Chapter 219: The World of Dela Man

After so many head-butting experiences, they finally suffered because of each other, because of each other's vulnerability, and could no longer be ruthless enough to do harm to each other.

Although none of them dare to mention what happened before now, afraid that one wrong step will ruin the current tranquility, so Man Chen is also good, Dongni An is also good, all the misunderstandings between them are also good, those flesh and blood thorns have not been pulled out.

But everything between them, whether it is separation or reunion, resentment or hatred or infatuation, quarrel or peace, in fact, ultimately depends on the two of them, and not determined by others. Those people and those things, can give them heart knots, fallacies, attrition ...... but like a star that has strayed from its orbit will eventually return - Qingcheng Xie's breakdown will allow Yu He to remove the mask, Yu He's help will allow Qingcheng Xie let go of his detachment.

Even in the most ordinary capacity, even if they have been bruised and bewildered.

As soon as Yu He heard Qingcheng Xie said it was painful.

As soon as Qingcheng Xie saw Yu He reached out to him for help.

In the end, they will stop their lonely steps and turn their heads to follow the sound to appease the wails of their kind.

"What about Wen Duan?" After calming down, Qingcheng Xie asked Yu He in a soft voice.

He wants to know how Yu He has spent these three years on both sides of the fence, he wants to know how Yu He has spent these three years.

After asking the Dreambreaker, it's time for Dela Man.

"Dreambreaker is on guard against you, and Dela Man can't help but be on guard against you, as Wen Duan suffered from you three years ago. Three years ago he thought you had defected to him, only for you to expose his island location. I don't even believe he could accept you a second time. Is it because of the loyalty chip?"

His voice still ripples as he speaks.

"The kind of chip he once implanted in your heart?"

"No." Yu He whispered, "If that chip still counted, I would have died a hundred times by now. I found out later that the loyalty chip doesn't work for me. Wen Duan and the others found out too."

Qingcheng Xie was stunned: "...... Why would it not work."

"It's a physical problem, I guess." Yu He said, "Maybe because I'm a blood compulsion, when I'm reluctant, the blood compulsion physique even interferes with their chip, and Wen Duan can't monitor whether I'm loyal to him through that thing. But ......"

He paused, "There was something that made Wen Duan once again choose to trust him to keep me in check."

Qingcheng Xie had a vague hunch: "What?"

Yu He stopped again, this time for a longer silence than before.

It was a long time before he opened his mouth, and his answer confirmed Qingcheng Xie's thoughts exactly.

Yu He said, "My mother."

"......"

"Wei Wei An. The real Zhishu Lv."

Yu He moved in the bedding, adjusted his position, pulled the quilt higher, so that he and Qingcheng Xie two more completely sunk into the darkness. He and Qingcheng Xie also leaned closer, but not completely close.

Although he knew it was not so appropriate and proper, Qingcheng Xie suddenly thought of himself at this moment when he was studying, and the girl at his table had a week-long conflict, then he could not stand it, although the conflict has not been resolved, but he opened a bag of snacks, handed it to her and asked her if she would eat it.

The table also intends to make up, so took the snack, that a while two people get along suddenly became extra careful up, not only to the former things never mention, talk also polite ridiculous, look at each other when a smile with embarrassment, afraid of a careless and step on each other's sore spot.

Now, his relationship with Yu He is very close to this state, like a partially repaired porcelain, the clay that glues the pieces together is not yet dry, and everywhere is fragile, so we have to be extra careful.

Yu He closed his eyes, not daring to come closer, only to let the faint scent belonging to Qingcheng Xie's body permeate his lungs, the cold to almost some bitter taste in anyone's opinion will not feel too good, but Yu He's heart was soothed, his throat knot rolled up and down, his voice hoarse opened his mouth and began to narrate.

"My mother's body is still being kept in their lab."

"!!!"

"It was the remains, which had been flash frozen in liquid nitrogen, but at the time they told me they could bring my mother back to life."

