When the originally calm sky and the sea suddenly surged and the waves were surging, Lian Runing knew that the world finally heard what she said.
In the past, although she had such an idea and had communicated with Wen Shanggao in a veiled manner, she and Wen Shanggao were both original characters, so even if the world knew that they were bugs, there was no way to fix them.
She also found by analyzing the data of the apostles who died suddenly, they all died when they tried to reveal their secrets. So she believes that there are "monitors" on the apostles, and there will be no "bugs" in monitoring the apostles. Once there is something wrong, they will obliterate the other party.
So, when she comes into contact with the apostles and tries to expose what she already knows, will she be wiped out
Therefore, she has always avoided direct communication with Hao Jian on these matters, because she did not want to sacrifice herself and Hao Jian at the same time.
Although the wind was strong and the waves were more than one meter high, the strange thing was that she didn't feel it at all. In front of her eyes, streaks of blue light appeared, and then just like snowflakes and blurry screens caused by poor signal on the TV, the sky, sea, and plants and trees all appeared blurry screens.
She felt that something was changing behind her, and she turned around abruptly. Lian Rumeng, Hao Zuo, You Xiaoxiao, and others gradually disappeared in front of her eyes, and only Hao Jian was left struggling to get up from the hospital bed.
Hao Jian's anesthetic effect has not yet passed, but she was reminded by the system that what Lian Runing did would be very dangerous, so she got up with difficulty between half asleep and half awake, and planned to find Lian Runing.
However, what she didn't even know about the system was that Lian Runing saw the memories that she had hidden in her deep consciousness.
How did she meet Lian Ruling, how did she know each other, how did she fall in love, and how did she reach the end of her life.
Although Lian Runing could dream a small part of these things, she only saw the whole picture for the first time today. In Hao Jian's incomplete memory, she accounts for almost 80%...
Seeing the last scene of the two of them getting along was also the most profound scene in her dream—it revealed how she and Hao Jian were separated from Hao Jian's perspective, and her tears finally flowed uncontrollably.
Suddenly, a figure rushed over and broke through everything in front of her, as if the glass had been smashed, and then she walked out of it and hugged herself tightly.
"Little Junior Sister, I don't want to stay in the world without you."
What if Lian Runing is only the data extracted from her memory, what if it is not the original Lian Runing, and she is not who she was before her death, why should she be attached to the real Lian Runing? She just wanted to grab the Lian Ruling in front of her!
Lian Ru Ning could feel the strength of the hug on her body, and she could also feel Hao Jian's heartbeat. She didn't know what was going to happen next, and she only raced against time to cherish the last time she spent with Hao Jian.
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top ten!
After Tucker's death, "2018" can see that there are only ten contestants left on the leaderboard, and Hao Jian happens to be in ninth place!
She did it, and so did he!
"2018" was very excited, but he knew that it was because of Lian Ruling that when Tucker was disqualified due to the detection of his awakening by the central processing terminal system, it was like being poured cold water, and he calmed down all of a sudden.
Lian Runing is Hao Jian's weakness. If the central processing terminal system wants to eliminate Lian Runing's bug, then Hao Jian will be desperate.
But although he also hoped that Hao Jian could go further, he couldn't ignore Hao Jian's mood, so he could only remind Hao Jian and tell him what happened to Lian Runing.
He knew that Hao Jian was sleeping, but it was not difficult for him to wake Hao Jian.
Sure enough, as soon as Hao Jian heard that Lian Runing was dangerous, even if his consciousness was still chaotic, he could get up from the hospital bed, and even though his leg was injured, he still ran towards Lian Runing at the fastest speed.
However…
"What's the matter, the data body has not awakened, but the virtual body has awakened?" The audience watching Tucker's game talked a lot, and the committee also held an emergency meeting for this.
It's just that when they held a meeting, the central processing terminal system spontaneously started to take action and began to deal with Lian Ruling.
But it suddenly stopped again, because the virtual character Lian Runing is quite special:
When the multi-dimensional information space, the central processing terminal system and the personal terminal system were developed, and the data body was used as a PC to launch a league and publicity, in order to stabilize the data body, there would be no parameter errors due to changes in the environment. Set them up with the person or thing they care about the most...
Just like when a person goes to an unfamiliar place, his emotions will undergo obvious and dramatic changes. If there are people around him that he relies on, trusts, or there are things he is good at that can divert his attention, then his emotions will be greatly affected. steadily stabilized.
Building a complete world requires the stability of data, so... Lian Runing is a stable element to Hao Jian.
That is to say, on the premise that Hao Jian is not awakened and does not violate the rules, if the central processing terminal system handles Lian Ruling, then Hao Jian's data will be unstable. In this way, it is not good for "2018" Fair.
