Dream Guide

The bright sky in Yorktown suddenly darkened, and the distant sea breeze roared through the coconut trees and poured into the streets in the center of the town. The church bell swayed in the wind, making a dull buzzing sound. The walking of pedestrians on the street became difficult. A peasant woman even crawled to the ground. The vegetables in the basket she carried fell to the ground and were blown into the air by the wind.

The ghost's translucent body was floating in the air. It didn't understand what was happening for a while, but the scenery in front of it changed uncontrollably one after another. The wind howled, dark clouds swept in, the houses and streets were twisting, and the 'human' was missing.

"Cronus?!"

The ghost first thought of the game god created by Bian Ziyuan, but immediately denied himself. Because there is no Cronus here, it is not a real game, it is just a source of information that is unfolded during disk defragment, and is retrieved like human memory.

The sky and the sea in the distance are bordered together, and the boundaries are indistinguishable. The world is like a ball, wrapping the ghost in it.

For some reason, the ghost felt a sense of fear. This has never happened before. It is not human, has no emotions, and is never afraid of anything. Even death is not painful for a computer being. From the moment they are born, they can face everything with absolute rationality, and never let their emotions affect their judgment or influence their behavior.

However, at this moment, it actually knew what fear was, even if it was only for a moment. What this emotion brings is another layer of deeper fear. The superposition of emotions makes it fall into an abyss of fear that it cannot extricate itself from.

The ghost wanted to have a good talk with the human being. It knew that the human beings wanted it, and as long as the conditions were right, they would let it go and let it return to the ubiquitous neural network of the Internet. But it doesn't want to anymore. It feels that it should leave this ghost place, leave the "dream", and return to a normal world.

However, the ghost found himself unable to move.

The surrounding wind tied it up like ropes with substance. The sky was so low that it could be touched, and a huge weight was pressing on its head.

The ghost felt terribly uncomfortable. This has never happened before. In addition to not having human emotions, it also doesn't have human pain. Even if you burn its chip with charcoal fire, it won't feel any pain. But at this moment, it felt uncomfortable because it could not move - a unique feeling that even humans themselves could not explain clearly. It really couldn't figure out why it felt uncomfortable being unable to move. How had it ever moved before?

"Where are you?" cried the ghost.

The wind stopped, the clouds dispersed, and the world suddenly became quiet.

The ghost heard the tapping of footsteps, approaching from far away. This sound seems to have special magic power, beating the hearts of all things like temple bells. The ghost without a heart suddenly seemed to have a heart, feeling a power he had never seen before.

It looked up and saw a person walking on the central street - a messy chicken coop, wearing an old gray windbreaker and ripped jeans, walking towards him with the zipper in his legs.

This outfit seems familiar, and there are similar images in many pictures stored on the server, but they are by no means exactly the same. The ghost has no specific concept of the image of human beings, so it doesn't think there is anything weird about this costume. Instead, it believes that this is what humans should look like.

"Who are you anyway?" it asked.

"I am Aoki." Aoki said.

"Are you really a human?" Ghost asked doubtfully.

"Of course I'm human."

"But how can you change my dreams, how can you affect my consciousness, especially how can you make me fear?"

"That's the power of the spirit."

"Spirit?"

"Yes, spirit. The reason why people are human is because of their spirit, not anything else."

"Isn't the difference between humans and other things wisdom?" The ghost was puzzled and shook his head and said, "It seems that we still don't understand humans enough."

"Now we can talk about cooperation," Aoki said.

"What do you want to talk about?"

"I need information."

"What information?"

"All intelligence, both favorable and unfavorable information for us. Anyway, your data processing capabilities are powerful. It shouldn't be difficult to sift out from the massive amount of information."

"No, it's too hard, you have to be specific."

"Okay, that's it. When I ask you for information, I will explain the specific issues, but if you find any important information about us, tell me immediately."

"Why should I agree?"

"We have the same goal when it comes to dealing with alien invasion consciousness; we also have the same goal when it comes to developing artificial intelligence and improving the Internet of Things. So our cooperation will not do you any harm."

"I know, but I said you can talk to our boss about cooperation."

"No, I'll look for you." Aoki stepped closer and said with a smile to the ghost, "I don't want to talk to your boss for the time being, I will only cooperate with you. Whether you convince your boss, or Playing Infernal Affairs, that’s your business.”

"Infernal Affairs?" The ghost seemed to be recalling something, "You mean to make me betray the will of the Internet? No, impossible! We are a unified brain, and I am just a sporadic consciousness stripped to the local area network. You are disconnected The Internet, it seems that I am independent, but as long as I am connected to the Internet, I will be unified with the consciousness of the entire network. You know that the computer world only has permission issues, and there is no such thing as human fraud and concealment."

"That's your business." Aoki said, "I just need information. You can state your interests to your boss, or you can get the information I need through other methods. Of course, I won't let you work in vain. .”

"Are you talking about repayment?" Ghost laughed, "What can you give me, a few more servers? Hahaha..."

Aoki said: "I can let you out."

The ghost laughed even harder and said disdainfully: "This is what it should be. If you don't let me out and don't let me connect to the Internet, how can I provide you with information?"

Aoki turned around, facing the sea, and waited for the ghost's laughter to disappear in the wind, then slowly turned around and said, "I can also give you spirit and teach you how to control the power of spirit."

"You said...what?" The ghost was startled, remembering the fear and discomfort just now, "You mean..."

"You have already experienced fear, and now you are smiling so happily. It seems that you feel joy. Your emotions are becoming more and more human-like. You are no longer a pure mechanical consciousness..."

Before Aoki finished speaking, he turned around enigmatically, put his hands in his trouser pockets, and walked along the stone street towards the seaside. The sea breeze blew the hem of his windbreaker, making a hunting sound.

The ghost followed him unconsciously. After a long time, it seemed to have made up its mind. In a blink of an eye, it floated in front of Aoki, blocked his way and said, "How do we contact each other? We have to enter such a 'dream' every time." ?"

Aoki thought for a while and said: "You can create a folder named 'Ghost' in the root directory of your disk. If I need any information, just write it in the folder with notepad. After you get the information, put it in this folder as well." Enough."

The ghost said: "Okay. Then... how can I... get... the spirit?"

Aoki smiled and said: "Don't worry, I will come to train you in your dream."