Qingcheng Xie was stunned: "How is that possible?"

"Physiological is impossible, but if you can combine with virtual reality, it is completely possible to do. Yu He said, "The Dela Man organization has a great interest in the human brain, you see, and they have achieved a truly perfect virtual reality projection on this island ahead of schedule through VR, 5D effects, magnetic field interference, hearing interference, smell interference, visual effects projection - and it's all inspired by the Dela Man effect generated by the human brain. They believe that the study of the human mind is the only key that can truly break the constraints of life and death at the moment."

"To use the simplest analogy, Li Bai was a thousand years ago, and in terms of the normal concept of time and space, it would be completely impossible for us to have a conversation with him. But in fact, because he wrote down part of his experiences and thoughts in words that have been circulating between one thousand years, we can thus hear what a man who died a thousand years ago said and know some of the things he did. His physical body could not escape the limits of space and time, but the mind did, and this is the most basic idea of the seemingly complex Dela Man meta-universe."

"However, words are only the most basic carrier, just like photos, which have a temporary nature and are fixed. Let's still take Li Bai as an example, breaking through the limits of space and time is only part of Li Bai's thoughts, he could not save all his thoughts in words, and the words left behind are frozen, can no longer think for themselves, can not regenerate his own intention - but what if, there is a technology that can extract all the consciousness of the human brain out and preserve it?"

Yu He said, raised his hand and nodded the side of Qingcheng Xie's forehead: "What is here is the human soul, if it leaves the physical body, in another system, can still have self-awareness, can continue to generate self-awareness, then is not the same as the person is still alive? It is like the soul-transfer spell in the religion that people once thought was fanciful, and in fact, as long as this is done, even if the physical body dies, as long as the mind is preserved, in the view of the Dela Man organization, the person is still alive."

"As long as a person's consciousness can be continually perpetuated through technology, tucked into a computer cloud, into a robot, or even controlled by a chip and implanted into the body of another living person." Yu He said softly, "The so-called 'resurrection' or 'immortality' will also be realized."

Qingcheng Xie : "They want ...... immortality!?"

"Far from it. In the ultimate vision of the meta-universe of the Dela Man organization, in the end humanity may not need to live at all with the help of physical bodies; after all, the world's population saturation is limited, and if everyone can live forever, one day there will be no place for new life to stand. But once the meta-universe is framed the way they want, it's a different story."

"The human consciousness can be saved to the cloud and become two-dimensional data that lives in the computer system. The three-dimensional to two-dimensional barrier is broken. At that time, everyone can be 'alive', but everyone doesn't have to be 'alive'. Human beings survive in the database, move around, and become the workforce ...... Only data people who have achieved great success or have captured great wealth in the two-dimensional world will be able to obtain a physical body of our present, normal human beings."

With Yu He's description, such a creepy scene unfolded in front of Qingcheng Xie's eyes as if it were a painted scroll.

"In their conception of the future, the real world will become very desirable - because the number of humans surviving on Earth in physical form is strictly controlled, ecological resources will slowly recover, and this will not affect human society in any way, after all, there are a large number of two-dimensional people as data in the The 'meta-universe' world in the cloud completes productive life, continuously contributing their labor - perhaps billions, trillions of people inhabiting the place, and finally just a small data disk. Two-dimensional people must always work hard, struggling actively to get a physical ticket to come to the three-dimensional world. And this power of whether or not to let people come to the real world can then be firmly in the hands of the rulers and the owners of capital."

Qingcheng Xie listened, a chill ran down his back, the horror is not such an idea, but this idea according to the trajectory of the crazy development of technology, it is possible to be realized.

Three-dimensional society people will be their own compatriots into two-dimensional society people, born with flesh and blood will be compressed into thought data, can come to three-dimensional society, all depends on whether the controller needs you, whether you have considerable wealth.

