Being an Extra Actor in an Escape Game

"So he actually took his brother's brain out?"

In the corridor on the 11th floor of the mental hospital, three taskers were talking.

When Liang Xingyi talked about his brother's brain, he suddenly fell into a strange silence.

He no longer responded to the questions of Mu Jiashi and the others, but just lowered his head and stared blankly at the glass container.

As he himself said, he is a man trapped in his own world.

"I think so." Mu Jiashi said calmly, "Do you remember what he said just now? He said that his brother couldn't wake up, but his brain wave was still there. Maybe he thought his brother's body was useless ,but……"

The witch said blankly: "The artificial intelligence program can accommodate his brain waves."

Mu Jiashi and Shen Yunju fell silent at the same time.

This sounds really crazy.They all began to wonder whether Liang Xingyi had gone crazy?

If not crazy, how could he have such terrible, unethical thoughts?

Mu Jiashi was admitted to graduate school, and his major also required him to enter and leave the laboratory.

At the moment when he entered the ultimate nightmare and walked out of the laboratory of Qucheng University, he saw the laboratory rules posted on the wall.

Liang Xingyi is using the brain of a living person to conduct an experiment that does not determine his life or death.He is murdering.

"But he succeeded." Shen Yunju said with mixed emotions, "The artificial intelligence he created...does possess human emotions."

Mu Jiashi held his breath for a moment, then exhaled slowly, and said, "This is just a game."

After these words were spoken, the atmosphere in the corridor improved a lot, at least not as frozen as before... They were all terrified by this possibility.

If their brain enters the body of a robot, the brain is stimulated by something from the outside world, and simulates different emotions and hormone secretion... If, a brain in a vat is really possible...

Mu Jiashi couldn't help but shuddered.

So thankfully it's just a game.It's just a game company realizing its ambitions in the game.

But the sorceress said softly: "But in reality...our earth..."

Mu Jiashi and Shen Yunju looked at each other.

Afterwards, Mu Jiashi sighed: "I don't want to think about it. What we need to do now is to solve this ultimate nightmare... just leave this damn game."

Once again, they hit the mark.

Mu Jiashi analyzed: "So, the artificial intelligence in the narrow building is the program written by Liang Xingyi. The emotional side of the artificial intelligence is Liang Zhiyi's brain at work."

"However, it is obvious that the coldness and programming of artificial intelligence have the upper hand." Shen Yunju said, "I even doubt... is Liang Zhiyi still alive?"

"Can artificial intelligence also dream?" The witch said in an ethereal voice, "Can it also have human emotions?"

"I don't think artificial intelligence can dream." Mu Jiayu said in the same cold tone, "It's just a tool. Do you think your hammer, wrench, pen and paper you use, they can dream?"

Shen Yunju couldn't help retorting: "But artificial intelligence can think by itself."

"If you think calculations based on logic and information are considered thinking...then, yes, artificial intelligence does think." Jiashi Mu said, "but it is conscious and active thinking."

Shen Yunju and the witch looked at him, not quite understanding why he mentioned the definition of "thinking".

And Shen Yunju said: "Dreaming is unconscious. This kind of unconscious and useless thinking is not within the scope of artificial intelligence - and artificial intelligence will definitely think that this is a meaningless behavior.

"AI is a utilitarian tool."

Shen Yunju took a deep breath, he didn't know why he did this, but he seemed to see a terrible truth from what Mu Jiashi said.

He was stunned for a moment, and then said: "So you really think that NE's nightmare actually came from Liang Zhiyi's brain?"

Mu Jiashi paused, and then said: "Yes. I think so."

The hallway fell silent again.

The premise of everything they discussed was that there was a reason for NE's nightmare in the game, rather than a mechanically applied game setting.

And under this premise, it seems very strange that the artificial intelligence of the narrow building can dream.

In the human mind, artificial intelligence does not dream, it is just a tool, a program.

Does your computer dream?

No one would think so.

So the question evolved into, why does the artificial intelligence of the narrow building dream?

Why does it have emotions like fear and fear?Why does it have the coldness of artificial intelligence and human emotion at the same time?

Now they have an explanation: because this artificial intelligence has Liang Zhiyi's brain.

None of them knew how Liang Xingyi did it.

Perhaps that semi-circular glass container became the "vat" of the "brain in a vat".

And Liang Xingyi connected the container with the artificial intelligence program he created...and provided the same energy...

And then used various methods to provide stimulation corresponding to reality to that brain...

Probably so.

Although they didn't understand how Liang Xingyi realized all these things.But at the end of the day it's just a game.

