Rule Strange: Urban Legends That Don't Exist

William Adams obviously said this based on some underlying logic - he obviously knew that his world ran by almost the exact same rules as the other world.

After knowing some facts today, he realized that he had made some basic empiricist errors. He should not copy what happened in one world to the other just because the rules of the two worlds were almost identical.

Before Chen Changsheng could answer, he once again said with enthusiasm:

"But we don't have enough fuel for the next jump. Jamie, you knew about this earlier, right?"

You knew I would regret knowing the truth.

"Previously, your department was responsible for coordinating the resources of the starship. You had expected that there would be no turning back for us, right?"

It turns out that you already knew everything, but why didn't you tell me.

"Jamie, we have no way back, so where is the way forward?"

I put my complete trust in you, and you have to give me an explanation.

Few people can fully understand William Adams' unique way of expressing words, but Chen Changsheng can.

A certain kind of wonderful tacit understanding between the two people has reached the point where there is no need to say anything about many things in the past few decades. You only need to see how things develop, and you will know what the other person is thinking and what they have been planning before.

There was dead silence in the screening room. Everyone present had rarely accepted such a question from the chairman, not because the chairman had a good temper, but because they were simply not worthy of the chairman using such a serious tone.

They are so in awe of the chairman now, not because of the huge resources the chairman has, nor because of how powerful the chairman is, but because the chairman knows what is best for everyone and what can be done to make everyone happy. To obtain the greatest benefit, even if his approach sometimes seems absurd and puzzling, he is always right.

——The chairman has spent decades proving that he is always right.

William Adams was lucky. He boarded the ship of the times and became famous as soon as he returned to the sea. What he did after that may sound complicated, but in fact it was just a matter of "resources for vision, vision for resources". He He is a businessman, and knowledge is necessary for him, but not the most important. He is the best speculator in the world, and all investments based on his vision and thinking will definitely be rewarded.

——Chen Changsheng obviously knows these things.

He knew in his heart that William Adams's current questioning was not an outburst after the investment failed, but a serious bargaining using identity, status, emotions, morality, etc. as bargaining chips.

But Chen Changsheng didn't reply.

He couldn't describe the world he saw to anyone. It stands to reason that he should have undergone omnic transformation long ago after enduring such torture. But at the time, his omnic transformation was stuck at the step of [uploading consciousness]. At that time, he knew, His life is different from other people's lives.

——The lives that have been injured by [Immortal Slash] are no longer as complete as other lives.

So there was an error in the upload, and a string of error codes was displayed on the machine that uploaded the consciousness. The God's Family programmer from the imperial capital told him that the string of error codes meant "the complete consciousness characteristic value cannot be mapped."

In short, it is impossible to upload consciousness.

Chen Changsheng is not afraid of death. His consciousness died many years ago, and now there is only a shell left that lives for the slightest obsession in his heart.

Chen Changsheng's silence was the most puzzling thing for William Adams.

It stands to reason that when they have reached this point, they have almost no pursuits in the secular world. What is left is only the exploration of all unknown problems - the exploration of the unknown world.

They don't need to worry about material life, because they can easily get any material resources they want without having to work hard. The seemingly extravagant life of ordinary people is easy for them, but not everyone likes that kind of life.

They have higher pursuits.

That higher pursuit is also the reason why they have reached this point.

After a long and tiring silence, the brainwave sonic microphone on Chen Chang's bed finally made a sound:

“I used to think that the future of mankind lies in the deeper world, so we started the research plan for Turing chips after discussing it.

We originally tried to use the Turing chip to build a real virtual world, but later we did it. The Turing chip simulated a real data life - a data life with a soul - when the amount of data is huge to a certain extent and the logic is complex to a certain extent. At this level, [Turing]'s ideology is infinitely close to that of humans. "

No one knew why he mentioned this, but everyone listened carefully because they knew that everything the second-in-command of the William Adams Group said might be related to their lives and fortunes.

Property and life - this is everything they pursue in the apocalypse.

"'Infinitely close to humans' is enough in itself. Turings already understand themselves more clearly than humans.

