Halfway up the mountain road, Xu Changqing was a little overwhelmed and sat on the stones next to the road to rest.

"I'm sorry, dragging you down." Xu Changqing looked at Bai Ye's explosive muscle lines, and said with some envy: "Little Brother Bai, how did you train your muscles, how many years of fitness?" ”

"Exercising once in a while is mainly a matter of talent."

"Awesome...... I'm already exhausted, so I need a few more minutes of rest. Xu Changqing wiped his sweat with his sleeve, and suddenly remembered something:

"Little Brother Bai, do you remember the name of the village we are passing through?"

"Mangcun? Probably that's the name. ”

"It's Mangcun, what those tour guides said before was very scary, but I feel that the people in their village are not so bad, there may be some misunderstanding." Xu Changqing soothed his breath and continued:

"The people at the foot of the mountain said that the people in their village stared at their mobile phones every day, maybe they were watching short videos."

"Now times have changed, when I first came out of society, Big Brother still sold 10,000 yuan, and now everyone has a smartphone in the ravine." Xu Changqing sighed, thought for a while, and said:

"Moreover, if there was really any problem, the official would have disposed of them a long time ago, and they would not have been left until now, right?"

"Indeed." Bai Ye said perfunctorily, Xu Changqing didn't know, but Bai Ye already had a deep understanding of the style of the General Services Administration, these people in black are worse than vultures, and they don't blink when they kill people.

Power to be able to do business with the General Services Administration...... Definitely not to mess with.

The name of the temple of "Jiuhua Temple ......" flashed in Bai Ye's heart, and his eyes quietly sharpened.

Xu Changqing's words did not reassure Bai Ye, but instead reminded Bai Ye and amplified his vigilance.

Speaking of which, the reason why Bai Ye went to Jiuhua Temple was because of the words of the female monk Jingchen.

Is she right?

Although she helped me, is it possible that, from the very beginning, these were designed by her?

"No...... Maybe I'm overthinking. ”

"It's really dangerous to come into contact with Jiuhua Temple, but it's better than the General Services Department."

"Johnny Silver's hand is getting worse and worse, and I have to find a breakthrough as soon as possible."

"Now my combat effectiveness is not weak, even if these monks want to murder me, I have the means to protect myself."

Bai Ye pondered clearly, his heart was a lot more settled, and after Xu Changqing finished resting, he continued to climb the mountain trail.

The mountain road was rugged, Bai Ye and Xu Changqing walked and stopped, and it took most of the day's work to finally arrive at a mountain village when the sun was about to set.

Perched on a steep hillside surrounded by wilderness, this small mountain village is surrounded by low rural mud houses that set in a crimson hue.

In the deep red color of smoke, stiff figures walked among them, like a group of zombies.

"Huh?"

Bai Ye looked closely, only to find that these were some villagers, doing their own farm work, or washing vegetables and cooking rice, or collecting dried sweet potatoes to dry.

The strange thing is that the villagers obviously saw Bai Ye and Xu Changqing, but they didn't care about it, as if they were air, and they were engrossed in the things in their hands.

Bai Ye frowned, Xu Changqing stepped forward and said hello:

"Good old watch."

"We are two tourists who are going to Jiuhua Temple, and I heard that we can spend the night here."

Silence, in the face of Xu Changqing's words, none of the men and women who were working and doing things stopped their movements and responded.

Even their expressions were numb, without the slightest fluctuation.

Suddenly, Bai Ye actually had an illusion that he and Xu Changqing were dead, so these villagers in the yang world couldn't see themselves.

"They can't see us?" Xu Changqing was also a little confused, this was the first time he had seen this kind of situation.

If you want to refuse, then just refuse, why ignore people?

Just when Xu Changqing was about to grab a villager and ask about it.

"Crunch-" In the house next to it, a door was pushed open, and a woman with a numb expression walked out with a little boy in her arms.

"Lead the way." She brought the little boy to Bai Ye and Xu Changqing, left a word, and hurried back to the house.

The woman's door was not closed, and Bai Ye keenly saw through the crack in the door, and after she entered the house, she immediately took out her mobile phone and stared down at the glowing screen, with a smile on the corner of her mouth.

After that, the woman went into the depths of the room, and the white night was nowhere to be seen.