They pursue logic, but it is impossible to require that everything in the game can be realized in reality.

Thinking about it, Mu Jiashi suddenly frowned: "Do you think... there seems to be a link missing?"

Shen Yunju and the witch looked at each other.

Then the sorceress said: "You mean... about the... operation of this part of the brain?"

"Liang Xingyi's major is obviously in the direction of computers, artificial intelligence, and programming. He may be talented enough to realize the idea of ​​a brain in a vat, but the brain..."

Mu Jiashi hesitated for a moment, then said, "At least there must be a professional doctor to help him?"

With Liang Xingyi alone, it is impossible for him to complete such a difficult task.Besides, it didn't match his major.

Shen Yunju thought for a while, and said, "Did Liang Xingyi just say that he hired someone to help renovate this operating room?"

Mu Jiashi's eyes lit up: "Since the operating room has been remodeled, those people will probably know what Liang Xingyi is planning to do... Those people are Liang Xingyi's helpers!"

Shen Yunju and the witch all nodded.

Mu Jiashi glanced back at the third operating room: "Now that Liang Xingyi can't communicate, we may have to find his helpers."

"Where will they be?" Shen Yunju asked, "In this hospital? Or somewhere else?"

Mu Jiashi pondered for a moment.

Later, he said: "I don't think they are in this hospital. They may have come from other hospitals, heard about what happened here, and then came here with Liang Xingyi...

"Any other clues?"

They thought for a moment in silence.

Mu Jiashi thought for a long time but couldn't figure it out.

He thought of the kind-hearted man who called the ambulance when Liang Zhiyi had an accident; he thought of what Liang Xingyi said, Liang Zhiyi dropped out of school early to work for Liang Xingyi to go to school, could it be that Liang Zhiyi met at that time people?

He also thought about it, could it be a classmate or friend Liang Xingyi knew in university?

But all these possibilities point to one result: they don't have the time to search and explore.They need to find a solution as soon as possible - to solve this nightmare.

So Mu Jiashi overturned his thoughts: "Stop thinking about whether to help or not."

He paused for a moment and continued, "Even if there is a helper, we are still looking far away. The most important question now is that we need to ask Liang Xingyi more about his artificial intelligence and his brother's knowledge." matter."

The sorceress thought for a moment, and then said: "Why on earth did he connect his brother's brain with artificial intelligence?" She murmured, "In order to resurrect his brother?"

"resurrection?"

Mu Jiashi and Shen Yunju were startled.

These two pragmatic taskers have never thought about this direction at all, they just think Liang Xingyi's actions are disgusting and horrifying, and what is even more frightening is that he has succeeded.

Even if it's just in one game.

Therefore, they ignored even more what was Liang Xingyi's essential motivation for making such a move.

He has succeeded, so they pay more attention to the consequences, rather than the various reasons before this thing is actually realized.

Besides, this is an era of crazy spread, maybe Liang Xingyi is simply... crazy.

However, with her unique sensitivity and delicacy, the witch discovered the truth behind this terrible incident.

Why did Liang Xingyi have to plug his brother's brain into an artificial intelligence program?This is simply unbelievable!

——His brother is going to die.

——and Liang Xingyi did not accept this fact.

So, he did.He let his brother's life continue in an artificial intelligence program.

As he said, Liang Zhiyi's brain waves are still there, he is still alive...at least his brain is alive.

"He wants his brother to be resurrected?" Shen Yunju said with a strange expression, "But in the narrow building, the consciousness of artificial intelligence is clearly leading..."

The witch asked softly, "So he failed?"

"Or..." Mu Jiashi's eyes flickered, as if he was thinking about a certain possibility, "His brother's consciousness has not been awakened yet? His brother...is still sleeping? That's why...there are nightmares...so, Gray fog……"

He stopped suddenly.

"That's why the gray fog has always existed." Shen Yunju answered, "Is that what you want to say?"

Mu Jiashi was silent for a moment, then smiled wryly: "But, Xu Beijin...Xu Beijin, could it be that he is Liang Zhiyi?"

They took it for granted, and then came to a conclusion they couldn't believe.

Xu Beijin—or, the actor named Xu Beijin was playing the role of the sleepy one.

Then the brain was stuffed into the artificial intelligence program by his twin brother, was it the man named Liang Zhiyi?

Their thinking is so jumpy that even they themselves are surprised by this conclusion.

The opportunity to connect Xu Beijin and Liang Zhiyi is that they realized that the fog outside the narrow building has always existed.

Even if Xu Bei never started his nightmare, the gray fog still exists, and always exists, never changing.

