Chapter 340: The Light Plunderer (Subscription Request)

Chapter 340 Light Hunter (Subscribe~)

"Welcome to Oasis."

- Gu Chi felt fooled the moment he heard Ryan's words.

Because Ryan's tone was completely different from before.

There was no more contempt from above, nor was there any surprise and exasperation after they logged out of the game. On the contrary, Ryan seemed to be looking forward to this moment.

Gu Chi actually knew what Evelya wanted to say all along.

Rather than saying that there was something wrong with this copy, it was Ryan who had a problem.

His ability to appear and disappear was not in line with the setting of Horizon. Being everywhere was equal to being omnipotent to a certain extent. This routine was very familiar to Gu Chi - he always did whatever he wanted in his dreams.

But this was obviously not a dream, otherwise he would not have been able to fail to notice it.

The only reasonable explanation was that this was not the real Horizon, but just a virtual world that looked very much like Horizon.

Coincidentally, Horizon's technology also had the ability to create such a virtual world - the Light Hunter chip.

They were in a game from the beginning, and Ryan was the manager of this game.

The only problem is, if it is a game, how should they exit?

The game developed by Lin Mengyu can be logged off when dead, and the game developed by Ryan, if you die, you really die, otherwise Lemon Dog and others will not have a death notice.

This way is not feasible, and they have been hunted and have no time to think of other ways. In the absence of knowing how to log out, they can only temporarily treat the game as the real world and survive first.

Then think about how to get out.

Or whether to go out.

From the normal player logic, there will be no completely useless settings in the copy. The real light plunderer chip should be outside the virtual reality. They need to wake up first before entering the final stage of snatching the chip. Logging out of the game is necessary.

But Gu Chi is not normal.

He has one more achievement than ordinary players.

Assuming that they are in the virtual reality as soon as they enter the copy, and everything is data, then the prosthesis given by his achievement should not appear in the backpack, because the prosthesis is a physical object. Bluebird Company can't give him a bunch of "virtual equipment" as a thank you gift, right?

Gu Chi did not doubt that Xiao Poyou had the ability to convert physical objects into data and package them for him to bring into virtual reality. However, this meant that the items in virtual reality could be equivalent to physical props. In other words, finding the Light Reaver chip in virtual reality could also end the game.

Maybe it was even easier than passing the game normally.

Past experience told Gu Chi that not following the process was the easiest way to pass the dungeon.

That's why he took Avril to break into Ryan's research center.

But who knows that the research center is the exit of virtual reality.

Listening to Ryan's tone again, it seemed that he deliberately led them out. On the surface, he was chasing them, but in fact, he was driving him and Avril here.

Avril also realized that something was wrong when she saw the ocean of data, but it was too late.

She clearly felt that her body was changing, with a weird feeling of being disintegrated and reassembled.

Ryan's feelings were more intuitive-just like watching a movie with 3D glasses, he watched the two people rush out of the screen in a silver car, turning into a ball of light dust, condensing into two real people.

"What a great technology." Ryan exclaimed, "It's incredible no matter how many times you watch it."

Gu Chi and Avreya also saw the situation clearly at this time.

This is a huge spherical room, estimated to be tens of thousands of square meters, larger than a football field. The walls around it are rounded and curved, embedded with a 360° surround curved screen, forming a physical one-shot.

And on the screen, it is the surveillance screen of the underground city, the oasis, and the surface.

Ryan was standing not far in front of them, and there were 20 or 30 people around them, surrounding them in the middle.

Gu Chi and Avreya's first reaction was to draw their guns, and then move closer to each other, back to back, looking at these "bodyguards" vigilantly.

Gu Chi also brought out his artificial eye. Except for Ryan, there was no real person here, all humanoids - even Ryan's body had been greatly modified. In the human body parameter diagram in Gu Chi's field of vision, two-thirds of Ryan's body was red, representing mechanical components.

"Don't be nervous, both of you." Ryan said kindly, "You're all going to die anyway, so why not relax?"

Avreya sneered: "I'll change you even if I die."

Ryan smiled and shook his head: "It's useless. This body is just one of the carriers of my consciousness. Unless you destroy the entire horizon, you will have a chance to really kill me."

It's just a chance, but it doesn't necessarily mean you can kill me.

Gu Chi: "Are you really not Grayman?"

This kind of digital life transformation is exactly the same as Grayman, and the "temperament" of those bodyguards is also very similar to Rhodes. It's hard for him not to suspect that Ryan and Grayman are the same person.

