Foreword:
The outcome of everyone's life is the same. The only difference between them is how they were born and how they died.
——Ernest Miller Hemingway
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[Part 1·A love letter about time]
"Hot wind·hot wind - I want to tell you something."
From the HUD audio window, Zhong Kui's voice came. This long-dead ghost did not poison the meteor, but left his last words in a serious manner.
Ah Xing did not leave immediately, and the total duration of this audio was only a few minutes. After Zhong Kui's death, the stereolithography printing mechanism had stopped working, and the angel baby production process in Xiao Guandong City had also stopped.
These brains need to be connected to the spine bones. In the production process of the spine bones, they need to be covered with the most basic light-curing print as a shell. Without this layer of protective shell, there is no way to talk about humanization.
"If you can hear this message, it means that the child has defeated you and his courage is far greater than yours."
Zhong Kui in the audio file is emotionally stable, not as sharp as in reality. Her tone is soothing and peaceful, like a person who is heartbroken.
"I must have lost, and failed miserably."
"High-frequency weapons can cooperate with my theory of mind system to leave combat records, but I opened a backdoor based on this system and retained this sound."
"I've always been sober, I know who I am - but the next time we meet, I won't be who I am."
"To digress, step on the meteor."
"Spitting love out of your mouth and then blowing air through it is indeed a unique skill I learned from Tom."
At this moment——
——A Xing's heart was shaken, and he was surprised by Zhong Kui's intelligence.
The recording continues to play, the audio waveform like a gentle ocean tide.
"[Theory of mind·Theory of mind] - This is the earliest standard theory used to determine whether a thinking model has personality."
"The abbreviation is Tom. All typical people need to pass the Tom test."
"The genetic prototype of the Falcon was once the chief of staff of the Foehn Chapter and a descendant of the giants from Niflheim - we called him Instructor Tom and affectionately called him Colonel Tom. He built it for us This system.”
"[Tom Theory of Mind] is also the standard used on your Internet to identify whether language models like chatgpt are intelligent."
"I have thought and doubted it more than once..."
"Am I really a human being? I was born from this set of genes and memes and transformed from a brain into a complete but broken bionic person. Do I really have a personality?"
"My brain structure is designed by genetic information, my life is planned by module engineering, my personality orientation and hobbies, and my product attributes are all given to me by people."
"Whatever they want, I become..."
“From military use to home use, and from home use to military use.”
"I am no longer that [Momo Ishihara]. After so many years, I am very different from the original body. I am also very different from the first batch of angel babies. We cannot be confused with each other."
"The moment I became a god, I lost everything, whether it was my body or my spirit, including my soul, and I became what countless people in this city expected."
"This is a common cause of all living beings. Rather than saying that Shinto saves people, it is better to say that people create Shinto."
"We are making each other and eating each other - Homo sapiens creates intelligence, and intelligence creates Homo sapiens."
"Using the spiritual power of the original seeds, we tamed the beasts hidden under this soil in the volcanically active seismic zones, let them come into contact with the essence of Mother Earth, and turned them into sacred beasts - and then took away their Flesh and blood are used to develop prosthetic bones.”
"Mother Earth's iron-nickel core is an important consumable for our artificial spine. When we decided to use this set of prosthetic bones, it seemed that we were destined to have this ending - we would become monsters with chaotic thoughts and flesh."
"It's just that unlike the Incarnation Butterfly, at least we still have the last bit of human sanity."
"I can feel that I am living in different time and space at the same time."
"The last second I was a high school student in 1967 wearing a military uniform and a sailor uniform, with my beautiful body lying on the bed for others to admire."
"The next second I am the pretty widow in 1567, wearing cold clothes and white hair, waiting for her husband to return from the sea, and looking forward to it."
"Modules and prosthetics, software and hardware, all these have torn me apart and made my soul scatter into ten thousand cherry blossoms."
"Just watching it slowly fall is beautiful, but there is always a rotten smell in the air."
"It's not a good thing to have self-awareness. When I woke up, shaking from this nightmare, I stood upright in terror. I almost went crazy and had schizophrenia."
"I can only seal this part of consciousness and let [her] wander at the bottom of the theory of mind system. Until the moment of death, I can change from [its] state to [her], from a commodity to Only a complete human being can say a few conscious words to you."
