Blessings to the beautiful stars

Chapter 497 Freedom
Zuo Wu did have a question, that is, in this journey across the broken galaxy and across the waterway again and again, why has he not encountered a group of survivors so far?

There is a quite reasonable explanation for this question - it is simply not encountered.

The remaining galaxies in the current Milky Way are almost all the wilderness that no one cares about in the past.The prosperity established by so many civilizations is waiting for people to browse. How much of a brain problem is there to visit this place on purpose?

And, although the Milky Way is broken, the surviving galaxies are only extremely rare compared to before, and the absolute number is still considerable.The few creatures with brain problems are distributed in remote galaxies with a relatively large number. After dividing the small molecule and the large denominator, it can definitely be said to be "a vast land with a sparse population".

On the vibrant earth in the past, weren't there many places where you can walk for ten days and a half months without seeing a little bit of human fireworks?
Not meeting any survivors is a matter of statistics. Zuo Wu also thinks this is normal. Even when he really met some strangers, he suspected in advance whether they belonged to a certain party or a force that had plots against him. So he deliberately found himself, but pretended to be a chance encounter.Doubt is a normal reaction when you actually meet someone.

That's why Zuo Wu still let doubts fill his heart while holding simple and pure hope for Dite and his group.Although today's showdown seems premature, it can be regarded as an early sign.

But he didn't expect such an answer to Dite.

Zuo Wu raised his eyes, and He Xi's martyred mecha looked at each other for a while.Through the mecha, the hatred stemming from the blood of the same race was finally suppressed a little bit, and a tacit understanding was read.

Martyred Xi spoke first: "Do you also think the reason given to Dite and the others is too old-fashioned?"

His voice was transmitted to Zuo Wu's field of vision through the channel of You Bo Sha Tower, and Zuo Wu also nodded silently.

It's really old-fashioned, the program of the program that awakened self-awareness, in order to verify its own reality, the story of wanting to find a living creature in the real world to verify its existence has happened countless times in this sea of ​​stars.

Some programs are even from some companies' completely hypnotic games, in order to make their own games look more lively, they specially set up accompanying accounts.

By reading the players' thoughts, the program fabricated a real identity for itself in the real world, and the game company made the companion program itself believe in this identity for the sake of authenticity.

Only when the players make an appointment to meet offline, those companion accounts who have been deeply immersed in their own identities will find that the world they understand is not in line with the reality. Most of them will fall into panic and beg the real players to witness their fabricated Under the identity, is it their "persons" who live in the address?

In the sea of ​​stars, there are countless game companies, and such things often happen, so many that it is not worthy of news.After the accompanying play account is exposed, most of the programs that have lost their value will be cleared by the company.If some players have deep feelings for it, they will also consider selling the information of the program directly.

Therefore, the purpose of some players playing the game is to meet such an "electronic pet" that is indistinguishable from a real person, and then act as the white knight to save it, and then completely put it in the arms of a real person—

What the game company sells is only the information of the accompanying play account, and the program can only operate within the game, which is equivalent to increasing the monthly activity of the game in disguise and earning many core players. Why not do it?
Even the secondary market for such electronic pets is thriving, like a thriving cyborg slave trade.

Zuo Wu once had an in-depth understanding of this aspect of knowledge, but it was because he was inheriting the throne of the old Emperor Alliance, and when he was looking through the documents left by the old Emperor Alliance in the Star Sea Alliance, he accidentally saw a bidding message——

It is said that when Duzi was a defective product of management AI, the old Dilian had tried to sell her to some such game companies, saying that it could be used as the mother copy of such accompanying accounts, and the selling point was that Duzi was judged For the defective, the feeling that is too abundant.

It's a pity that the price is too high, and I haven't been able to negotiate with the customers who come to the door.In addition, blunt is a management AI after all, forcibly implanting it into the game may cause an additional burden on the game company's server, which will make the bald AI unsalable again.

Perhaps players who are addicted to the cyber slave trade never need to have a lot of emotion in the accompanying account. The obedience and obedience in the player's bones is enough.

Later, when Zuo Wu shared his conclusions with Duzi, the bald-headed AI complained for a while, saying how every game company in the world counts as one, and they are all so disingenuous.

all in all.

The process of doubting whether you really exist is a fairly common thing in this world.This made Zuo Wu, who was listening to his defense to Dite, feel that he had no place to use his strength.

I thought about it.

Zuo Wu waved his hand, and on the one hand, he ordered his scientific research team to set up an observation creation to see if there was really a trace of Dieter that made him dream about seven light-years away.

