Chapter 432 Bug Master, the Real Shackles
The body is dead, but not completely dead.
The soul was broken, but it was completed in a strange way.
So this is both dead and still alive in a weird way.
In this way, maintaining such a Schrödinger state of neither life nor death, almost like an immortal creature, is indeed incomplete.
Gong Gong continued, "They want to use the power of the gods to find a way to truly avoid reincarnation. Our technological development is far from sufficient. Only the power of the gods can resist this force."
"Unfortunately, after working together for so long, this is the only solution we have."
"Every three hundred years, the world will be restarted and everything will evolve anew."
"Although I cannot erase the memories of every reincarnation, I can seal their memories to achieve the effect of your 'Meng Po Soup'."
"I don't know how long this will last, but it's the only solution I can offer."
"I completely erase everyone's memory every time, leaving them with pure souls. Even if I compiled all souls into digital form and forcibly simplified the workflow, I still couldn't do that."
"It's not that I don't want to, it's that I don't have the ability."
"We can only settle for the next best thing and conduct a large-scale collective deletion every three hundred years, retaining only the memories before the initial entry."
Imagine this.
If you do not erase your memory before reincarnation after death, you will retain the memories of this life and continue to reincarnate.
If he were to be reincarnated as a human being, it would only involve some easier-to-handle ethical and moral issues. The worst-case scenario would be some gender deviation, which wouldn't be considered hopeless.
But what if you are reincarnated as a cow, sheep, pig or dog with cubs?
Even worse, what if you were reincarnated as a plant?
All five senses are lost, unable to move or communicate.
In a few hours, the person will go crazy, and in a few days, there will be problems with the soul, and the mind will definitely collapse!
After several rounds of reincarnation, when everyone in the world has become a plant, the entire civilization will collapse on its own, ushering in the end of the world brought by reincarnation.
A world that is still undergoing reincarnation under such circumstances is indeed despairing.
If entering the virtual world could help one escape the endless and eternal torture, it would be understandable that tens of billions of people would simultaneously enter the virtual world in an attempt to seek refuge.
It killed the hope for the advancement of civilization, but also preserved the future and spark of civilization.
Lu Wenwu felt that this matter was a bit difficult to comment on.
So he asked, "I understand the logic, but since the artificial paradise is something like a shelter, why make the social structure so... pathological? Since you've had a lot of contact with other players, you should know what I mean."
"It's not my wish. I'm just following the original design and continuing to maintain it according to the rules set by the creators."
Gonggong explained somewhat innocently.
“In the beginning, the artificial paradise was a real paradise, where everyone was immersed in endless spiritual enjoyment, and almost all their needs could be met.”
"After the first large-scale reincarnation, at least half of the people developed mental illnesses. The creators discovered that if they wanted to fulfill all wishes, the energy and computing power consumed by such a large-scale simulation would be too much."
"Since they hadn't encountered you, the aliens, like I did back then, we had no choice but to apply the same approach to reality and divide the artificial paradise into cities for easier management."
"Applying it to the real-life template?" Lu Wenwu raised an eyebrow. "Didn't those wealthy people who gave up their bodies to enter this artificial paradise get themselves some awesome privileges before they came in?"
"Of course I did, but it's meaningless. Everything will dissipate after the first reincarnation. We can't control the objects of reincarnation." Gonggong once again showed a helpless expression. "Now even my original creators have had their original memories completely sealed. Only I, as a part of the world, still remember it all."
Lu Wenwu: “.”
In a sense, this seems quite equal.
[The immortal gods are high above the heavens, overlooking the struggles and reincarnations of all things in the world]
So this sentence actually means literally, right?
Wait, that's not right?
What about the Eternal Council?
This time, before Lu Wenwu could ask, Gong Gong explained himself: "You visitors from other worlds are different. You possess powerful superpowers, but you were confined to an ordinary body when you entered this world."
"The immortality they imagined wasn't granted by me. I simply pulled their souls in, completely merging them with this world. I created bodies adapted to their abilities, while still allowing them to live the same lifespan as they once did."
"In other words, they were supposed to live that long anyway. It's just that they were all desperate after failing that 'main quest,' so I figured I'd find a few more people to share Xiaolong's workload and reduce my computing power."
"You actually understand, right? In this world, the length of life and death doesn't mean much. The development of civilization is essentially stagnant. The soul is still the same soul. As long as the original data is not damaged, I can restore them to their appearance when they first entered this world at any time."
"The idea is good, but the approach is wrong. The people of your world take the understanding of the soul for granted. Civilizations with extremely advanced technology can indeed digitize the soul, but definitely not in the way you do."
Lu Wenwu shook his head and casually released all the "souls" he had collected.
There's no point anymore, these are just blobs of data.
That's all.
The real soul has already died after being "uploaded".
"Based on my understanding of the soul, digitally programming and uploading it essentially just creates a virtual clone. Their original body is already completely dead."
"If my guess is correct, in the real world outside, the population of your civilization should have already reached the same level as before the masses entered the artificial paradise, right?"
Before he finished speaking, Gonggong suddenly sat up.
His previously lazy expression suddenly changed, and immediately became a little ugly.
"Are you sure? Are you sure?" His voice was filled with anxiety.
"If you have perfectly restored the technological level of your own civilization, and your world does not possess widespread and universal supernatural factors, then I am certain. I guarantee this as an excellent and employed ghost messenger, if you know what a ghost messenger is."
"I know. I've seen the memories of those people from other worlds."
Gonggong looked a little uneasy.
