Chapter 257 NO0100: Eden

Chapter 257 NO.0100: Eden

According to the information Jiang Zhou had read before, before the adjustment and transformation reached a certain depth, the process of crossing the Styx Firewall would often cause the wanderer to completely lose consciousness - whether it was the generation of the base simulated environment or the establishment of the substitute program, it would cause a considerable burden on the brain before reaching a stable environment.

But just like the previous deep dive and salvage, when he dived this time, Jiang Zhou still vaguely felt an infinite wall that seemed to stand at the end of the universe.

Although he didn't know the reason, he didn't completely lose consciousness when he dived. Instead, he had a feeling of being like a dream, vaguely capturing some vague images.

However, unlike the previous two dives, this time Jiang Zhou was no longer carried by the unknown data stream after crossing the Styx Firewall, floating aimlessly like a dandelion, scattering dots of "bread crumbs" along the way. At this moment, he felt that he was being directed along a fragile and narrow pipeline to a special location in the endless abyss.

Before diving, Fanny gave Jiang Zhou the coordinates she had. This allowed him to decode through the mark of Hecate and locate the more accurate diving location.

This is ridiculous. In the past, even if Pluto Deep Diving Company had this domain name, it could not accurately locate the coordinates.

Although the original architecture of the Abyss Dark Web originated from the old human Internet, when the "Big Impact" occurred, including Janus, a group of super artificial intelligences rewrote the environment more suitable for their own operation and upgrade according to their own characteristics.

The direct result of this is that the cyberspace now called the "Abyss Dark Web" has completely developed an information ecosystem different from human cognition-only a small part of it can be recognized by humans.

You know, nowadays, even the servers that make up the vast majority of the network are those weird things made by AI. Not only are their working principles unclear, but some of them can't even figure out their locations. And not only is there a threshold that humans cannot cross in hardware, but also in software.

Let alone assembly language, the mechanical language used by some servers may not even be binary. As for the high-level language used by AI, it is even more incomprehensible to humans.

Although more than one research institute claims that it has deciphered the high-level programming language used by AI. But in terms of degree, this is no more than a dog's understanding of human language.

Imagine how dogs understand human language - perhaps pet dogs can summarize the meaning of words such as "eat", "shake hands", "go out with me", "I count to three" said by their owners in daily life, but it cannot be concluded that "dogs have cracked human language".

Therefore, unless the front-end program is specially written for humans using AI, humans today cannot even write a program for retrieving domain names. It is completely facing an extremely large black box of technology, summarizing the rules by chance.

Perhaps in the eyes of those AIs, we are as ridiculous as mice in Skinner's box...

In that dreamlike state, Jiang Zhou thought so.

Then, the dream was broken. Just as if the ghost pressing on the bed suddenly ended, Jiang Zhou instantly regained control of his body. The numb feeling of powerlessness gradually began to fade along his back. He tried to shake his hand, which was gradually recovering its sense of touch, and then raised his head.

At this moment, the base simulation has been constructed, and the stand-in program has been fully generated. The abyss dark web that was previously incomprehensible to humans has shown a recognizable appearance under the joint action of the deep diving chamber and the brain-computer interface.

After looking around, Jiang Zhou slowly said:

"We now have two big problems..."

From the expressions of the companions around him, except for Black Falcon-136 who was still in the "zombie" state, everyone was shocked by the current state.

"First of all, there were a total of 20 people diving, why are there only four of us now?"

He said so.

In order to ensure the smooth completion of the mission, Christie spent a lot of money when forming the team. Among the original Ikaros members, as long as their mental index was stable, she made appropriate adjustments and transformations.

According to her, this is a small compensation for the "Ikaros Liberation Front" - after this deep dive and salvage is over, she can guarantee that everyone in the team, except "Theseus", who wants to go back, will be sent back to the Nord resettlement area.

The final result is that the members of this deep dive and salvage are composed of six depth 3, eight depth 2, five depth 1, and Perse Finnie who has not been adjusted and transformed.

Although most of them have no planned upgrade path, this number of adjusters, plus the technology blueprints they carry. From the perspective of combat power, it is enough to complete this salvage mission.

But at this moment, the companions who have completed the dive are only Jiang Zhou, Perse Finnie, Qianxia Ying and Black Falcon-136.

