Abyssal Wanderer

Chapter 11 NO.000b: Adjusting People

"Okay, okay...see you then."

After hanging up the phone, the old snake looked back at Liao Qi who was in the back seat of the car.

"I have made an appointment with the middleman Zhu Lin, and we will meet at the 'Dark Blue Section' bar in two hours."

After finishing speaking, he looked at the silent young man on the road with some trepidation, and glanced down at the Scorpio that was aiming at his heart from time to time. It was as if he was afraid that after he finished saying this sentence, the other party would shoot him to death with a single shot.

"Dark blue zone?"

The other party frowned.

"The bar on the first floor of the resettlement area, the owner has some background in the interim government of the resettlement area. She acts as a guarantee, and middlemen and street mercenaries often negotiate business there, so..."

"I know where the bar in the dark blue section is."

The man narrowed his eyes after interrupting him, as if asking: "And then?"

So, the old snake hurriedly continued to explain:

"Those who work as middlemen are very cautious. I proposed face-to-face delivery so suddenly. If I don't make an appointment to meet in such a public place, the other party will definitely be suspicious."

"But no weapons are allowed in that bar."

The other party seemed to say it casually.

But the meaning hidden in these words was to startle the old snake.

If he hadn't been sitting in the car, he would have stood up right now.

"Of course! That bar has been classified as the 'law enforcement area' of the Nord provisional government. Unless you are a government law enforcement officer or a formal employee of the company, ordinary people are no different from courting death. You... I It means that you don’t plan to do it right there?”

The old snake asked in shock.

"of course not."

The other party said, adjusting the knob on the Scorpio in his hand back and forth, then raised his eyes to look at the old snake.

"I was just wondering if you would play tricks on me in that place where I couldn't blow your head off the first time."

Looking at the black muzzle of the gun in the opponent's hand, the old snake swallowed slowly, and then said carefully:

"How could it be... You obviously listened to the whole call I made with the middleman just now."

But for this, the other party shook his head.

"But I don't know if there is any secret code that you have negotiated in advance. Maybe you have already communicated with the middleman in that phone call just now... Don't rush to deny it."

Raising the muzzle of the gun slightly, Liao Qi blocked what the other party wanted to say in his throat.

"You don't have to explain or promise to me. I just want to tell you that I don't care if you played tricks before. It doesn't make much difference to me whether you do or don't do it, but For you, the difference is too big...I'm not threatening."

Hearing these words, the old snake felt his heart beating wildly.

"Don't worry, Mr. Liao. I followed your instructions completely, and I didn't play tricks at all."

The old snake raised a hand to promise.

Seeing this, Jiang Zhou didn't say anything more. He lay back on the car seat, and observed through the rearview mirror the hole in Liao Qi's head that was wide open.

The high-energy pulse beam is injected from a place higher than the eyebrow of the left eye, vaporizes the scalp, drills through the hard frontal bone, then penetrates the frontal lobe and corpus callosum of the brain, and finally penetrates from the occipital lobe , drilling through the parietal bone, leaving a charred hole in the wall behind him.

In the eyes of ordinary people, Liao Qi should have died on the spot.

But not necessarily.

Jiang Zhou, who has done a lot of research in the field of neuroscience in the past, thought to himself.

In 1848, due to an accident, a man named Phineas Gage was stabbed directly by a long iron rod from the lower left cheek, through the back of the left eye, and then pierced the skull from the top of the forehead ( Note*).

But this man, who should have been dead to anyone, stood up again after falling to the ground for a few minutes, and could even walk and talk like a normal person.

After being sent to the hospital, Gage's condition miraculously stabilized. Apart from the blindness of the left eye, this terrible accident did not even cause the unfortunate man to lose any other physiological functions.

After that, he lived like a normal person for another twelve years; during this period, he even worked as a carriage driver for seven years; he did not die of epileptic seizures until 1860.

Jiang Zhou once visited his skull at Harvard Medical School. In his impression, the wound that ran through Gage's head was much more violent than the brain hole on Liao Qi's head today.

According to later research on Gage's brain, 4% of his brain's gray matter and 11% of his brain's white matter were damaged, and the connection between the two brain hemispheres was also severely damaged, not to mention the possible bacterial infection at the time.

Since there have been similar examples in history, it is not too strange that Liao Qi's head was blown out of a penetrating mind, but he was still alive and kicking.

From this point of view, this matter is still within the scope of Jiang Zhou's understanding-if Liao Qi's entire brain is blown out, but he can still control the opponent's headless body movements, then he can only think that physiology Does not exist, after a hundred years, a spiritual revival occurred in this era.

