Dream Guide

"ghost?"

Mei Yiqiu laughed loudly, laughed and coughed again, her whole body trembling constantly, her fluffy hair flying up and down with the rhythm of the cough, like a group of dancers in white on their heads. The old briar pipe in his hand could no longer be held due to trembling, and it fell to the A4 paper on the table with a clatter. Fortunately, the fireworks had been extinguished long ago, leaving only a pile of black cinder-like ash.

Aoki felt that the professor's reaction was a bit exaggerated, so he said: "You said that it would be a matter of time before Wu and Wu fought against Cao, and that cooperation with Internet consciousness would happen sooner or later. Why are you laughing?"

Mei Yiqiu said: "How are you cooperating with the Internet? You are poaching the Internet!"

Mei Ziqing also thought it was funny and said, "Mr. Aoki, I didn't expect you to be able to do this!"

Aoki was a little confused and asked: "Which hand?"

Mei Ziqing also covered her mouth and smiled.

Mei Yiqiu said: "Your brain is caused by laziness. When you are not lazy, you can do anything as president. Let me see, you can take the position of director general of the Space Management Committee."

Aoki knew that Mei Yiqiu was joking, so he chuckled and said, "Why didn't you tell me to become the Secretary-General of the United Nations?"

Mei Yiqiu said: "I don't have that authority, but the Director General can make a recommendation."

Aoki was afraid that Mei Yiqiu would take the joke seriously, so he waved his hands and said, "No, no, but you must not do this."

Mei Yiqiu picked up the pipe again, poured out the dregs, replaced it with new tobacco, lit the fire, and then said slowly: "Don't worry, I'm not that stupid. You are the trump card in our hand, let's show it to you." , we have no cards.”

Just when Aoki was about to say something, Mei Yiqiu straightened up and said, "According to you, Internet consciousness is different from human consciousness, and they have no spiritual power?"

Aoki shook his head and said: "No, they have spiritual power, they just don't know how to use it. I felt that power when I first entered the ghost's dream. It was very scattered, but not without it. Judging from the structure of the dream, their dreams It is very different from us. We usually construct a three-dimensional dream, but the dimensions of their dreams are not unified. The world after the information source is unfolded is all kinds of strange, but I am afraid this is the real dream world."

Mei Yiqiu nodded and said: "You are right. Real dreams have no fixed dimensions. Dimensions are created by consciousness itself, or restored after we wake up. Our dreams overlap in time, just like A scroll, so no matter how much time passes in the dream, the reality is only a moment. When we recall the dream, we will open this scroll, and then see a long scroll of time and space, just like the real world we live in. "

"But one thing we must understand is that time in the real world is only a concept created by us for ease of understanding. That is to say, time only occurs when we think, and the concept of time does not exist when we stop thinking. Because we The thinking mode needs to open the scroll. So time is just a concept, a concept that exists in human thinking."

Aoki agrees with the statement that dreams are a time scroll, but cannot understand that reality is also a scroll, and does not know how to answer the professor's words.

The professor said: "Forget it, this is not important. I just want to say that Internet consciousness, or computer consciousness, may not have time in their concept. Programmatically speaking, they only have cause and effect, and everything other than causality does not matter. It's all parallel to them, there's no time... well... it doesn't matter... I mean, their dreams - the way the information source unfolds, like you said, that's the real dream , truly allows us to become God’s world. Well...this inspires me...I think we can do better..."

Aoki listened to the professor talking incoherently, not knowing what he was going to say. He said, "Professor, can we release this 'ghost' first?"

The professor came back to his senses and said, "Oh, yes, Ziqing, please connect to the Internet."

Mei Ziqing agreed and went out. After a while, she came back and said that the network was connected.

Mei Yiqiu said: "Well, then go ahead and create a folder named 'Ghost'."

"Where is it built?" Mei Ziqing asked, "There are twelve computer rooms, more than 100 servers, and 3,000 independent terminal computers?"

Aoki realized that he was negligent and did not agree on a specific location with the ghost. At that time, he said "root directory", but in a local area network where a unified system is not installed, how to determine the root directory.

Mei Yiqiu said: "Just find any server. I believe this ghost can be found."

Mei Ziqing turned on the computer and said after a while: "Professor, it seems... there is an extra 'Ghost' folder, which was not created by us."

"Oh, where?" Mei Yiqiu asked.

Mei Ziqing said: "It is available on all servers and terminals, but it should be the same one. I tried it and it can be synchronized."

Mei Yiqiu nodded and said: "The ghost should have built it himself. Qingmu, let's give it a try. How do you think the cooperation will start?"

Aoki said: "Let him investigate the recent frequent assassinations of scientists. Since the killer organization's transactions are conducted through the dark web, the Internet will definitely be able to find them."

Mei Yiqiu said: "Are you sure that the Internet is willing to help us? If it is not willing, I am afraid that this 'ghost' alone will not work, unless... this ghost really becomes your person, but that would be too scary, It shows that mechanical consciousness can also learn human cunning and strategy.”

Aoki said: "It should be impossible. The ghosts said that their communication is a direct expansion of the information source and cannot hide from each other. But I think the Internet will agree, because it must also want to know how to control the power of the mind."

Mei Ziqing had already written down the investigation requirements in a notepad according to Aoki's request and stored them in the Ghost folder. I quickly received a reply from the ghost:

"In order to save time in information retrieval, please enter as specific information as possible, such as all the clues you know, names of scientists, suspects, etc."

Mei Ziqing entered the names of some scientists, and then asked: "Professor, Mr. Aoki, do you want to write down the suspect?"

Aoki and the professor looked at each other and said at the same time: "Dream Foundation?!"

Not long after Mei Ziqing entered it, there was a new reply from the ghost - two long lists.

The first is a list of killer targets, which are basically former members of the Third Space Foundation. The top ones are Frank, Mei Yiqiu and Dardova;

The second was a list of killers. There were about a dozen people, listing their names, place of origin, and organizations they belonged to in detail. Most of them were accompanied by photos.

Mei Yiqiu looked at the list printed by Mei Ziqing and smiled: "It seems that my status in their eyes is not low!"

Mei Ziqing said: "You almost became the director-general!"

Mei Yiqiu shook his head and said: "That's nothing. In terms of true scientific achievements, Frank and I are still far behind. What's more, you see, Frings, Jack Young, Mulvey De, Joe Miyamoto, these people are on the list. Being ranked so low shows that the ranking is not based on status or achievements.”

Aoki said: "Why is there no mention of who paid the murder? Nor is there any mention of the Dream Foundation."

Mei Ziqing entered Aoki's questions into the Ghost folder, and Ghost quickly responded: "Still investigating. There is currently no evidence that the murderer is related to the Dream Foundation. However, can my spiritual training begin? Already?"