Rule Strange: Urban Legends That Don't Exist

Chapter 726 Data Life
'I found myself by following the link, which means that Chen Changsheng also wanted to find me by following this link—he wanted to find me from the Internet and download me into my body. '

Chen Yan felt a chill in his heart.

'It seems likely that he knows about quantum entanglement...'

Chen Yan looked at his own body outside the camera, and felt that everything could be explained clearly, and all thoughts were smooth.

'When Chen Changsheng was looking for me in the online world, my data carrier, the quantum clone, had already been attacked and perished, so even if he found my IP address, he couldn't get me from the Download from the network. '

'It's this moment——it's this special moment. Some unknown mastermind intervened in Chen Changsheng's download process and replaced Chen Changsheng's download link into that dark world. So my backup He downloaded it into my body. '

'Oh shit!Who is this man? ! '

Chen Yan only felt shuddering, without any sense of security in his heart.

'Last night, Wish and I could enter that dark world with Quasimodo together, which looks like a wilderness.

By now, the entrance to that dark world has disappeared.

Does this mean that opening that world is conditional, and must meet certain conditions, or certain laws...'

Thinking of this, Chen Yan had a flash of inspiration like a brain twitch, and an incredible term appeared in his mind——

'Lagrangian Time!
If the dark world is really a wilderness - the time for communication between the outside world and the wilderness can only be within the "Lagrangian time", and "communication" in the online world represents data transmission - also That is to say, for the online world, only within the "Lagrangian time" can the data in the online world be transmitted into the wilderness!
——This "Lagrangian time" calculated by a certain formula is the law of entering the entrance to that dark world! '

Chen Yan is eager to verify his guess, but he doesn't know the calculation formula of "Lagrange Time", and he is not sure whether his guess is correct.

While thinking back and forth in his head, Chen Yan realized that he couldn't do anything for the time being - he had to leave Yanan City before the end of the day, so he couldn't go to the lighthouse on the moon clock tower again tonight, so he couldn't verify his guess .

Chen Yan recalled the whole process of the incident, the more he thought about it, the more reliable it became, and the more he thought about it, the more he felt satisfied. After several times of thinking, he came up with another idea.

'I may be able to verify from another angle--

Throughout the whole process, Chen Changsheng played an important role, he was a deceived executor, and the most suspicious thing about him was the fact that [he may know the existence of quantum entanglement]. '

'The reason why I came to the conclusion [Chen Changsheng may know the existence of quantum entanglement communication] is because Chen Changsheng knew that I existed in the online world—he wanted to download me back to his body from the online world, it was precisely actions based on this knowledge. '

'It's so fucking weird, quantum entanglement is something I got from the ice blue memory fragment, how did he know it? '

'Maybe……'

Chen Yan thought of another possibility.

'Maybe he doesn't know about quantum entanglement, but just that I'm in the online world. '

He felt that this guess was reliable.

'It's very possible...he knew that he downloaded me from the Internet world, but he didn't know that I had brought myself back to the real world by using quantum entanglement communication again-this is enough to prove that he can't be very accurate Knowing my location also proves that he probably doesn't know the nature of quantum entanglement. '

After thinking for a while, Chen Yan returned to the Internet world and easily found the website of the William Adams Group Yanan City Branch. Based on the information on the website, he found Chen Changsheng's personal IP address.

'Since he has a data-type violent spirit, he must have a certain degree of firewall, so I have to be careful. '

The idea of ​​visiting Chen Changsheng's IP address arose in his mind, so the quantum clone followed a certain upstream data into the sea of ​​data above the sky of the network world, and headed towards the direction of the IP address.

Half a second later, Chen Yan descended on the terminal where Chen Changsheng's IP address was located.

There is no firewall...

This is a study room.

The study room is arranged according to the favorite style of the traditional Luke nobles - gorgeous large skirt curtains with multiple layers of folds, hand-polished marble floor with irregular colors and patterns, and a large desk carved from logs...

Chen Changsheng just sat at the desk, in front of him was a thick book with dense small print, which was one of the things Chen Yan feared the most after coming to the empire.

In front of the heavy book is a "thin" notebook, and Chen Yan saw the room through the camera of this notebook.

When looking at this notebook, Chen Yan found a very strange thing - the components of this notebook have obvious traces of artificial processing, and the keycaps on the keyboard can be seen to be of different sizes. It shows that this notebook is probably not a product of industrialization, but some kind of handicraft!

