Chapter 370: Flesh, Blood, Weakness (1) (1st + 2nd update) [VIP]

After entering the Foundation, Bai Jinshu has seen few spaces that require repeated exploration, the only one being Night City.

Compared with the dozens of explorations in Night City that lasted for nearly a year and a half, the six explorations of [Blood, Flesh, Bitterness and Weakness] were nothing. If the funds had not been exhausted, he would not have noticed such a Cthulhu space.

Among the foundation's space types, Cthulhu belongs to the type with a very low exploration success rate. Bai Jinshu was not very optimistic about this space at first, but now the application for additional investment has been sent to him. In order to make a more favorable judgment for his side, he has to take a look at the situation of this space before replying.

This glance allowed him to see some rather subtle exploration content.

[Blood, Flesh, Bitterness, Weakness], this name sounds like "Mechanical Ascension" and it is hard to imagine that it would appear in the automatic naming of a K-space instead of in the cyberpunk world.

However, the background situation of this space is worthy of the name.

This is a highly technological world, a little more advanced than Night City.

Among the rules submitted by the exploration and pioneering team in the first round, there were two that interested Bai Jinshu very much.

1. This space completely solved the san check problem. They found the most powerful weapon to fight against the C-type creatures, which is to upload their own consciousness, from a mortal body to a digital life connected by a spiritual network, completely erasing the concept of "san value" from their lives.

Without "san value", there will naturally be no "san check" and no "san loss". After all, we have heard of humans going crazy when facing the creatures of the K-type, but Siri and Xiao Ai definitely won't do that.

Upload consciousness to the cloud and enter the second world of mankind. In the Garden of Eden composed of data streams and codes, these new humans will have no problem eating Master Kong instant noodles with their meals in front of the Ke-type creatures.

For those who are familiar with the world of Cthulhu, the temptation of being able to completely solve the san check is too great. It is precisely because of this rule set by the pioneers that a group of unlucky investors were deceived into investing, and finally fell into a big pit and huddled together in the investor forum for warmth.

Compared to this rule, the next one is not as explosive.

2. This is a space where san check has been completely resolved, and it is also a world where everyone knows the existence of the C-type creatures.

In this space, the existence of K-type creatures in the world is no longer a secret known only to some special organizations and investigators. From centenarians to three-year-old children, everyone here knows that there are some special creatures in their world.

And this is the crux of the problem.

Bai Jinshu leaned on the sofa and flipped through the rules that he had retrieved from the internal information of [0106] with one hand.

There are two kinds of indigenous people in this space: the heavenly people who upload their consciousness to access the spiritual network and will never be troubled by san checks again, and the underground people who live on the ground and have not uploaded their consciousness.

The people in heaven live in an Eden made of data, and the people underground are the remnants abandoned by them. They are still mortal and cannot ignore san check, but they have learned that this world is full of C-type creatures.

From a few lines of reports from the pioneering team, Bai Jinshu could almost imagine how cruel this world would be to the underground people.

"Hey, Bai Jinshu?" Brother Yue, the rich second-generation man who was very knowledgeable about investment, passed by him and looked over curiously, "What are you looking at?"

"An interesting space," Bai Jin said frankly, moving the printed information in his hand to the side. "Have you heard of [Blood Flesh Bitterness Weakness]?"

This information was originally public, and all investors who invested in this unfortunate space can get a copy. What he has here is the [0106] internal version, which is slightly more detailed than what investors get, including the whereabouts of capital investment that some investors cannot see, and the personal information of the exploration team members.

However, he did not type out the latter parts, and the parts he has now can be found if you have some connections.

I originally thought that Brother Yue was just passing by out of curiosity, but when he heard the name, he instantly exploded as he opened the door to pick up a roast duck takeaway.

"Oh my god, why haven't I heard of this?" He threw the roast duck away in frustration, "I am the unlucky investor who invested in this space!"

“Hey, hey, roast duck!” a girl next to her shouted, “If you’re angry, just be angry. Don’t touch my roast duck. I’m still eating it!”

This group of second-generation rich people have been with him for such a long time, and their relationship with him has improved by leaps and bounds. They have become good friends who can order takeout and play games at his home, and can even become the ones to take the blame when their parents call to check on them.

I don’t know whether it is good or bad, but Old Wu was very happy when he saw it.

He might think that Bai Jinshu would give up on becoming a monk after he had more friends, although Bai Jinshu had never mentioned this idea to him.