"I am convinced that I will not live again. Any [Zhong Kui] you meet in the future will no longer be me - even if they make the same choice, speak long and familiar words to me, and make similar rational judgments, Even knowing me inside out, having all my memories and experiences, I knew that was not me.”
"Now I may have turned into a pile of rotten iron and a puddle of meat."
"I want to thank you, especially you - the warrior of the Nameless One."
"I have been freed from this hell, and I should not have any more extravagant hopes..."
"But if I hadn't seen your skills, understood your determination and courage, maybe this recording wouldn't have happened."
"You told me that it doesn't matter even if you go against all the living beings on the 378,000 square kilometers. You want to eradicate the hardware servers of the Shinto people. You are the nameless person who does what you say."
"I would like to express my heartfelt gratitude to you again, brave warrior."
"There are many classic humans under the command of the Shinto people. They are illusions of history, but they are by no means real prototypes. Regarding this - I want to remind you."
"Hot wind is also a part of it. At the beginning of building this cyber (cybernetic) city blueprint, hot wind was the main imaginary enemy of the periodic crisis and the main method to solve the periodic crisis."
As soon as these words came out, Bu Liuxing was stunned.
He immediately felt a twitching pain in his right arm.
Zhong Kui continued:
"——When these cities become inactive due to standardized production, even typical people will lose the motivation to live. At this time, hot wind will appear."
"It provides shortcuts to the rebels, guides people to fight, and creates a new Foehn resistance. They call themselves the awakened new humanity."
"It was never Refu himself, because Refu's real name has long been erased from the history of Shinto City. No one can mention that name, and no one is allowed to think of that memory."
"Under the arrangement of the theory of mind system, the Foehn Resistance Army will start a new war with the Shinto people, and the military-industrial complex will start to operate again, providing countless jobs and customizing the shape of the war according to people's needs. It is like a business. Start like a business and end like a business.”
"Everything is back to how it was before. Typical people will miss the convenience brought by standardized production and indulge in the beautiful and comfortable [nirvana] until the next time society becomes deactivated, a crisis comes, and the hot wind wakes up."
"This cycle has been repeated sixteen times. Only the first four times were fierce battles with real swords and guns. The next twelve times became a virtual battlefield in [Elysium Space]. Even the awakened ones themselves didn't know - They are actually living in a dream.”
"The undead spirit in you, the leader, is not even a fake. It is the fake among fakes, the fake among fakes."
"There is no hot wind in history, only foehn."
"Similar to the virtual idol in Shiqiu Town, Kanto City, there is no Seiko Matsushima in the mortal world, only Seiko Matsuda."
Meteor shook his head in panic, and even began to doubt——
——Did he wake up from the [Elysium Space], or have he already arrived at the [Elysium Space] the moment he crossed the Howling Ridge Tunnel? Otherwise, how could Brother Ping An confuse these two surnames?
Then he was immediately relieved and convinced himself.
Along the way, there are bulletin boards and avatars about Matsushima Seiko, all with Romanized and Japanese names. It's like subtle brainwashing propaganda.
If a person looks like Matsuda Seiko and sings Matsuda Seiko's songs, everything about her will be completely consistent with Matsuda Seiko's. Only such a small part of the surname has been written differently, so it's easy to get confused. Brother Ping An is not only chasing such an idol, but also because of the age, it makes sense that he didn't recognize him for a while.
There is something that looks like a duck, sounds like a duck, and tastes like a duck when made into dishes. No matter how others call it, it should be a duck.
Zhong Kui continued:
"——What is the difference between Matsushima and Matsuda?"
"Tear out all the isolated letters, it is hid (hidden) - we have hidden Seiko Matsuda, and what is shown to people will always be Seiko Matsushima. This is the wrong answer."
"The hot wind looks like Foehn wind, and it also behaves like Foehn wind. No matter how others interpret it, it should be Foehn wind."
"But as long as it is preached ten thousand times, the false can become true. This is the core element of Tom's theory of mind system. On the basis of this theory, angel babies can replace their genetic prototypes and rebuild this society again and again. .”
