It was as if he had arrived at a world outside the tower through a teleportation stone tablet. When Bai Wu opened his eyes, what he saw was a blood-red mountain of garbage.
This twisted soul is easy to correct. In a sense, it has not yet reached the level that can be described as "twisted" because it is just the early stage of the Lao virus. In the world you go to, as long as you can understand the corresponding things of all things, you can solve this problem.
Just like entering a new scene, the notes will always give some general hints.
There were many broken mechanical wreckages piled up on the garbage mountain. Unlike the garbage mountain in the mechanical city in the real world, the wreckage here was dripping with oil and was more crowded, so that the garbage piles on both sides looked more spectacular.
It seemed that everything in front of me looked the same as the surroundings, except for the red filter and the zeros and ones that popped up in the air from time to time.
Bai Wu then realized that if he looked carefully, he would find that this was not a spiritual world, but a data world.
But he quickly refuted a point, because the scene was too real and he felt that the atmosphere was similar to the last time he went to Zaohu Village.
"No, this should be the spiritual world."
Data makes this originally real world appear to be fragmented.
So much so that Bai Wu couldn't tell whether this world was a spiritual world or a data world.
Bai Wu originally thought that he would experience a distorted other world. After all, his eyes mentioned distortion, but everything here was very detailed.
The debris was piled up on either side like the sides of a canyon.
Nothing seemed to have changed, except for the staggering amount of debris.
Occasionally, people's cries could be heard in the distance. When Bai Wu looked in the direction of the sound, he found... he could not see anything at all.
But when Bai Wu turned around and looked elsewhere, he could see some shadows.
Those shadows seemed to be a group of mechanical people. They turned their backs to the white fog and walked towards the distance like zombies. Finally, they were submerged in the garbage mountain and seemed to be connected to the wreckage on both sides.
At this moment, a convoy of dozens of motorcycles whizzed past. But the countless zeros and ones on the outlines of the motorcycles stood out.
These people who were suspected to be Steel Tooth Pirates were all wearing black clothes and seemed to be attending a funeral.
The Steel Tooth Pirates quickly disappeared into the white fog.
Bai Wu felt that all this was strange, because the hint mentioned by the eyes was -
My old friend, how can I observe if there is nothing? Although we all see many things and see scenes that seem real, nothing here is real.
The soul is placed in flesh and blood, and if it is placed in a machine, when the program is running, the soul will be transformed into data in order to match the machine. But in the digital world, everything is for the pursuit of correctness.
Humans are prone to making mistakes, and if data is wrong, it won’t work. There is an anomaly in this world, and if you find it, all problems will be solved—with therapist Ayan.
It was a very strange passage, so strange that Bai Wu felt that the world had become even more vague. Was it a world of consciousness or some data world
Is the picture that this world sees a world composed of 0s and 1s, or does this world already exist but gradually has a string of abrupt data
“If the data is wrong, it won’t work…”
Thinking about the words mentioned by his eyes, Bai Wu had a vague idea of how to solve the problem.
Just like a piece of code, if it is wrong, the program will eventually show an error and fail to run.
But human beings are different. They will have contradictory behaviors such as "I was wrong but I will do it again next time" and "knowingly there is a tiger in the mountain but still going there".
But if the soul and data are merged, there will be contradictions. The more emotional a person is, the greater the contradiction will be.
Bai Wu vaguely felt that perhaps the origin of the Lawu virus was the mismatch between the soul and the mechanical body
So, as a member of the mechanical race, you are destined to not be able to become a twisted soul corrector. Maybe this profession was specially set up by Zero for humans
Bai Wu shook his head. Now was not the time to think about this problem.
"I have to find a way to find the source of the abnormal data that the eye mentioned."
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The white mist began to slowly wander in this half-data, half-spiritual world.
The world seemed huge, and as he followed the path through the garbage mountain, he began to wonder about something strange.
There are many rules outside the tower, and under some strange rules, many ordinary things will become incredible.
Looking at the garbage debris on both sides, Bai Wu suddenly felt confused.
"If the wreckage is the body of the machine race... then assuming that the machine race recognizes itself as human, doesn't that mean that the people of the outer city live in an environment full of the bodies of their companions?"