"You seem to know him very well?" Ryan said, "But I'm really not Grayman. To be honest, I have a grudge against him."

Gu Chi: "Have a grudge?"

Ryan said: "He created the intelligent doomsday and almost destroyed my hard work."

Avreya frowned slightly.

What do you mean?

The intelligent doomsday was created by Grayman?

Ryan saw her expression and couldn't help laughing: "Do you think the robot apocalypse is the awakening of self-awareness by artificial intelligence, and wants to take the initiative and keep humans captive?"

Many people think so, but in fact, artificial intelligence has never been "awakened".

At least not so far.

"Self-awareness" is based on "life". How can a pile of cold, lifeless materials give birth to real life?

Everything is just a pre-set program.

The so-called "wisdom" and "emotion" are also given to them by humans.

Although Rattlesnake Enterprises is not specialized in the field of artificial intelligence, it knows a lot about this aspect. They once sponsored a small company called Bluebird to do an experiment called "Mechanical Lover".

There are two key words in this project, one is "thinking" and the other is "emotion", the former includes the latter.

In the eyes of most people, thinking and emotion are one of the most accurate ways to judge whether a person is a robot, because robots cannot think or have emotions, but Bluebird Company solves these two problems with a very simple and clever method.

They first collect human habits and logic to establish a huge database, and then use specific bands to connect the chip implanted in the robot's brain with the database, so that the data can be accessed at any time.

The data that the robot has is called "simple common sense". For example, if you order it to pour a cup of coffee for itself, it will know where to pour it and how to pour it.

The data in the database is called "consciousness network". Once it encounters a problem that exceeds its own knowledge reserve, the robot will access the consciousness network and find the answer from the database.

This process is "thinking".

Expanding it is "learning".

The same is true for "emotion". When a human invites a robot to a date, the robot will ask itself, what does dating mean?

Thinking will allow it to come up with an answer - this human may like me, and then trigger the program about "like" in the setting, and coordinate various parts of its body to show "blushing", "shy", "indifferent" and other facial expressions and movements.

Even further, it will learn how to get along with people it likes, and will make soup for you when it is cold, hold an umbrella for you when it rains, kiss you when you receive your gift, and stand in front of you regardless of everything when there is danger.

This is emotion.

Looking back at humans themselves, don't they also think and reflect on themselves in the same way?

The human brain is not another kind of chip.

So there is no consciousness awakening. What robots think of is what humans want them to think of.

The same goes for humans.

The machine doomsday is a lie from beginning to end, and it is a crazy act that Grayman did to achieve his own goals.

But we have to admit that Grayman is a genius as well as a madman.

In the field of artificial intelligence, no one can compare with him.

The doomsday humanoid on the surface is left by Qingguang Enterprise, and the light-raider chip in its brain was taken away by Ryan - just to be a security guard, not so smart.

On the other hand, Ryan also wanted to study this chip, but after decades, he still couldn't crack the chip, and the occasional gains were a bunch of garbled codes that were completely incomprehensible.

"Wait a minute." Gu Chi didn't understand, "Isn't the doomsday humanoid a thing in the game? There are also in reality?"

At present, Ryan has not shown too much hostility, so Gu Chi naturally doesn't mind talking to him more.

Every word Ryan said is part of the worldview of this copy.

"Of course, otherwise why do you think I developed this game?" Ryan said with a smile, "I've already said that I'm a capitalist."

"Come, I'll show you." He waved to Gu Chi and Avreya, motioning them to come over.

Gu Chi then noticed that there was a ring on the ground under Ryan's feet, and he couldn't help but look at Avreya.

It seems... they have no other choice?

Twenty or thirty humanoids, they can't beat them even if they try their best.

Let's take it one step at a time.

The two stood in the ring.

Ryan nodded to a bodyguard, who pressed the switch on the wall, and a circle of glass suddenly popped out from the gap of the ring, carrying them straight up with the round platform under their feet.

The ceiling above their heads also rotated and opened, and the three of them quickly came to a height of more than 300 meters above the ground like taking a sightseeing elevator.

It was night outside, just like in the game, but the difference was that the oasis here was half less than the oasis in the game - only half of the city was bright and colorful, flashing neon lights and shadows, and the remaining half was still under construction.

Gu Chi's artificial eye can clearly see the cranes and huge 3D printers working in the west of the city.

