Abyssal Wanderer

Chapter 180 NO.00b3: The Night Before (2)

Ignoring the noisy guy next to him for the time being, Jiang Zhou checked the running status of his stand-in program again.

The tactile perception fits, the visual signal is clear, the prosthetic body works perfectly, and the analog hormone simulation performance is excellent...

All signs are good, and there should be no problems by then.

Clenching his fist and then releasing it, watching the changes in various values ​​on the digital meter, Jiang Zhou nodded, and then turned to look at Chen Wang who was beside him—that is, the hammer.

I have to say that although this guy doesn't look like a depth 4 adjuster at all, his technical ability is really nothing to say. Without body scanning, the complete stand-in program can be restored only through those residual codes. This ability is unimaginable, at least in Jiang Zhou's perception.

Not only is it restoring the damaged stand-in program, but according to what Chen Wang babbled about all day, he was dumped by the "wife" he created, and he can even directly create a digital life with personality.

Unfortunately, this modeling capability is still not sophisticated enough. At least not so precise that it can be used to create digital personalities at will by adjusting the connections of several trillion synapses.

Destructive brain scans are still the only way to acquire a digital personality.

However, Jiang Zhou speculates that if the Pygmalion path is not a so-called "dead end road", then as the adjustment depth deepens, this path may be able to achieve this.

"By the way, how did you do it?"

Shaking hands violently in front of him like catching flies, Jiang Zhou put away the projected image, and at this moment, Chen Wang who was beside him also seemed to have gone mad. The hammer floated over dangling, and then he "looked at" Jiang Zhou and asked.

After finishing speaking, he added a very polite sentence:

"Although it's a bit presumptuous of me to ask that."

I have to say, ignoring the appearance of his hammer, when not talking about topics like "two-dimensional", this guy speaks quite normally, and even makes people feel very reliable-this is very in line with Jiang Zhou's attitude towards otaku less stereotyped impression.

Jiang Zhou turned his head to look at him, and asked in confusion:

"How did you do that?"

And the tone of Chen Wang's speech next made Jiang Zhou seem to read an expression of extreme surprise on the hammer.

"Ah? Do you still have to ask? Of course it is why you can do it, using one consciousness to adapt to different substitute programs."

There are too many impossibilities in this.

First of all, if you want to launch the stand-in program, you must pass the Datura certification. And he was able to use two substitute programs, indicating that he was able to pass another person's mandala code.

Secondly, in theory, using the brain to drive other people's substitute programs, the substitute will in turn affect the personality. Although in the concept of "consciousness", the weight of the brain is very large, but the body is undoubtedly an important part of the system. A body that can break through the sound barrier at running speed, and a body that needs a wheelchair to move, even if driven by a consciousness, their impact on personality cannot be ignored.

"My past job was a so-called 'life experience engineer', which created all kinds of substitute programs, allowing customers to enter other people's bodies in cyberspace and experience themselves as different genders and ages. The feeling of being... or not being human.

"But all of this needs to be strictly regulated and controlled, because if you don't pay attention, it will have a serious impact on the customer's mental index. I have received hundreds of customers in the past, but if you use another one like you The stand-in program took half a month... maybe more than half a month, I really haven't seen anyone.

"How did you manage to replace the substitute program so casually?"

Chen Wang asked like this.

Regarding this question, Jiang Zhou was silent for a while.

If you really want to ask why, then of course it is the almighty Janus program... He can't answer like this, and this answer does seem a little lazy.

But if I really want to say it, I am not using one consciousness to drive different bodies back and forth. Whether it is Liao Qi's body in the base reality or the stand-in program running in the cyberspace, to a large extent, they are actually driven by the combination of the two consciousnesses of Jiang Zhou and Liao Qi.

Maybe the conscious mind floating on the surface doesn't have this feeling, but Jiang Zhou can clearly feel the subtle difference between his personality and his past by comparing his specific behaviors and thinking about some of his choices.

It is more of a change that acts on the subconscious level.

In a sense, it is not a problem to say that after acquiring the controllable element of "Liao Qi", he became another person (of course, the reverse is also true). It's just that I didn't feel abrupt subjectively, nor did I feel any separation.

It's like comparing my childhood with my current self. If you want to say how it feels to people, there are indeed two people, but in my personal cognition, I am myself.

