Above the head, a dim light bulb swayed from time to time, making the light and shadow in the narrow room jitter.
In an old open "bio-battery" survival cabin, Tang En suddenly jumped up from the curved cabin, his face full of shock.
Five other people were already standing in the iron house of about twenty square meters, with walls covered with rust. One of them was old, stooped, using a cane, and had ugly scars on his face. This was the former Tang Dynasty man.
The "elder" that Eun calls when talking to women.
The other three people, two men and one woman, were leaning coldly in the corner of the room, silent.
The last woman among the five people uses a small computer. There are many exposed circuits and integrated boards on the computer panel. It seems to be assembled from patchwork parts. There are many lines separated from the computer.
Connect to the "illegal port" where Tang En was lying not long ago.
The woman who was operating the computer was only 1.4 meters tall, thin, wearing tattered clothes that could barely cover her body, and looked dry. Her name was Bella, and although she looked like a minor, she was in the hallucination.
She is already over thirty years old. Due to long-term malnutrition, her body cannot grow and develop normally, and she has maintained this posture.
Bella looked at the black smoke-emitting computer in shock. She looked back at Tang En, who was also lying on the "illegal port" with a confused look on his face.
"How did you get out?"
Bella showed a puzzled expression.
"I...I'm out?"
He Mohu recalled the memory before he left.
Bella told him "high energy ahead".
When he turned around, he saw a perverted predator whose smile made his scalp numb.
When the punch was struck, he felt nothing and only saw "404" filling the screen.
Then, he logged out of "Phantom Light".
When Tang En told his "terrible" experience with a complicated expression, everyone else in the room quickly shook their heads, indicating that it was impossible.
In other words, he was actually knocked offline by a "predator"?
How can this be?
"Hmph!" In the room, a muscular black man with tattoos on his body sneered: "Shabi, if what you said is true, wouldn't they be able to climb into the Ark along the lines? You are insulting us.
IQ, Tang. What you are about to say is true, I immediately drank the expired 'nutrient solution' in your room...and drank it while standing upside down."
"Stop arguing."
In the room, the old man who had been silent and the elder of Ark No. 11 used his hoarse voice to stop the quarrel between Tang En and the black man.
His cloudy eyes looked at Tang En: "Come to my room and I'll ask you, cough, cough, cough..."
After the elder finished speaking, he coughed violently. Another woman quickly came forward and patted the elder's back to cheer him up.
"Bella, can we find any abnormal information in the records when Tang En logged out?"
Bella shook the computer, which was still belching out black smoke and had been shut down for a long time, and shrugged: "I'll try my best."
…
at the same time.
In the virtual world "Phantom Light".
St. Peter's Street, in front of the Broken Bridge.
Yin Lin frowned and looked at his fist.
He just gave it a try, but he felt like he had "hit something."
Yin Lin would not think that the strange touch he encountered when punching was an "illusion". There are not so many illusions in the world. He believed that under Neil's guidance, he had just tried to send the "Awakened One" out of the virtual world.
In the world, when punching, Yin Lin added a little "infinite" authority to his fist, highly simplified the "teleportation technique" in the Supreme Style, and punched a strange punch.
"The barrier between virtuality and reality?"
Yin Lin didn't expect that he would succeed.
He really had the idea just now that if he didn't succeed, others would be successful.
It's not bad if you try it.
"younger brother!"
Neil crashed, and the intelligence came back online.
The conflict between several running priorities caused her running logic to briefly crash for three seconds. But during this crash, after Yin Lin rushed out, Neil chose a compromise "running method"... that is
Not running. Sure enough, after "not running", after waiting for a while, when Yin Lin solved everything, Neil found that his logic was normal again.
This is an unexpected surprise.
Turns out it still works like this.
Neil himself didn't expect it.
After a few ups and downs in the air, Neil came to Yin Lin's side with clean movements, grabbed Yin Lin's ears, and pulled her to the ground.
St. Peter's Avenue is in ruins. A deep ravine plowed the street into a sunken tunnel that extends to the other side of the peninsula.
Broken water pipes sprayed fountains over the ruins for free, and exposed wires emitted sparks in the stagnant water.
Neil, who had always seemed emotionless, showed a rare "angry" expression after seeing what her brother had done. She took off her sunglasses and angrily pinched the left and right sides of Yin Lin's face with both hands: "You
What did you do?"
