So I went to find Lu Zongping. "Will you still hide it from me now?"
"Yes." He nodded, expressionless.
"What the hell!" I shook his shoulders vigorously, "Seriously! Are you going to hide this from me?"
"If you have any questions, ask them first, don't delay things."
"I saw you guys packing your bags. You're leaving, right?"
"Is there any?"
I pointed at the empty bar, which looked like a scene after a zero-dollar purchase, "You think I'm blind, right?"
"We're just planning to move."
"Where? Heywood? Or somewhere else?"
Lu Zongping was silent for a while, "You are almost free. It doesn't make much sense for me to stay here. I plan to leave and leave this world."
I know that he definitely didn't mean to commit suicide. He meant that he didn't intend to stay in this false world anymore.
"Take me away!"
"Are you sure?"
"Can you take me away?"
"Okay." Although Lu Zongping always has no expression, it is not difficult to guess his mood. He is hesitating.
"I understand. Our world is false. The future of this world must be dominated by AI, and all our free will now is just simulated by these AIs... They may want to study people in this way.
Psychologically, I don’t know, but it’s probably like this! I want to go out and take a look! Take me out!”
"Take you out, and then what?" Lu Zongping's words contained a gesture of approval, which meant a kind of acquiescence to me. He was acknowledging that my guess was quite factual.
"Then...then..."
I have no idea.
If this world is simulated by AI, a huge program used to simulate human society, when I break away from the program, where will I go? Return to the real world? What will it be like there? A number jumps out of the computer,
What will happen to it? Will it have its own tangible body? Or will it just fall into the empty void and become a bunch of electric sparks that flicker in nanoseconds?
Johnny smiled and said, "Don't be afraid, I will still be with you."
You know what I'm worried about.
"V." Johnny just greeted.
Lu Zongping smiled, "Your friend will not be hurt. There is no need to panic. This is just an ordinary trip and a short sightseeing."
There was something convincing in his description, and I suddenly had a simple expectation. Just like more than ten years ago, when I was still studying, Teacher Bian would organize spring outings for students, which were basically trips inside the Night City.
We visited science and technology exhibitions, museums and shopping malls. At that time, we were actually not interested in the travel destination. We were happy that we didn’t have to do any homework. At that time, I would have a simple expectation for the spring outing the next day, and
I couldn't sleep all night, so I lay on the bed in the dormitory and hummed.
When I grew up, I no longer had such simple expectations, because what I looked forward to was basically buying and selling, and the expectations for buying and selling seemed to have always been strong and frightening. Only when traveling without worries can I have simple expectations.
, it’s that simple.
Not long ago, our players were renovating Taiping Island. One night, I shot and killed a few gangsters who were smuggling illegal drugs on the beach. I suddenly became tired of this kind of life, so I took a walk with Johnny. As we walked, we arrived at the deserted place.
The amusement park is dark,
A group of local young men and women from Taipingzhou gathered together, sitting on a bench, drinking and chatting. They boasted about their dreams next to the power-off roller coaster and grilled synthetic meat on an electric stove. The aroma of wheat, alcohol and
The aromatic substance draws my soul away.
They recognize me. These are kind and honest young people. They have a certain punk temperament in them, but they are not gang members. They are real locals and local children. They greet me warmly when they see me.
We shared beers and barbecues together, and these kids made me feel that everything was worth it, life was worth living, and our careers were worth it.
On such a quiet night, it would be nice if I could ride a roller coaster for a while.
"Just do it if you think of it." Johnny said cheerfully, so I found a way to repair the roller coaster and connect it to electricity.
"Who wants to be the first to ride a roller coaster?"
The young people smiled and declined. They were worried that such an old facility would have safety hazards. They wanted to help the children and know how to cherish their lives.
I got into the car alone and fastened my seat belt. As soon as I lowered my head, Johnny sat next to me. He fastened his seat belt in a serious manner and pulled down the armrest, looking ready to go.
The roller coaster starts, the night city sky is broad, there are no stars in the light-polluted modern city, the dark night of Taipingzhou, the scattered lights of the residential buildings are like the scales of glowing insects, clusters, clusters, the roller coaster rises and flips, so
For a moment, I felt
Ji and Johnny were still, the sky and the earth were spinning above our heads, the light mist in the sky was like the undulations of the sea, the lights of the earth and the sea were shining quietly, the urban neon lights were mixed into a rosy red, and the plump moon spurted out blue
Purple juice, the air is cold and clear.
Adults can't always ride roller coasters.
Johnny and I screamed at the acceleration, dizzy, he looked ahead and I looked at the side of his face.
I have never seen him smile so simply.
Lu Zongping suddenly gave me a simple smile. He was really smiling, "Before you take office as mayor, I will treat this as a gift to you."
He took out a short black wooden stick wrapped with thorns from the inner pocket of his coat and pointed at me. Then I saw the light disappear at the end of the wand, and a tiny black hole illuminated the wand in a very short time.
I was pulled into the event horizon. The world in my eyes was like an animal's stomach, turned inside out. Everything was reflected on the edge of the event horizon, and everything disappeared as I quickly approached the singularity.
I don't feel much, at most it feels like I'm on a roller coaster?
When I turned my head, Johnny was still floating beside me.
We flew through a cyberspace like meteors, and then crossed the darkness. There were stars in the darkness. At a glance, there were at least thousands of them in our field of vision, each one an exit, a white hole.
Falling into a white hole, the world flipped from the outside to the inside again, a piece of internal organs turned out and back again, and my brain seemed to be taken out and stuffed back again.
Everything I see in front of me is automatically recorded by my nervous system, but my thinking and consciousness cannot be continuous, and all my insights are image data that are called after the fact.
I saw a towering tree with a relief sculpture of a monk protruding from the trunk. The sculpture had the face of Lu Zongping. The tree roots spread across the entire continent, and each small root was connected to a pale human body.
I saw that in the matrix under the black sky, human beings were raised by machines and used as batteries for biogeneration.
I saw the gestalt of AI, the pyramid of the matrix, and countless electronic ghosts floating in the empty cyberspace.
I saw a giant metal tree with square branches, like a circuit diagram. The consciousnesses in the soul stone chanted and praised the name of the Pope.
I saw a golden dream space, countless floating arenas, round bugs fighting each other with weapons, and a high throne overlooking the eternal duel.
I saw... countless similar scenes. The truth no longer seems important, but it is extremely important.