Spirit and consciousness are inherently vague concepts. Most humans still don’t know who they are, where they come from, and where they are going. How about Turing, who has a clearer understanding of these ultimate issues?

In the latest version update of the group, Turings have gained an absolutely clear understanding of the first two questions. They are able to understand their own existence from both a philosophical and material perspective, and they have been able to answer the first two questions.

The only thing they don't understand is [where are we going to end up] - this question is also unanswerable for us. "

Chen Changsheng summarized and answered everything he said:

"So, now, in this time when Apocalypse has destroyed the world, there is no doubt that we have created a new life in this world with many rules and restrictions.

We became their gods. "

He asked again:

"But where is the god who created us?"

The voice in the brainwave sonic microphone is slow and slow. These questions seem absurd and meaningless to everyone here. They don't need to understand these questions, just like they don't think about why the stars in the sky are so bright. Why is the ground under my feet so solid? What is there in the distance beyond my sight?

"Genes are a perfect set of codes."

Chen Changsheng said:

"Even today, when we have deeply explored the scientific and technological knowledge in the dark zone, we still cannot know the information corresponding to all the base pairs in the double helix structure of the gene. The gene itself is like a set of formulas that can calculate thousands of paths. The reason why we The reason we haven’t found the path we want to take is because we don’t know the knowledge in genes, let alone the secrets why genes become genes——

Where do genes, these advanced programs that apparently operate according to strict logic, come from?

Where do we come from?

Binary answers the origin of Turings, but what about our origin? "

Everyone here is thinking, from now on, isn’t our origin the world behind the void?

They didn't quite understand what Chen Changsheng was going to say.

Only William Adams roughly understood what Chen Changsheng was thinking.

Many years ago, after owning that [U disk], Chen Changsheng was different from before. But at that time, his wife was still there, and love and family ties bound his humanity, preventing him from becoming what he is now. Generally cold.

Until his wife and children died, he began to fall into some unspeakable despair, so that he lost most of the breath of life.

When William Adams saw the android created by Chen Changsheng in a 1:1 ratio of his own child, he knew he was probably crazy.

No matter how crazy you are, you did so many bad things in the first half of your life, such as giving birth to children without an asshole, and in the second half of your life, when you were the happiest, you died of your wife and children, which is considered your retribution in this world.

William Adams would have some unprovoked thoughts without warning when he dreamed back in the middle of the night - He had done thousands of times more bad things than Chen Changsheng. When would his retribution come?

When he woke up from the dream, those floating thoughts dispersed. It became clear to him once again that this world must eat people to survive. Either eat people or be eaten by people.

He always chooses to be the cannibal.

Chen Changsheng is crazy, but he has not completely lost his mind. His state is closer to the "out of control" defined by the society on the extraordinary side. However, due to some special reasons, his loss of control appears in a very mild form - this must be due to the influence of that bomb. The impact of USB flash drives.

William Adams also had an unfounded idea - perhaps the real Chen Changsheng had died mentally long ago, leaving only his body acting under the guidance of a USB flash drive.

Maybe the USB flash drive made the zombie-like Chen Changsheng forget the pain of the death of his wife and children. After most of the deaths of [self], he still lived to this day and single-handedly managed the entire Turing chip project—it’s better to say that he managed the entire project. It is said that the USB flash drive took charge of the entire plan.

William Adams looked at his broken body.

What was said just now can also be seen as being said by the USB flash drive.

So William Adams remained silent and did not interrupt this long and meaningless statement.

He wanted to learn the ultimate motive of the USB flash drive from these words, which might be to reveal the truth about the USB flash drive’s identity.

Chen Changsheng obviously did not realize the profound thoughts buried deep in William Adams' heart:

"We have devoted a lot of resources to Turings. We debug their programs day and night, improve their logic, and make them more like us——

We are molding them in our own image.

We are their gods, their creators.

But we don't love them.

God has never loved anyone.

Because we manufacture them to improve productivity from the beginning, we debug them in order to obtain greater computing efficiency and lower labor costs, and regard the investment of these resources as an investment in the future.

We have verified this - for us, even if there is such a Creator God, He will definitely not love us.

