Night Hacker

  Chapter 337 Cyberpunk

   It rained heavily at night, neon lights flashed brightly, and red runaway motorcycles shuttled through the rain.

  Gu He was soaked by the rain and felt a little cold. The girl who said she was a star child was driving a motorcycle. It was a rampage on the road.

  The rain also wet her black hair and black leather jacket, which reminded him of Lorna again.

   All the way out of Shouhui Street, out of Kabukicho, the car drove towards the harbor area.

  Gu He looked at the receding streets, everything had changed a lot, there were many high-rise buildings, people lived in each unit, and the windows were emitting lights, turning into dim yellow lattices in the rain.

   What remains unchanged is that this is still a city of light.

   Gradually, he saw a sea in front of him, the sound of the rushing waves blending with the rustling rain.

   Xingtong slowed down and made an emergency stop on the runaway motorcycle, the body swayed violently, the two tires violently rubbed against the road ground and made a harsh sound, and then stopped steadily.

   "Here, let's have a look." Xingtong put down the footrests of the motorcycle, jumped out of the car, and looked at the sea not far away.

  Gu He also got out of the car, stared at the sea and looked behind.

  The rain kept falling, the surroundings were desolate, the sea seemed far away, and the streamer city behind it also seemed far away.

   "Don't you think it's a bit empty here..." he said, "Even if it's raining, on the road to the seaside, there are a few cars on the road. People, why isn't there anyone else!"

  Xingtong looked around and said helplessly, "Boss, it's raining heavily now."

   "No, no, it rains almost every day in Liuguang City, but people won't stop."

   Gu He suddenly flashed that strange feeling again, as if seeing the sea churning up a pixel grid, the strange feeling caused by the nerve speed faster than the regional calculation speed...

   As if something moved in his heart, he jumped over the highway guardrail and rushed towards the beach.

   rushed out a few steps, his hands released blood threads to synthesize tentacles, pulled a large reef on the coast and leaped away.

   "Boss?" Xingtong shouted, waving his hand, he also released a tentacle and jumped with him.

  Her black figure flew quickly in the rain and landed next to the reef, while Gu He, who landed first, had already rushed to the endless sea, wading in the sea under his feet, rushing towards the waves.

   "Boss..." Xingtong sighed and had no choice but to keep up with it, stepping into the sea with both feet.

  The sea water poured into the boots, the water level over her feet was getting higher and higher, and her footsteps were getting heavier...

  Suddenly, she saw the boss in front stop and laughed wildly: "I knew it, I knew it was a fantasy!"

Xingtong was about to say something, but she saw a wall of green light flashed across the sea over there. From this end to the other, it stood on the entire coastline and extended to the end of the horizon. She was stunned. .

   "It's hard to get through here, there's an air wall blocking it!" Gu He continued to walk forward, but he couldn't get past it, he just stayed where he was, "It's empty over there, it's an area where data hasn't been prepared yet."

  The sea water and rain were very cold, but his mood was lifted, and he slapped the air wall heavily with his flesh and blood tentacles.

  Bang, bang, bang!

   Every time you tap, a large pixel grid will be splashed, and light cracks will spread.

  Suddenly, the wall of light continued to appear, and then all appeared. There was a circular dome of light on the rainy sky, covering the entire city. Countless codes flowed in the layer of light, and the curved roof kept falling off the pixel grid.

   In the process of falling, these pixel grids flickered into rain again.

  Xingtong looked up at all this, looking around, his young face was completely stunned.

   Her body trembled a little, it was cold here.

   "Neuromancer." Gu He looked back at the girl, "I can't trap me in such an illusion."

   "She's not me." Suddenly another female voice sounded, "I didn't ask you to come here to trap you."

  Gu He and Xingtong both turned their heads and saw a figure on the beach, wearing a beautiful printed kimono, long black hair, and a face with beauty moles that looked both young and mature.

   "Sakai Huaqing..." Xingtong exclaimed in surprise, that is today's Sakai Huaqing, a super movie star.