There are only four people in total - except for Black Falcon-136 who is in the "zombie" state, they don't even have a depth 3 adjuster.

"Is this the same as the last dive, lost due to network environment fluctuations?"

Qianxia Ying looked around and asked.

"Will not."

Fanny on the side said:

"We used the 'Hecate' program to locate the coordinates of this dive. This is another system that is completely incompatible with the generation of the 'breadcrumb mark'... Whether you are coming here or going back, We need the help of Theseus."

Then, she looked at Jiang Zhou and asked:

"In your mission log, how many people have been registered to dive?"

Hearing this, Jiang Zhou quickly called up his mission log.

"There are only four of us...the remaining sixteen people have all been denied access for unknown reasons."

He raised his head and looked at everyone.

Although the "blessing program" has thoughtful instructions written by Ms. Hecate. But when Jiang Zhou went to check the operation log, he was confused by the "error code" used in it.

"But it seems to mean that the four of us meet certain characteristics or requirements, so we are allowed to come here..."

Jiang Zhou said and turned to look out the window.

But what qualities do the four of them have in common that meet the requirements?

"The second question is, is the place we are now... really the location of the Abyss Dark Web Depth 3?"

At this moment, they were in a minimalist-style loft apartment. Outside the window is the bright sunshine, the blue sky, and the speeding cars that are constantly driving on the guidance light path. Not far away are tall buildings connected to the sky, and holographic advertisements stained on those buildings like mold.

It looked like they were in a downtown area of ​​a certain city.

According to Jiang Zhou's understanding of the Abyss Dark Web, after the dive depth reaches depth 3, the cognitive transformation of the network environment by the base construction program has begun to be weakened - the physical environment simulation that humans are accustomed to, various perceptions The creation of cyberspace, as well as many modifications that have made cyberspace more like base reality, will begin to fail.

Theoretically, with the computing power of their brain-computer interface and deep dive chamber, they cannot achieve such a perfect simulation at depth 3.

Upon hearing this, Qianxia Ying directly took her hand into the space where she stored data, and a "Sirius" type smart assault rifle began to take shape directly in her hand.

"At the very least, we are still in cyberspace."

She said this while looking at the generated gun in her hand.

For ordinary people, brain-computer interfaces are enough to deceive cognition to the point where they can be mistaken for real. Hackers who have reached the "Sandman" level can weave an illusion that is no different from reality and trap ordinary people in cyberspace.

In fact, many resettlement areas will change the fixed-term prison sentence from a real prison sentence to serving a sentence in a prison in cyberspace.

Of course, for people who have adjusted to a certain level, simple virtual illusions cannot fool them. They can either clearly see the pixels in the picture, or they can distinguish the smell of individual molecules in the air - no computer can perfectly simulate the basic reality at the microscopic level.

"It would be better to say that the owners of this place do not intend to deceive us... they may not even know about our arrival."

Jiang Zhou said and took out a pulse pistol from the data storage space.

"What's the meaning?"

Chinatsu Sakura asked.

"The location of the network domain coordinates is correct. We are indeed at depth 3. In other words, the things we see in front of us are simulated by other entities using their own computing power."

Jiang Zhou said.

"Judging from the sophistication of environmental modeling and the degree of simulation of physical laws. If this is just a 'playground' created for us, then the owner here definitely has the ability to completely suppress us, making us even unable to access the data space. Can’t open it, can’t distinguish virtuality from reality.”

In other words, this city is a real city in the abyss dark web of Depth 3.

It existed long before they arrived - just like the city of sages that Jiang Zhou had visited before.

Qianxia Ying opened her mouth slightly when she heard this.

A city that simulates human society and actually exists in the abyss and dark web.

In addition, Jiang Zhou knew more. But he needs to find a better opportunity to tell what he knows - otherwise it will not be in line with his personality.

"This is the Eden settlement."

At this time, Perse Fanny on the side spoke.

She told the information Jiang Zhou wanted to share.

Fanny turned back from the window sill and looked at all of them.

"What is simulated here is the settlement area of ​​Eden in North America, built on the site of the original New York."

As soon as she finished speaking, there was a knock on the door outside the room.

The group exploded yesterday. You can join the group again. (︶︿︶)