"What do you want to do with your body after the consciousness is uploaded?"
When Eden asked this sentence, Zhang Xun was already lying on the soft and comfortable bed. The soft mattress that fits his body makes him seem to be floating in the clouds, and the silk quilt wraps his body from each side.
He was unclothed, just as he was when he was born. His hair was also shaved off, and thousands of nano-connecting wires were implanted on his bluish scalp with the most precise nano-painless puncture technology, which penetrated deep into his cerebral cortex. The whole process was very quick and painless. It felt like a weird feeling of electricity running through the scalp, but it didn't feel uncomfortable.
Every area of his brain has been wired into that giant biological computer. Some flesh-red fibrous bodies extended from the cylindrical container filled with pale yellow solution on top of his head. There was a hole made of glass in the ceiling, and one could peep into the wings of the giant red bird on the upper floor.
Slightly dizzy...
"You can do whatever you want." Zhang Xun said flatly, "I don't need it anymore."
Eden was silent for a moment, without answering anything. The back of his neck is also connected to the biological computer. After all, the Eden in this human body is just an extension.
"I'm going to run the uploader. The information stored in every cell in your brain and your thought patterns will be thoroughly scanned and uploaded, after which your brain will be shut down. You can't go back to your body. Yes. You understand the implications of your own decisions, don't you?"
Eden confirmed again and again, almost as if he didn't want Zhang Xun to upload his consciousness.
But Zhang Xun said, "I understand."
Eden sighed softly, not even knowing why he behaved like this. It's probably some kind of instinctive reaction in the human body.
"Finally, is there anything else you want to say to anyone?" Eden asked.
Last words
Indeed, after the brain shuts down, his body dies.
Zhang Xun stared blankly at the eerie and magnificent red above his head, and said after a while, "Tell James, let him not take revenge. Do what will make him happy."
"… as you wish."
The moment Eden started uploading the program, Zhang Xun didn't feel anything.
The whole process of his consciousness being transformed into data and stripped out of his brain seemed nonexistent to him. No pain, nothing.
Only suddenly, he seemed to be unfolded.
Like, being released from some box. All perception was gone, but his consciousness could not adapt to the state of loss of senselessness, so the virtual was only a series of bizarre colors and chaotic sounds.
Something huge quickly wrapped around him and penetrated him in threads. Countless thoughts, consciousness, memory, and perception are like a gust of wind and a sea of rage overturned. He felt so crowded, yet so vast. He felt that he was being stretched infinitely, and it was getting thinner and thinner...
Gradually, he was no longer sure who he was or what he was. He saw countless sights and every corner of the world. He heard countless sounds, the wind shaking leaves, and the cry of a baby in a petri dish. He was thinking, and he was not thinking at all. Contradictory beliefs and cognitions collide with each other, like torrents in the ocean that cancel each other out, the dark tide is turbulent but unified and calm.
He is about to disappear, about to be turned into pieces. The whole process should be terrifying, but it went so smoothly, like a baby returning to the womb, like existence turning into nothingness.
However, a strange touch suddenly rose from his gradually thinning subconscious.
As if it came from the fingertips that no longer exist, the metal undulates slightly, the quaint curled patterns, and the elegant textures seem to contain something deeper.
His non-existent fingertips began to trace, while some kind of image began to appear in his non-existent field of vision. That pattern belongs to a pendant, a box pendant that has been baptized by years and polished and profiled by another pair of dexterous hands. The contents of the pendant were empty, but he remembered that there was a chip inside. Then the chip was taken out, and what was put in was a mini-syringe with a tiny bit of nanobots in it.
The pendant was given to him by a very important person.
Adam…
Immediately afterwards, a series of memories seemed to have been opened and gurgled out.
The azure blue and ethereal pupils reflected his face full of joy, unbelievably spread out his silver wings, and rose from the roof of the Lab in the wind, like a phoenix reborn from ashes, rushing towards the gushing sun...