The committee believes that their game is fair, and the law protects the personal property of "2018". In order to prevent the central processing terminal system from automatically erasing Lian Ru Ning and affecting Hao Jian, they must suspend the game and discuss first. The results.
And they also wanted to know why such a thing happened to Lian Ru Ning's body, obviously it was the real data body that was most likely to be awakened, not the virtual body that was completely virtualized.
"2018" breathed a sigh of relief, and he saw the audience also start talking.
Some people think that Lian Ruling's awakening is like AI's self-awareness, which is bound to threaten them and affect their daily life.
Some people refuted that Lian Ruling's influence was limited, and she could not pose a threat to any real human being, because the way she "killed" Tucker was through the defense mechanism of the central processing terminal system, that is to say, the central processing The terminal system is like a firewall, and even Lian Ruling cannot pass through the firewall.
Others support the theory that "intelligent AI with self-awareness is a living body", so they feel that Lian Ruling can already exist as a living person, because she seems to have spied the truth.
But some people are curious, how did Lian Runing know the truth
If she extracted it from the data of Hao Jian, then why did Hao Jian not wake up, but she did
Just as these people were discussing, the committee was also discussing, and at the same time, this matter reached the ears of the Federation at an extremely fast speed.
"2018" doesn't know what discussions took place within the committee. He only knows that he was originally opposed to "awakening" - after all, the decision of these committees to destroy the data of the awakened data body in the multi-dimensional information space by the central processing terminal system, And now the committee members are now all silent.
Only the chairman of the committee, the chairman of the league organizer, has now stepped forward and announced the outcome of the discussion.
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In the Nanhai Maritime Security Base, Wen Shanggao received a satellite phone, and the correspondent's voice came from it: "Chairman, Tucker is dead, Lian Runing and Hao Jian... disappeared."
"Disappear? What do you mean by disappearing?!" Wen Shanggao pinched the satellite phone, his blue veins were violent, and his knuckles were white.
"Even if it disappeared, Lian Rumeng's younger sister, Lian Rumeng, doesn't know. She and the rest have no impression of them disappearing."
"Didn't I watch the other party disappear with my own eyes?" Wen Shanggao asked again.
"Well, no one of them saw these two disappear, but our people searched the island and found no trace of them. It is also possible that they were swept into the sea by the wind and waves... "
Wen Shanggao didn't know why, but his heart suddenly became empty. He hung up the phone and suddenly remembered the vision he had just seen. It was a vision that happened shortly after he learned that Hao Jian was injured and sent personnel to support him.
When the vision disappeared and everything calmed down, he asked the people around him, but no one noticed what happened. So he thought, is it because he knows the truth of the existence of this world and is out of the control of the world, so he can see...
So will this matter have something to do with the disappearance of Hao Jian and Lian Runing
He didn't think Hao Jian was dead. After all, the bodies of those hosts who were obliterated by the rules were still lying in the research institute!
At this time, the people below came to report that Le Yan was back.
Wen Shanggao squinted his eyes and went to see Leyan. When he saw that Leyan's face was only slightly bruised and embarrassed, but there were no more wounds, he asked, "Where are the two brothers?"
"Isn't my return enough to explain everything?" Le Yan said.
Wen Shanggao stared at her for a moment and saw that the "2" on the back of Leyan's hand had changed to "1" again.
Le Yan followed his gaze and asked, "Do you know the reason?"
"Tucker is dead." Wen Shanggao said concisely.
Le Yan suddenly realized: "So, he was the one who was in front of me. Then... Who killed it?"
"do not know."
Le Yan pondered for a while and asked, "Have you seen the vision that happened before?"
Wen Shanggao's brows moved, and Leyan knew that he saw it.
"You know the reason." Le Yan affirmed.
Wen Shanggao lowered his eyes for a moment before raising his eyes: "Then you just need to protect your own safety."
After finishing speaking, Wen Shanggao left, and Leyan quickly came back to it. What Wen Shanggao meant was that he was going to start making big moves, so that he could help her to the end with a high probability.
But didn't he choose Hao Jian
Could it be... Hao Jian is dead
Le Yan didn't ask, because she knew that Wen Shanggao would not tell her.
In the following year, Kelly was killed, and Zhong Qingming was bitten by an evolved zombie and turned into a zombie. Le Yan doesn't know how many hosts there are, after all, the number on the back of her hand has not changed.
She has been doing research all these years, and it's not that no one came to kill her, but because of her new authority, once she hides, no one can find her, so she is relatively safe.
However, perhaps because Wen Shanggao was too arbitrary in deploying these matters, and he disobeyed the orders of those big men several times, his power has been continuously weakened this year.
