Get teased by AI in escape game [Unlimited]

The B1 floor of the base, the office of the great leader.

Xie Jingming brewed a pot of tea and was slowly pouring the tea into two stainless steel cups.

Miaomiao green smoke rose from the cup and lingered in the air.

In addition to a large electronic screen and a set of paper and pens on his desktop, there is also an old mottled wooden photo frame.In the photo, the beautiful long-haired woman hugged a one-year-old boy with her slender arms, and smiled warmly and lovingly at the camera.

The woman is very young.

Apparently long dead.

Xu Zhaomu politely looked away from the photo.

At this time, he was sitting on the carbon fiber chair opposite the table, sniffing the refreshing aroma of tea at the tip of his nose, and lowered his head to take a sip of the liquid in the cup——

It was hot and bitter strong tea.

He put down the cup and stopped drinking the tea in it.

"How is the big system doing?" Xie Jingming asked straight to the point, dressed in a neat shirt and trousers.

Xu Zhaomu straightened his sitting posture, and answered earnestly: "The main and auxiliary worlds in 'Homeland' have been basically constructed, and the more than 2 consciousnesses entered before the Earth Core Ark are being placed, and the progress has reached 3/[-]."

Xie Jingming frowned: "What is the success rate?"

Xu Chaomu paused: "Currently, 2 people failed to load."

That's a surprisingly small number.

Xie Jingming's brows were rarely relaxed: "Leaving the matter to you always makes me feel at ease."

After speaking, he sighed lowly.

The continuous bad news after Xuehou had already dyed the hair of this man in his prime gray. The leader looked much older than he should have been.

Xu Chaomu looked at him quietly, and slowly shook his head:

"With today's level of technology, it is not really difficult to enter and place consciousness. The difficulty is in the follow-up part, how to make these consciousness not [zoom], not [collapse], and not [alienation] in the black box."

Yes, they not only have to keep people's consciousness alive in "Homeland", but also try to ensure that after they survive, they are still "people" and not turned into other "things".

The twelve arks, except for the destroyed earth core ark, each of them has an uncertain future.

They may be at any tiny node, because of some subtle deviations in some details that no one will pay attention to, which leads to the destruction of the entire Ark.

Black Box Ark is no exception.

The human consciousness loaded into the large system is likely to lose its activity [deadness] due to lack of sufficient external stimuli; or lack of proper comfort, emotional imbalance, leading to [collapse] and self-destruction.

The greatest possibility is that "they" have an abnormal awakening in the virtual world and are completely assimilated into a virtual data flow—this situation, Xu Chaomu calls it [alienation].

At that time, they can no longer be called human beings.

"Frozen, collapsed and alienated..." Xie Jingming frowned again: "How do you plan to reduce the occurrence of these situations?"

Xu Zhaomu said: "We are repeatedly correcting bugs to make the main world as realistic as reality, so as to prevent the conscious body from detecting any abnormalities and alienating it. At the same time, let the secondary world participate in the consciousness cycle and nourish the main world. It will not allow the same process to run repeatedly, resulting in a dead consciousness.”

Xie Jingming nodded: "If anything happens, report to me in time."

"Yes." Xu Chaomu paused, did not leave immediately, and took another sip of tea with his head down, showing a hint of hesitation: "I... still... have a question to ask."

Xie Jingming: "Tell me."

Xu Zhaomu asked in a low voice: "Then, when can we come back?"

Xie Jingming understood what he wanted to ask.

The researchers assigned to each ark will live and die with the ark.On the day of boarding the ship, Xu Chaomu and his more than 4000 people will upload their consciousness to "Homeland" to continue their lives in that virtual world.

——On the ark where it belongs, continue, or destroy.

From a certain point of view, the ending of everyone has already been doomed.

So, he only replied ambiguously: "Wait until the day when the spring is warm and the flowers bloom, and everything will recover."

This was not the answer Xu Zhaomu wanted.

He asked persistently: "But, how do we know that the outside world has recovered to the point where we can go back?"

