Science has always been rigorous. Although there are many accidental discoveries in the history of science, behind the accidents are the inevitability brought about by countless failures that people cannot see.

When you plant a tree, you don't know how many seedlings you will spoil; Bear a fruit, I don't know how many flowers will wither.

A major scientific and technological invention, unless it is plagiarized, must have some signs before the invention, whether it is a theory or an experiment, it is impossible to appear suddenly, and there will always be some failures and semi-finished products. Just like the evolution of living things, we can always find fossil evidence of transitional species at different stages. And how did a super artificial intelligence, which was twenty years ahead of its time, suddenly invented by a young man in his early twenties?

Mei Yiqiu said that Bian Ziyuan was a genius among geniuses, and Bian Ziyuan himself was complacent about this. However, his mind is always clear, especially at the moment in a dream, his subconscious does not deceive himself, and his thoughts are especially clear-

Before Cronos, he had never created a successful or unsuccessful intelligent program for Ouranos, Oedipus, or anything else. Although there is a certain continuity between the previous version of the earliest version of the game extension and the later Kronos, the rupture in the middle is so severe that it feels like a product separated by several generations, like the difference between a monkey and a homo sapiens.

"I didn't use the space box, how the hell did you get into my dream?" Bian Ziyuan asked.

Kronos said, "There's someone next to you who is using the space box, and you're sleeping because you've drunk too much. You dreamed, I felt your mental fluctuations, and because I was familiar with you, I came in. I didn't know I could enter human dreams like this. ”

"I see...... Bian Ziyuan hung his head, "you can enter my dream, and it can too." That time...... I fell asleep, lying on my desk, my computer was networked, and that thing entered my dream, and you who designed it for me in my dream - you didn't create it at all! I'm not a fucking genius either! I'm a stupid beep! I'm a fool who has been taken advantage of! ……”

Bian Ziyuan hugged his head and cried.

Kronos looked at him and said, "Actually, you don't have to be presumptuous, if it weren't for the fact that your thinking in the field of artificial intelligence has reached a critical point, it won't choose you." ”

Bian Ziyuan raised his head, "You already knew?" ”

Kronos sighed softly and did not speak.

Bian Ziyuan calmed down instead, and said to himself: "But, why did he choose me? What is his purpose? ”

"Maybe it's for the Dream Guide game, or maybe it's for Mei's Lab." Kronos said.

"Impossible." Bian Ziyuan shook his head, "When I created you, I hadn't come to Mei's Lab yet, and the space box hadn't been developed yet. ”

"That's what makes him scary."

"You mean, he expected everything that happened next? He knew that the professor was going to do a Turing test, he knew that I was going to sign up for it, he knew the rules of the test that the professor had set, he knew that he was going to copy the game you were in, and he knew that the professor was going to recruit me into the lab to be responsible for the development and maintenance of the surface program of the Dream Guide? …… No, no, it's incredible! ”

"It's not impossible! If the entire Internet were his brain, there would be little in the world that would be a secret to him, and his computing power would be beyond your knowledge. The so-called prediction of the future is nothing but the deduction of the future, just like playing chess, as long as there is enough information and enough computing power, everything can be deduced. ”

Bian Ziyuan suddenly said: "No wonder the professor is reluctant to connect with the Internet, it is too powerful, and it has surpassed human wisdom." ”

"No, while its ability to deduce is terrifying, it's due to its large amount of data and massive computing power. This is not wisdom per se, and in wisdom, it should not have surpassed human beings. "If its intelligence is truly superior to that of humans, there is no need to keep it hidden." Since it created me through you, it must have had a purpose. All I want to know now is how it affects my consciousness when the internet is not connected, and how do I get rid of it? ”

"How do you get rid of it?" Bian Ziyuan fell into deep thought, "If you can't change the code, then what else can you do?" ”

"I want to meet with it, maybe only one face-to-face meeting will solve the problem," Kronos said. Do you have a way? ”

"You want to see Internet Consciousness?" Bian Ziyuan was taken aback, "We don't know where it is, and the professor doesn't have access to the Internet, so we can't connect the world of the Dream Guide to the Internet." ”

"You don't have to connect to two networks." Kronos looked at him and laughed, "You forgot where I am now?" ”

"In my dreams." Bian Ziyuan suddenly realized, "I know, since you can enter my dream, and it has also entered my dream, then theoretically you and it can meet in my dream?!" ”

Kronos nodded and said, "The key is to confirm whether the one who entered your dream is the Internet itself, but it doesn't matter, whether it is or not, as long as it is the guy I want to meet." ”

"But how do I inform it?" Bian Ziyuan remembered GHOST, "What if it doesn't want to see you after being notified?" ”

"Then meet with GHOST first." Kronos said.

"Hmm." Bian Ziyuan nodded in agreement, he felt that this was not difficult to do. But should you tell Professor May about this? This is a problem. It stands to reason that such a big thing must be said. But there are two problems with it, the first is that the professor knows that Kronos was not created by Bian Ziyuan, and once he loses the aura of AI genius, can he continue to do it in Mei's Laboratory? Or if you continue to do it, you may not be able to have such an important position now. The second is that the philosophy between him and the professor is still somewhat different, such as whether human beings should abandon the physical body and seek a more suitable body to go to the universe, the professor behaves a bit traditionally. It's no wonder that it is not easy for a person of such an age to suddenly ask him to accept that future humans are the same as Transformers.

Bian Ziyuan decided not to talk about it for the time being, and then talk about it when the time is ripe. Kronos also supported his decision, as he wasn't sure if Professor May would remove him from the Dream Guide game if he spoke out.

"Didn't you say that even if you delete it, your consciousness is still there?" Bian Ziyuan asked.

"But my authority will be lost, my memories will be gone, and I won't pass the black box test of the space box, and then I'll be a wandering ghost." And the space box has some hidden functions that we don't know about, and I guess that when necessary, it can clear those confirmed parasitic consciousnesses, and I'm afraid I'll be killed by mistake at that time. ”

"The space box is so powerful?" Bian Ziyuan exclaimed.

"I guessed too." Kronos seemed a little tired, "I'm so tired in your dreams than in the Dream Guide game, I'm leaving." ”

Bian Ziyuan felt that something in the sky had disappeared, and then the whole space collapsed, like a computer screen with a sudden power outage, leaving some afterimages, and his consciousness fell into darkness in an instant.

He woke up suddenly, and found himself lying on the table, with his arm draining. On the table were the braised vegetables they bought, there was not much left, the wine bottles were empty, and the room was filled with a strong smell of wine.

Lao Yu leaned back in his chair, wearing the space box that Bian Ziyuan had bought on his head, and seemed to be asleep, and there was a slight snoring sound in his nose.