Abyssal Wanderer

"Are you going to upload yourself so soon? I thought you would last longer."

Seeing that the kid called out the interface for contacting the "Dionysus Bureau", he clicked on the option that he regarded as the "Surrender" button. Christie, who was lying back on the armchair, slightly raised her hand to block the false sunlight.

There was a bit of sarcasm in her tone.

Then, she continued half-jokingly:

"If you want to take this opportunity to put pressure on me to change my environment, then I have to say that until I get tired of the atmosphere of this beach, I won't..."

"How much power can the cracking program brought by Charon liberate you?"

In this regard, Jiang Zhou ignored the sarcasm in the other party's words, but directly interrupted the other party's words and asked.

"Theoretically speaking...about 30%, but in practice, it may not even be 1/1000."

Although she didn't understand what the other party wanted to do by asking this suddenly, Christie still answered subconsciously.

Not only that, but she goes on to explain:

"The Dionysus Bureau has been monitoring my movements, even if I show the slightest sign that I might get out of control, it can detect it instantly. Like me now, hiding under his nose to construct the scene of the Caribbean coast Basking in the sun is already the limit of what I can do without being discovered."

In other words, although she can use 30% of the computing power. But once more than one-thousandth of it is used, it will be noticed.

"I see……"

Jiang Zhou nodded, and then refocused on the projection interface.

Seeing this, Christie took off her sunglasses:

"Just in case, I have to ask first... You don't really think I'm going to go crazy with you and risk breaking out from here, do you?"

Although she is very grateful to the other party for bringing her the cracking program of Charon, which liberates herself from the state of trance like endless dreams. But obviously, Charon, who had signed a contract with him in the past, still greatly underestimated his current predicament.

Just helping her liberate 30% of her power is far from enough to get her out of trouble—even with full firepower, or even a slightly stronger state than when she was in her prime, it's not enough to get her out of trouble.

"No... I probably know your current state."

Jiang Zhou shook his head to answer this question.

The current state of Christie can probably be described by the so-called "man is a sword, I am a fish" - completely suppressed by the special "Dionysus Bureau", based on the difference in performance, it is impossible to break free by herself .

Therefore, the current state of her is equivalent to a direct opening, and she can enjoy it every day.

Taking a deep breath to stabilize his tone, so that he would not look like a liar when he spoke, Jiang Zhou said solemnly:

"I mean, even I don't know exactly what will happen in a while. But in any case, if something special happens, I hope you can protect yourself without hesitation and without reservation... "

"ha?"

Christie, who was drinking through a straw, almost choked when she heard these words.

Putting down the cup directly, she looked at the adjuster of the Icarus path with eyes like watching a bear riding a unicycle, and it took a long time before she opened her mouth and said:

"Sorry...you mean to say, that old bastard Charon has found a way to let himself into the firewall?"

For a moment, Christie could only think of this possibility. But then, she immediately realized the absurdity of it.

If Charon can directly enter and exit the firewall, then why does he need his own "steed horse"? Isn't it good to directly create a body that can carry himself in the base reality?

As she expected, the messenger entrusted by Charon shook her head.

"Charon is naturally unable to come here. I just said that there is such a possibility...Of course, nothing will happen by then. I don't make any guarantees..."

Jiang Zhou said with a smile.

It wasn't that he wanted to be the Riddler on purpose, but what else could he say?

Of course, having said that, there is still a lot of confidence in his words. After all, the two high-level AIs, Hecate and Charon, cannot really arrange an impossible task for themselves.

From Jiang Zhou's point of view, they most likely knew the real situation on Christie's side, and then arranged for themselves to be the solution.

And I am using the stand-in program of depth 2, and I want to participate in the conflict between the two adjusters of depth 7. After thinking about it, it seems that there is only one way—since the depth 7 of the path of Theseus can absorb numbers Personality is stitched into one's own thinking, then he uses the original secret key to guide the "Dionysus Bureau" to try to absorb "Janus" as his "puppet".

Jiang Zhou tried to activate that secret key himself, but apart from activating the "Janus Program" for the first time and obtaining controllable elements, he didn't have any special reaction.

But if the other party actively tries to absorb it, that is another matter.

Although Jiang Zhou was very confident, Christie still rolled her eyes at her words.

"Is it all right to say nothing?"

As she spoke, she raised her right hand and pointed at Jiang Zhou.

A stream of data flowed out from her fingertips, converging into a quaint copper coin and slowly falling from midair.

Jiang Zhou subconsciously reached out to catch it.

"this is?"

he asked curiously.

Christie replied:

"Things like a talisman? Let me tell you first, it is impossible to protect your mental model in the 'Dionysus Bureau' with this thing alone. But if your personality data has suffered irreparable damage, then this Crossing money will guide your reverberation back to the base reality, and say goodbye to your relatives and friends.

"Of course, if you don't leave, maybe you won't be able to use this thing. If you want me to say, the guy from the Dionysus Bureau will get rid of it sooner or later. If you stay here, you will have a chance to get it in the future." Free."

But for this, Jiang Zhou just thanked him and put away the ancient copper coin.

Other than that he didn't say anything.

Christie, who could see that the other party was no longer satisfied, had no choice but to shrug her shoulders and said:

"Well... it's a pity to lose someone to spend time with. But anyway, I have to thank you for the sun, sand and cocktails... If you can make it out alive, please help Thank you to that old guy. By the way, tell him that just because he ran away when I was besieged by those little bastards, I will not forgive him even after another twenty years."

