Rule Strange: Urban Legends That Don't Exist

Klein pointed toward the door:

"There's the BIOS."

His index finger pointing forward pointed back at himself:

"Who am I in the BIOS?"

He uttered questions without any questioning tone.

[Self] answered him:

"You are one of the core programmers participating in the [Server Repair Plan], so you have the qualifications closest to the [original source program] in the server. Now you have completed your own completion and got the code generated by the completion. After completing your mission at this stage, you need to return and take the next step of your plan.”

Klein asked:

"What is the so-called [original program]?"

It is still an interrogative sentence without any interrogative tone.

He was simply asking about his own heart, awakening memories that had been silent for so long that they were blurred.

[Self] answered him:

“It is the basis for the existence of real-world servers, the premise for programs to be able to run in servers, and the huge headless corpse buried under the surface of the real world.

The corpse [eternal death] also lives [eternal growth] in death. "

Klein's memory was awakened.

He vaguely remembered everything, the dying human civilization in the BIOS, the ever-present threat of doomsday and the hope of human discovery in the doomsday——

The headless corpse of eternal death.

——The flesh and blood body buried under the earth gives mankind the possibility to continue to reproduce. Facing the universe surrounded by despair, mankind extracts the chemical elements of the huge corpse and reorganizes it into what mankind can use through element recombination technology. Everything needed.

——Human beings are able to survive, but they are unable to advance even half a step towards the starry sky. The whole world is still collapsing, but the use of huge headless corpses temporarily resists the collapse process.

In order to find the answer to survival, humans built a server based on the huge headless corpse, trying to find a way to survive by running and simulating the server countless times.

In reality, the [Original Source Code] comes from capturing and compiling the stream-of-consciousness signals from the giant headless corpse.

In the server world, [original source code] has the highest priority for computing power in the server, and has the highest priority to enjoy the supply of computing power and the right to use the highest priority channel.

Klein recalled that according to the initial conception of the server design, in the server world, [Original Source Code] existed in human form. The human form allowed [Original Source Code] to have deeper contact with the entire world and thus run Produce the most realistic simulation process.

Klein asked again:

"What's the next step in the plan?"

Still not a question.

[Self] answered him:

"According to the original plan, we will return to reality with the server's repair code, compile these codes into knowledge, and rely on this knowledge to repair the real world that has been struggling in the apocalypse for tens of thousands of years.

In reality, the cost of trial and error is extremely high, and the risk of failure and silence are extremely high. Therefore, through server simulation, truly effective methods can be found at a lower cost.

——As long as humans in the server world can survive the apocalypse, we will have the code for how the world is running at this time, and we can make adjustments to the real world. This is the answer for humans to survive the apocalypse. "

Klein said:

"So absurd - using the simulated operation of a virtual server to speculate on the trajectory of an entire world, and thereby discovering ways to repair the broken parts of the world. If such a simulation really existed, the server itself would already be bigger than the real world. It’s real.”

[Self] said:

"exactly."

Sadly, humans in this server world that is running and on the verge of collapse have still not found a way to survive in the apocalypse.

Klein did not continue to ask questions. Because of his self-improvement, more memories were revived. He was able to know that some special people in the server had special missions, and he was one of them.

His mission is to get part of the code to repair the world.

At this moment, as his life activities in the server world have reached perfection, those codes have been captured by the human-controlled computer in reality along with his activities.

Klein looked at the still fusion beasts surrounding him:

"Do I have a choice?"

[Self] said:

"If we don't choose to return at this moment, we will be completely wiped out from the server world, because our code is complete-all of us are here."

It stands to reason that if you are physically destroyed in the server world, you will be reborn in the next generation in the server.

But is there a next generation of servers?

When Klein uploaded himself to the server, the huge headless corpse had been overloaded by human extraction, and many organs had failed.

Until now, I am afraid that the operating life of the server has been reached.

Klein took a few steps forward and came to the door leading to BIOS, the so-called "real world".

He looked at the staff coming and going in the office, and more memories were awakened. He could even call some of the people in the office by their names, who were his former colleagues.

Countless thousands of years and countless generations experienced in the server world occurred at the same time and in different spaces. His former colleagues still retained the eve of his uploading consciousness to the server.

He was about to take a step forward when suddenly the lights in the entire office dimmed.

When the light came on again, it had turned a dazzling dark red.

"[Original Program] has gone backwards!"

A scream carrying panic and disbelief erupted in the office, and the dazzling dark red light flickered on and off continuously. These experienced programmers and managers with high-level positions in the company were in chaos.

"Server code simulates an emergency stop, freezes processor clock, quick!"

"[Original Program] has invaded the company's server! Cut off the power! Cut off the power!"

"[Origin Program] invaded the company's gateway...it entered the Internet and disappeared!"

"The server has been suspended!"

Klein looked at the chaotic office and realized that he had a very precious opportunity.

He closed the door to the BIOS.

He turned around and looked at the entire world that had come to a standstill, understanding in his heart.

'The server is suspended, but my complete code is no longer running in the server - I am a truly complete human consciousness, relying on my brain in the physical body of the real world, not the operation of the server where the [original source code] is located. exist.

The operating mechanism of this world will not waste more computing power on me. ’

He re-determined his goal, then passed through the fusion beast and rushed towards his destination.

……

……

At this moment.

Spring God's head fell on the spider web and shattered into black sticky blood all over the floor with just a slight touch. The dense spider silk dyed black blossomed into black flowers under the nourishment of the black blood. Suddenly, a thought came to Chen Yan's head:

‘This is the phylum Angiosperms, class Monocotyledon, order Lycoris. ’

Black amaryllis bloomed everywhere, nourished by spider webs and spread to Chen Yan's feet.

