It is strictly forbidden to collapse people [Unlimited]

Shen Yongle still gritted his teeth, and took Mo Jue's person card.

In an instant, the feeling of connecting with heaven and earth after getting the [Aksha] card seemed to come back, but probably because the effects of the two cards were limited, his feeling was hazy, as if separated by layers of veils.

Mo Jue and Yan were also carefully observing his reaction.

Shen Yongle is not quite able to accurately express his current feelings in words, so he can only describe as much as possible: "It seems to be able to vaguely perceive many things... such as the position and psychological changes of other card holders, and the deep meaning of the main line of the entire instance. Category……"

Yan Ye slightly raised his eyebrows: "What is the deep meaning of the main line of the entire dungeon?"

Probably because of gaining this kind of mysterious experience again, Shen Yongle's heart beat a little faster.

He closed his eyes, calmed down for a moment, and answered again after a few seconds: "The entire copy of Maxwell's demon should actually be human beings' exploration of the essential relationship between energy and information..."

He paused for a while, and suddenly felt that there was a sharp-edged card in his hand.

Shen Yongle opened his eyes in astonishment, and saw Yan Ye who had stuffed his personal card into his hand at a glance.

Seeing Shen Yongle's surprised expression, Big Brother Yan raised the corners of his lips: "What? You are only allowed to believe in you, but I am not allowed to believe in you too?"

Since Shen Yongle was able to overcome that temptation once, he would naturally be able to overcome the second time. Moreover, the person card that was handed over to Shen Yongle has not disappeared. As long as the nature of the person holding the card remains the same, they can get the person card back later .

Shen Yongle glanced at him with some emotion, didn't waste any more time, let go of his thoughts, and continued to develop his perception of the world.

He followed what he just said, tried his best to clear the fog, and "looked" into a deeper place.

"The essential relationship between energy and information can also be said to be the conversion of information entropy and heat entropy..."

It was about the effect bonus of three cards, which made his reasoning ability on the main line to a higher level, and Shen Yongle suddenly realized that they probably all made a mistake before.

"Wait, I think... there may be something wrong with the main quest we guessed before..."

Mo Jue instantly understood what he meant, and frowned slightly: "You mean - maintaining the operation of the entire Aksha is not the goal of this dungeon?"

Shen Yongle nodded and shook his head again: "Yes and no, because Maxwell's monster does not only maintain the 'Aksha World'."

He quickly helped Mo Jue and Yan Ye reorganize the concept of the entire Maxwell hypothetical experiment.

The Maxwell demon in the experiment actually did two things: first, judge the speed of the molecule; second, switch the small holes according to the judgment conclusion, so that the temperature difference inside the system is gradually generated.

"So, Maxwell's demon itself is also a part of the dissipative structure," Shen Yongle explained, "The first part of their work is the transformation of internal and external, which is essentially the transformation of information entropy and heat entropy, that is, 'making judgments' and 'Switch the hole with a judgment conclusion' The entropy change between the two."

"And the second part of the switch hole work...is actually done inside the dissipative structure."

That is to say, all other work done by Maxwell's demon except judgment is done within the same "system that needs to be maintained".

This system was once considered an isolated system before information entropy was discovered.

Yan Yeruo realized something: "You mean, the 'switch hole' made by Maxwell's demon in this dungeon is a conversion between ordinary people and players...that is to say, the dissipative structure implied by the whole dungeon should be Included..."

Shen Yongle interface: "It includes the Aksha world where the player lives, and the reality where... ordinary people live."

Mo Jue also understood, and nodded: "So the 'dissipative structure' that this dungeon needs to maintain is not just the survival of the doomsday game, but the survival of the entire virtual and real world..."

"But..." He frowned slightly, "Why does this whole system need someone to help it survive?"

"What happened to the real world?"

Shen Yong laughed.

As if he had been suddenly reminded of something, his eyes froze, and he looked up at the seemingly boundless sky outside the plane window.

"Perhaps," he said in a low voice, "we can see with our own eyes."

Shen Yongle pulled out the item card of [Aksha] from his bosom.

Mo Jue and Yan also didn't know what he was going to do, but they saw that Shen Yongle quickly pulled out the item card of [Fare], and handed Mo Jue's own character card and [Fare] to him.

Rao Mojue couldn't keep up with his train of thought now, but he still used the Farr item card quite cooperatively.

Shen Yongle was not in a hurry to explain, he used the [Aksha] card, and then opened his mouth to change the rules of [Fare]: "Because in this dungeon world, everyone has gained ability bonuses, so when using the item card At the same time, according to the individual's ability, the effect of the item card can be specially optimized."

This is actually the original rule of this dungeon. Even if he does not specifically apply rule revisions to [Fare], it should also be fulfilled when using item cards, but he can strengthen this effect even more by emphasizing it again.

Sure enough, within a few seconds, he heard a notification from the system that the revision of the rules had been approved.

Mo Jue had already recollected it when he took out the Aksha props card, and after reading his previous series of operations, without Shen Yongle's further explanation, he had tacitly handed over his character set card and That 【Fare】.

