Abyssal Wanderer

Chapter 158 NO.009d: Meeting the Gatekeeper Again

Jiang Zhou's words stunned Christie.

She opened her mouth slightly and then closed it again. After hesitating for a while, she confirmed with some unease and asked:

"You mean, in order to get me out of trouble, that old thing paid a lot of money?"

Manipulating his emotions and showing a heavy expression, Jiang Zhou replied vaguely:

"How should I put it, I did pay something..."

Hmm... I'm not completely lying when I say that, right?

Jiang Zhou thought to himself.

As for whether "Charon" will be exposed, he is not too worried.

Obviously, Charon must have known that he was special, so he would let him enter the Narcissus Plain.

Otherwise, as an adjuster with a depth of 2, how can He De help Christie get out of the hands of an adjuster with the limit of human intelligence?

On the other hand, in the past, Charon had abandoned Christie at a critical moment in a certain battle and returned to the Abyss Darknet. Jiang Zhou originally estimated that even if he helped rescue her, there was a high probability that she would not be willing to go out with him obediently like this-everyone would have resentment after going through such a thing.

But now, since he has an opportunity to use the opportunity to help change his impression, it is impossible for Charon to waste this step in vain.

Of course, even if the AI ​​doesn't understand those "sophisticated ways of the world" and just blows up the sky, it doesn't matter. Anyway, the task Charon gave himself was to bring this "horse" out of the Narcissus Plain.

His purpose is to take her out, as for persuading her out or tricking her out, it doesn't make much difference to him.

In fact, under the premise that you have already drawn a target, the so-called "persuasion" is not sincere-it is just deceiving yourself before deceiving others.

"Then what is he..."

On the other side, Christie obviously hesitated.

"Anyway..."

Before the other party continued to question, Jiang Zhou immediately changed the subject:

"Regarding the grievances between you and Charon, as an outsider, I naturally have no position to continue judging... My mission is to bring you out of the Narcissus Plain. But if I were to say it, you act like you are doing now. Wanderers, who have been wandering in the Narcissus Plain, will definitely not be able to solve any problems.

"So, no matter what doubts you have, or whether you have any grievances or grievances. I think the only way to solve it is to communicate with Mr. Charon face to face after leaving here."

Regarding these words, Christie frowned and thought for a long time, and finally nodded reluctantly.

"All right……"

She said, looking around.

At this moment, the surroundings have generally returned to the environment of the Colosseum before, but...

Modeling overlaps, texture errors, physics engine failures, picture freezes and dropped frames... Including this magnificent Colosseum, this entire city is heading towards its own collapse at an extremely slow speed.

Besides these infrastructures, every "survivor" within sight of them has fallen into an extremely frantic madness.

Someone is hitting his head against the wall, and it turns red every time; someone is scratching his skin, tearing his whole body to a bloody mess; someone is kneeling on the ground with a dull expression and looking up at the sky, with tears streaming down his face flowing...

"you're right."

Seeing this scene, Christie nodded.

As she said that, with her at the center, about half of the buildings in the entire city shattered like glass.

"At the very least, there is really nothing to miss about this garbage dump."

Following Christie's words, the fragments of the half of the city gathered above their heads and spun, turning into a dark green vortex.

She closed her eyes and raised her head, opening her arms towards the whirlpool. Immediately afterwards, hundreds of thousands of shining data strips extended from the vortex. Like glowing cilia, they all converged on Christie's body.

She is taking back her computing resources.

During this period, in Yu Jiangzhou's perception, many functions in the "City of Sages" that he had previously obtained permission to use were rapidly offline one by one. It was not until the data was emptied by about 30% that the momentum gradually slowed down.

It is estimated that more than 40% of the data will be completely deleted in the end, and more than 80% of the programs will not be able to run normally-that is the program that was previously run by Christie's computing power.

However, he didn't feel any pity about it.

After all, this was originally a family thing.

What's more, the entire system of the city of sages in the past was based on the logic of "human evolution" of the "Dionysus Bureau". If you don't plan to learn to do this, then it's useless to keep this set of things.

"Speaking of which, those digital personalities here..."

After recovering all the computing power resources, Christie opened her eyes again and turned to look at Jiang Zhou.

"Um?"

She made a sound of doubt.

And all of a sudden, the size of the other party's data made Jiang Zhou's Hongqiao brain area seem to hallucinate a phantom as huge as a blue whale, which appeared behind the other party.

Even though he now has the "City of Sages" as computing power support, Jiang Zhou still feels awe from the bottom of his heart.

Unlike the "Dionysus Bureau", this city is not equal to itself. The resources it can provide are far from allowing him to compete with the adjuster who has reached the "limit of human intelligence" in front of him.

For a moment, Jiang Zhou felt a little guilty about the fact that he had fooled her so much before, and then became afraid.

However, he quickly adjusted his mentality.

First, in the basic reality, there is a high probability that there will be no intersection between him and an adjuster who has reached the limit of human intelligence; It will not be found on its own body.

Suppressing the instinctive awe he felt after seeing the "huge thing", Jiang Zhou asked:

"What's wrong?"

