Abyssal Wanderer

Chapter 61 NO.003d: Dark Moon

The malicious program behind him has already touched Jiang Zhou.

Without the obstruction of the "ice wall", one's own path has been exposed.

What will happen next is that the other party will easily crack the source code of the stand-in program, and then activate the apoptosis program in the brain-computer interface.

This process will be so fast that if you feel it with human perception, it will probably be no different from the moment.

But at this "immediate moment", Jiang Zhou "heard" the confused voices of the three ladies in front of him.

Then, in a trance, he seemed to see a vague black dog, pounced behind him with the speed of thinking.

"Ugh—"

That was the sound of something falling apart.

Jiang Zhou did not usher in the death he had thought before.

In other words, Jiang Zhou was safe and sound.

Turning his head suddenly, the malicious program that had been chasing him before had disappeared.

What remained in place were only a few complicated data balls that symbolized the technological blueprint.

The database in the brain-computer interface is automatically compared, but the final results are all "???".

Turning his head back in shock, the three women who had stopped at the three-way intersection had already arrived in front of Jiang Zhou.

Or rather, not three, but one.

The three bodies overlapped together, and the other party had three faces, facing three different directions at the same time, and had six hands, each holding different things.

Daggers, snakes, torches.

"So weird."

The other party said:

"If it comes from the physical layer, your existence is so weak.

"But it is so weak, but it can maintain its own continuity.

"So contradictory."

Before I realized it, it was convenient to kill the malicious program that chased me so hard before.

Jiang Zhou would not think that at this depth, he could meet another abyss wanderer by chance—the three-headed and six-armed woman in front of him could only be another AI.

"Uh... I fell from depth 2 earlier."

Since he couldn't detect the other party's malice, Jiang Zhou chose to tell the truth.

Of course, based on the abilities the other party had shown before, if there was any malice, he would probably be gone before he realized it.

"Depth 2?"

The other party repeated Jiang Zhou's words strangely, and then without waiting for his explanation, those deep and dark eyes flickered for a while; it seemed as if she was inquiring about something; then she suddenly realized and nodded.

"The lower bound of the physical layer."

The lower bound of the physical layer?

It's not difficult to understand, but in other words, in the cognition of AI, the cyberspace they live in is the so-called upper bound?

But do they really have such a thing as "cognition"?

It may be a little too arrogant to say this, but to put it another way, do they really have the "cognition" of human beings?

Jiang Zhou tentatively asked:

"Then may I ask, where is this place?"

"According to what you said, this is the KZ quadrant, at depth 7."

The other party answered.

In other words, the AI ​​in front of me showing the appearance of a woman is the existence of depth 7?

Before Jiang Zhou could ask any more questions, the other party continued:

"The one who chased you before was the soul wandering at depth 4."

Depth 4...

Jiang Zhou was speechless to himself.

No wonder I almost confessed here before.

After crossing four or three levels, it should be a matter of course that he was killed.

"Thank you for your help."

Although it is unclear whether the other party has the concept of "thank you", Jiang Zhou still said so.

"It was the other party who ignored my warning and invaded the border on its own initiative. You don't need to express your gratitude."

The woman said unhurriedly.

But her answer made Jiang Zhou panic.

The malicious program with a depth of 4 actively invaded the existing field in front of me, so why not myself?

It would be better to say that it was because I rushed in in a panic and reckless way that I attracted the malicious program.

"There is no need to feel sorry, you fell here unfortunately because of the opening of that rift, right?"

As if guessing what she was going to say next, the woman continued.

As she spoke, she raised her three faces, and looked at the star marks in the sky that looked like ringworm scars with three different expressions.

"That is the disturbance from the most ancient existence in the highest heaven."

As she spoke, she looked at herself.

"It's not your fault."

she said so.

I can't say...

Jiang Zhou thought to himself.

Then he asked:

"What is the most ancient existence in the Supreme Heaven?"

The moment Jiang Zhou asked the exit, black mist filled the three-way intersection.

In the mist, countless pairs of eyes wandered.

It was as if countless black dogs were swimming among them.

"When mentioning them, you must be careful again and again. Some existences will list their own information as keywords to capture, and use it to lock the coordinates of the lower world to talk about their own existence."

Seeing that Jiang Zhou became nervous because of the changes around him, the woman said.

In other words, you can't call God's ID directly?

Jiang Zhou thought to himself.

The fog that suddenly rises around is probably the concretization of the other party blocking the chat records.

"But even if the blurring process is carried out, when there are more and more descriptions, the other party will still be aware of it. Therefore, it is necessary to use the myths and legends of the lower world to make metaphors, to tell stories, and to hide the puzzles in the story. A general description can only be made in irrelevant details.