"Everyone in the inner city lives in a huge environment made of the bodies of similar creatures..."
Bai Wu had no way of being afraid, so he couldn't feel creepy. But this was indeed a terrifying discovery.
If the wreckage is imagined as flesh and blood, then these wreckage are not only the materials for creating the mechanical race, but also the materials for creating the mechanical city.
So Bai Wu quickly thought of a terrifying scenario—
What he saw was not mechanical wreckage, but a human body. The entire inner city was the body of a giant.
Many tiny humans live inside the giant. The giant's organs are floating in the sky, connected by countless blood vessels. Many humans also want to transfer to the organs by climbing the blood vessels.
Then he thought of a question a child had asked him when he was a child - Bai Wu, if you cook dog meat and feed it to a dog, will it eat it
The child seems cute when he says these things, but if you expand on the questions he asks, they are actually very scary.
Or to put it another way, if stones had souls, would stones build houses with other stones
This problem is very similar to the Mechanical City at this moment.
This made Bai Wu certain of one thing—the cognition of the souls of the mechanical race had been modified by someone.
They use machines as their bodies or as building materials without any psychological burden. They are not afraid of it.
This is actually very abnormal.
This is abnormal, just like humans thinking that there is no difference between the flesh and blood growing on their bodies and being placed on a dinner plate.
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While thinking about all these things in his mind, Bai Wu had unknowingly arrived at the wanderer town.
Unlike the blood-red color of the garbage mountain, this town looks golden for some reason.
Looking at the entrance of the town, a note popped up in Bai Wu's eyes.
Please always remember that everything in the spiritual world has symbolic meaning. In addition, you think this world is big, but this world is not big. You have come to the town to solve the puzzle. Please carefully observe the purest architecture in the town.
It was another piece of information like a riddle. Bai Wu didn't care and walked into the town. He found that there were a lot of homeless people in the town, so many that it was a bit weird and exaggerated.
The main streets of the town were almost completely packed with people, and even the alleys were packed with people. It was hard for Bai Wu not to wonder whether these homeless people symbolized "abnormally piled up" data
Unlike in reality, the bodies of the homeless people all have graffiti in four different colors, and the graffiti content has no rules. But the colors are nothing more than gold, red, purple, and blue.
On almost everyone's body, the blue graffiti was incomplete, and compared to the outlines of other colors, it stood out like a pizza with a slice taken away.
It is worth mentioning that the proportion of golden graffiti is unusually high.
Bai Wu looked at the homeless people coming and going, almost filling up the streets of the entire town, and seemed to have guessed something.
He began to observe the buildings and soon spotted the familiar red hotel.
On the outskirts of the real Mechanical City, the Red Hotel was where he and Xie Xingzhi temporarily lived, and he decided to take a look inside the hotel.
Walking into the Red Hotel, Bai Wu saw the electronic calendar pasted on the wall of the hotel. If you look closely at the periphery of the date, you can find a long stretch of 1s and 0s.
Date is very important data for machinery. If the date is changed without authorization, many serious problems may occur.
The note that popped up in his eyes made Bai Wu sure that although there was no problem with the date, it seemed to foreshadow something.
There is no problem with the date. The thoughts and behavioral logic of the master of this world did not stop on a certain day. It was just because of some emotions that could not be resolved that some data became bloated.
Although there is no problem with the date, it can help you observe the town carefully. This is an important prop. As I continue to talk about it, I will no longer call myself the riddle teller, but a reference answer.
There was no clue about the date, and the questions from the examiner, Ayan, became more and more obscure, but Bai Wu was not in a hurry. The style of Prell's Eye matched the subconscious of the sequence owner.
He was sure that he would soon find the answer to the puzzle thanks to some clues.
Bai Wu came to the second floor of the Red Hotel.
On the second floor, Bai Wu found that the doors of every room were open. When he walked out of a room, he found a piece of red graffiti on his body, like a broken puzzle.
Looking at the red graffiti, Bai Wu smiled. The answer became clearer. He happily left the Red Hotel and went to explore elsewhere.
