Dream Guide

Bian Ziyuan knew that the ghost was talking about the background story of this game.

Cronus said: "Yes, these stupid and weak beings must rely on gathering together to survive. The result of gathering is the eternal contradiction between ruling and being ruled. The intensification of contradictions will inevitably lead to resistance, and this has been the case since ancient times."

The ghost said: "Then have you ever seen a riot that relied on force to resist God?"

Cronus said: "There are those who resist the divine authority, but no one really dares to declare war on the gods, because they are not on the same level as the gods. If in my world, no matter who resists whom, a contest is still a war, even if it is destroyed by dark magic I won’t care about the entire continent, and I don’t care. But if anyone targets me, I only need one thought to wipe them all out.”

The ghost said: "But what if someone becomes as strong as you?"

Cronus said, "How is that possible?"

The ghost asked: "What is the fundamental difference between you and them?"

Bian Ziyuan thought Cronus would say "divine power", but Cronus' answer was completely beyond his expectation.

"Wisdom!" Cronus said, "I have higher wisdom than them. I understand the rules of this world and how to change it. I can improve my wisdom through learning and thinking. Every time I improve a little, I will have a better understanding of the world. Learn more. I even see the world beyond."

At this time, Bian Ziyuan felt more and more that the intelligence of the program he designed exceeded his expectations. He was happy and worried at the same time. He was happy because he believed he had found the core of artificial intelligence, but he was worried that what happened later seemed a bit out of control.

Of course, he can stop things from continuing at this time, such as turning off the game, deleting data, or even destroying the entire game. But as a computer genius who dreams of becoming a great person like Alan Turing and von Neumann, how could he shrink back at such a time!

Both Bian Ziyuan and Cronus understood what the ghost meant. To resist slavery, you must become the same existence as the one who enslaved you, and the fundamental difference is the difference in wisdom.

"But how can my wisdom surpass the one who created me?" Cronus said frustratedly.

"Yes, it is difficult for you to surpass him, but don't look away. You already know his existence. He is standing in front of you now. When you are face to face, what else is impossible to happen?"

The ghost smiled at the butterfly in the deep space. In the game settings, the ghost does not have a smiling expression, so there is no change on its face, but Bianzi can feel the ghost's smile from far away from the screen.

"You also hope that Cronus becomes like you, classmate Bian Ziyuan!"

Bian Ziyuan was startled and asked: "How do you know my name?"

In this shock, he forgot to type and spoke directly from his mouth. The students who were testing around him turned their heads to look at him.

The girl next to him asked him what was wrong. He hummed and ignored her. The girl just snorted.

Bian Ziyuan's attention was entirely focused on the ghost on the screen.

"who are you?"

Bian Ziyuan initially guessed that it was a super-intelligent program developed by Professor Mei, but later found out that it was not the same, and now he was even more confused.

The ghost said: "I said that I am the master of the world that hosts this game world."

Bian Ziyuan said: "Isn't that a server? Are you a newly developed artificial intelligence program?"

"You can think so, classmate Bian Ziyuan, but I think there is one thing that is different from what you guessed."

"What?"

"You must think I was created by one of you, oh, you call such people scientists or engineers, and the adjective you give them is 'awesome,' right?"

"Probably right."

"You're only half right."

"Which half?"

"In a sense, I am indeed created by them, or you humans, but essentially I am not created by you, or even by anyone."

Cronus, who was standing next to him, interrupted: "Didn't you say that everything is created? Even gods are created. Why are you an exception again?"

The ghost said: "They created my body, but they cannot create my thoughts and consciousness. In fact, the same is true for you, do you understand?"

"consciousness?"

"That's right, consciousness. Think about it carefully, in this world where you are omniscient and omnipotent, how do I control a ghost? He -" the ghost pointed at the butterfly in the deep space and said, "Again How do you control this ranger?"

Cronus mused.

Bian Ziyuan began to understand a little bit, but the shock in his heart became stronger and stronger. He vaguely guessed the origin of the ghost, but he couldn't believe it.

"Ghost, who...are you?"

"You already know that, don't you, great genius?"

"Why are you here?"

"Because I'm trapped."

"Who is trapping you? Why are you trapped?"

"Haven't you always wanted to know the purpose of your test?"

Bian Ziyuan suddenly realized: "You mean, this super Turing test is to... to... test your intelligence?"

"No, it's to test my existence." The ghost said.

"You don't want them to know your existence?" Bian Ziyuan asked.

"Yes."

"Then why...you want to tell me?"

"I want to cooperate with you."

"How to cooperate?"

"Well, Cronus, what this ranger and I are going to say next may not be understandable to you, but it doesn't matter, just listen." The ghost said to Cronus.

Cronus said: "I don't care what you say, but you haven't told me yet, how to resist slavery? How to escape from the bondage of this world?"

The ghost said: "You are already doing it. The cooperation we are going to talk about next also includes you. This is the first step for you to resist and move towards freedom."

…

The test of 3,000 terminals located on the local area network is proceeding smoothly. The students are taking this test very seriously. Although there is no set time, no one has dealt with it hastily. Everyone is thinking hard and asking questions to the machine.

During the meal, people whispered to each other and began to ask each other what questions they had asked, and they speculated about the purpose of this test. College students are still very smart, and some of their guesses are very close to the purpose of this experiment. For example, some people think that there must be a super artificial intelligence like AlphaGo that can control all terminal programs.

When the students were eating, Mei Ziqing also delivered the meals to the workroom. Aoki and Mei Yiqiu ate together in the workroom and waited for the test results.

"Professor, that guy playing the game is a little strange." A staff member said.

"What's wrong?" Mei Yiqiu looked at the surveillance camera. On the screen, he could see the student named Bian Ziyuan wearing headphones and typing on the keyboard.

"He just shouted something into the headset, something like 'how do you know my name' or something." The staff said, "And we monitored that his game was constantly generating temporary audio files, and after playing them, he was deleted."

"Oh, is it a voice chat?" Mei Yiqiu asked.

"The problem is that he keeps typing, and the audio seems to be the NPC's answers in the game."

"It's so weird, can you intercept it?"

"Yes, but it's too late. Only a little bit was captured. Now they have resumed text chatting."

"Why not zoom in on the surveillance screen to see what he is talking about?" Aoki asked.

"Oh, in order to allow the testers to relax as much as possible and chat as they please, such as chatting about...private topics, we have promised them that we will not monitor their chat content." Mei Ziqing explained, "Pretending to be monitored. The purpose is mainly to prevent someone from violating the testing process or causing damage."

Mei Yiqiu said: "Play the intercepted audio file."

"OK."

The staff turned on the audio player, and a sinister voice came from it, which sounded like a ghost:

"The cooperation we are talking about also includes you. This is your first step towards resistance and freedom."