It took a while for the two of them to calm down.

Even though none of them dare to rashly mention what happened before, for fear that one wrong step will destroy the current tranquility, so Chen slow or Anthony, all kinds of misunderstandings between them Worth mentioning, the thorns in those flesh and blood have not been pulled out.

Those people and those things can give them knots, fallacies, wear and tear... But just like the stars that have deviated from their orbits will eventually come back - Xie Qingcheng's collapse will make He Yujie

Even in the most ordinary capacity, even if I am already scarred and at a loss.

As long as He Yu heard Xie Qingcheng say it hurts.

As long as Xie Qingcheng saw He Yu reaching out to him for help.

"What about Duan Wen?" After calming down, Xie Qingcheng asked He Yu softly.

He wanted to know how He Yu spent the past three years on both sides. He wanted to know how He Yu spent the past three years.

After asking the dream breaker, it should be Mandela.

Let his island location be exposed. I don't even believe he can accept you a second time. Is it because of the Loyalty Chip?"

He said this, his voice still wavering.

"The kind of chip he implanted in your heart?"

"No." He Yu whispered, "If that chip counted, I would have died hundreds of times now. I later found out that the loyalty chip doesn't work for me. Duan Smell they found it too."

Xie Qingcheng was startled: "...why doesn't it work."

"It's a physique problem." He Yu said, "Maybe because I'm a blood worm, when I'm reluctant, the blood worm physique will even interfere with their chip, and Duan Wen can't get through that thing. Son to monitor my loyalty to him. But..."

He paused: "There are some things that made Duan Wen choose to believe that he can control me again."

Xie Qingcheng had a faint hunch: "What?"

He Yu stopped again, this time in silence longer than before.

After a long time, he opened his mouth, and the content of the answer completely confirmed Xie Qingcheng's idea.

He Yu said: "My mother."

“…”

"Vivienne. The real Luzhi book."

He Yu moved in the quilt, adjusted his posture, and pulled the quilt higher, allowing him and Xie Qingcheng to sink into the darkness more thoroughly. He and Xie Qingcheng got closer, but they didn't stick to each other completely.

Although he knew that it was not so appropriate and appropriate, Xie Qingcheng suddenly thought at this moment that when he was studying, he had a conflict with the girl at the same table for a week, and then he couldn't stand it anymore, Although the contradiction has not been resolved, he opened a bag of snacks, handed it to her, and asked her if she would eat it.

, when they looked at each other and smiled, they were all embarrassed, for fear that they would step on each other's sore spots if they were not careful.

Now, the relationship between him and He Yu is very close to this state, just like a part of the porcelain that has just been repaired, the clay that binds the fragments is still not dry, and it is fragile everywhere. Be extra careful.

He Yu closed his eyes and did not dare to approach any more, he only let the faint breath belonging to Xie Qingcheng penetrate into his own lungs, that cold and almost bitter taste was seen by everyone It wouldn't smell too good, but He Yu's heart was soothed, his Adam's apple rolled up and down, and he opened his mouth hoarsely and began to narrate.

"My mother's body is still preserved in their laboratory."

"!"

"It's the corpse, which has been frozen with liquid nitrogen, but they told me at the time that they could bring my mother back to life."

Xie Qingcheng was stunned: "How is it possible?"

"Physically it is impossible, but if it can be combined with virtual reality, it is completely possible." He Yu said, "The Mandela organization has a great interest in the human brain. , you see, they achieved a truly perfect virtual reality projection in advance on this island through vr, 5d effects, magnetic field interference, hearing interference, olfactory interference, and visual effect projection - and all of these are inspired by the human brain. The Mandela effect. They believe that studying the human mind is the only key that can truly break the constraints of life and death.”

"To use the simplest analogy, Li Bai was a thousand years ago. In terms of the normal concept of time and space, it is completely impossible for us to have a dialogue with him. But in fact, because he used Some of his experiences and thoughts are recorded in the text, and they have been circulated for a thousand years, so we can hear what a person who died a thousand years ago said and know some of the things he did. Limits, but the mind does it, and that's the basic idea of ​​the seemingly complex Mandela metaverse."

"However, text is only the most basic carrier, just like a photo, it is temporary and fixed. Let's take Li Bai as an example. What breaks through the limitations of time and space is only a part of Li Bai's thoughts, he does not It is possible to save all his thoughts in words, and the words left behind are frozen, and he can no longer think for himself or reproduce his own thoughts - but if there is a technology that can extract all the consciousness of the human brain Save it?"