"Then come and get it yourself," Brother Yue threw the takeaway bag onto the table next to him, and started talking to Bai Jinshu, "I'm telling you what you're interested in, but you're interested in that thing. I'm telling you to stay away from this unlucky space..."

Brother Yue is one of the investors who was trapped by bad luck.

When [Blood, Flesh, Bitterness, Weakness] was placed in a pile of spaces by Yun Guang and thrown into the list without being rated, he took a fancy to this space at first sight and bet on an extremely unlucky blind box.

"I'm telling you, don't just think that the space has solved the san check problem, it's useless. We've explored this space for six rounds, but there's no result at all," he said as he flipped through the information in Bai Jinshu's hand. "Instead of looking at the things, you might as well ask me. I had high hopes for this space at the beginning, but who knew..."

There was no point in asking for information from a ready-made source, so Bai Jinshu followed suit and looked at Brother Yue: "I saw the pioneering team said that there are two races here, one in the sky and one in the underground..."

It was a long time ago that Brother Yue invested in this space. These days, Bai Jinshu has been inviting everyone to his home to watch the live broadcast of his project. He forgot about it after investing. It was only at the end of last month when he was sorting out his investment projects that he discovered this unfortunate space. He had explored it five times, but there was still no result.

Brother Yue was quite impressed by the space. After all, it was a Class B space. Although he had not paid much attention to it, Class B space was the closest rating to high-end space. As long as it could be upgraded, it would be a huge rebate. At the beginning, Brother Yue had high hopes for this space. Who knew that the cash cow would turn into a money-eating beast? He was so angry that he immediately turned out all the investigation recordings, watched all the previous five investigations carefully, and studied in detail what was going on with this space.

"You mean the heaven and the earth? Things in this space are quite complicated. The information only contains rules, and I guess these things won't be mentioned." Hearing Bai Jinshu's question, Brother Yue sighed. He still wanted to dissuade him from investing in this world, so he simply sat down and explained in detail, "The waters of this world are very deep. If you want to invest, you have to think carefully. The heaven and the earth are a big pit here."

"Based on the information collected by the previous teams that entered this place, we can infer that the technological level of this space was far superior to our world a long time ago. There was a technological explosion here more than a hundred years ago. At that time, there was no distinction between heaven and earth. After that technological explosion, research on neural networks has also developed to a very advanced node."

The University of Mithril, a fixed organization in the Cthulhu world that is at the forefront of research and confrontation with Cthulhu creatures, soon discovered a bright spot. That is, in addition to traditional mystical methods, technology seems to have reached a point where it can compete with Cthulhu creatures.

Since humans, as rational "creatures", cannot avoid the attacks on their rationality by the C-type creatures, what if we upload our consciousness into the neural network and completely turn it into a string of data without the concept of rationality?

After all, no one has ever heard of an artificial intelligence going crazy because of facing a creature of the enemy type.

After the University of Michigan took the lead in making the attempt, the neural network research field, which was not a popular research topic at the time, suddenly became a hot topic at the time. In addition, the world's resources are becoming increasingly scarce, and sooner or later a global war will break out due to resource issues. Instead of waiting until the day when resources are exhausted to start a fight, it is better for everyone to become data and live forever in the Garden of Eden composed of code.

So, with the push from many parties, this plan was officially put on the agenda.

After several animal experiments, the first seven members of the Death Squad uploaded their consciousness and then successfully turned into data streams. They appeared in a global live broadcast and painted an extremely bright blueprint for the future to people all over the world.

From now on, people can live in a world without illness, death, sadness and pain, and all they need to do is to give up this body that no one is attached to.

The whole world is in uproar.

Just looking at the technological progress, the technological development of this world is even more advanced than the world of Isaac in the movie he starred in.

Bai Jinshu tapped the desktop thoughtfully, but it was obvious that the technology tree of Isaac's world was focused on space exploration, while the technology tree of this world was focused on neural networks.

It is hard to say which one is more advanced, but under the premise that there are C-type creatures in this world, the neural network in the technology tree is undoubtedly a more suitable choice for the continuation of the human race.

The emergence of a new technology is bound to attract conspiracy theorists and skeptics, but before they can express their doubts, a very serious Cthulhu biological disaster occurs in this world.

This incident caused the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people, and at the same time, people all over the world saw a mysterious corner of the starry sky in the sky above their heads.

The whole world has gone crazy.

Literally crazy.

The global sanction has caused everyone to suffer varying degrees of mental damage. Social order has collapsed several times, and everyone has fallen into a state of madness and loss of reason.

If the normal process of the K world was followed, at this time, this space would have fallen into the abyss of the destruction of the K world.

