It rained harder at night, and the neon light was almost unable to penetrate. The weather forecast said that there would be rain all over Liuguang City tonight.
In the Fish Pond Izakaya, four log dining chairs with backrests were scattered around the sofa, with one person sitting on each.
Kumiko Ayane, Shukichi Sakai, Lindsay, who were using Gu He's body, and Boxer, who was too big to sit comfortably.
Gu He originally thought that Sakai Kao would also go, but it turned out that she was only responsible for taking care of things nearby, and together with Lao Fan and Lao Cai, she took five helmets from the bar.
"Xinwang helmets are good products from the tripod area. They may not be as good as the equipment of Santo and Seth, but they are better because they can be used with confidence."
Kumiko Ayane explained to Gu He in her mind that there is no need to waste words on a thought:
"Talent level, program level, different professional systems, personality integrity, mental traits, and network equipment. These factors combined will affect your speed in the spiritual network, just like the speed of the Internet."
Although Gu He is not in control of the container now, he and Miss Caiyin sense as much.
So he can clearly see that this kind of heart network helmet is different from ordinary connection helmets.
Its shape is larger and its structure is more complex. It is a mixture of metal, electronics and flesh, with mixed colors and a cold touch. The various wires and blood threads are relatively orderly, and there is a transparent glass square eye mask covering half of the eyes.
Face.
"Xiaohe, what is the spiritual network? Only by going in can you understand. I will take you well. After going in, our sympathetic connection will not be disconnected. We will come back together. If we don't come back, we will not come back together.
This is called personality entanglement."
In her mind, Ayane Kumiko said again:
"And the three of them didn't share our feelings, so they went in individually.
"But everyone's Heart Network helmets will be connected to help positioning. In this way, we can easily find each other in the Heart Network, just like knowing the other party's URL and jumping directly there.
"Otherwise, if there is no agreed-upon website coordinates, it will be difficult to get together, and it will be easy to get separated.
"In addition, we must also connect to Kazuya so that we can find the location of his personality data box."
"Okay..." Gu He responded, and the space for burying Tai suddenly became less.
Personality entanglement, it's really life and death. Miss Caiyin is not just hiding behind her back to be the boss, she is also putting her life on the line this time.
Counting Kitano Kazuya who was slumped on the sofa.
Six people, five bodies, all wore a heart network helmet, and all were connected brain-to-brain through the helmet lines.
And Lao Fan, Lao Cai, Old Man Kitano, and Sakai Kao are all responsible for guarding their defenseless bodies.
Apart from the Heart Network helmet, the street dogs don't have any more equipment, and they don't have those fancy gadgets that the rich guys have.
Gu He's pair of classical pilot goggles is also unavailable. The status of his personality in the heart network cannot be easily monitored.
"Eat." Fan Debao brought back the plate of delicacies he had prepared before and explained a few words to Gu He in a cold voice:
"These wines and snacks are my special preparation. They can temporarily increase your nerve speed. This is called overclocking. Third gear upgrades to fourth gear, sixth gear upgrades to overdrive, and overdrive upgrades to overdrive. We don't have the equipment of the rich.
, that’s all it depends on.”
Lao Fan was quite content when he talked about it, he had regained some face, and everyone laughed at him, not wanting to eat him.
With the combined effect of the first two programs, he has superb cooking skills and can identify the data of each extraordinary ingredient. The algorithm of the program is the cooking steps, and the data structure of the program is the placement of the ingredients.
, bringing the food preparation process to the extreme.
Overclocking food is out, and Lao Fan is making cocktails and snacks this time.
Sakai Shukichi picked up a glass of wine and drank it all, while Lindsay, Fist and Kumiko Ayane each ate a piece of exquisite snacks.
Gu He suddenly felt that his body was getting hot like when he was testing his talent, and his brain nerves were also heating up.
"Overclocking will also increase the loss of nerves. You need to control the degree. I just once... went too far."
Ayane Kumiko said something in her mind, it turned out that was the reason why her nerves were disabled, it was caused by overclocking.
This naturally made Gu He think twice...overclocking and wolfberry are antonyms.
"Lao Fan, the time limit this time is one hour."
Kumiko Ayane said aloud, "Blow up a brain slave connection, and if there are no accidents, one hour is enough.
"If we haven't come out after more than an hour, something must have happened and we need to forcefully disconnect the Internet cafe. Xiaohe, the helmet can forcefully disconnect, but it will greatly reduce the personality integrity of the person connected to the Internet or even collapse.
"There is no other way. If you can escape with your personality, you may be able to save your life."
While she was talking, Old Man Kitano murmured: "Trash, trash, let so many people take risks just to save a trash..."
In one hour, anything can happen in the psychic network.
The blood-eater behind Brain Slave has most likely already set up his men and horses to ambush there, waiting for them to go.
"Okay, one hour." Lao Fan looked at the clock on the wall, "It's eight-thirty now, you will be back before nine-thirty."
