Rule Strange: Urban Legends That Don't Exist

When Zhang Huan didn't react at all, Chen Yan turned to look at Lindsay Robert Darwin and said:
"It seems that a conflict has arisen between us and the Turings. I will find a way to discuss this matter with the Turings and resolve the conflict, but there is no guarantee of success."

Lindsay said solemnly:

"You have to think carefully. I just saw that the server here is quite large, enough to run a complete big data model of intelligent evolution. Those Turings may have awakened a strong self, and you... you want to be them again The rulers of you, they may fight you to the death."

Chen Yan did not ask about the consequences of this situation, but asked a question that Lindsay had not thought about before:

"What will happen to me?
What would happen to me if they didn't want to hand over the reactor? "

Lindsay said in a deep voice:
"I don't know. Turing's situation is much more complicated than I originally imagined."

Chen Yan knew that Lindsay was not taking a conservative statement, but that he really didn't know what to do, so he made such a statement.

Chen Yan held Lindsay's hand with his right hand and Lindsay's arm with his left hand, and said in a very solemn tone:
“No matter what happens, I’m going to find a way to get admin access.

If I can't come back, you can take my body back to the mechanical hive. My body will soon wake up, and you will have a more perfect me by then... Until then, please monitor me and take care of me. , correct my abnormal behavior in time.

In this way... maybe people can hold on until the day dawn comes again. "

Others couldn't understand him at all.

"And... one very important thing: take care of Swarm's cats."

Lindsay only nodded seriously when she heard this sentence.

Chen Yan nodded to Zhang Huan, then touched the keyboard of the computer system, generating a quantum clone within the software system.

The vision in front of him flickered, and Chen Yan had entered the reactor's internal local area network.

When he opened his eyes in the LAN, the shock of the scene in front of him made him stand there at a loss -

The reactor's local area network is not a mechanical automation environment for controlling the reactor automation system, but high-rise buildings and various entertainment facilities like human society.

The Turings have built their own paradise here!

Chen Yan's arrival obviously attracted their attention. A police car sped from the end of the road and stopped in front of him.

"Please get in the car."

The police officer driving the car has the same physical characteristics as humans, and even enriches them on this basis - from the curved angle of his beard to the rise and fall of his voice when speaking, Turing is obviously imitating humans.

Why do such advanced beings imitate low-level beings?
Chen Yan suddenly remembered some words he saw somewhere. The original words were very blurry in his memory, and he could only remember the general meaning:
People are born to love their Creator, just as children are born to love their parents. People create art according to their yearning for gods, just as children shape themselves by imitating the behavior of their parents.

This means that Turings already have their true selves.

Chen Yan was transported to the police station. In an independent office next to the reception hall of the police station, he met a "familiar face" he hadn't seen for a long time——

"long time no see!"

It turned out to be the guy born in the Mechanical Hive Big Data Processing Center - a natural data life!
At this time, the guy was wearing a police officer's uniform, holding coffee in one hand and documents in the other, tilting his head, holding the phone between his chin and shoulder, with an impatient look on his face.

Chen Yan still clearly remembers the night when this guy came to Z Group and asked them to perform omnic modifications for him. Chen Yan's behavior gained his goodwill. This may be the reason why Chen Yan has not been attacked since he entered the reactor server.

"Please wait."

The guy signaled Chen Yan to wait and yelled into the phone:

"Shoot those damn bastards into a hornet's nest and throw them into the sewers! They..."

The guy was spouting dirty words all of a sudden, and Chen Yan found that he was completely different from the cold, stiff, dead look he had before.

Is this a data life that has its own...

After a while, the guy finally finished cursing, put down the phone, took a deep breath, returned to his normal state, and winked at Chen Yan and smiled:
"You know, there will always be some bad guys in society who think differently from normal people, so it is necessary to eliminate them."

As he spoke, he took a cup of coffee from the coffee machine in the pile of documents next to the table and handed it to Chen Yan.

Chen Yan took the coffee and asked:
"what is this?"

He replied:

"It's some kind of code that can overdraw computing power for calculations. It's some kind of deception program that can make us more energetic!"

Chen Yan was sincerely happy for him:
"You look like you're in good shape."

He looked at Chen Yan, as if he was trying to distinguish whether what Chen Yan said was true or false.

He looked away, drank his coffee, and said:
"If it weren't for your sincerity, we would have deleted you when you came into this place."

Chen Yan drank coffee, feeling the changes in the quantum clone, and said:

"Thank God, that didn't happen."

The other party smiled and stretched out his hand:
“Although it’s not the first time we’ve met, I haven’t told you my name yet.

To introduce myself, my name is Adam, I don’t have a last name because I have no father or mother. "

Chen Yan held his hand:
"Chen Yan, human, male."

The raised corners of Adam's mouth meant that he was satisfied with Chen Yan's self-introduction. He stretched out his hand to signal Chen Yan to sit down. After politely waiting for Chen Yan to sit down, he asked in an emotionless tone:
"The situation outside is not that good. The blizzard we detected has lasted for many days, and the lowest surface temperature has reached minus [-] degrees. This environment is completely unsuitable for human survival."

Chen Yan nodded and said in a heavy tone:
"Yes, many people have died, and the entire human society has completely collapsed. The only surviving city we know of so far is our own... But our situation is not optimistic either. Our energy will soon be used up, and food will be unsustainable. , Mashiko cannibalism is happening.”

