Another picture flashed, under the leadership of Stevens, he created the spiritual realm world currently used in the lower city according to the three-level architecture of "domain-realm-spirit" designed in Xiu's notes, supplemented by the metaverse and the latest immersive chip as the technical basis and carrier.

Just as Shi Stephen gave their world a name, Stephen also engraved Xiu forever in the history of the spirit world.

In order to avoid repeating the mistake of Company M's excessive control of the spiritual world, which led to the disorderly development of the virtual world and the eventual collapse, Stevens implanted a learning artificial intelligence in the core center of the metaverse.

All users who access the immersive chip will be imitated, recorded, and learned by an artificial intelligence named 404.

With the import of more and more data, artificial intelligence can continue to improve and upgrade itself, so as to replace humans in managing the spiritual world.

In addition to this, 404 also controls millions of NPCs in the Spirit World and the supreme authority of Company M and Shangcheng.

404 is taken from the dormitory number he repaired back then, which can be regarded as a kind of inheritance and sustenance.

Stephen hopes to fulfill his and Xiu's long-cherished wish when they first created the metaverse. He believes that without human intervention, the spiritual realm will truly become the world of his dreams.

At the end of the picture, the twilight of Shi Stephen enters the first metaverse world created by him and Xiu.

Shi Difen manipulated the character to slowly come to Xiu's tombstone, and his hand slowly stroked the handwriting carved back then, reality is paramount.

He turned and sat down against the tombstone.

In a trance, he suddenly felt that what he was leaning on behind him was no longer a tombstone made of numbers, but a living person.

He seemed to have returned to the afternoon when he and Xiu met for the first time, and the two of them sat back to back on the lawn full of golden dandelion flowers, talking about the happiness and carelessness of life's ideals.

The two are high-spirited and ambitious to create a new world.

Coming back to his senses, Stevens said intermittently:

"After all these years, I finally understand you. The metaverse world is indeed the destination of human beings, and for numbers, death is nothing.

The good news for you, 100 years after my death, after the end of the patent protection period of the spirit world, a new owner will take over the spirit world, and I will hide everything in your tombstone.

I'm looking forward to what the world will be like at that time.

Also, I named this world Origin Space, and although the name is rotten, when someone sees this VR recording in the future, they will still remember us, and all this is enough. ”

At this point, the pictures flashing in the air came to an abrupt end. Gu Shun's eyes were once again surrounded by darkness.

By the time he reacted, he found himself frozen in place, clutching the picture of Stevens in his hand, staring at it for a long time.

"What's going on? I just saw Stephen's past? ”

Gu Shun immediately looked left and right, and found that some of his subordinates were staring at him blankly.

"How long have I been stunned?" Gu Shun asked one of his subordinates.

"In less than a minute, boss, you've been staring at the picture in your hand just now." One of his subordinates hurriedly said.

Gu Shun handed the photo he was holding in his hand to the subordinate and said, "Do you have a reaction if you try to put it behind your ear?" ”

The subordinates obediently did as they were told, but the photo was still the same, and nothing had changed.

They are now characters of the origin space themselves, and the access port of the immersive chip is something that only reality has.

Gu Shun nodded with some surprise, he seemed to have just entered Shi Difen's spiritual world, witnessing the ups and downs of him and the metaverse.

The origin space is the first metaverse world that Stephen and Stephen have completed, and if you follow Stephen's memory, he seems to know where the source code is hidden.

"Find a tombstone in this world at once." Gu Shun commanded.

"Tombstones?"

Gu Shun nodded, he suddenly understood now that all the buildings and scenery in the entire origin space were completely Shi Difen's life.

From the dormitory and teaching building where he went to college, to the laboratory where he graduated, to the building where Company M moved again and again......

Stephen moved all the scenes of every node of his life in reality into this space.

In his memory, the tombstone of repair was in a sea of flowers in this space, and Gu Shun quickly locked on to the target.

To the west of the origin space, there is a vast sea of dandelion flowers, and the golden dandelion flowers are all over the mountains, extending all the way to the end of the space.

At this moment, there are many treasure hunters from Company M searching for it, but they don't find anything special except for the yellow squares all over the mountains.

Gu Shun asked his subordinates to search carefully, and he also followed the memories in the scene, comparing the nearby terrain and landforms, hoping to find something.

The hard work paid off, and it didn't take long for Gu Shun to quickly find the tombstone that Shi Difen had erected for him on a hillside.

Tombstones are too small to be overlooked.

The four words on the tombstone will neither wear nor fade, as long as the data exists, it will always exist.

Reality is paramount.

This is the first line of the creation law in the countless world skeletons composed of characters and codes in the entire spiritual realm.

Although it does not participate in the operation of the metaverse, when Gu Shun's hackers try to disassemble the constituent data of any world in the metaverse, these three laws of creation will always be at the forefront of all codes, like unavoidable cause and effect.

When Gu Shun gently touched the tombstone with his hand, a sentence suddenly appeared on the tombstone:

"What would happen to you if you gained the Spirit World?"

Is this a test for Stephen, what kind of balance should be maintained between the metaverse that Stephen tried to cut off and the spiritual realm that he rebuilt with his own hands, between the virtual and the real.

Gu Shun already had the answer.

"Destroy it," he said categorically.

As the words fell, the world around them shook violently like a fold.

Suddenly, the block-built tombstones suddenly became more and more real, as if a world had been run over by a two-way foil that was constantly being restored.

Above the tombstone, the words "reality first" gradually floated.

With the tombstone as the center of the circle, the golden dandelions around it quickly turned into white pompoms, flying all over the sky.

The four words are gradually distorted, intertwined, mixed, and reconstructed.

A square cube gradually appeared, and on the cube, the shadow of a spider flickered.

"Is this the source code?" Gu Shun was a little surprised.

Before Gu Shun could take a closer look, a large number of people suddenly teleported in around the dandelion field.

The leader is none other than the controller of Company M, who wears the Creator skin and gives a speech before the challenge begins.

At this moment, he slowly walked in front of Gu Shun.

"I didn't expect you to actually find the source code, it's great. As long as you give it to me, I can give you money that you can't spend in your lifetime, and give you a realm world in the spirit realm, do you want to think about it. ”

That person originally thought that Gu Shun would be surprised, but he didn't expect Gu Shun to say calmly:

"Mr. Shi, it's a pity that I prefer to control the world more than money and virtual space."

"You know it's me" Shi Zhou was a little surprised, Gu Shun actually recognized himself when he came up, he thought that his disguise was seamless, but he was still recognized by Gu Shun.

Shi Zhou continued: "But this is not up to you, I believe that you are a smart person, I can let you in from the lower city, and I can lock you up." It's just your spirit, and I can lock you in the spirit forever. ”

Facing Shi Zhou's threat, Gu Shun suddenly smiled curiously, "I want to know, how can I be worth Mr. Shi spending such a huge price to lure me into the game." How much of what you told me at the time was true? ”

Shi Zhou seemed to grasp the overall situation: "At least the codex left by the gypsy woman and my grandfather is real."

In fact, the origin space has been open for a hundred years, and in a hundred years, we have tried every means to open the password on the tombstone.

The scenes you see are clues that we have spent countless efforts and costs to piece together.

After dismantling the entire Origin Space, we discovered that the source code was hidden in the tombstone that Strephen had left for Xiu.

But the mirrored world inside the tombstone has a code that we can't enter.

That's why we've forged this fake origin space, hoping that you can unlock the code on it and get the real source code. ”

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