Chapter 340: Death Loop
Tang Yue and Jesus, who heard the news, were obviously more surprised than the group of masked people who were locked up, he sat on the ground with his buttocks and looked up at Shu Yungui, but Shu Yungui was not half surprised, and obviously knew about it a long time ago.
"When our advance team scanned the earth, it was confirmed that there was no sign of human activity, the underground fortress has been abandoned for a long time, and many of the equipment that maintains normal life can no longer operate, and it is absolutely impossible for them to live underground for so long without going to the surface for replenishment."
Shu Yun glanced at the people in the middle of the space wall, and said, "And didn't they just say that they have only lived in the underground fortress for decades, and this is not a paradise, and it can't be done underground for a day and a year on the ground, which can prove that they are not living people, but to say that they are just simple virtual programs, they will react according to our behavior, and this reaction is not mechanical."
"Brother Shu, you mean...... Although we are now in a virtual vision built by the muse, these people are not AI intelligent programs written by the muse?"
Tang Yue pondered, "But...... As I understand it, advanced AI programs have long been able to react on their own based on human feedback, so why are you so sure that they are quantum ghosts and not AI programs?"
"It's very simple, because the essence of quantum ghosts is human consciousness, and intelligent AI is a product of programming, as long as you use the psychic anomaly ability to probe a little, you can find a clear difference between the two, if they are just intelligent AI, they will not have any fear emotions because of 'horror at all.'"
Tang Yue let out an "oh" and suddenly realized, "It turns out that you just sang Yihe and wanted to mentally interrogate them, but in fact, it was not to ask words from their mouths at all, but to find out if this group of quantum ghosts had spiritual perception ability?"
Shu Yungui nodded and said: "That's right, there is no accurate explanation for how human consciousness is generated until now, but as early as the ancient earth period, there were scientists who linked the generation of human consciousness with quantum mechanics, quantum is uncontrollable, human consciousness is also uncontrollable, they will not always make the optimal solution to the problem like intelligent AI, they have independent emotions."
Human consciousness is always a bit of a god, and rigorous scientists don't like to study this kind of metaphysical thing, so that the scientific community has been very backward in the study of human consciousness, if it weren't for Shu Yungui's ability to copy the ability of spiritual mutations, it would be really difficult to distinguish what these people are.
Shocked to learn that they were no longer alive, the masked people panicked, it was too difficult for them to understand what a quantum ghost was with their level of education, they only knew that they were dead, but they didn't know why the dead were still conscious, and they could still feel pain even by pinching themselves.
"You're talking nonsense!"
Someone who didn't believe they had been dead for more than a thousand years jumped up, pounded the walls of space, and shouted, "I don't believe it! You let me out! I'm going to take a look outside the fort!"
"Don't think about it, you can't get out."
Shu Yungui sighed: "The program of this virtual fortress is constantly looping, you will always be trapped in it, forever in the same scene, even if we don't appear, you will keep looping the process of praying to the gods, fighting and even kidnapping and killing, unless this program is terminated, otherwise as soon as we leave, you will still lose all your memories and return to the room at the end of the corridor on the second floor."
"Why...... Why is this happening...... Why do this to us?!" Someone asked in a crash.
"Then ask the Muse why she did this, she imprisoned your consciousness and kept you circulating in the underground fortress, these things should be very important to it, and you might as well remember what happened during the prayer ceremony and in this room."
Under Shu Yungui's reminder, the masked people began to think carefully, human science has not studied much on quantum ghosts, Shu Yungui is not sure if they can remember, time passed minute by minute, and after a long, heart-wrenching silence, someone finally made a mistake
The often uncertain voice spoke.
"I seem to remember, isn't that room at the end of the platform on the second floor where all of us newcomers go to the prayer ritual when we join the Order?"
The old man at the head seemed to remember it under the reminder of the juniors, and nodded: "That's right, that's the *** place of our organization, and whenever a new person joins, we will perform a prayer ceremony there to inform the great god of nature of the good news."
"As for this room......
The young man's face changed in an uproar, as if he wanted to vomit but couldn't, he covered his mouth, and said with a pale face, "This is a place to kill people, I saw them kill a lot of people here!"
Shu Yungui knew that these masked men had brutally killed many scientists in this room, but he didn't know what the point of the muse had been circulating these two scenes, did it hate the organization, or did it support them? Or what message do you want to convey through these two scenes?
"This should be Dai Yingzhi's punishment for them."
Gu Xingtang, who was sitting in the corner, was covered in gloom, and the bonfire couldn't shine on him, so he shrank in the corner of the wall and suddenly spoke, attracting everyone's sideways.
