Hao Ren's thoughts went back to not long ago, the moment before Zom reached the tipping point and completely collapsed.

Nolan, the only NPC in the Dream Ark, her special "soul" code caused her to be unable to upload to the crystal nucleus research station through the drone link, and the time at that time was completely insufficient to establish a new broadcast protocol in the drone link, in the case of everything seemed to be in a desperate situation, Hao Ren's only thought was to do everything possible to save Nolan's soul - since it could not be transmitted, then find a nearby place to save it.

Since the compatibility problem is only within the drone link, and the data processing capacity of the Giant Turtle Rock itself is enough to deal with this degree of incompatibility, so Hao Ren's last attempt is possible: he downloaded Nolan to the shipboard host of the Giant Turtle Rock Platform.

Of course, this rush of downloads is still somewhat unsatisfactory, and Nolan's soul is inevitably damaged after being downloaded to the console, mainly due to compatibility. So until now, the spaceship has been busy processing Nolan's data, and the data terminal stayed here for this. But anyway, the good news is that there is no major problem in terms of memory and emotion, Nolan herself is an NPC, and her data itself has a high self-restructuring ability, and after some recovery and debugging, she has finally recovered.

Looking at the gray-haired girl walking around uneasily on the hologram, Hao Ren scratched his face and didn't know where to start explaining, he could only introduce this place first: "This is my spaceship, the Giant Turtle Rock Platform. ”

"Your ...... Spaceship? "Nolan's memories are still stuck before the destruction of Drom, and the last stage of her memories is spent in a complete muddy, so it's almost impossible to figure out the current situation." Why did there suddenly become a spaceship...... Yes! I remembered, the whole world...... How's Zom doing? ”

"Ahem." Hao Ren coughed dryly, "Check your status before that." How are you feeling right now? Have you ever been in a trance or have you lost your memory? Also, what is your environment? ”

"Me?" Nolan looked down at himself, "I seem like everything is fine, but I don't know what this place is. There was nothing here, I just saw a lot of streamers floating around, and beyond that, the people, the houses, the sky, and the earth, all of these things were gone......"

Nolan said, a hint of panic suddenly appeared in his eyes: "Could it be ...... Is the world finally destroyed? ”

"The real-world Zom has been swallowed up by the sun. Seven hours ago," Hao Ren switched the window and transmitted a video data to Nolan's eyes, the latter as a program body originally did not need to use "eyes" to browse the images, but in order to maintain the personality of "Nolan" as an individual, the shipboard host faithfully simulated her human functions, so Nolan still maintains human common sense and senses, Hao Ren saw a set of smaller holograms appear in the holograms, and Nolan looked at those images. The eyes gradually widened, "This is the image of its last moments." ”

Nolan watched a massive, indescribable bio-mechanical hybrid burn in the sunlight and the entire planet fall apart into the sun, and she exclaimed, "Then I'm ...... now"

"Don't worry. At the last minute, I managed to save everyone's souls," Hao Ren coughed lightly, "cough." On my side, I have a well-established soul transmission technology, which is more advanced than the technology used in the Drom's Ark. It can strip the soul from matter like a liquid, so there are no more 'people' on the planet that falls into the sun. You are now on the planet Tanagus, a billion light-years away from Drom. Near a space station called the Crystal Nucleus Research Station, this is my research facility. ”

Hao Ren lightly brought the large-scale soul data chain project in one sentence, but Nolan was not stupid after all, and he still heard that an amazing incident had happened at that time that was beyond the comprehension of ordinary people. She had no way of knowing what the rationale behind this incident was, so she could only accept it bluntly: "That is...... Before the previous memory burned out, you transferred the entire virtual world to another memory? ”

Hao Ren nodded: "That's it." ”

"Is this new storage secure?"

"It's definitely safer than Drum—the crystal nucleus research station can operate normally even if it falls into a black hole."

At this time, Nolan finally realized that something was wrong, and she looked around blankly: "But...... Where are the others? Why am I the only one here? ”

Hao Ren folded his hands on the console, and leaned forward slightly: "Nolan, you...... Do you know how you're different from others? ”

"Different?" Nolan frowned, "You mean something that can preserve the memory of reincarnation?" Aren't you too? ”

"Preserving the memory of reincarnation is just a façade, and what I'm going to say next may not be easy to accept, but you must listen—"

Hao Ren said, pausing for a moment before his face straightened: "If I tell you, in fact, you are not human......

He explained everything in as calm a tone as possible, even the structure of the entire Drom's Ark and the causes and consequences of humanity's escape into the virtual world 10,000 years ago, because only in this way could Nolan better understand this large, long-term, and grand project, and what role she originally played in it. Nolan couldn't help but exclaim when she heard that the virtual world was based on the dreams of an ancient primitive creature, and when she heard that she was actually the monitoring program of a series of mechanical devices used to maintain the dream, she remained stunned and speechless for a long time.

In just half an hour, she lost her temper even more times than she had in the past hundreds of years in reincarnation.

After Hao Ren finished speaking, Nolan still didn't come back to his senses, he could only wake up the other party loudly: "Nolan, Nolan, I'm done." ”

Nolan's expression was in a trance, she took a breath, bit her lip and looked at Hao Ren on the other end of the picture, she now finally realized what the window in front of her meant: this is the dividing line between the real world and the virtual world, and the man on the other side of the picture is sitting in front of a device in the real world, and she ...... It's still a string of data trapped in the virtual world, and this time it's not even human.

"What you say is true?" Nolan's voice sounded uncharacteristically calm.

Hao Ren stretched out his hands: "I don't have to lie to you. ”

"I'm really just a ...... Procedure? Nolan bit his lip, "Someone made up a program to monitor the device?" ”

Hao Ren was speechless for a moment.

"So I don't really have parents, I don't have a family, I don't have a past, and these things didn't even exist in the real world," Nolan thought a lot at once, "so my memories were virtual from the beginning......"

Nolan's reaction is reasonable, anyone who suddenly knows that he is not a human at all, but just a piece of code running in a certain machine, all the emotional experiences and preferences since birth are actually all strings typed out by a certain programmer or a group of programmers, I am afraid that the mentality is not much better, Nolan just sighs like this is already a manifestation of determination.

"Actually, as far as I'm concerned, AI is no different from humans," Hao Ren knew that he should say something anyway in this situation, and he talked about his worldview, which is the broadening vision of seeing countless strange civilization forms and life forms after becoming a censor, "Being aware of oneself and having one's own feelings, under this premise the life of a spirit is actually the same, whether they live in a carbon-based body or a machine, No different on the level of the soul. ”

"Thank you for your comfort," Nolan smiled stiffly, "but...... It's hard to accept, isn't it? ”

Hao Ren sighed: "Yes, it's not easy to accept." ”

Seeing Hao Ren's embarrassed appearance, Nolan took the initiative to change the topic: "Then don't talk about this." You mentioned that you're embarking on a reinvention of an ecosystem? If I'm not mistaken...... Are you, like the Creator, possess this power? ”

"Ahem," Hao Ren almost coughed out his bronchial tubes on the spot, "What you said is too exaggerated, my model is far away from the creator, and I don't do it myself to reshape the ecosystem, at best, I'm an investor this time: the kind that is only responsible for providing raw materials and sites." ”

"I'm sorry, this is a bit beyond my imagination, it's not very understandable," Nolan smiled slightly, and then his face became gloomy again, "Feelings are such a strange thing, I should have been happier, but after knowing that I was just a program to monitor the system, it seems that reshaping the ecosystem or something has nothing to do with me." ”

In the face of Nolan's wry smile, Hao Ren could only sigh helplessly with Lily. (To be continued......)