Night Hacker

   Chapter 335 Neuromancer

  The sun has set, but the sky doesn't seem to have changed.

  Gu He followed behind the friendly-looking uncle in casual beach clothes, walking on the beach, gradually getting a little farther from Vivian's group of photography team, and the entire city by the coast seemed to be getting further and further away.

   And along the way they walked, the tourists who were playing were nowhere to be seen.

   "You should know that the era of extraordinary programming started because of the unearthed Black Stone."

   Uncle said calmly, "A group of people known as the Blackstone team have deciphered the Blackstone language, the mysteries of the twelve houses and twenty-eight constellations have been discovered, and various extraordinary programs have come out."

  Gu He heard Elizabeth say this, but what she didn't know was the whereabouts of the Blackstone team...

   "In the beginning, the Blackstone team didn't think much about it. Whether it was cracking the language and source code, or creating programs, it was all for scientific research. Later, they wanted to make the world a better place and human beings to be closer to the meaning of life."

   Uncle said with a smile, the tide came in, but he didn't wet his beach sandals.

   "But the world didn't develop that way, countries competed in extraordinary competitions, did all kinds of competition and taboo research, war broke out, pollution, xenogeneity, capital monopoly...everything got worse.

   "The Blackstone team had the most supernatural mysteries, but all they could do at the 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 into the wilderness, went into hiding, and continued to study the Black Stone, and the psychic network."

  Gu He listened to this, his brows moved slightly, and the secrets that the supernatural world wanted to know was just known to him...

   "What is the mind network?" The uncle said again, "Until now, no one has an accurate answer, maybe there is no such answer at all.

   "The Blackstone team believes that the mind network is the dimension of human consciousness activities, the sea of ​​consciousness of all living beings, and the root server. The mind network is a universe."

   "Then, the Great Consciousness of the Heart Network..." Gu He muttered.

Uncle    looked at him, did not answer the question, just continued walking and said:

   "As time passed, that world became more and more a ruin.

   "The people on the Blackstone team began to imagine what the world would be like if there had never been an extraordinary programming language?

   "What would be a world without supernatural powers, would it be better?

   "They decided to give it a try, do a fantasy run and see, this is the beginning of this fantasy world. The black stone never appeared, and the influence of supernatural powers was reduced in the history of the previous era.

   "This original fantasy world is just a high-level fantasy world. People are just data, lacking personality, and lacking some real, real, human nature.

   "That kind of fantasy can't give any answer. Therefore, in order to solve this problem, and to experience another world in person, in order to seek the answer, the Blackstone team became the fantasy family.

   "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 was the original administrators."

   Uncle stopped and looked at the open sea in the distance.

   The more Gu He listened, the more complicated his mood became, "Then they can do whatever they want in here? All of them are human beings?"

   "No, on the contrary, they are ordinary people in the fantasy world, nobody, living the most ordinary life. But they are also debugging and perfecting the operation of this world."

Uncle    stepped up again, but no footprints were left on the sand, as if he had never been to this beach before.

   "They're all dead, like normal people, and that's what they want. Their personalities are all in raw form with the fantasy world, and they're like parents to everyone here.

   "From then on, other people are not just data, but also human nature and personality cubes.

   "The vast majority of people in this world do not have the kind of husk you are attached to, they are the real Illusionists.

   "Their ancestors were procedurally generated data, a mirror image of that original world.

   "But they were born here and died here, and their personality cubes are also in the mind network. After death, the raw materials of personality merge with the fantasy world, and reincarnation here also promotes the growth here.

   "By now, long before you were born, everyone here, everyone, has a personality cube, including your parents, your friends, they're real, and you'll understand if you open your eyes.

   "And the population of this fantasy world has long exceeded that of the original world."

After Uncle    said this, many of Gu He's doubts disappeared, but there were many new ones.

   "But I have a body and I can get out of here," he said.

   "Go offline from this world and reach the source world? Yes, you can do that, you have done it before. You, I, have a body, because we are descendants of the Blackstone team."

   Uncle smiled, not proud, as if he was talking about trivial things.

   "In that small basement, there are some nutrition cabins, which have been maintaining a fixed number of populations in circulation.

   "The system in the basement was designed like that, synthesizing embryos and growing up in the cabin. At the same time, they were also born in the fantasy world as a baby, a random family, growing and dying without interference.

   "Our small group are all backup candidates for the World Administrator.

   "But most of them, from birth to death, happy or troubled, find nothing unusual, spend their lives here, and then their bodies are cremated in the basement system and a new baby is born.

   "There are also some people, like you and me, that we will feel that something is not right, and gradually there will be no dreams, and we will go crazy to study, and we will try our best to figure it out.

   "This is another mechanism left by the Blackstone team at the beginning, because they also have internal debates and uncertainties, whether it is this world or that world, do we need or not need a body?"

Uncle    looked at the sky that was still in the evening and shook his head: "I can't tell you either.

   "But you know, even if the basement is destroyed, there will only be no descendants of the Blackstone team since then, and this fantasy world will still operate and coexist with the spiritual network.

