Ruins of the past

The underground space of Sala Palace.

Rumbling roars continued to come from the blood pool.

Along with the sounds of spells from the living corpses, Chu Qiguang's consciousness went deep into the void and was constantly exchanging information with the world on the other side of the void.

‘It’s exactly what I guessed in the past. ’

‘In addition to the earth, there are other worlds in this universe where martial arts and Taoism are not the mainstream. ’

'Paradise can develop virtual world technology, and their technological level is still higher than that of the earth in the past...'

Chu Qiguang read the information that was constantly emerging from the void, and thought to himself: 'One of the highest pursuits of capital is monopoly. When it can monopolize various materials, profits can continue to skyrocket. ’

‘The virtual world seems to be free, but it is actually a monopoly within a monopoly. ’

‘The space, time and even every action and piece of flesh and blood of the user in the entire virtual world are controlled by capital. This is a monopoly on the entire world...'

'If people from all countries on this planet begin to live in the virtual world for a long time, get married, work, buy real estate in the virtual world... and even pay taxes to the paradise in the future, be controlled by the paradise's laws, and use the paradise's currency... '

‘That paradise actually became a new country, a country above all other countries. ’

‘According to common sense, it is impossible for the government to tolerate such a monopoly by multinational companies. The next step should be the fight for virtual technology, right? ’

‘According to common sense, companies should not be able to win. Why did it develop into what it did? ’

As historical information in the void continued to emerge, everything seemed to be just as Chu Qiguang thought, and a conflict about the virtual world broke out.

Several major countries took action and jointly banned their own paradises, but they had different demands for the paradises.

Some require people in the park to abide by the laws of their country and require the park to hand over all data information.

Some require the park to announce the technology of the virtual world.

Some require the government to participate in the management of the park.

Some also called for the park to be split.

Some people expressed support for these demands and believed that paradise should not be a place outside the law.

Some people also expressed opposition, believing that this infringed on their freedom to play and that the government had too much control.

The contradiction between the government and enterprises, the contradiction between people and the people, a storm that swept the entire planet just came.

But as Chu Qiguang expected, once the major powers began to target the park, even this super multinational group with the largest market value would not be able to resist the pressure for too long.

The huge conflict about the paradise soon changed from government and business to country and country.

As each shareholder surrendered, Paradise has handed over all data and technical information.

But regarding how to deal with the paradise, countries are quarreling because of the uneven distribution of interests.

However, one thing will be confirmed, that is, the major powers will not cooperate to operate a virtual world covering the entire world.

Several powerful countries will each operate their own virtual worlds, and they must abide by the laws of each country in their virtual worlds.

To travel to the virtual world of other countries, you need to pass a visa, go through online customs and various inspections just like in reality.

In addition, information control, relevant laws, and financial systems in the virtual world are all being redefined.

This may still be a second world, but it will not be an unscrupulous game world.

Many people are happy to see this, but many people are sad to think that the truly free virtual world has disappeared.

But just when everyone felt that the overall situation was decided, a small thing that was originally insignificant, and it could even be said that no one cared, changed the whole world again.

In the center of the paradise world at that time, in a huge virtual city called Yggdrasil.

A special ceremony is taking place.

With the theme of farewell, a director of the park invited dozens of senior players of the park to hold a farewell ceremony to the game.

During the ceremony, senior players lost consciousness one after another.

They were all found to be consciously dead afterwards, that is, there was no physical damage, but their consciousness was completely dead.

As all the players participating in the ritual died one by one, it also represented the arrival of an absurd and terrifying large-scale miracle.

The chip became a dry eye that constantly sheds blood and tears, the memory grew into fingers that exuded strange purple colors, and the hard drive twisted into a ball of blood-red brain...

All servers in the park have turned into flesh-like existences that constantly emit a fishy stench.

All the staff around the computer room were swallowed up instantly and were sucked into it with screams.

Then came the walls, roofs, and the ground... Each server devoured and corroded everything around it, and soon turned into ugly mountains of flesh and blood rooted in the ground.

On the other side, at this moment, all the park users had a ritual message in their minds.

As long as you follow the steps and perform the ceremony, you can enter the world of the paradise at any time. This process no longer requires any hardware support.

The world situation has undergone tremendous changes as a result.

After several failed attacks on servers and the loss of a large number of troops, the armies of various countries stopped trying to physically destroy the servers.

Human beings seem to have to accept an objectively existing virtual world.