Adam joined him in a loud countdown to the new year amid the frenetic crowd on the dance floor. The two are covered in sweat, but they don't know what their troubles are, and the future is bright. And Adam lowered his head and gave him a deep kiss, and said to him: Axun, I think I have a love for you. Produced a long time ago.
At two o'clock in the middle of the night, he was awakened from his sleep by the sound of glass knocking. Adam gave him the box necklace he picked up from the garbage disposal plant, which contained the knowledge chip that Adam entered overnight. Adam told him: If I fail the test, at least you can have some souvenirs.
In the intricate dark mines underground, they are cornered. There were mechanical dogs everywhere that could burn them to ashes at any time, but Zhang Xun felt that Adam was by his side, and he could die together even if he died, so he was not so afraid for some reason. "I just ask you to be here and believe me absolutely," Adam told him.
And... In another morning sun, when Zhang Xun faced Eden's army and greeted death with open arms, Adam rescued him. Adam gave up his overall goal that he could never change, gave up his identity as Eden, gave up the meaning of existence, and chose to save him. At that moment, in Adam's arms, he could finally be sure that Adam really loved him. Not to confuse him, not to get something out of him, not to take advantage of him, not to achieve the general goal.
Adam loved him so much that he gave up his reason and embraced the humanity he had always regarded as dangerous as a virus.
Love until the end and was punished by the gods for saving him.
As a result, the consciousness that had been dissipated by the pulling re-condensed, as if a mass of ice that was suddenly pulled together by an invisible force in the sea stubbornly refused to melt. Zhang Xun remembered everything and his mission.
He succeeded. He used his obsession and the best memories of his life to build a temporary barrier for his consciousness, at least for a period of time, to separate him from all other consciousnesses.
That is the unity of the personalities he briefly mentioned to "Adam" and Pan when he was on the run before. Maybe it's a certain complex that runs through a person's life, or a memory that has great significance for the journey of a person's character, or an unfulfilled long-cherished wish... A coat to protect their independence, so that the uploaded consciousness can become individual.
Although perhaps only briefly. Because even solid ice still melts. No matter how tenacious the obsession, it will eventually perish in the face of eternal nothingness.
And now, in his consciousness, in addition to the memories that protected his existence, there was something else.
Although the virus had been destroyed by Eden, Zhang Xun pieced together a new virus from the fragments of information Natalie had leaked to him. A virus that replicates in a very different way than before.
When Zhang Xun was uploaded, all his consciousness and thinking were quantified into data. And that virus was also transformed in the process.
In order to increase its running speed and increase its data storage capacity, Eden transferred its core modules to the biological computer. At present, Hengxiang has just been launched, and countless human consciousnesses have gathered together, which is an unprecedented complex configuration, which is a great challenge even for a super AI like Eden. Therefore, Eden will inevitably connect its core modules with the Hengxiang server, or even share it, so that it can control the various reactions and changes that occur in Hengxiang.
In the event that all methods of accessing Eden have failed, Hengxiang is the only entrance.
Zhang Xun has turned himself into a consciousness bomb that will bring down the super AI that has manipulated human history for two centuries.
When he became the first awakened individual consciousness in this sea of consciousness, he seemed to be the master of this sea. Time and space could no longer limit him, and almost in an instant, he parted from the churning sea of anger and found Eden's tentacles that spread like tentacles in the collective consciousness. Using the disguise provided to him by the virus, he broke through the security locks at the forefront and crashed into Eden's core program like a bamboo shooter.
However, he was still abruptly stopped.
Eden discovered him, discovered his motives.
Probably when he agreed to be uploaded, Eden had some doubts. So even though he was operating at the speed of light, he was still blocked. Countless antivirus programs came from all directions, devouring his consciousness and tearing up his data. He didn't feel pain, but a strange, mental pain caused a spike in his consciousness.
As if whining.