At the very least, at this moment, physiologically speaking, Liao Qi's body is still alive. It's just that the other party's self-awareness has dissipated, and Jiang Zhou is taking over the body instead.

As for why his own consciousness can take over Liao Qi's body without any delay, separated by God knows how far. Jiang Zhou could only guess that it might be that "Janus" installed some biological radio in his brain, such as something that can quantum entangle the corpus callosum.

Of course, if someone told him that it was the same magic dust that the Blue Fairy was able to turn Pinocchio into a real boy, then he would accept it.

Thinking of this, Liao Qi sprayed a circle of disinfectant gel around his front and back brain holes, and then put on the peaked cap to cover up the wound that he thought was a bit oozing - he's going to the downtown area later , and I walked on the street with such a big brain hole, which was somewhat avant-garde.

It wasn't until this time that Jiang Zhou had time to sort out the information he got from Liao Qi's memory.

Information about this era.

adjuster...

In this day and age, it is not uncommon to use mechanical prosthetics to replace fragile flesh and blood. Rather, installing a prosthesis that meets the requirements has become a hard threshold for many jobs. Except for the "low-tech people" who still adhere to the lifestyle of the AD era and some stubborn religious groups, installing prosthetic bodies has become a part of modern life.

However, compared to the original body that has been tested for millions of years, those mechanical prosthetic bodies that may have been a test version a few months ago are always difficult to perfectly fit with the driver in the brain.

The installation of prosthetic bodies is subject to the boundaries of human cognition - you can replace prosthetic limbs, replace prosthetic eyes, and some special enthusiasts may also replace the so-called "big steel gun". Even, some people can add an extremely flexible prosthetic tail to themselves - the organ that human ancestors used to assist them to move between tree crowns, and now there are still some nerve residues at the tailbone, many people can imagine What does it feel like to have a tail.

But you can't make your brain think that there should be a pair of vector injectors that can flexibly adjust the direction at your shoulder blades, and you can't make your brain think that each of your spine should be able to extend flexible machinery. Tentacles - Humans have never evolved such things naturally.

The original brain does not have those prosthetic body driver software, and relying on the acquired experience to build the circuit will never compare to what is innate.

Ordinary people even when using a drone, need to clumsily control it through an interface similar to a gamepad, instead of dancing up and down in midair like a child holding a paper airplane while dubbing "whoosh" .

The so-called adjustment person is a new human being who has overcome the cognitive limits of human beings in the past and installed a new driver program for the brain.

Through the fine-tuning of the brain nerve wheel, the adjustment person broadens the cognitive boundary of his brain and extends the scope of his body. They control the prosthetic body they installed as they control their own fingertips as they like.

For example, if the original person uses the prosthetic body, it is like driving a car; while the adjusted person uses the prosthetic body, he is transformed into a Cybertron Autobot.

Adjusting people's deep transformation This is not only reflected in the base reality, but also when connected to the network through the brain-computer interface. A (substitute) program is a virtual substitute generated based on the cognition of the brain, even if a person has installed various prosthetic bodies in reality, if his brain has not been adjusted to treat those prosthetic bodies as part of his body. On the world wide web and the dark web of the abyss, the substitute program he generates will not include those additional prosthetic bodies, but only the originally weak flesh and blood body.

Of course, by fine-tuning the brain's billions of nerve endings, it opens up a whole new frontier for cognition. Even with the technology of this era, it is extremely incredible.

In fact, the production of adjustment humans today actually all relies on the great magic left over from the super artificial intelligence named "Janus" in the past "big shock" era.

Yes, after reviewing Liao Qi's memory, Jiang Zhou can only use the word "magic" to describe the technology left by "Janus".

Thinking of this, Jiang Zhou looked down at the silver memory in his hand, and then reinserted it into the memory slot on Liao Qi's neck.

Universal printer...

The magical gadget called "Universal Printer" only needs to provide the technological blueprint salvaged from the abyss and the dark net, and the materials required in the blueprint. After activation, those materials can be combined into brand-new products by themselves, just like magic dust sprinkled by a blue fairy.

Not only those high-tech equipment dug out from the abyss and dark net, but also all the brain transformations that adjust people are also done through this thing.

Moreover, it is thanks to this thing that I will be hired to hunt down and kill me at this moment.

Looking at the ever-changing scenery outside the car window, Jiang Zhou thought to himself.

Note: It is not fabricated by the author, but a real person in history. The human body is amazing, right?