40,000 Years of Cultivation

Li Yao said solemnly: "We found a lot of vegetative people in the medical cabin outside the inpatient area. Are they the ones?"

"Yes it is."

Liu Wenshan said, "I have asked all the seniors. Their experience is the same as mine. When conducting a certain important research, they forget to sleep and eat and work day and night. With the help of virtual cabins, holographic helmets and unified spirit nets, they have shocked again and again. The limit of the brain area, squeezed the potential of the brain cells, and finally went crazy, passed out, and when he woke up, he was in the spirit world.

"Lei Yuqin is a lieutenant in the spirit world. We simulated the environment similar to our hometown or work place, and our family members. Our job is to study many topics that Lei Yuqin brought over. Some people have been studying for decades. ."

Li Yao was surprised: "Since I know it is the spiritual world and everything I see is illusory, why bother to cooperate with Lei Yuqin to help her conduct research?"

Liu Wenshan showed an expression of incomparable pain and trance, and murmured: "You don't understand or imagine the many methods in the spiritual world. Lei Yuqin naturally has various methods to tempt and force us to cooperate.

"More often, she doesn't need to coerce and tempt her at all, because research is our instinct-trapped in the spiritual world, everything is false. Although most of the needs can be met, this satisfaction is too great. Being pale is more painful than life imprisonment. Apart from research, what else is really meaningful?

"What's more, many of the issues raised by Lei Yuqin have already been answered for the most part, and many of them have whimsical and wonderful ideas that we have never heard of. They are beyond the technical limits of the Federation and even the empire. They are so attractive to us!

"The special environment of the spiritual world also gives us an illusory sense of security, or allows us to deceive ourselves and others. Knowing that Lei Yuqin can monitor our every move, we will still gather in a secret room that seems to be'nobody around'. Discuss these topics.

"In the most extreme case, if someone shows too much resistance, Lei Yuqin will throw him into a special spiritual world-it is a silver-white spherical space less than two meters in diameter and smooth on all sides. There are no gaps in the mirror, and you can neither hear any sound nor see any colors other than silvery white!

"In the spiritual world, everything is virtual. As long as Lei Yuqin is willing, we can completely deprive us of our hunger. Just imagine that if a person loses his hunger, he can’t hear, see, or touch anything. Floating in a silver-white spherical cage less than two meters in diameter, I don't know how long the sentence is, five days, ten days, one month, six months, maybe staying in it forever, what a cruel torture!

"At this time, if a research topic suddenly appears in the spherical space, and there are everything needed to complete the topic, then, besides starting the research, does the prisoner have other options?"

Li Yao meditated on this punishment silently, the more he pondered, the tighter his teeth were.

The person who came up with this method of torture is really terrible!

Liu Wenshan shuddered deeply and said: "I was thrown into a silver-white prison once, and stayed in it for about... five or six days. I can't stand it at all. I am willing to compromise on anything— —Anyway, studying the loopholes in the imperial crystal brain and the method of capturing the imperial starship is not harmful to the Federation. I comforted myself and cooperated with Lei Yuqin.

"It didn’t take long for me to fall into the spirit world, and I can still maintain a clear sense of consciousness. However, many of the seniors who have been trapped in the spirit world for decades have sincerely cooperated with Lei Yuqin, and even joined Lei Yuqin from the heart. , Has truly become a member of the spirit world!"

Li Yao asked: "Why?"

Liu Wenshan smiled bitterly: "It's easy to lose yourself in the spiritual world, blur the boundary between'real' and'false'. I got here not long ago. Although Lei Yuqin simulated my family, I know they are fake. , The real family is still waiting for me outside, I still want to escape.

"But many predecessors have been trapped here for decades. They have been with those false relatives simulated by artificial intelligence for decades, and have worked so hard to build the spiritual world for decades. They calculated, modeled, and rendered them. They have long been integrated into the spiritual world and become a part of the spiritual world. For them, the spiritual world and their relatives simulated by artificial intelligence are the only real, the outside world. It's not important anymore!"

Li Yao silently remembered the vivid Wei Qingqing, Long Yangjun and Ling Xiaole in the second spirit world created by Professor Mo Xuan.

Indeed, if he falls into a spiritual world and cannot extricate himself from it, facing some artificial intelligences that look exactly like Ding Lingdang and Jin Xinyue, he can clearly realize that this is an illusion a day, two days, a year and a half.

But what about ten years, thirty years and fifty years, forever?

In the face of relatives, according to their relatives' behavior patterns and speaking habits, artificial intelligence that has been together for thirty to fifty years together day and night, can it really be said to be "false"?