Thinking about it carefully, whether it is "Jiang Zhou" or "Liao Qi", they are all doing what they should do.

This is just like the paradox of "The Ship of Theseus". Constantly changing the parts of the ship will not change the essence of the ship.

"It's like the 'Cartesian theater' of the Pygmalion path you're walking on."

After thinking for a long time, Jiang Zhou said:

"This is a special mental model brought about by my path of ascension."

As for what this mental model means, and why Janus gave himself this mental model... I can only pray that after tonight, after the completion of the geothermal power plant in the Nord resettlement area tomorrow, I can be in that Find the answer in the information archived by the universal printer.

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Tomorrow is the day of the decisive battle.

On the way to Huimin Community, Liao Qi thought to himself.

The word "decisive battle" has some bad connotations, to be precise, it has a lot of pessimism in it.

After all, so to speak, it is basically confirmed that Pluto Deep Diving Company will turn its face immediately after the construction of the geothermal power station is completed.

However, this idea is not groundless. Rather, at this juncture, Pluto Deep Dive Company still hasn't sent anyone over to contact them, which already speaks volumes about their attitude.

Although the intelligence team has always stated that they have not detected the transfer of any armed units in the Nord settlement area by Pluto Deep Diving Company. But in the eyes of Booker, an old intelligence expert, this further explains the other party's true intentions.

And within the Icarus Liberation Front, they have rehearsed this final battle scene countless times. The final conclusion was that, except for an elite troop with a depth of 2 or more left behind, the other members of the organization were all broken into pieces.

If the natives want to pose enough threats to the adjusters, they must use strong firepower. And in urban areas where large-scale firepower cannot be used, no matter how many non-adjusters stay behind, they will only give the opponent's professional executioners a record.

Besides, if there is a competition of firepower, there is no doubt that the company will have the upper hand. If one's own side uses heavy firepower first, it will only end up giving those company dogs an excuse to use heavy firepower. They don't have to care about some PR hits just because it's a little bit -- there's some, but not much really.

All in all, for the battle that may happen tomorrow, the final main force of the battle is only myself, Booker, a five-man combat team with a depth of 2, and a small hacker team for remote support.

If Booker, a Perseus path adjuster with a depth of 4, is excluded, their combat effectiveness is also pitiful.

Even if Booker is added, as long as the armed forces dispatched by the other party are the same as during the "Siege of Theseus", they are absolutely weak.

Likely to die.

Liao Qi thought to himself.

It's not the level of small fights like before, there is no room for maneuver, and there will be no support from the Raiders from Heaven.

I will face this battle head-on.

Just like what I have experienced before, facing the invincible corporate power.

That time, he escaped from the warehouse in embarrassment, and under the cover and sacrifice of countless companions, he brought back the key to restart Icarus.

At that time, I didn't even have the qualifications to resist.

But this time...

Standing at the door of the house, Liao Qi couldn't help clenching his fists.

After passing the verification of the mandala code, the door opened, and Bai Dong's voice came from the room:

"Ms. Ma Wei, try to recall now..."

"How many times have I said this, Miss Bai. My name is not Ma Wei, but my name is Audrey Bergman, and I belong to Venus Media..."

A middle-aged woman's voice interrupted Bai Dong's words, the latter took a breath as if about to say something, but then she stopped.

Bai Dong came out of the room with surprise on his face.

"Liao Qi? Why are you back? Shouldn't you be at the geothermal power plant?"

Liao Qi smiled and said:

"I should ask this question, right? Why are you here today? Isn't the treatment every Saturday?"

A somewhat embarrassed expression appeared on Bai Dong's face for a moment, and she was a little shy and said:

"Didn't the organization say that non-combatants like me should return to their jobs for the time being and not participate in this operation? I thought that I really had nothing to help, and I happened to have nothing else in hand. Just come over and give your mother a memory awakening treatment."

After finishing speaking, she turned to look into the room, and said:

"I will charge the fee to your account first, remember to pay the money when you come back alive."

Liao Qi smiled slightly:

"I try my best."

"So, why are you coming back at this time?"

Maybe because he felt that this topic was too heavy, Bai Dong asked instead.

Liao Qi looked past Bai Dong to the room, he was silent for a long time, and then said:

"I want to come back and see my mom one last time."