This Game is Too Real

   "These bastards..."

  The bridge of the Iron Heart.

  Through the sighting equipment, looking at the pyramid made of human heads and the blood stains on the walls tens of kilometers away, the captain of the Iron Heart couldn't help cursing in a low voice.

   Glancing at the captain standing beside him, Chu Guang looked out of the French window of the bridge again, and said slowly.

  "If they know that this kind of provocation is effective, they will soon build the second and third Jingguan, and even kill everyone at the moment of losing."

   "These guys are quite active in killing people. We don't need to waste ammunition in meaningless places."

  Practically speaking, the benefits of delivering indirect fires into concrete-dense urban areas are rather limited.

   Not to mention howitzers, which rely on fragmentation to kill, even strategic nuclear weapons with a yield of tens of thousands of tons are not as exaggerated when facing concrete bunkers as in film and television works.

   There are examples recorded that when a certain atomic bomb exploded, people in concrete buildings within five or six hundred meters from the center of the explosion survived, and as long as they didn’t die and ran out to take a look, there were no sequelae.

   Not to mention mutants.

  This kind of creature can only be directly killed by excessive neutron rays, and it is unrealistic to expect to indirectly kill it by the aftereffect of canceration.

   "...I understand." The captain nodded heavily.

  Under Chu Guang's signal, he looked at the adjutant at the side and gave an order.

   "Drop the anchor chain!"

  The adjutant gave a military salute.

"Yes!"

  The huge steel anchor chain was thrown from the belly of the airship and smashed into the ground heavily, setting off billowing dust on the surface.

   Immediately after, the lift is lowered.

  As the vanguard and construction equipment were delivered to the surface one after another, both the deck and the deck became busy.

  Chu Guang briefly explained to the captain, then turned around and went to the confinement room, looking at Yule who was fixed in a wheelchair.

  He wore a virtual reality glasses on his head, connected to the airship's sighting equipment, and what he was facing at the moment was the Jingguan piled up with human heads.

   "Is this the heaven you are going to?" Chu Guang looked at him and said.

  Yul didn't speak, just sat there quietly, as if he hadn't woken up from the state of "sleepwalking".

   But Chu Guang knew that this guy woke up before dawn, and he was just pretending to be crazy there.

   Chu Guang looked at him and continued.

   "Where is the sanctuary?"

  After a long silence.

  Yul suddenly chuckled, as if he was laughing at himself, but also at everyone.

   "Don't you already know?"

   "I know that sanctuary is virtual, what I'm asking is where is its server?" After a pause, Chu Guang continued, "Or in other words, how to eliminate it."

  Yul expressed his non-cooperative attitude with silence.

  Chu Guang didn't care, and continued to speak in a very soft voice.

   "The bionic chip inserted in your brain locks a part of the memory. The experts on our airship really find it tricky, but you should know that even so, it is only a matter of time for us to crack it."

   "Is this a bluff?"

   "No," Chu Guang said calmly, "It suggested to me that I send your brain to Ideal City to study slowly, but in this way you will have no possibility of redemption."

   "Atonement... lol."

  Yul suddenly laughed, turned his face wearing VR glasses towards Chu Guang, and raised his voice.

"Why should I atone for my sins? What is my sin? Compared with the people who were killed by the wasteland, compared with the people who were turned into livestock or beasts by the wasteland, the few people we sacrificed are insignificant, let alone those guys Live like cattle... even if we don't do anything, they will rot themselves."

"If you really know them, you know they're hopelessly stupid, they put chains around their necks, they say nasty words to anyone who tries to give them a hand, they want to be animals, and I see them compare Anyone who adapts to this wasteland wants the wasteland to last forever more than anyone else. It's better to make their lives a little bit more meaningful, at least die at our hands, as the fuel to end the wasteland."

   Yule laughed hoarsely, and the laughter gradually became crazy.

   Like crazy.

  Lv Bei, who was standing behind Chu Guang, stared at this distorted and rude guy, and the corner of his mouth twitched involuntarily.

   Chu Guang looked at Yuer expressionlessly.

   It wasn't until his voice became hoarse and he couldn't move his smile that he spoke slowly.

   "Then who decides what you mean by meaning?"

   Yule continued in a hoarse voice.

   "No one needs to define it. The descendants living in the new world will give an objective evaluation of what we have done. It doesn't matter even if you curse us. I didn't do these things for honor or fame."

  Chu Guang looked at him with pity.

"Pity."

   "..." Yule didn't speak, and put on an expression that didn't matter what he said.

   Chu Guang looked at him and continued.

"Even if you go to the new world, your wasteland will not end. This land will become a wasteland in another sense. And your sacrifice has no meaning. It is your own self-satisfaction from beginning to end. "

   Yule finally couldn't help but retorted.

   "How do you know what people will think in the future?"