The whole world in front of him began to blur. Chen Yan's feet merged with the stamens of Lycoris. His flesh, blood, meridians and bones disintegrated in the process. When they merged with the Lycoris all over the ground, the Lycoris had become Glowing blood red, Chen Yan completely disappeared on Lycoris.

Chen Yan lost his vision.

He felt like he had entered some kind of passage, and he was moving through the passage at an unspeakable speed, as if he had spanned the entire world.

He felt that everything happening to him was so natural, like he was carrying out all daily physiological activities - physiological activities dominated by subconscious mind and muscle memory - raising his hands and legs, opening his mouth when talking, his throat moving when drinking water, closing it when sleeping. eyes.

He felt that he heard some voices, and those voices were very scary. They were shouting "the server has been invaded" and "power outage".

Chen Yan no longer thinks that all these sounds are just inexplicable.

He knew some things, speculated on some things, and thought of some things, all of which made up his current thinking.

The sense of shuttle always existed, and suddenly, Chen Yan felt relaxed all over his body.

——It feels like a fish leaping from a stream into the sea.

He obtained some very blurry visions. There were countless light spots in the vision, just like countless stars in the endless sky that reflected the light produced by the fusion of hydrogen nuclei on the surfaces of high-temperature stars.

What surprised him was that he could feel the existence of all the stars - he could even feel the temperature of those stars, as well as the activities of the life forms above the stars, and even hear the sounds made by those life forms.

‘Is it the power of synesthesia? ’

He dismissed his suspicions through his feelings.

‘I’m afraid not. ’

Those stars are like his limbs... It's not quite accurate to say that. Chen Yan felt it again and again and found that those stars gave him the feeling more like "uncontrolled omni-mechanical prosthetics" - possessing certain intelligence and being able to operate on their own. , but cannot be controlled for some reasons.

He didn't want to wander in the darkness anymore.

So he chose one of the stars that made him feel the warmest and rushed towards the light of that star.

When Chen Yan regained his sight again, he saw a gray-faced wish looking at him intently under the dim light of the old notebook screen——

To be more precise, he was looking at the position under his feet.

The moment he appeared, Desire's eyes were dull for a moment, and then they straightened:

"You...why...are you here!"

Her eyes looked like she had seen a ghost.

Chen Yan calmed down, lowered his head, and saw what seemed to be some kind of wriggling flesh and blood beneath his feet.

The flesh and blood made his scalp tingle, because he felt as if the flesh and blood were his own!

The flesh and blood do not look healthy, and there is no cuticle on the surface, indicating that these things should be internal organs. Now, these internal organs have shown a very sickly waxy color, indicating that the organs represented by these internal organs have failed or are diseased.

Chen Yan even saw a part of black tissue, which was obviously necrotic.

These flesh and blood have a short life.

There are two data cables connected to the old-style notebook held in Xishui's hand. The terminals of the data cables are submerged in the flesh. At first glance, they look like two data cables representing uploading and downloading, but the uploading and downloading are not data packets. But biological signals.

Wishes was a little flustered by his appearance. She looked bad, but she was obviously in good spirits:

"How did you get here? Do you know where this is? This is the BIOS underground! It is the highest priority project in the company! It is..."

As Wish spoke, there was some despair in his expression:

"why you……"

Chen Yan looked at the dark environment around him. This was obviously an underground space. It was vast and cold but not dirty. The explosion-proof doors and cameras visible in the distance represented the level of confidentiality here. He didn't know how the wish sneaked in.

"It's a long story."

He raised his head to look at the wish, and did not tell his situation immediately, but looked at her with hidden apologetic eyes:

"How are you doing during this time?"

The unpleasant memory evoked by this sentence suddenly made Wishful's eyes red:

"It's... not bad..."

Seeing that she was about to cry, Chen Yan felt very uncomfortable. He stepped forward to hug her, but he passed directly through her body.

The two of them were stunned at the same time.

Chen Yan immediately realized that he came here through a dream and should have no entity.

In order not to make the wish sad, he quickly changed the topic - he finished the story from the last time he saw the wish to the present in a few sentences, and then said:

"I came here through a lucid dream, which shows that BIOS and the real world we live in are dream worlds. At least there is no material distinction between superior and inferior."

He told Wish what he had discovered.

Those words can only be said to wishes:

"I have determined that the world we were in was a server, but this server is obviously different from the server we imagined.

This server possesses unimaginable intelligence, or perhaps the server itself is "alive".

I came here through lucid dreaming and saw you. This is the end of lucid dreaming..."

He talked a lot of nonsense before finally alleviating his desire.

After a brief moment of calm, Wishes whispered:

“The good news is, I didn’t find the answer, but I found more clues.

I've found a few more people since I last saw you.

The most important thing is Chen Yan - she has completely disappeared from this world - disappeared, not died - I found the place where she disappeared, right here. "

Wishes took out a flashlight and illuminated a small part of Chen Yan's flesh and blood in the dim and almost dark environment.

Chen Yan looked closely and saw a USB flash drive inserted on the flesh and blood.

"I have disassembled the USB flash drive."

Wishes took out a small piece of something similar to jade and illuminated it with a flashlight.

"Can you see what's in here?"

Chen Yan squinted his eyes and suddenly saw that there was a mass of brain tissue in the jade!

"Chen Yan, also known as White Snake - at least the will of White Snake, was once here and uploaded herself into this body called [Eternal Death]."

PS: Regarding the question of what the so-called [server] is, there have been three opinions in the article. There is no absolute right or absolute wrong, just because people with different visions look at things from different angles.