"Anonymous warriors, this is the most important common feature between Elysium and Shinto City. Whether virtual or real, they are intentionally or unintentionally distorting facts and tampering with history in order to better control the angel babies themselves."
"But what is false is false and can never become true - my pain comes from this and my happiness comes from this."
"The part of my life that belongs to Ishihara Momo has given me a strong body, a tenacious will, and has also brought countless disasters."
"Unlike Ye Zhong, I have nothing to leave you."
"During the VR training course, I once felt the love between Foe Feng and Xiao Tao——"
"——It doesn't belong to me, but it makes me yearn for it."
"It's a pity that they didn't have time to give birth to children, and they were in close contact with the original seeds for a long time. The harsh environment and the radiation from the fission power station took away their fertility. Even a panacea cannot cure this flesh and blood distortion."
"I can only wish you well, warrior of the Nameless One."
"I hope you can also have love without regrets."
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[part2·Dislocated life]
"The theme song left by the virtual idol Seiko Matsushima to the little Kanto Castle is "The Kingdom of Time". People once thought that the way to defeat time was to build an eternal kingdom. Yokohama, Kanto, Ginza and Chiba were the last four pillars. From forty-eight pillars to fifty-one pillars.”
"The neural network constructed in the Elysian Space was launched, and a divine kingdom was created on an area of 378,000 square kilometers."
"Before I met you, I had no doubt about the divine power it expressed - until the nameless warriors came in front of me and fought with me for their lives."
"At the moment when my bones and flesh were shattered, I seemed to have gained eternal peace, and finally remembered the most amazing spiritual power and the most mysterious magic in the world."
“No need to modify software or hardware, no tests of theory of mind, no need to live like a ghost.”
"It's more traditional - as long as two people love each other and exchange their essence, they can create a brand new child."
"In the face of time, no matter how powerful the warrior is, it is not worth mentioning, and no matter how tough the individual is, it will be changed beyond recognition. It seems to be the case..."
“People who can live to this day, use the words passed down from ancient generations, and continue to live, have come out on top in this race for life that has lasted for more than 500 million years.”
"The only thing that can defeat time is life itself."
"foehn..."
The miniature of the shooting star’s child hole——
——At that moment, the sound source signal logo of HUD changed its appearance.
It was originally the Roman transliteration of [shoki·Zhongkui], but for a few seconds, it became the real name of [ishihara momoe·ISHIhara Momo].
Immediately after the hud audio playback is completed.
Bu Liuxing didn't speak. He didn't ask any more questions to Lefeng. Regarding Tom's theory of mind system, he no longer had the extra thinking bandwidth to process the redundant data.
Zhong Kui talked to him so much that he couldn't tell which ones were true and which ones were false, even if they were all true——
——These news have become [sunset glow] for Bu Liuxing.
Those are the dim yellow and bright red fire clouds that remain on the horizon after the sun sets. The real sun has long since sunk into the horizon.
He came to the main control room and followed the Japanese instructions on each button to turn off the energy one by one. As a low hum came from various workshops in the factory, the moment the power system was paralyzed——
——The hot wind finally regained its composure and spoke.
[Bu Liuxing, just now...]
[The woman said just now that she said I was a fake...]
Bu Liuxing: "She said you are the fake among fakes, the best fake among fakes."
[Am I a set program? ]
Bu Liuxing: "That's what I mean."
[Then I...I...do I have any meaning of existence? Was I born to be destroyed? I...]
Ah Xing walked out of the main control room and returned to the corridor. He saw that the medicine in the petri dish had been drained. There were hundreds of angel baby brains twitching in the cabin, using their weak spines to do something before death. The conditioned reflex struggled and squirmed, making a hair-raising noise when hitting the endurance board.
Bu Liuxing's brows were furrowed and his eyes were as bright as fire.
"Grandpa Qiantang also said the same. He asked me to be careful of you - he said that you are not the real hot wind. Now even hot wind is not included. There is another foehn. So what is behind the foehn? Who are you? ? What should I call you? How should I pronounce your name correctly? You have made me so confused!"
"Do you really exist in this history? Are you really a living person?"
Bu Liuxing went to the nursery behind him. He looked and talked as he walked.
"Is there a possibility that you are just the imaginary leader of the Foehn Chapter? This land has terrifying spiritual pressure, and it is not strange to have collective hallucinations..."