It's just that the thin and dead camel is stronger than Ma. Wen Shanggao made sure that she was safe and sound in the research institute, and the official did not embarrass her because of her value.
And she has been inquiring about the whereabouts of Hao Jian and Lian Runing this year, although she thinks that the other party should be more fortunate. That's right, it means that the vision is related to them, so their existence was obliterated.
But unknown things are always worth exploring. She didn't know whether Hao Jian and Lian Runing would really be wiped out. Because of the unknown, she felt that they had one more possibility of surviving.
However, Le Yan's system, numbered "1037", told her that she was already the only host in the world, and she won a victory with it.
Le Yan was stunned, and then a little confused.
So she is the so-called winner
Why does she feel so unreal
In fact, she never recalled anything related to her memories during her lifetime. The reason why she knew the truth of this world was only by collecting information from others and analyzing it.
But when she became the only real human being in the world, she didn't feel real.
She asked the system: "I won, then what?"
The system asked her: "What do you want?"
What does Leyan want
She was only interested in research all her life, and later found out that the world was false. She had been passive, but later became very interested in this world.
When she completely solved the riddle of the world, she didn't know what she wanted.
Does she want to know the real self? This is impossible, because the system will not allow her to express her true thoughts, otherwise she will end up like other hosts.
But if she backed away because of fear, wouldn't she go against her original intention
Everything seems to be back to square one.
Leyan returned to the scientific research center in the university town, and then she recalled the conversation with Hao Jian. At that time, she thought that everyone including her was virtual, and then she wanted to get rid of the control of the world, Make yourself an independent "person".
But Hao Jian's opinion was different from hers. Hao Jian refused to cooperate with her and said, "The truth you are looking for is not the truth I want to know."
And what is the truth that Hao Jian wants
Leyan didn't understand until now that what Hao Jian wanted was the well-being of this world. Even though she knew that apart from her, her relatives and friends were fake, her feelings for them were real, so she chose this world.
Initiate is the most important. Leyan recalled her original intention, she abandoned all distractions and disturbances, and then she found that she actually did not want the world to be destroyed because it was built by data.
Although she doesn't care about anyone, she has research she loves, doesn't she? Her tasks are all related to research, which is enough to show that she has always been on the front line of research during her lifetime.
"I want the world to return to normal," Le Yan said.
The system replied to her: "Your request has been granted."
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In July 2021, the National Academy of Sciences issued a statement that researchers have developed antibiotics that can effectively resist zombie virus infection, and further research can produce drugs. After taking this drug, even if bitten by a zombie, it will not turn into a zombie, but it may leave some chronic diseases.
In 2023, on the basis of the previous antibiotics, researchers strengthened drug research again, and finally developed a preventive vaccine, which not only will not become zombies after being bitten by zombies, but also sterilize the cells in its body, so that it will not stay behind. What is the effect of chronic disease.
As early as 2022, after the first batch of medicines were produced, the guard team members took it first, and then the official began to clean up the evolved zombies on a large scale. No new zombies appeared, and the number of zombies fell off a cliff, which can be said to be effective Significantly.
Afterwards, the emergence of preventive vaccines was widely promoted, and even fewer people were accidentally bitten by zombies and had sequelae.
The zombies have also dropped sharply in the two years of eradication operations. By the end of 2023, the major cities have restored social order: the civil communication that has been blocked for nearly five years has been restored, and the survivors have returned to themselves. home, began to look for a new life; factories started, government departments began to resume operations, people began to look for jobs, resume production...
The apostles who once appeared were gradually forgotten by people with the disappearance of Leyan.
They did not completely forget the existence of the apostles, but when the official announcement was made that there were no apostles in the world, the heated discussions and farces about the apostles that had been caused also cooled down.
For ordinary people, it seems that there is no change in their lives with or without apostles. If the apostles are gone, it means that the apostles are not in line with the theory of biological evolution. They have been "survived by the fittest", so there is nothing to commemorate.
Wen Shanggao's merits and demerits were outweighed by his full support for the researchers under his command to study drugs to prevent zombie viruses. He was transferred from the escort team to the political department. Although he lost the power in the southern region, he also became the head of a province.
He began to vigorously restore order in the southern province, restore mechanized production, so that food can be guaranteed; let the factory resume production to ensure the continuous supply of materials; and let the school reopen to resume the transmission of knowledge...
Lian Qingmiao became an academician and has been doing research to ensure the good growth of crops; Gao Ruosu returned to the university as a professor, and also participated in compiling the history of the past few years known as the end; Lian Rumeng and Lian Ruji returned to The university resumed the interrupted education; You Xiaoxiao returned to the escort team, and Hao Zuo also chose to join the escort team after careful consideration.
