Chapter 1781 Living Image

I see……

The images here don’t seem simple.

Every building in this area has a... stereoscopic imaging system used to generate images of residents.

These inhabitants usually appear to be suitable inhabitants of the building, and they do nothing but perform mechanical movements according to programmed procedures.

But in fact, there is another imaging system.

This set of imaging systems is called an ecosystem, and they generate some special images... These are called 'ecological images'.

Ecological images are not located in a specific building. They can move throughout the entire area. The biggest difference between them and ordinary images is that they do things according to the surrounding environment.

General images do not respond to changes in the environment and will only repeat a set of actions. However, these ecological images will do different things depending on the environment.

For example, they will hide inside buildings when it rains, and go back to sleep when it gets dark. If they see a damaged building, they will not approach it, or they will try to call someone to repair it.

There used to be a lot of these ecological images here, but Lin has not seen any of them now. The main reason is that they have all... committed suicide.

It should be because Ershi abandoned this place.

These ecological images originally used some of the buildings here as their homes. Although they are images, they also go home to sleep, and the buildings also have some maintenance functions.

There was originally a set of... weather equipment and the like here, which could make the place have day and night, as well as rain and other weather conditions.

After Ersh abandoned this place, all these equipment stopped functioning, and the buildings here were no longer maintained and entered a state of gradual damage.

Looking at the sky that is no longer dark, and looking at the buildings that are slowly being damaged due to lack of maintenance, these ecological images gave rise to an idea.

That is...the end of the world has arrived.

They believed that this place would continue to be destroyed, so they committed suicide one by one. As for the method of suicide, it seemed that they broke their own systems. How...it's not clear yet.

But indeed they all committed suicide.

This is actually their very... natural behavior. They watch the changes in the environment and make appropriate behaviors, but... not all ecological images do this, and one does not do that.

It is... the image that Lin is seeing now should be called the head of the phantom.

It did not commit suicide at that time, but took another... action that was also consistent with the end of the world, which was to survive. It tried to hide in... a shelter building,

And he hid a lot of food and water there, and then tried to live a life of refuge there.

Of course, it doesn't need food or water, but it must think that it is hiding, so that it can have the idea of ​​​​surviving.

It’s hard to say whether the ecological images at this time can be considered... thinking. They may have been just machines that reacted to changes in external things at that time.

But then something happened, and that was... the Phantom Group came here.

At that time, the phantom masses were still soft creatures that looked like small clumps of gelatin. There was nothing special about this group of creatures...

It's just that they are a group of species with a division of labor, and they all have certain connections with each other, focusing their consciousness together.

And the way this group of phantoms connect to consciousness... coincides with this image to a certain extent.

I don’t know why... maybe it’s a coincidence, but this image can... feel these phantom groups, the interconnected signals of the phantom groups, connected with this last ecological image.

Lin felt that maybe the ecological image system had some... special wavelengths, which just matched the wavelength of the phantom group's consciousness.

This allows them to pass information to each other.

After the phantom group received this information, they began to act according to the ecological image. They lived in this area and learned to do various things here. Their lifestyle became consistent with the ecological image. Almost exactly the same...

As for ecological images, it seemed that real...consciousness had only emerged at that time.

Perhaps it is because the information of the phantom mass is concentrated on it and then fed back to the phantom mass, which makes the image become a concentrated point of...'consciousness'.

At this time, Ecological Image suddenly realized what he was, and immediately stopped his previous... hiding life in the apocalypse.

It started to really pay attention to its surroundings, and its first move was to try to get out of here.

However, it found that it could not leave because the ecological imaging system only covered this building area.

Then, it noticed the phantom group.

Although it was the...thought stream of the Phantom Group, it only then truly recognized the creatures of the Phantom Group. It found that it had the same thinking as them, so it began...to command the Phantom Group.

It first directed the phantom groups to leave the building area and explore the distance. Based on the memories of these phantom groups, it allowed the phantom groups to return to their birthplace.

There should be a place called...the Sea of ​​Mush. Anyway, it is a huge body of water composed of extremely viscous liquid.

From there, the exploring phantoms brought back more phantoms, and they all came to this contact area and were unified under the command of the ecological image.

The ecological image wants to leave and explore more and more on its own, so it constantly dispatches the troops of the Phantom Corps to explore more places outside to satisfy its own... curiosity.

It is actually curious... At this time, it must have its own ideas.

At the same time, it is also trying to study the buildings here and find the location of its main system. It has slowly understood the imaging systems of these buildings, and also knows... It once had many companions, but they all committed suicide.

It wants to leave here and explore outside by taking away its own system.

And, it did at some point allow a group of phantoms to find their place in the ecological image master system.

But when it was trying to do something to the system, the system carried out a... function that should be called a self-defense reaction.

It left this space directly and arrived at... the location where the spy is now. This seems to be an independent small space, which may be specially made by Ersh.

Although the image found that it could still be projected into the building area, the Phantom Group could no longer access this location. No matter how they looked for it, they could not find it. They had to keep the Phantom Group here to learn various techniques. Looking forward to it. Hopefully at some point you will find a way to take yourself away.

Later, it did find a way, that is...just kill some targets.