The Fourth Quadrant of Online Games

"It's you!" President Xiao Xiang's face was hard to recognize, and reporter Yang yelled as if he had dug a treasure, and almost jumped over, "President FREE showed up at the hospital in person, which means it's all true." Is it?"

Without waiting for her to ask a question, Xiang Hong grabbed her upper arm.

Pu Yiyang looked at it and felt a pain in his arm.Mr. Xiao Xiang probably didn't have the word pity and pity in his mind at all.

"Get lost." Xiang Hong spit out a word with no expression on his face.

"Guilty? Scared?" This reporter Yang is also a character, and he still refuses to flinch after being like this. There is a little flush of excitement on his high cheekbones, and his eyes are frighteningly bright. "These secret deeds, once made public , is the end of your FREE!"

There was a click in Pu Yiyang's head, and he suddenly remembered who this woman was.

It was the one who asked the question at Lu Yuxing's lecture at the Seattle conference.

It can be seen from the conversation that her identity as a reporter should be true.Could it be that after the subway incident, or even earlier, this person smelled something strange in the situation and started to track down FREE?

That's pretty remarkable.

"Reporter Yang, we have something to talk about." He was thinking about how to smooth things over. The reporter's intuition may be completely correct. They have a chance to become good teammates, but the truth is not yet clear, and the timing of her explosion is yet to come. Discuss.

But Xiang Hong interrupted him: "We have nothing to say."

The blunt tone of his tone was enough to show that his patience was exhausted, and he didn't want to give any room for change.

This reaction seemed to play right into Reporter Yang's arms.

"It doesn't matter if you don't say it, it doesn't mean the truth will be buried," she said excitedly, her thin lips fluttering up and down, her voice was as sharp as a knife cutting a stone, "I have eyes, and there are thousands of others in the world. With thousands of eyes, we will discover the truth by ourselves, and one day your ambitions will be exposed to the sun!"

Xiang Hong only said three words, three words full of the qualities of a villain: "It's up to you?"

Reporter Yang seemed to be stunned, but after all, he was an attacker who had experienced many storms, so he didn't want to retreat: "Don't think that if you have money and power, you can do whatever you want. I am not only the eyes of the people, but also The mouthpiece of the people, you dare not do anything to me..."

"You said, I don't dare to do anything?" Xiang Hong approached her, raised the corner of his lips without a trace of a smile, and breathed out like a blade from all over his body in an instant, "I think, don't you know who I am."

He pushed the woman against the wall, bowed his head and whispered something in her ear.

The corner of Pu Yiyang's eyes twitched, he didn't hear what Xiang Hong said, but judging from the body of reporter Yang who suddenly trembled, it must not be a good word.

"So what..." She was still talking, but her voice was half down. Even though she had the courage to go forward for the truth, she still had the instinct of fear, and she was clearly resisting this instinct with all her strength. Turning into a nervous murmur, "Don't you want to manipulate my brain, erase my soul, don't you want to."

Xiang Hong just looked at her coldly. His tall figure completely enveloped the trembling woman in the shadow. He was wearing a black windbreaker today. The hand was as pale as plaster, still tightly locked on the woman's shoulder.

Almost like a vampire.

From Pu Yiyang's point of view, he could only see the woman's ashen face, coupled with her already whispering, the silent Xiao Xiang always looked more and more like walking out of a horror movie, the next second To break the prey's neck.

This is too much.

Even when the sword was on the verge of meeting for the first time, Xiang Hong often cursed and threatened him, but never once did he really put on such a posture that he could not help but bully others and was ready to kill anyone anytime and anywhere.

Is it because reporter Yang said that he wanted to destroy FREE?Xiang Hong cared about FREE to the point of arrogance. It's not that Pu Yiyang didn't understand, but he still believed that this person wasn't so stubborn that he didn't care about the truth.In DELTA, that guy was obviously more eager to reveal the answer than he was.

The real villain, he has seen enough in his short life as a night boy.In places where the sun does not shine, all morals and rules are empty, and some are just naked predators of the jungle.For the group of people who were born in the dark night and walked in the dark night, if necessary, as long as someone stood in their way, they could run over them unscrupulously.

But Xianghong is not that kind of person.

That guy was obviously afraid of the dark night, wishing he could run wildly, so as to completely shake off the shadows on his body.

Pu Yiyang walked towards the fierce man and raised his hand, wanting to give him a hand.

At this moment, the door of the ward opened again.

"You're making a noise to Yiyi." Professor Li appeared at the door, he probably got angry once in a while, so he frowned slightly, "This is a hospital, no one can disturb the patient's rest."

Although his voice was not loud and his tone was not fierce, it miraculously broke the stagnant and terrifying atmosphere in the corridor.

Unexpectedly, Xiang Hong didn't intend to confront Professor Li, and directly pushed Reporter Yang's shoulder.Someone walked over from a few meters away and grabbed Yang Zihua, as if to take him away.

Pu Yiyang was surprised to find that the person was not Da Jing, nor Wu Xuechun, but a face.He went to look at Xiang Hong again, but saw that the man had already turned around, as if he didn't want to meet him face to face.