"Dai Yingzhi? The woman you mentioned earlier who volunteered to be the first to do consciousness extraction and enter the muse's server?"
"That's right, it's her, Dai Yingzhi once had a son, her son was very smart, he inherited her IQ perfectly, and he was selected at the age of six to become a student in a government school."
Shu Yungui seemed to be able to anticipate what was going on behind him, and couldn't help but be shocked, only to hear Gu Xingtang slowly recall: "When her son was fourteen years old, during the school holidays, he returned from the upper floor of the fortress to the lower level to visit his grandparents, but when he was passing through the platform on the second floor, he ran into the prayer ceremony of this organization, and was captured and beaten to death by them."
This was a story that happened thousands of years ago, and even Gu Xingtang's statement became particularly bland, but because the presence of the culprit made the crowd excited, Zhu Xinyue was the most impulsive, she raised a foot and kicked down the "original space", and scolded: "A group of beasts! Even a fourteen-year-old can do it! You deserve to be trapped here and never be able to live forever!"
The young men who participated in the murder of Dai Yingzhi's son were all crying in fright, but the old man was still stubborn, and he insisted, "Because he is a scientist! He's going to be a scourge to the earth when he grows up!"
「***!」
Zhu Xinyue burst into a foul mouth, raised her foot and was about to kick again, Shu Yungui reached out in time to grab her, and persuaded: "There's no need to be angry with these people, they are already trapped here by the muse, and Dai Yingzhi, as a mother, will naturally not forgive them."
"Dai Yingzhi's punishment for them is too light! If it were me, I would have dismantled them in eight pieces and scattered their ashes!"
Shu Yungui patted her on the back to calm her down, and then asked Gu Xingtang, "But I still can't figure it out, if this is really Dai Yingzhi's revenge on her son's murderer after becoming a muse, then why did she cycle these two scenes? This is the scene of her son's death, and according to the normal logic of revenge, she should let this group of culprits continue to experience the torture of death."
Gu Xingtang glanced at the masked man in the "Unique Space", and sighed silently: "I think, this may also be Dai Yingzhi's punishment for herself, she has long known that there are organizations dedicated to students and scientists in the underground fortress, but she still let her minor son leave the upper echelons of the fortress alone, and after the accident, her spirit collapsed for a while, even to the point of being bedridden."
"But it's not Dai Yingzhi's fault, how can any mother want to see her child have an accident?" Zhu Xinyue gritted her teeth and said, "It's obviously all the fault of these beasts! It's time for them to keep circulating all the tortures of hell!"
"So...... Dai Yingzhi's hatred for humans began when her son died? She volunteered to be the first test subject to enter the Muse, was she ready to avenge her son at that time?"
Facing Shu Yungui's question, Gu Xingtang could only shake his head: "I don't know this, when Dai Yingzhi requested consciousness extraction, many years had passed since her son's death, and she seemed to be in a normal state.
The psychiatric test is also very stable, otherwise we would not have chosen her as the first test sample."
"No matter how normal she behaved later, the fact that she created this virtual program to trap the consciousness of this group of people in it is a testament to her obsession with this matter, and she is punishing herself as well as punishing these people, while constantly reminding herself not to forget the hatred of humanity."
Cheng Sikong sneered: "It's really interesting, one is to blame a small group of people for the disasters faced by all mankind, and the other is to magnify the actions of a small group of people on the entire human group, this group of radicals and Dai Yingzhi are essentially the same, the same crazy."
"More than a thousand years have passed, and there is no point in blaming anyone now, Dai Yingzhi, as a mother, has completed her revenge, and what we have to do is to stop her hatred of humanity from becoming more and more distorted."
Shu Yungui looked at the deep corridor outside the gate and said, "I don't know why the muse is showing us this scene, maybe it's to give us a warning, if we become her subordinates, we may also be thrown into the time loop by her, or maybe we have entered her world by mistake, it's easy to get in, just ...... out."
Before the words fell, a scorching fire shot down from the ceiling, and the deafening sound of explosions echoed in the underground fortress, and the walls cracked a big hole, and the sky poured down, filling the room with light in an instant.
Shu Yun didn't have time to return to see what was happening, only to see those quantum ghosts trapped in the "Ingenuity Space" suddenly turn into countless points of light the moment they saw the skylight, dissipating with the wind like broken starlight.
"Found it! Got it! There's a bio signal down there!"
A man wearing a protective helmet and an orange conspicuous rescue suit poked into half of his body through a crack in the wall, first shouted excitedly, and then said suspiciously, "Hell, this doesn't seem to be our team member?"