Abyssal Wanderer

Chapter 27 NO.001b: Regression and Trouble

Mandala, a third-generation encryption program developed based on the JZ network protocol, binds the password to the signal perception switch of the visual cortex, and activates verification by visualizing a unique pattern.

At the same time, it is also considered to be an encryption program that cannot be cracked anyway.

Memory is an ambiguous thing, and the picture reconstructed in the mind will never be just a picture. It will also carry your other perceptions, your emotions, your experiences, the reasons why you chose this picture...

In the process of recalling, countless information is activated, collected, compressed, packaged and organized in the brain, and then undergoes a series of Fourier transformations, finally forming an indescribable feeling, which is presented to self-consciousness.

The mandala program has never been more than a picture - if it is just a picture, it is easy to decipher, but when it comes to personal feelings, it returns to the eternal philosophical question: how can you know yourself? The perceived world is the same as the world perceived by others?

After all, perception can only recognize appearances in the end, not things in themselves.

Is the first thing you see in an Escher painting is an angel or a devil?

When you first see the Necker cube, is the slanted face at the front or the back?

It can be said that in this era when the power of corporate order has reached the peak, it is the Mandala program that holds the entire world, preventing her from completely falling into the abyss of extreme dystopia, thus guarding the final bottom line of every human being.

Not even the most insane corporation would ask a person to hand over their mandala. Not because they don't want to, but because they know there's no point in doing so.

Even if you describe your mandala in great detail, or even take the other person to see the original pattern of your mandala in reality, you still cannot get him to log in to your own account.

Unless it's you.

Unless he has the exact same body as yours, experienced the exact same life, and had the exact same memories.

unless he...

unless he...

Booker looked almost in horror at the data flow that was gradually taking shape in the hands of "Paradox", and his mind went blank.

He directly ignored the encryption of the "Mandala Program", and took out the modification authority sealed in Liao Qi's memory?

If it is said that the matter of hacking into the universal printer is still within the range that he can bear, then what happened before him is completely challenging the limit of his cognition.

No, it directly shattered my own worldview!

"Paradox" can ignore the mandala program and directly take things from Liao Qi's body, then he can directly strip the modification authority from his own body, and completely strip it out in the same way.

If it fell into His hands, if the other party had malicious intentions... then death might be just a luxury.

In this place today, under His gaze, the other party is an absolutely real god.

It's... so scary...

For human beings, His existence is really a "paradox"...

Thinking of this, Booker immediately made a difficult decision in his heart.

If the other party shows even a trace of malice towards him, he will directly activate the "apoptotic program" on the brain-computer interface to commit suicide.

This is by no means an overreaction!

As long as the other party is willing, he who can ignore the encryption of the mandala can let himself die and resurrect in this abyss and dark net countless times, just like Ixion who is tied to a fire wheel and tortured forever.

And as for Liao Qi, who was innocently implicated here... I'm sorry, your mandala has been controlled by the other party, and it may be too late to remind you now.

Apologizing silently in his heart, Booker trembled to see what the other party planned to do next.

But Jiang Zhou, who was sitting in his seat at the moment, didn't know that his earlier thought of deterring the other party's behavior had achieved an effect far beyond expectations-he just thought that the act of asking "Liao Qi" to bring things over It's a bit low, and it would be more imposing to directly "take things from a distance" on my side.

I never thought about my own behavior, and almost scared the person below to commit suicide...

At the moment, he is looking at the modification permission parameters of depth 1, and the materials needed to print them.

"Second Chance" Spare Heart...

Carbon Nano Muscle Fibers...

Bioelectric energy conversion system...

Edge Enhancement System...

Eye Tracking Cornea...

The "grasshopper" type strengthens the tendon...

"Hurricane" type adrenal pump...

Lactic acid metabolism accelerator...

"Balance bar" type strengthening spine...

...

As these transformation permissions were formed one after another, a 3D model with multiple highlights appeared in front of his eyes - the highlighted places were the transformed organs.

Jiang Zhou glanced roughly one after another, not for too long, so as not to make Booker below suspicious.

Therefore, most things he just glanced at. However, for many modification permissions, you can roughly guess its function just by looking at the name.

After skimming through it, Jiang Zhou glanced at the depth 4 modification authority for the last time.

Daily program.

This thing doesn't even have a physical body, and the 3D modeling that is embodied is just a bunch of changing codes, as if it is just an operating system written into the built-in computer.

Seeing this, Jiang Zhou waved the data into a ball, intending to put it back into Liao Qi's memory.

At this moment, Booker in the audience spoke.

"Paradox... Mister, what is your purpose for bringing us here this time?"

When he said this, he clenched his teeth, his voice trembling slightly, and his face looked like he was going all out.

Seeing this, Jiang Zhou was stunned for a moment. He didn't know why the other party suddenly put on a look of death, nor did he know what reasonable reason he should find.

"Do you really want to go back?"

Jiang Zhou asked.

Booker immediately shut up, and the courage he had gathered with great difficulty seemed to be extinguished in an instant.