He Yu said, raised his hand and tapped Xie Qingcheng's forehead: "The thing here is the human soul, if it leaves the body, it can still have self-awareness in another system , can continue to generate self-awareness, so is it equivalent to this person still alive? It is like the soul-moving magic in religions that people once thought whimsical, but in fact, as long as this is achieved, even if the physical body is destroyed, as long as the mind is preserved , in the eyes of the Mandela organization, this person is still alive."

"As long as human consciousness can be continuously extended through technology, it can be stuffed into the computer cloud, stuffed into the body of a robot, or even implanted into the body of another living person through chip control. "He Yu said softly, "The so-called 'resurrection' or 'eternal life' has also been realized."

Xie Qingcheng: "They want... immortality!?"

"It's far more than that. In the final conception of the metaverse organized by Mandela, in the end, human beings may not need to rely on the body to live at all. After all, the population saturation in the world is limited, if everyone can Immortality, one day new life will have no place to stand. But once the metaverse is constructed according to their ideas, it will be different."

"Human consciousness can be saved to the cloud, become two-dimensional data, and survive in computer systems. The barrier between three-dimensional and two-dimensional is broken. At that time, everyone can be 'alive', but Everyone does not need to 'live'. Human beings survive, move, and become a labor force in the database... Only data people who have achieved extremely high achievements or grabbed great wealth in the two-dimensional world can obtain a normal human body."

Such a creepy scene, with He Yu's description, unfolded like a picture scroll in front of Xie Qingcheng.

"In their framework for the future, the real world will become very ideal - because the number of human beings living on the earth in physical form is strictly controlled, ecological resources will slowly recover, and this It will not affect the development of human society in the slightest. After all, there are a large number of two-dimensional people as data, completing production and life in the 'metaverse' world in the cloud, and continuously contributing their labor—perhaps billions, trillions of people. The place to live is just a small data disk in the end. Two-dimensional people must always work hard and actively strive to obtain a physical ticket to come to the three-dimensional world. Whether this power allows people to come to the real world can be firmly in the hands of rulers and capital owners."

Three-dimensional social people will be transformed into two-dimensional social people by their own compatriots, and their innate flesh and blood will be compressed into thought data. Whether they can come to three-dimensional society depends on whether the controller Need you, do you have considerable wealth.

What's more terrifying is that people in the data will be used to a set of data, after all, if people in the three-dimensional society want to delete data and manipulate their thoughts, they may only need to compile a program, even the capital of modern society is brainwashed Save it, and all this will become quite normal in that environment, and no one will resist, otherwise it will be a "virus".

"This is ridiculous..." Xie Qingcheng murmured.

He Yu said: "It's not absurd at all. If it really develops without restraint, it will probably only happen within a few hundred years. In fact, do you think that in today's society, many Things are getting more and more data and flat?"

"What do you mean?"

"When the Internet was not popular, the tone, tone and content of people's speech were often very different, each with its own characteristics. However, the rapid spread of the Internet made 'repetition' a normal, Let the 'individual' be assimilated into a 'collective'. For example..." He Yu said softly to Xie Qing, "When you were young, if your classmates watched a movie, the teacher asked everyone to drive the train in groups and talk a few times each. To evaluate this movie in one sentence, everyone's speech should be different. But now when the public comments on a movie, when you open the barrage, you will often see some repeated speeches, such as one person wrote 'tears' Eyes', in the next long barrage, almost everyone will repeat the word tears."

"For example, for those very complicated works, people's patience is getting less and less, many people only want to see rough and simple justice and evil, love and dislike, but forget about human nature It is very contradictory in itself, not a simple label. But labels and simplicity will make people feel comfortable, easy to understand, and not controversial. This sense of comfort and security will make people become more and more unwilling to think, and also More and more accustomed to not thinking, when not thinking has become a habit, when people need to express their thoughts, they can only open their mouths and repeat some words that have appeared repeatedly on the Internet. The final result is the same Speech you can see in one thing and another. Whether it's praise, criticism, abuse, or creation, it all starts to become cookie-cutter, like…”

He Yu paused: "It's like an idea produced by an assembly line."

Xie Qingcheng narrowed his eyes.

The assembly line used to produce only real objects, but after careful reflection, when more and more people will only repeat simple repetitions and give up the ability to think for themselves under the entertainment of **** and information brainwashing, then they say If it comes out, does what is done become an invisible "product of the assembly line"?

