Chapter 589 Virtual God (1/2)

"These damn beasts..."

The bridge of the Heart of Steel.

The captain of the Heart of Steel couldn't help but curse in a low voice as he looked at the pyramid of human heads and the bloodstains on the walls more than ten kilometers away through the sighting equipment.

After looking at the captain standing beside him, Chu Guang looked out the French window of the bridge again and spoke slowly.

"If they knew that this provocation was effective, they would soon build a second or third Jingguan, and even kill everyone the moment they lost."

"These guys are quite active in killing people. There is no need for us to waste ammunition in meaningless places."

From a practical point of view, the benefits of delivering indirect firepower to urban areas densely populated with concrete are quite limited.

Not to mention artillery such as howitzers that rely on fragmentation to kill, even strategic nuclear weapons with a density of tens of thousands of liters are not as exaggerated as in film and television works when facing concrete bunkers.

There are records of instances where people in concrete buildings within five or six hundred meters of the explosion center survived when an atomic bomb exploded, and as long as they didn't run out to take a look, they didn't even have sequelae.

As for mutants, let alone.

This creature can only be killed directly by excessive neutron rays, and it is unrealistic to expect to kill it indirectly by the aftereffects of cancer.

"...I understand." The captain nodded heavily.

At Chu Guang's signal, he looked at the adjutant beside him and gave an order.

"Lower the anchor chain!"

The adjutant saluted.

"Yes!"

The huge steel anchor chain was thrown from the belly of the airship and hit the ground heavily, raising a rolling dust on the surface.

Then the elevator was lowered.

As the vanguard and construction equipment were successively delivered to the surface, the deck was busy.

Chu Guang briefly explained a few words to the captain, then turned to the confinement room and looked at Yul who was fixed in a wheelchair.

He was wearing a pair of virtual reality glasses on his head, connected to the sighting equipment of the airship, and facing the Jingguan made of human heads.

"Is this the heaven you are going to?" Chu Guang looked at him and said.

Yuer didn't say anything, just sat there quietly, as if he hadn't woken up from the "sleepwalking" state.

But Chu Guang knew that this guy had woken up before dawn, just pretending to be crazy there.

Chu Guang looked at him and continued.

"Where is the holy land."

After a long silence.

Yuer suddenly chuckled, as if he was laughing at himself and everyone else.

"Don't you know it already?"

"I know that the holy land is virtual, I'm asking where its server is?" After a pause, Chu Guang continued, "Or to put it another way, how to destroy it."

Yuer expressed his uncooperative attitude with silence.

Chu Guang didn't care, and continued in a very light voice.

"The bionic crystal inserted in your brain has locked a part of your memory. Our experts on the airship do find it difficult, but you should know that even so, it is only a matter of time for us to crack it."

"Is it bluffing?"

"No," Chu Guang said calmly, "It suggested to me that I send your brain to the ideal city for research, but in this way you will have no chance of atonement."

"Atonement...haha."

Yor suddenly laughed out loud, turned his face with VR glasses towards Chu Guang, and raised his voice.

"Why should I atone? What sin have I committed? Compared to the people killed by the wasteland, compared to the people turned into livestock or beasts by the wasteland, the few people we sacrificed are insignificant, not to mention that those guys were originally living like livestock... Even if we do nothing, they will rot on their own."

"If you really understand them, you should know that they are hopelessly stupid. They will put chains around their necks and speak ill of those who try to help them. They just want to be animals. I think they adapt to this wasteland better than anyone else, and hope that the wasteland will continue to exist more than anyone else. It is better to make their lives a little more meaningful. At least dying in our hands can serve as fuel to end the wasteland."

Yul laughed hoarsely, and the laughter gradually became crazy.

Like crazy.

Lv Bei, who was standing behind Chu Guang, stared at this twisted and rude guy, and the corners of his mouth twitched involuntarily.

Chu Guang looked at Yule expressionlessly.

Until his voice became hoarse and he could no longer laugh, he slowly spoke.

"Then who decides what you call meaning?" Yul continued in a hoarse voice. "No one needs to define it. The descendants living in the new world will give an objective evaluation of what we have done. It doesn't matter if they curse us. I didn't do these things for honor or fame." Chu Guang looked at him with pity. "What a pity." "..." Yul didn't say anything, and put on an expression that didn't care about anything. Chu Guang looked at him and continued. "Even if you go to the new world, your wasteland will not end. This land will become a wasteland in another sense. And your sacrifice has no meaning. From beginning to end, it is just your own self-satisfaction." Yul finally couldn't help but refute.

"How do you know what people will think in the future?"

"It's not a question of whether I know or not, but why are you so sure?" Chu Guang looked at him and said word by word, "You haven't even lived for a second in the heaven you imagined, and you expect to use the heaven ways to solve problems on earth.”