"Then I'll go, Shuzi." Lindsay said softly to Shuzi and Jiang Tai who were beside them, "I will try my best to save your husband, Jiang Tai, and I will try my best to save your father, as long as he can give you happiness,
He is worth saving."
"Then you should all be careful..." Shuzi nodded and responded, placing all her hopes on them.
Lindsay raised the corner of her mouth slightly again, "Everyone, have fun tonight!"
Suddenly, his smart eyes under the glass goggles quickly became blank.
"Cheers!" Sakai Shukichi shouted, the red color on his face rose sharply again, and his eyes became dull.
Boxer's alien eyes without pupils suddenly turned completely red.
At the same time, Gu He's eyes, which were sometimes salty and sometimes psychedelic, suddenly lost all their luster.
They went in, they entered the psychic network.
Sakai Kao watched nervously, every time he entered the heart net, he might never come back.
She looked at her brothers, Lin Sang, He Sang and Caiyin's mother, and suddenly her eyes filled with tears and she choked slightly.
Gu He was feeling a sudden brain wave shock, an indescribable nerve expansion, and then expansion...
It's different from entering your own neural network, but the surrounding scene is also becoming pixelated, fluttering, and hazy.
Sofas, chairs, wooden box TVs, and paintings hanging on the walls were all blown by the night wind like curtains. The patterns, artistic words, and religious symbols in the paintings flew out one after another.
The Xinwang helmet made the usual buzzing sound when dialing through a modem.
The figures of the people around him strangely became transparent and disappeared, and the voices of conversations were vague and gradually faded away:
"It's only for an hour. There's no point in watching. Lao Fan, let's play cards." Lao Cai said.
"Okay." Fan Debao walked back to the bar, "Old Beiye, do you want to play?"
"Those who gamble with money, let me play a few games with you." Old Man Kitano said in a low voice, "Those who don't gamble with money, just play a few games with you."
Kitano Kazuya, who was also wearing a helmet, was still mumbling: "We have to work hard... We will move out of the apartment and have our own house with a small garden..."
Suddenly, Gu He's feeling was completely different.
He was still in the izakaya, but the surroundings were silent, the air was floating like water waves, and the lights were dim.
Everyone disappeared, only Miss Ayin's body was still sitting at the edge of the bar.
"Huh?" Gu He stood up and noticed from the TV screen in confusion that the HeartNet helmet was missing from his head.
"Xiaohe, we have entered the network." Ayane Kumiko over there chuckled.
Gu He turned around to look again and saw that she had changed her clothes at some point. Even her hairstyle was different. She had long straight black hair hanging down. She was wearing a white robe and a red skirt as a witch, and she was holding a
Metal broom, the broom head is made entirely of wire and silicon strips.
"Miss Caiyin?" he asked in surprise, "Is this the spiritual network?"
He didn't quite understand. He had heard before that the psychic network was not another physical world, nor a dark world. Why now?
"Come and take a look."
As soon as Gu He heard what Miss Caiyin said, he saw her flash from the bar to the door of the izakaya. Before he could react, he himself was manipulated to flash to the door and stand next to her.
He looked outside the door and was stunned.
The entire Fish Pond Izakaya is floating. Outside is a twisted and dark space with no boundaries and no direction. It has no material form and is filled with light and mist, as if passing through a wormhole.
Kumiko Ayane smiled slightly, mounted the metal broom and suddenly jumped outside.
Following her move, Gu He saw that the space outside became material, and the izakaya was suspended high in the sky.
A chessboard-like grid line spreads out. There are countless Rubik's Cube-like psychic data boxes, large or small, arranged on the road marked by the grid lines, as well as ice walls, firewalls, etc.
High walls and towers.
These data buildings and endless shadow illusions together form a matrix world.
"Xiaohe, you are the new Internet cowboy, welcome to the spiritual network!"
Before Gu He could think more, when he heard Miss Ayin laughing, he was no longer standing at the door of the izakaya.
Suddenly he was sitting on the flying metal broom, right behind Miss Ayin.
The metal broom swept over countless data cubes on the ground, bypassing the mutated and majestic ice wall tower——
He staggered and exclaimed. He couldn't help but hug Miss Caiyin's waist tightly, not daring to relax at all.
"Each Rubik's Cube is the spiritual data of a life in the world. It may be the personality of a person, the personality of a dog, or a different species."
Kumiko Ayane said with a smile. Suddenly, she no longer wore a miko costume, but looked like a circus animal trainer.
They are no longer riding brooms, but a mechanical elephant made of precision gears, still extremely fast.
"In the Mind Network, you can invade other people, both ordinary people and extraordinary people, steal personality data, do all kinds of tricks, find out other people's secrets, make others have nightmares, and have mental abnormalities. As long as you can succeed.
“The Mind Network has a ‘Great Mind Network Consciousness’, and the host has regular protection for each Mind Cube. In other words, every intrusion will trigger the host’s firewall mechanism.
"And when you invade, there will be information movement, which means you will be exposed, and you will attract those data hunters and information ghosts! There are hungry wolves and ghosts everywhere here, looking for opportunities to devour other people's personality data.