"I have to deal with it in advance." Xiang Hong turned his back to him, turned his face a quarter of the way, and was about to leave after speaking.

"Wait!" Pu Yiyang finally got the hand.

It's as ice as if buried in a snowdrift.

Something must have happened, Pu Yiyang thought to himself, after this day, Xiang Hong's whole person has changed a bit.

"Don't stop me," probably thinking that Pu Yiyang wanted to stop him from taking away Reporter Yang, Xiang Hong's voice became even colder, "You can't stop me."

He forcibly took his hand away from Pu Yiyang's, strode towards the new subordinate, and they took Yang Zihua away together.

"Who is this? Like a hooligan." Yiyi's mother, who was stuck to the door and didn't dare to show her air, patted her chest with lingering fear, "Yang, reporter Yang was taken away like this, is it okay?"

"Probably not." Having said that, Pu Yiyang still thought about Xiang Hong's appearance just now, feeling a little uncertain.

He saw it, even if the other party hid it well.There seemed to be wounds on Xiang Hong's face, those wounds were very fresh, and it seemed that they had been left not long ago.

Just as he was hesitating whether to chase after him shamelessly, Professor Li called out to him.

Professor Li first told Yiyi's mother a few words, let her come in to accompany the girl, and then took Pu Yiyang to a corner of the corridor: "Yiyi is fine now, but I think you'd better not meet her again, so that she doesn't get hurt again." frightened."

Pu Yiyang quickly apologized: "I said something wrong, which affected Yiyi, I hope I didn't cause you any trouble."

Professor Li said with a smile: "It's not troublesome. I also want to thank you for helping me a lot. Let us have some clues about Yiyi's disease."

"It's wandering soul disease." Professor Cheng appeared from a corner with one hand in his pocket and a data pad in the other, and raised his eyelids to look at Pu Yiyang. "It seems that you 'guessed' right."

Pu Yiyang smiled dryly with his old face.

"Then, is Yiyi's disease curable?" He asked the two experts in front of him.

Professor Cheng casually stuffed the transparent data pad into Professor Li's hand, and said, "It depends on how to treat it."

"Yiyi's disease course doesn't seem too serious," Professor Li stared at the jumping signal charts on the data board, his expression was serious that didn't quite match this sentence, "Her pseudo-epileptic seizures are not frequent, The duration is not too long. According to our previous guess, this is still the first stage of wandering spirit."

Pu Yiyang asked like a silly student: "Wandering soul disease can be divided into stages?"

Professor Li smiled a little shyly: "It's just a hypothesis of my brother and I, and it has not been published."

"Look at what I said? Time will prove that your thoughts are correct," Professor Cheng glanced at Professor Li, a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, and his tone was a little more concealed tenderness, "You always Not confident enough."

Pu Yiyang finally found out that not only Professor Li would change his face in front of his seniors, but Professor Cheng was also a different person when looking at his seniors.

He thought with a deep heart, it must be because he has some unknown little things in his heart, so everyone thinks that others are the same as himself.

Professor Li on the other side certainly didn't know his wild thoughts, and continued the topic just now in detail: "We thought at the time that wandering soul disease may be divided into three stages according to the degree. The first stage is sporadic, um, it is The temporary separation of consciousness and body that senior brother mentioned to you before happens only occasionally. Patients will show a certain degree of visual and auditory hallucinations and limb rigidity, which looks similar to sleepwalking. And the patients in the second stage , They will have more frequent attacks, especially the symptoms of pseudo-epilepsy will be very obvious, when they have no consciousness during the attack, they will completely lose control of the body."

Pu Yiyang remembered the girl's behavior, frowned and said, "So Yiyi's pseudo-epilepsy is not serious."

Professor Li nodded and said: "It looks like this at the moment, but we can't guarantee what will happen to her in the future. The severity of wandering spirit has a lot to do with the patient's mood swings. We generally believe that when the patient's emotions are strongly stimulated, , 'separation' would be most likely to be induced."

For example, in the game, you 'die' under the attack of a horrific bee swarm.

Pu Yiyang knew very well that the appearance of these wandering soul patients must be inseparable from the death of the characters caused by the difficult dungeon of Voyage Star.

"Yiyi was stimulated again just now, that's why she fell ill again," he said shamelessly, "I didn't think it through. Fortunately, you and Professor Cheng were present, otherwise the consequences would be really unpredictable."

"You?" Professor Cheng laughed meanly, "I think her mother is pretty much the same."

Professor Li pulled his arm: "Brother, don't be angry. I will suggest that Yiyi's mother also come to the center to receive counseling. After all, Yiyi's treatment will need her cooperation."

Professor Cheng's frown slightly relaxed.

"So there is still hope for Yiyi's illness?" Pu Yiyang heard some good signs from the two people's words.

"As I just said, it depends on how to treat it," Professor Cheng said, "Winter Xing will try to help Qian Yiyi with psychiatric therapy."