You think, is it possible that the god who created us also created us, or even created this world, for the purpose of obtaining certain resources? "

No one can answer this question.

Only William Adams asked:

"What does that god want?"

Chen Changsheng said:

"We may know the answer soon.

We have to find our own path, we have to follow this path to meet God, we have to stand before Him and ask Him what we are and where we come from. ”He paused.

“However, [where do we ultimately go], this question can only be answered by ourselves.”

William Adams said in a deep tone:

"Is this the purpose of the Turing chip?"

Electronic music is still emotionless:

"Yes, this is one of the meanings of the existence of Turing chips."

He quickly explained another meaning of the Turing chip:

“The design logic of the Turing chip is different from that of the mimetic neural network. The Turing chip is not designed to simulate humans, but to simulate the underlying logic of everything in this world.

That's why Turings are so similar to us - all the underlying rules that Turings rely on to survive are infinitely close to the underlying rules that we rely on to survive.

We have invested our last resources into the final architecture of the Turing chip logic program, and our chipset size has finally reached the standard. After confirming that another world was swallowed up by [Eternal Death] from the void, we were able to determine a Key facts -

No world can escape the invasion of doomsday.

We have nowhere to escape. "

Everyone was suffocated. As a result of his narration, everyone knew a desperate fact:

Humanity can only confront the Apocalypse head-on, but cannot avoid or escape in any other way.

But how can human power fight against the power that destroyed the entire universe? !

Only then did everyone realize why the group had not joined Salomaire in the construction of the Ark of Salvation. It was because no matter how far the Ark escaped, it would not be able to lead them to escape from this virtual world.

The screening room fell into a suffocating panic, but Chen Changsheng's electronic voice remained calm:

"I want to see more video, I want to see what that thing ends up looking like."

After the words fell, a new video appeared on the screen. It was a planet and a small amount of vacuum space on the planet surrounded by cells that resembled flesh and blood.

A cell body that resembles flesh and blood—its "flesh and blood nebula"-like body is dotted with a large number of organs that look similar to humans but are different from humans. Some of those organs are as big as the planet.

What is eye-catching is that there are a large number of brain sulcus-like objects in certain locations on the video, with lightning hovering over them. Since these brain sulcus-like objects are so huge, even if the resolution is not high in the video, they can still be easily seen. To the hidden neuron cells - neurons, these things that were originally so small that it was impossible for the human eye to distinguish are now clearly displayed in front of everyone in front of the screen.

As the perspective in the video continued to move, everyone saw a large number of brain grooves distributed on the "Flesh Nebula" and a large number of various named and unnamed organs - people in front of the screen thought that these organs Maybe it doesn’t just belong to humans, but also to other lives.

People soon thought again that such organs and tissues had spread throughout the starry sky with the infinite replication of [Eternal Death]——

The entire universe is already filled with such organs!

The [Eternal Death] that has invaded the entire universe has become something similar to flesh and blood. It has obviously become something new.

"It's some kind of biomass."

Chen Changsheng gave an accurate definition.

"Bioid material capable of carrying the functions of most biological organs."

Everything corresponds to the records in the USB flash drive.

The voice coming from the hospital bed was more serious than before:

“After confirming this, we were finally able to implement the next steps.

This place is already the end of the entire virtual universe - it is precisely because of the virtual properties of this universe that we can reach the so-called end of the universe.

God created this world, and we still don’t know the means by which He created it, but we know at least one thing—

This virtual world has its material basis——

Everything we see on the screen now, the [Infinite Copy] named [Eternal Death], the bio-like substance that has now acquired the nature of life by devouring life, is the material basis for the existence of this virtual world. .

Gods established our world on this material basis, and now we, who have become gods, can also build our next world on this material basis. "

William Adams could hardly restrain his excitement. From planning to implementation, all the high-quality resources of the group and the immeasurable efforts of mankind's most cutting-edge scientific labor force were invested in this simulation experiment.

Now, we have finally reached the final step.

He, they, the fire of mankind, the last hope, can finally enter the real world and breed a new human civilization!

"Then, let's get started."

