"Come in."

Feeling irritable, he sat up from the bed and changed the appearance of the room with a wave of his hand, and the bed broke down into a coffee table and two sofas.

Xiao Qian's figure appeared in front of her, and what shocked people was that she was carrying a giant sword comparable to a door panel on her shoulder, which looked extremely incongruous with her slender body.

"What are you?" Zhong Heng wiped the sweat from his forehead and said with some astonishment.

He recognized this weapon, the Sword of Claude in Final Fantasy, a superalloy of futuristic technology, and the internal equipment could be divided into six, but he didn't know if it could retain some of the original features after being copied in this virtual space.

Although he only needs to open the psychic link to know everything, in normal times, unless there is an emergency or the distance is too far away to keep in touch, the most he can do is to save trouble and send some lengthy and inconvenient messages like text messages - Zhong Heng is still very disgusted by this kind of psychic connection that has no secret between each other at all.

"How about you take a look at the newly bought weapon, master?" Xiao Qian slammed the heavy sword to the ground, half of the sword body was embedded in the floor, and it stood like a standing monument, "I sold that broken exoskeleton armor and upgraded my skills four times, now I can easily control such a heavy thing, and I can also control multiple weapons......"

She said: "The 1000-point garbage in the last game was too useless, and it broke in two clicks, so I walked around the mall for a long time, and I felt that this weapon was the most suitable for me, it could be divided and combined, and it was made of superalloy without fear of corrosion, if there was it in the last game, I dare to say, it is not my opponent to go head-to-head with the alien queen."

As he spoke, the giant sword standing on the ground floated, divided into six sharp blades of different shapes in the high-tech sound of the machine, shuttling back and forth in the air and rubbing against the air to make a "buzzing" sound, and the sword flowers pulled out were dazzling, and then several sparks burst out in the "click" collision sound and combined back into the terrifying giant blade, and sank into the ground again.

"It's amazing." Zhong Heng smiled and gave a thumbs up, "Although I can't bring it back to reality, I can only be handsome for these 7 days, but I will definitely be able to earn a lot of points for us in the next tasks." ”

He then asked, "How much?"

Xiaoqian: 70,002.

"Oh......" nodded thoughtfully, looked at his watch, and said, "You came to me, is that what you mean?" There is less time left for the next game, why don't you take a break now? ”

Probably because it's not reality to be here, it's just because of the entry of consciousness, and the housekeeper can exist here in the form of a physical entity even if he hasn't upgraded once in reality.

No, to be precise, the lifeform situation exists based on three upgrades, which is what the final balance learned from the Americans - here the housekeeper is a real person, and he will be hungry, tired and bleed, not like in reality, after only being upgraded twice, although similar to a prosthetic person has simulated bones, muscles, and skin, but there are no internal organs, so it is still an extremely bionic robot in nature, and it can be seen from the fact that it can absorb any energy that does not exceed the upper limit of its bearing, such as sunlight, meager and shock waves to replenish action energy without eating or drinking.

Xiao Qian nodded, and her words were a little hesitant: "Of course...... As for rest, don't you sleep, master...... I, I do have something else, but ...... It's too long to say clearly...... Can you open the heart link?

"No, let's just say it." Taking a deep breath, he pushed his body back against the backrest.

"I, can I ask you a question?" Xiao Qian then resigned, "Today, when I finally killed the nest mother, the spiritual link was open, and you could feel it...... That, how to say, the feeling of fear? ”

Final Balance nodded.

"I know, you're afraid." He said, "Actually, I'm afraid if I want to go to it, even if that kind of thing is strong-willed, the spirit of the long-trained special forces will be affected afterwards, not to mention that those of us who have never seen the wind and rain, compared to ordinary people, we just have a little more superpower, and there is not much difference in spirit and will...... Actually, hey, let me tell you that......"

"I know, none of these missions are real, and the people and monsters in it should be fake if the main system didn't lie to us, but ...... They're so real! ”

"It's so real that it's the same as reality, and it's so real that it scares me...... Just now, I was still thinking about the questions about virtual and reality similar to Zhuang Zhoumengdie's and the Matrix. Zhong Heng smiled helplessly, "What is true, what is false, what is true, what is false, and then ......"

He paused.

"How?"

"What else, in the sense of life, for example, is the world we live in really real, will it be just simulated like this virtual space? What is the purpose of our existence, is it to seek real suffering or false illusions? Which is true or false, and where are their boundaries......"

Zhong Heng said: "It's all this kind of mysterious and mysterious problem."

"Do you have an accurate answer?" Xiao Qian asked.

"The answer? No kidding, these are these questions that have not been clear to those great philosophers for thousands of years, and where can I think of them...... However, if I had to make a comment, I think it would be something like this......"