But at the critical moment, the seven members of the death squad who were teleported into the data space saved the entire world and became the absolute saviors here. They uploaded their consciousness and completely became digital life. They showed extraordinary rationality in this catastrophic event. Three days later, after everyone woke up from the injuries after the san check, the world was boiling again.

Cyber ​​Ascension is useful!

The only effective way to deal with the creatures of the K-type is to become a digital life!

The first batch of volunteers who signed up to upload quickly flooded the registration website. The establishment of a neural network needs to be gradual. Before all humans are uploaded into the data space, more people are needed on the ground to maintain the smooth operation of society.

In the end, people had to draw lots to decide who would be the first to enter the data network.

"Fifty-three years before the first batch of pioneers entered the world, the first batch of volunteers accessed the neural network, completely separated from their useless flesh and blood, and embraced the omnipotent data network," Brother Yue shrugged, "and then, an accident happened."

The first batch of volunteers who completed the upload stabbed their counterparts on the ground in the back. After completing the transmission, they quickly closed the upload channel, operated the terminal loaded with all the programs to escape from the original data center, and arrogantly left their counterparts behind, hanging high in the sky.

——The place closest to the Cthulhu creatures that caused the global human race to go crazy during the catastrophic Cthulhu incident.

Those who were backstabbed were completely stunned. They never expected that the first batch of volunteers who uploaded their consciousness would do such a thing. They tried to negotiate, but after finding that negotiation was useless, people prepared to create another data world that could accommodate all human beings.

Then, their fellow humans who had turned into data ruthlessly shattered all their hopes and fantasies. The very next day after the new device was manufactured, all their hopes were completely destroyed by them.

The first batch of volunteers who became data blocked all their neural network technologies and destroyed all information and related equipment. How could mortals fight against their fellow humans who had become immortal data?

Those who were abandoned were defeated.

"From this time on, the people in this world were divided into two camps: the people in the sky who lived in the data cloud in the sky, and the people underground who were abandoned and stayed on the ground." Brother Yue changed his posture and continued, "All the underground technologies that could upload consciousness data were destroyed by the sky. And it was not destroyed in a simple sense, but completely cut off from the generation. There is no research data and no researchers."

The people in heaven went to extremes. Not only did they destroy all of the underground people's technology and data on uploading consciousness, they also extended an olive branch to researchers who did not have time to upload their consciousness.

They accepted all those who knew about the data into the data world, and those who were unwilling were quickly killed on the spot by the people in the sky who controlled the mechanical killers. With the last researcher leaving the underground and uploading his consciousness into the sky, the underground people completely lost the possibility of researching this technology.

The humans who were left behind had no idea about mind uploading and it was impossible for them to create this technology out of nothing.

Or even if there is, we have to start with the basic research on uploading consciousness.

From the initial discovery of this technology to the development of the technology capable of fully uploading human consciousness, it took at least hundreds of years and countless trials and errors.

But people on earth do not have the opportunity to trial and error. They are completely locked in this world by the people in heaven.

In this world where it has been confirmed that there are certain types of creatures, death is possible at any time.

This is so desperate.

"There have been six explorations in total. The Foundation probably can't interfere with the data world of the people in the sky, so every time the exploration team enters it, they appear underground," Brother Yue spread his hands. "Now most of the information about the underground people has been explored, but none of the rules have been broken. I guess it's because the important clues are likely to have been taken away by the people in the sky fifty-three years ago, just like the uploaded consciousness data that was taken away, so we can't get anything from the underground people."

"Don't be interested in this dimension," Brother Yue said sincerely, "This dimension is just a big pit. The people underground are miserable, and no one has ever seen the people in the sky. All the rules are not met. Sending an investigation team here is a waste of time."

Brother Yue was really cheated. After Bai Jinshu nodded and said that he understood, he was still worried and asked again and again, "You are not interested, right? You are really not interested, right? Don't think too much and invest in this damn space. If you have too much money to burn, you can invest in orchards to help farmers in poor areas, don't throw it into investment banks."

Bai Jinshu was unable to do anything because of him, and could only reassure again and again that he would not invest, and he really would not invest.

He said he wouldn't vote, but he didn't say he wouldn't go in.

After all the rich second-generations had left at night, Bai Jinshu dug into the database of [0106] and found the recordings of the previous six explorations, projected them onto the screen, and analyzed them again based on the data.

It was probably a mysterious premonition. He felt that there had been no way to pass through this space for such a long time, maybe there was something big hidden there.