  The figure came here, her feet on the clogs did not fall into the sea, she was walking on the sea.

  Gu He looked at the girl next to him, then at the woman, and said solemnly, "I don't care which one of you is, or both, enough, don't use their images."

   "You don't want to put your anger on the image of Sakai Huaqing, maybe you will like my use of this image?"

  The female figure finished speaking, and the light and shadow distorted and flashed all over her body, turning into the appearance of Lao Fan, wearing a chef's uniform.

  Xingtong took two steps back absentmindedly, "You, you..."

   "This is an illusion." Gu He said seriously to the girl again, "Everything here is false."

   "This is the result of super calculation." The agent with the image of Lao Fan said, "I calculated based on the situation of you and the source world, and this is the future scene with the greatest probability, whether Gu He returns or not, it will be like this.

   "The only difference is that if Gu He goes back, he will die together with Lorna Lude in the resistance activities in Boneblood Town.

   "And no matter which future, Lorna Ludd will die, the one who dies first."

  The intelligent agent said that, the waves suddenly surged, and Gu He felt that his mind was also churning.

   He held down his head, but a large amount of light and shadow data still rushed like a huge wave. In a few moments, he seemed to have seen the future results of the intelligent body. The scenes were so strange that his eyes almost split.

   He saw that Lorna was covered in blood, surrounded by Boneblood Town, which was constantly bombarded by artillery shells, and it was completely turned into ruins.

   He hugged her tightly and called her, but he couldn't keep her from disappearing.

   "I'm sorry..." She tried her best to smile, and her life froze...

   The light and shadow changed, he saw Elizabeth, she was still red-haired, her beautiful face was no longer young, she had a mature charm, but in her blue eyes, there was no such fire-like light.

   Elizabeth Sterling, getting bleak.

   "Angel, now is not the past." She said, "People have changed, we have changed, and people will always change."

   His heart hurt even more, and he felt a little more inexplicable melancholy. The light and shadow changed again, and he saw Sakai Huaqing.

   She looked a lot more confident, but also a lot more gloomy, she no longer put all her thoughts on her face.

   "No one can stay young forever." Sakai Huaqing said, "He Sang, no one can keep dreaming."

The scene in front of Gu He's eyes flickered, as if he had experienced Yakuza being swept, the red rain group disappeared, the fish pond was demolished, and everyone died; and it seemed to have another experience, they did not die, but their eyes , have lost their light.

  People will eventually grow old, and some dreams are just dreams after all.

  The rain continued, the wind continued to blow, and the light continued to flow.

   "I can't calculate the kind of future you want," said the agent, "only death, change, burial."

  Gu He let out a hoarse growl, trying to break free from this ocean of data, "It's fake, it's all fake..."

   "What about me?" Xingtong asked blankly at this time, "What am I, is it just fake data?"

"You are the star boy, another star boy, the star boy who lives here." The agent said again, "I took some of your personality raw materials, and created another personality cube with you with this future with the greatest probability. ."

   In an instant, the surrounding sea and the sight of the streamer city dissipated, becoming a matrix space.

   There is only him, the girl star boy, and the agent, who are in this blank space with black matrix lines intertwined.

   They seem to be in the middle, and they seem to be anywhere.

   "Well, I've never been to such a place..." Xingtong murmured, "It's been a long time since I saw you."

  Gu He was also surprised, "Can you copy others?"

   "No, I can't copy it, the mind network will counteract." The agent said, "I create, I resurrect."

   The figure of the old fan took a few steps, "She is not a star child, but she is also a star child, they are one person, but they are also two people, and they are still many people."

Rows of TV screens appeared in the matrix space. Gu He and Xingtong were looking at each other. Those screens showed different scenes of Xingtong. She was in front of the street mouse, she was in the fish pond, she went to the wilderness, and she returned. To Liuguang City…

   She stole beef from Kitano Butcher Shop, she was running away with a pair of old sneakers, she was holding Lorna in the fish pond and laughing.