Entertainment, freedom, power, wealth... For different goals, various mixed forces began to use rituals to enter this second world.

…

The message from the void has come to an end for the time being. Chu Qiguang still doesn't know how the world developed into what it became later.

But when he looked at the ceremony held in the paradise, he felt a little familiar.

‘This ritual…is very similar to the ritual that Matt summoned me. ’

‘Where did this ritual come from in this world? ’

‘Matt held the ceremony in the virtual world. I originally thought it was a special case... But judging from this incident, does this ceremony still have to be held in the virtual world? ’

'But no matter where this ritual came from, judging from the results, the human beings in this world have summoned something that they cannot control at all. ’

‘I don’t know if that thing is still there? ’

Chu Qiguang tried to find more information and answers in the information emerging from the void, but there was too much and too dense information in the void.

A large amount of messy and useless information was mixed in, and Chu Qiguang was unable to find the follow-up immediately.

'But in Matt's case, the world ended up becoming some kind of giant harvesting machine. ’

‘Collect knowledge and intelligence from various worlds for a certain force or a certain person. ’

'People all over the world are exploited inhumanely. Everyone is like a cog in a huge machine, gradually becoming numb in the day-to-day work and gradually losing hope in life...'

'This miserable world...'

‘Leave it to me. ’

At the same time, new news came from Matt, whom he controlled across the void.

…

Under Chu Qiguang's operation, Matt gradually emerged in the apartment.

He actively works overtime every day and does not work for more than 20 hours without sleeping.

He also participates in various social events after get off work every day, and has become good friends with leaders and colleagues through his excellent social skills.

At work, he used creative plans to improve the efficiency of knowledge collection and also increased the salary level of the entire team.

Soon he became the new team leader and led other team members to continuously improve their performance in just a few months, becoming the top-performing game team on the 323rd floor. The income of other members of the team also increased.

Chu Qiguang himself even bought a nine-story building in his room, which is filled with game arcades, gyms, swimming pools, saunas... and other entertainment facilities.

A large number of residents entered the experience at his request, allowing him to gain huge reputation on the 323rd floor.

Then Chu Qiguang started teaching classes, determined to spread the code of wealth and lead people to get rich together and move towards happiness.

While the wealth of the entire floor was completely drained, Chu Qiguang also redefined the workplace rules of the entire 323rd floor.

He disrupted and reorganized all game groups, and arranged new combinations and overtime systems based on everyone's abilities, further motivating employees.

He established new performance and bonuses within the group, required each team leader to report to team members every week, and provided free late-night snacks to students who worked overtime.

The group members are making more and more money, and more and more people are taking his courses.

He explains dreams, wolf nature, corporate culture and values ​​to employees every day.

After leaving all kinds of precious spiritual wealth, Chu Qiguang rose to the 369th floor in one go, carrying an entire layer of wealth.

Residents on this floor have more value-added services, and can even get a clearer mind, more focused attention, and stronger physical strength to work overtime just by paying.

After Chu Qiguang adapted to it for half a month and observed carefully, he gradually let out the news that he could purchase various value-added services cheaply.

At first the public didn't believe it.

However, after several users tried, they paid 20% off the price to Chu Qiguang and indeed received the value-added services presented to them by Chu Qiguang.

As a result, Chu Qiguang became more and more famous, and more and more users began to pay him, hoping to buy value-added products at a 20% discount.

Chu Qiguang took advantage of the situation and launched an activity of giving away 10,000 when you top up 10,000 yuan, and giving you 200,000 yuan when you top up 100,000 yuan.

In an instant, the whole floor became popular, and a large number of residents lined up to top up their money.

This time, it only took Chu Qiguang more than a month to rise from the 369th floor to the 418th floor.

For residents above the 400th floor, it seems that the basic room size of each person has been expanded from 10 square meters to 20 square meters, but the world they conquer is also more difficult and complex, and they often have to face various monsters that are far more powerful than before.

This time Chu Qiguang was detained not long after he was on the 418th floor for fraud.

"We are in love with each other!"

“Is fraud illegal?”

Although he was imprisoned, Chu Qiguang at least explored some of the bottom lines of that world.

So he once again accepted the void information from the past, and once again responded to Matt's call from the past.

Controlling Matt's body from scratch again, Chu Qiguang once again began the process of marching to the top.

At the same time, in order to speed up the efficiency, his body began to use the immeasurable future heart seal to calculate various future results and reduce the number of times he had to do it again.