“When a person is hungry, we will give him the food needed to maintain basic survival, and then tell him how to get more and live with more dignity, instead of suggesting that he get a bionic stomach that can even digest mud. And a mouth that can even chew down rocks.”

Yule smiled coldly.

"You think too simply that you can end the wasteland without starving? Then the wasteland will not exist from the beginning. This is not a question of hunger at all-"

"But at least hunger is a specific problem. After solving this problem first, we can solve the next problem." Chu Guang looked at him expressionlessly and said back unceremoniously, "I hope that there will be a common problem for all specific problems." The common optimal solution can solve all problems once and for all as long as we become a new human being. So what happens next?”

Yule was stunned for a moment and blurted out slowly.

"……Then?"

"Yes, and what next? How do you plan to solve the problem of New Humanity? Then design a life form that is more perfect than New Humanity and pull everyone to 'evolve' at once? Or jump from one Utopia to another? A utopia?"

Looking at Yuer who was silent, Chu Guang continued.

"Unfortunately, this is the method you leave to future generations to solve the problem. It's fine if you fail, but there is a one-in-10,000 chance that you happen to be lucky enough to succeed, and that is the biggest disaster."

"Any price will become a necessary sacrifice. They will repeat today's tragedy over and over again, and then drown others in an impossible dream. So it's me who thinks too simply, or you who think too simply."

Looking away from the blank face, Chu Guang knew that he had never considered this at all and continued coldly.

"Perhaps one day we will evolve into a new species, but that must be because we happened to reach that stage, and it is never to evolve for the sake of evolution or to solve problems for the sake of solving problems."

"I gave you a chance to atone, but now it seems I wasted my time."

"You'd better go to another place to confess."

After saying this, Chu Guang turned around and walked out the door.

Yuer stared blankly in the direction where the footsteps were leaving. He couldn't help but feel flustered, and suddenly said.

"Wait a moment."

Chu Guang, who had already reached the door, stopped and looked back at him.

"What's wrong?"

Yule was silent for a while, then slowly spoke.

"The Sanctuary is not on the ground, and certainly not in a server. It is a server array composed of countless bionic crystal elements, connected into a large network with the help of one or more nodes... The Sanctuary It’s this net.”

There was a hint of surprise on Lu Bei's face.

On the one hand, I was surprised by the sanctuary composed of countless bionic crystals. On the other hand, I was surprised that this inexperienced guy actually confessed.

It wasn't just Lu Bei who was surprised. In fact, even Yuer himself was not sure whether he was doing the right thing.

That memory extractor not only roughly pulled out his memories, but also reminded him of many trivial things that he had long forgotten.

He is a researcher and should know better than anyone else that bold assumptions and careful verification should be the most basic methodology.

However, the irony is that he clearly knew it but failed to do so. Instead, he placed his hope on replacing human nature with divinity.

Perhaps it is just what the manager in front of me said.

The end of this dream is not heaven, but hell in another sense...

As he spoke, Yule slowly turned his wrist that was tied to the armrest, raised his curved index finger, and pointed at his brain.

"For example, I have one here... but the signal here is not very good, so I can't connect to the Internet."

The Heart of Steel itself is a large iron shell. Unless you are standing on the deck, information exchange with the outside world can only be through a dedicated information interface.

That passage was monitored by Xiao Qi, so Luo Gan would not leave such an obvious clue and take the initiative to get in.

And this is also the reason why Eclipse was able to unexpectedly reactivate the power-off crystal through Zhao Tianqian's body and connect to the sanctuary.

Because the moment Zhao Tianqian died, Luo Gan lost his connection to the crystal element. Biological crystal elements require the life activities of the human body to provide energy.

And if it is through Yule's crystal, I am afraid that he will not be able to enter the sanctuary at all, because it is basically a known thing that he is captured.

Chu Guang frowned slightly.

“Distributed computing?”

Yul smiled to himself.

"Although it is different, you can understand it this way... Every crystal element is a cell that constitutes 'Luo Gan' and the 'Sacred Domain'. All cells share information in a shared network. When one of the crystal elements is When the crystal is offline, the data stored in the crystal exists as an independent personality. For example, there is Luo Gan living in my head now. "

Chu Guang fell into deep thought.

"I see."

This is very similar to Xiao Qi.

Sometimes when entering an area without signal, Xiao Qi can still communicate with him through VM or other electronic devices, but in fact the person communicating with him is not Xiao Qi in the shelter, but a person with time point A as the node. The sub-individual that Xiaoqi split off from.

For the convenience of understanding, let’s call the ontology A and the sub-individual A1.

