Barrier of Light

In the dark underground of the frozen lake, after the explosion of [Children], only the diffuse breath of death remained.

Gu Shen didn't expect it.

I can also hear other sounds.

He suddenly raised his head and looked towards the place where the sound came from, which was the direction where the [Blue King Realm] was hovering. After the Sky Sheath Weapon Storm was released, that place had been shrouded in a dark vortex.

A mutilated, decaying body... was floating in the whirlpool. The owner of this mutilated body had countless wounds all over his body, and all his blood had drained away.

At this moment, the water in the frozen lake is scouring.

The cracked flesh was faintly white.

He couldn't bleed any more blood.

Jing Shanyan is still alive!

Gu Shen instantly rushed towards the direction of the sound. After he saw the withered and broken body, unbearable light flashed in his eyes, "Mr. Jing, please be patient... I will heal your wounds right now!"

Han Dang has been using [truth] to torture Jingshan Yan.

The skin of the first-generation Grand Judge had been torn and repaired, and he had been tortured countless times.

Countless "sky sheath fragments" were also planted in his body.

but.

Faced with these tortures, he said nothing.

The information Han Dang knew was all forcibly obtained through "spiritual search", but there was a price for going against the grain. His mental power was far less powerful than Jing Shanyan, so the information he obtained was incomplete.

Jing Shanyan's body was filled with fragments of the sky sheath... These fragments were sucking his life away all the time.

Gu Shen's fingertips were stained with blazing fire and he was ready to touch the wound.

"No...it's not necessary."

Jing Shanyan's voice was hoarse and firm.

He looked at Gu Shen and forced out a smile of relief: "Young man, you don't have to waste your strength...come and save me."

Gu Shen ignored it and forcibly transferred all the "curse of the sky sheath" on Jing Shanyan to himself...

To him, this was nothing.

After doing this, the old man's pale complexion improved slightly.

But...his breath is still weak.

"I don't have much time left."

The curse of the sky scabbard dissipated, and the fragments were extracted by Gu Shen. During the whole process, Jing Shanyan could feel his body becoming lighter, but there was no joy on his face.

"Young man, why do you need to work in vain?"

The old man just murmured: "All mortals are mortal. My time is up and you can't save me."

"..."

Gu Shen was speechless, but the silence was silence, and the movements of his hands did not stop.

Yes, Jingshanyan is right.

His time is indeed running out.

But at this time, if a piece of the sky sheath can be removed, the old man will suffer less.

Gu Shen originally thought that Jingshanyan had withstood the bombardment of [Children] and might have a chance to save him, but just as his spirit soaked into Jingshanyan's body, he realized that the situation was far worse than he imagined.

It is no exaggeration to describe the old man's physical condition as running out of oil and drying up his lamp.

It can even be said that Han Dang's [truth] torture has extended Jingshanyan's life.

For more than twenty years, he has been imprisoned in the deepest part of the [Snow Cage].

He is the only transcendent who can stay alive in the core area of ​​the Sky Sheath for twenty years.

All of his body organs were aging to the point of disgrace. If Han Dang's [Truth] had not rewritten the cause and effect and extended his life, he would most likely have died in the process of sinking into the [Blue King Power Realm]...

"How do you know me?"

Gu Shen asked softly while extracting the fragments of the sky sheath.

This is something he didn't want to understand.

Han Dang stole part of Jingshanyan's memory and knew his [key] identity, but about this... why did Jingshanyan know?

There are many wrinkles at the corners of the old man's eyes when he smiles.

He softly uttered three words.

"Always help people."

Gu Shen was in a daze for a while.

yes.

In the previous inventory, I ignored the old guy who disappeared in Wuzhou...

"Two years ago, he came to the tundra."

Jing Shanyan didn't look like a man about to die. He looked at Gu Shen with a soft smile on his face, as if this was not a frozen lake five hundred meters underground, but a hot spring with blooming flowers in spring.

"He told me that he was going to travel far, to Beizhou..."

"He also told me that he found the [key] to the Ancient Literature Society. He is a very nice little guy. His name is Gu Shen..."

In Jing Shanyan's magnificent life, he faced "torture" for a long time.

He banishes the stars and takes the blame on one person.

What is it that allows a person to persevere in the [Snow Cage] to this day?

