With the words of "Madeline" revealing the truth, the entire venue became silent for an instant.
It was as if a drama had reached its climax, and all the audience held their breath for this moment.
The eyes of thousands of spectators were like spotlights cast on the protagonist of this carnival - Jiang Zhou.
They are looking forward to how this person whose truth has been revealed will respond.
Jiang Zhou opened his mouth slightly, paused for a long time before speaking:
"You mean...digital personality?"
The hidden meaning behind the other party's words made Jiang Zhou shudder.
Uploading a digital personality requires scanning the brain, which is equivalent to destruction - and as far as Jiang Zhou knows, only by installing the Deep 3 brain plug-in "Pegasus" to repair the brain can the body in reality be guaranteed. No brain death from radiation sickness.
It is impossible for the forces behind the City of Sages to install Deep 3 brain plug-ins for all the more than a thousand people present in the basic reality - not to mention whether they can get so many "Pegasus" prints Authority, the impact of this thing on the mental index is also astonishing. If you don't follow the upgrade path of "Theseus" and pretend to be like this, conservatively estimate that at least half of the people will go crazy.
As for the technology to crack the "Pegasus" that can be improved and mass-produced, that is even more impossible - Perse Fanny from the Department of Medicine has only cracked the "Zombie Switch" function of the "Pegasus" and has already put it into popular use. Luto Deep Dive has been reused by the top management within the company. It is not that simple to reversely analyze darknet technology using human thinking.
In other words...
"Everyone here...are they all dead?"
Recalling what the substitute Nan Xiang said before with the same appearance as the person in front of him: "All of us will be murdered by this city," Jiang Zhou took a deep breath and said.
"The definition of 'death' between us may be somewhat different. In comparison, I prefer to use the term 'the first deep diver' used when he uploaded his consciousness..."
Regarding Jiang Zhou's words, "Madeline" nodded and said:
"We have transcended the shackles of nature and hammered it into immortal form with gilt."
The tone of her voice when she said this was like singing a poem. To this, Jiang Zhou's reaction was...
I never said that! Who made this up and spread it out?
He resisted the urge to say these words and immediately said:
“But that’s not what you said before.
"You said before that as long as you accept the order of the City of Sages, you will ensure that every citizen of this city can..."
He stopped here.
"Are you playing word games on me?"
Recalling what he said before, Jiang Zhou's face suddenly turned cold.
What the guard captain said at that time was "to ensure that no one in this city will have to worry about damage to deep-diving equipment or being extubated in the future - everyone can live until the end of their lives."
Since everyone in basic reality is dead, there is really no need to worry about "damage to deep-diving equipment and extubation". As for the definition of "alive", it is obvious that they have a very flexible set of standards.
"Just as I have told you the truth now, there is no deception in this matter... If you want to complete the upload of the digital personality, you must require Mandala certification."
Everyone present is volunteering.
"Madeline" said this, and then she continued:
"And the reason why we wanted to hide this from you before was because we were worried that you would be frightened by this trivial sacrifice... At the very least, you need to experience the lifestyle here in this city before making a decision. It’s only fair. Instead of rejecting it at the beginning because of some sad prejudices like most ordinary people do.”
In other words, this half-month visit and experience in this city is just to let the "newcomers" feel what a wonderful place this is - and in order to continue to stay in this place, people just need to pay the basics for it. The cost of physical death in reality...?
Jiang Zhou thought.
It can't be that simple, right?
"So, what do you think? Compared to the basic reality of fishing for factory food from the sewers in the shadow of the Olympus gods. In a city full of peace and tranquility, everyone can Would a utopia that maximizes one’s potential—to use what you said before—be closer to the utopia in human imagination?”
Madeleine continued.
Following her impassioned tone as if giving a speech, the people in the surrounding auditorium became lively again, with endless applause and cheers.
"Is that all?"
Jiang Zhou suddenly calmed down in response to the other party's very confusing remarks. He looked around at the enthusiastic spectators with an expressionless expression. It wasn't until the applause and cheers subsided in his silence that he turned his attention to "Madeline" again and said:
"What about other than that? Regarding this city, or to put it another way...about the operation of your system, I think there is one most critical detail that has not been shown to me yet, right?"
Frankly speaking, if Jiang Zhou were not in basic reality now, there would still be a lot of things that needed to be done that had not been completed. In fact, he has no objection to abandoning his physical body and living in cyberspace in digital form - he did this a hundred years ago.
Since he can even overcome his own hurdle, he naturally cannot have any objections to other people who voluntarily choose this path. It would be better to say that when I hosted the "Janus Project" back then, I hoped that something similar would happen, and that mankind could make a leap forward through this technology.
but……
"Why did I meet your substitute Reverberation in the Narcissus Plain?"
Jiang Zhou asked.
If he encounters her substitute's reverberation, it should mean that the other party's substitute program has been destroyed.
It’s not just that…
This seemingly "utopian" city of sages has far more than just such a problem.
The first thing to bear the brunt is the problem that Jiang Zhou has always been confused about - no personal identity, no long-term relationships between people. While these digital personalities still maintain human thinking patterns, how do these more than a thousand people maintain their normal sanity as social creatures?
In addition, what did the audience shouting to themselves before, "new mind, new thinking mode", exactly mean?
And... so much scientific exploration, so much research on topics. How do people in this city accomplish this without the assistance of a huge professional team?
You must know that after entering the 21st century, except for pure logical subjects such as mathematics, there is no scientific research in any subdivided field that can achieve breakthroughs with just one or two geniuses. Without the assistance of a large and professional team; without hard-working scientific research coolies; without modern management science to coordinate all development, no idea can eventually become a reality.
However, the City of Sages has always boasted that every citizen can do what they like wholeheartedly, and there will never be any forced command relationship between people. So who should do those things that no one is willing to do?
In fact, many doubts had accumulated here, and Jiang Zhou already had a vague answer in his heart... But the answer was too shocking, and he was not willing to believe it for a moment.
I can't believe that the digital personality technology I once invented would be used in such a sinful way.
So, he waited for the person in front of him to tell the answer.
"Madeline" smiled and then said:
"I think you have almost guessed the answer... Yes, including me, each of the more than a thousand citizens present has uploaded the source code of his or her digital personality to the Dionysus Bureau and the Sun God Bureau. All personalities belong to the whole people, and everyone can select the mental model they need in the database, copy and modify it to their own side.
"We control our own personality copies as our assistants, partners, relatives, lovers...or if you are interested, they can also be slaves, vent objects, pets.
"If you want to officially become a member of the citizens, then you also need to upload your personality source code to the database and make it open source and public. And this is the only price you have to pay to achieve eternal immortality and happiness... …At the same time, it is also the cornerstone of our city’s eternal prosperity.”
(End of chapter)
