For Brandon Bartholomew, too many things happened on this rainy night twenty years ago, Gilberto Gilberdine's visit and the awakening of the "Book of Genesis" happened at the same time, although the chip in the doctor's body exceeded the threshold and burned out of control, and he could no longer land on the "world", but he no longer needed to witness what was happening on that continent, and more and more people would become his eyes, ears, hands and feet, instead of him fighting for the billion souls in the "world" for the rest of his life.

Bartholomew himself was not a qualified leader, and as a traditional physicist, he lacked the most important trait of a leader: ambition. But Dumbaud Williams, the bespectacled engineer with long John Lennon-esque hair who seems to be silent, but actually contains a myriad of crazy thoughts in his heart, and it was he who first proposed the development model of the ghost organization, "Like all cults in the world, we need several basic characteristics: first, to describe an apocalypse, second, to provide a kind of salvation, and third, to establish a class." In a mood of desperation, the organization rallied around the leader according to a strict class structure is indestructible, and even if no one knows the truth, the organization will run strongly. With these characteristics, in a few years I will be able to establish a large and secretive religious community, and by the way, the caste system is a good idea......"

Madele Timothy said: "Your idea does not apply to the interior of the 'world', there is no nobler goal for the personality in the game than the truth, the concept of two worlds is enough to attract freedom-loving people, I think I can gradually build such an organization within the 'world', according to Gilbernayon's way of thinking to find a way to transcend the rules." ”

Finally, the two men asked Bartholomew in unison, "So, what is the ultimate goal?"

The Doctor thought for a moment and said, "Set the souls of the 'world' free." ”

"How do you do that? After all, they are just the digital thread of a quantum computer, and it is difficult to get out of the shackles of quantum networks no matter what. ”

"Through biochips. The possibilities are in front of us. They can leave the quantum network and live in another form in this world. ”

"Even if it is possible to break through the threshold, how can one body allow two souls to coexist?"

"I have done model calculations, there is a fourth stage of chip alienation, the tentacles will attack the central nervous system, completely transform the brain, and use the human thinking organ as the storage and calculation center of electrical signals, as long as the fourth stage is completed, the soul from the 'world' can completely obtain the human body and get real freedom. ”

"You know that means death to the owner of the body, Doctor. ”

"It can be said that it is a necessary sacrifice, for the sake of a higher life form. Aren't we human beings also yearning for the outside world, no matter what it takes......"

"Understood. What's next for us?"

"Grow yourself. Find ways to shrink the ghost zone, increase the synchronization rate, and break the threshold as soon as possible. Bartholomew's eyes sparkled, "The most important thing is to hide yourself, let the 'world' be exposed to the world as a game, so that as many humans as possible can be implanted with biochips." -- But you can't rush it, and you have to be patient until you find a way to break through the threshold. Find like-minded partners and implant them with the original chip for their choice. What we are doing is the work of God who promotes the evolution of the 'world' at the level of life reproduction. We should be proud of that. ”

"What an honor to be called 'God,' Doctor. Deng Bo said.

"We are the chosen ones. Madele said.

The hands of the three men clasped tightly. This is the moment when the ghost organization was born. Twenty years have passed, and Dumbo Williams is now known as the "Ghost", the supreme leader of the Ghost's right hand (the reality part) controlling the central "Gold Mine", the executive department "Silver Mine", the intelligence department "Copper Mine", the protection department "Iron Mine", and the quantum network support department "Tin Mine". Brandon Bartholomew himself is known as the "Phantom", the spiritual leader of this vast organization, the ghost of the ghosts that dominate everything.

So much has happened in twenty years. First of all, on the third day of Gilbernayon's visit, Xiao Gu Tie was "Genesis" Summoned to the underground cave to meet, and then erased memories and sent back to the surface, the boy's mind was confused and couldn't remember this past, Bartholomew tried to check the surveillance video, and found that all this was the same as the boy's past shrouded in fog and could not be seen, he suddenly realized that this was probably some kind of layout of the quantum computer, which would add some variables to the ghost's future, so he ruthlessly sent the boy on the intercontinental train to the Far East, so that Xiao Gu Tie was far away from him.

