Abyss Express

Foreword:

The end of life is the same for everyone. The difference between each other is only in what kind of life and what kind of death.

— Ernest Miller Hemingway

[Part ① A love letter about time]

"Hot Wind·热风—I want to tell you something."

Zhong Kui's voice came from the audio window of the HUD. This long-dead ghost did not poison the meteor, but left a last word in a serious manner.

Ah Xing didn't leave immediately, and the total duration of this audio was only a few minutes - after Zhong Kui's death, the light-curing printing mechanism had stopped working, and the production process of the angel baby in Xiaoguandong City had also stopped.

These brains need to be connected to the spine bones. In the production process of the spine bones, the most basic photo-cured printing parts need to be covered as the shell. Without this layer of protective shell, there is no sense of skeletalization.

"If you can hear this message, it means that the child defeated you, and his courage is far greater than yours."

Zhong Kui in the audio file is emotionally stable, not as sharp-edged as she is in reality, her tone is soothing and peaceful, like a person with a dead heart.

"I must have lost, and it was a fiasco."

"High-frequency weapons can cooperate with my theory of mind system to leave combat records, but I opened a back door according to this system and kept this sound."

"I've always been sober and I know who I am - but the next time we meet, I'm not me."

"Let's digress, Bu Meteor."

"Spitting out a heart with your mouth, and then blowing air to shoot it through, is indeed a unique skill I learned from Tom."

At this very moment—

——Ah Xing was shocked, surprised by Zhong Kui's intelligence.

The recording continues to play, and the waveform of the audio is like a gentle ocean tide.

"[Theory of mind·Theory of mind]—this is the earliest standard theory used to judge whether a mental model has personality."

"The abbreviation is TOM, and all typical people need to pass the assessment of TOM."

"The falcon-style genetic prototype was once the chief of staff of the Foehn Regiment and a descendant of giants from Niflheim - we called him TOM instructor, and affectionately called him Colonel TOM, he built for us This system."

"[TOM·Theory of Mind] is also the standard used to identify whether a language model like ChatGPT has intelligence in your Internet."

"I have thought, doubted more than once"

"Am I really human? I was born in this set of genetic and meme parenting methods, from a brain to a complete but broken bionic person. Do I really have a personality?"

"My brain structure is designed by genetic information, my life is planned by module engineering, my personality orientation and hobbies, and my product attributes are all given to me by people."

"I become what they want."

"From military use to home use, and from home use to military use."

"I'm not that [Ishihara Tao] for a long time. After so many years, I'm far different from the original body, and I'm also far from the first batch of angel babies, so I can't be confused."

"The moment I became a god, I lost everything, whether it was the body or the spirit, including the soul, and became what countless people in this city expected."

"This is a common karma of all beings. Rather than saying that the Shintos saved people, it is better to say that people created the Shintos."

"We're making each other, we're eating each other—Homo sapiens creates intelligence, and intelligence creates Homo sapiens."

"Using the psychic power of the primordial seed, we tamed the beasts hidden in the volcanic active seismic zone under this soil, let them contact the essence of Mother Earth, and turned them into holy beasts—and then took their Flesh and flesh, used for prosthetic bone development."

"Mother Earth's iron-nickel core is an important consumable for our artificial spine. When we decided to use this set of prosthetic bones, it seemed that we were doomed to this end—we would become monsters with chimeric flesh and blood and chaotic thinking."

"It's just different from the incarnation butterfly, at least we still have the last bit of human sanity."

"I can feel—I am living in different time and space at the same time."

"In the last second, I was a high school student in 1967 wearing a military uniform and sailor uniform, with a jade body lying on the bed, for people to admire."

"In the next second, I will be the pretty widow in 1567 wearing cold clothes and white Wugou, waiting for her husband to come back from the sea."

"Module and skeleton, software and hardware, all these make me torn apart, and my soul is scattered into ten thousand cherry blossoms."

"Just watching it slowly fall is very beautiful, but there is always a rotten smell in the air."

"It's not a good thing to have self-awareness. When I woke up, shaking from this nightmare, I straightened up in horror. I almost went crazy and had a split personality."