"But there is no precedent for wandering soul disease." Professor Li's eyes flashed a trace of gloom, "I will try my best, but I am not sure how far I can do it with traditional therapy alone." He smiled at Pu Yiyang as he spoke , "But you don't have to worry too much. In our field, the most important thing is to untie the bell and tie the bell. Now that the crux of the problem has been found, it is easy to prescribe the right medicine."

Pu Yiyang glanced at Professor Li gratefully, and then at Professor Cheng: "Is there any other way?"

Professor Cheng seemed to be waiting for him to ask this question, and instead threw him a question: "Do you know what the third stage of wandering spirit disease is like?"

Pu Yiyang thought for a while and said, "Well, will false epilepsy be more serious?"

"A vegetative person." Professor Cheng said, "At the third stage of wandering soul disorder, people's perception of reality is close to zero, and they can neither move nor respond to external stimuli. In the eyes of others, they look like vegetative people." Pretty much the same."

Pu Yiyang suddenly realized: "But in fact, they are not vegetative, but their consciousness is trapped in another world for a long time?"

Professor Cheng looked up at him: "How do you know that the so-called vegetative people are not in the same situation?"

Pu Yiyang was taken aback by the question, and carefully looked at Professor Cheng, feeling that the other party seemed to be very happy to verbalize him.

"If you want to know how to get people's consciousness back from the 'false' world," Professor Cheng made a virtual grasping movement, "you must first figure out how people's consciousness can go from the 'real' world to went there."

Pu Yiyang: "Mapping algorithm."

Professor Cheng raised his eyebrows, and for the first time boasted with a little sincerity: "It's not bad."

Pu Yiyang coughed: "I'm from the Department of Mathematics."

As if he could read minds, Professor Cheng jumped up and said, "Student of Lu Yuxing?"

Pu Yiyang said in embarrassment: "It's...it doesn't count."

In front of this person, he was too embarrassed to directly disregard his relationship with Lu Yuxing.

"Anyway, if you have any questions about this, you can ask Lu Yuxing," Professor Cheng said, "He's been there all day long, making a fuss, one set after another, it must be enough to wash your brain."

Professor Li cheerfully interjected, "Brother, he's not that good at math."

Professor Cheng glared at the younger brother who was tearing down the stage at the critical moment, feeling a little annoyed.

"All theories that are not supported by experiments are hooligans. I just can't understand your castles in the air," he coughed dryly. , discovered A-VATAR."

Pu Yiyang: "A-VATAR, consciousness stand-in? It's covered in our graduate courses."

Consciousness substitute is a key link in the informatization of individual consciousness.The individual consciousness is projected into the information world, responds to the virtual information, and in turn gives orders to the rest of the objects formed by the information. This is the so-called mapping algorithm.Among them, the projection result of this body consciousness, a virtual "I" in the virtual world, is called A-VATAR.

This used to be his father's best field. In fact, he secretly did research in middle school with a man's brick book and draft paper. Digest bit by bit.

Even so, he can't say how well-versed he is at the cutting edge of information mathematics.

"The essence of consciousness is a kind of quantum entanglement." Professor Cheng poked the screen on Professor Li's hand with the tip of his right finger, and a ray of light floated out, dotted around his fingertips. "The essence of the mapping algorithm is Extracting this entanglement from the biological level of the neuron and replicating it at the informational level."

He touched the halo of the fingertip with the index finger of the other hand, and the same light broke into two groups.

Pu Yiyang: "This is the theoretical basis of brain-computer access."

"You are wrong. The existing brain-computer interface is just a poor castration of A-VATAR," Professor Cheng said. "The real A-VATAR can completely abandon the human body, including neurons, and exist independently. .At that time, the consciousness double is no longer a double, it is the ontology, the only reality.”

He shook his right hand suddenly, and the initial halo was extinguished, leaving only another halo at the tip of his left finger.

Pu Yiyang's hairs stood on end when he heard it: "The real A-VATAR? That must be, what kind of algorithm?"

Cheng Yan put his hands down and turned his back: "I don't know what algorithm that is. All I know is, never underestimate the creativity and ambition of human beings."

Pu Yiyang's thoughts jumped, from Lu Yuxing at the Seattle meeting to Wu Zheng, and finally fell on a shadow he cared about the most, and he felt suffocated.

The haunted ghost that he had been chasing in Delta for ten years.

"There is only one way to avoid A-VATAR from usurping the throne and bring people suffering from wandering back to reality," Professor Cheng said slowly and solemnly. "Find a consciousness substitute and destroy it."

After he finished speaking, he patted Pu Yiyang on the shoulder, and walked away with his hands behind his back.

"Brother admires you quite a lot," Professor Li looked at Pu Yiyang, and suddenly said, "A few years ago, he would have wished he could go to the battle himself to get to the bottom of these problems and solve them completely. But now, He chose to trust you."

Pu Yiyang was startled: "I...?"

"We are all old after all, just stay in our own seats, treat diseases, and do research." Professor Li smiled at him, the dimples on his cheeks sunken in the thin lines, "Of course, you still have questions If so, welcome to come to me and senior brother anytime.”

After saying these words, he held the data pad and quickly chased another person waiting in the corner.