He continued: "Let me tell you this, I think the world is real, material, but our pursuit is spiritual...... Or, in other words, fake. ”

"For example, everyone likes to enjoy, what to live in a bigger house, eat more delicious food, listen to beautiful music, see beautiful scenery, smell the fragrance of flowers, etc., maybe on the surface, it is these objectively existing substances that provide support, but fundamentally speaking, only when these are felt by their spirit can they be considered enjoyment, and can they be regarded as the meaning of enjoyment......"

"If it can't be felt, then the truth has no meaning to people, for example, no matter how blue the sky is, no matter how beautiful it is, what is the use of a blind man who can't see it; No matter how good the music is, what's the point of you putting it on the deaf...... Therefore, any enjoyment that people pursue, whether it is luxury, family pleasure, or even adventure, is the stimulation brought about by death, and even some people have masochism and need to regain pleasure by themselves, which is essentially a kind of mental stimulation. ”

"True or fake, as long as you can get the kind of stimulation you want mentally, then life will be meaningful...... Do you know what I mean, in the final analysis, the most important thing in being a human being is to be happy, as long as you can live and live happily and do what you want to do, the world is real or false, in fact, it doesn't matter. ”

"That's what I think, why, you came in the middle of the night to discuss philosophy with me?" Zhong Heng ended the presentation with a smile.

Xiaoqian shook her head: No, me, can I ask another question? ”

"Say it."

"If, again, there was that situation in the starship before, you ...... Master, will you still let me on...... Or even say, will you sacrifice me? ”

"You, why are you asking this?!" Zhong Heng vaguely smelled something wrong.

However, after some thought, he replied, "Of course...... No, I couldn't move at that time...... Also, are you still afraid of this? Don't forget that if I don't die, you're immortal, don't you see that the doctor's tx died once and was resurrected......"

As he spoke, he quickly made up for something that was wrong: "Anyway, I can't do this kind of thing...... Although, I know, you are a division of the main system, in a sense, it is absolutely mine, and I really want you to do it, and you can't refuse, but this ...... It doesn't mean I can do whatever I want, you know? ”

"Oh......" Xiao Qian nodded thoughtfully.

But then she asked a question that made the final balance almost roll under the table:

"Do you think I'm real or fake?"

Zhong Heng was stunned and couldn't answer for a long time.

"Uh......"

yes, that's a hard question to answer.

On the one hand, the housekeeper is created by the main system to serve the corresponding evolutionary, and the evolutionary says that if you go east, you must not go west, which is theoretically just similar to a super-advanced artificial intelligence program, even if there is an entity, it can be understood as an intelligent robot.

However, on the other hand, they also have the same emotions as humans, laughing, crying, sad, scared, and sad, even if this is artificial intelligence, but ...... Just like the topic that has been fried in science fiction movies, when artificial intelligence has emotions and seven emotions and six desires, is it still artificial intelligence in the traditional sense?

It's even harder to say when it comes to the stewardship of the evolutionary - don't forget, after three upgrades, you will become a human-like lifeform, and at that time...... Well, according to some information that Zhongheng has learned around in the past two months, the biological sense, and the most taboo way for human beings for thousands of years, reproductive isolation, will no longer exist.

There are examples on the dark web of evolutionaries giving birth to children with housekeepers who have been upgraded three times, but it is not known why the children are not evolutionaries, and whether they are normal fertile offspring is also unknown because the fourth generation of evolutionaries was not born for a long time.

As the saying goes, if something looks like a duck, walks like a duck, behaves like a duck, and can mate with a duck to produce fertile offspring, is that a duck?

In the same way, the butler is the same as a human in every way, except for the egg-pain trait that the evolutionary will not die if he does not die: the emotions of the people, the appearance of the people, and even the high enough to upgrade are also genetically the same as the humans.

So, are they real people?

Or when can we be considered a real person?

Does it count after three upgrades? What about three years ago? After death, is it considered that the consciousness is immortal and then resurrected? Is it counted as three times after death? If it is really human, is it reasonable that the connection between the evolutionary and the steward is stronger than the deed of sale in the slave society......

One question after another rang in the mind of the final balance.

Suddenly, he felt as if he had been electrocuted, and he was instantly shocked, like a white line suddenly crossing the middle in the darkness:

Is that layer of window paper finally going to be pierced?

He lowered his head and was silent for a while, and said, "Xiaoqian, don't call me master again in the future."

"Why?"

"Don't ask why, I said don't scream, don't scream, it sounds awkward."

"Okay."

The other side nodded.

The beautiful eyes reflected the complex complexion of the final balance, and because the spiritual link was not opened, Xiao Qian was a little unpredictable about the final balance.

After staring at each other for a while, she really understood the meaning behind this, and she was silent.

"Open the Psychic Link?" After a long silence, the final balance asked.

"If it's really not clear...... Or if you can't say it, just open it. ”

"Good ......"