The night before the promotion

Chapter 45 Carbon-based shackles [Thanks to the leader of Dark·Unparalleled in the World]

The roar of the fall was like a loud bell.

Several attendants were crushed by the metal structure. There was a brief pause in the continuous gunfire, and the pressure Zhou Si faced was reduced.

But Zhou Si did not feel relieved. Blood flowed from his nose, his whites of eyes were bloodshot, and waves of heart-wrenching pain came from his mind, as if an electric drill was drilling into his temple.

Forcibly controlling the dual vision brought tremendous pressure to Zhou Si's mind, not to mention that he had to distinguish which part was his own vision and which part was provided by bt-24 under such conditions.

At the same time, Zhou Si also has to use this advantage to calculate the movements of the servants, counterattack them and avoid the rain of bullets.

If Zhou Si's brain was a computer, it would have been overclocked and overheated and was about to burn out.

The fire started and Zhou Si’s vision went dark for a moment.

At this moment, the pain in Zhou Si's mind quickly faded away, as if his spirit was on the verge of collapse.

The physiological instinct protects the self, the connection between consciousness and thoughts is automatically disconnected, and the consciousness falls into fainting.

In the darkness, Zhou Si once again thought of Chen Wen Ge and a conversation that he could not remember when it took place.

“As a chaotic system, the human brain has the characteristics of nonlinearity, dynamics, sensitivity to initial values, long-term unpredictability, self-organization and emergence.

These characteristics make the human brain a highly complex and versatile system capable of processing complex information, adapting to changing environments, and exhibiting diverse behavioral patterns.

Chen Wen Ge always speaks like this, full of professionalism and rigorous attitude.

"Now, decades have passed since the emergence of AI technology, but AI is still at the stage of weak artificial intelligence, and strong artificial intelligence is still a long way off. I think... maybe we can start with the human brain.

Think about it, Zhou Si, isn't our expectation for strong artificial intelligence the same as the chaotic system of the human brain? "

Zhou Si wondered, "Since the human brain has so much potential, why does it appear so limited when it comes to individual humans? Is it because humans haven't found the technique to develop the brain's capabilities yet?"

He joked, "Just like those novels and comics, is it possible that the human brain itself has shackles left by the Creator? As long as humans break them, they can gain super powers or something like that."

Chen Wen Ge was silent for a while, then shook his head and said, "I am more inclined to believe that the structural design of the human brain is like a nearly perfect ultra-large integrated circuit, an extremely sophisticated and powerful central processing unit that is ahead of its time."

"Unfortunately, the human brain, the central processing unit, is limited by the basic materials it is made of."

Zhou Si understood Chen Wen Ge's words. He asked tentatively, "Do you think that carbon-based flesh and blood restricts the functioning of the human brain?"

"Yes, the carbon-based body is like a material with huge electrical resistance. Every time we think and calculate, it will consume a lot of energy."

Chen Wen-Ge conceived, “Perhaps only by getting rid of the carbon-based body and completely electronicizing the human brain structure can we fully tap the potential of the human brain.”

At that time, Zhou Si didn’t care much about what Chen Wen Ge said, but now thinking back, he couldn’t help but wonder, if the human brain structure was completely electronic, would he be able to withstand the pressure of dual vision?

After a moment of darkness, Zhou Si's vision lit up again. Thanks to his strong resilience, he did not faint, but the severe pain in his head returned again.

Zhou Si lost consciousness for a few seconds, which seemed very short, but in this fierce confrontation, a few seconds of gap was enough to change many things.

There was a slight stinging pain on his face, as if something sharp had pierced his skin. Zhou Si blinked and a clear shattering sound came from the camouflage mask.

In the moment of losing consciousness, a bullet scraped the camouflage mask, shattering the mirror fragments it touched and causing a crack in its collapse.

In addition, Zhou Si also felt severe pain in his thigh. He looked out of the corner of his eye and saw blood oozing out from under the tattered cloth.

He was shot.

At this tense moment, being shot was not good news, not to mention that it was a bullet in the thigh, which greatly affected Zhou Si's ability to move.

He tried to swing out the narrow blade, relying on the recovery of the nanotubes, like a grappling hook, to drag himself out of the encirclement of the servants.

But as soon as Zhou Si raised the narrow blade, he felt exhausted in his body, like a sculpture covered with cracks, about to collapse into powder on the ground.

In just a few seconds, Zhou Si once again felt the limitations of his carbon-based body.

Even though Zhou Si's left arm is an extremely powerful armed incarnation, it is still supported by a human's carbon-based body. Zhou Si will get injured and feel tired.

The injury in his thigh and the exhaustion made Zhou Si kneel down involuntarily. He was like a criminal waiting to be killed, waiting for his servant to pull the trigger at his heart.

