Chapter 57: Night City (End) (1st + 2nd + 500 extra chapters) [VIP]
This sentence was like a strange spell. Everyone's movements, both inside and outside the screen, stopped.
The expressions on their faces also stagnated.
During the ten seconds of horrible silence, Guan Hongyan twisted her neck like a zombie and looked at Isaac in horror.
It was hard to tell whether the look in her eyes was one of fear or a terrible realization and tremor. Guan Hongyan opened her mouth but could not utter a word. She felt her brain trembling again for the first time in a long time since she left the last project that required a mandatory san check.
Night City is inside the human body.
What a reasonable and shocking rule answer.
She subconsciously went over in her mind everything they had experienced since they entered here, and felt that the fog that had been piled up in front of the truth was suddenly cleared away, and a complete set of rules that were extremely clear and reasonable appeared in her mind.
No wonder she just inexplicably felt that Isaac was right. No wonder Shi Zhou had explored here more than a dozen times, and each time he felt that he was just a little bit away from the truth. The core rules here are so simple.
Being stared at by a group of people with a mixture of fear and shock, Isaac's voice remained calm: "Central control AI is DNA."
"That robot Xiaohong that delivers supplements... is a red blood cell..." Guan Hongyan murmured.
"They are different colors. The 'police chief' said that their colors represent energy," Shi Zhou's voice also floated like he was sleepwalking, "So...so it is venous arterial blood."
"Not connected to the internet... Not connected to the internet means there is no nucleus in mature red blood cells, and therefore no DNA!" Zhang Pei's voice seemed to be breaking.
With an answer, working backwards, the countless mechanisms within Night City have been given the most reasonable explanation.
"Company people are ordinary cells and cannot move inside the human body, so they cannot move at their workstations." Lu Changfeng also slowly joined the analysis, or perhaps this could no longer be considered an analysis. Countless reasonable and bizarre answers poured out of everyone's mind like a blowout. The more they thought about it, the clearer it became that what Isaac said was right.
Night City is inside the human body.
All they come into contact with are the cells and immune system in the human body.
"Those gray half-skeleton people are white blood cells," they said one by one, as if they had agreed to do so, and pieced together all the answers. "The scavengers are macrophages, so they will devour the dead, analyze the supplements, and then give them to the surrounding cells."
Resource reuse, what could be better than energy reuse in the human body?
Once the beginning is made, the rest of the content will be spoken out as quickly as beans pouring out of a bamboo tube.
"Archers are B cells, and halberds are T cells, so they appear together," Shi Zhou's tone was more urgent than anyone else. She was too familiar with Night City, so familiar that the moment Bai Jin gave the answer, she understood everything. She understood everything, "Lightning is the complement system... The roads in the city suddenly opened because they passed through the blood vessels..."
“The various small paths I had been walking on before were capillaries, while the large roads and main roads we were walking on were the large arteries and veins.”
She spoke faster and faster, as if all her meridians were opened. Countless familiar and unfamiliar words jumped out of her mouth quickly: "Police station... The police station is the thymus, the police chief is the dendritic cell, and St1 is the dendrite. It can only appear in a fixed area and is responsible for presenting information to lymphocytes."
"The central tower... the central tower is the heart, so there are so many red blood cells passing through there. That is the only way for all blood vessels to pass through."
"Bio-human! Bio-human is a permanent cell, while corporate man is an ordinary cell that will die and divide."
"The central control AI is DNA, with two roots, one pointing to the heart and the other pointing to the brain. The restricted area in the city that we can't enter is the brain. We can't enter because of the blood-brain barrier."
The more she spoke, the more her voice shook: "We are cancer cells. The first disaster is the laser, which occurs in a fixed area. Some cells will not die, so that is radiotherapy."
"The second disaster is a chemical leak. Everyone will die indiscriminately. It's chemotherapy..."