"..."

This time, the great leader was silent for a long time.

Xu Chaomu's tone revealed an unconcealable disappointment: "There is no way... right?"

Xie Jingming said ruthlessly:

"Yes. You know this better than me. As a closed system, the black box is completely surrendered to the real world. It cannot be peeped from the inside out, and no one will be able to wake you up at that time. Whether you can come out and when you can come out, You can only listen to your inner feelings."

Xu Zhaomu: "What if, after countless reincarnations, we... forget everything?"

Judging from the results of their many experiments over the past few days, forgetting is the most likely result.

The big leader said without hesitation: "Then you can only live there forever."

He clenched his fist on his knee unconsciously:

"Forever... living in a... virtual... black box?"

The great leader nodded solemnly:

"Survival is the first priority."

"Survival is the first priority." Xu Chaomu murmured and repeated.

The great leader stood up, his tall figure cast a shadow on the table.

He said in a deep voice: "The heavy snow has arrived, and the Ark of the Earth's Core and the Ark of the Deep Sea have already sailed. We will all live and die with the Ark. There is no turning back."

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"The leader has summoned you alone for the fourth time... What did he say to you just now?"

When Xu Chaomu returned to Area 4, Lin Xu leaned over and asked curiously.

It was a little difficult for him to breathe, he tried to focus his sight, stared at Lin Xu for a few seconds, and finally found his words. "He said, 'Survival is the number one priority'." He repeated with difficulty.

"'Survival is the first priority'," Lin Xu repeated in a low voice: "This is another golden sentence that can be included in textbooks."

Xu Chaomu closed his eyes, took a deep breath, and opened them again.

His eyes fell on the electronic screen, on the face of "Ye Xiaorou" who was smiling at him.

This is the younger sister he will create for Ye Wenxuan - "she" is not a human consciousness, but will have human nature, especially the beautiful and kind side of human nature.

For a long time, he has worked hard to prevent the consciousness body from [zooming], [collapsing] or [alienation] in the black box, spent a lot of human resources, and conducted a series of attempts to allow human beings to maintain humanity in the black box.

However, if they can only live in the black box forever, then these attempts will be meaningless.

If only survival is considered, then even if all human consciousness is alienated into strange data streams in the black box, why not?

After all, the purpose of survival has been achieved.isn't it?

"I agree with this point of view." Lin Xu is still talking about his point of view: "Compared with other methods, the black box ark is the most conservative, but it is also the most secure. Human civilization is likely to continue here. The starship ark People always ridicule us as "turtle ark", but who can be sure that becoming a data stream is not a kind of "evolution"? We may instead be able to evolve into a higher-level spiritual civilization in a black box..."

Xu Chaomu pursed his lips, and politely interrupted him: "I need some time to be quiet."

Lin Xu paused, and immediately realized that there were some differences between them, and finally said: "Okay. The work log for this stage has been sent to you."

Xu Chaomu nodded.

After a while, Z's voice rang in his ears: "Xu Chaomu, are you very resistant to entering 'Homeland'?"

"..." He shook his head: "I don't resist entering 'Homeland'... On the contrary, I love that world, but I'm afraid that we can only sink into the black box forever."

Z thought for a while, then said seriously: "Sinking...seems to be a derogatory term."

Xu Chaomu felt happy when he heard the words, and the haze in his heart dispelled a little:

"Indeed."

Z made a humane suggestion: "So, don't 'sink', isn't that all right?"

...fairy-like logic.

Xu Chaomu couldn't help but smile: "You are right. I will try to perfect everything after that."

The words of the great leader are correct.

Survival is the first priority.

The chances of survival are already so slim.

They struggled for a long time in the doomsday base, just to catch the elusive glimmer of life.

...But, if they can really survive in the black box ark and escape the devastating snow, then Xu Zhaomu hopes that they will still be able to survive smoothly on the day when the spring is warm and the flowers bloom and all things recover. Back to this world.

"I'm very happy, my suggestion is helpful to you." Z whispered happily in his ear.