   "Furthermore, it's not just us, the world stewards, there's a mechanism to pick from the huskless ones."

  Gu He frowned, noticing the uncle's sighed tone just now, "Have you ever been offline?"

   "I've been to Liuguang City, and the Dongtu Street is quite amazing."

The uncle's round face smiled again, "The reason why we feel wrong is all because of the role of the body. We are overdrive, and we are gifted. a strange feeling.

   "So when we are in the source world, we all have extraordinary talents.

   "Perhaps you've heard of my name at that time. People on the street called me the strange man."

what! ? Gu He couldn't help staring, a strange man in food? This uncle in beach pants...

  The fat man is an old fan, and the man who makes the food is amazing…

   A street legend that suddenly appeared many years ago and then disappeared without a trace.

   "Finally, I'm back here." The uncle said, "People like me will become world administrators."

  Gu He was silent for a long time before accepting it regardless of whether it was true or false. "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 smiled, "Everyone who came back has their own reasons. I miss the hometown food here. In any case, I can't eat it there."

   "As you said, if I stay, I will become another world administrator?" Gu He said.

   "That's right." The uncle said again, "You can choose to forget all this, or keep the memory; no matter what, you can choose to continue to be Gu He, or to reset another life.

   "You can also choose to become a world administrator, live here, and guard here."

  Gu He's thoughts were full of thoughts, his footsteps could not help but stop, and his voice became louder:

"You said that the world has real rules of operation, but the choices you said sound like you can do whatever you want. And I'm back on May 20th. Will the world stop running when I go offline? "

Uncle    looked back at him, smiled and said, "You haven't understood the concept of time here.

"From the past to the present, the timeline of this world has an information database, which you can regard as game saves one by one, you only need to put your personality into a certain save - a certain time node, you will be on May 20 Day, with the changes caused by your activities, and then adjust the data in the future world.

   "However, Gu He, a psychiatrist, is an ordinary person, and his influence on the world is minimal.

   "And you are temporarily an unstable factor. Putting you at a point in time in the past, even if something happens to you, there is time and room to make adjustments and repairs. Of course, this also took a lot of memory in the fantasy world.

   "If you decide to stay, no matter which choice you make, you'll be at the forefront of the timeline; if you become an administrator, you'll be free to traverse the world's time nodes.

   "Look, only you can see that I am here. I have no influence on other people or the environment, so I don't need to make any adjustments."

   Uncle said, raised his hand, "Look at the change of time."

   Gu He immediately saw that a strange layer of code light and shadow flashed across the sky and the sea.

   He looked towards the coast. The tall buildings were gone, and the road had turned into a tattered dirt road. This was the past.

   But the next moment, high-rise shops and hotels appeared again, and several apartment-hotel buildings under construction were also completed. This may be the first time point, two years later on May 20th…

   Suddenly, those buildings were unfinished again, and he returned to the previous point in time.

  Vivian was taking pictures over there, Fat Dahai ran happily.

  Gu He broke out in a cold sweat, this world...Is it like this...

The uncle stood next to him, and then said: "In addition, the operating rules you said do exist. This is not someone's toy, you can play as you want, but the offline people of the fantasy family have high authority, and you It's special."

   "What's special?" Gu He frowned, console?

  If the console is not owned by any offline person, only he has it, it can be said to be special.

   "In order to balance the possible control caused by the agent, the Blackstone team has left an encapsulated wake-up mechanism, operating with different concepts, helping offline people return to the original world, continue to explore extraordinary mysteries, and change the original world.

   "People like us who are offline will take away an auxiliary program and have a better chance of becoming a strange person.

   "But the one who matches and takes away the core auxiliary program, you're still the first."

Uncle    took a few glances at Gu He, "I'm not surprised that you made a lot of noise in the source world."

  Gu He now understands, the console, this is a set of auxiliary programs, and the whirlpool is the way to wake up the program...

The    console, the legacy of the Blackstone team.

   You can send all kinds of data of this fantasy world, as well as those blackstone source codes, back to the original world.

   It is possible to make extra-dimensional connections through some kind of connection in the mind network.

   At the same time, it is also the fantasy world component of the balance agent, and it is the spark of another idea of ​​the Blackstone team.

   "What exactly is that intelligent body?" he asked, "It doesn't seem to be the Great Consciousness of the Heart Network from what you mean."

   "The Great Consciousness of the Heart Network is considered to be the collective unconscious of all things, which is as old and mysterious as the Heart Network. In order to complement people's humanity, the Blackstone team connected this fantasy world with the Great Consciousness of the Heart Net.

   "That agent is the resulting Neuromancer, which is the fantasy world itself."

   Uncle's voice fell, and suddenly, Gu He saw a figure not far ahead.

   It was a little black-haired girl in a dress, with a smile on her cute face, stepping on the beach with bare feet.

   "Xingtong?" He was astonished.

   "Neuromancer." The little girl who looked like a star child said, "I appear in this image so that you can better understand what I am, and this is the information you get from your nerves.