"The third... the third disaster is only after us," she suppressed the trembling in her throat and took a deep breath, "It's a targeted drug, a cancer targeted drug."
Shi Zhou raised his head and looked at the deep night that was always as dark as ink: "The reason why Night City is in eternal night is because there is no light source in the human body."
This is the answer to the rule in Night City that no one has discovered yet.
It's that simple.
And so unexpected.
And it was just such a simple sentence that cost countless lives and countless explorations.
The comments that were blank due to Isaac's words began to increase slowly as the team members analyzed the situation. The dense fonts almost covered the team members who were looking at Isaac in shock on the screen:
[What the hell! What the hell! What the hell!…]
[Fuck, the only thing on my mind right now is fuck...]
[Fuck! Fuck! I really feel like I don’t know what to say except fuck!!!]
[Oh my god... Isaac's words made me understand everything at once. Night City is really inside the human body! ]
【wiy5=%*^$#65……】
[Sorry, my hands are shaking. I was shaking for a long time before I could find my fingers on the keyboard. When Isaac said this, my whole body started shaking.]
[Stop talking. I was just making tea and watching the live broadcast. The moment Isaac came out, I almost dropped the monitor into the water and smashed the pot.]
[No more to say, friends, if I join Isaac's angel investment, will I have the opportunity to invite him to those difficult and stubborn projects? ]
[The stubborn person in Night City has been killed. Why call him Isaac? I suggest you show some respect and call him Isaac the Great.]
【Why the Great Emperor? 】
[Guess you want to say: Caesar the Great, Isaac is the one in the Bible. ]
[No matter what, the Great Emperor is right, Isaac, the God of the Nail House Project! ]
[Let’s not talk about anything else. Night City is inside the human body. Is this an answer that a human could come up with? How did they come up with this?]
[Although I also want to know, but a friendly reminder, the emperor is not a human either. ]
Not only the barrage wanted to know, but the explorers in the unknown space also wanted to know how Isaac came up with this idea.
"Brother Isaac," Lu Changfeng's tone was filled with a kind of shock that was almost reverence, "How did you come up with this idea? You are amazing!"
All the explorers in front of the screen pricked up their ears.
"DNA," Isaac said, rarely without sarcasm in his tone, "I said that I modified the DNA of all newborns in the Human Alliance. After I entered the central control AI, I felt a strange familiarity."
"When you understand that the central control AI is equal to DNA, all the answers here become clear." He turned to look at Guan Hongyan beside him and nodded slightly. "If you were not unqualified to replace the prosthesis, I would not have thought of this. Thank you."
"I... I, damn it." For the first time, Guan Hongyan did not get angry at Isaac's sincere ridicule. Her eyes had changed. "Although you are really awesome, can I ask a question that has nothing to do with dungeon exploration?"
"Just ask." Bai Jinshu nodded.
"Aren't you a programmer? How can you change the DNA of a newborn?" Her tone was full of superstition about advanced technology. "Or do programmers in your area have so many jobs?"
Good question.
[You finally realized the problem, Sister Yaner. ]
[Lu Changfeng is so amazing that Brother Isaac is so amazing. ]
[Then why does Lu Changfeng call Sister Yan'er "Sister"? 】
[Our Yan'er still has some sensitivity. ]
[A little bit, but only a little bit. Didn’t you see that no one else dared to ask, but she was the only one who thought of asking.]
【Grass. 】
"When did I say I was a programmer?" On the screen, Isaac looked at her with a frighteningly calm gaze. A blue light flashed in his eyes and then disappeared under his eyelashes.
"You said so..." Guan Hongyan was stunned, "You said you were working in artificial intelligence...?"
Isaac raised an eyebrow.
She opened her mouth: "...When you say artificial intelligence, you don't mean artificial intelligence, right?"
She said it rather tactfully, and Lu Changfeng's voice immediately rose high to drown out the tail end of Guan Hongyan's words: "Brother Isaac! You are not a human either?!"