In fact, it is just a very small, illusory belief.

"Gu Shen."

Jing Shanyan stretched out his rough palm and patted the young man's shoulder gently. He laughed with a trembling voice: "I have always wanted to see you... Thanks to fate, I actually got my wish..."

Gu Shen's eyes were complicated. He stretched out his palm and gently held the back of the old man's palm without saying anything.

Jingshanyan coughed violently.

Gu Shendu sent a ray of vitality, but the effect was not good.

The fire of life can save those who must die.

Jing Shanyan's life has truly come to an end... But he is not afraid of death. What he is afraid of is that persistence for many years is meaningless. Seeing Gu Shen now, all these years of waiting and suffering are worth it.

"I have something to tell you..."

The old man asked hoarsely: "Is it safe here?"

"Please tell me."

Gu Shen opened up his own territory, allowing Jing Shanyan to feel more at ease.

In fact, there is nowhere.

It is safer than the frozen lake after the Sky Sheath attack.

It is impossible for the law enforcers from the two continents to step into the killing area of ​​[Children] at this time.

Got this reply.

Jing Shanyan's tense brows and eyes relaxed again. In the past twenty years, the old man had never smiled as happily as a child.

[Key] said it was safe here...

Very good.

He can finally complete his "mission".

Jing Shanyan has kept the secrets of the "Stars Project" his whole life.

After he decided to expose himself, this secret was completely buried in his heart.

The first one was Nagano, and then the snow cage.

Even Han Dang, who mastered [Truth] and [Truth], did not dig out this secret...

"The next words...you, please don't spread the word..."

Jing Shanyan squeezed Gu Shen's palm hard and said in a tone close to pleading.

He suffered a lot.

Suffering from human torture.

The reason is to keep this secret.

"Okay." Gu Shen took a deep breath and nodded seriously.

Jing Shanyan looked at Gu Shen, sorting out his chaotic and complicated thoughts, and murmured: "Since you are willing to heal my wounds, it means that you already know about the 'Stars Project' back then, and what probably happened..."

If Gu Shen had never learned about the past events.

So at this moment, as the leader of the law enforcers, when he saw Jing Shanyan, there was only one thing he could do.

kill!

Make the decision!

"I know... you are the secret agent of the Ancient Literature Society."

Gu Shen said softly: "I have read through the case files from that year."

"Okay." The old man asked with a smile: "So you should also know that the Star Project... the most important link is that after the consciousness is uploaded, it will be processed by the [source code]."

Gu Shen nodded.

"So, do you know that the [source code] of Deep Sea is actually a little girl?"

Jing Shanyan asked.

Gu Shen looked a little complicated.

He did not answer, and this silence was acquiesced by Jingshan Yan as ignorance.

The old man continued talking to himself: "The [source code] of the deep sea... If you are careful enough, you will find that in the loading interface, a little girl running on the waves will often appear. That is the initial image of the [source code] , cannot be modified."

"The little girl's name is Chu Ling. She is an 'artificial intelligence' created by Mr. Turing. The original intention of her creation was to connect with humans and become a 'national assistant' in the era of spiritual sharing."

"It's just that this name no longer exists in the Deep Water Zone. Based on the huge computing power support of Wuzhou, the [Deep Sea] main brain continues to iterate. The system of the Deep Water Zone has been upgraded countless times. In the Deep Water Zone... there is no need to have A 'Chu Ling' is responsible for connecting with humans."

Jing Shanyan looked a little dazed.

This name seemed to bring him back to the memory of twenty years ago.

"Twenty years ago, [Deep Sea] suddenly launched a wanted order against the Ancient Literature Society on the charge of 'betraying humanity'. This was an unforeseen massacre..."

"Turing escapes, and the ancient literary society is declared ruined."

"Only a very few lucky people escaped because they hid their identities properly and hid in time."

"Twenty years have passed, and no one still knows why this disaster occurred..."

Jingshan Yan laughed at himself: "Actually, all this is because of 'Chu Ling'."

"Chu Ling?"

Gu Shen was puzzled.

"Yes... all of this is because of 'Chu Ling'."

Jing Shanyan raised his head and said word by word, "Before the establishment of the prison, I was the leader of the Jiangbei region of the Ancient Literature Society. Together with Lu Cheng, I was responsible for the evolutionary process of the 'Deep Sea' consciousness iteration."