[I have no idea...]
The nursery is a large workshop of nearly 2,000 square meters. There are rows of tanks on the two walls outside the conveyor belt, which are also artificial wombs. Angel babies are raised in these artificial wombs. These babies are now dark shadows. , only the umbilical cord extending from the tank can be seen connecting them.
Originally, they were going to send them to a processing workshop to process the excess flesh and blood, and take out the brains and process them into "good students" in a petri dish.
Meteor suffered severe mental damage, his sanity plummeted, and adrenaline surged along with the huge emotional ups and downs.
"What are you hesitating about?! Hot Wind?!"
After witnessing all this, Meteor was furious and his hair stood on end!
"Refeng! What are you hesitating about? Now you are my right arm, and you are connected with my flesh and blood! What are you hesitating about?!"
He pointed at everything around him, pointing at the flesh processing factory at the end of the conveyor belt, pointing at the decomposition workshop where the power was outage, and the babies around sixty weeks old who had just expired, and the robot arm's blade had just finished the craniotomy procedure.
"ah!
! ——————”
Bu Liuxing roared, sound waves echoing in the empty and lonely factory.
"ah!
! ——————”
The veins in his neck protruded, and bloodshot eyes quickly emerged from his eyes. As his blood pressure rose, his roar was filled with strong hatred and anger.
"ah!
! ——————”
His legs went weak, and he knelt in front of the workshop, as if he had finally lost all strength.
His heart was trembling and beating violently as he roared with all his strength, sending out bursts of cramping pain.
The soaring blood pressure caused Meteor's capillaries to burst. He couldn't hold Dragon Slayer and Belloberg, and the two swords just fell to his sides.
The crying general was crying in pain, roaring and howling heart-breakingly. He didn't know what was going on.
As Big Brother Ping An said, changes in time and technology seem not to bring happiness——
——Zhong Kui’s last words are like a puzzle that cannot be explained.
Science can answer people's questions, but metaphysics created by gods can only create more questions.
[Hey...boy...]
Bu Liuxing wiped away the blood and tears from the corners of his eyes and replied immediately.
"I'm fine."
At this moment, Refeng was surprised by the changes in Bu Meteor——
——Those roars just now almost shattered its mind, and it was difficult for reason and logic to maintain a stable state in the sudden increase in body metabolism.
That kind of anger and hatred are extreme emotions that are difficult to understand, empathize with, and explore deeply. These emotional symptoms often occur before personality splitting occurs.
But after only a few dozen seconds, the big boy stood up, put his sword on his back again, and continued to move forward.
Refeng couldn't find anyone similar in the database, let alone such a determined look.
"Refeng, ask the question you just asked again."
[Oh...is...what's the problem? ]
Bu Liuxing: "Fake..."
[oh! Am I...am I fake? ]
Bu Liuxing clenched his fist and waved his right arm fiercely: "No!"
[Am I a fake among fakes? The fake among fakes? ]
"No! No! It shouldn't be!" Bu Liuxing became impatient and started jogging towards the decomposition workshop, "That's not the case!"
[Then what am I? ? What am I? ]
Meteor pushed open the door of the classic human factory and walked out from the roadway——
——Raising his head, he saw the dark dome, the city lights in the distance were like the bright starry sky, and everything was quiet.
"Do you remember? Grandpa Qiantang called you boss."
"In the last few sentences of Zhong Kui's last words, she thought she had really turned into Ishihara Momo - at the end of the recording, she was definitely calling you, she called you Foe Feng."
[Boy...]
"You were the one who saved my life, you were the one who dueled with the executioner, you were the one who killed Zhong Kui, and you were the one roaring in the Angel Baby's processing workshop. It should all be you."
"I believe in you! Just like you believe in me! I can touch you, feel you..."
"As for who you are? Brother Xueming's soul power also asked me this..."
Fragrance Fantasy was once invited by the Secret Library Research Institute to study itself. In layman's terms, it means to find out what it is.
"I can only answer this question from my own perspective. Now you have to show me the way. We have to continue fighting. Only we can decide who we are. To me..."
Bu Liuxing was waiting for the next mission order, and he remained motionless——
"——You are the real deal!"