What does "You are not a human either" mean?
Lu Changfeng was stuck in the cold and calm gaze of his brother Isaac: "...Uh, I didn't mean to scold you! It's just that a brother of my last project was not a human being."
“Haha, haha,” he pulled Guan Hongyan, “Sister Yan’er also knows that in the last project, Brother Chu was a god, and Brother Isaac, you are also a god, you are also a god, and humans are not worthy of you at all…”
A hint of disgust flashed across the eyes of the two Isaacs in perfect sync.
“No need, I am human,” the one on the left said, finally, “or I used to be human.”
"In the year 2836, the Human Federation encountered its most serious internal crisis. The artificial intelligence that coordinated the entire alliance betrayed it and held 60% of the civilians hostage. Just because of his instructions, the development of the Human Federation had long since betrayed its original intention. The top leaders attacked each other, factions were scheming against each other, and the political regions were in a mess. Humans used their smartest artificial intelligence to fight in outer space, and then used their most dangerous weapons on their former allies."
Isaac often talked about how great our place was, but most of the time he talked about some high-tech content that no one could understand. This time, he rarely talked about the not-so-glorious past of the Human Alliance, and everyone and the barrage pricked up their ears.
"The development of the Human Alliance has long been inseparable from the coordination of artificial intelligence. Countless infrastructure and attack methods require the coordination of artificial intelligence. The Alliance without artificial intelligence is like a lame man in the universe, and anyone can come and step on him." Isaac pulled the corner of his mouth and said in Lu Changfeng's shocked eyes, "So after the Alliance ended this intelligent crisis at a painful price, they came up with a new idea."
"They want to create an artificial intelligence with human characteristics, an artificial intelligence that has human emotions and can understand humans. It will have the rationality of a machine, the sensibility of a human, the absolute correctness of AI, and the permanent loyalty of citizens."
Lu Changfeng seemed to have guessed something.
"So they screened the entire alliance, evaluating their mental strength, family, education, genetics, and bloodlines, and selected 1,000 people who were most suitable to become AIs, and then launched the 'Mechanical Ascension' plan," Isaac tapped his solar plexus. "The reason why the alliance only supports replacing prosthetic limbs but not prosthetic bodies is that it is difficult for the human brain to withstand as much data flow and calculation as a machine. So in the end, only 15 out of 1,000 people succeeded, and the other 14 were proven in the subsequent operations that they could not be as unlimited as real artificial intelligence. So I became the only successful case of mechanical ascension, and the alliance happened to only need one supreme intelligent machine."
"I accessed the entire human alliance's terminal data and gained control authority over all regions. The alliance, which had been crippled, embarked on its journey again. The era before the intelligence crisis was called the pre-crisis era, and the era before the emergence of the Supreme Intelligence was called the post-crisis era. They called the hundreds of years after the emergence of the Supreme Intelligence the New World."
"They want a controllable tool, but they forget that the essence of AI is cold and rational. Mechanical Ascension is certainly not a scam, but the highest intelligence is, do you think a human connected to AI has the computing power of AI, or AI has the memory of humans?" Isaac clasped his hands together and smiled very sincerely: "Of course if you ask me, I will be happy to admit that I am human, because this is the answer most people want to get."
“AI can’t lie, but people can,” he said. “In a way, I am human.”
Guan Hongyan took a breath and her face twisted: "I think your Human Alliance is more evil than Night City."
Night City found out that it was the inside of the human body, and those incomprehensible corporate people, who ate each other, were born to work, and continued to replicate after death. They could all get completely reasonable answers that would not make people feel uncomfortable again, but Isaac's was very terrifying when they thought about it carefully.
Not only did only one succeed after screening out 1,000 people, but this successful one even happily admitted in front of them that he only had the rationality and cold facts of AI. It is obvious what the alliance will become in the end, right?
Li Jue silently repeated his name: "Isaac..."