Yin Lin's face was stretched twice as long by Neil, and his mouth was pulled into the shape of a sausage. Yin Lin said innocently: "This is not what you said, 'try to use the center to process the information in the phantom light, try to construct physical rules and physics
Calculus of volumetric collisions', something like that."
Yin Lin crossed his hands and made complicated gestures: "I'm just trying to calculate the scene where a cannonball is dropped on the street, the power of the explosion is highly concentrated, and the street violence is separated from the middle... That's all."
【Open maintenance area.】
Neil issued an application and snapped his fingers. With her as the center, the area destroyed by Yin Lin was covered by an illusory stream of light.
The swaying firelight, the floating black smoke, the spraying water, the panicked residents of the phantom light, all movement stopped abruptly in the light curtain.
Subsequently, the remaining Hunters crossed the broken bridge and entered the maintenance area, searching the ground for the remains of the "Awakened One".
They seemed not to be surprised by this situation, or they simply did not have any emotions such as "shock" or "surprise", and they faithfully carried out Neil's instructions.
The hunter team searched the maintenance area for a while, and after finding nothing special, the operation was disbanded.
Neil is off work, and the other Hunters continue to follow and are responsible for maintaining the "restart work" of the area.
…
【L-1010, log out of ‘Phantom Light’. 】
The field of view switches, and under the supervision of her sister, Yin Lin logs out of the world of illusion.
After logging out, the first thing Alice did was take Yin Lin to the maintenance department for a comprehensive inspection without saying anything.
The person responsible for inspecting Yin Lin was still "Alice-101". Taking a lesson from the past, this time Alice did not dismantle Yin Lin's armor plate and look inside. Instead, she checked the old system on Yin Lin's chip.
Of course, the chip embedded in Yin Lin's armor plate was not intelligent, so he could only do it secretly.
Finally, Alice gave a "passed inspection" report.
A strict omnic, as long as it "passed the inspection", she no longer had any doubts, but she revealed a feeling of joy.
As for how Alice expressed "delight"?
Yin Lin couldn't tell either.
This is just what he thinks.
Because the frequency of Alice’s “morning maintenance” has significantly increased.
It used to be once every three days.
Since Yin Lin was allowed to log into the world of illusion, this frequency has become once a day.
Now, Yin Lin can pull off the "Alice type" with her eyes closed.
…
Yin Lin has been at work for more than a month.
For more than a month, Yin Lin and Alice logged in to the illusion like ordinary office workers who clocked in to work, and Lin Yi and Neil were just like going shopping, walking and stopping.
The world of phantom light is very beautiful. Yin Lin took Neil and enjoyed the delicious food in the phantom light.
"What's this?"
Neil asked.
"Ice cream, strawberry flavor, try it?"
"This is food for humans."
"You are Neil now, not Alice-101."
"...That makes sense." Seeing his younger brother smiling innocently and stuffing the ice cream cone into his mouth, Neil could only open his mouth obediently and take a bite.
Neil frowned.
"Is it tasty?"
Yin Lin asked tentatively.
Didi didi.
Neil rolled his tongue, his eyes lit up, and he began to analyze the taste on his tongue.
She tasted more than a dozen food additives whose taste was impossible for humans to taste.
"No no no."
Yin Lin slapped Neil on the face, making the latter's chest tremble.
"You are wrong, this is not the taste."
"This is the 'flavor'."
Neil said stubbornly.
"In this way, I will teach you how to taste." Yin Lin recalled the structure and configuration of the "Alice-type" oral cavity: "Turn off the 'component analysis module', turn on the temperature sensor, and increase the tactile sensing module."
Neil heard what he was told and did it one by one.
"Then, close your eyes." Yin Lin's tone at this moment was like the gray wolf tricking the red wolf into opening the door: "Only with your 'heart' can you taste the taste."
"What is the heart?"
"Close your eyes first."
Neil closed it obediently.
"What does it feel like?"
"ice."
"anything else?"
"soft."
"anything else?"
"sweet."
"This is the 'flavor'."
Neil stuck out his tongue and licked the white cream on his lips, seeming to understand.
…
Alice comes to Yin Lin every day for maintenance before going to work.
Yin Lin skillfully disassembled the Alice-shaped armor plates, lined them, and cleaned them carefully.
When Yin Lin carefully opened the armor on the back of Alice's neck and observed the "bug" lying on Alice's center, he fell into deep thought.
"Hey, sister."
"Huh? Brother, sister, isn't it clean inside?"
