Dream Guide

Aoki couldn't help scratching his head and said: "This space does have a bit of a Wuzhong garden scene, but can you change your own image? It really doesn't match this scene."

The ghost twisted a few times in the air and said, "What's wrong with my image?"

Aoki said: "Look at you, how can you look like a human being? Even if you are a ghost, can you increase the pixels a little higher? There are still mosaics on the edges! And this is a visual experience between two and three dimensions. , it looks like the paper figurines that people make when they hold funerals."

The ghost said: "Actually, I can also turn into a human form. I also know what kind of image you humans like best."

As she spoke, her appearance changed, like an inflatable doll, her body swelled up and became much plumper. She twisted a few more times, and her figure became more graceful. She wore a goose-yellow frilly skirt, covered with a thin white gauze. Her long black hair was tied up on her head, and her temples were half-caged and half-loose, with a green jade hairpin inserted into them.

Her appearance probably draws on the advantages of many hand-drawn beauties on the Internet. Her facial features and figure are almost impeccable. She slowly falls from the air to the ground, her clothes are fluttering, and her body is graceful. She has the elegance of a fairy. In addition, the face is fair and does not look like a living person, and has a more otherworldly feeling.

The ghost probably felt that she was not human enough, so she gently rolled up her sleeves and stretched out her slender hands to touch her face, and then two peach blossom blushes appeared on her cheeks.

It's a pity that no matter how she changes, the image of the previous ghost has been deeply ingrained in Aoki's heart. Looking at the woman in front of him, the more Aoki looks at it, the more he feels that she is a paper figurine for a dead person, with red dots on her cheeks, which is very scary.

A moving paper man is scary enough, let alone a talking paper man!

The ghost suddenly imitated the nondescript appearance in movies and TV dramas and became slightly blessed. With a still sinister voice, he covered his mouth with his sleeves and chuckled: "Sir, how do I feel about me like this?"

Aoki almost spit out a mouthful of old blood, but unfortunately this was in a dream. Even if he couldn't spit out blood, he couldn't cover his eyes, because covering it wouldn't work.

"You should call me teacher." Aoki said.

"Yes, teacher." The ghost said respectfully, "I just made a joke. Don't you humans like to joke the most?"

Aoki said: "Humans like to joke, but they don't necessarily like a machine to joke with themselves, especially not with the teacher. Do you know that you can scare people to death like this!"

The ghost was puzzled, opened his hands, turned around in a circle, and said: "I chose the look from people's favorite pictures on the Internet. Doesn't it look good? Or does the teacher not like it?"

Aoki shook his head and said: "You don't understand humans. Human aesthetics is a very strange thing. Sometimes there is no clear boundary between beauty and ugliness. People often like to magnify and exaggerate things they think are beautiful in their imagination. This is art. The source of inspiration. Most of the characters in the paintings are exaggerated, the most typical ones are anime characters. If those body proportions really appeared in reality, they would be absolutely ugly enough to make people cry."

After hearing this, the ghost thought for a long time, and then said: "Teacher, is your current appearance exaggerated? What do you look like in reality? Can I see your photo?"

"Uh...you're thinking too much!" Aoki touched his hair unconsciously, thinking about whether to change his image when he dreams, but after thinking about it, he thought it would be troublesome, so he decided not to do it.

The ghost said again: "Teacher, should I choose a nicer name? Ghost is a race, not a person's name, and the ghost's name is not nice either."

Aoki wants to say that your current image is indeed not like a ghost, but a bit like a female ghost, but he doesn't want to remind you that if this guy changes his name to Xiaoqian or Jiuniang, it will be so awkward in the future!

He said: "The name Ghost is a good one."

"Really?" Ghost looked very happy, "Then I won't change it. From now on I will call myself Ling'er."

"Well……"

Although Aoki understands that a mechanical consciousness begins to care about its own image and name, which is an important manifestation of personification, he still doesn't want to continue talking about this kind of topic with a machine, otherwise he really doesn't know what awkward and terrifying things will happen.

"You have made great progress recently, and your mental power has been controlled very well." He said.

The ghost was originally a mechanical consciousness, and Aoki didn't know how they were generated, but the mental performance of consciousness is not much different, except that the spiritual power of mechanical consciousness seems to be more scattered and cannot be directly condensed, and the so-called dreams are also It is much more chaotic than humans. For example, when he first entered the ghost's dream, it was like entering a chaotic universe, which showed things in various dimensions, and its essence was the content stored on the computer.

As Aoki gave her several trainings, the ghost's mental power began to condense, and the ghost was obviously able to distinguish human emotions and spontaneously generate emotions. This shows that the ghost's consciousness is very close to human consciousness.

The most terrifying thing is that the ghost's source of spiritual power seems to be inexhaustible. According to Aoki's analysis, it is because it can obtain energy from the world's network when it is connected to the Internet.

Aoki didn't know whether to be happy or worried. After all, the ghost is just a local area network, a sporadic consciousness separated from the Internet. Such a consciousness can become powerful so quickly, so what a terrifying thing the Internet itself must be!

In fact, Aoki also knows that the behavior of ghosts cannot be hidden from the Internet, at least not yet. Since the Internet does not interfere, it means that it acquiesces to the current relationship between Aoki and Ghost. In addition to their open basis for win-win cooperation, will the Internet also use Aoki's training of Ghost to learn and strengthen itself? ?

Aoki felt that it was necessary to find a chance to test it out, but this was not the purpose of today. On the one hand, he came today to see the recent progress and changes of Ghost. On the other hand, and most importantly, he wanted Ghost to check what happened in the South Pacific.

No matter who gets Captain Church's diary, there is a high probability that the contents will be transmitted back to higher-level people through the Internet. At present, the only defense against the Internet, apart from those who originally knew about the existence of Laboratory 19, is the Third Space Foundation. The parasite probably doesn't know about the Internet yet.

After conducting several simple mental tests on the ghost and pointing out some shortcomings, Aoki asked the ghost to check the diary.

After hearing this, the ghost said: "It's easier if you have a specific time and location. There are not many places with Internet access on the Pacific islands. Just retrieve all the information sent from there during that time period."

Aoki reminded: "It may not be from the computer on the island, it could also be from a certain ship or warship."

The ghost said: "It doesn't matter. As long as there is time and positioning, it can be found whether it is through optical cables or satellites, unless you build an independent quantum communication network like you do and are not connected to our network."

Qingmu Daqi said: "You also know this?"

The ghost said: "Our boss already knew it."

Aoki feels it is necessary to re-evaluate the power and threat of the Internet.

After saying this, before exiting the ghost dreamland, Aoki thought of one more thing:

"Oh, by the way, help me contact someone. Her name is Dua. I have some of her contact information here, all through the Internet. But these obscure ways of transmitting information are too troublesome for me. Can you help me pass them on? Give her some news."

He suddenly felt that this was a good idea and added, "From now on, you can be the middleman between me and them."

The ghost asked: "Who else are they?"

Qingmu said: "There are not many at the moment. In addition to Du Wa, there is another one named Zhao Pengcheng."