Bai Ye frowned, he just saw that some text seemed to appear on the screen of his phone, but it was too far away to see clearly.

Just as Bai Ye was thinking about the strange behavior of the woman just now, the boy on the side spoke:

"You're tourists, aren't you? Going to Jiuhua Temple? I'll take you to the guest room at the village chief's house. ”

"Keep up with me." As he spoke, the boy glared at the room where the woman was, and walked in one direction.

Xu Changqing and Bai Ye glanced at each other and followed.

Along the way, Bai Ye noticed that the expression on the boy's face was filled with resentment, and he seemed to have a lot of anger in his heart.

Especially when he looked at the villagers with numb expressions, the contempt and anger in the boy's eyes almost erupted.

It's as if he's the only normal person in the whole village.

Bai Ye thought for a moment, this could be a breakthrough.

So he went straight to the point and asked: "Why don't you people in Mangcun listen to people?" ”

"How do I know that when they came back from Jiuhua Temple, they all became like this." When the boy heard Bai Ye's question, he immediately glared: "These people are crazy!" ”

"Looking at my phone all day long is like a nervous path!"

"Looking at your phone all day? Could it be a video or something? Xu Changqing on the side became interested, and he also wanted to know what these villagers were looking at, and how could they be so obsessed.

"It's not a video ...... You don't understand, so go ask the village chief. As he spoke, the boy folded off the dogtail grass on the side of the road and played with it in his hand.

Bai Ye was about to continue asking, but he heard that the surrounding villages, at the same time, were in turmoil.

"Crunch—"

"Knock-"

I saw that the villagers suddenly walked out of the houses and collected all the dried sweet potatoes, bacon, sausages, clothes, and firewood that were hanging outside to be air-dried.

At this time, there was still some time before it got dark, there was no wind, and the sky was clearer.

But the villagers were unanimous, and every household went out to collect it, as if they had received some information.

"This is ......" Xu Changqing was stunned on the side, and at the same time felt an inexplicable weirdness.

If one of these villagers shouts for command and asks everyone to act together, it is normal.

But at this moment, there was no sound of speech around, and everyone was numb in expression, doing their own thing, like a group of humanoid machines.

"It's going to rain." Seeing the actions of the villagers, the boy's expression changed.

"Why is it raining?" Xu Changqing looked at the clear sky and questioned: "The weather forecast also says that it won't rain today!" ”

"It's going to rain anyway." The boy didn't seem to know how to refute, but replied stubbornly.

At this time, the boy took Bai Ye and Xu Changqing to the front of the two bungalows, pointed to one of them, and introduced: "This room is a guest room for tourists, you can put your luggage in it first, and then go to see the village chief." ”

"It's going to rain, I'll go back first." With that, the boy turned and left.

Looking at the boy's back, Xu Changqing couldn't help but shout:

"Thanks, but it won't rain."

"Old Xu, you are really polite." Bai Ye sighed in his heart, stepped forward and knocked on the door of the village chief's house.

"Knock-"

There was no response from inside the door, and Bai Ye checked it and found that the deadbolt was locked, and the village chief was probably not at home.

However, the door of the guest room was not locked, Bai Ye explained to Xu Changqing, and then entered the guest room and put down his luggage.

The rooms in the mountain village are basic, but well cleaned and clean, and there is no dust on the beds.

There were just two beds in the guest room, Xu Changqing sat on his side, and said to Bai Ye:

"What's wrong with these villagers? Like crazy? ”

"Sort of."

"Why are you so calm?" Xu Changqing on the side couldn't help but be a little surprised when he saw that Bai Ye's face remained unchanged and he was not afraid at all.

In a strange and strange environment, I met so many villagers who were suspected of being religiously reformed.

As an ordinary college student, Bai Ye didn't show any panic, which was very abnormal.

"I saw a shootout some time ago." Bai Ye responded casually.

"Shootout, in Marina City? Why haven't I heard of it? Xu Changqing frowned.

Bai Ye didn't respond, Xu Changqing read the meaning behind the silence, and sighed a little: "The world is getting more and more chaotic." ”

Boom –

A thunderclap suddenly exploded in the sky, followed by a torrential downpour.

"Is it really raining?" Xu Changqing was directly dumbfounded.

It was still sunny and sunny just now, and suddenly it rained heavily?