Like turning the first gear, the chain of fate begins to take place, and soon the Red Owl Brotherhood is in the field of vision of the newborn ghost, because the ghost has found a ten-year-old girl in Germany with an abnormally high synchronization rate, and on the way to meet the girl, a group of heavily armed soldiers attacked the convoy on the highway, causing three cars to explode one after another, killing the girl on the spot. Bartholomew used the power of "Genesis" to find out the origin of the enemy, and was horrified to find that it was only the tip of the iceberg, and that there was such a huge monster lurking at the bottom of human society, and no one knew where the Brotherhood came from or why it existed, only to feel that it was slowly surging.

A few years later, Bartholomew found a powerful weapon, which was an artificial intelligence program called "Listener", using the quantum network timing within his authority, and the doctor built a listener system based on the real evolution model of the "world", which can not only make accurate predictions about the future through massive data analysis, but also communicate with ghost believers inside and outside the game, and become the central nervous system that unites the entire organization. The listener can find the human individual and game personality that best matches the synchronization rate, guide them to meet and get acquainted, and further increase the synchronization rate through certain events. As long as the synchronization rate is high enough, the listener can give instructions to the ghost members even in places where there is no network signal, and it can broadcast the information in fragments through the ubiquitous electromagnetic waves, and merge them into meaningful strings at the biochip in the human body.

However, this powerful weapon is not omnipotent, there are certain mysterious laws that control the state of the listener's work, and even Bartholomew himself cannot fully manipulate the system, and the instructions given by the listener seem to be completely random, sometimes transmitted through the mediation of a specific personality in the "world".

A few years later, the Ghost has mastered a special group of humans, known as the "Candidates", each with a high rate of "world" synchronization and unlimited potential, and the listener believes that these candidates will influence the future of both worlds, so the Ghost's job begins to focus on protecting the candidates - saving these special individuals from the hands of the Brotherhood. In the face of the Brotherhood's powerful forces of the Sons of God, the Ghost's armed forces have been repeatedly frustrated, and Madele Timothy proposed a theory at this time, if an overload protection device is installed on the biochip, so that the alienation chip that enters the third stage can maintain its form for a long time, it can summon the in-game related personality into the real world and obtain powerful abilities in the game. And the price of doing so is death, a tragic death that occurs after a delay of a few minutes. Bartholomew was slightly suspicious of this cruelty, but as the battle became severe, he had to tacitly accept the Ghost's use of Reverse Advent to turn the tide of the battle.

When he found out that his adopted son Gu Tie was a candidate, Dr. Bartholomew was overwhelmed, he had long thought of this possibility, but he didn't want to involve his son in this cruel struggle anyway. He issued an order for routine protection, and did not take special care of Gu Tie. At this time, the situation became increasingly serious, and a purge campaign began within the GTC to secretly remove a large number of ghost members, who had long used the GTC headquarters as a base to run the "listener" using quantum network resources The purge immediately threw the Ghost's chain of command into disarray, several senior leaders disappeared, Madele Timothy remained in the World Project Team with the most low-key attitude, and Dumbo Williams, who was transferred to the Communications Division as Chief Systems Engineer, was interrogated by the Ninth Division, and he had to sneak away before the next round of close investigation, and is currently hiding in a small city in Bulgaria, directing the daily work of the Ghost's right hand.

Bartholomew understood that the Purge was not an accident, but that the Brotherhood's influence had infiltrated the upper echelons of the GTC, occupying at least half of the twelve executive members. The tide of battle has tilted, the members of the ghost's right hand are gradually losing the time of the quantum network, and even the old man himself has been forced to leave the GTC headquarters and be forced to go on vacation in the snowy mountains. And at this moment, the news of the official release of "World" was announced, and when Bartholomew heard the news, he sat down without saying a word, and sighed with his hand on his heart. Just a few minutes earlier, he had learned from Temple Bo that the Ghost had been engaged in a head-on war with the Brotherhood, and that a highly likely candidate was being attacked in the chaotic Central African Republic, and that this person was his son, his little Gu Tie.

The old man had to make a decision. He knew that once he rushed to the GTC headquarters to stop the release of "World" at this time, his ghost identity would be completely revealed, and the Brotherhood would definitely not let him go. But if you don't do something, tens of millions of souls will be wiped out in an instant, which is the last thing the Father of the World wants to see. The Spectre is losing the war, and all they are waiting for is information, a message that the synchronization rate has broken through the threshold. After twenty years of research, they came to the conclusion that the threshold is the cork that separates the two worlds, and that if anyone breaches the threshold once, no matter who breaches it and under what circumstances, the rules will be completely broken and the walls will collapse. But this moment has not yet come.