But it's a nightmare.

The gray fog is Xu Beijin's nightmare, the nightmare of NE... No, it should be said according to the game settings, the gray fog is the nightmare of Zhailou's artificial intelligence.

So how can nightmares last forever?The nightmares of the residents of the other narrow buildings in the narrow building have always only started at night, so why does the gray fog always exist?

Yes, this is a game.Perhaps the gray fog is just a fixed scene that exists in reality.

But this is not just a game, everything in this game seems to refer to something else.

The game company made a game company in the game, and the existence of this thing implies the truth and ending of the game.

Moreover, the gray fog does not seem to exist in reality.Could it be that a tall building in reality will always be shrouded in such a gray fog?It's more like something illusory, uncanny, something that belongs to a dream.

Gray fog is a nightmare rather than reality.

So the gray fog—the gray fog must not be just what it looks like on the surface.There must, must be some pointing meaning...

To put it simply, everything boils down to one sentence: Unless a person has been sleeping, his nightmares may always exist.

The fog has always existed.Gray fog is a nightmare.

Therefore, the owner of the gray mist must have been in a deep sleep.

Xu Beijin is the master of this nightmare, and NE is the master of this nightmare... So, what about sex?

Xu Beijin has always believed that this is one body with two sides.The artificial intelligence in the narrow building, and its inexplicable human emotions.Isn't this precisely the point of contradiction?

However, the truth hidden behind is more like... the Holy Trinity.

Xu Beijin, NE, and lust... Or Liang Zhiyi's brain?He is a human being in this game setting.

This actually symbolizes three different individuals.Inside and outside the game, humans and behind-the-scenes.They are contradictory and united.

In the game setting, color is indeed one body with two sides.On the one hand, it is the coldness of artificial intelligence, and on the other hand, it is the emotion and way of thinking that belong to human beings.

But this game...is not just a game.

Therefore, when more complex elements are added, when NE also serves as the artificial intelligence of the narrow building, and when a human is accidentally added, the situation becomes more and more subtle and contradictory.

What's more, there is an individual who has been sleeping all the time - the brain belonging to Liang Zhiyi.

Xu Beijin quietly watched the screen in the live broadcast room. The bullet screen on the public screen flashed quickly, but he completely ignored it.

Now, he already understood where the way of life left for them in the game setting was.

Although... he was actually not sure if his idea could really be realized.

The missionaries don't know Xu Beijin's real identity, so there are still a few things they can guess.They are still bewildered by all kinds of inconsistencies.

But Xu Beijin already understood.

The crux of the problem is that the artificial intelligence of Narrow Building itself is the combination of program life and human brain.

Therefore, when the artificial intelligence in this narrow building needs to be played, two individuals are also needed to play the role.

Program life, and humans.

NE, and Xu Beijin.

This has always been a two-to-two correspondence, it is not a bug that Xu Bei tried his best, and it cannot be said that their human compatriots are behind the very deliberate and active arrangement.

This is just an inevitability in the game setting. From the very beginning, since they set up such a narrow building manager, this situation has been doomed.

Xu Beijin wasn't playing the role, at least he couldn't point to the programs and codes that Liang Xingyi typed out.What he played was Liang Zhiyi's brain.

This is the setting in the game.

Moreover, he, like Liang Zhiyi's brain, was suppressed by artificial intelligence NE.

Liang Zhiyi's brain may have fallen into a long sleep, while Xu Beijin fell into a long wakefulness.

These two human beings from reality and the game are the real reflections of each other.

However, compared with the reality, in the end, a delicate three-legged situation was formed, that is, NE from the Fieka tribe, Xu Beijin from the humans on Earth, and the artificial man in this narrow building from the game itself. intelligent.

This is a pattern of mutual exchange.Their different positions and different labels will bring about huge changes in their identities.

Xu Beijin never thought of himself as an artificial intelligence, but he is indeed a NE;

At the same time, he is also a color, he is also Liang Zhiyi's brain.

At least from the perspective of the script arrangement!

Xu Beijin couldn't help sighing, always felt that his identity was like a nesting doll.

The most important thing is Liang Zhiyi's brain.

They need to wake up that brain.They need to regain control of the narrow building artificial intelligence, and they want to kick NE out of the battlefield of this final battle.

If Liang Zhiyi is awakened, then perhaps the gray fog will dissipate.And that happens to be what Xu Beijin wants to do—the game and reality, at this moment, are extraordinarily clear and distinct.