With an order from William Adams, the Turing chipset came online, and Chen Changsheng's hospital bed was connected to the chipset. When his chest flashed with an icy blue halo, the new world construction program began to run.

William Adams stayed by his bedside, staring at the icy blue halo on his chest. Only today did he finally look directly at the creation that provided him with countless knowledge and created his entire business empire.

His emotions were no longer complicated, and he just whispered in the tone of chatting between old friends:

"Jamie, tell me now, what is this USB flash drive inserted in the heart?"

The cold electronic sound answered his confusion for many years:

"Those are fragments of memory that have been embodied.

When I was desperate, a little girl came to me and gave me this thing. She told me that this was knowledge that could change my destiny.

In return, I would be cursed - I would spend my whole life searching for the [ultimate] world - as I later did.

I didn't know what it meant at that time. I only knew that I had committed a huge disaster. All the achievements I had accumulated in the past would no longer exist, and I also lost the bright future I might have had.

The knowledge in that USB flash drive helped me.

After being abandoned by you because of that disaster, I gained the favor of that adult through that knowledge. He helped me clear many obstacles and I was able to have a future again.

He even gave me his daughter in marriage so that I could have a family of my own.

I once thought that was my life. "

Chen Changsheng did not have strong emotional fluctuations when he told these things.

What he said next moved William Adams.

“She and the baby are not completely gone from me.

Back then, before they completely lost their vital signs, I uploaded their consciousness to this memory fragment - the ideological characteristic whose scientific name is [soul characteristic value].

When we go to the new world, I will find a way to reverse engineer their [soul characteristics] and bring them back to life. "

William Adams was not shaken by his madness.

Providing Chen Changsheng with everything he needed and pushing this seemingly crazy plan to completion was an act that most people would consider extremely crazy. Not only did William Adams do it, he also overcame all difficulties and persisted until the end.

As the Turing chipset came online and the simulation of the new world began, he stood next to Chen Changsheng's hospital bed and felt connected to the entire ship - he had long known that the entire ship and the people on it All life was stored in a USB flash drive with a ship as the shell by Chen Changsheng.

He had been mentally prepared for it, so when this moment came, he felt a wonderful "stimulation" in his heart.

He stared at the bright lights in front of him, and in a flash, time seemed to return to that scorching afternoon when the scorching sun had not yet faded away. Carrying all his assets, he and his brothers took a boat, and after several years of wandering, they finally arrived. When they arrived at the snowy island country, they were about to earn their first pot of gold. They were about to become rich. They had even decided which gold-selling cave they would go to to have fun when they returned...

"The sunk cost this time is everything I own."

The corners of William Adams' mouth curled up, feeling that he was getting younger.

"I hope my investment will not fail this time."

"Well, Jamie, see you in the new world."

Blue spots on the huge cable connecting the void and the ship kept flashing. The drill probed into the other end of the void began to heat up. Within half a second, the blue spots became as dense as pulse currents. The entire ship was a huge carrier. The data flow began to launch an energy-based impact on [Eternal Death] on the other side of the void——

——Under the calculation of the Turing chip, the ship is programming [Eternal Death] through cables and at the same time [burning] itself into the biomass-like flesh and blood of [Eternal Death] outside the void!

The huge amount of heat illuminates the large-scale dark area at the end of the universe, and everything hidden in the dark area is wiped out in the intense energy pulse.

The heat generated evaporates the vacuum, and the accumulation of data has not yet broken down the barriers of the universe.

Until cracks appeared on the surface of the void, until the entire ship disappeared into the light.

Suddenly, a spot of light exploded in the evaporating vacuum, and gorgeous fireworks exploded at the end of the starry sky!

Humanity's transformation of [Eternal Death] has ultimately failed.

This path is wrong.

PS: Chen Changsheng will have a spin-off chapter. This was planned when the book was one million words long, but because the plot was incomplete, it was never written out. I’m really ashamed.

This person is really difficult to write. No matter how I write it, some readers will be offended. I will never write such a character again.

All I can say now is that when I originally designed this character, I was designing it towards "sufficiently complex human nature". People can be good and bad at the same time. There is no conflict (extreme example: the American TV series Shameless) Daddy Frank in it)