Dream Guide

The professor stood up, holding his pipe in his hand, and paced back and forth in the small laboratory.

“In order for an organization to maintain a high degree of cohesion, it must have beliefs and ideas, and every member must have a sense of mission. This is generally the case for successful organizations in history. Those organizations that rely on the temptation of interests and the high pressure of power will soon disappear. .But you are different-"

The professor turned around and stood still and looked at Huang Liang, "As far as I know, although you have centralized power, your rule is not brutal; you have a large amount of wealth, but you do not use money to drive members to do things; your members are voluntary and have difficult skills." Imagine the dedication, just like you, you can commit crimes, you can go to jail, you can sacrifice everything including your life for the organization.

From this point of view, you must have lofty beliefs, dreams in your hearts, and missions on your shoulders, so you can move forward regardless of everything. But the problem is, you don’t seem to have one! Nothing at all! You don’t know who you are and why you listen to them. You may not even know who you are listening to, but you keep doing it. Have you ever thought about why this is the case? "

Although the cold air of Canadian winter would not invade the underground laboratory, Huang Liang felt cold all over, and the heating in the laboratory seemed to be turned on a little too high. A thin layer of sweat oozed out on his back. It stuck to his underwear and made him feel uncomfortable all over.

Mei Yiqiu asked almost all the questions he had wanted to ask this year, and from a professor's perspective and height, the analysis was more thorough than what he had thought about before.

"I thought about it, but I couldn't figure out why," he said.

Mei Yiqiu said: "Well, let me ask you, do you have the feeling that someone is controlling your consciousness? Just like...the arms and legs of an octopus, there is a tentacle stretching out from an unknown place, all the way to In your mind, exerting influence on your consciousness?”

Huang Liang was stunned.

He stood there firmly, almost unable to move. He knew that as long as he moved at this moment, he would definitely tremble a little, which was a state he never wanted to show in front of others.

So, he endured it and said like a ninja, "Professor, please make it more clear."

The professor said: "Actually, I am just guessing. There is nothing to say. You have to find the answer yourself. This is why I want to find you, because your answer is probably the answer I want to know. It is also the answer related to the fate of mankind. If there is really a super octopus that controls arms and legs like you to invade a small world like human beings, what is his purpose?"

Huang Liang slowly calmed down, knowing that he would not get the answer today. He bowed gratefully to the professor and said: "Thank you, Professor Mei, your words enlightened me and eliminated many of my worries. If I find the answer, I will definitely tell you."

Mei Yiqiu smiled and said: "Okay, okay, that day will come." He added, "Don't take it too seriously. You should still maintain your usual caution. Although the brain of an octopus may not be able to know where the arms and legs are. Whatever you think, it’s better to be careful.”

"I know." Huang Liang nodded solemnly, closed his eyes to calm down, and then collected his thoughts and asked, "Professor, you just said that you need to re-evaluate the strength of 'all parties'. Apart from us, there are other parties you mentioned. Anyone?"

"The situation may be more complicated than you think." Mei Yiqiu said, "I'll try to be as simple as possible. This Mrs. Situ," he pointed at Situ Yuli with his pipe, "she once worked in Experiment No. 19 under LBNL. It is a very mysterious laboratory. We still don’t know who founded it and how many experiments it has conducted beyond human imagination. One of the projects is the human chip. Yes, it’s the one you touched on Charlie’s neck. That one."

Then, Mei Yiqiu told Huang Liang everything about Laboratory 19 and the emergence of independent consciousness on the Internet.

Huang Liang was stunned when he heard it. It took him a long time to recover and said: "This world is really much more complicated than I knew!" He remembered GHOST on his mobile phone, and now he could confirm some of his previous guesses, but the fact was more complicated than he imagined. A little more bizarre.

"Does the organization know the existence of Internet consciousness?" He suddenly thought of this question.

