Rule Strange: Urban Legends That Don't Exist

Chapter 928 Embers of Generations
Klein's eyes, which have been completely repaired by the mechanical arm, stared at the magpie. He didn't seem to care about the magpie's weird and intrusive behavior at all. Although he didn't continue what he said just now, he still answered the magpie's question:

"I have everything to be [Klein Justus].

I have the brain of [Klein Justus] with complete memories and his complete personality.

My subjective consciousness and subconscious mind are completely synchronized with his, and even the frequency of brain waves can't tell any difference.

I have the body of [Klein Justus] and I empathize with everything that is and has been happening to that body.

I know every detail of everything that [Clayne Justus] has been through, down to the exact same degree of haziness as him.

The difference between me and him is only the brain that has been transformed into a bioelectronic chip. "

Klein looked at the magpie.

"I was only killed once by the frontline investigation department of the North Bureau, and my heart stopped beating once because of it.

The North Bureau activated me with biochemical and bioelectronic technology, allowing my life to continue.

I can't find any difference between myself and [Klein Justus]. "

While Klein was talking, the magpie kept recording quickly.

Klein obviously doesn't talk much, God knows what the magpie is recording.

When the end of Klein's words fell, the magpie spoke again:

"one question."

The part of the brain connected to the mechanical face was obviously congested, and several swollen blood vessels crawled like earthworms on the flesh and blood of the contact part between the mechanical face and the brain, which represented that the magpie was in an extremely excited state.

"All your arguments are based on ignoring [all your consciousness and behaviors originate from the executor's operating system].

You don't feel that you are just a system, because the operation of the system itself will make you ignore your real carrier and make you think that you are a complete person. "

Magpie performed a certain operation on the tablet, and while completing the operation, made a voice to Klein in a strange tone:

"I'm going to tell you now—you, Beisan, you are actually a set of software running on [Klein Justus]'s body, and this set of software called [Executor Operating System] allows you to generate everything Cognition, including the cognition that you now think that you are [Klein Justus]."

Magpie obviously improved his concentration, but Klein couldn't detect his current state of mind.

"So."

Magpie lengthened his voice.

"Now, Beisan, tell me who you are."

Klein responded to him in a calm tone without hesitation:
"I'm Klein Justus from Birmingham Street, Yharnam."

Magpie let out a sigh of emotion, stuffed the tablet back into his pocket, and clapped his hands three times in a row.

"You are really... amazing!"

The Magpie changed into the excited voice of the announcer on the radio during the horse race to the final showdown:
"Congratulations! Klein Justus! You have yourself!"

Klein's eyes remained unchanged.

He was as calm as if nothing could shake him.

He told the magpie:
"For a person, if spiritual consciousness is the software that drives the body to carry out life activities, the brain and body trunk are his hardware.

For me who came back from the dead, the [Executor System] is just the BIOS—it is just a basic input and output system that supports hardware operation, and [Self-awareness] is the BIOS that drives the body on the [Executor System]. The software of all life activities, this body forcibly endowed with vitality by biochemical means is the hardware.

In this way, I am no different from ordinary people. "

The magpie immediately took out the tablet and let out an exaggerated surprise scream:

"What a precious experiment result! Go on!"

Klein wasn't trying to prove anything to the magpie.

He was just proving to himself that he was Klein Justus.

"The key is not the difference in the body, the difference between carbon-based life and silicon-based life makes the crux of the problem even deviate from [life] and [death].

In other words, for a semi-silicon substrate like me, the boundary between [life] and [death] is originally blurred - when my carbon-based life part can generate bioelectricity of sufficient strength to maintain the operation of the silicon-based part , I am in the state of [birth].

When there is a problem with me, such as overloading, the silicon-based part is down due to overloading, and I will lose all physiological functions, just like the few moments just now - at this time I am in a state of [death] .

For a semi-silicon matrix like me, when life and death are no longer so important, the subjectivity of maintaining my own consciousness becomes the anchor point for me to determine my own existence——

The key is to identify [self].

Once the [self] is confirmed, I can at least know who I am, and therefore I can make my heart firm on what I want to do——I know what I want to do from my own identity, and explore the unknown future because of all my actions , to be able to know where you are going in the future——

Life thus has meaning.

That's what it means for me to be Klein Justus. "

"Clap! Clap! Clap!"

Magpie put away the tablet again, and began to applaud fiercely. His facial features danced and he wept with joy:

"Klein!!! You really are! Great!"

"At least our research has taken a big step forward because of your remarks today-a big step that is enough to leave any other scientific research institutions in the world behind!"

The joy on the magpie's face gradually faded, leaving only an ugly and creepy cry:

"But...but you won't live long!"

He said the next words in a crying voice:

"Your biochip is overwhelmed!
The biochip technology is already in the research process, and due to the particularity of the biochip itself, the progress is slow. Your biochip will soon be unable to support your mental activities. As the [executor system] of the BIOS, it will not be able to bear your complicated consciousness. Activity--

One day in the future, when the [Executor Operating System] and the biochip cause excessive program errors due to incompatibility, the biochip will be contaminated, and you will follow in the footsteps of Beiyi and Beiji!

Before, I estimated one month's time for your remaining life.

Now, because you forcibly maintained your normal behavior pattern and overdrawn your vitality, there are only... three days left in this time! "

Klein's eyes flickered briefly.