There is a big mountain on the outskirts of the east of the city.

"You can see the plain if you turn over." Ryan pointed to the mountain road, "The doomsday dolls you killed in the game are also there."

"Lie on the ground, you can still hear the sound of the train running."

"From D-7 to D-1, take a few stations and you can still reach the dungeon you are familiar with."

Almost everything in the game is a 1:1 replica of the real horizon, including ruins and radiation.

From this perspective, the game world is the real world.

"What's the meaning?" Avreya asked, "What's the meaning of you doing this?"

Lin Mengyu also develops virtual reality for Rattlesnake Enterprises, but never makes games that are so similar to reality.

Being tortured by radiation in reality is fine, but being tortured by radiation in the game, what's the point?

But.

"Games can be used for more than just entertainment." Ryan looked at the silver building, "Do you see it?"

"It's not actually a building as you think it is, but a quantum computer - the largest quantum computer in the world."

"It records the entire process of the intelligent machine doomsday, and can simulate with high precision what changes will happen to this land in the next hundred years after being affected by radiation."

"The huge storage capacity allows it to act as an artificial intelligence consciousness network, and the super computing power allows it to calculate everyone's life and choices."

"Add virtual reality, and the four technologies are integrated together to create the game you saw before."

Ryan paused, and then said: "At the same time, it will also be what Horizon will look like in the future."

Gu Chi's eyes narrowed: "Are you deducing the future?"

"Yes." Ryan smiled, "Or put it in a more down-to-earth way, scientific fortune-telling."

Only by experiencing it personally can you know how thoroughly Grayman destroyed the horizon, and the surface once became a forbidden zone for life.

Without simulation, they might still be trapped underground, there would be no oasis, and there would be no future games updated for more than a dozen generations.

This is why Rattlesnake Enterprises still insists on developing virtual reality when resources are so scarce.

Wrong decisions made in the game will not be wrong again in reality.

Now there is only one person left on the board of directors. He is the only leader, so he must lead people to survive hard until they see the light of day again.

Avreya was silent for a moment and asked, "Are you really just a capitalist?"

Ryan reminded her of someone.

Eyes.

"Why not?" Ryan said, "If everyone is dead, who can I exploit?"

Avreya: "..."

Gu Chi: "..."

That makes sense.

"This is actually not a big deal." Ryan looked at the two of them, with a trace of heat in his calm eyes, "In comparison, your technology is what I want most."

Avreya's eyes became alert again, and she subconsciously hid half a step behind Gu Chi.

Gu Chi remained calm: "We don't have technology."

Ryan: "But you have a body."

Gu Chi: "?"

Avreya: "?"

"You are players, you can't understand my feelings." Ryan recalled the situation when Gu Chi and Avreya appeared just now, and his eyes were filled with amazement.

The virtual reality technology of Rattlesnake Enterprise has been developed to the point where it can escape from dreams. 98% of the entire future game is simulated by quantum computers - it is essentially more like an online game of the old times.

There is no brain-computer interface, and no other players are needed. It is used for observation, not for playing. Only he and a very small number of corporate executives can log in to the game and perform a series of operations such as adding, deleting, and viewing recordings.

In other words, Lin Zian and Lin Mengyu are just a string of data.

The data sea of ​​the Silver Building is for their own use, not for Lin Zian and Lin Mengyu to quit the game.

There are no such people in the real horizon. To be more precise - Lin Zian and Lin Mengyu have not been born yet, how can they quit?

But the fact is that the brother and sister are now standing in front of him.

They also brought out the "equipment" such as artificial eyes, guns, and necklaces on their bodies.

Ryan had imagined what the development of virtual reality technology would look like in the end. It might be digital life, it might be dimensionality reduction survival, or it might continue like this, deducing the future and continuing civilization... He thought of many reasonable possibilities, but he didn't expect that data would become entities.

This sounds unscientific.

Until he met the "player".

Who wouldn't want this kind of super technology that is like a creator?

Someone gave their world a beam of light, why can't he give other people's world a beam of light?

Understand the light, pursue the light, and then become the light.

So Ryan named his chip - Light Chaser.

Players like Gu Chi are obviously not the creators of their world - players know nothing about games, such as Colledona, she only knows how to play, and sprays when she is not happy, she will not care about, let alone understand the technology and logic of developing this game.

But it doesn't matter, just leave the person.

