Abyssal Wanderer

Chapter 7 NO.0007: Tactical Memory

A person cannot be in two places at the same time.

This is just like 1+1 cannot be equal to 3, it should be a self-evident axiom.

But at this moment, Jiang Zhou broke this axiom—his consciousness was attached to two bodies, so that he was in two different positions at the same time.

Suffering from severe radiation sickness, "Theseus", whose body was half buried in the ground, was imprisoned in the cold deep-diving prison of Tartarus; and the Icarus rebel named "Liao Qi" was in Nord On the second floor of the resettlement area, in a cheap hotel in the Jiangke neighborhood, a street mercenary pointed a gun at his head.

He was perceiving two completely different scenes with the same consciousness, and commanding the two bodies to respond at the same time.

This sounds equally unbelievable. It has always been difficult to do two things at once. Most people can't even "draw a circle with the left hand and draw a square with the right hand".

Not to mention controlling two bodies at the same time.

But Jiang Zhou felt that he was more than capable, as if he was born with two bodies.

He can control the two bodies with the same concentration (a double generated by connecting to the deep diving chamber through the brain-computer interface can be regarded as an extension of the original body), and the behaviors between the two will neither interfere with each other nor It will make him feel busy - as if the computer is processing parallel processes as naturally as possible.

Jiang Zhou really couldn't find the right words to describe his feelings at the moment, as if he couldn't explain what a rainbow is to a blind person.

If he had to explain it, it would be about vision—the two visual images he saw through two pairs of eyes at the moment were not like the two-player games of the old era, where the images were roughly divided into left and right or up and down. Instead, I saw two different pictures at the same time in the same field of vision.

Just like in Escher's paintings, seeing angels and demons at the same time; or maintaining two different views of the Necker cube at the same time (Note*).

Jiang Zhou is very clear that this is something that completely violates the operating mechanism of the human brain. Or to put it another way, his perception at the moment is simply humiliating the primate brain's evolution of self-awareness over tens of millions of years.

At least from his perspective as a cognitive science scholar, what he is experiencing now is an even more unbelievable miracle than what he has traveled through a long time to come a hundred years later.

As for the source of this miracle, he had already revealed his identity to him at this moment—as he sensed the body of "Liao Qi", an extremely familiar symbol appeared in front of Jiang Zhou's eyes.

It was an ancient double-faced deity pattern.

One face looks backward to the past, and the other looks forward to the future.

Jiang Zhou is very familiar with this pattern, or it is impossible for him to forget this pattern in his life-it was the logo of the Janus project he was in charge of a hundred years ago!

At the same time, a line of text prompts appeared in his sight together with this icon:

[Janus system has been activated, new controllable elements have been launched]

controllable elements? What's the meaning?

Does it refer to the Icarus rebel named Liao Qi?

Through Liao Qi's eyes, Jiang Zhou looked at the street mercenary who was pointing a gun at him and yelling.

Liao Qi's ears were still suffering from severe tinnitus at the moment because of the roar of the man who shot himself in the head, so he couldn't quite hear what the other party was shouting.

But all this is not an illusion...

There is no doubt that this newly activated "Janus System" is the super artificial intelligence that once blew up the entire Internet, the existence that is suspected to be the soaring existence of its own digital personality, and it is for the same race that is still in the mortal world. Origin, what remains.

Although I don't know what principle the other party uses to achieve it, and I don't know what the other party's purpose is... But what the "Janus System" can do right now is completely clear at a glance:

At this moment, I have surpassed the nervous system buried in the body, projected my own self-awareness, and occupied the unlucky young man named "Liao Qi" who should have been shot to death.

In other words, this is equivalent to having a body that can move freely outside Tartarus' prison!

Maybe I can use this thing to help me escape from the prison of Tartarus.

Jiang Zhou thought to himself.

Maybe I can live on this thing.

…………

Janus' signs and reminders just flashed before Jiang Zhou's eyes.

But what happened at this instant was far from that simple.

If the employees of the Tartarus Testing Institute had the leisure and thoughtfulness to spend a few months manually checking the network fluctuation records of this day. They may be able to find that at a certain moment, there was a very short period of abnormal data fluctuations in the No. 3 deep submersible chamber-the amount of data transmission at that moment was almost pulled into a straight vertical line.

But because the duration of this fluctuation is too short, it is so short that it is difficult to say whether it really existed. Therefore, the main control computer of the No. 3 deep diving chamber just ignored this abnormal situation as an accidental error caused by tidal fluctuations in the abyss darknet or interference by cosmic rays, and did not even file it independently.

On the other hand, after the signs and reminders of the double-faced god Janus disappeared, the No. 3 deep dive warehouse also successfully pulled Jiang Zhou into the subnet.

Bright green grid lines spread around him, extending to infinity, and then the modeling and materials began to load. After a burst of dizzying changes, Jiang Zhou found himself in a place similar to a field training camp.

In front of him was a shooting range big enough to accommodate a battalion of soldiers training at the same time. And there are rows and rows of firearms around it, which is dazzling.

Before he could figure out where he was, a familiar enthusiastic voice came from behind him:

"Hey! Brother native, you're really here! I thought those company dogs would frame you!"

