Cyber ​​Heroes

Chapter 983 Goodbye old friend
The entire underground base was filled with joy.

Xiang Shan stayed in the reception room, listening to the movement outside, he could not help but sigh: "What are you doing..."

This is an underground base, originally a station.Directly above here is a national park in central Africa - this area is the most worthwhile sightseeing in this natural environment in the 21st century.

If you want to go up from here, you have to take a long escalator.

And this group of knights, on the basis of this site, continued to dig down and expanded a reliable underground base. .

The base is buried more than 200 meters deep. Under this distance, it is basically impossible for the daily activities of the base to be perceived by the personnel on the ground.In addition, there are knight squads stationed on the ground to monitor the government's activities nearby.

In addition, there are several secret passages in the base, which can ensure that when necessary, warriors who have crossed the first layer of heaven and earth can be launched directly-but they are rarely used.According to the process, every time they launch, they will blow up a large section of the corridor to ensure that no enemy can find it directly.After that, it is very troublesome to dig a new road.

In the base, most knights use prosthetic bodies that are close to the shape of Homo sapiens.It looks like a group of people wearing tights wearing all kinds of exaggerated mechanical helmets, like a cosplay conference in a mechanical house.

The prosthetic bodies used by general knights are for combat use, and "daily life convenience" is something that needs to be considered later.

Those prosthetic bodies are active in the base and take up a lot of space.

When these knights are resting in the base, they will withdraw from their combat prosthetic body and use the standard body provided by the base.And their combat prosthetic bodies will be entrusted to maintenance personnel to perform multiple complex maintenance including stress relief and repair of minor damage.

After using the element body, the base looks much more spacious.

However, what Xiang Shan used was his first-tier prosthetic body.According to the etiquette of this era, unless he offered it on his own initiative, as a "guest", the host here would not ask him to change his prosthetic body.This is also the etiquette that the head of the sect should have when foreign knights visit other sects.

According to the guiding ideology of the Fourth Martial God, knights still pay great attention to the cultivation of new culture.

Xiang Shan looked outside through the reception room.In the center of the base, in an open event space, many knights gathered together, chatting about something—although there was no sound, judging from the noise level of the electromagnetic environment, most of them were happily chatting.Not only that, they kept making gestures, as if they were practicing moves and exchanging martial arts.

Xiang Shan originally felt that it was unwise to train boxing without the prosthetic body.But after a few glances, he saw the doorway.These guys are different from the few entry-level apprentices they bring, they have broken away from the usual gains and losses of every move, and what they are gesticulating is also discussing more abstract "offensive and defensive strategies" and "game theory".

These highly abstract results can be applied to most martial arts.

"The level is pretty good..." Xiang Shan whispered.

--but why……

"I guess you're thinking now, why don't they go and practice this in a virtual space, right?"

Turned to the mountain.The stereo in the reception room has just started up.Then, an access request pops up.Xiang Shan's own internal martial arts are already extremely powerful, so he naturally agreed without hesitation.

Then, he saw Niya Guti's figure.

Nia Guti chose an older avatar.Based on her own image when she was 40 years old, gray hair was added.Her face was the same as when Xiang Shan first met her, almost haggard, almost tired.

Xiang Shan drew a smile on his face with his finger: "As expected of an old friend, you actually know me so well."

Niya Guti also smiled: "After so many years, you haven't changed..."

"Change what?"

"When human beings face 'real' and 'virtual', there are obvious differences in mentality."

"Really? But I think, 'the electrical signal obtained by the prosthetic eye' and the 'electrical signal obtained by the computer reading the memory' are similar things."

"Do you still want to say, 'The electrical signals generated by the retina stimulated by light are the same as those obtained by the prosthetic eye'?"

Xiang Shan opened the protective eyelids of the prosthetic eye to the maximum, so that he could make a "stare-eyed" expression: "Is there a difference? We have put in so much effort, isn't it just to achieve 'no difference'? You think Why should I reject Lao Chen's suggestion of 'directly pouring image signals into the advanced functional areas of the brain'?"

Niya Guti couldn't help laughing out loud.Xiang Shan also laughed.

Xiang Shan said, "It really is you, old friend."

Niya Guti turned her head away.Xiang Shan saw that the camera was also slightly deflected.

Nia Guti said: "No matter how close you are to reality, or even beyond reality, human beings still have an instinctive pursuit of their 'natural form'. Their instincts only match that natural form, and any deviation from that natural form The state of the form, it makes their instincts uncomfortable—I know you want to say, 'That's their instincts are too backward'. But, this is human beings."

Xiang Shan muttered, "It's like I'm not a human anymore."

"He who is one step ahead is a genius, and whoever is two steps ahead is a madman...and what about you?"

"The idea of ​​an innovator must be three steps ahead."

"'The concept of an innovator must be three steps ahead.'...Xiang Shan often said this, and I remember it." Nia Guti rubbed her forehead, "Sorry, I don't know what your self-perception is like .I still can't treat you as Xiang Shan at the beginning. He is my friend."

Xiang Shan crossed his arms and asked, "Is this the first time you have had face-to-face communication with the Valkyrie?"

"It's not the first time." Nia Guti said, "I've seen the second Valkyrie, the fourth Valkyrie, and the sixth Valkyrie. When the seventh Valkyrie failed, I stayed in outer space for a while and then returned to Earth. .This is not far from where I was born. You may not understand, but for me, this may be a comfort. I would rather fight to the death here."

Niya Guti sighed again: "Those who died as Valkyrie didn't even have their own names... They would rather be covered by titles like 'number'."

Xiang Shan said, "It seems that after so many years, you haven't changed much."

"After all, I am over 300 years old." Nia Guti said: "Based on the life cycle of Homo sapiens, I am not just an old lady. I even live longer than most countries and most dynasties. We It is impossible for such a person to change back and forth. That would be too tiring."

(End of this chapter)