Chapter 995 Deleted Memory Volextra [Part 1]

Chapter 995 Deleted Memories vol.extra [Part 1]

"Wait a moment, wait a moment, let me slow down a bit..." Xiangshan temporarily cut off his vision and said, "What did you call me?"

"Father." The individual replied.

Xiangshan was a little confused: "What's the big deal? Isn't this a happy father? Why?"

"Do I need to explain it again from the beginning, father?" The individual replied: "In 2031, the Rama Project launched the 'Anthill' project, which aims to confuse the public. The leaked part will be packaged as a symbol puzzle game and promoted to the public."

"This plan can explain the code that does not conform to the general rules of Earth computers to a small number of technically skilled people. At the same time, this is also your first attempt to use other people's brains to explore human learning ability for 'non-human symbol systems'."

"You used that large leaked code as a puzzle game..."

"Stop, stop, stop." Xiangshan waved his hand: "I remember, there is such a thing."

In the 1930s, he even found a "rich man who did not want to be named" and offered a prize of five million US dollars for this puzzle game.

In 1982, the legendary game company Atari released a game called "Sword Seeking" on the Atari 2600. Game designers proposed the concept of "combining games with reality". Therefore, "Sword Hunt" is not only an electronic game, but also a series of treasure hunt activities based on this series of games.

In this activity, players need to solve puzzles in the RPG of the "Sword Hunt" series, and then mail the clues they find to Atari's headquarters - that was an era when "game servers" did not exist. The company will select the fastest and best puzzle solvers from these players and let these players come to the company for the finals.

The winner of the first chapter of the RPG "Earth World" will receive an "amulet", made of 18K pure gold, inlaid with 12 diamonds, and engraved with the gold pattern of the zodiac. The winner of the second chapter "Fire World" will receive a holy grail made of platinum and decorated with diamonds, rubies, sapphires, pearls, jasper, etc. The prize for the third chapter "Water World" is a crown made of pure gold, decorated with diamonds, rubies, sapphires, and aquamarines. The last "Air World", the prize is a "Philosopher's Stone", which is a large piece of pure white jade, wrapped in a layer of 18K gold, and inlaid with topaz, ruby, and diamond.

The cost of these four treasures is $25,000 each.

And at the very end, the winners of the four worlds will have a final battle. Find the final treasure, a sword. The hilt is made of 18K pure gold, the blade is made of pure silver, and is decorated with diamonds, topaz, sapphire and ruby, and is worth up to $50,000-this is why this event is called "Sword Hunt".

However, due to the plummeting reputation of Atari in other projects, this event was not completed in the end. "Air World" was directly aborted, and the final "Sword Hunt" can only become a legend.

And this event has also set off a wave around the world.

Then...

This data was severely broken by the "unnamed rich man".

Even if we take into account the "numerical expansion"... ahem, "inflation", the numerical rewards given by the "unnamed rich man" are still crushing the "Sword Hunt" activity.

Admittedly, the prize pools of some popular e-sports events will be higher than this. The prize money of the champion team is also higher than this. But that is often the income of a team.

And this is "the decipher directly gets five million US dollars".

In addition, the "rich man" also provides a complete set of plans. If the final decipher's deciphering process cites the interim results of other puzzle solvers, then the discoverer of each interim result can get an additional reward.

The "rich man" also set up a player community for players to post deciphering strategies and mark the publication time.

Finally, the "rich man" happily claimed that he had a lonely close friend who hid his heart and his gift to mankind in this game. He hopes that mankind can successfully interpret the painstaking achievements of an autistic genius.

Such a gimmicky story is naturally very conducive to dissemination.

That game once became one of the most famous games in human history.

In the following years, a group of players explored an unfamiliar symbol system with a "game" attitude, which also gave professional researchers countless inspirations.

Some researchers who were not related to the Rama project indirectly completed the study of alien languages ​​by studying the behavior of those player groups.

In the following years, Ingrid also completed some meaningful projects one after another.

However, this project has never been abandoned.

In fact, the "five million US dollars" was just a blank check. What Xiangshan really did was to persuade the person in charge of the big country behind the Rama project to give him the power to "write a blank check."

This is actually not easy, but at least it is easier than asking for five million US dollars directly.

As more and more professionals entered the market, players began to believe that there was really an autistic genius who had created such a game world in his heart that no one could understand - at least the decryption system and symbol system as the main gameplay were quite "hardcore" and "professional".

Then…

Time came to the 1950s.

As the Superman Enterprise became more and more popular, this game became popular again.

Everyone realized that the "difficult puzzles" in this game actually came from outer space.

Taking advantage of this trend, Xiangshan simply continued to hype it up. He announced that all consumers of several game companies he controlled could get the latest version of the puzzle game for free with their consumption vouchers. And when they play this game, they will contribute part of their computing power to train a special AI to understand.

This is actually a project with more hype than reality. AI cannot even perfectly process human natural language, let alone alien language. However, "generative adversarial network" is a toy that is very addictive. Even people like Xiangshan who have gotten rid of vulgar tastes to a certain extent can't help but be attracted by it. When they think of a good topic, they can't help but start GAN.

Then…

Unbeknownst to Xiangshan, this project actually continued to operate until the eve of the Sublimation War. The last batch of programmers from Superman Enterprise completely opened this project to the Internet. On the eve of the destruction of the old Internet on Earth, this game, which once became an important part of popular culture, was also packaged into the data and escaped to the new solar system Internet built under the leadership of Yawgmoth.