And....... And was known in advance by the villagers?

Could it be that they have an uncertain prophet?

Bai Ye was not too shocked, but looked out the door.

In the midst of the rainstorm, a thin old man stood at the door with an umbrella.

"Greetings guests from afar, Amitabha."

He made a palm with one hand, stood on his chest and made a Buddha bow.

"You have a relationship with the Buddha."

......

"This is the key to your house, and when the rain stops, you can continue on your way."

The thin old man entered the room and placed a key on the table.

"You're the village chief?" Xu Changqing stared at the umbrella in the old man's hand, a little incredulous, "You also know that it's going to rain outside?" ”

"When we listen to Sanskrit, we know it." The old man put the umbrella by the door, found tea leaves and kettles in the guest room, and made tea for Bai Ye and Xu Changqing.

Then, without waiting for Xu Changqing to ask, the old man handed the mobile phone in his arms to Xu Changqing.

"This is Sanskrit."

The old man's mobile phone screen was lit up with golden light, and Xu Changqing looked carefully and found that there was a software page on the screen.

In the center of the page, there are no interactive buttons, and it is empty, golden and dazzling.

"What's the point of that?"

Xu Changqing couldn't understand it, so the old man stretched out his hand and pressed it on it.

"Ding—"

At the moment when the old man's hand pressed on the mobile phone, in a golden light, a text suddenly appeared:

"Name: Chen Fu."

"Recommended action: Solve the doubts of the two guests who came."

"Future Action: After 20 minutes, invite two guests to dine together"

"Action Completion Reward: Merit +1"

"Current Merit: 335"

......

"All these on the software, are they all prompts?"

"It's a ...... Artificial intelligence? Looking at the text on the mobile phone screen, Xu Changqing was stunned.

All of a sudden, an inexplicable sense of absurdity came to my heart, and all the weirdness I had experienced before suddenly made sense.

The reason why the villagers of Mangcun ignore others is to concentrate on completing the action instructions issued by the "Sanskrit sound".

And the reason why "Predicting the Future" generally went to collect clothes was also because "Fanyin" gave each villager a notice and asked them to prevent heavy rain in advance.

With the help of Sanskrit, the villagers do not need to think, and can reap "good results" as long as they complete the recommended actions, while also increasing "merit".

"Merit" is such a thing, if you believe it, you will have it, and if you don't believe it, you will not have it, which is an additional psychological reward.

"What the hell is this technical ......?"

Seeing this, Xu Changqing was already in a state of great shock.

Xu Changqing was originally a practitioner in the IT communication industry and knew the rapid progress in the field of artificial intelligence, but he never thought that he would see such shocking artificial intelligence software in this small mountain village!

This "Sanskrit sound" can not only give perfect hints, but also analyze data and deduce the future, which is almost like a fantasy.

"Unbelievable......" Xu Changqing's jaw was about to drop.

Bai Ye on the other side was not too shocked, and when the rainstorm fell, he thought about it almost as well.

Now that White Night has been determined, this "Sanskrit" artificial intelligence is the technology of "Night City"!

At present, artificial intelligence in the world cannot do such a thing as "Sanskrit sound".

Ordinary artificial intelligence, let alone analyze the behavior of the whole village, even if it only analyzes one person, I am afraid it will not be able to analyze it.

It is precisely because of the power of "Sanskrit" that the villagers of Mangcun have fallen into complete dependence on it, and even been completely controlled by it.

Xu Changqing, who was on the side, didn't understand it, and asked the village chief a question:

"Others use artificial intelligence to take advantage of it, and you obey it, aren't you enslaved by it?"

"Amitabha, we villagers in Mang Village are all voluntary."

The old man smiled, his thin cheeks and his eyes were calm and bright.

"After all, with the 'Sanskrit sound', all of us are many times better off than before."

"Neighbors become harmonious, inner peace becomes peaceful, life becomes full, these are the blessings that Sanskrit music brings to us."

"Good fortune ......" Xu Changqing suddenly paused, he found that the village chief's words could not be refuted.

Just imagine, as long as you follow the instructions of artificial intelligence and act 100% successfully, then a large number of people will be willing to try and then can't extricate themselves.

Instead of becoming stupid, the villagers were baptized and became more successful people.