"The third way?"

Guan Ya's brows furrowed tightly, and in her heart, there were turbulent waves.

Survival is the instinct of any living being's consciousness, and it is the mission brought by the gene source code.

The monk in front of him, even if it was just a personality in Ning Yuan's body, should be no exception.

If he is not willing to be destroyed, then he will inevitably fight back.

This made Guan Ya's heartstrings tense.

Survival.

Thinking of this word, she realized a problem and couldn't help but smile bitterly.

Myself...... Isn't it just a false 'personality'?

She clearly knows that she is not the real Guan Ya at all, but just a personality backup that exists in the algorithm chip.

If it weren't for Stewart to pry the cognitive lock on Ning Yuan's main control, he would never have been able to rebuild the day.

Once Ning Yuan regained consciousness, she would be plunged into eternal darkness, as if dead.

At this moment, she faltered.

The 'self-awareness' of the moment in which I ...... Where do we go from here?

She bit her lip, feeling very confused.

The value of my existence...... Is it just to wake up Ning Yuan?

Such a resolute fate, such an inevitable future...... She closed her eyes and pondered.

In just a split second, she understood.

There is simply no choice.

No matter whose consciousness she awakens and whose personality she strips away, she will fall into an eternal sleep.

If Ning Yuan was not awakened, it would be impossible for Rock Dahl to let her exist.

As a soul parasitic on the chip, this is her inevitable fate.

At this moment, she suddenly wanted to hear what the monk said about the third way.

Because the fate of the monk and her is the same.

Both of them are imaginary personalities, both of them were forced to come here, they were forced to accept a task, they would die if they did it, and they would die if they didn't do it, no matter what they said, death was a foregone conclusion and could not be changed.

In such a predicament, how can we break the situation?

"What third way?"

"Your presence has given me the idea to win." The corners of the monk's mouth curled slightly, and he said, "I want to die with Locke Dahl, and I need your help." ”

Guan Ya's pupils dilated slightly, and this answer was far beyond her expectations.

"Die with Rock Dahl?"

"Yes." The monk nodded, then he gazed at the city below and said, "The toxin of death is not the deadliest, the deadliest toxin is 'Rock Dahl has the power to control everything'. ”

Guan Ya opened her mouth and muttered in surprise, "You ......"

"Haha, the plan he made in a hurry is not perfect, so I'll make up his plan." A fire burned in the monk's eyes, and he said in a combative tone, "I will put an end to Locke Dahl once and for all." ”

After thinking about it, Guan Ya asked the question she was concerned about: "Don't you want to live?" ”

"Alive?" The monk shook his head and turned his head to look at Guan Ya: "What are you kidding?" ”

"You ......" Guan Ya bit her lip: "Don't you long to exist independently?" ”

"Looks like you don't know us." The monk thought for a moment, and then said, "We are not traditional patients with multiple personalities, haven't you noticed, we are all called Ning Yuan. ”

"What do you mean?"

"Ah...... After all, you didn't learn this, and it's normal that you don't understand, so it seems that I have to explain it to you. The monk scratched his head and said: "The different personalities of patients with multiple personalities, often with different identities, different names, completely different cognitions, exist in completely different lifestyles, and patients are often accompanied by diseases of PTSD, depression, bipolar disorder ......"

Guan Ya thought for a while and said: "Is it because of the long-term exposure to a bad environment and cruel abuse, which has led to too much psychological pressure, so the brain defense mechanism is activated, and she fantasizes about a completely different self in her heart and grows into a personality?" Because it's a fantasy, it's completely different? ”

"It has something to do with psychological factors, but it's not the whole story." "It's not just the environment, it's also the genes, it's a spontaneous change in the nervous system, and the human mind can't control it," the monk said. ”

Guan Ya thought for a moment and understood the monk's words: "I understand, it is the computer hardware that has changed itself, and the software running on it can't stop this process even if you want to, right?" ”

"That's right." The monk nodded, and then said, "But we are different, our cause is not a fault in the nervous system, but a more complex cause. ”

Guan Ya frowned, and after thinking for a moment, she asked hesitantly, "Ancient gods?" ”

"Yes, so even if we split into three, the essence is still the same, so we are not afraid of naturalization." The monk smiled and said, "We are all Ning Yuan, and Ning Yuan's character ......."

