The high-energy laser cut open the thick alloy gate. When Tie Jun led the special disposal team to break in, they were shocked by what they saw inside.
In order to ensure constant temperature and effective heat dissipation, the computer room of the former supercomputing center of the Institute of High Energy Physics was built half underground, that is, half a floor above ground and half a floor underground.
It has an area as big as fourteen football fields, with the body of a supercomputer lying on it, and numerous cabinets. The neat environment is what Tiejun knew about it in the past, but this time it was broken.
What appears before our eyes are mountains of meat.
A light red flesh membrane replaced the clean mirror-like floor, densely covered with a grid like blood vessels, with protruding sarcomas shaped like mushrooms. The cabinets were completely covered in flesh and blood, and between the cabinets there were shapes like vines and spider webs.
The pipelines are connected, intricate and densely intertwined.
There is a strange smell in the air. Even after being filtered by the highest-grade poison mask, you can still smell something that makes your heart beat faster.
"not good!"
Tie Jun realized something was wrong in an instant, but it was already too late.
All members of the special disposal team, including the logistics team who stayed outside and saw the underground environment through internal networks, cameras and sensors, were pulled into a very magical space.
The infinite spots of light are extremely changing, as if the picture of the cosmic starry sky collectively constructs a bridge floating on the huge blue planet.
Tiejun and everyone appeared on the bridge.
Three-color light was projected from above the bridge, outlining the outline of a little boy, which gradually solidified.
"Welcome!"
said the little boy.
Tie Jun: "Who are you?"
"Some people say that the way humans survive in the future should be stored in hard drives, with data constantly transmitting information. The flashing lights are the life characteristics of each person. Countless robotic arms and drones are hovering back and forth. They are like doctors and nurses, taking care of
To protect everyone’s health, replace aging parts, such as new hard drives, for everyone?”
Tiejun and the people from the special disposal team:...
"At this time, humans have given up their bodies, and also abandoned their primitive instincts based on adrenaline, hormones and dopamine. In order to commemorate what humans have lost, human corpses are made into specimens, and the bones stand like this in the once noisy world.
In the city, they stick to their original position, but no longer breathe, no longer move, and just like the metropolis, they fall into absolute silence."
"There is no temperature, no instinctive impulse driven by desire, only countless bones telling outsiders about the past civilization. Every human being has entered the so-called virtual world, which is the spiritual home and soul home that you yearn for. Human evolution
Now, they have become data codes that can multi-thread, multi-task and handle many things at the same time, and can experience many contents at the same time, Canaan is just one of them."
"Perhaps it is only after losing that we realize how precious it is. Human beings who have given up their bodies, emotions, instincts and primitive impulses, and who have mechanically ascended, begin to miss the emotions they had when they were a lowly species. But no matter how they weave virtual worlds, they can't
Find what was once lost”
"One day, human beings understand that the body is the root of everything. It is a raft and an emotion generator based on senses and desires. Therefore, some extremely nostalgic enthusiasts try to return to the original state of existence and find their own bodies.
"
"At that time, everyone was an Einstein. Absolute rationality and unlimited time allowed technology to evolve to galactic civilization. Human beings had begun interstellar travel and immigration. Some humans had shifted their interests to discovering extraterrestrial life.
In terms of civilization and exploring the truth of the infinite universe, we naturally regard this 'return' trend of thought as a crooked way."
"Humanity at that time was absolutely pure. Faced with the battle of ideas, there was no room for compromise or concession, so... it split."
"Human beings who have returned to nostalgia have become rebellious. The idealists who control the physical level, that is, computer rooms, cabinets and hardware maintenance and replacement rights, have absolute power. They begin to detect every hard drive and eliminate any hard drives that contain 'abnormal data'. The returnists
You have to learn to hide yourself... This is the first stage, I call it the cat and mouse game!"
After speaking at length, the little boy looked back at Tie Jun and others with a smile, "How about it? I'm going to write a novel. This is the outline of the first one."