Soon, Bai Wu found a blue hotel on the other side of the wanderer town.
He was not surprised, but still recalled what he had seen in real life.
"When Xie Xingzhi and I came here, we didn't find the Blue Hotel. It seems that this can be said to be a very obvious clue."
In reality, there is indeed a red hotel in the wanderer town, because the walls are painted red and because the hotel itself is called Red.
But there is no Blue Hotel in reality. Bai Wu is still very confident in his Survey Corps' standard memory.
He felt that something was fishy here, so before walking into the blue hotel, he looked around and discovered that there were hotels of other colors.
The Golden Hotel, the Purple Hotel, and the four hotels were actually distributed in four corners.
So for the next half an hour, Bai Wu spent time observing several hotels, because these hotels with a single color looked suspicious.
After observing these hotels, Bai Wu actually made a discovery.
Gold, purple, blue, red. Among the twenty-seven rooms in the four hotels, one room in one hotel was closed.
The doors of all rooms in all other hotels can be opened.
At this moment, Bai Wu was standing outside the closed room on the second floor of the Blue Hotel.
The room number is S-07.
The red house starts with A, the gold house starts with H, and the purple house starts with F.
After combining all the information, Bai Wu became more and more certain of his guess:
"Four hotels and twenty-seven rooms... I know what they correspond to. But how did these data become bloated? If the population is bloated data, and the graffiti on the body represents emotions... then how did these populations increase little by little?"
"Something strange must have happened in this town. Why is there so much golden graffiti?"
Bai Wu actually already has ideas for solving these problems.
"The notes mentioned that everything in the spiritual world has symbolic meaning. Another meaning of this sentence is that everything here has a corresponding function. And the notes mentioned that the calendar is an extremely important prop."
Bai Wu quickly found the calendar. He took it down from the wall and began to adjust the time on the electronic calendar.
When the white fog moved the time back three hours, the sky had indeed changed significantly.
Everything was just as he had guessed, the calendar could change time.
He continued to change the time, using one-hour increments. After each increment, he would stop for a few minutes to observe his surroundings.
The homeless people's behavior is no different from in reality. Some play cards, some fight, some slack off. If the population were not too dense, everything would seem normal.
When the white fog adjusted the time to night... something strange happened.
From the outskirts of the town, a group of mechanical homeless people painted white poured in from the direction of the garbage mountain and other unknown directions.
At this moment, Bai Wu finally knew all the answers.
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Steelfang Pirate Stronghold.
A group of Steel Tooth Pirates were at a loss as to what to do when they saw Gao Tianhou and Bai Wu had already entered the data link state.
The Lawu virus is a very scary virus. It is okay in the early stages of infection, but in the late stages, all emotions seem to disappear, leaving only a single emotion. The whole person will go crazy and may even turn into a monster.
Moreover, it is extremely dangerous to establish data links with people infected with the Lawu virus, with an infection rate of over 50 percent.
As for those men and women who are addicted to data fusion and information exchange, if one of them is infected with the Lawu virus, the other will be infected 100%.
So far, the only case of people infected with the Lawu virus has been death, and there has been no case of recovery.
So both Xie Xingzhi and the Steel Teeth Pirates' motorcycle thugs were very nervous.
Especially Xie Xingzhi, if Bai Wu can cure the Rawu virus, then Bai Wu’s value to the entire Mechanical City and to Zero might exceed that of the Xie family…
He was in a dilemma for a moment. He hoped that Bai Wu could cure the Lawu virus, but he also hoped that Bai Wu was just fooling Gao Tianhou.
They were nervous for about an hour. Bai Wu and Gao Tianhou seemed to have entered some kind of dormant state, so that everyone gradually became a little anxious.
Just when they couldn't help but want to forcibly break the connection and pull Bai Wu away, Bai Wu and Gao Tianhou both opened their eyes.
Xie Xingzhi's heartbeat suddenly accelerated. At this moment, Gao Tianhou felt his inner emotions and said in shock:
"I... I'm fine?"
(I haven't finished writing it yet, but I don't have time later, so I can only release it first. This chapter is just full of plot holes, which is a little difficult to understand. The next chapter should be able to fill in the holes.)