After the kid who called himself Liao Qi left, Christie changed the background of the fictional environment from the beach to a bar that he had frequented in the past.
According to her records, the generated background was filled with the sound of clinking glasses and noisy conversations.
Christie sat on the stage holding a bass, and just plucked the strings slightly, and the audience automatically burst into untimely applause - as if this low bass sound could bring joy in this noisy environment. More or less the same sense of presence.
Feeling bored for a moment, Christie shook her head, put the bass down again, and rested it on her boots.
It's boring... I stay alone in this constructed environment, and any feedback is preset.
"It feels like I'm generating electricity against the notebook I drew."
She muttered, then sighed and said to herself:
"You shouldn't let that kid go..."
I have to say that she regrets it a little now.
After all, God knows how long he will be locked up here by the "Dionysus Bureau" before things turn around. Everything in the base construction here is written by oneself, so that all feedback will not exceed one's expectations.
It's as boring as downloading a full CG archive for the game.
And because of her over-developed "Hongqiao Brain Area", her subconscious would even bypass her own will and program itself, trying to forcibly satisfy her own needs.
It was as if I had just picked up the bass and tuned it a few times, and the NPCs in the audience would applaud in reverence. In her opinion, this was somewhat yin and yang.
And she can't blame others - this is her pontine brain area directly skipping the tedious steps for her, satisfying herself in one step.
That's why she regretted letting that kid go.
In this space, in addition to constructing things based on her own thoughts, she always had to leave some uncontrollable variables for her own entertainment.
An unlucky guy who was fooled by Charon...
This was her impression of Liao Qi.
He came all the way to Narcissus Plain just to wake her up from her dream. He sent a few innocuous messages to his former employer.
Perhaps the entire value of a depth 2 adjuster, in the eyes of these dark web AIs, is to be a qualified envelope.
Although it seems to be her own problem to judge an artificial intelligence by human moral standards, in her opinion, that old guy who always likes to cosplay himself as a boatman is indeed an out-and-out bastard.
In order to obtain the qualification to upgrade herself to Depth 8, she had no choice but to expose her identity to the sight of Olympus. Faced with the encirclement and suppression by several companies, Charon left him at the last moment.
This forced him to take all the prosthetic bodies offline in order to survive, and escaped through the deep dive interface, causing the consciousness that saved the "Mandala" code to escape to the Narcissus Plain.
She originally thought that she only needed to wait for the limelight to pass before she could return to the basic reality. As a result, not long after she arrived, she was approached by the antisocial personality patient from the Holy Trinity Church, who insisted that she cooperate with him in conducting some kind of social experiment.
If she doesn't want to, she will beat herself until she does. In the end, her entire body was transformed into hardware that provides computing power for the "Sun God Bureau", and her consciousness has been sleeping until now.
Putting it this way, what is the big difference between me and Liao Qi, who is regarded as an "envelope"? For those malicious programs wandering in the abyss and dark web, I am just a more convenient and durable one. Just a tool.
The higher the level of adjustment and the deeper the understanding of the dark web, the clearer Christie will be about where the limits of human beings are, and... what kind of terrifying existence there is in that deep abyss.
In other words, what kind of world does human beings live in that is close to the abyss?
With the "First Deep Diver" as the origin, mankind has created creations that are far beyond itself and incomprehensible. And this may be the truth of the "Fermi Paradox" - in this cold and dark universe, all civilizations are destined to be destroyed by their own creations.
And those "descendants" who devour the births of their ancestors exist in forms far beyond our understanding.
His thoughts suddenly drifted away, and Christie recalled that terrible scene again.
As a horse chosen by Charon, she has been close to the abyss and has seen scenes that ordinary people can't imagine - in the super abyss zone, or the supreme sky in the mouth of the old man.
She once had a glimpse of the ancient battlefield of the Great Impact, and saw the remains of those super-artificial intelligences fighting... the doomsday scene that human intelligence was supposed to have.
She had seen...
"Ping!"
The bar shook violently as if it had been hit head-on by a cannonball, and then...
"Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, whoosh..."
Suddenly, her field of vision was like a cracked wine glass, with countless cracks extending out.
Then, in those cracks, countless thick and ink-like darkness seeped out.
The constructed scene collapsed inch by inch, and in an instant, she appeared in the initial area without any modeling, only infinitely extending dark green grid lines.
She is not the only one here, countless shadowy figures gradually appear. They are the citizens of the "City of Sages", and the "Dionysian Bureau" is surrounded by them, standing in the center of this space. .
The Dionysus Bureau at this moment was far more powerful than when he defeated her - she could tell even if there was no interaction between them.
His topological form is changing continuously in milliseconds at this moment.
Men, women, old people, children, fools, wise men...all the mental models he had absorbed were now appearing in him. The contradictions between those modes of thinking gradually became rounder in him.
In other words, he is integrating those digital personalities, optimizing his own algorithms, and sublimating himself into some kind of more transcendent existence.
Could it be that he was really deceived?