Suddenly, someone grabbed Zhou Si by the back of the collar and dragged him out of the fire net with force.

Zhou Si looked up. It was a servant. However, unlike the other servants, it didn't seem to intend to take his life. Instead, it wanted to save him.

Just as Zhou Si was puzzled, a familiar voice sounded from the attendant's speaker. "Good evening, Zhou Si."

Zhou Si suspected that he was hallucinating.

"Ms. Ruan?"

It is said that when people are near death, they can see the so-called revolving lantern, looking back on their lives and seeing again the things that they are obsessed with.

Zhou Si had imagined what he would see when he was dying. It could be the girl classmate from his childhood whose name he could no longer remember, or Ruan Linrui, his ex-girlfriend. After all, they did have a good time together. Or it could be the accident that killed the immortal who was only one step away from becoming an immortal...

He thought a lot, but he never imagined that when this moment came, it would actually be Ruan Linrui, although he only heard her voice.

After Ruan Linrui dragged Zhou Si to a shelter, she raised her rifle and fired back at the servants.

Her shooting skills were unexpectedly good. Every bullet hit the servants' heads with great accuracy. It was extremely efficient and not a single bullet was wasted.

Listening to the roar of guns beside his ears, Zhou Si murmured, "Am I hallucinating from the blood loss?"

"No, you bastard, it's me, I really came to save you!"

Ruan Linrui once again lifted Zhou Si up with one hand and moved him between various shelters, as if she was playing cat and mouse with her servants.

"Team Leader Li told me that you want to attack Golden Dreamland alone, and he hopes I can help."

Ruan Linrui explained the reason while running, "Before I could confirm the authenticity of the news, I saw from the background data that your artificial organs were overloaded."

"Oh? Is that so?"

Zhou Si didn't have a very detailed understanding of his artificial organs, he just knew that it could prolong his life to a great extent.

It seems that these artificial organs play an important role in enabling such high-intensity and sustained combat.

"So how did you get here?"

Zhou Si's consciousness was a little hazy, as if he was half asleep and half awake.

"What else could it be? Have you forgotten that I'm a hacker?" Ruan Linrui said coldly, "I followed the Golden Dreamland's network, hacked into this incarnation's body, and took control of it."

Ruan Linrui suddenly stopped firing and stopped talking. If Zhou Si visualized the cyber world, he would see that in the information world composed of codes, deadly codes from outer space penetrated into the bodies of the servants.

The steps of several servants paused, and then its body twisted uncontrollably, its electronic components overloaded and damaged, and it fell silently to the ground.

"Damn it, they found me."

Ruan Linrui spoke again and kept complaining. The hackers from the Paradise discovered Ruan Linrui's intrusion and stopped her network attack.

"Come to think of it, don't you have any ideas, Zhou Si?" Ruan Linrui asked Zhou Si after she fought back, "You were saved by your ex-girlfriend whom you hated. Wouldn't a man's self-esteem be damaged?"

Zhou Si perked up and tore off a piece of cloth from his white coat. "First of all, I've said it before, I don't hate you, I just have some..."

Ruan Linrui responded with Zhou Si's words, "It's just that I can't go back to the past and can't love anyone anymore?"

"Almost." Zhou Si took deep breaths repeatedly and tore open the cloth on the wound on his thigh. "Also, I'm not that narrow-minded and chauvinistic."

When his spirit was in danger and his arm was out of control, the mechanized left arm seemed reliable. Zhou Si put his left hand into the wound and felt around. The bullet was not deeply embedded and did not damage the main blood vessels.

Zhou Si endured the piercing pain and pulled out the bullet.

His face was pale and he was sweating profusely, but he still mustered up a little strength, rolled the torn cloth into a ball, and stuffed it into the wound.

This was the skill Pei Dong taught him. This wilderness survival expert always imagined various extreme situations. She once warned Zhou Si that when people were injured, stopping the bleeding was always the first priority.

Without waiting for Zhou Si to ease the pain, Ruan Linrui lifted him up again. Her rough movements hurt Zhou Si's wound, but fortunately Zhou Si was numb from the pain and didn't react much.

She ran wildly carrying Zhou Si, sometimes stopping to fire, sometimes falling completely silent, as if she was engaged in an invisible cyber attack and defense battle.

During this gap, Zhou Si grabbed the guns scattered on the ground and assisted in firing. As for Ruan Linrui's network attack and defense, Zhou Si felt that there was nothing to worry about.

Ruan Linrui is a talented hacker, otherwise she would not have become the director of the Information Security Department of Shenwei Technology at such a young age.

Otherwise...otherwise Zhou Si wouldn’t have met her.

(End of this chapter)