This is a very terrifying result. People who have become products of the assembly line have often lost the strength to struggle from mediocrity because they have been assimilated. And when this assimilation force is getting bigger and bigger, more and more people will be coerced into this torrent.

"Think about it, Xie Qingcheng." He Yu said, "What will keep repeating the ideas that others have instilled in it, and act according to direct orders or invisible guidance?"

An answer broke ground.

Xie Qingcheng murmured: "...artificial intelligence."

"Yes. So in the concept of the Mandela organization, artificial intelligence is not only created." He Yu said, "It can be a living human being, but it has been brainwashed into a 'artificial intelligence'."

"The typical performance of artificial intelligence is 'repetition', 'assimilation', and 'obedience'. As long as the brainwashing is successful, the 'kindness', 'rationality' and 'thinking ability' possessed by human beings themselves will be diluted or even is to disappear and they will become machine-like indifference, brutal, and have no guilt about what they do. Because 'guilt', 'gratitude', 'pity' these are some higher emotions, they belong to biology, not artificial intelligence . . It's a degeneration of the human heart, and in fact, it's a sign that you can see in some people in modern society."

“…”

"The Metaverse is not a castle in the air." He Yu said, "It can be realized. At that time, the people who hold the power of science and technology are the creators of the Metaverse, and they can make the world follow Their minds change. Now it might take five or ten years to get people to accept a new mind, but in the metaverse, it might be the second you press the keyboard—"

He paused for a few seconds and continued:

"So, Mandela must have the most advanced technology in this 'industrial revolution', and then become the absolute creator god."

"That's what they're trying to achieve in decades and hundreds of years."

After He Yu finished speaking, the bedroom was dead silent.

Xie Qingcheng's limbs became colder than before, and he kept thinking about what He Yu said.

Machines can see each other and talk as if they were face to face?

It’s just over a hundred years, who knows what the world will be like in another hundred years.

And Mandela is made up of scientific research activists, and it is normal for their ideas to be one or two hundred years ahead of the times.

Xie Qingcheng: "So those who are manipulated on the island are the weapons that Mandela brainwashed, controlled his mind, and made?"

"Well. Just like your parents, they have passed away, what Mandela did is collect a lot of video, notes, battle data of their lives, and then imitate their thinking patterns, brainwashing other people In the minds of living people. So after they are out of Zoya's control, they will act like the real parents. But they are fake, their own brains have been brain damaged, and they have no thoughts and can't save them. now." He Yu said, "I hope you don't feel guilty about it."

Xie Qing was silent.

He seemed to have a beam of light in his heart. Although it was impractical, after seeing the violent killing, the beam of light was faintly lit.

At this time, this beam of light finally went out silently.

"In that case, it's really just virtual reality. Like everything on the island, it's virtualized, like an illusion."

He Yu: "Yes."

"..." Xie Qingcheng asked, "Then if I encounter those robots again now..."

"What you see will be their original appearance." He Yu said, "Some reformed people."

After a pause, he added: "But if you still want to see Mandela Island in the eyes of normal people, you can use the machine lens. Because the effect of the island is through various This kind of interference does it, blinds all five senses, and the visual part is like a VR projection, have you just seen the drone on the island?"

"Hmm."

"Those drones are one of the devices that help create the projections, which are responsible for part of the visual obscurity. Like the projections in Spider-Man."

Xie Qingcheng: "I haven't watched "Spider-Man"."

"What about Teresa Teng's resurrection concert?"

"Neither."

"...It doesn't matter. I just want to say that your eyes will not be deceived, but what the camera lens captures is the image after VR imaging, and the TV station filmed a concert of Teresa Teng's resurrection. Effect."

Xie Qingcheng heard this and suddenly thought of something: "If this is the case, if we destroy the drones responsible for visual projection, can normal people see the real scene on the island? already?"

He Yu shook his head: "Creating a fake picture is actually the simplest requirement of VR, and Mandela also faked his hearing, smell, and magnetic field response. Therefore, simply destroying the drone will also It's useless, they will activate the emergency device, which can also deceive the past. And these drones are monitored in real time, once they are attacked, Duan Wen will know that someone on the island has leaked, because normal people can't see them, and people on the island Except I have loyal chip control, then, the leaker can only be me."

"To break the illusion, the most thorough way, and the only way, is to find the total interference device of the virtual reality on this island, just find it, destroy it, all projections on the island It all stopped immediately. Hyenas are hyenas, humans are humans, helicopters are helicopters, cement fortresses are cement fortresses, and normal people can see the truth unaffected."

