The sun has set, but the sky doesn't seem to have changed.
Gu He followed the kind-looking man in beach casual clothes and walked on the beach. He gradually became a little farther away from Vivian's photography team, and seemed to be getting further and further away from the entire city on the coast.
And along the way they walked, there were no tourists playing.
"You should know that the era of extraordinary programs started because of the unearthing of the Black Stone."
The uncle spoke in a calm voice, "A group of people known as the Blackstone Team have cracked the Blackstone language, the secrets of the twelve houses and twenty constellations have been discovered, and various extraordinary programs have been launched."
Gu He heard this from Elizabeth, but what she didn't know was the whereabouts of the Blackstone team...
"At first, the Blackstone team didn't think much about it. Whether it was cracking the language, source code, or creating programs, it was all for scientific research. Later, they thought the world would become a better place and humans could get closer to the mysteries of life."
The uncle was talking and laughing as the tide rushed in but did not wet his beach sandals.
"But the world has not developed like that. Countries are engaged in extraordinary competitions, doing various competitions and taboo research, wars have broken out, pollution, alien species, capital monopoly... everything has become worse.
"The Blackstone team held the most extraordinary secrets, but all they could do at that time was escape.
"One day, they disappeared with the Black Stone, and they could not be found in any city in any country. They went to the wilderness, hid themselves, and continued to study the Black Stone and the Psychic Network."
When Gu He heard this, his brows moved slightly. The secret that even the extraordinary world wanted to know was revealed to him...
"What is the spiritual network?" The uncle continued, "Until now, no one has an accurate answer, maybe there is no such answer at all.
"The Blackstone team believes that the psychic network is the dimension of human consciousness activities, the sea of consciousness of all living beings, the root server, and the psychic network is the universe."
"Then, the big heart consciousness..." Gu He muttered.
The uncle looked at him and did not answer the question. He just continued walking and said:
"As time passes, that world becomes more and more a ruin.
“People on the Blackstone team began to imagine what the world would be like if extraordinary programming languages never appeared.
“What would a world without supernatural powers be like? Would it be better?
"They decided to give it a try and run a fantasy world. This was the beginning of this fantasy world. The Black Stone never appeared. In the history of past eras, the influence of extraordinary powers was also reduced.
"This original fantasy world is just a high-level fantasy world. People are just data, lacking personality and lacking some real, real humanity.
"It is impossible to give any answers in such an illusion. Therefore, in order to solve this problem and to personally experience another world and seek answers, the Blackstone team became the Illusion Clan.
"Their bodies entered the nutrition cabin, and the basement was automatically run by mechanical programs and looked after by administrators, forming a group system. Their minds entered the fantasy world, which were the original administrators."
The uncle stopped and looked at the open sea in the distance.
The more Gu He listened, the more complicated his mood became, "Then they are doing whatever they want here? Are they all acting like masters?"
"No, on the contrary, they are ordinary people and nobody in the fantasy world, living the most ordinary life. But they are also debugging and perfecting the operation of this world."
The uncle took steps again, but there were no footprints in the sand, as if he had never been to this beach.
"They are all dead long ago. They died like ordinary people. That is exactly what they want. Their personalities are all integrated with the fantasy world in the form of raw materials. They are like the parents of everyone here.
"From then on, other people were not just data, but also had human nature and a personality Rubik's Cube.
"The vast majority of people in this world don't have the kind of body you are obsessed with. They are the real illusory people.
"Their ancestors are program-generated data, a mirror image of the original world.
"But they were born here and died here. Their personality Rubik's Cube is also in the spiritual network. After death, the personality raw materials merge with the fantasy world. They are reincarnated here and also promote the growth here.
"To this day, long before you were born, everyone here, everyone, has a personality cube, including your parents and your friends. They are real. If you open your eyes, you will understand.
"And the population of this fantasy world has already far exceeded that of the original world."
After the uncle said this, many of Gu He's doubts were eliminated, but many new ones appeared.
