Hao Ren's thoughts went back not long ago, the moment before Zhuo Muxing reached the critical point and completely collapsed.
Nolan, the only NPC in Dreamland Ark, her special "soul" code prevented her from uploading to the crystal nucleus research station through the drone link, and there was not enough time at that time to establish a new one in the drone link. In the seemingly desperate situation, Hao Ren's only thought was to do everything possible to preserve Nolan's soul—since it couldn't be transmitted, then find a place nearby to preserve it.
Since the compatibility problem only occurs within the drone link, the data processing capability of the Giant Turtle Rock Station itself is sufficient to deal with this level of incompatibility, so Hao Ren's last attempt was possible: he put the Nolan downloaded it to the shipboard host of the Giant Turtle Rock Terrace.
Of course, the hasty download was still somewhat unsatisfactory. Nolan's soul was inevitably damaged after being downloaded to the host, which was mainly due to the compatibility. So until just now, the spaceship has been busy processing Nolan's data, and the data terminal is here for this. But in any case, the good news is that there are no serious problems in terms of memory and emotion. Nolan is an NPC herself, and her data itself has a high self-reorganization function. After some recovery and debugging, she finally recovered. .
Seeing the gray-haired girl walking back and forth restlessly on the holographic image, Hao Ren scratched his face and didn't know where to start to explain. He could only introduce this place first: "This is my spaceship—Giant Turtle Rock Terrace .”
"Your... spaceship?" Nolan's memory still stayed before Zhuom's destruction, and the last stage of her memory was spent in a daze, so she could hardly understand the current situation, "Why did you suddenly have a spaceship... ah I remember, the whole world... what happened to Droam?"
"Ahem," Hao Ren coughed dryly, "Before that, let's confirm your condition. How do you feel now? Are you in a trance or have lost your memory? Also, how is your surroundings?"
"Me?" Nolan looked down at himself, "I seem to be normal, but I don't know where this is. There is nothing here. I only see a lot of streamers floating around, other than that, humans. The house, the sky and the earth, all these things are gone... ”
As Nolan said, a trace of panic suddenly appeared in his eyes: "Could it be... the world is finally destroyed?"
"The Zhuomu in the real world has been swallowed by sunlight, it happened seven hours ago," Hao Ren switched the window, and transmitted a video file to Nolan's eyes. The latter, as a program body, originally did not need to use "eyes" to browse images, but in order to maintain the personality of "Nolan", the shipboard mainframe faithfully simulated her human functions, so Nolan still maintains the Human common sense and senses, Hao Ren saw a group of smaller holographic images appearing in the holographic image, Nolan looked at those images, his eyes gradually widened, "This is the image of its last moment."
Nolan watched as a gigantic, indescribable bio-mechanical hybrid burned in the sun as the entire planet disintegrated and fell into the sun. She exclaimed in shock: "Then I now..."
"Don't worry, I managed to save everyone's souls at the last moment," Hao Ren coughed lightly. "Hey, I have a perfect soul transmission technology here. It is more advanced than the technology used in Zhuomu's Ark. It can separate the soul from the material like extracting liquid, so there is actually no soul on the planet that fell into the sun." People'. You are now located on the Tanagus planet tens of billions of light-years away from Zhuomu, near a space station called the Crystal Nucleus Research Station, and this is my research facility."
Hao Ren casually mentioned the large-scale soul data link project, but Nolan was not stupid after all, and he still heard that something astonishing and beyond the understanding of ordinary people probably happened at that time. She had no way of knowing the reason behind this incident, so she could only accept it bluntly: "That is to say... before the last memory was burned, you transferred the data of the entire virtual world to another memory?"
Hao Ren nodded: "That's what happened."
"Is this new memory safe?"
"It must be safer than Zhuomu - the Crystal Nucleus Research Station will function normally even if it falls into a black hole."
That's when Nolan finally realized something was wrong. She looked around blankly: "But... where are the others? Why am I the only one here?"
Hao Ren folded his hands on the console and leaned forward slightly: "Nolan, do you... know how you are different from other people?"
"Different?" Nolan frowned, "You mean something that can retain reincarnation memories? Don't you also?"
"Retaining the memory of reincarnation is just an appearance. What I'm going to say next may not be easy to accept, but you must listen—"
As Hao Ren said, he paused for a moment before his face straightened: "If I tell you, you are actually not human..."
He told everything in as calm a tone as possible, even including the structure of the entire Droam's Ark and the causes and consequences of humans hiding in the virtual world ten thousand years ago, because only in this way can Nolan understand this situation better. Huge, long-term, grand plan, and what role she originally played in this plan. When she heard that the virtual world was built in the dream of an ancient primitive creature, Nolan couldn't help exclaiming, but when she heard that she was actually a monitoring program for a series of mechanical equipment used to maintain the dream, she remained dumbfounded state, unable to speak for a long time.
The number of times she lost her composure in just half an hour was even more than the number of times she lost her composure in the past hundreds of years in reincarnation.
After Hao Ren finished speaking, Nolan still didn't recover. He could only wake him up: "Nolan, Nolan, I'm done."
Nolan's expression was dazed for a moment. She took a breath, bit her lip and looked at Hao Ren at the other end of the screen. Now she finally realized what the window in front of her meant: it was the dividing line between the real world and the virtual world. The man on the other side is sitting in front of a certain device in the real world, and he... is still a string of data trapped in the virtual world, and this time the string of data is not even human.
"What you said is true?" Nolan's voice sounded abnormally calm.
Hao Ren spread his hands, "I don't need to lie to you."
"I'm actually just a... program?" Nolan bit his lip, "A program that was fabricated to monitor equipment?"
Hao Ren was speechless for a moment.
"So I actually have no parents, no family, no past, even these things never existed in the real world," Nolan thought of a lot at once, "so my memories are all virtual from the beginning..."
Nolan's reaction was reasonable. Anyone who suddenly realized that he was not a human being at all, but just a piece of code running in a certain machine, and that all the emotional experiences, preferences and memories since birth were actually all typed out by a certain programmer or a certain group of programmers. I am afraid that the mentality will not be much better after the string of characters. Nolan just sighed like this is already a manifestation of his will.
"In fact, as far as I am concerned, there is no difference between AI and human beings," Hao Ren knew that he should say something no matter what in this situation. He talked about his worldview-it was after becoming a censor. The broad vision produced by strange civilization forms and life forms, "being able to realize oneself and have one's own emotions, under this premise, beings with spiritual consciousness are actually the same, no matter whether they live in a carbon It's the same in a body or in a machine, it's no different at the level of the soul."
"Thank you for your reassurance," Nolan smiled bluntly, "but... this is hard to accept after all, isn't it?"
Hao Ren sighed: "Yes, it's quite hard to accept."
Seeing Hao Ren's embarrassment, Nolan took the initiative to change the topic: "Then let's not talk about it. You mentioned that you are trying to rebuild an ecosystem? If I understand correctly... you are like the Creator Same, have this power?"
"Ahem," Hao Ren almost coughed out his bronchus on the spot, "You're exaggerating, my model is far from the Creator, and I didn't do it myself to reshape the ecosystem. At best, I'm just an investment this time. Business: The kind that is only responsible for providing raw materials and venues.”
"Sorry, this matter is a bit beyond my imagination, and it's not easy to understand." Nolan smiled slightly, and then his face darkened again, "Emotions are really a strange thing. I should be happier, but knowing that I After it’s just a program for monitoring the system, it seems that reshaping the ecosystem has nothing to do with me.”
Facing Nolan's wry smile, Hao Ren could only sigh helplessly with Lily. (to be continued~^~)