When Chen Yan raised his head to look at Chen Changsheng, he was subconsciously startled.

Because at this moment, Chen Changsheng was lying on his back an emerald-colored spirit body made of floating pixels.

Chen Yan took a closer look, only to see what kind of floating pixels there are, which are obviously dense pixel blocks with exquisite textures.

Due to the high density of pixel blocks, the emerald-colored spirit body looks very vivid. From the face, she looks like she is just in her 20s, so she can't be called beautiful, but the Luke people, as long as they don't look too ugly The degree of crooked melons and jujubes, 20 years old is their best age, even if they look plain, they look very cute.

The expression of the emerald-colored spirit body was extremely vivid - when he looked at her, she was also looking at him with "surprise" and "curiosity".

【How did you come? 】

It's not "who are you", but "why are you here", which means that she knows who Chen Yan is, and it also means that Chen Changsheng told her about Chen Yan.

When Chen Yan thought about it, the way she looked at Chen Yan suddenly changed.

【No, it's not you...】

At this moment, her eyes changed several times, and the pixel blocks on her body also fluctuated relatively greatly, and some of the pixel blocks seemed to have been rearranged and combined.

【You...you are Chen Yan. 】

When she said this sentence with precise expression, Chen Yan knew that she already knew what happened to her.

'Yes, I am Chen Yan. '

She lowered her head to look at Chen Changsheng, but finally did not choose to call him.

She raised her head to look at Chen Yan.

【I saw it just now, the original link disappeared. 】

Just now?

During the two seconds you spoke just now?

What is she?Some kind of advanced artificial intelligence?
The quantum avatar carrying Chen Yan's consciousness is a kind of data life, and the girl in front of me—this one who can barely be called a girl...artificial intelligence, judging from the characteristics she exhibits, should also be regarded as a kind of data life .

Chen Yan realized that she knew a lot of things, and her thinking speed was much faster than his.

Such rapid thinking speed and powerful execution ability made Chen Yan understand that she is not a data life based on human consciousness-this is completely different from the quantum clone, because Chen Yan can't be like her in the quantum clone state. So fast thinking, and ultra-fast data checking in the Internet.

【sorry……】

She showed a sorry emotion, but this emotion could not be expressed well by her:
The pixels seem to be trying to make an expression similar to "guilt", but such guilt looks clumsy, not as clumsy as "not good at expressing", but as clumsy as "don't know how to express at all" .

She seemed... Her "personality" seemed incomplete.

'Who are you? '

She seemed unsuspecting of him:
[I'm Mia, Mia Adams. 】

Um?Surname Adams?

Was it Chen Changsheng who named her after his own empire name, or was there another reason?
With her appearance, it stands to reason that she should be some kind of violent spirit, so, is she a data life created by Chen Changsheng?
[James told me about you. 】

Mia seems to have a certain degree of kindness towards Chen Yan, if she knows what kindness is.

[I'd love to talk to your sister, she has something very important to me. 】

Chen Yan didn't lie either:

'This is really a bit difficult, because I can't contact her now. '

Mia showed some frustration:
【I see. 】

Chen Yan asked:

'I'm here to ask one thing: how did you guys download that guy into my body in the first place? '

Mia's fluent answer made Chen Yan feel that she did not hide anything:
[After you left a video on the forum a few days ago, we have been tracking your location.

Everything you do online is so visible that it's not just us who are following you, but others as well. 】

There were obvious loopholes in her answer, and Chen Yan couldn't help interrupting:

'Others...those hackers, how can you still find me after I wiped out my data stream? '

Her voice is as usual:
[After you go online again, we will naturally be able to find your location. 】

She actually regarded "the quantum avatar was wiped out by hackers" as "Chen Yan went offline from the network".

And "online"...the one who went online later was not Chen Yan!
Chen Yan realized that he was about to reach the truth, so he suppressed the excitement in his heart and asked:

'How did you know where I went online later? '

She seemed to answer all questions:

[I know your data characteristics—it's like identifying a person's appearance. I found those data and can tell that it's you. 】

Chen Yan immediately asked:

'Where did you find me? '

Although she had doubts about this question in her heart, she still answered:

[I know you, so I found you. The specific location is where you go online, the IP address of your phone hidden in the network, and the location of your phone in the real world. 】

Chen Yan was shocked when he heard this answer.

A gateway to the wilds of the internet, placed in my phone? !