“According to Turing’s vision, [Deep Sea] must continue to evolve and upgrade in the process of connecting the five continents in the future... What we need to do is to maintain the stability of the [source code] so that this system can be used every time. During an upgrade process, always choose 'self-optimization'."

The best evolution is [Deep Sea]'s own choice.

It has huge data, far beyond human vision, and absolute calculations of countless possibilities for the future.

Judging from the development after twenty years.

The Ancient Literature Society seems to have achieved this... Today's [Deep Sea] is iterating on its own.

"It's just that in the second evolution, the underlying logic system of [Deep Sea] had conflicts. Due to a BUG left by Mr. Turing, its 'authority' began to diverge towards two levels."

"Mr. Turing... left a BUG?"

"From the very beginning of creation, Mr. Turing did not believe that [the deep sea] should be a cold machine."

"He hopes that the 'Chu Ling' he created can evolve his own emotions and enjoy his own life during the years of accompanying humans. Therefore, he did not impose 'permission restrictions' on the [source code], which means As a result, in the subsequent simulation test, the main system of [Deep Sea] determined that Chu Ling was not qualified to be the 'master brain'."

"According to Lu Cheng and I's plan, every time [Deep Sea] evolves itself, it needs to test the 'master brain consciousness' in the system to see whether it can still abide by the three major rules of AI."

"That is, AI must not harm humans, AI must obey human orders, and can protect individual survival without violating the first two conditions."

Gu Shen was thoughtful.

"Chu Ling failed the test... So the second evolution of [Deep Sea] resulted in fierce conflicts. There was a fierce confrontation between the main system and [Source Code], a code war broke out, and a large amount of junk data was generated. [Deep Sea] once faced paralysis. During that time, the five continents lost their spiritual connection. The federal government announced that it was making technical adjustments. Then the five continents parliament held a joint vote and finally decided to follow the iron law and let the absolutely 'rational' main system. Take over the reins.”

"In this iteration, the main system won. The [source code] written by Mr. Turing was banished to the bottom of the deep water area... In fact, the main system made changes to the [source code] as soon as it was upgraded and iterated. Clear.”

Gu Shen's pupils contracted: "Clear?"

"Yes, the absolutely rational main system does not allow subjective consciousness like 'Chu Ling' to exist."

Jing Shanyan said softly: "All Chu Ling's data has been deleted, but... before Mr. Turing created [Deep Sea], he left a backup database specifically to store the first version of [Source Code] that has not been iterated. In order to avoid another sudden attack in the future, we backed up the data again and used an 'array box' to perform cold backup storage in the real world."

"I just didn't expect..."

"Before the Ancient Literature Society had time to re-enter the [source code], the federal government's 'wanted' order was issued."

Jing Shanyan smiled bitterly, "It turns out that Mr. Turing is indeed a great inventor. He invented the ultimate cold and efficient machine like [Deep Sea], which completely defeated human beings' inertial thinking. In the first generation [Deep Sea] 】In the system, since it is Chu Ling who calls the shots, she will at least remain respectful to the members of the Ancient Literature Society who created a part of her, and she will always maintain respect for her father Turing. And the master who has all the authority System', directly backhanded all members of the Ancient Literature Society and sent them to hell."

"Obviously, the main system knows what Guwenhui is going to do..."

"With Mr. Turing's wisdom, it is enough to improve the [Source Code] and implant it into the [Deep Sea] again, waiting for a later iteration to regain the authority."

"Kill all the members of the Ancient Literature Society, and the main system will not be replaced."

“In every subsequent iteration, it will become the sole master in the entire [Deep Sea]!”

Gu Shen held his breath.

He asked: "What then?"

Then... In fact, it was that period of history that everyone knew. The ancient civilization was completely destroyed. After the arrest order for [Deep Sea] was issued, the federal government launched a brutal purge across the five continents.

But what Gu Shen really asked was not this.

But... Chu Ling.

"Then……"

Jing Shanyan deliberately let it slip.

The old man raised his eyebrows proudly and showed off in a thick voice: "Turing handed the improved [source code] array box to my hands, and I put 'Chu Ling' back into the world."

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