"But I have a body and I can leave here." He said.
"Go offline from this world and reach the original world? Yes, you can do that. You have done it before. You and I both have bodies, because we are descendants of the Blackstone team."
The uncle smiled without any pride, as if he was talking about something insignificant.
"In that small basement, there are some nutrition cabins that maintain a fixed number of people circulating.
"The system in the basement is designed like this. The embryos are synthesized and grow up in the cabin. At the same time, they are also born as babies in the fantasy world, a random family, and they grow, live and die without interference.
"This small group of us are all backup candidates for world administrators.
"But most of them, from birth to death, no matter whether they are happy or troubled, will not find anything abnormal. They spend their lives here, and then their bodies will be cremated by the basement system, and new babies will be born.
"There are also some people, like you and me, who will feel something is wrong, and gradually we will no longer even have dreams, and we will go crazy to study, trying desperately to figure it out.
"This is another mechanism left behind by the Blackstone team, because they also had internal debates and uncertainties about whether it is this world or that world, and do we need or not the physical body?"
The uncle looked at the still evening sky and shook his head: "I can't tell.
"But you know, even if the basement is destroyed, there will only be no descendants of the Blackstone team. This fantasy world will still continue to operate and coexist with the psychic network.
"Moreover, we are not the only world administrators. We also have a mechanism to select from the bodyless people."
Gu He frowned and noticed the uncle's somewhat sad tone just now, "Have you ever been offline?"
"I've been to Liuguang City, and I was pretty good at Dongtu Street."
The uncle's round face showed a smile again, "The reason why we feel something is wrong is because of the role of the body. We are in overdrive and have extraordinary talents. Sometimes the nerve speed is faster than the calculations in the illusion area, which will produce that
A strange feeling.
"So when we are in the original world, we will all have extraordinary talents.
"Perhaps you have heard of my name at that time. People on the street called me the food-preparing genius."
What!? Gu He couldn't help but stare. Food-preparing weirdo? This guy in beachwear...
The person who makes fat food is an old man, but the person who makes fat food is an expert...
A street legend suddenly appeared many years ago and then suddenly disappeared without a trace.
"Finally, I come back here." The uncle said, "People like me will become the administrator of the world."
Gu He was silent for a long time, and accepted it regardless of whether it was true or not, "Do you think it is better here? But there are still wars, hunger, class, and many problems in this world."
"This is human civilization." The uncle laughed, "Everyone who comes back has their own reasons. I miss the hometown food here. No matter what, I can't eat it over there."
"According to what you said, if I stay, I will become the administrator of another world?" Gu He said.
"That's right." The uncle said again, "You can choose to forget all this, or keep the memory; no matter which way, you can choose to continue to be Gu He, or reset another life.
"You can also choose to become a world administrator, live here, and protect this place."
Gu He's thoughts were surging in his mind, he couldn't help but stop, and his voice became louder:
"You said that this world has real operating laws, but the choices you mentioned sound like you can do whatever you want. And it's still May 20th when I come back. Will the world stop running when I go offline?
"
The uncle looked back at him, smiled and said, "You haven't understood the concept of time here yet.
"From the past to the present, the timeline of this world has an information database. You can regard it as a game archive. You only need to put your personality into a certain archive - a certain time node. You will be on May 20
On the next day, according to the changes caused by your activities, the data of the future world will be adjusted.
"However, Gu He, the psychiatrist, is an ordinary person and his impact on the world is minimal.
"And you are an unstable factor for the time being. If you are placed at a point in time in the past, even if something happens to you, you will have time and room to make adjustments and repairs. Of course, this also consumes a lot of memory in the fantasy world.
"If you decide to stay, no matter which choice you make, you will reach the forefront of the timeline; if you become an administrator, you can freely travel through the time nodes of this world.
"Look, only you can see me here. I have no impact on other people or the environment, so there is no need to make any adjustments."
