"So, you saw Qin Ye in that virtual reality. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info" Chu Zhengxuan sat on the hospital bed, his fingers pinching the tip of the pen, and the tip of the pen wrote and drew on the paper, leaving a string of irregular traces.

"Yes." Zhou Yang was lying on the hospital bed—he himself felt that his body was not unwell except for a little dizziness, but he was still lying on the bed for the sake of safety, and at the same time hanging the nutrient solution.

The drilling of the head gave Zhou Yang a very special feeling, he didn't realize anything in the dream, but after waking up, he gradually felt uncomfortable, although he didn't feel pain, but he always felt that something was missing, especially when he was thinking, he didn't know if it was a mental effect or a real reaction, and he always felt a little pain in the back of his head.

Chu Zhengxuan said: "According to your description, this Qin Ye can not only communicate with the narrator without barriers, but also be able to manipulate the virtual reality. It's a pity that we can't bring in the recording equipment, otherwise we can get some video data for in-depth analysis. ”

"This just shows that Professor Guo makes sense for us to pay attention to Qin Ye, his ability to communicate with the narrator and his special authority in the virtual reality show that he is special."

"You were a little reckless, and you revealed too much information at the end."

Chu Zhengxuan thought for a moment and said, "You only seem to have considered the possibility that Qin Ye is a victim, but have you ever considered that he has such a special authority in the virtual reality, so there is another possibility, what if he is a person inside that organization?" The information you leak is especially deadly. ”

"I think it doesn't matter, first of all, when Professor Qin reminded us at that time, it was the tone and demeanor of the drowning person when he encountered the life-saving straw. So I'm willing to make logical reasoning based on his language at the time - Qin Ye is the next victim, and that organization hasn't found Qin Ye yet, in this case, I feel it is necessary for me to make a reminder. ”

"If that's not the case, then what?" Chu Zhengxuan thought for a few seconds, and then asked, "Officer Zhou, what do you think of my temperament and mental outlook?" ”

"Very good." Zhou Yang stared at Chu Zhengxuan for a while with some confusion and nodded.

"And now?" Chu Zhengxuan's expression changed, and in Zhou Yang's somewhat stunned gaze, a faint smile appeared on his face, and the whole person's indifferent temperament changed and became amiable.

This instantaneous change made Zhou Yang stunned, he looked at Chu Zhengxuan's face carefully, this face was originally very handsome, but it gave people a gloomy feeling when he was expressionless, but this smile was like a spring breeze blowing away the snow, and instantly bloomed with thousands of sunshine, looking at this face comparable to a Hallyu teenager, it was really difficult to connect with the secret agency. What made Zhou Yang even more stunned was that this kind of conversion was not a little blunt, it was completely natural.

You laughed...... It's beautiful. After being stunned for a while, Zhou Yang could only make an almost perfunctory comment in the end.

Chu Zhengxuan's expression was solemn, and the warm sunlight disappeared in an instant:

"People are able to disguise, if that Mr. Qin Ye is a role similar to the administrator of the real scene, trying to extract some information from you, an outsider, then he has already done it."

"That's not a big deal."

Zhou Yang thought quietly for a while, and said, "If Qin Ye is deeply involved in the organization involved, and is even the person involved in this case as you said, then what I leaked is just an invalid piece of information. ”

"You have leaked at least three important pieces of information - 1, someone is investigating them, 2) you are the person investigating them, and 3, the person investigating them knows the importance of Qin Ye. Officer Zhou, you are indeed too reckless, there is one thing that is certain about this virtual reality, it must have been created by that organization, how can you determine that it is not under the surveillance of that organization? ”

"You considered the second possibility, but what if the truth was the first? I still don't think I'm doing it wrong. Zhou Yang said resolutely: "I still have that opinion, if it is the second case, then I have only leaked limited information, if it is the first case, then my reminder is very important for Qin Ye." ”

"I don't intend to investigate the reason for your actions this time, but as a colleague, I think that your actions are inappropriate, and remind you to pay attention to them next time." Chu Zhengxuan didn't mean to continue the investigation, he shook his head, and suddenly stared at Zhou Yang: "Officer Zhou, don't enter that virtual reality again, if the situation is the first one you said, then your situation may become quite dangerous in the next - maybe they are watching there, and you have already exposed your identity." ”

"I heard Professor Wang say that the device has been processed, and all the bionic muscles inside have been severed, right?"

"Yes."

"The device that feeds into my brain stem is also specially processed so that the system shuts down automatically as soon as a signal that could cause damage to brain tissue enters the intermediate media, right?"

"It's hard to guarantee that." Chu Zhengxuan realized that Zhou Yang did not give up the idea of entering the virtual reality again, and explained seriously: "There are many types of electrical signals, and it is difficult for us to ensure perfection in screening, in case there is any mistake or omission, there is still a certain danger. ”

"So if someone on the other side of the signal terminal has malicious intent towards me, there's a good chance I'll die in a nightmare?"

"So to speak." Chu Zhengxuan nodded.

"I decided to re-enter anyway."

Zhou Yang's words made Chu Zhengxuan stunned again, he stared at Zhou Yang for a while, and asked in a strange tone:

"Why?"