A1 owns all the cached data before time point A, as well as the sum of the computing power of all portable terminals.

Therefore, even if A1 does not possess all of A's data and computing power, it can still communicate with him normally. However, due to the interruption of communication, the data between A1 and A is not shared.

However, when the signal is restored, the data between A1 and A will begin to flow again, becoming one through the exchange of information.

Although it may be strange to think from a human perspective, it is perfectly normal for digital beings.

After all, information is what digital life is all about.

It is precisely because of this that Xiao Qi is always very clingy and pesters Chu Guang to let him take her with him every time he travels far away.

Luo Gan is probably a similar existence.

Each crystal element stores a part of the "sacred domain" fragments. When communication is normal, all the crystal elements together form the entire server array.

The loss of one of the crystals is insignificant to him. After all, he can still exist even if he only has one crystal and one brain.

It’s just that in that case, it would be inconvenient to do anything due to the limitation of computing power.

Unlike Chu Guang who was deep in thought, Lu Bei's expression gradually changed and he couldn't help but ask.

"Countless...how many are they?"

If that Luo Gan buried a thousand or even ten thousand crystal yuan in Jinhe City, wouldn't it be endless?

They can't be like the mutants and chop off everyone's heads, right?

Even if it is to eliminate the Torch Church, this approach is too extreme.

It is even more unrealistic to do a CT scan of everyone’s brain.

Bionic wafer implantation surgeries are usually very secretive, and the materials used are special carbon-based materials that cannot be detected by ordinary nuclear magnetic resonance, let alone temporary laboratories on the front lines.

If you want to find out every one of them, you must at least use the scanning bed in the shelter. Or you have to use a memory extractor to retrieve traces of the work of the bionic wafer frame by frame from the visible memory.

Yule shook his head.

"No one knows how many there are except the bishop himself...I'm afraid not even the Holy Son knows."

After a pause, he continued.

"But it shouldn't be necessary to install one for everyone. After all, I heard that the thing is made of black boxes, and black boxes have a working life. For example... peripheral apostles like Zhang Zhengyang do not have crystals implanted. He needs to communicate with Luo Gan through us."

"I guess so." Chu Guang nodded.

He remembered Heya saying that most of the black boxes in Vault 117 were bionic organs.

The first black box he recovered from Vault 117 was a neural connection unit capable of producing a brain-computer interface.

Later, the Torch Church also tried to recover the black box and the administrator's log left by the former shelter director from him, but failed.

After thinking for a moment, Chu Guang continued speaking slowly.

"If I were him, I would probably install one for each plantation farmer and heir, thus indirectly controlling all plantation-style settlements, and then select a few individuals who are easy to manage and mix them in to contribute computing power and Servers for backup purposes and just in case.”

Coincidentally, Jinhe City is mostly populated by this type of settlement, and even those with relatively decentralized power like Hope Town are a minority within a minority.

Not even just Jinhe City, but the entire Jinchuan Province.

The eagle dogs kept in captivity by the nobles of Boulder City have opened up almost all the markets that can be developed here and transformed them into the shape they want.

In this way, Luo Gan only needs to use a small part of the chess pieces when executing his plan, and most of the chess pieces can be safely hidden in the dark.

Whether it is to conduct a comprehensive examination of everyone or to kill everyone here, the workload is difficult to complete.

No wonder he gave up the chess piece Zhao Tianqian without hesitation...

He had already laid a huge invisible and intangible net, covering more than 90% of the survivors in Jinhe City.

Looking at Chu Guang who was deep in thought, Yuer smiled faintly.

"It's very torch-like, isn't it? The Holy Son is only a nominal leader, a spiritual totem. The one who makes plans is every forerunner who enters the Holy Realm."

"In each diocese, the forerunner is the Holy Son who acts as the divine authority, the totem that believers look up to, and the ones who actually execute the plan are every apostle connected to the holy realm and countless guided believers."

Chu Guang suddenly thought of something and said.

"Are you Yuer or Luo Gan now?"

Yule was silent for a long time.

This is a difficult question to answer.

If you put all the blame on some devil living in your heart, it may indeed alleviate his sin.

But is it really so?

After a long time, he smiled bitterly and shook his head.

"I have no idea."

"Maybe... both."

…

The door to the confinement room was closed again.

Following Chu Guang, Lu Bei slightly quickened his pace and walked to his side, asking in a low voice.

"What to do with that person?"

Chu Guang said casually.

"It depends on him. In fact, I prefer to keep this chess piece with me than handing him over to the company for research."

Of course, if the council was interested in the secrets about that guy, I wouldn't mind dragging along my old friends from the east coast.

Anyway, being so far away, it is unlikely that the company will come here to investigate on its own. In the end, it will have to rely on the "local snake" of the alliance.

