Abyssal Wanderer

Chapter 157 NO.009c: I Give You A City

Excessive information is like a red-hot file, they directly "pry open" Jiang Zhou's skull, and then imprint something on the grooves of his brain back and forth.

Compared with the first time he dived, he just watched the huge monster rising from the abyss, and then was instantly stunned by the huge information. This time, the "hardware strengthening" brought about by the adjustment and transformation of the upgrade path-Theseus depth 1 for Jiang Zhou prevented him from losing consciousness from being bombarded by too huge information in the first place.

The "puppet circuit" regulates and suppresses the neurotransmitters that run amok, the "flash biochip" swallows and records the information, and the "two-point mental pons" analyzes a huge amount of data in parallel...

In addition, Jiang Zhou's "horizon" also leaped along with the "tentacle" that touched him-that is, the Hongqiao brain area communicated with his visual cortex, and at this moment, he was converting the incomprehensible code information into Be some sort of metaphorical visual signal.

At that moment, Jiang Zhou felt that his perspective and the "tentacle" were fused into one - it was an absurd and confusing feeling like a dream, and in that, Jiang Zhou's perspective used for cognition was constantly changing. Changing and switching.

Suddenly, it seems that the boundary of "self" has been dissolved, and it is even difficult to distinguish the difference between "noumenon" and "other"; it seems that the arrow of "cause and effect" relationship has been broken, and "past" and "present" It starts to blur.

So, I saw the "Dionysus Bureau" being dragged into the abyss, and the database formed by his previous integration of thousands of mental models was swallowed by the big mouth from the darkness. Then, after you were chewed to pieces, I spit them out again as spider silk.

Quite naturally, you looked up along that spider thread and found that he and I had already been connected together by this fragile medium.

Totally unstable, but that's the only way we can communicate.

No pleasantries, no greetings, no warnings, no suggestions.

You just trembled through that slender spider thread and told him some information—the process was like prying open my skull with a file.

However, this process did not last long. Perhaps it was because the spider silk itself could not withstand the tremors, or it was disturbed by the ever-changing external factors in the dark web of the abyss——accompanied by a "buzz", the fragile medium was disconnected.

All the chaos receded like a tide, Jiang Zhou's cognition returned to the present once again, and Liao Qi's stand-in program was fixed on this perspective.

Borrowing the "Dionysus Bureau" as a medium, there can only be such a brief contact between him and himself.

His head was as heavy as if it had been filled with cement. Jiang Zhou staggered, shook his head, and got up from the ground.

As soon as he raised his head, Jiang Zhou saw Christie who was watching him warily.

The water of the Styx River surrounded her, and she was standing on a small boat made of bones, and the river water kept turning into wraiths and churning. Several burning fire wheels floated around her, making crackling and burning sounds.

Combined with her attire, take a picture from any angle, it is estimated that it can be directly used as the cover picture of the death metal album.

Resisting the urge to sort out and analyze the information just poured in immediately, Jiang Zhou subconsciously activated the blessing Hecate bestowed upon him.

The mist began to fill around him, and the shadow of the evil spirit loomed indistinctly in it—this looked very bluffing, but in fact it was just a scene for himself.

The power of the goddess of the moon, the support that can be exerted in the Narcissus Plain, is too limited.

Anyway, losers don't lose...

Jiang Zhou thought to himself.

Besides, even if there was a real fight, with the current self here, no matter what, he still had enough confidence to protect himself.

"Just... what happened?"

Jiang Zhou was thinking about what he should say, but he didn't expect Christie to look at him in awe at this moment, and she asked in a slightly trembling voice.

Um? Did she just see what happened here?

Seeing the other party's awe-inspiring attitude, Jiang Zhou thought to himself.

As his thoughts flowed, he immediately put on an inscrutable look, and said in a solemn tone:

"He inspired me."

I'm not even lying.

After finishing speaking, Jiang Zhou immediately added in his heart.

In the short contact before, that existence from the abyss instilled a lot of information into his mind.

Ninety-nine percent of the information, from Jiang Zhou's point of view, are abstract patterns composed of incomprehensible garbled characters-they are not even like the blessings bestowed on him by the goddess of the moon, Hecate, who also wrote a A fool-like script that allows you to use it just by commanding it.