"I think my nerves are tough enough that one or two nightmares can deal with. Other than that, all they do is ban me from access, don't they? ”

"Theoretically, that's true." Chu Zhengxuan thought for a moment and nodded.

"I have to enter again." Zhou Yang said: "I reminded Qin Ye when I quit the real scene and asked him not to trust anyone, so it is necessary for me to continue the contact with him." ”

"Are you sure he'll trust you?"

"Let's give it a try."

"This is not the biggest problem, the biggest question is, how can you be sure that you will be able to see Qin Ye in the virtual reality again." Chu Zhengxuan said: "With your this time, we have done a total of eight experiments, and you are the only one who met Qin Ye this time, we have not been able to summarize the law of Qin Ye's appearance in the real scene, and the time to connect the real scene each time is only thirty minutes, and then we have to rest for at least two hours, the number of experiments that can be carried out every day is very limited, do you want to meet Qin Ye by luck?" ”

"This ......" Zhou Yang's eyebrows were deeply locked.

"By the way, this is information about this dream, and our intelligence department has obtained information from an urgent investigation." Chu Zhengxuan pulled out a page from the information bag.

"So little?" Zhou Yang couldn't help but be surprised when he looked at the few lines of words on the paper and the empty statistical table.

"This is an urgent investigation."

Chu Zhengxuan said in an emphatic tone: "It is impossible for the government to even control what dreams Chinese citizens have every night, and the fascists do not have this method, so we can only use the shortest possible time to collect as much information as possible about this dream, you can see, recently there are indeed a few people in Beijing who claim to have such dreams, of course, there are only a very small number of people within the scope of our department's investigation, there are 23 samples here, the earliest occurred nine days ago." ”

"It was the day Professor Guo was killed." Zhou Yang's eyebrows were deeply locked: "After they murdered Professor Guo, they immediately opened this virtual reality, what is their intention?" ”

"Unless Professor Guo wakes up, no one will be able to answer this question right away.

In the current situation, we cannot give up virtual reality as a possible source of information. ”

"Also, these people seem to have something in common." Zhou Yang read the information of these people and keenly sniffed out something: "These people ...... It seems that all are intellectuals. ”

"Yes, what these people have in common is that they rarely engage in manual labor, and a significant number of them suffer from neurasthenia and insomnia." Chu Zhengxuan nodded: "According to the speculation of the investigation department, it seems that this kind of overthinking person is more susceptible. ”

This conclusion...... Is there any rationale? ”

"There is no definite conclusion, but if it is assumed that the dream is connected to their brain in the form of electromagnetic signals, then the effect of the weaker nerves will theoretically be more pronounced, which is reasonable."

After listening to Chu Zhengxuan's explanation, Zhou Yang fell into contemplation again, and after a while,

"Let me enter again."

Zhou Yang glanced at the hanging electronic clock: "For Qin Ye, this virtual reality is connected to their minds in the form of a dream, so I can connect to this dream in the middle of the night, so the possibility of seeing him will be greatly improved." ”

Chu Zhengxuan nodded: "Since you insist, I won't stop you, we have investigated Qin Ye's information, and he maintains a very regular sleep habit, usually during the period of 23:00-7:00, but ...... After entering again, you should pay attention to extract more information from Qin Ye's mouth, so as to facilitate the actions of Captain Yang's side. ”

He looked at his watch: "If you enter again in four hours, I will ask Professor Wang to arrange it for you." ”

Zhou Yang frowned and pondered, his eyes were fixed, the ceiling above his head was like a black hole, swallowing his vision and thinking, he forcibly suppressed the vague depression in his heart, closed his eyes and began to rest.

……

Chu Zhengxuan walked out of the laboratory, twisted around in the silent corridor of the research institute, and arrived in front of a door after a while.

Complex electronic instruments made rhythmic ticking sounds in the room, a middle-aged man with a stubble on his face was holding a cigarette roll, Chu Zhengxuan walked to the side, frowned and took the cigarette roll from the man's mouth and crushed it on the ashtray.

The man glanced at Chu Zhengxuan dissatisfiedly, didn't say anything, but stuffed the cigarette case on the console into his trouser pocket.

Chu Zhengxuan read the records on the fluorescent screen, and as the data on the light screen scrolled, he gradually became a little impatient, and the speed of scrolling the screen was also a little faster.

"Da Chu, you've been here six times." The man said very unhappily: "We can't compare to those detectives in the TV series, everything we can give you has already been given to you." ”

"Haven't deciphered the signal yet?"

"How can it be so easy to decipher?" The man shook his head: "The password we use internally is already complex enough, but I didn't expect the shell of this signal to be many times more complex than we imagined." ”

"Is it quantum cryptography?"

"Where's the medium? Air? ”

The man smiled: "Da Chu, you are asking unprofessionally." ”

"According to your initial conclusion, the encryption method of this electromagnetic signal is subject to stress change, right?"