And Liao Qi on the side nodded quickly and said:

"I want to, I really want to."

Amusing himself with the rotten meme with unknown meaning in his own era, Jiang Zhou suddenly wanted to smile wryly, but then he restrained himself and replied:

"Then you go back."

"ah?"

Booker, who was almost desperate, thought that his auditory nerve had malfunctioned.

This mysterious being who can ignore the Mandala program is so easy to talk to?

Then what was His purpose in bringing them both here?

Jiang Zhou, who was sitting upright in his seat, was thinking silently at the moment:

The more you do, the more you talk, the more mistakes you make.

What I want is an unknown reason, I don’t know the so-called.

Slowly doubt life and go, Booker Irwin's new team leader.

"But...Mr. Paradox, you brought us here, so you don't need us to do something for you...or get something from us?"

Booker was immersed in deep self-doubt at the moment. He stared blankly at the figure that was being disassembled and reassembled all the time, and asked in puzzlement.

"Would you like to do something for me?"

Jiang Zhou asked with a chuckle.

"No... oh, no! I mean, of course! I mean..."

Seeing that the other party was not very quick to speak, Jiang Zhou continued to maintain a mysterious image and interrupted the other party:

"You just need to do what you were supposed to do. I brought you here this time for only one purpose."

As for how to understand this "what should have been done", that is also Booker's own business.

If he is loyal, then he will only be more loyal to Icarus in the future.

If he is a traitor, then he will continue to ponder "what should have been done", whether it is loyalty or betrayal. Then no matter what, it will be easier for him to show his flaws later.

Although right now, he might be able to rely on this enigmatic image to force the other party to tell whether he is a traitor or not. But if you do this, firstly asking this kind of question will damage your image too much; secondly, if you push the other party into a hurry and jump over the wall desperately, then you will be completely exposed.

It's better to keep it as it is now, and the future will be long in the future.

But apart from that, Jiang Zhou still has some small tricks he can use.

He balled up the compressed data ball, and stuffed it back into his body through Liao Qi's mandala again, and said casually:

"Remember to keep your things safe."

It's like when an adult helps a child find something lost, he casually says "don't lose it next time".

Although it is an understatement, the paradox has been established, and the thing in that memory belongs to Liao Qi!

You don't admit that you have the ability?

But if Booker doesn't admit it, he really has nothing to do with him right now. I can only hope that the other party can perceive his implication.

Jiang Zhou thought helplessly.

Immediately, he loosened his grip on Liao Qi, allowing him to slowly float up with Booker.

It's time to let them go back, otherwise it will be easy to reveal their secrets...

Realizing that he seemed to be let go by the "paradox", Booker was immediately overjoyed. He restrained his expression and said loudly:

"Thank you Mr. Paradox...I swear I won't tell anyone about what happened here today!"

Will be so eager to guarantee, more or less have ghosts in my heart.

Jiang Zhou thought so.

If he was really as powerful as the other party imagined, then he would have to torture everything he said, so that he could clarify his position.

But in the end, Jiang Zhou had no choice but to be noncommittal about the other party's promise, as if he didn't care about it.

Floating to another height, Booker asked again:

"Mr. Paradox, will you bring us here in the future like this time?"

But this problem made Jiang Zhou difficult.

In fact, it's not that he hasn't thought about whether he should set a fixed time like a certain ancient classic online novel he once read—for example, at three o'clock every Monday afternoon, and pull them over to trade with each other Intelligence and technology blueprints or something.

Maybe in the future, a secret organization called Paradox will be pulled out.

But the problem is that Jiang Zhou himself doesn't know when he will be sent to deep dive for salvage. And if Liao Qi sends a message to notify, it is equivalent to blatantly telling the other party that Liao Qi has some kind of secret connection with him.

And this time, the separation from Black Falcon-136 and the others seems to be a coincidence.

If you pull them over in the future, you have to hide it from your teammates who dived with you.

Forget it, let's put the magic stick to the end...

Jiang Zhou thought to himself.

"When I feel the need."

He replied blankly.

And this answer made Booker feel a chill down his back.

This sentence is equivalent to saying, I will always watch you.

Is it really impossible to get rid of it?

…………

When the consciousness faded from the substitute program and returned to his own body, Liao Qi and Booker returned to the world.

What greeted them was a burst of cheers mixed with excitement and surprise.

"You two are awake! I saw the 'flat line' on the detector several times, and thought you were all dead inside!"

Winston, who was overwhelmed with excitement, almost couldn't hold back a hug.

He rushed over as he said, and began to quickly unplug the wires plugged into Booker.

"Wait... wait for Winston, the universal printer has not been restarted yet!"

Glancing back at the black cube behind him, Booker hastily stopped him.

"There's no time to reboot, we're in big trouble now!"

The movement of his hands didn't stop, Winston raised his head and said with a serious face.

"Trouble? What trouble?"

Seeing this, the expression on Booker's face became serious.

"I don't know if the location of the universal printer has been exposed. Chiron House is now surrounded by an unknown number of armed men!"