This horrifying news made Chen Yan speechless for a while. After a short-circuit in his brain for a while, he finally recovered and understood Mia's next narration:

[Now it seems that the you we found was not you - your IP address should have been stolen or covered by some deeper IP address. 】

[When I first saw that..."Chen Yan", I thought it was you, because he was exactly the same as you, without any difference. 】

[James asked me to help you get back into your body, so I did.

The consciousness of "Chen Yan" was also very confused at the beginning, as if he had experienced a very bad thing, and he almost lost his ability to think. When I first discovered him, the data representing him did not exchange data with the outside world. , Looking back now, he was like... like a newborn baby. 】

She struggled to find a sentence that could describe "Chen Yan", and she was a little happy because she found a related adjective.

She knew what Chen Yan wanted to know, so she continued:

[I just saw that the link to download him at the beginning has completely disappeared, and there is no trace of it. This is almost impossible to happen——

The Internet has memory, and all data changes that occur on the Internet will inevitably leave traces.

Even a bottom-level deletion command based on a super administrator's command cannot erase a trace of data exchange that has ever taken place on the Internet. 】

[Because there are multiple terminals that store data exchange traces, if you want to erase a data exchange trace, you must perform a deletion operation based on super administrator privileges on multiple terminals.

This is often difficult to accomplish.

Even I couldn't find the location of all downstream terminals where a data exchange trace exists. 】

[But this almost impossible thing happened, which means that the person who did this is a particularly strong hacker, or perhaps a more complete data life than me. 】

Chen Yan still didn't give up:

'Is it really impossible to find the location of that person at all? '

She replied without hesitation:
[At least with my current ability, it is impossible. 】

Chen Yan felt very sorry.

'Thank you for telling me so much. '

She happily replied:

[I am also very happy to chat with you. There are not many data lives in this city, and we are considered the same kind. 】

She regards the quantum double as "data life".

Chen Yan asked:

'Are there other beings like... us in this city? '

He did know that Quasimodo in the Moon Tower was one.

Speaking of which, she's clearly happier:

【Yup. 】

She did not reveal more.

[But most of them don't want to be known, so I can't tell you. 】

Chen Yan looked at the apology made up of pixels on her face, and said:

'It's ok. '

In fact, Chen Yan was very curious. When he was in prison last night, he said those words in front of Chen Changsheng. How could Mia, who was in the same camp as Chen Changsheng, be so "honest" to him?

Where did her apparent kindness come from?

Chen Yan couldn't figure it out.

But anyway, he sort of figured it out halfway.

In a flash, the screen of Chen Changsheng's phone lit up. He glanced at the screen, stood up from his chair, and walked out the door.

Chen Yan did not leave immediately, but followed the network cable to a certain camera in this villa, observing Chen Changsheng's actions.

Mia didn't seem to care about his behavior at all, even if she saw his "peeping", she was indifferent.

Chen Yan saw Chen Changsheng walking along the corridor to the second floor of the villa, and a familiar face appeared from the corner of the corridor.

It was William Adams in a casual winter suit exuding eagerness!

"Hey! My dear son! How is the talk?"

Chen Changsheng didn't evade his warm embrace, but his body was still stiff.

William Adams had long been accustomed to his stiff welcome and hug, which did not affect his liking for him in the slightest.

After the hug, Chen Changsheng replied as if reporting work:
"Yaran City will open a new company for the airport, and they promise to build momentum for the new company and complete financing and listing in a short period of time.

We each hold 10% of the stocks, and the remaining 80% are handed over to the stock market and securities companies, and there is no upper limit on leverage.

We take 60% of the investment shares, they take 10%, and the remaining 30% is divided between the people of the Northern Federation and the imperial capital.

We need to choose a chairman of the board. "

William Adams interrupted:

"You take this seat."

Chen Changsheng refused without hesitation:
"I do not have time."

William Adams looked a little constipated:

"Then you can figure it out! How is the construction of the airport?"

Out of the corner of Chen Changsheng's eyes, his eyes flicked across the messy traces of lipstick inside his neckline, and he seemed to feel it, so he tucked up his neckline guiltily.

Chen Changsheng just pretended that he didn't see anything, and continued to report:

"Phase [-] of the Aeroport is complete and waiting for you to cut the ribbon."

William Adams said:
"You go for me."

Chen Changsheng had expected this result a long time ago, so he continued without any surprise:
"In the first phase, three routes will be opened, leading to [the interior of the storm eye that appeared three years ago in the southern rainforest of the imperial capital], [the Wanwei IoT Center of the third island chain of the imperial colonial channel], and [the first sequence of the star chain] Experimental Colony in the Stavo Nebula]."