Shen Yongle smiled at him, replaced the [Fare] item card, and started to observe the world again.

However, the smile on his face suddenly froze at the act of changing the card.

The plane has already begun to land, the pilot's technique is stable, and everything is going very well.

However, Shen Yongle seemed to have seen something unbelievable, his pupils vibrated visibly, and then he suddenly came back to his senses, ran to the window in a hurry, put his entire face on the window glass and looked out, his eyes were full of shock.

"how so……"

Mo Jue chased after frowning, looked out the window at the approaching city, and found nothing unusual: "Is there something wrong?"

"No, this is not Shanghai at all!" He shook his head abruptly, and then quickly vetoed himself, "No, the route and time are fine, the only possibility is Shanghai, there is no need for Aksha to lie to us about this... But...how is this possible?!"

Shen Yongle obviously fell into chaos because of the shock he encountered, and couldn't find a reasonable explanation that could justify himself.

Or maybe—it was the fact that only one explanation was possible that made him even more confused.

Shen Yongle took three deep breaths in succession before finally calming down.

"Brother Jue..." He turned his head and grabbed Mo Jue's wrist, "Can you fly me out to have a look? Right now, let's go to another direction..."

"This may be another scam by Aksha, I need to confirm it again, and I will explain it to you later..."

Yan also exchanged a glance with Mo Jue.

The two didn't ask any more questions, Mo Jue nodded and said, "Okay."

The reason why they took the plane was more to preserve their physical strength. In fact, Mojue already had the ability to fly long distances.

And Maxwell's demons can't touch real things when ordinary people notice, that is, as long as they try to open the hatch in full view, they can fall out through the hatch.

The three of them quickly got out of the cabin, and according to Shen Yongle's instructions, they made a circle under the clouds, seeing the world as far as they could see in all directions.

The shock in Shen Yongle's eyes gradually quieted down, turning into deep worry, and the whole person became more and more silent...

Mo Jue didn't urge him, and after turning around a few times, he asked, "Where else do you want to go now?"

Shen Yongle seemed to be immersed in some thoughts, and nodded subconsciously: "Yes." After a while, he came back to his senses and replied, "No need, let's go down."

Mo Jue took the two of them down quickly, found an empty rooftop, and let him down.

Shen Yongle didn't seem to be slowing down yet, and after landing, he walked to the edge of the roof, looked around for a while, and then took a deep breath.

Anyone who suddenly knows these "truths" needs a certain amount of time to digest.

However, 【Fare】has a limited time of action, and he really can't afford to delay it.

Shen Yongle was almost forced to force himself to calm down.

Looking back now, Aksha's game has indeed made him grow a lot. If he had just entered the game and knew today's result, it would be absolutely impossible for him to recover as quickly as today.

Probably because of the blessing of [Fare], and after gathering the strength of the three of them, a certain kind of mysterious perception that is closer to Aksha's origin, Shen Yongle feels very strange now.

He can't control everyone's thoughts, every cloud or every gust of wind in the world, but it's more like he can see through the route of the wind and cloud, guess everyone's behavior trajectory, and gain insight into the truth of the entire world in front of him

That is, pieced together by zero and one, just like a real virtual.

And the virtual "reality" that can be seen through the entire sky and the earth, which is so shocking that it is almost aphasia.

Yes, even the real world they thought was real, the world they have been living in and thought to be real, is nothing but a collective illusion made up of numbers.

And the real truth...

He looked up at the two of them, his eyes were never serious since he entered the Aksha game.

"I saw...the real end of the world."

Not a doomsday game, but something that actually happened all over the planet, literally - the end of the world.

It was an extremely vast desolation.

The entire world was plunged into a thick, soundless darkness, with low gray clouds covering the lifeless wasteland, and the dilapidated city high-rises covered with a thick layer of dust.

Human beings are extinct, birds and beasts are gone, even stars and moon shadows have completely disappeared. In the endless darkness of despair, only a handful of lights are left. They are maintained by machines. In the boundless desert of civilization, they are like the last relics left by human beings.

This is a depressing and dusty planet that seems to be abandoned, or...

It was the first to abandon humans.

Shen Yongle even felt a little ridiculous for a moment.

So he was the only one who found out about it?Is this what it really is?

Shen Yongle actually felt from the very beginning that when everyone gets "power", what they can really get is different.

Even if all the powers rise to the top level, they should be connected to Akesha by different routes, but just like the special ability bonuses obtained by him, Mo Jue and Yan after entering the dungeon are different, when he gets more character designs When stuck, what you can see should be completely different from Xu Jinghua and Messiah back then.

Otherwise, Xu Jinghua would definitely not do such..."meaningless" things.

The world is destroyed, so what is the use of any more power?

And Messiah doesn't have [Fal], can't see through the truth of the world, and doesn't know what Aksha will use to make a deal with him?