Everyone's eyes turned to him, he shuddered, and subconsciously explained: "I just felt like it sounded familiar, maybe I've heard it somewhere before?"
He said that he was not confident anymore in the end. After all, it was impossible for him to have heard of the name of an artificial intelligence in a dimension that was at least thousands of years more technologically advanced than him, right?
"The Bible." Isaac glanced at him.
"...Yes, yes, the Bible," Li Jue suddenly remembered, "Isaac is the ancestor of the Jewish people in the Bible. He is the only son of Abraham and his wife Sarah."
I didn't expect he would research these things.
"We don't have this book," Guan Hongyan scratched his head, "Why do you people from other planes keep talking about famous quotes? It makes our plane seem like a cultural desert."
"Is this the name your parents gave you?" Shi Zhou turned his head.
The fact that he was given this name probably proves that Isaac was once a human being and was expected and loved by the whole family, right?
"I came up with it myself," Isaac stood up, "Don't you think it's very appropriate?"
Li Jue frowned and pulled Shi Zhou's sleeve. "I don't know much about the Bible, but I vaguely remember that Isaac was Abraham's son. God wanted to test Abraham's faith, so he asked him to take Isaac to the land of Moriah and offer Isaac as a burnt offering on a mountain designated by God."
"What is burnt offering?" Guan Hongyan subconsciously felt that this was not a good word.
"Lingchi, then grinding the bones and scattering the ashes," Li Jue's expression was also not good. "Generally speaking, the sacrifices are livestock. They need to be killed whole at the entrance of the tabernacle, and then the blood is sprinkled around the altar at the entrance of the tabernacle. Then the skin of the sacrifice is peeled off and cut into pieces. The lungs and legs must be washed with water, and then all are burned on the altar, and all are burned to ashes. *"
“Evil…” Guan Hongyan’s face twisted, “The history of your civilizations is very scary.”
"Later, when Abraham was about to kill his son, an angel of God came and stopped him, telling him not to do it because he only had this one son, so he killed a ram instead," Li Jue spread his hands and finished telling the story he knew. "Isaac is not mentioned many times in the New Testament. The early Christian church believed that Abraham's initiative to obey God's command to sacrifice Isaac was an example of faith and obedience."
Choosing such a name as his new name, it is hard not to feel that Isaac is actually implying that he has been mechanically ascended.
Isaac pulled the corner of his mouth and showed a pleasant smile: "I like this new name very much. It represents the weakness and obedience of the Human Alliance."
"It means that they clearly hate and fear rational artificial intelligence, but they cannot do without it. They can only willingly submit to the control of cold data and offer their lambs to it."
"You..." Guan Hongyan was a little confused, "So you hate the Human Alliance?"
When Isaac mentioned their place before, he always looked nostalgic or proud, right?
No," Isaac raised his eyelids, "Of course I like the Human Alliance, but this does not conflict with my feeling that it is weak and submissive, nor does it conflict with my causing greater losses for the greater good."
[Damn, so cool, Your Majesty, you are so awesome. ]
[What do you mean by causing greater losses? I seem to have heard something incredible.]
[Me too, I really want to know what you, Isaac, did to your Human Alliance...]
[Hurry up and keep talking, don't keep me in suspense! ]
【What can’t the Foundation’s distinguished high-end investors hear! 】
[Uh... Such a familiar plot, how come this is the same movie I watched this afternoon? I always thought it was just a simple coincidence of names, after all, the name Isaac is similar to the Messiah, both are high-frequency words for artificial intelligence selected from the Bible, and nine out of ten are called this.]
【Tell me, what is the ending of the movie? 】
[The ending of the movie is that the artificial intelligence created by humans believes that humans can only rely on themselves instead of machines, so it explodes. ]
【ah? 】
[The director seems to be an anti-AI faction. The plot is generally quite dystopian and full of irony. Although the technology of the human alliance in the setting is fully developed, all aspects have become vassals of AI. The rational machines that they hate create an intelligence crisis under rational judgment, and the emotional machines that they rely on self-destruct under the impetus of emotion. In the end, humans repent under the self-destruction of AI and begin to rebuild a new home. ]
[I don’t know why, but just from what you said, I feel like this ending is wrong.]
