The experimental monitor noticed Bian Ziyuan's anomalous behavior early on, and also monitored the virus program he had implanted. According to the basic policy set by Mei Yiqiu, as long as it does not affect the security of the entire local area network, any program is allowed to run on the local area network, even if it is a virus. If the observer of the experiment intervenes, it is easy to cause the results of the experiment to go in the desired direction and lose objectivity.

But Mei Yiqiu didn't expect that there were such computer geniuses among the students of Sanwu University.

When the staff discovered that the small program planted by Bian Ziyuan might affect other testers, they tried to intercept the spread of the virus program, but the virus somehow bypassed their interception. By the time they reacted, it was too late, and all the terminals were already connected to the game on the server.

Mei Yiqiu almost watched as Bian Ziyuan turned this Turing test for LAN into an internal test of his game program.

Mei Ziqing suggested simply disconnecting the computer in the far away area and deleting all the games and viruses he installed on the server. Mei Yiqiu stopped them, and looking at the game interface full of dialog boxes, he suddenly became interested in this young man named Bian Ziyuan.

At the end of the test, the results showed that the number of inputs 0 accounted for 714%, well exceeding the 30% cut-off mark of the Turing test. In other words, out of a total of 3,000 subjects, 2,172 were unable to tell whether they were talking to a machine or a human.

The virus program didn't start, and the LAN escaped, but everyone knew that this test didn't prove anything but that Bian Ziyuan was a high-level hacker and that the in-game bot he designed had a fairly high level of artificial intelligence. The experiment failed, so to speak.

"Professor, what's next?" Mei Ziqing asked. Only she knew the professor's overall plan, and the rest of the staff just did things according to their tasks.

"Leave that classmate named Bian Ziyuan behind, I want to talk to him alone." Mei Yiqiu took her pipe in her mouth and said, "Everyone else is gone." ”

Mei Ziqing was about to turn around and leave, but was stopped by Mei Yiqiu again.

"Oh yes, turn off all the monitors, unplug the keyboard, mouse, camera, headset, in short, disconnect all the devices that can let the server receive information, remember to physically cut it from the outside, don't cut off the bus and port applications from the system, and don't break the driver."

Mei Yiqiu turned her head to look at Aoki after speaking, straightened her eyebrows, and showed a helpless smile, "The only hope is that you are here, go and sit in the computer room for a while, I hope the air there will not make you uncomfortable." ”

Aoki smiled, "I hope this guy will dream." ”

The computer room of the laboratory is large, and dozens of blue and white phone booth-like cabinets are neatly arranged, reminiscent of the IC card public telephone hall 20 years ago.

Mei Ziqing asked where Aoki was supposed to sit. Aoki found a relatively empty place and said, "This is it, it's spacious, you can smoke, right?" ”

Mei Ziqing said with a smile: "It's not possible according to the regulations of the computer room, but your situation is special, so please do it." ”

She asked the computer room manager to turn off the smoke alarms, then brought in chairs and brought Aoki mineral water and ashtrays.

"Mr. Aoki, thank you! Please sit back for a while, it will take a little time to disconnect the external physical connection of the 3,000 computers. ”

After Mei Ziqing left, Aoki sat in the computer room and smoked. The smoke is quickly sucked away by the purification equipment here, leaving no trace.

The computer room is at a constant temperature, and the temperature inside is pleasant, without any discomfort. The noise cancellation effect is also good, and the slight noise is not carefully listened to and I think it is my own tinnitus. The only drawback is dryness – so dry that you don't feel a trace of moisture and life, and you will have the illusion that you are also a machine after standing for a long time.

After smoking a cigarette, Aoki's throat choked a little. He opened the mineral water and took a sip, felt a little more comfortable, and began to close his eyes.

The deaf are good at seeing, and the blind are good at hearing, and as soon as the eyes are closed, the noise in the ears becomes clear and buzzing, like a swarm of mosquitoes. The shadows of those cases linger in front of me.

I don't know how long it took, but Aoki felt the noise in his ears gradually become smaller, and finally it was silent. The entire computer room fell silent. This sudden silence made the ears very uncomfortable, and they really ringed in the ears, chirping for a while, chirping for a while, like a cicada chirping, and like a cricket for a while.

Aoki knew that the connection between the server and the outside world had probably been cut off, just like giving someone an anesthetic or taking sleeping pills, and he could no longer perceive the outside world. Of course, the drug affects the central nervous system, but the server at this time is not affected in any way. Theoretically, the server will not be "asleep" at this time, because it is only cutting off the limb connection, and the "brain" is still awake.

However, if a person does not feel anything, he or she will probably fall asleep soon, or enter a state close to falling asleep. Monks participate in Zen meditation and Taoist priests meditate, pursuing this state of mind without dwelling and body without feeling, so as to achieve the effect of sleeping without sleeping. But how difficult it is to actively cut off nerve perception, even if you close your eyes, close your ears, and have your nose, skin, and organs!

What is difficult for people to do, but easy for machines to do, network cables, mice, keyboards, monitors, cameras, and headsets are all unplugged, and only a "brain" is left when the computer is on.

Aoki is now in the same computer room as this LAN's brain, which no longer has access to all information from the outside world. Of course, that brain should not be able to sense his presence.

Aoki rubbed his ears to get used to the extremely quiet environment, and the tinnitus in his ears gradually improved. In Aoki's perception, there was nothing left in the computer room, and those shadowy chassis and humming rumors had become vague memories.

However, at this moment, he felt a slight fluctuation. It's not what the body feels, it's in the mind, in the depths of consciousness. This fluctuation is somewhat similar to, but not identical, to the complex biological waves emitted by people when they dream.

Aoki saw a black field, like a black bubble in the pitch-black universe. The black of black is theoretically invisible, but Aoki does see it. The bubble is not round, but expands and contracts in any direction in an irregular shape, and the expansion and contraction are like a primordial life inside, looking for a way to break through the fetal sac.

Aoki's consciousness also entered the boundless darkness.

No, that's not darkness, that's nothingness. Aoki knows that this is the process of consciousness crossing space, and as Professor Mei said, consciousness needs to pass through a point in zero dimension in order to enter another dimension. He's in this point right now, and that black fetal sac is another world. There is no time in the zero-dimensional space, and he has never experienced such a long time of travel, just like eternity, where he comes from and where he ends.

He stretched out his hand slightly, but he couldn't see it—how could consciousness have hands? But the moment he moved, the fetal sac broke