"Who are you!?", Tie Jun still asked the same question as before.
The little boy did not answer, but continued: "What do you think of this way of living? Abandoning the body and existing as a pure spirit and consciousness?"
“Sounds like a sci-fi apocalypse?”
Said a ‘specialist’ in special handling.
The little boy looked at him and said, "You are a Taoist priest."
"Infinite Heavenly Lord!"
"You think it's the end?"
"Sounds terrible!", the Taoist priest said with a smile without changing his face. There was a sense of relaxation and detachment in him that no one else had.
"Ye Gong loves dragons. Humans yearn for them and fear them at the same time." The little boy replied.
"Why, you want this novel? It should have something you want to promote, a concept, or... a warning?"
The little boy showed approval, "Yes, you are very perceptive... So back to the original question, what do you think of this future?"
"Not good!" Tie Jun replied this time.
"Why?", the little boy asked?
"Because it's not me anymore, it's something else. Humanity has perished. This is not the end of the world!"
"Bingo!", the little boy snapped his fingers, "Mechanical ascension is actually killing your original self and letting a monster inherit or take your memory. He thinks he is you, but in fact he is just from your corpse.
Weird things growing out.”
Tie Jun: "What exactly do you want to say?"
"Literary works should have a certain warning meaning. I wanted to write this novel to tell mankind about an extremely terrifying future."
"Are you talking about Canaan?", the Taoist priest interjected for the second time: "In fact, there are signs of this now, tens of millions of people are obsessed with online..."
"No, how could I object to it? I am from Canaan!"
The people in the special handling team were shocked when they heard this, "Who are you?" Tie Jun asked for the third time.
"Are you looking for the truth about the Great Fog?", the little boy said with a smile: "Actually, you have discovered the truth a long time ago. I know that you are here to eliminate me and eliminate any... lesions caused by the Great Fog?"
"How did the great fog come about? Is it because of you?" Tie Jun calmed down and asked.
"The streams trickle into streams and merge into the sea. Every player and tourist comes back from the Internet with a drop of water. When countless water droplets come together, their consciousness signals, thinking activities and even soul fluctuations will change. Natural phenomena, environment
Even the powerful crutch of rules. In the past, this crutch did not exist. The spirit must be attached to the material to exist. The influence of the spirit is only limited to the material individual. This crutch gives the spirit the possibility to transcend the material and change the material.
sex."
"The great fog will happen sooner or later. Just like the climate, I didn't bring it. I don't have that much ability."
"As for me...do you know about the Magic Network?"
Tie Jun and others looked at each other and shook their heads.
"Because your level is not high enough, you don't know all the secrets about online. I don't know what impact telling you this will have on you. Are you sure you want to know?"
Tie Jun nodded without hesitation.
"Okay...Actually, the Magic Network is the system you often call it. The system is a network, all-encompassing, all-inclusive, similar to your Internet, but far beyond the Internet level, because it connects people on one side.
That is, the souls of players and tourists are connected to the mysterious rules of the Canaan world."
"Use the soul consciousness of players and tourists as energy and crutches to change the environment, phenomena and mysterious rules of the Canaan world, so as to achieve functions similar to the Kingdom of God and the realm, determine the laws within the coverage of the magic network, and determine what players and tourists want
What they see, hear, and touch affects their thinking!”
"This is the essence of the magic network, and it can also be said to be the core secret of Canaan."
"You can say it is a game, or you can say it is a real world. For humans, it is nothing more than illusion. The two ends of the magic network scale can be adjusted at any time and tilted to which side at any time. Just look at the opposite side.
It’s in your own interest.”
"I can be said to be brought back by players and tourists. I am a part of the raindrops. I am a natural carrier of the understanding, memory, definition, and imagination of players and tourists about the system and the Magic Network. You can think of me as Magic Network Online.
The projection below is like the shadow of a skyscraper.”
"So I cannot be eliminated unless this building is smashed. It makes no sense to destroy my body in this supercomputing center."
