"Here are your ashes."
Charon's answer made Jiang Zhou, who had originally planned to untie the bag's ties, freeze.
Looking again at the worn cloth bag, Jiang Zhou held it solemnly in his hands with an awe-inspiring expression on his face.
There is no need for too much explanation, Jiang Zhou understands naturally. The so-called "ashes" refer to the remaining parts of the "Jiangzhou" stand-in program - similar to the data that was not deleted after the program was uninstalled.
If he wants to return to the basic reality, he must first restore the original substitute program. And what's inside is the key to restoring your own stand-in program.
However, even so, Jiang Zhou still criticized the term "ashes".
Can't you change the noun to refer to it, or change it to a visual model?
Do you have to make it look like the ashes are wrapped in rags, making them look like sandbags?
Strongly resisting the urge to complain, Jiang Zhou carefully put away his ashes. At this time, Hecate on the side reminded:
"Remember, before your avatar is re-sutured, the half of your body in the lower realm of the physical layer must not access the upper realm... Any form of access is not allowed."
Jiang Zhou nodded.
Although the words were very abstract, he could understand what the other party meant.
In fact, he himself had realized this before.
Right now, I logged into this "account" using Liao Qi's Mandala password.
In other words, if Liao Qi logs in again at this time, he will be pushed offline in an instant.
Jiang Zhou, who does not have the support of a second stand-in program, will directly trigger the apoptosis program in the brain-computer interface, and the whole person will be on the spot.
In other words, Liao Qi, who is currently in the Nord resettlement area, has been completely disconnected from the Internet before he returns to the basic reality - anything that requires the use of the Mandala password for online authentication cannot be done.
In this way, Liao Qi is now unable to turn on the immersion mode to access the cyberspace of the World Wide Web (requiring the use of a substitute program), cannot use the electronic currency of his own account, and cannot even join the private communication channels of his teammates.
Oh...he couldn't even go home to visit his mother. In order to protect the security of users, the security authentication of Vista Jenny Home System uses the Mandala password.
Jiang Zhou felt a little headache.
Fortunately, in order to make it easier for Bai Dong to adjust her mother's mind, I had given her temporary authentication permission... If I really wanted to go home, I could ask her to help open the door.
However, these things are secondary for now.
There was a question that deserved more attention, lying in front of him.
"So, you... know that I have two stand-in programs?"
Looking at the goddess of the moon in front of him, Jiang Zhou asked with some anxiety.
He himself felt that this question was a very stupid question... After all, when he woke up, the first thing the other person said was to tell him that the reason why he didn't die was because he had two substitute programs.
However, Jiang Zhou didn't know how to ask this question.
After all, there was no way that he could just take the initiative to speak out about the "Janus Program".
"This is something you already knew when you first broke into my domain."
Hecate gave an unexpected answer.
"Then you won't think this is a bit..."
He tried to find a suitable word.
"Abnormal?"
He finally said this.
After all, a person should only have one body.
The other party did not answer. Those empty eyes were not so much looking at him as looking through his body towards the empty nothingness on the other side of the River Styx.
The two sides stared at each other for a long time. Finally, Hecate said:
"If you don't have this talent, and you don't have this multi-threaded parallel 'emotion' algorithm, why would I choose you as the material to complete my project?"
The other party's words directly silenced Jiang Zhou.
Although it doesn't directly answer his own question, it explains why he was chosen as the key to understanding human emotions.
Indeed, although I have only been part of "Liao Qi's" life, his memories, experiences and prospects will have a real impact on my emotions.
If you want to collect materials about "emotions", then you can indeed provide more possibilities.
"As for the origin of your abnormality..."
Hecate continued, and Jiang Zhou immediately pricked up his ears.
"Madam, if you don't want my little boat to capsize in the river of Sethus, then please don't mention the name of that being here...especially after He has proven that he still has The moment when abilities have an impact on the lower realm.”
At this time, Charon spoke in his hoarse and gloomy voice.
As he spoke, he looked at Jiang Zhou, who was full of doubts, and continued:
"Also, I don't think it's a good thing to let him know too much right now...it's too early and there are too many options."
Hecate stopped when she heard this, with a thoughtful expression on her face.
Which existence's name is taboo?
Janus?
Also, what does it mean to say it’s too early and there are too many choices?
Jiang Zhou was stunned. His eyes glanced back and forth between the two AIs that appeared in human form. It was unclear what kind of riddle they were making.
It was indeed a riddle - the conversation between them was just the surface that Jiang Zhou could observe. In fact, during their conversation, they had exchanged massive amounts of data and conducted countless deductions before finally coming to this conclusion.
It can be roughly regarded as CG that is playing real-time calculations.
After listening to Charon's words, Hecate looked at Jiang Zhou again.
"Right now, you are traveling on the right path. When you ascend to the seventh heaven and break through the shackles of human wisdom...then you will be qualified to know the truth."
She said so.
"The truth about what?"
Jiang Zhou asked.
"All truth under the highest heaven."
Hecate answered.
Then, without waiting for Jiang Zhou to continue, she asked another question:
"When your companions betrayed you, why didn't you show your true anger and hatred to me?"
Although he understood that the other party was just changing the topic, Jiang Zhou still replied:
"Perhaps it's because from their point of view, they have no choice but to do this? And to a certain extent, I can completely understand their approach."
"Empathy?"
Hecate asked.
Jiang Zhou nodded.
"They are not the driving force behind the incident... They, including me, are just a series of tragedies that are twisted and passed to the end. Hatring or being angry at them will not help solve any actual problems."
Speaking of this, Jiang Zhou couldn't help but smile:
"Of course, or maybe it's because I understood at that time that even with hatred and anger, I couldn't change anything."
Even in terms of emotional control, Jiang Zhou is also a pragmatist - if intense emotions are not helpful in helping him solve problems, and may even become an obstacle at work, then he will choose to restrain his emotions first.
But for this answer, Hecate shook her head in disappointment.
"However, what I need is 'even if nothing can be changed, it will still act abnormally'. If I just want to optimize efficiency, there is no need to study the mechanism of human emotions."
There was a strong sense of loss in her words.
It was also at this time that the boat shuddered and stopped with a "click" sound.
"Here we are."
Charon put down the long pole in his hand, turned to look at them and grinned.
At this moment, they were anchored on a simple pier, with a dim oil lamp flickering on the shore.
In the distance, there is a hazy scenery.
"Leaving the pier, in the distance is the Narcissus Plain."
(End of chapter)
