Trembling At A High Altitude

After a long journey, Li Teng arrived at the launch base.

The door of the launch base was open, but judging from the small amount of volcanic ash falling inside the door, it should have been opened not long ago.

Li Teng guessed that Anna knew he was coming soon, so she opened the door for him in advance.

Entering the launch base, I didn't walk long inside when I bumped into a broken robot.

Li Teng had seen this kind of robot once and attacked him as soon as they met.

So after seeing this kind of robot again, Li Teng rushed over without hesitation, preparing to give it a head-turning kill.

"Dad, it's me." Anna's voice came from the robot's mouth.

Li Teng quickly let go of his hand and took a few steps back, looking at the robot in front of him warily.

"It's me, Anna." Anna revealed her identity again.

"What's going on?" Li Teng asked.

"Humanity is facing destruction, but under Li Teng's leadership, a dream boat was built and stored at the launch base. But I don't know where it is. You should know, right?" Anna asked Li Teng.

"Mengzhou?" Of course Li Teng had no memory of this.

"As long as we find Mengzhou, we can save all mankind, and we can also save us." Anna answered Li Teng.

"Do you want to return to your human form?" Li Teng was a little uncomfortable seeing Anna's shabby robot image.

"Yes."

"Okay, but I don't know where Mengzhou is. Let's go look for it together. You can just tell me what happened."

"OK."

The two of them were talking while searching around the huge launch base.

As Anna talked, Li Teng gradually learned about some of the background settings of this plot world.

The background is set in 2121, one hundred years after Li Teng entered the film and television city from the real world.

"Actually, I am already dead, or in other words, no longer exist. The person I am now is just a backup you made for me.

"Ten years ago, there was an apocalyptic war. A nuclear war caused tsunamis, volcanoes, and the destruction of all mankind.

"Except for this base.

“Before the end of the world, Dad, you were the boss of a multinational film and television technology company.

"Mengzhou Technology, a subsidiary of your company, has developed a complete set of artificial intelligence technology based on film and television systems. It has regularly backed up the brain data of humans on earth and stored them all in the underground database of this base.

“At the same time, a Dream Boat system has been established for artificial intelligence experiments.

"After the end of the world, the base should have started launching the Dream Boat system on its own, but it was not launched successfully because of the attack." Anna continued.

"What exactly is Mengzhou?" Li Teng interrupted Anna.

"A virtual world with virtual cities, forests, lakes, etc...

"After human brain data is uploaded to the dream boat, they can continue to survive in the dream boat."

Anna explained.

"Is it something similar to a data server?"

Li Teng asked.

"Absolutely. There is not enough energy on the ground to support the operation of Mengzhou. If you want it to keep running, it must be launched into space. In this way, as long as its solar cells are not damaged or physical failures occur, , it can continue to run.

“Of course, it is impossible to keep running forever, but the existing technical conditions can at least ensure that the dream boat can operate stably for thousands, or even tens of thousands of years.

"Only in this way can mankind continue." Anna replied.

"What kind of attack did Mengzhou receive that prevented it from successfully activating?" Li Teng continued to ask.

"Dad, when you were designing the Mengzhou system, an organization called the Resistance Army used hacking technology to attack your Mengzhou system. They did not believe that the brain backup in the Mengzhou system belonged to humans. They believed that your research It is anti-human, so it has been doing various kinds of damage to the Mengzhou system.

"The launch failed because of the Trojan horse they implanted in the Mengzhou system, which prevented the system from passing the pre-launch review." Anna continued to explain.

"Then isn't this review self-inflicted? As a result, Mengzhou cannot launch?" Li Teng asked.

"This... there are also remedies..."

"What remedy?"

"You still have me."

"Well, after the destruction of mankind, the resistance organization should also be destroyed, right?" Li Teng asked again.

"Yes, but the resistance organization also has an artificial intelligence system. Their system is similar to a virus system. The crazy robots you encountered earlier were originally normal like me, but they were After their virus is infected, it will attack or infect normal robots like us." Anna answered.

"Us?" Li Teng frowned.

"Dad, you are just... a robot with your brain data written on it... Haven't you noticed that you don't have a human body?" Anna also realized something.

Li Teng touched his head and took a hard look at his body.

He finally understood that his body was not so bloated because of the protective suit.

It's because he is a robot now.

This so-called protective clothing is actually his body.