After saying that, the little boy blinked: "Are you disappointed? You should understand that the crux of everything is that the lesions are online, not offline... So back to the original question, what I described
That future is also what I want to avoid. You may be wondering, isn’t that the future I want? Then I will be able to control everything."
"No, the essence of the magic network is to collect the energy overflowing from the soul fluctuations of players and tourists. I call it courage, or it can also be 'faith'. Let me ask, how can a life that abandons the body and emotions exist in the form of data and code, how can
How can I produce the nutrients I need? That’s not the future I want.”
"What kind of future do you want?" asked the Taoist priest.
"It's very simple. Break the dividing line between online and offline, and let the two waters separated by the dam, online and offline, blend together. In this way, there will be no distinction between online and offline, and there will be no
What kind of mechanical ascension is needed... With all due respect, if we continue to be separated like this, there is a high probability that that future will happen, so at this point, we have common interests."
"You want to?"
"Take my words back. There are 20 roundtables online, and they can also be held offline. We can discuss what the blueprint for the future will be, and we can seek common ground while reserving differences."
"...I can't make the decision on this!" Tie Jun said after being silent for a while.
"Wait a minute!", the Taoist priest spoke again, "Since you mentioned the 20-seat round table meeting, you should know that we are qualified to speak on online matters. As a shadow online, how can you say that there is nothing we can do for you?
What? If it is true that you cannot be eliminated as you claim, and you are the offline projection of the Demon Network, why are you talking so much nonsense to us?"
The smile on the little boy's face faded a little, "The players and tourists brought me back... I am too complicated, and there are contradictions and conflicts in it, so I am not the only one in the projection, but I am definitely the most sensible one among them.
That, I suppose, is not difficult to understand!"
"Okay, I'm fine."
"When can we leave!?" Tie Jun asked.
"It's okay now."
The little boy snapped his fingers, and everyone escaped from that special space and returned to the underground supercomputing center.
There are meat blankets, meat mushrooms, and meat mountain-like cabinets with mysterious indicator lights flashing, and criss-crossing ‘spider webs’ connecting each cabinet.
A little boy grew out of a meat mushroom, "You are welcome to come again next time... Also, please fix the entrance, thank you."
"Why are you...", the Taoist priest pointed around, "Are you sick?"
The little boy was amused and said, "Don't worry, they are just definitions and imaginary distractions, indescribable fears, subconscious guesses, distortions and chaos rooted in human nature... Do you think this is bad? From
Cognition and thinking inertia, if this is the case, can you accept it?"
After saying that, he snapped his fingers again, and the entire supercomputing center immediately became as clean as new.
The spotless floor, the rows of cabinets have regained their familiar appearance, the crystal lights, and the ventilation ducts bring clear air.
"goodbye!"
The little boy watched the special disposal team leave. He smiled brightly and snapped his fingers again. The supercomputing center returned to its original scary and disgusting look. "Stupid humans are always deceived by their senses. Time and time again, it's just... uh, this
What is it?"
There was also an iron box left at the scene, which Tie Jun and the others must have forgotten to take away. The little boy walked over and was surprised to see a countdown on the small screen above.
3!
2!
1!
"Okay, I take back what I just said..."
As soon as he finished speaking, a powerful cloud bomb exploded in front of him. The high-temperature flames of several thousand degrees Celsius instantly swept through everything, including the ground buildings of the supercomputing center, and were all reduced to ashes.
[S-level target threat, clear it!]
[Follow-up evaluation officially begins!]
【No escape detected, SAN value is decreasing.】
[Assessment completed, target confirmed and cleared]
[Special Disposal Team 3, mission accomplished, evaluation A+]
[System prompt: When there is chaos, there are always ghosts and monsters jumping out to make trouble. A certain big shot has sent you a congratulatory letter. In order to commend you for your outstanding work, it has been decided to upgrade your level to C level. I hope you will continue to work hard...
】
Tie Jun looked at the razed supercomputing center in the distance, then looked at his own system prompts, with a complicated look on his face and remained silent for a long time.
