243, Kronos

Bian Ziyuan clicked "Continue" with the mouse, and the still game screen began to move again. A straight loess road passes through green fruit groves, and in the distance is a majestic castle. As the mouse moved, the sound of clattering footsteps sounded, and the castle in the field of vision got closer and closer.

His task now is to find Kronos first and then ask Kronos questions to prove whether he is a man or a machine.

Bian Ziyuan suddenly felt ridiculous. Such a Turing test is also too lax!

If he had been prescribed a fixed bot, he would have really suspected that someone was in control in the background, but they actually allowed him to use a game NP instead. It was a game extension that he had developed himself, and he knew it all too well that no one could get into the game backend so quickly to modify the data and control the conversation of this thing.

If that's the case, is it true that everyone else is doing the same? There is no control in the background at all, it is simply a scam? So what to test? Test people's psychological reactions?

Bian Ziyuan thought about the screen for a long time, and those who didn't know thought he was addicted to the game.

He shook his head and continued to move the mouse.

The towering walls were in front of them, and the soldiers at the gates stood straight. Knowing that soldiers could not speak, he went straight into the city, stopping a random passer-by in the street and asking for news of Kronos.

This is a new feature after the expansion of the game. Kronos can appear anywhere on the game map, in towns, temples, caves, or in the wilderness. On such a large map, it is not easy for players to encounter him.

One of Bian Ziyuan's classmates once met Kronos in the game, so he tried to make a request to make it easier for people who wanted to find him, such as leaving a clue or something.

They weren't hopeful about this request, as Kronos's wandering whereabouts were a basic setting when Bian Ziyuan implanted the game's extension. But Kronos said that he was in a good mood that day, so he agreed to Bian Ziyuan's request. From now on, players will be able to ask the NPCs in the game about Kronos's whereabouts, and any NPs who see him will tell you.

Bian Ziyuan thought it was strange, so he went into the backstage of the game to look, and later checked the source code, and found that all NPs had added a command line to answer Kronos's whereabouts, and because Kronos's whereabouts were uncertain, these codes were also changing all the time.

Bian Ziyuan knew that Kronos was near this castle at the moment. When he was still online, he and his classmates were looking for him, and they had already found out that Kronos was in Grett City on the Moore Continent. Bian Ziyuan used a space-time scroll and came over directly. Before the internet was disconnected, his classmates probably hadn't come before him and found Kronos, otherwise he would have to look for him again.

Passers-by waved their hands to indicate that they had not seen Kronos. Bian Ziyuan continued to walk until he reached the blacksmith shop in the castle. The blacksmith wielded a hammer and clanged on the red-hot iron.

Bian Zi nodded at the blacksmith from afar. The blacksmith put down the hammer and jumped out a line of small words: "Welcome, do you want to strike iron?" ”

Bian Ziyuan used the keyboard to type in the blank text box that popped up: "Where is Kronos?" ”

The blacksmith said, "Oh, do you speak of the great Kronos? Sorry, I haven't met him, but I heard from the sailor who came to fetch the anchor today that he was walking by the sea! ”

Bian Ziyuan went out of the city, rushed to the sea, and asked the fisherman by the sea. The fisherman said that Kronos walked along the coastline behind the castle. Bian Ziyuan chased after him and killed some skeleton soldiers and fly monsters in the back hill of the castle. These are all little monsters, and it doesn't take a little effort to kill them at his level, but it also takes a little time.

The girl next to her may still be thinking hard at this time, but she turned her face coldly and saw that Bian Ziyuan was still playing games, so she kindly reminded: "Hey, there is monitoring here, it's not good for you to be like this!" ”

Bian Ziyuan let out an "um". The girl snorted.

Kronos was walking in a canyon in the back mountains, and several ghosts were floating at the mouth of the canyon. The ghost is more troublesome to deal with, and it is possible to gather more and more, and Bian Ziyuan is afraid that Kronos will not know where to go after passing through the canyon for a while, and he will have to find it again, so he uses a stealth scroll and walks into the canyon.

Stealth was of course useless to Kronos, he stopped and looked at Bian Ziyuan and said, "Ah, see you again, butterfly in the deep sky." ”

The butterfly in deep space is the name of the character in the game controlled by Bian Ziyuan. He said, "Kronos, I've been looking for you for a long time. ”

Kronos said, "Oh, look how beautiful the scenery is! ”

Bian Ziyuan turned his mouse and looked, the canyon was full of earthy yellow stones, and there were rows of green trees on the mountains on both sides, and some red flies could be faintly seen flying around the treetops. Behind him, several white ghosts were floating in the wind at the mouth of the canyon, and there was darkness in the cracks in the mountain wall in front of him, revealing a pair of hungry eyes. The scenery here is really not very beautiful.

"Kronos, I have a question for you." He said.

"Say, what do you want?" "But be prepared to pay the price, I'm not going to let you get away with it." ”

In the past, when they met Kronos, they would be straightforward with in-game requests, such as I want to get a certain artifact, or simply create a treasure. Of course, Kronos doesn't satisfy you with everything, he has his own rules for transforming the game world. So their demands are generally not excessive.

Bian Ziyuan thought about how to chat with Kronos to meet today's test. Although he knew that Kronos was a program developed by himself, although he was very close to intelligence, there was still a gap between him and the real person. What's more, he is not like those big companies that can compile a large amount of language data into the program through big data support, so Kronos's understanding of human behavior and language is limited to this game.

For example, if you ask Kronos what is the best thing to eat, he will never tell you anything about the Manchurian feast, but will say the wooden tower fish from New Sorgena Island or the flower horn venison from Paradise Village. If you ask him about his favourite star, he won't say Justin Bieber or Taylor, but Miss Ursul, the Messenger of Lurkshire.

Of course, because players will occasionally make small talk about things outside of the game, such as a certain MJ fanatic who will hum dangers while playing the game, and often say "I swear in the name of MJ" when talking to Kronos, etc.

So Kronos also knows some real-world things, and occasionally comes to scold or something. But more often than not, he's just a god in this game world.

Bian Ziyuan thought for a long time and asked, "Kronos, do you think there is anything different today?" ”

"Oh, is it different?" Kronos looked up at the sky, "The sky is still blue, maybe there will be rain, well, but what difference does that make?" Let me think about it, I feel...... Our world is getting bigger. ”

"You've expanded the game map?" Bian Ziyuan asked.

"No, the map knows no boundaries, and you need to explore beyond the dark borders." "What I'm trying to say is not that the map of our game world has gotten bigger, it's that ...... The world that carries our world has become larger. ”

Bian Ziyuan's eyes lit up: "Kronos, what do you know?" ”