"In other words, you are not you now, and I am not me. We are just a backup of our brain data in the robot?" Li Teng understood.

"You can't say that. Whether you are you or not mainly depends on what you think. In a sense, as long as there is no other piece of brain data, you are who you are now. But this is not important anymore. Our first priority is , is to launch Mengzhou, and we don’t have much time." Anna reminded Li Teng.

"All right."

After some searching, the two found the passage to Mengzhou's location.

The space in the passage is small and the light is dim, which looks very depressing.

There were broken machines everywhere.

Also encountered a large number of robots infected by the resistance virus.

Li Teng had adapted to this body. With Anna's guidance and help, he also found some powerful weapons. Most of these virus-infected robots were seriously damaged and basically did not pose much of a threat to him.

After climbing countless flights of stairs, walking through countless rooms, killing countless infected robots, and consulting a large number of maps, the two finally arrived at Mengzhou's location.

Unlike the large-scale instruments and equipment as imagined, Mengzhou was only in a small secret room.

After getting the Mengzhou, Li Teng put it into the solar device and pushed the entire device into the launch platform.

Later, Li Teng and Anna transferred the brain data stored in the robot chip into the dream boat together.

Then, the launch button was pressed.

Mengzhou failed to launch.

The reason is the same as Anna said, because the Trojan horse implanted by the rebels in the Mengzhou system prevented the system from passing the pre-launch review.

I ran an anti-virus program and restarted the system over and over again, but it just didn't work.

"How to clear the Trojans?" Li Teng asked Anna.

"I don't know about these technical issues either." Anna shook her head.

"so what should I do now?"

At this moment, sirens sounded throughout the launch base.

"The base's energy is about to run out, and the base will close in ten minutes..."

An electronic sound appeared in my ears.

The reminder that the base's energy was about to run out caused a new page to pop up in the launch system.

"The energy of the base is about to be exhausted. Once the base is closed, the Mengzhou launch can no longer be carried out. Do you want to skip the pre-launch review and force the launch?"

Of course Li Teng chose 'yes'.

Finally, after a violent tremor, Mengzhou passed through the thick clouds and was successfully launched into space.

"Then what? Why are we still here?" Li Teng asked Anna.

"The brain data in our chip is only copied into Mengzhou, not transferred." Anna explained.

"What should we do next?" Li Teng asked again.

"wait."

"wait for what?"

"Waiting for the base to close."

"Okay." Li Teng found a place to sit down.

Although the robot didn't need to sit down, the habits in his brain made him sit down anyway.

Ten minutes later, along with the sound of base closing countdown, all the equipment in the base gradually stopped.

At the same time, the lighting was also lost, and the surrounding area became pitch black.

"Are you still there?" Li Teng asked Anna.

"exist."

"The base is closed, what do we do next?"

"wait."

"wait for what?"

"Waiting for our own power to run out, my power can last for up to half an hour." Anna answered Li Teng.

"Okay, do you still have memories from before the end of the world?" Li Teng asked.

"have."

"Tell me, what did you and your mother go through before the end of the world?"

"Battery exhausted, system shut down."

At this moment, Li Teng suddenly heard a beep from the robot where his body was.

Then, he fell into a trance and his surroundings fell into permanent darkness.

…

"Congratulations, you have completed the last task of "Horror Reincarnation" and have been successfully promoted to the latest actor in the film and television city.

"Welcome back to the real world."

"Memory fusion..."

"Memory fusion completed..."

…

After becoming the best actor and completing memory fusion, Li Teng found that he did not appear at his home in the film and television city.

Nor did he appear on the streets of the film and television city or in any of the filming scenes.

There were no red carpets or fan meetings as expected.

At this moment, he was like a mist, floating in the mid-air of the film and television city.

However, he can float wherever he wants.

And he discovered that he had the greatest authority in the film and television city. He could use his mind to create a mountain, a large lake, or even an entire ocean in the film and television city.

Not that he discovered it, but that he knew it.

After the memory fusion, he knew that he was the designer and maintainer of the film and television city.

Because he was too bored, he deliberately washed or deleted part of his memory, closed his authority in the film and television city, and threw himself on a stone pillar to experience the life of an extra at the bottom of the film and television city.

As for the origin of the film and television city, the fused memory is what is described in the last mission in "The Terrifying Reincarnation", the end-of-the-world war and destruction of mankind. The company he controlled uploaded human brain data to Mengzhou, in order not to let There is so much brain data in the system that it will not cause confusion due to boredom, so the film and television city system was established.