William Adams scolded:
"Those grandsons of Stavor Heavy Industry are really not human beings. They used the riots in Yanan City as an excuse to run me out of their company's board of directors, and even took back the equity!"

Surprise flashed across Chen Changsheng's eyes:

"We can cut off their supply of raw materials and let them go bankrupt directly. Anyway, they don't have a complete industrial chain."

William Adams spoke with a strong port accent:
"That won't work. I'm still counting on them to go to the depths of the first series of star chains to dig rare metals for me. Didn't you say last time, what is that, what is it called... kick?"

The corner of Chen Changsheng's mouth twitched:
"It's [antimony]."

William Adams waved his hand:
"Whoever wants to kick it, since it is the rare metal we need, someone must mine it. I think the group of mindless miners from Stavor Industries are just right."

"I'll go back this time and urge the lab to get them out of the Starlink nutrient soil that I promised me before. When we enter the first sequence, no matter which nebula it is, we won't be as passive as we are now."

After William Adams finished speaking, he sighed with emotion:
"The empire has not fought a war for decades, and the population of the entire world has exploded, exceeding the carrying capacity of the land too much."

These words simply made Chen Yan look at each other with admiration.

It is really not easy for people in this era, especially a seemingly uneducated businessman, to realize this.

William Adams continued:
"It can be seen from the current situation of Yanan City - the population of Yanan City is too large, even the large number of labor-intensive industries that emerged in the industrialization era are not enough to accommodate such a large population, and cannot create enough for these people to live like individuals. such value."

"Not to mention those big businessmen and nobles who lie on the body of Yanan City to suck blood, one counts as one, they all deserve to die!"

When he said these words indignantly, it seemed that he didn't know whether he was the big businessman he said, or the biggest one.

After hearing what he said, Chen Yan thought to himself, although this person has extensive knowledge and strong cognitive ability, his vision is limited by the times after all, and the inability to recognize the relationship of production is the essence of most social phenomena. reason.

"Longsheng, our era is different from any previous era, there are too many people, too fucking many!
If we want to feed so many people, we need to create so much value, but the resources on this land can no longer be squeezed.

Those who already have assets are unwilling to spit out their assets. If this continues, accidents will always happen. The riots in Yanan City this time are a good example.

I believe that even if the Yanan City Council wants to make a big move this time and give up some of its rights, it won't be long before riots will still break out.

Next time, I don't know what the result will be. "

William Adams talked eloquently, and when he said these things, he was as flat as drinking boiled water, without showing any emotions at all.

"If the riots continue to break out, war will come sooner or later, and then the Northern Federation and even the Empire will have to reshuffle their cards.

After shuffling the cards, everything returned to calm.

After a few more decades of peaceful life, the population will explode again, resources will not be enough, and the riots will come again.

There is no end to this matter, and it is inevitable. "

William Adams said.

"People's greed is unlimited. The marchers who demanded rights in the square two days ago, once they have assets and become exploiters, they will not hesitate to take measures to harvest labor in order to protect their own resources. It's human nature, it's inevitable for anyone."

"We cannot avoid situations where people oppress people."

His tone was decisive.

"We can only create more value to feed these extra people -- these explosive populations."

"Once we find more resources, the ones that leak out of most vampires' mouths, we can keep people fed."

"When the people are full, the riots will not come for a while."

He changed his words.

"I think so, other people don't necessarily think so, just like those stupid pigs from Stavor Industries, who don't know what the fuck is thinking all day long, and kicked me out of the board Grass!"

"In order to ensure that my plan can be implemented, we must establish our colonies in most of the nebulae in the first sequence of the Starlink—a colony with the name [William Adams Group] engraved on its head!"

"We export the population of Yanan City, the population of the Northern Federation, and the empire... export the people of the entire world into the vast universe! Establish the William Adams Group based on the entire universe!"

In the face of William Adams' impassionedness, Chen Changsheng did not react at all, which set off the former's appearance very silly and very embarrassing.

But William Adams himself didn't feel embarrassed at all, he was immersed in his fantasy of "great cause" and couldn't extricate himself!
Chen Changsheng said suddenly:
"What if Chen Yan doesn't leave before the end of the day?"

William Adams patted him on the shoulder:

"If he doesn't want to be decent, you can help him be decent."

(End of this chapter)