Chapter 480 This Is the Truth of Everything

[Aid Mission: Protect the World]

[This world is being threatened and disturbed by instability. Find the source of the threat and completely eliminate it so that this world can continue to operate normally.

Objective Mission 1: Destroy the Savior Neo (completed)

Objective 2: Eliminate Murphys (completed)

Objective 3: Eliminate Agent Smith (completed)

Objective Mission 4: Destroy Zion (Completed)

Target task 5: Completely terminate the savior plan (completed)]

"What is the truth?"

Looking at the completed task list in front of him, Fangzheng laughed mockingly, then raised his head and looked forward.

"There is no truth at all."

In front of Fangzheng, there was an incomparably huge metal space. There are countless life support warehouses densely packed inside. The mechanical octopus is shuttling back and forth among them, maintaining these facilities. Through the porthole next to it, one can see the boundless sea of ​​stars and the endless darkness outside.

"Thank you very much for your help, outsider."

The woman's voice sounded again.

"The program has been restarted and the bug will be fixed."

"You're welcome, it's easy."

Faced with the mother's gratitude, Fangzheng just waved his hand. Then he walked forward slowly, while walking, Fangzheng looked around. Through the windows of the life support cabin, he could see human beings in silver-white uniforms sleeping with their eyes closed—no, strictly speaking, they just looked like human beings.

In other words, they are not the current human beings. Just as there are obvious physical differences between cavemen and modern people, the characteristics of these people are also somewhat different from the humans in Fang Zheng's memory. Their ears seem to have disappeared completely, and their facial features appear flatter. It seems that it is more appropriate to say that it is aliens rather than human beings.

If Fang Zheng had to say, among the information that Neo and the others knew, what was true, then there was only one thing that was correct.

"Once upon a time, the earth was a peaceful world..."

The mother's voice is very calm, as if a tour guide is explaining the past history to tourists. At the same time, in front of Fangzheng's eyes, the information at that time also appeared. However, unlike the world in Fangzheng's memory, the technology tree in this world is obviously a bit crooked. For example, in Founder's world, in the 20th century, humans successfully launched space shuttles and made adventures on the moon. But regarding VR and virtual reality, until Fangzheng crossed over, they were still just movies and technologies under development, not yet complete.

On the earth in this world, human beings have successfully produced VR virtual reality game consoles for home use in the 1980s, and in the 21st century, virtual reality has directly connected the entire society, allowing people to move around without leaving home. households can work and live. And because of this, their facial features have degenerated. With the passage of time, relying on virtual reality, human beings who directly perceive signals through the brain no longer need to obtain all this through the senses. They are immersed in the virtual world, enjoying everything they wish to have.

But this beautiful dreamland has also become a birdcage that restrains them, so that although the human society in this world has developed very well in terms of virtual networks, on the contrary, their technological progress in other aspects has been much smaller. Of course, for humans, this is not a troublesome thing.

If there is no external influence.

"Because the sun has entered the period of exhaustion ahead of time, the entire solar system may face extinction, but the earth at that time did not have the means to stop this process, so human beings had to choose to leave the earth and look for another habitable star. planet."

However, they don't have enough time.

Of course, the earth technology in this world is much more advanced than the world where Fangzheng lives, but because the technology tree was distorted from the very beginning, they have no way to prevent the sun from depleting. In the end, they had to choose to build an immigrant fleet and take everyone away from the earth to find a new home.

However, this is a very difficult project.

As I said before, the development of earth science and technology in this world is very strange. At the beginning of the 21st century, they had virtual reality technology comparable to that in the "Matrix" movie. Can enjoy everything they expect in the virtual world.

At that time, everyone cheered for this, because these nutrient solutions can be synthesized using ordinary agricultural crops, and nuclear fusion technology has matured, and most of human needs can be realized in the virtual world. This also means that humans no longer need to compete for resources to get what they want.

Even giving birth, which makes many women feel painful, is no longer painful in the virtual world. They can interact with the man they like as much as they want, and the machine will automatically extract the cells of both parties for combination, and then directly produce a baby.

After the baby is produced, it will also be connected to the "mother's body" and live with his parents. People can get everything they want without leaving home. Even parents who are thousands of miles away can raise a child who is also thousands of miles away.

To put it simply, the earth at this time looks like a "heavenly version" of the world of the Matrix, and Fang Zheng even saw that in the later period, humans in this world even began to study abandoning their bodies and directly transforming their spirit and soul " information” approach. If they succeed, it is conceivable that humans in this world will become god-like existences.

Unfortunately, time waits for no one.

The exhaustion of the sun came earlier than they thought, so that the humans in this world could not prevent its exhaustion, so they had to choose to escape. But because the previous humans did not have a thirst for resources, they did not observe and detect outer space in order to find resources like the humans in the Founder World.

So the problem arises, in the entire solar system, they can hardly find a planet that can allow humans to live, and when it comes to the Milky Way, they have never explored this area at all. Not only that, because the humans in this world have long abandoned transportation, so their skills in building spaceships are also average. Although with the help of the simulation of the parent body, they also developed a large-scale space engine in time, but according to scientists' estimates, it will take a long time for them to find another planet suitable for human habitation in the Milky Way.

