When the black tide in front of him receded and the crack closed, Fang Hao came to the white jump room.

After passing the identity verification, his brief personal information appeared on the screen in front of him, along with the words "Welcome back".

Then the door of the jump room automatically opened, and Fang Hao walked out of it, walked to the center of the hive hall, and took the elevator to the ground.

After passing through a more than 10-meter-long inspection channel, I retrieved my mobile phone and pendant at the entrance pre-inspection.

When making a space jump, only the electronic bracelet is allowed to be brought into the beam space.

Fang Hao didn't think much about the meaning behind this management regulation before. This time, I traveled through the past and saw a bare-chested old man in the jump area of the Metaverse, and I thought it was probably to prevent those two things from being forgotten in the flying beam space.

Stepping out of the hexagonal building, he was greeted by the somewhat dim sky of Xijing.

It was just after five o'clock in the afternoon, and it was still early in the dark, and it looked like there was a heavy rain.

Fang Hao turned on his mobile phone, and before he could check the weather forecast, he saw a message from Wang Huan in the "Beiyuan" system.

The sending time is forty minutes ago, let him return on his own after returning, and contact him in the evening if there is no urgency.

Is this a mission?

Fang Hao guessed in his heart and replied "received".

Now Wang Huan is not only his guide, but also his captain. In a militarized unit like the Special Investigation Bureau, Fang Hao naturally knows what he can and can't ask.

He had planned to convey Mr. Liu Quan's words to Director Wang after he returned.

Fortunately, although this matter is important, it is not urgent, so let's talk about it in the evening.

The fourth squadron of the first brigade had just been established, and Fang Hao had only joined in formally. Except for Director Wang's office, he didn't know where the office of the fourth team was, and he was even more unsure if he had a desk of his own, so he suddenly had nowhere to go.

Seeing that it was almost time to eat, Fang Hao was naturally reluctant to leave, so he simply went directly to the cafeteria and sat inside to wait for the dry meal.

Take out your mobile phone to enter the "Beiyuan" system, open the personal information page, and see that the column of the subordinate unit is displayed as "Xijing First Detachment of the National Security Special Incident Investigation Bureau", and the post column below is "Trainee Investigator of the First Brigade and Fourth Squadron".

In this internal system, the permissions that can be obtained are determined by the specific position.

When Fang Hao first received this mobile phone, the above two columns of information were empty, so he could only use the most basic call and message functions.

Now that you have a post, you can move on to those application sections.

He exited the profile page, clicked on the "Team" section, and was prompted to "Please enter a common codename". Enter the words "Cloud Nine" and click OK to enter the application.

There are only two people in the list of members, in addition to Fang Hao himself, there is also a "sea stone", which is naturally Wang Huan.

Fang Hao thought to himself, how could the instructor still be the commander of the light pole?

Exit from the "Team" section and open "News", there is not a single content in it, and I don't know if it is because the permissions are not enough, or if there is no one to maintain the update.

I also entered the "Exchange and Discussion" section, where there is a lot of content to be consulted.

I took a look at some of the most popular topics, and one of them was a discussion about the nature of the empowerment pass.

I just heard Mr. Liu Quan mention it yesterday, and Fang Hao opened it easily.

I saw that the post in the first place was titled "On the Empowerment Pass is a Parasitic Life Form", and the title was quite terrifying.

Click on this post, and the title is stamped with a striking red watermark: "The content of this article represents the author's personal views only. ”

The authors of the article point out that there are many forms of life in the universe, and there are considerable limitations to defining life by the standard of carbon-based organisms.

Except for the inability to confirm the existence of carbon-based structures, all other characterizations are in line with the human definition of life.

First of all, it can interact with the outside world.

After obtaining the empowerment pass, people will eat a lot of food, and the energy of those foods is not all absorbed, where does the excess energy go? Naturally, it was absorbed. In addition, there is also the energy interaction at the level of vitality, which lacks data support for the time being.

Second, it responds to external stimuli.

The Empowerment Pass can communicate with the host, which is already the embodiment of intelligent life. This communication does not just refer to a simple exchange of information, and every time the host makes a spatial jump, it belongs to this category.

Third, the empowerment pass will reproduce.

This is the most important mission and characteristic of life. The derivation of the empowerment pass is breeding. In just thirty or forty years, it has multiplied from a few to hundreds of thousands.

Fourth, it grows and develops.

The higher the host's cultivation, the more empowerment passes will be derived after death, which is the most powerful evidence.

After that, the author spent a long time analyzing and arguing from the perspective of entropy change, and saw Fang Hao in the clouds and didn't know what to say.

But he thinks that at least the content that can be understood earlier should be valid.

The post had more than 70,000 likes.

Another post is also very popular, with more than 60,000 likes.

The argument in this article is that the Empowerment Pass is a self-replicating AI. Explaining the various appearances of the pass from this perspective can actually be justified.

As for who created this artificial intelligence, there are two opinions.

One believes that it was made by people in the metaverse, and there are many people who hold this view.

Each talent corresponds to a cultivation system in the Metaverse, and only people in the Metaverse can make this kind of design.

In addition, the naming of the two worlds of Xuanyuan is also an example.

From our point of view, the Metaverse is a place full of fantasy, and it seems that it should be called the Metaverse.

But from the perspective of the people of the Metaverse, isn't our world bizarre and mysterious? That's why they call it the Xuan Realm.

Another view is that the Empowering Pass was made by another civilization that exists in other dimensions.

Because the pass is more like a technological product, and it also has obvious digital characteristics, it is difficult to imagine that the natives of the metaverse can have that kind of thinking.

The two points of view have their own truths, but they are very consistent that the empowerment pass is by no means from the hands of people in the Xuan Realm.

Parasitic life and artificial intelligence are two mainstream views.

There are also some niche views.

For example, there is a post that argues that the Empowerment Pass is a portable system.

There are only a few thousand people who agree, and it belongs to the non-mainstream.

Mainly people who hold this view, can't explain why the system doesn't post tasks, and there are no check-ins, lotteries, and other features.

Even if it's a system, it's a very low system.