"It's not a question of whether I know or not, but why are you so sure?" Chu Guang stared at him, and said word by word, "You haven't even lived in your imaginary heaven for a second, and you expect to use the heaven solutions to problems on the ground.”

"When a person is hungry, we will give him the food to maintain basic survival, and then tell him how to get more and live with more dignity, instead of suggesting that he change to a bionic stomach that can digest even mud, And a mouth that can chew a stone off."

   Yule sneered.

   "You think it's too simple, you can end the wasteland without starving? Then the wasteland will not exist from the beginning, it's not a matter of hunger at all—"

"But at least hunger is a specific problem. Only by solving this problem can we solve the next problem." Chu Guang looked at him expressionlessly, and replied unceremoniously, "I hope that all specific problems have a The common optimal solution, as long as you become a new human being, you can solve all the problems once and for all, so what then?"

   Yule froze for a moment, then blurted out slowly.

"…Then?"

"Yes, and then? How do you plan to solve the problem of new humans? Design a more perfect life body than new humans, and pull everyone to 'evolve' once? Or jump from one utopia to another Utopia?"

  Looking at Yuer who was silent, Chu Guang continued.

   "Unfortunately, this is the method you leave to future generations to solve problems. It's fine if you fail, but there is a one in ten thousand chance that you happen to be lucky enough to succeed, and that is the greatest disaster."

   "Any price will become a necessary sacrifice. They will repeat today's tragedy over and over again, and then drown others in impossible dreams. So whether I think too simple, or you think too simple."

   Looking away from that dazed face, Chu Guang knew that he hadn't thought about it at all, so he continued coldly.

   "Maybe one day we will evolve into a new species, but it must be because we have just reached that stage, and it is definitely not evolving for the sake of evolution, and solving problems for the sake of solving problems."

   "I gave you a chance to redeem yourself, but now it seems I wasted my time."

   "You'd better go to another place to confess."

   After dropping these words, Chu Guang turned and walked out the door.

  Yul stared blankly at the direction where the footsteps were leaving, and suddenly said in a fluster.

"Wait a moment."

  Chu Guang, who had already reached the door, stopped and looked back at him.

"What's wrong?"

  Yul was silent for a while, then spoke slowly.

"The sanctuary is not on the 'ground', and of course it is not in a certain server. It is an array of servers composed of countless bionic chips, which are connected into a large network with the assistance of one or more nodes... The sanctuary is this network. .”

  Lv Bei's face showed a hint of surprise.

   On the one hand, he was surprised by the sanctuary composed of countless bionic chips, and on the other hand, he was surprised that this reckless guy actually confessed.

   It wasn't just Lu Bei who was surprised. In fact, even Yuer himself was not sure whether he was doing the right thing.

  The memory extractor not only ripped out his memory roughly, but also reminded him of many trivial things that he had long forgotten.

  He is a researcher, and he should know better than anyone else that bold assumptions and careful verification should be the most basic methodology.

  However, the irony is that he failed to do it clearly, but pinned his hopes on replacing humanity with divinity.

   Maybe it's just what the manager in front of me said.

  The end of this dream is not heaven, but **** in another sense...

   While speaking, Yule slowly turned his wrist tied to the armrest, raised his bent index finger, and pointed to his brain.

   "For example, I have one here. It's just that the signal here is not very good, so I can't connect to the Internet."

  The Heart of Steel itself is a big iron shell. Unless it is standing on the deck, the information exchange with the outside world can only be through a dedicated information interface.

  That passage was monitored by Xiao Qi, so Luo Gan naturally wouldn't leave such an obvious clue and take the initiative to sneak in.

   And this is also the reason why the solar eclipse was able to pass through Zhao Tianqian's body unexpectedly, reactivate the power-off chip, and connect to the sanctuary.

  Because at the moment Zhao Tianqian died, Luo Gan lost the connection to the chip, and the biochip needs the life activities of the human body to provide energy.

   And if it is through Yule's chip, I am afraid that he will not be able to enter the sanctuary at all, because it is basically known that he was captured.

  Chu Guang frowned slightly.

   "Distributed Computing?"

   Yule smiled self-deprecatingly.

"Although it is different, you can understand it this way... Each chip is the cell that constitutes the 'Luo Gan' and the 'Sanctuary', and all the cells share information in the shared network. When one of the chips is offline At that time, the data stored in that chip existed as an independent personality, for example, Luo Gan lives in my mind now."

  Chu Guang fell into deep thought.

"I see."

   This is very similar to Xiao Qi.

Sometimes when entering an area with no signal, Xiaoqi can still communicate with him through VM or other electronic devices, but in fact, it is not Xiaoqi in the shelter who communicates with him, but a person with time point A as the node. The sub-individual that Xiaoqi splits out.

  For the convenience of understanding, let’s call the ontology A and the sub-individual A1.