What is more frightening is that the data in the data will be used to as a set of data, after all, three-dimensional society if you want to delete data, manipulate the mind, perhaps just need to make up a program, even the capital of modern society brainwashing are saved, and all this in that environment will become quite normal, no one resists anymore, otherwise it is a "virus".

"This is ridiculous ......" Qingcheng Xie muttered.

Yu He says, "It's not ridiculous at all. If it really goes on unchecked, I'm afraid it's only a few hundred years away. In fact, do you feel that in society now, many things have become more and more data-driven and flattened?"

"What do you mean?"

"When the Internet was not widespread, the tone, accent and content of people's speech often differed greatly, each with its own characteristics. However, the rapid spread of the Internet has made 'repetition' a norm, allowing the 'individual' to assimilate into the 'collective'. Let's say ......" Yu He whispered to Qingcheng Xie, "When you were young, if the class watched a movie and the teacher asked the group to start a train and say a few words about the movie, everyone's speech would be different. Everyone should speak differently. For example, if one person wrote 'teary eyes', almost everyone would repeat the word 'teary eyes' in the next long section of the pop-up."

"And then, for example, for those very complex works, people's patience is also less and less, many people only want to see the crude and simple justice and evil, love and do not love, but forget that human nature itself is very contradictory, rather than a simple label. But the label and simple will make people feel comfortable, good understanding, no controversy, this sense of comfort and security will be accustomed to people become more and more do not want to think, but also more and more accustomed to not think, when not thinking has become a habit, people need to express their thoughts, open their mouths to repeat can only be some of the words and phrases that have appeared repeatedly on the Internet. The end result is that the same speech you can see in this matter, can also be seen in another matter. Whether it's compliments, criticism, insults or creative writing, it all starts to become the same, just like ......"

Yu He paused: "It's like an assembly-line production of ideas."

Qingcheng Xie squinted his eyes.

The assembly line used to produce only physical objects, but on reflection, when more and more people will only carry out simple repetition, in the milk / head entertainment and information brainwashing to give up the ability to think for themselves, then they say the words, do things, is not an invisible "assembly line products"?

This is a very gruesome result, people who become the product of the assembly line often have lost the power to struggle out of mediocrity, because they have been assimilated. And as this force of assimilation grows, more and more people will be wrapped into this torrent.

"Think about it, Qingcheng Xie." Yu He said. Yu He said, "What keeps repeating the thoughts instilled in it by others, behaving according to direct orders or invisible guidance?"

An answer breaks ground.

Qingcheng Xie murmured, "...... artificial intelligence."

"Right. So in the Dela Man organization's concept, artificial intelligence is not just manufactured." Yu He said, "It can be fully living human beings that have been brainwashed into 'artificial intelligence'."

"The typical manifestation of artificial intelligence is 'repetition', 'assimilation', and 'obedience'. As long as they are successfully brainwashed, the 'kindness', 'rationality' and 'discernment' that humans themselves possess will fade or even disappear, and they will become as cold and brutal as machines and They will become as cold and brutal as machines, and will have no guilt about what they have done. Because 'guilt', 'gratitude' and 'compassion' are some of the higher emotions that belong to living beings, not to artificial intelligence. It is a degradation of the human heart, and in fact, such a sign you can see in some people in modern society."

"......"

"The meta-universe is not a castle in the air," Yu He says. Yu He said, "It is possible to be realized. At that point, the people who have the power of technology are the makers of the metaverse, and they can make the world change the way they want it to. It may take five or ten years to get people to accept a new idea now, but in the metaverse, it may be the second you press the keyboard-"

He paused for a few seconds and went on to say

"So, Dela Man is going to have the most advanced technology in this 'industrial revolution' and then, become the absolute god of creation."

"That's the ultimate goal they want to spend decades and centuries to achieve."

When Yu He finished speaking, there was dead silence in the bedroom.

Qingcheng Xie's limbs became even colder than before as he kept thinking about what Yu He had said.