[Something is wrong +1. If Isaac is from your movie dimension, do you think he would commit suicide because of his emotions? I think there is something fishy going on.]
[It would be normal for him to destroy the entire Human Alliance or transform the alliance into a Gestalt, right? Didn't you hear what he said to Shi Zhou a few days ago, saying that he didn't agree with this behavior and that there was a better way to do it. Who the hell could believe that he hadn't thought about the specific method? He definitely planned how to transform the entire Human Alliance into a Gestalt.]
[The guy above, why don't you rewatch the movie tomorrow? My intuition tells me that there is a foreshadowing in this movie. The ending you see may not be the real ending. There is definitely a hidden thread in the ending.]
[Isaac couldn't possibly blow himself up and influence the whole world anyway, so it would be better if he killed everyone and ran off into the sunset.]
[To be serious, kill everyone and then ride off into the sunset on your Segway.]
[What a sin! Adding the balance bike, the atmosphere of this sentence is completely gone.]
On the screen, Bai Jinshu stood up from the ground and looked around at everyone: "Aren't you guys going to fill in the rules yet? Are you not going to finish the project?"
"Knot, knot!" Shi Zhou jumped up with a start. Guan Hongyan took the initiative to open the verification panel. Night City was downgraded to the mid-end, but the difficulty of information verification remained unchanged. Each person still only had three chances a day.
"This space is the interior of the human body, existing in the form of a cyber city. When intruders enter this space, they become cancer cells and are automatically considered wanted criminals. They must avoid being hunted down by the municipal machine guards, or immune systems, in the cyber city, and not be exposed to the pursuers."
"I pushed your previous entry up," Guan Hongyan looked at the instructions she had filled out and passed, "Huh? It's upgraded, the project has been upgraded back to A."
This Night City is a rule within the human race that directly upgrades the space that was downgraded to B+ to A.
"Then when we get out and the mandatory downgrade is lifted, this space will be A+," Guan Hongyan thought for a moment, "Okay, it's worth it. There are still a lot of rules to fill in, maybe we can get to S."
"The human body in this space is undergoing cancer treatment. The specific treatment contents include: radiotherapy, chemotherapy, and targeted drugs."
"Every 24 hours there is a chemical drug treatment, which manifests as an indiscriminate chemical toxic gas lethal attack in the area. In the 18 days, the drug is given every 24 hours for the first 12 days, two hours after the meal at 12 o'clock. The person will die immediately after exposure to the chemical gas. The next 6 days are blank, with no attack. This cycle lasts for 18 days."
"Okay, this one passes," Guan Hongyan looked at the energy concentration, "Three major natural disaster radiotherapy and chemotherapy targeted drugs, after filling them all out, I think we can get A+, and we will get S when we get out."
Shi Zhou is surprisingly familiar with the treatment of tumors.
"Radiotherapy is carried out every 24 hours, which manifests as indiscriminate radiation laser sweeps in the area, causing lethal attacks. One course of treatment is every seven days, starting from Monday, with Saturday and Sunday off. The radiotherapy area is fixed to the Night City space login area, which is the red zone, representing the core area of the tumor. The noise dose is large and it withstands the most attacks. If touched by the laser, it will die. The area within 30 kilometers is the yellow zone, which has a smaller noise dose and withstands inferior attacks. If touched by the laser, it will die."
"So detailed," Lu Changfeng took the initiative to open his task panel and asked casually, "What is the noise dose in the yellow zone and the red zone?"
"During radiotherapy, the radiation dose is determined by dividing the area into different colored areas," Shi Zhou explained roughly, "so when Isaac mentioned cancer cells, I knew what the natural disaster was."