Li Yao took a deep breath, put aside this entangled question for the time being, changed the topic and said: "What are you mainly researching?"

Liu Wenshan said: "Experts in the spirit world are divided into different research groups, mainly focusing on the spirit net, crystal brain and artificial intelligence to carry out their work.

"Some groups are researching how to infiltrate and even paralyze the war networks of the Federation and the Empire; some groups are trying to create a more powerful brain, so that our own computing power and deduction ability can be improved to a higher level; My research group is in the field of artificial intelligence. We are developing the most powerful artificial intelligence in the entire federation so far, even more advanced than the artificial intelligence of the empire!"

Li Yao frowned slightly and said, "How can it be more advanced than the empire?"

Liu Wenshan said: "I thought it was impossible at the beginning. After all, they are a superpower in the center of Xinghai. They have extremely deep technical accumulation and deep foundation, and we can't catch up in a short time.

"But Lei Yuqin keeps bringing in a lot of information, and she has broken through many technical difficulties. I have seen the artificial intelligence on the imperial starships that we captured ten years ago. It compares with what Lei Yuqin brought. , All paled in comparison.

"The Federation and the empire are both human civilizations, and we have the gift of Kunlun relics. After all, the technological gap between the two sides is not a world of difference. Researching on the basis of the latest information such as Lei Yuqin will naturally move ahead!"

Li Yao and Long Yangjun looked at each other, both of them were extremely surprised.

No reason!

Even if Professor Mo Xuan is really behind the scenes, but Professor Mo Xuan's technical limit, that is, the technical limit of the Federation, how can he master the crystal brain, ling net and artificial intelligence technology that surpasses the empire?

Liu Wenshan said: "When I joined this ‘virtual R&D team’, they had developed several brand new super artificial intelligences, officially called ‘smart-like virtual combat mind-conscious aggregates’.”

Li Yao's eyes widened: "I've heard this name. It's also called'Grandpa' in the outside world. It seems to be for educational purposes."

Liu Wenshan smiled: "Yes, some people call it'Grandpa', but education? Haha, any new magical powers and technologies will first be applied in the military field when they are just born, and then slowly spread to Other fields.

"If a'grandpa' can autonomously search and analyze the environment and carry out complex education and inheritance tasks, why can't it be used in combat?

"So, within the spirit world, the code name of this artificial intelligence is not'Grandpa', but'Foreign Spirit'!"

"Foreign Spirit..."

Li Yao pondered this unremarkable name, and felt a sense of horror.

Liu Wenshan continued: "Foreign spirits are divided into two categories:'intellectual spirit' and'douling'. Zhiling is used to infiltrate and control the spirit web without knowing it, and it can also simulate the image and habits of many people on the Internet. Feature: When a Zhi Ling takes over the Ling Net and speaks to someone through the Linghe Biography, someone can’t tell whether the opposite is a real person or a fake person; Dou Ling is a pure combat artificial intelligence, once he controls the battle puppet , Starship, and even the master brain of Star Wars Castle, the consequences would be disastrous!"

Li Yao jumped at the corner of his eyes, and said, "How many have you refined...foreign spirits come out?"

Liu Wenshan shook his head and said: "I came too late and didn't participate in the refining of most of the foreign spirits. I don't know the total number. There are definitely countless ordinary foreign spirits that calculate in real time. There is also a super foreign spirit. It seems that there are 17 of them used to seize control of the main battleship. Well, that number is correct. There were originally 19, but two of them collapsed unexpectedly during the test."

Seize control of the main battleship...

Li Yao swallowed his saliva and asked, "Where are your companions and those foreign spirits now?"

"I do not know."

Liu Wenshan honestly said, "Last night, the vast majority of people and the alien spirits that were being tested disappeared in batches, and only a very small number of people continued to stay and work, just like me. They just fell into the spiritual world not long ago. People in the spirit world and the spirit race are more resistant and have nostalgia for the real world."

Li Yao and Long Yangjun looked at each other, their hearts sinking.

The most terrible thing happened.

This is indeed Professor Mo Xuan's lair, or his secret weapon refining base.

But they came a step late.

The "battle shell" modulated by the bodies of thousands of martial arts cultivators, the souls of countless experts proficient in crystal brain and spirit net technology, and the mysterious "foreign spirits" are on the way!

No wonder they rushed in all the way, and did not encounter too strong resistance, it turned out that the thief had already gone to the building.

What is the goal of Professor Mo Xuan and his alien spirit army?

Why did the professor master the crystal brain technology more advanced than the Federation and Imperial Expeditionary Forces?