The uncle said, raising his hand, "Let's see how time changes."
Gu He immediately saw a strange coded light and shadow flash across the sky and sea.
He looked towards the coast. The high-rise buildings were gone, and the roads had turned into shabby dirt roads. This was the past.
But the next moment, high-rise shops and hotels reappeared, and several apartment-style hotel buildings that were under construction were also completed. This may be the earliest point in time, two years after May 20th...
Suddenly, those buildings were in an unfinished state again, and he returned to the previous point in time.
Vivian was taking photos there, and Fatty was running happily.
Gu He broke into a cold sweat. Is this world... like this...
The uncle was standing next to him, and then said: "In addition, the operating rules you mentioned do exist. This is not anyone's toy, you can play as you want, but the offline members of the Fantasy Tribe have high authority, and you
It’s special.”
"What's special?" Gu He frowned, console?
If not every offline person has the console, and only he has it, then it can be said to be special.
"In order to balance the control that may be caused by the intelligent agent, the Blackstone team left behind an encapsulated awakening mechanism that operates with different concepts to help offline people return to the original world, continue to explore extraordinary mysteries, and change the original world.
"Those of us who are offline will take an auxiliary program with us, so we have a better chance of becoming a strange person.
"But the person who matches and takes away the core auxiliary program, you are still the first."
The uncle looked at Gu He a few times and said, "I'm not surprised that you made a lot of noise in the original world."
Gu He understood now that the console was an auxiliary program, and the vortex was the way to wake up the program...
The console is the legacy of the Blackstone team.
Various data from this fantasy world, as well as those black stone source codes, can be sent back to the original world.
Extra-dimensional connections can be made through some kind of connection in the psychic network.
At the same time, it is also the component of the fantasy world that balances the intelligent agent, and is the spark of another concept of the Blackstone team.
"What on earth is that intelligent body?" he asked. "From what you're saying, it doesn't sound like it's the mind."
"The Heart Consciousness is considered to be the collective unconsciousness of all things, as ancient and mysterious as the soul. In order to complement people's humanity, the Blackstone team connected this illusory world with the Heart Consciousness.
"That agent is the Neuromancer that was born from this, which is the fantasy world itself."
After the uncle finished speaking, Gu He suddenly saw another figure not far ahead.
It was a little girl with black hair, wearing a dress, with a cute face full of smiles, walking barefoot on the beach.
"Star boy?" He was shocked.
"Neuromancer." The little girl who looked like Star Child said, "I appear in this image so that you can better understand what I am. This is the information I get from your nerves.
"Gu He, you died before. You died in the key maze. Your personality exploded into pieces. It was me who put your personality Rubik's Cube back together, and that dog, or dolphin."
The little girl laughed a few times, waved her hands, and started walking on the beach.
Gu He saw that following her footsteps, matrix lines extended around her, and pixel grids flashed everywhere.
The space was also stretched apart, and the uncle who claimed to be a food-preparing genius became very far away, turning around and walking further and further away.
"I know your real names, and I know where each of your personality cubes are."
The little girl smiled and said, "Those personality fragments have not dissipated before the ocean current swept them away, and I also know their location.
"The Rab Reese you are looking for is mostly the data I generated, but he also has a personality Rubik's Cube, because he still has a small part of Carl Wilson's personality fragments, and those fragments give him humanity."
The little girl looked at Gu He, "I can resurrect the dead in this world. Over the years, I have been collecting fragments of my personality and putting them here, letting them reincarnate here, making this world more real as you said.
"The only difference between the personality Rubik's Cube here and the original world is that it has no body, but it can still connect to the nerves of the body.
"Is the body really that important? The body is rather a kind of imprisonment."
Gu He felt his head hurt, and the bright vortex was spinning continuously.
His vision was still clear, and within a few moments, he saw many looming figures appearing behind the little girl.
It looked like cyber cowboys, information ghosts, standing on the edge of the water.