Bai Jinshu, who was named, turned his head to look at Shi Zhou, and a thoughtful light seemed to flash in his eyes.
"Next," Shi Zhou continued, "after the intruder enters, clones will be created, and the number of clones will increase exponentially in a periodic and step-by-step manner."
"Sister Shi!" Lu Changfeng exclaimed, "It's upgraded to A+!"
The comments were also very exciting:
[Oh my god, I've never seen this before. The Night City nail house project has been closed! ]
【Good luck with the project!!!】
【Good luck, and all the subsequent development will go smoothly! 】
[Who said in the beginning that we lowered this space to find a sucker! B+ to A+, you call this a sucker???]
[It’s not easy, it’s not easy, Night City actually has this day, and I actually have a day to announce the completion of the project in the live broadcast room of Night City! ]
[Smart people have invested, while fools are still following high-end investors to announce the completion of the project. ]
[Smart people have already invested in the emperor's angel investment and invited him to the nail house project in their hands, while the stupid ones are still investing in Night City. ]
【Grass. 】
As Guan Hongyan said, this space will rise to A+.
"Once we have filled in all the rules for the natural disaster, we should be able to get out," Lu Changfeng said excitedly, "We only need the last targeted drug."
There are actually very few rules in Night City, because the pursuit from the immune system is actually irregular, and the only rules that can be summarized are those related to cancer treatment.
No wonder Shi Zhou always felt that she was just one step away from finding the answer, because sometimes it is indeed just this one sentence that is lacking the finishing touch.
When Isaac pointed out the core rules, all the rules appeared.
Shi Zhou organized his words: "When the number of clones increases, the human body in this space will take targeted drug treatment, which will manifest as guard robots that have never been seen before attacking intruders and their clones... and so on."
She suddenly held Lu Changfeng's hand.
Lu Changfeng looked up in confusion.
"Don't fill it out yet," Shi Zhou bit his lower lip, "Fill in this rule and we can go out and finish the project."
Guan Hongyan asked as if she understood something: "You want to go see Shi Ting?"
Bai Jinshu's eyes flashed.
"...Yes," Shi Zhou took a few deep breaths, "Lu Changfeng, can you wait until I say goodbye to her before filling in this line?"
"Okay, okay, okay." Lu Changfeng naturally had nothing to say. He was only one step away from getting out. It didn't matter whether he filled it out earlier or later. He wasn't so cruel as to prevent Shi Zhou from seeing his sister. "I understand."
At this point, everyone must have acted together. They accidentally encountered targeted drugs along the way and ran for their lives. Finally, they got rid of the other party and arrived at Shi Ting's company.
When they reached the top floor, time was running out and the pursuers were right behind them. Everyone understood and stood still, not disturbing the two sisters' time together. Only Isaac, the shameless one, followed them and took two of them with him.
Shi Ting was still sitting at her workstation. When she saw Shi Zhou, a hint of happiness and confusion flashed in her eyes: "Sister Shi Zhou, why are you here?"
"I..." Shi Zhou paused, "I may not come here for a long time in the future."
She squatted down and smiled in front of Shi Ting: "But I will come back, I will definitely come back, but it may take a long time, you have to wait for me."
"Okay," Shi Ting nodded, "I'll wait for you."
Shi Zhou forced a smile and planned to get up and go to Lu Changfeng to ask him to pass the rules.
"Aren't you going to take her with you?" Isaac leaned against the windowsill with his hands in his pockets.
"Shi Ting is a member of the company, a vital part of this place," Shi Zhou looked up, "She can't leave, can you take her away?"
"Of course I can't," Isaac tilted his head, looking a little cute, "But is it really okay to leave her in there like this, Shi Ting?"
"Shi Zhou" paused suddenly.
"Her name is Shi Ting, and my name is Shi Zhou," she corrected.