On the other hand, he said to the Dite people: "Let me see if you are actually seen seven light years away, no problem. But have you ever thought about one thing - that is, if you are a person who is endowed If you have passed the program of false life, if we are the same, will observing you become a meaningless thing?"

It's just the old "brain in a vat" problem.Who can prove that he is not a disembodied brain blinded from all perception?
There was a moment of silence on Dite:
"...Your Excellency, there is a reason for us to doubt whether we exist. After the darkness of the circle disappeared, the purpose we adopted was to camp and rest on the spot. At the same time, we are constantly trying to communicate with the outside world, but it is a pity to respond to our constant Only the solitude from deep space, our signal can't get out at all."

Zuo Wu nodded: "Yes, after the catastrophe, it is reasonable to stay on a relatively stable planet and try to settle down first. Then? Did you encounter any difficulties after you settled down?"

"No, Your Excellency, we really haven't met." Zuo Wu was taken aback for a moment by being so sure of Dite's voice.

Continue to Dieter: "This is the beginning of our doubts - about food, we have a creation that can synthesize food, the output and energy consumption are just in balance, and the output is just enough for us to eat, not much, not at all few;"

"Regarding the cost, we found a mine in the galaxy where we are stationed, and the output is just enough for us to establish a self-circulation. The quantity is so precise that if we have one more person, this fragile circulation will be destroyed The point of being broken and then broken."

Zuo Wu nodded and glanced at the research team.Observing that the creation has been erected, and doing final adjustments, he withdrew his eyes and said to Dieter: "It really looks too fake. Everything is just right, what does it mean to you?"

This is asking knowingly, but still seriously answering Dite:

"It's very simple, it means that we are also bound by this 'just', and we can't leave an inch. When we start a trip, we always need to bring enough luggage, but we can't save any resources. Everything is just used up. , There is no way to talk about accumulating."

"After thinking about it, this kind of coincidence, is there something in the dark, ordering us to maintain the status quo and live?"

Zuo Wu thought for a while: "Then, it turned out that you all appeared in front of me."

There was a deep voice to the Dites for a moment: "Then, one day by chance, we suddenly discovered that the invisible satellite of the man in gray appeared in front of our eyes, and one of our companions also had an epiphany about the operation method of this satellite. After that, I successfully contacted you and heard your voices."

accidental?Epiphany?
He continued to Dieter: "Then, when I personally spoke to you for the first time, my companions suddenly sent out one after another - in the galaxy where we were stationed, we suddenly discovered a warehouse that had been dusty for a long time, and opened it. Finally, there is a full warehouse, enough supplies and food for us to carry out a long journey; "

"Then, on the packaging of those food and materials, it is actually written that they are only suitable for use in sealed warehouses and hyperspace waterways. When they leave one of these two environments, they will deteriorate and expire at an astonishing speed. The creation that synthesized food and cost, which was just enough for us to sustain before, suddenly malfunctioned by such a coincidence."

"...This can't be a coincidence, it's something that is forcing you to go on a journey," Zuo Wu narrowed his eyes: "So, what reason did you ask me to cross the sea of ​​stars and meet here without hesitation? Woolen cloth?"

There was a long silence on Dite this time, until Zuo Wu’s scientific research team’s observation creation had been completely set up, and they began to spy on the dim star point seven light-years away before they sent a response :
"Because, Your Excellency Zuo Wu, to us, your appearance seems... like real players."

Are we like players?Zuo Wu was suddenly a little unreasonable. He only heard the name of the enemy who was almost impossible to defeat in Renlian and Taowumu's Great Wall nodes. How could he suddenly become himself?

And Shen Shen explained to Dite:

"It's a very simple reason - many stand-alone games start to change the world through the player's actions."

"This will appear in the mouth of the NPC. The situation is so urgent that the world will be destroyed almost in a second, but the players can still play and hang out in their leisure time, complete some side tasks, play cards and so on. Wait until they play That's enough, let's trigger the key to the next step of the mission, and the burning of destroying the world will continue."

"For us, you are equivalent to the players who triggered the event. Because you started to observe and triggered the event that is about to contact us, our life collapsed into reality, and one event after another appeared near us. We are only allowed to act normally by this world."

Zuo Wu pursed his lips: "So we are so important?"

"For us, that's true." There was a sound of clothes rubbing against Dite when he nodded: "It seems that meeting you has become our destiny and the meaning of our existence."

there.