"Our world doesn't have any universal supernatural powers. Only the true god possesses them. It's said that he wasn't born on our planet, but came from somewhere else and formed a friendship with our ancestors."
Lu Wenwu nodded seriously: "If that's the case, then I can be sure."
"With your current level of technology, you haven't yet reached the point where you can transfer souls at a microscopic level. Everything is just an illusion brought to you by the Law of Illusion."
"The ability of a cultivation civilization to manipulate civilizations at a low stage of development is a technological black box created based on its own civilizational characteristics and talents. It is an innate advantage."
"If a technological civilization wants to reach the point of transferring souls through purely technological means, based on the normal trajectory of development, it will take at least another thousand years before there is even a slight possibility."
Gonggong slumped back down dejectedly, his eyes dull and lifeless, as if he had lost all his light.
"Don't you have the technical means to sense the outside world?" Lu Wenwu asked in surprise. "It's been so long since you started implementing this plan, and you don't have any control over the outside world? And no one from outside is interfering?"
"This is a top-secret project, and it's been underway for over two hundred years. Access is randomly selected, and all those who know have already completed soul uploading," Gonggong said weakly. "My server is a local area network, physically isolated. The main part is hidden near the Earth's core, using the bodies of gods to convert geothermal heat for power."
Lu Wenwu was speechless. "So, since you have such powerful computing power and equipment, you don't even dare to go out and take a look? I think you are a bit too cowardly."
There is nothing more depressing than lamenting their misfortune and being angry at their lack of resistance.
Gong Gong shrank his head. "I dare not. I'm afraid that the foreign god will discover me. Then the sacrifice of the previous god will be in vain. If things really develop as you said, His sacrifice may have been in vain."
Lu Wenwu: “.”
There's no hope. Just wait to die.
The fall of a giant fool resulted in a group of fools creating a bigger fool.
Do you think there is a possibility that if your reincarnation does not erase your memory, by the time those people were born, your existence would have been exposed long ago?
What the hell are you hiding?
Lu Wenwu gave him a look of caring for the mentally retarded.
Real artificial retardation.
It was transformed from the soul of a divine creature.
Soon, Gonggong himself realized this serious problem.
The expression on his face was collapsing at a speed visible to the naked eye. Dark cracks began to appear in the sky, and the entire world seemed to be showing signs of cracking.
The mentality of this "god" collapsed.
"I know you're anxious, but don't worry, things may turn around."
Lu Wenwu stood up holding Maomao and went over to pat Gonggong on the shoulder.
"What method did those people choose when they uploaded their souls? Have you figured out normal hibernation chamber technology? Have you figured out a medical method that can thaw old frozen meat?"
"Ah? Yes, yes, just like in the artificial paradise, the best hibernation chamber can probably last about three hundred years."
Gonggong's eyes immediately lit up again, emitting a shining blue light, as if he had regained some hope.
"Those who uploaded their souls back then all used this level of hibernation chamber! Theoretically, even without recharging, it's enough to last three hundred years without dying! So, is there such a possibility?"
“That’s a possibility.”
Lu Wenwu let out a barely perceptible sigh.
"As long as you're not so stupid as to physically kill their brains during the upload, these people are most likely just in a dormant state, and there's still a chance they can be awakened."
"No! They are just sleeping. They still hope to find a way to deal with that foreign god one day and return to their original bodies to continue their previous lives!"
When Gonggong heard that mankind had not yet reached the most desperate time and that his efforts had not been in vain, he suddenly came back to life.
All the fatigue in his body was swept away, and he exuded vitality from the inside out.
I have to say that the people who compiled artificial intelligence back then must have been top experts.
The divine being who died in battle that year must have had a deep friendship with the humans on this planet.
Otherwise, how could the "Gonggong" be so loyal to humans?
This kind of loyalty made Skynet next door want to have a stroke and die on the spot, while the Red Queen on another set praised him as an expert.
But what should be said is not said.
The humans on this planet are simply masters of finding bugs.
If this really happened, it would be equivalent to them collectively using the hibernation chamber to block the bug in the reincarnation mechanism.
Furthermore, the highest combat power also became the core of the bug, and the entire system was able to operate based on this biggest bug.
Lu Wenwu silently took out the memory ball containing Liu Linan's information from this strand of his soul, directly copied his memories of this life, and stored them properly again.
As for the rest
Lu Wenwu looked at the [Forced Pop-up] function in the special vision and pondered for a long time.
Finally, he looked at the ball of memory data in front of him that contained his years of suffering and crushed it.
That's all
It is better not to keep such painful memories.
Let’s not continue this cycle of torture again and again.
If you are still alive, I will completely break the shackles that hang over everyone's heads and give you a new world!
Lu Wenwu already had some understanding of what the real shackles were.
The first step is to break the social system in artificial paradise No. 09.
The second is to stop the endless cycle of suffering in the artificial paradise.
The third path is to return to the real world and reconstruct this morbid cyberpunk deformed society.
And this is the final fourth way to completely end the reincarnation that has enveloped the entire world for more than two hundred years!
so.
If we want to undo all this, wouldn't it be enough to just kill the foreign god who brought reincarnation?
I wonder if that thing is of high purity?
Suddenly, Lu Wenwu's fighting spirit soared into the sky. The sudden burst of momentum startled Gong Gong and frightened him.
Looking at his surprised and doubtful expression, Lu Wenwu chuckled.
"Now, tell me about your previous god and that foreign god!"
(End of this chapter)
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