"I can only seal this part of my consciousness and let [her] wander at the bottom of the theory of mind system, until the moment of death, I can become [her] from the state of [it], from a commodity to A whole person—to speak a few conscious words to you."

"I am sure that I will not come back to life again. Any [Zhong Kui] you meet after that, they will no longer be me—even if they have made the same choice, and I will tell long stories that seem to be familiar to me, and make similar rational judgments. Even knowing me like the back of my hand, having all my memories and experiences, I know it's not me."

"The me now may have become a pile of rotten iron, a puddle of flesh."

"I want to thank you all, especially you—the warrior of the Nameless."

"I'm out of this hell, I shouldn't have had more"

"But if I hadn't seen your skill and understood your determination and courage, maybe this recording wouldn't have happened."

"You told me that it doesn't matter even if you fight against all the creatures on the 378,000 square kilometers. If you want to eradicate the hardware servos of the Shinto followers, you are an anonymous person who will do what you say."

"Thank you again from the bottom of my heart, brave warrior."

"There are many classic human beings under the command of the Shinto people. They are historical illusions, but they are by no means real prototypes. About this-I want to remind you."

"Hot Wind is also one of the links. At the beginning of building this set of cyber (cybernetic) city blueprints, Hot Wind was the main imaginary enemy of the periodic crisis, and it was also the main solution to the periodic crisis."

As soon as these words came out, Bu Liuxing was stunned.

Immediately he felt a throbbing pain in his right arm.

Zhong Kui went on to say——

"—When these cities are inactivated due to standardized production, even typical people will lose the motivation to live, and at this time hot wind will appear."

"It provides shortcuts to the rebels, guides people to fight, and creates a new Foehn rebel army. They call themselves awakened new humans."

"It has never been Refeng himself, because Refeng's real name has long been erased from the history of Shinto City. No one can mention that name, and no one is allowed to recall that memory."

"Under the arrangement of the theory of mind system, the Foehn Rebel Army will start a new war with the Shinto people, and the military-industrial complex will start to operate again, providing countless jobs, and customizing the form of war according to people's needs. It is like a business. Start, end like a business."

"Everything goes back to the original way. Typical people will miss the convenience brought by standardized production, and will indulge in the beautiful and comfortable [Elysium Space] until the next social inactivation, crisis comes, and the hot wind wakes up."

"This reincarnation has been repeated sixteen times, only the first four times were hot battles with real swords and guns, and the next twelve times became virtual battlefields in [Elysium Space], even the awakened themselves don't know-- They're actually living a dream."

"The undead on you, that leader, isn't even a fake, it's a fake of fakes, a fake of fakes."

"There is no Hot Wind in history, only Foehn."

"Just like the virtual idol in Shiqiu Town, Kanto City, there is no Seiko Matsushima in the mortal world, only Seiko Matsuda."

Meteor shook his head in panic, and even began to doubt——

——Did he come to [Elysium Space] the moment he woke up from [Elysium Space], or crossed the Howling Ridge tunnel? Otherwise, why would Brother Pingan confuse these two surnames?

Immediately afterwards, he immediately relieved and convinced himself.

Along the way, there are bulletin boards and avatars about Seiko Matsushima, all of which have their names in Roman accents and Japanese. It's like subtle brainwashing propaganda.

If a person looks like Seiko Matsuda and sings Seiko Matsuda's songs, everything about her is exactly the same as Seiko Matsuda. Only such a small part of the surname has been changed, so it is easy to get confused. Brother Pingan not only pursues such an idol, but also because of his age, it makes sense that he might not recognize him for a while.

There is a thing that looks like a duck, sounds like a duck, and tastes like a duck when cooked. No matter what people call it, it should be a duck.

Zhong Kui went on to say——

"—What is the difference between Matsushima and Matsuda?"

"Take out all the isolated letters, it is Hid (hidden) - we hid Seiko Matsuda, and it will always be Seiko Matsuda that is shown to people. This is the wrong answer."

"Hot Wind looks like Foehn, and behaves like Foehn. No matter how others understand it, it should be Foehn."

"But as long as it is preached 10,000 times, the false can become true. This is the core element of TOM's theory of mind system. On the basis of this theory, angel babies can replace their genetic prototypes and rebuild this society again and again .”