"Ning Yuan ......" Guan Ya lowered her head, recalled her past experience with Ning Yuan, and said softly: "People only live one breath. ”

"So, Rock Dahl is dead, and Jesus can't save her, I said." The monk said with a laugh.

Looking at the monk's laughing appearance, Guan Ya found that Ning Yuan feeling in him.

But the monk's words did not solve Guan Ya's doubts.

Even though the three personalities are essentially the same, they are three separate individuals after all...... The monk in front of him didn't need to sacrifice himself for that Ning Yuan at all.

Simply 'the essence is the same, so I am not afraid of naturalization'...... It doesn't make sense at all.

She and Guan Ya still figured it out, so why were different ideas born?

"You didn't answer my question." Guan Ya said: "Why don't you choose...... Stay alive? ”

"Because of my plan, only the dead one can complete it, I can't do it." The monk smiled bitterly and said, "Who doesn't want to live, but they can't do it." ”

Immediately after, he said: "Since you have to die early and die later, it is better to let Locke Dahl pay the price and pull a high-level ability on his back, so that this death can return to its roots." ”

"Aren't you afraid?" Guan Ya asked, "After that, you will become a mass of nothingness. ”

"Why do you think about this? I don't care, what do you care? The monk was puzzled for a moment, and then suddenly realized, "I understand, you are looking for an answer for yourself." ”

Guan Ya bit her lip and asked with a sad expression, "My existence is only to wake up Ning Yuan, and then die?" Is there only this moment of life? ”

The monk didn't know how to answer for a moment.

“……”

Guan Ya lowered her head and said with a wry smile: "I don't even know if I'm Guan Ya, although I inherited her memory, her cognition, and everything about her, but I'm just a backup in the ability algorithm, a false existence......"

"You're real." The monk said, "There is no doubt that you are real, whether your body is a few tens of kilograms of carbohydrates or a chip weighing only a few grams, you are real." ”

"I'm real......" Guan Ya repeated this sentence a few times, and then asked, "Then who am I?" I'm not Guan Ya, I'm just a bunch of data ......"

"You're Guan Ya." The monk thought for a moment and said, "Isn't it Guan Ya's memory that makes up your self-consciousness?" ”

Guan Ya lowered her head and pondered.

Oh, yes.

The thinking patterns you are applying, the decisions and actions you make, your consciousness and cognition...... It's not because I'm 'thinking for myself', it's because of the influence of Guan Ya's memory.

Guan Ya is the experience of being abandoned, Li Xian's upbringing, the childhood of the scrap yard, the time of school, and the work in the research institute......

Without this, how can a cloud of empty data think for itself?

But herein lies the contradiction.

Guan Ya's choice is self-evident.

She would not hesitate to wake up Ning Yuan, and then go to a deep sleep.

Because Ning Yuan helped her.

In the false world established by Du Karl Dagun, even if Ning Yuan didn't know that he could escape, he didn't hesitate to choose to live and die with Guan Ya, taking her out of a desperate situation and returning to reality.

And now when Ning Yuan is facing a crisis, Guan Ya will not hesitate to stand up.

So the contradiction arises.

She clearly understood that it was the real thing that Guan Ya and Ning Yuan had experienced, and she ...... It's just a consciousness born after Ning Yuan's main control cognitive lock was unlocked.

Guan Ya and Ning Yuan's past, she hasn't really experienced it, so why should she sacrifice herself in order to wake up Ning Yuan?

Why?

"Even if I am Guan Ya, I don't need to ......" Guan Ya was silent for a while, closed her eyes and said painfully: "That's someone else's experience, not mine, not mine." ”

The monk looked at Guan Ya's eyes and was silent for a long time.

He wanted to pull something mysterious and mysterious, but he didn't feel convincing enough when he thought about it, so his mouth opened and opened, and he couldn't speak.