"The top management of your organization should most likely know about it." Mei Yiqiu said, "I even speculated in the past whether Internet consciousness is the source of parasitic consciousness, or is it also one of your parasitic goals? But later I rejected this idea. There are various signs that the Internet is swinging, or it has its own purpose. But one thing is for sure, he knows more than us, and all information spread through the Internet will become his memory. "

Huang Liang took a breath and said, "It does sound scary!"

"What's also scary is who is behind this project, who is the founder of Laboratory 19, and who terminated the project and killed all the researchers and subjects?"

"Now that the project has been terminated, what about Mr. Dickinson...?"

"The chip on Charlie's neck was implanted by us not long ago. This chip was obtained by Aoki. We don't know the specific details, but as long as there are still subjects alive, it means that this project is probably not terminated, and It was moved to a more secret place.”

Huang Liang felt a little headache, knowing so many things at once, he needed time to digest. He said: "Professor, thank you very much for your trust. You have told me so much. I will also keep my promise. If I get the answer I want, I will tell you as soon as possible. But now, I can help you What are you doing? You called me here just to tell me this, right?"

"Of course not." Mei Yiqiu said, "Charlie has been studying related topics in this area, so after getting the chip, he decided to try it himself. It was our first time to perform such an operation, and we had only a little understanding of the principle of the chip. It's just connected to 24 of the 31 pairs of spinal nerves. We haven't found that the chip is connected to the Internet signal, and Charlie isn't feeling very well, so I thought of using acupuncture to stimulate it, but we don't have reliable knowledge. A doctor who practices acupuncture and neurology.”

"So I delivered it to your door?" Huang Liang said with a smile.

Mei Yiqiu said: "It doesn't count as a door-to-door delivery. This is not the main purpose. It's just incidental."

"By the way? What's the main purpose?"

"Your organization sent you to North America for William Wolfe, right?"

"Yes before."

"That's right. They originally asked you to come directly to Vancouver, but they sent you to Los Angeles. I think their target is probably me, and if they get closer to Wolfe through me, that will be natural. Of course, They may also have other purposes. Anyway, since we are going to meet, why not take the initiative, I don’t want to accidentally get injured or something, and then be accidentally rescued by you, that kind of scene in the movie is too risky. "

"So you asked your assistant to find me. But, I still don't understand, how did you know where I am?"

"It's not difficult. You have a GHOST on your phone, right? It knows your location. In addition, Los Angeles is the territory of the Wolfe family, and nothing about the grass or trees here can escape their eyes. Of course, I also They didn’t come to you on their own initiative, they just followed your organization’s intentions and took the initiative a little bit. This is called ‘following the trend’!”

Huang Liang took out his mobile phone and took a look: "So, the 'Internet' has been staring at me?"

"You can't just say it's watching. If you don't actively send messages to GHOST, it just knows where you are." Mei Yiqiu said.

"Then should I delete this damn thing?"

"This is not necessary. Theoretically, as long as we carry our mobile phones, the brain of the Internet will know the whereabouts of all of us. As for this GHOST, I don't know how Aoki made it. It is rather special..."

Mei Yiqiu's expression suddenly became a little strange, like an old naughty boy playing pranks, "You can try to be friends with it, because... it is a bit like you!"

The perspective switching has been a bit frequent recently. I hope everyone can adapt to it, move forward in multiple threads, and use different perspectives to tell the story, which will make the story more three-dimensional. It is relatively simple to write one perspective and one line, but it is difficult to express a grand world view. This is why many works are clearly about the battle of gods, but they look like street fights. Readers who have been reading along should have noticed that this book has been trying multiple clues and multi-perspective narratives from the beginning, but they were afraid that the results would be too disappointing, so they did not dare to write it, because it is said that the POV writing method is not suitable for online writing. Sure enough, the results were disappointing, but I still wanted to give it a try. Sometimes the discomfort is also caused by reading habits and thinking inertia. Habits can be changed. If you are used to drinking a big bowl of tea, you will feel impatient when drinking Kung Fu tea. But after sitting down and savoring it a few times, the flavor comes out. Online texts should be the most free and flourishing, right? POV can also be read very happily.