Abyssal Wanderer

Chapter 105 NO.0068: Cooperate with the performance

Tartarus, the third deepest dive chamber.

Ye Qian was sitting on a high platform, while those under him were bodies that had been pulled out of their souls—the living corpses were all imprisoned in the dark technology coffin, acting as a bridge between the base reality and the abyss dark net. medium.

After scanning for a while, Ye Qian smiled. Then, as if crowning himself, he solemnly put a helmet full of pipelines on his head.

In the past, a computer room the size of a classroom was required to accommodate high-precision scanners. In this era, it can be reduced and integrated into such a helmet.

As the circuit was switched on, the superconducting spider web circuit, which was as thin as mist, was instantly activated throughout the inner lining of the helmet. The powerful magnetic field penetrates the skull, and in just a few microns, they completely scan the wearer's brain, building an accurate modeling of every potential of the brain nerves.

At the same time, the plug-in "Pegasus" installed in Ye Qian's brain was also activated automatically.

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 up bit by bit; on the other hand, it temporarily suppressed the "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 operate 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 perception and interaction 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.

And as for which stand-in program - the helmet on Ye Qian's head is not only connected to his own brain-computer interface at the moment, but also connected to the deep dive sub-compartment marked "Theseus".

Along with the activation of the program, Ye Qian's digital personality passed through the company's deep dive interface through the Styx Firewall, and dived into the abyss and dark net. Then, he anchored the specific coordinates in the dark net by virtue of his connection with the "Theseus" puppet circuit.

Then... easily, he downloaded it into the substitute program of "Theseus".

Thus, Ye Qian's consciousness came down to this warehouse, before Aconitum-23 who was questioning him.

This is the ability of depth 4 of the path of Theseus—to download the digital personality into the substitute program of those puppets through the connection between the puppet circuits, and gain their control.

At this moment, Ye Qian, who was in Theseus' 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 extreme panic at this moment.

Well, it's just that the "frightened" emotion can't be seen through this text. But Ye Qian is extremely convinced that when a person is seized by another consciousness to control the body in an instant, like a marionette, he will feel extremely frightened from the bottom of his heart.

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 kind of hopelessness that allows the other party to watch everything that is happening through his own perception soberly, but nothing can be changed, really makes him feel unable to stop.

[All gifts are priced secretly, caveman. From the very beginning when 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 Aconitum-23 in front of him, and said:

"How on earth did you guess it was mine?"

When he said this, he squinted his eyes and looked up at the three-meter-tall mecha figure, with no sign of timidity in his expression.

After all, he just copied his digital personality to come here. Even if the other party directly strikes, it will not have any substantial impact on Ye Qian who is in the base reality—even if Aconitum-23 directly strikes now, the ones who die in the base reality will only be those who are currently controlled by him "Theseus".

In fact, it doesn't matter whether Theseus' double ends up dead or not. After I go back, the current digital personality will be deleted and destroyed after it is recorded synchronously with the main body.

"Are you taking me for an idiot?"

Regarding Ye Qian's question, Aconitum-23 just asked back with a very unhappy expression:

"After diving into the dark web of the abyss, how likely is it that you will come to the database in the Nord resettlement area? Do you think I will not be suspicious at all?"

"But there are too many possible explanations, and my suspicions don't even rank among them."

Ye Qian said in the voice of Theseus.

If you really want to doubt it, "Theseus" was given special care by Hecate, the goddess of the moon, and the possibility of causing problems in this dive is much greater.

"That's right, I didn't doubt you at all at first."

Aconitum-23 nodded, and then continued:

"But not long ago, I ran into a guard. That guy was only at the level of depth 2, but his combat power could keep pressing me... In fact, it's okay even here. Malicious programs far beyond their level do not need to make too much fuss...

"But another thing changed my opinion—after I killed the gatekeeper, the technology blueprint that fell out of it happened to be a full set of adjustments and transformations for Path of Theseus Depth 2."

Aconitum-23 spread out his palms as he spoke, a dark green data ball flickered and floated on it, and the six cameras on his face were also flickering red.

"In this way, there is a high probability that this matter has something to do with who, so there is no need to say more."

Take back the data ball again, Aconitum-23 said so.

As the deputy captain of the Wolfsbane unit, a special response unit under the Offensive Security and Defense Coordination Center, Aconitum-23 has the authority to check the personal information of all employees whose confidentiality level is lower than his own within the company. Therefore, he naturally knew which path Ye Qian chose to upgrade.

Within Tartarus, among the people that Aconitum-23 has the authority to find out, Ye Qian is the only one who chose the promotion path - Theseus.

Generally speaking, normal people would not choose this dead end road—it is blacklisted, and the printing authority and materials for high-level adjustment and transformation are blocked. This road will be completely over at depth 5 .

But Ye Qian insisted on going his own way.

Looking at it now, if you think about it from another angle, maybe it is because Ye Qian knew something that he chose this promotion path.

"Being exposed because of this is indeed a bit too careless of me. However, after killing the gatekeeper, the technological blueprint of the path of Theseus will be dropped, which is not something I can predict..."

Regarding the words of Aconitum-23, Ye Qian nodded regretfully.

"Stop playing charades on me here, and explain exactly what's going on right away. Otherwise, in the name of Cerberus, you'll just wait to be taken for an internal investigation."

Aconitum-23 interrupted in 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 be sure to listen to me before deciding how to make a final decision. However, where should I start? Speaking of..."

As Ye Qian said, he couldn't help but raised his hand and touched Theseus' chin. After pondering 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 hurdle of depth 7 while walking on the upgrade path, in addition to modifying the list, printing permissions, and materials. Every upgrade path has the ability to break through the limit of human intelligence and maintain human cognition. Special method. And this is also the biggest secret of each 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."