"If you don't have a clear target, don't move. Otherwise, even if there are no hunters or ghosts coming, you may provoke something you shouldn't provoke, maybe a crazy personality with a virus, maybe an abyssal nightmare.
"So Xiaohe, you must remember that Internet Cowboys will never attack randomly! Those who do will be dead."
Listening to Miss Caiyin's teachings and looking at the endless personality Rubik's Cubes on the ground, Gu He suddenly remembered something.
The read-only storage box containing Roden-Ludd's personality data is located in a location in this cyberspace.
"What about our Personality Rubik's Cube?" Gu He asked.
"Aren't we?" Ayane Kumiko laughed happily, "Right here, it's us, moving. We woke up, and now for us, the real world is just a dream, a boring place that lacks change."
"And here, although it is very dangerous..." she paused, "but there are so many things to do!"
Before Ayane Kumiko finished speaking, Gu He screamed: "Be careful!"
The surrounding matrix world changed again, and the ground became like an infinite circuit board, with a city on the circuit board.
Whether it is a wide street or a narrow alley, every road is filled with Rubik's Cube boxes, crowded high-rise buildings everywhere, and various neon signs flashing with glare.
The mechanical elephant carrying them crashed directly into the high-rise of a skyscraper in front of them, crashed into the wall, and passed through.
“When you venture in, you have to have fun!”
Miss Caiyin said with a smile that she once again put on a costume show and suddenly transformed into a cat-eared girl with cute paint on her face. The cat tail made of wires and nerve bundles hooked one of Gu He's ankles, preventing him from letting go.
Fall down.
Gu He looked back in surprise and saw that the skyscraper was actually a flat piece of paper.
When they hit it like this, the piece of paper broke a big hole, and suddenly exploded into a stream of data. In this streamer city, every building was made of paper, like a set board for a special photo shoot.
When they flew out of the edge of the city, the entire paper city exploded, scattering personality cubes all over the place.
"These scenes and our current form are all my imagination. Whatever I think about will happen."
Kumiko Ayane smiled again, "Although this is not a 'heart network illusion', it is also a temporary influence on this area caused by the psychic data, and other cowboys and information ghosts can also see it.
"Also, Xiaohe, tonight many people in this world will have such a dream of flying and crashing into buildings."
Gu He was listening to her, and suddenly he saw Miss Caiyin changing her clothes again.
She was dressed in a tight-fitting black leather jacket and pants. She had a charming face on the front, but on the back of her head were mechanical gears and hair with flying wires. She became an image with metal machinery and electronic parts wrapped in the outer layer of skin.
She was sitting astride a cool red motorcycle, with steel claws on her hands and big sunglasses, like a bosozoku.
And he was already sitting behind her, holding her waist tightly and burying himself on her shoulders.
"Let's go meet them." She said, "There is no physical distance in the spiritual network. As long as there is a website address, you can reach it, and you won't be looking for a needle in a haystack."
Gu He suddenly felt that it seemed to be the logo connection given by the Xinwang helmet, and Miss Caiyin made a "jump" in her car.
The dazzling red motorcycle was speeding like lightning, as if it had broken through the heavy fog. It traveled through a hundred billion kilometers in this matrix world in a few moments. Miss Caiyin said, "Xiaohe, your Internet speed is really good!"
At this time, the surrounding scene became calm again.
They rode motorcycles and drove at high speed on the circuit board streets filled with Rubik's cubes.
The roar of engines suddenly came from both sides at the same time, and several other motorcycles appeared on the street.
"Hahaha, Gu He, how are you having fun?" Sakai Shukichi on a purple motorcycle on the left asked with a smile.
"It's okay..." Gu He responded and continued to hug Miss Caiyin's waist under her leather jacket.
On the right, there is a boxer riding on a heavy black motorcycle and carrying a guitar. He said: "I am not completely deaf here. What bastard likes to scold me, so be careful."
"Lindsay, where are you from Boxing?" Shukichi Sakai shouted to the right.
"Boxer, the singer who no one scolds is a singer who sings children's songs. Rock stars have always had mixed praise and praise, and even more people scolded them."
Lindsay was riding a yellow motorcycle. On his motorcycle, there was an orange cat, a Shiba Inu, and a macaque standing on his shoulders. They were all fat and wearing sunglasses.
I don't know if it's imagination or what happened.
"Also..." Boxer muttered and frowned.
"So fuck you, shouting and yelling at the top of your lungs is not the same as singing." Lindsay cursed loudly.
"Let's go, let's go find Kitano Kazuya's Personality Cube!" Miss Ayane shouted.
Immediately, five people drove four motorcycles of different colors on the circuit board street, constantly bypassing the oncoming Rubik's cubes and towers, and speeding away like a race.
Around them, there are constantly changing lights and shadows, and various matrix illusions appear and disappear alternately.
Behind their car were the afterimages of four dazzling and psychedelic light bands of purple, red, yellow and black.