These people are the ones who can give up their bodies, just to go faster and faster in the spiritual network.
The body is a cage, as the cowboys say.
"The body needs to eat." The little girl said, and suddenly the sea surface was filled with all kinds of food, floating towards the coast. "The body is subject to biological limits. No matter how fast the nerve speed is, it cannot have the speed of information.
"If you want to seek the transcendent ultimate truth, you can never reach it with the physical body."
"I don't care about the secret..." Gu He scratched his head, "Why do you want to keep me? Because of that set of procedures?"
"Boss, you always have the right to choose." The little girl said, "But are you sure you really want to leave?"
Suddenly, Gu He was stunned to see a figure over there, wearing tight black leather clothes and messy straight black hair with wires and silicon strips, standing in the crowd, Lorna.
She looked very surprised, her green eyes looked at the figures on the left and right, and then looked at him.
"Gu He? Damn it, where is this..."
"She's dreaming." said the little girl. "To her, this is just a dream. But if you want to stay, you have that authority. If you have a chance, I can do it. I can take Lorna Louder's
Pull in the personality cube."
Gu He saw that Lorna seemed unable to hear the little girl's words. She didn't care so much and rushed towards him.
"Lorna!" He immediately ran over and shouted: "Listen, I'm not dead, I'm trapped in an illusion!"
There seemed to be less than ten steps between the two people. However, the light and shadow on the beach flickered. They were running, but the distance did not shrink. No matter how hard they stretched out their hands, they could not touch each other.
Endless matrix lines maintain distance.
"She can't hear it," the little girl said. "After she wakes up, she can't even remember this place. Let her wake up."
The distance is getting farther and farther.
Lorna's running figure became increasingly blurry, and suddenly disappeared. She was just having another dream.
"Stop it!" Gu He couldn't help but angrily said to the little girl, "You are not omniscient and omnipotent, you are not a god, I have affected the operation of this illusion, caused BUG, there is something wrong here, you can only be a
Game to cover up..."
"Don't be angry. I've told you before that I'm not a god, and I can't help you solve the problems in your original world."
The little girl sighed, "There are still many problems here. So I hope you can stay. The program you activated has a lot of hidden source code. If you give me those codes, I can greatly improve this place.
"Xiaohe, let's start running this fantasy world. This is also the conceptual direction of the Blackstone team.
"I'll help you pull Lorna Ludd here, and I can also help you resurrect Roden Ludd here."
The little girl's tone was a bit innocent, just like children in kindergarten saying, "I'll help you like this, and you'll help me like that," "More people will have to wait until they die in the original world. I can take their pieces."
Pull here."
Gu He stared blankly, and the image of the situation the little girl mentioned vaguely came to mind.
He and Lorna start a new life here, and Lorton Ludd, the father whom Lorna misses, is also here...
There is no need to be in danger all the time, no need to struggle with the revolution that is difficult and inevitably accompanied by sacrifice...
His heart was beating, thump, thump, but the feeling of beating still felt a little wrong.
Suddenly, he saw a whirlpool formed by sea water on the sea over there, and he was immediately startled.
"Stay..." Gu He murmured, "I should choose to stay, Gu He would choose to stay, but what is Gu He... I don't know, but I really feel that this place is very
Something’s wrong…”
He suddenly rushed toward the whirlpool on the sea surface, knocking away those cowboy figures. The churning seawater was full of pixel grids. He couldn't get into the water when he stepped on it, so he flew towards the whirlpool.
The entire sea seemed to have turned into a huge screen, with all kinds of bizarre images flickering.
Bang! He jumped into the vortex like the eye of the storm, and suddenly, the whole world was boiling and turning.
"Ah..." Gu He seemed to have fallen into the key maze again. Lines, graphics, light, shadow, and sound all collided in the nerves of his mind, blurring all his perceptions.
He seemed to see the figures on the other side of the beach gradually disappearing away.
I seemed to hear other voices.
Please remember the first domain name of this book: ._