At this moment, he really envied those people who were engaged in sales, how did those people do it...... You can turn seventeen or eighteen turns with a fart, and you can still make people feel like you're in the sky?

He thought about it for a while, but said bluntly: "You don't have a choice. ”

After hearing this, Guan Ya sat on her knees and buried her head in her knees.

yes, I don't have a choice.

No matter what you do, you will face that end.

Case......

Guan Ya said in a weak tone: "In that case, does it still make sense to choose?" ”

Hearing this thin mosquito-like sound, the monk didn't know what to say for a while.

He could understand what Guan Ya was thinking in front of him.

Just like after inheriting that Ning Yuan's memory, he was reluctant to call Stewart Gary.

Guan Ya is also struggling at this level.

Memories are real, but experiences are fake.

The story is beautiful, but it is someone else's story after all.

Even if there are feelings and emotions in the consciousness that those experiences bring, as if they had happened, they ...... That's not your own.

As Guan Ya, who only exists for a moment, the only thing she can have is 'self-awareness'.

But the materials that make up self-consciousness are also someone else's......

Even the question of 'self', which never needs to be thought about, has been marked with a big question mark at this moment.

Me, is it really me?

Am I really existing, or am I just nothing?

The monk looked at Guan Ya, who was holding her head and crying, and the corners of her mouth were a little bitter.

He deeply understands the feeling that after the 'self' is destroyed, the emptiness of that moment can swallow up anyone.

All appearances are vain, and all the ways are like dreams and bubbles, like dew and electricity.

The monk thought for a moment and said, "The stars will grow old, the universe will die, and people will die sooner or later...... Therefore, from ancient times to the present, the meaning of human life has never been to pursue life, but to choose how to die......"

"Fallacy." Guan Ya raised her head, tears flashing in the corners of her eyes: "You confuse the process and the result, you are drawing a target Void Strike, you are ...... Metaphysics. ”

"You don't care what he learns, how comfortable he thinks." The monk smiled and said, "Anyway, the extinction of all things is inevitable, you can take it as a known condition." ”

"Since death is inevitable, what are we working on?"

"Work hard......" The monk scratched his head: "Is it better to die?" ”

"Poof...... Ha ha. ”

Guan Ya was made to laugh by the monk's words, and after she chuckled a few times, she thought to herself that the monk in front of her had more and more memories of the taste of Ning Yuan.

However, he has a point.

In the case of mortality, that can only be chosen...... It's better to die.

Seemingly...... This is what Ning Yuan understood: people only live one breath.

"You're right, I don't need to worry about whether I'm Guan Ya or not." Guan Ya stood up and said with a smile: "Who am I, where am I from, and where am I going...... There is really no need to think about this kind of stupid question. ”

She used to be disgusted by Descartes's 'I think, therefore I exist', because matter is the basis of existence.

But now, Abyssal Technology's technology blurs the line between the virtual and the real. Existence itself is not determined by material things, and although she still maintains a materialistic attitude, she also recognizes Descartes.

Since you exist, let's make something to prove that you existed.

The monk looked at Guan Ya and said with a smile: "Haha, Guan Ya in my memory never swears. ”

"I'm not her." Guan Ya rolled her eyes and said, "Besides, that Guan Ya also swears, and the scolding is ugly, but in order to maintain her image in front of people, she can't help but say it." ”

The monk asked excitedly, "So you have decided to complete this plan together?" ”

"As an algorithm chip, it is natural to protect its users." Guan Ya brushed her hair behind her ears: "Rock Dahl won't take me seriously, and Ning Yuan will remember me." ”

"He'll definitely remember you."

Guan Ya sighed: "I only hope that in his memory, it was not 'Sister Guan' who resurrected him, but me." ”

"He will."

"Will it?" Guan Ya shook her head and said in a low voice, "...... Forget it, it doesn't matter. ”

Immediately afterward, she asked, "What's your plan?" Rock Dahl is outside Ning Yuan's brain, how are you here to let her die? ”

The monk looked at the sky in the distance and said, "Wait for now, when I have accepted all the consciousness of Ning Yuan." ”

"Well, and then what?"