He Yu said this with a gloomy expression.

"I've been trying to find a master valve to shut down the Mandela Island jamming device for years. I think there must be such a master valve on this island, but I can't do it alone. Others No one believed me. They would rather come to this island head-on and die. Instead, they encountered a truly terrifying weapon that was just invented, and the cold light rapidly."

He paused, and there was some irony in his eyes.

"After that weapon appeared, the Dream Breakers had lower trust in me. I knew that some of them thought that I was hiding something and not reporting it, so they had to send people to the island to investigate first. …”

He Yu closed his eyes.

"So Team Zheng became the victim and was taken to the dungeon."

Xie Qingcheng heard this and asked: "Lao Zheng, Chen Man, and those who first landed on the island, are they all in the dungeon?"

Chen slow's name came into his ears, He Yu's expression stiffened, but he still hummed.

Xie Qingcheng: "Mandela hasn't done any experiments with them, has he?"

"Not yet." He Yu said, "Live samples are hard to come by, and they generally don't do it right away."

Seven was terminated by you in front of Zoya, but the data must be handed over to headquarters immediately."

"I know, I will find a chance to retransmit it tomorrow morning." He Yu said, "It is not difficult for me, I have sent back many secrets of Mandela Island to the For Dreambreaker, the map of the headquarters was drawn with my cooperation. However, speaking of this..."

He Yu paused and stared into Xie Qingcheng's eyes in the dark.

"Did you take some materials from my study and take them back to the commander-in-chief when you were trapped at home for recuperation."

I didn't expect that he would suddenly ask this, Xie Qing froze, and then replied: "... um."

And asked, "How did you find out."

He Yu: "After you left, I checked the monitoring. I found the problem, and then confirmed it with the commander-in-chief, and you took it."

"..." Xie Qingcheng still had some doubts in his heart at that time, and did not understand why He Yu had the final data, but did not pass it to the commander-in-chief in time.

But after talking so much with He Yu, he had already guessed the reason.

"Before you give him the data, do you want to remind him one last time that Mandela Island is an island based on the concept of the Metaverse. After removing the virtual projection, it is actually very ordinary and not so scary , just cut off the master valve that caused the phantom intervention?"

He Yu was silent for a moment, then admitted: "Yes. Whether he believes it or not, I want to try again one last time. But then you took the data and gave it to him in advance."

Xie Qing was at a loss for words: "...I'm sorry."

He Yu shook his head and asked again, "What about you? Why did you guess that I was the undercover agent of the Dreambreaker, and you had to pass the information I collected to the commander before me. ."

"I was just guessing about your identity at that time, and there has been no evidence to prove that you are one of our people. I think if you are undercover, not many people will know about this matter, but the commander is sure is one of them."

"I need to confirm my thoughts with him." Xie Qing submitted, "Before I go to the island, I want a clear answer. Make sure I am not wrong."

He Yu understood: "So I told you that when I was an informant, you were so sure, because you were not just guessing, you had confirmed with him..."

Xie Qingcheng gave a soft "um".

He Yu couldn't help but said: "But since he told you my undercover identity, he should have reminded me..."

But here, he paused again.

He realized why the commander-in-chief hadn't reminded him - because the Dreambreaker still didn't trust himself after all, and the information they gave him was incomplete. Everything is left with a trump card.

Seeing his expression, Xie Qing knew what he was thinking, in order to make him feel better, so he comforted him: "The situation was very urgent at that time, and there were too many things he wanted to control. Immediately, he wants to minimize the variables, so to be on the safe side, it is normal that he does not want to explain more to you on the phone."

After a pause, he said, "And he should think it's a trivial matter, and the problem will be solved naturally when we meet."

“…”

But after saying this, they both recalled the chaotic scene when they first met on the island, and fell into silence again.

Xie Qingcheng was consciously embarrassed and changed the topic: "By the way, have you...have you ever thought about why the layout of this island is so similar to Shanghai University's Neverland?"

' true identity, he should be..."

Before he finished speaking, there was a clear knock on the door outside the quilt.

He Yu and Xie Qingcheng were shocked and held their breaths in the dark.

He Yu was relatively calm, he raised his hand and touched Xie Qingcheng's lips, meaning to pretend to be asleep first, then keep quiet.

The knock on the door rang three or four times and stopped.

"He Yu."

“…”

It's Duan Wen!

Duan Wen was at the door, his voice was light, he couldn't hear any emotion, he didn't say any purpose, he just said: "Please open the door."