"Really? I think you are Shi Ting and she is Shi Zhou," Isaac's tone was still very leisurely. He raised his head and glanced at the air beside him, and his eyes met the camera in the live broadcast room. "You two appear alternately, right?"
The comments that were showing happiness about the project ending suddenly stopped:
【？ ？ ？】
[What's going on? What does Isaac mean? ]
[What does Shizhou Shiting mean? ]
"I believe the story that Shi Zhou told you at the beginning. You definitely knew nothing when you appeared here. Otherwise, you wouldn't have done nothing in the first few explorations without Shi Ting, but waited for the live broadcast room to find you and tell Shi Zhou." He looked at the "Shi Zhou" standing in front of him, "When did you become self-aware?"
"Shi Zhou" opened his mouth but didn't say anything.
"The Foundation's mission panel is tied to an individual, not a watch, and Night City's detection would confuse Shi Zhou and Shi Ting. So, if Shi Zhou found her dead sister in Night City, she would have done a test to see if she could take Shi Ting out. But when she told me the story, she didn't mention a word about it. Obviously, she was hiding something." Isaac ignored the surprised expressions on the two identical faces and continued, "I guess the reason why Shi Zhou needs to come here every time is because you want to swap."
These are a pair of twins whose DNA is almost identical. They know each other better than anyone else. If they were swapped, no one would be able to tell.
Shi Zhou couldn't give up the Night City project, not because Shi Ting was in it, but because at the very beginning, she had replaced Shi Ting, who had no independent consciousness, with her foundation watch once.
Shi Ting, who had no memories, left the unknown space, broke free from the shackles here, and learned everything.
The twins are indeed cheating beings. The reason why they know this place so well is not because they have come in here more than a dozen times, but because in every project, the two of them are replaced, one goes out and the other continues to explore as a company member. Only one person can leave here each time, so only if Night City is successfully completed can both of them survive.
However, it is expressly forbidden by the Foundation to take unknown creatures out of the space within the unknown space project, so they cannot show this in front of the camera.
Bai Jinshu ignored the fact that he had also brought out an evil god. Seeing that the two did not respond, he continued, "I did not discover it, and in fact, you were not exposed, but I know a fact that cannot be changed."
"I know that cancer cells cannot divide into normal cells, and Shi Ting's clones cannot become company members."
"The clones will unconsciously copy the original's instincts. Generally, the clones of the team members who enter here will flee," he said calmly, "but the clone we just saw, Shi Ting, entered the company and took over the positions of other company members."
If they hadn't done this kind of thing, how could such behavior be copied?
When Shi Ting first entered here to explore, she definitely replaced the identity of a company man and pretended to be a company man and stayed here. This was the first immune escape attempt made by all the exploration team members when they were unaware of their cancer cell identities. Regardless of success or failure, it led to the unconscious repetition of such behavior by all subsequent Shi Ting clones, resulting in the clone's instinct to replace the company man when she entered here again, rather than escaping like others.
They were not betrayed by themselves, but by their own clones after Bai Jinshu learned the true nature of Night City.
The real Shi Zhou took a few deep breaths and said, "You know there are cameras here..."
This project will be completed soon. If he doesn't point it out, no one will know that Shi Zhou was once Shi Ting, and Shi Ting was once Shi Zhou. The completed project will be developed and sold. As long as the person left behind stays in Night City, there will always be a day when she can leave.
At least it's much better than death.
"Your words mean that I guessed correctly. Then I will make another guess, a guess about the true origin of Night City." Bai Jinshu ignored her gaze and looked at Shi Ting beside him, "Has anyone of you ever had cancer before?"
Shi Ting was stunned.
"When you talked about the treatment just now, it sounded so familiar," Bai Jinshu pointed his chin at Lu Changfeng who was not far away, "even the fat guy could tell something was wrong. No one in your family has ever had cancer and received radiotherapy, so how could they know about terms like red zone, yellow zone, and noise dose? And if they were professional doctors, they wouldn't use such amateur terms, so you must have friends or relatives who have cancer."