The silence between the two lasted for a long time, until the mechanical arm completely repaired Klein's body, until Klein sat up from the operating table.

"Magpie, you're lying again."

The magpie let out a sharp laugh:

"Haha, you saw it!

In fact, your state has deviated from all the experimental data of the executor. I can no longer predict your death date. I can only know that you will die soon, because this body that has not been modified according to the complete silicon-based life logic is about to collapsed. "

Klein said:
"Magpie, what exactly is an executor?"

Magpie didn't respond immediately this time.

He stood there as if he was thinking about something, the facial features on the mechanical face were stagnant, and Klein could vaguely see the rust on his mechanical facial features.

The mottled rust was a deep brown, like some kind of blood that had been dried for a long time.

"Accordingly, I am not obliged to answer this question on behalf of the North Bureau.

From my own point of view, I don't know much about the executor, and I only stay at the level of "heard and rumors". "

Magpie sighed.

Even the electronic sound he uses when he sighs is so high-pitched that it is uncomfortable.

"But I still want to answer this question, Klein, who made me like you so much?
To this day, you are still my most perfect patient, and from now on, there may not be such a perfect patient. As a surgeon, I am really sorry...

You're like my best scalpel...well... like a screw that fits perfectly in my face!right!It's the perfect screw!You have fully adapted to my needs, and you are my creation, the crystallization of my wisdom!It is the pinnacle of my surgical skills!

How could I not like such a work? "

His speech was confused and he didn't know what to express.

Klein coughed.

The magpie immediately lost that crazy look.

"What exactly is an executor?"

The magpie put on a "serious" electronic voice, and the speaker in his mouth played the music "Starry Sky Above the Desert in Summer Night" as the background sound.

"This also starts with the [Generation Embers] project of the North Bureau.

A few years ago, after the top toolman Cyborg Quinn was squeezed out, the royalist party parachuted an agent from the imperial capital. It was said that he was a stubble with royal blood.

This person not only became the agent of the royal family in the North Bureau, but also became the nominal director of the North Bureau.

What is the use of this nominal director?You know the Federal Agency for the Investigation of Anomalous Creatures, right?When the Northern Bureau did not turn against them, they still had their brand name on it. They originally belonged to their subordinate institutions and had a data exchange agreement with them. The data shared by the General Administration of Anomalous Creatures Survey.

According to my understanding, the original director in name seemed to be greatly stimulated after seeing some secret data from the General Administration.

The director was originally a member of the royal family, a member of the royal family... you know, they know much more than ordinary people, so they think much more than ordinary people.

Because the director thought too much, he gradually deviated from the royal family's arrangement for the northern bureau—in the royal family's original plan, the northern bureau was established to control the society on the extraordinary side, and to gather the extraordinary. Make them available to the royal family.

After the director came over by air, he completely ignored the original plan of the royal family, and started to let the North Bureau do some inexplicable things.

One of these inexplicable things is the [Embers of Generations] collection plan.

The director did not know what information he used to judge one thing:

There are some people in this world who have inherited the residual traits of past generations through various means. Although those traits are not precious, they obviously have other functions. "

Klein repeats here:
"Other effects."

Magpie affirmed:
"Yes, that's what he said.

But what exactly it does, he didn't say anything.

After he told the qualified people about it, the [Generation Embers] collection plan began, and the [Executor Operating System] came into being. They even went to the deeper world for this plan and captured a very Dangerous 【Baum】——Once the thing is out of control, the explosion will send half of Yanan City into the sky! "

Klein said:
"The law of condemnation."

Magpie said disdainfully:
"The law of conviction is all a gimmick for their self-deception. [Baum] is just a poor creature from another world. They are forced to give birth all day long. I feel shabby looking at it!"

Magpie didn't pause here. He seemed to have planned to tell Klein the answer from the very beginning, and for some reason, he didn't even care about exposing the fact that he "wanted to reveal the answer"——

“[Embers of Generations] is actually very abstract. For example, an element—for example, a basic vowel. This basic vowel is passed down from generation to generation and will not change with the development of generations. changed—that’s what’s called an ember.”

Klein's voice was low:
"It's something that has the [unchanging] quality..."

Magpie said:

"yes.

When I say an element, it is just an analogy.

I heard that, I just heard that there was once a person who existed in the previous generation, and his whole body became [Generation Embers]—this means that he became something that would not change over time. "

Facing this thing that sounded completely boring, the magpie said in an "interested" tone:

"They have been preparing for the plan of [Generation Embers] for many years, and they have only recently begun to implement it.

And since they started to implement the plan, the first object of [Generation Embers] recovered is you. "

Klein asked calmly:
"How can I have residual traits from past generations in me?"

Magpie replied in an unhappy tone:
"If I knew, I wouldn't be an ordinary surgeon by now."

Magpie didn't stop here, as if he had planned to tell Klein about this from the very beginning.

"In short, they are collecting people like you."

Klein knew about this from the beginning.

Before leaving Yanan City, he was sent a mission and got a list with the names of some important people written on it, and he was going to "collect" them.

At that time, he didn't know that he was actually a member of the list.

The magpie's voice slowed down, and the sharp electronic sound seemed to become less harsh:
"I only know that the agent's [Generation Embers] collection plan is to verify something, maybe some theories, maybe some kind of facts, or maybe...

Certain truths that must be sought. "

(End of this chapter)