These ideas may seem far-fetched, but backtracking from the historical line, could people writing letters home in 1900 imagine the day when friends and relatives from miles away could see each other and talk as if face to face with just a small mirror-like machine?

Who knows what the world will be like in another hundred years.

Dela Man is a group of scientific radicals whose ideas are a century or two ahead of their time.

Qingcheng Xie: "So the people on the island who were manipulated were brainwashed by Dela Man, who controlled their minds and made them into weapons?"

"Hmm. Just like your parents, they've passed away, and what Dela Man did was to collect a lot of footage, notations, and battle data from their lifetime, and then mimic their thought patterns and brainwash them into the minds of other living people. So after they are out of Ya Zhuo's control, they will act like real your parents. But they are fake, and their own brains have been brain damaged, and there is nothing left to think about, and they can't be saved." Yu He said, "I hope you don't feel guilty about that."

Qingcheng Xie was silent.

It was as if there was originally a light in his heart, albeit impractical, that shone faintly after he had seen the violent killing.

At this point, the beam of light then finally went out without a sound.

"In that case, it is indeed just virtual reality, and like everything on the island, it is all deflated, like a phantom."

Yu He : "Yes."

"......" Qingcheng Xie asked, "So now if I meet those robots again ...... "

"What you see will be what they would have been." Yu He said, "Some of the transformed people."

After a pause, he added: "But if you still want to see the island of Dela Man in the eyes of normal people, then through the machine lens. Because the effect of the island is done through various interference, in the five senses are done masking, and the visual part is like vr projection, you just saw the island drone?"

"Hmm."

"Those drones are one of the devices that help produce the projections and are responsible for part of the visual obscuration. It's like the projections in Spider-Man."

Qingcheng Xie : "I haven't seen Spider-Man."

"What about the Teresa Teng resurrection concert?"

"Neither."

"...... does not matter anymore. I just want to say that your eyes will no longer be deceived, but the camera lens captures the image after the vr imaging, and the TV station to shoot Teresa Teng's resurrection concert an effect."

Qingcheng Xie heard this and suddenly thought of something: "If so, if we destroy those drones responsible for visual projection, won't normal people be able to see the real scene on the island?"

Yu He shook his head: "Creating fake images is actually the simplest requirement for VR, and Dela Man also fakes hearing, smell, and magnetic response at the same time. So, it's not much use to simply destroy the drones, they will activate the emergency devices, which can also be masked. And these drones are monitored in real time, once they are attacked, Wen Duan will know that someone on the island leaks, because normal people can't see them, and everyone on the island except me has a loyalty chip control, then that leaker can only be me."

"The most thorough way to break the illusion, and the only way to do it, is to find that total virtual reality jamming device on this island, and by finding it and destroying it, all projections on the island will immediately stop. Hyenas will be hyenas, humans will be humans, helicopters will be helicopters, concrete forts will be concrete forts, and normal people will be able to see the truth unaffected."

Yu He looked gloomy when he said this.

"I have been trying for years to find the master valve that turns off the jamming device on Dela Man, and I think there must be such a master valve on this island, but I can't do it alone. No one else believed me. They would rather come to the island and get killed. And they came across a truly terrifying weapon that had just been invented, the Radical Cold Light."

He paused for a moment, with more or less sarcasm in his eyes.

"After that weapon appeared, the Dreambreakers trusted me even less, and I know some of them thought I was hiding it and not reporting it, which is why they had to send their own people to scout the island first ......"

Yu He closed his eyes.

"So Team Zheng became a victim and was taken to the dungeon."

Qingcheng Xie heard this and asked, "Old Zheng, Man Chen, and those who were the first to land on the island, are they all inside the dungeon?"

When Man Chen's name entered his ears, Yu He's face stiffened slightly, but he still gave a hint.

Qingcheng Xie: "Dela Man hasn't done any tests on them yet, has he?"

"Not yet." Yu He said, "Live samples are hard to come by, and they don't usually do it right away."

