Tartarus, the third deep dive chamber.
Ye Qian is sitting on the high platform, and under him are the bodies that have been separated from their souls - those living corpses are imprisoned in dark technological coffins, acting as a bridge between the basic reality and the abyssal dark web. medium.
After scanning for a while, Ye Qian smiled. Then, as if to crown himself, he solemnly put a helmet full of pipes on his head.
In the past, a high-precision scanner that required a computer room the size of a classroom can now be shrunk and integrated into such a helmet.
As the circuit is connected, the superconducting spider web circuits that are as thin as mist and spread all over the inner lining of the helmet are instantly activated. The powerful magnetic fields penetrated the skull, and in just a few microns, they completely scanned the wearer's brain, building an accurate model of every potential of the brain's nerves.
At the same time, the plug-in "Pegasus" installed in Ye Qian's brain was automatically activated.
On the one hand, "Pegasus" forcibly grabbed the DNA in the brain cells that had been cut to pieces by the strong radiation, and stitched them back bit by bit; on the other hand, it temporarily suppressed "Ye Qian" The operation of self-awareness caused his body to fall into an unconscious state similar to that of a zombie.
As for the three-dimensional snapshot of the brain that was taken, it replaced Ye Qian's biological brain and began to run his self-awareness.
This process was called the activation of digital personality a hundred years ago.
However, brain modeling alone is not enough. The modeling of the brain also needs to be connected to a body, capable of sensing and interacting with the outside world, in order to be called a complete digital personality.
Even if it only exists in the form of data, he still needs a substitute program.
As for which substitute program it is - the helmet on Ye Qian's head is not only connected to his own brain-computer interface, but also connected to the deep submersible labeled "Theseus".
With the activation of the program, Ye Qian's digital personality passed through the Styx Firewall through the company's deep dive interface and dived into the Abyss Dark Web. Then, he used his connection with the "Theseus" puppet circuit to anchor the specific coordinates in the dark web.
Then... he downloaded it into the substitute program of "Theseus" easily.
As a result, Ye Qian's consciousness arrived in this warehouse and in front of Wutou-23 who was questioning him.
This is the ability of Path of Theseus Depth 4 - download the digital personality into the stand-in programs of those puppets through the connection between the puppet circuits, and gain control of them.
At this moment, Ye Qian, who was in Theseus's body, moved his neck and looked around.
【how did you do it? 】
A line of text quickly appeared in Ye Qian's field of vision - it seemed that Theseus, whose body had been taken away by him, typed these words in extremely panic at this moment.
Well, the emotion of "panic" is not actually visible just through this text. But Ye Qian is extremely convinced that when a person is instantly seized control of his body by another consciousness and is manipulated at will like a puppet on strings, he will sincerely feel extremely frightened.
In fact, he can now completely cut off "Theseus"'s perception of the outside world, causing the other party's consciousness to fall into a dreamless sleep.
However, this feeling of despair that makes the other person soberly use his own perception and watch everything that is happening, but nothing can be changed, really makes him feel unable to stop.
[All gifts are secretly priced, caveman. From the first time you begged me to save your life, from the time I chose the name 'Theseus' for you, your end has been doomed. 】
Ye Qian showed this text to his puppet through the eye movement interface. Then, he looked at Wutou-23 in front of him and said:
"How on earth did you guess it was me?"
When he said this, he looked up at the three-meter-tall mecha figure with squinted eyes, and there was no hint of timidity in his expression.
After all, he just copied his own digital personality and came here. Even if the other party takes action directly, it will not have any substantial impact on Ye Qian who is in the basic reality - even if Wutou-23 takes action directly now, the only people who will die in the basic reality will be those currently controlled by him. of "Theseus".
In fact, it doesn't matter whether Theseus' double ends up dead or not. After I return, the current digital personality will be deleted and destroyed after being synchronized with the main body and recorded.
"Are you thinking I'm an idiot?"
Regarding Ye Qian's question, Wutou-23 just asked with a very unhappy expression:
"What is the possibility that after diving into the Abyss Dark Web, you will happen to reach the database of the Nord Resettlement Area? Do you think I will really not be suspicious at all?"
"But there are so many possible explanations, and my suspicion doesn't rank high among them."
Ye Qian said this in the voice of Theseus.
If there is any doubt, "Theseus" was given special care by Hecate, the goddess of the moon, and the possibility of problems during this dive is much greater.
"That's right, I didn't doubt you at all at first."
Wutou-23 nodded, and then continued:
"But not long ago, I met a guard. That guy is only at the depth level 2, but his combat power can keep suppressing me... In fact, it doesn't matter even if I get here. The dark web is vast, and I can encounter one or two powerful people. There is no need to be too surprised by malicious programs that far exceed its level...
"But another thing changed my view - after I killed the gatekeeper, the technological blueprint that fell out of it happened to be the complete set of adjustments and transformations for Path of Theseus Depth 2."
As Wu Tou-23 spoke, he opened his palm, and a dark green data ball flashed on it, and the six cameras on his face were constantly flashing red light.
"In this case, there is no need to say more about who this matter most likely has something to do with."
Recover the data ball, Wutou-23 said.
As the deputy captain of Wolfsbane Force, a special response force under the Offensive Security Defense Coordination Center, Wutou-23 has the authority to access the personal information of all employees within the company whose confidentiality level is lower than his own. Therefore, he naturally knew which path Ye Qian chose to upgrade to.
Within Tartarus, among the people Wutou-23 had the authority to check, only Ye Qian chose the upgrade path Theseus.
Generally speaking, normal people would not choose this dead end road - they are blacklisted and blocked from printing permissions and materials for high-level adjustment and transformation. This road ends completely at depth 5. .
But Ye Qian insisted on having his own way.
Now it seems that if you think about it from another angle, maybe it is because Ye Qian knew something that he chose this upgrade path.
"I was indeed a little too careless to be exposed because of this. However, after killing the gatekeeper, the technological blueprint of Theseus' path will be dropped, which is not something I can predict..."
Regarding Wu Tou-23's words, Ye Qian nodded with regret.
"Stop trying to riddle me here. Tell me immediately what is going on. Otherwise, in the name of Cerberus, you will be taken away for internal investigation."
Wutou-23 interrupted with an unprecedented serious tone.
Ye Qian, who was interrupted, smiled slightly, then shook his head and said:
"Please don't do this, okay, okay... I will tell you everything I know. Please make sure you listen to what I say before deciding how to make the final choice. However, where should I start? Speaking of which..."
As Ye Qian spoke, he couldn't help but raise his hand and touched Theseus' chin. After thinking for a moment, he said:
"Well, let me start with what good things are hidden in the database of this Nord resettlement area. I believe you are also most interested in this...
"You should know that if you want to break through the depth 7 threshold when walking on the upgrade path, in addition to the transformation list, printing permissions and materials. Each upgrade path has the ability to maintain human cognition after breaking through the limits of human intelligence. Special method. And this is also the biggest secret of every upgrade path.
"According to my investigation, in this database, there is a special method to break through the depth 7 of the Path of Theseus."
(End of chapter)