The "player" will retain the body after death, he can study the body and reversely deduce the technology in it.

If he hadn't been busy these days and didn't come to observe the game, Ryan would not let Lemon Dog and others die.

One more person comes out, he has one more research object.

What a pity...

He saw through the video that this time it was a group of idiots, and when he entered the game, there were only Lin Zian and Lin Mengyu left.

"This is the Light Reaver chip you want." Ryan took a chip out of his pocket and said, "I can give it to you, but as a condition, you must die."

[Light Reaver Chip]

Gu Chi stared at the chip for two seconds, confirmed that it was the mission item, pursed his lips and said, "Do you have any extra chips? Give it to us and don't you study it yourself?"

"You don't take it away." Ryan said with a smile, "I barely know some of your game rules. No matter where you take the chip, as long as it is not destroyed, it will always be on the horizon. I will have someone find it back."

"Aren't you afraid that we will run away?" Gu Chi asked.

"As far as I know, there will be a countdown after you complete the mission, and the entire oasis is my people..." Ryan paused and said, "You really can't run away this time."

Gu Chi found that this guy knew a lot, and even tried to imitate Xiaopoyou.

But he doesn’t seem to have any intention of coming to reality?

Ryan really didn't have this idea. Capitalists are very smart and will not do loss-making business. Even the horizon of their lives is created by the player world. What will happen if they go to the so-called reality? Can they survive?

Just a moth flying into the flame.

He is not crazy and would not do such a thing.

You’ve had enough fun, it’s best if you can win-win.

"The only question now is, who should I give this chip to?" Ryan looked at the two of them with an ambiguous smile, "You seem to be working on your own this time?"

"Did we say we would promise you?" Avreya's eyes were cold, "Let us die if you tell us to die. Who do you think you are?"

Gu Chi Leng hummed in agreement: "Yes, it's too simplistic to think that just one chip can change our lives after one breath of life."

"Really?" Ryan already knew the personalities of these two people, so he simply waved his hand and threw the chip high into the sky.

They were still on the round platform, at a height of more than 300 meters. They would definitely die if they tried to get the chip.

At this moment, Avelia, who had just retorted, put her foot on the ground hard, jumped into the air, jumped out of the glass fence like a vaulting horse, and reached out to grab the chip.

But how could Gu Chi let her succeed?

You jump, I jump.

His movements were no slower than Avreya's.

And pressed the phone at the same time.

The necklace around Avreya's neck once again turned into a collar.

"Zi."

"Ah~"

Avreya's body trembled in the air, her whole body became weak, and the hand that was about to touch the chip dropped weakly.

Gu Chi, who received the prompt from the prosthetic eye and also jumped out of the high platform, hugged her from behind and used the force to turn her over, facing up, and firmly grasped the chip in the palm of his hand.

[Obtain "Lavager Chip"]

[Mission completed, copy countdown: 60]

It doesn't take 60, they will fall to death in 10 seconds at most.

The two hugged each other and fell rapidly from a high altitude, like a couple who committed suicide by jumping off a building.

Avreya's face turned red as her waist was held, and she was ashamed and angry: "Gu Chi, you bastard!"

It was already the last moment, and this man hadn’t forgotten to shock her!

Gu Chi: "Are you going to scold me again?"

Avreya: "Miscellaneous... um~"

"Fish... um~"

"Yeah, yeah, yeah~"

The free-falling wind blew their hair. Gu Chi poked the screen hard. If he didn't poke again, he would have no chance in the future.

Avreya, who was numb all over, curled up in Gu Chi's arms with blood-red cheeks, moaning like a tamed kitten.

Ryan watched the interaction between the two, smiled, and jumped off the round platform.

He fell faster than Gu Chi and Avreya.

What he wanted was a complete body, so how could he really let the two of them fall to death?

Seeing the ground getting closer and closer, Gu Chi noticed Ryan who was falling with them beside him, and asked the last sentence: "I understand the meaning of chasing light, what is plundering light?"

Ryan smiled and replied: "Do you remember that flat land?"

That was supposed to be the address of Qingguang Enterprise.

Omnic Doomsday was created by Grayman, and Grayman would naturally not harm himself.

But Qingguang Enterprise still disappeared, completely as if it had never appeared, leaving only a doomsday figure.

Why?

"Light" means the future of mankind.

"If there is no light in this world, go to the world with light and plunder their light."

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Stop scolding, don’t scold, it’s over, woo woo…