His thoughts were a little confused, and his always strong logical ability even failed for a moment, and he was almost incoherent when he was explained to Mo Jue and Yan.

Fortunately, his two teammates were smart enough to understand him quickly.

Mo Jue even had the feeling that he suddenly realized that the world of Aksha and the real world they thought were both virtual: "No wonder Aksha can control the life and death of players in the two worlds at will."

While [Fare] was still in effect, Shen Yongle seized the time to let Mo Jue take him around, and sure enough, he found rows of nutrition warehouses in one of the most technologically advanced cities on Earth.

The human society has been completely silent, only the machines are running back and forth, repairing and replacing equipment, and filling the nutrition warehouse with nutrient solution...

And countless human beings with different faces lie in rows and groups in the warehouse, with serene faces, as if immersed in a sweet dream.

No, it should be said that they were originally in a dream named "Aksha" that would never wake up.

Yan also sneered: "So what are we all? A brain in a vat?"

The "brain in a vat" is a well-known thought experiment in the theory of knowledge, articulated by philosopher Hilary Putnam in her 1981 book Reason, Truth, and History.

The experiment assumes that a mad scientist, machine or any other consciousness takes a brain out of the human body and puts it in a tank filled with nutrient solution to maintain its physiological activity.

The supercomputer transmits the same various nerve electrical signals to the brain through the nerve endings, so that he can maintain the illusion that everything is completely normal.

For the person whose brain has been taken out, it seems that people, objects, and the sky still exist, and their own movements and body sensations are all normal, but the world experienced by this person is actually just a virtual reality created by computers.

Can the brain realize that it is living in a virtual reality?

How can you guarantee that everything you experience now is not a virtual reality directly imported into the brain by a supercomputer?

And Shen Yongle drove the [Fare], and the "truth" that he could feel through the item card was even deeper than what he could see.

It is a kind of mystery and thoroughness that is beyond what is visible to the naked eye, and it is related to the laws of operation of the entire virtual world, and the tidal flow of all data...

He searched for the source of these indescribable things in nothingness, and his eyes quickly fell from mid-air to the rows of people lying in the nutrition cabin.

Once he finds the pattern, he can feel it more clearly—the people lying here are not just passively receiving information or feedback stimulation for personal feelings, but more like...

issuing control commands.

Shen Yongle tried his best to describe what he felt: "In the entire virtual world, all information flow seems to be centered on all the brains here... The control information of those machines and equipment, and even the calculations of all doomsday games, are still in the human brain proceeding, emanating from the human end, as if..."

It's like—Aksha who controls everything, is each of them.

Shen Yongle was a little hard to understand for a while: "But... why?"

Why do human beings subconsciously destroy themselves?

How did all this happen?

Yan Ye seemed to have understood something.

His eyes darkened: "Or, it's not human beings who are issuing instructions, but it should be said - Aksha is running in the heads of each of us."

As the temporary highest authority management of the TT forum, this agent Messiah obviously knows more information about the information world than Shen Yongle and Mo Jue.

Yan also quickly introduced the relevant background to the two: "In 2014, futurist Ray Kurzweil used different brain regions to calculate professional estimates of cps, and finally got the calculation speed that the human brain can achieve is 10 to the 16th power. cps, or 1 billion calculations per second."

The fastest supercomputer at the time, China's Tianhe-3.4, was capable of [-] trillion calculations per second.

But Tianhe-720 covers an area of ​​2400 square meters, consumes 3.9 million watts of electricity, and cost [-] million US dollars to build.

Businessmen are always looking for solutions that can further reduce costs and increase profits. They soon discovered that the human brain is plastic (note), construction costs are low, and materials are everywhere...

Yan also raised the corners of his lips, and chuckled without emotion: "That is to say, compared to optical brains, human brains are actually more high-quality and cheaper 'supercomputers'."

Shen Yongle couldn't believe it.

These fragments that he thought would only appear in sci-fi movies have already happened.

Shen Yongle seemed to be talking to himself: "So, is this the reason why we haven't been able to find the 'computer terminal' where Aksha is? Obviously, with Aksha's calculations, it is impossible to hide himself without a trace. ..."

Because that terminal is human beings themselves.

Shen Yongle couldn't help but shuddered, only to realize that goosebumps had already appeared on his back.

In just ten minutes, it has completely overturned many of his cognitions...

They all thought that it was the defection of artificial intelligence that caused mankind to fall into the doomsday disaster.

But in fact... human beings may have already ushered in the doomsday, but they have been protected by artificial intelligence and established a false world to prolong the temporary tranquility.

Obviously, when the external environment collapses, Aksha needs to maintain its own operation, so it needs to obtain energy through other means-this is the most fundamental reason for the appearance of Maxwell's demon.

It is also the reason for the end game to start.

Le Shen's heart was beating wildly, and he couldn't help but feel shaken for the first time.

Can they really shut down the game?

After shutting down Aksha... what will humans do?

The author has something to say: Note: Plasticity refers to the ability of a material to undergo permanent deformation stably without destroying its integrity under the action of an external force