"Anonymous warriors, this is the most important common feature of Elysium and Shinto City. Whether it is virtual or real, they are distorting facts and falsifying history intentionally or unintentionally, in order to better control the angel baby itself."

"But what is false is false, and will never be true—that is where my pain comes from, and where my happiness comes from."

"The part of my life that belongs to Shi Yuantao has brought me a strong body, a tenacious will, and countless disasters."

"Unlike Noaka, I have nothing left for you."

"During the VR training course, I once felt the love between Foehn and Xiaotao—"

"—It doesn't belong to me, but it makes me look forward to it."

"It's a pity that they didn't have time to give birth. They had been in close contact with the primordial species for a long time. The harsh environment and the radiation from the fission power station took away their fertility. Even the panacea couldn't cure this flesh and blood distortion."

"I can only bless you, Warrior of the Nameless."

"I hope you can also have a love without regrets."

[Part② Dislocation Life]

"The theme song left by the virtual idol Seiko Matsushima to the small Kanto City is "The Country of Time". People once thought that the way to defeat time was to build an eternal and immortal country. Yokohama, Kanto, Ginza and Chiba are the last four pillars. From forty-eight pillars to fifty-one pillars."

"The neural network built by the Elysium Space was launched, and a kingdom of God was created on 378,000 square kilometers."

"Before I met you, I had no doubts in the divine power it expressed—until the warriors of the Nameless came to me and fought me to the death."

"At the moment when the bones were broken, I seemed to have obtained eternal peace, and finally remembered the most amazing spiritual power and the most mysterious magic in the world."

"No software or hardware modification, no theory of mind testing, no need to live like a ghost."

"It's more traditional—as long as two people love each other and exchange the essence, a brand new child can be created."

"In the face of time, no matter how powerful a fighter is, it is worth mentioning, and no matter how tough an individual is, it will be completely different. It seems to be the case."

"People who can live to this day, use the characters passed down from ancient generations, and continue to live, have won the first place in this 500 million-year-old race for life."

"The thing that can overcome time happens to be life itself."

"foehn."

Meteor's pupils shrink—

——At that moment, the HUD's sound source signal logo changed.

It was originally a literal translation of [Shoki·Zhong Kui], and for a few seconds, it became the real name of [Ishihara Momoe·石原桃].

Immediately after the HUD audio is played.

Bu Meeo didn't speak, and he didn't ask Hot Wind any more questions. Regarding the part of TOM's theory of mind system, he no longer had the extra thinking bandwidth to deal with these redundant data.

Zhong Kui talked too much with him, he couldn't tell which ones were true and which ones were false, even if all of them were true——

——For Bu Liuxing, these news have become [Wanxia].

That was the dim yellow and bright red Huoshao cloud left in the sky after the sun set, and the real sun had already sunk into the horizon.

He came to the main control room, followed the Japanese instructions on each button, and turned off the energy round by round. The moment when the power system was paralyzed as there was a low hum from the various workshops of the factory——

——Hot Wind finally regained his composure, and he spoke.

[Step Meteor, just now]

[The woman said just now, she said I was a fake.]

Bu Meteor: "She said you are a fake among fakes, a fake among fakes."

[I am a programmed program? ]

Bu Meteor: "That's what it means."

[Then I, I, do I have any meaning of existence? Am I born to be destroyed? I]

Ah Xing walked out along the main control room and returned to the long corridor, and saw that the liquid medicine in the petri dish had been drained, and the brains of hundreds of angel babies were twitching in the cabin, calling the weak spine, making conditions before dying. Reflex struggled and squirmed, and made a creepy sound when it hit the endurance board.

Bu Meteor frowned, his eyes were like torches.

"Grandpa Qiantang also said the same thing, he wanted me to beware of you - he said that you are not a real hot wind, now you are not even counted as a hot wind, and there is another Foehn, so what is behind Foehn? Who are you? ? What should I call you? How should I pronounce it so that I can pronounce your name correctly? You're messing me up!"

"Do you really exist in this history? Are you really a living person?"

Bu Meteor went to the nursery behind him, he watched and said while walking.

"Is there a possibility that you are just the leader imagined by the Foehn regiment? This land has a terrifying spiritual pressure, and it is not strange to have collective hallucinations."