"Yes, crypto people are either paranoid or geniuses, and crypto algorithms change almost all the time." The man looked distressed: "I initially suspected that the program in them was a few sets of algorithms that randomly changed according to time, and finally found out that it was not, they changed too quickly and too frequently, you know that it is basically impossible for our communication system to use this encryption method, which will not only cause the amount of information to be bloated, but also a huge burden on the receiving end of the decoding work, I am a little worried about whether these signals will become unrecognizable after arriving at the receiving end." ”

"But your fears didn't materialize, and the extremely low latency of that instrument proves that their decoding efficiency is very high."

"Yes, that'......s what our communications department can't figure out."

The man's eyebrows were twisted, and he subconsciously took out a cigarette from his trouser pocket and lit it: "To tell the truth, Da Chu, the signal sent by this thing reveals an evil nature, this encryption method...... It doesn't look like it's program-controlled, it's like ......."

"Alive?" Chu Zhengxuan said what the man wanted to say.

"Yes, it's like being alive." The man exhaled and sat down in his chair: "It's like a ghost wrapping around this signal, constantly hiding and hiding. ”

"With our technical means, is there a way to simulate?" Chu Zhengxuan frowned.

"Impossible." The man said categorically.

There was silence in the room, and Chu Zhengxuan seemed to have figured out something for a long time: "Lao Tian, you said that the encryption system of this signal is the same as that of a ghost, and we can't decipher the specific content of the signal, so the people participating in the experiment are still extremely dangerous?" ”

"Actually, I'm more worried about another point than this." Tian Haiyang flicked the cigarette ash, and his eyebrows were deeply locked: "Da Chu, according to the experimental results, that instrument is a virtual reality terminal, have you ever considered whether the delay of this thing is too low when sending and receiving information packets?" According to our testing, the delay of this instrument is only a dozen MS, such a low latency, only a few high-speed LANs can do it, but you have to think about where the other end of the signal is, in the Middle East! And then you look at the size of these packets, this specification of packets, such a long wireless transmission distance, such a low latency, how did that organization do it? What technology do they use to be able to do this? ”

Chu Zhengxuan was silent for a moment and asked, "What do you guess?" ”

"They may have data transit bases within their borders." Tian Haiyang frowned: "But...... It doesn't seem to make sense. ”

"If this signal can't be deciphered, it's hard for us to find other signals that match, and we have no way of knowing how they connected this virtual reality to the dream."

"It's too difficult to sift through all the signals that could come from the Middle East, but it's like looking for a needle in a haystack." Tian Haiyang shook his head with a wry smile: "But Da Chu, this time we may really run into trouble, whether it is this kind of living encryption method, ultra-long-distance lossless communication, or using dreams to directly connect the human brain with the virtual reality, all kinds of technologies have reached the point of incredible, if it weren't for the Americans to make trouble, I can only say that we really encountered something amazing this time."

And Lao Chu, you must pay attention to the organization that has this kind of technology, our electronic data is not safe, to be honest......"

"It doesn't matter, the data center hasn't been stolen, and important data is still on paper." Chu Zhengxuan said: "That incident a few years ago will not happen again. ”

After Chu Zhengxuan finished speaking, he turned to the correspondent on the side:

"Where's Captain Yang? Did his people come into contact with Qin Ye? ”

"There's bad news, Commissioner Chu." A correspondent took off his headphones: "Captain Yang's people just arrived in Los Angeles, but that Qin Ye didn't know what was going on, he had already left New York and was on a plane to London." ”

"So coincidentally?" Chu Zhengxuan's eyebrows jumped slightly: "Where is Captain Yang?" ”

"He took another detour from Russia to the UK, hoping to get it."

"...... like this"

Chu Zhengxuan secretly thought to himself: "In this way, this virtual reality has become the only clue......

……

Appearing in this chaos again, Zhou Yang still had some unnatural feelings.

The chaos of the sky and the earth is still chaotic, and I don't know whether it is wind or fire, the colors are smooth like oil paint, rendering the space colorful.

Zhou Yang couldn't help but look around, there was no one around him, and he was slightly disappointed.

The way to try your luck seems to be a bit unreliable.

"Are you looking for us?" Just as Zhou Yang was giving up, a voice suddenly sounded from above Zhou Yang's head.

He looked up and saw Qin Ye and 'Yuan' floating in the space, and his heart was slightly relieved: "Are you waiting for me?" ”

"Yes, we're waiting for you." Qin Ye nodded: "It seems that my luck is not bad, only one step ahead of you." ”

"Do you remember what I said to you that afternoon?" Zhou Yang went straight to the point.

"Yes, I remember, but I still doubt ......"

"Are you still suspicious?" Zhou Yang's eyelids jumped: "What is there to suspect?" ”

"If I fully believe you, it will be tantamount to accepting a fact." Qin Ye said very seriously: "This place that I have always thought is a dream is actually an artificially created virtual reality, it is difficult for me to accept that there is any way for people to connect here in the form of dreams, Mr. Zhou, although I study philosophy, I am not ignorant of technology, this kind of technology is obviously not something that human beings can do." ”

"I know it's incredible, but it's true."

"Can you prove it?"

Zhou Yang was dumbfounded, making people prove that he was not dreaming, and he suddenly felt a little dizzy.