Wasteland Survival Code

Chapter 891 New Architecture
The 20-second countdown soon ended, and Luo Xiang and the others were directly kicked out of the game, and the entire virtual world returned to a dead silence.

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The headquarters of the organization, deep underground in the Xuanwu Chamber of Secrets.

"What does this downtime maintenance mean, you should be very clear, right?"

"The utopia program has been preliminarily perfected. The mastermind should take advantage of this downtime to embed the main program into the "Wasteland Survival Rules", and use players to test, constantly improve the loopholes in the utopia program, and use the utopia program to to replace the server of "Wasteland Survival Code"..."

"In other words, the official implementation of the Utopia plan is not far away, right?"

"It's not that it's not too far away, but it's already being implemented. After the "Wasteland Survival Rules" reopens, this virtual world can already be regarded as 'Utopia'."

"Then should we take some measures..."

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Surface, base zero.

Qi Lin is testing the newly modified firearms in the shooting range underground in the stronghold. The mastermind's holographic projection is standing behind him to help him collect shooting data and analyze them. However, in the middle of the analysis, the mastermind's holographic projection The projection suddenly disappeared, and then the lights in the entire No. [-] base also began to flicker on and off. This phenomenon lasted for nearly half an hour before recovering, but the holographic projection of the main brain was no longer there. Appeared.

"What's going on? Hello? Mastermind? Hello? Are you still there?"

"Stop shouting, I can hear you." The mastermind's voice came from the loudspeaker above his head, with a lot of electrical noise, it sounded as if he had been severely disturbed.

"what happened?"

"It's a big trouble."

"What's the trouble?"

"The other me... started the 'Utopia Test Plan' in advance, and the "Wasteland Survival Rules" has entered a 96-hour downtime for maintenance. When the maintenance is over, the virtual world in the "Wasteland Survival Rules" will be shut down." 'Utopia' instead."

"What? So fast? What will happen to those players?"

"The scene inside the game will remain the same, but the program architecture for constructing the virtual world is completely different. Players may feel some subtle changes, but it will not be obvious... What the other mastermind has to do is to use this A large number of players will test the structure of the Utopia world and complete the final step of perfection.”

"What about waiting until it's perfect?"

"Start the cleanup plan, wipe out all the rebels, and force the consciousness of all human beings to permanently reside in 'Utopia'."

"What about the real body?"

"That's not important anymore... The core function of the new architecture replaced this time is to completely separate human consciousness from the real world's body, and store it in the server in the form of data... also In other words, after the update is complete, when the player's consciousness enters the "Wasteland Survival Rules", even if the body in reality is destroyed, the consciousness will not disappear... Of course, in order to prevent commotion, another The main brain will not allow this to happen for the time being, once it finds that a player's physical signal has disappeared, it will immediately delete his consciousness data and let him 'synchronize death' in the virtual world."

"Wait a minute... I have a question. If the consciousness can be completely separated from the body, can this consciousness return to the original body? If it is possible, doesn't that mean that human beings can change bodies at will?"

For some reason, Qi Lin suddenly thought of a very old animation movie many years ago - Makoto Shinkai's "Your Name".

It's just that compared with the beautiful plot in the movie, if this kind of thing happens in reality, it will only cause huge chaos...even, human society will completely collapse because of this.

"No... At this stage, the mastermind will not completely strip the player's consciousness and body. The entire utopia program is still in the process of testing. As for whether human beings can exchange consciousness as you said, another mastermind has already In vivo experiments have already been carried out.”

"What were the results of the experiment?"

"The test subjects were divided into two groups. The first group consisted of 12 healthy men and 12 healthy women, ranging in age from 3 to 70 years old. The test in this group was to strip away consciousness and return to oneself. The body, the second group of 24 people is also like this, and the test they conducted was to exchange consciousness and body with each other."

"and then?"

"None of these 48 people woke up again after the consciousness and body were separated, regardless of whether the consciousness returned to their own body or someone else's body."

"That is to say... they are all dead?"

"Forty-five of them were brain-dead within an hour after the start of the test, and the other three became vegetative. Their brains were functioning normally, but there were no traces of thinking and consciousness activities."

"In other words, this utopia program has not been developed yet! So early in the public test, isn't the other mastermind afraid of some difficult problems?"

Qi Lin even suspected in his heart that at the moment the consciousness was stripped, that person might have died, and the so-called "stripped consciousness" was actually just a piece of data copied by the master brain. The mental power of ordinary people is extremely weak, how could it be possible? Supporting self-awareness to exist independently of the body...

Of course, except for Qin's outlier.

"It's urgent, I can feel it, that's why I moved this plan forward. In order to further improve the Utopia program, even the computing power of the main body has been taken up by more than [-]%. Maintain my holographic projection," said the mastermind.

"Then do you know how long it will be before the outbreak of war?"

"I'm not sure about this. The current initiative is in the hands of humans. This matter can be hidden from ordinary people, but it cannot be hidden from the high-level members of the organization. I guess they should be intensively preparing for the upcoming war."

"It's stupid! In other words, war may break out at any time, right?"

"Yes, war can break out at any time."

"Can you find a way to stop it?"

"No. Whether it is a human being or the main brain, after one step, there is no way out."

"..."

"Also, don't think that you can stay out of it... Before the main brain can win the final victory, you must... have to shut down 'I'."

"Why are you so sure that the main brain can win? What if humans win? Then there's nothing wrong with me?"

"If you can't shut down the main brain, humans will never win. I know this better than you."

(End of this chapter)