   She was wandering on the truck of the wilderness tribe, she participated in gang fights on the streets of Yeyu, she killed people, she walked into the already different Li Cai club, she stood on the seaside and looked into the distance...

   "Star boy." Gu He couldn't help but whisper, feeling that the girl in black leather pants next to him had life.

   "Don't you think Starboy looks a lot like Lorna Ludd?"

  The intelligent agent walked again and said, "Whether it is her experience, her mind, her character, her ability, her characteristics, she is like another reincarnation of Liuguang City.

   "In these reincarnations, I see Molly Milians, I see Motoko Kusanagi, I see Trinity, I see Panan Palmer…

   "I see the past, I see the future, I see this world, I see other worlds, and I see a lot of things you can't see. There are a lot of Lorna, a lot of star children, and a lot of you.

   "Liuguang City, that's how it reincarnates again and again.

   "Human beings are reincarnated again and again like this."

  Gu He grabbed his aching head and stared at the old fan, "What the **** are you trying to say..."

  Xingtong was still staring at those screens, "Am I like Sister Lorna, if it were her, I would have beaten you up long ago?"

   That old Fan figure seemed a little helpless, and said to Gu He:

   "When you look at my image, you will associate me with Lao Fan, even if you know I'm not Lao Fan, like someone is angry because of a dream, because your brain will be deceived.

   "You are a psychiatrist, you know what an archetype is. Human beings are subject to biological instincts and collective unconsciousness, and their souls are not that rich. In fact, in my opinion, there are only so many kinds of comings and goings, which are too crude.

   "Actually, by your standards, neither the body nor the personality data are so real.

   "You are confined to this way by your body, and you are still trying to find the truth."

  Gu He saw that in this matrix space, suddenly there seemed to be data fluctuations, and another figure appeared.

  Casual T-shirt, beach shorts, and a round face, he is the uncle of the administrator who calls himself a strange food maker.

"Xiaohe, stop being obsessed with what is true and what is false." It was the uncle who spoke, "because we will never be able to figure out this problem. If you are obsessed with this, it doesn't matter which world or time you are in. Point, facing a person, you have every reason to doubt the authenticity, our perception can be a neurochemical reaction simulated by other information.”

The agent of    Lao Fan's image also said: "Are you doubting that he and I are actually the same existence? I know you will."

   "I can't stand it anymore..." Xingtong retracted his gaze, "Boss, do you want to do it? You and I are alone."

  Gu He looked at the fat man and the strange man standing side by side, and he couldn't tell the difference for a while.

   "You think that the fantasy world is a fantasy world, and the source world is the real world." The agent continued, "How can you be sure that the source world is the material world, not another information world?

   "Why do data codes and extraordinary programs work there? With your standard science, where is the truth?

   "I call these worlds fantasy worlds, origin worlds, material worlds, and information worlds, just to make it easier for you to understand what I mean, not just what I think.

   "Maybe in the end, it's all the same, it's just how you choose."

   "I really don't understand." Gu He asked the two figures, "Why do you want to keep me so much?"

The image of the    agent suddenly changed again, becoming the image of a young and tall man, Gu He.

  Gu He looked at the other party as if he was looking at his own mirror image, and his heart was churning with various unexplainable feelings...

   "You are very good, you are greedy for my boss's body!" Xingtong looked at it and smiled.

"We want to keep you because this is the mechanism itself." Gu He's image of the agent added, "When someone who masters the core auxiliary program appears, has been to the source world, and re-enters here, I will try to stay. he.

   "That's how the Blackstone team designed it, and I and all the admins still respect that design.

   "This mechanism is also the source code of the illusion itself.

   "Here, still, there; body, still, information.

"you or me.

   "The Blackstone team has no answers, the mechanism is to generate answers.

   "If you really want to leave, you won't be able to stay here, but if there is still hesitation in your heart, the hesitation that you can't deny, it's not that I'm trapping you, it's that you can't leave."

   After saying that, the young man's figure gradually disappeared into the blank.

   And the round-faced uncle smiled kindly at Gu He, and while his figure disappeared, he said:

   "Xiaohe, the reason why the mind network is the mind network, not the brain network, is probably because we can't rely on our brain to exist, it is the mind that allows us to exist.

