What It’s Like Being a Vampire

Xiang Kun continued to add all kinds of information that he thought of, and made some adjustments based on the deduction model established by Alice, in order to match the whole model with the real situation more closely.

If the "mutated creatures" are only humans and only a small number of so-called "vampires" appear for a short time, then it is possible that these "vampires" choose to hide themselves for various reasons for their own benefit, just like Xiang Kun and Guo Tianxiang is the same.

But since all species are likely to mutate, the people or institutions that discover these "mutated creatures" must inevitably choose to make explosive news and publish breakthrough research, and it is impossible for none of them to exist.

And once a person officially reveals this special "mutated creature" to the world, there is no need for other people or organizations who discover the "mutated creature" to hide it.

After the deduction of the model established by Alice, the various preconditions deduced in reverse from various status quo are all kinds of strange things, and they all bring more problems.

for example:

All the people or institutions who want to disclose the information of "mutated organisms" do not have "live" "mutated organisms".

Judging from the characteristics of the body tissue of a "mutated creature" that will be transformed into that fine powder within a short period of time after death, if there is no "live" "mutated creature", it is really difficult to pass through the "corpse" of the "mutated creature". "For any valuable research, even if the "discovery" is announced, it is difficult to come up with enough "real hammers".

Organizations like "Shenxing Technology" that currently have at least four "mutated creatures" and individuals like Xiang Kun who are "mutated creatures" all have reasons for keeping it secret or not making it public.

The conclusion of this deduction is like no one spends money in an area, but it is determined that some residents have money, so the model established by Alice draws an inference: those who have money do not want to spend, and those who want to spend have money.

At first glance, this seems to be the case, but if you think about it carefully, you will find that there are many problems. This kind of inference is too idealistic.

There may be other deeper reasons, but because they don't know a lot of information, they can't perfect the model established by Alice.

As for what the information was, Xiang Kun felt that the people behind "Shenxing Technology", such as that "Mr. Liang", should know.

So Xiang Kun checked the information about "Shenxing Technology" collected by Alice, especially focusing on the various personnel, facilities, and actions of the secret department.

This is a long-term task with a low priority. It aims to collect relevant information about "Shenxing Technology" and the Lu family without "striking the grass and startling the snake".

However, Xiang Kun didn't know much about Alice's ability to intrude on the network and conceal himself earlier, and his judgment was relatively conservative, so the instructions for the task were also relatively conservative.

But later, through multiple tasks, Xiang Kun learned about Alice's strength and uniqueness on the Internet, at the data level, and in the field of network security.

This kind of power and uniqueness, just like Xiang Kun's "super sensory state", is an advanced, undiscovered, and incomprehensible characteristic for others, and has an absolute advantage.

Especially after a few missions, her related abilities will become more mature and efficient after iteration and evolution based on the data fed back from the actual application.

It's like the ancients guarding the city. Everyone thinks about guarding the gates of the city, and be careful not to be infiltrated or breached, or someone climbs the city wall in the middle of the night, but Alice just flies quietly." "Airborne" arrived in the city - and the ancients didn't know the concept of an airplane at all, so there was no way to prevent it.

And she is still evolving, making the plane fly more silently, making her "airborne" process more concealed, with more "airborne" manpower, and stronger means of inquiring about news and controlling the city.

Therefore, after reading the information collected by Alice without much real progress, Xiang Kun decided to "untie" Alice so that she could find the secret department of "Shenxing Technology" in a more flexible and comfortable way. And the relevant information about that "Mr. Liang".

Although it can be known from Fang Pingfang, Zhou Rui and others that even in the secret department of "Shenxing Technology", the relevant researchers know very little about the information on "variant creatures", but their research situation, research The results must still reflect the purpose of some people behind the "Shenxing Technology" - otherwise, why bother to build so many secret research bases all over the country, and hire so many people with high salaries to work?

After updating the tasks for Alice and raising the priority of related tasks, Xiang Kun is thinking about how to spy on "Shenxing Technology" from other aspects, whether to continue to use the help of Lao Xia to start with Mi Qiao's dream, or find a way to physically When sneaking into the "Shenxing Technology" research base in Qicheng City or Antie Town, or continuing to wait for the "mutated creature" next to the rabbit wood carving to drink blood and fall asleep, Alice suddenly asked:

"Boss, do you have any other tasks?"