After speaking, she paused, and then said:

"By the way, I haven't asked all this time. What's your name? We don't have to abide by the shit rules of the City of Sages."

Regarding this question, Jiang Zhou looked at Christie through the projection interface before finally clicking "Confirm".

Considering that the stand-in program of "Jiang Zhou" is still in the state of "powder" at the moment, he managed to squeeze out a smile and replied:

"Liao Qi.

"Liao Qi from the underground of the Nord resettlement area."

…………

After clicking "Confirm", with a flash of dazzling light, Jiang Zhou came to the central platform of the Colosseum again.

At this moment, the entire venue was still very lively, as if he had been away for so long before, and had not had any impact on the atmosphere of the venue.

However, Jiang Zhou realized after just a little careful observation that things were not like this at all.

He saw many of the same faces.

As a waiter, as a companion lover, as a canned audience in the atmosphere group, as an entertainment facility in the Colosseum.

As if copying and pasting, countless identical faces surrounded the surroundings.

Thousands of people are in the auditorium, in the middle of the Colosseum. But perhaps there are only a few people who really stay here and have the citizenship of the city of sages.

"I didn't expect you to figure it out so quickly."

A voice echoed behind Jiang Zhou, he turned his head, and "Madeleine" appeared there in a formal dress.

"I didn't expect it to be you. Isn't it advertised that in-depth relations between citizens cannot be established here? I thought that another person would come here."

Jiang Zhou said so.

Then he tilted his head:

"Or... are you actually just a skin? The one who is really talking to me is actually the Dionysus Bureau itself?"

"Madeleine" laughed and said:

"Under normal circumstances, I will let the thousands of mental models of this city diverge freely and think in their own thinking modes. After accumulating enough materials, I will converge. Leave it to the "Sun God Bureau" 'Calculate and process, and draw the correct development direction for the entire city."

"In other words, you've 'converged' on 'Madeleine' now? If that's the case, I'm curious where her consciousness is right now."

Jiang Zhou asked.

The other party frowned:

"Still getting a name and entangled in identity, this habit is not good, and must be corrected in the future."

Then, "she" continued:

"In case you have any misunderstandings, after you embarrassed her at the carnival earlier, she has already gone home to do her own normal temperature superconductivity project to relieve her mood. The me you can see right now is just borrowing a copy It's just talking to you.

"Even I will not disobey the rules of this city. All citizens can maintain their own self-awareness and guarantee their dignity as human beings... I will only use their clones, just like what they themselves did Same."

As long as you don't treat the clone as a human being, then whatever you say is right.

Jiang Zhou thought to himself.

Involuntarily, he recalled the words and behaviors that he saw "Madeleine" stand-in reverberating with a strong breath of life before, as well as his fierce reaction after discovering the truth.

What was the mood of those clones at the moment when the truth was revealed?

Immediately, Jiang Zhou nodded:

"That is to say, as the communication interface of Dionysus Bureau, will you choose a suitable mental model to show people?"

And the other replied:

"This is the advantage that I can exist--in the face of different situations, I can choose the most suitable appearance to improve efficiency. When I need to explain, I am patient, when I need to be tough, I am very irritable, and I am full of childishness when facing children. Maintain composure when talking to the elderly... and after calculation, this model fits you relatively well."

As for what the other party said, Jiang Zhou held back and didn't sigh - the structure of the Dionysus Bureau was much lower than he had imagined.

what is this? If the most suitable model will be changed according to different scenarios, then the selected strategy itself represents a mental model—and it is the most utilitarian and uninteresting one.

Bravery is chosen only when problems can be solved by relying on bravery, which deviates from the original intention of bravery from the very beginning.

I don't know if the other party has seen his emotions at the moment, but in short, after the man finished speaking, he went straight to the tunnel:

"I don't have much time to waste. If you want to be one of us, please enter your Mandala password and upload your digital personality now."

With that said, he put the contract and inkpad in front of Jiang Zhou.

Jiang Zhou took a deep breath and took it over.

Seeing this, the other party smiled and nodded in relief.

Except for itself as the cornerstone, and the "Sun God Bureau" can't "digest" it for the time being. This city is about to usher in the No. 1031 mental model.

But on the other hand, Jiang Zhou directly opened the drop-down menu of the contract, and changed the authentication method from the "mandala" of the third-generation password to the sixteen-digit authentication key of the first-generation password.

Seeing Jiang Zhou's behavior, the "Dionysus Bureau" was stunned for a second-basically, only a very small number of patients with image cognitive impairment or memory impairment would choose this The original authentication key.

He doesn't look like either...

And Jiang Zhou took advantage of the other party's stunned opportunity, quickly printed the string of passwords that had already been printed into his soul, or his soul had already been printed into it, and finished typing.

"you……"

Until Jiang Zhou finished the project like this, the Dionysus Bureau didn't understand what he had just done.

However, although his consciousness running the "Madeleine" mental model was not clear, the Dionysus Bureau's system passed the certification in an instant.

The crawler software parsed the password, relying on that network address, and began to grab a special coordinate.

It was so empty that it was like throwing a fishhook into the trench.

[The mental model has been uploaded]

And this was the first message received by the Dionysus Bureau, like an echo from the abyss.

uploaded?

He froze.

How can it be uploaded so quickly?

Or, the guy in front of him has already uploaded his digital personality?

But this is not right, the scan on my side shows that the other party obviously has a deep dive sub-cang to support.

Just as he was confused, he received a second reply message.

He received the message silently, but the content of the message was deafening to him like thunder.

[Upload time, 20:42:42 on December 25, 2069 AD] (End of this chapter)