Abyssal Wanderer

Chapter 129 NO.0080: Narcissus Plain

After crossing the long wooden bridge, it is Narcissus Plain. Under the night sky was a desert. Jiang Zhou stopped when he turned his head.

A girl put her hands behind her back, with a warm smile on her face. She leaned out towards Jiang Zhou, and shouted as if calling to a distant place:

"Finally found you, I have been waiting for you for a long time!"

With a tone of blame that seemed to be coquettish, the biting cold wind passed through her body and slapped Jiang Zhou's face coldly.

Jiang Zhou ignored her familiar words.

"Hey, hey, where are we going next? Are we going back?"

Seeing that Jiang Zhou was silent, the girl continued.

Jiang Zhou lowered his head and opened the parchment tablet that Charon had given him before. On the light screen screen that had been eaten by moths, information about the Narcissus Plain began to scroll down.

There are records about the Narcissus Plain, which first appeared fifty years ago. It was the brief period of peace between the Second and Third Domain Wars, and in that year an event was destined to go down in history -- the Chief Technology Officer from Minerva Information Technology, who completed the brain The "Letter Protocol" of the computer interface has once again upgraded the Styx firewall.

To put it simply, this agreement implants the apoptosis program into the brain-computer interface, which greatly reduces the possibility of malicious programs in the abyss darknet rising to the base reality through the abyss roamer.

Jiang Zhou can imagine what kind of uproar the promotion of this agreement would cause in the group of abyss wanderers. He remembered that when Qian Xiaying talked about the apoptosis program before, he commented on its inventor as "" Cruel bitch".

The Narcissus Plain appeared in this context—according to what Charon's "steed horse" left behind, the appearance of this place was suspected to be related to a group of abyssal wanderers who were dissatisfied with the appearance of the apoptosis program.

As for Hecate, he told himself directly that those people called themselves "Fire Stealers".

The fire thief, combined with myths and allusions, the first thing Jiang Zhou could think of was the Titan Prometheus who brought flames to mankind.

If the various black technologies of the abyss and dark web are regarded as the kindling, then Jiang Zhou can guess a general idea of ​​this organizational concept just by the name.

"Don't look, let's go home together."

The girl came up, stood behind Jiang Zhou, looked at the parchment tablet in his hand and said angrily.

Jiang Zhou cast a glance at the girl, but still didn't reply to her.

Because he knew that it was not talking to himself.

In fact, this lively and lovely girl is just a leftover ghost.

Looking back, through the translucent body of the other party, Jiang Zhou saw that the pier he had landed on had disappeared. The Ferry, the River Styx, Charon, and Hecate were all gone, replaced by a lonely wasteland.

The girl probably thought that Jiang Zhou was looking at herself, so she smiled and repeated the previous words:

"Let's go home together."

When she said this, her expression was endearing, but Jiang Zhou ignored the phantom of the girl, but turned around and continued walking.

"Let's go home together... let's go home... let's go home... let's go..."

That girl, after Jiang Zhou turned around and left and was abandoned in place, fell into a stuck state as if a disc had been stuck, and fell into an endless loop.

Substitute Reverberation...

Jiang Zhou read Charon while walking—or more precisely, the information left by Charon's past "horse".

Because of the special nature of Narcissus Plain, there are no malicious programs roaming here. There are just a lot of consciousness or forced, or voluntarily locked in the dark net of the abyss wanderer - those known as wanderers.

They lost their way to return to the base reality through the deep diving interface. Although the physical body maintains a physiological level through the life support device of the deep diving instrument, the substitute program is always wandering in the abyss and dark net.

And for those abyss wanderers who were unwilling to update the "apoptosis program" at first, if the substitute program was destroyed, they would not cause physical death, but would rebuild their substitutes in the Narcissus Plain.

