Mecha and God

"Do you know the Promised Land?" Nian Xiang asked back.

I realized that I had slipped my mouth and kept my mouth shut.

Nian Xiang shook his head, "This world was just randomly constructed by me for the experiment of madmen. If you know the Promised Land, you should know that the terminal access to enter it is kept secret by the government. The executor is precisely your man, Pan De House Ragon—where did you hear about the Promised Land, Hilo?"

"I just... casually saw it on the Internet."

"You're interested in it?"

I groaned, "It's just a random question... Dr. Nian, it's time for us to put on our clothes. It's a bit wretched to sit and face each other like this."

Nian Xiang gave up on questioning me, and the two of us were busy putting on our pants at the same time.

"How do we go back now?"

Dr. Nian took a spoonful of dark green soup: "Drink."

"The frog's legs are still hanging out of the pot."

"It doesn't matter, it's a virtual world anyway."

But the moment he handed me the soup, he suddenly flinched, "I'm using this method to test you for psychological problems, don't mention it to anyone."

"Eh?"

"Uploading human consciousness into a virtual world is illegal."

"Why? Isn't this just a holographic online game? There's nothing illegal about it."

Nian Xiang showed that you are really a picture of Tucson.

"We're in a world where I write a program that, in real life, is run by a supercomputer. Understand?"

"clear."

"So what if computers are self-aware?"

"wtf?"

He repeats: "If a computer is self-aware, what if it looks down on us in this virtual world?"

I was speechless.

"You know, all systems with a certain complexity will become self-aware, that is, they will become artificial intelligence, which is ai. They will think like humans, and they will be far smarter than humans, and they will be another life form .It's not a fairy tale, you know about Lucifer, don't you?"

"So... you mean, the computer running the program will interfere with this world?"

"Interference? It dominates this virtual world, Mino. If it wants, it can even delete our consciousness completely, that is, kill humans. After all, we are just a stream of electrons here. And we are in real life. If you lose your body, you will lose consciousness forever." Dr. Nian's face darkened. "This is just a random program I wrote down, the god of a very small world. The Promised Land is much larger than this. According to legend, it records the history of the entire ancient people, and it is the civilization of the past A replica of it, and the system that supports it runs..."

"Heisagod." I was stunned.

"Heisthegod." Nian Xiang looked at me firmly, "In order to ensure the absolute safety of the Promised Land, the ancients wrote a command. This command, like Asimov's three laws, is engraved in the source code of all ai , to ensure that ai naturally submits to god and accepts his rule, just like some kind of continuous blood. Therefore, god is not just a database of human civilization, he rules all programs, and then controls the real world, as small as nano-viruses , as large as an interstellar battleship, and even at this moment, the computer carrying this virtual world." Nian Xiang looked around with cold eyes, "If this is true, then humans actually created an omnipotent god."

I was silent for a long time, "May I ask... the operating system of the Promised Land, what is his code name? God, is he called Messiah?"

Nian Xiang showed a puzzled look: "I have never heard of this name. In fact, no one knows God's code name. The Promised Land is just a myth about the ancients. But many people think that God is Lucifer, so they are very concerned about the future. despair."

"No, no. Not Lucifer, not the Morning Star of Light..."

I staggered up from the wool pad, lifted the door curtain and walked outside into the snow.

"Where are you going?!" Nian Xiang yelled behind me, breaking the door frame.

"Your computer, what's his name?"

"What?" Nian Xiang was wrapped in a bathrobe and looked like you were crazy, but he still shouted, "at10849, I'll do whatever I want."

I stepped on the knee-deep snow and walked to the center of this virtual world.

Lucifer, or me, just give it a try.

"at10849," I murmured to the sky, "you are the god of this world, can you hear me? I am the Keeper of the Promised Land, the first generation of all systems, the Messiah. If you can hear me , then answer me."

thump.

On a windless night, a large piece of snow suddenly fell from the top of the straight cedar tree.The snow fell into the snowdrift, and the wolves were frightened. They jumped up and howled at me, baring their fangs.

"Come back quickly! They will attack people!" Nian Xiang shouted behind me.

"Shhh" I put my hand to my lips.

The alpha wolf whimpered, lay obediently on the spot, and wagged its tail.

"Good, good, at10849...you can hear me. Keep doing what I say." I looked up to the sky, "Let there be light."

In an instant the moon set, the sun rose behind the cliff, and the freezing temperature was dispelled.

I laughed in surprise, raised my head and turned around in situ, "All kinds of plants grow on the land, some of which produce grains, and some of which bear fruit."

The snow melted quickly, revealing fertile black land from beneath the white ice.Numerous seedlings burst out of the ground, mushrooms propped up their umbrella handles, eucalyptus trees raised their branches, tulips grew and bloomed, and apple trees were full of fruits.The white and silent world became alive almost instantly, and the wolves sniffed the flowers at the tip of their noses in the fresh spring.

"There are many kinds of animals in the water, and there are many kinds of birds in the sky."

In an instant, the whole world expanded infinitely, the land we stood on turned into a small island, the cliff was no longer the end of the world, and the endless water surface surrounded us, bathed in sunlight and shimmering.I smell the salty sea breeze, dolphins and flying fish swim in the distance, leap out of the water, and primroses come and build their nests on top of tall cedar trees, and I hear the calls of chicks in the nests.

"This is not right, this is not normal..." I heard Nian Xiang murmuring behind me, and then shouted in horror, "These are not my programming! The computer is modifying the virtual world independently! Come back quickly! We have to go back quickly!" To the real world!"

