Nolan finally knew the truth about her memory retention in reincarnation, but this truth was not so pleasant to her.
Nothing is more unacceptable than knowing that the world is a false program, but knowing that you are also a product of the program. Although Nolan has the calmness and wisdom far beyond others, she is also unprepared for this fact.
"Actually, you don't need to be too entangled," Lily moved to the console to enlighten Nolan, "Oh, by the way, I haven't introduced myself just now—my name is Lily, and I will also help you when you 'move' this time. .I heard the landlord said about the things in your world. Human beings have been transformed into the virtual world, right? If you think about it this way, they are actually transformed into data. You are also data, and your soul is data. There is no difference between you clatter."
Hao Ren tilted his head and glanced at Lily. This husky can always help people when people don't expect it. Her open mind really adapts to the current situation.
Nolan just smiled when he heard Lily's words: "It's okay, you don't need to enlighten me specifically, I understand the truth, but it's just a little uncomfortable after suddenly knowing my background. When I first learned about the existence of the real world, I still thought about myself. What is it like in reality, and I also thought about what kind of life I lived before entering the virtual world... But now it seems that this is really too much. Did my life start when the virtual world was turned on? "
"All the Zhuomu people are on the same starting line. That planet has been completely burnt down on the material level, and everyone has only data left. You are no different from them in this regard," Hao Ren reminded aloud, but also I have to admit Nolan's other statement, "However, the lack of a 'past' is indeed a problem. After waking up, the Zhuom will recall all their lives until the ten-year period of entering the virtual world, but your memory... Sorry, the beginning It's really 0 and 1."
Nolan lowered her head, and she couldn't see what she was thinking from the expression on her face. After a long time, she finally raised her face: "It doesn't matter. Any kind of life is life, at least I'm still alive. It's better than dying in the world Doomsday is stronger. Compared to this... what will happen to me in the future?"
When this topic was finally mentioned, Hao Ren suddenly felt like he was sitting on pins and needles. He shook his body uneasily, and Nolan keenly caught this movement: "Could it be... what else happened to me?"
"According to the original plan, you should be with other Zhuom people. After the eldest son reshape the ecological circle, you can also get a new body with them and enter the real world, but there is a small problem in this process..."
Hao Ren watched Nolan's face while talking. After seeing the latter's calm attitude, he broke his heart: "Because your data encoding is not compatible with the drone link, I can only forcefully store you on my spaceship host, and during this storage process you The soul of the ship was damaged to a certain extent, and now the host computer of the spaceship has recoded the damaged part, the good news is that you survived because of this, the bad news is... you have become a part of this ship."
Nolan opened his eyes wide, as if he didn't quite understand what he meant.
"In other words, you have now changed from the mechanical AI of the Ark of Dreams to the mechanical AI of the giant turtle rock platform, because the soul is incomplete. Now it relies on calling public data in the spacecraft to maintain its operation, which is equivalent to Programs that can only run in a specific system environment, you can’t get out of this system now.” Hao Ren told the other party the matter as plainly as possible, “The situation of defects and complements is very complicated. It is difficult to solve this problem non-destructively with conventional technical means. Question, in order to prevent secondary damage to your soul, I cannot perform the stripping operation on you for the time being."
The astonished expression on Nolan's face gradually receded after more than ten seconds. She looked around uneasily—what she saw was not the scene in the control room of the spaceship, but the bizarre scene seen from the perspective of a built-in program in the main engine of the spaceship. data world. She muttered to herself: "I'm going to be stuck in this place from now on?"
"It shouldn't be permanent." Hao Ren told the other party the best situation. "The soul has the function of self-healing. This kind of self-healing is more subtle than any artificial intervention. Maybe one day your soul will replenish itself. Then Then I'll be able to separate you from the ship."
Nolan quietly listened to Hao Ren's words, but suddenly asked a seemingly irrelevant question: "Do I have a soul too?"