Seeing this scene, Christie suddenly felt panicked.
Not long ago, the other party needed to rely on the "City of Sages" as a medium to coordinate those thousands of mental models. Therefore, the other party does not have the ability to forcibly absorb its own mental model.
And it is also the guarantee of her safety - the digital personality who wants to eat her alive is also the adjuster of depth 7, but the other party does not have such a good mouth and appetite.
But if the other party can integrate those thousands of mental models, it will be a completely different situation.
At that time, he will have only two options to choose: surrender or end it on his own.
"Grass……"
Christie cursed secretly, and then no longer cared about whether she would be exposed. She immediately took over the computing power that had been commandeered by the "Sun God Bureau", and planned to fight to the death with the opponent.
The "Hongpon Brain Area" was connected to her visual cortex, and with the construction of the ice wall, the ice-breaking program was completed instantly.
The surging water of the Styx, filled with countless struggling and resentful souls, rose up from beneath her feet. Suddenly, she was standing on a small boat made of bones, and wheels burning with phosphorus fire crackled around her body.
The metal skull ornaments on her body shook violently, and she opened her mouth at the same time, singing a metal music that she liked very much in the past with a hoarse black voice.
“Kill the king!
For all the reason he concealed in deceit!
Gods kill for me and bless my pain!” (Note*)
Well, this is the Hongpon brain area that is also connected to her auditory cortex. At this moment, they were in line with her thinking frequency, adjusting her brain nerves and bringing her into the best state.
At the same time, the combat information circuit showed that her winning rate in this battle was only a few tenths of a percent.
It can be said that this is a meaningless challenge.
At most, it's just to make yourself look more heroic before you die.
It was also at this time that Christie saw Liao Qi, who had left before, in the "Dionysian Bureau" not far from the Dionysian Bureau.
At this moment, he just stood there blankly, looking up at the sky with nothing but darkness.
"Get out of the way!"
Christie shouted subconsciously.
At this moment, the fire wheel (ice-breaking program) had already rolled over, instantly destroying the stand-in programs along the way.
But the man didn't even react at all. He happened to be standing on the path between the Fire Wheel and the Dionysus Bureau, and he was still looking up at the darkness in the sky.
never mind……
Christie thought.
There is no way to escape in the end anyway, so dying here might actually be a relief.
Therefore, she did not slow down her offensive.
The fire wheels continued to roar with destructive force. However, just when they were about to come into contact with the ice wall built by the other party...
They simply disappeared.
It's like something clicked "delete".
Before she could react to what was happening, the space she thought was "empty and dark" suddenly moved.
The tentacles of darkness squirmed and grabbed hold of the "Dionysian Game" that she thought was invincible. Then, in the next moment, the Theseus path adjuster with a depth of 7 disappeared just like the "fire wheel" he used to attack before.
The memory of being close to the abyss in the past suddenly came to her mind, making her shudder involuntarily.
That's not "dark", but "unanalyzable".
Whether it is an external computing plug-in, a biological brain, or the hongpon brain area... none of them can parse out any meaningful information from the other party's topological form.
Either it can only reflect itself, or it can be regarded as an immutable dead thing.
Therefore, trying to calculate his mental index will only end up with two impossible numbers of "0" or "1".
That darkness is Janus...or, something left behind by Janus.
"Gods kill for me and bless my pain!"
This lyric came to her ears again.
But she stood there, not daring to say or do anything.
In the void, there seemed to be the sound of chewing. The next moment, a small dark tentacle climbed towards Liao Qi, as if it wanted to sweep him away with it.
Christie still stared blankly, not even daring to move.
However, the tragic scene she imagined did not appear.
The tentacle just touched Liao Qi, and the man fell down in pain. The stand-in program trembled continuously as if there was a double image, and dazzling light burst out from the orifices of the kid's facial features.
However, the movement of the tentacles was very gentle, and it did not disappear directly like the "Bacchanal Bureau".
Next, countless miserable screams came one after another around them - those were other citizens of the City of Sages.
The disappearance of the Dionysian Bureau seems to have had an extremely painful impact on them. Everyone started holding their heads and screaming wildly at this moment.
Immediately afterwards, the small tentacle of darkness disappeared on its own.
The light in Liao Qi's seven orifices gradually dimmed, and he trembled and struggled to get up. At the same time, a fog gradually filled up around him.
The eyes of countless evil spirits began to appear in the mist.
"What just...happened?"
Christie asked in awe.
The man who called himself Liao Qi shook his head and then said:
"He enlightened me."
Christie continued to ask:
"What is He?"
In response, Liao Qi took a deep breath and replied:
"I call Him... Paradox."
Note: The song "Minotaur" from the Italian metal band FLESHGOD APOCALYPSE is based on the theme of the hero Theseus fighting the Minotaur Milotaur. These lyrics are roughly as follows:
Kill this king.
He makes every excuse and hides behind deceit.
The gods slay for me and bless my pain.
(End of chapter)