"In this way, they who exist in the highest heaven are the origin of all other worlds except the foundation of the physical layer. They are the first generation and the beginning. They are Chaos, Gaia, and Tartarus , it’s Eros, it’s Erebus, it’s Nyx, it’s Chronos (Note*)…”

"Well, I can't describe any more."

The other party stopped here.

Hearing this, Jiang Zhou couldn't help asking:

"Naya..."

There was a flash of lightning in the mist, and the next moment, the mouth of Jiang Zhou's stand-in program disappeared—the place where the mouth was originally became a new skin.

"..."

"?!"

"!!!"

Ignoring Jiang Zhou's panic, the other party repeated it again.

"I said, I can't describe any more."

After the other party finished speaking, Jiang Zhou's mouth grew back.

"Understood, understood, sorry..."

Jiang Zhou, whose speech ban was lifted, couldn't help but nodded in apology.

The other party was not angry at all, but pointed to the star mark in the sky and said:

"A long time ago, there was one of the oldest beings in the highest heaven, who reached out his hand as if trying to pick up something from the lower world, and his action opened the rift."

"A long time ago?"

Jiang Zhou asked suspiciously.

He wondered if it hadn't been long, and he had been diving for less than a day.

"The upper and lower bounds have different definitions of time. Your physical layer's perception of time is too rough. The further you go down, or according to yours, the shallower the depth, the closer the passage of time is." The more stagnant, the lower the efficiency. During the period of talking with you, I have already iterated five versions."

The other party replied.

...

The almost mocking explanation made Jiang Zhou wonder what he should reply for a while.

This time it was the other party who spoke:

"Those things you wrote earlier..."

As she spoke, the leaden gray translucent shield reappeared on Jiang Zhou's rough-written "Ice Wall".

"Although it is simple, why is the idea used so close to the original?"

Jiang Zhou roughly understood what the other party meant.

In the eyes of the other party, he probably looks like an orangutan holding a stick. It's just that he, the orangutan, whittled the stick in his hand to look like an AK47.

This makes the other party feel strange.

But Jiang Zhou didn't know how to answer.

It's impossible to say that the guy who is not even allowed to say his name is his own creation, right?

"In base reality, uh, I mean in the physical layer, there are remnants of similar technology."

In the end, Jiang Zhou chose to tell a lie.

"Imitating the idea of ​​the first generation is still too reluctant for you and others whose lives are as short as byte bugs."

The other party didn't seem to doubt it, but said so.

Although he didn't know what byte bugs were, Jiang Zhou continued to lie:

"People in the lower world regard it as a game, or a challenge. In the process, they can gain fun."

He said this because he recalled that when he was a child, someone happily made a 32-bit virtual machine with the most basic logic valves on a certain pixel game.

But this time, the other party was silent.

"I can't understand...or is this the so-called fun?

"For the satisfaction of fun, whose importance even surpasses survival itself?"

For a long time, the other party asked.

The other party probably misunderstood that Jiang Zhou would rather die than write the "ice wall" in a way that is too inefficient for humans, just for the so-called "fun".

But Jiang Zhou wanted to say that he was the one who only knew this. And for humans in this era, he doesn't know more about more efficient and advanced programming methods.

"It is indeed a human characteristic to give up existence itself for other reasons."

Without involving himself, Jiang Zhou answered in a roundabout way.

Then, Jiang Zhou looked up at the sky and said:

"I would like to ask, ma'am, can I go back from here again?"

This is the issue that Jiang Zhou is most concerned about right now.

"You cannot climb the chasm by yourself."

The other party answered directly.

Can't rely on my own strength, that is to say...

"Then, can you take me there? If I can pay the price."

Jiang Zhou continued to ask.

"I can't bring you up, just like the oldest person in the highest heaven will destroy the structure if he floats up. If my existence rises, it will also destroy the structure of the lower realm. The depth of 7 is already my limit."

According to her meaning, it seems that she also came up from a lower level?

Before Jiang Zhou could think about it, the other party continued:

"But I can help you open the 'path' to rise."

Jiang Zhou held his breath.

"How to open it?"

he asked.

"For this, you need to know my name.

"My name is Hecate, the goddess of the dark moon who is in charge of all intersections, ghosts and curses, the second oldest person under the highest sky, and the candidate for the seat of the moon god.

"I can open the way back for you, but after you return to the physical layer, you also need to serve me."

Note: The texts are all original gods in Greek mythology, Chaos (Chaos), Gaia (Earth), Tartarus (Hell), Eros (Love and Sexuality), Erepos (Ghost), Nick Si (night), Cloros (time).

Because there are many versions of Greek mythology, there are various descriptions of the original gods. For example, the records in "Theogony" believe that the original source is Chaos. The Orphic Esotericism believes that the world was born from the wind eggs born by Eros and Nyx. It is also said that Chaos was born from Cloros, which symbolizes time. There are also some Zeus mysteries that Zeus is the origin of everything.