"I just scanned and it shows that the original version of the digital personality here before - that is, the residents of the City of Sages, are all still here. But for some reason, they all seem to be crazy..."

Christie looked at those people who were going crazy around him suspiciously, and said this in a puzzled way.

Jiang Zhou knew what happened.

That was the instruction that the suspected "Janus" existed before he left-he synchronized all the memories between everyone and all their replicas.

In other words, every "citizen" has completely experienced what his replica body has experienced.

Then, they all went crazy.

Jiang Zhou didn't know why he did this.

At this moment, I have mastered the power of life and death in this city, and I only need one command to delete all the remaining 1030 digital personalities here.

Oh... now there are only 983 left.

At this moment, in front of Jiang Zhou's eyes was a person who committed suicide by breaking his own neck because he couldn't bear the experiences his clone had suffered.

Then let them go...

Jiang Zhou thought to himself.

He does not have the source code of the mental model of the original uploaded version in his hand, even if he has the authority to resurrect them, it is the current version. Without much intervention, they would still choose to commit suicide - just like trying the joke of Meng Po Tang's Xiandan.

Therefore, he will not stop those who want to die.

However, if after experiencing everything that his clone has experienced, there are no people who have fallen into the uncanny valley of mind and are willing to live, he will not delete them either.

After all, a city without people means nothing.

but……

The current number of remaining citizens has dropped to 888.

Looking at the numbers that fell as quickly as the currency price in a mine disaster, Jiang Zhou thought:

Is there really such a person?

"What happened to them?"

Christie couldn't help asking, looking at the people who kept committing suicide in front of them.

Regarding her doubts, Jiang Zhou said:

"This is... the trial left by the 'paradox' for them."

With that said, he turned his head to look at Christie, and continued:

"Only those who have experienced all of this and can understand that the replica is a complete individual just like themselves, are qualified to continue living in this city."

After speaking, he snapped his fingers lightly.

In the next second, they had already appeared at the gate of the "Sage City".

For Jiang Zhou, who has the authority of this city, such an operation is just a matter of his order.

"Let's go."

Jiang Zhou said.

Unlike when he came here, he was as dazed as a headless chicken. When he returned, Hecate's blessing could guide him.

The fog filled the air, and the black dog appeared like a ghost. It jumped up and showed them the way back.

"Let's get out of here together."

…………

Nord Settlement Area, Theseus Warehouse, Beehive Area.

After entering the printing command, the universal printer disintegrated into countless dice-sized pitch-black cubes in an instant, and swept into an endless black storm in the storage room.

Although they didn't make the slightest sound during their movements, Booker still seemed to hear a "buzzing" sound in a trance.

When Universal Printing is printing large-scale facilities and cannot be completed in-house due to its size, it will turn into countless small working modules, which look like traditional 3D printing and complete the task bit by bit.

At this moment, on the seventh floor of the resettlement area, at the former site of the dismantled geothermal power plant, all the printing materials have been prepared under their overtime efforts - as long as there is energy to start, they can start their own work .

And according to calculations, one gram of antimatter is completely enough for the energy required to start construction—there is even a lot of redundancy.

Turning on the hyena helmet again to hide his figure, Booker dived into the thin air again.

He had already entered the coordinates for the universal printer before, and then they would automatically go to the negative seventh floor to start the printing job.

And in the view of Theseus Cargo, this universal printer is equivalent to automatically starting.

This is stated in the contract that all the materials stored in the company's warehouse will be damaged or damaged due to their own reasons, or the goods will break through the containment and leave by themselves - some self-discipline machines will indeed have similar things - Theseus Freight Not responsible.

On the other hand, Theseus Freight Company is a company completely run by AI, and they will only do things literally according to the contract. It doesn't have emotions, or connects some things back and forth, and retaliates and pursues responsibility afterwards.

So, as long as Booker isn't caught doing it, it's basically done.

Incidentally, this also bypassed the energy supply of the "Fusion Bureau", and firmly grasped the ownership of the geothermal power station in the hands of Icarus.

I have to say, this is indeed a good plan.

Watching the dice-sized universal printer modules leave, Booker floated in mid-air, passing the drones that kept rushing over to try to prevent the printer from leaving amidst the sirens constantly ringing around.

An array of drones tried to stop it, but it was in vain. Those "dice" are like ghosts or shadows, easily passing through them.

Resisting the sound of ridicule, Booker followed behind the universal printer.

Soon, the task will be completed...

Then, something appeared that attracted his attention.

It is a structure composed of five blue concentric crystal rings, like a celestial globe.

It was slowly but surely floating out from the side.

If Jiang Zhou was here, he would definitely be able to recognize this thing.

This is the gatekeeper they saw at the door of Theseus' warehouse when they dived to the mirror city in the Nord resettlement area.

The guard program that was barely destroyed by the full firepower of Aconitum-23.

Then, several messages were received in Booker's data channel.

[The upgrader of the Perseus path was detected, non-interviewee, threat level 4, non-interviewee]

[Warning, it has been detected that you have activated the coffin, please stop the operation of the coffin immediately, and hand over the activation authority]

[Otherwise, the garrison system will be activated and the authority to clear it will be obtained]

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