"And then ......"

The monk smiled slightly: "Do you know why I am this image? ”

"If you want to say it, just say it, don't pretend to be mysterious, do you really think you are a monk?" Guan Ya teased: "Three sentences, you want to play a Zen machine?" Boredom? ”

"Haha." The monk smiled, and then explained: "In that Ning Yuan consciousness, there are some Buddhist legends, so he imagined that there was an infernal hell, so the infernal hell really appeared in his dream, the infernal hell in his imagination. ”

Guan Ya raised her eyebrows: "Because Infernal Hell comes from Buddhism, so he thinks of a monk?" ”

"Yes, there are often such monks in the videos of XZ road trips, so they are conjured up. It just so happened that I took the form of a monk and bypassed Rock Dahl's surveillance. The monk smiled and said, "But seriously, he doesn't know anything about Buddhism, and all his knowledge of Buddhism comes from the Prajna Prajna Sutra of Prosperity." ”

"Get rich? What kind of mess is this? ”

"To be honest, I don't know what's in his mess." The monk rubbed his head figuratively and said, "But these have given me an idea, one that will allow us to catch Rock Dahl." ”

"Catch Rock Dahl?" Guan Ya asked suspiciously: "She's not in a dream, how can you catch her?" ”

"Yes." The monk lowered his head, looked at the city below and said, "In this dream, there is her shadow, through which I can disintegrate her authority and infect her consciousness in reverse. ”

Guan Ya asked suspiciously, "Is that the little girl?" ”

"She is just a false projection, a projection automatically generated by the dream after Rock Dahl exported the cognition of 'sister' to Ning Yuan." The monk said, "She's somewhere else." ”

"Even if you find her...... Guan Ya frowned and asked, "You don't have the ability of mind control, how can you reverse infect?" ”

The monk turned his head to look at Guan Ya and smiled mysteriously: "Have you forgotten the other personality in this brain?" ”

Guan Ya dilated her pupils in surprise and smiled softly: "I see, then what is my role?" ”

The monk did not answer Guan Ya's question, but raised his head and said, "Let's have some rain first." ”

As soon as his words fell, the sky was instantly covered with dark clouds, and all the starlight disappeared.

A few minutes later, a trickling rain fell from the sky.

……

PS: (I'm sorry, I took a leave of absence yesterday because of Carvin)

(Actually, it's not Kavin, but there are too many things I want to write, this plot involves a series of brain-burning and complex factors such as 'consciousness', 'cognition', 'dreams', 'existence', etc., which in turn lead to a bunch of philosophical speculations, such as the composition of self-consciousness and the existence of free will...... and a series of metaphysical things, but ......

After I wrote it, I found that the story had become a pile of arguments full of nothingness, and I couldn't read it myself, so I wrote it yesterday, but I didn't change it...... ）

(There is no 'soul' in this book, and people's cognition only comes from the brain's signals, so the 'self' is not unique, and the elements that can support people's 'independent existence' are also dismantled......

The previous plot showed this superficially, in the space of Du Karda, Ning Yuan died more than ten times before completing the turnaround of Du Karda, in this plot I wanted to write more, but after writing it, I found that ...... I wrapped myself in...... ）

(I want to write about Guan Ya's painful struggle as a digital personality, I want to write about the dissolution of Ning Yuan's existence of another personality, I want to write about the treacherous clouds in the deep sea of dreams, I want to write about Rock Dahl's manipulation process, and I want to bury the foreshadowing of the follow-up plot...... I even want to intersperse deeper speculation in these plots, writing and writing, I'm crazy...... ）

(Afterwards, I found that I can't reflect the story like this, the story is not to throw the thread up, but to disassemble the thread, the web article does not care about the exquisite structure, but is easy to understand, so I thought about it all day today, deleted more than 8,000 words, changed a few versions, and only held back this bit of word in the end...... 5555, I'm really sorry. ）

(In the next chapters, I will try my best to keep these simple, while also keeping the appearance of my fantasy, I hope you can be more tolerant - I am a vegetable and love to pretend author, thank you)

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