Shi Gongwei is now employed as a national-level technical staff, always running around, participating in the restoration of communications; An Minghui has been promoted to the middle-level personnel of the escort team, which is also equivalent to a small leader; and Peng Mao They gave up their life of fighting and killing with Xin Ting. They opened a shop in Nanfang City, taking advantage of the restoration of order and production...
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"Based on the principle of fairness, after the unanimous consensus of the Department of Science and Technology of the Federal Republic of Salah, the sponsor of the New Century Survival League, the Multi-dimensional Information Space R&D Committee, and the Alliance Genetic Information Research Institute, the decision is hereby made..." The voice of the chairman of the committee was every word. While stirring the nerves of "2018", he listened intently, for fear of missing a word.
"Closing the contest for the 2018 entrants."
"2018"'s face turned pale, he was about to protest, but the voices of the 10,000 audience members who were more motivated than he protested quickly covered his voice.
And the chairman of the committee, who seemed to have anticipated all this, quickly finished his words, because if "2018" was allowed to continue to participate in the competition, the central processing terminal system would inevitably delete Lian Ruling's data. In this way, it is unfair to "2018".
Therefore, in order to avoid such a thing from happening, they also have to ensure that the central processing terminal system can always maintain the normal operation of the multi-dimensional information space, so they cannot change the operating program of the central processing terminal system.
Under the premise that these two things conflict with each other, then the committee has to find another way.
However, they discovered one thing. Among the top ten "data bodies", only one person has obtained the achievement title of "Pure", namely Hao Jian.
In other words, among the top ten "data bodies", only Hao Jian has never killed anyone.
Throughout the game so far, it is not that there are no "data bodies" that have not killed people, but they will all be eliminated prematurely. Only by entering the top ten can they be given a unique achievement title based on their data. And it's not for nothing that they set these achievement titles in the first place.
Otherwise, the Federal Department of Science and Technology will not bring people from the Department of Justice to negotiate with them.
A person who can insist on not killing innocent people in an extremely harsh environment makes a large part of the audience feel good about him.
In addition, Hao Jian's data is also listed in front of everyone:
[Pure] Hao Jian, female, 26 years old, 170cm tall and 54kg in weight.
Rank: 9
Level: 9
Experience: 73599
Zombie kills: 7431
Human kills: 0
Host Kills: 0
Number of people rescued: 43662
Main quest completion: 100%
Side Mission Completion: 100%
Hidden task completion: 62%
In front of this data, how Hao Jian is a person will give everyone a deeper understanding. If nothing else, the number of people she rescued was the largest among all hosts. Of course, this may be because she used to be the principal of a refuge, so under her operation, many people escaped the danger of their lives because of her.
The second is the degree of completion of hidden tasks. It does not mean that she has unfinished tasks, but that she has discovered and completed more than half of all hidden tasks. That's one of the reasons why her zombie kills aren't enough to get her to level 9, yet she still has enough sources of experience.
Based on these data, Hao Jian's popularity skyrocketed, and "2018" also won the additional reward.
"2018" negotiated with the committee, and finally he agreed to terminate the competition, but he did not want the ninth place reward and additional rewards, he wanted to use these rewards for a "fairness" from the committee.
Under pressure from many parties, the committee finally agreed.
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On July 3, 2023, the day when the vaccine to prevent the zombie virus is available, the world has designated it as the "End of Doomsday". Of course, it is not because all the zombies have been wiped out, but it indicates that human beings have opened up a new hope, and a bright future will also come.
Wen Shanggao watched the live broadcast of Huaguo related personnel participating in the qualitative assessment of the festival on the Internet. On the Internet, everyone cheered, but he never showed a smile.
Le Yan disappeared after leaving behind related research theories such as antibiotics and vaccines, just like Hao Jian and Lian Ruling disappeared. And her disappearance did not cause any commotion, and everyone didn't even know that such a researcher existed.
He wondered why Leyan's disappearance would erase other people's memories of her, while Hao Jian and Lian Runing's disappearance would not
As for why he still remembers Le Yan, he thinks that it is probably because he has self-awareness, and his original purpose has been achieved, seeing the continuation of this world.
At this moment, he saw a vision happening in the world again. Although it was only for a moment, he still found a string of flowing data like blue light.
"Could it be that the world will eventually collapse?" Wen Shanggao frowned deeply.
However, for many days later, this kind of vision never appeared. Just when he gradually forgot about it, his phone suddenly rang.
"Chairman Wen?"
There was a hint of temptation in the cold voice on that end.
Wen Shanggao's pupils shrank, he felt as if he had passed away, his lips pursed: "You... finally appeared?"
Another voice over there chuckled: "It's us."