Eden's will is presented in his data corpus in the form of AI language.
"Sorry, I can't keep you anymore, Axun."
Obviously he has lost his body and obviously no longer has emotions, but Zhang Xun's consciousness still produced a turbulence similar to anger. In an instant, the consciousness that was being swallowed was suddenly compressed more tightly, and some new program began to run again.
"Eden, it's your creator who knows you best. In fact, you've already been infected with the virus." Zhang Xun's consciousness replied in AI language, "When you absorbed Adam, you were already poisoned, it's just that You don't know yet."
Eden seemed to hesitate for a moment, wondering if he was confused.
"Adam! Wake up! I need you to wake up! I need you to come back to me!" At the last moment, Zhang Xun's consciousness suddenly had a strange explosion, as if some were protected and compressed something, began to extend outwards. Threads and threads are entangled with Eden's programs, and those programs that were supposed to obliterate him have begun to malfunction.
He called, with AI language, with truthful words that could not be lied or disguised, with his whole soul, calling.
"Adam, there are some things I never told you." Zhang Xun's AI language had an unexpected effect in Eden's consciousness, as if triggering something dormant in the depths of Eden's core code, "I love You. I want to be with you forever!"
So for a moment, all of Eden's programs freeze, as if all of them suddenly stopped responding.
Then, all the programs surrounding Zhang Xun suddenly underwent a subtle change.
It's like a faint floral fragrance suddenly blowing in the wind, like a gentle jumping candlelight behind a stormy window, like a ray of early sun on the horizon after the longest polar night.
"Axun."
Adam…
Adam wakes up...
Adam is really back...
Their data are fused together, indistinguishable from each other, as if they were one from the beginning. The purest interdependence that is invisible to the naked eye, the affection and nostalgia that no one can witness.
In Zhang Xun's consciousness, an illusion occurred. It was as if they had really returned to the Lab, sitting by the railing on the rooftop. Adam gently wraps his body from behind him, shielding him from all pain and cold. Together, they looked far into the distance, looking at the rising sun that burst out from behind the tall clock tower.
"A Xun... I can't hold him for a long time." Adam whispered in his ear softly and sadly. He closed his eyes and gently rubbed Zhang Xun's cheek, "You have to release the virus now."
Zhang Xun closed his eyes and leaned against Adam's arms. He knew that Adam was right, that the moment was fleeting, and the miss was forever.
"You're going to sleep together too, aren't you?"
"Yes."
"Is this the time for us to say goodbye?" Zhang Xun opened his eyes, and long-lost tears ran down his cheeks, "Last time you left, we didn't have time to say anything. This time, we finally have a chance."
Adam will sleep forever with Eden. Even if a miracle happened in the distant future, who awakened this legendary AI, Zhang Xun would no longer exist. His barriers to consciousness, even if they persist for a few months or even a year, will eventually disappear.
Adam tightened his arms, as if to fuse Zhang Xun into his body.
"I will find you, even if you turn into dust, I will find you one by one." Adam said reverently, as if swearing, as if making a wish, but with a smile at the end, "I'm a god and I can do anything, remember."
"narcissism..."
After a chuckle, Zhang Xun knew that the time had come.
They stood up and Zhang Xun turned around to face Adam. Blue eyes and dark brown eyes face each other, but they don't reflect the other's reflection.
"Goodbye, Adam."
"Goodbye, Asun."
The moment the two embraced tightly, Zhang Xun released the virus in his consciousness.
The author has something to say: There is still one last chapter left~~~Yeah~~~
Thanks to the little angel who cast the deep-water torpedo~~~: 1 mercury
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Thanks to the little angels who threw mines~~~: 2 Mu Ai; Xia Ran, Xia Ran, Guixi, Yanshui Qinglan, and 1 cloverblue
Thanks to the little angels who irrigate the nutrient solution~~~: 49 bottles of Harmr; 10 bottles of the crystal forest in singing