Hao Ren nodded as a matter of course: "Of course you do. Didn't I say it several times just now, you have a soul."
"Oh... so AI also has a soul..." Nolan murmured to himself, but since she is only a part of the spacecraft system now, this whispered soliloquy was automatically amplified by the ship's main engine, and Hao Ren could still hear it clearly Chu.
Nolan seemed to have noticed this too, she frowned awkwardly, then changed the subject with a smile: "Anyway, the matter has come to this point and I can only accept it. But what should I do next? What can I do here? What to do? This empty place... has it always been like this?"
Hao Ren was about to speak, but a voice that no one expected suddenly broke in: "I'm just curious, you laymen have been studying for a long time, why didn't anyone think of asking an expert? This machine is very good at this. !"
Hao Ren looked back, and saw a blue light flying out of the console slot, and the data terminal rushed to the holographic projection and began to shout loudly: "Hey, newcomer! From now on, we will be colleagues Ha. No matter how many years of human experience you have before, it has to be cleared since you became a plug-in on the host. Today, this machine will tell you some truths as an elder... "
Nolan was stunned by the sudden appearance of the alloy brick: "This... what is it?"
Hao Ren poked the shell of the data terminal, causing it to do somersaults in the air: "You've seen it, this is Patty—'she' looks like this in the real world."
"This machine looks much more handsome than before!" Zhong Zhuan turned around triumphantly, "Look at the ridges of this machine, look at these corners of this machine, look at the SpongeBob SquarePants on the shell of this machine... Why is there SpongeBob SquarePants on the shell of this machine!"
Lily took half a step to the side: "I want to say that it was posted by a bat... You don't seem to believe it."
Hao Ren looked at the terminal in surprise: "Can't you see the decals on your shell?"
"This machine suddenly found this function, can't it!" The terminal yelled loudly, and suddenly woke up, "Hey wait, listen to your tone... Damn, do you often put decals on the shell of this machine?!"
Hao Ren immediately looked at Lily in silence: this husky with a big brain is the only one who usually puts stickers on the terminal.
Nolan stared dumbfounded at the scene in front of him, and thought for a long time before he remembered who "Patty" was. The poor-fated blond girl in his memory couldn't coincide with the chattering alloy brick in front of him: "You turned out to be a ... By the way, what is this?"
Hao Ren held up the terminal and showed it to Nolan: "This thing is called a data terminal. Everyone in my line of work has one. It can be regarded as a work assistant. It was sent out in the first month of work."
Nolan murmured, "Is this really posted at work?"
The data terminal jumped out of Hao Ren's hand and dangled in front of Nolan's eyes: "Just look at it, look at it, isn't this machine smoother than that blonde girl before? And you don't have to worry about it when you see this machine AI is not AI, right? This machine looks like this when it comes off the production line. It has always been an AI. Do you see that this machine is still alive and well? If it’s not a human, it’s not a human. I’ll tell you when this machine has a chance The benefits of being AI…”
The data terminal balabala said a lot of things, which made Nolan stupefied. Hao Ren slapped his forehead and realized one thing: No matter how much he and Lily tried to persuade Nolan to be more open, it was actually useless. The most useful thing is to let the data terminal show Nolan the superiority of AI. To put it bluntly, there are actually two reasons for Nolan's depression after suddenly knowing that he is not human. One is the confusion about his own identity, and the other is the sudden loneliness.
Now that the terminal jumps out, she is considered companion.
And after Nolan managed to recover from the balabala on the terminal, the first thing he did was to look at Hao Ren. His eyes made the latter feel uneasy, and Hao Ren scratched his face: "What... are you looking at?"
Nolan had a delicate expression on his face: "It's nothing, I just find it incredible that your female partner was a dead person at first, then became a senior cerebral thrombosis, and now she's even turned into a brick... Your life has always been so wonderful Is it?"
Hao Ren: "...it's really been so wonderful." (to be continued~^~)