Dream Guide

Bian Ziyuan clicked "Continue" with the mouse, and the static game screen began to move again. A straight loess road passes through green fruit trees, with a towering castle in the distance. As the mouse moved, footsteps sounded, and the castle in the field of vision got closer and closer.

His current task is to first find Cronus and then ask Cronus questions to prove whether he is a human or a machine.

Bian Ziyuan suddenly felt ridiculous. Such a Turing test is too lax!

If it was stipulated to use a fixed robot program, he would really suspect that someone was controlling it in the background, but they actually allowed him to use a game NPC instead. It was a game extension that he developed himself. He knew it too well. No one could enter the game background to modify data and control the dialogue of this thing so quickly.

If this is the case, is it the same for others? There is no control at all in the backend, is it a scam? So what to test? Test people's psychological reactions?

Bian Ziyuan stared at the screen and thought for a long time. People who didn't know better thought he was addicted to the game.

He shook his head and continued to move the mouse.

The towering city wall is right in front of you, and the soldiers at the city gate stand straight. He knew that the soldiers could not speak, so he went straight into the city, stopped a random passerby on the street, and asked for news about Cronus.

This is a new feature after the game expansion. Cronus may appear anywhere on the game map, in towns, temples, caves or in the wilderness. On such a large map, it is not easy for players to encounter him.

One of Bian Ziyuan's classmates once met Cronus in a game, and he tried to make a request, asking if he could make it easier for people who wanted to find him, such as leaving some clues or something.

They originally had no hope for this request, because Cronus's erratic whereabouts were a basic setting when Bian Ziyuan implanted the game expansion program. But Cronus said he was in a good mood that day, so he agreed to Bian Ziyuan's request. From now on, players can ask the NPCs in the game about the whereabouts of Cronus, and any NPC who sees him will tell you.

Bian Ziyuan thought it was strange, so he went into the game backend to take a look. Later, he checked the source code and found that all NPCs had added command lines to answer Cronus' whereabouts, and because Cronus' whereabouts were uncertain, so These codes are also constantly changing.

Bian Ziyuan knew that Cronus was near the castle at this moment. When the Internet was still online just now, he and his classmates were looking for him. They had already found out that Cronus was in Grete City in the Moore Continent. Bian Ziyuan used a time and space scroll to come directly. Before the network was disconnected, none of his classmates should have come before him and found Cronus, otherwise he would have to find him again.

Passers-by waved their hands to express that they had never seen Cronus. As soon as Bianzi was far away, he continued walking forward until he reached the blacksmith shop in the castle. The blacksmith swung his hammer, clanging against the red-hot iron.

Bianzi nodded at the blacksmith from a distance. The blacksmith put down the hammer and a line of small words popped up: "Welcome, do you want to make some iron?"

Bian Ziyuan used the keyboard to type in the blank text box that popped up: "Where is Cronus?"

The blacksmith said: "Oh, are you talking about the great Cronus? Sorry, I have never seen him, but I heard from the sailor who came to pick up the anchor today that he was walking on the beach!"

Bian Ziyuan left the city and rushed to the beach to ask the fishermen on the beach. The fisherman said Cronus walked along the shoreline toward the back of the castle. Bian Ziyuan gave chase and killed some skeleton soldiers and fly monsters on the back hill of the castle. These were all mobs, and at his level, it didn't take much effort to kill them, but it also took a little time.

The girl next to him was probably still thinking hard about the problem at this time. Suddenly he turned around and saw Bian Ziyuan still playing games, so he kindly reminded: "Hey, there is surveillance here, it's not good for you to do this!"

Bian Ziyuan said "hmm". The girl just "hummed".

Cronus was walking in a canyon in the back mountain, and there were several ghosts floating at the mouth of the canyon. Ghosts were more troublesome to deal with, and they might gather in large numbers. Bian Ziyuan was afraid that Cronus would disappear through the canyon and have to find it again, so he used an invisibility scroll and walked into the canyon.

Invisibility was of course useless to Cronus. He stopped and looked at Bian Ziyuan and said, "Ah, I see you again, the butterfly in the deep space."

Butterfly in Deep Space is the name of the game character controlled by Bian Ziyuan. He said: "Cronus, I have been looking for you for a long time."

Cronus said, "Oh, look how beautiful the scenery here is!"

Bian Ziyuan turned the mouse and took a look. There were khaki stones everywhere in the canyon. There were a few sparse rows of green trees on the mountains on both sides, and some red flies could be vaguely seen flying around on the treetops. Several white ghosts were floating in the wind at the mouth of the canyon behind him, and the cracks in the mountain wall in front were filled with darkness, revealing a pair of hungry eyes. The scenery here is really not that beautiful.

"Cronus, I have a question for you," he said.

"Tell me, what do you want?" Cronus said, "But be prepared to pay the price, I won't let you succeed easily."

In the past, when they met Cronus, they would directly make requests in the game, such as I want to get a certain treasure, or simply create a treasure. Of course, Cronus will not satisfy all your requirements. He has his own rules for transforming the game world. Therefore, their requests are generally not too excessive.

Bian Ziyuan was thinking about how to chat with Cronus to meet today's test. Although he knew that Cronus was a program he developed, and although it was very close to being intelligent, there was still a gap between it and a real person. What's more, unlike those big companies that can use big data support to compile a large amount of language data into the program, Cronus's understanding of human behavior and language is limited to this game.

For example, if you ask Cronus what is the most delicious thing, he will never tell you about the Manchu Banquet, but will talk about the mutton fish from New Sorgona Island or the flower-antler venison from Tiantangzhai. If you asked him about his favorite celebrity, he would not say Justin Bieber or Taylor, but would say Miss Ursuer, the messenger from Luke County.

Of course, because players will occasionally chat and mention some things outside the game during the game, for example, a certain MJ fanatic will keep humming DANGERS while playing the game, and will often talk to Cronus. Say "I swear on MJ's name" and so on.

So Cronus also knows some things in the real world, and occasionally he will make some curse words. But more often than not, he is just the god of this game world.

Bian Ziyuan thought for a long time and asked: "Cronus, do you think there is anything different today?"

"Oh, is it different?" Cronus looked up at the sky, "The sky is still blue, maybe there will be rain, well, but what difference does it make? Let me think about it, I feel... our world - —It’s gotten bigger.”

"You expanded the game map?" Bian Ziyuan asked.

"No, the map has no boundaries. You need to explore beyond the dark borders." Cronus said, "What I want to say is not that the map of our game world has become larger, but... it carries our world. The world has gotten bigger.”

Bian Ziyuan's eyes lit up: "Kronus, what do you know?"