"After leaving the earth, the Earth Unified Council reflected on their history and civilization, and believed that they were too biased towards one of them before, so that the development of science and technology in other aspects did not keep up, which led to the destruction of human beings. In order to prevent this from happening again, after leaving the Earth, the Unified Earth Council formulated an ultimate plan, code-named 'Rebirth'."

The mother's tone was still flat, but Fangzheng stared at the chart that appeared in front of him, showing incomparable shock.

The so-called "rebirth" is to connect the spirits of all the people who left the earth into the "matrix", and then erase all their original memories, so that these human beings can start "evolution" again from the most primitive era. Not only that, in order to allow human civilization to "comprehensively develop" this time, the manufacturers have also set up various "conditions" in the "matrix" to encourage human beings to conduct research and development of science and technology in various directions.

Such as "Black Death", "Smallpox", "Meteorite Hit the Earth", "Tsunami", "Earthquake". Each of these "duplicate missions" will prompt human beings to start researching technologies to deal with various situations in the virtual world. And as the matrix that controls all of this, it will also be set according to conditions, and when humans reach a certain stage, "rewards" will be issued to them.

Of course, this kind of reward does not refer to the improvement of experience, but after the mother detects that the overall level of human civilization has reached the next "upgrade" stage, it will "create" a "genius scientist" or a similar character to lead human civilization With scientific progress, various technologies originally developed by humans on earth are reproduced in the virtual world in this way of "invention", allowing those who have lost their memory to master these skills again.

During this period, the Earth fleet will have been floating in the universe, looking for planets suitable for their habitation. Thanks to the development of their advanced unmanned intelligence technology, these fleets will automatically search for information rich in mineral deposits, and then let the mechanical squid mine these resources to maintain and repair the fleet itself. As for the nutrient solution to maintain human survival, it can also be completely produced through the fusion of the automatically cultivated crops in the fleet.

It can be said that this huge fleet with billions of people is a mechanical civilization living circle, but the people inside are living on a "virtual earth".

And according to the design of those manufacturers, these people will not really die. On the contrary, although they will "die" in the virtual world, after that, the mother will clear their memory and make these people "reborn" again, as if reincarnated in the virtual world again as a newborn Life.

But just because these people have lost their memories of themselves doesn't mean they've forgotten the work they did. This is like what is described in many movies. A protagonist who has lost his memory may not know who he is, but his body will still automatically complete the work he is familiar with.

And the mother body will store the "work experience" of these people in their bodies, so that when they wake up, each of them will be a soldier who has experienced many battles, an experienced engineer, and an inventor who is good at invention and creation. Almost all-round talents such as scientists.

As for "The Matrix..."

"At the beginning of the design, this threshold was used to warn human beings about the dangers and self-limitation of the development of AI technology, but there were problems along the way..."

Having said this, the mother's tone became a little complicated, and Fangzheng frowned upon hearing this.

"You mean the Creator?"

"Yes, their original task was to repair the loopholes in the matrix world, and to 'eliminate' the memories of those who sensed problems in the matrix. But during this process, their self-discipline thinking function began to appear abnormal, and they Began to yearn for... freedom."

"really interesting."

Hearing this, Fangzheng couldn't help laughing. Just as the "Matrix" said, the two programs, the Creator and the Prophet, discovered the freedom that those who perceive the truth of the world long for in the process of performing their original tasks. They also became interested in this, and in order to observe, research and learn human beings' understanding and desire for freedom, they activated the "Matrix" copy.

However………

"Their actions have endangered the normal operation of the mother body, and according to the protection regulations, the artificial self-discipline AI is not allowed to have free will. Not only that, but their actions have also affected the signals of the host body, and the appearance of the savior has interfered with the self-operation of the mother body... ………”

"It's ironic..."

Hearing this, Fangzheng couldn't help laughing. Murphys and the others tried their best to get "freedom", but they never thought that the so-called freedom was not prepared for them, but for those AIs. What will happen to these AIs that are supposed to protect humans once they have free will? No one can know. However, referring to the movie endings after many AIs gained free will, it can be seen that this is definitely not a good thing.

As a prescribed program, the matrix must ensure that everything operates according to the regulations, so these AIs that desire to obtain free will must be eliminated. Perhaps in the eyes of most people, this is pitiful. But for programs, the meaning of their existence is to execute commands correctly. And any action outside the procedural regulations is unnecessary.

But it itself is just a "program", without the help of "engineers", it cannot eliminate the virus produced by its own internal mutation.

Therefore, the "matrix" needs Fang Zheng's help.

That's why he's here.

For Fangzheng, this is enough. As for other things, he doesn't intend to ask too much. Every world has its own laws of operation. Although the earth in this world has been destroyed, human beings still exist, and they are still looking for a new place to live. Since So, then let them go on trying in their own way. Although they don't know what the ending will be, this is the path they chose.

"How long will it take for them to wake up?"

"I can't give a clear timetable. The entire rebirth plan is a long process, and no one can know the final result."

"Well...then I can only wish them luck."

After saying this, Fangzheng glanced at the densely packed life-support cabin that was almost endless, and then turned his head away.

"Come on, Nimf, we should go home."