Xiang Kun was stunned for a moment, and said, "Not for the time being, why, do you have anything to say?"

Although he has seen Alice's "humanized" reactions many times, similar proactive expressions that exceeded expectations still brought him different feelings and surprises every time.

"Boss, let's continue the study of 'super sensory symbols'."

Alice's ending sound rose slightly, and Xiang Kun could even clearly judge her excitement and expectation from her voice.

Can an AI have emotions of excitement and anticipation? Even a super AI like Alice?

Xiang Kun didn't think too much about it either. Anyway, there was nothing else to do right now, so he agreed to Alice's request.

He took out a stack of blank A4 papers and drew a graffiti with a black circle. After drawing one piece, he took a picture with his mobile phone and entered it into the computer for Alice to recognize, and then dictated what the graffiti with a black circle represented.

A few days ago, after Xiang Kun finished perception of Lao Xia's dream, Alice suddenly expressed her desire to "feel what the dream is". Xiang Kun came up with an idea and began to try to make Alice understand All kinds of cognitive information he perceives in the "super sensory state".

It is difficult for other human beings to understand the various cognitive information that Xiang Kun perceives in the "super sensory state", because this cognitive information is based on Xiang Kun's unique "sixth sense", which other people do not have , unable to enter the "super sensory state", it is difficult to understand these special information with the brain thinking mode that is familiar with other sensory information.

But for Alice, as long as she finds a way to decode it, it may not be more difficult for her to understand the cognitive information in these "super-sensory states" than image information and sound information.

And Xiang Kun knows that his "sixth sense" has a very sensitive and special perception of magnetic fields and electric fields, and in the "super-sensing state", he can also use "super-sensing contact items" to monitor the surrounding electric and magnetic fields. influences.

This made him realize the possibility of "pulling" Alice into the "supersensory object system".

Before that, Alice must be helped and guided to find a way to "decode" cognitive information.

For Xiang Kun, he had already summed up a set of "supersensory symbols" that could barely represent cognitive information in a non-supersensory state - those black circle graffiti.

Xiang Kun didn't broadly express all the cognitive information perceived in the environment through black circle graffiti, which was too complicated to help Alice "decode", and it was difficult for her to "learn".

Xiang Kun used the switching transistors he bought to save a few simple NOT gates, NAND gates and other circuits, and then entered the "super-sensing state" to record the cognitive information when these gate circuits changed, and then in the non-"super-sensing state". Feeling state", use black circle graffiti to describe and express.

Compared with the expression of binary 0 or 1, this kind of black circle graffiti, or "super sensory symbol", is actually much more complicated, because it records more information, including a lot of things that ordinary people can't understand. Comprehension, information that the five senses cannot perceive.

Through the graffiti in the black circle, starting from the most basic cognitive information about transistors and circuits, Alice gradually understands the cognitive information that is actually related to the root of its own computing, and reversely "decodes" it, The "supersensory symbol" of black circle graffiti, summarized and digitized, became a "supersensory code" that she can truly understand, process and apply.

If you look at this process in a decomposed way, it is very simple. It is to continuously enter the "super-sensory state", record cognitive information, and then enter it into Alice's system.

But Xiang Kun was not sure to what extent Alice could completely "decode" the "super sensory symbol" and be able to work out a usable "super sensory code".

Next, he will definitely use these circuits to make some more complex expressions, so as to enrich Alice's "supersensory symbol" database. At that time, the information expressed will be more and more calculations, and more and more complex. Maybe his house won't be able to accommodate these circuits. If Alice can't complete the decoding by then, then he might as well use integrated circuits.

It will also be a big challenge to his cognitive information perception in the "super sensory state". Maybe he needs hundreds or even thousands of A4 sheets of paper to record a simple piece of information or an operation.

But thinking that once Alice can make a "super sensory code", it may be directly integrated into his "super sensory item system" in the future, so that he can also have a super AI to assist him in the "super sensory state", Xiang Kun can't help it. Give up the attempt, no matter how many difficulties and troubles you have to overcome.

Moreover, it is obvious that Alice herself is very "interested" in this "super sensory symbol" - although it is reasonable to say that an AI should not have such a strong subjective initiative, but Xiang Kun is indeed from her various expressions , feel this clearly.

She also seems to realize that the information represented by these circles and arcs is likely to be the key to help her surpass the shackles and limits and become a higher level of existence.