  A1 has all the cached data before the time point of A, and the computing power of all portable terminals.

  So even if A1 does not have all the data and computing power of A, it can still communicate with him normally, but the data between A1 and A is not shared because of the communication interruption.

  However, when the signal is restored, the data between A1 and A will start to flow again, and the two will become one through the exchange of information.

  Although it is strange to think from a human point of view, it is a very common thing for digital life.

   After all, information is the whole of digital life.

   It is precisely because of this that Xiao Qi is always clingy, pestering Chu Guang to take him with him every time he goes out.

  Luo Gan probably has a similar existence.

  Each chip holds a part of the "sanctuary", and under normal communication conditions, all the chips together constitute the entire server array.

  The loss of one of the chips is nothing to him, after all, even if there is only one chip and one brain, he can still exist.

   It’s just that it’s limited by the computing power, so it’s not convenient to do anything.

  Different from Chu Guang who was deep in thought, Lu Bei's expression gradually changed, and he couldn't help asking.

   "Countless... How many are there?"

  If that Luo Gan buried a thousand or even ten thousand chips in Jinhe City, wouldn't it be endless?

  They can't cut off everyone's heads like mutants, can they?

   Even if it is to destroy the Church of the Torch, this approach is too extreme.

   It is even more unrealistic to perform a CT scan on everyone's brain.

  Bionic chip implantation surgery is usually performed very secretly, and the materials used are all special carbon-based materials, which cannot be detected by general MRI, let alone temporary front-line laboratories.

  If you want to find out every single one, at least you have to use the scanning bed in the shelter. Or you have to use a memory extractor to retrieve the traces of the bionic chip's work from the visible memory frame by frame.

   Yule shook his head.

   "Except for the bishop himself, no one knows how many there are...I'm afraid even the Holy Son doesn't know."

   After a pause, he continued.

"However, it should not be necessary to install one for everyone. After all, it is said that the thing is made of a black box, and the black box has a working life. For example... the peripheral apostles like Zhang Zhengyang did not have chips implanted. He needs Only through us can we communicate with Luo Gan."

   "I think so." Chu Guang nodded.

  He remembered Heya said that most of the black boxes in Vault 117 were bionic organs.

  And the first black box he recovered from Vault 117 was a neural connection unit capable of making a brain-computer interface.

  Later, the Church of the Torch also tried to recover the black box from him, as well as the manager's log left by the former shelter director, but it failed.

   After thinking for a moment, Chu Guang continued speaking slowly.

"If I were him, I would probably install one for each plantation farmer and heir, so that he would indirectly control all plantation-style settlements, and then select a few individuals that are easy to manage and mix them in as contributions to computing power and A server for backup purposes, and a fallback just in case."

  Coincidentally, Jinhe City is mostly such settlements, and even Hope Town, where power is relatively dispersed, is a minority among the minority.

   Not even Jinhe City, but the entire Jinchuan Province.

  The eagle dogs raised by the nobles of Boulder City have almost opened up all the markets that can be developed here, and transformed them into the shape they hoped for.

  In this way, Luo Gan only needs to use a small part of the chess pieces when executing the plan, and most of the chess pieces can be safely hidden in the dark.

   Whether it is to conduct a comprehensive inspection of everyone, or to kill everyone here, it is difficult to accomplish in terms of workload.

   No wonder he gave up Zhao Tiangan's **** without hesitation...

  He has already planted an invisible and intangible net, covering more than 90% of the survivors in the entire Jinhe City.

  Looking at Chu Guang who was lost in thought, Yule smiled faintly.

   "It's very torch-like, isn't it? The Holy Son is just a leader in name, a spiritual totem, and every pioneer who enters the sanctuary is the one who makes the plan."

   "In each parish, the forerunner is the Holy Son who acts as the divine authority, the totem that believers look up to, and it is every apostle connected to the sanctuary and countless guided believers who actually execute the plan."

  Chu Guang suddenly thought of something, and said.

   "Now you are Yuer, or Luo Gan."

   Yule was silent for a long time.

   This is a difficult question to answer.

  Perhaps it would indeed assuage his guilt if he put all the blame on some devil who dwelt in his heart.

   But is it true?

   After a long time, he smiled wryly and shook his head.

"I have no idea."

   "Maybe... both."

  …

  The door of the confinement room was closed again.

  Following behind Chu Guang, Lu Bei stepped up a little and walked to his side, asking in a low voice.

   "What to do with that person?"

  Chu Guang said casually.

   "It depends on him. In fact, I am more inclined to keep this chess piece by my side than handing him over to the company for research."

   Of course, if the council is interested in the secrets of that guy, I don't mind bringing my old friends from the East Coast along.

  Anyway, it is so far away, it is unlikely that the company will come here to investigate on its own, and in the end it will have to rely on the "local snake" of the alliance.

