY DIDN'T YOU TELL HIM JUST NOW...

"Why didn't you tell him that the moment he said the [death] of the advanced AI circuit, she really got a new life? Hmph, the hope given is a fart, if you can't stick to it in the next time, human love is just a wrong program that should be uninstalled! The woman in black shook her hair and said back to back with the white cloth.

"Lisa, father and mother...

"No, don't even think about it, my sister, you can take me and go on."

After speaking, the figure of the woman in black suddenly turned into a smoky black shadow, and once again drilled into the body of the woman in white, leaving only the sigh of the woman in white:

"My sister...

It seemed that after feeling nostalgic for a while, the woman in white finally left the program space and appeared in front of Nangong Suxi's eyes:

"It's ready, the subject can be reloaded."

"Very good," Nangong Kan Xi looked at the people in the main control room and took a deep breath, "From now on, the [Uninstall] project has officially started, and the Heim Core [The-HEL-Core] has begun to collect data and start parsing it!" ”

After the applause below dissipated, Nangong Kanxi turned his head and asked Saiyi:

"What about the subject's state?"

"I'm trying to survive."

"If you have a physical injury, just modify it."

"No, it's the soul, he's struggling."

Saying this, Sei looked at the earth she was watching:

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"Oh my God, oh my God, there's one here with a pulse!!" Near the Amazon River, near the ruins of the Federal Army's rail elevator station, a member of a rescue team of people from a nearby makeshift town pulled out a humanoid that had almost burned into the driver's suit from a ball of burning steel, and after testing his pulse, he suddenly frantically greeted his teammates.

"Oh my gosh, I don't know who you are, but God must fucking love you, God must love you!!" While shielding the pitch-black man and waiting for the vehicle to arrive, the members of the rescue team looked at the body and shook their heads and sighed.