These things probably need to be upgraded to a higher level before they can be analyzed with other implants?

But other than that, there is still a small amount of information, and Jiang Zhou can understand its usage.

One is the quick access to "City of Sages". I only need to connect to a universal printer, or through the deep dive interface, then I can access here at any time. As long as it is not intercepted by more powerful beings, Jiangzhou can be regarded as an extremely safe shelter-once it hides in it, even powerful AIs like Charon or Hecate cannot enter it.

And besides that, not only myself and my controllable elements, those who have been "marked" by myself can also enter this city and accept asylum.

Second, it is the function of "marking". Jiang Zhou can implant "marks" in other people's stand-in programs, and the first mark requires the other party to pass the "mandala" certification. Then, if the opponent's hacker level does not exceed his own, then he can forcibly pull him into the "City of Sages".

but……

Jiang Zhou opened the list in the eye movement interface.

Except myself (Jiang Zhou himself, whose name is gray because the substitute program was destroyed) and Liao Qi (green online). For some reason, Booker Irwin and Carol Christie were among the people I could pull in.

Did they authenticate "Dalaman" before?

For example, when Booker and himself were connected to the universal printer before, they had authenticated the "mandala" password. In the City of Sages, after being defeated by the Dionysus Bureau in the past, Christie must have handed over her computing authority through the Mandala Code.

Jiang Zhou guessed so.

And the third is the right to use the "City of Sages". In other words, the full computing power of the "Dionysus Bureau". Of course, because all the mental models stored in the database have been suffocated by that existence, there is only an empty shell left here. Whether it is an "ice wall" or an "ice breaker", future Jiangzhou will need to reinstall it by itself in the future.

But no matter how you say it, as long as he comes here, he is equivalent to having an extra cloud server with a path of Theseus and a depth of 7 computing power.

And besides that, there are...

"What is he?"

Christie asked again in awe, her question awakened Jiang Zhou from his thoughts.

The tone of her speech at this moment made Jiang Zhou more certain that the other party had probably witnessed the death of the "Dionysus Bureau" and the whole process of his own "enlightenment".

Should that tell her that the previous existence is likely to be the super artificial intelligence "Janus" in the past?

Regarding this, Jiang Zhou couldn't make up his mind for a while.

It can be activated through the sixteen-bit secret key, and at the moment of previous contact, it will merge with your own consciousness, regardless of each other. In Jiang Zhou's view, the huge monster from the abyss is most likely the original super artificial intelligence "Janus".

Although Jiang Zhou has not dared to confirm it 100% until now, he feels that there is a high probability that it will not be wrong.

However, in the current mainstream public opinion, the existence of "Janus" is really too notorious.

Not to mention, Janus is considered to have died in the "big shock" in the perception of most people. As the one that ushered in a new era, it directly and indirectly caused the existence of billions of deaths. But any hint that He might return, to today's society, it would be as violent as knowing that the Trisolarans were about to invade the earth.

You can't directly say that it's Janus... at least you can't confirm that it's Janus with your own mouth.

In the end, Jiang Zhou came to this conclusion.

The task Charon gave himself was to ask him to help retrieve the steed. In other words, Christie will definitely return to the base reality in the future and help Charon do things.

And asking her to go back with such explosive information, whether it is to cause public turmoil or let some big shots know, it is not a good idea no matter how you look at it.

So he took a deep breath and replied:

"I call him... Paradox."

Throw the pot to an existence that she fabricated - unless she can find another Booker who was fooled by him, she will definitely not find any clues related to this in reality.

"paradox……"

Christie murmured the word with her head down, as if chewing on the metaphor.

After a while, she looked up again and asked:

"Didn't you say earlier that you were entrusted by that old... Charon to take me out of Narcissus Plain?"

In response, Jiang Zhou nodded:

"And now, the Dionysian Bureau that bound you has disappeared, and you are out of trouble."

"but……"

Christie doesn't quite understand this—since the other party is the existence called "paradox"...whether it's a subordinate or a believer, since he has such a powerful backstage, why does he still obey Charon's orders? , come here?

"It's a deal."

Jiang Zhou replied:

"Mr. Charon promised to pay a certain price in exchange for letting me help you get out of here."