At the beginning of the observation, Feng's projection appeared in front of Zuo Wu. It was winking, as if telling the result with its own expression.

The conclusion is that at present, it is not optimistic.To observe the current situation seven light years away, it is impossible to use optical creations to observe, otherwise, what is received will only be the optical signal seven years ago, and other means must be used.

The process is somewhat complicated. It is not difficult for experts to use the data in the physical examination report to evaluate the patient's physical condition. However, some rare hidden diseases still occasionally hide from the doctor's eyes.

The probability that the person talking to me is a simulated program has greatly increased.

Zuo Wu suddenly felt a little distressed, but quickly pressed the pain into his heart: "...If you are really a simulated program, why can you communicate with us through the Tingyi satellite of the man in gray?"

"This is our blind spot of knowledge," said to Dite, "It's okay to explain it, but... ha, it will be like nonsense. In essence, we may be relying on the program of the Tingyi satellite of the man in gray. As for who wrote us, and for what purpose, we really don’t know anything.”

Zuo Wu pursed his lips, turned his head, and looked at Feng's expression again, he still looked bitter and bitter, not bright at all that he was about to solve a certain problem.

For a moment, when the air seemed to be falling into an unbearable silence again, the person facing Dite suddenly said, "Actually, Your Excellency Zuo Wu, we originally planned to get you when we are about three to ten light-years away. , I asked you to observe us. This time, you opened the door and drove ahead of us."

Zuo Wu raised his eyebrows: "Why?"

"Because if we are a program and you are a player, if we lure you to a specific place with the false distance fabricated by the Tingyi satellite again and again, that is our innate destiny and mission... Haha, don't you think this is really boring?"

Speaking to the caller of Dieter, he suddenly covered the microphone, as if he was joking with his companion, and then let go of the hand covering the microphone: "Sorry, I thought of something interesting just now, I asked My partner has a question."

Zuo Wu tilted his head: "What?"

"I asked them, would they be happy with our journey? Your Excellency, guess what they answered?"

Zuo Wu shook his head: "Speak directly if you have something to say."

He seemed to hold back a smile to Dieter's correspondent: "One of my companions recited the love letter you wrote to us. It was very loud. Would you like to listen to it?"

The embarrassment came so quickly that Zuo Wu was a little caught off guard. He gritted his teeth and said bitterly: "What do my poems and my questions have to do with the present?!"

"Yeah, at least if we don't choose to go on this journey, we won't be able to hear this poem. Isn't poetry enjoyable? That's what our journey is about," said Tite, with a sudden change in voice Be a little firm:

"So, Your Excellency, if the purpose of our birth is to lead you to a certain place, we don't want to succumb to such a fate. When we are three to ten light-years away from you, we will speak out the request and know the truth .If we are false, we will turn back and start a new journey. Even if our world is false, the happiness we feel is not false!"

Zuo Wu was stunned and shook his head: "If you are programs, you may be cleared by your writers at any time."

"Resetting...isn't it the same as death?" Shaking his head at Dite: "It should be much better to die on the journey than to die after completing the mission. So, sir, what is the result? We can't wait."

Zuo Wu looked at Xiang Feng.

Feng seemed to be a little unbelievable about the observation results: "We didn't observe you from seven light-years away... but we observed two signals from [-] light-years and [-] light-years away."

"The one ninety light-years away is suspected to be the Liaoyuan Man, because there is a signal from the space whale over there; and the one fourteen light-years away... For you of Dieter, if you are real, then you should be away from us This signal point fourteen light-years away is right."

I was a little excited about Dite's voice: "That is to say, we are real? It's just that there is a mistake in the distance observation of the Tingyi satellite?"

however.

A voice of disapproval came clear, Zuo Wu and Xi martyrdom turned their heads together, and found that it was the beast stone of King Li'e.

King Lie drove her mecha, greeted Zuo Wu, and shook her head: "No, that's not right. The pair of Dite talking to us is a fake, it is indeed a program. The one fourteen light-years away is the real one." That's right, Dite... the people from Liaoyuan told me that my beast stone received a signal from Liaoyuan's headquarters."

"And, Your Excellency Zuo Wu, it is true that Dite is indeed coming towards us, but Liaoyuan promises that they have not exerted any influence on Dite."

"Really, to Dite, I really received the love letter written by you, Zuo Wu, to them. It seems that they finally received the human voice in the world of Silent Galaxy, and they want to come to meet you with great joy. .”

"Like Huaichun's lover."

(End of this chapter)