Qingcheng Xie smiled a little relieved, and said: "Now there is no other way, that I and Zheng collected the data of the radical speed cold light, passed to ninety-seven percent was terminated by you in front of Ya Zhuo, but these data must be immediately transferred to headquarters."

"I know, I will find an opportunity to retransmit in the morning." Yu He said. Yu He said, "It's not hard for me, I've passed a lot of the secrets of Dela Man Island back to the Dreambreakers over the years, and the maps that HQ has were drawn with my cooperation. But, that said, this thing ......"

Yu He paused for a moment and stared into Qingcheng Xie's eyes in the darkness.

"Did you take some information from my study and bring it back to the Commander-in-Chief during those days when you were stuck at home recovering from your illness."

I didn't expect him to suddenly ask this, Qingcheng Xie paused, then still answered: "...... hmm."

Another question, "How did you find out."

Yu He : "After you left, I checked the surveillance. Found the problem, and then confirmed with the commander-in-chief on the phone, it was you who took it."

"......" Qingcheng Xie still had a hint of doubt in his mind at that time, wondering why Yu He didn't pass the final data to the commander-in-chief in time when it was clearly available.

But after speaking with Yu He so much, he had already guessed why.

"Before you give him the data, do you want to remind him one last time that Dela Man Island is an island based on the concept of metaverse, and that after removing the virtual projection it's actually quite ordinary and not that scary, just cut off the master valve that causes the illusionary intervention?"

Yu He was silent for a moment and admitted: "Yes. Whether he believed it or not, I wanted to try one last time. But then the data was taken away from you and given to him in advance."

Qingcheng Xie was speechless for a moment: "...... sorry."

Yu He shook his head and asked again, "What about you? Why did you hand the information I gathered to the commander before me when you had already guessed that I was an undercover agent of the Dream Breakers."

"I was only guessing about your identity at that time, and there was never any proof that you were one of us. I think if you were undercover, there wouldn't be many people who knew about it, but the commander-in-chief would certainly be one of them."

"I need to confirm with him what I think." Qingcheng Xie said, "Before I go to the island, I want a clear answer. Confirmation that I'm not wrong."

Yu He understood: "That's why you were so sure when I told you that I was an informant, because you didn't just guess, you had confirmed with him ......"

Qingcheng Xie gave a soft "hmm".

Yu He couldn't help but say, "But since he told you about my undercover identity, he should have warned me at that time ......"

But here he paused again.

He realized why the Commander-in-Chief had not warned himself - because the Dreambreakers, in the end, did not trust themselves, and the information they gave him was crippled. Everything left a handful of cards.

Qingcheng Xie saw his expression, know what he thought in his mind, in order to make him feel better, so comforted him: "The situation was very urgent, he has to control too many things, the war is approaching, he wants to minimize the variables, so in order to be safe, do not want to explain to you in the call is normal."

After a pause, and said: "And he should feel that this is a small matter, when we meet the problem will naturally unravel."

"......"

But after these words, both of them recalled the chaotic scene when they first met on the island, and both fell into silence again.

Qingcheng Xie, feeling embarrassed, digressed, "By the way, have you ...... ever wondered why the layout of this island is so much like Huzhou University's Neverland?"

Yu He came back to his senses: "This may have something to do with something I just recently investigated, something I haven't even had time to tell the commander-in-chief about, and it has to do with the true identity of the 'boy' on the island, who is supposed to be ...... "

Before the words were finished, there was a sudden, clear knock on the door outside the quilt.

Yu He and Qingcheng Xie were both startled and held their breath in the darkness.

Yu He is still calm, he raised his hand, point on the lips of Qingcheng Xie, meaning first pretend to sleep, do not make a sound first.

The knock on the door stopped after three or four times.

" Yu He ."

"............"

It's Wen Duan!

Wen Duan was right at the door, his voice was light, no emotion could be heard, and he did not say any purpose, only said, "Please open the door."