After the "Letter Agreement", being able to rebuild one's own double is something that can only be done after upgrading to depth 7 and touching the limit of human intelligence. And these wanderers can do this no matter what the adjustment depth is, and it’s not without cost-there is no deep dive sub-compartment to continuously and synchronously scan the real body state, and every time a substitute is rebuilt, the construction error will accumulate.

And when the error accumulates to a certain level, the changing substitute will reversely affect the consciousness, so the final result is... the memory of the mandala is biased, making the substitute program refuse to access.

This was the case with the girl Jiang Zhou saw earlier—she had experienced countless deaths and reorganizations, but she was still unable to synchronize with the physical body of the base reality, which made her consciousness finally dissipate in this place, leaving only An echo program that keeps repeating past behavior.

This is why Jiang Zhou has been too lazy to answer her words.

And for him, the biggest revelation he had when he came across this stand-in reverberation was that the Narcissus Plain was not a peaceful place.

Someone killed the girl many, many times until her memory of the mandala code was transformed into a ghost that wandered the plains.

This place has its own cruelty and danger, and because of the apoptosis program installed in Jiang Zhou's brain-computer interface, he cannot die even once.

Therefore, he must remain extremely vigilant.

Even if there are no malicious programs wandering around, the place is still full of dangers.

"Hey, where are we going next?"

Thinking of this, the girl's voice came from behind Jiang Zhou again.

The reverberation of the previous stand-in followed behind him like a ghost behind him, like a swaying pale ghost.

It turns out that this thing will still follow people?

Jiang Zhou still didn't reply, but tried to speed up his speed, trying to get rid of the other party.

With the physical fitness brought by Icarus Depth 2, he can continue to run faster than a cheetah on flat ground with just a little extra effort.

However, after running like this for a few minutes, Jiang Zhou found to his dismay that he couldn't get rid of the opponent at all with his speed - the opponent was also an adjuster, and had strengthened his speed.

"Wait for me, what are you doing so fast?"

Seeing Jiang Zhou stop, the girl retracted the spiral wings that spread out behind her shoulder blades, saying so.

All right……

Jiang Zhou thought to himself.

At least I have someone to accompany me along the way to relieve my boredom.

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The base construction of the Narcissus Plain is a vast and barren plain. But no matter which direction Jiang Zhou goes, what he can see in the end is only the same scenery.

I want to come here when it was built, the parameters entered by the developers when generating the map were exaggerated. In other words, the developers of Narcissus Plain really hope that it can accommodate as many people as possible.

But fortunately, Jiang Zhou has hacker vision - not through the graphical interface, but through the complexity of the code to observe everything around him. Many things with similar shape modeling may have a difference of several orders of magnitude in the actual data volume.

This allowed him to roughly find the direction, instead of looking for a needle in a haystack on this endless plain like a headless chicken.

The core ability of Hecate's blessing, the ability to open the path cannot be used in the Narcissus Plain.

But fortunately, in the information Charon left to Jiang Zhou, there is a detailed description of the code characteristics of the "horse". This allowed him to avoid too many detours when searching for the opponent's location.

After wandering for about half a day, I found the clues left by the other party, and found the possible path of the other party.

"Are we looking for a way home? We've walked so far, are we almost home?"

Hearing the ghost chattering again from behind, Jiang Zhou couldn't help but sighed.

In the information that Charon gave himself, he did not describe in detail what the action logic of these substitute reverberations whose consciousness had dissipated was. But he never expected that this thing would just follow him all the way.

There is quite a feeling of taking the NPC to complete the task.

Jiang Zhou thought helplessly.

And at this time, after he took a step, it was like an oasis suddenly found in the desert. A very modern city suddenly rose in this wasteland.

Is this the gathering point for wanderers?

Jiang Zhou stopped in his tracks and immediately hid his appearance through the anonymous program. When he saw outside the city, people who were armed like guards guarding the door, he did not dare to act rashly.

He intends to observe for a while before speaking.

However……

"It's really home."

The ghost who followed him along the way looked at the modern city excitedly, and kept clapping his hands like this.

And her movement caught the attention of those guards.