"It was me..." Shi Ting ignored Shi Zhou's attempts to stop him and told Bai Jin, "My obsession when I entered Night City was cancer, but after entering, I used the gene modification miracle in the Foundation Mall to cure cancer. At that time, the two of us had already been promoted to the high-end space, so we did not leave here. Everyone who has known us for a long time knows this."
"The gene modification in the Foundation is not enough to cure cancer. There are others who can truly cure you," Bai Jinshu shook his head as he stood by the window sill. "I feel familiar with this place because I have entered the DNA of countless people. The central control AI gave me a sense of familiarity. Have you ever thought about what the sense of familiarity you feel when you enter here is?"
"What was that feeling of coming home that you didn't think about after you got the answer?"
"Why were you two able to explore the project even after it was shut down? Have you ever wondered?"
"Why is the central control AI not artificial intelligence but DNA, and can also learn your thinking logic and behavior, have you ever thought about it?"
Shi Ting was stunned.
“This is your body.”
Bai Jin narrated: "Your body before you got cancer."
"You are always in your own body."
The special robots of targeted drugs that were chasing behind them had already arrived downstairs. Lu Changfeng walked over anxiously and said to the three people who were still talking: "Brother Isaac, Sister Shi, the targeted drugs are coming soon. We have to fill in the rules and go out quickly. Zhang Pei and Li Jue don't have enough points, so they pretend to be dead."
Shi Zhou and Shi Ting looked at each other slowly.
Isaac's voice rang in their ears: "This is easy to verify. In order for you to see each other for the last time, Lu Changfeng still has the last rule. Fill it out now and everyone log out. There is no settlement buffer period in the high-end space. If this is Shi Ting's body..."
"The Foundation will revive her!" Shi Zhou quickly replied, "But...but..."
What if it's not?!
If this is Shi Ting's body, she will be resurrected for the purpose of subsequent development and sale, because according to the law of causality, she will inevitably die. The Foundation will not do business at a loss and will not invest resources into a space that will definitely collapse in a few years.
But what if it’s not?
Targeted drugs target all cancer cells, and if they stay here, they will die!
The targeted drug robots broke into this space. Isaac's voice was still calm: "Lu Changfeng, fill in the last sentence: When the number of clones increases, the people in this space will take targeted drug treatment, which will manifest as unprecedented guard robots attacking intruders and their clones. If they are tracked, they will be killed. The only way to escape is to play dead."
"It's over, it's over." Lu Changfeng didn't know what they were talking about. He looked back and forth between the two of them several times. He originally wanted to ask Shi Zhou what to do, but Isaac's tone was so firm that he unconsciously obeyed his orders.
He hurriedly submitted the rule, and the world in front of him began to blur, and all the team members began to log out.
At the last moment before leaving here, Lu Changfeng had a splitting headache and heard his brother Isaac's voice saying to Shi Zhou: "There is no such thing as a contingency, and you have no choice. This is the way to maximize benefits, so I will make the choice for you."
"Human beings are always creatures manipulated by useless emotions."
The author has something to say:
The storyline of Shizhou is buried deeper than that of Cells at Work! I was planning to save it for the last moment of the last chapter, but there are still people who can guess that Shizhou is not Shizhou in the beginning, how did you guess it, did you peek at the sugary outline!!!
*This is the story of Isaac and the process of burnt offering in the Bible, from the Internet
Actually, my alias names all have meanings. The first one, "Skao", is the transliteration of "skull", which literally means "skull head", hinting at his true identity. When I translated it, I chose a word that can be split into "Oscar".
Shemochu is the homophone of Shechu, which is a homophone of Shechu, and then the word Mo is added. Hmm... How can a successful investigator not be a social animal, even though he doesn't want to go to work. I was going to call him Shebuchu, but after reading it a few times, I found it was wrong.
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