[I have no idea]

The nursery is a large workshop close to 2,000 square meters. There are rows of tanks on the walls on both sides other than the conveyor belt, which are also artificial wombs. Angel babies are raised in these artificial wombs. These babies are now dark shadows , only the umbilical cord protruding from the tank can be seen connecting them.

Originally, they were going to be sent to a processing workshop to deal with excess flesh and blood, and their brains were taken out to be processed into "good students" in petri dishes.

Meteor suffered severe mental damage, his SAN value plummeted, and his adrenaline surged with the huge emotional ups and downs.

"What are you hesitating about?! Hot wind?!"

Meteor, who witnessed all this, was furious, and his hair stood on end!

"Hot wind! What are you hesitating? Now you are my right arm, you are connected with my flesh and blood! What are you hesitating?!"

He pointed to everything around him, to the meat processing factory at the end of the conveyor belt, to the disassembly workshop where the power was shut down, and the baby who was about 60 weeks old had just passed away, and the knife head of the robotic arm just finished the craniotomy procedure.

"ah!!!------"

Bu Meteor roared, and the sound waves echoed in the empty and lonely factory building.

"ah!!!------"

The veins on his neck were bulging, and patches of blood quickly emerged from his eyes. While his blood pressure rose, his roar was filled with strong hatred and anger.

"ah!!!------"

His legs softened, and he knelt in front of this workshop, as if he had finally lost his strength.

The heart was trembling and beating violently because of roaring with all its strength, sending out bursts of colic.

The soaring blood pressure caused Meteor's capillaries to explode, and he couldn't hold Zhanlong and Beloberg, and the two swords just fell to his side.

The Crying General was crying in pain, roaring and howling heart-piercingly, he didn't know what was going on.

As Brother Ping An said, it seems that the changes of the times and technology cannot bring happiness——

——The last words left by Zhong Kui are like a puzzle that cannot be explained.

Science can answer people's questions, but the metaphysics created by the gods can only create more questions.

[hey boy]

Bu Meteor wiped away the blood and tears from the corners of his eyes, and replied immediately.

"I'm fine."

At this moment, the hot wind was amazed by the change of the meteor——

——The few roars just now almost shattered its mind, and it was difficult to maintain a stable state of rational logic in the environment of sudden increase in body metabolism.

That kind of anger and hatred are extreme emotions that are difficult to understand, empathize with, and pry into deeply. These emotional signs often occur before personality splitting occurs.

But only a few tens of seconds later, the big boy stood up, put his sword on his back again, and continued to move forward.

Hot Wind couldn't find a similar person in the database, let alone such a determined look.

"Hot wind, repeat the question you just raised."

[Oh. Yes. What's the problem? ]

Bu Meteor: "Fake."

[oh! Am I fake? ]

Bu Meteor clenched his fist and waved his right arm fiercely: "No!"

[I'm a fake in a fake? Fakes of fakes? ]

"No! No! It shouldn't be!" Bu Liuxing became impatient, and started jogging, heading towards the disassembly workshop, "That's not it!"

[Then what am I! ? What am I? ]

Meteor pushed open the gate of the classic human factory and walked out from the driveway——

——Looking up, he saw the dark dome, the city lights in the distance like a bright starry sky, and everything was quiet.

"Do you remember? Grandpa Qiantang called you the boss."

"In the last few sentences of Zhong Kui's last words, she thought she had really turned into Shi Yuantao—at the end of the recording, she must have been calling you, she was calling you Foehn."

[boy]

"You were the one who saved my life, you were the one who fought the executioner, you were the one who killed Zhong Kui, you were the one who yelled in the angel baby's processing workshop, it should be you."

"I believe in you! Just like you believe in me! I can touch you, feel you"

"As for what you are? Brother Xueming's soul power also asked me that."

Fragrant Dream was once invited by the Secret Library Research Institute. It wanted to study itself. Generally speaking, it was to study what it was.

"I can only answer this question from my own perspective. Now you have to show me the way. We will continue to fight. Only we can decide who we are, to me."

Bu Meteor was waiting for the next mission order, he was motionless——

"—You are the real deal!"