   Lu Bei looked at Chu Guang puzzled and asked.

   "Is there any point in doing this?"

  Honestly speaking, he didn't really understand why he wasted so much talk with that captive. He had ten thousand ways to make that guy honest.

   It doesn't even require enterprise technology.

   Chu Guang could probably guess what the young man was thinking, and said with a smile.

   "Of course you should have heard it. Every bionics chip is a sanctuary and lives in Luo Gan. The one on that guy is naturally also, and we have been negotiating with him for half an hour just now."

   Glancing at the time on the VM, he continued.

"This is actually a good start. Didn't you notice it? That guy has gradually begun to doubt whether the extreme ideal he insisted on is correct... And as he said, the two personalities of Yule and Luo Gan are at the same time. in his body."

   "His decision is actually a joint decision of two people."

   "It's just that he can't tell the difference subconsciously."

  The memory extractor has retrieved all of Yule's memories, but still hasn't retrieved the specific location of the sanctuary and the way to destroy it.

   It can only show that that memory is not in his mind at all, but is cached on the bionic chip in his brain.

   Now that Yule took the initiative to hand it over, it was obviously not just his decision, but also the decision of a clone of Luo Gan.

   Otherwise, even if he wanted to confess, he would never be able to do so.

   When faced with unanswerable questions, the psychological defense of the two souls had a gap, so he felt that this was a good start.

  After listening to Chu Guang's explanation, Lu Bei's eyes suddenly lit up.

   "I understand! As long as the chip in his head communicates with Luo Gan outside, can that idea be transmitted to... the sanctuary where Luo Gan is?"

   It's like hiding a bomb in a package and sending it to Luo Gan!

  The only metaphor he could think of was this, but the more he thought about it, the more he felt that this method was reliable, and his eyes shone brighter.

   As expected of a manager!

   Lu Bei looked at Chu Guang with even more admiration.

   It was Chu Guang himself, after hearing the young man's interpretation, he said with a smile.

   "It's not as simple as you said. If talking about it can solve the problem, there is no need to bring the Heart of Steel here."

   Lu Bei froze for a moment.

   "Ah, can't it?"

  Chu Guang shook his head.

   "In the final analysis, it is impossible for the data cached on one terminal to cover the data of the entire network."

  It’s as if the data cached by Xiaoqi on the terminal is separated from the host for a while, it won’t overwrite the data on the host.

  Luo Gan does not have a fixed host to save data, but chooses to disperse all of himself on bionic chips implanted in the brain.

  The advantage of doing this is that the location of the host will not be found and destroyed, but there is also a fatal flaw.

  When the environment in which most of his "clones" live has undergone fundamental changes, and they cannot be brainwashed through psychic interference devices, this huge network formed by countless nodes may be fundamentally subverted easily.

  In the final analysis, the bionic chip needs to be attached to the human brain. If there is no mind interference device, the two will actually influence each other.

  At least the fuzzy calculation part that constitutes the personality has to be calculated on the human brain... Chu Guang heard this knowledge from Yin Fang.

   Lu Bei looked at Chu Guang blankly, and scratched the back of his head in shame.

   "Sorry, my lord... I didn't understand, why don't you just tell me how to do it well."

  Chu Guang said with a smile.

   "To put it simply, the **** hiding in the sanctuary feels that this wasteland is hopeless, and the world must be destroyed once before it can be reborn."

   "Since they have this stupid idea, let's show them how we do it!"

   Doesn’t that guy think the world is hopeless?

   Then let him see what the alliance does!

  From mutants to slave owners, he will get rid of the troubles here one by one.

   And when the time came, he would have to look at that guy, no matter how brazenly he said the phrase "it's hopeless".

   First things first...

   Chu Guang thought for two seconds, and then said.

   "Well, there is trouble at the Pine Cone Farm. You can contact the Army Command for me and ask them to dispatch a unit to rush there immediately."

  If Zhao Tianqian and the apostle are not the only chip holders, it means that Luo Gan outside still has countless eyes in the pine cone farm.

  With the psychic interference device shut down, the communication shield there has been lifted.

   Maybe they will find a way to send mutants directly in.

  After all, that guy himself said that there is a passage leading to the outside world in the basement of the church, but he didn't say that there is only one passage.

   Lu Bei's expression immediately became serious, without asking why, he accepted his order without saying a word.

   "I'm going!"

  Looking at Lu Bei who was leaving quickly, Chu Guang suddenly thought of something.

  Speaking of...

   Today happens to be the third day.

"Wait a moment."

  Hearing the manager's voice, Lu Bei stopped, turned his head and said respectfully.

   "Do you have any other orders?"

  Chu Guang said with a smile.

   "The opponent should be a mutant."

   "Let the brothers of the Jungle Corps go there!"

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