Abyssal Wanderer

Chapter 147 NO.0092: Replica

Accompanied by the words of "Madeleine" revealing the truth, the whole venue became silent for a moment.

As if a drama had reached its climax, all the audience held their breath for this moment.

The eyes of thousands of spectators were projected on the protagonist of this carnival—Jiang Zhou, like a spotlight.

They are looking forward to the response of this person whose truth has been revealed.

Jiang Zhou opened his mouth slightly and paused for a long time before speaking:

"You mean...digital personality?"

The hidden meaning behind the other party's words made Jiang Zhou shudder.

Uploading a digital personality is to scan the brain that is equivalent to destruction—and as far as Jiang Zhou knows, only by installing the brain plug-in "Pegasus" with a depth of 3 to repair the brain can we ensure that the body in reality No brain death due to radiation sickness.

It is impossible for the forces behind the city of sages to install depth 3 brain plug-ins for all the thousands of people present in the base reality—not to mention whether they can get so many prints of "Pegasus" Permissions, the impact of this thing on the mental index is also amazing. If you don't follow the promotion path of "Theseus" and just pretend like this, conservatively estimate that at least half of the people are crazy.

And as for the technology of cracking "Pegasus" to be improved and mass-produced, that's even more impossible——Perse Fanny from the Department of Medicine has just cracked "Pegasus"'s "zombie switch" function, and it's already in the general public. Luto Deep Dive has been reused at a high level within the company, and it is not that simple to reverse-analyze darknet technology with human thinking.

In other words...

"Everyone here...are they all dead?"

Recalling what the stand-in who had the same appearance as the person in front of him said earlier: "All of us will be murdered by this city", Jiang Zhou took a deep breath and said.

"There may be some differences in the definition of 'death' between us. In comparison, I prefer to use what the 'first deep diver' said when he uploaded his consciousness..."

Regarding Jiang Zhou's words, "Madeleine" nodded and said:

"We have risen from the shackles of nature, hammered and immortalized in gilt and gilt."

When she said this, her tone was as if she was singing a poem. As for this, Jiang Zhou's reaction was...

I never said that! Who made this up and passed it on?

He resisted the urge to say this, and immediately said:

"But you didn't say that before.

"You said before that as long as you accept the order of the city of sages, you will ensure that every citizen in this city can..."

He stopped here.

"You're playing word games with me, aren't you?"

Recalling what he said before, Jiang Zhou's face suddenly turned cold.

What the captain of the guard said at the time was "to ensure that everyone in this city will not have to worry about damage to deep diving equipment and being extubated in the future—everyone can live until the end of their lives."

Everyone in the base reality is dead, so there is really no need to worry about "deep diving equipment damage and being extubated." As for the definition of "alive", they obviously have a very flexible set of standards.

"Just as I told you the truth now, there is no deception in this matter... To complete the upload of the digital personality, you must need the Mandala certification."

Everyone present is voluntary.

So said "Madeleine," and she went on:

"And the reason why we kept this matter from you was entirely because we were worried that you would be frightened by this trivial sacrifice... At the very least, you need to experience the lifestyle here in this city before making a decision It would be fair. And not, like the vast majority of mortals, rejected in the first place because of some pathetic prejudice."

In other words, the experience of visiting this city for half a month is just to let the "newcomers" feel what a wonderful place it is - and in order to continue to stay in this place, people just need to pay for it. The price of physical death in reality...?

Jiang Zhou thought to himself.

It can't be that simple, can it?

"So, what do you think? Compared to the base reality of needing to fish factory food in the sewers in the shadow of the Olympian gods. In a world full of peace and tranquility, everyone can Wouldn’t utopia, which maximizes one’s own potential—to use what you said earlier—be closer to the Utopia imagined by human beings?”

"Madeleine," continued.

Accompanied by her passionate tone that seemed to be giving a speech, the crowd in the surrounding auditorium became lively again, with endless applause and cheers.

"Is it just like that?"

Jiang Zhou suddenly calmed down after the other party's highly deceptive speech. He blankly looked around at the fanatical audience around him. It wasn't until the applause and applause subsided in his silence that he turned his attention to "Madeleine" again and said:

"What about other things? About this city, or to put it another way... Regarding the operation of your system, I think there is one more crucial detail that hasn't been shown to me, right?"

Frankly speaking, if Jiang Zhou is not in the basic reality now, there are still many things that must be done that have not been completed. In fact, he has no intention of resisting the matter of abandoning his physical body and living in cyberspace in the form of numbers - he has done this a hundred years ago.

Since he was able to pass even his own hurdle, it is naturally impossible for him to have any objections to other people who voluntarily chose this path. Rather, when I presided over the "Janus Project" back then, I hoped that similar things would happen, and that human beings could use this technology to make a leap.

but……

"Why did I encounter your substitute reverberation in Narcissus Plain?"

Jiang Zhou asked.

If I encounter the reverberation of her substitute, it should mean that the other party's substitute program has already been destroyed.

Not just these...

This seemingly "utopian" city of sages has far more than just one problem.

The first thing to bear the brunt is the problem that Jiang Zhou has been perplexing for a long time-no personal identity, no long-term relationship between people. Under the circumstances that these digital personalities still maintain the human thinking mode, how do these more than a thousand people maintain their normal minds as social creatures?

In addition, what did the audience call out to me earlier, "new mind, new mode of thinking", what exactly do they mean?

And... so much scientific exploration, so many research topics. How did the people of this city do it without the assistance of a huge professional team?

You must know that after entering the 21st century, apart from pure logic disciplines such as mathematics, there is no subdivision of scientific research that can be achieved by only one or two geniuses. Without the assistance of a large and professional team; without hard-working scientific research coolies, without modern management to coordinate all developments, any idea cannot finally be implemented and become a reality.

However, the city of sages has always advertised that every citizen can do what he likes wholeheartedly, and there will never be any compulsory command relationship between people. Who should do those things that no one is willing to do?

In fact, many doubts have piled up here, and Jiang Zhou already has a vague answer in his heart... It's just that the answer is too horrifying, and he is a little reluctant to believe it for a while.

I can't believe that the digital personality technology that I once invented will be used in such a criminal way.

So, he waited for the person in front of him to say the answer.

"Madeleine" smiled, and then said:

"I think you should have already guessed the answer... That's right, including me, among the more than a thousand citizens present, everyone uploaded the source code of their digital personalities to the Dionysus Bureau and the Apollo Bureau. All personalities belong to the whole people, and everyone can choose the mental model they need in the database, copy and modify it to their side.

“We ride our own personalities as sidekicks, sidekicks, kin, lovers… or if you’re interested, as slaves, as cats, as pets.

"If you want to officially become a member of the citizens, then you also need to upload your personality source code to the database, open source and public. And this is the only price you have to pay to achieve eternal immortality and happiness... …and, at the same time, the cornerstone of our city's eternal prosperity."