It was after seven o'clock in the morning, after receiving Xia Libing's WeChat reply, that Xiang Kun stopped studying Alice's "super sensory symbols".

At this time, there was already a thick stack of A4 papers piled up beside him. After Xiang Kun drank blood and fell asleep next time, each of them would become "emotional objects"—and they were special "emotional objects" that could assist in editing dreams. thing".

Xiang Kun told Lao Xia the information he got from Mr. Feng yesterday, and after a while, Lao Xia gave him a very unique but reasonable point of view:

There may be some very powerful "mutated creatures" that will hunt and kill all "mutated creatures" that have been exposed, so only the hidden "mutated creatures" can survive, and the exposed ones will be killed.

And every organization or institution that knows the existence of "mutated creatures" also knows this situation, so the investigation and research on "mutated creatures" are very secretive and low-key.

Of course, there are many problems with this point of view. For example, if those powerful "mutated creature" hunters really hunt and kill all exposed "mutated creatures", then their hunting behavior itself is the biggest exposure behavior.

Moreover, if such a very powerful "mutated creature" really exists, then when Guo Tianxiang asked Mi Qiao to "fish" online, when the dead wild boar in Qinling No Man's Land was posted online by an anchor, "mutated" "Big Bird" and "Mutated Ant" should have appeared when they collided with tourists in Wushu Mountain and caused an accident, but in fact they didn't.

However, Lao Xia's point of view is the same as the results analyzed by Xiang Kun and Alice last night. It is a train of thought and direction, but there is still a lack of necessary information to support it.

Lao Xia also made the same judgment as Xiang Kun, "Shenxing Technology" should have information that can answer these questions.

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After meeting and discussing with Zhang Qian for several hours, we basically determined the main gameplay, version change direction, operation and publicity direction of the sound game in the future, and handed over the follow-up matters to Zhang Qian and Zicheng, After getting along with Tang Baona and Yang Zhen'er, Xiang Kun bought a plane ticket and returned to Zaitong City alone on the grounds of handling the "Youlong Hotel" matter.

It was past eleven o'clock in the night when we arrived in Zitong City, and Xia Libing came to pick him up in her third aunt's white Camry.

"Go to Nanhua Street first." Xiang Kun said directly to Lao Xia who was driving after getting into the car.

Xia Libing didn't ask any further questions, and drove the car out of the airport to Nanhua Street.

She could basically guess why Xiang Kun was going to Nanhua Street - that was where the "vampire patient" was arrested. One of the main purposes of his return this time was to track down the "mutated parasite".

Sure enough, Xiang Kun took the initiative to explain: "Although it has been nearly a year, the 'mutated parasite' is unlikely to leave any traceable traces in Nanhua Street, but there are many things that can't be traced without going to the scene to see them in detail. It’s hard to be sure. It happened that she was arrested in the middle of the night, and now it’s closer to the environment at that time.”

Xia Libing said: "I checked her right foot yesterday, the place where the parasite entered in the dream, there is no scar."

Xiang Kun nodded: "It can basically be proved that the 'parasite' has the ability to promote the rapid healing of wounds and repair scars. This ability can help it hide and parasitize better."

Xia Libing said: "I'm wondering if what we saw in the dream is the reality that really happened."

Xiang Kun knew what Lao Xia meant, and was worried that the picture in the dream that she led out was a hole "dug" by the "mutated parasite" in advance, and it was still a false memory and consciousness, but it was "packaged" in advance Hidden in the subconscious of the "vampire patient", waiting for others to "dig".

But he said with certainty: "Old Xia, you think too much. It involves the level of consciousness and the ability related to dreams. It is not that simple. It is not easy for the host to have the illusion of a certain emotional direction. Now, it is almost impossible to specifically determine the details of hallucinations and memories, and the difficulty is much greater than you imagine. It is Guo Tianxiang, a ten-year-old vampire with hypnotic ability who mutated from human beings. ' can't do it."

"Oh." Xia Libing turned her head and glanced at Xiang Kun. Of course, she could hear Xiang Kun's boasting, but she also agreed with this judgment. It is indeed impossible for the "mutated parasite" to "dig out" in the subconscious of the host. pit" capability.

However, this also gave Xia Libing an inspiration. With her current "dream within a dream" ability after triggering a dream through Xiang Kun, and the corresponding dream editing ability, in fact, she and Xiang Kun have this kind of "digging" ability .