Jiang Zhou turned his head, and Black Falcon-136, whose eyes were still covered with "metal caps", patted him on the shoulder enthusiastically.

And behind the opponent, Qian Xiaying and the other two Icarus members who were sleeping in the car were standing. Each of them is fully armed, wearing red and black carapace armor.

"Brother 136, is this the Abyss Darknet?"

Jiang Zhou asked curiously.

The common sense learned through "Liao Qi"—although Liao Qi has never dived, Jiang Zhou still has a general impression of the abyss dark net: a weird cyberspace distorted like a nightmare, hidden in every corner There are countless dangerous malicious programs wandering in it, and if you don't pay attention, you will be doomed.

But at this moment, the few people in front of them seemed to be very relaxed.

"Abyss Darknet? Of course not, no matter how crazy those company dogs are, it is impossible for us to kick us into that abyss without any training... This is the training ground."

Hearing Jiang Zhou's question, 136 shook his head repeatedly and answered.

"Training Course?"

Jiang Zhou looked around - not only the shooting range, but also all the tactical training facilities he could imagine and unimaginable were all around them. And they are all "compressed" within the line of sight in a form of non-Euclidean geometry. It makes people feel that the real space here is far wider than what can be seen.

If this is a training ground, there is really no problem.

After Jiang Zhou looked around, 136 continued to explain:

"The company dog ​​gave us 24 hours of training time, allowing us to master the basic skills required for deep diving salvage. And also opened up a lot of military-grade 'tactical memory' to us. It is said to be used to improve The survival rate of diving into the abyss and darknet to salvage technology... I'm afraid we can't go crazy fast enough."

At this time, Qianxia Sakura came over and took over 136's words:

"Actually, this is the area between the subnet and the abyss. The industry generally calls this place 'Lingbo Prison'. We will complete the final adaptive training here before going to hell."

For some reason, Jiang Zhou felt that the other party seemed a little wary of him.

Sure enough, his previous behavior still caused the other party's distrust?

Jiang Zhou thought helplessly.

On the other hand, because I read the memories of Liao Qi, who was also a member of the "Icarus Liberation Front", I had a general understanding of the characters of Black Falcon-136, Qian Xiaying, and several other members of the rebel army—at least It was the person Liao Qi knew before he was alive, but now Jiang Zhou has let go of a lot of wariness towards them.

In this era when super corporations are as high as gods, controlling the destiny of everyone. No matter what the reasons are for these people, they dared to fight against those super corporations so tragically that they were almost stupid. Just for this alone, it was hard not to respect him.

Therefore, he didn't care about the other party's defensive attitude, but continued to maintain his previous amnesiac personality, and confirmed in conclusion:

"That is to say, after we have trained here for 24 hours, we are going to leave the 'Lingbo Prison' and dive into the abyss darknet to mine?"

Qian Xiaying nodded first, then shook her head:

"For you, it's twelve hours. The time when you installed the brain-computer interface. We have already conducted twelve hours of training, and those company dogs will not delay time for you alone. Only ten It's been two hours of training, hurry up."

After twelve hours of training, he might not even be able to learn how to hold a gun.

But fortunately, the other party didn't mean to let him really learn target shooting from scratch.

"Original brother, quickly absorb a few pieces of 'tactical memory', time is running out."

136 on the side said anxiously.

"What is 'tactical memory'?"

Jiang Zhou asked suspiciously.

Although he obtained a considerable degree of common sense by looking up Liao Qi's memory. He understands that the "tactical memory" is an "instant experience book" for elite soldiers to learn coping skills in a very short period of time when encountering emergencies on the battlefield, but he still pretends that he has nothing to do. Knowing the ignorant look.

As for this, Qian Xiaying replied with an unchanged expression:

"The memory with the roughest mode of action will take effect in seconds after insertion. It will directly build up a reflection circuit in your brain, and forcefully pack and stuff it into the corresponding skills. Although it is convenient and fast, this thing is even for natives. It will also seriously affect the mind. Therefore, there must be at least 6 hours between two uses."

In the words, the other party has already made a decision for Jiang Zhou-let him plug in the tactical memory provided by the company, even if the side effects of this thing are not small.

"Little brother, you are not an adjustment person, so there is no way to load the enhanced prosthetic body on the double body. And we are going to the position of depth 2, which is extremely dangerous for you, and I may not guarantee that I can protect you well .So, although tactical memory will have a certain impact on your spirit, this is currently the only way to increase your chances of surviving."

136 on the side also spoke.

When he said this, his expression looked very guilty.

Jiang Zhou nodded slowly.

Seeing this, 136 breathed a sigh of relief, then pointed in the direction of the shooting range and said:

"I suggest you choose a medium-range rifle with precision shooting specialization tactical memory, so that you can stay in a safe position for cover shooting. As for the medium-range distance, if you are in danger, I will have a rescue response..."

"I want to ask."

Inexplicably, Jiang Zhou interrupted 136's words.

"Is there any tactical memory for hand-to-hand combat here?"

"ha?"

136 looked at Jiang Zhou with a puzzled face. Could it be that a person who doesn't have any augmented prosthetics plans to engage in hand-to-hand melee combat with those malicious program doubles in the future?

The latter nodded to indicate that he was not joking, and then added very seriously:

"Preferably the type that can snatch a gun with bare hands."

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