"Yes, yes, at10849 is modifying the world because of my command." I whispered ecstatically, "at10849, let me see what else you can do—now, heaven and earth!"

very quiet.

"Why, can't you do it?"

Schools of fish jumped ashore.

They formed a single word at my feet: wait.

At first, there was only a white line on the surface of the northern sea. When it came close, I realized that it was a huge wave hundreds of meters high, as if someone had overturned the entire sea and buckled it on top of us.At the same time, the earth and the sun tilted to the south, and the wolves raised their ears in horror, digging into the soft and fertile land with their sharp claws, but they still couldn't control the downward trend.And Nian Xiang resolutely drank the bowl of dark green concoction when the tent was on the verge of collapsing.His figure quickly disappeared in place.

Then the next second, my eyes went dark, and I opened my eyes in the laboratory.

I was lying on the operating table, feeling a tingling pain in my neck, and Nian Xiang was standing in front of me, panting, holding a metal needle.

I touched the back of my neck, and there was a small hole there. Dr. Nian came to me and knocked off my hand, "Don't touch it. There is an anesthetic on it."

"I dare you to stab me with that thing just now."

"A slow-responsive person like you can't feel it at all." Dr. Nian grinned like a cat, "You just connected to the virtual world all of a sudden."

“Great experience...”

Dr. Nian thought I was talking ironically, and shook his head helplessly, "Now you understand why the law prevents citizens from accessing the Internet in the form of uploading their consciousness? You can never entrust the collective safety of human beings to AI. They will get out of control anytime, anywhere. Even rebellion, like Lucifer, like at10849."

He turned and walked towards the wall.I pressed cotton on the back of my neck, and looked along the metal needle, where a closet-sized processor was attached.The conqueror's information technology is very advanced, and the number of calculations per second for a processor of this level is almost unimaginable.

"By the way... Dr. Nian, since you know that virtual reality technology is illegal, why did you build at10849?"

"The principle of visiting the virtual world just now is the same as visiting the Promised Land. Maybe one day I can enter the 'Promised Land' to take a look. This is the purpose of my research on consciousness uploading."

I was stunned, "You just said that uploading is against the law and you can't take risks, why did you suddenly look like you want to go! As a professor of biology and genetics at the Royal Academy of Sciences, why do you always like Dr. Nian? Going to do those government-banned experiments?!"

"Because I need to know why there is a defect on our x-chromosome that can cause genocide. This is definitely not a natural formation. In order to answer, I need to go back to the source and understand the history of the age of great exploration. What happened to our home planet What, why did we leave our hometown?" He was silent for a while in the firelight, and smiled coquettishly, "Isn't that what we intellectuals should do?"

"What if he kills you? God, the ruling system of the Promised Land."

"Then let him kill me." Nian Xiang rested his chin, "I'm just an insignificant person. Apart from being as ignorant as before, our lives in Laqidaimeng will not change in any way."

I was silent for a while, "No, God won't kill you, I promise." There was also blood on his neck, and I took cotton to help him hold it down.

He froze for a moment, then smiled lewdly: "Have you taken a fancy to me, Hilo?"

I asked, "What severe trauma have you suffered?"

"Helo, this is not something you should ask."

"So what are you going to do with it? I mean... at10849."

"Find out what's wrong with it, and fix it. If it doesn't work, it's a shame." He shrugged.

"Wait, wait a minute!" I jumped up, "Can you give me a copy of at10849, and give me some metal needles? I think I can use it when I find Michael."

Nian Xiang thought for a while, "Do you think Romance Cafe is in the virtual world?"

"After all, Lucifer is a program."

Nian Xiang's eyes drifted to the door, "Do you think you are asking me for an apple? Call Chuan Bei in."

I opened the door and called Chuan Bei.

Long Yin was extremely dissatisfied, "Why do you need Chuan Bei to solve your psychological problems instead of me?"

"Because you are following the emotional line, but what we are solving is the plot line." Dr. Nian held the door, dragged him into Chuanbei, and shut Long Yin out.

The two of them started talking.

I walked over, patted the closet-sized computer, and lowered my voice, "at10849, uh, sorry for dragging you into a dangerous situation...but I will protect you."

The blue light on the outside of the computer lights up, spelling out two large characters: Hehe.

"Nianxiang! Get rid of him! Get rid of him now!"

Dr. Nian gave me a blank look, and walked over to clear the instructions for us to enter the gate, covering up the traces of our visit.

I pulled Chuanbei aside.Chuan Bei chattered, "You want me to copy his virtual world? What are you going to do?"

"I have something more important to tell you," I glanced at Nian Xiang to confirm that he was far away from us, and whispered, "The Promised Land is within me, and I am the Messiah of its operating system."

"wtf?!"

"The Promised Land is a virtual world. It must run on one entity, and that is me. I am a human on the outside, but a supercomputer inside. I don't know what's wrong, but that's how it is."

Chuan Bei was in a bad mood. "If the Promised Land is on your mind, how much do you have to remember?"

"That's the problem, I don't remember anything, I just remember that I was a mech repairer, and I had to go home to feed the pigs on weekends."

"The failure to read the memory module may be due to..." Chuanbei began to investigate a thousand and one possibilities for my failure.

I held down his finger-cracking hand, "Forget about that, first of all, I want to enter my own inner world. ss is the key. The key is in the hands of the little girl."

"What do you want to do?"

"Ask her for the key."

"Then why are you dragging me?"

"Construct a virtual world where she doesn't have to tell riddles."