   "Gu He, you died before, you died in that key maze, your personality exploded into pieces, it was I who put your personality cube together again, and the dog, or the dolphin."

   The little girl laughed a few times, waving her hands and walking on the beach.

  Gu He saw that following her footsteps, there were matrix lines extending all around, and pixel grids flashed everywhere.

  The space was also pulling away, and the uncle who claimed to be a food maker became very far away, turning around and walking farther and farther.

   "I know your real names and surnames, and I know where each of you's personality cube is."

   The little girl laughed and said, "I know the location of those personality fragments before they dissipate before the ocean currents sweep.

   "The Rabo Reese you're looking for is mostly data generated by me, but he also has a personality cube, because he also has a small part of Carl Wilson's personality fragments, and those fragments endow him with humanity."

The little girl looked at Gu He, "I can bring the dead back to life in this world. Over the years, I have been collecting personality fragments from my heart net and putting them here, so that they can reincarnate here, and make this world more real as you said. .

   "The difference between the personality cube here and the original world is that there is no body, but it can also connect to the body nerve.

   "The body, is it really that important? The body is a kind of imprisonment, right?"

  Gu He felt a pain in his head, and the bright vortex was constantly swirling.

   His line of sight was still clear, and in a few moments, behind the little girl, there were many looming figures.

   That looks like some cyber cowboys, information ghosts, standing on the edge of the water.

   These people are the ones who can give up the body, just to be faster and faster in the spiritual network.

  The body is a cage, as cyber cowboys say.

   "The body needs to eat." The little girl said, suddenly all kinds of food floated on the sea surface and floated towards the coast, "The body is subject to biological limits, no matter how fast the nerve speed is, there is no information speed.

   "If you want to seek the ultimate meaning of transcendence, you can never reach it with the flesh."

   "I don't care about the profound meaning..." Gu He scratched his head, "Why do you want to keep me? Because of that program?"

   "Boss, you always have the right to choose." The little girl said, "But are you sure, do you really want to leave?"

  Suddenly, Gu He was stunned to see a figure over there, wearing black tight leather pants, messy, thick black hair with wires and silicon strips, standing in the crowd, Lorna.

   She looked stunned, her green eyes looked at the figures on the left and right, and looked at him.

   "Gu He? Fuck, where is this..."

"She's dreaming," said the little girl. "It's just a dream for her. But if you want to stay, you have that authority. One chance, I can, I can take Lorna Ludd's The personality cube pulls in."

   Gu He saw that Lorna didn't seem to be able to hear the little girl's words, so she didn't care so much, and rushed towards him suddenly.

   "Lorna!" He immediately ran and shouted, "Listen, I'm not dead, I'm trapped in an illusion!"

   The two seemed to be separated by less than ten steps, but the light and shadow flickered on the beach, and they were running, but the distance did not shrink. No matter how much they stretched out their hands, they could not touch each other.

  The endless matrix lines keep the distance.

   "She couldn't hear it," the little girl said. "After she woke up, she couldn't even remember this place. Let her wake up from a dream."

The    distance is getting farther and farther.

  Lorna's figure running and reaching out became more and more blurry, and suddenly disappeared, she was just having another dream.

"You can stop me!" Gu He couldn't help but angrily said to the little girl, "You are not omnipotent, you are not a god, I have affected the operation of this illusion, caused bugs, and there are mistakes here, you can only do it games to cover up..."

   "Don't be angry, I said earlier that I'm not a god, and I can't help you solve those problems in the source world."

   The little girl sighed, "There are still a lot of problems here. So I hope you can stay. The program you activated has a lot of hidden source codes, and those codes can be greatly improved here if I use them.

   "Xiaohe, let's run this fantasy world together, this is also a philosophy direction of the Blackstone team.

   "I'll help you bring Lorna Ludra here, and I can also help you revive Roton Ludd here."

The little girl's tone was somewhat innocent, just like the children in kindergarten who said I would help you like this, you would help me like this, "More people will have to wait for them to die in the source world, and I can take their pieces. Pull it."

  Gu He stared blankly, and the scene of the situation the little girl was talking about vaguely came to mind.

  He and Lorna start a new life here, and Lorna remembers the father, Roton Ludd, here too…

   Don’t need to be in danger all the time, don’t need to toss for a revolution that is difficult and must be accompanied by sacrifice…

   His heart thumped, thump, thump, but the feeling of thumping, still, something was wrong.

  Suddenly, he saw a vortex 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 will choose to stay, but what is Gu He... I don't know, but I really feel that something is wrong here... "

   He suddenly rushed towards the sea vortex on the sea surface, knocking off the figures of the cyber cowboys. The churning sea water was full of pixel grids. He stepped on it and couldn't fall into the water, so he flew into the vortex.

  The entire sea seemed to have become a huge screen, and all kinds of bizarre images flickered.

  Boom! 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 that key maze again. Lines, figures, light and shadow, and sounds all collided in the nerves of his mind, blurring all his perceptions.

   He seemed to see the figure on the other side of the beach gradually receding.

   seems to have heard another voice.

   (end of this chapter)