Lu Bei looked at Chu Guang in confusion and asked.

"What's the point of doing this?"

To be honest, he didn't really understand why he wasted so much time with that prisoner. He had ten thousand ways to make that guy honest.

It doesn’t even require enterprise technology.

Chu Guang could probably guess what the young man was thinking and said with a smile.

"Of course there is, you should have heard it, every bionic crystal is a sanctuary, and Luo Gan lives in it. The one on that guy is naturally the same, and we have just been negotiating with him for half an hour."

Glancing at the time on the VM, he continued.

"This is actually a good start. Didn't you notice? That guy has gradually begun to doubt whether the extreme ideal he insists on is correct... And as he said, the two personalities of Yuer and Luo Gan are at the same time. existing in his body."

"His decision was actually a joint decision between two people."

"It's just that subconsciously he can't tell the difference."

The memory extractor has retrieved all of Yul's memories, but it still has not retrieved the specific location of the Sanctuary and how to destroy it.

It can only mean that that memory is not in his mind at all, but is cached on the bionic crystal in his brain.

Now Yule took the initiative to hand it over. Obviously this was not just his decision, but also the decision of a clone of Luo Gan.

Otherwise, even if he wanted to confess, he wouldn't be able to.

When faced with unanswerable questions, a gap appeared in the psychological defense of the two souls, so he felt that this was a good start.

After listening to Chu Guang's explanation, Lu Bei's eyes suddenly lit up.

"I understand! As long as the crystal in his head exchanges data with Luo Gan outside, that idea can be transmitted to... the sanctuary where Luo Gan is located?"

It's like hiding a bomb in a package and delivering it to that Luo Gan!

This was the only metaphor he could think of, but the more he thought about it, the more reliable it became, and his eyes started to sparkle.

As expected of a manager!

Lu Bei looked at Chu Guang with even more admiration.

Chu Guang himself, on the other hand, said with a smile after listening to this young man's interpretation.

"It's not as simple as you say. If talking can solve the problem, there is no need to bring the Heart of Steel here."

Lu Bei was stunned for a moment.

"Ah, can't you?"

Chu Guang shook his head.

"In the final analysis, it is impossible for the data cached on one terminal to cover the entire network's data."

This is like the data cached by Xiaoqi on the terminal, even if it is separated from the host for a while, the data on the host will not be overwritten.

Luo Gan does not have a fixed host to save data, but chooses to disperse all of himself on various bionic wafers implanted in the brain.

The advantage of this is that the location of the host will not be found and destroyed, but it also has a fatal flaw.

When the environment in which most of his "doppelgangers" live has fundamentally changed, and they cannot be brainwashed through mind interference devices, this huge network formed by countless nodes may be easily and fundamentally subverted. .

After all, bionic crystals need to rely on the human brain to exist. If there is no mind interference device, the two actually affect each other.

At least the fuzzy calculation part that constitutes personality must be completed on the human brain... Chu Guang heard this knowledge from Yin Fang.

Lu Bei looked at Chu Guang blankly and scratched the back of his head in shame.

"I'm sorry, sir... I didn't understand. Why don't you tell me how to do it right?"

Chu Guang smiled and said.

"To put it simply, the bastard hiding in the sanctuary feels that this wasteland is hopeless and that the world must be destroyed once before it can be reborn."

"Since they have this stupid idea, let's show them what we do!"

Doesn’t that guy think this world is hopeless?

Then let him see what the alliance does!

From mutants to slavers, he'll rid the place of trouble one by one.

And when that time comes, he wants to see how that guy can say "it's hopeless" so brazenly.

First things first…

Chu Guang thought for two seconds and then said.

"Well, there's trouble over there at Pinecone Wood Farm. Please contact the Army Command for me and ask them to dispatch a troop to rush over immediately."

If Zhao Tianqian and the apostle are not the only crystal holders, it means that Luo Gan outside still has countless eyes in the Pine Cone Wood Farm.

With the psychic interference device deactivated, the communication shield there has been lifted.

Maybe they will find a way to send mutants directly in.

After all, the guy himself said that there was a passage to the outside world in the basement of the church, but he did not say that there was only one passage.

Lu Bei's expression immediately became serious, and he accepted the order without saying anything.

"I'm going right away!"

Looking at Lu Bei who was leaving quickly, Chu Guang suddenly thought of something.

Speaking of which...

Today happens to be the third day.

"Wait a moment."

Hearing the manager's voice, Lu Bei stopped, turned around and said respectfully.

"Do you have any other instructions?"

Chu Guang smiled and said.

"The opponent should be a mutant."

"Just let the brothers from the Jungle Corps pass by!"

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