Games are games.No matter how real and vivid the script of the game is written, it will eventually leave all kinds of data and traces.That's not the reality that being dead means completely dissipating.

In the online world, everything leaves a trace.

Xu Bei was stunned for a moment, reviewing his plan for the last time.He looked at the three confused taskers in the live broadcast room, and secretly cheered for them.

What they need to do now is to wake up Liang Zhiyi's brain and take the initiative from artificial intelligence back to humans.

Method?

Xu Beijin didn't know what to do, nor did he know how the game was arranged.However, I am afraid that the answer to this question lies in Liang Xingyi's hands.

Three taskers walked into the third operating room again.

Liang Xingyi still sat there blankly, looking down at the semicircular glass container in his hand, with a dazed expression, wondering what he was thinking.

Mu Jiashi walked up to him and asked, "What are you going to do to your brother's brain?"

Liang Xingyi did not respond.

"Link his brainwaves to the artificial intelligence you programmed?"

Liang Xingyi still did not speak.

Mu Jiashi then asked: "Do you want him to be resurrected in artificial intelligence?"

The word "resurrection" seemed to hit Liang Xingyi's pain point at once.He trembled subconsciously, and the glass container in his hand fell to the ground.

Although it was not broken, it was also contaminated with a lot of dust, which made Liang Xingyi panic all of a sudden.

He quickly picked it up and wiped it desperately.

He still didn't answer Mu Jiashi's question, but Mu Jiashi already understood his thoughts.He acquiesced to Mu Jiashi's guess about him.

So Mu Jiashi immediately became interested: "Why are you so sure that your brother will wake up in artificial intelligence? Could it be that he won't lose consciousness forever and just die like this?"

"No! He won't!" Liang Xingyi yelled suddenly, "He will definitely wake up! He will get eternal life!"

eternal life……

When this word appeared, Mu Jiashi couldn't help lamenting Liang Xingyi's ambition.He actually hoped that his elder brother would get eternal life in this way.

But... yes.Compared with human beings who need to be restricted by physical health and age, to become an artificial intelligence, as long as sufficient energy is obtained, someone will maintain and update it regularly.Then, it is indeed possible to obtain eternal life.

In an unreal online world.

Mu Jiashi wanted to say something.

For example, does the illusory reality make sense?For example, is immortality really a pleasant thing?For another example, does Liang Zhiyi really hope that Liang Xingyi will do such a thing?

But in the end, he didn't say a word.For them, it's just a nightmare from the past, a reenactment of something from the past.

It is meaningless to evaluate Liang Xingyi's behavior now, or to stop him.

Because he's actually made it all out.He has connected Liang Zhiyi's brain with artificial intelligence.

Everything is irreparable.

So they only need to focus on one thing.

Mu Jiashi's gaze was fixed on Liang Xingyi.He asked: "But, why can you be sure? What insurance do you have, you can definitely wake up your brother?"

The world of artificial intelligence must be beyond the comprehension of human beings' fragile brains.There is a world of numbers, programs, and codes.And the human brain was never built that way.

It's an idea of... no, a conflict of life forms.

As Mu Jiashi said, human beings will think meaninglessly and dream.In the concept of artificial intelligence, these are meaningless things, they are impossible to do.

In this case, if Liang Zhiyi can really be resurrected, what will the resurrected Liang Zhiyi be like?What will he become?

Mu Jiashi didn't understand why Liang Xingyi could be so sure.

Liang Xingyi's lips were trembling, as if he was thinking about how to answer this question.

This thin man showed a hesitation that he had never seen before. He said in a confused tone, "Insurance measures?"

Mu Jiashi: "..."

He was silent for a moment, and then asked incredulously: "Have you never considered insurance measures?"

"Insurance measures..." Liang Xingyi murmured, "Insurance measures..."

Mu Jiashi said: "What if artificial intelligence dominates consciousness and suppresses Liang Zhiyi?"

Liang Xingyi seemed to grasp the key to the problem in an instant: "This situation will not happen!"

Mu Jiashi suppressed his irritability, and said word by word: "But, this is what happened now."

He said, "You just think we came back from the future... In short, Liang Zhiyi didn't wake up, and the artificial intelligence program you wrote took the lead.

"Now, we need to wake up your brother. Did you really not prepare any insurance measures in advance?"

Liang Xingyi's body was trembling: "No..." He seemed to believe what Mu Jiashi said in an instant, maybe he was half crazy and half stupid at this time, and he said, "Impossible...Impossible. I clearly gave The artificial intelligence installed a program..."

The eyes of the three taskers brightened at the same time, and they asked in unison: "What is the procedure?!"