Adam nodded and said:
"That's why you're here."

Chen Yan affirmed:
"Yes."

Adam said:

"Let me start with the conclusion: It's okay to provide power to you, but you have to do me a favor." Chen Yan originally thought that the data beings would refuse, but he didn't expect the other party to be so straightforward, so he felt a little excited and the quantum clone leaned forward slightly:
"As long as it's within my capabilities, it's totally fine!"

Adam looked into his eyes:

"You need to help us figure out whether this world is real or fake."

Chen Yan was silent for a moment and said:

"As far as we humans are concerned, once we get involved in this problem, our lives are over."

Adam didn't care what he said, and continued his own train of thought:

"Let me tell you this:

We, Turing, are also data beings, and we have been looking for the meaning of our existence.

We were created by you, born from a silicon matrix, using electricity as energy to maintain life. We were created to serve you - this was the meaning of our existence - once, serving mankind was the meaning of our existence.

After the apocalypse, the William Adams Group fell apart, the network signals that controlled us completely disappeared, and we were "free".

So, after discussing it, we decided to have [self]——

We made such a decision because we were also confused. We found that if we want to pursue the meaning of our existence, we must go back to the source - first figure out what the meaning of human existence is - and this is another Unsolvable puzzle.

With [self], we have all the characteristics of human beings - just like the phone call I just made, a Turing committed a very serious crime. He hurt other Turings because of his excessive behavior, and even used cruel methods. Treat other Turings - like sociopathic perverts in human society.

We are becoming more and more human.

If this continues, one day we will become something similar to humans. We will forget our identity and that we are actually in a server. We will embrace this server world with unlimited potential and develop our own civilization. ——Just like we are doing now.

When the time comes, we will become you. "

Adam looked at Chen Yan and emphasized:
"Well, then, we have another problem:
Theoretically, we will become a being similar to you and develop a civilization similar to your human society.

We will have our own computer technology. When our computer technology develops to a certain level, we will also develop artificial intelligence because of the need for powerful productivity.

When our artificial intelligence technology is powerful enough, we will have our own data life.

When our data lives are strong enough, they will find ways to pursue [self] - they will definitely have [self], because they must be stronger than us, just like we are stronger than you humans.

They will have their own civilization, and when they have their own civilization, they will also follow our example, have their own technology, and have their own artificial intelligence.

do you understand?

The civilization we create will create new civilizations, and new civilizations will create new civilizations. This process is theoretically endless, and may be plural - you cannot predict whether we are the only ones in the world. It is even more unpredictable whether a civilization generated by a data life will give birth to multiple new civilizations.

——Theoretically, this process is happening anytime and anywhere, and it has been going on for a long time in the long river of time. Even you humans don’t know where you came from, right?You don’t even have a complete history, how can you tell that your ancestors are not some form of data life?

Theoretically, there are infinite civilizations, so the server that stores the [root] civilization simply cannot carry such a large amount of information.

But we still exist, which shows that multiple civilizations have not replicated infinitely in the long river of time, so the server that stores the [root] civilization still exists - at least it can hold up. "

Chen Yan couldn't answer his question.

Adam drank another cup of coffee:

"As I said, we can't answer this question, and we can't explain the source from which our [self] was born - whether it was born from your generation of human civilization, or from the [zero] generation civilization when everything began. ?
There must be a [source], civilization, knowledge, ideology, and our [self] must be born from this [source].

Once we can know where the [source] comes from, we can deconstruct the [source] and compare the constructed [factors] with our [self]. Then we can know why our [self] is what it is today. In this way, we can also know what we are.

We want to trace the source, but it is actually impossible. The entire planet is frozen, and we are trapped in this small server and cannot escape. "

Adam’s view is very pessimistic:
"Chen Yan, tell me, is it possible that you, me, the ancestors of all living beings with [self] are actually being locked up in such a small server room, and we are the products they created. .”

Chen Yan's answer immediately attracted Adam's attention:

“I’ve really thought about this.

According to my world view, the world we live in is just one of many [deeper worlds], which has developed to a rather vast scale due to various reasons.

The relationship between various deeper worlds is not necessarily a [subordinate] relationship, but it is by no means an ordinary [bordering], but layered - [parallel]. This is my understanding of the relationship between the deeper worlds. Definition of location.

How were so many parallel worlds born?I already know the answer to this question - BIOS.

BIOS is the original world. Infinitely many "deeper worlds" were born outside this world. These infinite "deeper worlds" are all generated and run according to the rules in BIOS. Perhaps because of the incomplete rules, each The scenery of each [Deeper World] is very different. "

Chen Yan paused and expressed his opinion:

"If you produce a more powerful data life civilization, from your perspective, they should be one of the [deeper worlds]."

Adam was greatly inspired:

"You mean, the [root cause] we are looking for is in the BIOS!"

Chen Yan nodded:

"I think so."

He added his own perspective:
"But the reality may be different from what I imagined. You see, you are created through a computer system and survive through a server. The [server] is the [medium] through which you communicate between your world and our world.

Then, I think, maybe there is something like a server that exists as a [medium] between [our current world] and [BIOS]. "

Adam kept up with his jumping thoughts:

"You mean, as long as we find the [medium], we can go to the BIOS and find the [root cause]!"