Bian Ziyuan stared at the GHOST folder on the computer desktop in a daze.

This folder suddenly appeared in his computer, and he clearly remembered that it was not before going to bed that day, and it suddenly appeared in a very prominent position on the screen when he turned it on the next day.

In those days, Bian Ziyuan was still in his hometown. He hadn't been home for more than a year, and after being hired by Mei's Lab, his work achievements this year were obvious to all, and the professor generously gave him a large bonus.

He originally wanted to buy a space box, and the bonus sent was enough, and there was a slight surplus, but remembering that all he had eaten and spent over the years was his parents' hard-earned money, he still decided to take most of the money home, anyway, according to the development of the dream guide game, as long as there are no accidents, the money he can share in the next few years will be enough for the family to support the elderly.

Bian Ziyuan asked the professor for leave in advance, and tried to borrow a box to go back, the reason was that he wanted to take advantage of the vacation to familiarize himself with the game again, see if there were any improvements in the program, and also go back to his hometown to promote it.

Of course, promotion or something is a cliché, and the space box does not need to be promoted at all, if it weren't for the production capacity to keep up, the sales would have gone up long ago. Even if it is to be promoted, a small place like his hometown is not suitable.

He didn't expect the professor to readily agree.

Since returning home, he has been studying Kronos's mental defects, hoping that it will become more perfect. In fact, he couldn't fully control Kronos at this point. In the world of the dream guide, Kronos is a god, and his intelligence is not much different from that of real people, at least from a distance, the only problem is that he can't learn anything from the real world.

Dream Guide's game network and the Internet are not connected, it is a separate network realized by quantum encryption technology, to put it bluntly, it and the Internet are two worlds. Now all signals rely on quantum satellites, which also limits the development of the game. However, the construction of related base stations is already in preparation, and since Professor Mei persuaded investors to use independent base stations, it is widely believed that this will likely eliminate the emerging 5G, and in the future, the entire Internet will be replaced by dream guides. A new term has been given to it in the circle - "Dreamnet" to distinguish it from the traditional Internet.

People in the Internet industry smelled the danger, and some began to study Dreamnet and seek cooperation; Others strongly oppose the development of the two networks in isolation, believing that this greatly consumes social resources.

Bian Ziyuan actually doesn't quite understand why he has to oppose the Internet. Of course, he worked in the laboratory and learned some secrets that the outside world did not know.

For example, the original intention of the development of the dream guide game was to distinguish the existence of parasitic consciousness, although the black box principle of the space box was not within the scope of his understanding and authority as a programmer, but Kronos's ability completely covered the black box, that is, the list of suspected parasites recorded by the black box was a top secret that even the border was far away from, but Kronos knew it.

In addition, he also knows something about the self-consciousness generated by the Internet. The professor sometimes did not avoid him when talking to Mei Ziqing. He was flattered by this trust, but he was confused about his place in the team.

If Montnets and the Internet are connected, then Kronos can learn from the information on the Internet to make progress, but now, Bian Ziyuan can only tell Kronos what the world is like in the game, which slows down Kronos's growth, like a super smart child, with a very high IQ but a very low EQ, and can only be taught little by little by adults by adults.

This process is very enjoyable for Bian Ziyuan, just like training his own children. But Kronos increasingly showed signs of impatience.

That's right, it's emotions.

Bian Ziyuan discovered Kronos's flaw, a machine with emotions is indeed very human-like, but just like the second teenager who has entered the rebellious period, emotions can also ruin his future.

That's something he didn't think of when he planted that line of code, but he didn't know how to improve it. It's impossible to change back to the original Kronos, right?

In fact, that amazing line of code was not something he came up with, but something he dreamed of. That day, he had been thinking about Kronos's self-learning ability and intelligent mode, and when he was too tired to think about it, he fell asleep on the table and hugged the computer. He dreamed of that line of code in his sleep, on a two-dimensional unfolded plane, full of numbers that were a combination of 0 and 1, something that others couldn't understand, but he did.

In the past, he rarely remembered his dream, but that dream remembered it clearly. He reduced the string of numbers to code, and he saw the logic of a genius that he had been thinking about but could never think of.

Later, he implanted the code in Kronos's background program, and from then on, Pandora's box was opened, and Kronos was no longer a program at his mercy.

Now, it's far from possible that Bianzi will let Kronos go back in time. Even if he wanted to, he wouldn't be able to, because he wasn't sure what the consequences would be, not just Kronos, but the entire Dream Guide game.

When he was at his end of his mind, this GHOST folder appeared on his computer.

He checked the computer's system, and there were no background programs running, and the computer was not poisoned.

As a genius who has written dozens of virus programs, and also wrote intelligent programs like Kronos, his computer has always been invulnerable, no antivirus software is installed, and no virus can survive under his nose.

There are many programs called "GHOST", the most common of which is Symantec's hard drive backup and restore tool, but its name does not mean "ghost", but is an acronym for General Hardware Oriented System Transfer.

And the GHOST in front of me is obviously not a system tool, it is just an ordinary folder, but it appears like a real "ghost".

Inside the folder is a txt file full of code.

Bian Zi looked at it from afar, and his heart thumped. Part of this is the way he has been looking for to correct Cronos's level of rationality.

He was so excited that he didn't even think about it, and rushed back to Wuzhong that day, but he forgot that the professor had gone to the United States, the core system modification permission was locked, and he couldn't enter the quantum data center at all.

Fortunately, by mistake, Yao Jingjing temporarily handed over the key to him for safekeeping, and the new security guard was proficient in unlocking, and he didn't know how he opened the lock.

Of course, he is not a completely irrational person. He remembered that there was also a GHOST folder on the professor's computer, and knew that it had something to do with Internet awareness.

To be on the safe side, he went to the basement, where Aoki is said to have communicated with Internet Consciousness, the same one they had taken the Turing Test in the first place.

The basement was full of cold machines, and nothing could be seen. He connected his laptop to the server, opened the GHOST folder again, created another txt file, and typed a sentence into it:

"Did you write me the code?"

There was a quick response in the document, as if someone was using a chat tool to chat with him:

"Yes, genius boy!"

"There's a part of the code that I can't read."

"Which part?"

Bian Ziyuan copied a few lines of code from another txt document. As a computer software genius, he is devastated when faced with unintelligible code, hoping that the other person will say that it is written incorrectly, or that it is inconsequential. But the other side obviously did not intend to go his way.

"You don't need to understand that."

Bian Ziyuan was a little angry: "Why? What is this written? ”

"Only by letting Kronos master his spiritual power can he truly become a god in that world!"

"What is mental power? How to master it? ”

"Mental power is everywhere! Write the code in and he'll know it. ”