Alice asked worriedly.
She didn't want her brother to see the dirt inside her.
It's so embarrassing.
Through words and deeds, Yin Lin gradually helped Alice understand many human concepts.
"Shame", "worry", "happiness", "sadness", etc.
Even if Alice cannot understand many concepts, she can at least simulate them through the "personification module".
"Can I have an Alice model?"
"Can't."
Alice shook her head subconsciously and refused. A snowflake appeared inexplicably in her vision, but she quickly returned to normal: "Brother, you can only dismantle 'Alice 101'."
"No, no, no, sister, you misunderstood." Yin Lin noticed Alice's reluctance and explained: "I want a factory model that has not loaded any 'personification module'."
"Oh!" Alice understood: "It turns out you want to be 'Alice'. It turns out that what you like is 'Alice XO Alice'."
Alice-101 didn't know what information she associated with it. Her faceplate was hot and red, and gave off a burning smell.
"..."
Yin Lin decided not to explain anymore.
But since it was a "blank Alice machine without any anthropomorphic module", my sister readily agreed.
In the concept of omnics, the ontology of omnics is "intelligence" rather than "machine". They regard the body as "parts" that can be discarded at any time once they are old. In this regard, it is different from human thinking.
The modes are fundamentally different.
In the concept of omnics, a blank "Alice type" is no different from new clothes. If you, brother, like to wear women's clothes, what if your sister agrees to it?
Alice thinks this is what humans call "pampering".
The elder sister dotes on the younger brother.
Then, you should also be called "Alice".
Alice thought happily.
Looking forward to a happy life in the future where two Alices can be plugged in and charge each other in opposite directions.
She didn't notice that after her brother finished speaking, he didn't speak again, and even his usual skilled maintenance skills were a bit slower.
…
In this universe, time is like rust on an armor plate, growing on it unknowingly and being worn away unknowingly.
Yin Lin has been a "younger brother" for three months.
A mysterious "awakened one" appears in the world of illusion.
His name is "L".
Morning.
It's always a hazy day.
After the daily maintenance, Alice was polished and shiny.
Moisten the places that need to be moisturized, polish the places that need to be polished, and look stunning.
The current "Alice-101", standing next to other "Alice-types", can still see its obvious newness. This is the difference between having someone maintain it and having no one to maintain it.
She habitually invites Yin Lin to log in to Huanguang, go to eat delicious food... no, clock in to go to work.
Yin Lin found the reason "need to upgrade the system version" to refuse.
Alice had no doubts and hurriedly logged into the world of illusion.
After Alice left.
Yin Lin seized the time and sneaked into the mine again.
This month, apart from clocking in to work, Yin Lin did nothing.
He found the opportunity and "infected" all the patrol equipment in a certain area, turning them into his own machines.
Now, as long as Yin Lin is not too arrogant, he opens the lid of the life-saving cabin and gets in, he can secretly log into the world of illusion as a "resident" without any patrolling omnics coming to disturb him.
After getting familiar with driving, Yin Lin came to the life-saving cabin of "Rhode".
Log in to the virtual world "Phantom Light".
Becoming "Rhode" again, Yin Lin's mind briefly tranced, and he loaded Rhode's memory.
It turned out that during this period, Rhode's life had undergone earth-shaking changes.
A month ago, "Rhode" blatantly contradicted his superiors and was taken into consideration by his superiors. Sure enough, a week later, he received a letter of dismissal as he wished.
He lost his job.
What made Rhodes even more unbelievable was that his wife seemed to have changed into a completely different person, acting mysteriously all day long and divorcing him at the speed of light.
Now Rhodes is alone and drinking at home to drown his sorrows.
On the table, the ashtray was filled with cigarette holders and overflowed.
There were many empty beer bottles scattered on the ground.
in the kitchen,
The dishes had not been washed for several days, and there were "takeaway food boxes" lying all over the floor, exuding an unpleasant smell.
Buzz buzz——
Yin Lin snapped his fingers, used a few toothpicks to pin a few noisy flies to the wall, and then came to the mirror.
There was a layer of dust on the mirror, and Yin Lin reached out to wipe it away. In the mirror, a face of a middle-aged man with stubble, sunken eye sockets, and a downcast face was reflected.
"There are still 12 hours and 8 minutes until Alice logs out."
Yin Lin checked a countdown on his watch, washed his face briefly, shaved his beard, left Luo Zhai and walked onto the street.