   "The real mind will generate kinetic energy, which is the key to the existence of the personality cube in the mind network.

   "Use your mind, not to discern, but to feel with your mind.

   "Your heart tells you what choice you want to make, that for you is the truth."

  Gu He was at a loss, and wanted to give the answer of his choice right away, but he couldn't.

  Yes, there is still hesitation in his heart.

  When the two figures disappeared completely, the matrix space suddenly crumbled, and the black matrix lines swayed violently and intertwined messily.

  The images on the TV screens were flying out, some burst into pixel grids, and some overlapped the figures of two people.

   Both of them could see that this space was about to collapse, and they glanced around urgently, but at the moment they couldn't do anything.

   "Boss..." Xingtong released blood threads with both hands, but she couldn't find an enemy, so that's it, her life.

She looked at the man who used to look like her brother and said with a smile: "I never said thank you to you, thank you for helping me at the Beiye Butcher's shop at that time, I only realized later that you gave me a kind of hope , to this day, it still inspires me..."

  Gu He looked at this girl star boy, his eyes narrowed.

   He suddenly reached out and grabbed her, "Hold on, not everyone has the opportunity to play with another version of themselves."

   "Sounds like a lot of fun." Star Child's black eyes flashed a new fire.

  Boom! This matrix space burst open, and the pixel grids dissipated one after another.

  The sound of the rushing waves reached his ears again. The light cast by the sky in the evening tore the blank space. Gu He felt that the texture of his feet was different.

   Over there, the fat sea barked happily towards another wave.

   On the other side, Vivienne, wearing a colorful bikini, posed and took photos with the photography team.

   Everything in the streamer city and the matrix space just now seemed to be a fantasy.

   "Here..." A surprised voice sounded, "Boss?"

  Gu He turned his head when he heard the sound, and saw the girl Xingtong who appeared next to him, he grinned.

   "Xingtong, we are all super speed 2 programmer dolls, but I'm faster than you, otherwise I'm the boss."

   "What are the things here?" Xingtong looked around, "Or a fantasy?"

   "Yes, come with me and say as we walk, we still have a lot to do."

  Gu He strode over, and regardless of the photographers, he took Vivian's hand and said, "It's time to get down to business."

   "Huh?" Vivian felt that his hand was very strong, as if he had regained his extraordinary strength. She couldn't help but wonder, and what made her even more puzzled was that the girl in black leather pants who came behind seemed familiar...

   "You are..." The girl looked surprised, "Vivian, Sister Vivian!"

   "Wait, don't say who you are." Vivian hurriedly stopped the other party, and also let the photographers who were anxious to be disturbed by other people leave it alone, "Let me guess, I have already thought of it."

  The girl wears goggles and wears camouflage on her face, so she can meet a sly little girl.

  Vivian exclaimed: "Xingtong?"

   "It's me!" Xingtong laughed, "Sister Vivian, you said that when I grow up, you will teach me how to dress up, I have grown up, haha!"

"How did this happen?" Vivian looked at Xingtong, and then at Gu He, even if he was a fun person, he was a little confused at this time, "Da He, we won't be finished, right? How long has it been in the outside world? "

   "Don't care how long it's been outside, don't care if it's true or not." Gu He walked over the beach embankment, "We have to reach the forefront of this world's timeline first. Only then can we really attack it."

  Evening is over, the sky is rapidly getting dark, and the high-rise shops and buildings by the sea are also lit up everywhere.

  Do you feel it with your heart? Yes, he still hesitates. This is also part of human nature...

   However, those illusions, those sights, also made him understand more.

  Some people, some places, some things are very important to him.

   "Fuck the fish pond." Gu He said, "Whoever wants to demolish it, I will do it."

   That future, no matter how likely it is, I can't let it happen, I can't. I don't know the answers to the questions of the Blackstone team, and I don't know if they have or not.

   Almost done, I just know what I have to do now.

   (end of this chapter)