The team members sent in from the foundation were all experts in the mid-range space. Some of them had read the reports of the previous team members, thought they had mastered the characteristics of this space, and tried to start with the people in the sky.

Although this is a world of restraint, due to the special worldview here, after the first two rounds of exploration team members all failed, the next four rounds of team members all went towards the celestial beings.

But no matter how they investigated, the sky and the ground were like a solid block, and they could not find any entry point. Even a hacker who was in the limelight in the mid-range space failed here.

Even this unlucky hacker, who had no experience in surviving in the Cthulhu space, almost died in it. He faced Cthulhu creatures several times and barely managed to survive. After coming out of this space, he swore completely that he would never go to the Cthulhu space again.

There are also his fans in the investor forum who sympathize with the hacker and ask him to stay away from perverted places like the K-space in the future.

This is also a clear example that if you don't understand the Cthulhu system, you shouldn't go to the Cthulhu world.

Bai Jinshu quickly finished watching the live broadcasts of the first six teams in one night and had a general understanding of the situation here. The past of the space was just as Yue Ge said, and there were other small details, such as after the people in the sky were backstabbed, several wars broke out underground, and in these wars, the catastrophic crises brought by the creatures of the restraint system were countless.

Eventually, people here fully realized the dangers of the world and entered an era of universal investigators.

This is probably the world with the strongest Cthulhu atmosphere. Whether it is a centenarian or a three-year-old child on the streets, everyone can talk about how to guard against Cthulhu creatures and how to deal with crises.

Almost everyone here has a copy of the old seals, which have become decorations that can be seen everywhere in the streets and alleys.

However, there are still too few things to see in the live broadcast. The replay that Bai Jinshu found was almost full of mosaics. One third of the funds in [Blood, Flesh, Bitterness and Weakness] were all spent on the house manager. If you pay less attention to this space for one second, something bad will happen. The loss rate of the house manager is as high as 100%.

Bai Jinshu looked through the financial expenditures and was really troubled by the loss rate.

No wonder the foundation was in a hurry to send this application for complete sealing to him. It was probably because there were too many unlucky property managers who lost sanity here.

The sky outside the window was getting brighter, and Bai Jinshu finally finished reading the last report document that was submitted to him.

The members of the six teams who entered this space and lived with the underground people day and night for 15 days all mentioned one thing, that is, the people in the sky in this world are not indifferent to the underground people, on the contrary, they are very concerned.

They seemed to hate these underground people so much that during the time they were there, as long as they did something to make the lives of the underground people better or give people hope, things would soon take a turn for the worse.

Bai Jinshu flicked through the information thoughtfully, his eyes falling on the last line of Team Six:

【The people in heaven want the people in the underworld to live in a state worse than death. 】

What kind of deep hatred is worth this...

Bai Jinshu stood up and looked at Huai Jiamu: "How is it? After resting for so long, do you plan to go to other dimensions?"

According to the team's previous thinking, he should use the "Isaac" identity card to enter and start from the perspective of the heavenly man.

But the hacker's live broadcast experience made him suspect that the reason why the first four teams all failed was because their direction was completely wrong.

It is very likely that nothing will be discovered by investigating the people in heaven. The real clues are still with the people on earth, and in their history, they may have concealed something.

And this world on the ground filled with the creatures of the Ke type is She Mochu's absolute home court.

As for the man in heaven...he had no intention of giving up.

Let's take a gamble. Huaijiamu, who can be dissolved in the copy, will directly dissolve into a "celestial being".

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[Loading into unknown space——]

【Unknown space loading completed】

[Unknown space scene: flesh, blood, suffering and weakness]

[The Foundation predicts that the collection level: B]

[Initial potential value: 997,230]

[Explorer team personnel quota: 9 people]

[The longest exploration time of this unknown space: 15 days]

[The interface is well connected, and miracle redemption and use are open normally]

It's a bit of a dirty looking street.

A civilian aircraft flying halfway overhead was flashing blue light. A holographically projected girl with twin ponytails was ostentatiously recommending a pendant that could annihilate creatures. A drizzle was falling from the sky, dripping onto the black umbrellas in people's hands, splashing out colorful water covered with a layer of oil film.

With a crisp "ding" sound, the paused time began to flow again.

[Pioneer JS5418325 login completed]

A thin young man standing at the edge of the street opened his vertical pupils.

The author has something to say:

It’s the Cthulhu of the cyberpunk worldview!

I've been wanting to write about the setting of "solving SC through mechanical ascension" for a long time.

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