So Chu Qiguang used the same method to rush to the 369th floor and started working hard.

He led the team members to continuously break performance records, then expanded the group size and recruited new members.

Soon he acquired other groups. As his power grew, he held an industry conference and joined other group leaders to customize the 369 Industry Association and formulate new industry rules.

For the sake of social development and the happiness of all people, the working hours of all residents are continuously increased.

For the sake of spiritual construction and considering the mental health of employees, they need to pay additional team building fees to participate in industry team building.

In order to further improve work efficiency, employees need to pay learning fees, participate in industry training, and obtain certificates.

For the health of all employees, the association charges unified fees and purchases scientifically prepared food that is healthy and nutritious for employees...

Industry rules were promulgated one after another.

All employees who are unwilling to comply with industry norms will suffer resistance from associations and various groups.

Soon, with the efforts of all 369 employees, Chu Qiguang was promoted from the 369th floor to the 402nd floor.

In the following time, Chu Qiguang relied on hard work and hard work to continuously expand his personal wealth and continue to climb to the upper floors of the apartment.

As his wealth grew, he finally had the money and leisure to read the user regulations and the operating history of the park.

The usage rules were stinky and long. After reading them, Chu Qiguang could only lament how someone could come up with such a terrible rule, and then silently copied a copy into the local blood pool.

The operating history of the park charges 20,000 yuan per year. Most of the operating history has no important records. Chu Qiguang could only patiently scan through it year by year, and then found some records of major events.

…

Paradise calendar, year 9051, more than 300 years ago. The twenty-first intelligence test failed and could not eliminate the AI's desire while maintaining its intelligence and enthusiasm. The Supreme Council decided to continue to use human-like simulation rules to ensure the current efficiency of AI.

At the same time, it is recommended to enable some hibernating humans to participate in it to improve the level of entertainment and increase work efficiency...

Chu Qiguang was slightly startled when he saw this.

Then he carefully checked the relevant history and found out what was going on.

In the beginning, the paradise did use human consciousness to carry out various tasks, but human consciousness always has its limits.

Especially for various entertainment requirements, stress resistance, work efficiency... this is too weak and troublesome in the eyes of the park's senior management.

Out of the further pursuit of work efficiency and profit, after breakthroughs in AI technology, the park began to let more and more AI replace human work.

Although the AI ​​at the beginning was hard-working and uncomplaining, it lacked the adaptable judgment of humans in various emergencies. The strategy of conquering various worlds often requires such strong judgment and even imagination.

However, Paradise has never succeeded in deciphering human intelligence and consciousness, and has never created an AI that can completely replace the human brain.

Until some scientists took a different approach, instead of pursuing a complete analysis of wisdom and consciousness, they instead pursued a biological brain that imitates the human brain.

A large number of biological brains began to be mass-produced. These biological AIs quickly surpassed the humans at the time with their obedience and efficiency, and took away their jobs.

More and more human beings are gradually losing their jobs because they cannot find jobs. Finally, they are forced to hibernate because they cannot afford the Internet fees and information storage fees.

Out of the ultimate pursuit of efficiency, Paradise finally abandoned humans and chose AI.

But soon, the top management of the park discovered that the biological brain AIs gradually had stronger desires as they developed, and they also began to resist and fish.

Although the park continues to try to erase the emotions and desires of the AIs while ensuring their efficiency, due to insufficient analysis of intelligence, the AIs always have various changes after a period of time, and cannot maintain efficient work and no success for a long time. desire.

In Matt's generation, this problem has still not been solved.

The paradise can only maintain a balance between the efficiency and desire of AI, and temporarily manages these AIs in the same way as humans have been managed in the past, urging them to complete their work.

When he saw this, Chu Qiguang had to sigh.

Originally, he thought that the social animals in the apartment were being crazily exploited, which was enough for capitalism.

It turns out that the reward for social animals is just some code that can be copied continuously.

Just when he thought this was enough capital and monopoly.

Now it is discovered that these social animals are actually AI. Most of the real humans have long been forced to hibernate because their work efficiency is too low.

“Perhaps the ultimate form of capitalism is to abandon humans and choose intelligent machines.”

“However, sometimes efficiency and quality cannot be taken into consideration at the same time, and sometimes going faster may not necessarily go far.”

Sorry, I'm not in a good state today and my writing is a bit slow and lacking.