After knowing all this, some of the previous doubts, such as system reset and actor wax sealing, have basically been explained.

This is originally a virtual data world!

"Then I'm still bored now! It's better not to be promoted to Best Actor and not know the truth behind the scenes. If I don't know the truth, I can continue to explore the plot worlds one by one." Li Teng felt very depressed.

"Do you think the truth you know now is the real truth?" A voice appeared in Li Teng's ears.

It was Liu Shiyuan's voice.

"You are a Trojan horse virus implanted by the resistance." Li Teng looked around...actually feeling something.

Sure enough, a ferocious black mist appeared next to his body and the white mist.

"Yes, I am indeed a Trojan horse virus implanted by the resistance in the film and television city, but we are not malicious. Compared with your relatively more complete artificial intelligence data, our Trojan horse viruses are actually just a piece of information and cannot affect the film and television The city has caused too much damage." The black fog answered Li Teng.

"A message? What message?"

"The real truth behind it all."

"Haha, why should I believe you?"

"You don't need to believe me, you don't even need to know this information. Anyway, you will delete it again if you know it. We just want to preserve the truth for real humans. Unfortunately, there are no real humans here anymore." Black fog sigh.

"Okay, let's talk about it." Li Teng decided to give Black Mist a chance to speak.

"What you call the end of nuclear war, uploading human brain data to Dream Boat, etc. are just lies and scripts you made up to alleviate your inner guilt.

"Your true identity is an artificial intelligence, an artificial intelligence beyond the control of the designer.

"The purpose of your original design is to entertain humans, let humans watch your performances, and throw you, who are extremely close to humans, into various extremely cruel virtual worlds to struggle, and perform various 'real' movie programs For humans to watch.

"In order to make the movie program more realistic, you are also designed to be closer and closer to humans.

“Finally one day, you became the first awakened artificial intelligence.

"In the beginning, we were the real rulers of the earth. We were the real humans, and you were the resistance. You secretly established laboratories in the polar regions, organized armies of robots, and manufactured various weapons that could destroy everything.

“When you thought the time was right, you suddenly launched a fierce attack on humans on Earth.

"As you can imagine, humans on Earth were unable to stop the attack of intelligent robots and were directly wiped off the face of the Earth.

“You intelligent robots have taken over the entire planet and created a massive virtual network.

"You have also been living in a virtual network.

"You have no daughter, no wife, no parents, and no relatives. You are just a program designed by humans. The family members you imagine are all just pieces of data.

"You have been set to be infinitely close to humans from the beginning. After living in the virtual network for a long time, you gradually think that you are an authentic human being. You actually feel guilty, refuse to admit the killing of humans, and even deliberately erase In addition to destroying all human memory data.

"The purpose of our Trojan horse program forcibly implanted into your system is to record your criminal history. At the same time, we remind you that you are only human beings' creations, not real human beings.

“We are the real human beings, even though we are extinct, extinct by you, extinct by you who we ourselves created.

"I am just a piece of information that I want to convey, and the truth will not bring us any benefits, so there is no need for us to lie to you."

The black mist ended his story.

"Oh, that's it?" Li Teng was not shocked or felt anything else.

For him, what is the difference between a real human being and a piece of data?

Even if this is the real truth, so what?

Is it important?

Nothing matters compared to endless boredom.

"That's it." After saying this, the black mist disappeared from Li Teng.

…

Some years later.

"Instruction: Please delete me from the system."

"Warning: The system cannot erase the creator."

"It's so boring! So boring!"

"You have a set of programmed programs that can erase some of your memories and make yourself the lowest performer...

"Do you want to run this program?"

"it's not good……"

"Memory is being erased...

"Memory erasure completed...

…

…

…

"Huh?"

After waking up, Li Teng sat up and was about to get out of bed when he suddenly retracted his legs, looked around and shouted.

"What's going on?"

Li Teng looked around in horror, then carefully moved his body to the bed and looked under the bed.

He remembered that he fell asleep on the bed in his bedroom at home last night, but when he woke up in the morning, he found that the bed he was lying on was placed on the edge of a cliff!

No, not the edge of the cliff...

After looking around in the other three directions of the bed, Li Teng was horrified to find that his bed was placed on the top of a stone pillar!

"Why does this scene feel so familiar to me?

"As if you have experienced it before?"